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All of this rocks so hard. I love it!

NightTrace wrote:

However, Advantage is going away entirely? So I will need to earn 500 gold/spend $500.00 to get a 10% discount on a single purchase when I currently have a Global 15% discount which itself applies to my subscriptions?

Ow.

We will probably be legendary tier if we currently qualify for paizo advantage. Which will mean we keep our 15% discount. But it's tied to that $750/year threshold now instead of having 4 subs.

That's fair. I'm at six subs and I strongly suspect that Paizo gets $750 annual from me already and I'm fine with that to be clear lol.

I'll need more information (which will be coming in the near future it sounds like) but I'm probably a niche/smaller population all things considered. I do believe this will probably continue to be a net positive for most Gamers :D

Actually, I think I'm back to not being thrilled about this.

The Society things not being automatic and instead having to spend the Gold/Loyalty program points manually is annoying, but I was already thinking about "Oh, but I can use discounts on things like Novels now" too.

However, Advantage is going away entirely? So I will need to earn 500 gold/spend $500.00 to get a 10% discount on a single purchase when I currently have a Global 15% discount which itself applies to my subscriptions?

Ow.

So instead of getting the society pdfs free and automatically for subscribing I now have to micromanage it myself? And THIS is the solution you chose to develop? Way to go 21st century tech with 19th century customer service.

I feel SO rewarded for for being a subscriber since almost the first month your subscriptions existed.

This was my initial gut reaction too, but tbh I think this actually does end up working out to a "better value" minus having to pick up the Scenarios yourself versus them automatically being delivered to your Digital Content library. You're still fully able to pick up Society for free given the Gold to Discount options, but you now have the ability to apply the discounts on other products too.

You lose the ease of automatic, but now actually get some choice too. Plus, it means Paizo gets some better metrics on whose actually picking up Scenarios, which ones are more popular, etc.

I think I'm likely going to be one of the rare people where the move from Advantage to Plus is an overall negative, but I *suspect* that for *most* people this will be a positive move, so I get it!

Edit*: Having reread I *believe* this will mostly end up the same for me? I have six active subscriptions and while I won't get Society scenarios automatically via the free subscription now they should end up free anyway with the Gold discounts. It just goes from a passive/automatic thing to having a slight inconvenience of having to manually purchase/redeem to pick them up.

Reading through the Necromancer playtest really makes me think someone's recently mainlined the Locked Tomb series.

I loooooooooove it

This book has been sanctioned for Starfinder Society Organized Play!

Well that's a weird choice, you don't even know what I'm going to write in mine...

Another week, another chance we might get a dead Abadar. Lets effin gooooo! :P

This was *so cool*. Loved it.

Quite simply, it’s an extra layer of complexity that most players aren’t engaging with, and that doesn’t add much to the program.

Amen. Great change, even if it does mean I technically "lose" something I have access to today.

Thanks for taking the time to make a post about these topics. As consumers none of us ever look forward to costs increasing, however you laid out the "why" in a manner that shows that it's not a situation of "because we would like more $".

I will miss SF1, Paizo's last remaining high magic setting where any 16th level caster could easily toss himself across the galaxy.

You know, that's a fair feeling to have. I'm the opposite personally where the sheer scale of what magic had access to based on the games 3.5 root DNA really turned me off on magic users in general.

Riding Drake access please?

This is all very exciting.

Always cool to see new ancestries become common and always cool to see RIC things :)

In less far fetched requests (one day Demolitionist archetype, one day), I would really like to see the return of Vanity Boons like we had in PF1. They were one of my favorite things in the original OrgPlay system and I used them to great effect to add customization and depth to my characters backstories and personalities.

I'd like access to the Demolitionist archetype tbh.

I'm probably just a weirdo.

I will personally invest all of the time of my crew and myself to whichever First Seeker promises to expand our cargo bay situation and let us drive some more mechs.

Paizo has earned my trust over the years so I am simply looking forward to what comes next! :)

This is cool as hell and I love this move.

Three pages before we got to "I have plenty of AcP, so it isn't a problem."

Progress.

Not what was said by anyone.

Doug Hahn wrote:

Know what's also a tradition in TTRPGGs? Discarding stuff the table doesn't like.

PF supports this.

All TTRPG's can be tailored to your table preferences.

But as people have pointed out, alignment is so ingrained into mechanics it makes it difficult or nearly impossible even to play without alignment. Not only is there alignment damage but there are spells, feats and other things based entirely on or around alignment

Play another game that better suits your wants, or run the game as GM and customize the mechanics to your liking.

I can scarcely breath for all the gaslighting in this thread.

Honestly, the only thing we agree on so far. I suspect we would disagree on where it's coming from though.

No, because I lose my glasses after tripping or getting hit, I'm impaired. This should be reflected in the game as well

No.

My eyeglasses are certainly a part of my identity.

Weird that no one targets those on characters.

That's different though, cause you know, "normal people" have glasses. /s

Just wanted to drop my $0.02 because it seems to be the thing here.

If your response to someone playing a character that has a disability is "I don't like that they don't have enough negative consequences associated with this disability" then you're unlikely to be part of the target audience that Paizo hopes to cultivate within the community.

I would tell you to touch grass, but we all know that's not in the cards. However, I'm glad that you're in enough of a positive situation that you're able to fixate on how you might homebrew consequences onto other Players.

Love,
NightTrace

Uh, Asking for volunteers for a physical convention where you're surrounded with other people is a prime spot to bring up the mask topic.

Yeah, this is a GenCon s$#+show choice vs Paizo doing anything right now. It's incredibly disappointing that GenCon made these choices.

Tanuki look cool AF. Hype!

Love it all, and am not sad about flickmaces :P

Good bye!

Dresses, with pockets?

I know some people who will be getting cool gifts this year :D

I'm not above politicking by posting my two cents here on the forums too!

What part of the Starfinder Campaign setting would you like to see us introduce into Starfinder Society Scenarios that you haven't seen yet?

This could include specific planets, planes, species, NPCs, and/or organizations.

I put the following:

I am pretty disappointed with Paizo for GenCon 2022. The PFS presence in the Sagamore was a quarter what it used to be.

Yeah, there's still a highly infectious disease that's ongoing and that means limiting the scale/scope of everyone's physical presence at the convention.

Heck, there are actually two now! So, maybe dwell on that for a little while and consider why things may have seemed smaller than usual.

Edit: You do know there were *GAP* tables specifically to keep tables at safe distances right? Are you "disappointed" that there were enforced safety precautions???

NightTrace wrote:

Is the position that didn't exist until Jim was on boarded going to continue to exist or will it be closed now that there isn't a need for a 'hire a friend' spot?

In retrospect, it might have been more a "hire a potential candidate for President" while you a) get him up to speed on the company and b) evaluate him to make sure you want to give him the job.

That's possible. I admit to pessimism here.

Is the position that didn't exist until Jim was on boarded going to continue to exist or will it be closed now that there isn't a need for a 'hire a friend' spot?

https://youtu.be/9Deg7VrpHbM

I am deeply sorry that Tender doesn't feel safe here and am sorry to see them go.

Good Afternoon,

I just wanted to follow up on this. Hopefully, this type of feedback can be helpful?

When addressing someone's stated concerns about the environment (in this case, the forums), it is useful to acknowledge the validity of the persons concerns and address the topic that's been brought up (in this case, the environment of the forums).

Stating that you are apologetic that they *feel* a certain way isn't a helpful thing. It sidesteps addressing the topic that is actually under question and instead communicates that the issue was the person's feelings.

Thank You,
Brendan aka NightTrace

Then make a cost for the Rare ones, but make it accessible still.

One of the biggest things 2E has going for it compared to competitors is the Ancestries.

It feels like a self own at this point.

Honestly with 2E math removing Ancestry as an avenue for breaking things (so far) why is the idea of forced scarcity still in play?

In character the Society is a world spanning organization with lodges everywhere.

Out of character we buy the books to play the things.

Heck, use the Rarity tags. Uncommon? Just make it available, why not?

Rare? Make it 60-80 if a cost is needed.

Unique? Its not available.

Do that, bring back vanities. :P

NightTrace wrote:

Would it be possible to have these moderation efforts handled by someone less directly involved in the ongoing conversations? Feels weird AF.

Unless/until Paizo decides she is not doing her job appropriately, its her job

It's part of it, yes. However other people share in that responsibility too. As it is, I just put it as a request, not a demand for sure.

Removed one post about birds, as sarcasm in this thread is especially close to baiting (also, please watch the profanity). Thanks!

Would it be possible to have these moderation efforts handled by someone less directly involved in the ongoing conversations? Feels weird AF.

That fun moment when the company has no money to raise wages to a living standard but it has the money to hire Wolfram & Hart so that they can *checks press release* send e-mails asking former employees if they were mistreated.

It's always interesting to see what Leadership truly finds important, isn't it?

:< but...but I have a robot dog that must become real :P

We have investigated the long-running "there are secret royalties involved in the website" rumor, and there is absolutely no truth to it.

...could we see a new site in the future then? Plz? :(

If the executive team can live and work in another state, why can't the employees?

This is what came to mind for me too! Glad someone beat me to voicing this!

This conversation is borderline company harassment and there are other, more positive, ways to show support for the UPW. I'm leaving this thread open for now and requesting posters to not post threatening messages. Thank you.

The hell is "company harassment"?