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In the interest of keeping our expectations grounded, here is a short list of a few ways that the playtest could turn out:
1. The team has decided to really double down on the techno in Technomancer, and they have made it a bard class archetype that is really into electronic dance music.
2. The Mechanic was reimagined to fill a more grounded character fantasy, and now must pay a tithe to the Snap-on truck to use their abilities
3. The Technological Equipment section is just a picture of Carl Sagan and the word "Imagination" repeated over and over.
4. Through internal testing it was found that the tech in Technomancer was sufficiently advanced enough to roll back around to it being a magicmancer, or a wizardwizard, or a wizard^2, so they had to go back to an earlier version where it was just a wizard with a phaser to maintain the fantasy.
5. Too much of the Mechanic's abilities were baked into robotic assistants, so, for balance, whenever you build a mechanic you make an NPC that hangs out in town and sends out a robot PC of a different class to do the adventuring.
6. Hacking had to be removed from the playtest because people continually passed out from strapping their hacker goggles on too tightly. They're working on a way to get around this issue.
7. The UPB vs UBP mixup was so common that the team decided to officially rename them "UPB/UBPs" so everyone is right.
8. To keep Aballon from being too cool given the new tech rules, it was moved 37 million miles closer to the sun.
Two things I'm hoping for:
1. The mechanic should feel extremely competent in their chosen area of expertise (instead of being constantly one-upped in the skill department by everyone else).
2. The technomancer, by being able to monkey with gameplay assumptions nobody else is allowed to touch, should feel just a little bit like cheating.
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I just realized today that I won't be home when the playtest drops and now I'm sad because yeah it's great spending time with family and stuff BUT STARFINDER
Planning my lunchbreak tomorrow specifically around PDF drop time. The creativity of SF2's class design has really impressed me so far, jank be damned.
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Spent a good chunk of today wonder what the heck was taking so long.
It's Sunday, not Monday.
Time is an illusion, my good keftiu. Unfortunately, it is an illusion that has the Paizo staff fooled so we must still wait for hours yet.
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Anyone else spending their morning/noon refreshing the blog page?
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Ah, the curse of time zones.
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TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!! LOOK OUT FOR THE BLOG THIS MORNING!!You'd better not be secretly rolling a bluff check! :)Don't worry; Bluff isn't a thing in SF2E.
Though, Deception is...
Does that mean you can use bluff in 2e, but must succeed a Deception check to do so.
" I swear you can trust me, bluff is on page 78 of the Player Core, not let's get on with the game."
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Another survey update! The freeform answer has been added to both halves! If you've already completed your survey, you can either edit your responses by creating an account with Survey Monkey, or, if you don't want to do that, you can take the survey again by accessing the same link in a new browser or in incognito mode in the browser you used before. We're hoping this helps gather as much feedback as possible, and we're sorry for not including that free form section at launch! It's something we usually do, so we admit it just got forgotten this time around. Thank you for your patience!
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I am not a playtester but I want to point out a problem with Low Gravity and High Gravity. They are phrased as gravity types that don't exist in the Universe at all. Do moons and large super-earth planets no longer exist? Does artificial gravity no longer exist? This doesn't make sense.
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4. Through internal testing it was found that the tech in Technomancer was sufficiently advanced enough to roll back around to it being a magicmancer, or a wizardwizard, or a wizard^2, so they had to go back to an earlier version where it was just a wizard with a phaser to maintain the fantasy.
I'd just like to point out that... they kind of did this.
All the "tech" in technomancer was loaded into their spells, except for the one overclock they get to interact with a tech item, like a gun.
It's an Experimental Spellshaping Wizard with a gun.
The prophecy