StarMartyr365's page

I made out like a bandit with this sale! I knocked out over half of my dead tree backlog for less than what I'd have paid for used ones!

So now I'll stop obsessively checking my order status and be patient.

I got the same email due to an error on my part. I forgot to move funds from my main account into my sub account. I fixed that issue and clicked “Retry” and it went through with no problem.

I only have four PDFs left until I'm all caught up on my backlog so this isn't going to affect me that much. It does make my subs all that more valuable since they include the pdf. The new store and especially the all in one Adventure Paths have given me a lot of flexibility to manage my purchases. There's a lot of slack in the form of months with no releases that I can slot those purchases into and maintain my budget.

My budget for gaming has enough slack that I can adjust when I need too. The new format for Adventure Paths allows me to skip the ones I don't want so I'm "saving" money in the TTRPG budget that I can use for other TTRPGs when I need too. I now have five subs between Pathfinder and Starfinder plus the fiction line compared to the three that I had before. I ran the numbers and I'm not spending more money but spending it wisely on more things! And all those things are sooooo good!

The biggest hit to the budget is going to be getting all the hardcovers I've missed. I thought about looking online for used copies but decided against it. I'm going to look for them at a local game store to save on shipping but I'll just order them through Paizo if that doesn't pan out. I'll just order them in the months were there aren't any current releases shipping. That way I can spread the costs out.

I'm about to go all in on Foundry but I'm going to wait until Paizo has a fix for the issues there. I know they'll get it sorted out and then I can start buying the modules.

This will finally reveal Aroden faked his own death to take a vacation.

He got sick of the whole thing and gave up his powers so he could retire to Perth, Australia.

Justnobodyfqwl wrote:

I'm really excited by the idea of playing a Daredevil that's a kooky older woman. I love the trope of the older, retired badass at a specific skill who's getting too old for this body abuse. So when I hear about a class meant for doing handspring-grapple-shove-flips, I imagine a retired backflip-badass who winces as her joints crack doing her signature technique.

Maybe as a sorta Meta gag, say that she's so old, she was a 1e Acrobat back when that MEANT something! Whippersnappers these days don't know!

Just make sure she has her walker!

Adventurer #1:

Adventurer #2:
"Trust me. She'll be fine and I'd watch your mouth unless you want to be the one she makes an example of."

Adventurer #1:
"Whatever. I'll tell the other we're now the Company of Granny-sitters. Does the nursing home even know she's missing?!"

Adventurer #2 just slowly shakes his head and sighs.

SEVERAL ADVENTURES LATER...

Adventurer #1: <Visibly shaken>
"She tied the Giant King Grishdundaaaaar's legs into a pretzel after she ripped his kneecaps off!"

Adventurer #2:
"But she made us cookies! In a dungeon!"

Adventurer #3: <Obviously in a state of shell shock>
"She broke the Lich of Rythdangon's face with a sandal. A sandal."

Adventurer #1:
"Cookies. In a dungeon."

Adventurer #4: <Retching and vomiting>
"She tore the Sorcerer of T'trq'iln's entrails out through her nostrils."

Adventurer #2:
"Cookies. In. A. Dungeon.

The End

See also:

Robert Jebediah "Granddad" Freeman from the Boondocks

I really hope Daredevil will have some personal vehicle support. PF does have clockwork cycles, plus it'd be fun to let it work with stuff like Starfinder's hoverboards and enercycles in the same capacity. Though in general, vehicle stuntwork would fit both genres, imagine wagon stunts.

Wagon stunts are a staple of Westerns.

TheWayofPie wrote:

We’ve reached peak class bloat.

PF1 literally has classes that are "okay we screwed up making the class the first time, so we're taking a mulligan as a new class." THAT is peak class bloat. And I mean, Unchained Rogue definitely delivers better than CRB Rogue does, and Unchained Summoner kind of had to be used after PFS banned Summoner.

But PF1 had a ton more class bloat (among other kinds of bloat). They'd release a mechanic like teamwork feats and then release classes that had them built in because most of them were never worth taking if you didn't get a class feature to automatically share them in some way (Outflank being the most obvious exception).

Class design is generally an area where PF2 has done pretty well, so I think Paizo deserves some benefit of the doubt that these two new classes will have enough distinct things going for them to justify existing.

They will but what would a new class playtest be without wailing, the gnashing of teeth, throwing ashes and tearing cloth in addition to the usual histronics?

I can already think of quite a few characters that these classes will bring to life so I'm looking forward to this Tuesday. I'm also off on Tuesdays so I'll have all day to read it over!

Daredevil - Paired with Martial Artist and that archetype that lets you kill things with whatever you can get your hands on if your hands aren't doing the trick.

Slayer - I've been wanting to play a Belmont for a long time so I'm happy to see this. Or as someone said upthread, pair it with the Alchemist for a Witcher. I can actually think of a bunch of concepts for the Slayer.

I just hope they get a class feat caller "Shred."

He got sick of the whole game so he gave up his powers and retired to Perth, Australia.

Thebigham wrote:

Maya Coleman wrote:

Mr. Fred wrote:

@maya, isn't it possible to get in a post a monthly update on the release schedule like we had before, so we could get a view on your release schedule.

I really feel like I've lost a lot of things I liked with paizo when we moved to the new shop and I don't consider myself as someone resistant to changes.

The release schedule was a very practical page that provided in one page Paizo's roadmap and allowed to plan upfront the purchase and discuss with the community the upcoming products.

As Cori pointed out above, these are now a constant fixture in our website! Definitely check those out, and I'll be making posts about them too!

But they havent been updated with the news from the past two Paizo lives.

Please give us time to update it since we have to do it manually now!

I appreciate y'all so much! Take as much time you need. With the exception of a few minor quibbles I'm really happy with the new site.

My Orders aren't showing correctly but I understand that is a known issue and is being investigated.

I will definitely be picking up an Adventure Path sub thanks to them being just one book now.

I will probably also pick up a stand alone Adventures sub.

I'm on the fence about a fiction sub. My reading habits have changed but I might still give it try.

Is there any way we could get a shipping schedule for the various subs/releases. It would help even if it was a simple "Expected <some month>" or "Haven't Released Name Yet Expected <some month>". I understand that these things can change so "Parking lot of the ballpark" would work.

Maya Coleman wrote:

Prince Maleus wrote:

Most Glorious!

I swear an Oath that I would never make a Mocking remark to a Dragon.

Holding you to this, Prince Maleus!

Wiseman say, "Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup".

These have been guiding words for all my characters.

“Watch your back, conserve ammo, and never cut a deal with a Dragon.”

with this new webpage launch, what kind of functionalities are going to present in the forums?

is it going to be the same that is found here? the same text formatting and dice roller? or is there going to be something new/different? Will there be capability for posting an image directly to gameplay threads? Posting a link to a google slide for a battle map, or linking to another combat map interface is cool and all, but id be down for hosting gameplay maps hosted/published internally.

also, are we still going to have access, after the new website launches, to our current pbp games? or would it be prudent to back up what weve played?

The update is for the store front and web site and has nothing to do with the forums. The forums are to be updated later. There have been no announcements regarding new or old features for the forums. I suspect that when Paizo is closer to an update for the forums they will do a series of blogs to explain any changes like they did for the storefront / website.

Actually, I think a lot of videogames would be great wells of ideas for Starfinder weapons...

*Starts to imagine gunblades, God Eaters, vibro-katanas, and the X-baton...*

Perses13 wrote:

An electrostaff definitely seems awesome and wouldn't feel out of place in whatever Tech Core is called.

I feel like, in general, staff/baton/rod based weaponry is undervalued and has great potential for deeper exploration.

Perses13 wrote:

To manage your expectations, people have already started getting their copies of GM Core and are saying that its strictly GM facing, with no new player options beyond variant rules and vehicles.

Also, any chance you (or someone you know who has their copy of GM Core), would be willing to share how the PF2e <--> SF2e conversion rules look in a separate thread?

That was the first section I went to as soon as I opened the PDF!

I’m going to port everything from Pathfinder to Starfinder and call it a day.

ElementalofCuteness wrote:

exequiel759 wrote:

For example, in this very book we have both the commander and guardian multiclass arhcetypes, with the former being insanely good and the latter being heavily restricted for no reason. There's also archetypes like the necrologist which, even if interesting in concept, their execution is really weird and the overall flavor is also strange for a book about martials. The same with the swarm eidolon, which is certainly cool, but I wonder why put it here?

To be fair this is how I feel. Why did we get and I will quote here. New Sorcerer Bloodline, New Wizard Class Archetype (Isn't the Magus a War Mage basically?). New none-martial like Eidolon for Summoner and the Necrologist which, has nothing to do with Martials...period! If it used troop commanding rules maybe but this feels like it be best suited for a Remastered Book of the Dead.

Also they rather give new stuff to Sorcerers, Summoners, Wizards & Necromancers over Barbarian, Fighters, Rangers, and Swashbucklers in the book that sounded like it was suppose to be the Martial book? I dunno maybe I miss read the Paizo Blogs about Battlecry! Perhaps the magic stuff was a last minute addition?

Battlecry! was never the "Martials" book. It's the "War" book. Aesir Bloodline, a military wizard, and Necromancer raising their own pseudo-troop make perfect sense. Swarm Eidilon is a little bit of a curve ball, I'll admit.

Siccing a swarm of flensing locusts on my enemies is near the top of my Summoner bucket list.

Jim Butler wrote:

Some updates from me about various topics:

Quote:

Lots of discussion about Twitter/X.

X will no longer be incentivized through Paizo Plus. The graphic has been updated to reflect this.

For the record, offering incentives for Bluesky is just as offensive to some of us as offering incentives for Twitter/X is for others. We just usually aren't as whiney about it. So I assume this is an oil the greasy wheel tactic, instead of being a corporate position on advocating censorship of diverse ideas like Bluesky does.

Which diverse ideas does Bluesky advocate censoring?

Dragonchess Player wrote:

Is there specific content that you are looking for an updated version of?

If you're asking me, no, but I've heard other people speculate that the impossible playtest classes will be added to fill the space that will get dropped in the remaster due to the OGL issues. It seemed reasonable. I'd personally prefer all new content but I am very curious why the book for the necromancer and runesmith hasn't been announced yet.

My WAG is that the big reveal will come at Gen Con.

Squark wrote:

Et voila! You should now see the update under the Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide sanctioning.

If I'm not mistaken, that makes the current list of free options...

-----
Ancestries

• Catfolk

• Dwarf

• Elf

• Gnome

• Goblin

• Halfling

• Hobgoblin

• Human

• Kholo

• Kobold

• Leshy

• Lizardfolk

• Orc

• Poppet

• Ratfolk

• Strix

• Tengu

• Tripkee

-----
Versatile Heritages

• Changeling

• Dhampir

• Nephilim

• Dragonblood

• Duskwalker

SWEET! I didn’t know these had opened up. Now I’m going to rethink some character ideas.

I’m hoping the new forums have “Mute” and “Block” functions. That way I can eliminate most of the bad actors myself.

“I passed the Test of the Starstone and all I got was a t-shirt and a set of cheap steak knives.”

“Thank you for touring the Cathedral of the Starstone!
Please don’t touch the exhibits and exit through the gift shop.”

I’d like a Psychic Conscious Mind based on sound and vibration.

I'd like more stuff for the Spirit Monger Necro that actually involves spirits, haunts, etc. So far everything seems to be themed for the bone or meat Necromancer. I'm sure Paizo will include stuff like that in the final release as they usually limit playtest options for testing purposes.

With Pactbinder seemingly being ported to 2E via this book, and Runelords being confirmed to be ported, that makes both Dark Archive and Secrets of Magic taken from.

It makes me wonder what will happen with reprints of those books.

I could see Dark Archives getting a remaster and the remaining parts of Secrets of Magic being folded into another “magic” book. Secrets of Magic would require an extensive rewrite whereas the Pactbinder is two pages. I’m thinking that both books and the four classes in them will be folded into another “magic” book or something like that.

And Apocalypse Rider just sounds sooooo COOL!

Make the Hunter the Primal wave caster? A little Martial with a little spellcasting and a badass pet.

See, that's where we differ. I want less Beastboy and more Mystique. why make it about just animals?

I really want something closer to the changeling from Eberron. I think that may be better as a versatile ancestry though.

This archetype looks really cool. I'm totally going to try one.

That said, I do hope they get greater weapon specialization errata'd in at some point.

It does look really cool!

I haven’t red the whole thing yet but I’m already thinking up a few characters that I’d like to try it with.

Welcome nufriends!

I was wondering the same things today. I’ve already went through my subs for other hobbies and culled a bunch of stuff that I appreciate but isn’t that important. I can roughly double my gaming expenses without any friction but not everybody can say that.

StarMartyr365 wrote:

And now I want a godberry smoothie.

Starberry Banana Godberry anyone?

Godberry flavored gummies?

And now I want a godberry smoothie.

Reddit and/or Discord.
I’ve always been a “lurk more, post less” forum dweller.
With that being said I’ve started posting even less because the forums have devolved into the same people bickering and squabbling about everything. Anything.
My time is too valuable to spend trying to filter the signal from all the noise.
I’m hoping the eventual forum upgrades give us the ability to mute specific posters in a thread as well as the ability to just outright block someone.
Right now I use the play by post tools to manage things but that is a cudgel where I want a scalpel.

A proposed tactical pathway for Paizo and allies to supplant D&D

---------------------

I'm curious about why you think that Paizo would want to supplant D&D. So far there's been no indication that they want to do that.

Where did you get the idea that that is one of their corporate goals?

Paizo have stated before that their main priority as a business is to be successful enough to continue telling the kinds of stories that they want to tell. Paizo being a positive force in the industry and a part of a rising tide that lifts all boats is a part of that priority and in my opinion the part that makes them successful. Paizo only come considers themselves to be in competition with themselves to make Pathfinder the best TTRPG it can be.

I honestly just want a snake ancestry that is just a snake with arms that doesn’t have all the baggage that the Sekmin comes with.

Let's don't us start, or I'll turn this thread into another "we need sexier nonhuman ancestry art, for aesthetic reasons" discussion.

If we can get Rule 34 Conrasu then I'm all in.

EDIT: removed unsexy extra word.

Not to linger on this, but I truly cannot imagine a funnier reason to quit the game than "they renamed some creatures". Like, gosh, I like catgirls too, but I don't throw my books in the trash when it takes me an extra half-second to find them.

The humor wears off and my time is far too valuable to waste on people who throw foaming at the mouth tantrums over any/everthing.

All great discussions, reasons, excuses, etc... but I do think it will keep some people away no matter what, because I am one of those people.

Safe travels and best of luck to you.

You know, while Grandmother Spider killing Rovagug is wholly a joke--"himself" and "the Starstone" feel like much more compelling theories--I am increasingly wondering about her. Who wrote these prophecies? Maybe it was someone who wanted to encourage people to view the gods as vulnerable. Someone who gleefully undermines the gods' authority and encourages her followers to write their own destinies, even.

I don't think GMS is heading into a villain arc, but that doesn't mean she won't have her part to play. For instance, I will be shocked if Achaekek survives this war. The War of Immortals seemingly goes against everything he stands for. So what's Grandmother Spider going to do if her beloved brother is slain?

If the gods are going to war, might it be over the role of divinity itself in a world without Rovagug? Should the gods be distant, or active? Should divinity be ineffable, or highly attainable? The gods themselves do not seem to agree about this.

I think the only way Achaekek can get killed is if he gets a girlfriend.

The fluidity of familiars made me wonder if a familiar even needs to look like a real world animal. Could I have a familiar that looks like a cross between a dragonfly and a python or opossum and a fox? Basically an amalgam of multiple creatures whose form is cosmetic only and doesn't necessarily mean they have any specific abilities. I could live with specific features requiring specific abilities according to the base animal's form but it seems cooler if my BatMonkeyDingo could have wings but not have fly today. Maybe having the familiar morph new features depending on abilities chosen for each day?

I’m thinking it’s going to be Gozreh based on the god in question perishing by being torn in half in the sky.

Nethys spontaneously combusting would be cool though.

Bone is a precious organic product used similarly to gemstones, especially when polished.

10 on the evil clown concept. I think the Animist has a lot of problems mechanically, but the idea of an evil clown spirit is not one of them! Who doesn't want to play a Joker or Pennywise-inspired character?

I think Krusty would be more fun.

Send in the Clowns.

(Juggalos have entered the chat.)

How do i redeem my codes

Log in and go to "My Account" and look for "Partner Redemptions."

Maybe it's time for Starfinder Second Edition?

Low gravity swimming pool.

Best of luck to both of you!

This can be quite useful at times.

Here's the link, if you still want to use it.

TriOmegaZero wrote:

There is a Chrome extension and Firefox addon to do just that.

Late to the party but thank you so, SO much for this.

An extra friendly yellow skittermander wearing the tailored attire of an Abadar Corp Salescreature comes by to make an announcement. "There's popcorn available from the Abadar store! You can order it Akiton-plain, Castrovellian Chocolate, Triaxian Treacle, Apostae-extra salty, or Zo!-style (it's the cheesiest!) If you like sugary popcorn aimed for the adventurous eater, we have a deal through Olli's Option bar for sweet popcorn dipped in just about every taste you can imagine! Just order it in advance of the Drift Crisis, otherwise we cannot guarantee our delivery dates!"

No Absalom Station Salt & Vinegar?!

Enjoy the conjecture! :)

Tell me you have stock in popcorn companies without saying it. :D