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Hi all, this is potentially not the correct forum, but I could not find one which was fully applicable.

Does anyone know what Paizo's stand is on sharing tools for automatic extraction of content from their pdfs intended for private games? With more and more games going online, there seem to be more people asking for automatic ways to get pawn art for monsters without having to manually copy all images from a pawn pdf. It is e.g. relatively simple to write a generic* scraper for the pawn pdf's which extracts the images and uses their names as written on top of the image for saving, so it is easy to use in an online game. The big question is if sharing code like this is seen as inappropriate by Paizo.

Does anyone know how Paizo has previously ruled on automatic extraction of content from their pdfs?

* With generic I mean a scraper that is not coded in any way towards Paizos pdfs specifically and can be used in a variety of different pdfs.

Hi,

I am writing to be sure that I am not breaking any fair use agreement with regards to Paizos pdfs. I have written a script that given a Paizo Token pdf, automatically extracts all creature images, and saves them using the name of the creature as given by Archive of Nethys, and if no match is found save it using the creature name in the token pdf. This allows semi-automatic importing of images to Foundry VTT. If it changes anything, I can obfuscate the code and insert a watermark checker to ensure the validity of any provided token pdfs. Is it within the community guidelines to share code like this, or is it only allowed for personal use?

Just to be sure, the only Paizo content in the actual script is the name of creatures for name mapping, which as far as I understand is ok to use.

Hello all, I am the GM of a group who have just finished book 2 and going to start book 3 now. With the APG out, one of my players fell in love with the flame Oracle, but knowing the overall dragon theme of the adventure path, wanted to be sure that it was viable with regards to resistances. Anyone having GM'ed further than book 2, what are your experiences with the number of enemies with fire resistance, and would a flame Oracle have a bad experience ?
Thanks in advance :)