• Mobility Enhancer upgrade now actually reduces the speed penalty of the armor it's installed in.
• Solarian Crystal upgrades can now be equipped.
• Striking and Weapon Potency Solarian Crystals now provide described benefits when equipped.
• Barathu feats Convergent Evolution and Manifold Evolution, and general feat Adopted Ancestry now let you select an ancestry and then feats from that ancestry as described.
• Selecting the Reach or Two-Hand trait for the Solarian's Solar Weapon automatically removes the option to select a second trait.
• The damage type for the Dragon Gland augmentation can now be selected.

• Added custom roll dropdown.
• Feat selection dialog now calculates whether or not you're qualified for a feat (i.e. if you meet the prerequisites). By default, feats you don't qualify for are hidden, but that behavior can be toggled. Note that not all feat prerequisites are automatically checked, though this will improve with future releases.
• Updated general and skill feats so their prerequisites can be automatically checked.

• Solarian Manifestation class feature now automatically adds a Solar Weapon to the inventory and provides options to customize it as described.
• Solarian Weapon Expertise class feature now grants critical specialization with the Solar Weapon.
• Solar Paradigm class feature now grants legendary proficiency with the solar weapon.
• Twin Weapons Solarian feat now adds a second Solar Weapon to the inventory, and provides options to customize its traits.
• Solar Rampart Solarian feat grants heavy armor proficiency as described.
• Untrained Improvisation now provides bonus as described.
• Divine Weapon Training feat now has options to select a deity.
• Incredible Investiture feat now actually increases investiture limit.

Starfinder 2E Statistics​

With the Starfinder Playtest coming to an end, I thought I'd share some statistics on the nearly 2000 characters that have been made using Hephaistos 2E over the last four or so months. You can head on over to the Hephaistos Patreon to see the most popular Ancestries, Hertiages, Backgrounds and Classes (link).

An Eventful Year​

With this being the last release of 2024, I want to take a moment to reflect on what has undoubtedly been the most eventful year for Hephaistos. On the 1E side, this year saw the implementation of multiple major features, including, but definitely not limited to, Infinite Worlds, the Tactical and Starship Encounter Managers, and some much needed updates to the Starship builder. The 1E website also had its 100-th release, which is not something I thought I'd ever say when I started working on the website. Of course, I say "the 1E website" because this year also saw the alpha release of Hephaistos for Starfinder 2E a.k.a. Hephaistos 2E, developed from scratch for the new system.

Looking ahead, 2025 is going to continuing on a similar pace, if not gathering momentum. There are a handful of major features left on the 1E website's roadmap that I want to complete, and the full release of Starfinder 2E is sure to keep me busy in the second half of the year.

To everyone who has used the website, recommended it to others, or provided feedback: without your support the website wouldn't be what it is today. So, thank you, all of you.

• Upgrades can now be installed in armor and weapons.
• Android with the Mod Fanatic Heritage can now equip mods from the Inventory section.
• Weapon upgrades that increase damage are now taken into account when rolling weapon damage.
• Added Domains from Pathfinder Lost Omens Divine Mysteries.
• Descriptions for Spell Ampoules now include the details of the spell they contain.

• Added deities and domains from the Playtest (except the domains from Divine Mysteries).
• The "Deity or Philosophy" heading on the Creator > Details page can now be used to browse and select a deity.
• Mystic feats Deity's Domain and Advanced Deity's Domain now allow selection of the Domain and grant spells as described.
• Mystic feats Martial Discipline and Divine Fighting Technique now allow selection of the deity and grant the benefits described.
• Mystic feats New Epiphany and Syncretic Epiphany now allow selection of a secondary connection and grant spells as described.
• Pathmuncher export now includes proficiencies for the Computers and Piloting skill, and grade for Weapons, Armor and Shields.
• Fixed skill proficiencies provided by the Grifter and Scientist backgrounds.
• Fixed Operatives being erroneously trained in Intimidation.

• Operative Feat Danger Awareness now adds a Situational Bonus entry in the Armor Class sidebar.
• Print functionality no longer fails when an action is active.
• Added support for weaknesses and immunities. Weaknesses can be manually added from the "Resistances & Immunities" sidebar.
• Implemented Android Feat Nanite Form, which will now updated the character as described when activated.
• Implemented the Striker Operative Specialization to provide Strength as a potential key attribute and weapon proficiency as described.
• Updated pathmuncher JSON export to include Armor Class section.
• Feats and class features that modify an actions frequency (e.g. Barathu's Plentiful Adaptation) now actually change the action's details in the UI.

• Implemented the third wave of errata.
• Actions that have effects when activated (e.g. Shirren's Unfurl Wings, the Deadlift feat and so on) now provide the ability to activate those effects.
• Ancestry feats and class features now grant armor and critical specializations as described.
• Weapon and armor sidebar show specialization status and provide the ability to override it.
• Resistances from armor specialization effects are now automatically added.
• Climbing Suckers augmentation now provides a Climb speed as described.
• Envoy Leadership Style From The Front now updates Medium armor proficiency as described.
• Added feat Impressive Performance, the absence of which was causing issues when selecting the In The Spotlight Envoy Leadership Style.

• Added filtering for the Browse Equipment dialog.
• Added filtering for the Spell selection dialog.
• Implemented Human ancestry feat Natural Ambition and general feat Armor Proficiency.
• Additional feat selections (e.g. those provided by Operative Specialization or General Training ancestry feat) are now automatically filtered.
• Proficiency for each armor can now be overridden in the sidebar.
• Fixed focus spells gained from Mystic Connections and Witchwarper Paradoxes not adding additional focus points.
• Fixed incorrect description for spell Dream of Home.

• Feats can now be filtered by level, skills and traits.
• Implemented armor check penalty and speed penalty.
• Pahtra feat Competitive Spirit now adds a situational bonus to skills.
• Fixed failure when exporting a PDF for a character with resistances.
• Fixed description for Mystic Bond and Vitality Network class features.
• Weapon proficiencies described by the Vesk and Kasatha Weapon Familiarity feats are now correctly calculated.
• Fixed spell Stumble to have a two action casting time.

• Implemented latest errata.
• Added and implemented resistances.
• Skill and save sidebars now list DCs, along with any situational bonuses that apply to those DCs.
• Damaya and Korasha lashunta heritages now provide the listed attribute boost and flaw.
• Actions now automatically heightened (similar to spells; mainly relevant for Solarians).
• Proficiency rating for each weapon in the inventory is shown in its sidebar and can be overridden.
• Implemented proficiency with guns for Operatives.
• Incredible Initiative (General Feat), Pensive Assessor (Solarian Feat) and Operative's Edge (Operative Feat) now provide situational bonus to initiative rolls.
• Operative specialization Skirmisher now automatically grants the Hair Trigger feat.
• Implemented Finesse trait to automatically pick the higher of Strength or Dexterity when calculating attack roll modifiers.
• Added skill actions from Pathfinder Player Core and Starfinder Playtest Rulebook.
• Added ability to select spells for Heritages and Ancestry Feats that allow selecting an innate spell (eg. Dreamer heritage, Psychic Talent feat)