Starfinder Beginner Box Humble Bundle

To help out our Starfinder Society players, we're currently finalizing the sanctioning documents for the Starfinder Beginner Box! This will allow you to play the adventure in the box and then apply credit to a level 1 character.

Once I have the final documents, I'll upload them and link them from the Beginner Box's product page; they should be up by this time next week, plenty of time to review them before you receive your physical rewards.

The Dawn of Flame Adventure Path is already sanctioned for credit; the rules for playing it in Starfinder Society are located at this link.

This is very exciting!!

BTW i strongly encourage everyone who does the bundle to click "adjust donation" and make sure the allocation between Paizo/Charity/Humble Bundle is where you want it. I personally don't think Humble Bundle should take 40% and charity only gets 5%

Got the big bundle! It's not clear how to claim the physical items, however, or how to pay shipping.

40% for Humble IGN is a lot, can't reduce it to anything lower than 30% it seems though which is high as well. Dunno but the defaults kinda look like a scam for Paizo.

Is there a reason why Paizo can't do these bundle sales on their own home page instead?

Is there a reason why Paizo can't do these bundle sales on their own home page instead?

We don't have the infrastructure to offer set-your-own-price bundles like these, and HB does. So the percentage that goes to them does actually pay for something that they bring to the table.

They also have a marketing reach in the millions, which we do not, so by simple virtue of being able to get the bundle seen (and hopefully bought) by orders of magnitude more eyes than we could ever hope for, they are excellent partners both for us and for the charities our bundles support.

Got the big bundle! It's not clear how to claim the physical items, however, or how to pay shipping.

On the same page that you redeem the codes, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you should be able to place the order from there.

I am curious how to get the Pact Worlds hardcover. When I entered the code for the $50 bundle, it gave me the option to get the Beginner Box but not the Pact Worlds hardcover. Not sure if this is an error somewhere or not. I know that I haven't ordered the Pact Worlds hardcover before, so that shouldn't be it.

cailano wrote:

Got the big bundle! It's not clear how to claim the physical items, however, or how to pay shipping.

On the same page that you redeem the codes, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you should be able to place the order from there.

I am curious how to get the Pact Worlds hardcover. When I entered the code for the $50 bundle, it gave me the option to get the Beginner Box but not the Pact Worlds hardcover. Not sure if this is an error somewhere or not. I know that I haven't ordered the Pact Worlds hardcover before, so that shouldn't be it.

I am also curious because my understanding was that we would be getting both for the bundle.

EDIT: When you go to check out it lists the product as a bundle, for botht the beginner box AND the pact worlds hardcover.

I was confused about the shipping at first as well since it says 1 item, but for mine, I see if I hover over the item with the "image not yet available" placeholder image. It says "Starfinder Beginner's Kit (Humble Bundle 2021)", so I assume this includes both the Beginner's Box and the Pact Worlds Hardcover.

NOTE: the humble bundle page for physical item redemption lead to a 404 page for me. I came here and saw I had to scroll down for the shipping option.

Bad timing on my end. I just bought the rest of the pdfs a few days ago.

I was confused about the shipping at first as well since it says 1 item, but for mine, I see if I hover over the item with the "image not yet available" placeholder image. It says "Starfinder Beginner's Kit (Humble Bundle 2021)", so I assume this includes both the Beginner's Box and the Pact Worlds Hardcover.

NOTE: the humble bundle page for physical item redemption lead to a 404 page for me. I came here and saw I had to scroll down for the shipping option.

That is widely unclear, especially since everything else lists the number of assets, and this is repeatedly called "1 item".

Greg Drysdale wrote:

I was confused about the shipping at first as well since it says 1 item, but for mine, I see if I hover over the item with the "image not yet available" placeholder image. It says "Starfinder Beginner's Kit (Humble Bundle 2021)", so I assume this includes both the Beginner's Box and the Pact Worlds Hardcover.

NOTE: the humble bundle page for physical item redemption lead to a 404 page for me. I came here and saw I had to scroll down for the shipping option.

That is widely unclear, especially since everything else lists the number of assets, and this is repeatedly called "1 item".

When you go to check out it lists the product as a bundle, for botht the beginner box AND the pact worlds hardcover.

Fantastic bundle, however as I'm Uk based i didn't realise there would be such a high charge for shipping on the physioal items - $63.68!

Error on my part I guess, but very frustrating as I was hoping to gift the physical copies to a friend

To help out our Starfinder Society players, we're currently finalizing the sanctioning documents for the Starfinder Beginner Box! This will allow you to play the adventure in the box and then apply credit to a level 1 character.

Once I have the final documents, I'll upload them and link them from the Beginner Box's product page; they should be up by this time next week, plenty of time to review them before you receive your physical rewards.

The Dawn of Flame Adventure Path is already sanctioned for credit; the rules for playing it in Starfinder Society are located at this link.

Update: sanctioning for the Beginner Box is now available! One note that is not in the sanctioning docs because we don't put it in there: this adventure awards double Achievement Points, so 8 for a player and 16 for a GM.

The two items are under one product code: PZO7110-HB21.

Always such great deals for Paizo stuff on Humble Bundle!

Fantastic bundle, however as I'm Uk based i didn't realise there would be such a high charge for shipping on the physioal items - $63.68!

Error on my part I guess, but very frustrating as I was hoping to gift the physical copies to a friend

Both our blog and Humble Bundle have text alerting customers that international shipping will be in the $43–$65 range. If you have suggestions as to how the communication could be improved, please let us know, as we've sincerely tried.

The Humble Bundle page does not list the shipping charges as shipping charges.

I paid for the $50 tier without realizing it included physical items. The text under the items don't indicate what those values mean, so I thought it was just estimated value for PDFs of those products. I didn't know they were shipping rates.

Is there any way to cancel the shipping? I'd rather just take the $20 loss towards charity than be charged another $40 for shipping. I'd be better off supporting my local store and just buy the Beginner Box locally.

So how much will shipping be for the UK for the Pact Worlds hardcover and the Beginner Box

So how much will shipping be for the UK for the Pact Worlds hardcover and the Beginner Box

international shipping will be in the $43–$65 range. I've heard it is the upper end for the UK.

Axuro wrote:

Fantastic bundle, however as I'm Uk based i didn't realise there would be such a high charge for shipping on the physioal items - $63.68!

Error on my part I guess, but very frustrating as I was hoping to gift the physical copies to a friend

Both our blog and Humble Bundle have text alerting customers that international shipping will be in the $43–$65 range. If you have suggestions as to how the communication could be improved, please let us know, as we've sincerely tried.

Shipping to Finland seems to be $75.18

This might be the time I finally start to poke at Starfinder! Can anyone confirm if domestic shipping is less than 20?

How long is this bundle available?

On desktop it's right below the Checkout button, as of this writing:

Offer ends in 19 days : 21 hours : 34 minutes

This might be the time I finally start to poke at Starfinder! Can anyone confirm if domestic shipping is less than 20?

When they did the PF2e one the shipping was only $9 for me in FL, US. So it should be less than $20, I'd guess between $10 and $15 since it's the box and a book.

can't reduce it to anything lower than 30% it seems though which is high as well.

That's an unpleasant, strong-handed, greedy, and unwanted change. Sure puts a sour note into a good bundle.

So If I buy the large bundle I get all of those PDFs and a Beginner Box and a Pact Worlds hardcover?

Just want to make sure I am understanding the deal they are offering.

Do the titles from Humble Bundle get added to my
Paizo account?

If so I should be able to get a discount from Fantasy Grounds if I purchase the same titles there.

Yes, the PDFs you buy in the bundle are added to your Paizo account when you redeem the code for the tier they are in.

So If I buy the large bundle I get all of those PDFs and a Beginner Box and a Pact Worlds hardcover?

Just want to make sure I am understanding the deal they are offering.

Yes.

Do the titles from Humble Bundle get added to my

Paizo account?

If so I should be able to get a discount from Fantasy Grounds if I purchase the same titles there.

Yes.

danielc wrote:

So If I buy the large bundle I get all of those PDFs and a Beginner Box and a Pact Worlds hardcover?

Just want to make sure I am understanding the deal they are offering.

Yes.

Thank You Aaron.

The Starfinder Humble Bundle just broke $20,000 in charitable contributions.

If you contribute to the $50 level and get the physical Beginner Box and Pack Worlds, can you add other items to your Paizo order to save on shipping?

If you contribute to the $50 level and get the physical Beginner Box and Pack Worlds, can you add other items to your Paizo order to save on shipping?

I think that technically it is possible?

However, the mechanism for redeeming the physical humble bundle items is different than the regular shopping cart. You wouldn't be able to add stuff directly to the code redemption "check out" process. Calculating shipping costs to see if you'd actually save money, isn't going to be convenient on the customer side, and customer service does not have the capacity to make these calculations for everyone who would want to check.

Additionally, the physical items aren't really intended to be combined with other purchases. The amount of physical items we ship for Humble Bundles is a very large spike in shipments that vastly exceeds our usually pace of fulfillment. When orders are just the HB items, our warehouse can pre build boxes and packages, print shipping labels off in batches, hire contractors for a short window of time, and knock them out very quickly in assembly line fashion. As soon as other items are combined, that order cannot go through the assembly line of fulfillment and would go into our regular shipping queue, taking longer to be shipped, and causing additional delays our usual flow of orders.

It's not ideal that this is the case (for both Paizo and the customer). I'd love to be able to encourage people to do more shopping at the same time as their Humble Bundle order is being fulfilled, but unfortunately it is not practical to do so at this time.

I know that some folks have managed to get the website to add their Humble Bundle physical items to other orders. Within our shipping code, there are ways to add items to existing submitted orders. In many cases combining items into existing orders will come up as a shipping option during check out, and if a customer is able to convince paizo.com's check-out or redemption process to let them do this, then it shouldn't cause a problem for the customer other than perhaps slowing down how quickly it's fulfilled for shipping from our warehouse. However, I can't promise that it will actually save money to combine packages, or that it won't result in having to contact customer service to fix an unintended consequence.

Some of our shipping methods are lower cost based on the contents of the packages, which means there are potential combinations of items that restrict something from being shipping a certain method. Sometimes for international customers, combining orders means a package gets charged differently for VAT or import/customs fees/taxes. There can be hidden costs to combining packages for customers that we cannot predict due to the variety of different item combinations or location based regulations.

We will of course provide assistance for orders, but I really can't promise that trying to convince our website to combine items will result in a good experience for folks.

I guess the TL;DR is: if you want to try to combine orders, note that this is outside the intended parameters of the redemption tool. Customer service doesn't have the capacity to calculate if something might be cheaper for you, or if it might change how your order is taxed by your location, etc. We will always try our best to help you if something goes wrong, so please let us know as soon as possible if something breaks with your orders or account.

-sara

It looks like this bundle has been extended another week. I say the final total page on 8/19 but now it is again accepting contributions and shows six more days.