sieylianna's page

I think it was a year or two ago that Paizo announced a price increase on the Adventure Paths because they had been that price since the start. Now we had another price increase and the list price is up to $29.99. That's $360 a year. Yes, you can save $9 a month by subscribing, but that sticks you with a $7 a month delivery fee.

I know the company I work for has far lower shipping charges than Paizo and that is without using the piss-poor Mail Innovations post office delivery option. (I have had mail innovations packages get returned to the sender because they wouldn't deliver to a UPS store box).

I get free shipping on virtually everything I buy from any on-line place these days. I don't know why Paizo is so far behind? Corporate Greed? Paying for the On-Line Pathfinder which I told them was doomed to fail due to the person selected to lead the project? I don't know, but the days of my committing $28 a month to a AP subscription are limited if something doesn't change.

Please cancel my Maps subscription. The continued price increases force me to cut back on my purchases.

This order was created on October 7th and was supposed to be shipped by October 21st. However, I have never received a shipment notification and the order has not been received as of Friday.

I noticed when I referenced Paizo in the customer service message board, as well as above, that the system dictionary does not recognize Paizo as a valid word. You may want to rectify this situation.

Has Paizo managed to merge their system with mail innovations or can I look forward to more weeks of wondering when my package will show up? I would have responded to one of my prior posts, but they seem to have been deleted.

How am I supposed to run this module? Do I have to retro everything to 3.5? I can't run it as is using PF rules because some of the encounters make zero sense (spiked chains lost reach in PF). My local VL has told me that nothing may changed and since he'll be running another table of it, we need to be consistent, but if I run it as written I may as well hand out the chronicles and let the people go home early. It's going to be absolutely zero challenge.

I did a search, but it appears that the official ruling is you can not change anything. For all the money Paizo has made off this scenario over the years, you would think they could update it to the current rules.

The past three monthly shipments I have not been able to access tracking information on my orders. The last one shipped last Wednesday and nothing is available. The previous one never had any tracking information even two weeks after it shipped when I picked it up.

Mail innovations service is horrible and for the shipping charges which we are paying, the quality needs to improve.

I recently moved and need to change the billing address for my credit card. However, I have my subscriptions sent to a different shipping address. I didn't see any way to update the address associated with the credit card, it looked like I would have to delete the pay method and set it back up.

Can you advise me on how to proceed?

I ordered a non-mint Ultimate Equipment with a certain amount of worry over whether the book would even be usable, since it would be non-returnable. However, I am unable to figure out the imperfection in my book. Flipping through the pages, it looks like all the pages are there. The cover isn't cut or creased. I am somewhat surprised that it wasn't marked as non-mint for future reference, but I wanted to let you know that I wouldn't have qualms about ordering non-mint items in the future.

I noticed today that the copy of "Paths of Prestige" which I picked up at my FLGS about a month ago is defective. It's 48 pages long and is missing the last quarter of the book. (No duplicate pages, just short the final section).

It's been a month since my purchase and I no longer have the receipt. I have never had a return at this store, so I don't know whether they will accept the return without a receipt.

What do I need to do if they won't take it back?

It seems like half the posts don't have avatars any more. I'm not sure if this is a consequence of eliminating GM stars, but it makes it much more difficult to follow a thread when there is no name or picture to indicate that its a new post.

As the subject states, where have all the fun PFS modules gone? All I've seen for the past months is meatgrinder after meatgrinder. No plot, no role-playing, just hours of combat versus one-trick ponies who have all sorts of cheesy crap that the authors have designed into the module purely to kill characters.

My PFS Aasimar Oracle has two levels worth of the +1/2 revelation ability for her Channel revelation. However, while Herolab is allowing me to enter it, it doesn't change her Channel to 2d6 from 1d6. Is this a known issue, an implementation decision, or something else?

I entered a new shipping address at the local UPS store. However, I noticed when I got today's shipping notification that an incomplete address was used. I tried to change this twice today, but it keeps discarding part of the shipping address. (Or it isn't displaying the shipping address accurately which is also a problem).

I added a subscription for PF maps using a new shipping address. The system gave me a warning about increased shipping charges for multiple addresses. I tried to go into my subscriptions to use the same shipping address for my AP subscription, but I can't find a means to access it. I want both subscriptions to go to the new address since there have been issues with items being stolen from my porch and I expect to move in a few months.

What do I need to do in order to correct disappearing games? I looked at my history several days ago and I have both games I judged and games I played which were on my record at one point, but which have since disappeared.

According to the email and my account this order shipped on 8/7/12 with an estimated shipping time of 4-8 business days. So it's several days overdue from the most pessimistic shipping times. I'm confused because it says that it shipped, but I am seeing posts about AP''s being on back order. Can you shed some light on this situation?

Thank you

Does a linnorm bloodline sorcerer qualify for Dragon Disciple? It's a variant of draconic, so I would think so, but 20 minutes of searching didn't find a definitive answer.

I searched through this particular board, but I couldn't find an answer to my specific question.

I was scheduled to play First Steps Part 1 tomorrow, Part 2 in December and Part 3 in January. I was going to create a brand new character for the series. However, I'm moving to Texas in two weeks and will not complete the series as planned.

Will the character be in Limbo if I play part 1 now and not receive PA's until I complete part 3? This has the corresponding limitation of not allowing the character to be played until such time as I get a chance to play parts 2 and 3. But there will be no communication between the old and new DMs, so I don't see where I will ever receive the rewards associated with the first module.

I'm thinking that I forget about playing any part of First Steps until I'm in Texas. Is there anything wrong with my reasoning?

I've noticed over the past couple of days that if I click on the new posts link - the system no longer takes me to the first new post, but to the last. Not an issue for 2 or 3 new posts, but annoying for the popular threads.

I downloaded this module today to run for my home group. I skimmed through it and noted some strangeness. That may partially be due to the fact that I am running part 1 and playing the others. Then there is:

Has anyone created a larger scale map of the environs of Skull Hill? I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

Is it normal for the message board to go into secure mode (https) for new postings? Doesn't this require more system resources and slow respone.

I'm set up to have my three subscriptions (Adventure Path, Companion, Modules) combined into one shipment. However, my subscription data shows that AP 39 was shipped on 11//3 while the "Inner Sea Primer" was shipped on 11/18 (which I still haven't received BTW). My credit card statement shows a $19.26 charge on November 3rd and a $13.44 charge on November 16th..

It's not cost efficient for me to subscribe when I'm charged $5 shipping for individual items. I can purchase the items at a FLGS for 15% off cover price, so shipment charges for individual items means that I'm paying 30-40% more for the priviledge of subscribing.

From the Haunted Curse description, "Retrieving any stored item from your gear requires a standard action, unless it would normally take longer. Any item you drop lands 10 feet away from you in a random direction."

Does this affect Spellcasting? (I.e. are items in your spell component pouch considered "stored).

I had read this as affecting items stored in your backpack or otherwise not ready for use, but learned that there is another point of view which considers the haunted curse to make any spell casting using material components to take one round to retrieve and another round to cast the spell.

I'd like to get an official response, so there are no surprises in my Pathfinder Society play.

I did a search, but all the posts seemed to be almost a year old.

Which of the Excel character sheets supports Oracles reasonably well? I'm not expecting the APG stuff to be complete, but I need to enter my Pathfinder Society character and the one I'm using for a couple of home games does not include the Oracle.

Thanks in advance

If an oracle has one of the mysteries (Lore or Nature) which allow Charisma to be used in place of Dexterity for Armor class, is this subject to the maximum Dexterity allowed by a type of armor?

I can see this going either way: if you are supernaturally aware of your surroundings, then limited flexibility of your armor is inconsequential. On the other hand, if the limited flexibility is merely a proxy for "encumbrance", then wearing full plate could reduce your awareness of your surroundings by more than leather armor.

A search didn't find anything and this wasn't covered in the APG playtest FAQ.

The cost for an AP subscription includes $5.27 for shipping. The cost for AP, Companion and Module subscription includes $5.82 for shipping. These shiiping costs seem outrageous, particularly when there is no discount associated with the latter two subscriptions.

The shipping cost basically eats up the discount for the AP subscription and unlike some people, I don't place a lot of value on having a PDF copy in addition to the printed copy.

I want to support Paizo, but when I can purchase the same things from my FLGS for 15% off cover or from Amazon for even less, it's hard to see how a subscription makes sense. Paizo will receive the proceeds from the sale of the items either way.

I'm not sure that this is the right place to ask since Oracle was one of the playtest classes, on the other hand, the playtest is over.

I'm picturing a Oracle that promotes the beauty aspect of Shelyn, which doesn't have a corresponding mystery at the present time, but it could be included in the published APG. The "only" mystery which is currently identified with Shelyn is Wind. If it's more appropriate for the character to identify with the nature mystery, can I do that and still pay homage to Shelyn? Or do I need to choose one of the deities associated with the nature mystery? It gets confusing with the lack of a direct tie between oracle and deity.

I've performed multiple searches and ran across dozens of threads on this topic, but I haven't been able to find a definitive answer.

I'm looking at creating a fey-bloodline sorcerer/rogue/arcane trickster for a new campaign. As a rogue 3/sorcerer 4/ arcane trickster 5 (caster level 9) - do I gain the fleeting glances bloodline power? The same question applies to the bloodline bonus spell received at 9th level.

Personally, I see the bloodline power as part of your magical heritage and whenever your caster level improves, then you would gain the bonuses associated with your heritage. I recognize the argument that bloodline powers are an aspect of the "Sorcerer" class, but I think the wording is misleading if that is what was intended.

Thanks,

Ed

The web site isn't recognizing the promo code which was on the origins flyer. I reported this to customer service on Friday, but haven't received an answer, so I thought I'd try here.

Ed