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AFigureOfBlue wrote:

This is a PDF for which there is no printed equivalent. It's just a little standalone PDF adventure that was released that ties in to the Dark Archive adventures. Basically a web supplement.

It would certainly be nice to see it remastered, it feels weird that the book is remastered but its web supplement isn't.

A pdf is actually much closer in pre-release workload to a printed book than to a web supplement.

I do not expect this adventure to be Remastered for free.

Paizo has consistently used the term 'web supplement' to describe the free PDF downloads that add on to another book, as far back as the free PDF that went along with Rise of the Runelords #5 to as recently as the one that accompanies Lost Omens Divine Mysteries, hence that being the term I used.

And thank you Maya, that's great news!

This is a PDF for which there is no printed equivalent. It's just a little standalone PDF adventure that was released that ties in to the Dark Archive adventures. Basically a web supplement.

It would certainly be nice to see it remastered, it feels weird that the book is remastered but its web supplement isn't.

In addition to the issues mentioned above (which seem to still be present), I'm seeing that none of these new releases are actually listed in the "New Releases" section of the store's homepage... I was going to look and check on the status of the above things and had to search or dig through categories to find the pages even of the newest books. Just mentioning this as another way that the new store's layout is not helping people find the things they're looking for. The "Just Arrived" section shows the Foundry module and one of the three new PDFs, but none of the other new items, while the "New Releases" section seems to still be primarily highlighting March releases and has no indication of the May releases.

Driftbourne wrote:

Renaming the "Digital Editions" links to "PDF Editions" might help a little bit. I know where to look now, but the first few times trying to find DPFs, I just assumed Digital Editions meant VTTs

Thank you for this, Driftbourne!

I do think (short of having the PDF versions for sale on the same page as the main item listings, like the old Paizo store did and all the other RPG publishers I follow do) "PDF Editions" would probably be clearer for most products, though it would create some potential for new confusion for some items that also have epub or jpg files included in the Digital Edition version. Honestly from the name "Digital Editions" I'd expect it to include both PDF and Foundry stuff together, but Foundry modules are instead sequestered in a different part of the store.

Looking over the new releases, I just feel the need to point out the many issues with the new product listings, because they're symptomatic of the many still-ongoing issues with the new storefront which significantly contributed to my no longer purchasing much in the way of new Paizo releases (vs. previously when I got most all the books in PDF)...

Neither of the new Pathfinder adventures have links to the Foundry module on their item page.

None of the three new adventures (Pathfinder or Starfinder) have links to the PDF versions on their item pages, nor vice versa.

The physical item pages still say "This product is expected to be released on May 6th, 2026." despite that being two days ago and the items being available now.

There is no information on page count (I was shocked to see Tales from the Vast at $40 for the PDF, and my gut reaction was that it must be around 200 pages given the recent PDF price increases... no, turns out it's around 150 pages, but you wouldn't know that from readily looking anywhere on Paizo's website)

The breadcrumb links for "Troubles in Grayce" still has it in the "Coming Soon" category rather than in the "Adventures" category.

The items have a "weight" field listed, but it's set to 0... it should either be filled in or just not displayed.

On the page for Troubles in Grayce, the link to Secrets of the Unlit Star leads to a 404 error.

...for this being the primary storefront for these items (and the only storefront for the PDF versions), the lack of attention to making a good experience for people trying to browse, buy, and learn about items is really baffling to me, especially since if it's losing enfranchised players (like me) I'm sure it's also turning new players away when they find it too difficult to figure out what's available and where. Paizo's made some very good steps on improving the new store since it launched (I'm SO glad to see the link colors finally fixed after months of them being almost unreadable, and it's much clearer now when there are sales happening) and I hope that these other sorts of small recurring things (as well as the larger things like the remaining library issues and PDF/Foundry discounts and missing map JPGs and other issues that have been reported for many months now) can be fixed to make the store a decent experience again.

The wording of the incapacitation trait doesn't make any sense as of the remaster:

"If a spell has the incapacitation trait, any creature of more than twice the spell’s rank treats the result of their check to prevent being incapacitated by the spell as one degree of success better, [...]"

Creatures don't have ranks; it seems like the word "levels" was just replaced with "ranks" in the remaster here even though here the legacy use of "levels" was to refer both to creature levels and spell levels (now ranks). This should be rephrased to something like "any creature with a level that's more than twice the spell's rank".

I purchased a 1e scenario (02.11 The Penumbral Accords) as a pdf but the file is not watermarked.

I cannot use rpgchronicles with this unless I have a watermarked pdf.

Some of the faction player handouts also have parts of the background paper a blank grey.

PDFs are no longer watermarked in the new store; I'm not familiar with what rpgchronicles is but it sounds like they should update their system to accept unwatermarked files since that's all that will be available going forward once the old digital content screen is fully retired, and for new purchases starting several months ago.

Sorry. I was misremembering. I was looking at Howl of the Wild, not Rage of Elements.

Ahhh, that'd do it. No worries!

I was looking at my Rage of Elements PDF just yesterday; it is clearly listed as a product under the ORC license.

That's fascinating... may I ask what page it has that information on or where the PDF was downloaded from? I just redownloaded the single-file PDF from the new store's library page and it still shows the OGL on page 239, rather than anything about ORC licensing.

Moth Mariner wrote:

Sort by Price (ascending or descending) doesn't seem to function in either the Pathfinder or Starfinder sections of the Store.

https://store.paizo.com/pathfinder/ and anything under there
https://store.paizo.com/starfinder/ and anything under there

However it does seem to work elsewhere (Virtual Tabletop, Accessories, Miniatures, Other Games, Merch)

That is really weird. We'll investigate why this is.

-Jim

While the team is looking into sorting, I'll also note that "Sort by Updated Date" doesn't seem to work properly on the new store's Library page (and hasn't since release from what I can recall), at least for me, which combined with how the new store doesn't send out emails when PDFs get updated makes it very inconvenient to find newly-updated files when there's 1,000+ files in the library.

PC undead kinda force the rules to act funny, I guess. PC Skeletons also take bleed damage, for example. Weird.

Small tangent, but... do PC skeletons take bleed damage? When they were printed in Book of the Dead they didn't, since the legacy rules for bleed damage specifically excluded undead (this was part of the rules for bleed damage, not part of the rules for the undead trait, and therefore wasn't something overwritten the PC version of 'basic undead benefits'; Core Rulebook 452: "As such, it [bleed damage] has no effect on nonliving creatures or living creatures that don’t need blood to live.") and nothing in Book of the Dead indicated that they were exempt from that.

The remaster (in an errata) removed that flat-out immunity from the bleed rules, and the remaster instead selectively adds bleed immunity it to the relevant stat blocks as they've been reprinted (which is a huge improvement, by the way, I greatly appreciate not having immunities hidden elsewhere in the rules text), so I figured if/when the skeleton ancestry gets remastered it (or the basic undead benefits) would get that same note added to it like the reprinted undead stat blocks have been getting in order to keep the same gameplay as they had when they were released under the legacy rules.

Cori Marie wrote:

Majuba (and a lot of us) are upset about the loss of all the discussion posts that were attached to product pages or blog posts in the past. There was a lot of good info there that can no longer really be seen.

Is there a plan to recover these treasures? Or are they gone for good?

I had a discussion with Maya about this recently in this thread. My impression is that Maya is doing the best xe can, but I'm feeling rather disappointed with Paizo's tech team given how simple it looks like it should be to make those threads be readily accessible again.

The price increase from $20 to $30 on "Rulebooks" would presumably apply to PF1e rulebooks, seeing as the last price increase (which also happened after 2e was released) went back and increased PF1e rulebooks from $10 to $20.

If the PF1e rulebooks aren't affected, the blog should have been worded differently; though perhaps that's an oversight just like them not mentioning Lost Omens/setting books in either the "Updated" or "What's Not Changing" category, leaving it unclear whether they'll be affected or not. I would assume 'not' in that case, but it's not explicit one way or the other.

As a non-RPG pricing comparison, hardcover novels tend to be around $30, paperbacks of the same books are $20, and ebooks around $12. Increasing it so that the hardcover is $80 (to use Hellbreakers as a comparison) the paperback would be around $50, and the ebook a little under $35.

Yes, more goes into creating a PDF of a RPG book compared to an ebook, so I can understand a slightly higher margin, but $50 for a PDF feels like too much.

Although that math all looks accurate, I do think it's also worth noting that traditional book publishers have been collapsing left and right and getting absorbed into the big five publishers, ever since Amazon simultaneously created the ebook market and in the same breath undercut publishers' expected ebook prices in order to corner the market. (When Kindle first launched, Amazon was reportedly losing money on most every ebook purchase, which they did in order to rapidly create a huge market share thanks to the low prices that other platforms couldn't compete with [and used DRM lock-in to stop customers from ever wanting to switch platform to a more reasonable company] and in so doing positioned themselves to then be able to squeeze publishers, who at that point couldn't afford to lose Amazon's customer base... which has been a part of why the publishing field has become increasingly impossible for small pubs to survive in).*

I will say that this price increase has me rethinking how many of Paizo's new releases I'll be getting; it's not that I'm in favor of the increase. But I'm not sure that comparing Paizo's ebook prices to those of an industry with a famously cornered market which has proven unsustainable for most everyone who doesn't have the economies of scale in their favor is necessarily the best comparison to draw if we want Pathfinder and Starfinder to continue to succeed.

* Source: This is my summarization of info from Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow. (2022)

Yeah the retroactive changing of already-released PDFs feels like a particularly rough thing - like, the work on them is already done and theoretically paid for, why are new players and fans being punished by making it more expensive to get the older PDFs compared to if they'd been playing at the time the PDF was released?

Paizo has done that before and I wasn't a fan of it then, definitely not a fan of it now either. I don't think I've seen another company do that with their digital book or RPG releases. (And, last time they did update the pricing of old PDFs, they did so rather clumsily IMO - it had such absurd effects as taking GameMastery Module TC1: Into the Haunted Forest from originally being around $2 IIRC to being $20, all for a 16-page module... and while I'm sure that wasn't specifically singled out for that much of a price increase, the fact that it's still that much years later and after a store migration tells me they're not too worries about ensuring they aren't overcharging for old releases).

It may be one thing if Paizo did more consistent errata (across all product lines, not just rulebooks) and applied updates to the PDFs when they did so rather than just with new printings, since then they increased cost would be reasonable for an evolving product that still takes labor to work on, rather for something that seems to be generally treated as a once-and-done.

I have the PDF version of most every Pathfinder rulebook, lore book, and (non-Society) adventure that's been released, 1e and 2e. Honestly this may be the straw that makes me rethink continuing to get them all going forward. There was a lot of stuff already making me want to reconsider that (...the many problems caused with the new store and the uneven responses to them; the whole mess that is 3pp ORC content and Infinite content not being compatible going against the whole point of an open license; the uneven approach to errata; the removal of the Foundry+PDF bundles/discounts...), and having the price go up in conjunction with all those issues is pretty rough.

It's ultimately probably for the best for me personally... breaks me out of that 'completionist' mindset and frees up the funds to try out some of the other RPGs that I've been interested in getting further into... but like, with this change on top of all that other stuff, I think I might be at the point where of upcoming books the only ones I'm likely to get are Impossible Magic and Feybound, rather than those plus all the lore books and adventures and the upcoming Starfinder releases. Maaaybe Lost Omens Cheliax at some point, depending on how much of it is about Nidal since that's the one area of that region I have much active interest in.

I don't think anyone's seriously asking for the old product pages to come back (or at least I'm not)... just for the threads previously displayed on those product pages to be made readily accessible again, as standalone threads in a category just like this thread we're currently viewing is a standalone thread in the General Discussion category. The threads and the product page/description are two separate concepts; the product-related threads (and blog-post-related threads) should be readily able to be made more accessible the same way any other thread in the forums are.

I also feel I should point out that the old product discussion threads can still be added to, in the same way that they can still be viewed, it's just very inconvenient to do so for the user (but seems like it should be simple for the tech team to make it easier to do). I just added a post to the thread about "Pathfinder Harrow Deck (Foundry VTT)" by way of example.

That all said, I do think that 'freezing' the old forums when the new ones launch is a pretty good realistic goal to aim for... not as ideal for the users as a proper migration, but that sort of migration seems like such a nightmare that I think preserving the old content in a readonly form and having a new venue for new content a very reasonable spot to land in assuming that things are indeed able to land there.

It was really helpful having this module to be able to extract the images in decent quality before the Harrow Cards product themselves had the PDF/JPG version added to them. I wound up making use of them for a homebrew team I added to Fists of the Ruby Phoenix when I ran it.

I'm so glad to hear that you are planning to keep the old content around (I don't envy the work needed to make that happen... migrations are always tricky, and I imagine that migrating a forum with as many different things going on as this site does isn't exactly one of the easier ones!). Hopefully even if the tech team doesn't get to it sooner than that, at that point the old Product Discussion and Blog threads can be restored to easy access during the course of that migration. Thanks so much, Maya!

Paizo has indicated that the threads in Product Discussion (and the threads for historical blog posts) are gone forever due to technical reasons caused by the launch of the new webstore.

What puzzles me is that they've said this despite the fact that visiting the correct URLs (using /threads/ instead of /products/ to access the old threads) still works to view the old content, so making them readily accessible again should (in theory; I've done plenty of web development but haven't used the particular tech stack that the legacy Paizo site uses) be as simple as adjusting what URLs the site generates when displaying a page and adjusting a few display templates so that those pages just show the actual thread rather than also showing product info or blog content (since those are now elsewhere).

It's really confusing to me as to why Paizo seemingly chose to consign all sorts of useful historical content, especially the GM comments posted on things like Society scenarios, to the dustbin of history rather than having their technical team spend what should likely be only a few hours to preserve the content in a more readily accessible state vs. the somewhat clumsy-to-access state that they instead left it in.

The lack of attention to that comparatively-simple preservation of content does have me rather worried that once they're ready to ditch the legacy site entirely, they may nuke all the old forum content rather than migrating it someplace new, which IMO would be a disastrous move given how for many years this was the primary place where GMs would share useful advice and tips on running Paizo's adventures. The usefulness of the forums as a resource are a significant part of the value of Paizo's adventures themselves (since it's where GMs have posted advice to improve the adventures or fix the issues they were printed with) and it's worrying to me to see them not treating them as such, as already seen by the Society scenario discussion threads being treated as though they can't be restored.

Because of those outside influences causing things to happen differently, combined with in previous cycles the adventurers who reached the monastery being lower-level than they are this cycle (due to them not having the time/opportunity to level up by fighting noppera-bo and such before going to the monastery), Xin Yue's recollection of their fighting style is not necessarily accurate. She may remember them as being weaker, and remembers different groups coming during different cycles.

Again, this is how I handled it (and it seemed to be well received by my players), not stuff that was fully established in the books themselves.

vecna37 wrote:

AFigureOfBlue wrote:

In my game I made it so that the people at the monastery were all aware of the time loop to one extent or another - though since most of them are adversaries, they weren't exactly there to share info with the PCs. The ghost in the hidden library expressed that it had been a very long time, but didn't know it was a loop specifically.

Basically the way it played out in my group was that the party found the library ghost and started getting the impression that something was weird with time from that discussion; then, I added some bones and other remains in the burial garden room from the party's previous attempts, which got people theorizing about a time loop but not totally sure of if it's real or not; then there was the big revelatory discussion in the basement. I felt like it flowed pretty nicely.

As far as Xin Yue having fought the characters before, I went with... yes, absolutely, BUT also, in previous cycles, there wasn't the invasion of Willowshore at the start of the year and there wasn't the Wall of Ghosts. That means that in previous cycles A) The party of characters going to the monastery wasn't always the same group of PCs, sometimes other townsfolk (hunters, guards, casters) made the journey (at the challenge with the talking skulls and stuff along the Pilgrim's Path, I made it so a bunch of the heads resembles the PCs' friends and loved ones who had perished making the trek in previous cycles... the party thought it was just some scary trick or illusion until they learned about the time loop...); and B) Without the Wall of Ghosts posing an obstacle, they often went to the monastery sometime in early Spring, before they had built up enough experience (i.e., levels) to be able to take on the enemies at the monastery and win.

This is not all the canonical handling of things, just the approach that I went with and it seemed to work well.

correct. But that falls in line with a different dimension. That means the players might never

...

So it's a 'time loop' in that at the start of each summer things start back at the same place again. The way I handled it is that, barring outside influence, things would indeed play out the same way on each cycle of the loop... but there IS outside influence. Shinzo can do and say different things each loop (and has, in an effort to try different things to help the people of Willowshore escape), and the invasion of Willowshore is new on this latest cycle due to the outside influence of the exorcists destroying Ugly Cute in the real world. I also added in some other things; e.g. Kim Gu-Won losing his connection to Kofusachi as the loops went on because staying in one place too long is anathema to the Laughing God. Those outside influences allow it to both be a time loop (not a different dimension) and play out in differing ways each time.

TheTownsend wrote:

Shame we didn't have Faun or Nymph published when Mythspeaker came out!

Yeah my big Iblydos campaign I have been working on for over a year starts Tuesday. So that's me sighing heavily lol.

Could always use the Satyr and Nymph ancestries that Battlezoo published in the meantime, they're both quite well-designed imo.

They are for the most part linked to on each AP's landing page in the new store, e.g. this page for Stolen Fate

The link is grey and bold against grey text, so it doesn't stand out much even though multiple folks here on the forums have mentioned how hard they are to distinguish from the surrounding text since the new store's launch, but most all APs will have their player's guide linked in a similar spot.

There are a few that seem to be missing (the Player's Guide for the hardcover re-releases of Gatewalkers and Rise of the Runelords being among them) but most of them are present.

As for act 3, in my game the time loop didn't impact that much directly. In no previous loop had the party made it to the governor; Mago Kai and the exorcists are outside the loop and just recently arrived; and the jorogumo's echo is fresh each time and maintains no 'memory' of previous loops.

In my game I made it so that the people at the monastery were all aware of the time loop to one extent or another - though since most of them are adversaries, they weren't exactly there to share info with the PCs. The ghost in the hidden library expressed that it had been a very long time, but didn't know it was a loop specifically.

Basically the way it played out in my group was that the party found the library ghost and started getting the impression that something was weird with time from that discussion; then, I added some bones and other remains in the burial garden room from the party's previous attempts, which got people theorizing about a time loop but not totally sure of if it's real or not; then there was the big revelatory discussion in the basement. I felt like it flowed pretty nicely.

As far as Xin Yue having fought the characters before, I went with... yes, absolutely, BUT also, in previous cycles, there wasn't the invasion of Willowshore at the start of the year and there wasn't the Wall of Ghosts. That means that in previous cycles A) The party of characters going to the monastery wasn't always the same group of PCs, sometimes other townsfolk (hunters, guards, casters) made the journey (at the challenge with the talking skulls and stuff along the Pilgrim's Path, I made it so a bunch of the heads resembles the PCs' friends and loved ones who had perished making the trek in previous cycles... the party thought it was just some scary trick or illusion until they learned about the time loop...); and B) Without the Wall of Ghosts posing an obstacle, they often went to the monastery sometime in early Spring, before they had built up enough experience (i.e., levels) to be able to take on the enemies at the monastery and win.

This is not all the canonical handling of things, just the approach that I went with and it seemed to work well.

I feel this clarification makes things more confusing. What is a "source" ? How is it different from an effect ?

Many posters say it makes things clearer. I can't help but wonder if it's just because they disliked the errata, are happy it is no more and feel they were finally understood.

The example of Spellstrike is very confusing to me.

I was happy that we got a definition of instance, but now I feel even this is getting lost in the ruckus.

We need clear rules that cover existing cases : Holy, weakness to water ...

As far as I understand it, what was posted by the design team is just an explanation that they've removed the recent clarification and giving an overview of their intended solution. It sounds like the actual errata verbiage will follow with the rest of the Spring errata. I am hoping that that wording will factor in the scenarios like you've described, but I don't think it's particularly surprising that this initial non-errata statement/summary doesn't cover all those details.

That said, I feel like they do provide enough info here in the Spellstrike example. I was initially puzzled by it also, because I've always thought of a Spellstrike as being a Strike followed by the spell going off (which I would read as two separate batches of damage, triggering weaknesses or resistances separately). But the actual description of Spellstrike says "You imbue its effects into an attack instead of executing the spell normally."; i.e., the effects of the spell (including the damage it deals) gets bundled together with the effects of the Strike. This all pending any adjustments to that which may happen in the magus remaster, of course.

Glad to see Paizo listening to player feedback and changing course on this.

Thrilled to hear that they're going through and adding these... but Paizo, please, one or both of these...

A) Bring back the email notifications that alert people when a download in their library has been updated and describe what has been changed.
B) Fix the Library page so that sorting by "Last Updated" actually sorts by the last updated date, at least in my library it just puts things into a seemingly arbitrary order.

Between these two things it's almost impossible to know/find when a download has been updated unless you go looking for a specific item by name and check what Last Updated date is listed for it. (and even that's imperfect, since the issue I previously reported at https://paizo.com/threads/rzs7kj67 of many downloads having been marked as updated despite no apparent update having actually been made still persists)

They certainly are still there in the old digital content page, but that doesn't really help for folks who are new to the game or otherwise didn't "purchase" the previous free product. And also doesn't help folks like me who are glad to finally get unwatermarked copies of the PDFs through the new store site.

I think they said the new shop system is not able to offer free products.

Tue, but that doesn't mean they can't include a link to a free PDF on the website. They could put up a page for the physical product, marked as out-of-stock if appropriate, and link to the PDF in the description just like on (most of) the Free RPG Day products that are currently listed in the store. Or they could create a static page which has links to various free downloads.

Sames goes for a good number of other Free RPG Day products, no download links to be found anywhere on the site.

What is the difference between Slowed and Stunned now anyways? Did we ever get a clear answer on why we have two statuses which do the same thing?

"Slowed 1 for 1 minute" means losing 1 action each round for 1 minute. "Stunned for 1 minute" means losing ALL actions each round for 1 minute (in addition to not being able to use reactions/free actions).

"Slowed 1 for 1 round" and "Stunned 1" do end up being very similar, but for many other cases in which they come up they have some significant gameplay differences.

Could we have somewhere on the actual homepage or somewhere that you could put the free pdfs, like Free RPG Day pdfs? Not all the pages for them in the store have links that you could download them from on there (like Scourge of Sheerleaf, for example), and I wouldn't want to pay 5 bucks plus ridiculous shipping (outside the us) just to get a pdf for my digital collection

Yeah there's a whole bunch of free PDFs not yet added on the new store which really should be. Though I should note that on Paizo's store buying the physical item does not grant a free PDF, so even if it weren't for the shipping cost don't try that if that PDF is what you're actually looking for!

In the new store's Library page, sorting by "Last Updated" (whether by "Newest to Oldest" or "Oldest to Newest") doesn't appear to actually sort them in that way, and both "Newest to Oldest" and "Oldest to Newest" result in the same order being displayed when intuitively they should be the inverse of each other.

The number of spells that are in an oracle's spell repertoire still needs clarification.

The text says both:

> Each time you get a spell slot (see the Oracle Spells per Day table), you add a spell to your spell repertoire of the same rank

and

> at 3rd level, you select two 2nd-rank spells, and so on

These two sentences are inconsistent with each other since per the table the oracle gains 3 2nd-rank spell slots at 3rd level, not 2.

Further complicating things, the oracle pregen's spell repertoire doesn't really match either interpretation which could potentially be derived from those sentences.

Got a e-mail about a flash sale.

Clicked the link in the e-mail and got:

Quote:

Sales

There are no current sales at this time.
Check back in for details and updates about upcoming sales!

So I went searching for maps and was shown a countdown for how long the sale would last. It happened for multiple maps, here is it for Ambush Sites Multipack.

I see a way to add it to my wishlist, but no way to add it to my cart.

Right now it looks like I can not buy any of the items on the flash sale.

I'm seeing several flip mats that do have an add to cart link: https://store.paizo.com/pathfinder-lost-omens-city-of-lost-omens-poster-map -folio/ , https://store.paizo.com/pathfinder-flip-mat-cavernous-lair/

I wonder if Ambush Sites Multi-Pack is just out of stock, and the page isn't showing that correctly? Though if that's the case it ideally wouldn't say that it's on sale, since it's not even available for sale.

Very glad to see that Paizo updated the website to at least display sale prices on the relevant item's page though, that was seriously missing since the launch of the new store.

This isn't a brand new thing - the first volume of Shades of Blood and second volume of Triumph of the Tusk are each around 200MB despite having less than half the page count of Dark Archive.

I think it started shortly after Rage of Elements, which was famously over-compressed to the point that most of the illustrations had a very visibly grainy/pixelated look to them. It feels like perhaps Paizo went too far in the other direction after that. Either that or it is something like repeated images being repeated in the data when they shouldn't be.

But it is an issue for sure - on the weaker of my two computers, navigating some of these larger PDFs is actively laggy compared to the smaller PDFs that we used to get.

I feel like the bookmark structure in some recent PDFs has been getting worse than it used to be, and this feels even more the case with Dark Archive Remastered than with some other recent releases. Navigating the remastered Dark Archive PDF via bookmarks is far more difficult, due to their inconsistent nesting, vs. the legacy Dark Archive PDF. The Legacy PDF had a separate bookmark for each of the case files (Secret Societies, Temporal Anomalies, etc.) with the relevant subsections nested beneath them. The bookmarks for the case files section of Dark Archive remastered are all over the place... some major sections have a bookmark, some don't, the nesting is inconsistent between sections, some things even get nested under things they shouldn't be under (the entirety of Cults is nested under Mirrors and Imposters, for instance). Ideally I'd hope the bookmarks would largely match the nesting of things in how the book's sidebar lays them out, like in the legacy PDF, since trying to readily get to the section I'm looking for in this new PDF is a mess and I very much hope that it gets updated.

There's bookmark issues elsewhere in the file, too (e.g., the section for thaumaturge feats is nested under the class features section, when those should be at the same level like they were in the legacy PDF) but the case files section in particular feels almost impossible to usefully navigate via bookmarks at the moment.

Pathfinder 1st Edition Rulebooks have separate store listings for the hardcover and pocket editions; ideally that'd be done like the 2nd Edition Rulebooks, where a single store page allows the customer to toggle between the two options.

In the new Library, for the Pathfinder Chronicles NPC Guide, the single-file version is mislabeled as being the file-by-chapter version and vice versa.

Folks in another thread are noting that Dark Archive has an update date of 1/16/26, despite it still being the OGL version with no update from how it had been previously. How will we be able to know when a PDF is actually updated if these 'last updated' dates keep getting set to recent dates when no apparent changes have been made?

QuidEst wrote:

Dr. Frank Funkelstein wrote:

I bought the Dark Archive pdf as there is a sale ongoing and i still had a coupon.

I can already download the remastered pdf, looks like it was updated two days ago (last updated 1/16/2026)

Mine also says updated 1/16/2026, and it is the pre-remaster (based on "flat-footed" and references to the Advanced Player's Guide). So sadly, no early leak. (Although I'm sure Paizo's IT is happy to have not accidentally released it early.)

Same.

What an odd thing to have happened.

Seems to be a repeat of the same issue I'd seen previously and posted about in the Website Feedback channel, never got any info or clarification about it though. https://paizo.com/threads/rzs7kj67?What-updates-have-been-made-to-PDFs-mark ed-as

This all sounds like a very frustrating series of events, and if the Humble Bundle page specifically said maps which don't have JPGs in fact do, then that is really problematic as it incorrectly described to people what they would be purchasing.

My impression is that Paizo started adding JPGs to map products around 2020 or 2021 when the VTT boom was taking off (I'm not sure what exact month they made the change during), but that they've only ever done it for newly-released products, they never went back and added them to older releases, which is the reason why some digital maps do come with JPGs and others don't. It would be great if they went back and added them (...I imagine it can't possibly take too much time to do to make their digital products more appealing to people...) or at the very least adjusted the description of the digital products to indicate exactly what is included in each one.

At a bare minimum though, yeah, if they'd advertised on the Humble Bundle site that those particular maps came with both JPGs and PDFs, then I'd say they have a responsibility to you and those 6,612 people to add in the JPG versions which were advertised.

I noticed that in my Library on the new store, a fair number of PDFs have a 'last updated' date that is fairly recent... e.g. Thirst for Blood (book 1 of Shades of Blood) has a last updated date of 12/31/25, the Starfinder Galaxy Guide says 12/24/25, and Starfinder Alien Core says 1/2/26. This feels much more frequent than when PDFs would get updates on the old store's digital content page. Is there a way to know what changes have been made, or to get notified of updated versions being uploaded so that we know to go redownload them? Or are the dates listed here in error and the file actually hasn't been changed?

On the subject of Player’ Guide Links, the store page for Rise of the Runelords AP, has a link to the original 3.5e Player’s Guide, but does not have a link for the PF1e Anniversary Edition hardcover version.

Looks like Gatewalkers has a similar issue, it links to the original (OGL) player's guide but doesn't have a link to the expanded (ORC) Player's Guide which was released alongside the AP's hardcover re-release.

And links get even more confusing when there's pages like this: https://store.paizo.com/pathfinder/pathfinder-second-edition/adventure-path s/myth-speaker/

Where the text about the player's guide is a link, but the text about PFS sanctioning documents isn't.

Looks like some but not all of the above link issues have been fixed, and not in a consistent style, meaning the link appearance is maybe decided per link rather than a blanket setting? Some are bold, some are bold and underline?

Anyway these Adventure Paths still have links that look like regular text:
(not sure why Revenge of the Runelords is under "/adventures" not "/pathfinder-second-edition/adventure-paths")

Oh wow yeah link styles seem to be getting applied inline rather than with some global CSS. There's even some (like the link to the release schedule at https://store.paizo.com/pathfinder/adventures/ ) which are colored blue, akin to how hyperlinks traditionally are. It'd be great to have that style applied to all links within paragraphs. Because even on that very page I saw the blue link but totally missed that there are eight other links in the paragraphs above it, since they didn't get that same inline style.

Not a site bug, but in terms of content, it feels like in the "New to Pathfinder?" section on that page I just linked to it should perhaps list the shorter adventures before the longer ones... APs tend to be a bit intimidating for new folks since they're such a big commitment.

Would a potentially viable approach at a technical level be to just treat a Society subscription (or other digital subscriptions) as another regular subscription, just with no shipping charge on the items, and then distribute the actual Society PDFs to subscribers in the same way that the free PDFs that come with physical subscriptions are already being distributed?

That's great to hear! Thank you.