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Weirdly, the APG is in my digital downloads as of midnight, even though my book is still in my sidecart and, as far as I can tell, my card hasn't been charged for my subscription either. So, if it will eventually ship, then that's fine since I have the PDF to read. It would be nice to know why it sidecarted the book instead of shipping, but I don't feel as stressed about a month+ delay in getting the book now.
Right. I understand that. I used to subscribe for years. My issue is that my APG, instead of being a Pending Order, is in my Sidecart for some reason. I can't find any way of moving it, and I have no way of knowing if it will automatically update itself. I have no other physical subscriptions, so the "This item will ship with the next available shipment" doesn't make sense, and it seems like it's getting held up due to an internal error. Hopefully that makes more sense.
Hello, It's been a week. I know customer service is backed up, but I've also seen responses to other threads that are more recent than mine get resolved, and that's frustrating. And I know emailing isn't a viable option, as I have outstanding customer service requests via email multiple weeks ago that never received responses either.
You might want to consider your own bias here. You've taken Erik's statement that some members of the staff raised concerns that didn't dissuade him at the time and made that into "not taken seriously or ignored". In other words, it looks to me like you've already rendered judgment when it may be that their objections didn't outweigh support from other staff members when making the decision to go forward a year ago. I mean... what you're describing is not taking someone's concerns seriously. So yes, if a group of people outweighed someone's legitimate concerns, that means that everyone involved in that decision is complicit. This is exactly what just happened at Cards Against Humanity. They created a toxic culture where legitimate concerns from Black employees were ignored by a majority, and they felt like they had no voice. And now the company is rightfully being raked over the coals over their horrible treatment of Black employees and women. And while I'd say the corporate culture is different between somewhere like Paizo and CAH, it's still the same fundamental issue - if a minority feels that there are representation issues in the company's product and their concerns are not taken seriously, then something needs to seriously change.
I understand why the blog post was locked, but I'm extremely disappointed that it was before Erik could reply to the question that I and several others raised. If staff had raised concerns about potentially problematic material, but it was not taken seriously or ignored, then what steps are Paizo leadership doing to keep it from happening again in the future? This is extremely important to me, and I can't continue to support Paizo-published adventures until this is addressed. Because I know this is not an isolated issue - I have spoken to other people that have worked for or contracted with Paizo over the last decade, and this issue has come up before. So, what is going to change moving forward?
Thank you for sharing this. It was also through RPGs and the indie RPG community that helped me discover my bisexuality, and even start to understand and be accepting of my confusion and uncertainty over my own gender assignment. I know our industry and community has a LONG ways to go, and things aren't great still for PoC and women in the tabletop sphere. But things like this make me hopeful that one day we'll all get there.
Gotcha. I've seen a few people post now that their current AcP counts are a lot closer to what they should be, while mine are still way off (I show 22 AcP when I should have 77, for example.) I was wondering if my understanding how AcP was calculated was wrong when it came to Adventures, but I'm happy to hear I was correct. Thanks! I'll just continue to wait patiently like everyone else.
1) It totally depends. This one specifically uses pre-gens because it's a higher-level Pathfinder Society scenario that is intended for them. But most PbP games here are not PFS, and so they would require players to make their own characters. 2) I'm not aware of any other PFS2 scenarios that use higher level pre-gens currently. I think this is the only one in which the level 5 characters can be used.
In my experience in organizing Adventurer's League, players that want to come back from a completed adventure and play scenarios aren't concerned about being too high level. If they want to play the lower level ones they blew past, they will make a new character to experience them. And it allows them access to a higher level character to join their friends at the higher-tier tables. I also agree that players could cheese the system to get a "free" replay at a small table. And you know what? That's fine, honestly. If one person technically fudges the system to allow 2-3 other people the opportunity to actually get to play? That's a positive, player-friendly approach to organized play, instead of antagonistic.
First off, I just want to say that I am an a PFS vet and former Venture Officer that played, GM'ed, and ran games all over from Season 0 through 2013. I've been on a Pathfinder hiatus for awhile, but the release of 2E has awakened these sleeping bones. It's exciting! However, a lot has changed in the organized play world since I burned out on PFS and moved on. I spent a fair amount of time assisting our local game store and area conventions with the launch of Adventurer's League, and it was refreshing to see WOTC's more relaxed approach rather than the very restrictive and exhaustive bookkeeping that was required of PFS organizers. So, coming back to assist in organizing and running PFS2 after several years away, I'm a bit bummed to see that not much has changed, despite the fact that D&DAL has done a lot to bring in people to participate in organized play. I do like the new faction and boon system that's been imported from SFS, and the smaller tiers of play (1-4 rather than 1-5) is much better IMO. However, there are two specific rules that I am particularly frustrated to see still in place. 1. Replay. I was there in the beginning of PFS during Season 0 and Season 1, and I remember the ongoing discussions about replaying scenarios back then. I get it. Trying to close loopholes to prevent abuse of the OP campaign makes sense. I get annoyed by AL players wanting to replay the same handful of adventures with new characters just to get access to specific magic item certificates. However, the line in the PFS2 Guide that talks about undersized tables is extremely disappointing.
So, someone that steps in to help get a table off the ground not only receives absolutely nothing for their 4+ hours of time, but technically loses because they still have to count anything spent and consumed. That's brutal, and I would never ask anyone to step in to be a third player at a table to get nothing for their time. That type of draconian fear of letting people get replay credit doesn't promote any sort of community, at all. This should be an exception that DOES allow player credit, with a special note on the chronicle that the replay credit is approved via creating an undersized table. 2. Sanctioning adventures. I can't wrap my head around the fact that official Paizo-published adventures still have to go through a PFS-sanctioning process, where players only get "partial" PFS credit for their time. One of the things that has greatly driven interest to D&D at our local game store is the use of published adventures as OP content. When someone creates an OP-legal character and plays through an entire book with them, that character keeps all the XP and treasure that was earned and becomes a regular OP character to be used for any Adventurer's League scenarios. It keeps things open rather than isolated and silo-ed off. I would love to organize a weekly Fall of Plaguestone PFS event at our game store, where GMs run players through the Adventure for a couple of hours each week until completion. And at the end of that, they get to keep those characters and use them for PFS2 scenarios. Instead, they get a chronicle sheet that awards them for roughly 1/4 of their time, and it would require them to make a new character anyway to apply it to. It's a very confusing and unfriendly system to new people wanting to play a more traditional ongoing game, while also getting to participate in the organized play system. It especially doesn't help that even weeks after release, books don't get sanctioned/approved immediately, leading to hesitation to even offer to run something special for organized play players. I would really love Paizo to take a look at some of the things that WOTC is accomplishing with D&DAL. I know there's an aversion to "copying the competitor," but when the competition is offering options that encourage flexibility and casual play rather than strict, inflexible rules that require a level of record keeping that many casual players don't have time or a desire to participate in... It's just hard in 2019 to convince folk why they should give PFS2 a chance, when the current OP system doesn't seem particularly interested in providing an incentive for casual players. I know this is going to come across very angry-sounding, but I'm not. I'm genuinely excited about Pathfinder again, when I wasn't sure if I ever would be again. But I know I'm also not alone in wishing that things were more flexible and accurately rewarded people for their time instead of assuming everyone is trying to cheat the system.
Haha, no worries! One of these days we'll need to actually get together and play again in person. :) Anyway, I am down. The only possible hangup I may have is that I will be on vacation from Aug 31 - Sept 6, so those first few days after the game begins, I may be a little slow (I should be able to still check in though.) But I don't see any barriers after that period.
Hey Rob! I'd be down to play, if you have space. :) I ran 1-01, so I am familiar with the scenario, but I have not played it. I'm not sure yet which character I would bring - I've got a few I am tinkering with - but it would likely either be a Gnome Sorcerer (with a bat familiar) or a Half-orc Fighter, both level 1. Also, hi, I miss you. :3
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