In spacez, no wun can hear yoo singsong¿
When Starfinder (Paizo) released, I went all in. I think I have everything published in the first two years, as well as packaged miniatures that were never released, the auctioned rule book with all the design team signatures, special edition dice… and then could never find a local group to game with. “Oh, that’s too much tech in my fantasy!” they decried, or “Get these elves out of my sci-fi!”
Feeling dejected, I made my own Starfinder friend: SpoRk, the Space Goblin.
No, not really… Well, yes, I made the goblin, but mostly because I wanted a Starfinder version to accompany my nifty Pathfinder goblin coin bank.
So I bought an extra, and did what anyone (necromancer?) would do: I took a saw to it. Hacked it into pieces. And then sort of put it back together, but better than before.
Reshaped the body in the pose I wanted using modeling clay, painted it, and then went to work on figuring out how to make an appropriately sized goblin-esque spacesuit. The fishbowl was probably the hardest part to find. They were plentiful made of glass, but I needed plastic so it wouldn’t shatter when I was trying to cram its (chopped off) head in there—those ears aren’t exactly as flexible as they look!
It’s mostly a kitbash of a bunch of 80’s toys accessories. I’m not even sure which ones. I bought a random bag full of them from eBay, and then picked out and painted what I thought might work. Then hot glued his suit together: big boots, air tank, tubing, even the sword. Found a patch of silvered synthetic leather in my craft bin. Not sure what that even came from, but it worked great for the “fabric” bits of SpoRk’s space suite.
It was a fun little project, and in the way my Pathfinder goblin guarded by PF1 books, SpoRk stood watch over my growing Starfinder collection.
Capt’n, we found a strange container on the derelict salvage…
So! This has nothing to do with SpoRk the space goblin, but it is both Starfinder and “crafty” adjacent, so I decided to throw it in here as a bonus! Thanks for reading!
Paizo’s branding of Starfinder merch was sometimes…. intriguing. They had Starfinder coozies to keep your drink cool (which I just used to put around a dice rolling cup), branded bottle opener, and more shirts than you could fit inside a moderately sized closet. But they didn’t have a dice box. I wanted one.
So, I went looking to see what I could find. Someone had designed a standard hex-shaped dice box and they could put various logos on them… so I sent them the Starfinder logo. Two weeks later, I had a freshly painted hot pink Starfinder dicebox.
I knew I wanted it to look old, untouched; like something that wouldn’t look out of place on a shipwreck adrift in deep space. So, I took my paints to it, and loved how it turned out. It’s was fabulously grungy and looked great setting next to an unofficial space goblin on my book shelf.
Goblin Grognard Premium Semi-Shiny Math Rocks
“Clickity Clackity They Do the Mathity”
Oh, and here’s one last fun thing I’m tossing in here since it’s goblin-related. For years I kept my spare junk dice in bins, and anyone gaming at my table could snag a set to use if needed. Wanted something I could put out near the table, so used this giant cheese-poof container we emptied during a game session one night, and designed a fun wood-cut style label for it. I know, not really “crafty“, but did bring some chuckles to the table when I slapped this 8 pound jar of dice on the game table one night when someone asked for spare dice.