Archives of Nethys

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Chapter 1: Overview / Getting Started / Some Basic Concepts

Combat

Source Starfinder Core Rulebook pg. 8
Typically, references to combat refer to tactical combat between individual characters, which takes place on a square-gridded battle map and is covered in depth in Chapter 8. Combat can instead refer to starship combat, which uses a hex map; you can find the details of that system in Chapter 9.