Starfinder Alien Archive Pawn Box [RPG]

The Starfinder Alien Archive Pawn Box is a shoebox-sized box of strong cardboard containing more than 300 pawns (thick cardboard cut-outs of creatures that fit into plastic bases, included in the set, for tactical combat on a grid).  All of the creatures (and most of the artwork) come from the first Alien Archive book for the game, and because that book is about half the size of a Pathfinder Bestiary, there's not as many different creatures included as there would be in a similar set for Starfinder's cousin.  However, the total number of pawns hasn't decreased, and this is reflected in the high number of multiples for most creatures: pawns come in either groups of six (space goblins, aeon guards, etc.), four (security robots, barathu, etc.), or two (necrovites, hespers, etc.).  This means it's easy to have large battles without having to scramble for stand-in pawns.  A little symbol in different colours on each duplicate makes it easy to tell duplicates on the battlefield apart--at least if you're not partially colour-blind like me.

Two positive things that stuck out to me about the set were that there's a *lot* of Huge-sized creatures included (always impressive to plink down on the table) and there is full coverage of core elementals, including four each for small/medium/large/huge elementals of the air/fire/water/earth varieties.  This is *really* useful for Pathfinder as well.

My major critique of the set is that, unlike the Pathfinder pawn sets, the pawns in the Starfinder Alien Archive Pawn Box are not numbered and (a greater sin in my book) there's no set indicator.  This makes clean-up a chore and mis-filing them a greater possibility, especially as more of these sets are released.

A couple of miscellaneous notes:

* If you're new to Starfinder, this isn't the box you want for PCs (unless you're playing something from the Alien Archive)

* This box is almost all creatures, but there are a few starship pawns.

Overall, I think it's a good set--the artwork is attractive and colorful, and the multiples of every pawn are really handy.  But it does have flaws, and I hope those are addressed by Paizo in future sets.