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I'm a big fan of this. Definitely makes oracles substantially more powerful. Suspect Cosmos, Time, Ash, and Tempest oracles are top tier now.

I'm interested in what changes (if any) they made to the mysteries, especially the weaker ones.


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I just completed this adventure yesterday as a player. It's quite good overall, and frankly, a better introduction to Pathfinder 2E than the Beginner's Box.

The module does a number of things quite cleverly:

* It has a NPC healer who helps you out for a couple encounters at the very beginning, giving you "training wheels" that also feel like a natural part of the world and precondition you towards remembering that NPCs have agency, too.

* It has a variety of different (if mostly pretty simple) enemies you fight over the course of the module.

* It presents the players with a small mystery that they get to solve via RP after getting a few combat encounters under their belt, and which has multiple ways of solving it that lead to the next part of the adventure so the players can't really get stuck.

* There are actual stakes - the players aren't just doing it just because, there's a reason why they need to help out and go and continue into these dangerous situations, and it makes sense from an IC perspective that they would do so.

* The combat encounters aren't overly difficult but aren't overly simplistic.

* It teaches players about weaknesses, gives them the tools to exploit them, and rewards them for exploiting them.

* There are RP encounters throughout the module, not just in one place - each section of the game has an opportunity where you can do some roleplaying, and not just going into every encounter with bloody intentions in mind can allow you to avoid fights and get help and allies

* The NPCs who are helpful often have a good, very sensible reason why they are supplying you with stuff rather than joining in to help you fight, so you don't feel like they are just shoving it on the PCs for no reason or leaving the fighting to the PCs for no reason.

* You can disrupt the bad guys' plans in ways that go beyond just killing things that, if the players are paying attention, will allow them to make their life significantly easier.

* The little town in the module is just big enough to be interesting without being so big that you'll get lost in it and derail the adventure.

I liked it a lot! It was a fun thing and it worked very well, and had a bit of charm to it.


This was a fun little story. I do enjoy that he died of imposter syndrome, and the implication that he never actually achieved godhood via the Starstone at all, but just lied about it enough it became true.

Doubly funny when Norgorger's solution to people claiming he was a fake was just to kill him. Somehow, not so convincing there Norgy.


Speak of the devil, and he will appear.

Look, folks. I know you think I'm some sort of boogeyman, but let's be honest here.

1) WotC owns the right to the distribution of their PDFs. They have the right to choose who can and cannot distribute their PDFs. If they decide no one can do so, so be it. You may not like it, but it is their decision, not yours, not Pazio's, not anyone else's.

2) The current situation was not ideal, but you all seem to lack empathy. You are not looking at it from other points of view.

a) Wizards of the Coast is not a villian. They're a company which produces a successful product, one which you all are so quick to forget is the basis for Paizo's pathfinder line, and really the success of Paizo in the first place, with their right to distribute some of their products, including Dungeon & Dragon magazines. They chose to withdraw these PDFs not for evil, machievallian reasons but because they are tired of the documents getting pirated the day of a release. Its when the PDFs come up on these sites when you see torrents of these files come up. They are guilty of miscommunication and misunderstanding, and perhaps of somewhat brash action - they decided to yank the PDFs, but immediately? Steve of DriveThruRPG claims that was the result of a miscommunication. Moreover, WotC is a company which does care about its customers. Anyone who says otherwise has never interacted with WotC. They do deal with customer service complaints, and they do care what people think, though not necessarily in the way that people generally think of it.

b) Paizo, DriveThruRPG, and the other PDF distribution companies aren't blameless victims here. They promised their customers the ability to download their documents again in the future, and did not make it clear to their consumers that this was not an inviolable guarantee; that if they were asked to pull down these documents, they would be removed, potentially on very short notice. They didn't make this clear enough, and people are, very understandably, upset. However, directing that rage at WotC is misguided; it wasn't WotC who told you you could redownload your PDFs several times in the indefinite future.

c) The people who lost downloads are the only real victims here. They actually lost something. But quick as people are to blame WotC, its pretty clear that WotC wasn't the one who made them the promise that they could redownload their PDFs. Hopefully this well be a lesson to the consumer, that these companies do not own the rights to all the products they distribute and apparently lack contracts which prevent their PDFs from being yanked down immediately, given that's precisely what happened, and even Paizo only gave its customers a day's notice. It will hopefully also be a lesson to these companies to actually write better contracts with their PDF suppliers, so that this sort of situation cannot recur.

3) While it is fair to be annoyed that PDFs are no longer available for the time being, it is still possible to purchase the books yourself and scan them in manually, if you want to use them as PDFs for some reason. Yes, its less convenient. No, its not an excuse to pirate. There is no excuse for thievery.

I do try to help people. I understand many people don't understand my motives, and really despise me. Or simply that they don't want or need my help. That's fine. But maybe other people do. Maybe other people do value what I bring to the proceedings.

And, perhaps ironically, you do as well. If you didn't, you wouldn't have made someone tell me "Hey, they're talking about you on Paizo's forums". But you did, and you had a moderator actually warn you about discussing people from other message boards. Someone even mentions that they'd forgotten, which implies this isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened.

It is really too bad that people do not try to look at things from the point of view of others, or to dissociate themselves from a situation before jumping to judgment. There would be far fewer problems in this world if they did.

Before you leap to blame the other, consider things from their perspective. It will help you better understand the situation, approach it more appropriately and, perhaps, allow you to see things you didn't see before.