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Thank you so much for getting this sanctioning document put together and shared!!! Looking forward to getting back into PFS2 with the content of the awesome Lost Omen books I purchased! Sanctioning the gods book early was such an awesome decision!

Just wanted to chime in to say I'd also appreciate developer commentary/errata on this. I really want to play a non-magical medic, and hope a Battle Medic build doesn't get nerf'd by errata down the road.

I hope they are able to get the new hire processed quickly, and make their goal of sanctioning materials by the end of the month. Thanks for sharing the blog post here.

Just wanted to chime in saying I appreciate that the OP team is making a greater effort to communicate about sanctioning delays and empathize with being understaffed.

I also very much agree with Saint Bernard de Clairveaux that a certain flexibility in the manner in which the sanctioning updates are made until tech issues are sorted out would have been/would be greatly appreciated by the lot of us who have been deeply disappointed by not being able to use the content we purchased in OP.

I've mentioned it before in another thread, but I stopped playing PFS when I realized I couldn't use the published material... I had my beloved character all ready to hit level 2, and with Lost Omen content I wanted to incorporate before I was locked into my choices. I don't want to play multiple characters at this point, so there wasn't really much else for me to do. I ended up skipping the gaming convention I was going to play in because of the sanctioning delays, and after weeks turned to months of delays, I ended up putting all of my PF2 books in the garage and pursued other TTRPGs.

Yet I still keep on coming back to the forums about once a month hoping that an update will be made. Hopefully this month is the month - PF2 is an amazing system, with extremely talented designers and thoughtful supporting staff, and I do hope to get back into it once this is all sorted out.

Just to chime in - I was really enjoying PFS2e gameplay before I realized that the awesome new content they were releasing wasn’t something I’d get to play with in a timely fashion. Now I’ve pulled back from playing entirely, and am on the fence about cancelling my subscription to PF2e because of it. I paid ludicrous shipping costs for early access to the books, loved reading them, then felt nothing but disappointment that I’d need to find a home game if I wanted to play it. So those who are frustrated here are not alone. I understand Paizo OP is understaffed, but I feel it really is in their best interest to find a way to let people play their fabulous new content near release. The PFS players I’ve had the honor of playing with are wonderful, but I just can’t find myself to make it down to the PFS venue when I’ve been so inspired to try out some new character concept and I cannot because of additional resources delays.

I would prefer that content will be legal at release, and then banned if it needs to be down the road. I don’t normally buy physical books, the only reason I subscribed was to get the content a bit earlier. But if I can’t use the content, then I would just wait until the content was sanctioned and only buy the PDFs when they are sanctioned. Hopefully there are enough people like myself who feel this way that Paizo dedicates the resources necessary to make the content be available sooner - ideally at release, as there is no reason I can fathom that the decision makers not receive PDFs of the content well before release, so they can review and decide and print their decisions the release date.

Six months? Wow, that sounds terrible!! I certainly hope that will change. I’ll give it a couple weeks, then I’ll probably cancel my book subscriptions if I can’t use the new material in PFS in a timely fashion, since that’s all I’m playing right now.

I like the changes to Brutal Shove from the playtest version! Thanks for the blog!

I'm using the Dervish Dance feat, and am thinking about getting Quickdraw feat in combination with a light quickdraw shield to get around the inability to use a shield, as so:

Start combat with scimitar and shield
Start of round: free action put away shield
Make attacks with scimitar (using Dex for attack/damage)
End of round: free action don shield

I realize that my AoOs wouldn't be able to use Dex for attack/damage, but would this be a viable option to boost defense (assuming no readied actions to attack me when I stow away my shield)?

I'm only playing in PFS, so my concern is having a judge rule I couldn't put away and don the quickdraw shield in the same round (even though they are both free action) or that there's something I'm missing and it's not legal. Anyone know if that's a likely ruling? I'm looking to get Saving Shield to complement my Helpful trait/Bodyguard feat combo (total of +6 to an allies AC potentially!)