Heroic Endeavours and Things in Space from Dragons & Things won't be live this Friday and Saturday due to Thanksgiving.

We will adjust the schedule and text soon!

Please, an RSS link would be amazing. I can't spot it in my favorite podcast app and it's kind of cruel to force us to download another app just to listen to the show.

Here ya go! Sorry, we're taking things slow due to the time we have available to us. And we seemed to have missed this step.

https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:869537596/sounds.rss

We can just tune in to the Paizo Twitch channel to watch, right? I don't want to register to GenCon, but I do want to see these seminars, announcements, and Q&As.

I'm not joining in any games online because I don't understand the process for doing that and I don't think my computer setup will let me, anyway, and I don't have the technical know-how or patience to deal with all that. I can handle streaming seminars, though, and I would rather watch these seminars online than bother with playing an online game I might not be capable of joining anyway.

Yep! You can just hang out on our channel to see everything. For some streams that'll be on Gen Con's channel. We'll be hosting it on our channel when it goes live so you don't miss a thing.

I promised I wouldn't cry ;(

I noticed there's a wizard character and a rouge in the stat blocks. Are the others buried in the layers somewhere?

I know we left some of the art used to make the shows in there so people can use them as references when making their own graphics.

Thanks, Payton! These are fantastic, and it's a real class act from you guys to share them with us for free! :)

I have another question concerning Band of Bravos; will it be possible at some point of time to purchase Jason's amazing maps, maybe as a "Band of Bravos bundle" or something? Or perhaps even in smaller packages, such as "Episodes 1-6", "Episodes 7-12" etcetera?

As a former graphic designer I appreciate the work Jason has put into those maps. Not only are they fantastic design-wise, because Jason is one of the best map-designers in the gaming industry, it's also taken a lot of work to get all the groundwork done. This has required artistry, Photoshop skills plus plenty of raw talent. The end result are those beautiful, well-designed, top-notch professional old skool style maps I can only admire! Bravo, Jason! :)

I can't speak for Jason. But the more people who message him on social media about it, the more he may feel inclined to do so. We're glad you like the maps though!

Love how you guys do this. I am not a streamer but its things like this that set Paizo apart as an awesome company.

Thank you, we appreciate it!

We hope to see you live on our official Twitch Channel at 2 p.m. Pacific on April 8th.

Looking forward to Band of Bravos! Will you be using a battle mats?

We'll be using Roll20 for these shows due to all of us working at home. Jason Bulmahn might be using his own hand drawn mats. While Amanda will be using flip mats when able.

Fall of Plaguestone? I'm interested to see where that one goes--

TENGU SWASHBUCKLER, YOU SAY??

Alright, you got me. I'mma tune in. Anything for those juicy details.

EDIT: Ah, looks like that was taken down. Shame.

Sadly plans changed, but you will still see a Tengu Swashbuckler.

Hey everyone!

Due to the virus affecting everyone, some shows on the schedule may be canceled at any moment. We prioritize our content creator’s safety over their productions as we all deal with the current pandemic. We apologize in advance if plans abruptly change from what’s scheduled here.

Hi everyone!

I'd like to note on Fridays we'll have some shows conflicting. To help people understand how we're handling this show conflict. We'll be hosting Glass Cannon's show when it's a new episode, which is usually once every other day. And we'll be hosting Dragons & Things on the channel when Glass Cannon's show is doing a rerun.

We wanted to still bring both of them up in these blogs so you can pick and choose if you wanted to watch a Pathfinder2E show or a Starfinder show.

For those wanting to make your own monster, here are our Pathfinder 2E monster creation rules. link.

Can't wait to watch the P/SFS announcement(s).

Arcane Mark is also on Tuesday.

We haven't put Arcane Mark on the Tuesday slot as we have it reserved for another show and other reasons that are in the works. Once we get those details ironed out we can adjust them back on there.

Sorry folks! These updates are on a template, and sometimes the communication on what should be updated or not gets misread. Will get it fixed!

BOOOOOOOOOO!

How dare you say that Vesk art is creepy! He is so majestic and handsome!

I agree! Powers that be, can we move this thread back to its original home? It was born in the Starfinder General Discussion forum, and that is where it is most loved!

Please?

I'll ask Sara Marie if we can move it back to its original location. I sadly have no power to do it myself.

For a quick update, the Dead Suns stream is on hiatus till late January.

From my many years of playing Warhams, I usually use battle foam cases if I need to bring any delicate minis and tons of books. I think I have one of their suitcase models that has a handle and can be wheeled around.

But if you're a player a simple EVA Case can do you just fine. If you need to carry just some dice, book, paper, and your own miniature. I think we have some options on our store here: https://paizo.com/search?what=all&q=case

As for carrying all of your books to a location that isn't your home. I carry all my books via PDF on my Surface Pro to keep things light. But if you're like me and prefer physical books every now and again, a big airport-style suitcase is what my friends usually use. Can pack all your books inside, use smaller cases to hold dice and minis in the mesh pouches, and the smaller amazon ones can fit a lot of stuff and make carrying your library easier.

Other people may have fancier options than me, however.

Cool! This should hold me over until I get it in my own hands. Is it me, or does it seem like everything is coming so slowly. I guess I'm just used to getting three different things to look at every month.

A lot of folks were on vacation, including me. And people are now coming back after working so hard on Starfinder and Pathfinder.

They needed it too, they're champions in my eyes. But due to New Years' and people's schedules, we had to delay some things. We should be back to normal next week!

Thanks for another great week, Payton.

Question: Is Pathfinder Fridays heading toward being a two-hour show on a regular basis?

The 2 hour shows were to showcase the Age of Ashes books in a timely manner. But we do want to extend the lengths of our shows. I cannot say anything solid at the moment, but the current way we do things may take some adjustments in the coming months. Don't quote me on it encase plans change.

For those who use the phone app as I do and have issues getting it pulled up. You can go to the apps menu - skills and games - and then you search for Starfinder. Make sure the app can gain access to your phone's microphone and you should be set to go!

Also this week for Starfinder Wednesday we will be doing a livestream talking about Starfinder on Alexa and answering your questions! And for those in the future land reading this, you can always check Paizo's Youtube Channel for the livestream VOD on the youtube channel.

To note some errors before Tech can get to it (they're very busy atm).

Oblivion Oath should be livestreamed live this Thursday as we all should be back from PAX by then. And for Pathfinder Friday we're going over books 5 & 6 for the Age of Ashes Adventure Path. Not another Retrospective.

Also, how have you guys been finding the streams and the new format to them? In the future things will be shaken up quite a bit, but I'd like to hear your guys feedback.

What do people know about the success / popularity of 2E so far?

For context the Glass Cannon Podcast just released a new Patreon show today using 2E rules. There are a couple of very vocal 2E critics on their reddit suggesting the 2E has not been picked up or switched to in gaming circles

They cited warhorn as an example but when I looked the 1E and 2E numbers were rather close. Which given how little adventure content there is for 2E is something worth commenting on

There were also at least two people claiming (one of them the same as above ) that because the Pathfinder subreddit has far more 1E activity it follows that 2E isn’t popular. They chose to ignore or downplay the dedicated sub for 2E

So what have others seen?
Is the game really floundering already? Or is it too early to tell?
Or is this just a few vocal people who are upset about 1E being dropped and are shouting the loudest about it?

From my perspective there not being much of a switch yet isn’t necessarily indicative of a problem with the game. I personally haven’t switched because I am mid 1E AP so realistically can’t

I am just intrigued

One of the things I'd love to see is people asking their favorite media outlets to give Pathfinder Second Edition a chance. As a lot of folks base their future plans off what their audience and others are wanting. That'd help push the envelope a little bit.

Also, I'm glad to hear a lot of you enjoying PF2E so far! It has been warming our hearts internally.

I hate to mention this, but I believe Ikyulys is a worshipper of Shelyn. I noticed it earlier, but I figured it would be fixed by now.

I'll double-check it for next time! Sorry about that.

Also a quick note. We had to cancel the "Art of Starfinder" stream due to scheduling issues. And a new show has taken its place for Wednesday!

Hey folks! As a heads up, Pungeon Crawl will not be airing on Wednesday due to medical issues. Please wish them well!

Hi Payton,

I hope I am asking this question in the proper place. Could you give an overview of what hardware you use for the paizo twitch streams. I have seen lots of online guides for how to record video game content, but there aren't many streamers playing tabletop games with multi-camera setups.

To that end, what cameras do you use? What microphones? I have also seen you, on camera, pressing buttons on something that looks like an elgato stream deck. Do you use one of those to control your camera feeds? What computer(s) do you use to edit and store all your video?

Thanks for the info! I am sure many other aspiring streamers would like to know what stuff they'll need to get started.

Hi bud! This question would be best for its own thread maybe. But I can give you a quick run down on how things are set up here.

We use 4 Lumix G7 Cameras for Live Play setups. And Lavalier Microphones to capture our players. Although in general, I recommend actual microphones on studio arms for table setups. As your viewers will usually prefer good sound with crusty video than good video and bad sound.

So for the microphones, what I've been using recently are the Shure SM58s microphones. We like to use these for our panels due to how great they are on stage due to sound not being picked up that much for whatever is behind them. Mostly due to their cardioid dynamic range. This helps a lot when you have a very busy office!

As for the button pad I used. It's an Elgato stream deck. You can use it to switch scenes and do tons of stuff with XSplit or OBS.

In the future, we should have an entirely different setup for our streams. And I will be more than happy to make a guide for potential streamers once we get it all set up.

But overall my pointers are to focus on is:
1. Good sound. Get some decent microphones for your table. Can mount them via a studio arm that's clamped to your table. Along with a shock mount for the microphone to reduce table noise.

2. Have your players and yourself be genuinely excited and have the capacity to show it on stream. Excitement is contagious! And people like to see you having fun!

3. Play like people can only see you. But explain things if they can only hear you. If you get a natural 20 on your die roll. Give out a cheer and state that you got a natural 20 plus any of the modifiers that go with it! Even if you fumble and get 1 one, be sure to express that it's a bad situation for your character. But in a fun way!

With those 3 points, you can grow and adapt from there.

Sorry for the word vomit but I hope it helped a little bit! And best of luck.

For a heads up. Pungeon Crawl will not be streaming this week due to one of the players being sick!

For future reference, all stream topics will be revealed every Monday via our blog posts if our tech team can get to them. Holidays and such might delay blogs to Tuesday. And any questions for that week's topic can be referred to here.

And I apologize for not getting you folks in the loop sooner. Tons happening internally!

As for why this thread was moved. It wasn't my call and I've no idea either. But whichever helps things stay organized!

I feel like Ikyulus may have something to say to you, Payton, about his absence from the KoE cast list (also, Jeremy is an awesome player and deserves his chops too).

I have no idea why he keeps being left out of the list. As my internal document has him right here.

I'll double-check with the tech team and see what happened. Thank you for spotting that!

Payton Smith wrote:

Sorry! Another typo in the blog.

We'll be talking about the Lost Omens Advanced Player's Guide playtest. Not the character guide.

Must of had the other books on the brain. Sorry!

Is it actually Lost Omens now, though?

I thought it's intended to be a core line rulebook, like the Bestiary and GMG.

Sorry! It's not the Lost Omens. That's just me messing up.

I apologize for the confusion. I've been looking over the Lost Omens books all last week. So I've apparently been putting it behind every book mentally for some odd reason.

LOST OMENS TOILET PAPER COMING SOON!

Sorry! Another typo in the blog.

We'll be talking about the Advanced Player's Guide playtest. Not the character guide.

Must of had the other books on the brain. Sorry!

Edit: It is not in the lost omens line. I just made a dumb and assumed the wrong thing! Sorry everyone!

An update for this week's Starfinder Wednesday is here!

The time is finally upon us! This week's Pathfinder Friday (Oct 25th) is all about the Pathfinder Second Edition ERRATA! Join the designers as they talk about what major things have been changed with the Errata due to the amazing feedback from all of you!

You can find more information about when and where the stream is here.

Hey fellas. I'm glad that you're engaging in discussion. But this thread is to leave questions about the next shows topic. And to repeat our message that we don't typically answer super-specific rules questions for various reasons. We encourage you to bring those types of discussions to the rules section on the forums.

As a reminder, this Friday (Oct 18, 2019) will be about the Gamemastery Guide if you do have any questions about the upcoming book.

Tomorrow will be all about the Starfinder Adventure Path: Attack of The Swarm (EXCLAMATION POINT!): Huskworld!

We will be joined by Jason Keeley & Liz Liddell as they give a behind the scenes look in the creation of this adventure path. Along with some designer insights on certain sections, encounters, etc.

Do you have any questions for the devs on this book before the show? We'll be live on Oct 16, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. Pacific!

This weeks Pathfinder Friday (Oct 18, 2019) will be all about The Gamemastery Guide! We last did a preview of what's coming in the book with Logan Bonner in the past. But I feel that people wanted to know more about it.

So our new Pathfinder Designer, Lyz Liddel will be joining Designer Mark Seifter in going over the Gamemastery Guide. Specifically the sections Lyz herself worked on.

So feel free to leave any questions about the Gamemastery Guide, or any questions for Lyz herself, so we can ask some of them on stream!

This Pathfinder Friday (10/11/2019) will be about the factions in the Lost Omens Character Guide. We will be joined by Designer Mark Seifter, Developer Eleanor Ferron, and additionally Developer Luis Loza. You get three folks this time ready to take on your questions about the Lost Omens Character guide.

Do you have any questions for them to answer on stream today at 4 p.m. Pacific? They'll be focusing primarily on the factions in the book. Such as the Hellknights, Society, Firebands, and so on. But I'm sure we can elaborate a bit more on other sections of the book.

For those wanting the scribbles we did for the creature companion stream. You can find it here.

I hope to see you all live this week!

The time is soon upon us! Do you have any questions for Joe Pasini about the creature companions?

I missed the Twitch stream, will the Sep 27 video go up on Youtube at some point?

Here is the video. I apologize for its delay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1J6STHSrig

Now what's in the pipeline for this week and beyond?

This Friday Oct 4th at 4:00 p.m. Pacific we will have Creative Director James Jacobs & Developer Luis Loza sitting down with you all and showcasing the top 10 big lore changes that have happened between Pathfinder 1E & Pathfinder 2E!

Next week for Oct 11th we will then have an overview of the new Factions your adventurers can join or even destroy in the new Lost Omens Character Guide with Mark Seifter & Eleanor Ferron!

Payton Smith wrote:

We usually put the VODs up on youtube a week after.

I don't suppose transcripts might appear somewhere for us text addicts?

I wish we had transcripts for folks. But sadly we don't have the resources internally to do that. As I'm only one person, unfortunately.

At the moment we rely on the community itself to textify our streams and video.

On several occasions though, we do have a blog come out before or after the Livestream about the topic in question. So they should hopefully fill your needs for now.

That's Starfinder LEAD DESIGNER for Joe Pasini. Sorry Joe!

We usually put the VODs up on youtube a week after.

Also, I apologize folks. I just got back from Twitch Con! I got to meet several of you there. And it was an absolute blast meeting you all!

Now what's in the pipeline for this week and beyond?

This Friday Oct 4th at 4:00 p.m. Pacific we will have Creative Director James Jacobs & Developer Luis Loza sitting down with you all and showcasing the top 10 big lore changes that have happened between Pathfinder 1E & Pathfinder 2E!

Next week for Oct 11th we will then have an overview of the new Factions your adventurers can join or even destroy in the new Lost Omens Character Guide with Mark Seifter & Eleanor Ferron!

Sorry folks! I have been away at Twitch Con and just got back.

Oct 2nd (4:00-5:00 p.m. Pacific) – Starfinder Wednesdays! Alien Archive 3: Creature Companions & Making a Companion with YOU!
Payton Smith (hey that’s me!) and Starfinder Developer Joe Pasini will be sitting down with you as our audience and creating some companions from the latest Alien Archive 3. Help us create a companion! Or come over to learn how you can have your own companion in Starfinder!

Then for Oct 9th we will then have the new Vanguard Class showcase & creation with Joe Pasini & Rob McCreary.

Oct 16th will be developer commentary on Attack of the Swarm's new Adventure Path installment: Huskworld.

Oct 23 will be about the new class the WitchWarper! Along with character creation with Amanda Hamon & Rob McCreary.

Then for Oct 30th we will be showcasing the rest of the Character Operations Manual and showing folks how it can assist your playing experience!

To note we will be staying away from errata and super specific rules questions for now.

The reason being that if we answer them on a livestream, we aren't in a position to double check and research if our answer to a specific rules question or a solution to an erratum is correct. And if we answer incorrectly, I'm sure people will highlight that portion of the livestream and then use it, even though it could of potentially be wrong, since they had to make an answer right up on the spot due to the fast-paced nature of streaming.

Plus, it's harder to find the answer you need to your question in a livestream than somewhere you could look it up online.

So instead the team has been taking a lot of your feedback and questions, and they've been getting the ball rolling on the errata internally so they can distribute it to you guys in an effective way.

Hi folks!

I'm Payton Smith, your Social Media Producer. And I wanted to better communicate with you all on what will be going on during your Pathfinder Fridays. Similar to what we do with Starfinder over here.

In this thread, I hope to gather questions for our developers to be asked live on stream before the planned date. And to also gather feedback from you all. To see how well we're doing, as well as seeing what you may be hungry for next.

To note we will be staying away from errata and super specific rules questions for now.

The reason being that if we answer them on a livestream, we aren't in a position to double check and research if our answer to a specific rules question or a solution to an erratum is correct. And if we answer incorrectly, I'm sure people will highlight that portion of the livestream and then use it, even though it could of potentially be wrong, since they had to make an answer right up on the spot due to the fast-paced nature of streaming.

Plus, it's harder to find the answer you need to your question in a livestream than somewhere you could look it up online.

So instead the team has been taking a lot of your feedback and questions, and they've been getting the ball rolling on the errata internally so they can distribute it to you guys in an effective way.

I will do my best to keep this main post up to date with the current events. But encase I'm out of the office to update you all. Please refer to the latest posts further down this thread to receive further information.

Currently, for September 27th. We will be giving you a developer commentary on the creation of the Age of Ashes Adventure Path: Cult of Cinders. On our Twitch channel, we recently did a video on Hellknight Hill in a similar format if you wish to see it here.

For this one, however, it will be pre-recorded. As I'll be visiting you all at Twitch Con during the time the broadcast would usually take place. So I would love to take your questions about this Adventure Path, and any inquiries about the behind the scenes in this thread to be asked in the coming premiere on the 27th.

Remember to catch us live every Friday at 4 p.m. Pacific for Pathfinder Fridays!

https://www.twitch.tv/officialpaizo

This Wednesday will be all about the new Biohacker in the Character Operations Manual!

We will be having a system in place to have chat help us build a character using Alien Archive 3 and the Operations Manual.

Hopefully, we'll have time for a Q&A at the end. But just encase do you all have any questions for Jason Keeley and Rob McCreary about the new Operations Manual?

Sadly Jason Bulmahn is currently sick with the Knights of Everflame cold (Tweet at @JasonBulmahn to wish him well in recovering)!

So to fill in for today are the ones who helped develop and bring the Ages of Ashes Adventure Path to you, Amanda Hamon and James Jacobs. They will be talking about all the behind the scenes stuff about what went into this AP. And also some cool previous to now sketches of some of the areas.

What questions would you have for them about this adventure path and their involvement in it? List your questions here and we will see if we can answer them all at 4:00 p.m. today for Pathfinder Friday!

https://www.twitch.tv/officialpaizo.

Note: In the future, we will be announcing these farther in advance. This is just a special case due to work sickness.