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sevenveils wrote:

Thanks for responding to questions. Wondering about how this impacts (totally free, labor of love) conversions of PF1 modules and APs to remastered PF2. These projects keep people buying and engaging with legacy material all over again.

Can you please lay out how to pursue that in the new licensing regime?

You can do that on Infinite. Just refer to P1 (OGL) content by proper name and then provide a Remastered rule to replace anything no longer available.

So a conversion of something including an (OGL) angel like a solar would need to refer to that NPC by name (which Paizo owns) and then provide stats for them using non-OGL material either of your own creation or taken from an ORC/Remastered product.

And since it'd be a conversion of Paizo's storylines and setting, you'd need to either release it as text in a general message board discussion or via Infinite if it were a downloadable PDF.

Thanks for fielding so many questions in an emotionally-charged setting - I hope you're able to field a follow-up here.

The above seems like advice specific to named NPCs with OGL "structure" (whether race/ancestry or class). What about creatures in 1e APs that come from OGL-adjacent, third-party publishers? As a specific example, take the gray nisp in Serpent's Skull. It isn't a proper-named creature, and it comes from the Tome of Horrors book, not published by Paizo but which used the OGL to publish PF1e-compatible creatures.

If I were converting Serpent's Skull ultimately to publish in Infinite and I wanted to bring that creature over into 2e, would I need to make up a new name for it in order to include it in the conversion?

James, thank you for the additional insight, both about standalone adventures generally and about this one in particular. I'm really looking forward to reading and running Malevolence - July can't come soon enough.

I appreciate you taking the time to check; thanks very much, Aaron.

Basically that's where I'm at; roughly even odds given other 2e adventures thus far, and it's mainly a question of whether or not there were going to be particularly thematic story hooks at play. I mean, 3rd level or not, the background is part of character generation.

I saw the answer about no pregens (of course I'm already brainstorming some anyway), but couldn't find anything on custom backgrounds for the adventure. Do we know one way or the other?