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I look forward to hearing that the union is recognized so that I can resubscribe!

NibNok snorts at the thought of him as a cook, then composes himself. "While he claims to be a traditionalist, he does seem to take to the human way of doing things." he pauses as if he just thought of something "Maybe he should be sent to work with the Pathfinders and gain some perspective?"

I do like an early start, reading and memorizing works best with a fresh brain ... Carrol agrees with the assignments. He offers a faux salute to Garrace before setting up his bedroll and settling down.

Carrol chuckles ... "One would think, wouldn't they!" He gets some drinks for those partaking. "Have I told you about the time I was in Port Peril on a Pub Crawl?" he begins his first tale ...

Accessory Runes are really fun! Randal Meyer, who wrote the section, did a great job with the idea. Unfortunately, we only have a few pages of accessory runes in this book, so we're only just scratching the surface of the idea. I hope we can expand on them a lot more in the future!

Woohoo, that's me, I did that! It was so much fun seeing what other things runes could do!

I really dig this concept. I agree that this solution as proposed would open up a great number of benefits and customization while also freeing up precious space in the book. I would also make it so that any classes listed as traits for the feat/chain would be able to start the archetype but not be forced to finish it before moving on, as archetypes are currently written. For instance, making the Double Slice chain have the "fighting style" trait along with the "fighter" and "ranger" and it would allow fighters and rangers to both take just the first feat in the chain and then take other archetype (but not other fighting styles) feats while your two weapon rogue is bound by the normal requirement of taking a set number of feats before taking another archetype. While I like Alex's idea of the fighter getting early access, I would propose that one specialty of being a fighter is that it can dip into multiple fighting styles simultaneously where other classes should be forced to finish a fighting style before moving on to another fighting style.

Has there been any consideration to having more sidebars like the stats generation sidebar (that reminds/introduces readers that you can roll dice to generate stats) for other rules elements that are new-ish or may not be used by a lot of people. Hero Points and Resonance (now a limiter for magic items) come to mind. If they become core for balance reasons (and/or PFS compatibility) then cool, but perhaps offering an option or an *opt-out* might help a ton of players that get caught up on RAW.

Just wanted to say thanks Erik Mona and Logan Bonner. Thanks for the great interview! Making me excited for the new version.

Give me guidelines and a theme and let me start writing!