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Prepare for the new Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society metaplots with new Player's Guides, NOW AVAILABLE! Read Alex's blog for a little more info and get the guides!

Unless and until there is no Paizo, my gaming and fun budget is yours exclusively. I will remain optimistic that there are brighter skies ahead for all members of Paizo's team.

Thank you SOOOO much for your support, Lord H Almighty!

We hear you and we're actively working on it!

I disagree that their view is balanced. They complain that customers expressed their opinions by sending emails, a reasonable step for any customer of any business anywhere at any time. Alex implies fans did nothing in response to Diamond and therefore don't get to have opinions.

Let's not think humans are without bias when talking about their friends. These guys clearly have selected their sides and conclusions as well.

Small reminder that all these emails went to me personally, and I'm still working through them! I can't respond to all of them, but I'm reading them all, taking notes, and passing on my findings to the team!

It's still being worked on and on my radar! I'll update when it's done!

I've moved this to Second Edition Adventure Path General Discussion where I think it's better suited! Thanks for the flag, Cori Marie!

It's not against the rules to discuss dissenting opinions nor is it against the rules to publicly discuss moderation decisions. If you look at my posts, I've welcomed discussion for moderation decisions, and as said previously in this thread, the multiple threads about the AoN discussion are proof enough that discussing it isn't against the rules.

Your post was removed for baiting! As always, if you ever have any questions about why a post or comment was removed, you can ask me here publicly or in DMs! I value myself in being as transparent as they come!

A sincere thank you for that Maya. You are appreciated.

I can indeed now see the reviews.

Now the reviews themselves weren't particularly useful but I'm pretty sure that is NOT something that you can help me with :-) :-) :-) :-)

I do all I can!! Glad it helped as best as possible though!

This has been FIXED! Woo!!

Oh, great news very quickly! This is a known issue that the team is working on, so hopefully it will be resolved soon! I'll keep you updated!

Hey pauljathome! First, I know you were initially looking for reviews about SFS scenarios, since this is also a general question about reviews on the website, I've moved it to General Discussion, as it was also flagged for being in the wrong forum.

As for your question, it seems you're right! I checked the website, and the bottom of the page just shows all the reviews. In addition, when I clicked like the "2 reviews" next to a specific product, it then took me to all the reviews rather than those reviews. So, I'll reach out to the webstore team about this and get back to you as soon as I can!

Reminder as well to everyone that I'm working on a project for an easily accessible folder of ALL art that abides by our Community Use Policy for anyone to view and use. It's paused right now because of Gen Con and the Mariners game, but it's my main priority once those are finished!

If this is a true statement, it further reiterates the point that those who made this decision are woefully out of touch with their consumers.

It is true, polymynia! I used it yesterday even, and I'd show you my browser history if I could. I can assure you that lying and keeping track of lies requires energy I don't have or wish to give to something so negative.

You know I think a character like Jimothy is a good way to give life to a city in your TTRPG games. An unusual, but harmless and well-loved creature that just minds its own business. Something everyone vaguely knows about and loves.

Yes, absolutely!!!

New feat!

Swept Away:
Prerequisite: Young Elephant seal or other Large aquatic Animal Companion:
As a youngling you were swept away from your group, and have had to find new and creative ways to get ready for combat with your peers.

Once per day, choose one utility, fence, local infrastructure or other township asset and as a One, Two or Three Action activity use the Demolish ability.

Demolish ◆, ◆◆ or ◆◆◆
You Strike an object with your bulk. Make a Strength check vs a basic DC, quadrupling your Strength modifier. Your damage is at x2 (One Action) x4 (Two Action) or x8 (Three Action) (doubled on a successful Critical result) and ignores Hardness. When Demolish is completed, make an Intimidation check on all who can see it.

Ooooo, I like where this is going!!!

I DO ALSO LOVE JASON

YAY HOORAY

I love how much this focus on support! :3

(Also, oops, the version posted on Bluesky doesn't have the Unique tag! :O )

Oh, oops! But that is also why we posted this here. To be very clear, these are the official unofficial rules!

This is not legal for Society play, right?

It is not...... yet

Cue more evil laughter

MAYA I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE NOW

THANK YOU BUT LOVE JASON ALSO HE MADE THE RULES

This is amazing lmao, Love this so much

THANK YOU! I am just glad people besides me wanted this lmao

On a silly whim, I asked Jason Keeley if he could make Jimothy a companion in the game, and he then... totally did.

Keep in mind, Pathfinder Second Edition and Starfinder Second Edition are compatible now, so you can play with Jimothy in BOTH GAMES! Here is the detailed info written out!

Jimothy
Unique, Animal, Minion

Through much coaxing and patience, you are blessed with the aid of Jimothy, the creature of legend. Jimothy is a raccoon-like creature with thin limbs and a round body. All who look upon him are blessed.

Size Small
Melee [one-action] jaws (finesse), Damage 1d6 piercing
Str +1, Dex +3, Con +1, Int –4, Wis +1, Cha +2
Hit Points 4
Skill Stealth
Senses low-light vision, scent (imprecise, 30 feet)
Speed 30 feet

Special Jimothy doesn’t grow larger in size when he advances, though he gains all the other benefits. Jimothy can use his hands to perform simple Interact actions, such as picking up an unattended object, but he can’t wield weapons.

Support Benefit The very sight of Jimothy lifts your allies’ spirits. Choose yourself or one ally within 30 feet of Jimothy who can see Jimothy. Until the start of your next turn, they gain a +2 circumstance bonus to saves against emotion effects.

Advanced Maneuver Tumbling Swipe

Tumbling Swipe [two-actions]
Manipulate, Move
Jimothy Strides up to his Speed. During this movement, he can try to move through the space of one enemy and take a small object from them. Jimothy attempts a Stealth check against the enemy's Reflex DC as soon as he tries to enter its space.

Critical Success Jimothy moves through the enemy's space and takes an object of negligible Bulk from the enemy that is worn but not closely guarded (such as a pouch). Jimothy must have a free hand to take the object. If he doesn't have enough Speed to move all the way through its space, Jimothy gets the same effect as a failure.
Success As critical success, but Jimothy treats the squares in the enemy’s space as difficult terrain (every 5 feet costs 10 feet of movement).
Failure Jimothy’s movement ends, and he triggers reactions as if he had moved out of the square he started in.
Critical Failure As failure, but Jimothy also then falls prone.

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DISCUSS AMONGST YOURSELVES THE GREATNESS

I just saw this; THIS is how one does transparency! You are a credit to the company.

Thank you! I do this whenever I have to edit a post! There isn't a system that notifies, so I just started doing it of my own volition.

Forgive me if this has been asked and answered. I've searched the thread and didn't find mention of it so here goes.

In 2018 you officially announced that Archives of Nethys would be serving as the official system reference document for both Pathfinder and Starfinder for OGL purposes. I know that you've moved to a new ORC open license so I'm not certain how that obligates/interacts with the need to have and maintain a reference document that specifically identifies the non IP game content within the system. So if you're ending the partnership with AON to provide them with this documentation are they no longer operating as the official PFRD and SFRD for these game systems? And if not where will those free and open rule systems be maintained?

I unfortunately do not have an official reply for this, but I can say as someone who uses AoN myself and speaking on behalf of a lot of our team members who do, it's definitely still our main go-to resource for online rules! We use it often, and we like using it! For an official capacity, I cannot say! We don't know right now! But on an unofficial capacity, AoN is great, and I use it daily along with the books on my shelf.

(Since my original was removed, I'll restate my post this time with no snark or bad attempts at humor.)...

Well said and good criticism!

I didn't intend it to be an insult or baiting so much as a "some people would say to this _____" quip, but regardless, I apologize I got sarcastic or flippant and take your point. As always, thank you for all your work and the reply. I don't envy your position in times like these with so much activity.

I will politely reiterate my suggestion that something that could help in general with community perception about Paizo's communication in future would be marking that a comment has been removed instead of just "making it disappear", for lack of a better phrasing.

I appreciate your apology! I also agree with you wholeheartedly! This is a feature that we are keeping at high priority for our future forums. We realize that these forums kind of work like we took all the bad comments to a scary black site, and that doesn't feel good. We're hoping that the future system will allow us to communicate even more transparently about moderation! It's one of the factors I am bringing up in each discussion with possible future platforms!

Oh, I wasn't the person whose comment was removed, or who was involved. I just wanted to leave a thank you note to you personally, replied on the last thing I saw your name on.

Either way, take care. And yes, put this out of your mind for 2 days and please get some well deserved rest.

I got confused in the chain! Proof of how tired I was, but my sentiment is the same, and I appreciate you!

Pardon the reply, just directly addressing.

Hope you are doing ok in the deluge of , well, comments.
Admire the way you are communicating and handling things overall.
Please do take care of yourself.

Oh, no worries on the reply! I didn't do it directly because there were two people in the discussion who asked, so I figured I'd just drop the reply for all to accept and see!

It's been a very long week, and I will sleeping a lot this weekend, but I'm still happy to be here to help everyone make sure their voices are heard to the best of my ability! I'm doing my best, and I'll keep doing that! You can always ask why I removed something, and I'll always answer, whether here or in DMs too. Please also take care of YOURself!

Your post was removed for baiting and calling us bozos. Calling us bozos would be using an insult. That's kind of it! I read it and wanted to keep it since a lot of it was valid criticism, and I considered just getting rid of the insult, but it seemed the insult was also part of your point, and paraphrasing feels like a gross over-management. For those reasons, it had to be removed as per our Community Guidelines. I'll keep these comments since we're just having a transparent discussion about it!

As the person removing comments, I am not just removing comments of dissenting opinion! If I was doing that, I'm not sure there would be a thread at all. We need the dissenting opinions to see where we failed here so it doesn't happen again. You can't get better if you only listen to praise.

Comments here have only been removed for breaking our forum guidelines, and so far the rule-breaks I have seen were mostly baiting, insults, and excessive swearing (I say excessive because on SOME posts, I have just removed the swear and noted that the post was edited to remove said swear so as to keep their feedback and opinion accurate and immortalized.).

I do like the fact that everything is becoming repeatable as far as scenarios go.

On Paizo's side, do they just press a button or something, to enable that? Computers and programming is not my thing. How much extra would it take to make everything repeatable?

It is my understanding that this is actually quite difficult for all involved, but a worthy hurdle!

Madhippy3 wrote:

Oof, do not like. I've seen plenty what SFS2 has given instead of provisions. Between nothing and of questionable use. Bad call, just give provisions to SFS2

This is much!!!! I've been desperate for SF2 to pick up provisions, and then to find out it's going away on the PF2 side is the exact opposite of what I want.

Thank you both of you for this feedback!

Gen Con starts July 30, so I presume that day.

This should be correct yes!

@Maya - there does not seem to be a link to this thread on the blogpost itself…

Sorry all! With how busy I have been this week, I didn't get to make the forum post until after Maryssa had left the office, but she added it to the blog this morning! Sorry for the delay!

Changes are coming THIS SUMMER to Pathfinder and Starfinder Society! Get all the details on Organized Play rule changes and Program Alignment from Alex, Jessica, Shay, and Josh in today's blog!

I hope they're giving Maya bonus and overtime for how much they've needed to deal with. Way too good for us sometimes.

Your kind words are enough extra for me!

*I've yet to see conclusive evidence "Maya" isn't four Skittermanders in a trenchcoat, which I remind you is an approximate total of twenty-four arms.

Now what would give you that idea? I'm clearly four raxilites in a trenchcoat, and what I lack in natural arms I make up for with my Flexible Augmentations feat. Hmph.

Adding my voice to the choir, thank you for all you're doing Maya!

You're welcome, Greg! I'll keep doing it!

I would like to reiterate, Maya, that no matter my feelings at the moment on Paizo as a whole, I still appreciate the work you do and know you're an advocate for the entire community just doing your best for all parties. Thank you for the service you're doing.

Thank you, Dr. Aspects! I'm doing everything I can. And then I'm reading your concerns, learning, and doing even more!

I think you've got this completely backwards.

The community and Paizo were partners in building up this game. Now Paizo is inferring, and some of Paizo's supporters in these threads, are telling us "Either support everything we do or we are going out of business." And having been bullied with that bluff too many times already in the past, we are calling their bluff.

I do want to address this and say that we are not intending to bully anyone or make any bluffs. The blog was just to explain what happened with the Archives of Nethys crew from our end. We have no control nor seek to control over whatever you choose to do with that information. Choosing to support us or not support us is your prerogative, now as it always has been.

All that being said, we're listening to your concerns here. I'm passing on important info to the rest of the team as well as team members reading it themselves to understand your perspectives. I'm reading every single one of the 1200+ emails I've received about this to better inform us of what we could do moving forward to fill the space that all of this has created. I just wanted to make that very clear!

I'd like to let the Paizo team know that I'm not going to rage quit any of my subs.

I'd also want to thank MAYA especially for all that you do!

Thank you! Both for supporting us and also for your shoutout to me! I'm doing my best, and we appreciate your support a lot! We will find a good solution to this. I am committed to it.

As an update, for first steps as I've mentioned in this thread and some others, I'll be working with the team to get a massive Community Use Art package that will fill some of those art holes at least. We've been in discussion of doing this for a while now, but we acknowledge that we need it now more than ever. This project will be kicked into full gear after Gen Con because Gen Con is... well... Gen Con. It's busy. BUT yes, it will be kicked into gear after! It's just one step, but hopefully it's one of many that will get things back on track!

Almost all of us trust you Maya. You have earned that trust many times over

This means a lot to me! I've been working here at Paizo for over a year now, working diligently to champion our community, my fellow members of the team, and build trust with you all! It's not something I take lightly or would ever break! I take my role very seriously!

I'd just like to recognize how much it sucks to bear the brunt of a decision that was beyond your control. I'm sorry you're stuck in the middle of this, Maya.

I'm doing my best and listening to all the feedback!! Your understanding in the situation is much appreciated! Still please be honest with your feedback on this so I can get an accurate assessment of how you all feel about it and some good ideas for moving forward!

While my partner and I won't be able to make it this year, we're definitely hoping to have the means to do so next year and would love to say "Hi!" if/when that happens!

Oh, that would be wonderful! My fingers are crossed for this!

Also, I saw this question floating around a few times, but yes, the community email is just me! I've received over 1200 emails. I can respond to some of them but not all of them since I am one human, however I am READING all of them. If they ask any questions that are not answered in the blog, I'm responding myself. It's going to take me a while, so I appreciate your patience please!

Respectfully, do you have proof aside from your word that this is the case? Surely there is documentation that shows that discussions weren't finished if that is the case. Otherwise, this just becomes a "They said" argument, which is baffling on both sides.

This does not exonerate, either, the previous actions of Paizo in relation to how they have handled the digital community.

Hopefully you understand that we can't post our internal emails. All I have is my word, and I'm sorry that's not enough.

As always, I'm still here reading and moderating! I have to say it's a shame that some posts had to be removed for baiting, insults, and swearing. I say that because all your opinions are helpful and valued, and if I have to remove them because of breaking a rule, it feels like silencing where I'd rather not. Some of the posts hurt, sure, but no one is free of valid criticism.

Anyway, please keep things civil so that your voices can be heard and not removed with a mod hammer!

Maya Coleman wrote:

You all are great, and I hope to meet many of you at Gen Con!

Too far away for me sadly but I hope you have a great time!

We will make sure to get as many of the panels on video as possible and get them up on YouTube after so you don't miss much!

You've got support coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE too, Maya! In a support way. Not from a creepy stalker making the call from inside the house. Just wanted to make that last part clear. But isn't that just what a stalker would try to do?

Whether or not you are a stalker remains to be seen! /j Thank you, James!!!

Oh, I don't mind the cheaper shipping (I was quite surprised at only 30 dollars for 3 hardcover books). I just absolutely want tracking on my shipment. ^^

It should also have tracking, but I cannot confirm that, which is why I didn't say anything! I'm pretty sure it does though!

Just a little reminder here for everyone to take a look at the blog we posted today! Also, all the emails to community inbox just go to me, so... keep that in mind too!