Flying Pincushion Presents Into the Breach: The Oracle

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Coming to Paizo and other sellers soon!

Flying Pincushion may be new to you but I hope you'll give us a shot. We're different from many publishers because of our community-based approach to development. I'm a ScrumMaster in regular life and I try to bring the agile approach to our work. We all write together and edit together and work together so that each archetype, mystery, or whatever is as great as it can be.

Anyways, I hope you'll try Into the Breach: The Oracle. If Oracle isn't your thing, the Into the Breach series will be continuing with Witch soon and Gunslinger after that.

I am Caleb T. Gordan and I approve this message.

Is Oracle on paizo yet?

Not yet. Our paperwork has all been submitted but as far as I know we haven't received approval yet. You can pick it up at d20PFSRD or RPGNow

Oh, and I should mention that I think you'll like it rather more than your initial feelings on Summoner. I beat the bejessus out of this thing to shake out kinks. I beat it so hard they made me the balance and mechanics editor. Starting with the next book, Witch, and everything we've worked on since, nothing gets passed through until it gets approved by me.

I think you'll be pleased.

As a former QA professional, that is an enviable amount of authority, indeed. Good on you!

We have a really cool development strategy focusing on collaboration. Everyone on the team gets to add input but the editors, myself and Taylor Hubler, make most of the final calls (along with Frank Gori and Jeff Harris the publisher and co-owner, respectively) and our approval is necessary for something to get printed. It is a lot of authority but given our development strategy it is necessary to keep us organized.

We had some early hiccups but things are really steaming along using this method and I think we're creating some really innovative and balanced stuff. Like the Warlock.

Our Warlock, featured as an alternate class in this book, is the best PF-compatible version I've seen. I'm not saying that because I wrote it; that was Frank. Our Warlock has the classic Eldritch blast with a few new twists like adding the damage to melee attacks if you want or making a glaive from your eldritch power.

Instead of the old invocations, he gets Revelations. With the awesome amount of revelations presented by Paizo and other 3PPs you have a lot of flexibility to make the Warlock you want to play and play the heck out of it.

As a craft beer fanatic, I'm inordinately pleased by the intoxicant mystery. I also like the Old Testament feel of the Wrath mystery with revelations like Gehenna and Pillar of Salt.

I'll chime in too, even though I didn't work on Into the Breach: The Oracle (the only one I haven't!) AND I didn't quite understand the Oracle class itself until Jason had a Q & A session with me (which can be found here)...I'm thoroughly intrigued to build a character using this publication.

Being one of the editors (this is Taylor Hubler), I can say that we are not perfect but we certainly work hard to be it. I mostly focus on the copy editing and templates, as well as doing what I can to keep it all in line with established formats and writing styles that readers should find already familiar. I also, on occasion, work to help everyone write the rules as clearly as they can. If I can't understand it on the first read through, I give it a hard look and try to help out in fixing that issue.

All of this has also convinced me to focus my school studies towards editing, which I hope to do a whole lot more of in this industry.

I've gotten word that this will be available on Paizo tomorrow at 8am PST!

It is...ALIVE!!!

I have some questions regarding the Alternate Base Class Warlock found in this book. Can anyone at flying pincushion answer them, sort of as a official ruling or point me into the direction of an Errata?

The class feature Blast Resistance as written in the book makes little sense to me with the wording given. It says "as a standard action, the warlock may create a sheath of energy around herself granting her energy resistance 5 to the type of energy of her blast. This sheath lasts 1 round per warlock level." So is it only ever Negative Energy Resistance? If so why not just say that, why make it sound like it's a customizable thing? If it is a customizable thing then the wording doesn't reflect that and the mechanic doesn't make since? Can as a free action I pick a blast energy type that I have and then use the standard action to create the new energy resistance based on that? Mind you selecting a essence and form is listed as a free action in the Blast Evolution class feature description.

Also counter curse is seems a little inconcise, what I mean is the feature says nothing about what happens if the next spell the enemy caster uses doesn't allow for saving throw, or if its a friendly spell they cast on themselves. it seems like a wasted feature since you can't possibly know if the next spell a enemy caster cast will in fact require a saving throw or be something that they'll cast at the party or you.

any help clarifying this would be appreciated.

I have passed along this question to the gent who created our version of the warlock, an answer to follow shortly.

Jeff Harris
Flying Pincushion Games