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Please sidecart this subscription order so that it ships with the next monthly subscription.

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I just sent an email with the same subject but received an alarming auto-reply indicating that email might not get read anytime soon.

TLDR; can you please sidecart these two pending subscription orders so they'll be processed automatically with the August subscription shipments and shipped together?

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Please hold this order until next month's subscription shipment.

Why has my monthly subscription order has been split into two separate shipments, charging me shipping on both when they could easily be combined?

I also did not receive a notification that the subscription order being created. The savings from subscriptions are lost when each item is shipped separately.

I understand there's likely new warehouse staff being trained but this is not ok.

Even though I previously updated my payment method and selected to use it for future orders, my old debit card remains default for subscriptions.

I believe I just changed payment method for 18583579 to the new card after the old card was tried and declined, but I still can't change the default for future orders or remove the old card.

Can you remove the old card and change the default to the new one? And process order 18583579 with the new card?

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I'm shocked that in the months since this was published nobody raised an alarm.

Sapient life evolved on Suskillon millennia ago and has long since adapted to the planet’s unusual weather patterns. Humans make up the vast percentage of the population and have spread across the entirety of the planet.

Patrick Brennan and the editorial team that worked on this - I'm calling you on this incredibly sloppy phrasing.

Established in Reign of Winter, humans exist in other galaxies. Since this was published many of us tie this together with humans evolving on Earth and transported to Golarion somewhere toward the end of the prehistoric Age of Serpents. Once the gods and a reality warping chicken hut is in play, we can only respond with a nod and a shrug.

Since Starfinder is based on a fantasy setting we accept this, just as we accept that elves and orcs are both genetically compatible with humans and that elves arrived in the Pact Worlds through magical trans-galactic "elf gates". We can accept that dwarves were created through divine means using humans as a rough template, gnomes from a pre-reality dimension where imagination replaces the laws of physics, etc.

However, all humans in the Starfinder setting come from Golarion. Pact Worlds humans came directly from Golarion during the gap and Azlanti come from ancient Golarion during the Age of Legend. The humans of ancient Golarion arrived on that planet at some point after evolving sapience.

I could accept that the human natives of Suskillon have a trans-galactic origin separate from either pact worlds humans or azlanti humans. I can accept that pact world humans used an unknown means to settle Suskillon during the gap much like the humans of the Marixah Republic. But there is absolutely no way humans "evolved sapience" on Suskillon without rewriting the history of humans in Starfinder.

Any other species evolving sapience on Suskillon would have to be an entirely separate species and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, just give them funny forehead ridges and call them Suskillons.

The chronicle sheet for this scenario refers to its sequel as #2–07: The Stumbling Society, Part 2: Sangoro’s Gifts, however Paizo's website refers to the sequel as #2–08.

Which source is correct?

Tonight we had 8 people signed up for my AP7 table - 3 playing their first Starfinder game, 4 veteran players who've all played AP7 at least once. Normally we'd find someone to GM and run a second table of the same adventure, but as an experiment I did something new: run it as a multi-table game. It worked out really well.

We switched to running AP7 in "campaign mode" to legally incorporate some modifications and house rules: two tables would run as two starship crews delivering supplies to Nakondis. The teams were balanced out using skittermander pregens from Skitter Shot along with level 1 Raia and Kesk.

Part 1 both teams would make their own way to Madeline's Landing with the encounters in different order so my one copy of AP7 maps could be shared.

Part 2 players could switch tables to divvy up into 2 teams tackling the missions faster, ending in an epic scene where

Then for part 3, after delivering supplies the newbie table took on the final starship combat in tandem with the experienced table at the crash site - players had their choice based on whether they liked starship combat.

It was a solid 5 hour game for both tables that included players on comms with the other team including cross-table RP, strategizing, and aid. Some more thought will be needed to continue the experiment into AP8/9 but given the player feedback I think we'll give it a shot.

This seems completely wrong, but the scenario seems to imply that unless a PC is a Scoured Stars Veteran they receive 0 XP for playing through this special?

Also... um, Fame awards seems insanely convoluted. As a baseline the success conditions section on page 48 says everyone gets 2 fame and 2 reputation with their slotted faction (and specifically doesn't say anything about XP).

So is it 6 (2+4) fame if applying the first benefit from Overcome the Past, or 7 (2+5) if the second? If the boon would otherwise override the fame benefits then it doesn't make sense for the 2 fame to be listed at all.

Its out as of today.

Early note, it looks like the ships were removed (great!) but I can't find a separate download package for them, eg in community use.

I was able to apply several organized play store vouchers and extra products to this month's subscription to get the order total over $100 for the $10 off shipping deal, but the shipping total wasn't reduced. With $8.03 shipping it should be reduced to $0.

Can you adjust accordingly?

Also the voucher total was $80 but only $77.01 was deducted (I'm not going to lose sleep over $2.99, but its odd).

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I sidecarted an order that had a $10 off certificate applied. It was moved to this order, but the $10 discount doesn't seem to have come with it.

Now that many people have unlocked the Wayfinders capstone boon, I'm putting together an all-Ghibrani party for a unique replay of SFS #1-03: Yesteryear's Truth.

Group backstory being one or more husk PCs discovered of an unfinished Drift ship in the ruins of Omathu, recruited some more adventurous membrane PCs with the necessary skills to repair and fly it. They launched, navigating to the strongest drift beacon they could find (the Starstone), but during the trip their navigational computer suffered data loss preventing them from returning home.

It looks like we have 3 players right now, looking for others to join us.

I unlocked the Wayfinder capstone boon Alien Allies last night and reading the text more closely now that I can apply it. It appears to be two boons in one;

The first part appears to allow you to create a new PC using a race boon without it having to slot in your personal boon slot, so long as the other personal boon isn't a race boon.

The second part allows you to play a Ghibrani, specifically "You can play a husk or membrane ghibrani", and this doesn't seem be required when using the first part of the boon.

In other words, am I reading this correctly that we could (though I personally love Ghibrani and very excited to play one) combine this with any race boon to create a new PC? Eg combining the RSP 2019 GM boon with Alien Allies to create an Uplifted Bear PC while having that PC's personal boon slot available for any non-race personal boon?

If so it'd certainly encourage players who aren't as thrilled about playing a Ghibrani to reach the Wayfinders capstone.

A player pointed out something missing on the chronicle sheet today:

He thought it would be perfect for his dwarf PC, and we were all a bit disappointed this didn't end up on the chronicle sheet. Was this an oversight, because it certainly feels like something that should have been included..

Following in the footsteps of last PaizoCon's PFS #9-00: Assault on Absalom pickup special, I'm organizing a run of SFS #1-99: The Scoured Stars Invasion as a pickup game. We have enough GMs to run it just from the pacific northwest but it'd be great to get experienced SFS GMs from other areas of the world too!

Who'd be up to run a table?

One of the things that came up at PaizoCon 2018 was the lack of a Starfinder messenger bag for the promotional reroll perk. Some women (perhaps even more from transwomen) would really prefer not to wear tshirts.

It was suggested that there was an unwritten rule that since the intention was to encourage players to promote PFS/SFS (not specifically encourage paizo.com sales) that people could make their own messenger bags, other garments (eg skittermander themed scarf), or even wear cosplay.

It would be very cool to see this formalized on https://paizo.com/organizedplay/perks

I just stumbled on the section on the Veskarium in the CRB and noticed that the planets of the Veskarium and their native species are already outlined;

The result is the Veskarium, a vast empire with a wide array of subjects. This includes the stonefaced squidfolk of Vesk-2, the antlike beings of Vesk-5, the feline humanoid barbarians of Vesk-6, and the pacifist frost behemoths of Vesk-7 and Vesk-8.

We all know Skittermanders are from Vesk-3, and the "feline humanoid barbarians of Vesk-6" are the Pahtra (Alien Archive 2 p94), but the rest are still a mystery.

I'm sure there'll be more of the Veskarium races outlined in future Alien Archives and there'll almost certainly be a book akin to Pact Worlds focused on the Veskarium at some point.

In the meantime though, I don't recall a SFS scenario set in the Veskarium which is a real shame given that both Vesk and Skittermanders have become common PC races.

Thoughts?

Since "Tear" is a heteronym the meaning in written form can only be discerned by its context, but GMs speaking the word specify the meaning in our pronunciation.

When it first appeared in #1-17: Reclaiming the Time-Lost Tear the only thing we had to go on was "recover the Tear to pierce the enigmatic Godshield and rescue the trapped Starfinders". Therefore I assumed "Tear" is pronounced as something that's been pierced or torn, as in a tear in the Godshield.

But as we learn more I'm wondering if I've been mispronouncing it, since it could also be Kadrical's Tears (as in crying) at the loss of the races he protected?

So far I've only used and heard the prior pronunciation, have I been getting it wrong?

I started reading the AP13: Fire Starters (Dawn of Flame 1/6) PDF last week and just got the physical book, getting psyched for running this for society - and maybe access to some of the equipment! Also, Ifrit race boons?

Are chronicle sheets and/or Additional Resources in the pipeline?

I'd like to share the wonderful 3d model of King Xeros my husband made. He used congregated plastic from a craft store and hot glue which worked great for his PFS #0-20: King Xeros of Old Azlant game last week, I'm reusing it for running SFS #1-27 this week.

After playing PFS #0-20 and now prepping for this scenario, one thing I don't understand is why is the ship pictured as being made of wood on the cover of #1-27? It would have been far more beautiful if drawn made of crystal as described.

I was expecting to see a lively discussion about Rob's big leak on yesterday's Starfinder Wednesday by now, but since nobody has asked yet..

Besides playing AP in campaign mode, will there be a way for SFS to participate?

Subscribers received notification of AP11 getting shipped soon and I know many people are planning to start running it soon. We've decided to absolutely run it in campaign mode.

Sanctioning isn't up yet and no word when it will be. If we play it in campaign mode before its sanctioned, can we retroactively apply chronicle sheets?

We're now 6 weeks from release and the product pages for #1-28: It Rests Beneath and #1-29 Honorbound Emissaries are still not up.

It'd be good to get a heads up so we can plan post-new year games early since most of us will be preoccupied with the holidays.

I'd like to raise a concern with the magical rune trap on pages 13-15. Or to be more specific, how this was allowed in a scenario that outsider PCs will eventually play and will end up turning someone's new Aasimar PC into a vegetable.

The trap doesn't do ability damage nor drain, its simply "reduces". Am I reading this correct that a tier 1-4 scenario includes a trap that failure to spot it takes whatever numbers are the character's current Int and Wis, crosses them out on the sheet, and replaces them with permanent and non-recoverable 0's - and without so much as a savings throw?

Character death is a deeply emotional event, this feels like a fate worse than death and will certainly cause strife with GMs and VOs.

While reading the new guild guide I just noticed a discrepancy between the text in the Adventure Path sanctioning documents and the Guild Guide (both v1.0 and v1.1);

If they have completed less than half of the adventure, they receive half of the adventure’s credits, XP, and Fame, and they gain full access to the items that they found during play. If they have completed more than half of the adventure, they receive full credit for the adventure.

However both Dead Suns and Aeon Throne have a more detailed set of rules;

Players who do not complete each game session earn 1/3 fewer credits, 1 fewer XP, 1 fewer Reputation, and 1 fewer Fame for each session missed. This also applies to players who join later sessions; they receive 1/3 fewer credits, 1 fewer XP, 1 fewer Reputation, and 1 fewer Fame for each session missed. In both cases, players earn a minimum of 1/3 credits, 1 XP, 1 Reputation, and 1 Fame.

I assume the latter should be followed? The most common case for this is 2-session APs where we need to split the story over two 5-hour sessions.

I just got the Paizo order notification for The Diaspora Strain so it looks like many of us will start getting the PDF any day now. That leaves me wondering when Additional Resources will be caught up. For example, I know there's quite a few people still waiting for the Colonist theme from The Reach of Empire.

Also now that the season 1.5 guild guide is reportedly in layout, I'll bring up again that we're still waiting for the new RSP boon.

A lot of people here are interested in Signal of Screams.

Most of our regular players have level 7-8 PCs now, and even several rainy day players are actively working to get their PCs to this point so they can play Signal of Screams AP with us starting next month.

For both Dead Suns and Aeon Throne we've run the AP books with at least a 3 week gap of society scenarios to allow everyone to keep up. That can't work for Signal of Screams since we don't have tier 7-10 or 9-12 scenarios. The only solution I can think of is either running it intersparsed with Dead Suns 4-6 or run through Signal of Screams in campaign mode at our regular RSP venue.

I know Portland is one of the more active SFS cities so I'm curious how others are faring and what strategies people are planning for the next AP.

Trying to be as non-spoilery as possible, a part of AP8 involves doing business with alien vendors - some of whom charge as much as 150% for goods while others give you a discount - one even gives you a 1000 credit discount on an item of your choice if you do the social part well.

A PC in my game purchased armor from him with that discount and some items with an inflated price to use in the adventure. If they want to keep them afterward, can they spend what they spent or do they need to pay the book price?

I've really got to wrap this in a spoiler tag just because the reveal is priceless, but..

The Alien Archive boon was hugely popular. Virtually every SFS player for months was asking for their boon sheets to be initialed after games and players pondering which of the races they'd play.

While Nufriend Skittermander was a great spiritual successor to it, now 14 weeks after Free RPG Day most regular players have unlocked their Skittermander PC.

Alien Archive 2 is set for release in a few weeks, it'd be awesome if a similar unlockable race boon is released for a few of the dozen+ playable races it includes.

I just reported another AP1 session from last night (AP1 session just under 5 hours, a new record!) and I'm getting:

Player has already run scenario at session # 66 of event # 92234 Guardians of Pathfinder (All Ages) on June 26, 2018.

And I'm getting a similar error for the half of the table that played it before. I'm seeing the same for #1-01 and #1-16 games and I'm betting the same will happen when I go to report AP7.

I'm not seeing this error with Quests: Into the Unknown or #1-12: Ashes of Discovery which have a friendly green notice:

This scenario is replayable and will grant credit each time it is reported.

So it'd seem that the "Repeatable" flag wasn't set for some of the scenarios, likely a quick fix the organized play team could do - especially while entering #1-25: The Beacon Code Dilemma into the system.

We have two overlapping AP7 games being run in Portland run at different event codes (same venue, but family friendly Tuesdays vs 21+ Fridays) by another GM and myself respectively. Both games are split over two 5 hour sessions split near the end of part 2 (though with missions completed in different orders, close but not at the same exact point in the story).

A player played the 1st night of my AP7 run but missed the second (last Friday). He asked if he can play the 2nd part of the other GM's AP7 run in order to get a single chronicle sheet at full credit.

I'm fine with this, and I'm betting the other GM would be too, but is this something GMs can allow? Would we both sign the bottom and mark the separate event codes involved, or just the GM/event that completed it?

My personal recommendation would be get 2 separate chronicle sheets for 2XP 4Fame and 1440 credits. Both characters would then benefit from the boons at the cost of 1XP, 1Fame, and 720 credits - less than he'd typically earn with a tier 1 repeatable.

I assumed someone would have caught this by now but my forum searches have come up empty handed.

merciful fusion seal (6th level) (1,144; item level 6; limit 1)

Merciful fusion seals are level 2, not 6.

Since its only available in subtier 3-4, is this intended to be a different level 6 fusion seal?

Given the customer service update yesterday that AP7 wasn't expected to finish shipping until 9/7 I purchased the PDF separately last night.

I just received an email that my subscription order #5393356 just finalized providing free access to the PDF. Order #5282085 should be refunded, store credit is fine.

AP7 (Against the Aeon Throne 1: The Reach of Empire) provides some example plot hooks to launch the story on pages 5-6, eg the PCs may have a personal connection with Cedona (the retired steward who managed to send an SOS to the stewards on absalom station).

The PCs should be in the drift headed to Nakondis when Cedona's message to the stewards on Absalom Station is received, and since they're in a society ship they should headed to Nakondis on society business.

The easiest would be Madelon Kesi contracted the Starfinder Society (vs the PCs as an independent crew) for regular delivery of supplies for the colony, one of many such mundane deals Luwazi made to bring in the credits necessary to rebuild the society.

Slightly more complicated, the PCs could be sent on a mission specific to Nakondis to capture Hobgars for study, survey for a potential lodge, or to locate and discover the state of an abandoned lodge such as in #1-08. My concern here is how much of a distraction these would be to the main plot.

Thoughts?

Since "The Reach of Empire" will start shipping to subscribers soon, it'd be awesome to get the sanctioning documents up on the product page.

Many of us would like to run it in SFS to fill the content gap since we're not receiving our end of month new scenario drop this month (released early for Gencon).

Pathfinder's RSP program now has 6 boon options while SFS still has only 1 boon.

Many of our local players have won multiple copies of the "Relics of Golarian" boon which most players consider useless. A 20% discount on 12 items is objectively a terrible boon (the other 8 "relics of golarian" are out of tier for current society play). As I've shared before, I often find these boons left behind at the game table because players know they're garbage.

Meanwhile Pathfinder players enjoy such awesomeness as a boon that allows them to become mythic for 3 minutes (and the ability to recharge it!), add a class skill, or get resurrected even if they don't have the fame to warrant it. Most of all, PFS players rolling a 19/20 have several boons to choose from.

The RSP program serves as encouragement for people to play games in public venues which are overseen by a VC. Since Starfinder Society was forced on PFS VOs, who in many cases have little interest in Starfinder, that's an even harder sell. In these areas it would be much easier to run and promote Starfinder separate from the existing PFS-favoring VO structure or RSP program generally.

This is a plea, from one of the many people who've worked tirelessly to develop and maintain a local SFS community over the last year, please stop neglecting Starfinder in the RSP program. It would cost nothing but a little time to draft up a few more SFS boons to offer us.

Actually lets make it easier, here's some suggestions:

• "Friend in the business" Purchase a single item from Armory as if it was on a chronicle sheet (tier level+2)
• "Magitech Power Core Boost" Increase power core output by 20PCU (ie +1 on divert to shields) and engineer checks can be made with either mysticism or engineering
• "Prototype Biotech Hull" You gain access to a prototype pegasus or drake ship with a partially biological hull, AC is reduced by 2 but the ship's hull can be healed by spells and effects as if it were a living construct (other actions in starship combat, CRB322)
• "On-the-job Training" exactly as the PFS boon by the same name
• "AI Research Assistant" (Ally) Searching the infosphere or library chips can be done in 2 rounds instead of 2 minutes
• "Work/life balance" Whenever you roll 19 or 20 for dayjob check, you may preform an additional non-dayjob downtime action

I checked the 24th box last Friday, so I'm guessing others are starting to complete theirs too! What character are you creating with it?

Mine is Nibbix, an orange Solarian who's solar weapon is a giant version of one of his arms (bashing damage) - but he's mostly known (Icon theme) for creating a surrealist VR game that helps train young Solarians.

There are a lot of people anxiously awaiting Starfinder AP4/5/6 chronicle sheets and being added to http://paizo.com/starfindersociety/additional

Its apparently been in the web team's hands for several weeks now for packaging. You guys must be pretty busy with Gencon coming up, but can someone please push the button to push the new pdf to the site and spend an hour updating the additional resources page?

It would mean a lot to the player base.

I've been looking through Armory and am actually a bit disappointed.

It has a ton of options for sure, it certainly fills out all the tier gaps for the weapon types and has a lot of flavor. But for society play..

When I'm level 3 and want a sonic small arm, my choice is between the tier 4 "Sonic pistol, thunderstrike" that does 1d8 or the tier 3 "Sonic suppressor, murmur" that does 1d4, the only reason I'd choose the latter is shortage of credits (about 40% cheaper).

I always expected the tier+1 rule for the CRB was to compensate for later resources being more powerful and in a few books (eg necrografts in AP3) that makes sense - but Armory seems pretty well balanced with the CRB.

The PCs should finalize their boon slots for the session. This scenario is important to the [FACTION NAME] faction; GMs should encourage the PCs to slot their faction boon accordingly

Ok so once or twice could be an oversight, but that this is still appearing in scenarios raises a red flag.

There's a clear consensus that when the party achieves the faction goals listed in the back, every member of the party gains 1 reputation in that faction regardless to which faction they slotted. Their slotted faction only determines which faction they get an equal measure of reputation as the fame they earn.

This explains why there's three reputation lines - a scenario can have up to two faction goals plus the faction they slotted.

This is clearly in contrast to PFS where you only get the additional benefit when your character is of the appropriate faction, and several times now I've seen PFS GMs just starting to run SFS games read this text and cited it as why players wouldn't get extra reputation unless they slotted the appropriate faction boon. Not just in local games, but at conventions including PaizoCon.

Is there an actual point to this boon slotting recommendation text? Are the PFS GMs really not confused at all, or is this just a copy/paste that keeps getting added resulting in mass confusion on the topic?

#1-16 and #1-17 have a new Starfinder logo on the front, very clearly representing the Scoured Stars with the ship and three suns.

Very cool. Is it being added to one of the Community Use packages?