Archive of Nethys has a new GM prep tool for printing stat blocks

[Driftbourne]

See, site update on AoN.

It allows you to select the level and Challenge points, then prints all the stat blocks from a Scenario in a printer-friendly format at once. Currently, only PF2e season 7 with SF2e on the way.

[bugleyman]

That's a great feature.

Sad that it came to this, but still a great feature.

[Driftbourne]

I've tested it a few times, and it also conveniently separates each encounter to a separate page. (may take more than one page depending on font size for an encounter with multiple stat blocks.) You can also choose between 2 columns or no columns, and the font size can be changed from 50% to 100% in 10% increments.

[Darrell Impey UK]

If it's going the way of SFS as of January, aren't Challenge Points on the way out anyway?

[Driftbourne]

Starfinder 2e is getting the same type of tool; I have no idea if it will be identical to the PF2e version. The tool is only for PF2e season 7 and forward, and Sf2e season 1 and forward, so backward compatibility is not an issue. I'm not sure what changes are coming for PF2e or not.

[Darrell Impey UK]

Store blog post, Nov 18th 2025.

"Beginning in January of 2026, we will release two Pathfinder Society scenarios per month. These scenarios will be 2–3 hours in length with one band of levels, such as levels 1–2 or 3–4. Each scenario will still award 4 XP, 10 Treasure Bundles, and 4 Reputation with a faction. We will also no longer use Challenge Points"

[Driftbourne]

I'm guessing the older scenarios with challenge points will still need them, while new ones won't use them. Since the new tool is by scenaro, I'm guessing the tool will be adjusted according to the needs of the scenario.

[Squark]

Darrell Impey UK wrote:

Store blog post, Nov 18th 2025.

"Beginning in January of 2026, we will release two Pathfinder Society scenarios per month. These scenarios will be 2–3 hours in length with one band of levels, such as levels 1–2 or 3–4. Each scenario will still award 4 XP, 10 Treasure Bundles, and 4 Reputation with a faction. We will also no longer use Challenge Points"

The new format will have three encounters of easy/normal/hard difficulty, corresponding to 8/12/16-18 Challenge Points.

However, these features will still be *very* useful for providing stat blocks in an easy to read space, as this year's scenarios do not list the stat block for anything from a Bestiary/Monster Core/Alien Core. Hopefully they will also automatically apply the weak/elite templates.

[bugleyman]

This feature addresses a huge void in the PFS prep space come January. Here's hoping they're able to stick with it for future seasons.

[Super Zero]

Squark wrote:

Hopefully they will also automatically apply the weak/elite templates.

AoN already has that feature. There's a button near the top of any monster stat block.

[Squark]

Super Zero wrote:

Squark wrote:

Hopefully they will also automatically apply the weak/elite templates.

AoN already has that feature. There's a button near the top of any monster stat block.

... yes. But in the context of this thread, I had hoped it was clear I was expressing frustration about the scaling in SF2 scenarios is usually something like

Easy: Apply the weak template to this enemy
Hard: Add x enemies and apply the elite template to that enemy

And it's really annoying that the scenarios expect the GM to either do this in their head or copy and paste the stat blocks into a word processor and change them ourselves. It would be great if these statblocks were easily accessible.

[Driftbourne]

Super Zero wrote:

Squark wrote:

Hopefully they will also automatically apply the weak/elite templates.

AoN already has that feature. There's a button near the top of any monster stat block.

This is different; the new tool does that for an entire scenario all at once, and turns it into a single printer-friendly PDF.

Encounters for PFS Scenario #7-01: .