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Greetings!
Hope everyone is doing well.
Wondering if there are plans to release an updated version of the 9th Case File for the Remaster?
I checked and noticed the only version available for download is the original version still under OGL.
Thanks
I too am curious about this.
My (admittedly unexpert) understanding of this is that while Errata and updates to the book's text can be done through the FAQ page or to the master documents and SRD (that things like Pathbuilder2e, and Foundry pull from), doing that doesn't involve changing the page layouts and word counts of the printed books.
And since the pdf is basically a clone of the printed book (a bit of chicken and egg question on which one is copying the other), then the work needed to create an updated pdf is the same work needed to create an updated printed book. And in either case, that work is going to be scheduled for the next print run of Dark Archives.
So the short story is that the online versions of the rules such as Archives of Nethys and Foundry and such will update sooner, and the printed book and the pdf will update later and at the same time.
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When Dark Archive came out, Paizo had an ARG with the reward being an additional 9th adventure. If you go to the store page for the PDF of Dark Archive you can find the ARG and the link to the adventure PDF.
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Interesting. So this pdf may or may not exist.
But in either case, I'm still thinking that if it is going to be updated for Remaster, the pdf will get updated at the same time as the printed version (if such a print version exists), and will most likely be later than the online versions of the data get updated.
Or it may not be updated at all. Not everything will be. I'm not expecting Age of Ashes, Extinction Curse, or Fall of Plaguestone to get a Remaster reprint.
This is a PDF for which there is no printed equivalent. It's just a little standalone PDF adventure that was released that ties in to the Dark Archive adventures. Basically a web supplement.
It would certainly be nice to see it remastered, it feels weird that the book is remastered but its web supplement isn't.
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This is a PDF for which there is no printed equivalent. It's just a little standalone PDF adventure that was released that ties in to the Dark Archive adventures. Basically a web supplement.
It would certainly be nice to see it remastered, it feels weird that the book is remastered but its web supplement isn't.
A pdf is actually much closer in pre-release workload to a printed book than to a web supplement.
I do not expect this adventure to be Remastered for free.
When Dark Archive came out, Paizo had an ARG with the reward being an additional 9th adventure. If you go to the store page for the PDF of Dark Archive you can find the ARG and the link to the adventure PDF.
ARG? I'm not familiar with that acronym.
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Interesting. So this pdf may or may not exist.
But in either case, I'm still thinking that if it is going to be updated for Remaster, the pdf will get updated at the same time as the printed version (if such a print version exists), and will most likely be later than the online versions of the data get updated.
Or it may not be updated at all. Not everything will be. I'm not expecting Age of Ashes, Extinction Curse, or Fall of Plaguestone to get a Remaster reprint.
The PDF absolutely exists. You don't even have to solve the ARG anymore to find it, its linked on the Dark Archive PDF store page. The OP was asking since Dark Archive was Remastered, and this went along with that.
When Dark Archive came out, Paizo had an ARG with the reward being an additional 9th adventure. If you go to the store page for the PDF of Dark Archive you can find the ARG and the link to the adventure PDF.ARG? I'm not familiar with that acronym.
ARG stands for Alternative Reality Game. Most of them tend to be a series of clues and puzzles hidden in media put out on the internet where the solutions led to more puzzles to solve. They're often a marketing tool, so a lot of times the end solution was a secret trailer or some other tie-in. I think they were biggest about 20 years ago; the most famous ARGs were marketing for Halo 2 and the Dark Knight.
In this case for Dark Archive, there were "pages" from the Dark Archive in people's downloads and Paizo's youtube channel that had puzzles, and when you solved the last one it had a link to the 9th Adventure the OP is talking about. The pages are here if you're curious.
Thank you for the explanation.
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We're working on getting the Remastered PDF added to the store page now, everyone! Hang tight while we do it, but thank you for pointing out it was missing!Thank you!
Sometimes it's nice being wrong :)
You're welcome! I'll let you know when I see that it's up!
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This is a PDF for which there is no printed equivalent. It's just a little standalone PDF adventure that was released that ties in to the Dark Archive adventures. Basically a web supplement.
It would certainly be nice to see it remastered, it feels weird that the book is remastered but its web supplement isn't.
A pdf is actually much closer in pre-release workload to a printed book than to a web supplement.
I do not expect this adventure to be Remastered for free.
Paizo has consistently used the term 'web supplement' to describe the free PDF downloads that add on to another book, as far back as the free PDF that went along with Rise of the Runelords #5 to as recently as the one that accompanies Lost Omens Divine Mysteries, hence that being the term I used.
And thank you Maya, that's great news!
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The updated files are here! You can find them on the PDF page! Thank you everyone for waiting!
FYI, the link in the remastered Dark Archive at the end still gets blocked.