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The Bone Speaker Bobblehead needs to be a real item that can be bought from your store.

This looks like it would be great for people who buy a lot of stuff without subscriptions or don't really care about the society scenarios, but I think it may be worse for me. It will definitely be a hassle.

I have six subscriptions, which for now gives me 15% off all purchases and free Starfinder and Pathfinder scenarios, and I've been happy with this.

I'm trying to crunch the numbers to see if the gold I'll earn over a year will be enough to get all of the scenarios. I don't think it will.

If there's two scenarios for each system per month and you're at legendary tier for the 15% discount, then $9 x 15% x 2 = $15.30 for Pathfinder + $5 x 15% x 2 = $8.50 for Starfinder comes to a total of $23.80 for each month's scenarios.

That could be 150 gold with $6.20 left over or 100 gold + $3.80 out of pocket. I don't know if that $6.20 would get carried over, but any vouchers I've ever spent here have been use it or lose it, so I assume these would work the same.

So if you want all of the scenarios as they are published, and assuming you have enough gold, you're either going to be (a) paying a little out of pocket each month, (b) wasting a bunch of gold, or (c) busting out your old linear programming textbook to determine the best mix of scenarios to buy to minimize the wasted gold and out-of-pocket expense.

The answer to (c) is:

• - on months 2, 4, and 6, spend 200 gold to get four SF scenarios and three PF scenarios (missing one PF scenario each time)
  
• - on month 8, spend 350 gold + 55 cents to get four SF scenarios and seven PF scenarios (catching up on PF)
  
• - The cycle repeats on month 10.

If my math is right (or if my maths are right), then over the course of a year that equals an average of 1425 gold, minus 25 for birthday and at 1.5 gold per dollar spent is $933/year. That's more than I'm spending now.

Edited to add: Those figures assume 2 scenarios per system every month. If a season is 20 scenarios plus two specials, then the minimum legendary spending + birthday bonus + writing five reviews earns just enough gold for all the non-special scenarios.

When is this anticipated to start? I'm pretty close to the line between master and legendary, and I want to make sure I'm on the good side of the line when they do the tally.

Are there pregens for 10th and 15th level, or are there rules for creating characters at those levels somewhere?

I searched but could not find.

Same. I also tried logging out and deleting my cookies and site data, because sometimes that helps, but not this time.

The one map that uses flip tiles isn't labeled as to which tiles go where. The tile numbers and rotations are:

First row: 10B (180), 08B, 02b (-90)
Second row: 05B (180), 19B, 13B
Third row: 07A, 21B, 20A
Fourth row: 17A (-90), 09A (90), 06A (-90)

Thanks for this, Alex. That kind of information is very helpful to GMs deciding whether or not to allow these options in home games.

John Mangrum wrote:

Oh, also, in the PDF the Codex of Worlds features Weydana-5, not Weydana-4. An identical entry for Weydana-5 appears in its proper place in the next month's installment.

I believe it should be Weydana-6. See my comment above. The correction is is process.

Correction is here, added to my digital downloads yesterday.

Also, the link in the email is wrong. It says to go to https://paizo.com/paizo/accounts/gifts, but the correct link is https://paizo.com/paizo/account/gifts (account should be singular).

WallySenpai wrote:

Aaron Shanks wrote:

WallySenpai wrote:

Yeah, Im quite excited to get my grubby mittens on the box so I hope they come out with some soon. Is it possible theyd be out before the end of the year?

Possibly. I am waiting for more data.

Hi, I see that the beginner box is available again on the store. Do you happen to know what we should do to get it? I already redeemed the code while it wasnt available and I cant find any popups.

We will have more info as soon as we can.

I got an email last night with instructions, so mine is on it's way.

The link in the email is wrong. It says to go to https://paizo.com/paizo/accounts/gifts, but the correct link is https://paizo.com/paizo/account/gifts (account should be singular).

Hello. Sorry for the delay in the physical Beginner Box. It is temporarily showing unavailable in our store, but we have more on the way from the port. There will be a slight delay while we restock. We will get back to you with a timeline.

Thanks for the update. Is customer service going to email us with instructions when the physical boxes come in?

That's what I figured. Thanks for the clarification.

Were-wraith wrote:

Is the spell Verdant Blast correct? 3d6 seems like a lot of damage for a cantrip.

I PM'd the author of that section for clarification. My players took one look at that and said "I wouldn't blame you if you banned that, but if you're not going to I am going to BLAST the CRAP out of this planet with leaves!"

Given that the damage is roughly the same as a first level Mind Thrust AND affects multiple targets, I think Verdant Blast should no lower than second level.

Is the spell Verdant Blast correct? 3d6 seems like a lot of damage for a cantrip.

Is the price of the Clearweave 1 Armor a typo or is that a intended discount?

I just came here to ask the same question. My guess is that it's a typo, since the Starfinder backpack on the same chronicle is explicitly called out as being discounted, but I was hoping for official clarification.

I don't understand this paragraph under Spending EP.

Special: Once per round, you can spend Evolution Points with no effect to regain control of your body. If you use this ability as a move action, you can spend up to 2 EP. If you use this ability as a standard action, you can spend up to 4 EP. If you use this ability as a full action, you can spend up to 6 EP.

What does it mean to regain control of one's body, and when would you need to spend the higher amounts of EP to do it?

If we're increasing the number of one-shots, then I want to put in a request for a "We Be Space Goblins" series.

I'm trying to get a sense for how many months of game time should pass / how many "charter turns" the players should get by the time they get to part 3.

I didn't find anything in this book that tells me how developed their charter should be when they start the next book. What I don't want is for my players' charter to end up way behind or way ahead of the NPC charters just because I gave them too few or too many charter turns.

Does anybody have any thoughts on this?

Got my digital copy today, physical should be here soon.

It looks great. I want to start running this after GenCon.

My characters want to know if AbadarCorp brand Get Up ‘N’ Go serum is legal for society play.

Is there a page missing?

Were-wraith wrote:

Does this apply to Starfinder as well?

The article text only mentions Pathfinder, but "Starfinder Society" is one of the tags and the illustration is a Kasatha in a space suit using a computer interface.

Click the line that says "So where are we at with each program and where are we going?" and it will expand.

Ah, thanks. I thought those were just bullets, didn't realize I needed to click on them.

Does this apply to Starfinder as well?

The article text only mentions Pathfinder, but "Starfinder Society" is one of the tags and the illustration is a Kasatha in a space suit using a computer interface.

I just played Live Exploration Extreme last week, so looking forward to this one, even though Wazasha shot my character down pretty hard when he tried to get a date with her.

Looks like I have until October or so to get that character up to 5th level.

There is also Shadowcon UK August 29-31. The Warhorn is here: https://warhorn.net/events/shadowcon-uk-2020. Several games still have room for players.

Mine was still stuck on "Personalizing...", but right-clicking the link and selecting "Open Link in New Tab" worked for me and I was able to download.

How does one go about expressing interest in GM'ing a scenario or two?

Resolved via email.

I was getting the same error. Logging out and logging back in fixed it for me.

* bump *

Logging out and logging back in fixed "Errors when I try to add things to the cart; those things don't get added to my cart" for me.

Now I have a problem with things remaining in my cart after I've completed the transaction.

My problem is the same as Serpentine Owl's in this thread: https://paizo.com/threads/rzs42y31?Problem-with-Order-15571726

I placed this order on the 12th and came back today to check the status. It's showing status=Complete for zero items at $0.00.

I was on the site yesterday to place an order for some digital items yesterday and saw all of these items still sitting in my cart, so I deleted them from my cart so I could add the new items. The new items are still sitting in my cart now, even though I have already completed the order and downloaded them.

My credit card was never charged for this order either. Should I submit a new order, or is this one still going to go through?

I was able to fix the by clearing my Paizo cookies in my browser.

Logging out and logging back in fixed the problem for me.

They aren't eliminating wands of CLW. They will still effective for low level characters. If you're high enough level that you need to blow through an entire wand of CLW to get back up to full HP, you're high enough level to be able to afford a wand with a more powerful healing spell.

I agree with some other posters upthread who find it odd when wands containing divine spells are for sale by the bundle at the local Magic Mart. Nobody ever cares which deity granted the spell to the cleric who made those wands. Why do deities just sit there and allow it if a party is using spells it granted in opposition to its goals? It make no sense to me that a wand of CLW crafted by a Cleric of, say, Desna would function completely normally in the hands of a character on a mission to serve Asmodeus.

..there's even a metric foot..

The metric foot seems like it would be much more useful if it were 1/3 meter instead of 30 cm. At 30 cm, there aren't an even number of metric feet in a meter.

To me, the biggest disadvantage of the metric system is there aren't as many ways to evenly subdivide things. It's great for dividing by 10s, not so great when you need other divisors.

I guess since feet and inches are so practical for a lot of things, they came up with "metric feet" and "metric inches" that are very close to the imperial counterpart.

Maybe that's the solution here. When people in metric countries read measurements in Pathfinder, they can simply assume metric feet.

I think it should have both. I have been told that the Spanish translation already has both. It has the imperial measurement followed by the metric measurement in parentheses.

I think it makes more sense to use imperial units by default in a medieval fantasy game, but it's good to also include the metric units for people who aren't familiar with the imperial units and have trouble visualizing them.

CorvusMask wrote:

Oh yeah, I forgot completely about how I don't comprehend Fahreinheit either. It is just simpler to have "0 Celsius is freezing point, 100 is boiling point" if you ask me.

I only know 2 things about fairinheight 1. 30 is freezing(which is weird) and 2. -40 in celsius is also -40 in fairinheight

Fahrenheit is easy. 0 is cold, 100 is hot, 50 is a little chilly, and 75 is pleasant.

I'm American. Fahrenheit is for weather and Celsius is for chemistry. Kelvin is for physics.

Love how nobody payed attention to:

Bloodrealm wrote:

"Why don't we just play D&D?" is even more relevant when PF2 is just a clone

Then it's a good thing that PF2 isn't a clone.

There’ll no doubt be calls for PF1 -> PF2 conversion documents too, but I actually think that’ll be less important (from a community happiness perspective).

A PF1 -> PF2 conversion document is exactly what I want. It would allow me to continue using my library of PF1 sources in a PF2 game. Such a document would allow folks to play, say, a kyton-spawn tiefling gunslinger (or whatever) if they want as soon as PF2 comes out, instead of having to wait for whenever the later books come out. Allowing people to play their favorite kinds of characters straight away would help migration.

Exactly. "Hit a little harder but with less a little less accuracy" seems like a thing anyone should be able to just do, without needing a special feat.

I'm a fan of the work that the Elephant in the Room people did with feats. I'd like to see something like that.

Were-wraith wrote:

To me it sounds a lot like what they are calling "proficiencies" are essentially the consolidated skills + grouped skills from Unchained.

Which would be unfortunate...

Sure, but it's way better than D&D 5e style proficiencies, which is what a lot of people are worried about.

To me it sounds a lot like what they are calling "proficiencies" are essentially the consolidated skills + grouped skills from Unchained.

Is there any word on how forwards compatible 1e source books will be with the 2e rules?

After replacing our 1e Core Rulebooks with the 2e version, will we be able to use the other 1e source books (including 3pp) we may have in a 2e game with minimal conversion effort? If someone wants to play a tiefling gunslinger or a peri-blooded aasimar psion in 2e after the new Core Rulebook comes out, will that be easy to do? How much conversion effort is involved if a GM wants to use some critters out of Bestiary 4 that haven't made it into 2e yet?

If this is all straightforward then that will make the transition a lot easier and will also make me feel better about my recent large purchase of 1e source books. I hate to think that they will just gather dust if/when I switch to 2e.

Nathanael Love wrote:

Thanks for telling me that the money I spent on this game was not appreciated, Paizo.

See, that's harsh, and in my opinion unreasonable.

Paizo shouldn't be locked into forever making 100% compatible material just because you - or I - prefer it. Sure, I was bummed out when the pasta sauce base I've used for 40+ years was discontinued. But that doesn't mean Kraft did me wrong. All of those meals I've eaten were delicious, and they were exactly the reward I'd contracted with Kraft for when I bought the sauce.

We aren't entitled to eternal new books for PF1e. We got what we paid for. We got a decade extension on life for the rule system we enjoy. We should be thankful for that.

Put one last, emotionally-loaded way, if my wife (of nearly 20 years) decided to call it quits with me, I'd be very, very saddened. But I wouldn't ever think the last two decades were wasted or regret it, or be angry, because frankly they were wonderful years, and the lack of future wonderful years wouldn't take them away from me.

So hey, I'm about as not-thrilled as can be about this news, but I'd still recommend taking a different perspective than the angle you're firing at.

That's good for you if you have been playing since the beginning, but some of us haven't been around nearly as long. I just dropped $250 on some hardcover PF1e rulebooks two weeks ago, and today I'm finding out I probably should have saved it for PF2e stuff.

I have a friend who spent like $1200 on D&D 3e rulebooks and they are just sitting on a shelf collecting dust because no one plays that edition any more.

When I decided to get back into role-playing, I didn't want to spend a bunch of money on D&D 5e rulebooks and then can't use them because everyone else is playing 6e now.

One of the reasons I chose Pathfinder over D&D was that Paizo didn't seem to be playing the game of getting customers to spend hundreds of dollars on rulebooks only to turn around and make them obsolete by releasing new editions.

Another vote for We Be Goblins. It's fun, short, silly, and covers a lot mechanics.