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Every time a Drift engine is used, a tiny portion of a random plane is torn from its home...

... might tear away a chunk of hell and leave you flying through a cloud of furious devils.

If this happened to a world populated by most mortal creatures, they would die, lost and alone. So using a Drift drive is an inherently selfish and evil act. You are risking the death of other creatures for your gain.

I'm sure the intent wasn't to make it an issue for Starfinder Society, but now that it's occurred to me, I'm going to have to think of a way to explain it away. Any ideas?

Looks like the warehouse have switched back to green peanuts instead of packing books in cardboard wallets inside the box. Not my main reason for cancelling, but picking all of the broken bits of peanut out of AP #100 and off my clothes didn't help.

Please cancel all of my subscriptions except the APs now.

Please ship AP #101 and #102 in January as planned and then cancel that subscription as well.

Thanks, Brock

Fantastic news! Thanks.

While you are stuck with using the abysmal green packing peanuts, please don't put books loose within the cardboard shipping boxes and then add peanuts. The peanuts disintegrate into millimetre sized fragments and get in between the pages of the books. This causes creases and means that I have to go through every page and try and dislodge the fragments which are held in place by considerable static cling.

Please, pack the books inside a white cardboard envelope inside the box like you used to.

I had my first subscription delivery of Pathfinder Tales in the new, larger format today. Please cancel my subscription to the Pathfinder Tales line.

The new larger format is more fragile, and doesn't stand up to international delivery in a box full of packing chips. The older format Tales book in the same box was fine, but the new format one had sustained a bent corner (I don't want a replacement) and scuff marks,

The new paper also feels of poor quality - very thin and flimsy compared to the old ones.

In short, I'm not impressed with the new format for the physical books and wont't be buying them.

If the line still included the ePubs for free, I'd probably continue anyway, but since it doesn't I'm stopping.

Darn right we do!

You are free to replay a scenario in order to meet the minimum legal table size (see Chapter 7), but once you have reached that limit, you do not earn any additional rewards beyond having a good time.

If the table is already at the minimum legal limit, you do not receive the award that you get if you are the one that makes the table legal.

A player replaying a scenario in order for the table to reach the minium table size should (in this instance only) be given a Chronicle for the scenario, though marked to earn 0 Gold, 0 Fame, 0 XP; it does not allow the character to make a ‘Day Job’ check, no boons, item access, or anything else appearing on the Chronicle might provide for having played the scenario. This Chronicle only serves as a placeholder to indicate the character participated in the adventure, and gives a place for consumables, purchases, and conditions to be tracked from playing through the adventure. This is the only exception to not having two of the same Chronicle assigned to one character.

So, it seems that if you replay in order to allow a table to happen at all, the reward you get is a chronicle for your character and you have to track consumables and conditions (including death).

If you are replaying on a table that would have happened anyway, you don't receive a chronicle, don't track consumables and can't die.

I can see a reason for having that the other way round, but this way round doesn't make sense to me - why make allowing a table to happen less beneficial than adding on to an existing table?

I want to cancel my subscription to the Pathfinder Battles minis line until after Skulls and Shackes, and then re-subscribe. However, I have this order outstanding:

2605624 Jun 2, 2013 Pathfinder Battles: White Dragon Evolution Boxed Set

and I'm not sure if not being a subscriber when it ships will have any cost implication - it uses a case subscriber code, I think. If cancelling won't have any impact, please cancel the subscription. If it will, will I be able to cancel between this shipping and the S&S case shipping?

The reason for cancelling is that there are two more generically useful sets scheduled for this year, so I need to save cash for those. The figures in S&S are a bit limited use.

A package from order number #2573010 containing Dark Waters Rising Hardcover, Flip-Mat Arcane, Chronicle of the Righteous and Fey Revisited was labelled 'Accessories' at $69.16

This attracted £19.51 in charges (about $30) being VAT at 20% and £8 collection fee.

If it had been labelled as 3 books and 1 accessories, then the books would have been 0% rated for VAT. VAT is not collected until the value of items reaches £15, so the flip-mat at $11.19 would not have been charged for.

This one was a printed label, and I've made sure to keep hold of the box and all of the paperwork.

Is it possible to make the customs declaration more detailed in future?

Could you add the name of the book being FAQ'd to the webpage title please? In other words, change from

paizo.com - Paizo / Help/FAQ

to

paizo.com - Paizo / Help/FAQ Core Rulebook

for example?

I've just downloaded all of the FAQ's to Pocket on my iPad ready to be able to refer to them on the road and I now have 8 entries with the same title, as it uses the webpage title.

Order number 2580854 was sent out marked as $42.45 of 'books'. It was actually metal minis, and the box was only 6in along it largest dimension, so the UK customs people took an interest in it. It's arrived ok, but it was seized and opened and assessed for VAT, which means an extra fixed charge on top of the VAT.

I'm not 100% sure whether the charges are an error, but previous mini orders have arrived without the VAT charge - not sure if there is a minimum value beneath which they don't bother to check. I think that they aren't usually marked 'books' though. It might be that what they are usually marked as is a VAT exempt category.

I wanted to let you know, as I don't want you to get into trouble for sending out incorrect customs declarations.

Is it possible to change my primary alias to this one? I want to do this so that subscriber tags get shown when I post.

I've just discovered that Realm Works supports having multiple adventures active in your cloud account at one time, with players only seeing the one they are part of. This seems ideal for having multiple PFS scenarios ready to run with a group of players online, using d20Pro or Game Space.

Hopefully, Paizo will look at making the scenarios available for purchase in this format. Failing that, hopefully someone can work out a licensing deal where they can share pre-built files containing monsters, maps and box-text but without enough of the other information to allow running the scenario without paying for it.

Please cancel the following three subscriptions from my account:

• Pawns
  
• Tales
  
• Modules

Thanks.

With the announcement of the Demonblight Campaign, I'm now eagerly pondering what this may mean for Pathfinder Battles in 2013. Are we going to see mounts of varying types that accept a range of other figures to ride them? Being able to put any rider on any mount would be awesome. Figures for a good range of the demons? I can hardly wait!

May I draw your attention to the RPGHook Contest?

Please vote for what you consider to be the most intriguing hook for a RPG adventure. Please consider that they had to be crammed into the space of a tweet.

Disclaimer: One is indeed mine, but I'm not saying which.

Does anyone know of a FLGS near the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD? Upcoming business trip with a free weekend.

We are in the process of setting up some Pathfinder Society gaming, to be held at Wargames Heaven in Brighton. If you are in the area and would be interested in gaming, weekly or monthly or even on an utterly ad-hoc schedule, post below so we can get an idea of numbers and interest.

There is also the possibility of a monthly-run adventure path game if the interest is there.

You know that INT is your dump stat when the Intellect Devourers bound towards you yelling "Woo, snack food!"

Anyone else?

Sat-nav manufacturer TomTom releases a Yoda voice option, and video's the recording session.

The one sheet, downloadable from http://paizo.com/pathfinderSociety is rather out of date and mentions the Beta test of Pathfinder. Does anyone have something newer that I can give to the local shop to advertise that we want to start some PFS games there?

Rumours are circulating in the news that the magnitude 6.2 earthquake in Mexico was caused by an avalanche of Confrontation minis. More soon... :)

On a more serious note, I hope that the reports of no casualties continue to be correct.

I've been madly grabbing stuff from the sale. I wanted to add a copy of the Red Dwarf RPG ($5) and have it ship with my subscription, but it bumps the next subscription up by a package and hence increases the price by $13.18!

Is there any way to order it and get it slotted into a later delivery where it won't increase the number of packages and hence cost more?

All of the many word processors that I have just tried, including Word, count hyphenated words, like 'evil-aligned' as one word. I would personally have counted that as two words. Could an official please give me a ruling on this?

I'd swear that I'd read somewhere that Microsoft Office was the official method, but I can't find that in the Rules or FAQ now.

Sadly, it's important :(

I guess the point of this is to ask : "is it just me?"

I'm currently running some 3.5ed Forgotten Realms, starting to use the Pathfinder beta rules, and my current part of the campaign is drawing heavily on some 2nd ed material. Now, its's already been mentioned on the boards that 2ed was the zenith of fluff for monster descriptions - a whole page per monster with Habitat/Society sections and Ecolegy, activity cycle, etc.

I'd happily pay for the Pathfinder monster bestiary to be done in a similar style. Buy a stack of monster sheets shrink-wrapped and an optional 3-ring pathfinder logo-ed binder to keep them in... and I'm from the 4-ring binder end of the world.

So, is it just me?

And a question for any Paizonians : would the saving in production cost from just shipping shrink-wrapped hole-punched pages be enough to pay for the extra fluff and page-count?