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I’m 110% for excuses to throw money at Paizo and improving customer experience. No doubt a lot of work was put into this.

That being said, I’ve grown to absolutely loathe loyalty point systems. They’re uncomfortably manipulative and are often more hassle than they’re worth. I also don’t like having to buy things just so I have the privilege of buying things that other buyers aren’t allowed to buy.

Thank the Lord that mods and turrets are getting worked out. Mechanic damage was way too reliant on mods, which I found mostly unusable.

It kind of defeats the purpose of having a turret if you have to stand next to it all the time to buff it.

Cyrad wrote:

Does the drone get the dying condition like companions or are they destroyed at 0 HP? If destroyed that would be pretty awful and unlike the inventor construct.

It's probably destroyed. But for basic, non-mechanic Robot Companions:

"If your robot companion is destroyed, you can spend a week of downtime to replace it at no cost."

For Drone Exocortex Mechanics:

"During your daily preparations, you automatically repair your drone, restoring it to maximum Hit Points, even if it’s been destroyed."

And at 6th level you can take this Tactical Customization via the feat and daily selection:

"Emergency Reboot: If your robot companion would be reduced to 0 Hit Points by damage, as a free action with the concentrate trait, you can initiate an emergency reboot. If you do, your robot companion is reduced to 1 Hit Point and shuts down completely for 1 minute. During this minute it becomes immune to damage, can’t be harmed, and can’t take any actions."

That's pretty awful. If the construct goes to 0 even once, you basically lose your main class feature for the rest of the day. The inventor's construct can go down three times before they're destroyed.

Does the drone get the dying condition like companions or are they destroyed at 0 HP? If destroyed that would be pretty awful and unlike the inventor construct.

Look, I get that PFS/SFS exist in a ecosystem that in part relies on game stores. But there just isn’t an argument for social responsibility that says “paying real world money for in game benefits” is justifiable. In any economy.

Why? It's a PvE game. You can benefit from it without buying anything. The RIP benefits largely just keep your character from becoming unplayable. The money goes towards small-time retailers in an industry with low profit margins. Most game stores and gaming places in my area charge $25 to $40 table fees anyway.

I'm struggling to see what's socially irresponsible about this.

Pathfinder options at reasonable AcP costs?

Simplified rewards system that don't punish you for not finding all the "treasure bundles?"

Treasure that's actually treasure you can keep and instead of having to buy it?

Bespoke rewards and content, including two ancestries?

No mandatory faction system?

Shorter scenarios?

Oh yes please.

I'm interested to see what PF2 content will be allowed. I'm itching to play a runesmith as a graffiti artist inspired by Jet Set Radio.

So far, I'm loving everything I see, especially being able to start at higher levels. There's a lot of concepts that just don't work until level 4 or 6 and even more that don't work until level 2.

Howl of the Wild 74 (Thlipit Contestant archetype)

The lash unarmed attack cannot be used with Lunge (Player Core 142), which is listed as one of the archetype's additional feats. It appears the feat was listed with intent of being used with the archetype's unarmed attack.

Suggestion Add the following sentence to Thlipit Contestant Dedication's text: "Treat the unarmed attack as a melee weapon for the Lunge feat."

But, but, I wanna make water weapons, too!

Looks like the Thlipit Contestant's Lunge feat still doesn't work with the lash attack.

I am a little disappointed that the fey eidolon and dragon eidolon did not get updated. Fey eidolon still references spell schools, and it would be nice if the dragon eidolon got updated with respect to the new lore.

I appreciate the commitment and enormous amount of work of making this happen.

Cyrad wrote:

Losing half the Ancient Osirion pantheon is incredibly brutal. Neither War of Immortals nor Divine Mysteries elaborate how it happened. Only a summary in War of Immortals.

My friends who love Egyptian-themed characters are devastated by this. Even those that bought the books were totally blindsided by it.

This affected one of my local players, who had a brand new cleric of Anubis, and was hit hard by the news. It was simply awful telling him about this.

I have two friends who took some convincing to not just give up on PFS entirely. They were excited to play their Osiriani characters and had artwork drawn and commissioned.

I wasn't expecting almost an entire iconic pantheon to get wiped out, especially one tied to real-world mythologies with a major presence in popular culture. I'm hoping future releases elaborate on this and maybe provide new Osirion deities.

Losing half the Ancient Osirion pantheon is incredibly brutal. Neither War of Immortals nor Divine Mysteries elaborate how it happened. Only a summary in War of Immortals.

My friends who love Egyptian-themed characters are devastated by this. Even those that bought the books were totally blindsided by it.

Cyrad wrote:

Oh heck yes!

And it looks like Rokoga Gin (from a side bar in War of Immortals) became a god afterall!

So that's who that is! It had been bugging me when I cought their name as I perused the list and found nothing in a google search.

I think they're a playtest gunslinger made by one of the authors? There's an old reddit post about the character as a way of the drifter with a nunchuku and hand cannon.

Oh heck yes!

And it looks like Rokoga Gin (from a side bar in War of Immortals) became a god afterall!

RESTRICTED

..
All dead or missing gods (pages 312-314)

Ouch, that's really rough, considering what deities are included in that list.

I only have an issue with skill challenges when they're designed poorly or run incorrectly. A good skill challenge encourages roleplaying. A bad skill challenge forces players to roll-play.

A good skill challenge has the GM present an open-ended problem and allows players to decide how to solve it. Specific skills are only mentioned when the GM adjudicates the player's proposed solution or when players are stumped and need a hint.

A bad skill challenge has the GM present a problem and then explicitly lists the solutions. GM lists the skills; player rolls the one with the highest bonus; end turn. There's no decision-making here. Chases earned their notoriety because they almost always fell into this structure in 1st Edition.

Hilary Moon Murphy? Dang, I'm seeing a lot more familiar names!

So he became an exemplar by eating god berries.

Great to see a familiar name up there.

Any chance we can get a clarification for Thlipit Contestant's interaction with the Lunge feat?

Thlipit Contestant lists Lunge as a feat, which only works with melee weapons. It seems clear that the author intended that you can Lunge using the archetype's lash unarmed attack, but that's not the case as written. Otherwise, it would be incredibly weird that an archetype revolving around an unarmed attack would have a feat that doesn't work with it.

Dustin Knight playtest scenario? I'll have to give that one a shot.

I've had some genuinely horrible experiences at the table, and even I would not want this.

I would like to advocate for a boon to take Werecreature Dedication. Even though I made him as a skinwalker in 1E, and never got to play him, I think the Society would benefit from having a weretiger fighter who hates mornings as a member. This would also tie in with my request for character import from PF1 for characters under a certain level (4th or so) in order to get some of those unused GM characters played.

Or at least lower the price of beastkin. I never understood why they're Rare despite untamed druids and barbarians being incredibly commonplace.

The book is absolutely amazing.

What weapon is that tanuki using?

The remastered draconic and demonic bloodlines for the sorcerer completely replace their focus spells with new ones that have different names. Would the team consider making a ruling that draconic/demonic sorcerers can choose whether to gain the Core 2 focus spell or the CRB focus spell? The old spells grant unarmed attacks, which are desirable for players with melee combat sorcerers. Removing them would also be incredibly disruptive for PC concepts that rely on them. I'm not seeing any compelling reason why these focus spells should become totally inaccessible. It appears the spells were replaced in order to grant less niche options.

Also, the Draconic Options Table in Lorespire appears to have a typo: the Crystal Dragon erroneously has fire damage instead of piercing damage.

Some options (such as draconic barbarians and sorcerers or the dragonblooded versatile heritage) require or allow players to pick a specific type of dragon, which affects spellcasting traditions, skill training, and similar choices. Players may use the options as listed in Player Core 2, or select a dragon from the Imperial or Primal dragon families using the Draconic Options Table below.

Characters which have been rebuilt using their Remaster Rebuild may not use the chromatic or metallic dragons for any of these options.

1. So new sorcerers can never choose the dragon bloodline options in Core Rulebook?

2. Is there a way for new sorcerers to get the old demonic and dragon bloodline focus spells? The ones in Player Core 2 are completely different, and there are character concepts that would prefer to have the unarmed attack spells instead of the new spell attack spells.

3. Is there an error with the Crystal Dragon option? Crystal dragons have breath weapons that deal piercing damage, but the crystal dragon bloodline has fire as their damage.

Some ancestries had a pair of ancestry weapon feats at 1st and 5th level. The 5th-level feats have been removed and their effect (adding critical specialization) is now including in each corresponding Remastered 1st-level feat. Characters that took one of the following 5th-level feats replace that feat with another feat of their choice immediately

4. Does this apply to non-remastered ancestries with these options?

5. All remastered ancestries have lore feats that grant Additional Lore with their respective ancestry Lore. What about non-remastered ancestries? I have a kitsune with the Kitsune Lore feat that took Additional Lore for Kitsune Lore.

I'll be there with bells on my toes!

(Metaphorically speaking)

Mark, thank you so much for clarifying all this and answering questions.

Are Paizo-IP video games allowed on Infinite, provided that the uploaded product does not include prohibited file types?

I'm glad there's now a way for fans to sell IP merch, but this is basically the death of Pathfinder and Starfinder 1e content, with only a month of advanced notice. This means I'll have to scrap a project I've put a lot of hours into. I also tend to release my ancestry titles with conversions for previous editions. I won't be able to do that anymore.

Now this is the kind of class I was hoping for when playtesting the witchwarper way back in 1st Edition.

This all sounds like good stuff, but the article doesn't touch on what mysteries actually do now, aside from adding a few spells to your spell list and determining what happens when your cursebound condition goes up.

The second biggest issue I had with the oracle is that the class didn't realize the fantasies that the mysteries are supposed to enable.

Thank goodness. Playing a braggart swashbuckler through the Slithering was one of the worst experiences I've ever had in PF2e. It wasn't even the oozes that were frustrating. That was almost four years ago, and I still fail to convince myself to ever play swashbuckler again.

No boon for the werecreature archetype?

The text says "Weapons with the kickback trait don’t gain that
trait’s benefits when using an air cartridge firing system" and "they’re the default used in Arcadian air repeaters."

Full stop.

I agree this change was probably meant to be a buff to long air repeaters, but that's not what the text says.

At the very least, I think it should be clarified in PFS sanctioning. There will be GMs who will interpret this in the worst way.

Cyrad wrote:

Was this an intended nerf to the long air repeater? Weapons with air cartridge firing systems get all of the drawbacks but none of the perks of the kickback trait

I feel like the solution there is to not buy an air cartridge firing system for your long air repeater then.

Long air repeaters have an air cartridge firing system by default, as per the firing system's description. The text makes it clear that any weapon with the system doesn't benefit from the kickback trait. I also can't find any option in Guns and Gears that lets you replace it with a gunpowder system.

Air cartridge firing mechanisms use a container of

compressed air affixed to a sealed
system that releases the air
in a small burst to propel
ammunition, and they’re the
default used in Arcadian air
repeaters. Any firearm can
be modified to replace its
normal firing mechanism
with an air cartridge firing
system, allowing the weapon
to be fired underwater or in
other conditions that would normally
prevent the ignition of black powder. The air cartridges lack
much of the propulsive power of black powder, however,
imposing a –10-foot penalty to the attached firearm’s range
increment. Weapons with the kickback trait don’t gain that
trait’s benefits when using an air cartridge firing system.
Attaching an air cartridge firing system takes one hour,
though this time can overlap with the standard time required
to maintain and clean your firearm to prevent misfires.

Page 151: Long air repeater table entry updated to clarify that it is two-handed. It now has the kickback trait.

Was this an intended nerf to the long air repeater? Weapons with air cartridge firing systems get all of the drawbacks but none of the perks of the kickback trait. The one-handed air repeater already felt like a much better weapon because it does the same damage, only requires a single hand, and has the agile trait.

That's awesome news. Thank you for all the hard work in revisiting previous releases and the commitment going forward!

A JWM pirate adventure on the high seas?

After merfolk releases?

Heck yes!

Followers of Lao Shu Po are informed that completing missions for the Pathfinder Society does not violate her anathema to work honestly..

I love how this implies that Lao Shu Po and/or her followers do not consider the Pathfinder Society to be "honest work."

Is a tactician considered to be a squadmate for the purpose of his own tactics?

The playtest ends on the Friday of Origins Game Fair. Is there any chance to extend it to the end of the weekend?

IS Gorum dead in 1st Edition as well?

On one hand I would prefer that the players of clerics of Gorum would need to figure out what is next for their PC and continue building from there. Do they become a fighter? Do they go to a new god? I think that would add a lot of good fluff to the campaign and characters.

Play a thaumaturge or a divine witch/sorcerer. Keep pretending to be a cleric. "Gorum's not dead. He's just sleeping!"

I did this with an Arodenite in 1st Edition. Honestly, now I'm kinda tempted to do it with a summoner having the time traveler background.

Already planning two merfolk characters. It's going to be painful waiting a month for this book.

Island adventure? Sounds amazing for my future merfolk when Howl of the Wild comes out!

I love this one for more reasons than I can list!

Good to see that Desna will NOT break the first, second, and third rules of the Dark Tapestry.

Have absolutely NOTHING to do with the Dark Tapestry.