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We love you too, Paizo. <3 <3 <3 Thank you forevs.

Please no corruptsessing the Dimension of Dreams right now today, please and thank you... you mean ol' witch of bads, you. So mean.

I know of maybe three retailers that might have space, but, I really want to test this Forum out. Shout out to the Comic Monstore's Game Realm in Salisbury!

Hi. I'd love to play. I wonder if there are 2023 updates here?

The treachery of Hasbro and Wotc will always be remembered by this community. Anywho...

#PaizoORC Paizo's statement blog on ORC is getting framed in my study. Paizo is my home now, too. I've just been blessed with overtime at work, and proceeds are going to the ORC Alliance. God bless Paizo. Long live the gamers and TTRPG content providers of the ORC Alliance; Keep making beautiful, ghastly, and wonderful things.

You have initiative.

I stand by what I said. Avoid the ones at the top who came up with this mess. Their threat level stands.

What makes you think the numbers are fake, BeNotAfraid?

... it's pretty hard to get 80% of people to agree about anything.

>.< My trust issues with obvious evil.

Well guys. Looks like we won. Fully and irrevocably.

I'm still a bit in shock.
OGL 1.0a & Creative Commons

Those numbers are fudged as flip. I want them to declare their critical failure across existence. Rawr. #WotcNoSale

"Don’t be afraid to make the game your own!" -Michael Sayre

(wipes away tears sitting on pile of wahtzee. rolls d20. smiles)

We now have over 120 playable species in Starfinder!

(new guy wide eye ->) O.O One-hundred and twenty-some playable races and counting..? Frakkin' smeg, Starfinder..! lol

So, I'm new to Paizo, and some of you showing me around Pathfinder 2e and so on told me about BattleZoo because I mentioned I'm a fan of Pokemon. Y'ALL. You have created "Eldamon" -> BattleZoo/Eldamon :) Now you have somehow figured out these monster ancestries. And that art, ye gods! I'm so stupid happy to put my hard earned money into this gorgeous set of products. Rock on.

(ManOWar... AleStorm... GloryHammer... Cradle of Filth? Got it.)

Turn around, And look at what you see
In her face - The mirror of your dreams

Neverending story..!

The PF2 Core Rulebook Pocket Edition (and Silver Crusade pin) I've ordered cannot be delivered soon enough lol. Starfinder is next. I'm looking forward to my first Pathfinder game. I didn't know how hardcore the Paizo (and 3pp) systems and players are. Man, I've been missing out. I also appreciate the warm welcome from this community. j/s

Would be separate. The Paizo Subscriptions come with a free PDF, regular purchases do not. See subscriptions HERE

Thank you for the link, xNellyNelx Superscriber. This is important :)

If you like Pokemon, there's an upcoming 3PP supplement about about befriending "Eldamon", as well as an Eldamon Trainer class.

O.O ..! I. Want. One. The other elemental class sounds pretty awesome, too. Hey, waitaminnit. Since I see it mentioned by BattleZoo, I gotta know if when I purchase a hardcover "Dark Archives" I also get the pdf version, or are they separate?

Classes you might not be familiar with, coming from 5e:

Secrets of Magic, Advanced Players Guide, Dark Archives, Guns & Gears...

Man, "Dark Archives" is my irl thing lol. I'm so lookin' forward to playing Pathfinder. Thanks!

Pokemaster? Heh, yeah, I guess Summoner could be that if you like. They have one hit point pool for both Summoner and Eidolon, btw.

Magus could be mage-knight depending on what you mean by that, but by default they aren't proficient in heavy armor and are mostly a damage dealer. But you can add even heavy armor to them, I suppose, there are ways. (I'm not saying that 'knight' and 'heavy armor' are synonyms, but that's a common association I think)

Yeah that "Secrets of Magic" book is lookin' pretty good. Also, yeah, I prefer that my characters wear minimal armor. :)

Also, as you plan to play a wizard, Secrets of magic has a bunch of nice and useful spells, two spellcasting classes [Magus, a warrior-wizard and a Summoner with a combat Eidolon companion (not a summoner of creature hordes)], really great lore articles on the world's magic and its works, unique (for now) magic items and more.

Quoth the raven... WAIT. There's a character class that functions like a hard magic Pokemaster? Remember the Mage-Knight minis? Dude. A mage-knight. Did Paizo make character customization like, infinite? Plus the infinite 3pp. That's like, infinite mojo. Thank you!

A few thoughts! I'm not trying to sell you on "buy all of these things!", I just want to mention what stands out to me personally.

One, there's Starfinder if you want to be an nanite-infused aasimar piloting a necromantically-powered mech to punch out a kaiju. It's a separate system, but if you're somebody who wants to galavant around the universe, it's a great choice.

Two, the minimum to run is the core rulebook and a bestiary, and the "base assumption" of the game is the core rulebook, the gamemaster's guide, the advanced player's guide, and a bestiary. This is not to say you have to buy all those- Paizo has all the rules freely available. It just means that anything after those books isn't going to be assumed part of everyone's game and they can start doing more narrowly focused books. I guess you could view it as "enough Pathfinder to be comfortably stranded on a desert island with"?

Three, setting books are nice. You can get a free PDF copy of the World Guide for free right now for a general overview. My top recommendation is Impossible Lands. That one dives in depth into the most high-fantasy area on the main map. Paizo does a killer job on world-building, and I definitely recommend checking it out to decide if it's your thing.

Four, now it depends a bit on what you particularly like. Dark Archives is "the X-Files of fantasy", covering things like cryptids, cults,...

Oh, you're the psychic one. Noyce suggestions, @QuidEst! I like all the things. Now I'm gonna see what a Starfinder is. Wow. Okay, yeah; I want to play that too lol. Thank you!

Well you can get all the game information you need off of Archives of Nethys but if you want to own the physical books, pf2e aasimar are introduced in the Advanced Player's Guide, and expanded upon in the Lost Omens Ancestry Guide.

Also, might be more of a DM thing, and may not be of interest to you if you just want to use the Planescape setting, but if you're interested at all in how Pathfinder/the Lost Omens settings handles the planes, PF1e's Planar Adventures is a great book with massive amounts of lore on the subject, very much worth a read in my opinion.

:) Shweeet. Thank you, @FormerFriend! Excitement.....

Looks like the Beginner's Box is a definite initial purchase. Now for my thing/ shopping list... I was looking forward to eventually playing a super aasimar via a "Planescape" setting so I could ram a magic living ship into some Lovecraftian kaiju. (What? I can haz goalolols :)
Anywho, what Paizo and 3pp products does this glorious community suggest? My bookshelf hungereth.

Ashbourne, Doug Hahn, freakin' EVERYBODY here is so welcoming and helpful. I have been missing out since PF 1st ed. I also just broke up with an abusive wizard lol. Time to go shopping. (I'll make a post about that.) >.> Thank you!

<- I've rpg'd (and larped) since the 90's, but somehow never ever got to play Pathfinder. Weird. I am so looking forward to Paizo's ORC (and everyone else's new systems) this year!

So quiet >.< The action must be on the Discord servers. 2023 is a great year already.

<- I've rpg'd and larped since the 90's, but somehow never ever got to play Pathfinder. I have a PF Core Rulebook, and PF Occult Adventures (cos sometimes it gets real) in my bookcase that are probably gonna need updating. I am so looking forward to Paizo's ORC (and everyone else's new systems)this year! On that note, I was looking forward to making a gate-hoppin', planeswalkin' aasimar (5e born winged >.> ) but apparently aasimar don't fly in Pathfinder, and so I'll need help with things like that. Any particular books and supplements suggestions are always appreciated. Muchos nachos.