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Paizo did something in the last day or two. It requires you to clear your cache and cookies, sometimes three to five times (though I still can't get my phone to work) before you get a successful login. You're on your own for your second complaint. That's been f#@~ed up for a long time now. Paizo is crashing and burning as far as I can tell...
Because they are unlikely to fix this anytime soon, I found a few things that help cause this effect. By reducing these activities, I find it happens less often (but still not never). - Having more than one tab with Paizo boards seems to trigger this more often.
This isn't much help I know, and I cut-and-paste every post I make on these boards as a result of this and other failures. There are also browser add-ons that capture your form data before it's submitted so if there's a failure you don't have to retype everything. Sorry, I don't use 'em so I can't remember the name of any in particular. In short, do not trust the forums. Approach with caution and have backup systems in place because you will need them.
This looks really interesting. I'm considering a character that I've played at low levels a few times but who never made it past 7th. He is a magus though, so he gets to apply bonuses to his blade. How does that work with automatic progression? I presume it just 'works' as with his other abilities, but I've not played in an automatic progression game before and so don't know it well. I also don't know the setting. Is there somewhere online folks would recommend for some basic research? Lastly, are you going to use traits (link)? If so, are you also using drawbacks? I like the traits, but not all DMs use 'em so I want to be sure. Thanks for offering to run!
This has been broken for many people for almost a month now on various browsers. https://paizo.com/threads/rzs437b2?Paizo-I-love-you-but-please-fix-your-web site#18
Yeah, I'm starting to see the 504 error more often too. It also feels as though posts are taking longer to be accepted by the site - and of course then there's the bug where they don't show up right away - making it harder and harder to know if you've posted successfully. The site continues to become less and less useful and I still can't see the home page. I wonder how many customers you're loosing? Every time I post on this site, I have a slight angst. Will my post take? How long must I wait while the site loads? It's becoming exasperating.
OK, I has a confusion. On the Bard Dedication (link) page, it says, “ Choose a muse as you would if you were a bard. You have that muse for all purposes, allowing you to take that muse’s feats, but you don’t gain any of the other abilities it grants.” I am choosing the Enigma Muse (link) which says, in part, “You gain the Bardic Lore feat and add true strike to your spell repertoire.”. I expect, based on the intent of the first quoted sentence, that all I get is the opportunity to take feats limited to that muse from the usual list. I do not in fact get Bardic Lore (link) as a free feat. What do you folks think? Getting the free feat seems inline with other Archetypes, but I’m just not sure that’s what the wording says.
I suspect we've lost that ability, perhaps forever. But it would be handy if they could, you know, fix it. I think they're dealing with such a mess of spaghetti code, they don't even know where to begin on issues like this, and the temporary delays that are now common after each post is made before they actually appear. They're both weird problems, at least to my layman's eyes, and apparently hard to fix.
This is the second or third thread on this issue (link), but it sounds like it's getting worse somehow. Or perhaps it's unrelated, though it sure sounds like it might be. Sure would be nice to have some idea on a fix.
Any ideas when that might be? This problem has been ongoing for some time and seem, to me, to be getting worse. Although that might just be my general frustration level with things technological at Paizo. "Soon" is a word Paizo uses a lot, that has lost all meaning. Can you give us a proper estimate? Days, Weeks, Months? Also, will it fix the "Backtracking too far" bug as well?
This is maddening. It used to happen rarely. Rare enough to be just another problem with the boards which we can manage. But lately it has been particularly bad. This happens with Chrome and Safari. The delay makes me think I've lost yet another post to the forum goblins, but eventually it shows up, usually a half a minute or so later, with repeated refreshes. As Andostre mentions though, sometimes it takes longer.
I can't speak to the language used as I didn't see the first post, but I can say this error is absolutely infuriating and it's been going on for months or maybe years. In fact, I lost a post I was editing just yesterday to this error because I thought "well I'm just editing, what can go wrong?". The fact is, I cannot reliably post on these forums. I cut-and-paste my posts from other docs so in the likely event of a posting failure, I don't lose all my work. Others I know use additional software to preserve their posts against the failure rates of this forum. So maybe the OP isn't coming back and you've lost another to the quagmire that is Paizo's technology.
Greetings all! I am quite looking forward to this! I have some ideas, but I won't share them as someone gets grumpy. We'll just meet in the by and by. :) Tyranius, is it just the one trait then from the AP? Or do we get two traits, one from the AP, one from the rest? Just checking as it has a cascading effect for something I'm thinking of.
You are not doing anything wrong. You're just being observant. Support for PBP seems to be waning, and was never very strong to begin with though they did some nice things with the PFS side from what I hear which is good. But yeah, the site continues to worsen. Though the staff seems quite busy fixing bugs and other errors, the issues seem to pile up faster than they are fixed. And no new features that I can identify, though there may be something on the RSS side of things (which I don't use so can't comment on). The staff keeps working harder, and the site continues to suffer more. I'm not sure where we'll end up, or what features we'll lose, before the reversal. Could be they just give up on the message boards someday the way they did with the PRD. Farm it out to a third party and be done with it.
Search is horrible. It was OK, if dicey, but now it's useless. There seems to be no will to fix it. The tech team is endlessly overwhelmed by the horror that must be this web code and things like this are continuously ignored for other issues. Our infrastructure is crumbling, and the fixes are slower than the breaks.
hehehe, I agree with you there cigarret. Some are taking it a little harder than others. I am taking it pretty seriously, but likely only because of the other failures of Paizo of late if I'm to be honest. They can't seem to manage any technology. I worry for the Kingmaker game about to come out, and what it'll be like almost as much as I'm looking forward to it. I do so want Paizo to be a successful company, but they keep failing at what I see as basic customer service, let alone basic technology. Site down for weeks at a time with no real explanation that I can find. Their support for online games is feeble, and getting worse with every so-called update. Bugs mentioned online with delays of days, weeks, and even months before fixes occur - if they ever do. It is a free resource, but one they've offered and made integral to their friendly demeanor. More and more that friendliness is disappearing to be replaced by coldness. I can get that from other game makers easily enough. Pretty soon it'll be 2E Pathfinder vs 5E D&D and the only thing keeping me here now is the loyalty of the DMs I play under, and the very excellent APs they continue to produce. But I'm asking myself regularly now, 'how good is the 5E material?' I never asked that question before. Paizo's repeated failures on multiple fronts have me there, and many others I suspect. And there's no indication Paizo is listening which saddens me.
No, that's not true cigarret, and I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't smear legitimate complaints with your 'whining' claim. I, at least, have purchased every source book for every character ability, DM run, etc. I do/use. I suspect many folks around here do (though certainly not all I agree). However, Paizo's SRD and the Archives of Nethys are not identical. There are many legitimate reasons why the loss of Paizo's SRD is significant to many of us. Will AoN close the gap over the next weeks and months? I have every faith in Blake and his team. However, pulling the plug on Paizo's SRD in this way is poor form in my opinion - and others on this site and others I've communicated with agree. Please don't assume and snark, it adds nothing to the conversation and only inflames emotions. Papa-DRB - the site seems mostly stable to me (maybe a touch slower), and considering the extra load they must be experiencing I'm happy. I did get that error once, but I refreshed and it cleared. Over time, I suspect they'll add resources and it'll stay up and zippy.
AoN, and Blake, are brilliant. I'm glad they'll get more Paizo support to do what they do. I will also join the wagon of folks who say this was done poorly. AoN does NOT have everything the PRD had - particularly with regards to the rules section. And all that is gone now. Likewise all my characters have spell lists which link to the PRD. That is all gone now and I'll have to go through AoN and relink everything. This last is a minor thing perhaps, but time consuming. Paizo has pulled the plug on something that, admittedly worked poorly at times, and was woefully out of date, but functional for all that. Paizo, for the last months, all you've done is make it increasingly harder to play games. I hope that trend changes, because your repeated technological failures are really pissing people off - and they are leaving. This is just another failure, but at least there's a strong community presence (AoN) to take up the slack. Thank you Blake! Time to send you some more money for your now even more invaluable resource. Long live the Archives!
A lesser concern to be sure, but bold text is no longer bolded on current versions of Safari on the Mac. Italic works fine. is bigger again - thanks for that fix. If bold is a darker shade, my old eyes can't see it. It's better than it was yesterday (the font was jarring), but probably not ideal. Thanks! EDIT: Everything looks good on a current version of Chrome on the Mac.
Gaming is supposed to be cooperative. If one player rolls well, and another doesn't, the DM should (though many will not) try to balance things out another way so both characters can be heroic in their own ways. That's why I always do point buy. Let the players start out on an even keel. Otherwise it's not the DM who's being cheated, it's the player who was unlucky with one set of dice rolls which define their future. As to how much of a point buy, that's really up to the DM and players. What sort of campaign do they want? I do 20pt buys, and find that's plenty heroic, but I can see the arguments for more, and less.
I'm not sure I like the new design, but it was most certainly broken Dragon78. They needed to do a LOT of work under the hood to make the kinds of improvements that needed to be made. That sort of thing is hard to sell to the higher ups in any organization unless you do something pretty with it - redesign (and frankly I suspect some of the appearance was tied deep into the codebase). So I guess I'm saying they needed to do something and I'm more interested in the under-the-hood changes. For that we have to wait for the bug fixes, but I think I'm going to settle into this well once it's all done. So yeah, Steve's right - there's gonna be a lot of "where's this" in the coming days. Treat 'em like bugs, and let the designers know. They'll fix 'em - or let us know it's not going to be fixed. Then we can gnash our teeth. :)
There's another thread for chatting about the redesign here (link). yeah, I was hoping for underlined links in the redesign. They've gotten harder, not easier, to read.
If you look here (link) you'll see they're aware there are some problems and will fix 'em tomorrow. So list what changed just in case, but be patient so they can look it all over in the morning.
I ike the new look, and it seems faster (though that just might be people not logged in yet), but I gotta agree with cartmanbeck. Where is the campaigns tab located? I hope it hasn't gone away with the update. I lived on that page... A good step in the right direction though. :) Oh, also, is there a way to see the whole message board like before with the Messageboard link? That was a handy way to scan to see if there are interesting topics in the various categories. Same sort of thing as the Campaign tab I think.
Your header says otherwise. It says, "Paizo.com will be down for scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, February 27 starting at 2:00 PM Pacific time. We expect the downtime to last approximately 2 hours." So is it 9am, or 2pm? Or both? Thanks for the heads up either way! I hope the upgrade goes smoothy for you.
I have seen some campaigns limit what goes in by what was available at the time of printing. Or even more limiting (all the way to 'Core' only, meaning the core rulebook and nothing else). I have run a few APs, and limit things all the time. Just tell your characters what you want, and ignore the folks who will (invariably) ask for more. :)
Well you could actually BUY the product, then you would have access to it. I mean if you actually own it, why do you care if its online, you can just check your own copy. Purity, I buy every PDF that has any rule I use when building a character or when DMing. That means I have dozens of PDFs to search through when I want to find something. That's just not reasonable. Perhaps if I had a better memory and could remember exactly what resource everything came from... alas, I'm just not that smart, and there are computes to help with such things. Look, the PRD is an enormously useful resource, that has made a big difference in my online gaming. That said, it's gotten so bad, more and more I just use the Archives of Nethys and ignore Paizo. That's a bad reflection on Paizo. They're offering a tool to their community, which is very generous of them, but that tool is becoming less and less useful as time passes - even harmful - and they don't seem to care. Well, OK, that's probably not fair, and I have no right to assume what they feel, but they continue to ignore it and so what should I think? It's a matter of priorities, and clearly the PRD hasn't been a priority for going on two years. That's pretty bad considering the amount of raw material and fixes in that time.
Actually Melkiador, their damage also increases with level so it's not too bad overall. I'm not sure what you mean by low accuracy - it is a full BAB class... There's a brawler in a campaign I'm in who is our front line fighter (alongside a Paladin) and holds his own very, very well. So well, I'm building a brawler for an upcoming campaign for myself just to play with the class. I agree with Klorox though - it does require quite a bit of system mastery to do well. But like most things, you don't have to do it well to have fun with it! :)
We did a ship combat and it went pretty quickly actually - but we're all steady posters and I suspect that will matter more than anything. We had basically two phases, everyone except the gunners, and the gunners. The captain just leapt in wherever. That said, I was somewhat confused at times with what was going on thanks to rolling initiative each round for the Pilots. I think I could do without that, but it did add to the excitement so there's that. :)
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