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As someone starting Starfinder with 2e, will this book cover some of the lore like the Gap I've seen mentioned in the stream?

Or do I need to grab some older books as well?

Hmm, not sure I’m on board with this being part of adventure subscription, when it only covers 1 level.

Was looking forward to the sub switching to larger hardcovers.

Never played SF1e, but I'm very interested in jumping in with 2e.

Six classes for the Core book seems low though, how does that compare to what's in 1e?

shores up some of the areas that didn't land as proper as we'd hoped (for example, I rewrote the arctic expedition section to be less grindy and hopefully more interesting)

Are you able to elaborate on what other areas were shored up?

I want to reup the question about the subscription. Is this going out for all adventure subscribers?

When looking at the subscription page for standalone adventures, it appears in the list for June

Owlcat is just trying to establish their own IP. It makes sense they would pull back on licensed properties if they've pulled in enough revenue from previous ones to fund the risk on the new stuff. Pathfinder-related stuff seems like it has been reasonably profitable for them, so I wouldn't be surprised to see them come back to it after a bit.

Their own IP is not in the cards, yet at least, according to this same AMA.

Will owlcat make a CRPG in their own original IP like Larian has done with Divinity?

Which developer doesn't dream about their own franchise? Of course eventually we hope to! It's not on the horizon just yet though.

So, I'm not sure where the whole "Owlcat hates PF2" thing came from, but they just refuted that in their AMA:

https://owlcat.games/news/92

They have people on their team who actively play PF2e, and they'd be interested in exploring it as an option for their next game. They're hedging about what their next project is, but it's probably smart for them to manage the hype cycle carefully.

Thanks for the link, it was insightful!

One correction, it sounds like they have 4 games in production already set in stone, none of them being PF2e. So while they are open to PF2e, it doesn't sound to me like it would be anytime soon.

Been waiting to see more info on this since we noticed it appearing in the catalog!

Glad to hear there are some planned fixes to shore up certain segments in the AP. I'm curious what those will be!

The PDF comes with a separate file with interactive maps, as usual.

Oh, I am interested in this for sure!

Like Blade (old movie from 1998).

How dare you sir?!

Anyone that has received their pdf, what's all in the the monster section in the toolbox?

I received an email saying:

We have updated the Pathfinder Adventure Path: Seven Dooms for Sandpoint (1 of 1) PDF.

Files have been updated to correct some issues with the Interactive Maps tags.

Checking my downloads though showed only the "file per chapter" PDF seems to have received an update. Did this not affect the single file PDF?

The Paizo catalog listed a hardcover compilation for Gatewalkers :D When will we get to learn more about it?

Hoping we’ll see some tweaking to book 2 stuff.

Yeah, file sizes have been all over the place in a bad way for the last like, 2-3 years. It's wild. Something clearly has happened on their end, when Rage of Elements' PDF came out the PDF was attempted to be compressed down to old file sizes but all the art ws super lowres.

Yes, much prefer larger size with good quality art, than what happened with Rage of Elements, as that still isn't fixed.

Probably best to ask Demiplane. They have an active Discord, where their devs are very active and responsive.

Let Paizo Customer Service know, they added the PDF to my downloads within a couple hours of me emailing them.

I've used PDF to Foundry Importer to import content from the water-marked, legitimately purchased PDF straight into Foundry for a number of standalone adventures but when I try to use the same process for this adventure I just get an error, "failed to detect pdf. cannot proceed :("

Is there content available from this adventure for use in Foundry?

You'd have to ask the module maker of PDF to Foundry Importer to add support for this adventure.

That being said, there is this:

https://foundryvtt.com/packages/kobold-king-maps-remade-by-taurah

Pending here as well

I noticed a number of errors on the Lake map, some really puzzling ones too:

Skyloatch should be Skywatch
Winterbreath should be Winterbreak
Winterbreath Bay should be Winterbreak Bay
Egade should be Egede
Icemine Peaks should be Icerime Peaks

Any chance it can be errata'd?

Working for me now as well.

Hey Aaron, any word on an updated PDF?

Echoing AnimatedPaper's comment, the zip is 1KB in size.

The Special Editions for the Remaster are released this week.

Will they ship with the December subscriptions?

Mine shipped last week with Nov subs

If I want to get both the player core and gm core from my subscription, does it matter which one I select to start with? I selected player core special edition as the starting point for my subscription for now, but it doesn't mention gm core special edition as being in my sidecart.

I had the same question for Customer Service as I wanted to switch from regular rulebook sub to the special edition one.

They had to add the GM Core to my sidecart so that I would get both.

You should contact CS and let them know.

If I start a new subscription with, say, the GM Core, will the subscription also include the Player Core? Or do I need to order a Player Core individually?

I had this same question when switching to the special edition sub, and Customer Service added the GM Core book to my sidecart.

I think if you want both, you may need to reach out to CS.

Ohh, looking forward to Thursday's blog!

I thought they mentioned somewhere the possibility, specifically for these books considering the three covers, exclusive game store sketch, that they were looking at an easy way to pause or skip the core books. Did we get any update on that?

I thought I had read something about this as well.

Sorry If missed this elsewhere, but if I'm a rulebook subscriber, and would like the special edition (with PDF) as opposed to the standard version, what would be the appropriate way for me to achieve that?

I am sorry no one posted those notes here when they were made. As has been noted, Customer Service doesn't spend much time in the forums currently so I was personally unaware that something was not posted here for folks. You can find those notes on the FAQ page located here: https://paizo.com/pathfinder/faq down near the bottom.

For ease, I have copy/pasted that information in a spoiler below for folks just as it is a decently sized list.

** spoiler omitted **

Thank you!

Will the PDF be updated by chance?

Jackson Wood wrote:

We're looking into this issue, but it seems to be more complex of an issue than it first appears. Rest assured that it is now on the relevant folks' radar and we'll post here when we've come to a resolution.

I was emailed by someone in customer service about the errata 3 days ago and immediately replied asking them (again) to also post the information here. Could you please post the corrections here? I mean, I can do it, but I think people would prefer such information coming directly from Paizo.

Yes, would be good for the community at large to be informed :)

RiverMesa wrote:

What's especially curious about this one is the final line, no longer mentioning the OGL or The World's Oldest Roleplaying Game.

Given recent events and announcements, I take it this one might no longer be under the Open Game License (but presumably not under the ORC yet either)?

I seriously doubt that part 3 of an adventure path would be licensed differently than parts 1 and 2, so almost certainly this one would have to still be under the OGL (as I think someone would have said something if part 1 was under ORC or no license).

It has the OGL printed at the end, as usual.

Ooo, I love it.

Curmudgeonly wrote:

Aaron Shanks wrote:

SatiricalBard wrote:

Can someone at Paizo please escalate the map issue and get back to us with a timeline for errata?

Please let us know at customer.service@paizo.com.

Appreciate everything you do Aaron. I understand the desire to push folks to customer service, but that ultimately results in a 1 on 1 conversation with whomever submitted the ticket, leaving the rest of the community wondering what's happening.

Would it possible for Customer Service or a Social Media person to be tagged in the forums or have a CS/SM rep keeping an eye on the product threads so that the community at large can be informed of things instead of specific individuals?

I believe this is fairly common practice in other places / industries.

There is not a way to tag Paizo Staff in our current Forums. We are looking into new Forum software. We'll put it on the discussion list.

We are also talking internally about the ways CS should or should not be involved in the Forums.

Great, thank you!

SatiricalBard wrote:

Can someone at Paizo please escalate the map issue and get back to us with a timeline for errata?

Please let us know at customer.service@paizo.com.

Appreciate everything you do Aaron. I understand the desire to push folks to customer service, but that ultimately results in a 1 on 1 conversation with whomever submitted the ticket, leaving the rest of the community wondering what's happening.

Would it possible for Customer Service or a Social Media person to be tagged in the forums or have a CS/SM rep keeping an eye on the product threads so that the community at large can be informed of things instead of specific individuals?

I believe this is fairly common practice in other places / industries.

Regarding the Pathfinder Rage of Elements PDF: on full screen (27"), nothing is pixelated or unreadable. We consider the product to be acceptable, but we'd like to better, if we can.

The constraint is the file size vs our current upload system. We had to run a second compression on it because, using our normal method, the original file is too big to be uploaded to our site. We are looking into getting a higher res version, that is also small enough to upload, but we don't know if or when that will happen.

Therefore, we have no immediate file update planned.

Hmm, that's a bit odd considering the Rage of Elements PDF is easily the smallest of the rulebooks at 23MB, when Treasure Vault is sitting here at 145MB... and the Fists of the Ruby Phoenix hardcover PDF is at 180MB...

Clearly, there's room for less compression.

I believe the two maps for F - Workshop Heights and G - Lower Guldrege, are labelled in reverse and incorrectly numbered. Reading this chapter is breaking my brain. Two silos clearly seem to be G3 - G4, Thenur's home is most likely G5-G7. But I can't make sense of the G2 buildings on the map.

Mapping Lower Guldrege isn't any easier, as the AP only describes G1 to G4, and except for maybe G2 and G3 don't quite seem to map to visual cues of F1-F4 on the map. G5 through G7 aren't mentioned at all.

Yea, this one seems pretty severe

I've been biting at the bit to buy this PDF, but the graphics talk has me concerned. How bad is it? Are we likely to get a 'fix'?

It's not terrible, and unless you zoom into an image you may not even immediately notice. But the images are pixelated, there's a lack of detail and crispness. It seems that they were over-compressed.

Curmudgeonly wrote:

Aaron Shanks wrote:

Rage of Elements is the first Pathfinder book to show the upcoming Remaster changes, and we've got a free Core Preview PDF to lay all of those changes out for you — and give you some special extras!

Hey Aaron - are you able to inquire as to why the Rage of Elements PDF has low resolution images? It looks quite pixelated, very obvious on the front cover for example.

(Reposting via the correct account.) Hello, we are aware of the issue. It was a very large file. This is the export quality required to create a reasonable file download size. The Art team is working on a happy medium, but we don't know if that is possible at this time.

Thanks! Appreciate you all looking into it.

Rage of Elements is the first Pathfinder book to show the upcoming Remaster changes, and we've got a free Core Preview PDF to lay all of those changes out for you — and give you some special extras!

Hey Aaron - are you able to inquire as to why the Rage of Elements PDF has low resolution images? It looks quite pixelated, very obvious on the front cover for example.

Is it just me or do the images in the PDF look low res? Seems pixelated.

Curmudgeonly wrote:

Hello, wanted to flag that the PDF download zip didn't come with the separate interactive maps file

It's in the 'one file per chapter' file. It's not labeled as an "interactive map". It's just "Worst Of All Possible Worlds" as a PDF.

Thanks! Downloaded it. Probably still worth it for Paizo to fix the single file zip :)

Hello, wanted to flag that the PDF download zip didn't come with the separate interactive maps file

Just wanted to bump the size of the PDF at 192MB, was Paizo able to look into why it's so much larger than standard?

Kingmaker 1e had numerous problems with the grids with maps not being properly aligned, which extends all the way to Book 6.

I've noticed that some of these grids have been fixed for the 2e release but there are other maps, such as Floor 3 at the House at the Edge of Time, which have not been fixed.

This makes it rather difficult for usage on Virtual Tabletops and just plain annoying when printing them out for in-person play.

Is this an oversight, and is there a chance that maps may be corrected in the future for later prints or digital releases?

Other than that, loving the new version of Kingmaker and I cannot wait to see what Paizo has in store for 2023-2024.

Just for my own edification, is it the ol' grid squares are uneven, making it impossible to line up against the grids in VTTs?

Curmudgeonly wrote:

double check I still qualify for the PDF?

This was published back in May 2022. There is no "pre-order" for previously published products.

So, no, you won't get a free PDF.

D'oh, not sure how I missed that. Must have seen some of the other editions and thought they were all pre-order. Thanks.

I today subbed once again to the AP line, and pre-ordered this in the same order, wanted to double check I still qualify for the PDF?

Curmudgeonly wrote:

Ok, I see now that some are 6 part and some are 3. Is there somewhere that describes or explains the difference?

6 parters are 1-20, 3 parters are either 1-10 or 11-20; the shorter APs apparently sell much better than the longer ones, so expect to see more of them going forward.

Age of Ashes, Extinction Curse, Agents of Edgewatch, Strength of Thousands, and Blood Lords are all 1-20s.

Abomination Vaults, Quest for the Frozen Flame, Outlaws of Alkenstar, Gatewalkers, and the upcoming Sky King’s Tomb are all 1-10s.

Fists of the Ruby Phoenix and the upcoming Stolen Fate are 11-20s.

Thanks, that's helpful. Any there any of the 3 parters that go well with others as sequels / prequels?

Ok, I see now that some are 6 part and some are 3. Is there somewhere that describes or explains the difference?

I used to be an AP subscriber back in the PF1 days. It seems things have changed a bit. APs are now 3 books as opposed to 6? Do they still cover levels 1-20?