Erik Keith

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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.

Paizo Employee Software Test Engineer

Hello Everyone!

If you're trying to add a free PDF to your cart and encountering an error today know we're actively working to resolve the issue and hope to have it fixed as soon as possible.

This appears to be caused by a data state where PDFs are added to your shopping cart before you sign into the website. If you sign in, remove the PDFs from your cart and then try readding them from the product page it should let you automatically add them to your My Downloads section where they can be accessed.

Thank you for your patience while we work to address this!

- Erik K

Paizo Employee Software Test Engineer

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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.

Paizo Employee Software Test Engineer

Greetings everyone,

We just rolled new code to reenable navigation of the product review tab ensuring that any page of the product reviews are accessible. As noted in the threads subject most product pages will now default to loading with the Product Review tab.

We'll be doing another release in the near future to reimplement the previous behavior, ensuring that the Product Discussion tab is the primary tab to load on a product page again. Thanks for your patience folks!

- Erik K

Paizo Employee Software Test Engineer

Hello everyone, and thank you for signing up for my game!

I plan to have GotA be a relatively light hearted game, where you'll play through most of the story as your goblins, followed shortly afterwards with cameos of the Sandpoint town guard as they try and discern what could possibly be happening around their sleepy little town*.

If you're making your own goblin PC, use 20 point buy and average wealth. If you want to run it by me, I'm glad to accept custom goblin themed traits and feats for your character. Renaming items thematically is encouraged!

*Not a guaranteed trait of Sandpoint.

Paizo Employee Software Test Engineer

Hello everyone, and thanks for registering for my game!

If you have any questions regarding Al'miran and how it fits into Golarion, character creation inquiries / verifying a third party class is allowed, or any other questions in general please let me know. I look forward to GMing for everyone in a few weeks!

- Erik Keith

Paizo Employee Quality Assurance Axiomite

Greetings fellow Paizonians,

Posting on the messageboards is temporarily disabled, we're working to have them back up and running as quickly as possible. We thank you for your patience while we address this.

- Erik Keith

Paizo Employee Software Test Engineer

In the month of February the Jade Regent Adventure Path reaches its climax, while new focus comes to the stars and seas of Golarion.

Our subscription releases for the month of February are as follows:

Mid February

GameMastery Cards Subscription: GameMastery Item Cards: Skull & Shackles
Pathfinder Player Companion Subscription: Pathfinder Player Companion: Pirates of the Inner Sea
Pathfinder Campaign Setting Subscription: Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Distant Worlds
Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscription: Pathfinder Adventure Path #54: The Empty Throne (Jade Regent 6 of 6)

Authorization and Shipping Estimates

If you are an active subscriber to any of the subscriptions above, we are expecting the February subscription orders to be setting up February 9th. This process sets up an order with all of the February subscription items as well as any sidecart items that are ready to be shipped and authorizes the payment method provided. When your order has been set by our system it will automatically generate an email to you stating "In the following week or so, we're expecting to ship <name of product>, the next volume of your subscription." If there are any problems authorizing your payment method, they will be reflected in the email as well. If you need to change your address, payment method or cancel/add items to the order, we recommend you do so as soon as possible.

Please note that any pending transactions you see on your payment method are not actual charges, but authorizations. Most banks list these authorizations as pending transactions and often subtract the amount from your available balance, however, we do not charge your payment method and grant your free subscriber PDF(s) until your order actually ships.

We estimate that we will begin shipping out January subscription orders Monday, February 13th and hopefully wrap up by Friday February 17th.

If you need to change your address, payment method or add/cancel items we recommend you do this as soon as possible. If your subscription order has already been generated by our system, you'll want to make sure that address/payment method changes have applied to BOTH the order and the subscription(s). You will also want to add items directly to the pending order (rather than the sidecart).

Please note when adding items to pending orders: items listed as "will ship from warehouse in 2-6 days" will not delay your subscription order; items with longer "will ship..." estimates mean we have to get that item from our distributor and if you add it to your pending order, it will delay the pending order until it arrives at the warehouse.