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I am always excited to see my fave SF Iconic, Bug Dad, in anything.

Like Driftbourne, I've never been one for comics, so well, I have an easy in now. Trying to get into comics can be very hard and confusing, but this, I think can manage.

Interested to see Ciravel's freedom dichotomy issues play out too.

Thanks James < 3

That's what happens when when you touch things at the museum when the sign says not to, you get unexpected guests. So, to be sure and avoid unexpected guests, we should not touch things in the museum, okay? ;)

All this awesome art! Especially Mahja Firehair!

Ohohoh, is someone unleashing Adam on all the potential for Tian Xia horror? Pwetty pwease? Haunting at Hinojai was a great PFS1e scenario, and I would love to see more.

Also, thanks for tip off Dana. I'm not on the right continent, but I've got friends in the area who are interested. Thanks for being awesome.

Ohohoh, a Queerfinder writer? Thanks for a great fun addition to the game Grady!

Thanks John!

(Also, Tanukis when? I love them so much. A Caydenite swashbuckling tanuki would be a fantastic)

But these are options that are already there. Those races were introduced via the race deck, so they exist in Starfinder already. Likewise, some of the most classic Starfinder races like Lashunta and Triaxian and Ysoki existed in Pathfinder first. And there has been a vocal group of Pathfinder players on the forums who keep hoping they'll get Lashunta or Kasathans in Pathfinder 2e.

Since we've had one major time travel event across the systems, it makes even more sense that some of these ancestries will available in the future (or the past!)

Besides, it doesn't break the game to have options that players can use their ACP to build.

Hmm

I gotta agree. I love playing my "Elf with a hair problem" Triaxian Paladin PFS1e. There's a bunch of AP connections to "alien" people, so they're not new. Just unusual.

If people don't enjoy 2e, I'm kind of of the opinion, you can stick those species in home games. Home games, you're only bounded by GM opinion, and honestly, I don't think most home GMs are gonna bat an eye at a grippli when Jububnan (basically 1 legged hopping toads) exist.

But ACP as a across the two systems pool would be nice, cause I'm the opposite direction... *eyes army of Sprite character ideas, and too many fun PFS2e options and many SFS points*

Any old excuse to break out Nature Documentary Voice

Or should GMs go for Pocket Monster Professor Voice?

Too many choices!

"they were off in the other chapters of the story,". Grandmother breaking the fourth wall there.

"When you get to my age you realize that walls are suggestions at best."

I feel that Grandmother and Sir Terry Pratchett would have got along famously.

"Starfinder has a city inside a sun. What might be hiding in a black hole?"

The remnants of a dead god?

Is that where they stuffed Aroden? Worst game of Hide and Seek EVER.

Golden Pyramid Thingy? Oooh, is that Kadrical related? Or Kadrical himself?

So excited to meet the new candidates at GenCon!!

One of the things I remember from the last go around electing a First Seeker was a sort of 'tension,' between voting for what your character(s) want, and what you as a Player want. Like, while none of my Society heroes particularly agreed with Tara Nova's "let's make those jinsuls rue the day they picked a fight with the Starfinders!" agenda, I thought, as a player, that the a tale of teetering on the brink of revenge could've been a fun Season! There's also a number of Society players who have multiple PCs, who may have different thoughts, and different preferences based on the characters.

Anyways - is it possible for each person to have two (or even three?) votes? And they can decide how to divvy them up themselves? You could spread your votes around based on what you as a player want vs what you as character(s) want, or go all in on one thing you feel strongly about, or assign one vote per PC, or whatever else!

I wouldn't say 1 vote per character, because that wouldn't be fair to the new players or players with fewer characters.

Preferential voting is a good way to solve it. I feel much like "it's what my character would do" situations, you're the one figuratively steering the boat. I voted last time on what I thought would be fun Society plot direction. Didn't get it.

With preferential voting, I can weight my continued fun vs who my 1-4 characters like their ideas the best. As my 1-4s are currently a fey space pirate, a hellish Talent Resources Manager, a delusion mystic and a Skittermander who's backpack is a cooler full of mostly beer, I don't think their opinions are neccessarily the most... well thought out or cooperative.

Meh. ARPG seems like a terrible fit... was hoping for a proper CRPG using 2E rules. Owlcat, come baaaaack :)

Owlcats likes to drop hints for future games, considering they dropped major hints for

Games might comes out a bit slower, but they'll likely be growing their team.

As long as their meme game stays strong, it'll be survivable.

I gotta say, very excited to try a Paizo co-op game that no one other than a dev team has to prep for.

Diablo 1 was my first ever computer game too, so I do rather fancy the look of it. I'm not a massive ARPG fan, but I'll give it a go before I have an opinion on that part. If it's Very User Friendly like Diablo 1 and 2 was, I may have a new regular game to play.

Oooooh, we continue the plot of the Holy War that Datch started! My Kiirinta is in range to essplode some things for the Society!

And that Queen Telandia art is GORGEOUS.

Prepare to deploy Champions!

This is going to be amazing! Dennis AND Ivis, the Loremaster?

Is Keskodai still being a responsible Bug Dad and bringing Chk Chk to see more of the universe? Cause I want Father and Kid-In-A-Jar adventures.

So many map PDFs at half price... With the USD being at such a high rate against my currency, this means I can afford a few. Huzzah for making it slightly easier to GM!

Yeah, I got a PM too. It's really gross.

I'm so excited for this metaplot. I loved this aspect on other works

Get out your red string, cork boards and nice hats with the tin foil lining; we have a conspiracy to solve!

Destructicus is so cute! What a precious little friend!

Very excited for this book.

Cassi wrote:

My dream to have a fleet of Fey moths is now more achievable!

For now, I will be content with my existing admittance boon upgrading to a stat boost when the new season kicks off. That's exactly the kind of motivation I need to get my space moth priest of the space moth goddess back into the rotation.

Of course, whether bringing more people "to the light" is advisable for mystical moths remains to be seen, but that's what his other boon is for!

Make sure you bring the joy of DEATHMATCH to the people!

I've gotta keep the Stabrisis-14 Defence Squadron in the air, before the Ysokis kick us out of the Mirrormaw Military Training Facility for Small Species.

I'm sure Cadet Squadron "Desna's Shooting Stars" will be ready to graduate soon. Maybe... Hopefully...

Datch won't cause anymore holy wars in the mean time, right? ;)

I hope melee weapon Solarians are getting a huge base weapon damage output upgrade. My hope, that is.

Aso narrative starship combat! Huzzah!

I love your work on the Vlaka, Erin. Their expanded lore was an instant favourite and something I was super excited to see!

Ditto. Amazing work and much food for thought. Also tea and assasination guild? Scones and Skulduggery in the one place? GENIUS! Thank you for your contributions, Erin!

Thanks everyone for their contributions! Starfinder and Pathfinder wouldn't be as fun without your voices!

Okay, that Guidance art is proof that we need to unplug Guidance before it comes for us all rockin'.

Re: new Devastating Throw -
Devastating Throw (Ex): You hurl thrown weapons with frightful strength. You treat the range increments of thrown weapons as 10 feet greater than normal. You can attack with thrown weapons as though they had the line weapon special property (affecting a line equal to their range).

I mean, it was already a bad idea to give my kiirinta soldier grenades, but giving a creature with the personality of a 6 year old hawked up on pixie sticks the ability to attack with grenades with the line property essentially... *insert Fey cackling here*

Also, yes, Guidance is up to something, we must flee before we are consumed by our Tech Overlord looking sharp.

My dream to have a fleet of Fey moths is now more achievable!

Great news about the Dragonkin. Giving more flexible character options is great, especially if you find new friends you enjoy playing with (given shenanigans going on, I'm sure a few more people can be tempted into SPAAAACE once they know how fun Golarion is to play in).

Congrats Marcel! Well earned 5th Nova.

I'm curious if this book also talks about Drift Courier Network, because that is other thing of Drift Crisis conclusions articles from the book I want to come true :'D Because it really is silly how hard it is to send communications to nearby worlds

Well, know I know my Skittermander Freight Pilot (who definitely is not basically a sentient mullet hairdo revhead) has lots of work! Hooray for all the freight pilots hauling snail mail!

I'm big excited to see more mandates, and how my entries go.

Everyone being all "I entered this character, but they're gonna be hopeless at actual job" makes me plot excited. Find time to deal with the chaos that ensues :D

Was just wanting to point out, on the sign up form, it says Friday 27th of May when it should be Friday 26th of May. Just in case anyone got confused like I did for a good long while ^.^"

Precious team. Thank you for your hard work currently, and future hard work nailing down all the plot.

So, Smiad soon? Be fortuitous to have the Empyreal Lord of Dragon slaying around, especially if Triaxus-y AP happened to happen eventually.

A crystal key from another world? We should look into that. What could possibly go wrong?!

In studying a strange key made of metal and crystal, the Pathfinder Society has determined that it is receiving a distressing signal from a remote estate in mist-shrouded Ustalav.

I have at least 4 Society characters who are natives to the country and have credible claims as to the opposite, spread across both 1e and 2e

(Please keep putting them in awkward and/or scary situations please . They thrive off complaining about Ustalav)

Cats of Dongun Hold?! *takes notes for Iron Gods character*

So I was really looking forward to attending PaizoCon again this year. Now that it is online only, I will not be attending at all.

Online events kick up my social anxiety to a *tremendous* extent. The biggest panic attacks I have ever had revolved around trying to play Pathfinder online. There are ways I can make it work, but it is not possible in a con setting.

I mention this primarily as a data point -- online only is a perfectly reasonable decision that I don't begrudge. But accessibility issues do work both ways, and y'all should be aware of that.

That's an interesting data point; I'm the opposite.

I do get the joy of in person, as an extrovert, but my overthinking with social anxiety and trying not to annoy other with neurodivergence symptoms that annoy people is hard. Accessibility definitely has competing issues that the con can try to organise for.

Maybe it could be worth trying to organise a group in conjunction to play through at a local? Maybe an AP? I think there was a suggestion further up for adding a few RL tables for specials. I reckon that's doable with a special reporter connected to a PC or laptop and communicating with online special HQ.

PaizoCon Orgs, you lovely people you, is hybridising to a degree the special/s a possibility? Having a designated reporter to main HQ per site that is not playing to "move" boons around, report numbers etc? Maybe organising a few sites with local game stores to promote stuff through them and give "con" space?

*agrees in Non-USAian, with little money and also health issues that make travel a pain in the butt like hot temperatures affecting joints and mobility*

Online events really enable participation.

It keeps down risk of Covid (and all the different "flavours" of spicy cough).

It lets people in far flung parts of the world participate (like having all your friends teleport in from Garund, Tian Xia, Arcadia and even elusive Sarusan to help you out on missions). It's really good to be able to participate in non-local events, even if it's just filling in for someone who had to drop a GMing slot.

Opening it up online does allow GMs from all over the world, and I think that's good for player and GM base.

I know I ran for an online con sometime in the last year using RL pics of places for scene change cues, and a few very skilled GMs picked that up. I know I also run for lodges far from me (cause the timezones align in fun but weird ways), and a few very much skilled GMs have picked up a few of my tricks (like Loot handouts in Roll20 that you can update). And that's really flattering that these people, some of whom have been GMing TTRPGs longer than I've been alive, are finding things I started doing to counter my disability based memory issues useful to them.

But, I also have some requests:

-Specials time do lock international players out of specials. I often get up for specials, but specials are normally on at 4am my local time. That means often getting up at 3am to be completely ready, with gathered food and drinks. If we could look at possibility of aligning more time zones for start times, we could catch more players and I could possibly think more clearly and remember the plots of each better (the last few years are very hazy in patches).

-Additional to first point, maybe look at more gaming slots "overnight". There are a bunch of night owl US players and GMs in time zones that would be happy to run at 2am Eastern US time. I know Paizo like to have staff around for all slots, but it could be worth having a "pick up" slot on schedule around for GMs to offer to run games through the con. I find the prospect of thinking about hunting for pick up players a bit overwhelming, so it'd be nice to have a place to offer.

-Having a list of stand by GMs (and times they could be available) and what they run may help reduce organiser stress if GMs need to drop for any reason.

Look at all those fluffy Vlaka in the art! Thank you artists!

You have made a certain Sarenite Knight of Golarion Witness Assistance Counsellor who may or may not be a Vlaka very happy... if someone described the image to her.

Are there any tutorials on this game? I got it from the Kickstarter. I played for an hour trying to get out of the town square. Couldn't figure it out. Uninstalled it. I'll probably re-download it and try it again. Hopefully I can figure it out this time!

There are. Do a search. I recommend the Fextralife wiki for WotR.

As for getting out of Kenabres's square...

I'm excited, new party member! Who also is new romance! Denied bestest Tiefling romance without mods, I'm interested to see how different this one will be.

Michael Sayre wrote:

Oh hey, my name is there now!

I won't steal Eleanor and Luis's thunder too much, but I will confirm that I wrote a bunch of crunch including an ancestry and multiple types of feats, did one highly anticipated update, and contributed a notable chunk of lore that my career at Paizo made me particularly suited to write...

They have Organized Play in the setting ?

:-D

PFS2e 4-05 is going to Nex. Can't recommend enough. A few 1e scenarios in Jalmeray too.

I'm happy this continent is getting some love. In my head, I've just been Homer Simpson style drooling over the potential foods. My very food adventurous Paladin of Mazludeh will go on a quest for snacks.

Just played it with the author; it is fantastic. My table and I all had moments of sheer cackling at the jokes, then we got a little teary eyed at a certain point.

Cannot recommend it highly enough, and if you can catch it with the author sometime, please do. I hear he's a top bloke ;)

Oooo, more Ryphorian art! My 1e "Elf With Too Much Hair" Paladin-Cleric of Smiad is PLEASED there's no aliens in the Mendevian Crusade, what are you talking about...

Yay Ivis!

Soothe really is a great healing option.

Gobbo the Goblin Bard of Desna recommendses it, espeshurely as a Signatshure Spellele :D

Boons used to do exactly that, when you could track your total on a piece of paper, but the website doesn't work like that.

I've personally found it's better for me, environmentally, physically and for my disabilities, to not be tracking everything by paper or leaving it completely on me to track in many places online.

I'm not hauling a BIG amount of stuff to cons to run (can ask shifty up there about my bags for cons which wasn't fun with my fatigue issues), nor am I losing everything I need (or having it taken from me by accident, because other people live in my home).

It's a compensation for Paizo behind the scenes flaw, as Alex said.

It doesn't work for everyone, no, but I'm pretty sure you can also compensate with some existing boons.

I'm not entirely sure, but I think the Second Seekers Jadnura 2nd to last or last boon or Starfinder Forum member's Protege boon could help you out, especially if it's only 1 character your put bounties on.

Heck, be real simple for ongoing characters, at 5 rep pick up Avid Volunteer for the Advocates or Digital Presence for the Dataphiles, slap that on that Bounty character.

Then if you prefer RL play with the Advocates, just help set up 4 times over the character's career (which, if you're GMing and turning up to set up a table any way, you should defs qualify for, imo).

If you prefer online, 4 scenarios with that Dataphiles boon on, and you've fully compensated for the bounties.

You're not as stuck as you may think you are for the long run.

Bounties are built for cons to draw folks who 'only have an hour or so'.

I wouldn't say that at all.

-They're a great game demo tool to new players.

-Great for friends who want to play, but cannot play a full scenario game.

Not everyone has 4+ hours of brain RAM or physical time all the time, for various reasons. I can't tell you how many new parents who like to play fall asleep hour 3 of a 4 hour scenario. Not just on me, they fall asleep even when they're having fun. Sleep deprivation does that. Sleep deprivation + social isolation is not a great combo either, so 1hr games, maybe 2 or 3 if they're up for it. A meal if they can squeeze it in sounds like a great gaming night. Works for new parents, and probably also disabled people with fatigue issues, like myself.

-Great for new to Starfinder GMs to get a taste of the system, but not get overwhelmed in running.

I can attest that when you start out, running for four hours with no GMing experience and basically no hand holding from more experienced GMs (eg. you are the most experienced person with Starfinder at the table or the GM/s at your table are not good at teaching you to GM for any reason), it's very scary and would put anyone off.
1hr run times seem like they're good for newb GM toe dips in the Starfinder pool in a safe way. And we need more GMs.

More Strawberry Machine Cake?

I was just prepping to run best scenario Star Sugar Heartlove!!!, now I get follow up. Woohoo!

Now I just have to bring my Visual Kei Disguise Operative to it. He can sign autographs and see if anyone is worthy of meeting a certain unicorn with a penchant for explosions.

When the Paizo art makes you hungry... dang delicious looking samosa.

Yay Jim! You deserve that shiny coin!

Thanks Isabaella in particular (but also all the contributors)!

I'm so chuffed to have this book. Very important, and I'm excitedly trying to level my Shieldboss Smashing Mazludeh Champion (of the Paladin variety) into the Shining Sentinels faction (because of course, if a Gauntwood remains, they should be a Shining Example of Knighthood).

Thanks for a rousing read <3

Hello Precious Artist Elf.

You are going in the precious characters pile, along with Seelah, Fumbus, Mios and my fave various NPCs. Please do not resist.

Golarion's Finest Guide to the Inner Sea sounds like a Desnan holy text!

As someone in that industry, I am excited to see what my fave setting looks like for tourists. And what things like small prayers or good luck rituals you may say or do before you get on a boat, or in a cart.

So, definitely years late on running this one. I love the lore and the flow of the scenario; just the layout is particularly bad for GMs.

I missed a lot bits, and running with medical fatigue doesn't help flipping back and forth to scan for lore and DCs. Which is a shame, cause it's a really neat story.

"See the world," they said. "Simple research mission," they said.

Mike (or blurb writer; possibly both), you have won the adoration of the Von Rooiakker family for the rest of existence for that line.

Omigosh, that Kiriinta is so cute!

Also, wait, we can make with the Stabby on Ol' Muttonchops? I know where my PFS1e Rogue-Bard is going to be for a good chunk of the day then.

Thaleon glimpsed a color he’d never seen before, one he couldn’t describe… but he knew it was bright.

A color never before seen on Earth!

Catch that reference.

As long as it was more fluroescent greenish-yellow-purple, and not saaaaaaay, secretly an ooze.

I was just wondering when we'd be getting to meet Mios properly. I love them already. Brilliant back story, and that's a mood. Plus, more precious Ustalavian LGBTQIA+ people (Right up there with my 1e Desnan Drag Queen Rogue-Bard)

I can't wait to try them out and put all my weird knowledge skills to good use.

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

willfromamerica wrote:

Eat the rich! (I loved this)

Before they eat US!!!

No, that would be the alternate villain Mios, one where the cure *didn't* work.

This Mios seems more like "Bury the rich at the crossroads with holy symbols of Serenrae, Iomedae, and Pharasma, with a cold iron nail and a copper coin in their pocket, a wicker bundle tied in this obscure fashion driven into their heart with a stake made half dark wood and half of wynwood, their mouth suffed with garlic before beheading them and burying the head elsewhere in a cask of a mixture of beer and holy water, their feet cut off and sewn back on backwards, exactly 137 grains of rice scattered in the coffin..."

*digs in backpack* "Oh dear, those things were in my OTHER backpack. Well, I do have a lemon, and if Valeros will let me borrow his sword for a moment, I think I can solve this still..."