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Shipping emails have started this morning. 119.21 MB for the single file download.

Shipment has started. Got my PDF for the AP volume, though it does zip up at 217 MB. A little large for the AP volume standards.

Today is the day for some of us. Just not the single file version of the AP volume. Zipping at 235 bytes in size. The Tian Xia Guide is good, though.

You had me at "Deicide".

Kvantum wrote:

Got my PDF, but is there a reason it's 350MB in size?

Also curious numbering for the book, being PZO13001. Are we getting a revised Campaign Core book as PZO13000?

Since around 2021 I wanna say, file sizes have been balooningi n size compared to how they used to look. Rage of Elements included an attempt at fixing that, but somehow it just ended up super low-res while still barely being the size they ued to be.

The PDF for Mwangi Expanse is only half the size of this one and that was the previous largest one I've got, even being a Superscriber.

The subscriber PDFs have started filtering out as of about an hour ago.

Got my PDF, but is there a reason it's 350MB in size?

Also curious numbering for the book, being PZO13001. Are we getting a revised Campaign Core book as PZO13000?

Has shipping started?

It started today. Got mine about an hour ago.

I am very excited for this adventure path and keen to read the section on continuing the campaign beyond the AP. I am really hoping they do more adventures for Tian Xia. It would be great if Paizo's market was large enough they could support multiple AP lines for different parts of Golarion or even more one off adventures in different parts of Golarion outside of the Inner Sea, Garund and Avistan regions. I like those regions but there is so much variety to explore on Golarion and so little AP bandwidth to do it.

Not likely to happen. History has shown again and again what happens when RPGs try to support multiple campaign settings, or even multiple regions within those campaign settings at once.

Those are called "out of print" or "dead" RPGs. 2e AD&D, the various iterations of World of Darkness, etc.

I'm right there with you wishing it could be supported, but it's just not viable. Heck, I'd still be buying Dark Sun, Planescape, and Al-Qadim if they got support.

The downloads for the new AP volume (197, Let the Leaves Fall) are doing that thing again where they fail personalization (both single file and one file per chapter) and end up showing a file size of only a couple of hundred bytes. The Core book PDFs, though, thankfully are personalizing and downloading fine now.

MrVauxs wrote:

Leahcim wrote:

What I don't understand is the need to increase the prices of digital products already available. Could you explain that further?

"Paizo is not immune to economic factors like inflation, nor industry-wide fluctuations in cost-of-goods, labor, or shipping and logistics, and we must periodically adjust our prices to reflect rising costs"

That explains the increase in digital and print products going forward, which I completely understand.

What that doesn't explain is why the prices of digital products whose production was already completed, in many cases years ago, are also increasing. I'm a developer who works on programs that serve up newly created digital data and also supply old data to customers, which no longer has the production costs associated. I am aware of the difference in costs to support those two types of operations. There is more to that decision than what is being presented in this blog. That's what I am hoping to learn with my question.

Hosting and IT labor costs can explain it. If it takes 5 seconds of an IT staff member's day to make sure your PDF hosting server is up and running for every PDF sold, and Paizo has to pay X+20% to keep a competitive salary for their IT staff while it used to just be X, that +20% is going to be passed on, even if it's just 0.6 cents' worth of an IT staff member's time instead of 0.5 cents' worth.

Shipping emails have started to go out, but the PDF download for Heavy is the Crown is coming out to only 215 bytes after personalization.

Is anybody able to actually download Mantle of Gold? I got my Rage of Elements file without issue, but both the single file and file per chapter options for the AP volume are coming out of personalization as a few hundred bytes.

Think I've still got mine. Never dropped my subs even if I was not the biggest fan of 2e in its first year or so. (It's grown on me.)

Hi,

I have a fairly powerful desktop (5950x + 64GB Ram) and it seems like if I have more than 2 Paizo PDFs (i.e. PF2 CRB PDF, and then a module) I keep getting out of memory crashes with Adobe Acrobat DC. (I have the big Adobe creative suite subscription).

Foxit / Slim PDF the text looks all blurry too, so I really would like to keep using Acrobat DC (and especially since I spend so much on the subscription for it) but if there's another free App that displays on HiDPI displays just fine, I could use those for reading these PDFs.

Any help / advice is appreciated. Thanks!

I'm curious as to why you have blurry text issues in Foxit. It's what I use for my PDFs and I don't have any problems. 1440p 49" doublewide monitor, same CPU and RAM. Are you running a 4k panel, 5k, or what? Also, what OS version and are you using any text scaling?

I've been able to get my AP volume PDF as well now. Thanks for getting that sorted out.

Got my Book of the Dead PDF, but I did *not* get my PDF for the new AP volume. Not sure what's going on there.

PDFs are starting to go out now. The section on the deities was probably the most interesting to me.

Are the original rules there with the 1e bestiary?

Been on AoN for years now. https://aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?Name=Kingdoms%20and%20War&Category=Option al%20Rule%20Systems

Only way I got things to sync was to manually remove the spaces from my Paizo sync code and then enter it into Demiplane (i.e., "ABCD EFGH US" should be entered as "ABCDEFGHUS".)

PDFs are going out now. There's some rather interesting high-level magical items.

Kvantum wrote:

Got my shipping emails, but the file sizes for the 3 AP volumes and Mwangi Expanse are about 4 times as big as normal, almost 200 MB each. Are we getting higher quality PDFs now?

Last month when I downloaded the Galaxy Exploration Manual for the first time, it had both the Single File and One File per Chapter versions bundled in a single zip file.

It was fixed the next time I downloaded, so maybe this is the case now?

Nope. I grabbed the Single File downloads and they came out 176 MB for Mwangi, 121 for Despair on Danger Island, 151 for Ready? Fight!, and 170 for King of the Mountain. That's not including the interactive maps for the 3 AP volumes.

Got my shipping emails, but the file sizes for the 3 AP volumes and Mwangi Expanse are about 4 times as big as normal, almost 200 MB each. Are we getting higher quality PDFs now?

Just let me know where and when I can preorder the 7-pack.

Also Paizo never had any Psionic products.

The old Pathfinder Chronicles: Campaign Setting had a two-page section specifically on psionics, not just psychic or occult magic. No rules material, just fluff on its presence in Castrovel, Vudra, and the Darklands.

As far as I am aware, though, that's the only time psionics has been specifically referenced.

Edit: No, I was wrong. It's mentioned once in Gods and Magic, and then there are even alternative stats for psionic Seugathi in Into the Darklands.

So when do we get the Inquisitor? I worry more about that one than Summoner.

I'm still stuck waiting and I'm just in the US.

I've got my PDF now. We get a new ancestry that were apparently creations of Aroden to keep him company on the Isle of Kortos, and I am not making the following thing up:

I got my physical books today. I'm not even 100% I ever got my shipping notification email.

Anyway, there's quite a bit of interesting stuff here, but 2e still just isn't grabbing me yet. One brief blurb with one power and no new feats for the antipaladin is disappointing. I know, I know, wait for the APG. It might have just been better to skip any info from it here, IMO.

So, when all's said and done, why are they called that? Ailouros is cat in Greek. Guy doesn't really look like a cat imvho.

He's a anthropomorphic red panda (scientific name Ailurus fulgens, family Ailuridae) so the name fits.

It's not technically Versatile Performance that the Evangelist boons of the Deific Obedience feat grants, but rather an ability called Versatile Artist that works like Versatile Performance.

Versatile Artist (Ex): Drawing on Shelyn’s divine inspiration, you can substitute your bonus in a specific Perform skill for your bonus in another related skill, as the versatile performance class feature. Select one type of Perform skill which you can substitute for its associated skills. If you already have the versatile performance class feature when you obtain this boon, choose an additional Perform skill to substitute; you gain a +2 bonus on checks with this additional Perform skill.

That being said, I really don't see how you would read that text as Versatile Artist being anything besides a special version of Versatile Performance for devotees of Shelyn and thus meeting the requirement for the Persuasive Performance feat.

You'd have to be an absurdly literal stickler for the rules to not allow it, IMO.

Just FYI, the Winter Bolt image is shown twice. I'm guessing the second instance is supposed to show off one of the new equipment item statblocks instead.

EDIT: Yeah, second image labels it as "Dreadsmoke Thurible", so it's a mistake.

The image displayed here is wrong, but if you click on the image you get the correct preview.

I would love it if they put it on PlayStation, otherwise I have absolutely no interest in it (nothing against the game or anything, I personally hate playing videogames on a computer is all).

Why? Do you want a controller? Couch play? Nothing about either one of those requires a console. I play on my PC all the time using my PS4 gamepad.

Couch/TV gaming? Output to a TV using HDMI.

Don't want to deal with patching and OS updates? Well, go back to PS2/Xbox OG generation consoles or earlier. Online consoles means online updates.

Face it people, all consoles now are just simplified, specialized PCs.

Got the core PDF's and, to nobodys big surprise I'm sure, I'm not a fan of what made it into the released rules. Some stuff is better, but oh boy. Magic is gutted (especially blasting), the ten minute workday is in full force. I'm personally unhappy that the Paladin was watered down, but I'm sure I'll be pretty alone in that demografic. At least the Sorcerer is not as much of a raging dumpster fire as it was in the playtest. But to see the Alchemist gutted as well, one of the best classes to come out of 1E...

Oh, well. I got all my 1E books to keep me company. You guys have all the fun (and don't be mad at old farts like me who shake their stick at you).

I just hope that the third AP will have a more interesting story premise than the first two of 2E. I still gotta see how the first one converts back to 1E before I really decide if I want to keep up the suscription.

I wish I could disagree with you. I really do. Save me a table in whichever 1e old farts retirement home you're in, I'll be along shortly.

Just so we can move beyond all of the unit conversion math:

-80 F -> -62 C
Incredible Cold is anything less than -62 C.
-20 F -> -30 C
Extreme Cold is between -30 and -62 C.
12 F -> -11 C
Severe Cold is between -11 and -30 C.
32 F -> 0 C
Mild Cold is between 0 and -11 C.
94 F -> 34 C
Normal temperatures are between 0 and 34 C.
104 F -> 40 C
Mild heat is between 34 and 40 C.
114 F -> 46 C
Severe heat is between 40 and 46 C.
140 F -> 60 C
Extreme heat is between 46 and 60 C.

Incredible heat is anything above 60 C.

Warped Savant wrote:

Jason Nelson wrote:

The 1E Bestiary also will include updated versions of characters that already existed in the original KM AP, but were only using Core Rulebook rules. So the Old Beldame will likely be restatted as a witch, Baron Drelev as a swashbuckler, and so on. Equipment might likewise be tailored to incorporate new magic items from Ultimate Equipment and later books. Exactly how many NPCs will get those kind of updates is yet to be determined, but there will be a fair amount of them.

That is awesome to see and might convince me to get the 1E Bestiary to go with my original soft covers.

Changing Irovetti to a Magus or something would also be amazing!

When I ran Kingmaker in my home game, I restatted him as a single-classed bard with the Arcane Duelist archetype. He was quite a holy terror for the PCs but they finally put him down.

Pretty sure I posted the stats here at Paizo.com, though I have no idea where. You could probably find it if you search "Jason Nelson Irovetti Arcane Duelist."

It took more searching than you might think, but I found it here.

So does this mean that a 20th level alchemist can get two grand discoveries at that level? Or is grand discovery a default alchemist capstone that can be swapped out for something else?

You just get another new option to pick from as a Grand Discovery.

Do the Rogue/Cavalier/Paladin capstones support Ninja/Samurai/Antipaladin or are they forced to go with a generic one?

Is the wizard capstone nearly as cool as their current option of Immortality?

Ninja, Samurai, and Antipaladin all get their own, unique options for Capstones.

The new Wizard capstone is useful in gameplay, but nowhere near as flavorful.

Wish there was an option at the Ruler level to just receive the standard book instead of the faux leather.

So how do you choose add-ons after you've purchased your original reward level?

I went with the General (may go with Ruler, depending on what it ends up getting), but I do want to add on the Noble Manor flip-mat right now. I already paid for my reward level the other day and now trying to add the Noble Manor flip-mat but it won't allow me to do so.

Go into My Account at the top right of the page, and then My Order. You can change and upgrade, as well as add on other things.

Welp, the Legendary Games email was enough to get me in for PDFs and a physical copy of the 1e Bestiary.

One last hurrah for 1e, then.

First off I’m blind. I’d love to pledge for this project, but every time I click on either KingmakerCampaign.com. or the Make your pledge on Game On Tabletop! Links I get a bunch of garbled speech. I use speech reading software. I’ve had someone look at the screen and it is all in English, so I don’t know where the problem lies. Just thought someone should know.

Valantrix1, what speech reader program are you using, and what browser are you viewing it with? (Just trying to gather more technical information so they can update the code for the site, if indeed it is a coding issue on their end.)

I've gotten my PDF. The bloodlines are, sadly, only for either Bloodragers (Medusa, Sphinx), or Sorcerers (Phoenix, Unicorn).

4 pages of Mythic options for Occult, though the Kineticist options are specifically for Champions and Guardians.

New archetype and aspect for Shifters from Vudra. Vigilante talents from the Mwangi Expanse.

My only question is about us remaining few Charter subscribers. Is that going to carry over into 2e, or will there be a new 2e Charter status?

Just an FYI for non-techies out there, DNS changes can, in some worst-case situations, take up to 72 hours to fully propagate, so you should be checking your spam folders still for another two days. (Ugh. Can we please finally purge all of the old networking gear that doesn't respect TTLs?)

David knott 242 wrote:

I am actually getting the idea that this is a rather nice area to live in, if they only get storms this bad every 50 years or so. I recall them closing down in the past for a day for just a couple of inches of snow. But only the very coldest and snowiest parts of the country would keep going as normal under their most recent conditions.

I think they are also hypothetically in the "ring of fire", but I can't recall the last time I heard about that area being hit by a major earthquake -- and that volcano is down near the southernmost part of the state.

As a resident near by, I can confirm that we are part of the ring of fire, and that we are overdue for "the big one" that could be on par with the earthquake that hit Japan a couple years back.

Earthquakes would be bad. Mt. Rainier erupting would be a lot, lot worse, and it's just southeast of the Seattle metro area. Volcanic lahars (mudslides) could devastate the region. It's overdue as well, with the last minor eruption in 1894.

I've got my PDF, but compared to all of the insanity of an end of AP volume, and one featuring full stats for multiple Runelords, as well as detailing what the aftermath of their return might entail, well, this one is almost an afterthought. Someone will get around to it, surely, but it may be a day or two.

The Tumult Dragon is really just

No issues at all in mine, and that's even with a changed payment card. Hopefully that means everyone's orders should start shipping out on Mon/Tues without a hitch.

Yeah, pfrd.info, archivesofnethys.com, and aonprd.com are all displaying a 403 error page.

Already signed on for MM II. I've got hardbacks of the first three, so why not finish off the set?