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Thanks! The old wording contributed to a lot of cognitive dissonance within me leading to an unnecessary amount of anxiety. I mean, I knew something was a typo or an error and I adjusted but I felt kind of sick that I wasn't following it exactly as written. Similarly, I experienced guilt when I came up with a brilliant improv (if I say so myself) that had no measurable weight on the mechanical gameplay. So, anxiety and guilt will be alleviated. Again, thanks.

This adventure has a trigger warning, which I don't see mentioned. Am I missing something? Thanks.

Regarding the price increase:

When you buy a product from a person who eats eggs and eggs cost more, you should pay more. Lest they starve...

Paizo is pro worker, pro environment, and for f#$% sake, more pro gamer than any other company on the planet.

I can't wait to play with every single one of you...

*Kermit flail*

YAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!

Death to packing peanuts!

Seriously, I hide paizo packing peanuts in my neighbor's trash so the trash guy doesn't know it's me.

Do I get an AcP refund?

I'll have to check with the kids whether we'll participate. We started playing PFS as something the whole family could do at Cons instead of just looking at the cosplayers and going to panels. Once we did that, it was a no brainer to come to PaizoCon. I think it was maybe six years ago.

It was awesome! Every gamemaster had five stars or a campaign coin or was a RVC. Scheduling was difficult. Getting a family of four at all the same tables playing the games we wanted took a lot of coordination, but it was worth it.

I believe our last in person PaizoCon marked the end of first edition. The special was brutal; I swear they wanted to kill all our characters. Our family had been playing the same characters at every Con which brought us to ninth level (the kids and I also had alts but not my wife). There's no ninth level games so we played up at 10-11. We sat at our table and waited. Always before at PaizoCon, we would pull up with our characters that we enjoyed playing and maybe weren't the most powerful and the other two players would be very experienced players with tricked out characters that generally kept us from dying. Not this time; we were on our own, or so it seemed.

We got through the first combat with all our expendables and spells blown and honestly didn't know what to do. That's when the room found out our little family of four was about to get clobbered. There was some sort of way of sending power from one table to another in the form of slips of paper. All of a sudden we couldn't use them fast enough as every single one came to our table over and over again. It really felt like community, so many people helping us, something intangible. For the last combat, the GM just gave up and we just role played with him.

So, physical is important. A bunch of people above said they could never get to PaizoCon but "at least I can drive to GenCon." Hmmph. It would take an Act of Congress to get me to GenCon but at least I used to be able to drive to PaizoCon.

I'm sure last year's Con stressed Paizo out. Organizers have obligations to hotels that may or may not have been waived last year because of the pandemic. SteamCon in Bellevue died because the Con didn't meet the food/bev requirement and couldn't pay the penalty. I would propose, however, that last year could have been organized better. Because of the rollover tickets, I wasn't able to go. Actually, I could have but there was no guarantee that I could get tickets so I made other plans. Without the rollovers, I would say attendance would be higher.

It's probably too late for this year but I hope in person PaicoCon comes back.

Is there a PFS Special this year? And what day/slot?

I can't remember what Con did it - maybe PaizoCon online or online Europe? - but one Con had the option of running tables for specials in person away from the Con. Is that an option here? I realize it's a bit late to ask this but it's an evolving situation.

Thanks!
Chris

Is there a way to transfer tickets? I'd be happy to reimburse people looking for refunds in exchange for a ticket...

I would like to share that I'm somewhat disappointed with this situation. I started my kids on Pathfinder and cons when they were in grade school. Since we live nearby, we made it to multiple paizocons, a highlight for the year, and played some stellar games. It was tough coordinating four people to get in the same games, but we'd all be on our devices as soon as signup was allowed to pull it off.

2020 and the pandemic came and I didn't bother buying tickets. Cons were generally being canceled and those that weren't were almost certain to be superspreader events. However, if you had told me that I wouldn't be able to go to the next in person Con without buying tickets in 2020 (and, if something came up, I could get a refund even), I would have totally slapped my credit card down to get them.

My youngest (now in high school) hates VTT so only my oldest and I did the virtual Cons.

Currently, Paizo is requiring people to "opt out" of their "limited attendance" con. That means, if they do nothing, they have a ticket and Paizo keeps their ticket fees, which is pretty standard because it helps the company. For instance, Starbucks has a zillion dollars in unused gift cards. However, this strategy will not maximize attendance. The simple fact is that there is a significant number of people who won't or can't request a refund. Some don't check the message boards because they've lost interest and/or feel they gave Paizo a donation during the pandemic. Honestly, statistically, some people have passed away. How significant the number of people who aren't coming but hold a ticket is obviously uncertain.

To maximize attendance with the limitations, Paizo should have either required people to "opt in" (making the default a refund) or provide a decision of some sort - email or fill out a form with whether they want a refund or not.

It's not too late. You could ask the people with valid tickets to confirm their planned attendance.

I hate to criticize because, well, I love Paizo and I know huge amounts of people volunteer to make it awesome. But, still.

Blastoff looks up at the Vesk, eyes wide in surprise as if finding a new but promising pupil, before his natural cool reasserts itself. A long drag, a wave of a paw, and the smoke he blows takes on the shape of the Vesk system, each planet represented and correct in size and location. He coughs, contemplating the sight.

Is it a roll (say, mysticism) to know what shimmer stone is, or is it common knowledge or unknown? If Blastoff knows, he says:

Can we get pdfs of the April stuff? I have players ready to play ruby Phoenix next week.

Hi,

My players found Skarja's heartstone on the first session. Any suggestions on how to approach this? I stonewalled until next week.

Interesting thread. I've been playing RPG's since the 80's. I GM'ed the hardback Rise of the Runelords for a couple of years 10 years ago and then quit. It was at a Con that I saw Organized Play. To be honest, I coveted the paper chronicles, the chance to grow my character throughout the wide RL world.

Plus, my kids were old enough to game and, if you've never RPG'ed with 10-year-olds, there's a couple of things they all want:
1. Make their own characters (no pregens)
2. Have that character be portable to other games (they fall in love with their characters and want to play them with other friends).

Under traditional RPG home games, #2 isn't possible. It is, however, through organized play (though a bit complicated).

Anyway, PFS got me hooked on pathfinder. I run or organized a couple of sessions per week and play PFS when I can. Regarding, the income situation for Paizo, I have like 6 subscriptions, double buy the important rulebooks, and have roped a dozen other people into playing and buying.

PFS was the gateway drug. :)

Hi all,

I've been frustrated for months trying to get to the online boons. I have tons of AcP but whenever I try to buy, I push "Choose Character" and there's nothing there. Well, today I figured out how to fix it. I had to register a 2nd edition character. I feel a little dim.

However, if anybody else is having the same problem, here's the solution!

So, everybody knows that orcs in the Mwangi expanse are demon hunters. Any suggestions on a demon hunter build? Also, all the orc gods seem to be evil. Suggestions on deities for said demon hunters?

Thanks.

From what I see by the game report, it appears that an Adventure Path book grants credit equal to 3 tables in terms of earning glyphs. Is this the case?

I searched the forums and couldn't find an answer to this question. I apologize if it's been answered elsewhere.

I missed 3-6, barely got 1-2. Bummed. Any chance they'll add more tables?

Is there something somewhere explaining Pathfinder Bounties?

While I was excited for a campaign set entirely in Absalom, I knew none of my players would want to be cops, and I didn't really want to GM a group of cops, either. I'm heartened to hear those elements can be easily replaced, and that the option to do so is receiving support through the Player's Guide.

I actually asked my players and they said they were completely and utterly uninterested in the concept. Maybe I can sell them on the "police free" version. We'll see.

"We’ve also got one final announcement: the sanctioning for the Age of Ashes Adventure Path is now available! You can find the instructions on earning credit for the Pathfinder Society as well as chronicle sheets on the Age of Ashes product page."

*Kermit flail* AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I'm so happy!

Sanctioning. Yay!

Any idea of Age of Ashes is going to be sanctioned at some point? If so, any ideas when that might be?

Thanks!

PaizoCon is listed as May 26-31, but I find on Warhorn that games stop at 8am on May 30.

Am I doing it right?

Thanks!

I'm curious about the change in dates. I had PaizoCon time taken off from work basically as soon as they mentioned the dates. I can't take that whole week off, especially considering the backlog I'll have after the epidemic.

My kids may be able to do that time and they're certainly tired of being at home, so maybe it will work better for them.

Once again, curious not complaining.

And, if you wanted to speak to times for gaming I would love to hear it.

Take care!
Chris

Very Sad. Our whole family is crying.

When Norwescon was canceled, they addressed what would happen with room block reservations. I can't recall off hand if I paid a deposit.

Can you speak to that?

Thank you.

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Was one of the books that is on its way to be formatted "Age of Ashes?"

Has Age of Ashes been sanctioned yet? Or are we still waiting?

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Alas my Tien fighter still has to waste an ancestry feat to use a katana. At least he's human. If he's any other ancestry, he's out of luck.

At the moment, your Tien fighter can't get a katana, regardless of race. As far as I know, there's no published source that says "the katana is a common weapon in the Tien culture."

Well, at least as far as Katana goes, there is now a published, legal source that gives access to it.

What source?

Ok, i've been trying to figure out the benefits of crafting. As far as I've seen there's none. You get the same money from earning income as you would crafting something but instead of having the money it just goes towards the item. Wouldn't you get it just as quick by saving and buying it as crafting it?

Earn income is done at level-2 (minimum 0), while crafting is done at level.

Plus it's cool to make stuff.

Plaguestone now has a "sanction by" date? How about this fine product?

*scratches head*

Why half? Wouldn't it give 1?

I think faction tags give an extra 50% or something.

So, I want to build an animal instinct barbarian - ape. I get increased unarmed damage and "grapple." How does allowing my fist attacks to grapple help me in any way? I can already grapple. The weapon qualifier for grapple doesn't really help because I'm unarmed.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

OMG! Super helpful!

There's a couple things I plan on reminding people about upfront, but otherwise, I like the idea of talking about new rules as they come up in gameplay. Letting people pick factions after they get a chance to meet all the faction leaders is another good idea.

What do you remind people upfront.

Doing this next week.

I can't find the XP reward. Can I get a page #? I assume it's 4, but...

I have six subscriptions and received all of my rulebooks and AP volumes this morning but didn't get these new PFS scenarios that were released. I thought that having six subscriptions meant you got the PFS and SFS scenarios free?

I have enough for free PFS scenarios and have that checked on my subscription page. I also do not have these yet.

Any idea when they'll drop?

Thanks!

Will more PFS games open between now and the Con?

We were at DragonCon last year and binge-played PFS. So we decided to do the same at Paizo. We're extremely local but will stay in the hotel to avoid stupid traffic.

We is our family of four, including 13 and 10-year-olds.

How do we make certain we're doing stuff together, regarding lotteries, banquet, etc?

Thanks!