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I swear, finding simple answers in the official sources is like pulling teeth. The org play document puts playtest topics front and center, but we are far beyond playtesting right now. The book is published!

So, are the two new uncommon classes from G&G open for Org Play (as Kobold became) or is a boon required?

Thank you very much for ANY info you can provide, and an EXTRA special thank you if it comes with a link. ;)

OK, the Sanguine Bloodline is apparently no longer PFS legal as of the 28th.

I see some entries in the legal/not legal list that indicate grandfathering of newly illegal options, but no such specificity on that bloodline.

I also see an entry referring to rebuilds when rules change... but they are not being changed, they remain the same but are banned...

So... what happens here?

Character removed from play forever, lose all access to record sheets, do not pass go, immediately rage quit, yadda yadda yadda...

or

Free rebuild of character...

or

Grandfathered if played before the release of that errata (like our Aasimar and Tiefling friends)?

I am considering giving a character improved unarmed strike and want to know if there is any official ruling on how much variety there is in such attacks apart from just punching someone.

Can it represent all sorts of unarmed attacks that we see in the real world?
Punching, knees, kicks, scratching, gouging, head-butts, elbows, or even bites (a la Luis Suarez or Mike Tyson)?

I am not asking for opinions here... is there anything OFFICIAL out there about how much lee-way there is in how such an attack is delivered?

Just what the title asked...

PFS has been doing organized play for years now. There are a lot of higher level characters out there now. Will we ever see PFS scenarios for level 12+ characters?

I feel slow progression was a cludge fix for rapidly aging-out characters and does not solve the problem... and it reveals the desire for a large enough section of the player base to keep going further with their characters, else it would not have even come to pass.

So, what are the odds? Do the powers that be seem interested (as far as anyone can tell, of course)? Does anyone have any inkling?

On of the persistant problems I have with mindless creatures is their contardictory reactions to feints and other physical deceptions in combat.

Feint is just about the prime offender. Allow me to explain:

A feint is a false attack that diverts defensive efforts away from the real attack. It is, in essence, a very physical, non-illusory, quite credible threat. Yet constructs (et al.) miraculously never react to fients despite their inability to actually sense your motives or even think about/doubt your obvious intentions.

Now, we know that mindless creatures DO try to thwart your attacks... they DO get their dexterity bonus to AC. They are not unresponsive and perpetually flat footed. Yet, for some bizarre reason they DON'T try to defend against these credible threats and lower their guard to the real threat. It's as if they are not only brilliant, but also have telepathy!

In the real world, feints against programmed, mindless opponents work exceedingly well. The first Gulf War kicked off with a swarm of faux jets (actually refitted missiles) and the Iraqi radar reacted exactly as expected... it did not ignore the feint because radar systems can't think. Quite the opposite in fact. Likewise, hacking feints against systems will dutifully divert processor time and efforts for much the same reasons: the computer is notoriously bad at unilaterally guessing your motives. In fact, as a relatively non-thinking device, it can't!

The mindless immunity to feints ironically does not seem mindless at all... it practically makes them combat savants in this regard!

The main problem here is the linkage of feinting to bluff. A charisma based social interaction very poorly simulates what is going on in these cases.

IMHO there needs to be some provision for this sort of situation. Perhaps this could be addressed in a future bestiary or the next edition of Pathfinder? Any comments, suggestions, and ideas would be greatly appreciated on my end. Thanks in advance for any consideration.