Haven't received an email yet from CS, but starting this afternoon, the link for the Remastered version of the Beginner Box finally personalized the file. So it's fixed on my end now.
The new pawns and art for the creatures in here look great. Although, they use the old art for the Wyrmling Green Dragon/Juvenile Horned Dragon, but I can spot new art of them on the map's token itself. I wonder what that is about?
Also, what is up with the Reefclaw using a Large pawn spot? It still says it is Small in the statblock. Very weird to see.
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Haven't received an email yet from CS, but starting this afternoon, the link for the Remastered version of the Beginner Box finally personalized the file. So it's fixed on my end now.
The new pawns and art for the creatures in here look great. Although, they use the old art for the Wyrmling Green Dragon/Juvenile Horned Dragon, but I can spot new art of them on the map's token itself. I wonder what that is about?
Also, what is up with the Reefclaw using a Large pawn spot? It still says it is Small in the statblock. Very weird to see.
I think the problem was that it kinda "replace" the owlbear as a monstrous animal. The person updating the pawns maybe didn't realize it was actually a small creature, or could even be that they asked how to deal with it, but the kerfuffle all around the virtual office made it so they never got an answer back before the deadline, and thus it ended up splipping through the cracks).
It could just be the enormous reefclaw from Curse of the Crimson Throne
Legend in Korvosa speaks of an impossibly massive reefclaw who lives in a submerged cave below the seashore cliffs north of the city.
That enormous reefclaw? Nobody's ever seen it, so I'm sceptical. Besides, Korvosa's a long way from Sandpoint.
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Print version says ready now. Do we know if it would ship as a side load to my sub which is shipping around next week? Or would it be on the next one?
If you already got you authorization email (which you should have gotten by now), you will need to contact customer service and hope they catch your ticket before your stuff is shipped. Otherwise, it'll be sent with your next sub shipment.
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As much as I'm glad that we've got this out finally, there's things I'm seeing that just make me wonder, why was this never addressed, and why did it have to get so much more complicated than it wasn't in the first place?
Also, they've still got some OGL to ORC issues to take care of that I've spotted.
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I love this box so I'm looking forward to digging into this updated version and seeing all these changes.
One weird thing that I noticed on a quick skim through the PDF files though is that the ORC/remastered pawns have a triple border (blue/red/green) now that overlaps the illustrations and looks fairly awkward compared to the single (red) border on the OGL pawns. Can't tell if this is tech issue or a purposeful change but it definitely looks better with the single border.
Yep, those borders are kind of unecessary. Frankly I'd love to have a borderless version as well. It would be much easier to print them out and glue them on some greyboard.
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I know I've been bugging my FLGS in Florida if he could see it to order since the before Megacon Orlando.Do you know when retailers will be getting this. I run a game store and we have been waiting for this to come back in there is a ton of interested with remastered.
Thanks,
Matt
I was wondering when it should be in retail stores as well. Anyone have any word?
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Anyone know how I'm supposed to be contacting Paizo or what their typical response time is like? I emailed customer.service@paizo.com on 3/15 hoping that they could include the beginner box with my subscription shipment before it went out 3/22, but never got a response (I also followed up on 3/20). When the subscription order arrived without the beginner box order I thought okay bummer they didn't get my email in time, but that's okay. Now I'd like to just have the box ship immediately instead of waiting until the next sub ships, but it says I have to contact support to do that. Support hasn't replied to my original inquiry, and I put in a new request to have it ship separately on 3/25 which also hasn't seen a response on yet.
Paizo president Jim Butler posted on the forums that CS is about two weeks behind on CS orders for various reasons. I know he just posted today on the announcement forums, too.
The one remaining gerbil in CS has been running full tilt for about six months and is likely to expire soon.
This has popped back up on Amazon as In Stock, but it's under the Pathfinder 2e Beginner Box. However, Amazon isn't always the best at separating things. Does anyone know if the Remastered version has made it to Amazon and/or other retailers? If not, do we have an ETA for that to happen?
I know it's been asked already but that was over a week ago and we still haven't received any word. It would be nice to get an idea if this is out in the wild, and when we might expect it if it is not already out.
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This has popped back up on Amazon as In Stock, but it's under the Pathfinder 2e Beginner Box. However, Amazon isn't always the best at separating things. Does anyone know if the Remastered version has made it to Amazon and/or other retailers? If not, do we have an ETA for that to happen?
I know it's been asked already but that was over a week ago and we still haven't received any word. It would be nice to get an idea if this is out in the wild, and when we might expect it if it is not already out.
How this works is that Paizo send the books to distributors, and THOSE send the books to stores and amazon. Paizo don't know more than that. They sent the remastered boxes to distributors. That's the most that Paizo could tell you. The only ones that can answer you for these specific questions you have are the retailers and Amazon themselves.
Looks like Paizo just updated the digital copy to fix the weird outlines on the pawns. The reefclaw is still large instead of small, but otherwise it looks better.
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Hey, this is neat!
Couple things I noticed:
Merisiel's character sheet still has the old Rogue weapon proficiencies.
Two encounters, 11 and 12, have the same title (though it was like this before as well).
The Xulgath tokens on map 2 have the old art.
The Male Dwarf Fighter pawn is a very smol guy.
You aren't kidding. The Fighter, Dwarf, Male REALLY shrank in the update. Looks comical next to the Fighter, Dwarf, Female.
Currently running this as PbP on the forums here and trying to extract the image for the
Would it be possible to get a nice, high quality version of this creature? There's a gorgeous version in the Foundry module, but it'd be nice to have everything in one place without having to dig through those assets.
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Currently running this as PbP on the forums here and trying to extract the image for the ** spoiler omitted ** but none of the instances of the image in the April 15 update PDFs is working--I either get something different (if I try to extract from the pawn sheet) or a placeholder image of an arrangement of different dice (if I try to extract from the Game Master's Guide). There also isn't art of the monster in the Monster Core or Bestiary 1 despite appearing in both volumes. I can get something sorta-usable (but small, as commented above) if I use pdfimages, but it's not as clear as everything else I've been able to extract so far.
Would it be possible to get a nice, high quality version of this creature? There's a gorgeous version in the Foundry module, but it'd be nice to have everything in one place without having to dig through those assets.
Hum, using TokenTool, I managed to extract it without problem from the Game Master Guide at a good 812x1083 resolution. What tools are you using that give you random other images?
(Yeah, TokenTool is not the most intuitive tool name to do this, but it have been the best one I have found to extract art from Paizo's PDFs.)
I'm running Linux and using either Evince or pdfimages from the poppler-utils package. Looks like TokenTool should run on my machine, I'll give it a try when I'm more awake. It's Java and almost certainly doesn't use the same PDF implementation as the tools I've tried so far.
(I'm used to unintuitive tool names; Linux user and all :)
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I'm running Linux and using either Evince or pdfimages from the poppler-utils package. Looks like TokenTool should run on my machine, I'll give it a try when I'm more awake. It's Java and almost certainly doesn't use the same PDF implementation as the tools I've tried so far.
(I'm used to unintuitive tool names; Linux user and all :)
I just looked, and they do have a Linux distribution. I wish you luck!
I received this Beginner Box when I purchased a Humble Bundle in 2022. It was a stepping stone for me into GMing Pathfinder 2e. Coming from Dungeons and Dragons 5e, I loved everything about the Beginner Box and Pathfinder 2e system.
I've lately been keeping abreast with the Pathfinder 2e Remaster products. I enjoy collecting the physical books, (I love the sketch covers,) and running games in person. Learning that the Beginner Box received the remaster treatment piqued my interest. I purchased another copy of the Beginner Box from an online vendor who claimed that it was a Remaster edition, but it was an exact copy of the Beginner Box I already had.
I'm not sure if this has already been disclosed, but did the physical Beginner Box product receive the Remaster treatment, or is it only the digital offerings (like the PDF and vtt resources?)
Thanks!
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Thanks Dancing Wind! I'm interested in purchasing another physical copy but I'll probably purchase this one directly from Paizo.
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did the physical Beginner Box product receive the Remaster treatment, or is it only the digital offerings (like the PDF and vtt resources?)
Thanks!
If you previously owned the BB PDF, you got the updated/errated version for free earlier in March. If you buy it now, you'll get both versions.
But the physical product has new pawns and newly-printed versions of the handbooks and the adventure, that corresspond to the edits made in the PDF.
The new physical product is an ORC product, and has had all OGL material removed.
Note: This version of the Beginner Box includes content updates to bring it up-to-date with the Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project. Purchase of the PDF version will include both the legacy (OGL) and Remaster (ORC) versions.
I suppose it mentions the ORC license on the box? This is from a local seller in my country, and I can't tell if it's the OGL or ORC version:
https://exclusivebooks.co.za/products/9781640782846
I suppose it mentions the ORC license on the box? This is from a local seller in my country, and I can't tell if it's the OGL or ORC version: Exclusive Books: Pathfinder(2e) Beginners Box
Hmm... The product image on the Exclusive Books web page appears to be that of the pre-remastered box (i.e. the OGL product).
However, the ISBN (EAN) given on the same page matches that of the remastered product, so...
I also can't tell which version is being sold...
Sorry. Hope you're able to sort it out.
--C.
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My FLGS just said that the BB is not available to order yet, so I'm a little confused now?
Might be that specific store's distributor not taking orders for it. From what I know, Paizo is willing to take order from any distributors, but it's on the distributors to order or not, based on what they think they can successfully distribute. Some distributors will only order some products if they get certain number of enquiries from stores. Could also be that the distributor is still holding copies of the non-remastered version, and are unwilling to order the remaster as long as they have not sold through the old copies.
... There's a lot more scenarios possible, but that's the ones that I could think from the top of my head right now.
I was curious about the differences between the ORC and OGL versions so I downloaded both, and it looks like the ORC version of the Heroes Handbook is missing the last two pages?
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I was curious about the differences between the ORC and OGL versions so I downloaded both, and it looks like the ORC version of the Heroes Handbook is missing the last two pages?
The very last page is a copy-paste of the last page of the Game Master guide, and the one before was reprinting stuff from like two page before. Considering PDFs have quick search functionalities usually built into the readers, they aren't really as needed virtually.
But also, these were the "back cover" pages, and many recent PDFs skip those for some reason. We don't know if it's just some wombled settings, or if it's a voluntary change.
I just checked. The information missing (from the inside and outside of the back cover) from the Player's Handbook pdf is important stuff about getting knocked out, getting wounded, dying, and some other stuff. This is either deliberate (in which case IMO somebody at Paizo made a wrong decision) or a serious screw up.
I haven't noticed "many PDFs" skipping the back cover pages. I suppose now I'm going to have to check every pdf. :-(
IMO Paizo should fix this.
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I just checked. The information missing (from the inside and outside of the back cover) from the Player's Handbook pdf is important stuff about getting knocked out, getting wounded, dying, and some other stuff. This is either deliberate (in which case IMO somebody at Paizo made a wrong decision) or a serious screw up.
I haven't noticed "many PDFs" skipping the back cover pages. I suppose now I'm going to have to check every pdf. :-(
IMO Paizo should fix this.
All that information about getting knocked out, wounded, dying, and the condition stuff, are all also on page 68 to 71 (70 to 73 in the PDF readers). This is reprinted info condensed on two pages for easy access when using physical books. The two missing pages are not even mentioned in the table of conntent.
There is no missing info that I can find in the PDF I'm reading.
Perhaps the reason you can't find it is that it's missing. :-)
Does the physical product include updated Player Reference cards including changes for the Remastered Ruleset?
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The Player Reference cards should be available for purchase as a pack of five (four players & one GM).
If I buy the PDF, do I get the Foundry module?
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No, they are sold by different companies, why would you?
Judging from the bundle product page, if you buy the Foundry version you will get the PDF as well.
Probably best to wait for Foundry to put up their remastered version before committing though.
Oh, good. They nerfed the final boss.