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I seem to be getting Access Denied errors when trying to download it.

I'm also getting access denied

Edit: clicking the picture instead of the link worked

my watch hath ended. If you download the starfinder pdf, the zip contains a placeholder with flyer saying the pdf will be updated on the 31st

My watch is ended. (well in ended a couple days ago but i forgot to update here)

PAWWWWWWWWWNS!!!!

My watch has begun as of 8am yesterday (the 14th).

Is the may shipment coming out later this time due to convention craziness?

My watch has ended.

BTW, was it intended for Spore War 3 to not have a separate maps PDF

HOLD ON A MINUTE. Is Seldeg still Geb's spymaster?

If yes, I am about to be VERY HAPPY.

If he's a turncoat, I will have to skip the first chapter and rewrite the last so that Agents of Geb take him down with righteous fury in the name of the Ghost King!

This one might be tough to run depending on how my players resolve the last book in Blood Lords...

Usually is there between 6 months to a couple years to set up factory depending on the complexity, so whatever trailblazer sets up shop or expands capacity can make mad profits, assuming the tariffs are, in fact, implemented.

Additionally, a shortage due to a demand hike is just that. There was shortage of pink paint due to the Barbie Movie, that doesn't mean that the paint industry is weak or couldn't adapt to sustained increase in demand. At best it means it operates in tight, "just in time", order scheduled.

/unhinged economic rant

1: 6 months seems really short. Industrial printing requires heavy machinery, which is also not manufactured in the US so either that's a second industry that has to be spun up here first, or an additional 10%-100% increase in the overhead cost to start up the factory.

2: "just in time" operation is the worst thing to happen to industry in well the history of industry. It is the reason that there are no American manufacturers, it is the reason why a couple of relatively minor shipping bottlenecks during covid lead to months long delays in shipping that have still not been corrected for. The shipping is a good example. As a result of an industry wide just in time mentality, we were (and still are) running at 100% of shipping capacity 100% of the time. Just-in-time says that because safety margins (like holding back 10-20% of your capacity, or stocking one or two production runs worth of raw materials) do not directly generate profits they are a waste and need to be eliminated. What that means in the short term if everything runs perfectly is higher profits. What it means long term is the entire manufacturing and distribution system because INCREDIBLY fragile. Even minor problems cause the entire system to shatter, and as can be seen in the shipping industry, because you were already running at 100% capacity it is physically impossible to recover without going through the decades long process of building more capacity. The 2020 shipping bottle neck is STILL causing problems, right now there are paizo products that were supposed to ship two months ago that are MIA in the shipping system. On top of that, if you favor some of the more modern analyses of inflation being more closely tied to supply line capacity than monetary supply, you can draw a line directly from the covid shipping crisis that is still unresolved to the inflation spike during that same time period.

/end rant

Are the Armies of the Dead in the same situation as Fearsome Forces? They recently went from "expected Dec 11th" to "unavailable" but it looks like my subscription order is still waiting on them to be fulfilled.

I'm not as concerned about it this month like i was with Divine Mysteries in the order, but I would still like to know what to expect.

i just realized i forgot ot update here: CS did come through for me, the Armies of the Dead minies went back to the side cart, and my regular subscription stuff shipped Friday.

Thrawn82 wrote:

Welp. my subscriptions are now locked behind a backorder that isn't expected until mid december. Take this as a warning about using the sidecart, I don't think I will trust using it in the future, saving a couple bucks on combined shipping isn't worth losing out on a month of on time subscription material.

You can email CS and they will move the side carted item so the rest will ship.

I did last week. No response so far, which isn't surprising, CS is pretty backed up and they warned about that up there in the OP.

Welp. my subscriptions are now locked behind a backorder that isn't expected until mid december. Take this as a warning about using the sidecart, I don't think I will trust using it in the future, saving a couple bucks on combined shipping isn't worth losing out on a month of on time subscription material.

Oh no! i am also 'waiting on back ordered items' from my sidecart this month. How did that work last month? Did i screw myself out of my subscriptions?

also why would something that is on backorder move from the sidecart into the subscription order in the first place? Isn't the whole point of the sidecart to prevent that from happening?

congrats yall. my watch continues

My watch continues. I really hope it goes out today, it would be a big benefit to my mental health to have something to pay attention to other than the election this week.

ooh early order spawning! I'm super excited for Divine Mysteries to round our War of the Immortals for campaign building.

Also I'm not affected, but i wanted to say the decision not to delay PDFs for special edition folks is great, and its good to see a company taking care of their customers even when things outside of their control happen.

My watch has ended. Pour one out for the poor hollow bastard.

The watch continues, fingers crossed on it going out before the weekend break.

Another dawn, another day pining for the ~~fjords~~ shipping notifications.

Another day keeping watch, counting the last days of Gorum

Today is the day, everyone grip your luckstones tight.

All along the watchtowers, gamers kept their view

is it the 10th yet?

Still 11 days til the 15th, when the luckiest of us (and all the content creators) get their PDFs

Hey, I think this comment by Aaron Shanks implies that pawns are coming back, just moved into the Pathfinder Accessories subscription now. https://paizo.com/products/btq03n0n/discuss?Pathfinder-Monster-Core-Pawn-Bo x#13

I don't know if there's ever been any other announcement or comment in clearer terms.

I think it may only be for flagship products. I don't recall where they said it, possibly on the monster core pawn product page, but they were clear and explicit that they do not intend to bring back pawns for APs in any form. The impression I got is that the thing that makes it too expensive/inefficient is not the materials or manufacturing so much as the artist time taking away from other projects which is why PDF only isn't really on the table either.

It seems like i was just here, but once again, my watch begins.

My watch has ended, Good luck to those who still wait.

My favorite line so far from PC2: "The attacker is then immune to your Cringe for 24 hours." ^^

You severely underestimate my cringe, sir.

People keep talking about smashing f4 or f5. I do that, and all I get is a little bell telling me that key doesn't do anything.

I have no shipping email, no new downloads, and my order is still pending. :-(

Ya know, I'm honestly not sure if that's still a hotkey, i say it as a joke. In case anyone doesn't get the joke, for us oldtimers on older versions of WIndows (like WIndows 95 and Windows 98) F5 was the shortcut to refresh whatever window you were in, whether file explorer or your internet browser.

Also, alas, my watch continues, back up the tower to gaze longingly at the metaphorical sea

Oooh, if you're still waiting: check your downloads. I've not had a shipping notice, but PC2 is in my downloads.

In the words of Tinny Tim: Bravo! You have raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly sir!

Occurs to me my last post might have sounded a little more hostile than I meant it. So I apologize if that's the case. I'm just being a worrywart about a weird thing that someone said was a glitch that needed fixing from their experience.

It almost certainly is a glitch, but you contacted CS and someone laid eyes on your case so I'm confident it is being taken care ofon the physical shipping end of things whether or not they have had time to track down the particular software quirk causing it.

My watch continues, but as others have said, it's not late til friday. *returns to smashing fd4 on his e-mail*

Mine also still says "Pending," You might want to reach out to CS in an e-mail.

Vasin wrote:

Can I have mine now? I have a one shot this weekend and really want to make a Goblin Sorcerer that thinks he is a Wizard that gets his powers from books and scrolls, but can't actually read.

You too, huh? I'm GMing a game with folks playing an ORACLE, CHAMPION and SORCERER.

Rogue is fine, though. We got book for them. :P

My current party is a Sorcerer, a Champion, a Barbarian, an Investigator, a Gunslinger, and a Kineticist (hes fine at least, his book just came out)

Im definitely most excited about PC2. I run a semi-weekly (bi weekly? once every two weeks) and the majority of my players are playing PC2 classes so im dying to dig in there and see what changes there will be for us.

Is it still on track to start shipping on wednesday?

4th of july holiday and this schedule change falling on the most important subscription month this year is really unfortunate for my blood pressure and anxiety. I need that core 2 book so bad! lol

Its here! its here! Authorization Day is... oh wait nevermind, false alarm.

so. excited. stupid 4th of july pushing processing back a week.

Hello, I have a question about werecreature archetype from Howl of the Wild.

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On the night of the full moon, you automatically use Change Shape to assume your hybrid shape, and you can’t voluntarily activate or dismiss Change Shape until sunrise.

On the night of the full moon, did the character control under the GM ? Even for a true werecreature ?

Thanks for your future answer.

Due to how inherently touchy taking away player agency can be, it looks like they (wisely imo) determined tha6t by RAW this needs to be decided between the gm and player and there is no official answer one way or another.

As a GM, I can imagine going a couple different ways with this. If the character is a werecreature from the very beginning i would let them keep control of their character regardless of natural or afflicted status, for characters to acquire the affliction during play I would start by taking control control of their character with their explicit permission after a conversation outside of the game, and then set up a long term skill challenge that takes place each full moon and after they have collected some number of successes they will have made-peace-with/mastered/understood their curse and after which they keep control on full moon nights.

Familiars don't gain Intelligence because they don't have an intelligence score. A familiar is just assumed to be about as intelligent as you want/need for it to function. Mind you that any given day you can swap familiar abilities around to give it speech, so a familiar being an intelligent animal is not only likely, it's kind of an unspoken default assumption unless you specifically avoid any ability that requires humanlike intelligence to use.

Familiars in 2e are a little more like a mutable collection of powers, but I feel like making an intelligent animal who used to be a familiar is a perfectly viable way to be awakened.

I have a long time player, who played a wizard in Rise of the Runelords with a hedgehog familiar named Chi CHi that became a party favorite. I am currently preping to run Seven Dooms next, and this player pitched the idea of creating an awakened animal version of CHi Chi to be his character for the arc.

There is a lot of great opportunity for good storytelling in the idea that some rare familiars might gain independence when their master dies, and IMO it definitely fits in with one of the background themes of Golarion that sometimes, magic be weird and does rare unique things. I would encourage any GM to consider this a viable path for a player that is attached to a familiar and wants to move it forward in a story.

I think there will be table variation due to the very first sentence of the rune:

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When etched with this rune, a weapon's hilt or haft becomes engraved with grooves that match the imprints of a wolf's teeth. By putting a fanged weapon in your mouth, you can transform into an animal.

while some tables will say this is just flavor, other will say that there is the implicit requirement of the weapon engraved actually having a hilt or a haft, which natural attacks don't.

the other thing that i see issues with is that for fanged to work, you need to physically put the "weapon" (in this case the handwraps themselves) in the mouth. So you'd basically not be "grinning" but you'd literally have to put your hand in your mouth and bite it for it to activate.

I can imagine taking the handwraps and tying them over your mouth like a gag, which i think would fit just fine into the "draw a weapon" action.

moosher12 wrote:

Large PCs are Remaster, and the Fanged rune is Legacy. So there are some tables where the fanged rune would not be allowed.

LOL. I don't honestly believe such tables exist. It would be idiotic. By that logic, champions and sorcerers are legacy too. Do they ban them as well?

Nah. They're only found in the dreams and discussions of the internet, and perhaps the occasional ignorant GM who has been mislead into believing that there are non-existent compatibility issues. Nobody chooses to limit their games in such a manner for absolutely no gain.

"I don't believe those tables exist! except where they do, but those GMS are stupid!" *flat look*

I don;t run a table like that, but all sorts of tables exist that limit things for all sorts of reasons from setting a particular tone to reducing the bloat to avoid confusion. if the GM and the players like it and buy into it, it's their game and they can have fun the way they want to.

There wasn't room to do a full super-detailed dive on Sandpoint in this adventure, unfortunately, but Magnimar's only a day away, so even if the PCs don't go there to shop, you should let them place orders for stuff from Magnimar through local merchants, or perhaps via the Mercantie League or Wheen's Wagons, solutions that could let the PCs order something on the morning of a day and then have it delivered the evening of the next day.
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You can also tie it to reputation. If the PCs become Admired with a faction, then that faction might open their secret stashes to the PCs for purchases of items up to 7th level, and if they become revered with a faction, items up to 12th level.

My preferred personal solution, though, if I were running this, would be to create bespoke lists of items for sale in Sandpoint...

I used the mail order option a lot when I ran Extinction Curse. The players FELT they were on a ticking clock despite being told repeatedly they wern't (players! amiright?) so they wern't willing to take a trip to absalom, but the starstone isle isn't that big so I just had them put in orders through local merchants and them siguring in a day or two courier time.

I really like the idea of typing higher level items to reputation and having favored merchants carry bespoke inventories. One of the things im looking forward two is having the party spend the adventure arc in one place so I can really bring the town to life.

Thrawn82 wrote:

I'm starting some long term prep for this one, and i was thinking. I would like to have the maps of the level of the pit professionally printed.

I was wondering if anyone knew of versions of the maps available that have had the secret doors and areas removed. The map pack that comes as a PDF has the ability to remove labels, but it doesn't appear to have a 'player friendly' version as some have had in the past.

I was wondering this about the maps as well. Map tags off does not remove the traps for Whistlefang Lair which is absolutely annoying. Any luck finding something that works?

Not yet. I will likely end up photo shopping (well gimp) my own versions to have printed.

If and when I do I will be sure to post them here for other people to use, assuming thats kosher with paizo forum policy (I'm not selling it, and it's something paizo doesn't have available for sale, so I would think it would be fine but someone please let me know if not)

For PCs, Nualia was a rescuer who gave her life to help them. At least so they thought. It is because of this thought that PCs take part in the Ritual.

I don't plan to run Rusthange, I intend to use the minigame in the players guide, but I love this idea and fully intend to use it if any of my players tag 'orphan' in their background

I'm starting some long term prep for this one, and i was thinking. I would like to have the maps of the level of the pit professionally printed.

I was wondering if anyone knew of versions of the maps available that have had the secret doors and areas removed. The map pack that comes as a PDF has the ability to remove labels, but it doesn't appear to have a 'player friendly' version as some have had in the past.

Oh no ED! I hope paizo at least can get you sorted out quickly. That is such a PITA.

My watch continues.

The new day begins! RIP my e-mail F5 F5 F5

Wait Pawns are back? Heck yea!!!!

Waiting patiently...... :)

waiting, but not even a little bit patiently.

If anyone needs a taste who doesn't have the book yet, Rules Lawyer dropped a video on monster core today.

Still watching for my order, still pending(

Usually it takes a lot less time, even when Player/GM core released. I thought that maybe that's because of Sandpoint HC, but posts above indicate that people have no problems with HC outside of missing PDFs.

I'm not sure if they still do, but the used to randomize their packing list so the same people didn't get stuff first every time due to sorting. We may have just has back luck in that randomization, there shipping window goes all the way to friday.