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There's a lot of interesting language in that Irrisen society quest description. Steam Powered Railroads incoming to Golarion?

My party is about to start this book, and I'm getting a bit more into the details of upcoming encounters. One thing I noticed was that the myroga "starts off with a salvo of Ley Line Bolts", but that ability doesn't seem to be mentioned on the monster stat block. I assume it was cut for space, and that I should use Ley Line Empowerment followed by Rupture instead. Has anyone else noticed or done something similar in their game?

I recognize one of the creatures on the cover mock-up. If that ends up staying, then mein gotts, what an absolutely amazing final boss that'll end up being.

Has anyone found a Paizo-official/Pathfinder definition of the Caulborn defensive ability "Premonition"?

I find nothing in Bestiary 3, nor the SRD or PRD/AoN. The closest is a 3rd-party spell in the SRD.

After using the monster creation rules to check the creatures reflex save, it looks like they're supposed to have that 3rd party spell permanently applied. +4 from Dex, +6 from a 9 HD outsider, and then +2 from a permanent spell effect.

Really sorry, but I saw the empty file problem had been resolved, so I started downloading the books I ordered yesterday. The first one was fine, but the second book (wrath of the righteous) is still having issues.

I tried downloading both before going to the customer service board, saw there were issues, and stopped trying until I saw the post today that it had been resolved. For the first file, I hit the "problems?" link to refresh the download, and it worked correctly. But I forgot I had tried downloading the second book as well, and tried downloading it directly. Now, no matter how many times I refresh the download, refresh the download page, mark all as downloaded, delete my cookies, and delete the folders from my download menu, it only ever downloads an empty file folder. The download page is showing the correct file size, it just isn't actually downloading anything when I click the link.

Glad I checked here first, before sending in my own ticket. I'll just avoid flooding the queue about an obvious problem and let them deal with it, lol.

Anyone, kid or otherwise, who particularly dislikes bugs is likely to find parts of this AP creepier or grosser than people who don't.

oh god. I've read the mwangi setting book, I saw the sidebar you must be referencing. There's zero chance that this doesn't turn into a "burn it all down" scenario.

Thank you so much for helping! I just got the notification email that the order had been adjusted. Again, sorry to bother, I know you're all busy.

Hello,

I emailed customer service on Feb 28th, and have been waiting and watching the customer service backlog thread. I noticed today that the new update said the customer service inbox was at 0, but I hadn't received a response yet. I'm sorry if I misinterpreted, and am causing issues, but just wanted to double check my email wasn't missed on accident.

I placed an order back in late January or Feb for a deck of the Harrow cards, which was added to my subscription order. I received an email on Feb 4th that my subscription was getting ready to ship out, but no updates since then and I haven't received any of the pdf's either.

A few days ago, I went and looked at the items I had purchased to see if they might be the problem with the shipping, and I found that the deck was permanently out of print, with no option to purchase it on the product page. I think I added it to my cart when browsing the deck products page, but I don't know why my order wasn't flagged when the warehouse got it.

If possible, can I have the harrow deck voided, and then the deluxe harrow deck purchased instead? I realize this will cause a price difference and I'm cool with that, I just want to get the order moving again.

What happened to...?

Funny story. The party sold two of them, but kept the one you mentioned. But because of roleplaying determination by the players (and a refusal to listen when I try to explain that sin and virtue magic are the same thing, just with a different ease of use) they kept trying to revive "virtue magic," and so in book 5, I gave them the option of making a series of checks to make "Virtue Forged Weapons" instead of the normal ones, using different items. They had to make roleplaying justification for the item choices, and one of the ones they used was the one you mentioned. So it got melted into a Charity Sword used by the party cleric.

I decided against this transferring the magic of the original item into the sword, because that would just be mean.

But it also means they'll have to hunt down one of the two they sold, so they'll have 4 items for book 6. I've got Events Happening though, and...

And it's only been a potential issue since the end of book 4. I haven't been trying to force the problem early.

I have a question about a very late game artifact, and how often it can be used.

I'm a bit confused by the wording of magic item use abilities, and how GM's have dealt with this in the past. I can't find anything about situations where

I am thoroughly impressed by this statement. Admission of fault, no deflecting, taking responsibility, and promising up workarounds for players and GM's, and also donating to worthwhile charities. I don't think I've ever seen one as... human and empathic as this come out of any company before. I'm so glad to see that you fulfilled the faith I've built up in this company.

Yqatuba, I think this is exactly what I'm looking for, thank you! My co-worker is familiar with Judaism in general, but not Kabbalah. Partly because Kabbalah is apparently supposed to only be something you start looking at after you turn 40, because you're going to go mad if you don't, due to lack of life experience and preparation. I think that if I can find more sources like this, that might help with some of the concerns she's had, about a great many things, including Lilith (we uh... we talked about that when comparing notes about the new Sabrina show, lol.)

Has there ever been a write up on the design origins of the Qlippoth, in a blog post, forum question, or even at a convention? I've been curious for a while about how they got added to the game as one of the more interesting extraplanar families.

Java Man - I don't think I know the best place to look for those, lol. I saw one last night, but it was in the off topic forum, and it was full of silly questions. I didn't want to intrude with an actual question. Any guidance in the right direction would be appreciated.

edit: nevermind, that thread is apparently the right one. I'll just go ask there then, lol. Thanks!

VoodistMonk - I saw those, but that's speculation from players, as far as I can tell. I was hoping for something a bit more in-depth, with commentary on how they decided on the actual word "qlippoth"; like, was one of the people working on making new creatures Jewish and they came up with the word, or was it something else?

I'm not entirely sure if this is the best place to post this, but I've been wondering lately about the design origins of the Qlippoth. They're one of my favorite extraplanar types, and I've always been curious about how these were made for the system. I can't find any articles on it (at least, on the first five pages of the forum & blog search, and google isn't helping much either.) Has Paizo ever been asked this at a Con, or written any blog posts about it?

Full disclosure, though, yesterday I decided to ask a Jewish co-worker how to actually pronounce the name, and that turned into a discussion on how the name was picked, and the real-world origins, and so on. Which, because of what's going on the the world today, turned into a discussion of other stuff. I'd like to be able to tell her the origins of this whole thing, if only for her own peace of mind.

Hey, so, not sure if this is the proper place to put this, but in my downloads section, I'm showing that the second book of Extinction Curse and the GMG were both uploaded on December 13, 2019.

2 things: First, I drew a map of the sewers for my players, since they wanted to go exploring them. I wanted to have a bit of fun with it though, so I took the image of the Yellow Sign in the book, and overlaid it onto the map, then in another layer traced over it in yellow. It took a while, but I managed to work and rotate it so that each star stelae was over one of the points of the sign. I figured that the original settlement, with ties to Hastur, would have left this relic behind of their worship, and then later on, Count Lowls filled in the rest of the village with new sewer lines in order to hide the original sign. These were drawn in with grey.

What I didn't check, and what my players homed in on, was that the center of the yellow sign when placed like that? Is directly under the Silver Wagon Inn, where the players had been staying the whole book. Well played, map artist, well played.

Second, as the upshot to exploring the sewers, I set off an event I'd had planned for a while. See, early on, I said that the town was full of an unnumbered amount of Nobles, and intimated that they were all arriving for a big party of some kind. So the players all identify the nobles in town as Cultists. They've all been staying in the same inn, and for the most part, they've just been ignoring each other, both sides just saying "meh... we'll get to them later." Players wake up, the nobles are all hung over, or at night the nobles are all carousing and partying. It makes for an interesting dynamic. But after the players dealt with the Fort, I wanted to make sure they knew the nobles were still enemies. So they've been waiting for this day specifically to enact a kidnapping.

Players walked up a service entrance from the large round room in the sewers, into a storage room behind the bar, and directly behind a group of 30 nobles all facing the main doorway. After a lot of grumbling, dirty looks, and awkward chair shifting, the nobles all turned around to face the party, and started off with their kidnapping speech.

Upshot of all this, the party just fled into the sewers, throwing fireballs into the bar room, setting the inn on fire. The cult is now actively working against them, knows the party is in the sewers, and are about to start canvassing the town, sending out all their secret weapons to hunt them down. Should make for a fun experience!

I'm so giddy. I guessed that Mengkare would be involved over a month ago.

I mean... it's not the main point of my post, but here goes: why wouldn't they just stop at "you cast spells like a cleric" if that was the case? They then go on to detail HOW you cast spells like a cleric, because they needed to specify it in the feat itself.

Also, any further comments about the actual things I wrote on the feat this thread is about? Like, can a wizard borrow color spray from a bard's occult spell book?

Unless you've multiclassed to get the ability to cast those spells, in which case you've just found a way to expand your spell list without taking further feats. In the CRB, that is, since bard isn't a multiclass option yet.

Also, if the spell is on more than one spell list, like Color Spray. Does this let you take Color Spray from an Occult Bard Spellbook? Or does it need to be an Arcane Spellbook that you borrow from?

Also, looking at the first multiclassing feat, Cleric Dedication:

CLERIC DEDICATION FEAT 2

Prerequisites Wisdom 16, trained in Religion
You cast spells like a cleric. You gain access to
the Cast a Spell activity and the Material Casting,
Somatic Casting, and Verbal Casting actions. You can prepare two
cantrips each day from the divine spell list or any other cantrips
you learn or discover. You’re trained in spell rolls and spell DCs
for casting divine spells and in attacks you make with divine
spells. Your key spellcasting ability for these spells is Wisdom.
You can use wands, scrolls, and staves, but only for spells of a
spell level that you can cast. Religion is a signature skill for you.

Gaining access to the Cast A Spell activity and the casting actions, aren't explicitly tied to casting Divine spells.

BORROW AN ARCANE SPELL

If you’re an arcane spellcaster who prepares spells, during your daily preparations, you can attempt to prepare a spell from someone else’s spellbook. The GM sets the DC for the check (see Table 4–2 on page 146).
Success You prepare the borrowed spell as part of your normal spell preparation.
Failure You fail to prepare the spell, but the spell slot remains available for you to prepare a different spell. You can’t try to prepare this spell until the next time you prepare spells.

I noticed what I'm hoping is a flaw with this skill use, under Arcana Trained Activities. The name of the skill use does use "Arcane" in it, but the actual skill itself doesn't indicate that the spell you're trying to borrow or the spellbook that it's from needs to be arcane, and it also doesn't say that the spell you're borrowing needs to be on your spell list. As far as I can tell, the only broken use for this means that you can try to borrow a Bard's Occult spell, from their class feat that gives them a spellbook, but I thought it worth bringing this up.