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It's Derry!!!!!!

Is this store page intentionally titled "Pathfinder RPG: Treasure Vault (Remastered)"? Rulebook store titles haven't included colons or the term "RPG" since First Edition.

Hey, the Player's Guide says that the Sandpoint Cathedral contains not six but seven shrines, including one to Calistria. That seems to contradict the Seven Dooms AP itself, which only lists the established six.

Both the Player's Guide and the AP book seem to imply that worship of Calistria is the seventh-most popular religion in town (Calistria is listed among the religions in Sandpoint's settlement statblock). Is this true/mentioned in any other book? I would've been more inclined to expect Calistria to be the opposite of popular, like how Klarn Kleiden shunned Calistria as "a deity not represented in Sandpoint’s charter". I was thinking of Shayliss more as a sort of maverick or outsider in terms of her faith, where it's less likely that this little town has a Calistrian congregation for her to find much community with.

The complete collection of gourd leshy merch! https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Category:Images_of_Jackpot

We've got statblocks for eight new deities, including Pathfinder's first dromaar deity!!! (Besides Gorum!)

You're telling me that the gourd leshy plushie comes out this month, alongside Tuku the pink dragon eidolon plushie !!

FUMBUS COMPANION!! Does he like speaking in rhymes!?

Tengu, ratfolk, and catfolk ancestry stretch goals!!

This sounds METAL.

i'm so happy i should commission an artist to draw Valeros and Imrijka kissing

If anyone was wondering, by my count:

Looking at a quick Ctrl+F, Lost Omens The Mwangi Expanse has 49 "iruxis".
LO Grand Bazaar has 1 "iruxis" and (counting the glossary) 2 plural "iruxi".
LO Impossible Lands has 15 "iruxis" and (counting the glossary) 3 plural "iruxi".
LO Highhelm has 1 "iruxis" and 1 miscapitalized plural "Iruxi".
LO Tian Xia World Guide has one "iruxis" (no plural "iruxi").

GM Core has 1 "iruxis" (no plural "iruxi").
Monster Core has 4 "iruxis" and 1 plural "iruxi".
Howl of the Wild has 4 "iruxis" (no plural "iruxi").
Player Core 2 has 3 "iruxis" and 1 plural "iruxi".

GM Core has no "kholos", but 3 plural "kholo".
Monster Core has 25 "kholos" and 2 plural "kholo".
Player Core 2 has 5 "kholos".

GM Core has 2 plural "tengu".
Monster Core has a bunch of plural "tengu" and 2 "tengus".
LO Tian Xia World Guide has tons of plural "tengu", as expected.
Player Core 2 has tons of plural "tengu" and 1 "tengus".

Huge congrats to Lucas Servideo and the Coin crew!!

Is Empress Ameiko wearing a masterwork samisen on her back?! I love it!!

The commander is a martial support class that can issue commands to her allies, granting them extra movement, actions, reactions, and more.

Aha! Has the commander iconic's gender been alluded to anywhere else? I hear tell that a designer may have said "her"

Stop the presses!! Void effects can have the healing trait now!

In LO: Firebrands, the moderate ring of observation says "The ring can cast invisibility on you once per day," but it forgets to define if this ability is an activation, or how many actions this costs to perform. If it is an activation, it should presumably state its traits [or, pre-Remaster, state its envision and/or Interact component(s)] in order for the item statblock to be complete.

Highhelm page 73; The Forge spell is listed as "SPELL 1", but the description says:

Developed before the introduction of the Iron Lagoon, this cantrip for superheating metal has also found valuable combat use

Is this spell a Cantrip or just a level 1 spell?

Director Luis Loza has confirmed that "Spell 1" is indeed correct as forge is a "slot" spell, not a cantrip!

Per the CRB 4th printing errata: https://paizo.com/pathfinder/faq

Many abilities use shorthand like “a creature you can see.” These abilities typically work just fine with other precise senses, so the Detecting with Other Senses sidebar was adjusted to note this. Examples include using a precise sense (like echolocation for precise hearing) for the Coerce activity of the Intimidation skill, an investigator’s Devise a Stratagem action, and the thaumaturge’s Exploit Vulnerability action.

Baelor the Bard wrote:

Thanks. I wish I could do Paizo Con Online but sadly I think a lot of it is during work hours, but I'll watchstuff afterward.

Will the panels be put up for free somewhere after they have happened or do you also need to get an online ticket for their archival recordings? Are there archival recordings in the first place? Since I live in Germany, the time difference and just work hours are not compatible with life viewing for me.

Yes, stream VoDs are instantly available on twitch.tv/OfficialPaizo right at the same place that they're livestreamed, and then they'll also be uploaded to YouTube. And I know that for past years' conventions, audio-only recordings have been uploaded to a podcast feed afterward, so maybe those could happen this year, too!

I wish the cloak wasn't a cloak. Feels like it will compete with the stealth slot too much. Though I suppose I shouldn't assume the stealth items will remain cloaks.

Though from another design perspective, for example making it a pair of anklets or gloves would be bad for "coverage", since for 17th level the anklets of alacrity and pilferer's gloves already exist on AoN and remain legal; the cloak provides an option for people who are interested in other anklets or gloves!

Ooh, this AP's iconic party is Ezren, Lem, Feiya, and Thaleon: all casters! How will they fare without a martial?! I had expected Mios the thaumaturge to be in this!

Didn't think he was into second edition at all.

No, you've known; multiple users have informed you of the fact, such as in this post from May 2021, in addition to your own admittals that your understanding is obsolete. Here's just one of his blog posts that dive into things he loves about 2e:

The action economy, obviously, but it really needs to be considered how good that is. There’s a reason 2e works better than 1e with three actions house ruled in. This is the foundation on which a great game was built. It makes thinking about your turn much easier, because you aren’t juggling as much between the concept of what you want to do and the mechanics of making it happen. [...]

Confining characters to three actions at all levels also helps with higher level play. As a fan of martial characters, 1e made any turn that I couldn’t stand still and full attack feel like a punishment. The higher the level, the more you lost not squatting. Being able to move and still attack twice, or more twice as far and still get an attack, adds dynamism and complexity to a martial’s turn.
Moreover, I like 2e spellcasters. The oracle specifically is a class I’ve played in both editions, and while I struggled with the experience in 1e, I love it in 2e. Similarly, the 1e paladin was never a class I paid much attention to, but as you’ll see in the new KD Adventure Series – Trouble In Otari Part 1, the champion’s focus spells give the class a lot of flavourful flexibility. There’s no combat in episode 1, but in later episodes you’ll see me mix up casting and fighting in such a satisfying way.

Now please stop harassing this man with false claims.

In regards to the list mentioned above, it is now gone and will not be back on our forums. Any form of targeted hate such as this list is against community guidelines and will be handled as such. In this case, we took moderation steps so that the user won't be able to attack community members again.

The biggest question is why that specific bad actor gets to continue to do these things. As Tender said, he had that list in his profile, and then it was removed, and then it was back. What's to stop him from adding it back again?

What's very funny is that yesterday, after removing his second hatelist, he did simply add a new third hatelist of users to his profile, where I saw it still remained up 12 hours ago.

The integrated gauntlet modification's requirement "(One-Handed Weapon Only; Can't Have the Two-Hand Trait)" does not disallow the [fatal aim] trait. I'd guess that it was probably intended to also disallow [fatal aim] as well as [two-hand].

Good news, everyone: Fumbus and Droven reunite on G&G page 11, and page 202--they made it all the way back to Absalom!

All mentions of this book in the Grand Bazaar PDF, as well as in G&G, refer to this as Lost Omens Grand Bazaar.

So it would seem that the store page is mistitled, as the store page and product description exclusively refer to it as Lost Omens: The Grand Bazaar. (Likewise seeming to mean that the placeholder image is out of date, as the store image displays "The Grand Bazaar" on the mockup cover.)

Incredibly based

Ravingdork wrote:

While very true, if I wanted spy drama, I'd go to Taldor and join the Lion Blades. If I wanted to attend a school, I'd attend the University of Lepidstadt in Ustalov. If I wanted to uncover the past, I'd explore Ruins of Azlant.

Point is, none of what The Mwangi Expanse seems to offer in terms of adventure types is new. Instead, we seemed to have lost the "exciting safari exploration of a mysterious untamed land" genre (as some posters have come describe it) as it were.

I've long disliked new rules that serve little purpose other than to limit existing options.

You don't think the Lion Blades have significant interest in the evolving political scene of Vidrian? Does James Bond limit himself to England?

It could even be said that to tie uncovering the past or spy drama to one faction from one country is… to limit one's options.

I was looking at the archetypes, and archer is wrong. Rogues can sneak attack with any ranged weapon, longbow and crossbow included.

Yes, the guide repeats this mistake in its analysis of Dual-Weapon Reload: The guide mistakenly states that the blowgun and hand crossbow require ruffian. They do not: Every weapon on the Ranged Weapons Table automatically works with sneak attack; only thrown weapons on the Melee Weapons Table require agile, finesse, or ruffian.

The only way to manage the equivalent of a PF1 kitsune with Fox Shape (and thus three forms to choose from) is with the Beastkin heritage and the Critter Shape feat (assuming that you want to have all three forms from an early age). The next opportunity is to start with any heritage with a "tailless" (humanoid) alternate form and pick a class with access to the arcane or primal list to learn the Pest Form spell. Either way, time in fox form is limited.

To be clear for the benefit of anyone reading this comments section, David's point is that at 1st character level you can only have two forms. At 5th level, you can take the kitsune feat Myriad Forms to gain the third form; time in this form is unlimited, just like your first two forms.

And ack! I messed up all my hyperlink tags in my first comment. Lemme fix that:
[ancestry description]
[ethnicities and heritages]
[feats]
Luis&Eleanor interview VOD

So I take this as Fox Shape is going to be a part of PF2 kitsune!? ^w^

(So excited!)

Boy, do I have a treat for you: They revealed kitsune's entire six-page spread in an interview on the Know Direction podcast! Including beautiful art of four more kitsune characters, and a star orb : Click these links for

...better than three-quarters of the RL teachers I had in school... :>

This is what I play fantasy games for. :">

This is also the stage at which you should choose your character’s home region (Core Rulebook 420-429), and in the case of human characters, your ethnicity.

This sentence from the Guide needs to be corrected, as non-humans are explicitly stated to have ethnicities too.

GMs should check Table 10–5: DCs by Level (Core Rulebook 503) to calculate the Earned Income DC.

It's the 'Earn Income' DC, not the "Earned Income" DC.

LOVE THE ART. But hm, I can't help but feel that the title "Lost Omens Mwangi Expanse" looks a little awkward--it's like using "Lost Omens" as an adjective? It similarly doesn't work to call Europe "the Earth Europe". I think it'll make more sense if future posts put a colon in it like "Lost Omens: Mwangi Expanse"; the store pages of every single Lost Omens product put colons in their titles like that.

In summary: https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=782

Were these all sold and now out of stock? Will they be restocked?

‘Calmont do this, Calmont read that, Calmont that’s not how you spell Norgorber!’ . . .

Java Man wrote:

Artofregicide wrote:

Rysky wrote:

Or maybe have a Tiering system so the GM can decide if allowing certain spells would break certain stories or encounters, like a rarity system maybe?

I'm mean, I'm actually hugely not a fan of the rarity system (and the ambiguities it creates, plus the general trend towards GM fiat that PF2e and 5e have taken), but if you remember- this isn't a thread to discuss or compare versions.

Either create your own thread to compare versions of PF or better yet don't.

Regardless keep your commentary civil and constructive (your above comment is neither) or I'll start flagging your posts.

Thanks!

Please explain how the post you quote is within a flaming mile of flag-worthy?

I can only assume they are concerned that a direct reference to PF2 rules is going to turn this thread into a game versus game thing. That and it certainly comes off as snarky, at the very least, to enter a thread about fixing a game and recommend putting the game mechanic version of "out of service" signs on everything instead.

Fortunately, it was just a suggestion of a game mechanic; he didn't say a thing about editions. If a mechanic works it works. In practice, very many game systems have rarity systems that do. Rysky had no way of knowing that rarity rules aren't to Artofregicide's personal taste, and just because they happen to be so doesn't make the suggestion uncivil or unuseful.

Cheliax: Chelish or Chelaxian sometimes used interchangeably; generally found “Chelish” to refer to nationality, while “Chelaxian” refers to the ethnicity (before 2e retconned the ethnicity)

Chelish is being phased out entirely

Chelaxian is now the adjective to use across the board.

Chelish also suggested it was derived from something other than Cheliax.

Chelish? Oh, that must mean it's from Chel/Cheland/Chellian/etc.

My theory is that another contributing factor was the word sounding too much like the Keleshite language 'Kelish'. In any case, 'Chelish' doesn't appear a single time in the Lost Omens Character Guide. The LOWG may have been its final hurrah--which puts us in the unfortunate spot of not knowing whether to keep calling it the 'Chelish Civil War' or to retcon its name to 'Chelaxian Civil War'.

Divine Rank

Gods are usually ranked in a divine hierarchy, from newly ascended godlings to almighty creator gods of unfathomable power.
God: Taking a position atop the divine pyramid, gods command near unlimited power and resources. Their mortal congregations are large and (usually) well funded.
Demigod: Demigods still possess a great deal of power, though often in subservience to another god or simply inferior to the power of a full god.
Quasi Deity: The weakest rank of divinity, many quasi deities are recently ascended mortals who attained their deific powers through ritual apotheosis, or planar natives who have amassed divine power of their own.

Hey now, wait a second . . . that can't be right! Planar Adventures and Lost Omens Gods & Magic say that deity is the lore term for specifically the unstattably powerful beings, and god is the umbrella term that includes deities, demigods, and quasideities. Which book is right? And how come the GMG puts a space in the middle of 'quasi deity'? LOG&M's glossary writes it as one compound word: 'quasideity'.

Demigods are always level 26 or higher.

A quasideity can be any type of being and is always level 25 or lower.

. . . Huh. Always? This strikes me as an odd change from Planar Adventures, which said a quasideity could be any level at all. I'd figure it must take more than just leveling up for a quasideity to become a demigod--but G&M's new definition makes it sounds like leveling up could necessitate being redefined as a demigod.

Aratorin wrote:

"CRB Pg. 93 wrote:

QUAKING STOMP [one-action] FEAT 20

BARBARIAN MANIPULATE RAGE
Frequency once per 10 minutes
You stomp the ground with such force that it creates a minor earthquake, with the effects of the earthquake spell.

Do you get the effects of the 8th level Earthquake Spell, or is it auto heightened to 10th like an Innate Spell would be?

Can this be counteracted, or is it a non-spell effect because it's caused by me physically stomping?

I am very curious about this too, also does the rough terrain and possibility of falling into fissures affect the barbarian who's causing it.

Well, for Aratorin's first question, it wouldn't heighten. No spell is heightened unless its source says that it's heightened. Innate spells aren't an exception; only cantrips and focus spells heighten implicitly.

Wait whaat, is this adventure for 4th level or to 4th level?

Oh, that link's broken! Let me fix that for you: Click here for the spreadsheet
You've set the link so that anyone can edit, so we don't need to request access.

I also changed the spreadsheet's title from "Official Blog Comments" to "Paizo Staff Comments", as not all of these clarifications are sourced from blogs, and we don't want to give the false impression that an off-the-cuff answer from a single developer is necessarily official. They can misspeak or be misinterpreted, and/or even be overruled when the game design team as a whole later confers together to check and see if prior interpretations have brought up any new concerns they hadn't fully considered before; formal errata documents that they all agree upon, get revised by Paizo's editing team, and finally publish are what's official.

so the witch doesn't fuller remember any given spell after its been cast and must reput it in their brain. maybe thats just how the original vancian casting worked, i don't particularly remember.

I don't particularly remember, but that's why prepared casters can't keep casting spells they prepared nor use other methods to prepare spells, imo.

4. the hexes, and other spells are originate from the familiar(refocusing requires a familiar for the witch). the first line of the witch's...

Oh. my. god.

A witch accessing divine spells is a fascinating character concept because, to me, it's unusual. Spooky occult hags, primal hedge witches, and classic PF1 arcane witches are the iconic archetypes that the word "witch" brings to my mind, especially when I'm thinking of the world of Golarion. It's huge that the Lesson of Death lets witches grab raise dead, a spell normally exclusive to the divine list, and I'd love to see future lessons and witch feats similarly allow them to nab the choicest, very witchiest bits of the divine list best suited to the witch class's spooky, hedge witch-y, or studious themes. For a witch who wants to do more than dabble, I'd love to see a class archetype that makes the distinction between a divine-focused witch and a normal witch feel important and impact play in its very own way.

Primal and Divine only with a positive spell descriptor, no material descriptor at all and of the necromancy school which coincides quite nicely with the Spiritual Essence it represents, wouldn’t you say?

Oooo I know, what about Sanctuary! The clearly spiritual essence spell that’s also only on Primal and divine with no descriptors besides abjuration.

The Pathfinder 2nd Edition rulebooks don't go crazy with putting in traits to explain every single spell's presence on every single spell list because doing so would be cumbersome to the point of quickly becoming absolutely infeasible; you have to weigh how much or how little value an investment of developer time, effort, and word count has on the gameplay experience at the table. It's unwritten that a bard's haste spell quickens the mind while a druid's haste spell quickens the body; the devs leave the power to us to choose how to flavor them in our own games, and I love that.

But yeah, Midnightoker, you're absolutely right that a monk casts ki strike to deal lawful damage as a divine spell powered not by a deity, but by the planar concept of Law, just as an oracle can, rather than draw power from a deity, hold some thread of connection to the Positive Energy Plane, or to the unending conflict between the armies of Heaven and Hell or the Elemental Planes, according to the APG playtest. The CRB tells us that Religion tradition skill is concerned with "the Outer Sphere, and the Positive and Negative Energy Planes".

A divine spell is a divine spell is a divine spell. That's why a champion or divine ki monk who multiclasses into cleric or divine sorcerer gets expert divine spell proficiency at 9th level for free, three levels before a fighter/cleric or wizard/sorcerer would even have the ability to take their multiclass archetype's Expert Spellcasting feat.

Bestiary
* p.170: The Hill giant has a +14 damage bonus to its greatclub and rock attacks, but only a +4 damage bonus to its fist attack. That's likely a typo that was meant to also say +14.

I don't have time to check almost 400 posts, so sorry if this is covered:

Two, their Rock accuracy is listed as +37.

Ah, there should be a little searchbar in the top-right corner of the page that you can use to search for mentions of storm giants and stuff--but ohhh crap, that to-hit bonus is a big deal! Thanks for catching that; I can't believe we'd missed it!

I've forked the repository to split the corrections by book

My man!

Q: Can the Champion's Blade Ally class feature providing the effect of Shifting be used to turn a 1-handed weapon into a shield with a boss or spikes attached?

No, shifting can only shift your weapon into the shape of another weapon, and neither a shield nor a shield bash is a weapon. There would only be a chance that you could convince your GM to let you shift your weapon into a lone shield boss or handful of shield spikes, which would be useless detached from a shield.

Ooh, new from Klaher! Here's art of Abadar himself . . .

And is this here a worshiper of Casandalee?

Oh, and on Lost Omens World Guide pg.71, I still think Crimson Shroud ought to have the divine or magical trait. It was a (Su) in PF1!

Shout-out to the Paizo staffers reading this thread! I take it that even if these won't be added to the GitHub, it's more helpful to keep our typo collections all in one place, rather than make new threads for each and every sourcebook as they come out.

From the Lost Omens World Guide:
* p.28: We've been told the Aldori dueling sword's price is misprinted.
* p.48: The Vudrani language is listed before Tien, putting them out of alphabetical order.
* p.72 misspells the Kelish language as "Kelesh".
* p.84 lists a "Garundi" language. Should this be Osiriani?
* p.95: Luis Loza says the feat Magic Warrior Dedication is missing the uncommon trait.
* p.95: The feat Nameless Anonymity allows a magic warrior to cast nondetection, but does't provide the spell's tradition. Should it specify that this nondetection is the same tradition as the magic warrior's focus spells?

And from the Core Rulebook:
* p.242: Grapple's description says "You can also Grapple to keep your hold on a creature you already grabbed." It may be helpful to change "grabbed" to "grabbed or restrained".