The most unsettling part of all of these announcements is that there hasn’t been much discussion on how/whether the forums will exist…I don’t see a tab there in the screenshot for…Community. Not that that means there won’t be such available, but the optics, insofar as this Blog is about the Store/loyalty program as opposed to the new site, are concerning.

Just to be very clear about this, we will still have forums! Although it is not included in these screenshots specifically, there will still be a section for Community on the new site and we will still have a forum, and not only that, it'll be easier to view, navigate, and moderate (that last one was for me).

They HAVE a Bluesky account, I'm not sure why it's not listed as an option.

We realized we forgot this and made the update!

I wish. While I do go to a con every year, it's only about an hour away, and relatively small. Getting to Indianapolis, getting put up there, tickets, food, and Time off work (which is a relatively new job, just started in March) no way. I wish.

You will be missed, Zoken! Be sure to check out our Starfinder panels from home, which will be streamed live by Gen Con!

I just bought the Foundry VTT code and am having the same problem. Is there an estimated time of repair so people can plan their games?

As said above, not right now, but we're working every day! I'm hoping it shows in the comment history of this thread that I'm diligent about both following up with the team and updating you all as best I can. I will check in with the team again and let you know what progress they've made!

I have been waiting for a solution since last Wednesday (almost a week now), why is taking so long? I will have to cancel again the session scheduled for this weekend.

The solutions we keep trying unfortunately keep failing, but we're still trying! Please be patient with us!

Well, I really appreciate the commitment but maybe it isn't that necessary xD. I trust it will get done and I only wanted to check my expectations :P Huge thanks and I appreciate your help!

Ongoing problems are always necessary to me! If there's something the community needs, and we're causing that issue, it's 100% a necessity for me to make sure it gets resolved. I'll update you as soon as I can!

is a reprint on the way ?

We do not currently have plans for this, but we'll update if that changes!

I also really hope we can see some of you at Gen Con for the launch! We have events and panels and lots of fun things in store for welcoming in the game ~

Definitely weird! Make sure to email CS as well!

Should we expect for this to be solved before next week? Ty!

Unsure, but I'm checking every day! I'm about to do my usual morning check again! I'm not sure when it will be finished, but I CAN commit to checking every day on your behalf and making sure it gets done.

I hear you, but this is a complicated topic. People are assigning it as a negative but it needn't be. Personally I started using flavor text to avoid the negative that had been associated with fluff text. But now flavor text is being maligned for it as well. We've already ended up on the euphemism treadmill.

We can't control the context that someone adds to a phrase. On it's surface, to me, nothing about the phrase "flavor text" indicates a judgment about the material. And even if we switched to calling things descriptive text and mechanics text, we're probably all going to still end up in the same place we are right now.

Rather, I think we have to do the harder thing of reminding people that descriptive text is important and can have meaning, and even impact on the way something is adjudicated, while also say that some portion of rules text (description) are less relevant for figuring out how to run something in our games compared to other portions of the text.

Strongly agree!

Sad but honest! Good luck to you and the team with this. Bad things happen, but we love you and what you do!

You deserve both our diligence and our honesty!

We are still working on this! Some were fixed over the weekend despite the holiday, but part of the team is out for the next few days so it would be unrealistic to say everything will be resolved today.

Myself, I think the distinction is important because in whatever game i'm playing, that descriptive text may not apply but the mechanics stay the same unless there is a house rule. Secondly, if care isn't taken, flavor text written in a casual way can just confuse things. For instance, when you see text that says prey, is it related to Hunt Prey or not? You have to make a judgment call and use context clues since prey isn't capitalized. If flavor was clearly distinguishable from rule text, it'd be easier for everyone involved on what's meant to be a mechanical effect and what's meant to be evocative as a possible outcome of the effect.

To be clear on what I meant, I meant the distinction as a negative. I get differentiating them, since they are different, but I do not think that differentiating them needs to come hand in hand with narrative text being belittled as compared to rules text since I still think they're two parts of an important whole. My issue with the term "flavor text" is the negative connotation, not the differentiation. What I find silly is saying one part of the whole is less needed than any other.

Yes, you should reach out to support just to check on when this should happen! With the subscription, you will receive the Starfinder Player Core Special Edition, so just reach out to them at customer.service@paizo.com just to make sure everything is ok with your subscription!

IT'S SO SOON NOW!! FINALLY LESS THAN A MONTH!!!

Blag-o-Blog wrote:

As the dust cleared, she heard, “Navasiiiii!” echo from the extemporary exit Trace’s grenade had blown in the wall

Na-va-siiiii! *shakes fist at projected sky*

I heard this viscerally /positive.

I imagine Ulka as someone both Sarenrae and Arazni agree on. Sarenrae likes her blunt honesty, her unwillingness to ignore the ugly face of war and combat. Arazni likes that Ulka holds everyone, including herself, responsible for their transgressions. that Ulka hates the people who raised her, and trained her and taught her, because none of it was for her benefit, but to make her a weapon. Ulka hates herself for being such an effective weapon.

ultimately, they both like her because she fights like hell to end the need to fight.

Nail on the head right here. I see every bit of this.

As a fan of narrative description myself, I've always found this distinction a bit silly as well. Isn't it all a beautiful part of the bigger whole?

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Agreed. I don't even understand what is gained by creating this forum thread. Is there a numerical threshold of unhappy users that, once reached, would cause this decision to be undone?

Because if not ... this was all very pointless.

I think the point of creating this thread was to give us a place to talk about it that isn't the actual recruitment thread for the game.

This is absolutely correct! I created the thread because I noticed valid discussion about the topic on the other post, but it was also clogging the point of the other person's recruitment post. I wanted to give everyone the proper space to have their voices still heard on the subject. ^_^

Thank you all for providing your input with this issue! I've made the team aware of all of it, and we're going to work on it. Hopefully we'll get it resolved very soon, but please keep in mind we're off tomorrow for the holiday. We appreciate your patience, and we hope you see that we're doing our best to hear you out and actually get it fixed! Have a good weekend!

The problem persists, Paizo urgently needs to make a new website, not remodel it, create something from zero and make it work well.

This is already what we're working on! It's a whole new backend. We posted a blog about it!

Just wanting to check so I can relay this to the team since they thought they'd fixed it, you have received your codes, but you have an issue after that part of the process?

This one is also one of my personal faves. ^_^

I've spoken to the team, and as of now, these codes have been granted! Please reach out to us if you have any more issues though!

If I only want Starfinder 2e books, will this subscription do that?

From now on, the only books coming out for this will be 2E, so you are in the clear if that's your intention!

Will Starfinder 2e have anything like the Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens line of books?

No plans yet, but we will update if this changes!

Is there going to be a Pocket Edition subscription now that Pathfinder has one?

We're considering this possibility, but we need to lock down our website changes first!

Any idea when the Foundry module for this one drops?

No news yet, but we'll update when that changes!

Related question: do you know if there'll be a way to use Paizo Store Credit (like for having GM'd at PaizoCon) at the Paizo Booth at GenCon?

Hey Kishmo! To clarify, are you referring to vouchers or other stored Paizo store credit?

I've looped in the team about this one, everyone! We're sorry about the issues you're having, but hopefully in reaching out to them about it, we can get them resolved quickly!

As someone who works in education, I can confirm it is a scourge, but one thing that does help is having a body of evidence of a writers previous works, either written or pre AI age. Styles/habits are really hard to change.

Maya, if you are able to discuss it, do you know what kinds of checks Paizo is using to stop AI works? I'm am 100% with your companies anti AI policy, I'm just curious what tools are being used in the industry. For example, Turnitin is very popular in education atm.

On topic, not a huge fan of the artwork, but a twisted and contradictory hero who just wants to find a noble end while wishing those around her would stop being so noble for her, it's a good story buildup. Will be interesting to see where they go. Good job to both the artist and writer. While I may not like all the elements of the story and art, I applaud the efforts put into place to make such things in a very complex and old game world.

It is my understanding that they approach it as you mentioned! Evaluating the entire body of work of each writer as well as an AI checker. We really value our creatives and their work here.

Morgan Freeman could play Jatembe. His voice is deep and soothing and I think it would work really well for a wise old wizard.

Now hear me out on this one... Curse of the Crimson Throne with Mia Goth as Illeosa. Her unhinged performance in Pearl could ABSOLUTELY work for the increasingly unstable and self-obsessed queen. 'But I'm a STAAAR!'

Unhinged is what's needed there, so I support it!!!

Thanks for alerting me of the thread change, glass! I've moved it!

I take back everything I complained about in the other thread. Ulka is an absolute gem and I absolutely love her. Might be a bit of a pull for those here, but she's like an Orc version of Ciaphus Cain, and that's a major compliment.

We're glad you were able to learn more of her story!

I want Danny Trejo to get more varied roles. I don't know, but I get the feeling he has more range than he get's the chance to use.

Honestly he does have the range I believe! As funny as it is in my mind to see Machete as Ezren, I've also seen Danny pull off roles that were super warm and emotional and witty, so I think it's on the table!

I've never heard of a full proof method of detecting such things in writing (or even a reliable one), but I trust your team is far more capable at it than I likely ever will be.

Thank you for always being so kind, patient, and clear with us, Maya.

And I always will be! ^_^

Movies often get novelized. :P

So why not both? xD
(But yeah, a novel/ series of short fictions is probably more likely TBH.)

Books! Books! Books! Books! Books! Books! Books! Books! Books! Books!

Absolutely 100%!

I knew I could count on you, Prince Maleus!! ^_^

Hi Maya, this must be an accidental mistake, right? Unless you like really long sessions! The first adventure covers 2 full levels of play.

This is what the team told me! Highly possible they're just nerds who love long sessions (We are.)!

Just to be clear on our stance with AI usage, we do not use it, for art or writing, and neither do our freelancers (we check to make sure and clear each one, and our editing team checks once they've received text).

I was going to ask for fiction, but a movie works!

TBH both??? I'm a huge cinephile and a bookworm. I'll take both. Are you with me? ^_^

Giancarlo Esposito as Quinn

Danny Trejo as Ezren...yeah, a little old but hey

Wait I kind of love the comedy behind the idea of Machete as Ezren LMAO

As said here, Paizo supports those who GM for a living and in our new forums will have a section for those DMs to advertise sessions. A lot of you had many thoughts on the matter, so please share and discuss here rather than someone's personal ad post!

This conversation is very valid, but I highly recommend making our own thread about it! I was giving a PSA for future community members so they don't keep marking this post as spam, but at this point, we are cluttering OPs post looking for players! This is however a very worth discussion, so let's take it elsewhere! I'm going to make a thread in the same location (Community / Forums / Online Campaigns / Recruitment), and I hope to see you all there with your thoughts about it!

EDIT: I have made the thread! It's here!

First of all, thank you Maya!

Second of all, ill clarify and revisit the text (specially the Tie trait) as it is kinda cumbersome as it stands lol.

Second of all, and before I share the core class features, I want to give some insights on the direction of this class:
- Of course, this is heavily inspired by the Cipher class from the Pillars of Eternity games. But the more I went into development the more I shifted the focus onto an "absorbing & releasing of power" fantasy. This is due to not conflict with the existing Psychic class concept, and to give a class that I think we do not have on the game yet.
- As stated above, the class would have 2 main features: acquiring focus points (through Strikes primarily) and a way to release them (beyond using focus spells). This can be challenging to balance, specially as there are no ways to get focus points in the middle of combat this early and in this way (to my knowledge).
- I said is a gish, and by that I mean that it would be a "martial class". At the start I tinker with being a new bounded caster, but access to a spell list doesn't follow the core theme of the class of absorbing and releasing energy. So it's magic potential would be focused on the use of focus points primarily.

I already have all the class features, I need to tweak them before sharing the first draft. And I'm already tinkering with some class feats too! (Spoiler: you can have a familiar).

If you want to follow the project, stay put to any further posts here and on reddit!

You're welcome! I wish you luck with your campaign as well!

Thread moved to Homebrew and House Rules! Thank you, everyone!

That is incredibly disappointing news. But I do appreciate the heads up as to Paizo’s plans to promote such ventures Maya.

Simply put, some people are so fantastic at their GM'ing skills that they do it for their job beyond just the hobby, and we support those GM's too. StartPlaying is a website that does a great job putting players together who often struggle with it, and this GM in particular has a wonderful array of 5 star reviews.

IF OP was posting a link to a discredited website, had some sort of known negative reputation, or had been posting their sessions excessively, it would still be spam. But, one post from a talented GM who does it to make a living is very much still within our guidelines. We wish ChickyBisky well, and your sessions too, Oceanshieldwolf, however you go about finding them that doesn't hurt others. ^_^

I mean... Dwayne Johnson as Nahoa the Exemplar.

Karen Gillan as Adowyn the Hunter.

Chris Hemsworth as Hakon the Skald. Though maybe a bit too Thor-like.

Charlize Theron as Kess the Brawler.

Cate Blanchett as Reiko the Ninja. One word: Hot Fuzz.

Oded Fehr from The Mummy as Zadim the Slayer.

Jason Statham as Sajan the Monk.

Throwing a curve ball here... Ryan Reynolds as Lem.

Takes off goggles. "And until you find a person you care about more than your job... You never will..."

(Read: You are correct.)

So thought for a gimmick/running gag for the movies. While Given how many iconics there are, you establish them working for the Pathfinder Society in the first movie. Then each subsequent movie, different characters would show up being sent by the Society, with references back to other established characters who aren't present giving hints of other adventures they're on.

Genius because then we can have lots.