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Hi,

please cancel my Pathfinder Society subscription.

thank you

I'd appreciate them continuing to work on shipping instead.

Yeah, we spent time to count and we've calculated that we've shipped 32% of this month's orders means... absolutely nothing.

you know they don't have to actually count them? (and it would mean they need two more weeks to ship the rest out)

i work in a warehouse that ships a lot each day and we can easily see how much has shipped each day and how much is pending in the data. And i assume Paizo is using a similar system

Franz Lunzer wrote:

Oh man. I won't have an April/May order, but June... wow.

On the positive: I'm / We are (probably) going to get a full AP in a single month!

That is positive, right? Well, I'm looking forward to it.

My players are going to be able to take ancestries/feats/stuff from the Lost Omens: Mwangi Expanse book now.

I'll be tempted to hold off and let them take a Magus (or summoner I suppose) from Secrets of Magic too if they really wanted!

Paizo is indeed more transparent with their issue and they are overall most forthcoming with a lot of things.

Being outside the US and not having any b&m store around for TTRPGs and similar stuff might color my view differently on this.

Hello,

please cancel my current Pathfinder Adventure Path subscription

thank you

Duragin Ardentblood wrote:

Perhaps another solution (and a contingency for the future) is to print a small portion of the products more local to avoid disruption from the main source. after all there are many things that could go wrong in the supply chain.

This way Paizo could satisfy Brick&Mortar, although with a lower volume, while being able to sell at least the PDFs to customers.

It wouldn't be a solution to all problems that could arise, but at least some.

The issue with that is larger orders are cheaper per item, so you’d effectively be raising the price Paizo pays for the order, as you have two smaller orders for the same volume of units. Paizo is presumably a profitable business, but I doubt they’re operating on extravagant margins.

For sure. Yet here we have a delay of two months now, missing two months of sales, which will cost Paizo either way money.

Another delay for the first part of fists of the ruby phoenix? oh come on!
I'm sorry but i'm really upset about this by now. I know that Paizo has its reason for when they ship what. But delay upon delay for a finished product (the pdf) just to keep brick&mortar stores happy is for a customer who buys directly from you a bad experience.

And for me who is a first time subscriber, who hoped to get the pdf version early (as i heared those who sub get them on occasion a few days earlier) it's disappointing as it not only affects me, but my whole playgroup who were so fired up to start with it.

vent over

I really hope Paizo learns from this and plans a contingency for their customers if something like this happens again in the future

tl;dr: the "team builder" is all fluff, no crunch. Just so y'all can calibrate your expectations accordingly.

Well, obviously the Players Guide doesn't include rules to build team encounters, as this should be contained in a GM facing product like the AP itself.

The Team Building Tables are more to flavor your players party a given way

I wrote it in the other thread but here is my solution to this:

I see one big problem with Magus, and others pointed it out. The Magus needs to hit, or rather, crit with their strike when using Striking Spell. This is the bread and butter ability of it afterall.

I think there is an easy solution to it: add your Intelligence Modifier to the attack roll made with a weapon or unarmed strike using Striking Spell. (and add your key ability modifier to the spell attack/save DC too.)
This way the magus can compensate for stopping at master proficiency, somewhat justify the few spell slots and the weird loss of action economy. When they hit, the really hit and make it count.

Also, Sustaining Steel should double those Temp HP i think. Twice the cantrip level, four times the spellslot level.

With this the Magus can be as accurate (Magus +3 from Str/Dex, +3 from Int, +2 from Proficiency = +8 = Fighter +4 Str/Dex, +4 Proficiency) or even more then a fighter, but not all the time. This would give the Magus the niche of a highly accurate, high damage character, but at the expanse of loosing actions, which the fighter could use to move around, raise a shield, trip, use an item, etc.

I see one big problem with Magus, and others pointed it out. The Magus needs to hit, or rather, crit with their strike when using Striking Spell. This is the bread and butter ability of it afterall.

I think there is an easy solution to it: add your Intelligence Modifier to the attack roll made with a weapon or unarmed strike using Striking Spell. (and add your key ability modifier to the spell attack/save DC too.)
This way the magus can compensate for stopping at master proficiency, somewhat justify the few spell slots and the weird loss of action economy. When they hit, the really hit and make it count.

Also, Sustaining Steel should double those Temp HP i think. Twice the cantrip level, four times the spellslot level.