If you’ve ever wanted to bring the frenetic energy of Warframe to your kitchen table, Digital Extremes and Paizo already handed you the tools. The two studios teamed up on Starfinder x Warframe: Operation Orias, a standalone tabletop adventure that maps Digital Extremes’ sci-fi universe onto Paizo’s Starfinder Second Edition ruleset.
And yes — before anyone calls it a Dungeons & Dragons clone, that’s rather the point. Starfinder is Paizo’s own d20-based science-fantasy system, the spiritually independent cousin of D&D. Choosing it over the Wizards of the Coast juggernaut gives the crossover a natural home in space-faring, gear-obsessed storytelling that suits the Origin System far better than dungeon torches and dragon hoards ever could.
What you actually get
Operation Orias is a complete, self-contained adventure — no towering rulebook library required to start. It blends Starfinder Second Edition’s d20 mechanics with the lore, factions and aesthetic that Warframe players know intimately. The module is tuned for roughly 4 to 6 hours of play, making it a solid one-shot or a couple of tidy evening sessions rather than a sprawling campaign commitment.
The headline feature for series fans is the roster of playable characters lifted straight from the game’s recent narrative arc. Four Protoframes are ready to drop into your party:
- Arthur
- Aoi
- Lettie
- Amir
If Amir’s name rings a bell, it’s because his tabletop debut sits alongside his moment in the spotlight across Digital Extremes’ ongoing content, where the Protoframes have become fan favorites. Getting to steer them through a pen-and-paper scenario is a neat way to extend that connection beyond the screen.
Physical or digital, your call
The adventure launched on October 31, 2025, and both editions are available. The digital PDF costs US$8.99, which is about as low-friction as a tabletop purchase gets — download it, print your handouts, and you’re rolling. The physical edition runs US$12.99, but collectors should move quickly: the print run was capped at just 2,000 units, so it’s less an open-ended catalog item and more a limited artifact.
That scarcity is worth flagging. A four-dollar gap between formats might normally tempt everyone toward the tactile book, but with only 2,000 copies pressed, the physical version is functionally a keepsake. The PDF, meanwhile, is the version that keeps the adventure alive at tables indefinitely.
It’s a smart, low-cost experiment in letting a live-service game breathe in an entirely different medium. Rather than shoehorning Warframe into the most obvious RPG system on the shelf, Digital Extremes and Paizo picked the one built for guns, gadgets and galactic intrigue — and the result feels purpose-built rather than bolted on. For Tenno who’ve logged thousands of hours mastering parkour and mods, swapping the controller for dice is a genuinely different way to spend an evening in the same universe.
