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My payment went through and I have Galactic Ancestries. Unfortunately, Hellfire Dispatches is missing from my library. I'll give CS a bit before opening a ticket.

I had payment issues at first but when i just retried it skipped my order this month with no chance to retry now so be careful if you want this months book, just wait until they sorted it

In my experience, it'll pop back in your subscription queue in 5 to 10 minutes.

I'm another in thw same boat as Jon. Got the email, tried to reset my card info, and now the store wont accept ANY card info.

Even if you get a new card added, it doesn't seem to be accepting them either. I was able to add a new payment method and then removed the old one and I get the same error on retry.

Bubbaloo30 wrote:

The rules say that you can't have the same effect with the same name.

More than that, there are also rules specifically for redundant conditions.

In the case of Clumsy, we are looking at Redundant Conditions with Values.

In short:

Clumsy 1 + Clumsy 1 = Clumsy 1.

Right but Barbed Spear breaks that rule by saying that it increases the clumsy value by 1.

In terms of ideal play pattern, I would say that you should track the duration of Barbed Spear and other clumsy sources separately. It's a little against the RAW, but if you are hit by Barbed Spear without clumsy and become clumsy 1, and then are made clumsy 1 for one round separately by a successful Dirty Trick, then I would play it as clumsy 2. As soon as the Dirty Trick ends, it will go back down to clumsy 1.

Similarly, if the creature removed the Barbed Spear while the Dirty Trick duration was on-going, they would be clumsy 1 for the remainder of that round rather than removing the clumsy condition entirely.

I think that you would need separate sources of clumsy rather than just multiple Barbed Spears but the rules aren't very explicit on duplicate effects in this case.

Think the resistance example is still bit confusing. Nothing to my knowledge resistance special material, special material is usually the exception to resistances to physical damage. So the example should never show up.

I think a low resistance physical and a larger resistance slashing would be a good example that can show up in play easily.

Hm. I wasn't expecting the need to combine damage from multiple actions of an activity for weaknesses and resistance without an explicit note to do so. I don't think that's necessary for most activities that don't currently do so, such as Spellstrike and Stab and Blast. In the preview given, it feels fine for Spellstrike with thunderstrike and a shock rune to trigger a weakness twice, personally, but not a shock rune and Barbarian draconic rage damage on a single Strike.

It's also worth pointing out that a couple clarifications were made since the posting of the errata: mature animal companions can fly with their one action, and firework technician received written updates to make it more inline with the intent.

Regardless, I'm glad that the team is on top of this and communicating! Thank you to both you, Maya, and the design team.

Subscriptions kicked off later than we expected and are continuing to process now. As this is the first run under the new system, we're not exactly sure how long it will take to get through the entire subscriber list. It looks like we're about 15-20% done now.

We are also investigating why PDF copies are not being correctly delivered. I'll provide an update as soon as I have one.

[2 p.m. update] We have a potential fix in for the PDFs not releasing upon charge. We will manually grant them when the subscription run finishes for everyone if that fix isn't working. We still have quite a few subscriptions processing.

-Jim

Thanks for the update, Jim!

I take it this is how long it should be expected for subscriptions to be processed in the months to come? Minus the PDF and late startup, it is going to be a mostly-all-day process for BigCommerce to work through all the subscription orders?

Thanks, Jim! Excited for the new store to get past its early growing pains. Hiccups are to be expected!

My Draconic Codex subscription order went through, but I can't seem to find the PDF in my Downloads. I'm probably just being impatient, but if anyone has any advice, I'd be really grateful.

Are you looking in the new library on store.paizo.com or the list of legacy downloads? It probably will only appear on the forme.

has anyone been charged and gotten their early copy of draconic codex yet? i thought it was suppose to be at 1am

Nothing yet - hopefully we'll hear something shortly.

Prince Maleus wrote:

"Apologies; let me correct that. You will receive your confirmation email on Wednesday. That will give you until Sunday night (11/23) to skip or cancel the products listed. On Monday (11/24), your credit card will be charged and the PDF released and your order will head to the warehouse for shipping."

Follow up question on this, is it possible to know what time Paizo will charge our credit cards?

Like first thing in the morning, at noon, etc.?

Credit cards will be charged at 1 a.m. Pacific on Monday, 11/24. The exact time might vary based on where you are in the queue.

-Jim

Looks like this first subscription wasn't charged at 1 am Pacific but I imagine it will be coming along shortly.

There is an issue right now that prevents you from starting a subscription with the current title if I recall. I would reach out to customer service just in case - to make sure you get what you expect and when you expect it.

This is great! It sounds like things are coming Soon but not quite yet finalized, so I'm guessing the dates for the December orders are purely hypothetical if the commerce swap had occurred and it won't necessarily be flipped over by then?

My watch has ended!

Huzzah!

Huzzah! I know this leaked a while ago but glad it is seeing the light of day soon..ish.

I don't have adventures so I'm guessing I'll be in the next batch at the earliest. Excited for Battlecry! to hit my downloads.

My watch begins as well.

It's almost time! So very excited for this month of books.

Darth Krzysztof wrote:

This has been my longest watch in awhile. I made a change to my order, though, so I think that might be a factor.

Invariably, my shipment for the Gen Con releases are ALWAYS the longest watch. It seems they are always towards the end of the line.

This is pre-Gen Con, actually. Late July (August) will be the GenCon release.

My watch (just the map archive) has ended!

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.

Xethik wrote:

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