Accessories Go Digital

THANK YOU again for using a standard format, rather than tying them to a particular virtual tabletop service. (Any chance of revising to .PNG rather than .JPG?)

We looked into a few file formats, but JPG was able to give us the compression we needed to keep the files at as high of resolution as possible while still coming in under the 10MB file size limit that Roll20 has for user-added content (at least for maps).

(Oh yeah, be on the lookout for maps in the very near future.)

D'awww, shucks! I did not expect such a nice callout! *blushes* CS is also doing a ton of the legwork for this! I'm glad people are so excited :D

Any chance Paizo could confirm the prices of the PDF version?

The PDFs will be 30% off the price of the print edition, which is consistent with what we've been doing for other Accessories products so far.

Very good move! Thanks, Paizo!

I'll be extra happy if roll20 will do their own version so I won't even need to upload the pictures :3 But if that doesn't happen, being able to get them digitally is boon

Huzzah!!!

This is exciting news!

And so it begins.

Tomorrow's world is today.

Excellent job, Paizo.

emky wrote:

THANK YOU again for using a standard format, rather than tying them to a particular virtual tabletop service. (Any chance of revising to .PNG rather than .JPG?)

We looked into a few file formats, but JPG was able to give us the compression we needed to keep the files at as high of resolution as possible while still coming in under the 10MB file size limit that Roll20 has for user-added content (at least for maps).

(Oh yeah, be on the lookout for maps in the very near future.)

Awesome! Was just about to post asking for Maps . The interactive maps are great but, layers or no, PDFs are just not high rez enough.

Fantastic news! Looking forward to seeing maps in the future.

AJCarrington wrote:

Any chance Paizo could confirm the prices of the PDF version?

The PDFs will be 30% off the price of the print edition, which is consistent with what we've been doing for other Accessories products so far.

Thanks so much for confirming!

Great news!

emky wrote:

THANK YOU again for using a standard format, rather than tying them to a particular virtual tabletop service. (Any chance of revising to .PNG rather than .JPG?)

We looked into a few file formats, but JPG was able to give us the compression we needed to keep the files at as high of resolution as possible while still coming in under the 10MB file size limit that Roll20 has for user-added content (at least for maps).

(Oh yeah, be on the lookout for maps in the very near future.)

Maps.... Meaning high res digital maps from inside the adventures?..... please say yes....

The PDFs from the Pawns line still have those redlines ?

Thank you, Katina!

This is awesome to see! My only complaint is now I have to decide if I want to splurge on preordering all the spell cards instead of picking them up piecemeal over the next few months like I intended to make it easier on the budget.

Then again, it is a quiet month with only the next AP volume shipping... Who needs impulse control anyway?

What's a budget?

This is indeed good for Paizo's customers. Well done Paizo.

The only physical product I'm buying in this edition are the APs and Adventures. I've had to cancel all my other subscriptions. Can we please have pdf subscriptions for the Rulebook line.

Is it just me or is the store for the spell cards broken. I pre-ordered the Arcane cards a long time ago, but when I try to click on 'Add to Cart' all day today for the other spell decks, I get a Paizo error page saying I don't have access to the page.

It's not just you.

Excelente movida, ¡gracias! (Excellent move, thanks!)

Is it just me or is the store for the spell cards broken. I pre-ordered the Arcane cards a long time ago, but when I try to click on 'Add to Cart' all day today for the other spell decks, I get a Paizo error page saying I don't have access to the page.

Same for me, but they still added to my cart when i clicked back.

If you are having trouble with the Paizo store, please try logging out, clearing the cache on your browser, then log back in. Thanks!

Thank you Paizo this is great news! Please consider doing the same with your older first edition accessory cards like the face and item decks. I use those in my games and they can be used in any version of the rules and some of the older ones are out of print and hard to find. Buying them as PDFs would allow us to use them in the digital games we are all running right now and let more people buy and use all of the gorgeous artwork on those decks of cards that have gotten into the game recently after they are long out of print.

Have not seen this answered, and going through the thread again.

If I start an accessories subscription today will I get the PDF's for the spellcards that I have had sitting in my side cart and already authorized in my current Subscription Package?

Which product should I start my sub on?

Hold on so I just read this article and was in the process of putting all the cards in my cart when I found out I needed to know about this two hours before hand? So now I am not eligible for the pdf of the spell cards?!?!
That is just wrong. Everything else gets backwards eligibility but not this? I'm going to order in the hopes you change your mind
But I might cancel if you don't.

Hold on so I just read this article and was in the process of putting all the cards in my cart when I found out I needed to know about this two hours before hand? So now I am not eligible for the pdf of the spell cards?!?!

That is just wrong. Everything else gets backwards eligibility but not this? I'm going to order in the hopes you change your mind
But I might cancel if you don't.

I agree that this is a frustrating user experience considering the small window between announcement and closing of pre-order eligibility.

The one thing worth noting is that June subscriptions have already run through their authorization and finished on Friday, so technically speaking, the pre-order window had already closed for purchases shipping with June subscriptions. However...anyone subscribed who didn't read the blog over the weekend wouldn't have thought that might matter if they already knew the spell cards were coming and weren't part of their subscriptions.

Given how hard it can be to get the store to load pages half the time, it's easy for someone to get stuck in that position.

On the other hand, considering the spell text is available in numerous online sources and multiple VTT products, the spell cards are probably the least exciting version of this. From the preview, it looks like the backs of the cards are likely to be the same for all spells of a tradition, so it's not like, say, the Bestiary battle cards, which include images for monsters not depicted (but have statblocks) in the Bestiary.

On the other hand, considering the spell text is available in numerous online sources and multiple VTT products, the spell cards are probably the least exciting version of this. From the preview, it looks like the backs of the cards are likely to be the same for all spells of a tradition, so it's not like, say, the Bestiary battle cards, which include images for monsters not depicted (but have statblocks) in the Bestiary.

True.. but it was the thing that switched me from saying no thanks to pre-ordering $125 or so worth of paper. So there is that.

Hey folks,

The Pathfinder and Starfinder Condition Cards have been pushed back to tomorrow, June 10.

If you have questions about your eligibility for the preorder digital assets, send an email to Customer Service with the title "Spell Deck Subscription Preorder" and we'll be happy to help you out!

This is so exciting! I am so glad to see that Paizo is making adjustments that benefit both online and irl games, on multiple fronts! Thank you guys!

Downloaded and they're very nice. Every card is included, which I'm not sure was necessary; it's a jpg, I don't need 4 copies of each card, but it's definitely easy to import them into whichever VTT you're using.

Downloaded and they're very nice. Every card is included, which I'm not sure was necessary; it's a jpg, I don't need 4 copies of each card, but it's definitely easy to import them into whichever VTT you're using.

They probably automatized the process, so removing dupes would need someone to manually edit the result, and they probably don't have enough employees to spare for this, and thought it would be a minor inconvenience, and a "boon" for those that just want the pack, and hit "print all" or something, and have the same number of copies has original product.

tricklet wrote:

Downloaded and they're very nice. Every card is included, which I'm not sure was necessary; it's a jpg, I don't need 4 copies of each card, but it's definitely easy to import them into whichever VTT you're using.

They probably automatized the process, so removing dupes would need someone to manually edit the result, and they probably don't have enough employees to spare for this, and thought it would be a minor inconvenience, and a "boon" for those that just want the pack, and hit "print all" or something, and have the same number of copies has original product.

Easy to import? Good! 4 copies? Hm. I mentioned it to Katina. Thanks!

tricklet wrote:

Downloaded and they're very nice. Every card is included, which I'm not sure was necessary; it's a jpg, I don't need 4 copies of each card, but it's definitely easy to import them into whichever VTT you're using.

They probably automatized the process, so removing dupes would need someone to manually edit the result, and they probably don't have enough employees to spare for this, and thought it would be a minor inconvenience, and a "boon" for those that just want the pack, and hit "print all" or something, and have the same number of copies has original product.

Yep, this looks like it's the result of the cards not being audited for duplicates when they were packaged for upload. Having spent most of Monday removing duplicate images of the card backs for every card in every spell deck, I'm going to have to check with some folks to see what kind of bandwidth we have to fix this going forward.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

And yeah, after opening it myself, each cards is twice the number of times they are in the deck because the cards are the same on both sides in the physical cards, so yeah... same problem here. Sadly, automating removing duplicates is not that easy, and even then, some of the “duplicates” are not identical.

<breaking radio silence> Well done, Paizo. Thank you *very* much for this!

Well shoot. Looks like this notice came a day too late, after the order authentications were run. I subbed to the accessories line after this post went up, hoping to get the digital spell cards, but my order generated today and my accessories sub won't activate until next month. Bummer.

Yup. I was in the same boat. I pre-ordered the cards over the weekend and then my order processed and shipped out. I’ll be getting a huge box when the July orders go out with everything coming out next month.

Is there any idea of when/if the Pathfinder 2e Chase Cards would be converted to electronic copies?

Thanks Katina!

Downloaded and they're very nice. Every card is included, which I'm not sure was necessary; it's a jpg, I don't need 4 copies of each card, but it's definitely easy to import them into whichever VTT you're using.

That's only the Pathfinder deck, though. The Starfinder deck does not have duplicates.

Wait ... there are spell cards ?!?! How did i miss this

Elfteiroh wrote:

tricklet wrote:

Downloaded and they're very nice. Every card is included, which I'm not sure was necessary; it's a jpg, I don't need 4 copies of each card, but it's definitely easy to import them into whichever VTT you're using.

They probably automatized the process, so removing dupes would need someone to manually edit the result, and they probably don't have enough employees to spare for this, and thought it would be a minor inconvenience, and a "boon" for those that just want the pack, and hit "print all" or something, and have the same number of copies has original product.

Yep, this looks like it's the result of the cards not being audited for duplicates when they were packaged for upload. Having spent most of Monday removing duplicate images of the card backs for every card in every spell deck, I'm going to have to check with some folks to see what kind of bandwidth we have to fix this going forward.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

Awesome. It's not a big deal - easy enough to delete the copies, no need to create additional work for you guys. Just thrilled that you're moving in this direction

FYI, for Paizo employees monitoring this thread - there are a few issues with the digital Bestiary Battle Cards. It looks like some of the monster images were processed with significantly lower quality than the images used for the real cards - the greater barghest is super obvious - it looks like a Super NES sprite. Ape, gorilla is also low quality. It's not every card like that, though, Animated Armor and Animated Statue look fine. I haven't done a card-by-card comparison, those are just some at the top of the alphabet, and I only looked into it after Elfteiroh was asking on a Discord if others had the same issue, calling out the greater barghest.

Edit:
Actually, Elfteiroh made a bigger list, and my initial suspicion doesn't hold up:
Nah, there's a lot that were in the bestiary that are pixelated. Mostly toward the end.
Full list:
21, 40, 46, 51, 70, 77, 87-89, 121, 126, 157, 173, 176, 182, 197, 211, 232, 267, 278, 279, 283, 284, 285-286, 288, 289, 315, 334, 336-340, 343-345, 357, 359, 371, 376, 380-393, 395-397, 399-443, 445-453, 455-458, 462-463
("X-Y" means "from X to Y, inclusively")

(Also, FYI for anyone else reading this, I messaged Katina directly and she's going to look into it.)

FYI, for Paizo employees monitoring this thread - there are a few issues with the digital Bestiary Battle Cards. It looks like some of the monster images were processed with significantly lower quality than the images used for the real cards - the greater barghest is super obvious - it looks like a Super NES sprite. Ape, gorilla is also low quality. It's not every card like that, though, Animated Armor and Animated Statue look fine. I haven't done a card-by-card comparison, those are just some at the top of the alphabet, and I only looked into it after Elfteiroh was asking on a Discord if others had the same issue, calling out the greater barghest.

Edit:
Actually, Elfteiroh made a bigger list, and my initial suspicion doesn't hold up:
Nah, there's a lot that were in the bestiary that are pixelated. Mostly toward the end.
Full list:
21, 40, 46, 51, 70, 77, 87-89, 121, 126, 157, 173, 176, 182, 197, 211, 232, 267, 278, 279, 283, 284, 285-286, 288, 289, 315, 334, 336-340, 343-345, 357, 359, 371, 376, 380-393, 395-397, 399-443, 445-453, 455-458, 462-463
("X-Y" means "from X to Y, inclusively")

(Also, FYI for anyone else reading this, I messaged Katina directly and she's going to look into it.)

We should have these fixed today or tomorrow.

A Paizo gamemastery Accessory that is missing and should be made digital is the campaign workbook.

RicoTheBold wrote:

FYI, for Paizo employees monitoring this thread - there are a few issues with the digital Bestiary Battle Cards. It looks like some of the monster images were processed with significantly lower quality than the images used for the real cards - the greater barghest is super obvious - it looks like a Super NES sprite. Ape, gorilla is also low quality. It's not every card like that, though, Animated Armor and Animated Statue look fine. I haven't done a card-by-card comparison, those are just some at the top of the alphabet, and I only looked into it after Elfteiroh was asking on a Discord if others had the same issue, calling out the greater barghest.

Edit:
Actually, Elfteiroh made a bigger list, and my initial suspicion doesn't hold up:
Nah, there's a lot that were in the bestiary that are pixelated. Mostly toward the end.
Full list:
21, 40, 46, 51, 70, 77, 87-89, 121, 126, 157, 173, 176, 182, 197, 211, 232, 267, 278, 279, 283, 284, 285-286, 288, 289, 315, 334, 336-340, 343-345, 357, 359, 371, 376, 380-393, 395-397, 399-443, 445-453, 455-458, 462-463
("X-Y" means "from X to Y, inclusively")

(Also, FYI for anyone else reading this, I messaged Katina directly and she's going to look into it.)

We should have these fixed today or tomorrow.

I was told that the changes were made and pushed yesterday so your files should be good now. Sorry for the troubles and thanks for pointing it out!

Per Katin over here, there are some issues still being sorted with getting the files loaded.

My files are now ok, after clicking "Problems downloading this file? Click here." to reset the personalization. :3

Is there any idea of when/if the Pathfinder 2e Chase Cards would be converted to electronic copies?

Good question! We missed two. PZO2216 – Pathfinder Adventure Gear Deck and PZO2217 – Pathfinder Chase Card Deck will be added to the end of the list to go live on July 7. Customers are sent an email when we grant a file to their account.