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Mika,
If the players manage to overcome this brutal adventure, would they be considered Vampire Survivors? :)

I appreciate the follow up!

This time I believe I've been able to trace the error back to its root and resolve it for your current cart as well as future orders going forward.
It looked like an Asmodean legal loop had made its way into the local Abadaran practice, twisting it away from their original intent and corrupting the process.

If this doesn't fix it going forward though reach out and I'll follow up accordingly!

- Erik Keith

We have a fix prepared for the issue and I expect us to launch it next week. I'll let the respective thread know as well. Thanks again for bringing it to my attention.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention Corwin, I'll review where this occurred in the code and get a resolution underway asap.

Greetings Organized Play!
With yesterday evenings release users should now see Replay points available for use in Organized Play. On a personal note, thank you for your patience everyone. I've written up a small explanation of the new features:

Where to see your replay points:
GM/Event Coordinator Tab of the Organized Play page, they should manifest after clicking "Refresh Points".

"You have X Replays":
You should now see the addition of Starfinder, Pathfinder 1E, and Pathfinder 2E replay points available on your Pathfinder Society GM/Event Coordinator tab. Please note that replay point types don't display unless you've earned at least one replay point of that type.

Updated Reporting:
Org Play games for PFS1E/Core, PFS2E, and SFS should now come in 3 reportable conditions, One-Time Playthrough, Replayable, or Consumes Replay. ACG scenario reporting doesn't use replays.

One-Time Playthrough:
This scenario grants credit to the players first character to complete it. No special text displays when this type of scenario is being reported.

Replayable:
This scenario grants credit for each characters first playthrough. When selecting sessions of this scenario types the UI will display "This scenario is replayable and will grant credit each time it is reported to a new character."

Consumes Replays:
A player receives credit on the first character they play through this scenario. Additional characters can earn credit playing through this scenario by consuming 1 available replay point.
When reporting scenarios of this type a checkbox to consume replays should be available in the reporting UI, only check the box if the player is using a replay point.
The same character can never receive credit for the same scenario twice. When selecting sessions of this scenario types the UI will display "Players replaying this scenario may consume a replay point to gain credit on each character's first playthrough."

A reported consumes-replay scenario should grant credit, however it will deny credit and quote the player has already received credit for the scenario under the following conditions:
The character has already played through the scenario before.
The player is out of replay points and cannot consume one to receive credit, in which case it should reference the original playthrough.

Granted Replay Points:
Yesterday we granted replay points to Organized Play users. Users with reported sessions for any Org Play type (PFS1E, SFS, PFS2E) should automatically receive 2 replay points for that respective Organized Play type. In addition to this, users should have received an additional 2 replay points per 50 reported player seats for each Org Play type. In addition to this future newly registered PFS ID's should come preloaded with 2 replays of all Org Play types.

Purchasing additional replay points with Achievement Points:
I believe Alex should be making replay points available for purchase in the near future through the use of achievement points. At that time you'll need to select a character in order to purchase replay points, but they can be used by any character. This was a limitation of how boons currently require an associated character in the code, and we plan to, when time permits, implement character neutral boons which Replay Points will fall under.

GM / Reporter Specific Notes:
All "Consumes Replay" scenario seats default to not consume a replay and must be checked to use one. There currently isn't a safeguard against reporting a replay point to be consumed on a players first playthrough of a consumes-replay scenario. If this happens you can delete a misreported seat and save and the system will properly refund the player back the Replay Point that was consumed for them to use when actually needed.

Greetings Minidude,

The password reset functionality should now be working properly and send you a password reset email when prompted. Feel free to give it another try at this time.

- Erik K

A friend I frequently went hiking with mentioned he had been gifted a book for a new RPG beta that had been released at GenCon. He let me borrow the book and I reveled that they had taken my favorite RPG and made it even better. l fell in love with Pathfinder.

It wasn't until a few months later I discovered that the company making it, Paizo Publishing L.L.C., was also responsible for some of my favorite childhood memories, namely reading Dungeon and Dragon magazines with a friend while on coastal road trips, and imagining how hilarious* it would be to die to things like a calzone golem, straight out of the oven. As soon as that clicked it was like having your favorite superhero remove their mask revealing that you've known them all along. I've been a fan ever since.

Andrew W: Empiñatas are the chalupacabra's favorite food.

Thank you for letting us know about this Fedor. I'll make sure we get this issue documented and added to our list of things to fix. I have a few ideas as to what might have caused this.

- Erik K

Good news everyone!
Your missing PDFs have been rounded up and placed in your My Downloads page at this time. I suspect most of you should have just received an email as well, but it never hurts to mention something here as well. Thanks for letting us know about this!

Thanks for your patience everyone. In addition to Katina, I'll be taking a look into this to see what might have happened. More information (or an email telling you you have new downloads) as I get to the bottom of this.

- Erik K

Another good option is to click the Focus button up at the top right side of the messageboards. This will cause the page to only display threads they've visited before, and will likely make Welcome To The Guard much easier to see.

Hey all,
We just implemented a small code roll. Website performance has been improved in the following manner:

Organized Play Improvements:
We've improved the speed sessions load and sort at when using the revision options to the left of the PFS Sessions page.

On the Organized Play Summary tab the "Show Sessions" drop down for individual character sessions will sort by date first, and Player/GM second.

Removed Depreciated Code
Removed some old UI code that would periodically attempt to say hi, and then just kind of loiter in an awkward manner making the experience uncomfortable for everyone.

Resend Verification Email Option
Users will now find a link available to resend an account verification email in the case that the first one doesn't arrive. This can be found on the login screen.

Hey again!

We currently have a fairly packed launch for our next release, but afterwards I think we'll have some time to fit some QoL improvements into the next build. I'll see how difficult it would be to get it into that release. I can't make any promises, but I can at least make some noise regarding it. :)

- Erik K

Hey Wei Ji,

We're currently investigating. I'll shoot you a private message tomorrow morning so I can verify which threads suddenly shifted to this behavior to see if we can track down a pattern. Thanks as well for letting us know about this!

- Erik K

That functionality should now be implemented. :)

We just rolled some new code to resolve the issue with the Product Review tabs being locked on page one. You should now be able to navigate to any page of a products review section again.

Due to this update pages will currently default to the product review tab, we should be doing another small follow up code release to implement the previous behavior, which is ensuring the product page defaults to the product discussion tab.

Thanks for your patience folks!

- Erik K

Erik Keith wrote:

We've pushed through a likely solution to the issue at this time. If you see it persist please let us know. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention folks!

I'm wondering if the code fix is responsible for putting my Lists out of order. Right now they look like they might be in order of most recently added to/changed, instead of their original order.

The hotfix attempt didn't have any code changes involved so I doubt it's the culprit in this particular case, I'll take a look at that and get it documented as soon as possible.

Thanks everyone, I'll kick this back into review and we'll see where the remaining outliers are.

We've pushed through a likely solution to the issue at this time. If you see it persist please let us know. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention folks!

Currently we're planning for one more code roll before the end of the year, I'll see if we can get this issue resolved at that time. Thanks for your patience everyone.

Glad to have you back!

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, the team has been made aware and we're currently looking into it. I'll update you all when we have more information!

I have a few ideas of what's might be causing this. The tech team has been made aware of this particular behavior and we're currently investigating the exact cause. I'll keep you updated as we progress.

Hey Pogie,

The website has 15 years worth of custom code tying everything together into a giant ball of intertwined cause and effect relations. We're very careful about the changes we make and test them thoroughly, but the slightest change can easily result in something completely unrelated to the area of revision breaking in an unexpected way. I test for these sorts of thing specifically with every revision, but even then it's absolutely possible something can still get past, as new revisions affect things in new and undesirably exciting ways.

Hey Steve!

We don't have a mass deletion tool for private messages at this time, so deleting them one at a time is the best option available. I'll add a feature request to be able to select multiple posts for deletion at the same time for future site improvement. Thanks for checking with us!

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13 *Listens to see if he can hear people shouting.*

I'd like to give you all a big thank you while waiting for us to get that resolved.

Oh jeez you're absolutely right. I'll get this documented so the team can get it fixed asap. Thanks for letting me know about this!

- Erik K

Thanks for doing that Hmm,

I have this reported in our bug tracking software, now it's just a matter of how soon someone can jump on it.

- Erik K

Hello you two!

We're looking into both issues made mention of here, David could you let me know which browser you're currently using for tracking the indismissable cookie message?

The PDF emails should have retained their previous settings for if we should send them or not based on what your previous email option was, we're looking into it currently.

- Erik K

Ahoy there! The premades are as follows:

Plucker M Human Slayer 4
Owns the villages biggest chicken farm which earned him his nickname. Has the nickname of Chickenslayer.

Gale: F Human Hunter 4
Plucker's plucky best friend. Owns a small farm where she keeps her prize winning pig, Oinker.

Oinker: CN Juvenile "Oinkyugh". Gale's animal companion.
Notorious for being pretty gross, no one quite knows why the pig looks this ugly. "I swear t' the gods it knows what you’re sayin’ when you done go n' talk to it."

Valeros' Dad: CG M Human Brawler 4
Has been a drunken wreck ever since his kid ran off to join the circus, or whatever it is that mercenary company calls itself.

Thurstin: TN M Human Alchemist 4
Town drunk and all around awesome individual. Tries unorthodox ways to make moonshine which are prone to exploding. Becomes a monster if he drinks too much. May secretly worship Shax.

Eleta: NG Druid 4
A local druid and somewhat of an introvert, Eleta mostly shies away from the village square, the 7 or 8 buildings built around it cause her to have mild panic attacks as theres usually too many people around. Buys semi precious metals and uses them decorate her chitin breastplate.

All characters will be level 4.

Hey everyone, we tried to get this resolved with a small release we did yesterday aimed at QoL and bug fixes. The thread cropping issue is still around, but I think we identified where things were going wrong. We're going to hold off on doing another attempt to resolve it likely until after PaizoCon, but it is on our radar.

That not being intended is an accurate assessment, thanks for bringing that to my attention Steve! We'll see about getting that resolved as soon as possible.

Sweet bountiful baked goods! Thank you so much everyone! I just ate lunch, so I'm having a friend keep an eye on my cupcake for now.

These both look to be related to a bug where content isn't loading when it normally should for some pages. Refreshing the page causes the missing components to appear sometimes, but you might need to refresh it a few times if you're unlucky.

It's definitely on our radar.

I can only see the final issue of Ruins of Azlant, and the First two issues of Strange Aeons under those headers.

Those should now be visible for you. I think I've figured out what's going on and I'll get it added to our list of updates so we can get it resolved in the near future for everyone.

I've documented it and we should have a resolution to it as soon as possible. Thanks for letting us know about that David!

We'll definitely be taking in user feedback on providing a better experience, so hang on if things are a bit choppy. I suspect for the next day or two we'll be in heavy review mode to catch anything missing. (We already know of a few spots).

Everyone on the team is pretty exhausted from today though, so I suspect we'll be a little quiet for the rest of the night. :) Thanks for your patience in the mean time!

- Erik K

None of the messageboard side links work on mobile. And the top Community drop down's don't work either. You literally can't get to the general messageboards on mobile.

We'll be addressing this ASAP.

I know the messageboard tabs for Organized Play, Online Campaigns, etc were visible when I was doing testing on the new build. I'll check in with everyone tomorrow about the status on those, as I know how important they are for folks. Thank you for your patience in the mean time where I figure out where they decided to disappear to.

- Erik K

I GOT THE GOAT!

Oh wow, if there was ever such a thing as good timing on a heart attack I think that pretty much takes the cake. Glad to hear you're okay!

Came for a flip-mat PDF, stayed for the purging.
They've been pretty relentless recently, looks like they've broken through the first line.

Robert was just able to trigger it and we've tracked it to its source, we're working on a fix right now.

We're currently in between code rolls. That particular post is trying to access some of the new code and failing to do so which is causing the behavior. We're working to get it resolved asap!

When I'm GMing I try to choreograph scenes that will naturally set up things for my players to call on in this regard to bring more life to the scene. Something as simple as the fighter holding his axe backwards on the first missed attack in a combat will give the bard fuel for when they're going to describe their turn.
The material for their improv has already been eluded to making it easier for them to run with.

Well now I know what's happening to one of my players in my weekend game.

Hey again folks,

Currently trying to track down a small outstanding bug with the current code, as soon as its resolved you'll have my undivided attention with regard to tracking down any remaining discrepancies. I'll make sure we get you all sorted. :)

I can currently verify that all reported GM sessions at GenCon are now properly displaying using the test codebase. With a bit of luck we're hoping we'll have the code rolled some time next week. :)

It's the same code causing this for other conventions, so when the code rolls you should see sessions populate regardless of event, the current code just doesn't realize it's supposed to be showing it to you.