Illustartion by Jessé Suursoo
It’s November 15th, and that means that Player Core and GM Core are now officially out! These remastered products bring a lot of exciting changes to Pathfinder Second Edition, but that doesn’t mean you have to ditch your older books or stop using the classes that don’t appear in Player Core. To help you use classes and other options that are affected by the Remaster changes, we’re presenting a handful of compatibility errata for the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, Advanced Player’s Guide, Secrets of Magic, and Dark Archive on the Pathfinder FAQ!
Wide, sweeping changes to the game (such as the renaming of “flat-footed” to “off-guard” and the removal of spell schools) aren’t detailed in the compatibility errata pages, though you can find a summary of that info in our previous Remaster Core Preview PDF. Instead, the errata are meant to help you use options from those books in conjunction with remastered material from Player Core and GM Core.
For instance, the removal of alignment drove a lot of our changes to the cleric, but the champion is also highly tied to alignment. While a fully remastered champion is coming in Player Core 2, what’s a champion player to do until then? Don’t worry! The guidance presented in the Remaster compatibility errata provides some suggestions for how to play your redeemer or antipaladin until next August!
In addition, we’ve made some tweaks to the magus’s Arcane Cascade and Arcane Shroud actions to compensate for the removal of spell schools. Furthermore, since produce flame and ray of frost got replaced with other cantrips, and since dancing lights was subsumed into the new light cantrip, we’re also presenting ways for psychics of the oscillating wave and tangible dream conscious minds to use ignition, frostbite, and figment in those cantrips’ places!
Finally, in the process of getting Player Core and GM Core into everyone’s hands, we made a few errors here and there, so we also have some errata for those books. This isn’t comprehensive errata for everything in those two books, just a list of changes that we want to call out where it might impact gameplay. Here are two of the largest fixes.
- We added “slowed” to the list of conditions that can be counteracted with 4th-rank clear mind, sound body, and sure footing
- We revised the text to say that the wounded condition should increase your dying value only when you are knocked out.
That’s all for now! I hope that you’re all as excited for the future of Pathfinder Second Edition as we are!
Jason Keeley
Senior Developer