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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!)

Zaister wrote:

Maya Coleman wrote:

Regrettably, the discount on FVTT modules for owning the PDF is gone, because our new store platform does not support gating product access or discounts behind ownership of a different product. The tradeoff is that the code-only modules, which used to require PDF ownership, are now available to everyone, as per the Foundry team!

How is this going to affect Fantasy Grounds?

This never got answered so I'm replying to signal boost it.

Aside, it's not clear to me if the discount for owning the pdf via paizo sync to all partners (FG, demiplane, etc) is working yet?

I skipped Black Friday due to some of the issues reported with storefront.

It doesn't affect Fantasy Ground, as Paizo Connect continue. Foundry have never used the Paizo Connect service.

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.

Huzzah!
As a fellow video game dev, I always like seeing things like this. :3 Theya re sharing a lot too with the backers.

Yeah, that's one reason I never really liked DHL. I expected to start paying customs with all the *shake arms around* stuff happenings, but DHL's fees of ~20$ on top of the customs hurts a LOT. Previous shipping methods were "only" tacking ~10$ fees... still a lot for small shipments, but still better.

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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. >_>

So! A bit of positivity at least.

Everything's coming up WizKids! Check out today's blog to see upcoming releases that take your battles to the next level and learn more about their new miniature subscriptions!

*Hug* (Only with consent, of course...)

There absolutely should have been a warning via email for anyone not checking the forums regularly, and there should be an option given to pick a cheap bare-bones option. But that aside, I'm very happy to see that DHL option. It's much cheaper than the previous tracked UPS options (which were quite expensive for what you get).

Looking back at my previous orders, this new DHL option looks notably cheaper than UPS Mail Innovations International, so having tracking on top of that is a big plus. I'm seeing $43 USD in shipping if I ordered now with DHL, vs. the $53 USD that I actually paid for MII two months ago. (6 items: 4 books, a Flip-Mat, and a set of Battle Cards; to south-western Ontario)

Ideally, we should still be given the option to choose the shipping method that makes sense, especially for lower-value orders. But I personally found Mail Innovations International to be pretty bare-bones for the relatively high price that they charge.

There are also brokerage, duties, taxes, and tariffs, so depending on how those are handled with the DHL option, there could also be advantages. I've gotten a few hefty bills paid at the door in the past for some Paizo orders.

I'll be honest, in the past I have gotten bad experiences with DHL with other stores, but I'll wait and see here, and give the benefit of the doubt. But yeah. :X If I could I would probably have switched to another option.

Hi - I received my adventure path subscription confirmation today and realized there's been a significant increase in the charge for shipping. Last month the charge was $11.92 through Mail Innovations International, while this month it's $20.05 through DHL Express Worldwide.

I can kinda sort of rationalize my subscription when shipping is in the $12.00 range, but the new shipping rates push my purchase to over $50 Cdn.

Is there a way to manage shipping options in the new store - or have shipping options been streamlined/changed?

Thanks!

They ahd lots of complains that there was no tracking for international shipping, and thus they switched to shipping methods that have tracking, but the tracking service increase the costs by a lot. They had warned about it, but the "we want tracking at any cost" voices were louder.

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. >_>

Elfteiroh wrote:

[Snipped content to prevent tunneling...] Blue: Stormcrown (Not 100% officially confirmed. Because of the website hiccups, can't double check the source.) [...]

Stormcrown was referenced in Monster Core 2 as threats to other inhabitants of the dessert.

Yes! But this is not confirmation that they replace the old blue dragons! :P Just some circumstantial evidences!

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.

About the watermarking, warning for anyone wanting to use the old "PDF to Foundry" module to import old adventures to your Foundry worlds: the module was using the watermark to detect if it was a legitimately bought PDF. Without that watermark, it is now impossible to use if you just bought the adventure on the new website!

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

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!

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)

I don't think it should be a surprise if these dragons in particular happen to look more feral. Primal dragons (including the coral dragon here) tend toward having more bestial traits as they draw their power from natural magic. On the flipside, arcane dragons tend to have sleeker forms, but I don't think we should be surprised if a dragon centred on sharpening magic has a touch more steel in its frame.

But no, these dragons don't seem inherently more alien, otherworldly, or feral than others. They look to me like their design suits their role, which is something we haven't seen a whole lot of in the D&D dragon legacy. While it's certainly possible to identify certain features of chromatic and metallic dragons, I don't think I'd be able to guess more than half in greyscale.

I feel like we will still by the end of this have a fair share of stock dragony-looking dragons, like the cinder dragons, but we'll also have some true variety in more than just colour, horn arrangement, and breath.

Yeah, I was often half-jokingly saying that the only real downside of darkvision was that if you were encountering dragons in the dark, it was very hard to identify them. xD

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All interesting! :3

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The priority was probably the Starfinder Alien Core one.

Maya Coleman wrote:

Wolfen Fenrison wrote:

I just bought the physical book. Do the pregen characters come separately? Or do I need to get the PDF too to print them out for my players?

The pregen characters are in the book!

Right, but do I need to photocopy them out of the book or do I need to purchase the PDF to print off clean copies of the character sheets?

They are not distributed for free anywhere. A limit of the 3rd party license I woould assume. Non-Paizo comanies have a tendency to be WAY more protectives of their IP. That's the downside of these collabs. They are fun, but it will be surprising if any would ever be as "open" as Paizo's usual stuff.

(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.)

If this is accepted as Organized Play stuff, I'm definitely starting to organize Starfinder games.

At once.

(Already confirmed that it won't. This is purely in Warframe universe, this is not canon to Starfinder. And because it's licensed stuff from a 3rd party, Paizo have much less control over it.)

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)

Is this going to be part of the Starfinder Adventure subscription?

It is not, as this is a licensed product that is not related to the Pact-World setting of Starfinder at all. :3

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.)

To whoever packed my order, thanks for the little cat drawing on the inside flap of the box. It made me smile after a long day.

I had a similar one on mine's a couple months back, with my Monster Match delivery. (For those wondering, mine was like this: =^.^= )

Elfteiroh wrote:

Zaister wrote:

I take it this is not canon to the Starfinder Universe, right?

Nope! Also, to note, I heard that the product WON'T be released under the ORC license, so all content in it will use standard copyrights (and thus any stat blocks probably won't be in AoN or any other online SRDs).

That will make it harder to run on Foundry, but not impossible, just more prep, still quite unfortunate.

Yeah, that's what happens when working with IP licensors, and the more they do it, the more we will see how much Paizo is an outlier on that front.

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".

Post office says mine was delivered yesterday, but when I got home it wasn't there, and I've contacted the townhouse office and nothing was left there. Ordered this thing in may, and no aliens for me till I'm allowed to buy the pdf. :(

People stealing packages from people's porches are so... UGH! I hope you manage to get your books, one way of another. Q_Q

I take it this is not canon to the Starfinder Universe, right?

Nope! Also, to note, I heard that the product WON'T be released under the ORC license, so all content in it will use standard copyrights (and thus any stat blocks probably won't be in AoN or any other online SRDs).

HUZZAH! Dance

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.

Nice! I love these design talks, as someone that had a class about designing board games, as an intro to designing video games. xD

As someone that worked on a top down ARPG some time ago, I love the sharing of insights about how things looks from that perspective, and how we need to "distort" stuff to make it look better...

I'll always remember the crazy weird collision boxes we had to make for projectiles to feel good, cause the players were thinking that bullets that were missing the monsters should have hit, even if they didn't really. Mostly when they were going between the floor and the monster, from the camera's perspective. So most colliders ended up stretching toward the camera, even for small round bullets! xD (There was a bit of stretch away from the camera too, but it was less pronounced.)

(We also had pretty much everything standing at a slight angle, so that we would see more of the "body", cause top down people just look bad. xD )

HUZZAH! All great people!

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

If I already have the original 4-parts AP, will I get the new PDF? Will the Foundry modules receive an update to reflect these new remaster changes? And will the Foundry modules be repacked as a single module or you still need to buy the individual modules?

Based on all previous compilations, this will most probably be treated as a new publication. So old PDFs and modules won't be updated, and the old PDFs won't count for the new Foundry module. (There are limitation in the store software that make it impossible to link multiple products with another.)

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