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We're still doing the ol' "I'm still here" thing, eh?

I'm still here.

-Skeld

Hi! It's been a long time. Welcome back!

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Congrats!

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I expect we'll see a response from Paizo in the 13th, which is when I expect we'll see the final version release from WotC

I got my monthly AP authorization email a few minutes ago. Paizo might address it by not addressing it and continuing with business as usual.

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WotC paid ~$150M for D&D Beyond... They're going to try and force everything they can to that platform and can monetize content for whether they "own" it or not.

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I wonder if Paizo's recent about-face on errata has anything to do with this?

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It wouldn't be a D&D edition change without a bunch of unnecessary OGL drama.

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Have them fly to town and begin harassing the citizens of Otari. This will give your PCs a reason to spend a bit more time in and around town (possibly picking up other leads that are useful later on) and giving them a good lesson in unintended consequences. Lol.

I wouldn't have them kill anyone in town, but an couple attacks on civilians and maybe a injury or two might give them a sense of urgency. And if they continue to ignore the flies, there might be a maggot or two inhabiting the corpse of a dead farm animal later on.

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No, Captain!

But I completely understand and don't blame you one bit.

Let us know when you get your cancellation notice in a month or 2.

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Ok.

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I own all the original adventures in this book and I have no interest in a 2E conversion of this material...

BUT, I really would like the tighter storyline thread between adventures, some additional material, AND a greater emphasis on on breaking the seal since I'd like to run this before Tyrant's Grasp, so this might be something I pick up.

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I don't blame them. This place has gotten extremely toxic. I don't think it's worth trying to salvage at this point.

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The "buy a slave" option was debated as far back as Season 1 of PFS. It was in the players' guide as an option.

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Paizo has turned every campaign I run into a compiled hardcover couple months after I start it. Lol.

No new content, so pass.

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For years now, I've had a nice little side hustle reselling books and some other hobby-related stuff on Ebay and I cannot tell you how many times some jackhole has emailed me to tell me I shouldn't charge $3 for shipping because Amazon ships for free.

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$20 + $5 shipping => "This is an outrage!"

$25 + free shipping => "Cool, free shipping!"

People forget that it actually costs actual money to ship a thing from one place to another.

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Its been nearly three weeks since the last posting by UPW. I wonder what is going on?

If UPW also has a lawyer, they probably advised the to stop speaking publicly. That's usually the first thing lawyers do.

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If you're involved in litigation and you don't go out and hire the best* law firm you can afford that will put up the most vigorous defense of your position they ethically can, then you are being stupid. Once there's litigation, it becomes a bitter knife fight to the end. The entire point is to secure the best possible outcome for your client. Don't think for a second that the union's representation will do any less for them. It is by definition an adversarial process.

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*No representation is made that the legal services provided are greater to the legal services provided by any other firm.

Leg o' Lamb wrote:

Humor can be a lot like food; not everybody gets it.

Also like food it can do serious harm if not approached with care.

Live ordnance is the only thing I approach with care. It is, and will continue to be, "reckless abandon" for everything else.

-Skeld

Removed a baiting post regarding posting policies, posts equating like behaviour to stalking, personally harassing posts, and a few other posts that were spam.

You say "baiting," I say "snarky humor." Then again, I'm not the one with banning powers.

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Yes.

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I mean, yeah. But paizo still owns all the setting stuff that's IP and not part of an OGL. The game mechanics are nothing special; it's all about the setting.

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Paizo's position as a progressive social-justice minded company is smoke and mirrors.

Any company, selling you any product, that tells you how deeply, deeply concerned and committed they are to progressive social justice is lying. They are companies concerned with making money and those statements are a tactic to make you feel better about giving them your dollars.

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Sara Marie is terrific. Barring some sort of undisclosed malfeasance on her part — which I find very unlikely — firing her was *astonishingly* stupid.

I agree. Outside of anything egregious, this looks really bad.

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Hmmm, ok. Looks like I need to be a pathfinder on this conversion.

I've started putting maps in Roll20. I'll soon start building up the bad guy library (I usually rebuild all of the NPCs anyway). I'll take a look at treasure and DCs as well.

My group is about to wrap up CotCT, so I've got about a month before we'd start AV.

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Would it not be easier to just play it in 2e? Sorry if that's a silly question!

Of course! Why didn't I think of that?!

Here are some reasons:
*I don't really like 2e.
*Most of my group doesn't really like 2e.
*Me and most of my group aren't interested in buying all new books/PDFs/etc. or getting back on the supplement treadmill.
*I don't want to.

Your question wasn't silly, but your comment wasn't helpful.

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As the title suggests, I plan to run this in 1e. Has anyone done leg work on converting the AP?

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I'm still here for some reason.

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Stuff like this is a reason I don't use XP at all.

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I will begin this campaign pantsless.

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The thing about APs is that they aren't just adventures. They're also functional world-building, harkening back to the day with Pathfinder was nothing other than the AP. Since it's been a successful format, Paizo has (rightly) been hesitant to mess with it too much.

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Please stop posting in my thread. They resolve these threads based on the most recent post timestamp, so every new post moves me to the back of the queue. Create your own thread please; thank you.

This ain't your thread, bro.

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I used to think the CS here was great, but here they are not addressing the people in this thread who are having clear, fixable, recurring problems.

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Mine is still pending. And Yeah, I guess I didn't realize my order is also being split. I created a thread about it. I know orders get split if it is even 1 cent cheaper but it seems a bit off for mine to have split.

In my case, it's definitely not cheaper. I'm basically paying double. For no reason other than they haven't fixed the root problem. This is something like the 4th or 5th out of the last 6 monthly orders. Prior to that, my stuff always shipped together.

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Alright, Paizo. Let's hear how you're going to address all the extra shipping charges on the split orders. Refunds or store credits seem fair.

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It looks like my two items are also currently set to ship separately (order #36290795).

Same here. My PF and SF APs are shipping separately again. Please fix this.

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Joan H. wrote:

Hi Skeld,

Thanks so much for your patience and I apologize that you've had your books ship separately. This was a known issue that our team has been working on fixing. Some folks may see their order generate shipping in two packages, but have their books end up shipping in one. I went ahead and checked your order as soon as our auth finished for August and it looks like everything is back to standard. Moving forward, I'll keep an eye on your account to make sure your orders are shipping as expected however I anticipate that we shouldn't see your APs ship separately.

Thanks. I've been keeping an eye on it and everything looks ok for now. Just to be clear, I've had a few months lately (2020, go figure) where I did have two separate packages.

Thanks in advance for checking it going forward.

-Skeld

The auth for Order 36291241 is showing that it's shipping in 2 packages. I would prefer that it ship in one so that I'm not paying double for shipping. Again..

Thanks.
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Shackled City, Age of worms, and Savage Tide are all good APs.

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Paizo's playtests have always sucked, even going back to the original PF1 Alpha/Beta playtests. People generally equate "screaming loudest" to "my feedback will be accepted."

Nothing new here.

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Once again, my PF and SF APs are set to ship separately for no apparent reason.

Please fix this. It keeps happening month after month.

I asked you guys to fix it last month and you did! Then, when my order shipped, they shipped separately.

I made a separate thread about this last month, but no one has replied to it yet.

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David knott 242 wrote:

... there is no real way we can game the system to get an earlier shipment.

Wait a second, let me try something...

Boy, oh boy, does my old man have some explaining to do....

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Again this month my PF and SF APs have shipped in separate packages for no apparent reason. This doubles my S&H costs with no benefit to me.

This has happened 4 of the last 6 months. I caught it last month, complained in the shipping thread, and it was stealth fixed with no explanation. I appreciate that it was fixed, but I'd like to get this addressed such that I don't have to check every month.

Paizo's shipping has been reliable for me for the past 13 years and I'd like to see that reliability return.

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I'm a solid "meh."

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S&H cost is fixed in my order so yay.

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Inflation?

Nope. Something is up with my order. I can feel it.

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You didn't get ripped off. Here's what it probably is (like 99+% of the time) and what Leg o" Lanb meant by "hold."

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Regardless of canon, if my players ever need to know what Tar-Baphon looked like before he got liched, I'll show them a picture of Erik Mona.

Done.

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ryric wrote:

I remember reading somewhere that the split up shipping was "safer," but I don't recall an explanation for how or why. I'm hoping as things return to normal this too will revert because it's certainly an extra expense. If it's keeping warehouse employees safer I'm okay with it as a temporary measure.

I'm also curious about this.

I all fairness, I jokingly said that last month. Regardless, this is my third month of "APs that used to ship together that are split in two packages with separate shipping" and I'm ready for it to stop.

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If there's one thing the pandemic has excelled at, it's getting one half of the population to call the half of the population idiots for one reason or another (just depends on which half you "belong" to).

It's disheartening to see that continue here.

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