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What mysteries will enfold by way of the clockwork compass? Embark on new adventures in Pathfinder Society Year 8, starting with today's blog!
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Clock works? uh yeah, i sure hope it does!
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My big takeaways?
1. All scenarios will become repeatable? WHOA, that's HUGE. It will be much easier to fill tables if we don't have to weigh the (not insignificant) cost of replays vs. other things we want to spend our AcP on. (In my case, another rare ancestry or two.)
2. Returning to full stat blocks in the scenarios? THANK YOU! I don't think I know a single GM who liked the change away from that.
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As of the release of the Year 8 intro scenario, all of our scenarios and quests will be repeatable! This will apply retroactively to all previous scenarios as well.
Additionally, it is with great excitement that I can announce that we are returning to printing full stat blocks in our scenarios! Full stat blocks will be printed alphabetically in the back of our scenarios.
--> Insert Kermit the Frog flailing about happily meme <--
Venture-Agent, North Carolina—Asheville
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Definitely a great thing to hear all around! Full repeatability will let us run more tables easily, and full statblocks will make it easier on newer GMs who many not have copies of random Bestiaries or Alien Cores.
Are there plans to update the 2e Scenarios that didn't have full stat blocks?
Venture-Lieutenant, Georgia—Atlanta
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Repeatable scenarios AND full stat blocks are back?! Shay, you just made our us happy. The fact that it applies retroactively too means our whole library just got a massive upgrade overnight.
Not having to spend it hard-earned ACP deciding if we wanted to replay a scenario is great. Like it had been said above, It will certainly help fill the tables easier.
Full stat blocks is great news. It was not bad, but a little bit of hassle at times and could run the continuity and flow if you didn't have it right in front of you.
The scenario is a one stop shop again. Love it!
Year 8 looks to be exciting and I'm looking forward to it.
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Repeatable scenarios AND full stat blocks are back?! Shay, you just made our us happy. The fact that it applies retroactively too means our whole library just got a massive upgrade overnight.
Not having to spend it hard-earned ACP deciding if we wanted to replay a scenario is great. Like it had been said above, It will certainly help fill the tables easier.
Full stat blocks is great news. It was not bad, but a little bit of hassle at times and could run the continuity and flow if you didn't have it right in front of you.
The scenario is a one stop shop again. Love it!
Year 8 looks to be exciting and I'm looking forward to it.
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We're so glad this made you happy!!!
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Venture-Agent, New Hampshire—Nashua
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I have two thoughts.
1. What the heck is that big ol' sack of aeon stones in front of Sorrina's desk? Are those all burnt out? Is that the equivalent of a little bowl of candies on the desk for agents? Does she just accessorize her outfit with a different aeon stone look each morning out of all that?
2. Humble request to please please PUH-LEASE make these new season 8 PFS2 "Repeatable" scenarios with the variations we PFS GMs are familiar with from other scenarios with the 'Repeatable' tag.
Like, for example I think it's great that all SFS2 scenarios are repeatable, but there isn't any variation in the scenarios or story themselves to give them the "replayability" (to borrow a video game term here) that previous seasons scenarios with the 'Repeatable' tag have had.*
Super jazzed for Season 8, since it looks like this'll be featuring my favorite Dean!
*my little store in my little corner of my PFS region has only had enough interest for about one SFS2 game a month, so as of this post I've only read and run things up to and including SFS2 1-09. For all I know this issue is alleviated in later scenarios(?)
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Extremely pleasantly surprised to see the retroactive replayable tag for PFS2E. I was hoping to see at least a change to all-repeatable scenarios moving forward if Society was going to stick with the new two-level format for scenarios, so that I didn't feel like I wanted to pass on a scenario because the character I would want to play it as isn't at the right level for it yet. The retroactive part of it also means as someone who came into Society in the middle of Season 5 (or 4? I forget), when I GM, I don't have to worry as much about whether the table full of mostly-veteran players have already done a scenario; if I think it looks cool/fun, I can run it, and people get credit for it. There's a lot of the backlog from years past that I think looks really cool that I've never gone into before and I'm excited to run, in addition to the newer stuff!
Also, the Year of Clockwork Mystery...how exciting! I love the occasional sprinkling of strange, anachronistic stuff into Golarion's setting, like clockwork and broken-down timeworn Numerian tech, so an overarching plot about piece of ancient clockwork with an unknown function and purpose sounds super fun and interesting!
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The retroactive part of it also means as someone who came into Society in the middle of Season 5 (or 4? I forget), when I GM, I don't have to worry as much about whether the table full of mostly-veteran players have already done a scenario; if I think it looks cool/fun, I can run it, and people get credit for it.
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Now the only "HW assignment" is chronicles.
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Whilst I can definitely see the appeal of going fully-repeatable (and the new season *very much* sounds interesting!), paradoxically, it actually reduces the push for me to participate in scenarios - attempting to 'complete the set' and plan out which scenarios to play with what characters is much less relevant now (to me, at least) that I can just do any scenario pretty much at any time (as an aside, this same issue is part of the reason I lost interest in some of the other OrgPlay campaigns out there).
For example, I will no longer bother to get up at 0400 to play games at online cons, as there is no longer as much of an incentive to do so.
That said, I can certainly see that it (going fully-repeatable) will generate a lot of joy in many other quarters, so I'll just be over in my own corner grumbling and being a bit of a curmudgeon ;-)
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Wait.
Every Scenario and Quest, even from Season 1/2/3/4/5/6/7, even if it wasn't repeatable before, will become repeatable?
Like, beginning in a couple months, ALL of PF2 is repeatable?
Did I read that right?
You read that right! All of Pathfinder Society Second Edition is repeatable!
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Whilst I can definitely see the appeal of going fully-repeatable (and the new season *very much* sounds interesting!), paradoxically, it actually reduces the push for me to participate in scenarios - attempting to 'complete the set' and plan out which scenarios to play with what characters is much less relevant now (to me, at least) that I can just do any scenario pretty much at any time (as an aside, this same issue is part of the reason I lost interest in some of the other OrgPlay campaigns out there).
For example, I will no longer bother to get up at 0400 to play games at online cons, as there is no longer as much of an incentive to do so.
That said, I can certainly see that it (going fully-repeatable) will generate a lot of joy in many other quarters, so I'll just be over in my own corner grumbling and being a bit of a curmudgeon ;-)
Thank you for this feedback too, Luke!!
