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If you get two dice of jaws damage, you deal 2d6 bleed. Three dice of jaws damage means 3d6 bleed, and so on.

This is what I think how it should be understood, though the formulation could cover a feat like Deadly simplicity that would upgrade the jaws damages from 1D6 to 1D8, does the bleed damages would move from 1D6 to 1D8 ?

Hi there, I'd like to get a clarification on the Corpsefolk Rip, Tear ancestry feat:

Your skull plates or teeth have grown sharper over time, or you have painstakingly carved them to do maximum damage when using them in combat. Your unarmed jaws attack now inflicts 1d6 persistent bleed damage on a successful hit (double on a critical hit). If your weapon damage ever increases, the number of dice for your bleed damage also increases by the same amount.

The last sentence is unusual my first intuition is to read

As the number of damage dice of your weapon increases, So does the number of dice of your bleed damage.

But the second part of the sentence ends with

... increases by the same amount

which makes think that we are more talking about a die size increase (i.e. 1D6 --> 1D8)

How do you understand this ?

I just received the Sketch cover edition and the idea of having a plain couloured frame around the sketch on the cover is really Fantastic !!!

Hey, I just ordered a a few products and it looks like it will be shipped apart from the subscription schedule, has this awesome feature to group shipment disapeared as well with the awesome new store ?

@maya, isn't it possible to get in a post a monthly update on the release schedule like we had before, so we could get a view on your release schedule.

I really feel like I've lost a lot of things I liked with paizo when we moved to the new shop and I don't consider myself as someone resistant to changes.

The release schedule was a very practical page that provided in one page Paizo's roadmap and allowed to plan upfront the purchase and discuss with the community the upcoming products.

When a Paizo physical product is selected and that multiple edition is available, I find it awesome that we can select the edition and see directly see the appropriate cover by clicking on a button (so 1 product, 1 page).

What about adding a digital edition button to be able to order the pdf version from the same page ?

Not sure wether it is a bug or an data entry issue but I've noticed that the GM core product allows to select a sketch version (instead of the retailer edition)

As a purchaser overseas, shipping cost are higher, but on top we have administrative fees to pay per parcel (40-70'ish $ sometimes) so it is important to be able to enforce a shipment once in a month usually, through the the subscription shipment.

The first option we have is to use the "Add to subscription Shipment button" when adding an item to purchase, which is very straightforward. Unfortunately

- We can't add Voucher/Coupons, convention voucher code in this case involving that the 20$ convention voucher offered by Paizo (thank you) are not even covering the shipment fees
- The "Add to Subscription Shipment button" isn't available with non-Paizo product available on your store (i.e. the Starfinder Second Edition Field Journal, or other products

I don't like to add multiple features in one post (you have to vote for all or none) but these are my proposed features, but they are all linked to the same user story

1. Allow the account settings to set an option related to the default behaviour of shipment (Ship as soon as purchased or always Ship with the Subscription Shipment)
2. Allow to add store credits from Voucher/Coupons/gift certificate/Convention voucher useable that can be used for Subscription
3. Add a button at checkout to add the order to the next subscription shipment (which could allow different payment method and still group shipment).

so here another pragmatic suggestion
Than you for reading this and adding a + (or a -) if you this this is a pragmatique approach

As an owner of lots of product I would like to see if I already owned this product, especially with digital products
on the legacy site : there was an "Already in your library"
On the new site I would recommand a simple logo "Owned"

This could allow a later **nice to have** feature : Filter out owned product from a search

Jim,
I think a very practical feature of the former site has disapear and I would like to suggest this feature to come back : the Release Schedule
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As a Paizo Customer, I would like to get access from a maximum of 2 clicks from the home page to a list of the upcoming publication for the next month, and know wether there are part of a subscription or not, so I can add those product in my shopping schedule when the pre-order becomes available
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I think that we were a lot to use this page to get the release forecast for every products in one "glimpse"

A same page would be awesome for the Shipping schedule, though we can find this in the forum as well.

This is my recommended feature and I hope it'll get enough "+" to be taken into consideration

Will you offer subscription for special editions like the Sketch cover or retailer edition.
Otherwise how can we in the future swap our subscription publication with its special cover alternative ?

The site looks fantastic and I hope it will meet our expectations in terms of user experience and response time (which is more important than the look for me).

I really hope you will add the opportunity to add the special edition (Sketch, Retailer) in the subscription, otherwise the pre-order time change will become a nightmare. Nowadays, to get the retailer or sketch edition as a subscriber I have to

1° Preorder it
2° Wait until the monthly order is issued
3° Contact CS and ask to opt out from the subscribed version
4° Once shipped, contact the CS to add the PDF in my library

That has proven to be practical to get those special edition. With a 7 day limit on pre-order, I will have to purchase a second copy in the special edition which I won't do.

Regarding foundryVTT products, until now, I have purchased all the published products in the "no-pdf" offering, it was affordable that way even If I won't likely be able to use them all.
with this new offering, I feel like I will be paying more for the same content and considering the total amount, I think I will have to buy those modules only when I will run them.

I understand that the website changes is crucial for Paizo and you have to address technological decay, but when I'm summing all the changes
- No more PFS/SFS scenario offered as a courtesy
- No ways to get special edition without having to purchase a publication two times
- no more discount for foundry modules when you own a pdf

My monthly budget for Paizo publication raise consequently and that's not making me happy.

Now, let's hope for the best and and wait for the Big picture to come up.

Edit :
I forgot that complaining without suggestion solution isn't a very positive attitude and I wonder if a solution could rely on Subscriptions

- Special edition subscription, taking those replace you standard book with a special edition whenever available
- Foundry VTT subscription, which would be a subscription available for "subscribers" (or a physical book + foundry module) where the price of the module in the subscription would be adapted to poeple who, due to their subscription own the PDF
- Digital publication subscription : A PDF-only subscription

Congratulations !! this is a major achievement for all of you

@Maya, Thank you for caring !!

I hope this will be fixed before then end of the week as we would like to finally see how does our purchase look like.

I have contacted Customer support as well and I was wondering if it wouldn't be easier to provide us with activation key by mail and remove the product from sales the time it is solved (to avoid more poeple getting angry)

Have a great day everyone !!

Hello,
To start with, I Have a question on what we can buy on this store with credits ? Will this include anything on the store, including digital product, including foundryVTT products, Flip-Mat, etc…

To continue, I welcome changes, at the end this will provide some more flexibility on how to use our advantages ( depending on the answer above).

Before expressing negative thought I need to understand, does customer last 12 month’s purchases before the start of Paizo+ be taken into account for their initial tier calculation ?

One last question , which may be unrelated, will the store be a able to manage special editions ( like sketch cover or retailer edition) so that we can replace our subscription edition with the special editions ?
To be honnest on this, the customer service is wonderfull, friendly and they are proffessionnal but it’s a bit of an overhead to annoy them each month for this. It’d be more straightforward

I was wondering how long each adventure was estimated to run

Hello, this item is not flagged as being part of a subscription
Should we pr-order it or is it a bug that you will be fixing (I'd though it'd be part of starfinder accessories)

The Faq is updated and can be found here : https://paizo.com/pathfindersociety/faq

@doug Hahn, is the site still maintained ? I just check it and I can't see any update since 2023

Is it the End .. of a beginning ?

Yay !! previous month shipment has not yet arrived, but I can't wait to get the NPC core

I noticed that for this Flip-Mat product, you renamed the former one as "space station (SF1E)" which is a valid workaround. unfortunately, the physical product won't be renamed, so confusion must happen. I wish for the next Flip-Mats where a name collision happens, Paizo could distinguish them by working their name instead of renaming an already existing product.
I am trying to collect all Flip-Mats and name collision can be misleading.

Hilary Moon Murphy wrote:

Thank you for looking into this, Maya! I just want some way of distinguishing between flip-mats, since I run a flip-mat lending library for Minnesota Organized Play.

(The library is composed of multiple GMs that own flip-mats and we make sure that people know who they can borrow from. It's decentralized, but it works.)

If we get too many name repetitions, things will get frustrating fast!

Hmm

It was a totally valid thing to point out to us, Hilary! Thank you for letting us know, and I've given the info to the right people!

By the way, I received this map yesterday and unfold it just right now. I would appreciate, maya, if you could tell the creators of Starfinder maps How awesome their work is and has been for years !!!

Just to translate the previous post (don't shoot the messenger)

There is an issue in the solarian Pregen where the solar weapon is not into it
1st level : no information but Solar shot is decibed
the same with the level 5
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I haven't checked the pregen sheet, but I know this is actually the case in foundry. I will contact the author to learn more about that

Jared Thaler - Personal Opinion wrote:

umopapisdnupsidedown wrote:

I would also like to see a provision explicitly allowing GM discretion for enemies to retreat or surrender when it makes sense for them to do so. It's written into some scenarios but not others.

This is already explicitly allowed, though it could be clearer. Morale is a part of the tactics section, and tactics are one of the things GMs are already specifically allowed to change if the existing tactics no longer apply due to player actions.

I would like greater clarity on this as it wasn’t clear to me how much leeway a GM had in calling a battle.

Actually you could run those scenario in the time if you switch to a pure mechanical approach (what I refer to the Hero Quest mode, with no connotations), where the game is mainly a tactical board game. some like it, other doesn't and consider the experience as not fun.

I'm planning my games on 5 hours slots (online) and most of the time I don't have to skip battles. This happens
- With adventures containing influence encounter, where players tends to spend lots of time on
- With some adventures like "Ukuja the First Wall" or "Island of the Vibrant death" ... sometimes it is just because players got unlucky and one of the previous battle last too long, or sometimes it is because there were too much encounters (which happens, as someone said above, authors are also humans).

I am sure I have also to improve my time management somehow

As a rule of thumb, outside convention, When I plan a tier 5 or more I organize it on 2 sessions of 4 hours, to ensure we have enough time. Between Rushing a battle with silly monster strategy or take the time to provide (some) tactical challenges to the players who are looking for it at the price of skipping another less important-to-the-story battle ...

We're getting slighting out of scope, but those are the guidelines I fell I am missing in the run as written.

BTW thank you for all your reaction, it's important we don't feel alone against this topic !!

Hello,
I am Glad that this discussion is opened as I've had a lot with Organized play GMs, be they Venture officer or GM. To start with I'd like to remind that this section about run as written should be read along with the GM Discretion section available here : https://lorespire.paizo.com/tiki-index.php?page=Guide-to-Organized-Play:-Pa thfinder-Society---Second-Edition#GM_Discretion .

This section provides guidelines and some freedom to the Game Master like rewarding roleplaying or creative ideas. Some of the players/GM I am discussing with are for instance frustrated that their life within of their character the society is not taken into consideration; i.e. if they have already encountered this creature, they should know some of their identified weaknesses (who can count all the battles against skeletton ;-) or if they have already visited Oppara, they should get a bonus with recall knowledge. I usually that it is "unfortunately" at their GM discretion and that they should try (but not insist).

In my games, I am quiet unconfortable with batles as I usually spend more time on social and investigation, it happens often that I have to skip encounters. I would expect a "good" rule regarding this
- Encounters without Treasure bundle and no direct impact on the plot (let's call them side encounters) -- Could be Skipped or played through story telling

But what about side battles with Treasure bundle ? Should I give them the TB or not , oes it mean that If I am late in my time keeping or just let the player have fun where that want to have fun, they should get a penalty in TB. Battles with a direct plot implication shouldn't be skipped, and though they can be easily identifiable, I wonder if we shouldn't tag them in the future to ensure that they happens always at any table)

I'd say that for the rest I do agree with the propose text !!

Hello, Shan't this scenario have the Godsrain Tag as well ?

I am glad to see the CUP back, and the FCP staying and be used for "small" profit use.

I hope there will be a good way for Paizo and its community to protect properly Paizo's IP

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you !!

Now May be I should check if this is the correct thread to provide feed-back for the erratum

Hello,
Unless mistaken, I haven't seen this discrepency on the Erratum related to the Suppressed condition. I've noticed a difference in it definition
- P112 : " A suppressed target takes a –1 circumstance penalty on attack rolls and takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds."
- P255: "You take a –1 circumstance penalty to attack rolls and take a –5-foot status penalty to all your Speeds.

there's a difference in the penalty to speed (10 or 5 feet). if I remember well, during the field test the suppressed condition was errated from 5 to 10. So I guess the valid answer is "10 feet" :-)

I wish the FCP would extend Videos to tutorials and not only .. liveplay

A bit above your post Mark acknowledged that currently there is a gap in the FCP vs the CUP in allowing translations, and they are looking into options to make that available again.

Woooo this is so empathetic!!

So I’d really Appreciate we stick to those questions

This is so messed up. Mark, Paizo... a game lives and dies by its community. You can't just shut them out like this. This is worse than the OGL debacle, because this was done TO YOU first by Wizards. And now you're pulling something similar with Pathfinder's community? How is this remotely fair?

Orion, I don't think we should go on that direction, we are providing input to mark. I really think that we are missing a part of the CUP that facilitate non-monetized fan content that contributed to Paizo's successin the last years.

I wouldn't have adopted Paizo without those content and decided to contribute because the CUP allowed to do more. And I know I am not the only one by speaking with other players accross the world.

I really consider the FCP should take non-profit usage with more consideration and flexibility... somehow aren't we hidden marketting force for Paizo TTRPGs ?

Mark,
Early this morning, people in Europe learned about the replacement of the PCUP by the FCP. In my community, Pathfinder-fr, the last time I felt this level of despair and low morale was during the OGL-Gate. WOTC decided to change the game, ensuring every product would be released through their platform, giving them the final word on what is acceptable in a creator’s product. This was just one of many changes the OGL-Gate brought.

On Sunday evening, the developer team in charge of the Pathfinder 2e game system for Foundry publicly praised one of our members for her work. The next day, after reading the content of the FCP, we realized that all the work done by our volunteers, not only for our translation projects but also all our adoption initiatives, would have to stop or be considered illegal. The PCUP was replaced by the FCP without any notice—this is a cold shower.

With this announcement, I don’t know if Paizo botched its diplomacy check or critted on a demoralized check for our community, but all our volunteers are totally discouraged.

From your previous answer to Rectulo, I understand that you are not aware of the situation abroad. Briefly, our community has been actively working on the adoption of Paizo products since Pathfinder RPG was released, providing translations where there were none, generating game aids, and building a community through wikis.

Yes, English can be a showstopper in non-English speaking countries, to the point of being a factor of exclusion. Your partner in France, although doing a great job, has a huge backlog. Neither the Book of the Dead nor Guns & Gears are available, and the same goes for many adventure modules or most APs. They have to be selective in what they translate and publish.
Thanks to the PCUP, our translators deliver translations of PF2E Foundry compendiums usually within a month of their publication instead of selectively month or years later. This unofficial fan-based French translation cannot be used for any commercial ends.

We had a team ready to translate the Starfinder playtest and run numerous playtest sessions to raise interest and adoption of this new game in French-speaking regions, but this project is now at a standstill.

Here are a few use cases for which I would like to understand how to proceed under the FCP (considering how it worked under the PCUP). Please keep in mind that all these:
• Fan-made translations to bring adoption to new players who don't speak English. Using Golarion or Pact World lore is crucial to facilitate their later transition to commercial publications.
• Publication of community-written adventures for beginners, including a VTT module, usually set in Golarion or the Pact Worlds to ease the transition to mainstream publications. Of course, we could use Infinite, though it means removing all illustrations as they are AI-generated and ensuring we choose subjects that you “unilaterally” consider suitable.
• Publication of YouTube videos intended to explain how it’s played or to introduce potential players to Pathfinder or Starfinder. These are not “live play of game sessions,” but tutorials that would need to quote rules and lore, showing illustrations of Verces.
• Use of the translations to populate a rule-oriented Wiki.
I also wonder what translations would look like where nouns (your IP) are replaced by others to fit the FCP. Pathbuilder replaced the “Pathfinder Society Agent” feat with the “Guild Agent” feat, but still uses Abadar, etc. However, a translation where every noun is replaced would be confusing when it comes to helping people adopt Golarion. Looking at the result as a whole, it would just be plagiarism.

I appreciate the part of the FCP where fans can monetize a modest batch of their work, but for people who have been using the PCUP and spending hours providing free content, we have lost a lot.

I hope you will have the time to answer these questions, and I would really appreciate a second thought about people who have contributed to Paizo’s success as volunteers.

As far As I understand, we can still use previously allowed PCUP art for fan-based forums, youtube presentation, etc , as long as we don't monetize this at all ?
Right ?

Hum ... I feel a bit odd to have 2 flip-mat with the same name
we have now Basic Terrain and Basic Terrain (2024) , and then with the Space Station and Space station (2025), though the products are differents I really feel confused, I'd appreciate if you could think to other name or suffixes like "Second pack".
Using Second edition wouldn't be clever as those maps are edition-independant, aren't they ?

whish EU shipment will be early ;-)

awesome ... can't wait to get to know Dae as well !!

CalmCyborg wrote:

I don't see mention of Starship Combat so guessing this isn't going to be included in this playtest?

Also, should we expect the final version August 2025 or maybe sooner(hopefully)?

Final version of SF2E will be GenCon 2025's release, so it'll be around July/August next year. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

As for the Starship Combat, as of PaizoCon, Thurston and the rest of the Starfinder team are actively working on it, but from the sounds of it, we won't get those rules as part of the initial playtest, no. Likely it'd be either in a future playtest, or as part of one of the first expansion books. We'll just have to wait and see.

Wise enough, let's have an expansion with spaceships and mechas and mecha-spaceships :-)

I went through the AP yesterday evening and ... I was terrifically impressed by the story, and the idea behind !!

I won't have the time to run it and I hope I'll be able to run it on SF2 when Mecha rules will be available as it would be a pure waste not to live the story told by Mechageddon

Bravo la team !!!

Will it get the new-style cover (the one using the SF2 logo) ?

I can't wait for this one !! this the map missing to run Bluerise breakout again ^^

Indeed, I think the name should be re-evaluated as I had the very same thought about it

Though happy to get those !!

Some of my friends are already thinking this season will involve Tar-Baphon... I wonder why, though it might be interesting to see how this super-vilain will be impacted by the war of immortal.

I can wait to get this season, but not too long !!!!

BTW, Is Paizo considering premium VTT modules for this season ?

Congratulations !!

I hope Paizo will also put on the market a foundry module like for season 6 at Product Launch

I just found this page, is it so that now montlhy shipment information will be on the january thread ?

awesome !!

a dead planet Hatching ... That Reminds me of an episode of Dr Who with the moon Hatching, I love it and eager to run it

There is no way we could start right now ? ;-)

And of course, I am asking it and praying for it ... A Foundry module for this season ... Please !!!!

I have contacted customer support as this is the standard process in this case

Yes :-) Let's go to Jamelray !!