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We're glad you all are excited about this! Please stay tuned for more updates!

We don't have more details on this at the moment, but I'm curious to see some more theories here!

We don't currently have plans for this, but thanks for letting us know it's wanted! If we do make any changes to those plans, we'll be sure to announce them!

I have been watching this argument for a bit now, and I just came to say, thank you for keeping things more or less civil! Please note that we cannot assume intention when someone puts something in bold as there are a lot of reasons one might do that!

The insults have been reigned in so far, so please be careful of this as things are bordering on conflicting with our guidelines. If you have to agree to disagree, that's ok! Sometimes that's the best way to end things and move on. But, please do so without assuming intention and thus exchanging insults. Thank you all!

Is this compatible with SF2e? or 1e only?

The subscription starts with Galaxy Guide, which is for Second Edition, and will continue forward with all Second Edition books!

I. LOVE. THIS. BOOK. EVERYBODY READ IT.

Is there a page count listed somewhere I can't find?

Thanks

It's 176 pages!

Thanks for the upgrade! Question, does the Special Edition PDF release on May 7th with the standard edition PDF? If not, will we have to wait to get the PDF until the Special Edition version is released?

Subscribers get their PDF when their subscription item ships. Both books are releasing at the same time, so subscribers to both lines should be getting their PDFs at the same time. Please let us know though if you have any issues when we do get to release day! We'll do our best to help!

So... Here's two ideas I just had:

Fungus Dragons
Originating from the Plane of Wood, they can be rather unintentionally destructive outside their native plane, as not all the fungi that spread in their presences are harmless. Fungus Dragons, generally, do not mean to cause harm, it is simply a fact that their biology makes them immune to poisonous, toxic, or parasitic fungi and/or mold.

Quicksilver Dragons
...Who here has heard of Dingo Doodles?

Fungus dragons made my skin crawl, which means it's a wonderful idea.

Thank you! I've let him know about it.

Wonderful! We hope to see you both there! And everyone in this thread for that matter!

When the submissions are opened, we'll make a post both here in the forums as well as across our social media and in our newsletter, so please let him know to follow whichever one of those he prefers.

Thanks for trying to put my mind at ease. At the risk of putting more egg on my face, I'll say I'm still a bit concerned because of the missing legs of the figure in the back, the lopsided eyes, and some other details, plus the fact that Dall-E started doing limited-invite beta testing back in 2019, 2 years before the book came out.

But it's gone from a red flag to maybe like... light-faded orange. Instead of, "Paizo used AI art" to "maaaaaybe a small chance one of their commissioned artists did and got it past them years before the ethical debate became popular."

We as a company do not use AI in any form, and neither do our artists or writers!

Is there a way for an artist to submit a portfolio for consideration as someone to be commissioned for Paizo products? A friend of mine is graduating soon and is looking forward to working with the TTRPG industry. He has completed a couple commissions in the past for other companies.

We urge your friend to submit their porfolio for PaizoCon! It's the best way to get their work looked at by our team! Singups are coming soon, so please tell them to keep an eye on it!

Great to see! Especially with Paizo's focus on inclusivity and representation.

Thank you so much, Agonarchy!

AJCarrington wrote:

You can get the graphic novel PDF from DriveThruComics, if that is something you're interested in.

I might be so thank you for the recommendation, but my point is more that this product page should be updated in... Some way, because this is silly

I've brought this issue to the team! I'll post here when I have updates!

moosher12 wrote:

You're thinking of a Rebirth Potion, which appears in Treasure Vault. I was actually gonna suggest it, but when I cross-checked to see if it was viable, it had the stipulation that the new ancestry had to be humanoid. Of course, a GM can override, but letting it turn you into a dragon is simply not within the scope of the original item without this override.

Ah, yeah that's it; thanks. And well dang. Back to the brewing board then.

Please share what you come up with in the Homebrew section!

I'd love to get more Primal dragons, well, ELEMENTAL dragons.

Here's what I would like to see:

This is an absolutely incredible list of dragons right here.

We're glad you like this addition to our collection!

It feels weird that these now generate watermarks. I can understand watermarks being used for PDF copies of core books for PFS or the like, but these documents already mention being legally reprintable on them, and they used to be available as a watermark-less, clean version. I was hoping to redo some old character sheets to have a few less pencil smudges, and having my email address shown on them feels odd.

This is just for personalization of each download! We're sorry it feels weird for you though!

Could you change the image cover for a bigger one?

This adventure should be awesome, I can't wait more to save Kyonin!

We hope you enjoy the adventure, and please tell us how it goes! We don't release large images of our art, but it is much bigger in the actual adventure!

At level 4, if a party doesn’t have a bard, someone who casts bless every combat and no fighters, then a 30% hit rate is believable. If they are slightly unoptimized (say with only a +3 in their attack stat) it’s likely.

Oh, crap. I missed that in all this somehow, and you're absolutely right. At the level they are, them's might just be the breaks for a bit if they're unoptimized. Maybe they can fix this over time, though, with the changes they make as they level!

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would it be possible at all to get a rough timescale for release of it? I'm half way through The Enmity Cycle atm and ideally would have a couple weeks lead time to start prep...is it gonna be days? weeks? months? until release

We do not currently have one, but we will post it when we do! Sorry we don't have a better answer for you!

Question: signing up to gm probably doesn't count as ticket holding right?

Two, should I have portfolio ready and nicely polished by time signups for portfolio reviews are up?

Hey, CorvusMask! Sorry it took me a minute to reply to this! For your first question, yes, if you sign up to GM and do actually end up with two confirmed volunteer spots, this counts as ticket holding. GMs have to run at least 2 blocks for us to get a badge.

For your second question, yes please! Our art directors will be looking at the portfolios before the reviews, so assume that they will be looked at any time between sign up and review day!

Is this planned to have a FoundryVTT module at launch?

That would be a wonderful addition to our lineup! I do not have confirmation on this, but I'll update you when I do!

And we are SO happy that you do all that Ms. Coleman.

I am actually non-binary, so I go by Mx! But, it's ok since you had no idea as I'm unable to put my pronouns in my name here!

I've been out of the loop for a little bit. Is there any information on the Jotunborn ancestry?? Are they Large sized? Or just flavor large. The dude on the cover looks BIG.

You'll find out when the book is released!! Definitely stay tuned!

I noticed the "Second Edition banner" on the cover. As someone who is (finally) running a 2E Remaster game, I'm a little confused about the use of "Second Edition" versus "Remaster." Can someone summarize what each means, in the context of books published SINCE the Remaster?

Feros and Perses13 were pretty much correct here! Remastered books are books that were written for Second Edition that previously contained OGL materials but have been "remastered" to remove those materials and are printed under the ORC license. All of our releases since Fall of 2023 already do not have any OGL material and are printed under the ORC license, so rather than double state they are both Second Edition and qualify as already Remastered material, they just say "Second Edition" since there was no previous iteration of them in existence to need to differentiate from.

I hope this helps clear this up!

...Why do I get the feeling the twist will be

** spoiler omitted **

To the script writing room immediately! Or wherever that happens!

You guys should advertise it more! Have it in the find your path post or something! I only learned this came out because I was wondering if there was a new ETA and came to check! This is exciting

Thanks for letting us know, Arita! And thanks for checking!

Also, yes, the devs do sometimes read the forums and often do respond. There is no magic wand to summon them. They have deadlines and timelines they have to stick to so feedback cannot be open forever. Your best bet to be heard will be as part of the feedback for the upcoming Tech Core Playtest.

To expand upon this so it's clear for everyone, the devs mostly read the forums to detect anything that could apply for possible errata. As you said, their schedules prevent them from responding very regularly, but that's where I come in! If there's ever a pressing question that isn't about the rules (since rules questions end up either being added to the errata or just being intentional), I bring them to the team and bring answers back to you here. In general, the best way to ask a dev a question and get an answer from the directly and quickly is joining Q&A's like during our monthly live streams, additional special live streams we offer during the month, or events like PaizoCon Online coming up in May. Apart from that, I'm the official champion of making sure your questions get to them, and I try my best to get them all!

April is upon us. We're in the end-game now.

Tech Core Playtest is officially 19 days away now!!!

Now that's interesting. Given the choice between tech and tech class, you introduce a third option: Tech Core playtest... which does give me hopes.

Glad to give you some hope! And of course, I'm looking forward to your feedback during the playtest. ^_^

Lol you could have players play I rolled low again bingo.

If they fill out their bingo card they get a 20 on their next roll.

This especially at least feels like a good thing to do in the mean time until the source of the problem is figured out. This is positive by the way. I'm still genuinely curious as to what is causing a consistent hit success rate of only 30%. It's boggling my brain over here.

I feel like the Runelord of Pride would actually be quite at home with social media in all its forms. Hell, he'd probably integrate his whole peacock spirit cult into his own platform within a year.

This is a Black Mirror episode for sure.

Not deliberate, and actually a mistake! It's actually called the "Tech Core Playtest." I just forgot the word "Core" by mistake.

Unfortunately, you will have to wait and see, but my smile is regular at worst and seeking understanding at best.

SITZKRIEG! wrote:

I've only been following peripherally basically coming here to the Paizo Starfinder front page and forums monthly to see if a new playtest packet is out. Have they confirmed a second packet with the missing classes/ancestries/etc? I'm glad as I was really looking forward to seeing the changes to the mechanic.

In another forum thread, Maya Coleman confirmed that the Technomancer/Mechanic playtest (fromally known as the Tech playtest according to the Playtest site) will begin on April 21, barring unexpected delays I suppose.

I can confirm this is correct! The Tech Playtest starts on April 21st, and we will be posting a blog that day as well that will explain the goings-on of that playtest. I will also be posting timeline updates in the Starfinder Second Edition Playtest General Discussion space to aid those who do not frequent our social media for those updates or receive our email newsletter!

I planned to have the party go to a VR gaming center called "The First Volt" run by a NPC technomancer and I thought it was a good pun and now I have to wait another week before I can share it.

Abadar's First Vault houses a perfect copy of everything that's ever existed, sort of like this guy's electronic VR machines can do!

Anyway, I gotta get back to staring out the window wistfully.

I would just like to confirm that it is indeed a good pun. I hope the party likes it too. ^_^

Pathfinder AP 2025 is just my year.

All the AP themes are some of my favorite things.

Demons
Vampires
Greek
Runelords.

And the best part my year starts and ends with the Big Bads I've been most interested in fighting.
Treerazer and Xanderghul.

The stars aligned so well for you?? That's awesome! Happy 2025, Prince Maleus! ^_^

It seems at least, though, that Jotunborn could be a better launching pad for finagling a cyclops! But, it's valid to want something more specific to your wants. That's what the thread is for after all! Sharing ideas of things we want to see and have always wanted to see!

This comes up often, may I suggest that you put up pre launch pages for Foundry modules? With an expected date on them. Maybe even utilize the new Foundry Marketplace?

I understand you might not want to advertise without knowing the exact date but I think for the most part the teams have got this figured out. It will help the community know product is coming without assuming, and even allow them to get "HYPE" for it. You have to create this page anyway, why not a couple weeks early?

I'll let the team know that this is something wanted!

Maya Coleman wrote:

And as for the PDF, again this is as intended!

I wish I knew the reasoning for having page 1 be a creature text, and page 113 being the image of that same creature. Or having to remember that the Cinder Rat text is on page 469, with the image on page 572.

I'm sorry I didn't have a better answer for you!

Heck yes!! Anything particularly fun and exciting happen? Have you gotten to lean into your character's abilities a little?

The stream was a lot of fun to listen to! I liked the history lessons

We're glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully posting about it here was helpful as well!

I feel like someone asks this in every product thread, but since there is no release schedule for them AFAIK:

Will this be getting a Foundry VTT release? Please, please, please?

Yes, it will! And we'll announce it when it's out!

Thread has been moved to the proper place! Thank you for your help, Taja!

Thread moved to the proper place! Thank you, Claxon ^_^

DeriusA, hopefully you can get some help from our community on this!

Watch the stream on Twitch!

For those still waiting on the Foundry Tokens, I have an update! The art is finished and the team is in the dev phase! No date yet for completion, but I'll post another update next week!

Prince Maleus wrote:

When will the Player's Guide be dropping?

It's available now.

Thanks for sharing this, ornathopter!