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These deeply nested quotes look somewhat creepy. :)
I'm not sad to see the drow go. They were a stereotype played out years ago, and although Paizo had been moving them away from their classical tropes, in effect they haven't been the drow the drow-fans wanted anymore, anyway. Actually, I never understood the excessive love for the drow. When they first appeared in AD&D, they clearly were a kind of self-gratification of some kind of sexual fetish on the writer's side, likely repressed. They got worse, once they were drafted into the bland Forgotten Realms. And then Drizzt, oh my god, what a terrible character from a truly, atrociously bad writer, oh, how I have detested those awful novels. And from there it went downhill. No, I won't miss the drow. Good riddance.
So $60 for the hardcover, $80 for the special edition, $27 for the pocket edition, $60 for the FLGS edition, or $227 for all the available forms of one book. Times 4. $908. Hm. I should probably cancel at least one of the two subs involved. Decisions, decisions. Or maybe you don't really need four versions of the same book?
If you read the posts, you will see that the Paizo people are equally as dismayed and disappointed they had to make this decision. This is very likely completely informed by their legal department to make sure Paizo is as safe as possible from a possible legal WotC retribution.
If there's ever a need to republish Abomination Vaults under the ORC license, in my view, the adventure would lose nothing if the drow were simply changed into Ayindilar.
The worst part was Drow fans who insisted that the Drow be the same in every setting. Eberron, Golarion, Greyhawk never got to re-imagine the culture because they had to accomodate Drizzit fans. Never forget that the Forgotten Realms stole them from Greyhawk. Erelhei-Cinlu was there long before Menzoberranzan. Basically, like they stole almost everything from somewhere else.
What reason would a character have to voluntarily take an edict/anathema from their ancestry? I think it's called “role-playing”.
As pugwampis are not creations listed under the OGL, I an confident of our prime placement within the Monster Core book! Pugwampis are in fact listed under the OGL, because Paizo placed them under that licence. What you mean is, and what is important here, is: they are not from the SRD. It is easy to confuse OGL and SRD, but they are different things. The OGL is the licence that has allowed Paizo to use content from that SRD – the System Reference Document, which contains all the Open Game Content, the rules from D&D. Now that Paizo is moving away from using the OGL, they can no longer use SRD content. That is the reason that stuff such as certain creatures is now being phased out.
As a note on this, the book DOES list both for instance, Normal temp effects are 33º F to 94º F (1º C to 34º C) on Table 10-13: Temperature Effects. I don't know what book you have, but my Core Rulebook (4th printing PDF) doesn't list any Celsius values.
My disappointment isn't in that it's an ARPG, it's more that this looks to be a multiplayer-only game.
Didn't you just say you weren't purchasing anything from Paizo ever again just a few days ago?
I think turning Abomination Vault into a hack and slash is likely to take away everything that makes it so distinct from a run-of-the-mill monster hotel.
To be fair, the game was removed from Steam because their licence agreement with Wizards of the Coasts expired, not due to quality issues or anything like that.
Granted, the footage looks neat, but there's not a single scene that I recognize from the adventure.
Holler when you and Owlcat make another CRPG Not gonna happen. Word is that Owlcat was not interested in doing PF2 games and that is why Paizo had to find a new partner and Owlcat are now making, of all things, Warhammer games.
A video game I can't meaningfully play on my own is worthless to me.
Hm, "co-op Hack and Slash" sounds like a Diablo clone. Unfortunately, I really don't care for multiplayer video games. Like, at all. Disappointing. EDIT: saw the footage. Yes, Diablo indeed.
No mention of a PDF price.... Please tell me the only way to get a PDF wont be the subscription???They’ve never done this for any of their books and they haven’t stated they intend to change that going forward. They never list PDFs for upcoming products, as PDFs can't be pre-ordered. Compare the product page for Rage of Elements, for example.
This will be the last book of PF2's life cycle. Yeah, I thought something similar: the release of this book will be akin to Groetus finally reaching the Boneyard.
something Maybe it is just me, but to my German ears your nickname sounds really offensive. If you don't know, it basically translates to "child beater". Is that what you want?
Electric arc could use a little nerf, I think.
PF2.5! It sounds a lot more like 2.1
The Towers rules can be found in this old thread: https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2r56w?i-cant-seem-to-find-the-rules-on-how-to- play#5
There are White Russians in Irrisen who came over from Earth. I believe a 2e PFS scenario from Season 2 deals with some.Nor their lackeys (Romanova brought some of those with her).Where does it say that? Thank you, I found it, it's in #2-08, "A Frosty Mug", it says, though, that it was Baba Yaga who brought over the Russians, not Anastasia.
No simple digital version is indeed disappointing news. "Discussions with licensed partners" probably means that the cards will become available in some digital tools like VTTs, but this also sounds like they will not be accessible outside these tools. That is very sad.
They've made a turn-based D&D game, Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation; however, this was removed from Steam last year because their D&D licence expired.
Yep, I've been served already!
Ah OK, thanks. Too bad horror is my least favorite subgenre of fantasy RPG, paired with Tian Xia, this AP really isn't for me. Ah, well.
Well, I never would have guessed this. Well, Tian Xia does nothing for me at all, but I'm happy for all of you who have waited for this.
Time for some thread necromancy... Who's still left of us, 8 years later? And what is this "Pathfinder Companion" tag?
I just noticed a change in the new 4th printing of the Core Rulebook that isn't mentioned in the errata listing on the FAQ page: produce flame was reworded to list the effects as success degree lines, not in the corpus of the spell description: A small ball of flame appears in the palm of your hand, and you lash out with it either in melee or at range. Make a spell attack roll against your target’s AC. This is normally a ranged attack, but you can also make a melee attack against a creature in your unarmed reach. On a success, you deal 1d4 fire damage plus your spellcasting ability modifier. On a critical success, the target takes double damage and 1d4 persistent fire damage.
It doesn't change anything, but makes the spell formatting more consistent. Did anyone notice any other stealth changes?
I can confirm that the missing PDF download for this product has now been added to my digital assets.
I can confirm that the missing JPG download for this product has now been added to my digital assets.
I can confirm that the PDF and JPG downloads have now been fixed.
Because of the hookers, obviously!
What are the names for Human, Elf, Gnome, Goblin, Orc, then? Where do i find that?
I'm not saying the dialogues are scripted word for word, but the general plot development and decisions of the party and such things.
Critical Role is a popular web series that features a group of voice actors playing the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. The show originally used the 3.5 edition of the rules, but later switched to using the 5th edition of the rules. Actually, by now, it is a group of actors playing people playing the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. If that's not mostly scripted these days, I'll eat my hat.
The digital download for this product is broken, I only get a 141-byte file. I have tried resetting the download for no avail.
The digital download contain the same map on both sides as per Jan 13th. I can confirm this, both the PDF and the JPG files are affected.
That is awesone news.
I think we know now why they call it “One D&D” One D&D to rule them all, One D&D to find them,
No, seriously, I think the whole reason for making this new edition, which Wizards claim is not actually a new edition, is this OGL ploy.
I'm not a lawyer, but whether it is an omission or deliberate, the limitation to only the 5.1 SRD being licensed content implicitly excludes all commercial 3rd party material using the 3.5 SRD, even if the publisher agreed to OGL 1.1. Uh, that might actually be true. But what does PF2 use that is in the SRD? Basically, all that is left is names. Names of creatures, spells, and items – the implementations are all different from the SRD, I think.
<brandishes 1E Core Rule Book> I'll give you my books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands! :p "Have it your way, then!"
Given that everything looks that this book would have to be published under OGL 1.1 and thus giving Wizards all the rights to all the stuff within... I can't really see this ever coming out.
It's not that I ever went away, I'm just quietly GM'ing three campaigns in 1E. Not much new to talk about there. ^^ Just you wait until the Wizard Lawyers come knocking at your door to take away your unauthorized 1E OGL 1.0a books!
Battlezoo has gained access to the whole license, and they have published it here: ogl.battlezoo.com. I think it is interesting to note that the document only talks about the SRD v5.1, not v3.0 or v3.5 or d20 Modern.
They probably really think that if they kill Paizo that all the Pathfinder players will happily play D&D then.
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