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Yep, thank you.

Can I please have my subscription canceled?

Thanks.

In fact it showed up yesterday! Third time was the charm. lol Thank you and hopefully things get better.

I got the shipping notification a few hours ago and may I say, this has got to be the best, most personal and friendliest customer service I have ever seen, bar none. Thank you very much. 5 stars definitely!

Thanks, I can imagine this has been a pain for you. lol

So. . . now we may be needing a replacement for the replacement. :rofl: It's need like 10 days, and it hasn't shown up at all. I think at this point you should probably fire UPSMI. lol They destroyed the last one and now this one appears to be lost. 2 in a row, not a good record so far. lol

Alrighty, thank you very much, and hopefully the replacement comes in better condition. lol

This is why I love you guys lol. It seems it just arrived today. . . however it incurred some major damage in shipping. I can send the photos if necessary, but it looks like they ran it over with a truck.

Aloha. This order was shipped on June 23rd, but the tracking on it has not updated at all since the 24th and the item still has not been received.

So I realize I'm late to the party, i didn't get to start my sub until it seems after they had already done the pre-auth, and now my order is on pending with it saying "11 to 20 days" in the shipping estimate. So am I out of luck then, mine will not ship before the release date then? Order number 35080147 for reference. Sorry in advance, first time sub. I have no idea how this works.

Hi GM Seth,

It does appear that we have settled an amount for order 17161205. If you still are not seeing the settlement in your account please let me know!

My account shows it charged today finally, and I received the items on Saturday just in time to use for my game. :-) Thanks for everything!

So this one is kinda weird. There was a pending authorization on my payment method for this order for a while, but then the authorization expired and the money was put back in my account, and shortly thereafter I get the email that this order has shipped. And the money is still in my account. LOL Probably a glitch or something.

Please cancel this order, I did it with the wrong card, so of course it didn't work. I re-did it with the correct card.

Nevermind, could you please cancel this order. I simply re-did it with the correct card. Thank you.

I need to change the credit card used on this order please. It used the wrong one.

We are looking for a few more players for an offline homebrew campaign set in a long developed world. We are playing at the Game Matrix, a game store in Lakewood, WA @ 8610, South Tacoma Way, 98499.

As we are now moving to Pathfinder 2e, this is the perfect time for some new players to jump in. We will be starting things off with a session 0 sometime in March, and playing every other Saturday at 6pm PST thereafter. We will be starting at level 1. This is a homebrew world with several different character options, including several homebrew ancestries and the like. All of this will be presented on our World Anvil once I get it all ready. Character creation will happen at the Session 0.

You are performers in a travelling circus! You travel from town to town all across the desert region of Almahna and give shows for the admiring public. You believe in bringing joy and happiness to those who have none. In bringing smiles to the faces of all in Almahna. Your circus was founded by your good, dear friend, Thorin Goodbeard (coincidence? We don't believe in those!) 3 years ago in the wake of pending civil war at the heart of Calrune. He thought, there had to be a better way than to resort to violence, and so he got you all together and you held your first circus act right there! And indeed, you like to think you helped avert a war.

Now you've been travelling across Almahna, going from town to town, spreading joy and happiness everywhere you go. Your act includes a twist never before seen: each performer has a monster pet who plays a part in your tricks. It could be a giant scorpion creature, known as a Scorpio. Or even a fiery lion known as a Blynx. Or mayhap you dare train the ever dangerous and highly aggressive Dragron! But as your circus arrives in the town of Rakshar, just as you are getting ready for your first show, tragedy strikes! Your dearest friend, Thorin, is found dead! But crowds are already gathering in the big tent. Whatever do you do?!

At this time, Crystal Dawn, the new founder and leader of the Wayfinder Society, and her charge, the ever rambunctious, flower loving, and curious child, Kuai Treewatcher, arrive at the circus. Crystal thought it would be nice to take a break from the hustle and bustle of running the Wayfinder Society to bring the rambunctious girl to the circus. And she's already lost sight of the girl, and she needs help finding her before she gets herself into your usual trouble.

What do you do? You have the murder of your dearest friend to investigate, and now a lost child to find, and on top of it all, the show must go on!

There will not be monster creation rules in the Bestiary.

There will be monster creation rules available fairly shortly thereafter.

I can't reveal more than that without spoiling other stuff we haven't announced yet.

Suffice it to say that we know these rules are very important to people and to their campaigns, and will will get them to you swiftly.

Just not in the Bestiary (mostly because we don't want to have to repeat that information every time we do a monster book, and we don't want the first monster book to be substantially more expensive than the others (because we added extra pages) or contain substantially fewer monsters (because we kept the page count the same).

Thank you. This is exactly the answer I needed, to at least know it will be along SOON, and I wouldn't have to wait forever for it. My table we are wrapping up with our current system this year and, starting in August, will work on converting over the 6 years of homebrew material we have. We will be starting on PF2 officially in March of next year. I, however, hope the monster creation rules are released in time for our planned one shot game to test our conversion rules later this year.

Thank you.

I personally would like it if there were a PDF only subscription. My table we typically only get the CRB physical and PDF for everything else, as it's just more convenient for carrying to the game store every other week.

Will the monster creation rules be included in the first release? I ask because this is absolutely crucial to me for converting my world I've been GM'ing for around 6 years, as my world has entirely unique monsters, and none of the monsters in the bestiary even exist in my world. So I absolutely must have the monster creation rules to be able to convert my world over.

Please tell me it's included.

*is this thing on?*

So, let's talk bloat, release schedule and were are we going with 2PF.

I'd honestly hope that Paizo will adapt a publishing strategy that's more aggressive than D&D 5e BUT less hectic than PF1.

PF1 was supported by no less than five product lines, in order from most crunchy to least: Hardcovers, Player Companions, Campaign Setting books, APs and modules.

There's no denying that 5e is running on a very tame publishing model. Hardcovers happen once per year, and so far most of them were bestiaries. There are no monthly or even bi-monthly product lines. The flip side of this mode is obvious as well, 5e has far fewer player-side content.

Paizo's opportunity is to provide a system which has much more content, both for players and GMs, than 5e has. It's something that I see as one of major selling points of PF2 over 5E.

But Paizo's rate is too fast. The amount of bloat accumulated by PF1 towards the end of its lifecycle was obscene. Some of that bloat was welcome (monsters), some less so (grazillion feats, of which many didn't really matter).

I'd personally prefer for Paizo to adapt a more timid schedule, focus on elements which were popular in PF1 (Witch, Oracle, furry ancestries, aasimar & tielfings) while still putting out more material than 5E.

"But Gorbacz", you'll ask, "Paizo needs to make money!". Well, first of all, these days they have Starfinder, which by all indication is selling really well and sits in a rather secure market niche. Second, the new edition of PFACG is coming next year, so that's another stream of revenue.

I sincerely believe that there's a middle ground which will make us able to play that kitsune Antipaladin of Desna shortly AND not drown us with highly situational feats and racial traits which you can barely keep track of.

5e's release schedule, in all honesty is exactly why i hate it and can't stand it. I hate the amount of player options i see in 5e, it is so. . . Boring and pale. And they exacerbate the problem by taking such a timid, scared stance with feats. There's 100 times more feats in just the FantasyCraft or Pathfinder 1e CRB than in ALL 5e player supplement+PHB put together. That's garbage.

And one of my players agrees with me. Honestly i see absolutely no problem with a similar release schedule for 2e as they have with 1e. In fact i hope to see that. If they take even a similar path as 5e, i'll pass. 40+ books after 10 years? So what, more player options. I don't think that's a bad thing. Actually the opposite. That's a great thing. Bring it on.

So we had our first 2 sessions through the Playtest, and it was fun for the most part, however there were a few problem areas.

We took 2 sessions to run through In Pale Mountain's Shadow. They all had a lot of fun, especially with roleplay and with combat. The combat was their favourite part. I don't think they enjoyed the hazards very much, of course, I, being new to this, probably messed them up in a few ways.

Now I decided that, rather than having them come to the forums and post their impressions themselves, since there really isn't a general open survey right now, I decided to write out a questionare and wrote down their answers to these questions I asked. Here are their answers.

The first question I asked was what was their most and least favourite parts of the game. Their most favourite parts were all the fun things they were able to do within the rules, like the grappling. One player used this to wrestle the water elemental and that was fun. They also enjoyed the roleplay, but that's outside the system of the game.

Now their least favourite part, and their biggest problems with the system thus far was resting. After the fight with Zakhav and his minions before the door to the tomb, they were pretty heavily banged up, and definitely not prepared for the elementals at all. And after reading through the resting rules we discovered that they would have had to rest for multiple days in a row in order to be anywhere close to full, and being under that time limit, it definitely wasn't feasible.

Their other issue was with something one of my players found while reading the book at the table. The spellcasting rules, particularly between spell slots and spell points, was too confusing and took him half an hour to an hour to even explain at the table. More complicated than it needs to be, was his take on it.

They also would like to see crafting expanded. Currently we play FantasyCraft and one of the things they like most in that game is being able to customize gear and add different traits to it and such. We could not find a way of doing this in the playtest. I'm assuming this is planned probably for the final release?

Now with the negatives out of the way. The parts of the system they like the most and would like to see go to print as is, would be the combat and the skills system. It felt more fun and more streamlined to them, than even they're used to from FantasyCraft (we've been playing FantasyCraft for 5 years now). So big props on that. Death and dying, we only had one character downed, and he got to Dying 3 before the Goblin Alchemist dumped a potion down his throat lol (the roleplay there was pretty fun. The Goblin seems to be the most fun to play from what I've seen).

Over all, on a scale from 1 to 10, their ratings for this adventure was about a 6.

So that's our take so far. This is our first run with the playtest, and we'll be starting Chapter 3 next week. So I will post here again once we complete that one and we'll see if their impressions change at all.

Thank you,
GM Seth

This is one of the biggest complaints i heard at my table when we started the playtest last week. My players weren't happy with this change.

...Reacting to the other news,

Witches:
"Yes, Please" to seeing Witches soon. I think there could be some awesome design space with Witches - I can easily see Hexes being adapted to the Powers system, but I could just as easily see Hexes being all Cantrips that raise in power, with "bolstered" applied on a successful save.

Prehensile Hair Class feats for the win! :)

Ancestries:
I'm middle of the road on them, myself. The feats were fine to me, but they weren't very exciting, either, and a lot of people seem to see them as too restrictive, so if they change, I wouldn't be surprised.

Monster Rules:
I REALLY, REALLY wish they had included those in the Bestiary - after all, they weren't printing a version of the Bestiary anyway, so space from the extra 10 or 20 pages needed wasn't a huge concern, I would have thought. Plus, it would really extend the life on the playtest well past December or so to be able to create monsters on the fly with the same math. Then again, I'm pretty sure clever posters will reverse-engineer it using the existing monsters, if they haven't already. :)

I'm kinda at the point where I'm relying on people to reverse engineer the monster building rules with the final release if they don't have it there at launch. As I said earlier, it's an absolute must have for me. Without it, just won't work period.

I SEVERELY hope the monster making rules are SOMEWHERE AT LAUNCH. And not released in some supplement later on. It is an ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE for me. My home brew world does not use ANY monsters from the bestiary, instead has its own entirely unique bestiary. So I must have some way to convert over all of my monsters from my current campaigns. I will be severely disappointed if its not there at launch.

Honestly, I agree with all of the points in the OP. I hate alignment personally, and have never ever once enforced or used it, and never will. Even when my groups switch from FantasyCraft to PF2, I will NEVER use alignment. I think it's stupid and extremely constraining to story and character roleplay. I would not miss it at all if it were removed.

Sooo. . . maybe Paizo should offer both styles.

Honestly do not understand the complaints about the landscape format. I love the landscape format, and always wanted one in my current system but could never get one done. Landscape is definitely my preference by far.

Will there be updated versions of the playtest documents posted somewhere ? For exemple, if you find out that one particular element of the game needs reworking, will you modify the documents and make them public so we can playtest them ? Or will there be only one version of the playtest documents and we will need to wait the official release of PF2 to have the playtest books updated ?

They said on the twitch stream today there will be an erratta document that will be continuously updated.

I hope I won't have to house rule the four I listed off. Lol it will help if I will be able to use them as is.

I know, and when the final version comes I will have to house rule them anyway, as I said. My setting has a large number of unique races with no equivalents in the book. Like literally the only ones equivelent to ones in my setting are humans, dwarves, halflings, and elves. I have 12 more races I will need to convert over. Lol that will be fun.

Aloha.

My group and I currently do not play PF1, nor have we ever really. Our current system is FantasyCraft. However, for the better recruitment opportunities (with better brand recognition), and better support, my group has voted to switch to PF2 when it releases.

One of my players, who is our resident min-maxer, and always finds ways to break the system (he's broken FC is numerous ways, it's ridiculous). He took a close look at the Playtest PDF, and these are his thoughts as he told me.

He likes the bulk of it. He likes the classes, the feats, and the system. The main problem point he had was with the Ancestries.

As he explained, to him all the ancestries felt too "samey", aside from the Ancestry feats, and need a major revision.

Now when we switch, the Ancestries is one part we'll be houseruling anyway, since my setting uses a large number of unique races. But I wanted to pass along my players' feedback. I will be talking to my players about participating in the playtest, if we can find the time in the midst of our main campaign. If I get any further feedback from my players, I'll post it here.

Thank you,
GM Seth