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I know Paizo has a longstanding relationship with the Archive of Nethys (AoN), dating back from first edition, but for a long time the search function was very slow (it has improved) and the graphic design just isn't for me.

For the vast majority of my searches, I use pf2easy.com, which is fast, clean and is very similar to Paizo's own graphic design in presentation. I like it so much I support the creator on Patreon. However, he is just one guy in Spain, doing this as a hobby, and I believe it is a struggle to keep up with all the content Paizo puts out, given that he is manually scraping it from each source book. This will likely become even harder with the remasters.

Is is possible for Paizo to throw him some official support? Paizo has partnerships with multiple VTTs. Can they also support more than one online repository for SRD content? Please?

Do PFS players who successfully

I’m creating a dwarven PFS character who joined the Society because she is his hero. Just trying to flesh out the details.

TL:DR - Does the Fey Gifts Initial Eidolon Ability give access to the primal spell list for non-primal spontaneous casters?

I'm a GM but am also building an Imperial Sorcerer who is a snooty noble and likes to summon things to do her dirty work. Summoner Archetype seems like a good fit. With a Fey Eidolon, the 4th level Initial Eidolon Ability archetype feat grants the Fey Gift Spells ability, which reads as follows:

Your eidolon expands your primal magic with enchantment and illusion magic, allowing both of you to wield the power of fey charm and glamour. When you add spells to your repertoire, you can choose from the primal list as well as from enchantment and illusion spells that appear on the arcane spell list. As usual for when you add spells of a different tradition to your spell list, you’re still a primal spellcaster, so all of your spells are primal spells.

Your eidolon gains the Magical Understudy summoner feat, despite not meeting the prerequisite level, and it can choose fey gift cantrips in addition to primal cantrips. As usual for a feat you are granted by name, you can’t retrain Magical Understudy into another feat.

When you add spells to your repertoire, you can choose from the primal list as well as from enchantment and illusion spells that appear on the arcane spell list.

As usual for when you add spells of a different tradition to your spell list, you’re still a primal spellcaster, so all of your spells are primal spells.

Interestingly, since prepared casters don't have a repertoire, I would say this does not grant them access. The interaction with Magical Understudy is also a little wonky, but less so.

Would appreciate thoughts, input.

There is no mechanism for it, but let’s say a Witch takes the Beastmaster dedication at level 2, for example - are there mechanical issues or is it overpowered to let her animal companion also serve as her familiar? So one creature is both her combat buddy and magical battery/scout. Thoughts? Has this been covered in another thread? Couldn’t find one.

I haven’t seen this addressed recently (or really at all by the devs), so thought I’d start a new thread. If there is a current discussion on this, especially with dev input, please link it in the replies.

In first edition, there was a soft cap for play at level 12, which was extended up to level 18 with a few “Seeker” level scenarios.

We are almost 2 years into Second Edition Society play, and so far (April 2021) scenarios have capped at level 8. One argument against higher level play for PFS in the past has been that there simply aren’t that many people in a geographic area with high level characters to fill up a scenario. COVID and the rise of VTTs has largely removed this obstacle. Other arguments against high level play were related to game mechanics (time, skill sets, powers, etc), which maybe aren’t as much of an issue in PF2e?

Without spoilers, are there plans for play beyond level 8 for Second Edition PFS? With sanctioning of APs other content (Plaguestone, Slithering, etc.) I have 1 character that I’ve played to level 9, and others coming up fast (with GMing I’ve had to spread levels to a bunch of place holder characters that I’ve never even played to avoid the level cap for other characters).

It really alters the character building process to know that you’re never going to reach level 10 (or greater) feats or stat bumps, and effectively cuts the career of a character (and the game) in half vs. non-society play.

The Gunslinger gets Basic, Advanced and Greater Deeds as a standard part of class progression. This makes sense because these features are directly tied to their chosen Way and define their style of play.

By comparison, the Witch has to take Basic, Greater and Major lessons as class feats. To me, this leaves many witch builds feeling un-witchy and more wizard-with-familiar-for-a-spell-book. Would love to see this fixed in the future.

So, yes, this post is more about my sour grapes over the Witch class than positive feedback on the Gunslinger, but I feel they got one right and one wrong.

The Herbalist is a cool dedication, but is one of three in the APG that adds healing abilities as an archetype (the others being Medic and Blessed One) - that’s a lot of healing!

Thematically, I don’t see why the “Herbal Items” defined in the Archetype description doesn’t also include Elixirs. I can totally envision a crafty herbalist swirling herbs and crushing leaves to create an elixir to temporarily enhance a persons abilities, sometimes with significant drawbacks. Is this mechanically too powerful? Why do you think the game designers didn’t include this? It bums me out. I want an Elixir dedication!

Historically, in the time of paper-only texts, publishing errata and rule clarifications in batches was the only way to disseminate this type of information. I can only imagine collecting and collating this type of data takes significant time and effort, leading to long periods of time between updates.

Could I suggest transitioning to a hybrid model, where individual points of clarification could be published online on a rolling basis, similar to the website for organized play sanctioning, and then collected at intervals (every 6 months?) and published as a PDF?

Issues that have come up frequently in the forums over the past weeks to months since the original CRB errata were published include property runes for magical staves, Ancient Elf/Eldritch Trickster compatibility, effects of Sun Blade on a failed strike, etc. Having an online repository that can be amended or added to as new issues are discovered would allow common points of confusion to be address more easily and in a timely way.

P.S. I love Paizo and Pathfinder and think you guys are doing a great job!

Hi,

I've been trying to buy PDFs for several PFS scenarios for the past few days, but trying to add anything to my cart results in a "Your request produced an error" message. I would love to keep playing and supporting Paizo during the COVID pandemic, but it's hard to do if the store is down.

Thanks,
David