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Gaulin wrote:

Due to a variety of factors, according to the announcement of there being no paizocon. If we do get some good spoilers from paizo lives, that would help, it's just nice to have a known time that we would get the goods.

Agreed. Also still bummed about the lack of Paizocon this year; I finally had a schedule line up so I could participate.

So that’s why they cancelled it.

Inspired (?) by the April Fool's blog post to actually create this. No playtesting has been done whatsoever so the balance is questionable at best.

Three <blank> in a Trenchcoat Versatile Heritage

You confuse people by appearing to be a medium ancestry, but, in fact, you are three smaller ancestry in a trenchcoat.

Requirements: Small
Effect: You are Medium, not small.

Scatter
As a three action activity that has the concentrate and manipulate traits you may split into three of your ancestry,each occupying an adjacent space. Each component member is Small, but otherwise is identical to the Medium character with a collective pool of HP. They count as one creature for purposes that require multiple targets.
Climbing under the trenchcoat to become one Medium creature is a three action activity with the concentrate and manipulate traits and requires all three component creatures to be adjacent.

Feats:
One at the Bottom, Strong is He
Feat 1
Three in a Trenchocat, Lineage
You are Trained in Athletics. If you would automatically become trained in Athletics (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.You gain the Hefty Hauler general feat and the Unencumbered Iron Dwarf racial feat, even though you are not a Dwarf.
Special: Can only be taken at 1st level

Two in the Middle, Keeping the Beat
Feat 1
Three in a Trenchocat, Lineage
You are Trained in Performance. If you would automatically become trained in Performance (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You gain the Bard Multiclass Dedication, even though you don't meet its level prerequisite.
Special: Can only be taken at 1st level

Three's Pretending Not to Be
Feat 1
Three in a Trenchocat, Lineage
You are Trained in Deception. If you would automatically become trained in Deception (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You gain +1 to Lie and Impersonate and +10 to pretend to be a Medium creature.
Special: Can only be taken at 1st level

Act Together
Feat 1
Three in a Trenchcoat, Tandem
Requirements: You must be separated.
You gain the Summoner's Act Together ability but the ability allows one of your three component creatures, instead of an Ediolon, to take a single action while another performs the activity with the actions of Act Together.
You can take Tandem feats from the Summoner Class as class feats. They apply to two component creatures.

Scramble
Feat 1
Three in a Trenchcoat
Scatter takes 2 actions

Coordinated Action
Feat 5
Three in a Trenchcoat
When any two of your component creatures are adjacent to a target, it is considered of-guard to all three of you.

Recovered Heritage
Feat 5
Three in a Trenchcoat
You may take a heritage associated with your primary ancesrtry

Surprise! [one action]
Feat 5
Three in a Trenchcoat
One of your component creatures hidden in the trenchcoat Strikes. Your target is off-guard to this attack. You are Clumsy 1 until the end of your turn.

Unexpected Anatomy
Feat 9
Three in a Trenchcoat
Requirements: You must be considered a medium creature
As you are not a medium creature, it is harder to strike at your vitals. You gain resistance to precision damage equal to your level

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Feat 13
Three in a Trenchcoat
Requirements: You must be considered a medium creature
When you are struck by a critical hit, you may use Scatter to separate. The attack is treated as a normal hit.

All For One, One For All [3 Actions]
Feat 17
Three in a Trenchcoat
Requirements: You must be considered a medium creature
You use Scatter and Strike a target. This target is off-guard to you. You deal 2 extra weapon damage to that target.
Special: If you possess Scramble, this is a two action activity. If you possess, Surprise!, you deal 3 extra weapon damage.

AS someone's already suggested the elder Daredevil, a Bridgette McGuire (Once and Future) Slayer would also work. Been doing this since the year dot. Keeps trying to retire but the world won't let her. Knows every trick in the book and wrote some of them. Thoroughly pissed off.

Auridel wrote:

Funny enough, I do not have the new Dark Archive on the new site, but the old digital archive has the new one.

I checked after reading this, and discovered the same thing, but a weird loop where it goes from personalizing to the download link and back again without ever letting me actually download the file.

What browser are you using? It works in Chrome, but not Safari for me.

Prince Maleus wrote:

Hey Everyone, I just got confirmation for CS, those who do have purchased DA prior will get their free PDF Remaster update on the release date, Feb 4th. Buf you will need to skip the physical product on your subscription page.

Not on Jan. 20 as previously reported? :(

That’s the date it goes to subscribers of the remastered physical book. Those of us who have the original need to wait for it to go live for everyone to get updated.

I wanted to use the skip option because I have got the original release, but the infotext that pops up tells me the product then will be shipped with the next subcription order instead of cancelling this one product complete.

Do I habe to cancel the subscription and renew it after this month shipment has gone out ?

I think it’s just badly worded and means the subscription (the product) will continue with the next item in the list. I guess we’ll find out when the next subscription rolls around.

From Avi Henriquez on Bluesky Link

Text of link:
Great news from Jim that he said we could share with customers: Folks who own the PDF of the original Pathfinder Dark Archive will be getting the Remastered PDF for free in February!

So it seems cancelling the physical book shouldn’t affect your order. At least, I hope so since I’ve done it. Could do with official clarification of the situation here, rather than on BlueSky, though.

And now, my watch has ended.

So, would anyone be kind enough to give the full list of all the monsters needing a match?

(You can place the list under a spoiler.)

Please and thank you.

Carry on,

--C.

Possible dates:

And my watch has already started.

And my watch has now ended

My watch. It has begun.

My watch has come to an end

My watch has begun!

My watch is also now over.

Mangaholic13 wrote:

Kojo Imperial wrote:

What IS the weapon Ulka is carrying? Is it just a stylized glaive, or something more orc-specific?

My best guess is that it's either a glaive or a guisarme.

Probably a guisarme, since those are harder to know what they actually looked like.

Obviously she's an AD&D character and it's a glaive-guisarme.

Because it has to be done. Order of the Stick link

Just got notification of shipping…of the Pathfinder Society modules. Not the Paizo products I most want to receive at this time. Le sigh.

Sadly my watch continues

Calcryx666 wrote:

Still sitting here pending :-(

Same. Almost two weeks from authorization to shipping is unusual in my experience.

Oh, my sweet summer child...

It goes right up to the last day of expected subscription shipping and sometimes over.

Cuatomer Services. Send them a polite e-mail and in my experince they'll sort things pretty quickly
However, that email is likely referring to the transit time as the expected shipping window does not close until Friday 25th. Also, the shipping process didn't start for anyone until the 14th and as you received it on Wedneday 9th, thatis already pushing the 3-5 days window. you mention. To check, you can log into your account and check the status. If it is still pending, then you're in the queue with the rest of us and it's not been prepared for shipping yet.

*gallops up*
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
*gallops away*

Has now been announced.
The thread
My guesses were spot on. Go me.

Has not been announced yet.
At a guess, based on previous months:
The announcement that its coming will go up this week.
Shipping will begin next week for a two week period, 14/07/25 to 25/07/25
The book will be available on sale on the 31/07/25

Nobody asked yet so here I go: what's in the toolbox? (curious about he new critters especially)

Critters:

Animist Apparitions

Feats

Spells

Items

Why does Nature Speaker grant a +1 bonus? It requiring Animal Empathy means it's going to be only selectable by druids, and those druids are already going to be seeing a big uptick in diplomatic effectiveness thanks to Nature keying off their Wisdom rather than Charisma.

Error caused by me forgetting I'd added the Animal Empathy requirement.

A couple of skill feats I'm using to better enable two common tropes: The flashy warrior who uses agility rather than brawn to move enemies around the battlefield and disarm them; and the gruff outdoorsman who can get along fine with animals but struggles to deal with humans.

Acrobatic Fighter Feat 1
General, Skill
Prerequisites: Trained: Acrobatics
You can roll an Acrobatics check rather than Athletics to when using the Disarm, Shove or Trip actions.
Special: If a feat relates to the Disarm, Shove or Trip actions, you may use your proficiency in Acrobatics rather than Athletics to qualify.

Nature Speaker Feat 1
General, Skill
Prerequisites: Trained: Nature, Animal Empathy
You can roll a Nature check instead of Diplomacy when attempting to Make an Impression or Request to animals. You receive a +1 status to Make an Impression on animals.

Titan Fencer Feat 2
General, Skill
Prerequisites: Acrobatic Fighter, Expert: Acrobatics
You can Disarm, Shove or Trip a creature up to two sizes larger than you, or up to three sizes larger than you if you are Legendary in Acrobatics.
Special: This feat counts as Titan Wrestler for purposes of qualifying for other feats, if those feats do not relate to Grapple

Any thoughts?

Prince Maleus wrote:

I will be watching the streams

Good good! We'll be streaming live on Twitch! And, we'll have all the videos up after if you miss any!

Maya! For all the gods’ sake, don’t cross-promote the streams!!

They did the Match? They did the Monster Match. Oh, yeahhhhhh.

Mr Jacibs demonstrates a masterful knowledge of players and player actions which is exemplified in one single sentence from this adventure: "However, such a fall is easy to avoid by simply not jumping into the machinery or off the edge!"

And now my watch is over. Good fortune to those who remain.

It also serves to alert otherforumites that the shipping process is beginning, and to provide some proof that shipping is in process during the seemingly never-ending waits while it’ss not your order that’s shipping.

Anyone willing to share the general effect (not verbatim mechanics) of Cenotaph Stance? Currently playing a level 15 Lastwall Sentry pre-Gravelands so I’m interested to see if any of these will become my next feat choice!

It’s a “you shall not pass” stance. You gain temporary hp every round. You can Shield Block for allies within 15ft. You gaina a bonus reaction to Shield Block. You can’t move while in the stance.

Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:

Will the Knights of Last Wall archetypes be updated to the remaster here?

Bump, bump

The Knight Reclaimant, Knight Vigilant and Lastwall Sentry each gain three new archetype feats. These are new feats rathe than updates of existing ones. All are high level (16+).

The feats are

The Halcyon Speaker and Magaambyan Attendant also get new feats. There are no new archetypes in the book.

I thought that Paizo was only doing the core books as remaster? I went and bought all the physical books about a year ago with that information and now I look at what new books are available and find things like this, Guns and Gears and Treasure Vault are remastered now too. What about things like Book of the Dead or Secrets of Magic or Dark Archive? All that money spent on now out of date books. I'm aware of AoN and errata, but I shouldn't have to go to others sources and flip though printed errata to find differences. I would've held off on buying all these books if they hadn't had made a statement saying the core books only were getting a remastered edition.

The books are remastred because they were due for a second printing and errata pass and it makes no sense not to remaster them at that point as you’ll be looking over the rules anyway. The changes are more in line with an errata pass than a complete rewrite, so it’s no different to any other errated book.

And my watch has ended

Am I crazy, or is there not a link to a PDF document with the classes in it like previous playtests?

I cannot answer if you’re crazy (although as you’re here, signs point to yes), but I can’t see the link, either.

My watch, too, has ended. Inconceivable!

As I finally updated the spreadsheet of deities, some facts on the Domains provided:

Most popular Domains: Protection (77)
Knowledge (76)
Might (73)
Nature (67)
Trickery (63)

Least Popular: Dust (7)
Introspection(7)
Wood (6)
Abomination (4)
Naga: (2)

More popular as an Alternate Doman:
Toil (12 v 20)
Metal (10 v 12)
Dust (7 v 8)
Introspection (7 v 17)
Abomination (4 v 5)

The two that really stand out there are Toil and Introspection. Much more popular to give to gods as secondary activities
Soul (12 v12) and Naga (2 v 2) are equally popular as Domains and Alternate Domains

I got mine yesterday (international shipping) and the new watch has begun.

After the last two months, my wallet gives thanks for that

New Gods with a full page treatment
Ah Pook, the Destroyer
Aleth, the Gentle Shroud
Atrogine, Thought Made Flesh
Camazotz, Lord of Stolen Blood
The Devourer, the Star-Eater
Embaral, the Flooded Heart
Emmeton Galardaria, the Shared Hope
Genzaeri, the Telling Trial
Izuyakuthe Strength and Serenity
Kaldemash, Keeper of the Code
Nin, the Immaculate Solution
Obari, the Wandering Storm
Razmir, the Living God (Not technically new but first full deity representation)
Treerazer, Lord of the Blasted Tarn (Not technically new but first full deity representation)
Vudravarti, the Peaceful Mother
Zjar-Tovan, the Bladesoul

Quite a few are Arcadin or Vudran which might be hints of where the setting books are heading

My watch has ended. Good luck to those remaining.

And as my last watch ends. my new one begins

And just got a notification...for the Pathfinder Society Scenarios. Harrumph!
My watch continues.

Looking at the time, looks like I really got unlucky this time. On the bright side, it’s 50/50 at this point between the order shipping tomorrow and Friday, right?

Probably 40/40/20 with 20 being slipping past the expected cutoff.

Taking another secondary caster slot.

Looking forward to more fighting and fewer dinner parties...

I am somewhat surprised that orc dinner parties don’t also include a significant amount of fighting.

Ken'Thras Sunspell wrote:

Also, there is no "When physical subscribers get the PDFs". Some people have had the War of Immortals one for days, if not over a week now, and I have not received mine yet. It's dependent on when yours get shipped, which as far as I can tell is the street date of the book -2d12 days, per person. Looks like I rolled low this time.

This is another thing that I personally really dislike and I don't believe it should be a thing -- I don't like the way the subscriptions are handled. Everyone should be charged at once in one specific day, and receive their PDF as part of that. Then, their orders will ship as they are able from the warehouse. I personally am not a fan at all of the "Am I seeing all the people online enjoy the product and discuss it while waiting who knows how long, or am I getting the product early?" game -- Hypothetically, if subscription early access worked this way, then people with a PDF subscription could get it at this moment too

It’s been said repeatedly that if they do that, the physical shipment will slip out of their payment provider’s window for shipping which will cause a different set of problems.

Aenigma wrote:

So daemons have their own unique mythic destiny, while other evil outsiders (not sure if Pathfinder still uses this term or not though) share archfiend? I have always suspected that Paizo favors daemons over other evil outsiders, or perhaps over all the other outsiders (perhaps because daemons are entirely Paizo's creation?), and now it is proven!

I don't see how that holds water. For one thing, can you point to a single AP where daemons were the primary antagonists? Because I can point to at least one, Wrath of the Righteous, where demons were the primary foes, and thanks to their ties with Cheliax, devils form significant opposition in multiple APs, with the party going to Hell in at least one, Hell's Rebels.

Daemons have received relatively little spotlight in comparison; it's just their turn now, is all.
It's also entirely possible that the separate destiny was made because there is enough of a thematic difference between general, fiendish powers, and fiendish powers that center on a special mount, that shoving them into the same destiny would have made the single fiendish destiny overly large compared to the others.

Invictus Fatum wrote:

You're realm is fully created and within Hell, the Outer Rifts, The Netherlands, or some other demiplane with fiendish tendencies you wish with you ruling it.

Where the windmills slowly grind the souls of the wicked into fertilizer for the tulips of despair. :P

A fiend lived in a windmill in old Amsterdam

My watch begins