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Page 130: The Mature Animal Companion feat’s wording didn’t work as intended for animal companions with Speeds beyond land Speeds. Replace the second sentence of the second paragraph with the following: “During an encounter, even if you don’t use the Command an Animal action, your animal companion can still use 1 action that round on your turn to Strike or Stride (or Burrow, Climb, Fly, or Swim if it has that Speed).” Note: The 2nd printing mistakenly excluded “Fly” from the list.

This is something we've been houseruling for ages (although we also allow Stand). Glad to see Paizo on board.

Die size upgrades interacting with the two-hand trait on weapons is also something I recall seeing come up on the forums recently that got clarified.

That's why the rules specify that "A suit of armor's environmental protections last for a number of days equal to its item level (minimum 1 day)."

This was an issue in the initial playtest version, so you may want to make sure you're not looking at that by mistake.

Perses13 wrote:

Obligatory don't trust AI search, yada yada yada. Your AI search is probably just sourcing that from the general PF2 combability with SF2, or both of them appearing in Starfinder Enhanced for 1e.

You don't know that for sure though and I've had plenty of AI search with accurate info as much as non accurate.

I can't speak for your search, but I can speak for what google's AI gave me when I google searched out of curiousity. And the sources it gave were info about general PF2 compatibility and them being in 1e Starfinder.

The other part of it that triggered my AI BS meter is that Paizo wouldn't say "gnolls are in Galactic Ancestries", they'd say "Kholos are in Galactic Ancestries".

Obligatory don't trust AI search, yada yada yada. Your AI search is probably just sourcing that from the general PF2 combability with SF2, or both of them appearing in Starfinder Enhanced for 1e.

All the ancestries that have been confirmed from PF2 are from Player Core 1 (ex. elf, goblin, leshy) so I would calibrate your expectations to the PC1 options in terms of PF2 ancestries making appearances.

More support for Vlaka I think is more realistic, its just a question of if they're going to give more support to the Galaxy Guide ancestries or just the Player Core ones.

While it definitely would be neat to have more 1e APs converted to 2e, I think Paizo's experience converting Kingmaker to 2e means its not likely to happen anytime soon.

There may be another possibility for your players to experience the return of Tar-Baphon in 2e. The first adventure of the Claws of the Tyrant adventure anthology features a few survivors of Lastwall emerging into the Gravelands after hiding in a crypt for years. Perhaps that adventure with some sort of action prologue could serve as an introduction to that particular change in the setting.

A fairly minor bug admittedly, but the The Enmity Cycle cover art on the store page is very low-res. This is also true of the store page for the PDF as well.

My understanding is the main reason with bugbears not getting much attention is simply that there isn't anyone in Paizo who cares a lot about them.

dirtypool wrote:

This is sort of an odd question. With the previous reissuing of remastered books like Guns & Gears and The Treasure Vault, I did not order the remastered print version but pdfs of both showed up in my downloads - I presume because I purchased both original versions through my subscription.

I had no intention of purchasing a second physical copy of Dark Archive. Should I still be seeing that remastered pdf arrive in my library?

Going to ask this one again, since we're on the edge of the release of Dark Archive.

Yes

My main issue with that argument is simply that responding in English implies doing something to respond.

If you do rule they can respond without stepping, bear in mind that they still can't benefit from another tactic that turn.

Does anyone know of a direct way to contact Customer Support? I'm not finding any direct way on the site or store, and I cannot find a Customer Support forum. I have several questions regarding my subscriptions, and the Subscription Manager is not providing any details I require.

Additionally, I'm curious why the Remastered versions of Treasure Vault and Guns & Gears were not included in my Rulebooks subscription, which I've had active for years. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

As I recall, Guns & Gears Remastered originally was going to be included in the subscription, but enough people complained about buying a product twice that they changed it shortly before release.

If you have a PDF of the original book, you should have access to a PDF of the Remastered version in your library.

Enchanter Tim wrote:

Oof. The "ally" word. So if that had been "squadmates" it would be different? Squadmates includes yourself, right?

So the Commander's own Step doesn't trigger the effect, but he can still benefit from others taking the reation?

'Squadmates' doesn't include the commander (see 'Tactic' in AoN or Battlecry! p23), but this tactic says "you and your squadmates" so seems pretty clear that for this feat's effect they include the commander in the benefit.

While squadmates are defined as allies of the commander, the Tactics class feature does mention that "You count as one of your squadmates for the purposes of participating in or benefiting from a tactic (though you do not count against your own maximum number of squadmates)."

I always interpreted the other in "other squadmates" as modifying commander, but I can see the argument for it modifying allies.

It's also a problematic creature because it really isn't guaranteed that anyone in the party can actually do chaotic damage. Unlike say, fire, which you can probably improvise with a torch or something after you've beat a troll unconscious. Parties (pre-remaster) may have made sure they can do good damage because it's effective against fiends. But preparing for inevitables is not really something people normally have top of mind.

Yep, and there are multiple APs that drop them or similar creatures into the adventure without giving anyone a chance to pick up a chaotic rune beforehand.

Dark Archive Remastered is probably what you're thinking of.

And for those of us who don’t engage with Paizo Live - what are these glorious reveals?

Three new books announced:

2. Lost Omens: High Seas (Store Page), not sure when this will be out but sometime later this year.

3. For the Starfinder line there's going to be a book about Absalom Station (Store Page) also releasing at Gen Con.

Hell's Destiny, Troubles in Grayce, and Tales from the Vast all don't have store pages despite being announced products. Although there is at least one third party distributor who does have store pages for them.

The second remastered title they're talking about is probably Season of Ghosts

I will also chime for the need of a separate errata page. Or at least separate headings for 1e and 2e.

The blog post says "These are just a few of the potential changes we’re planning to test out internally." A year seems like a long time for that, which makes me wonder what else is going to be in the book that they are still working on. The other big tech missing from SF2e is tactical starship combat and building rules. It's the beginning of the new year, so I hope we get some news on the ETA for the classes and starships soon.

As I recall the playtest dropped early to let people have the playtest classes at launch.

RPG books tend to have a development timeline of two years, so I wouldn't read too much into the year between the playtest and release.

If that were the case, it would be its own item in that list of options.

It works fine for me.

The plausibility of scaling issue is why I had issues with Siege of the Dinosaurs in the middle of Extinction Curse. Being in a town at least 5 levels lower than us and having combat encounters with creatures that were our level or higher made our progress as characters feel like we were on a treadmill than a ladder.

Most other APs I've played or run have managed to avoid this issue.

They're spontaneous casters. You can tell because they have signature spells and their spellcasting text doesn't refer to preparing from their list.

While Paizo uses the term spontaneous casters in the general rules, I don't think I've ever actually seen a class in PF2 or SF2 actually say it is one in their class description.

That's been my experience. The discount will show up when you have the item in your cart but not on the store.

I believe all the art in the AP assumes Abomination Vaults is the 1-10 AP.

I don't recall the AP giving any AP specific advice beyond the advice for the nemesis in book 1, which for Gatewalkers assumes the nemesis is a shadow of Osoyo.

Rattlesnakes of the Runelords sounds like a board game to me.

Dark Archive and Season of Ghosts are rereleasing early next year, so I'm pretty sure those are the "two remastered products" in question, not something new.

How does tracking work in the new store? I have two orders that shipped, but I'm unsure where to go to find tracking info. I don't see it in the orders page and I'm not sure where else it would be.

I have also been running into this issue. It also means search is non-functional for new forum threads.

I don't see a section for reviews on subscription pages either. I do see them on other product pages.

There have been other users who have reported that adblock causes them to be unable to see customer reviews, so if you can't see reviews for all product pages than its probably your adblock.

Battlecry Playtest was April to June 2024
Starfinder 2e Playtest was August through December 2024
Impossible Playtest was December 2024 through January 2025
Tech Core was April to May 2025

PDFs are not included unless you subscribe.

Is Paizo not offering to have your December sub items ship with next month?

The $5 price for Great Toy Heist is for the print version of the adventure.

Paizo's new webstore doesn't support having store pages for free stuff so now the Free RPG Day adventure PDFs are just hosted online. Some appear to be linked on the store page for the print edition (like Great Toy Heist), but that seems to be inconsistent currently.

I do think the Free RPG Day adventures are pretty great. Personally I really enjoyed Little Trouble in Big Absalom and Threshold of Knowledge.

If you want to go more in depth, this is a spreadsheet someone made comparing creatures between Monster Core 1 and Bestiary 1.

As you can see, Monster Core is largely reprints with tweaks of Bestiary 1 and 2, with some reprints from other sources and some new creatures. I believe Monster Core 2 is the same but with Bestiary 2 and 3 creatures.

At this point the main value in the old bestiaries is OGL staples like owlbears and mimics, but those you can also just use Nethys for.

Normally my experience is that they respond within one business day, but given the new store transition creating a lot of work for CS I've heard its been taking longer for some folks.

Rotfell's advice is pretty great.

The one thing I'll add is don't forget you can steal stuff from PF2 when needed! I'm trying to convert Dawn of Flame to 2e and there's a lot of elementals there and only a handful of elementals in Starfinder 2e at present. But there's a whole bunch of fire elementals in PF2 that I can draw on.

If I recall correctly their new subscription system doesn't work well with digital only subscriptions, so they had to drop the Society subscriptions.

The option to add to cart the Starfinder Murder in Metal City - Foundry Version is not there. (Just button to add to Wishlist) I'm signed in and can add other FVTT products like the SF tokens.

https://store.paizo.com/starfinder-murder-in-metal-city-deluxe-adventure-fo undry-vtt/

That's likely because its not out yet. As I recall, they're holding off on releasing the Foundry module until the standalone SF2 module releases.

I'm wondering if there was a typo and they meant 1 PM Pacific.

Your reward tier for Paizo Plus, which gives the 15% discount, was supposed to count previous store purchases but I haven't heard from a single person where that actually worked. I contacted Paizo customer service about it for my account and was told it was a known issue they were working on fixing. (As a reminder, this forum thread is tracking Known Issues)

The 15% off sitewide sale going on right now is also meant to be a stopgap while they fix the issue.

Currently the items under My Subsciptions are not hyperlinked. It would be great if the books and subs on that page linked to the store page. For instance so I could see what the next item of my Starfinder Adventure Sub was, or see the description of a book that I'm getting.

According to this post you'll be notified tomorrow and charged next Monday.

The discount should automatically apply when you add the item to your cart.

Paizo warned that sidecarted items wouldn't survive the move.

If a player took this in my game, I'd probably house rule that they could wear a flight suit over it the way it works for plated vesk.

Ajaxius wrote:

Claxon wrote:

but all you've done is add a weapon to the game that 99% of characters wont use.

Ah, yes, the thing that already happens every time a new book comes out with 10 more weapon options ;)

I'm curious about Paizo's rationale behind this. I don't think a lot of people care about new weapons because, if we are honest here, most people use the common fantasy staples like longswords, daggers, greataxes, and the like. When, for example, a weapon like the boaring pike releases nobody cares about it unless its better than similarly flavored weapons since most people don't even know the difference between that or a regular longspear.

I personally wouldn't mind if most weapons were coupled together and we kept the weapons that feel distinct in mechanics or flavor like chain swords, sais, etc.

Most new weapons that come out these days seem to exist to give some sort of mechanical flair to a culture, ancestry, or organization. Your boarding pike example is from the PFS Guide, and is a way for someone to say "I'm from the Arcadia Mariner's Lodge." Those that aren't that seem to be ideas to give people character ideas, like the battlelute. While most folks don't look at the weapons list before making a character, I know I wouldn't have thought to play a halfling chef/assassin if Paizo hadn't released the frying pan as a weapon.

That said, the weapon system is definitely a sacred cow that exists because its the way Paizo's always done it and to keep continuity with PF1/3.5. I've recently played and enjoyed Draw Steel's system which boils weapons down to categories like Light, Medium, Heavy, Bow, Polearm and lets you flavor how you like.

From what Paizo has said, the book won't have any new ancestries, feats, or items, its an adventure with pregens.

You're missing Firelion's suggestion to house rule the action tax of picking up weapons away. Our group has a similar house rule we refer to as "sticky weapons". Being knocked prone and having the wounded condition is something our group finds punishing enough without the extra action tax to retrieve dropped weapons.

I'll be honest I clicked on this thread title thinking it was another spam bot peddling their wares. Nice to see its not.

Sounds like its the level substitute for the OGL ice devil then.

I get really confused how folks necro 6 year old forums and try to continue a conversation that ended years ago as if no time has passed.

Do they stumble across the thread in a google search? Look for the closest thread to the topic they want to vent about? Is checking the time on a post not what everybody does when they read a thread?