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One quick thought. I know you said the FCU will have no changes but be in parallel... However just to make things absolutely clear that it will be blocking nothing -and the CUP is what handles things instead- would it perhaps make sense to either strike Requirement 2? Or at least modify it to mention the Community Use Policy as another thing you would use instead of the FCU?

Paizo, thank you for listening to the community and reinstating the CUP with merely some housekeeping updates. And thank you community for responding so quickly and clearly to make it so clear this was concerning. Going to echo a few others here in saying there is nothing like a good dialogue. I can only hope for future community changes there may be a commentary period.

Playing Around premiering now! A Classy Curtain Call Companion

The whimsical Curtain Call AP with its greater focus on puzzle solving, subsystems, and encounters begging for a certain level of creativity. So this bang up crew of creators set off to pen new class options to both thrill the crowds and threaten their enemies. Amid these 26 pages in addition to new class features for 21 classes are 47 feats, 21 Spells, and 7 items.. Enough for an entire ensemble cast - I mean party.

Check out reddit for a full list of each class’s new features

So what do you say, step right up, and try it out on Pathfinder Infinite today… then be sure to reply and tell us the adventures of Golarion’s newest star.

Playing Around premiering now! A Classy Curtain Call Companion

The whimsical Curtain Call AP with its greater focus on puzzle solving, subsystems, and encounters begging for a certain level of creativity. So this bang up crew of creators set off to pen new class options to both thrill the crowds and threaten their enemies. Amid these 26 pages in addition to new class features for 21 classes are 47 feats, 21 Spells, and 7 items.. Enough for an entire ensemble cast - I mean party.

Check out reddit for a full list of each class’s new features

So what do you say, step right up, and try it out on Pathfinder Infinite today… then be sure to reply and tell us the adventures of Golarion’s newest star.

Quinn Noooooooo!!!!! :sob:

Seriously, is there a part two planned? Or do I pester fiction writers on Infinite?

Rue Dickey wrote:

I'm yelling!!! Quinn!!!! Use your investigator brain!!! You have a 20 INT!!! Please connect some dots!!!!

But what's his Wis?

High Int/Low Wis is so funny to play.

I'm going to be honest, once I suspected Godsrain Contingencies was going to hit the Bestsellers again, I've been waiting to see which version of the cover would end up here. Urgathoa, week four... Interesting.

Godsrain Contingencies are complete?!*
Who will people follow in the absence of perfection? And what marks can we hit when we open ourselves to the universe?
People who've already purchased can head back on over to Pathfinder Infinite to download your updates. For people who're interested now, purchase it here!
Week 9 is 3 pages dedicated to new material looking inwards to focus outwards.

• 3 god transitions
• 9 new feats
• New archetype the Deliberate Singularity

*Foundry and Pathbuilder will be coming late Spring/ early Summer ... I’m taking a well earned rest / I mean catching up on other projects ;)

Tune in Tuesday April 16th at 3pm Pacific for the Godsrain Pregame!
Ready for one last hype before the big dead god reveal?
We're going to be hitting the streets for peoples last minute predictions, and what their reactions may be to which particular gods may die.

Check it out at https://www.twitch.tv/werestrongtogether
For further questions and discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1c2cprj/ready_for_one_last_h ype_before_the_big_dead_god/

Godsrain Contingencies (8) Desna is out now!
When the stars disappear, the songs fade, the wings no longer flutter, the world is thrust into mourning. Desnal melodies distract everyone, inversion compasses help connect people with true north shaken, and the astronomers, geomancers, rangers, and scouts, learn to embrace the new night.
People who've already purchased can head back on over to Pathfinder Infinite to download your updates. For people who're interested now, purchase it here!
Week 8 is 3 pages dedicated to new material for navigating the darkness.

• 6 god transitions
• 3 new feats
• 1 new item, the inversion compasses
• New Geomancer options with Night terrain

Prismatic “Mat” Gay wrote:

Has it been announced how late into the livestream the dead god will be announced? Or will it be a countdown of safe gods or something? Or just unknown?

It has not been announced and I dont see it BEING announced. ;) it'll be a fun ride.

Oooooooo. Please tell me there will be dramatic readings!

The only thing more painful than the delays in Godsrain Contingencies are these new options for Bards and Oracles! Update 7 Zon-Kuthon available now!
Godsrain Contingencies (7) Zon-Kuthon is out now!
The expunging of Zon-Kuthon leaves a divided Nidal, but the world feels his “death” moreso in the wake of Shelyn’s mourning. She strived to create the right songs to summon her brother Dou-bral, giving rise to Muses of Misery, but in the in her failure she opened the paths to the Mysteries of Grief, now cursing creatives and bleeding joy for some time.
People who've already purchased can head back on over to Pathfinder Infinite to download your updates. For people who're interested now, purchase it here!
Week 7 is 5 pages dedicated to new material for embracing your pain and grief.

• 3 god transitions
• 10 new feats
• 5 new spells
• Bard options with Misery Muse
• Oracle options with Mystery of Grief

This week features some amazon art from Ashton Sperry aka Game Raccoon, please give them some love for giving me the sad Shelyn we deserved for this update of Godsrain Contingencies.

I originally thought these were a tie in to get us excited for War of Immortals, but still separate fiction.
But the further we get, like Yivali, I do wonder if these are part of the meta-event and meaning to influence peoples attitudes or events.

I love this. This is the best "Death" for Zon-Kuthon, and while these are winding down nice to see there's some flexibility in the meaning of death.
But then of course it sets off so many other things, we still get to that fall out and another kind of grief.

That's a bingo!

Are bingos... interesting?

Notorious Names and Narrative Novelties: Navigating the Nuance of Nomenclature

I want this book in my life.

I know Erin had much greater achievements in writing these, but this is still one nonetheless.

BTW: "Godsrain Contingencies" is such a good name for a tie-in product. /chef-kiss

Aww thanks!

Godsrain Contingencies (6) Nethys is out now!
Nethys has ripped magic, creating hollows across the globe and wild magic beyond them. Most people struggle to adapt with either losing their magic or struggling amid a world without it, but a handful have become inundated by the backlash instead. How will you choose to adapt?
People who've already purchased can head back on over to Pathfinder Infinite to download your updates. For people who're interested now, purchase it here!
Week 6 is 5 pages dedicated to new material for a world with retreating gods.

• 4 god transitions
• 1 new item
• 3 new spells
• 3 new backgrounds
• Options for champions and clerics
• New “bloodline” the Inundant

Change log 6

• All links reflective of player archives of nethys remaster updates
• Alt text for week 5 pictures

Ah heck yes!
Guessing Archive of Nethys update lining up with Nethys prophecy is gonna pay off!
Two of my new doctrines in Godsrain Contingencies assume little to no spellcasting! The overlap is real.
Now I can have all sorts of fun with magical alternatives for everyone, not just our clerics.

Meet, cutting it close this week! Was being chased by my own beasts...
Godsrain Contingencies (5) Erastil and the Unbidden Beast out now!
In the wake of Erastil’s death a beast has risen and the hunt is on. But is it for the beast, or from it? Who will join and who will leave? What gods will rise and which will fall? And as the gods linger out of reach, how will the Forsaken Cleric’s move on in life?
People who've already purchased can head back on over to Pathfinder Infinite to download your updates. For people who're interested now, purchase it here!
Week 5 is 4+ pages dedicated to new material for a world with retreating gods.
* 1 cleric class archetype, 3 new doctrines
* 1 new deity entry for the Unbidden Beast
* 3 new feats
* 3 faithful reactions

Fun behind-the-scenes fact that I'm sure you'll all love:

** spoiler omitted **

You're welcome!

Either this substantiates that the prophecies provide some hints of what is to come (which just don't know which the truths are and all the ones that aren't)...

Ed Reppert wrote:

The time will come. One of the "safe" deities will die. "But Paizo! You said they were safe!" "We lied." :-)

They're actually killing two Core Deities. Did they ever say that they were going to stop at one?

They have said one core deity. But an unknown number outside of the core.

The next update for Godsrain Contingencies is available!
After Urgathoa's death and unread rise all over Golarion, not a thing has not changed and it is a new era for adventures. Try on these seven new backgrounds for players coming from devastating situations, six skill feats, and not god transitions this week but more reactions of the populace and the gods, since not everyone is convinced they are returning to service.
To check out these fives pages, people who've already purchased can head back to your library and download your updates. For everyone else it's available here for $3.99 till the next god falls.

The Raven Black wrote:

My own theory is that Paizo decides on who the next deity will be based on the comments following the previous deity's blog post.

While that would have been fun (for me especially), the art department made all the versions of the Days of Future Past poster at once, so we had to tell them who should be marked "safe" in each subsequent version. In general, we operate too far ahead of time to actually pull something like that off without putting a lot of extra work on just about everyone in the process to drop what they're doing and pick up the thread for the next installment.

Makes sense. Get this fully outlined and streamlined through the teams in advance.

While spit balling for next Godsrain Contingencies... *sigh* Why did it have to be so many zombies in my Pathfinder. This becomes that. People going to be doing this. Probably gotta...
Wait overrun by zombies?
Is this Hopefinder on Golarion?

Bullllllmaaaaaaaaaaahn!

So perhapse it's not that Urgathoa is a "stopper" on the world turning undead, but rather a "stopper" on the forces who would do so, as an existence entirely of undeath leaves her and her followers nothing to feast upon.

I like that. I was kinda debating how upset Geb would be over losing all his "quick" uhhhh, let's say workforce. But thinking about it at the more divine scale is even more spicy.

Huh. Is this now not just a curiosity but a prequel? Since Yivali is speaking of watching Aranzi closer, and Yivali is hanging out with Arazni on the cover of Divine Mysteries.

Godsrain Contingencies week 3 available now!
When Yivali held death in her talons, she feared delivering such terrible warning without also hope. Included in her annotations was research into what the world might become if each gods death were to occur, and thus what contingencies could be made.

Cayden Cailean updates are now included. Learn about the Ill Luck Inebriates and how even the gods have reacted to Cayden's fall. Check out new feats, items, a whole new archetype, the Agnosticator Archetype where you use your power of disbelief to shut down the followers of the god you're trying to remove from divinity.
People who've already purchased can head back on over to Pathfinder Infinite to download your updates. For people who're interested now, purchase it here!

Week 3 is five full pages dedicated to new material for Cayden Cailean.

• 11 new feats
• 1 new archetype, the Agnosticator.
• 1 new item
• 8 new transitions - including everyone who has risen from the Starstone... or have they?

I'm seeing quotes both ways, but I'm team there's kernels if not a whole lot of truth here. Just not the actual dying part.

I know I am woefully remiss in my Pathfinder tales reading, but, at least on the descriptions I've skimmed I don't recall _anything_ with godly pov. Please point me to where it is if I'm missing it, cause I need more, now that I have tasted. And I am soaking this in. How can I know a character truly until I've seen through their eyes? And as these prophecies are seeming to reveal, potentially their greatest fear / anxieties.
Golarion has always been a neat varied setting but this is dragging me deeper, and I am here for it.

The next update for Godsrain Contingencies is available!
Check out what the world is like with Asmodeus passing and the rise of Ihys, doing Hell his way. In addition to the Pharasma mterial from last week, take a look at new feats, items, the Contract Overrider archetype, and of course new worship options for former Asmodeans, including a deity entry for Ihys.
People who've already purchased can head back to your library and download your updates. For everyone else it's available here for $2.99 till the next god falls.

This is making me confident that my guesses of Sarenrae/Asmodeus/Pharasma are all wrong and all three Divine Mysteries stained glass gods survive :'D

(btw, do we still get short stories for 9 gods that aren't part of 10 week countdown or are we left forever wondering what their prophecies would have been? x'D)

I would love more of Erin's take on this. But if Paizo doesn't do this, I don't think the community will let an absence of prophecies stand! Where my fellow Golarion fiction writers? :D

I love how this builds up. Ahh... working through contracts, making things a bit better there, putting devils a bit more in place, lest see how we can improve. But if people don't agree with me...
Burn it to the ground!

*cracks knuckles* Can't wait to dig into this more.

Weekly blog posts of Universe rippling changing parallel universe effects?
I accept challenge.

In the Godsrain Contingencies, Yivali analyzes the impacts of each god’s death and suggests new options players can take in order help mitigate all the changes that have wrecked Golarion. Every week new scenarios are revealed. Perhaps in extrapolating from each of these false prophecies we can prepare for the ultimate death in April.

Check it out on Pathfinder Infinite

Ravien999 wrote:

Mark Moreland wrote:

Project: J-ko wrote:

Oh my God...all 20 of 'em. So week by week is how we're gonna find o-WAIT NO!!

There's only 10 weeks until April 16th. They're only gonna clear half the names by the time that stream goes live, if I'm doing my math right (which is questionable).

Correct. There's enough teasing in this thread and campaign in general that I do feel a certain level of transparency and expectation management is warranted. This is a 10-part series, during which we will reveal 10 of the core twenty "safe" from the pending demise set to fall upon one of their number. This means that when we do our big stream on April 16—in which we'll reveal not only who dies, but a bunch of info on tie-in products and more—there will be 10 potential victims. We didn't want to narrow it down too much and ruin the fun of speculation!

And now back to being a cagey instigator!

From a lore perspective these are very interesting. Obviously, the prophecies themselves are meant to be false but are the outcomes of said prophecies, such as how the souls are heralded in Pharasma's absence, intended to be taken as canon statements of what would happen in the aftermath, or is it just one potential version of what would happen if Pharasma was dead as well?

I know a lot of people theorized she was safe because of potential ramifications, but it'd be cool to understand if this is actually the order of things that Pharasma creates or not.

These are meant to be just a possible outcome, but also one that comes with enough ramifications and story potential that we would use the idea to kick off the War of Immortals. I'd like to imagine there are various parallel timelines where we chose a different god to die and their death plays out like in the Godsrain Prophecy blog. So, in a way, these are canon to parallel timeline versions of Pathfinder.

I was kinda wondering if this was gonna serve up different gods for each refresh... but ah, gradually we get different gods. That makes more sense.

"In fact, as of the publication of this FAQ, you are expressly prohibited from releasing any content in your Pathfinder Infinite or Starfinder Infinite product as Licensed Material under the ORC."

Um, that's pretty seriously BAD. I knew Pathfinder Infinite was a bad thing and would lead to worse down the road -- and this 100% confirms it. Glad I've done no browsing there at all. Embrace a gosh-darned open system -- the very thing that allowed Paizo to exist in the first place. Trying to become like those Seaside Mages that live just down the road, are you?

Otherwise, I hope people properly abandon Infinite and release things ORC themselves. Or better yet, people return to just posting things free on the Internet for the joy of it without attempting to micro-monetize/turn their hobby into a side-gig.

I would appreciate it if you do not imply that the work people done is not ... well work. A great many of the products on Pathfinder Infinite are equal to Paizo quality. And being done by folks individually without the support of a whole company of experts specializing. Though speaking of there are Paizo freelancers, heck there are Paizo employees, are you suggesting what they have producing is not worthy of compensation?

Just because it's something one enjoys, it doesn't mean one doesn't deserve compensation for the work. If you feel that presenting new rules, new character options, new adventures, new NPCs, and the whole host of options on Pathfinder Infinite or Pathfinder Compatible Products could be considered micro-monetization... then I'm not sure this is the thread for you anyway.

Some generalized free stock sites. Good for backgrounds, items. Finding good figures take some time, but it's fun to browse when you have a few free minutes
Pixabay
Pexels

I've already learned a lot through the whole contest process, voting, taking in all the wisdom of the forums and seeing who actually did come out on top. Thank you everyone for the participation and excitement. It really turned this contest into an event for the public in addition to the winners.

That said, if anyone would like to comment, I would appreciate the specific advice.

(Some of my initial thoughts are I'm not sure I got the cost quite right, given its not the traditional slot for this type of item (although I thought it was thematic) and it certainly was fairly less mojo than a swath of the items I saw in the voting)

Headband of the Hirsute
Aura faint transmutation; CL 6th
Slot headband; Price 8,500 gp; Weight 2 lbs.
Description
This thick headband is covered in dense, coarse animal fur. The headband stimulates hair growth for the wearer allowing the subject to grow a thick pelt. This pelt provides a +2 enhancement bonus to natural armor and protects the wearer from cold environments as the endure elements spell. Furthermore the pelt bestows a +2 circumstance bonus to Stealth checks when in a natural environment. This bonus increases to +5 if the subject is not wearing armor or clothing. However, due to the wearer's bestial appearance, the subject now takes a -5 penalty on all Diplomacy checks.

When first donning the Headband of the Hirsute the wearer must decide if the hair grown will be their own natural coloring, or that of the local fauna. The hair will grow comfortably under clothing and armor as long as it is not tight or form-fitting. The headband must be worn for three days before the pelt is completely grown and for the wearer to gains its benefits. If the headband is removed anytime after this point the owner loses the pelt and all of her natural hair. The owner can put on the headband again for one hour to regrow her hair to its natural length.
Construction
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, beast shape I, endure elements, creator's caster level must be at least 6th; Cost 4,250 gp

I propose a parallel competition to RPG Superstar. IT Guru! Your challenge, keep the site up during RPG Superstar. Your prize? ... what do you mean prize? Just keep on keeping the darn system up. And oh, heres a backlog while you're at it, we needs us our new features as well.