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Puzzle hunt this year?

Cool!

Will there be lottery events like a normal PaizoCon?

Thanks! That's how I had always interpreted it, and it made me wonder if I had been doing it wrong all this time.

For persistent damage (such as the bleed critical effect), if the damage is listed as a damage die (e.g. 1d6), do you roll that damage once (immediately) and apply the constant value each round, or do you roll the damage each round (so the damage taken is variable)? I had always assumed the latter, but I played with a GM that did the former. The PF2 rules explicitly state that damage dice are re-rolled every round for persistent damage, but I couldn't find such a clarification for Starfinder. Did I miss it?

Thanks! I didn't think to look in the Boons section.

The earlier edition of the guide (early August) gave an extra consumable for wearing a shirt, so it was possible to have up to 3 at the start of the adventure. Getting a +1 bonus to Hero Point rerolls doesn't seem nearly as good, IMO.

The organized play guide for PF2 used to have, under the "retail incentive program", a section describing that if you displayed certain Paizo products (shirts etc.) that you would get an extra consumable item from the Pathfindeer Training section. This was removed and now says (essentially) "coming soon". So is there currently no benefit for wearing a Pathfinder shirt to a PF2 Society game? I looked in a few other parts of the online guide but was unable to find anything. Do the perks at https://paizo.com/organizedplay/perks apply to PF2 now?

Got it, thanks!

Is every character untrained in every (possible) lore skill? (Excluding those lore skills they are specifically trained in, of course...)

There are a bunch of them here:

https://www.offworlddesigns.com/search.php?search_query=pathfinder

Thanks, but I don't see any specific to 2E there, unless I missed something.

Two designs were available at GenCon, but I don't see either on the website yet. Both were solid black with a logo. One was the new PF2e logo (the one on the cover of the new CRB), the other the PFS 2e logo (seen at http://www.organizedplayfoundation.org/encyclopedia/pfs2guide/.

Excellent, thanks! Hopefully these are just around the corner.

My book arrived slightly warped, but that seems to have gone away since I store it flat with a few heavy books on top of it. But I haven't had any binding issues, and I've opened the book many times, and taken it places in a pack with probably not-so-gentle handling.

If you take your book to B&N and show them the damage, they might exchange it for a new copy; that's probably the fastest way to get a replacement (assuming they have more in stock).

Hello Paizo; will you be releasing any Pathfinder Second Edition shirts in the near future? My son and I both need new PF shirts and we'd prefer some new designs for 2E.

Thanks! :-)

Page 544 under "Splash Trait":

"If an attack with a splash weapon fails, succeeds, or critically succeeds, all creatures within 5 feet of the target (including the target) take the listed splash damage. On a failure (but not a critical failure), the target of the attack still takes the splash damage."

As written, the second sentence is redundant. But I think the error is actually with the first sentence, which should probably read, "If an attack with a splash weapon succeeds, or critically succeeds ..." (removing the fail case). This interpretation is supported by the example in the paragraph just below that one.

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Page 535 in the "Notable Item Traits" sidebar, under "Consumable":

"Consumable items include alchemical items (Page 543) as well as ammunition oils, potions, scrolls, snares, talismans, and other magical consumables ..." There should be a comma between "ammunition" and "oils".

It's always worked for me, but I probably have a different printer than you do; sorry. :-(

On the Mac I find that to get the "Two Sided" checkbox I often have to click the "Printer..." button (usually located near the bottom left of the print dialog box), which brings up a second print dialog box that has the option available. Check it and click "Print" (which won't actually start the print job, it'll just save the setting), and then it will work.

Thanks for clearing that up for me folks!

azjauthor wrote:

It seems like, if you have Crafting trained, spending that Downtime on crafting would be a much better use of time. If you spend 8 days, an Earn Income success at Level 1 is only 0.4 gp. Spending it on crafting saves you 0.8 gp if you do it all in a single 8-day block (and more if you devote more downtime). Much better than SFS, where crafting with Downtime provides little benefit, and certainly no cost benefit.

Remember that crafting your own equipment has a 4 day cold start. (Pg 244).

I was under the impression that after those 4 days you will have crafted the item at half the cost, and every day after that would reduce the cost by some amount (I don't have the CRB with me now to quote specifics, unfortunately). So in an 8 day period, you can craft 2 items at half price. Is this not correct?

Thank you for all of your hard work on our behalf, Jared.

Fall of Plaguestone, page 5:

(I don't think this is much of a spoiler, but putting in in a spoiler tag just in case.)

Also from here:

"Crafting: Some characters may choose to spend their time Crafting a piece of equipment. This works as described on pages 503–504 the Core Rulebook."

Crafting is described on pages 244-245 of the CRB.

(Still not sure how best to report issues, so just dropping them here; please let me know if there is a better way.)

Typo in the this section:

"The Task Level of you Earn Income check ...", should be "your Earn Income check".

P. 499 near the top: "Don't do this if it's absolutely clear another check matters more sense than perception ..." -- I think this should be "makes more sense than".

Forgive me if it's been said elsewhere, but I am curious as to where the art is from (and, by extension, where the pieces of art tied to the upcoming fictions are from). Do we know?

Perhaps Alien Archive 3?

I'm not sure where to report things like this, so I'll just post it here: on this page, it lists an "owlbear charm" in Table 2 (Scrolls Items), but I think this is supposed to be an "owlbear claw" (at least, I could not find an owlbear charm).

Grim Ranger wrote:

VestOfHolding: thanks so much for maintaining this list!

This may or may not be an issue: on page 73 under the Mutagenist research field for alchemists, it states, "You can gain the benefit of any mutagen, even if it wasn't specifically brewed for you." I don't see anything that states that mutagens only affect specific individuals (or only the alchemist that created them); did I miss that? If not, then what is the point of this sentence? Is it a mistake, or future-proofing

Feats such as Feral Mutagen give additional benefits when you ingest a Mutagen "you created".

Thanks! That means the sentence I pointed out is not a mistake.

Here.

I try to keep the cards alphabetized. In PF1 and Starfinder they are double-sided, so I just flip one or two of each type over when sorting (PF1 was best since there were 4 of each; Starfinder has only 3 of each so it's less ideal). Not sure if that's possible with the new ones, I don't have them yet.

But it does penalize accuracy. The text states, "This counts as two attacks when calculating your multiple attack penalty."

I'm reading that as a -5 penalty to use it as first attack or a -10 if using as a second attack. Is there some other way to read it?

I think it just means that your next attack will use the multiple attack penalty as if you already took two attacks. So the power attack will be at no penalty, but the next attack will be at -10 (or whatever your penalty is for a third attack).

VestOfHolding: thanks so much for maintaining this list!

This may or may not be an issue: on page 73 under the Mutagenist research field for alchemists, it states, "You can gain the benefit of any mutagen, even if it wasn't specifically brewed for you." I don't see anything that states that mutagens only affect specific individuals (or only the alchemist that created them); did I miss that? If not, then what is the point of this sentence? Is it a mistake, or future-proofing?

I also noticed that on page 544, under "Splash Trait", the example damage for the lesser acid flask doesn't include the 1 point of acid damage that isn't splash or persistent damage (see the main entry under "Acid Flask").

This might be a good starting point for online play. You might also try rpggeek.com, as I think they do play-by-post games.

In the "areas" diagram on page 456, the red dots indicating the sources for lines are off-center.

The definition of "reach" on page 455 is not included in the index/glossary (while the definition of "range" on the same page is). The entry for "reach" in the index only refers to the weapon trait.

Page 17, under "Understanding Actions": "Single Actions" looks washed out compared to the other headings.

To me it looks like power attack doesn't make your attack take a -5 penalty but it means your second attack is getting a -10 (-8 if agile). That makes it way better but I don't know if that's the correct interpretation. I hope someone from Paizo can chime in and tell us.

That's how I read it as well.

Yes, a smiley face helps. :) Hard to determine tone/intent with bare text. Apologies for jumping on you.

IMO they probably shouldn't push out a software update to their website just before a holiday (or weekend) just in case something like this happens. But that's neither here nor there.

I'm going to go ahead and purchase the items in my cart (at full price), as it appears this was all a mistake having to do with subscription pricing getting confused in the system.

I think the only issue is greedy people want to get those sales price back so they can purchase stuff on the cheap. "Hey, how dare you fix the problem, I haven't had a chance to buy at the cheaper, incorrect price!"

This is uncalled for, and rude. The situation was confusing, and the statement by the software developer was somewhat vague. IMO a customer service rep should have commented on this with an official statement, as several customers ran into it.

In general (at least in the US), when a company advertises a price, they often honor that price even if it's a mistake. I'm not saying Paizo should do that in this case, but this is the what Bacchreus is referring to.

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/company-advertising-price-wrong-responsible -mistake-73117.html

I'm not sure if putting an item into your online cart is considered "making an offer".

Again, I'm not saying Paizo should take any action beyond issuing a clarifying statement, but it's reasonable to bring this up, and doesn't make someone "greedy".

Any official word from Paizo on this? Will the sale prices be in effect? I have a couple items in my cart that are waiting on the resolution of this.

Same with PF second edition preorders. Core shows on sale for 50.99, but shows up as 59.99 in cart.

Thanks; glad AoN will have the 2e stats!

I plan to get the Bestiary, just need to figure out how to space out my purchases. Will get the core rulebook and Plaguestone first. Probably get the Bestiary and world guide the following month.

Hi,

Will we be able to play Fall of Plaguestone with just it and the PF2 core rulebook? In other words, are all the monster stat blocks in the adventure book itself? I'm trying to determine if the Bestiary will also be required to play it.

Thanks!

Carl

Will this module be playable with the Core Rulebook alone? Or will one need to purchase the Bestiary to get the necessary monster stat blocks?

I was just coming here to ask this. :-) I'd love to find out as well.

Thank you for running this! We had a great time; such a cool system.

Familiarity with the Pathfinder RPG is probably needed for the back page. Although I suspect the ACG also has many of the terms you would need in it (I've only played it a few times, so I can't say that every single one is there).

Brattany, I'm not sure what you mean by the second part of the story, but I'll give a general hint:

For the bridge puzzle, what does the rule "The bridges only orthogonally" mean? I assumed it meant that the bridges can only be orthogonal, but the rule just below it seems to say that.

So I signed my son and I up for this game, not realizing we had already played it. Rookie mistake. :-(

But my loss is your gain -- if you (and a friend?) didn't get into a game in this time slot (or would prefer to switch to this one; I'd love a trade since we don't have any other games scheduled this day), DM me and we can arrange to meet sometime tomorrow (Friday) so I can give you the tickets. If I don't hear from anyone by ~11AM, I'll leave the tickets on the unused tickets table that afternoon (we won't be arriving until 12:30 or so).

And if you like puzzles, Joe Pasini, Ron Lundeen, and myself will be talking about them in our Solving Puzzles seminar at 4pm on Friday. We'll have some copies of previous puzzle hunts there too!

I've a game at this time and can't make it -- any chance this will be available on Twitch (or Youtube) afterwards? I'd love to see it.

Are you just going to the con, or are you planning on doing other activities while you are here?

Either way, I wouldn't bring a heavy jacket. Springtime in Seattle is unpredictable, it may be 80 degrees one day, 60 the next, and mornings/evenings can be chilly, but it's not going to get really cold. Bring a few layers, maybe a sweatshirt and a rain shell you can wear over it, and you should be good for the con. If you are also planning on doing other outdoor activities, I'd probably bring one more layer just to be safe (though you probably won't need it even then).

Fantastic! We've had a lot of fun with this the last couple years.

Since the release date is so close to PaizoCon, any chance there will be some copies available (either for purchase or perusal) there?

Will there be a puzzle hunt at this year's PaizoCon?