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I just finished running a Kingmaker game using the 5E conversion Paizo put out for the anniversary edition. I loved it, and the book really sold me on Golarion as a setting and inspired me to switch to Pathfinder 2E for the next campaign.

This is wonderful to hear. This is the exact reason we have provided support for both Kingmaker and Abomination Vaults for 5E players. Glad to hear you liked the world enough to give the full game a try.

It seems like you've got the gist of it, yes.

Basically, you can use the rules of the game(s) but none of the setting material (including the Pact Worlds, the Drift, the Gap, etc.) under the OGL for Starfinder First Edition or the ORC for Starfinder Second Edition. You can't release something under both.

If you want to use the setting material in your product, you can do so in conjunction with the OGL/ORC so long as it's a non-commercial product and you adhere to the terms of the Community Use Policy.

Alternatively, you can forego using the OGL/ORC and just use the Starfinder Infinite license, but that does mean you have to be careful about first edition material that might be derivitive of the OGL. Safest bet is to make it a second edition product.

In the first two cases, you can use the Starfinder Compatibility logo for the appropriate edition of the game, if you so choose. Doing so grants you limited rights to use our trademarks, but not the rules, so you'd still need the OGL/ORC (and Community Use Policy if you kept the setting material in the product). You can't use both the Infinite and Compatiblity licenses.

Hope that helps, but as I said, I think you understood it pretty well before I "helped."

For that matter, am I off-base or is one of the packs intended for PF1E? Or am I just getting the two games' Advanced Player's Guides mixed up?

The only class-specific character sheets for the classes that originally appeared in the second edition Advanced Player's Guide but are now in either Player Core or Player Core 2 are in the APG character folio, so that's why it's included. We didn't want witch or investigator players who got the remastered core books not to have the custom character sheets (despite the existing character folios not being remastered).

I pre-ordered with Indigo in Canada and my order was delayed indefinitely.

Any estimate as to when we can expect stock to be ready?

Indigo and other book retailers used to get Paizo product from Diamond Book Distributors. We warned back in early July that Diamond didn't have any stock of our new and forthcoming releases, and that such titles would be unavailable in most book stores as a result. If you want a physical copy of Era of the Eclipse, you'll need to order it from a game store who we supply through hobby distributors or from Paizo directly. It won't be in brick & mortar or online book retailers for the foreseeable future.

Alternatively, you can buy the ebook or audiobook now, as those are distributed independently from the physical product that is tied up in the Diamond bankruptcy.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

All Iconic Heroes receive a "Meet the Iconics" blog that includes their art. Since all art from Paizo Blogs is included for use under the Community Use Policy, you can use those illustrations under the terms of the policy.

Thanks for that list, Brinebeast! Making some of the connections between different works of fiction clearer is one of my goals when we redo the webstore, so hopefully we won't need fan outlines like this once that has happened.

I also wanted to point out that all of the Pathfinder Tales Web Fiction (not the flash fiction since 2019) is now available for purchase on the Kindle and DriveThru marketplaces. We'll get them all up here on paizo.com at some point as well, but our focus now is the new store, not plugging holes in old product lines.

I also wanted to note a few errors here for the sake of accuracy:

"Boar and Rabbit" is a tie-in to The Redemption Engine
"The Fencing Master" is the first Varian story chronologically but works best read between King of Chaos and Lord of Runes

Bill Ward's Pathfinder's Journal "Light of a Distant Star" features many of the same characters as his short story "The Box"

Ailson Kindler from the Pathfinder's Journal "Guilty Blood" also appears in Wes Schneider's novel, Bloodbound.

The same characters from Kevin Andrew Murphy's web fiction series also appeared in his Pathfinder's Journal novella, "The Bonedust Dolls."

Both Alaeron and Rodrick are in "A Tomb of Winter's Plunder."

"Gad's Crew" also appeared in the Pathfinder's Journal novella, "Sweet Ichor" and Hendregan from Worldwound Gambit was also in Blood of the City.

Eando Kline from the "Compass Stone" novella was also in Lord of Runes.

And while Jheraal from Hellknight does not appear in "Certainty," Ederras does. Velenne Thrune likewise appears in both Nightglass and Hellknight.

I think that's all the corrections, but it's a long list and I bet I missed something else. Again, thanks for compiling!

One of the great things about having your own table's continuity is that you control what happens where. If you have players with a vested interest in Hellknight Hill who don't like the idea of playing low-level characters saving the same spot after their prior PCs moved on, or who can't come up with a reason why their specific characters might not be there to defend it, then in your campaign the events that take place in Breachill in this and other adventures can just happen somewhere else. Or not at all. You decide what's canon at your table.

Because I expect people to ask, this will have e-book and audiobook versions available on its street date in the book trade. The e-book will be available widely, but the audiobook will be exclusive to Audible/Amazon and the Apple iBookstore or whatever they're calling it these days.

Treasure Vault is not in the bundle. It was in an earlier draft of the product list, and it looks like I didn't catch it here when I was putting the blog together. Sorry for the confusion.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.

I am so excited for this new adventure format!

Available now!

What happens if you pay for the physical book bundle and they run out and you don’t get it?

We provided Humble Bundle only enough codes to cover the quantity of the book we have in stock. If we sell out of it, the $45 tier will no longer be available on the bundle. (You can still give any amount for charity, it just won't grant a code to redeem for that tier anymore.)

Edit: urp, what Rue said. That's what I get for replying before I scroll through the whole thread.

Ooo, nice!

As a hardcover, will it be the size of a "normal" book or the size of, say, a TTRPG rulebook?

As with Godsrain, this one will have a 6" x 9" trim size.

I should also note that Howard's other two novels are currently unavailable as eBooks because we're in the process of reissuing those as Paizo-published editions instead of TOR-licensed titles. We expect them to be available again sometime next month.

Audiobooks of his first three novels are available on Audible (no audiobook was produced for Through the Gate in the Sea).

The discount and 100% gofundme donation only apply to purchases on paizo.com, however.

Many years ago, before Roll20 was a thing, we were working on what would have been the first browser-based VTT, which we called "Game Space." It was intended to work seamlessly in our forums, and allow people to play realtime or asynchronous (PbP) games. Game Space was never completed and we opted to focus our tech resources on other priorities.

Given that there are now several VTTs available from companies whose primary function is making tech rather than publishing books, there's not really the need for Paizo to reinvent the wheel. We love our partners at Fantasy Grounds, Roll20, FoundryVTT, and others, and we're happy to work with them to make playing Pathfinder on their platforms as positive an experience for GMs and players as they can.

If you're interested in trying out a VTT other than Fantasy Grounds, I recommend you check out FoundryVTT and Roll20, both of whom have sizable Pathfinder player bases. Or provide feedback to FG about what you'd like to see improved upon, and they can hopefully help make Pathfinder play the way you want on their platform.

Any discussion of making an audiobook of this?

I bought the audio version of GODSRAIN (the novel) last week, and I have been enjoying it greatly!

Glad you're enjoying the Godsrain audiobook. Please be sure to leave a review when you're done! As for this one, there are currently no plans for an audiobook version. Audible produced audiobook versions of some of our other short fiction back in 2015, and sales on those are nowhere near the levels of the novels, so it doesn't make financial sense to invest in audiobooks of short fiction at this time. Maybe in the future, but for now, we're focused on supporting our novels as best as we can.

Actually, now that I'm thinking about the audio Adventure Paths, can I buy them anew as mp3s or whatever? 'Cause I would totally listen to them again (and there were some entries I never got to)

You can find the full range of Pathfinder Legends audio dramas here. And you're in luck, because the CDs are out of print, but the digital downloads are all still totally available. Enjoy!

Honestly, I'd be surprised if any of the payment methods from 2017 still had valid expiration dates. It just wouldn't make practical sense to try to revive a long-dead subscription for a single title.

The Pathfinder Tales brand is retired, the last title of which was released in 2017. Since we don't have a regular release cadence for fiction like we did with Tales (bi-monthly releases) there is no subscription for fiction at this time. Even if we were to do a fiction subscription down the road, it would be a new thing, since suddenly resurrecting a subscription from 8+ years in the past pushes the legality of the agreement Tales subscribers signed when starting their subs back as early as 2010.

Cruise, God of Running

"Before the Godsrain" should be back on the Kindle store now, at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM2Q4LN2. Thanks for your patience.

Samantha Moon has a voice I feel like I've heard before. I thought she had narrated the Skinwalker series, but when I looked it up she had not.

She has narrated other titles under a different name, but this is the credit she requested we use for this book. I don't believe she has narrated any of the prior Pathfinder Tales audiobooks unless she used a different pseudonym.

Aventhar wrote:

I’m using an IPhone 15, and also tried an iPad Pro with the same results

Interestingly, I tried purchasing one of the titles from the Paizo Store, and I was able to open that in Apple Books with no problem, so must be something Apple did?

Also just got a chance to try it on my MacBook - same issue with the Apple purchased versions - Paizo Purchased version works fine.

Very weird. Sorry this is happening for you, but glad that there seems to be a workaround. I'll keep this thread updated when we get the issue resolved with Apple.

That said, any word on when the audiobook version will be avaliable?

It's ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE!!!

Hey Mark,

I purchased this and “The Godsrain Prophecies” from the Apple Bookstore.I can’t open either of the titles on that platform, and I get an error that says ‘incorrectly formatted’

I’m sure this will get straightened out, but just wanted to make sure Paizo is aware of the issue.

We'll look into it. I can open them in Apple books directly, so it must be something that's happening between our upload and your download. We're not getting any formatting errors flagged when the files are validated, so it might be hard to track down. What device are you using?

My order for this is still pending; is it downloadable now?

That shouldn't be happening. If you can't complete an order with this in your cart or are otherwise having issues with this title, please create a ticket with Customer Service and they can look into the issue.

This book should be available to everyone as of now.

That said, any word on when the audiobook version will be avaliable?

We are having some technical difficulties getting the files uploaded to the Paizo store, but hope to have it available for purchase today.

It will be available on Audible and the Apple store once the files (submitted a few weeks ago) make it through their (frustratingly slow and opaque) review/QC process.

On other audiobook markets like the Google Play Store, the audiobook should be available on Nov. 5, along with the physical and digital version in the wider book channel.

Mika Hawkins wrote:

Surprise! This will be an October release! :)

Perhaps you should have told Amazon and some other folks. There it is still listed for november.

The street date beyond paizo.com will remain November 5. Changing its release across the entire book channel was too hard to do last minute.

And thanks for reviewing the book. Every rating and review, in any language, helps sell the book and ensure a strong relaunch for the line.

I said this on reddit but it bears repeating here:

I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for your diligence and consideration in navigating the OGL entanglements involved in this project. Not everyone would, and you really set a high bar for conscientious conversions on Infinite for other community members to emulate. Thanks, and keep up the great work.

This morning I posted a preview of the section of the updated FAQ for the Infinite community that deals with continuing support for Pathfinder and Starfinder First Edition(s) from tomorrow on, at which point the OGL will no longer be allowed in new Infinite publications. You can see and discuss that here.

This morning I posted a preview of the section of the updated FAQ for the Infinite community that deals with continuing support for Pathfinder and Starfinder First Edition(s) from tomorrow on, at which point the OGL will no longer be allowed in new Infinite publications. You can see and discuss that here.

I posted a preview of the FAQ that will go live tomorrow elsewhere on the forums, here.

As of tomorrow, the OGL will no longer be a permitted license in new products sold on Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite. Since we made that announcement, a number of community members have asked what that means for support of Pathfinder and Starfinder first edition material on the Infinite marketplace. Below is an early look at the FAQ that's going to go up tomorrow alongside the revised Community Content Agreement for Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite, both as a sneak peek, but also here on the forums where commenting on it is easier than the FAQ itself.

Now available!

Any ideas or word on IF or How future 1E print on demand titles will work. We were getting a pretty good stream of out of print 1E Ap's for a while and than it completely stopped and I assume the ogl fiasco was the reason for this.

That didn't enter into it at all. Mostly, it was a lot of work reformatting our old print files for POD and the number of folks buying them wasn't enough to keep the program going. Additionally, there was a change in how Adobe inDesign handles TrueType (or maybe it was OpenType) fonts between the versions we originally laid the books out on and the one we or DTRPG would have to use today, and this was leading to some quality control issues that weren't easy fixes. So, POD has been put on hold until demand for it increases or we find a different workflow that justifies the opportunity cost of working on 10+ year old products versus new stuff.

Surprise! This will be an October release! :)

The audiobook, which is still in production, will not be moving up to an earlier release date, and may, in fact come out a few weeks after Godsrain shows up in bookstores other than Paizo.com. We will have a product page and release date for it as soon as a few production-based elements are clarified.

That, and the remaster core books are less than a year old. It doesn't make sense to discount them so deeply when they're still in their natural peak sales window. Retailers don't like it when we offer brand new stuff at extreme discounts and undercut their ability to move the product on their shelves. We'll have plenty of opportunities to include remastered titles in future bundles.

"All four" is probably not the best way to describe it since there are many many more.

"All four" in this case means all four who appear in the Godsrain novel and not meant to imply that there are only four iconics.

The collection will also include additional material about Nahoa and Samo, who make guest appearances in the novel, despite not being the primary adventuring party.

What format will this be in? I'm assuming ePub, or maybe PDF?

Since this was never laid out with printing in mind, it will be ePub exclusively.