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Simply terrific news. I hope both sides are able to come to an agreement with relative haste and limited acrimony.

I fully support United Paizo Workers and ask Paizo management to voluntarily recognize UPW swiftly

Gentlefolk, start your Scrabbles

I love that each has been mentioned by at least two people (pretty sure at least). There's no overwhelmingly obvious choice, either mechanically or for cool character building.

Going to take a sec and enjoy how rare that is.

https://twitter.com/donatoclassic/status/1431420401465184260?s=20

Hey, big news on the Lost Omens front!

Presenting Lost Omens Knights of Lastwall, a book all about the Knights of Lastwall and their righteous endeavors to do good, destroy undead, and put an end to the machinations of the Whispering Tyrant.

Finally it's the Confectioner's time to shine

Yeah, you can be a single-classed Wizard and pick spells from any tradition in Pathbuilder. The app makes no attempt to validate that. You're just supposed to know what you're allowed to choose from.

Becoming trained in primal DCs and spell attack rolls is pretty much just there to let you use the spell the feat grants and that's it.

That said, maybe just let him tinker with his bloodline spells?

Is there a feat that makes your voice go all intense and crazy while you're inventing? I haven't checked yet.

MADBOY AND MADGIRL SPARKS AHOY

pg 32: I'm going to guess that Dhampir have elongated canines, rather than incisors, unless for some reason Dhampir are generally buck-toothed

The chicken or the egg doesn't actually matter here at all. There's simply no point in reinforcing the trope, consciously or unconsciously. Good riddance.

Today I learned some people don't meticulously track what's stowed in each container for their character. Going to need a moment.

Greater boots of bounding will get you that +10 item bonus

I love Pathbuilder 2 so much. Some people on their phone with the Facething or the Twitweet. Me, I'm figuring out options for building a viable half-orc wizard/fighter.

They said on the stream that the planetouched ones were going to be heritages. They were a bit cagey about whether they would be completely universal, but they're supposed to be available for multiple ancestries at least.

I HAZ THE BOOOOOOKS

Gygax acknowledges the fictional roots of the game's druids right up front in the AD&D PHB:

"Druids can be visualized as medieval cousins of what the ancient Celtic sect of Druids would have become had it survived the Roman conquest."

The class was never meant to closely model historical druids.

They look like a fun group. Maybe don't kill all of 'em, eh Jason?

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Flannigan
ABC: Half-Orc \ Scholar (Arcana) \ Wizard (Universalist)
Weapon: Falchion
Catchphrase: (grim stare)

Studious, focused, and determined. Uses True Strike a lot. Fighter dedication with ancestry weapon specialization. Alchemy dabbler. Skill feats primarily used for alchemy and medicine.

Pretty interested to see how much a non-alchemist can take advantage of mutagens now that they're common.

(please imagine many heart emoji of various colors filling this post instead)

This seems fine and also something I'll probably never use. So sure! Why not.

Failure builds character.

Also we can learn from this. When Paizo is set to release Pathfinder 3, we'll know to lock the doors at the Paizocon banquet and collect all of the cards before anyone is allowed to leave.

@JasonBulmahn

I'm back from Scotland which means tomorrow I will streaming some Kingmaker on Twitch! Join me starting at 4pm PST!

@JasonBulmahn
And no, I won't be spoiling #MyPathfinderSpoiler #85... even if someone spends XP to ask me a question. ;)

We have 7 weeks until release, and 7 meta-regions to explore.

I'd say we're not getting rule blags.

Heck, this is their flagship product. They should be flogging / blogging about it every single day at this point.

Super excited to be getting lizardfolk this early, especially after they were relegated to a footnote in the ARG.

For anyone not quite sure what this is, you can follow along with the hashtag on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23MyPathfin derSpoiler&src=typd

I'd be surprised if there isn't a way to add something to monsters that looks an awful lot like class levels from afar.

Wait, this game is gonna have a Retch action?

(slams preorder button)

Boy, that seems like a heck'n lotta product to unleash all at once.

Good luck, you guys

‏So yesterday I let folks know that with just 5 choices, you could get 42k different characters... To dispel any confusion, I was talking about your choice of ancestry, heritage, background, class, and major class choice!

...

So, a woodland elf leaf druid, who grew up in court would be 1 of the 42k.

As would a razortooth goblin fighter who was raised in the fighting pits.

Hope that helps people see what I was excited about. Just a fun bit of trivia...

Recent tweets from Jason

Goodness sakes this is fantastic. What a terrific app!

Mine downloaded so fast I thought it failed at first. Good job, guys

I didn't know there would be PFS scenarios too. Very cool.

Holy cats, this is happening tomorrow. At around 10 am EDT, someone please take a picture of the smoking crater where Paizo's servers once stood.

BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG
(bangs mace on shield)

Conceptually I like the idea and potential design space for ancestry archetypes. Feels like this implementation needs some refinement, but I like where you're going with it

Seems like a simple, much needed framework, which can be easily discarded or adjusted if a particular table wants to. I like it a lot (presuming it's used in PF2 release and future supplements). Any strenuous objection to this is just baffling to me.

Twitter is my rage totem.

ahem. Anyway, I'm in to this.

I need the book now.

Please give me the book.

bookbookbookbookbookbookbook

I didn't think I could be excited about weapons in a D&D/PF game.

Friends, I am excited about weapons in PF2.

A lot of the things I'm liking about PF2 have already been mentioned. I only wish I had more detail about the system right now.

One thing that I haven't seen yet: It's all still going to be OGL! Thanks Paizo, for keeping the game Open!
(sings a song of OGL)

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINALLY

When I scroll past this title, I usually read it as Ultimate Weirdness. So that book needs to happen now.

I'm kind of bummed that Starfinder isn't using metric, but I'll get over it.

That's a shame. Best to her. At least I'll still get to see her fixing the world one tweet at a time.

Melee boop +2 (1d2-1)

Wow, this is fantastic.

Just wanted to let you know: The stat block header for Devil, Addiction lists "Diction Devil" which was, in fact, the name of my 8th grade English teacher.

How tied to the setting will the ruleset be? Golarion provides a sandbox to explore many, many different fantasy tropes and gives you guys a platform to expand the ruleset in different ways. Will this setting/ruleset similarity enable many different SF tropes?

Want Mutants? Their called Orcs.

Then I need me some orcs with radiation blast, total carapace, and poor dual brain.

1) Holy merciful goodness.
2) My god, it's full of stars.
3) Will there be support for post-apocalypse settings? Clearly this won't be part of the main-stream Starfinder world, but I'd love to see some muties in there.

Guys, I think they're well aware of the slayer issue by now.

No, no, I love this. Let 'em go. I wanna count up all the reports after it's fixed.

Engagement is good! Keep circulating the tapes reporting!