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Excited to look over these!!! The flavor of these new releases has been so fun.

It looks like the Demiplane link redirects to the Paizo home page.

There’s a thread I made in the 5e forum, where this belongs. Paizo has nothing to do with this project.

If you have a moment, would you be willing to link the thread? I'd be interested to hear what people think about it.

And my watch has ended! Time to consider calling out of work to read it just a little too seriously.

Book of Juderonomy wrote:

Question: how much does updating a payment method affect a subscription? I had to update my card information since it was out of date and I'm wondering how what that's going to do re: Dark Archive.

I dont have a huge amount of experience with this. But from the couple of times it happened it was glitch free and invisible.

I know that there CAN be issues if the address paizo has for you doesnt match the address your bank has exactly so theres potentially a risk there. Id definitely recommending checking the address details your bank has for your new payment method and ensuring its identical to the one on file with paizo (down to punctuation and capitalization).

Thank you for the reply! I updated my payment method and bought the 2nd book of OoA to make sure it worked (and definitely for no other reason like the fact I horde APs I don't have time to run yet) and the payment went through fine, so fingers crossed everything is in order now.

Let’s hope the Warehouse Team are given the green light nice and early so these orders start their journeys

Doing my part to help them get everything sent off quickly by constantly refreshing my inbox for the shipping notification. :D

Is saying "and now my watch begins" a thing for subscriptions? That's so fun, I love that. Anyways my watch began last Friday.

Book of Juderonomy wrote:

I think I most agree with Errenor and Vali's takes on the subject. The Precious trait seems to be for guidance in the crafting system of P2E rather than intended for any kind of combat application and, as Vali says, is a bit of a red herring for this topic. There was an early on suggestion to treat the spell as a conjuration effect which is most likely going to be the easiest solution for a table that isn't interested in getting down to the nitty-gritty on the matter; past that I would say GM gets to decide for their own table (including PFS as there are many times a GM has to make a ruling and stick with it there of course) as the RAW vs. RAI conversation can get, as evidenced here, lengthy.

The only thing that bothers me about the conjuration aspect is of course the lack of needing anything. Now the character never has to worry about something to drop, or something laying around the spell is always ready to go.

Oh, for sure, but it's also quick fix that simplifies a lot of questions about what TKP can and can't be used for so, given that TKP is a cantrip that does cantrip amounts of damage, it's not untenable. It's not ideal but it's unlikely to break the game if your GM decides they never want to think about TKP ever again after reading through this thread and would rather gloss over it.

Editing to add: since this thread seems to be a spinoff of the golem antimagic thread, I will say one definite benefit of treating this spell as a conjuration effect is that the question of whether or not it would be canceled out by antimagic is a lot more obvious.

...I do not believe that the intent of the ability is that it should ONLY apply to traps and nothing else....

...I'm afraid it would not work at all given that, first off, it's a creature and ability and NOT a trap plus the fact that the ability notes that the Implant Core function represents "melding seamlessly and changing its visual appearance to match the surrounding rock" which, to me, means that there is no discernable visual difference whatsoever with the rock/stone it's implanted into at all with the possible exception of if the PC is using Detect Magic...

I certainly see where you're coming from and agree Stonecunning can be useful outside of mechanical traps but I disagree that, given the GM ruling that it has broader applications, it wouldn't be useful for locating the core. The grikkitog and it's core are both described as "melding seamlessly and changing its visual appearance to match the surrounding rock," which is considered an Impersonation ability. The ability explicitly gives PCs the option to use their Perception vs the grikkitog's Deception skill to locate it. Since that involves differentiating it from the surrounding stone, I personally think there's an argument to be made for getting the bonus to Stonecunning, especially since even if it's ruled there's no way to tell where a grikkitog and/or it's core is by sight there's nothing limiting Stonecunning to visual checks only AFAIK.

I can see this being added into the Spell Trickster archetype eventually, but as it stands it's a no go for reasons that have already been laid out pretty well.

I'd allow it for detecting anything out of place in natural stone and stone-works. So, I would give a bonus to detect hidden grikkitogs and piercers, to identifying the presence (and weaknesses) of caryatid columns, stone golems, and other forms of animated stone, hidden cobble mites, as well as mundane things like rotten stone, falling stone traps, clues as to where an ancient cave collapse originated, etc.

Hm. I can see being able to find creatures mimicking stonework easier but I'm not sure I'd agree with you being able to identify weaknesses on them more easily (I'm assuming what you meant here was a RK check to identify resistances and weaknesses?). For me I see it as being able to use your expertise with actual stonework to be able to identify more easily when something...isn't actual stonework but that wouldn't necessarily give you insight into the creature itself.