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Browsing the Ultimate Combat section of the new PRD I noticed that for example the variant rules section does contain nothing but some short pararaphs on the topics discussed in this section, but not the actual content found in Ultimate Combat. Is adding the Ultimate Combat stuff still work in progress or is this part of the book not considered open content?

Another strange thing is that I am not able to zoom on my iPad.

Otherwise the new PRD looks great!

Hi bugleyman,

I'll try this :). I was just wondering, as this has never happend to any of my other D&D3 hardcovers.

Still I'd like a feedback from the Paizo Customer Service, as I was planning to by another copy of the book and if this is a known problem, I might have to change my plans.

Best regards,
Celeblas

Hi Sara Marie and Cosmo.

When I took my copy of the Pathfinder Bestiary from my shelf yesterday, I noticed the covers were kind of bent inwards ("U-shaped"). Is this a known problem? I'm asking as I want to prevent this from happening to my copy of the Advanced Player's Guide and the Bestiary was just sitting next to some other hardcover books on my shelf.

Best regards,
Celeblas :)

Dear Customer Service.

I just tried to figure out how much my monthly shipping fee will increase if I add in "Serpent Kingdoms".

Unfortunately as soon as I klick on "Proceed to Checkout" in my sidecard I am taken to the final confirmation page with "Combine with the earliest possible subscription shipment." already checked.
By changing this option to "Ship as soon as possible via:" I am taken to the "Combine with Upcoming Subscription Shipment" page, but the eastimated shipping cost is not updated.

Maybe Gary wants to look into this problem, so I thought I'll let you now about it.

Best regards,
Celeblas :)

Thank you very much Cosmo :).

Will you cancel the subscription after the Bestiary has been shipped or shall I remind you by posting again in this thread?

Yours sincerly,
Celeblas

Dear Customer Service,

I just added the PFRPG Subscription. Please cancel this subscription AFTER the Bestiary has been shipped. As my shipment options are set on "hold for monthly shipment" I would appreciate it if you could combine the Bestiary with order 1270243.

I also have noticed that a combined order would be shipped in two packages. If possible (and it doesn't cause too much trouble) it would be great if you could ship the package containing the Bestiary now (charging the first part of the shipping cost ($23.62) and adding the PDF to my downloads) and send the second part as soon as all items in this order are available. If this is not possible I just request that the Bestiary and #1270243 are combined to save money on shipment.

Thank you in advance.
Yours Sincerly
Celeblas

Dear Alison and Cosmo.

As I have not received an answer to my email sent last Thursday I'll try it again via this message boards:

Dear Alison and Cosmo.

Unfortunately I have to inform you that the spine on my copy of Pathfinder 25 also broke (exactly the same problem I had with Pathfinder 24). Did you change something in the printing process or is it just my bad luck?

Anyways is it possible to receive a replacement copy of Pathfinder 25? If necessary I can provide you with a picture to prove the broken spine.

[...]

Thanks in advance.
Yours sincerly

Greetings Celeblas

Thanks for the info :)

Just a quick question:
Why isn't the Pathfinder Advantage applied to the Paper Minis products? Is this a glitch in the system or are the minis considered non-Paizo pdfs?

Celeblas wrote:

A "Handle with care" label seems to be a good idea.

They do have a 'do not bend' label on them

Well bending luckily never has been a problem with my shipments :). It's more like "Do not throw this around and let it hit against surfaces several times" or in a shorter manner "Handle with care" ;)

Another option would be an highly increased amount of buffer material inserted into the packages. This obviously won't help the normal "envelope shipments".

My copy arrived today and I noticed that the paper quality heavily improved compared to the Rise of the Runelords Map Folio. The sheets seem more stury.

Does anyone know whether this is a permanent improvement? :)

And somehow I hope the Second Darkness Map Folio will not include another map of Varisia ;).

Hi there.

My campaign setting arrived today and somehow the cover image seems to be quite blurred and shows small artifacts as if the used image file was heavily compressed. Has anyone else noticed this?

The artework is still great but the image quality seems to be poor compared to other chronicles or adventure path products.

German customs have not opened my shipment but still the amount of paper inserted as buffer was not sufficient as the edges of my campaign setting (and Pathfinder 12) are bent in.

Sadly this happens with nearly every shipment regardless what packaging method is used. Approximately 50% of the books (Advneture Path, Modules etc) do not arrive in mint condition. They are still ok and far from what you would call "damaged" but still it is quite annoying.

A "Handle with care" label seems to be a good idea.

Thank you very much Vic :)

Hi.

I just added the Pathfinder Companion to my ongoing subscriptions (the free Second Darkness Companion was very convincing :)) and now my account shows

You have 1 item waiting to be shipped when Pathfinder #13—Second Darkness Chapter 1: "Shadow in the Sky" (OGL) Print Edition arrives at our warehouse:
• Pathfinder Companion: Second Darkness (OGL) Print Edition
Paizo Publishing, LLC 1 @ $9.99 $8.49
Subtotal (1 Item) $8.49
Shipping & Handling* $0.00
Order Total $13.52

Can you remove this item? As stated above I already got a free one and therefore do not need another copy of it.

Thanks in advance :)

So Pathfinder 3 and Carnival of Tears arrived today and sadly in a slightly damaged state. It's no big deal (only two corners of each product are bend) and I'm surprised that they are still in such a "good" shape when I look at the corners of the cardboard envelope.
Have you considered using an a little bit more durable kind of envelopes for international shipments?

To be fair: It's the first time the damage to the envelope was sever enough to slightly damage the items inside.

Ah and thank you for the Christmas card. The new Goblin song is fantastic. Just a pitty that the promotional code is no longer valid ;)

Ah thanks for the advice. I tried out every relevant combination and the shipping cost always came down to 6.86$.
So... you have a new Chronicles Subscriber.

Thank you for your help Vic :).

Thank you for the reply.

Well the shipping cost to Germany for the Treasure Chest dropped from about 30$ to 25$ which is still a little bit too much for my taste ;).

My major concerns are the card products and the hardcover book. Maybe I'll give it a try and see what shipping costs the automatic generated orders for subscriptions show.
If the system placed such an order would it still be possible to cancel it (obviously before I reveived the pdf File and the product has been shipped)?

Greetings Celeblas

Finally I noticed that the Pathfinder Chronicles Subscription is available and there is just one thing stopping me from subscribing: Shipping Cost. As the items in this subscription will vary wildly (ranging from item cards to hardcover books) is there a fixed shipping cost?

I'm asking because I'm not willingly to pay almost as much for shipping as for the product in question. The shipping (to Germany) for the Treasure Chest for instance is insane and I fear that I will face similar problems with the Pathfinder Chronicles subscription.

Which leads to another question: Will Pathfinder Adventure Path subscribers receive a free PDF for products they purchase separately or do I have to subscribe to Chronicles to gain this benefit?

Greetings
Celeblas :)

Well they reused an extreme amount of art in this book. Let's have a look at the Art Gallery. From the top of my head I recognize:

#1 Dragons of Faerûn
#2 Dragon Magic
#3 Player's Handbook 2
#4 Fiendish Codex: Legions of Hell
#5 new?
#6 Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde
#7 Complete Scoundrel
#8 Dungeonscape
#9 Dragon (Ecology of the Adventurer)
#10 new?
#11 Dungeon (King of the Rift)
#12 new?
#13 Dungeon Cover (Issue 117)
#14 Dungeon Cover (Issue 118)
#15 Dungeon Cover (Issue 138)
#16 new?
#17 new?
#18 new?
#19 new?
#20 Dragon (Wormfood)
#21 new?
#22 new?
#23 new?
#24 Dungeon (Issue 133)
#25 new?
#26 new?
#27 new?
#28 - #40 Player' Handbook
#41 new?
#42 Expanded Psionics Handbook
#43 new?
#44 new?
#45 new?
#46 I've seen that one before...
#47 new?
#48 City of the Spiderqueen
#49 Serpent Kingdoms (?)
#50 Book of Exalted Deeds
#51 Complete Warrior
#52 Complete Warrior
#53 I've seen that one before...
#54 Expaneded Psionics Handbook
#55 Expanded Psionics Handbook
#56 Complete Divine (?)
#57 Dragon Magic (?)
#58 Races of Stone (Who could forget "Fling Ally"...)
#59 Frostburn
#60 Races of Destiniy (?)
#61 - #64 Libris Mortis
#65 Trandimensional Spell... Complete Arcane?
#66 Complete Arcane
#67 Complete Adventurer
#68 - #71 Lost Empires (FR Supplement)
#72 Sandstorm
#73 Eberron (?)
#74 Lords of Madness
#75 Races of Eberron
#76 Races of Eberron (?)
#77 Epic Spell (Frostburn, Stormwrack or a FR Supplement)
#78 Eberron (?)
#79 I've seen that one before...
#80 I've seen that one before...
#81 new?
#82 new?
#83 Magic of Incarnum
#84 Heros of Horror
#85 Heros of Horror
#86 Spell Compendium
#87 Spell Compendium
#88 FR Supplement (?)
#89 Fiendish Codex: Hordes of the Abyss (Cover)
#90 Dragons of Faerûn (Cover)
#91 Tome of Magic
#92 I've then that one before...
#93 Player's Handbook 2
#94 Player's Handbook 2 (or Complete Mage?)
#95 new
#96 Fiendish Codex Hordes of the Abyss (?)
#97 I've seen that one before...
#98 Tome of Battle

The price for this book is lower than usually but I'd rather pay more and have all new artwork. Slightly disappointing but understandable move from the Wizard living by the Coast. Somehow they have to keep down the cost for books in the transition phase.
Hopefully the content is usefull :).

Well I considered ordering it directly form Paizo but almost got an heart attack when I noticed the shipping fee of 39.55$. Given the fact that the GameMastery Module included is the major selling point for me I guess I have to order it seperately.

I'm glad that the module is actually offered sepetately :).

I downloaded it about an hour ago and I am very happy that the shipping process for non-american subscribes has been greatly improved :).

So far I only scrolled through the PDF and the artwork ist great. Well I still don't like the elven ear length, but I probably have to live with it ;). The background for skinskaw murders with the splashed of blood is creepy (in a very positive way) and seeing a "full color" Pathfinder Journal opposed to a black and white one is, at leat in my eyes, a great improvement.

Can't wait to receive the printed copy let alone see what the next issues of Pathfinder will bring :).

Well I was hoping for this little guy and his friedns ;).

But I guess I'll just stick with my current avatar :).

Well I suggested corrections for most of the issues of "Rise of the Runelords" and send them links to the correct images.
Thanks for your help Wormy :)

When browsing through the different product categories I noticed that some "Add to Cart" buttons seem smaller and read "Add to Car" (e.g. on this page). Probably nothing very important, but I thought you maybe wanted to know about this "problem".

Greetings
Celeblas :)

Mmmh... somehow my question/request back on page 1 got overlooked ;).

Gary is it possible that you someday will add the mice from Dragon's Sage Advice articles?

After having a closer look at amazon.de I noticed that most of Paizo's products are still listed using a placeholder image. Well no big surprise given that we are talking about amazon. Far more annoying is the misspelling of Rise of the Runelords as Rise of the Ruinlords. Given the possibility to suggest corrections to product listings, I at least wanted to try doing this.

So I have one question: Amazon lists Wayne Reynolds as illustrator. That seems not quite right as he "only" is responsible for the (in my opinion great) cover art. So would it be sensible to remove the entry completely?

Celeblas :)

Pretty nice idea :). And if I'm not mistaken you are the one responsible for the current Layout? I just wanted to add that it is, at least in my opinion, pretty amazing and even surpasses what I'm used from WotCs publications.

Mmmh... I wonder what background image will be included in the second adventure path :).

After I had a closer look into my print copy of Burnt Offerings I noticed that the sihedron runde is included in the background image in almost all parts except for the Foreword, Pathfinder Journal and the Bestiary. Is there a deeper intention behind this or why was the rune omitted from this parts?

My first guess was that the journal and the monsters are of general interest for Golarion whereas the other parts of Pathfinder #1 are adventure path specific content.

Greetings
Celeblas

Personally I'd like to see any product included that also can provided in pdf format. That would include things like the Korvosa Guidebook or the Map Folio but not Item Cards or T-Shirts.
The free pdf versions are the main reason I finally decided to subscribe to Pathfinder and GameMastery Modules and therefore I'd love to see a subscription for additional Pathfinder supplements that includes free pdf versions of those products.

Poor Gary. This deluxe subscription stuff will mean a lot of work for him. Has Paizo ever considered cloning their Postmonster General? ;)

Well I finished looking through the PDFs and I'm too not that happy with the character artwork in Burnt Offerings. Somehow I prefered Jeff Laubensteins style as seen in adventures like Box of Flumph, as it has a more realistic feel to it.

And concerning Shalelu Andosana on page 19: Judging by this ears your elves can fly by flapping with them fast enough. Will the longeared elves be a part of the look of Pathfinder? Personally I don't like them ;).

The remaining artwork is, at least in my opinion, quite good and up to the standards I'm used from Dungeon adventures. On the other hand the artwork in Seven Swords of Sin is fantastic. Any chance to see more character illustrations in the same line as the goblin and his raptor on page 12?

And I want to second artist credits. Thats a feature I always liked in WotC's publications.

Greetings
Celeblas :)

Edit: Another question. Is the artwork in the Pathfinder Journal entry hold in black and white on purpose?

Mine arrived just at this moment :).
Thanks for the hard work to the whole Paizo Team :).

Well I'm still waiting :(.
Hopefully Gary is able to fix all the bugs that showed up in this first "test run" and shipping Pathfinder #2 will work more smoothly :).

My order is still pending (Players Guide, PF#1 and Seven Swords) and I too have no access to the PDFs :(. well Customer Service has got an email from me.

@crazy_cat
The downloads should be available under "Your downloads" if everything went all right.

Greetings
Celeblas

Well that explains the shipping cost.
Concerning the Player's Guide and the GameMastery Modules... I think I only need one copy of those *points at his subscriber tags* :).
But I'd take the PDF for Burnt Offerings included in my Pathfinder subscription. Just joking ;). You guys are doing your job very well and thank you for keeping all of us informed about your overall progress. At least for me that makes waiting for my Pathfinder much easier :).

Ah and before I start experimenting with my shopping cart again there is one question left:

Oh and is there any way to get an alternate cover version of Burnt Offerings signed by the Paizo Staff ;)?

Thank you Vic.

Playing with the idea of purchasing a Combat Pad and the Brunt Offerings Alternate Cover Version, I added some stuff to my cart:
Dungeons & Dragons—Savage Tide Player's Guide
GameMastery Combat Pad
GameMastery Flip-Mat
Pathfinder #1—Rise of the Runelords Chapter 1: "Burnt Offerings"—Alternate Cover (OGL)
Shipping cost: 6.86$.

As soon as I add the Combat Pad Extra Magnets the shipping cost goes from 6.81$ up to over 20$. Ok so I tried just adding the Combat Pad and the magnets but the shipping cost is raised from 6.86$ to over 14$. Are these magnets especially unwieldy or why else is the shipping cost skyrocketing when I add them to my shopping cart?

Oh and is there any way to get an alternate cover version of Burnt Offerings signed by the Paizo Staff ;)?

Grettings
Celeblas

Thank you vermy much Cosmo and Vic :).

Greetings Celeblas.

Hello.

I just checked my credit card bill and realized that I was charged $12.82 shipping and handling cost for orders #756229 and #729583, but both D0 and D1 arrived in the same package.
Are the $12.82 a mistake or did I miss something?

Oh and I received a bill with aforementioned orders, but none with W1. Was this an oversight or is this common for subscriptions?

And before I forget it: Thank you for the free Item Card booster and Paizo Summer Catalog included in the last shipment :).

Greetings
Celeblas

Thanks for the information Vic. And I already hoped I just could go to bed and wake up finding my Pathfinder PDF ready for download :(.
Well I suppose we all have to be patient.

And thank you Gary for keeping us informed about your progress over the last couple of days, weeks and months. Normally I would be upset about the delay, but given the fact that the whole Paizo staff does its best to keep all of us informed, I can cope with it pretty well :).

So given the fact that its 1:25 o'clock in Germany now, I will stop waiting for my PDF file and got to bed ;):

Well I also have gotten no Email so far. But my order histrory shows Pathfinder #1, Pathfinder Players Guide and Seven Swords of Sin as order, which automatically was placed on Thurday.
So far I have always received Emails telling me about the status of my GameMastery Modules subscription.

Thats a little bit strange. But I have confidence in the abilities of the Paizo staff. So... no reason to worry :)

@EP Healy
The covers on amazon.de and on amazon.co.uk are the same. Well the same placeholders after all.

@Mike
I would be more annoyed by the fact that Amazon (co.uk and de) misspelled runelords.

Thank you Gary. That reduces shipping cost from 11,38$ to 6,38$ for me. Thank you very much :).

But I still have one question: If I for example make the GameMastery Modules wait for my next Pathfinder issue to be shipped, will me credit card be charged when the GameMastery Modules become available or when they are actually shipped?
I suppose it will be the latter case, which means I gain access to the GameMastery PDF after both Pathfinder and the module ship. Correct?

Any chance to include an option to be charged for the modules as soon as they become available and therefore immediately gain access to the PDF?

Did I already thank you for the combined shipping option? ;)

Erik how many pages will this "expansion book" have and will there be a free PDF version if we are going to order it directly from Paizo? The free PDFs are a huge selling point to me as including shipping cost it would be cheaper to wait until my FLGS in Germany can get it :).

The newly announced products sound very neat and if you guys continue to produce such great books I'll go broke ;).

Well at least it will be nice to have a complete index :). Hopefully someday you will be able to publish a compilation.

I just got Dungeon 148 (my FLGS hat some problem getting the issue) and noticed in Prison Mail that there were plans of releasing a compiled Campaign Workbook. Is there still a chance we will see such a compilation?
I really would appreciate having the complete CWB in one place :).

Also are there any plans in realising a Monster Ecologies II? The first volume is great, but I was a little disappointed that you only had space to fit in 18 Monsters.

Greeting
Celeblas :)

Well I got my hardcopies of D0 and D1 on Friday and I'm living in Germany.

@DitheringFool
I was replying to James answer:

Scaling the Adventure sidebars won't be appearing in GameMastery adventures OR in Pathfinder. That's one thing that I, personally, am happy to "shed" from the Dungeon years. Those sidebars generally take up too much time and space to justify what is, in many cases, essentially just "Raise or lower the NPCs levels or monster Hit Dice to match your PCs."

Further complicating this problem is the fact that the implied powers of 3rd Edition D&D simply can't be accounted for in a sidebar. For example, a murder mystery adventure might be set for 2nd level characters because the structure of the adventure breaks down once speak with dead is available. Or an adventure where the PCs are trapped in an extraplanar dungeon and have to fight their way through to the portal at the other end is written for 8th level because at 9th, the cleric gains plane shift and can escape easy. And what about scaling adventures for larger than normal sized parties (or smaller ones?). You can't really just make the foes tougher, because that just results in more dead PCs (remember, the PCs themselves aren't tougher, so effects like blasphemy, cloudkill, and other things that affect targets based on Hit Dice become sudden superpowers).

Part of making a D&D adventure work is that, during development (a process that takes days or even weeks), we go through the adventure and make sure that these problems don't exist, making sure not only that the encounters are balanced for the right level, but also that the adventure itself works with that level. The old Scaling the Adventures sidebars rarely had enough room to do what they did anyway, and expanding them to include all of the non-obvious crunch stuff would make them even larger (and thus "rob" more content space).

Scaling the Adventrue sidebars served a better purpose at the start of 3.0 D&D; not only did they work to show readers how easy it is to adjust monsters in the new rules by advancing them or giving them class levels (a concept that, until 3.0, was largely unsupported in the...

I suppose someone failed his spot check ;).

Eyebite a Core Beliefs article on Saint Cuthbert is in issue 358, so there might be another one in 359. At least that is what I am hoping for :).

Greetings Celeblas

On the one hand I'm sorry that it will take some time till we see another adventure from you Erik, but on the other hand I'm glad to see how much effort you (and the whole Paizo staff) is putting into Pathfinder :).
Just out of curiosity, what type of module will it be? An E, W, J, D, or U module?

Regrading Castle Greyhawk: What kind of adventure can we expect? Personally I don't like dungeon crawls very much and another super dungeon would not catch my interest. That was one of the reasons I didn't buy Expedition to Undermountain. Expedition to the Demonweb Pits on the other hand was great because it was kind of a planar sightseeing tour.

Thanks for your answers.
Greeting Celeblas.

Thanks for the explanation James. I suppose I'll stick to the messageboards when I have trouble adjusting the adventures :).