Concerns with editing, playtesting, and overall quality control.


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Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

Lately, I've been noticing a lot of errors/issues in some of the more recent books/remasters and it's gotten to the point where I now feel compelled to say something.

I'm used to the typical Paizo problems. My groups been playing pf1e and pf2e for a long time. We've experienced just about everything, from caravan combat to circus performances. I'm used to poorly designed campaign mechanics and unbalanced encounters, but this last campaign we just went through had errors that went beyond just bad game design.

We just finished Triumph of the Tusk and the second book was a nightmare. Littered with inconsistencies, mixing up characters, conflicting information, typos... Which A) made it a pain to GM and B) raised concerns about the direction Paizo is going. What made me even more upset is that when I looked into these errors with that particular book, someone had already highlighted every single major discrepancy in the book, months prior, with no reply or acknowledgement from the staff. It wasn't fixed by the time I played through it, and something tells me it still isn't fixed.

These errors in the Triumph of the Tusk and the errors present in Treasure Vault remastered, are concerning. It gives the impression that the company is rushing releases and not allowing time for proper editing and playtesting.

I love Pathfinder. I've loved Pathfinder for the last decade. I will continue to love Pathfinder, but Pazio needs to get its act together.

I implore Paizo to do a better job at editing and playtesting with their future releases. I look forward to the next string of pathfinder products and hope that the deficiencies plaguing Pathfinder 2e are soon a thing of the past.

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