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I held off on posting the following for 24 hours, because I was convinced that I was misunderstanding something fundamental and didn't want to have an emotional knee-jerk reaction without the full picture. If what others are telling me is true, I now feel that it is justified outrage.
Pirate Rob wrote:I'm concerned with new players in the last 9 months who have gotten above level 1, from whom AcP is still a very limited resource who happened to build an alchemist or Oracle as their first character etc.Guess where some of my players fell in this debacle?
Alex Speidel wrote:We made it very clear when we first posted the Remaster Guidelines that characters would not be granted a second rebuild. Players who elected to build characters using classes slated for a remaster should have been aware that they would not be granted a rebuild.
Level 1 characters may still freely rebuild as usual. Higher-level characters will require a purchased rebuild.
After years of trying to get my friends to try out Society, I finally got them to give it a go a short while ago.
Now I'm going to lose them all because of this ridiculousness. I'm going to send you guys the number to our new oracle player and YOU can explain to him the reasoning why he's getting shafted. Said player is pretty influential with the others too. This is going to kill our entire play group! And I'm not going to be the villain that breaks the news to them. If the Society team isn't going to be at all reasonable about this, then they can be the ones to tell them.
Why on earth would Paizo allow free rebuilds for Player Core 1 characters, but not Player Core 2 characters? Absurd!
No matter how much Paizo devs are adamant that they gave amble warning to everyone to use your Remaster rebuilds responsibly, there is a very real danger that they could make a hostile environment at a table which is one of the few things they absolutely must avoid for the health of the community. It is only reasonable every class gets the privilege to have their mechanics preserved in the legacy version. The only decisions which are truly unacceptable are ones which hurt the community and I agree with Ravingdork that this risks that. Alex acknowledges the remaster for Alchemists and Oracles is highly recommended because features will stop working as intended. Paizo is saying clear enough the class will being technically playable but is being broken. Paizo is potentially putting players in a difficult position which might make more toxic table. Even the chance of that must be avoided.