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I received my first batch! (The Netherlands)

Thanks Archon!

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Chetna Wavari wrote:
Isn't there a specific term for the large number of slides in an Erik Mona presentation? I believe a banquet a few years ago that term was coined....

Was it 'Monalithic'?

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Online Guide Team Lead - JTT wrote:
Christian Dragos wrote:
Jared Thaler - Personal Opinion wrote:


Except if you encountered the greater version in the high tier, you never encounter the lesser, and thus it is crossed off.

No no no! This is exactly my point!

I'll try to dig the ruling up. It was explicitly stated that if you found the greater versions, the lesser versions were available!

Please! Show me where this was stated!
That wasn't how it was back in the day.

In 5+ years of editing the PFS1 guide, I have never come across that rule. Certainly it was not a rule any of us on the guide team intentionally added.

The partially charged wands one would be especially problematic...

I'm quite sure this rule was once in effect and that it's older than 5 years.

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And IIRC you can only retrain to get certain familiar feats (from familiar folio?), so the feat 'extra traits' isn't possible.

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Although it is not stated as such, in the Pathfinder Comic Origins Valeros, Merisiel, Kyra, Seoni, and Harsk are given field commissions by Venture Captain Shiela Heidmar.

Sheila Heidmar wrote:
"Your stories have proven your character as well as your combat prowess. You'll need both to bring honor to the society and to survive, of course"

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That was an easy decision.

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Only thing you need to use Google Slides is a browser, so assuming you've got a decent one installed, there's no need to worry. You can check BNW's link above to make sure!

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Uzziah Potus wrote:
As the character's alignment is not forcibly changed, and the chronicle does not state that you are forced in any such way (just that you grant the same domains as Deskari), I think you're Chaotic Neutral Valrar.

Fixed that for you.

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Michael Sayre wrote:
Steven Lau wrote:
Michael Sayre wrote:
and new PFS dwarves have a clan dagger as part of their starting load-out.
Lol, sounds like we are playing a video game.

I actually learned how to play D&D during my time in the Army, so I have a tendency to use military terms when talking about characters and tactics :)

One of the first things I ever had published was a 3pp class called the battle lord that had a bunch of military themes and inspirations in it.

This is funny as Steven is actually still military (If I'm not mistaken). I guess airforce uses different terminology and/or that they play more video games! :-D

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technarken wrote:
It is especially difficult because the main obstacle I've had finding someone to buy my pledge has been the fact that ND IS STILL INVOLVED WITH SHIPPING. Potentially interested people don't trust them to ship a blasted thing at this point.

You could try and find someone in the EU.

Another question: What happens with the UK if Brexit hits?

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Wei Ji the Learner wrote:

Ugh.

Is this correct?

No

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technarken wrote:
50% of what I paid to the Kickstarter in Paizobux. Heck, a couple bricks of Starfinder Battles would be nice, considering that's what I actually wanted 2 years ago.
Gameontabletop FAQ wrote:

I would like to transfer my order to someone else

The transfer of your order may be authorized on certain projects, but only in acceptance of the project manager.
To trigger the transfer of a participation, first contact the project manager to confirm with them that this is possible on their project. Then send an email to Game On's customer service by copying the project manager and second party your transfer in the e-mail : alerte@gameontabletop.com

Game On or the project manager cannot be held responsible for the transaction between the parties wishing to transfer the order.

So it seems that Ninja Division has to approve transfer of pledges. Then people can just sell their pledge to an interested party and the sprues can be sent directly to their new owners (saving time and postage).

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Summersnow wrote:

I understand Archon does not owe backers anything.

They were a subcontractor who got royally screwed by there employer. I assume they have lawyers working on that.

However.

I believe Paizo does owe backers something as they convinced people to invest in the kickstarter despite there misgivings about ND.

I assume Archon is getting a generous licensing agreement from Paizo for cleaning up Ninja Division's mess.

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It takes a goblin 5 years to reach maturity.

"Yes, it is true that goblins tried to burn down Sandpoint, but that was two generations ago! You can't blame me, even my parents weren't born at that time!"

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I'm over the initial shock of getting unassembled and like sanwah68 seeing some positives.

The scenic bases are nice and unassembled will allow for miniatures tailored for my characters.

Also, the plastic sprues remind me of Gorka Morka, so I'm hoping Archon will do some properly scaled Terrestrial vehicles soon! :-)

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Human
GM Dennis wrote:
As for getting you the scenario...I'm afraid I don't have any update. I know Hmm is working on it, so hopefully the answer is 'soon'.

As an RVC I can see the Con Support Backlog has almost caught up and that Play-by-Post Gameday VIII is on the top of the list (together with 5 other conventions) and will likely receive their support today.

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ForeverQueen wrote:

Okay.

Respectfully, can someone please break out the finger puppets and graphs for me? I feel like I must be missing something here.

Archon is making the minis now (they always were?) Got that.
Backers in the EU are being fulfilled by Archon, got that.
Backers everywhere else are being fulfilled by ND. ....?

...How is it anyone (not in the EU) will be receiving anything?

Isn't the whole fundamental problem here is that ND has no money?

Assuming Archon pays to ship the products to Idaho, (it is my impression) ND still has no money to ship product out with.

Can someone clear this up for me?

It might have to do with taxes, tariffs and additional handling fees. If the product gets sent from the EU directly from Archon to the customer every customer might have to pay extra for taxes, tariffs and handling over the consumer price. By having (semi-finished) product shipped to a company inside the US, the taxes and tariffs are over the manufacturer price and there is only a single customs handling fee.

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BigNorseWolf wrote:
The downside to the grenadier archetype being...

You can't do other archetypes like mindchemist.

If you want to save bombs to go nova vs the big bad, you can just use regular alchemical stuff like acid instead, which isn't even that expensive as you craft those for 1/3 of the cost.

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Specialty Stowaway (Sp or Su) wrote:
A school familiar can use any granted abilities of its master’s arcane school that have a limited number of uses or rounds per day, expending twice the number of uses or rounds as usual.
Dimensional Steps (Sp) wrote:
At 8th level, you can use this ability to teleport up to 30 feet per wizard level per day as a standard action. This teleportation must be used in 5-foot increments and such movement does not provoke an attack of opportunity. You can bring other willing creatures with you, but you must expend an equal amount of distance for each additional creature brought with you.

Is the Dimensional Steps ability a legal option for Specialty Stowaway?

It is a limited number of uses per day but measured in 5-foot increments instead of literal 'uses per day', but it clearly uses a pool which could be drained twice as fast by the familiar.

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The best way to solve these problems is to contact the organizer of the event in question. They should be able to remove the session that was entered twice.

If the organizer isn't available anymore, contact the relevant VC.

IMHO they should just get rid of the “report a problem” button, as the only thing that happens AFAIK is that support forwards the problem to the VC, who sends it to the organizer.

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Unless the map is so different that encounters would have totally different tactics I personally think it's better to have a nice printed flip mat than a quickly sketched one, but informing the party you are doing so seems like a proper thing to do.

I myself have used (amongst others):
* The river side of the Deep Forest for the final combat in The Confirmation.
* The Theater flip mat for Among the Living.
* Winter Forest for the Remoraz encounter in To Scale the Dragon.

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Eristae wrote:
I know that the Second Edition of Pathfinders is coming out fairly soon, and I was wondering if anyone had any clue when the first edition might be phased out in favor of the second edition in Pathfinder Society. When I play Pathfinder, I play in Society, and if there is an ETA, I want to be getting ready. I've tried looking for information on this, and I can't find anything so far.

After GenCon (August) no new scenarios will be published for 1st edition, but you can still play all the old content and those sessions will even count for any support that is requested.

It might be that some modules/APs that haven't been PFS sanctioned will receive sanctioning after GenCon, but I think the OP team is trying to get the ones currently queued ready before that time.

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Jon-Enee Merriex wrote:
As a convention organizer, I LOVE a special that is repeatable by tier! Immediately apply this rule to The Cosmic Captive. Literally no one saw all of that adventure :).

Yeah, but the different parts of Cosmic Captive weren't tier based, so it's very hard to create tables so that no one plays the same content.

very hard != impossible

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Human

I think this should be moved here:

https://paizo.com/community/forums/campaigns/playByPostDiscussion

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pjrogers wrote:
Auke Teeninga wrote:


August
Pathfinder Society Special #10-98: Siege of Gallowspire (Tier 5-16, Brian Duckwitz)
Is this the infamous "grinder," and it's confirmed that it will go all the way to level 16?

Well, AFAIK due to negative feedback on some of the early ideas John voiced during the podcast they rethought the "grinder" aspect and it's now more of a "finale".

up to 16 is confirmed.

(Also it will be run from PaizoCon to GenCon with OPC approval and after GenCon it will require RVC approval instead.)

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John Brinkman wrote:
John Compton wrote:

Product pages are in the web team's queue. Here's the basics of what's coming up.

May
Pathfinder Society Scenario #10–20: Countdown to Round Mountain (Tier 7–11)
Pathfinder Society Scenario #10–21: Slaver's End (Tier 5–9)

June
Pathfinder Society Scenario #10–22: Passing the Torch, Part 1: Who Wears the Mask (Tier 12–18)

July
Pathfinder Society Scenario #10–23: Passing the Torch, Part 2: Who Speaks for the Ten (Tier 12–18)

So it looks like the high tier characters get two new scenarios to cap off season 10 and PF1. But lower sub-tiers (anything under 12) sees no new content (and more pointedly, no season-cap scenario) during the last two months of season 10?

Is that the final list of content for PF1? Is there any kind of multi-table (or better yet, multi-tier single table) special to provide some kind of story cap for characters who won't pass into second edition and yet won't be able to play a tier 12+ scenario?

Asking for players (like myself) who haven't played often enough, or long enough to have a tier 12 character.

August

Pathfinder Society Special #10-98: Siege of Gallowspire (Tier 5-16, Brian Duckwitz)

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Selvaxri wrote:
Is the GM in the right to award our PC's the 1 XP?

Yes

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In PFRPGrognard’s defense threads that were moved do show up in searches, so I can understand part of the confusion.

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An easy way to spot you’ve wandered into the Organised Play section of the boards are the Stars and/or Nova’s next to the names of people.

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PFRPGrognard wrote:
THIS is the thread that comes up on forums searches, hence my posting here. Thank you for continuing the elitist attitude throughout though.

Sorry, it's not meant as elitist, it's just like you are trying to buy vegetables at the butchers and complain about them not having carrots.

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PFRPGrognard wrote:
Well, Sam, you have PFS players telling me not to post here where other GMs can actually read the advice about a module. That is a problem inherent only in PFS. If their money is all that is vauled here, then I'll take the message.

This thread is about running this Module as part of PFS, so your advice might be well intended, but it's targeted at the wrong audience.

Community / Forums / Organized Play / GM Discussion

My advice would be to go to

Community / Forums / Pathfinder / Pathfinder Modules

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You should be able to find the required chronicles in the Additional Resources.

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Kurt Wasiluk wrote:
Thursty, will you be running this at Origins and how would a kind soul like myself get signed up?

Soul is the important word here. There's a market for those things you know.

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Jhaeman wrote:
Resurrecting an old thread to double-check. I'm in a similar position to the OP: started GMing Rise of the Runelords as a home game back in 2016, and we're into Book 6 now. Neither myself nor any of the players did PFS at the beginning, but now most of us are into it. Is it legit to retroactively hand out Chronicles for the parts that a player went through?

Yes

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Yeah, Pathfinder Society is a living campaign which has been running for more than 10 years now, so there's a lot of information, some of which is now conflicting due to the very nature of the campaign.

There's an excellent fan made guide that hopefully helps to clear things up!

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8 bits is still a byte, so year of 125 bytes? ;-)

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Bob Jonquet wrote:
Is that really acceptable? Someone spend real money to support a charity and we cannot manage to send them a single printed piece of paper for six months or more? It really is an insult to the recipient.

As the boons need to be printed, signed, embossed, and mailed doing them in batches makes sense. However, having them send every quarter would be much better than once or twice a year IMHO.

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Gary Bush wrote:

Curious when the next batch of charity boons will be processed?

Boys and Girls Con from February but did not do the form until early March.

Looking at the number of people that received their boon in the last batch and the time they had to wait, I think it's about once every 6 months, so I expect the next batch to be handled after GenCon.

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Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Aquatic Adventures wrote:

Freedom of Movement

In addition to preventing a character from being grappled and several other nasty conditions, freedom of movement enables the target to move and attack normally while underwater. Thus, a creature benefitting from freedom of movement can swing weapons without penalties (though objects that leave its possession, like thrown weapons or ammo from ranged weapons, lose this benefit), lift objects without drag, and walk along the bottom at full speed. The creature automatically succeeds at all Swim checks as the water offers no significant resistance to its movement. If the creature has the ability to do so, it can fly or use spells like air walk to freely move around as if it were in air. Creatures who need just the movement benefits from freedom of movement without the benefits against grapple, paralysis, and magic effects that hinder movement should consider the lower-level spell free swim on page 59.

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Christian Dragos wrote:
Here is First Steps part 1

As you can see on the product page the code is: PZOPSSINTRO1E

Blood Under Absalom has code: PZOPSS0300-1E, so I think that's proof that #3-00 is Blood Under Absalom.

EDIT: The grand Convocation 2712 has product code PZOPSS0300GCE, so still a contender

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Miguel Madrid del Ama wrote:
Auke Teeninga wrote:
Is there a specific reason for the question? (My guess is that seasonal explorer boon has something to do with it.)

Basically, the player earned the boon in a Con and wants to fill it, he asked me about 3-00 and 3-EX (I could give him a right answer in this case).

It´s weird that nobody had asked this before since the boon appeared more the six month ago.

My guess is that most people have easily passed the thresholds so one more or less doesn't really matter.

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Officially I don't think the three into scenarios have a number, probably because they are a free product.

There is no other scenario that officially claims #3-00 (although both the Grand Convocation or Blood under Absalom might be contenders too.)

Is there a specific reason for the question? (My guess is that seasonal explorer boon has something to do with it.)

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Human

Ok, I'm currently at a gaming convention, so unable to post as often as I'd like. Will continue ASAP, but might be monday.

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PFRPGrognard wrote:

That's a good question. There seems to be a lot of room left for the GM to modify.

Dot.

So you are aware that this thread is the Organized Play section of the board? And that in PFS a GM is not allowed to modify the adventure?

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Altaica wrote:
You have any evidence that the Fair Labor Standards Act doesn't apply to Non profits?

I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer nor USA based, but I don’t know how organizations like Boyscouts of America could exist otherwise.

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Actually, VOs are volunteers for the Organized Play Foundation, a non-profit that was created to help bring together gamers.

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Cyrad wrote:
Or use existing cheat sheets as inspiration, such as the Chronicle Sheet #0.

I'm wondering, has anyone created a Starfinder Chronicle #0?

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HoloGnome wrote:
They obviously have access to one and any basic web engineer should be able to fix this problem in minutes.

With the number of players worldwide fixing all reporting errors would be a full time job with little added real value.

I feel your pain and I’ve tried to look into your problem, but the online tools available to me can’t handle the amount of sessions GenCon has it seems.

Just remember, your paper records are the real records and the misreported session still gives you the proper GM credits .

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I've reserved a table for this party for the Outpost II PbP convention (March). I haven't decided on a scenario though.

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James Anderson wrote:
There's no thumbnails for me. (Using firefox)

The script only creates the thumbnails clientside, so as long as you don't execute it at your end, they won't appear!

James Anderson wrote:
And this thread is quiet because character art is in THIS THREAD

That art threat isn't PFS only right?

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