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Dear Paizo Leaders,

I am worried about the future of your marvelous company. I was recently at a convention, the amazing Scarefest in Montreat NC and noticed that v2 playtests were not get people excited and many tables did not make. I am one of the people that are not excited. The players at the PFS tables where talking about how next year will be is the last Scarefest we will be playing PFS v1.

When I got home, I had a package on my doorstep from Paizo with the products from my various Paizo subscriptions. I was excited, but immediately a thought came to mind. "I am not sure if I am going to play v2. I had better cancel my subscriptions after GenCon" What worries me is, I am not alone. This is a thought that many other players are going to have. I may sign up again but not until I am sure I want to play v2.

My question/concern for Paizo as a company is "Are you ready?"

Are you ready and prepared for a potentially significant drop in the number of people who are signed up for subscriptions? Is the year or so it can take for people to decide if they want to play the official v2 release and then start to invest in it going to cause a finical decline you may not recover from?

I hope this is not true and that the answer to the questions is you are ready and prepared. I do not want to see Paizo and Pathfinder disappear.

Let's start with the basics.

Until recently he was the Venture Officer for the Raleigh-Durham area with 5 years of service as a venture officer (2 as a Venture-Lieutenant, 3 as a Venture-Captain).

Michael is an exceptional 5 star GM who goes out of his way to support and help both new and veteran players of Pathfinder and Paizo products. He treats everyone fairly and goes out of his way to make sure everyone is having a good time. Eshleman is welcoming to new players and takes time to explain the rules of the game. He organizes and runs AtomiCon twice a year, AtomiCon Mini twice a year and has worked hard to foster the growth of Pathfinder Society, Card Game and Starfinder in Raleigh NC. He also volunteers at countless conventions all over the place.

Here are some extraordinary things about Michael you probably didn't know:

• GM'ed 650+ Pathfinder Society games (that's almost a 5 star GM 3 times over)
  
• An active member of these Paizo forums where he helps all player with 2,883 posts and climbing (handle: GreySector)
  
• Has been published in numerous 3rd Party resources
  
• Loves organization and spreadsheets and freely shares them. Here is a link to my personal favorite: Flip Mats & Map Packs Used in PFS & SFS Scenarios (yes it is updated frequently)
  

If you want to learn more check out his paizo people profile, look at his posts on the forums.

Please share some of the countless amazing things he has done in this thread. Let's show Paizo and all of the players why he is so important.

If you feel like some who has done all of these amazing things and more is a valuable member of the Pathfinder Society

Sign the petition to get him reinstated

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Hello,

My recent Order # 4745817 includes

Pathfinder Society Scenario #9–14: Down the Verdant Path PDF
Pathfinder Society Scenario #9–15: The Bloodcove Blockade PDF

Neither of these are showing up in my downloads. The big deal about this is I am set to GM both of these scenerios at AtomicCon tomorrow. I have very little time to prep. Anything you can do to get me these PDFs ASAP would be greatly appreciated.

Can wizard with: Alchemical Affinity use a Formula Alembic to copy spells into his spellbook from a potion as long as it is on the Wizard spell list?

Alchemical Affinity: Whenever you cast a spell that appears on both the wizard and alchemist spell lists, you treat your caster level as 1 higher than normal and the save DC of such spells increases by 1. Additionally, **you may copy spells from an alchemist’s formula book into your spellbook just as you could with another wizard’s spellbook.**

Formula Alembic: This magically-augmented alchemical device distills a potion or alchemist extract into the **knowledge needed to create its formula.** By gently heating a potion or extract in the alembic for 1 hour, the device creates a few drops of magical liquid. If consumed by an alchemist, this liquid gives him knowledge of the potion’s or extract’s formula, as if it were an extract he recorded in his formula book. This knowledge lasts for 24 hours. **He may scribe this formula in his formula book in the normal fashion.**

Using the alembic does not harm the potion, but the process makes it nearly boiling hot (it cools normally). The alembic can only distill the knowledge of formulas on the alchemist extract list (for example, it cannot turn a potion of a cleric-only spell into something an alchemist can learn).