Pathfinder and Starfinder Society Now on Foundry VTT!

Such an incredible option! The Foundry VTT integration is ULTRA nice.

My GM is looking at this but is a bit confused on how it works. If he already has a subscription for the season adventures in PDF, does he get a discount on the package like the APs do?

Or does he need to buy the second option that doesn't come with the adventures? And in that case, does he then need to set up the adventures in Foundry with steps that would already be done in the more expensive package?

Thanks. I'm just unclear on if the two are the same thing in Foundry and one just also comes with the adventure PDFs, or if the cheaper one doesn't have things set up and you'll have to do that work yourself?

My GM is looking at this but is a bit confused on how it works. If he already has a subscription for the season adventures in PDF, does he get a discount on the package like the APs do?

Or does he need to buy the second option that doesn't come with the adventures? And in that case, does he then need to set up the adventures in Foundry with steps that would already be done in the more expensive package?

Because we're selling each entire multi-scenario season (or half of one) as a single pack instead of selling individual scenarios, we don't currently offer a discount for owning the PDFs the way we do with our Adventure Path modules. The idea is that if you already own or plan to purchase the Society PDFs, or if you're a VO who gets them for free, you can buy the cheaper Asset Pack instead of the Deluxe Edition and just load your PDFs into Foundry using one of the various PDF reader modules available (or just have them open on another screen).

In any case, the Asset Pack still includes all of the tokens, maps, and macros as the Deluxe Edition, so all of the setup is still done for you. The only thing you're missing from the Deluxe Edition are the benefits of having the adventure content integrated into journal entries inside Foundry: cross-linking with system compendium entries, one-click skill checks, that sort of thing. Nothing you can't do manually if you've got the PDFs handy.

The Deluxe PFS is amazing. That is all.

Thanks very much! As someone who purchased the Asset Pack for SFS 6-01 and 6-02, are there still plans to update those for Foundry v11 (and future updates)? Or did I just toss y’all a $12 tip? :D

I have visited the thread of updates and see that the status is “NO”, just checking to make sure those two packs are going to be downloadable someday. Thanks!

Tridus wrote:

My GM is looking at this but is a bit confused on how it works. If he already has a subscription for the season adventures in PDF, does he get a discount on the package like the APs do?

Or does he need to buy the second option that doesn't come with the adventures? And in that case, does he then need to set up the adventures in Foundry with steps that would already be done in the more expensive package?

Because we're selling each entire multi-scenario season (or half of one) as a single pack instead of selling individual scenarios, we don't currently offer a discount for owning the PDFs the way we do with our Adventure Path modules. The idea is that if you already own or plan to purchase the Society PDFs, or if you're a VO who gets them for free, you can buy the cheaper Asset Pack instead of the Deluxe Edition and just load your PDFs into Foundry using one of the various PDF reader modules available (or just have them open on another screen).

In any case, the Asset Pack still includes all of the tokens, maps, and macros as the Deluxe Edition, so all of the setup is still done for you. The only thing you're missing from the Deluxe Edition are the benefits of having the adventure content integrated into journal entries inside Foundry: cross-linking with system compendium entries, one-click skill checks, that sort of thing. Nothing you can't do manually if you've got the PDFs handy.

Thanks, that helps clear it up!

Will we get the opportunity to see what the various journal entries look like during the livestreams? I doubt I'm the only one who'll consider picking up the deluxe packs depending on how much I like the journal entries.

As far as deluxe pack vs pdfs + assets pack goes... Is there any consideration of offering discounts in the future? (Including on the pdfs).
For those of us who prefer to prep with a printed copy or run both in-person and online, it'd be nice to have both. As wonderful as journal entries may be, having the option to mark up a scenario while reading is always appreciated!

Super excited to see first party support for society adventures for foundry! I think at $7.50/scenario it is one heck of a deal. Even with a pdf importer I still find myself spending an hour or two prepping for each adventure, and this will be a tremendous time saver. Hopefully this sells well and we continue to see more content like this!

Incidentally, there's no chance of any of the older scenarios getting this treatment, is there?

Thanks very much! As someone who purchased the Asset Pack for SFS 6-01 and 6-02, are there still plans to update those for Foundry v11 (and future updates)? Or did I just toss y’all a $12 tip? :D

I have visited the thread of updates and see that the status is “NO”, just checking to make sure those two packs are going to be downloadable someday. Thanks!

We are still a bit behind on updating some of our earlier Organized Play offerings for v11; the bigger our library gets, the more is involved in getting everything up to speed after a major update (which, incidentally, was another consideration in our decision to release the Society modules in multi-scenario collections). The asset packs that were released at PaizoCon will be absolutely updated for v11 compatibility sooner rather than later, however. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Will we get the opportunity to see what the various journal entries look like during the livestreams? I doubt I'm the only one who'll consider picking up the deluxe packs depending on how much I like the journal entries.

I'm not sure how much of the journals you'll be seeing in the livestreams (it depends whose view is being displayed in OBS), but in addition to the screenshot in the article, we have screenshots of both the SFS journals and PFS journals in our module listings on foundryvtt.com (and will be adding them to our own store pages shortly).

As far as deluxe pack vs pdfs + assets pack goes... Is there any consideration of offering discounts in the future? (Including on the pdfs).

For those of us who prefer to prep with a printed copy or run both in-person and online, it'd be nice to have both. As wonderful as journal entries may be, having the option to mark up a scenario while reading is always appreciated!

There's always that possibility, but it's tricky to make the numbers work once we add PDFs (or PDF discounts) to the mix, because then we have to balance the price of the Foundry module around the price of the PDF. This was a big part of the reason why our original release at PaizoCon only offered asset packs and didn't even offer an option to include journals; by making a supplementary product with just the tokens and maps and macros, we could offer support for every scenario PDF for a flat $4 without having to consider whether you'd gotten the PDF for full price, at a subscriber discount, or for free. (I went into some of that rationale here at the time.) Obviously, your feedback did end up convincing us to offer an option with fully integrated journals after all, but at least as of right now, the best/cheapest option if you want a Foundry module and the PDFs is still going to be the asset pack.

Now, all that being said, in the future? Who knows. As usual, it'll all depend on the reaction we get to the stuff we're offering now. :)

Super excited to see first party support for society adventures for foundry! I think at $7.50/scenario it is one heck of a deal. Even with a pdf importer I still find myself spending an hour or two prepping for each adventure, and this will be a tremendous time saver. Hopefully this sells well and we continue to see more content like this!

Incidentally, there's no chance of any of the older scenarios getting this treatment, is there?

Great to hear it! We're certainly hoping for the same.

As for updating older scenarios ... we don't currently have any plans to do anything like that, but obviously if these new releases are a smash hit, or we otherwise see a ton of community interest in returning to older stuff, we'll certainly consider it. We weren't initially planning on making Deluxe Edition Society modules either, but a bunch of you really wanted them, so here we are!

NerdOver9000 wrote:

Super excited to see first party support for society adventures for foundry! I think at $7.50/scenario it is one heck of a deal. Even with a pdf importer I still find myself spending an hour or two prepping for each adventure, and this will be a tremendous time saver. Hopefully this sells well and we continue to see more content like this!

Incidentally, there's no chance of any of the older scenarios getting this treatment, is there?

Great to hear it! We're certainly hoping for the same.

As for updating older scenarios ... we don't currently have any plans to do anything like that, but obviously if these new releases are a smash hit, or we otherwise see a ton of community interest in returning to older stuff, we'll certainly consider it. We weren't initially planning on making Deluxe Edition Society modules either, but a bunch of you really wanted them, so here we are!

More than fair. Here's to hoping, I'd love to start offering an online society game and these will make that a lot easier.

So to avoid my whole integrate the pdf thing. I can now just order the deluxe. Hooray!!! But it will mean I will cancel my society subscription

The actual play of Jason Keeley (GM), Sol St. John, Dustin Knight, Jenny Jarzabski, and Jessica Catalan in Starfinder Society Scenario 6-06: Tomorrow's Seekers will premiere on Twitch and YouTube tomorrow at 4 PM Pacific!

Now not can't install Starfinder on Foundry V12 :(

One product that I personally would love to see is a premium module that contains all of the repeatable scenarios from the first 4 seasons of Pathfinder Society (Second Edition). In my experience these scenarios still get run a lot and would be something I would definitely use as someone who is just starting out running PFS scenarios online.