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Know Direction have worked with Paizo and are hosting panels, seminars, and all sorts of cool Twitch stream content over the weekend as I understand it. They aren't hosting any actual games, you can still find all the (270+ at this point!) Pathfinder and Starfinder scenarios and specials at Bridging the Gap, along with as much conversation and hangout as you can cope with ;)
Are GM sign ups linked anywhere? I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for, if it's a form to sign up to GM then yes! It's in my post a few above this one! If you mean a list of all the games GMs have submitted then you can see those on Warhorn as we're adding them pretty much as soon as they get submitted (which is also linked above!)
Bridging the Gap Update #4
You can view games and signup for them on Warhorn and join our Discord if you haven't! We have over 200 games listed so far with more being added as GMs continue to offer them (speaking of which you can still sign up to GM as well! We hope you all find something that you'll enjoy in lieu of the usual PaizoCon Online and look forwards to seeing you all there from Friday May 22 – Monday May 25 for VTT games and even longer for Play by Post/Discord ones! Explore, report, cooperate!
Bridging the Gap Update #4a? :D
You can view games and signup for them on Warhorn and join our Discord if you haven't! We have over 200 games listed so far with more being added as GMs continue to offer them (speaking of which you can still sign up to GM as well! We hope you all find something that you'll enjoy in lieu of the usual PaizoCon Online and look forwards to seeing you all there from Friday May 22 – Monday May 25 for VTT games and even longer for Play by Post/Discord ones! Explore, report, cooperate!
Back again! Bridging the Gap Update #4
You can view games and signup for them on Warhorn and join our Discord if you haven't! We have over 200 games listed so far with more being added as GMs continue to offer them (speaking of which you can still sign up to GM as well! We hope you all find something that you'll enjoy in lieu of the usual PaizoCon Online and look forwards to seeing you all there from Friday May 22 – Monday May 25 for VTT games and even longer for Play by Post/Discord ones! Explore, report, cooperate!
Thanks so much, Richard, for sharing other ways our community can play games together!! We have an amazing community that's always willing to help lift one another up, when you all have stuff you need to focus on and figure out we can take the chance to step up and do what we can so we can all still play together. Always a joy to lend a hand :)
Bridging the Gap Update #3 A quick update today - but an important one to answer our most frequent question! When do player signups open? Player signups will open on Mon Apr 6 at 19:00 UTC. As a thank-you to our wonderful GMs, they will be able to signup for a single normal table and a single special table 24 hours before that! We will also have a range of charity tables hosted by authors and Paizo staff! We will be auctioning off seats for those starting on Mon 30 Mar at 00:01 UTC. See all our games listed on our Warhorn with more to come, and join us on Discord
Bridging the Gap Update #3 A quick update today - but an important one to answer our most frequent question! When do player signups open? Player signups will open on Mon Apr 6 at 19:00 UTC. As a thank-you to our wonderful GMs, they will be able to signup for a single normal table and a single special table 24 hours before that! We will also have a range of charity tables hosted by authors and Paizo staff! We will be auctioning off seats for those starting on Mon 30 Mar at 00:01 UTC. See all our games listed on our Warhorn with more to come, and join us on Discord
Bridging the Gap Update #3 A quick update today - but an important one to answer our most frequent question! When do player signups open? Player signups will open on Mon Apr 6 at 19:00 UTC. As a thank-you to our wonderful GMs, they will be able to signup for a single normal table and a single special table 24 hours before that! We will also have a range of charity tables hosted by authors and Paizo staff! We will be auctioning off seats for those starting on Mon 30 Mar at 00:01 UTC. See all our games listed on our Warhorn with more to come, and join us on Discord
The specials for the con are both VTT and PbP/D: PFS2 4-99 Blessings of the Forest
Plenty more info on the discord, and HQ volunteers who can answer questions there!
Bridging the Gap ( Fri May 22 – Mon May 25) Update and GM signup! It may have seemed quiet from the outside but our spaceship construction engineers have been busy bolting on new modules to this ship as we go! Firstly, we are excited to be supporting Room to Read for the con. We'll be offering donors charity boon raffle entries, d20 rerolls, nat 20s and more! Next, GM registrations are now open! If you would like to join us as a GM or HQ volunteer, please fill out an application at the Bridging the Gap GM Signup form. We can offer scenario support (a free copy of the scenario you are GMing from Paizo) up until Monday April 20th, 2026. GMs choose the scenarios they wish to run as well as the format (VTT or PBP). For VTT, GMs also choose the slot in which each game will be hosted and the tool they will host in. For PBD, GMs choose the Online Region lodge which will host the game. For specials, please use the same form to express interest in GMing one or more specials. We will advise which GMs are selected on Friday April 3rd. Also, Bridging the Gap is live on Warhorn, join us here! Lastly, we'll be offering early access to the following June scenarios:
If you've not joined us yet come along to the discord and get ready for the con!
Bridging the Gap ( Fri May 22 – Mon May 25) Update and GM signup! It may have seemed quiet from the outside but our spaceship construction engineers have been busy bolting on new modules to this ship as we go! Firstly, we are excited to be supporting Room to Read for the con. We'll be offering donors charity boon raffle entries, d20 rerolls, nat 20s and more! Next, GM registrations are now open! If you would like to join us as a GM or HQ volunteer, please fill out an application at the Bridging the Gap GM Signup form. We can offer scenario support (a free copy of the scenario you are GMing from Paizo) up until Monday April 20th, 2026. GMs choose the scenarios they wish to run as well as the format (VTT or PBP). For VTT, GMs also choose the slot in which each game will be hosted and the tool they will host in. For PBD, GMs choose the Online Region lodge which will host the game. For specials, please use the same form to express interest in GMing one or more specials. We will advise which GMs are selected on Friday April 3rd. Also, Bridging the Gap is live on Warhorn, join us here! Lastly, we'll be offering early access to the following June scenarios:
If you've not joined us yet come along to the discord and get ready for the con!
Bridging the Gap ( Fri May 22 – Mon May 25) Update and GM signup! It may have seemed quiet from the outside but our spaceship construction engineers have been busy bolting on new modules to this ship as we go! Firstly, we are excited to be supporting Room to Read for the con. We'll be offering donors charity boon raffle entries, d20 rerolls, nat 20s and more! Next, GM registrations are now open! If you would like to join us as a GM or HQ volunteer, please fill out an application at the Bridging the Gap GM Signup form. We can offer scenario support (a free copy of the scenario you are GMing from Paizo) up until Monday April 20th, 2026. GMs choose the scenarios they wish to run as well as the format (VTT or PBP). For VTT, GMs also choose the slot in which each game will be hosted and the tool they will host in. For PBD, GMs choose the Online Region lodge which will host the game. For specials, please use the same form to express interest in GMing one or more specials. We will advise which GMs are selected on Friday April 3rd. Also, Bridging the Gap is live on Warhorn, join us here! Lastly, we'll be offering early access to the following June scenarios:
If you've not joined us yet come along to the discord and get ready for the con!
I think anyone suggesting the price increases are because Paizo went "we wants MORE monies!" is probably pretty far off the beaten path. Which means that if that's true it was far more likely "what is the minimum we can raise prices and remain afloat and publishing as we are currently?" Sure, price increases suck, everyone feels the tightness in their wallet these days... that applies to them as well. Everything you're buying is more expensive? Think how much even a small increase in supplier costs from each supplier affects businesses, not just Paizo, but pretty much everyone who isn't a huge corporation. The publishing industry notoriously runs on razor thin margins and profits (outside Amazon), a couple of poor years sales can be the end of smaller businesses (yes, Paizo is a small business by every metric not some 'juggernaught'). No-one has celebrated the price increases, least of all Paizo, but the realities of todays economy are a far more likely driver of it than corporate greed, let's be a little sensible here. And please, regardless of how you feel lets leave the ridiculous rhetoric and straw man arguments out of it, that doesn't help anyone.
As perhaps an unwelcome dose of reality... these prices are still either on par with or below equivalent page size/quality products from similar RPG companies in general. Price increases suck, but Paizo pdfs are still pretty solid value, that doesn't mean we should welcome them but it does mean that when it's for development, art, and production costs which we all know have drastically increased over the last few years in basically every industry it is pretty reasonable.
Mark Quarry matches the fantasy of the monster hunter really well, I think we can all imagine Geralt tearing down the wanted poster for some awful bog creature, asking around the locals for info, going and getting something it's specifically weak to and then tracking and killing it, the class perfectly captures that feel! But most Pathfinder games don't. If we just look at published APs there's really not a lot of times where that scene above happens, it's far more often investigating places full of different creatures without knowing what's in there to begin with. Let alone Society scenarios where you might only have one or two fights and if the bad guy isn't highlighted ahead of time your main ability is significantly hampered. It feels like the ability will play really well in a game about hunting monsters, everywhere else it'll feel like you're missing out on something that feels like it should be a core ability. Hopefully they'll consider that.
It looks like the Gap has devoured everyone's favourite con for this year and so we've worked a little magic to help out... Announcing: Bridging the Gap!
The Online Region of Paizo’s Organized Play is proud to host Bridging the Gap 2026! We will be offering online play in Virtual Tabletop AND Play-by-Discord/Play-by-Post formats! Most games will be run on the conventions Discord server or the Paizo forums. GMs worldwide will be offering tables to fit even the most finicky of timezones, on many different VTT platforms and in multiple languages! As well as Venture-Officers standing by 24 hours a day during the con to help ensure everyone has a great time. We’ll be running multi-table specials for Pathfinder 1, Pathfinder 2, and Starfinder over the con, as well as plenty of scenarios from each, and of course from Starfinder 2. There will be a charity component, as well as scenarios run by authors and we may even sneak a few Paizo staff in to run some if you’re lucky! More details, staff openings, GM and player signup all soon to come as we get things planned out, the Discord is open to join right now, we’ll see you there!
It looks like the Gap has devoured everyone's favourite con for this year and so we've worked a little magic to help out... Announcing: Bridging the Gap!
The Online Region of Paizo’s Organized Play is proud to host Bridging the Gap 2026! We will be offering online play in Virtual Tabletop AND Play-by-Discord/Play-by-Post formats! Most games will be run on the conventions Discord server or the Paizo forums. GMs worldwide will be offering tables to fit even the most finicky of timezones, on many different VTT platforms and in multiple languages! As well as Venture-Officers standing by 24 hours a day during the con to help ensure everyone has a great time. We’ll be running multi-table specials for Pathfinder 1, Pathfinder 2, and Starfinder over the con, as well as plenty of scenarios from each, and of course from Starfinder 2. There will be a charity component, as well as scenarios run by authors and we may even sneak a few Paizo staff in to run some if you’re lucky! More details, staff openings, GM and player signup all soon to come as we get things planned out, the Discord is open to join right now, we’ll see you there!
Hope the game went well! Typically all you need to do is ensure you have a character that meets the Org Play rules built and ready to go for the game, an Org Play ID number and a very basic understanding of the rules to some degree ideally! Even those aren't truly required, so long as you make sure to let a GM know beforehand so they can be prepared you can ask them to have a pregenerated character for you to play, and almost every GM I've seen has been incredibly willing to explain rules and help new players learn as the game goes on. Some GMs will ask for the info they need, to report the game so you get credit, before the game, others will wait til it's over but it's just a few basic things like the ID number and they can walk you through whats needed. Just as a general note, you are never required to enter a character into a VTT for Society, just like irl any character sheet is acceptable in Org Play so long as it is legible and you can provide it to the GM as needed should they want to check something. That being said, if you're not planning on entering a character into a VTT and just using a paper/pdf sheet and typing /roll d20 or such please do let the GM know ahead of time so they're not surprised, it makes for a better game for everyone! :)
The amount of organisers who've posted their practical experience that sanctioned content is a bigger draw at conventions than non, both here and elsewhere, is... significant. Starfinder Society is a marketing tool, the more eyes on it, the more players and people who get to enjoy it the more Paizo sells. Many companies would kill for people this desperate to advertise their stuff! Easy, quick, 'generic' sanctioning chronicles for long form Starfinder content takes almost zero effort or cost, let us help you sell stuff Paizo! :)
I'm not sure if this necessarily counts as a 'bug', but the Disconnect chrome extension which blocks invisible tracking cookies also apparently blocks your reviews from showing up when it's active, which seems... not ideal.
I suspect that at this point, as long as the GM gave them sufficient warning, the character chose to leave with something likely to result in their death and that's the result, anything else is wildly outside of Org Play. Though having them return in 1-09 could be a great idea for a home game using Society scenarios!
I think Blakes Tiger hit the nail, a background of "My character woke up after accepting that offer and has no memory..." that may or may not be true, is probably absolutely fine, it's a background not something that happened in a scenario and we have countless 'dragons burnt my village', 'my parents are secretly royals', etc that are just flavour with no mechanical effect (or even provably true). If during the scenario you accept the offer and get taken away... yeah, your character could reasonably be marked as dead (the GM should definitely inform you this is not likely returnable from beforehand imo though).
Heyas! I just checked and the PFSchat link is definitely working, if you try clicking this link that should open discord and take you there! Overall it’s probably true that you’re going to find it a little harder to find games immediately, the system has only been out for a few days and many GMs area still reading the rules, let alone setting up virtual tabletops (we also do have to wait a little for some of the tools used to make that easier on GMs to be updated as well in some cases). I expect we’ll see a lot more games over the coming weeks as people learn the rules a get things set up, give us a shout on the discord and we’ll try and find you some Society games! You can also click on my name in this post to go to my profile which has links to all our virtual tabletop and play by post locations for Society, hope that helps!
I think I'm pretty positive about all the changes generally, they'll benefit most people a decent amount it seems. The one thing that does strike me as a slightly less than ideal is the gold expiring after 12 months as Ectar bought up, 24-36 months tends to be more common for loyalty programs precisely because a year can be too short a time for average customers to collect much to make use of and thus instead of an incentive it actually feels like a punishment to the consumer, the exact opposite of the marketing intent. I'd hope that Paizo might consider extending the time before expiry into that range to help out their smaller spending, but consistent customers.
'Captivated' is not a status or effect in PF2 as some people have pointed out, you would need to find it listed as one for a separate effect, they're only affected by fascinated. So it's option 2 but not because some other effect breaks, but because there is no such status as captivated.
I have to agree with Elfteiroh, you've really leveled up ;) This presents something that's far more interesting, whilst a mobile isn't my tool of choice for VTTs there's undoubtedly a market there and a lot of players who are edged out by the need for a PC or tablet. Hopefully this will serve to allow even more players and GMs to enjoy games and bring in more people to our community, everyone wins! I hope this does very well, it certainly gives a far more professional, impressive vibe this time! My one issue that immediately stands out would be that even the free $0 subscription requires a credit cards info be entered to "buy" it, that's going to significantly cut down on the user base, most directly amongst those who don't have PCs and are the best audience I suspect, if that could be fixed I think it'd add a world of new players.
The game is reported to your event a single time, once the book is finished, as Super Zero says. You'll need to get the info from the players to fill out both the event report and a chronicle sheet for them, they get one sheet with the number of the character they have chosen to assign it to on it (you'll need that number for to report the game to Paizo as well so it's simple).
There's a number of thriving Play by Post communities on Discord, we have a number of Society lodges that run games using it and it works very well, as well as PbD games taking part in numerous PbP conventions. There's definitely a number of ways to run games that work better than others on the platform (separate channels for IC and OOC as an example etc) and lots of advice on how to best GM for it can be found on our lodges. If you're interested in Society play or even simply talking to some GMs who've a lot of experience with PbD as a format I'd recommend the following discord servers; Cayden's Keg
Best of luck, it's a faster format than the forums PbP but it has a lot of people who enjoy it and use it in a very similar fashion!
Adobe Acrobat Reader is entirely free and supports everything used in the interactive map pdf files, never had a single problem with it and no ads or anything. Token Tool is also my go to for pulling any images from pdfs, you're getting them at the resolution they natively are, so any fuzzyness is due to that and upscaling them rather than the actual image itself. If you don't object to using 'AI' then Pixelcut has a decent free image upscaler that can help, though it won't always provide enough detail.
You can find the RVC for your region listed here and they will be able to direct you to the closest venture officers who can help you with either joining, or in some cases if you're interested, even setting up local irl play! (Since you did mention online as an option i'll just add that the best place to find Online region games, or get help for online games, etc is likely our main lodge on discord at http://pfschat.com/)
Greetings aadzie! There's a whole region of games you can jump in with! The Online region runs Starfinder Society in a bunch of different places, for live games (those usually run over 4 ish hours with voice chat and using a virtual tabletop) we're primarily based on discord. Our main lodge is here; Org Play Online, but you'll also find Starfinder being run on some of our other lodges such as; Cayden's Keg, Cosmic Crittermanders, and Rolling Bones. I'd recommend either grabbing the discord app (here) or using their browser version if you prefer, and jumping on those lodges to say hi. There's plenty of players and GMs who are looking to play and if you let people know you're new then one of our venture officers (and the community in general!) will help you with where to find games! There's a couple of other links that might be useful for getting to grips with online gaming if you're new to it that can be found here;
Hopefully that gives you a place to begin and we can get you into some Starfinder games!
Hmmm….very underwhelming class ability then. thief racket so much better.. Precision Rangers have no such restriction.. Very much not the case, it doesn't work with a very small group of weapons but is an absolutely fantastic ability overall and the changes open up a whole world of new, very cool options.
You can now find Remaster iconics for download here!
I'd also recommend against throwing shade towards people who might disagree with your interpretation, it rarely sets a good tone and often will prejudice people against your message regardless of factual basis. However as Hammerjack laid out I'm afraid it doesn't work; Apply any abilities that alter the damage die size first.
Whilst I understand and can sympathise to a degree with the OPs frustrations I think it's fair to say that the behavior shown is not something I or most others would ever expect, or accept, from our Venture Officers and not something you should or will see in Society. I hope that you do decide to give us a try, I promise that the vast, vast majority of people are incredibly welcoming and warm and if there are issues we try to resolve them with sensible measures and a degree of calm, best of luck in your games!
Orcs make much more sense as core option than goblins do because orcs already had nuance shown to them where goblins got spontaneously overall much more nicer in much higher quantities when they became core :'D Perhaps unfortunately for those not involved an awful lot of that development was in Society, there were many scenarios over 10 years and multiple seasons showing numerous different goblins and goblin tribes working with both the society and others in helpful ways. So there was absolutely a ton of cooperation shown, just perhaps not in ways that every player would be able to see and experience.
Thank you for all the responses Natural Pengu, it’s great to see you’re focused on answering the communities questions and helping people understand the app! Despite the concerns I mentioned I truly do wish you the best, more competition in the VTT space is always good! I do have one last thing to suggest based on your replies which is that if this is an early access offering and not feature complete you really need to make that clear and have it front and centre, nothing seemed to say this until your comments. The community deserve to know if what they are buying is not truly finished and has a lot of development ahead of it in case they are wanting something that is fully featured, and it also allows those who are interested in helping with feedback, bugs, etc to know this is a project they can get invested in and potentially help shape to some small degree. Whereas if people find out after purchasing that something is still in early access with a long roadmap ahead it can definitely lead to issues (this is why Steam enforces games saying if they’re early access for example). Best of luck with it all, I look forwards to seeing what’s to come!
It certainly seems... quite new. I assume there must have been a lot of testing and such, but without any visible forums on their site to see the feedback from all of that (at least without signing up to give them my information there doesn't appear to be), or offer such (along with feature requests, bug tracking, issue resolution, etc etc) it seems like a tough call to drop money on based on that video (unless you really like walking animations I guess?)
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