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Is there anything at all for kinetecists? Or anything from treasure vault that previously helped strikes and spells, and now includes impulses in that?

No. Some items were converted away from spell schools or other premastered concepts. The only thing that jumped out at me as not fitting this is the Addiction Suppressant being converted to an Affliction Suppressant, and to a lesser extent an animal companion assistive item being changed from barding to just a worn item.

Both the Single File and File per Chapter seem to be the OGL/Premaster version, yeah. Should we expect to see a different entry in our digital content? I believe Guns & Gears had a brand new entry (with the same name) when remastered, but I'm not seeing those for Treasure Vault yet.

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Grask Uldeth ascended to divinity, right? I think that was in either War of Immortals or Triumph of the Tusk. And I think it was hinted that he wanted to be assassinated at an unknown time and hired Ardax to see it done.

So Ulka fled to exile for not preventing an assassination that she was not meant to stop. Humorous.

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Ulka knew her limits. She had no chance of unraveling the truth in her current position, with her current skills and knowledge. Rather than let herself be used as a pawn, to let others make her pain into another tool, she chose to flee Urgir.

Implies that she suspected she was being used in some greater scheme but lacked the ability to prove it. So rather than continue to suffer being manipulated or used as a scapegoat she left. Defiance not cowardice.

Yeah I don't disagree but given her appreciation of lessons from Ardax, I am curious if things would be different had she known.

Grask Uldeth ascended to divinity, right? I think that was in either War of Immortals or Triumph of the Tusk. And I think it was hinted that he wanted to be assassinated at an unknown time and hired Ardax to see it done.

So Ulka fled to exile for not preventing an assassination that she was not meant to stop. Humorous.

Malevolent_Maple wrote:

Do you know when those will be added to our accounts? Mine shipped on the 22nd and while the other titles were added to my online files, TV was not.

That is weird since you should have been given the PDF at the time of shipping and with the other new releases! Have you reached out to Customer Service yet? That's the best way to figure out about problems directly! Their email is customer.service@paizo.com, so please reach out!

It's my understanding that most if not all pre-orders are in this same bucket; I was presuming the pre-order PDF would be delivered tomorrow and I think others have done so as well, since it wasn't part of the usual subscription model.

Is there anything new for kinetecists? Maybe some equipment, if not new impulses? Also, any new Champion causes?

Nothing like that, no. There are items that any character could use but nothing for a kineticist or champion.

What new beasties are there in the bestiary?

An undead focused on greed; a troop of frost fey; a.. fey, plant, scorpion beast that improves nearby poisons; a daemon that represents death by bureaucracy as a four-armed weasel humanoid; an adjustment to make a creature into a failed Kalistrade prophet; a frosty water-snake that has gold flecks on its scales, a nightmarish pixie that focuses on darkness and blindness; a person-sized vulture that can emit deathly calls; an undead that represents someone drawed-and-quartered; a dragon-like crocodile beast that hoards treasure; and an undead of someone sealed alive in a wall or other enclosed space.

I would love to learn more about the archetypes and animal companions, if possible!

You can find a good amount of info about the archetypes on Reddit if you don't mind that format.

Druma has the Bacallia (an alpaca-like animal that has glittering fur, a mount that can ignore either extreme heat or cold, dazzles with its support benefit, and has a 1 action Spit advanced maneuver that deals acid damage) and the Keulia (a horned lizard that wears gems, coins, and metal as "shell", has a support benefit like the bear but bludgeoning damage, and has a two action advanced maneuver to Leap and Bite with extra piercing damage). Both are non-finesse companions but the Bacallia's Spit would be dex based, I believe.

The Five King Mountains has the Cragstone Bear (a cave bear that grows plates of rock over its fur with imprecise tremorsense, a support benefit that gives a circumstance bonus to AC to you while adjacent, and a two action advanced maneuver to roll in a straight line and make one Strike that knocks prone on a crit) and the Giant Rock Tuatara (a bigger version of the familiar Shardra has with a support benefit that inflicts clumsy, and a 1 action advanced maneuver that sheds its tail to escape from a grab or retrain as if it had critically succeeded, but then can't use its tail for ten minutes or until it receives magical healing). Both are strength based. (There's also a grindle-drake specific familiar)

Galt has two undead companions, the Gray Bladeling (a construct that can be void healed, with weaker than usual animal companion stats but many immunities from being both undead and a construct, a support benefit that bleeds or frightens if already bleeding, and a two action advanced maneuver to Strike a living creature and stun/confuse it on a Will save) and the Severed Head (a floating void healing head that is mindless, has a support benefit that slows and can prevent reactions, and a 1 action advanced maneuver to Strike an enemy it already hit this round with extra bleed damage). Both have finesse attacks but start with Str +2, Dex +1.

My watch ended as well yesterday - seems like a good mix of subscriber types going out already.

Any fun player options in the toolbox this time around?

The recently spoiled by Barnes and Noble Lost Omens: Draconic Codex likly will be were we see the cinder dragons stated out.

Actually, cinder dragons were mentioned as being in Monster Core 2 in the Barnes & Noble leak for that product. But there will certainly be cinderific options in Draconic Codex.

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The Injection Reservoir does not work like you state. While weapons like the visap can be filled with beneficial elixirs, the injection reservoir does not. It uses its own rules specific to injury poisons rather than referencing the injection trait.

It is true that the injection reservoir weapon mod does not directly invoke the injection trait. However, it is honestly a little silly to insist the weapon mod has a different set of mechanics than the base trait it is clearly using.

There is even textual reason to claim this too, as the injection reservoir weapon mod has a "Usage: applied to a non-injection melee weapon that deals piercing damage". So this "not allowed to double up" does provide reason to presume equivalence.

To be clear, it is correct that it is not "true RaW" to use the full injection trait mechanics for the weapon mod. That said, every GM I've asked has "filled in that gap" and considered that a valid use of the injection reservoir mod.

Though now I kinda want to retrain into Ceremonial Knife for the thematics of the injection *trait* Visap dagger also being the PC's witch knife wand, and the default "in-hand" thing to carry around. A spooky spell wand you also jab into your allies to buff them is very on-brand for that PC.

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I suppose that I assume the item is written separately from the injection trait is more to have the specific differences from it rather than an oversight but there's no way to know for sure without designer insight.

I forgot about using spoiler tags for text compression, shoulda been doing that in the above posts.

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The Injection Reservoir does not work like you state. While weapons like the visap can be filled with beneficial elixirs, the injection reservoir does not. It uses its own rules specific to injury poisons rather than referencing the injection trait.

I missed this until I saw it in the 2025 catalog. Excited for it!

Any one want to spoil some fun things from the toolkit?

I don't believe it's even been hinted at but I do hope we get some Rondelero support in here. Not sure what that looks like exactly besides Falcata access and buckler support - maybe a Swashbuckler class archetype that leans into a non-finesse weapon if not new Fighter feats.

I was right! I finished Divine Mysteries this morning, and just now the PDFs hit my inbox!

All hail Nethys!

Huzzah!

Huzzah! Sounds like I'm waiting until next week as a Lost Omens + Rulebook subscriber. Ah well, I've had it good lately.

Has anyone received their pdf and care to spoil any Witchy things?

Been seeing some in the pf2e reddit discord. And yes, you were correct about a new rare witch patron.

My watch has ended!

Exciting! Hoping to see more and more go out today.

Happy Authorization Day!

Hopefully begin shipping day!

A big month - looking forward to a lot here.

Unfortunatelly is not how I read:

It is a free action with the trigger "Your turn begins" so you have to decide if you will use it when your turn starts and before you use any actions.

If is the beginning of your turn and you choose to use this free action when its trigger happens you are now quickened and as you said you can use this action anytime during your turn. This isn't a problem, the real problem is the last sentence that says "Absorbed in the act of creation, you can’t use any invocation actions this turn" what's pretty clear that you cannot invoke anymore during your entire turn.

So you have to choose at beginning of your turn if you will use it and will be quickened that turn to be able to get an extra action to Trace but unable to use Invoke or if you won't use it but can Invoke normally during your turn.

Okay yep we agree on how it functions. I just didn't think it was a big restriction (generally I know if I might invoke runes as my turn starts) but I suppose we just have different play patterns.

lvl 6 runesmith gameplay impressions

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That said, Tracing Trance also prevents you from using Invoke in the same turn, which requires you to use it wisely. But perhaps the most limiting characteristic of it that we noticed in practice is the fact that it triggers at the beginning of the turn, which limited its use much more than we imagined. But still, it is a good feat that helps in several circumstances.

The ability to become quickened happens at the beginning of your turn, but you are quickened for the entirely of that turn and can use that extra action at any time, not just at the start.

What does the war pig's support and advanced maneuver do? I saw an undead raising poison when looking through Foundryvtt data which is intriguing.

Any fun backmatter material that appears in this one?

In Divine Mysteries, the Azlanti deity Elion has the 'weather' domain, which doesn't exist. It probably should be Lightning or Nature?

My watch has ended, already! Dang

Excited for Divine Mysteries! I think it's great that you are giving out the PDF copies for Special Edition subscribers this release window - hopefully no one abuses that

The Vindicator Mark focus spell is missing the attack trait.

My watch has ended

I usually just keep the Order Status page (accessed from Order History) open and refresh that throughout the day/week. Not sure if the digital products get added before that updates or not, though.

I don't think we know what the main inspiration for Imrijka's outfit is... Sometimes we get some insights from Wayne Reynolds but I don't believe I've seen any in the years since the APG released. The Spanish Inquisition skit has always been my assumption but I also always think of Carmen Sandiego when I see her in art. Perhaps Alucard was mentioned in design notes for Wayne. I'm not sure if anyone would even remember at this point.

It's interesting that Player Core 2 also went a little more literal with the blood portion of bloodline (at least with some of the new options). It feels like the same design idea is being brought to life here.

I'm not sure what tradition bloodrager will be - I lean towards a choose a tradition like suggested based on your usual... Prey. But maybe they will simply pick arcane and add to it based on what you consume.
I wouldn't mind stealing focus spells from sorcerer even without the martially-inclined ones available.

It doesn't sound like there's any bloodlines, considering we already know the "blood" name is about the blood they drink. It'd be weird if "bloodrager" was referring to two unrelated "blood" components.

It could still allow for both with feat options, or special text with the blood rager dedication that let's you grab feats as if you had sorcerer dedication.

Well... one issue with your plan might be this:

Regarding Giant Barbarian, if you're smaller than Small, then you can only use weapons 1 size category bigger. That means you'll be using a Small weapon, which might put a damper on your damage.

I'm not sure that will do anything to change the damage dealt, but being Tiny does make reach a bit of a problem.

Spirit Warrior brings up a question of the intent of fist Strikes and needing a free-hand, as well as using the parry and disarm traits added to a fist when both hands are occupied. I won't regurgitate the whole discussion but it would be good to have clarification on the general intent.

My watch has ended - I wonder if this is the first batch for non Lost Omens+AP?

Here's to hoping mine gets shipped by tomorrow- I've got a society game on Saturday and I'd love to bring a new hybrid study magus to the table!

You have to wait for options to receive organized play sanctioning before using them in Society play - so that won't happen until the 28th at the earliest.

My watch is complete!

My last few have shipments have been day one ships, so it seems deserved that I am still waiting.
But hopefully not much longer.

Just got my PDF for this adventure a few hours ago and…WOW. From my first run through paizo may have even undersold this adventure. Its epic in every meaning of the word, delves into a lot of lore, a ton of interesting player facing options as well. I haven't given it a thorough read yet but I would be please to answer any relatively spoiler free questions about it to build up hype.

I'm very curious on the spoiler side of things but ignoring that.. how does the Red Mantis archetype handle spellcasting? Is it divine plus the new wizard school?

My watch has ended friends. Godspeed to you all!

Hopefully that means the CrowdStrike outage isn't slowing down shipments.

I think it's just somewhat random in batching of like orders.

Mine just shipped out so they're on the way!

Nice! Seems like just rulebook subs are going out first. I'm hoping my Starfinder playtest sub doesn't move me to a later batch...

I actually find it a bit weird that the Twirling Throw text doesn't say "thrown weapon Strike" - that feels like a minor error compared to how things are usually written.

But I'm a big fan of the panache changes with Bravado!

Looks like a Poster Map PDF was added. Huzzah!

Interesting...

How long, Mark?!?

I think I bought this already but I can't remember...

Has anyone heard of anyone getting the shipping notice?

I haven't heard anything yet - seems likely to have not been quite kicked off yet. I'm sure the posts will come rolling in once shipments begin.