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So no one has a reason why PFSRD isn't working correctly currently?


pinvendor wrote:
Derfmancher wrote:
Still waiting patiently to do my preorder before GenCon.. Just checked and pickup isn't a listed option yet.
Just to make sure you are aware, pre-order and subscription are not the same. Only subscription orders can be picked up at Gen-Con.

Welp, either way, looks like "waiting for the July releases" led me to wait too long, and ill be picking it up the hard way at Gencon.

Have we heard if they will be doing a "one copy per person" rule? I have two buddies that aren't going to Gencon that would like me to pick up a copy for them.


Still waiting patiently to do my preorder before GenCon.. Just checked and pickup isnt a listed option yet.


So, there was word that those going to GenCon could pick up their preorder there. Will it be possible for a person to pick up preorders for *other* people, assuming that was done in advance?


Being that my party took the entire Scorched Hand party alive (they got knocked out, not killed) and their high numbers most nights (6) I am going to drop the reverent... and show them one of my personal favorite creatures, on steroids. A Black Skeletal Champion!

So far I have been running them as extra body's but not upping the exp. Mostly this is because there are a lot of new players, and from previous AP's I find the need to keep the power level down just a little from what is given.


Hello,

At this point I need to put a hold on my Core subscription. Thanks in advance!


First of all, as I have said in other threads.. I had a blast! My first con outside of the town I am living in when some occur (hardly counts) and I hope I can make it next year.

1. As I told him at the table.. Owens game of Emerald Spire should be expanded to multiple tables, and several repeat GMs. It was a fantastic run to play in Lisa's Goblin infested first level.. and be run through it by a newly minted Paizo Dev! (And great GM).. it was highly effective as a marketing tactic as well. I bought the hardback as well as the maps and it was not on my "to buy list" by a long shot.

2. I would love to see more 3pp games/content. I understand that PFS is a big deal.. and that's awesome. As a graduate with a business degree, I totally understand how you want to support that.. but perhaps we could see some modules being run over the course of the weekend, or even just basic one shot runs in fun scenarios. Basically.. more things for the players that don't crowd into the PFS room would be great.. I was at the table of Rappan Athuk with Skeeter.. and that was a blast! But I wish there could have been more options like that.

3. I had hoped to pick up the misc bases pack for my wrath minis.. but alas its one of the things that was not packed along with everything else. Not a major thing, but a point. Along with that.. I loved seeing so much variety in the store room, but with the new hotel will there be space for vendors as well?

4. I know that GMs are asked how big of a block they would want to run.. but if its at all possible, it would be fantastic to see the day blocked out similar to how PFS does it.. say in 2 hour blocks. Thus, a GM could ask for one, two, or three blocks.. and signing up for that event wouldn't blow an attendees entire day if there where blocks at both ends of the event.

5. Some sort of counter balance for events that have not been given a very good time window. A friend and I went to the Create Your Own Character Adventure with Necromancers of the NW. A great experience, and interesting. But we done far, far short of the estimated time.. as was about 90% of the group.. despite learning a new system and getting to play with it.

6. Last but not least.. whats the plan for the extra day?


Majuba wrote:

It'll be at least Thursday to Monday, maybe Tuesday to Tuesday with early arrival and post-con :)

Suggestion: Start slots at 10 am on Monday.

Something I've always appreciated are the 25 hour days at PaizoCon. Since Friday starts at 7am (registration), Saturday 8am (games), and Sunday 9am (games), every day seems just a bit stretched out, making sleep go a bit further every day.

Could also space the slots out slightly more (maybe skip or push out the Sunday night slot), Banquet could be at 8:00 pm or at least 7:30. The 4.5 hour crunch can be frustrating in the longer scenarios.

The other alternate to that, would be to allow those who have prepurchased tickets (most of us) to print a badge/tickets.. and then pick up swag bag/etc in between sessions as the weekend goes on.


Thank you for letting my mate and I hop in! We had quite a blast, and it was one of the many highlights of our trip!

However I agree about getting out of the whole thing without a shot fired. Of course we could have avoided quite a bit o' wrangling if the gorram sensors would get upgraded!


I had several games with some super great gamers. Even managed to happen into the Firefly game! I definitely plan on trying to attend at the Doubletree.

My game was with a new Paizo staffer, and a great new super dungeon.. when I attend again.. I plan to give it my top priority!


TriOmegaZero wrote:
I might pick up an Emerald Spire hardcover to get signed.

I might have to steal this idea.


This would be what I was trying to sort out after the events closed. Thank you sir. See you soon!


Derfmancher wrote:
I had a party of 4 total, and two have backed out. I am also able to provide a ride from Pullman WA. I am looking for someone local first, to share in gas etc.. but its possible other agreements could be reached.

Suppose I should have updated this, but I have filled my extra spots.


I have had two of my books come apart on me at various levels. 2 and 3. 2 became unusable and I got a replacement. 3 started falling apart after the last boss fight, but not enough to warrant replacing.


Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:


Assuming you are talking about my Into the Emerald Spire (as opposed to Erik or Lisa's events, where they run the levels they wrote), I'll be providing Pregens, minis, maps, pencils, heck even dice if you need them. :)

Yep! Your game. I'm in the first group to see how far we can get. Pregens. Aye. Interesting that we will not be able to level up at all by the sounds of it..


Round two of Derfs Dumb Questions...
The Into the Emerald Spire.. Nothing is listed about what PCs to be using. Pregens? Level 1? I can't be the only one that starts building characters once I know what games I actually got into..


I'm wondering what rules to build with for the Into the Spire game.. as none are listed.


Friday, July 4
08:00 AM – 01:00 PM Into the Emerald Spire I
02:00 PM – 04:00 PM Choose Your Own Character Creation Adventure

Saturday, July 5
10:00 AM – 02:00 PM Rappan Athuk Mystery Level
02:00 PM – 07:00 PM Battle Royal
07:00 PM – 10:00 PM PaizoCon 2014 Paizo Preview Banquet

Sunday, July 6
09:00 AM – 10:00 AM What's New with Legendary Games?
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Tales of the Frog God

Looking to trade the Battle Royal for Freeport, but so far no takers. Part of me is tempted to drop it and use that time to explore the floor.


Id love to play in a Firefly RPG game, or perhaps shadowrun.


Question on contacts with lottery events.. If I have questions about character creation for the Rappan Athuk bonus level, where should I turn?
The event just lists "Frog God Games"..

I am specifically wondering about casters/item creation feats, and the wording of the item creation rules. IE, Pathfinder using exp cost to create magic items?


I had a party of 4 total, and two have backed out. I am also able to provide a ride from Pullman WA. I am looking for someone local first, to share in gas etc.. but its possible other agreements could be reached.


the Haunted Jester wrote:
When do we find out which events we may have entered into through the lottery?

This was my question as well. I noticed that there is no clear indication that it is actually Wed afternoon. That fact is not posted somewhere obvious.. Perhaps it could go on the schedule page, in place of the schedule not being available yet?


I just noticed the "important dates" for events is, although updated.. apparently somewhat broken. Might that be an issue with the events lotto closing today?


No idea what it is, but I'm in!


No idea if anyone has any interest.. but I have wanted to play in a Firefly game for a long time. Someday I may even run one.. but the local group isn't keen. Anyone want to run?


So, got an email from one of your other carebears.. I think I may have a clue to what is up.

Order 2611999 is still listed as an option to ship with.. but it is unlikely that order will ever be fulfilled.

Went to add the Wayne Reynolds poster from Dragon to the preorder shipment (not even sure if that is doable?) and was given 3 primary options, ship with subs, ship on its own, or with order 2611999.

Can we remove 2611999 from this que?


Thank you, whatever you poked did the trick.. Please tell me it was nothing from the Abyss!


Again, I went to pre-order the Wrath of the Righteous pawn set.. only to again not have the option of shipping as soon as it becomes available. This was not a problem for me before the checkout UI changed..

Frankly I wish I could have just included it in the shipment of the 6th book, but thats a timing thing rather than a malfunction. Heck I might even make another preorder or two if I can get this to work correctly.

Is there something I am missing here?


I was about to preorder this, then I noticed the tag that this will be shipped with my next subscription. My Wrath campaign is likely to be basically over at that point. As it stands I am picking this up at the end of the 3rd book.

Can it ship on release, or not?


So, is there only one Firefly game? I have always wanted to play one, and my local group is totally not interested.


Personally I would rather see some expansion of third options on domains for the Priest, or perhaps an archatype or two.


Righto, thank you. Once those both ship I would like to close my AP subscription.


So, for the second time I have a Pathfinder Adventure path book that is coming apart on the first night I used it. The second book in Serpents Skull has lost several pages and continues to do so.

I thought this issue got resolved?


Thats a pretty serious ouch considering I had intended to use the card on the post holiday sale. Those 5 days basically kill that plan. This is a one time use gift card.. and I have not ever been asked to supply an address for it to the issuing bank.. It sounds to me like I basically can't use the card with Paizo even after the reversal happens.


Perhaps I was not clear, there is a 18.60 charge on the card.. from Paizo. I did not place an order for this amount..


Apparently there is 18.60 pending on the gift card already.. not sure how this occurred..


Greetings all,

I have a pre-paid card with an exact balance of $50 on it from xmas. I would like to be using the entire thing on an order and use my holiday promo code I got in the mail along with it. Unfortunately I cannot purchase a Paizo card as it will decline as the balance is over $50 after tax. This is the same thing that happened when I tried to use it for the order itself. I am perfectly willing to pay the difference, but outside of this gift card it is unlikely that the promo code will get used. :(

The simple solution would be to enter two payment methods.. but a simple search tells me that's not something you guys are able to do at this time.

Thoughts/Ideas?

Edit: Thought I got this post up, but apparently never hit submit.


I was temped to start a new thread but this may get a better response. I was tempted to do my first cosplay at Paizocon, however I have decided to fogo this and perhaps do it next time around.. mostly a cost issue. I would rather put the money into vendors and goodies etc.

So here is my question, about how many that attend are 'in character'?


We ran a game with Rune for a while... I quite liked it but I really wish the book was available in print. I much prefer that to pdf.


Same problem that has been occurring with e tickets not showing up happened to me.


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Antony Walls wrote:
Sara Marie wrote:


... Do not rely on subscription shipments making it by Christmas. Some may, but even if we had not pushed things back I wouldn't have recommended it. ...

Since Paizo are STILL not shipping orders placed in nearly 4 weeks ago, have made no effort to communicate the fact, and are failing to answer emails concerning the status of orders, I would not get your hopes up for receiving ANYTHING in December.

I suspect that there is no-one in the warehouse and that they are not shipping anything.

Your creative staff are being let down by poor communication and a REALLY poor order processing system from the customer facing side of your business.

I have not made a fuss about my order from June that hasn't shipped due to back order (2611999), because I know that it is not the fault of Paizo staff but rather limited supply of the item. It helps to know whats going on with a company you purchase from regularly.

A) I see this is one of several such posts you have made in different threads, do you have a thread of your own with customer service?
B) You are under no obligation to buy the products from Paizo online, personally its something I do to support the company as much as I can. Your FLAGs, Amazon, and Hastings carry products as well if shipping time and availability are your priority rather than price.
C) It honestly hurts me to hear you bash so hard on a company that I frankly love.

Apologizes if this post is out of line, but I mean all if it with all due respect.


James Jacobs wrote:


And that's exactly what I meant. A "teaching adventure" would provide advice not to the GM on how to run the game for the players (that'd be a teaching adventure for players, not the GM), but advice on how to adjust and adapt the adventure for his/her own group.

In any event, in the lack of such an adventure... that's kind of the whole point of our messageboards here. They provide a great place for GMs to share their tricks and advice.

This struck a pretty great cord with me. Several in my group are very excited to start GMing. (We have 8 people that play in 3 different games at the moment.) The Golem sale saw the group pick up the books to run not one but *three* adventure paths that we will surely run sooner rather than later.

That said, I would imagine this 'teaching AP' as a natural extension/combination of the AP concept and the Beginner Box concept. A Beginner Box Adventure Path if you will. A classic adventure to the hilt, with a fair bit of tips and tricks for GMs and players scattered through the entire thing. A product to bridge the gap between beginner player and a GM that buys adventure paths by the 30lb box like my group just did.

Regards,
Derfmancher


Tangent101 wrote:
I've had zero interest in playing these games since being screwed over deliberately and maliciously by several GMs. The only person I trust enough not to screw over is far too busy to ever GM again. Besides, there's a certain joy to running games. It brings out your creative side.

I realize this is entirely off topic, but I want to address this first. In general, people who GM have different styles and most do not actively set out to "screw" the party. That said I have encountered one GM who sees it as his duty to run a "GM vs the Party" sort of event. It sounds like that is the sort of GM you have encountered. If you lived in my town I would recommend you seek out a new group, or clarify with these GMs how you felt about what happened. Feel free to PM me if this is something you want to talk about in detail.

As to the topic. My players are about halfway through Sword of Valor (book 2) and have used the scales a grand total of twice. Both times they had to think about it quite a bit. They have also not once used the Shards. I am tempted to jack up the scales, but most of my group are quite powerful for their level so they hardly need more ways to smash through encounters.

As it is, the mythic fights look to be the only times where a PC is truly in danger.


Azaelas Fayth wrote:
Anyone else planning to use this as a sort off quick NPC Building Guide?

Nope, thats what I have NPC Codex for.

I am already the group librarian, default GM, and 3pp collector. With the group all together we have multiple copies of every Paizo hardback, several different softcover books, and multiple 3pp books in hardback and softback.

Myself and another in all three games I play/run are encouraging every player we know to pick this up so that we do not have to give them every answer to every question every time.

Personally I will pick it up to see what the designers recommend, and see what I have missed that others have come up with.

Looking forward to it!


Come to think of it, whats the story with order 2611999? I see that the Rappan Bestiary PDF/Bundle is no longer available.


Oh my goodness! That is quite kind of you.. and at that rate it will likely be here well before we finish the adventure even.

I work in customer service myself.. so when you guys do stuff like that it always reminds me of just how awesome you all are. Thank you Sara Marie.


So, this is new to me and I am not really sure what my viable courses of action are. I received my AP sub order with Sword of Valor, and we started running it last night. (My players love the campaign thus far and the mythic rules are going interestingly.)

Here is my issue, on the first night of running this adventure.. almost literally the first time I opened the book, pages began to fall out. I understand that this happens over time as the binding gives out, but this was tragic. I of course still ran the adventure, but now there are 6-8 pages that have completely fallen out of the book.

Not sure what to do here.. or even if there is anything that can be done..


That was one that confused me as well. Anyone have a better description? It also states that it has two other powers.. are those given as part of the AP?


I honestly want to give it to the iconic fighter but sadly he is just & friend.

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