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Sidenote: I love your character concept, and it's a great way of trying to make a cool concept fit with mechanics.

The functionary herself is (probably) not an insurmountable threat, but getting out of the wreck when it's on maximum alert as its emmissary returns with new blood (who are likely to be swiftly brainwashed) is. As GMs have talked it over, I think it's therefor important for people who GM this scenario to A) inpress upon what a bad idea taking the Functionary's offer is through her characterization and foreshadowing from Sarmak and Posit-Certitude, and B) to stop any PC who stubbornly insists on going anyway from actually getting there.

Possible solutions I've seen are
- a direct order from Sarmak not to go
- The Functionary weeding out some suspicious individuals on their way out of the summit, including any PCs.

I've soured on amnesia as a solution (despite suggesting it myself over in the VA discord) just because I think it makes PCs too much of a security risk for the society to send on missions. Then again, the Pathfinders and Starfinders have made a lot of questionable decisions of late, so maybe it's not out of character.

It hasn't been added to the product pages yet, but you can find the Player's guide Here.

Putting my Venture Agent hat on for a second, please wait for the official anouncement and update to the sanctioning document before pestering Paizo about the availability of the options in this document. They haven't gotten into work yet. If you have a game going live in the nnext few hours and need to know now if you can take Stitch flesh because it's in the Player's Guide, or play a Corpsefolk in SFS with just a copy of the Player's Guide, treat the guide similarly to how we treat early subscriber PDFs- A nice preview while you wait for the official go ahead.

Moon_Goddess wrote:

So what happens to preorders we've already made, I ordered Starfinder Alien Core retailer cover back in May, Subscriptions don't have the option for the retailer cover, so that isn't an option there.

Also have Monster Match out there preordered,

Preorders will not be carried over to the new store, so you'll need to preorder on the new store after it launches.

-Jim

I don't know the pre-order process well, and I'd like to make sure I get this right when I share this news with other communities. Will pre-orders that are canceled will be refunded, or does the system not charge pre-orders until the product ships?

As someone who runs a lot of PFS the change to remove stat blocks is a complete retrograde step. Making it more difficult to run PFS scenarios makes no sense. Making it harder for newer GMs to run games is rubbish. Claiming it is to save space on products which are only ever produced in PDF smacks of being an outright fabrication.

The issue is one of time spent editing stat blocks and trying to ensure formats are correct, as it's been explained to me.

David Ignaszak wrote:

1) Playing Battle for Nova Rush! will be your first opportunity to register a chronicle for Starfinder Society 2nd edition! The chronicle will award the same amount of credits, xp, and downtime as if you'd played one scenario.

Do we yet know how many credits are awarded for a SFS 2.0 scenario, or the rules for downtime (particularly Earn Income)?

Tomorrow is the first day we can run Battle for Nova Rush for credit, but it'll be hard to accurately fill out the Chronicle sheets without that information.

1st level Characters will recieve 140 credits for completing this adventure (per instructions the GMs who ran this on Free RPG day received). We do not information about how to handle earn income checks (specifically how to handle a larger minimum denomination since 1 credit equals 1 silver puece and fractional credits have never been discussed to my knowledge), so I would reccomend players hold off on rolling for downtime until their character's second session, at which point the rules should be available.

The Lorespire team is hard at work on the guide to Starfinder Society 2nd edition, and it should hopefully be available soon, which might also answer your questions.

Greetings, everyone! The sanctioning documents for the Free RPG day adventures has been released to the venture officers* for us to distribute to GMs, and we were also encouraged to share information about it with the community, so I figured I should let everyone know about sime big announcements.

1) Playing Battle for Nova Rush! will be your first opportunity to register a chronicle for Starfinder Society 2nd edition! The chronicle will award the same amount of credits, xp, and downtime as if you'd played one scenario.
2) Battle for Nova Rush! is repeatable. If you replay it, you will be able to apply a new chronicle to a different character.
3) Thanks to a question by one curious player, Alex Spiedel has confirmed that registering this chronicle before Septmeber 5th, 2025 is sufficient to unlock the ability to create one Skittermander character in Pathfibder Society (Although only the Starfinder Player Core Skittermander is sanctioned for Pathfinder Society play, so you'll have to wait for that book to be released to play your Skittermander)

* There is a brief embargo on organized play of free RPG day content outside of Free RPG day events because it serves as an incentive to visit local game stores, who do in fact pay for the products themselves. This is presumably why the sanctioing documents haven't just been released into the wild

Putting on my Venture Agent hat for this- The Sarfinder Free RPG day adventure Battle for Nova Rush's chronicle is your first opportunity to earn a Starfinder Society 2e chronicle, and registering it before September 5th does count towards unlocking your Skittermander. However, the sanctioing is only for the Starfinder Player Core, not the playtest version, so you'll have to wait until the end of July to actually play a Skittermander character.

Oh. Sorry. What are your complaints, out of curiosity? I imagine any paizo official would be curious as well.

Next Question. What if I only want 4 back issues (The missing parts of Savage Tide, -139, of course), and want the rest as store credit?

Never mind. I just saw that it can't be done. DRAT!

Wait... I'm confused. So the transition thing to let me trade the remaing issues I would have gotten had Dragon and Dungeon not been cancelled is already up?

I'm kind of eager to order, since I don't want any of the other Dungeons that have savage tide adventures I didn't get yet to go the way of 139 (Which is already sold out, forcing me to scavange the nearby gaming shops for it) (I prefer hard copies to PDF's, personally).

I have a similar opinion. Don't get me wrong, Pathfinder looks cool, but Dungeon had 3 adventures an issue, Most of which where standalone. Standalone adventures are incredibly useful when DMs need a short sidearc, Just want to run a quick game but don't have the time to write their own adventure, or the like.