Starfinder Core Rulebook

Folks, I realize everybody's excited, and I don't wish to halt discussion, but I really don't want this thread to turn into detailed commentary on specific mechanical content—we have a better place for that sort of discussion.

Questions about the book itself, like "how many pages is the spell section" are completely appropriate here, though.

How many pages do each of the planets of the Pact World get?

How many pages are in the "Hit refresh until order shipped" section?

How many pages in the "Download my PDF now" section?

captain yesterday wrote:

Walking Skeld's dog.

I hate to tell you this, but I don't have a dog.

Also, I just got my PDFs (but I have to go to open house at school, so it'll be a while before I can look at them).

-Skeld

Then who's dog is this...

Can you list the various threats, factions, and organizations that are around for GMs to play with? Also, how many years after the gap is the current timeframe of the setting and how long did the gap last?

Thanks.

How many pages do each of the planets of the Pact World get?

To those asking mechanical questions, a new thread has been created in the Starfinder forums here.

Goes back to checking email every minute for shipment notification.

I clicked F5. Nothing happened.

After reading this PDF all I have to say is my favorite weapon is the Grindblade

Ugh still nothing. *sulks away for tomorrow*

I wonder if the PDF is given to everyone who ordered the hardback core book, or if its only for the subscribers.

Free PDF with purchase is the only perk of the subscription; it is not included with a preorder.

Looks like I will have to be patient at least one more day... Soon!?!

Been reading the pdf for a few hours, sooooo good. I cannot wait to make some characters and play.

The suspense is killing me. I don't think I've ever been this excited about an RPG product.

Why are people refreshing?

People have already started getting pdfs?

The suspense is killing me. I don't think I've ever been this excited about an RPG product.

Why are people refreshing?

Refreshing emails to see if the shipping notice has been sent out, refreshing order pages to see if the order has been completed, refreshing the product page to see if "In your downloads" shows up, plenty of things to refresh. Probably not at this point though, I think Paizo's closed for the day so there's not going to be any more shipping done until tomorrow.

I am a little bit concerned with my order showing "Payment authorization" "expires tomorrow".

I hope that does not complicate the way I will get my subscriptions IF that authorization expires before my Order is processed...

Nope, that's reasonably common when it's a busy month. It just means your bank will release the funds currently set aside during the "test" to ensure everything was correct when your order spawned.

When your package comes to the front of the queue, your card will be authorised and then finalised all in one go. Provided there are funds there whenever that happens you shouldn't see any delay.

After reading this PDF all I have to say is my favorite weapon is the Grindblade

I have no idea what that is but I love it already.

If I subscribe now, will I get the pdf? Or do would I have had to subscribe before now to get it? I've never understood this system, so sorry if it is explained somewhere better.

If I subscribe now, will I get the pdf? Or do would I have had to subscribe before now to get it? I've never understood this system, so sorry if it is explained somewhere better.

Subscriptions have always been, if you subscribe you get the pdf when the package ships - I don’t think this is any different.

If I subscribe now, will I get the pdf? Or do would I have had to subscribe before now to get it? I've never understood this system, so sorry if it is explained somewhere better.

If you subscribe now, you will get the pdf when your shipping label prints, which happens basically on a first come first serve basis at this point I think, and you are way after the first come. (everyone who preorders before the initial authorization is placed into a pool and then randomly placed onto a list, then people who order after that get added to the end of the list, from what Ive gleened over time)

If I subscribe now, will I get the pdf? Or do would I have had to subscribe before now to get it? I've never understood this system, so sorry if it is explained somewhere better.

You can start a subscription with the previous item until shipment commences on the next item, and will then get the PDF. At present as shipping has started on it, the Core Rulebook is the Previous Item, the Alien Archive is the next item

H.P. Makelovecraft wrote:

After reading this PDF all I have to say is my favorite weapon is the Grindblade

I have no idea what that is but I love it already.

It works best wielded by the Bumpgauntlet.

H.P. Makelovecraft wrote:

After reading this PDF all I have to say is my favorite weapon is the Grindblade

I have no idea what that is but I love it already.

It's sharp, That's it's thing.

Rysky the Dark Solarion wrote:

H.P. Makelovecraft wrote:

After reading this PDF all I have to say is my favorite weapon is the Grindblade

I have no idea what that is but I love it already.

It's sharp, That's it's thing.

I love it even more.

H.P. Makelovecraft wrote:

Rysky the Dark Solarion wrote:

H.P. Makelovecraft wrote:

After reading this PDF all I have to say is my favorite weapon is the Grindblade

I have no idea what that is but I love it already.

It's sharp, That's it's thing.

I love it even more.

No sharper than that

Rysky wrote:

H.P. Makelovecraft wrote:

Rysky the Dark Solarion wrote:

H.P. Makelovecraft wrote:

After reading this PDF all I have to say is my favorite weapon is the Grindblade

I have no idea what that is but I love it already.

It's sharp, That's it's thing.

I love it even more.

No sharper than that

Oooooo...

*waiting intensifies*

WOOHOO!!!

that is all

Rysky wrote:

H.P. Makelovecraft wrote:

Rysky the Dark Solarion wrote:

H.P. Makelovecraft wrote:

After reading this PDF all I have to say is my favorite weapon is the Grindblade

I have no idea what that is but I love it already.

It's sharp, That's it's thing.

I love it even more.

No sharper than that

Yes, but can I have one made of adamantine?

So I know that everyone is really excited for their books to ship, but to set expectations, we have a lot of orders to ship. Our dedicated warehouse staff is shipping orders as quickly and efficiently as possible, but the sheer volume of orders needing to ship right now means we will very likely take the entire 3 week shipping window to process for shipping (today being the end of week 1 of that shipping window).

Thanks, Sara. Is there any particular order or priority in which things are being shipped that you can share with us? (Alphabetical, time of order, internal customer ID #)?

If you have preordered and still want to subscribe, my recommendation at this point is to start with Alien Archive and contact customer service to adjust your preorder to a subscription copy. Since we are currently in the shipping window for subscriptions and preorders, our system does not always handle that conversion gracefully and we want to make sure nothing affects your preorder's place in the current shipping queue.

Thanks for the updates! Hope shipping everything out goes smoothly.

Thanks, Sara. Is there any particular order or priority in which things are being shipped that you can share with us? (Alphabetical, time of order, internal customer ID #)?

It's all based on being as efficient as possible for the warehouse staff to ship. The simplified version is that packages are categorized by shipping methods, content, box size (and other internal factors). Warehouse staff might pull all the Standard postal International packages containing a Core Rulebook, an AP and the maps and jam out those, and then move on to UPS Domestic containing just a Core Rulebook because that the size of the next batch that is they can finish before they're done for the day. We have staff working on larger batches of "simple" orders in assembly line fashion and then also staff working on "complex" orders or other orders that don't fall into large enough batches, (this is very over simplified and Will is probably shaking his head laughing at me). The pattern of which we ship sets of orders can vary from month to month depending on a number of factors.

SnowHeart wrote:

Thanks, Sara. Is there any particular order or priority in which things are being shipped that you can share with us? (Alphabetical, time of order, internal customer ID #)?

It's all based on being as efficient as possible for the warehouse staff to ship. The simplified version is that packages are categorized by shipping methods, content, box size (and other internal factors). Warehouse staff might pull all the Standard postal International packages containing a Core Rulebook, an AP and the maps and jam out those, and then move on to UPS Domestic containing just a Core Rulebook because that the size of the next batch that they can finish before they're done for the day. We have staff working on larger batches of "simple" orders in assembly line fashion and then also staff working on "complex" orders or other orders that don't fall into large enough batches, (this is very over simplified and Will is probably shaking his head laughing at me). The pattern of which we ship sets of orders can vary from month to month depending on a number of factors.

So pretty much depending on our order we're somewhere in a lottery and it'll ship when it ships? :P

So pretty much depending on our order we're somewhere in a lottery and it'll ship when it ships? :P

Basically.

Sara Marie wrote:

SnowHeart wrote:

Thanks, Sara. Is there any particular order or priority in which things are being shipped that you can share with us? (Alphabetical, time of order, internal customer ID #)?

It's all based on being as efficient as possible for the warehouse staff to ship. The simplified version is that packages are categorized by shipping methods, content, box size (and other internal factors). Warehouse staff might pull all the Standard postal International packages containing a Core Rulebook, an AP and the maps and jam out those, and then move on to UPS Domestic containing just a Core Rulebook because that the size of the next batch that they can finish before they're done for the day. We have staff working on larger batches of "simple" orders in assembly line fashion and then also staff working on "complex" orders or other orders that don't fall into large enough batches, (this is very over simplified and Will is probably shaking his head laughing at me). The pattern of which we ship sets of orders can vary from month to month depending on a number of factors.

So pretty much depending on our order we're somewhere in a lottery and it'll ship when it ships? :P

The idea of the assembly line makes this seem like a lottery for anyone who day just got the core rulebook and nothing else. Who knows when someone will get theirs.

Sara, I think we all hear and appreciate what you're saying and appreciate the hard work you all do, but is mine ready yet? IS IT??? I have to know!!!

WHY MUST I WAIT? WHYYYYYYYYYY????

Sorry, please carry on.

So, if I just leave these nickels here on the desk and forget about them, any chance I can get moved up the queue? ;-)

Seriously, thanks Sara. That's actually helpful in the sense that I know I really shouldn't be waiting or expecting, but rather just go with the flow.

I'm sure big releases are chaos. Many thanks to you and the team.

Hugs.

Excellent... and now to crouch in the bushes for the mail carrier as long as it takes...

The idea of the assembly line makes this seem like a lottery for anyone who day just got the core rulebook and nothing else. Who knows when someone will get theirs.

Not quite. My examples are really oversimplified for the sake of clarity explaining this. We have a very wide variety of categories of products and shipping methods.

SnowHeart wrote:

Thanks, Sara. Is there any particular order or priority in which things are being shipped that you can share with us? (Alphabetical, time of order, internal customer ID #)?

It's all based on being as efficient as possible for the warehouse staff to ship. The simplified version is that packages are categorized by shipping methods, content, box size (and other internal factors). Warehouse staff might pull all the Standard postal International packages containing a Core Rulebook, an AP and the maps and jam out those, and then move on to UPS Domestic containing just a Core Rulebook because that the size of the next batch that is they can finish before they're done for the day. We have staff working on larger batches of "simple" orders in assembly line fashion and then also staff working on "complex" orders or other orders that don't fall into large enough batches, (this is very over simplified and Will is probably shaking his head laughing at me). The pattern of which we ship sets of orders can vary from month to month depending on a number of factors.

Yeah, I'm thinking that my order will be among the last since I have preorders of all the Starfinder stuff I could get this month (including the limited edition core book), much of which converted to subscriptions orders that had to be corrected by customer service, and the authorization email stated my stuff will be coming in two separate packages. Oh, well, that's just how the cookie crumbles. In the end, we should all get our stuff one way or another, so there is no need to stress ourselves out and we should just try our best to wait patiently. :)

Thanks for the information, though, Sara Marie.

Also, the shipping stuff is getting a little off in the weeds for this product discussion thread. If you want to keep talking about it, lets head over to the August thread.

So excited for this! Hope it'll be in Germany soon as well!

Woohoo! I can now answer a couple of my own questions.

For resolve points, the level formula is 1/2 level, minimum 1.

Kasatha ability scores are totally different from Pathfinder -- they kept the bonus to wisdom, but the rest is completely different.

I've been waiting a long time for this one. Thank you for all of your hard work Paizo-people!

Looks like no luck this week. Damn. Thank you Sara for keeping us up to date.

Can anybody tell me something more about the drow on Apostae?

Thx, guys.