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Huzzah!
Sounds like good changes.

Am I just blind? I have two upcoming sub shipments (the Season of Ghosts and the Remastered DA) and I'd love to apply the gold $20 off to them but I can't seem to find out how.

Is this possible? Am I dumb? This shop is so needlessly complicated it's making me mad lol

You can't sadly.

HUZZAH!
Happy Holidays, and may everyone be safe, healthy, and surrounded by people they love. *hug* (Offered, only with consent, of course!)

Question for the devs (assuming they see this): I was wondering about the level math for the archdragons. Most of them are three levels higher than the ancient versions, but some have bigger level gaps. The resurrection archdragon, for example, is a whopping 6 levels higher than the ancient version. The math for the other age categories is set, but not this one. I am curious as to why. Thank you.

Not a dev, nor a designer, but my guess is that's it such a rare age category that it needed more "bespoke" treatment, and that it could get away with breaking from the mold.

I went to check my account, and suddenly as of todday, all my subscriptions, past and present have disappeared, while they were all there yesterday, and I had received the "warning" email that my subs would be proccessed from today. I also sent a CS ticket (for something else) that I never got the automated confirmation. :X
I have not sent an extra CS ticket, just it case I don't want to overload CS in these time of extra load... But yeah... I'll wait until the end of the process is mentionned here and if I have nothing I'll contact CS. >_>

Animism wrote:

Ezekieru wrote:

VerBeeker wrote:

So do we have all of the OG DnD caste's replacements now??

The only one we don't know the name of is the replacement for the Gold Dragon. If I were a betting man, I'd say the Vizier Dragon sounds like the closest fit to them, compared to the other options (Wailing and Wish).

There's also the Executor Dragon...? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is there an index for all the supplantings? I only know the more obvious ones (Horned/Green and Cinder/Red).

Only Fan-Made ones.

Green: Horned
Black: Bog
Red: Cinder
White: Rime (Known because a dragon NPC was refered as such)
Blue: Stormcrown (Not 100% officially confirmed. Because of the website hiccups, can't double check the source.)

Copper: Mocking (Righteous pranks)
Brass: Whisper (Information networks)
Bronze: Sage (Known because a dragon NPC was refered as such)
Silver: Oath (Promises)
Gold: [Still unknown!]

To note, at least one "black" dragon have been retconned as being a fortune dragon, but its only mention was in an AP as a mindless zombie that was still gathering treasures, so it wasn't that much of a big retcon.

My Orders aren't showing correctly but I understand that is a known issue and is being investigated.

I will definitely be picking up an Adventure Path sub thanks to them being just one book now.

I will probably also pick up a stand alone Adventures sub.

I'm on the fence about a fiction sub. My reading habits have changed but I might still give it try.

Is there any way we could get a shipping schedule for the various subs/releases. It would help even if it was a simple "Expected <some month>" or "Haven't Released Name Yet Expected <some month>". I understand that these things can change so "Parking lot of the ballpark" would work.

They are working on a new "Release Schedule" page right now.

Elfteiroh wrote:

I already poked on BlueSky, but I'll do it here too: The link on the blog to here is broken, it targets the text of the link instead of the actua URL it should point to!

In other news: HUZZAH! I love these two!

We fixed it!

Funnily, the link now goes direct to my post. xD

Is anyone else have the text of the blogs showing in the same color as the background? It's there, I have to highlight it in order to read it though as that changes the color.

Do you have an ultra-wide screen resolution? Some people have said that if the "width" size of the page was bigger than a certain value, it was breaking. (I don't remember the specific number, but it was around 2.5k pixels)

HUZZAH!
All interesting! :3

(BTW, it have been confirmed that plans changed in another thread. They have setup a pipeline where the review will be moderated, so they are now planning to have them open to all for now.)

It's a legit defense against adventurers that weirdly ALL think that "big globulous eyes" = "weak point", so they have useless giant fake eyes. :P (joke)

Lol, nice secret/surprise fiction. :P

Ok, but does the Despair Dragon have a pair of small dot like eyes or a trio of big vertical eyes?

... Yes? (I think it's both.)

And now with the latest blog, Dragons Most Fearsome, we know that the old brass-related dragon could be now called a "whisper dragon", an occult dragon with large networks of secrets and rumors from Monster Core 2!

(And in the comment, Luis spoiled that Umbral Dragons are coming in the Codex!)

Just to be clear, yeah, there's references in other adventures, but Shattered Star was kinda positioned as a sequel to the first one, before they got into the "RotR" naming convention, hence why I only mentioned that one. xD
The story was a direct response to the discovery of the threat in "Rise".

I've been sort of waiting for Paizo to do a third adventure for the Runelords. Well, it's finally here! I haven't seen any of it yet, but if it ties in nicely with "Rise of the Runelords" and "Return of the Runelords," it will make a conclusion to the Runelords saga!!

Technically, it's the fourth, as Shattered Star is kinda the second AP related to the Runelords. :O

Will this be included in the subscriptions or skipped like Guns & Gears?

This is treated as a reprint, so no, this won't be part of the subscription, as indicated by the lack of "this is part of X subscription" banner that all products parts of a sub line has.

On the other hand, BECAUSE it's treated as a reprint, everyone that has the old book's PDF will have access to the updated PDF this will provide.

(A reprint, once all copies are sold, will most likely swap the old OGL license for the new ORC one. But yeah, outside of normal errata, nothing need to be "remastered")

Oh! And having read Monster Core 2, that black-colored dragon on the cover is the new "resurrection dragon"! :P
Definitely not a name I could have guessed by look alone. But reading the description, it fit. xD

Maya Coleman wrote:

Though we won't be doing this, I'm sure a member of the community will!

Ask and thou shalt receive:

Cinder Dragon (Red)
Bog Dragon (Black)
Dune Dragon (Blue)
Rime Dragon (White)
Verdant Dragon (Green)

Empyreal Dragon (Gold)
Mocking Dragon (Copper)
Requiem Dragon (Bronze)
Gallant Dragon (Silver)
Whimsy Dragon (Brass)

Well, at the very least, you have at least one wrong, as the remastered dragon closest to green is actually the Horned Dragon, as confirmed by paizo people around it's release in Monster Core.

Oh, and Empyreal have been confirmed NOT being a remastered gold dragon. (And having seen requiem in Monster Core 2, they have nothing to do with old bronze.)
I have also not heard of Dune, Gallant, nor Whimsy, ouside of some people trying to come up with names in Reddit posts.

Announced for April! Product images and descriptions are not final and are subject to change. :)

This is wrongly set in First Edition Accessories in the store.

This page's "path" in the store hierarchy, as seen on top of this page:

Pathfinder / Accessories / First Edition Accessories / Pawns

HUZZAH!

HUZZAH! All awesome people!

Also, as a reminder, the "Preorder expected X" under the price is for the start of shipping to subscribers and pre-orders, hence why it's sometime in the "wrong" month, cause they start shipping ~2 weeks before street date, so if street dat is within 2 weeks of the start of the month, well yeah, it will be shipped during the previous month.

Silly question, but are there any cards that conflict with the Remaster rules? If so, what would the change be?

Not silly, very good question. I'm looking through my own deck right now!

Those I found that might need more deliberations:
Rage and Fury: A rage focused card that give you a one turn rage, with the bonus and penalties spelled out. It had the old -1 AC penalty, but specify that if you already have the Rage class feature, use these stats instead... So there's 0 problem if used by a barbarian, and the extra penalty could actually make sense in a way, for a non barbarian. xD But that's a ruling that need to be done by the GM.

... And that's it. xD
So yeah, I'd say it's pretty compatible.

Mine arrived today, and my knee jerk reaction is that I’m fairly disappointed in this boxed set.

I can’t speak to the quality of the adventure itself, as I have yet to read through it, but the physical components are a major let down.

First, why is this box anywhere even remotely as thick as it is? The game components take up less than 1/4 the thickness of the box. The rest of the space in the box is just a cardboard filler whose sole purpose is to take up space in the box. As someone with dwindling shelf space, I really have to wonder why it was felt necessary to use such a large box.

Second, instead of the usual (great) standee “Pawns” that Paizo often uses, the characters and creatures in this set are instead represented by small, 3/4” cardboard tokens, the text on which is somewhat difficult to read.

Also, the player handouts are printed on ridiculously thin, cheap feeling pieces of paper that don’t feel like they’ll hold up if this adventure is run multiple times.

Like I said, I can’t speak to the quality of the actual adventure, but I really feel that the quality of the components is an extreme disappointment, and doesn’t match up with what I usually see from Paizo.

The box size was talked about in an interview, and it's basically about store shelf presentation, if it's too small, many store won't even want to stock it cause people will miss it. They were saying that even AP books are sometimes ignored by certain stores. So they came up with that boxed set to try and see if it will work better.

Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:

Kelseus wrote:

The first post literally says "end shipping estimate." Show me where it says they guarantee you will get your books early. Oh no, you have to wait a day or two more what ever are you going to do.

Are you a subscriber?

Yes. I have been a subscriber to at least 1 line for 10+ years. As I mentioned in a higher post on this thread, sometimes I get mine super early, other times a week or so in, and sometimes like this one I am at the tail end.

Remember this is not a warehouse like Amazon or some major distributor. Paizo is a small company and are pulling and packing the boxes by hand.

(To add to this, looking at the company credits at the end of any book, we can see they have about ~6 people working on doing all that.)

HUZZAH! All awesome people! Yes! Even you Andrew White That-Missed-The-Deadline! :3

"Zon-Shelyn, the god of therapeutic art and self-expression"?!?!?

Finally the divine siblings are back together??

Yep, it happened "on screen" during a playtest adventure!

When will the Book be available to buy again?

I have no recollection of AP books ever getting a reprint, so probably never, unless you count the second hand market. Sorry!

HUZZAH!

Official announcement on MyMiniFactory

Looks like we're getting the Player Core iconics from PF, the Murder in Metal City pregens from SF (same as the SF player core iconics?), akashic dragon, and a selection of troops for Battlecry to start with.

If the supply of files keeps up, I'm going to have one busy printer.

The exact text from that link:

As a launch point for the partnership, the first miniatures available will be the six Starfinder Second Edition iconic characters, the six pre-generated characters from Starfinder Murder in Metal City, the akashic dragon from the cover of Starfinder Player Core, two bonus Starfinder miniatures, and a variety of Andoran and Chelaxian troops to support Pathfinder Battlecry! In addition to being available digitally, these miniatures will also be available as print-on-demand figures via Titan Forge.

The the Pathfinder iconics won'T be there from the start, but the Starfinder ones, the pregens from the Murder in Metal City (which are different characters from the iconics), the awesome akashic dragon from Starfinder, and some chelaxian and andoran troops.

Unless there's another announcement that talk about the Pathfinder iconics, that I have missed?

(But thanks for sharing, I would have completely missed this otherwise! I don't have usse for them, but a friend do have a printer and might be interested.)

Jim Butler wrote:

(Elfteiroh: SNIP to limit tunneling)

What do other sites do? Because this is one of the first places I have heard saying you can't leave a review unless you are verified purchased.

Please do not tie it to tiers. Players should be able...

Usually, other sites that DO something about it just remove reviews entirely. There's also a lot of sites that are starting to remove comments entirely for similar problems and raising demands on moderation.

How do we get the points for following on social? I rarely use my real name places if I can help it (looking at you Facebook 2004) and my user name here is not the same as elsewhere.

On other places I've seen have things like that, I have seen two ways. A "link account" setting, that ask permissions, and long-term link the two accounts. This is overkill, and is usually used for interactions that are WAY more "in-depth".

Was this module ever updated to PF1e rules?

It was written using the PF1 rules, so I'm confused. xD If you meant PF2, then not officially no. I can fin a reddit thread of someone that did do a bit of a fan conversion, but only up to level 5.

Ok, I went back and made full calculations based on my own last 12 month.
For the full 12 months (from this June back to last July), I spent ~1025.19$. I made a mistake before, I have 5 subs. Oops. (I didn't count a couple of digital fictions I would have bought with my extra gold, if it was available.)
27% was from accessories,
25% was from AP,
18% was from Lost Omen,
11% was from rulebook,
9% was from Adventures, and
9% was from non-sub purchases.

That would be 1537.78 gold (assuming they count decimals...) +25 birthday bonus. More than enough for all society scenarios, and between 30$ and 35$ off of other purchases (or 10% off of a very big purchase, which has the potential to be more), OR 100$ off total from anything, or 3x 10% off, if you don't want the society scenarios.

Also to note, my AP purchases have been made under the legacy 30% off, it would be ~50$ higher if it was just the 15% from Legendary, and thus a bit more gold. xD We don't know what will happen to the old legacy advantage, but looking at the numbers, the impact is lower than I expected if lost. The rest of my purchases are all made under the base 15% discount I have.

There's also the caveat that we have seen the remaster of the spell cards in the last 12 month, that HAVE inflated the Accessory line a bit. The next 12 months will probably be more representative. (And I'll probably start buying Starfinder books too because of the inter compatibility, so... yeah... xD )

TheTownsend wrote:

They HAVE a Bluesky account, I'm not sure why it's not listed as an option.

I've added Bluesky to the list of available rewards. You should see the graphic and text changes reflected in the blog shortly.

-Jim

This is an incredible turnaround speed! :O

AidAnotherBattleHerald wrote:

NightTrace wrote:

However, Advantage is going away entirely? So I will need to earn 500 gold/spend $500.00 to get a 10% discount on a single purchase when I currently have a Global 15% discount which itself applies to my subscriptions?

Ow.

We will probably be legendary tier if we currently qualify for paizo advantage. Which will mean we keep our 15% discount. But it's tied to that $750/year threshold now instead of having 4 subs.

That's fair. I'm at six subs and I strongly suspect that Paizo gets $750 annual from me already and I'm fine with that to be clear lol.

I'll need more information (which will be coming in the near future it sounds like) but I'm probably a niche/smaller population all things considered. I do believe this will probably continue to be a net positive for most Gamers :D

I'm at 4 subs: PF Rules, PF Adventure, PF Accessories, and PF AP and it would only take me 9 month to hit the 750$, so yeah, if you have 6, your guaranteed... and that's 1150+ gold to spend however you want (I counted the birthday bonus). 20 society scenario is 1000 gold... but like I said, for me that only take about 9 month to hit, so I have 3 more months of gold that are fully "extra".

I counted, and I would only be needing my last 9 months to be legendary if it started today. Looking at the numbers, I could drop the AP sub (for me it was 30% off because of Legacy advantage, so that would be ~250$ less per years) and still manage to keep the 15% off that I had with 4 subs. (I won't drop it, cause I really like my full PF2 AP collection). The only thing I "lose" is the Society scenario, but the gold I gain just in these 9 months is probably enough to get them for free anyway. And I have leftover gold.

So yeah. My quick napkin math do seem to show it being a bit better, even if I will need to do some more manual transactions, as I'll have to redeem that gold to "buy" the society scenarios manually, but eh, I'll also get to use these rewards a bit more flexibly, like the remaining gold will probably be enough to buy a couple lower cost things, like the physical free RPG Day adventure I missed.

And if I didn't want the scenarios (which I do, but I'm talking hypotheticals here), that would be a lot of gold to get discounts on mor products instead of getting scenarios I wouldn't have wanted (hypothetically, of course).

Oh, and that wasn't even counting the birthday gold and the potential review gold!

Mika Hawkins wrote:

Announced for November! Product images and descriptions are not final and are subject to change. :)

Very excited for this! Especially when it comes out as the pocket edition (hopefully?)!!!

I had a general question, about purchasing products, which will ultimately apply to this when it comes out.

Options for purchasing are to order it directly through Paizo, that mega huge website that we all know about, or getting it through a local game store. Generally, will the price directly from Paizo be about the same as through a local game store?

I know that, generally, the rule books are cheaper from that huge mega website, but I would rather not support them, if possible.

Purchases here is directly through Paizo, yes. They sell the books at the "manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP)" they give to retailers. These retailers can then sell it at the price they want, but Paizo follow it to be "fair" to the stores.

Maya Coleman wrote:

Elfteiroh wrote:

If we were to get a movie around their shenanigans, I wouldn't complain one bit, if you catch my drift. :P

As a fan of them myself, I second this!

I was going to ask for fiction, but a movie works!

Movies often get novelized. :P

If we were to get a movie around their shenanigans, I wouldn't complain one bit, if you catch my drift. :P

Huzzah! All great people!

Out of curiosity, are the premades in the Starfinder 2e adventure built with the playtest rules or the final release rules?

In April's Paizo Live, they said it was written using the playtest rules. It was probably written before the full rules were finalized.

Thanks for all of this!

Elfteiroh wrote:

They are basically Isekai protagonists... :P I guess some Jotunborns will be "transported" against their will and will be a little less... motivated than our iconic here, and will want to live an easy-going live with their cheat abi... oh wait. They don't get cheat abilities. Oops. xD

Mythic powers are right there if you want the full Isekai experience. heh.

Well... About that...

I've never done Free RPG Day before. If I travel a couple hours to a shop that has the books, will I just be able to pick them up, or is there a requirement to play since I won't be GMing because my local shop isn't participating?

There's not a lot of set rules... Shops may vary, but from my experience, the stuff is usually just spread on a table and people pick what they want from it. Because I know the stores have to pay to get these, I usually always try to buy at least one item at the same time I pick up the stuff, as a courtesy, and in hope that it will encourage them to keep doing it every year.

They are basically Isekai protagonists... :P I guess some Jotunborns will be "transported" against their will and will be a little less... motivated than our iconic here, and will want to live an easy-going live with their cheat abi... oh wait. They don't get cheat abilities. Oops. xD

But gosh I love him. :3

The way that Wayne Reynolds can paint a brutish giant man wearing seventeen breastplates and you can still see the kindness in his eyes, I swear to Shelyn.

Him and Ulka, two lost travellers with no way back home. Quite the pair, can't wait to see the two of them in action.

It's the soft lines of the face. Soft round eyes and nose!

Will the pdf of this product be fillable?

If I remember correctly, there was a mention some years ago that the personalization process was incompatible with fillable PDFs.