Paizo News: Organized Play & Humble Bundle Partnership

With all of the news of ORC and OGL, interest in Pathfinder has surged, leading to reprints and waits for the physical books. If you don't mind PDFs, Paizo has partnered with Humble Bundle to create a huge deal to help you play Pathfinder while helping a great cause.

With all of the news of ORC and OGL, interest in Pathfinder has surged, leading to reprints and waits for the physical books. If you don't mind PDFs, Paizo has partnered with Humble Bundle to create a huge deal to help you play Pathfinder while helping a great cause.

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Paizo just announced that they are partnering with Humble Bundle to bring three tiers of goodies ranging from $5 to $25. One of the great things with Humble Bundle is a portion of the proceeds go to charity. This collaboration will see a portion of the proceeds going to Code for America, a group that works with community and government organizations to build digital resources to help effect societal changes.

Backing at the $5 tier gets you seven PDFs that are worth over $100: Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box, Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook, Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary, Pathfinder Character Sheet Pack, Pathfinder Player Character Pawn Collection, Pathfinder Lost Omens World Guide, and Pathfinder One-Shot #1: Sundered Waves.

The $15 tier will get you all of the previous PDFs as well as 11 more: Pathfinder Bestiary 2, Pathfinder Lost Omens Character Guide, Pathfinder Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, Pathfinder Adventure: Troubles in Otari, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Troubles in Otari, Pathfinder Society Intro #1: The Second Confirmation, Pathfinder Society Intro #2: United in Purpose, Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Ancient Dungeon, Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Swamp, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: City Sites Multipack (also in JPG), and Pathfinder Adventure: Little Trouble in Big Absalom.

Finally, the $25 tier give you all the PDFs from the previous tiers plus: Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults (both the PDF and Foundry VTT), Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic, Pathfinder: Gamemastery Guide, Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults Pawn Collection, Pathfinder: Gamemastery Guide Pawn Collection, Pathfinder Society Intro: Year of Boundless Wonder, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Arcane Library, Pathfinder Pawns: Traps & Treasures Pawn Collection, and Pathfinder Adventure: A Fistful of Flowers.

If you were looking to get into Pathfinder or just rounding out your collection, now is the time to do it while supporting a great cause!

In addition to the exciting Humble Bundle news, there were also a few things to note in Organized Play. Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-09: Killer in the Golden Mask, Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-10: Arclord's Abode, Starfinder Society Scenario #5-14: Ghost Level Delve, and Starfinder Bounty #7: Voyage on the River Between will be available digitally on February 22.

In honor of the ORC License, orcs are now a freely available player ancestry in both Pathfinder and Starfinder Society. If you've previously purchased the boon in Pathfinder, you will get a free resurrection. In Starfinder Society, previously-created orcs may use their boon t gain a +2 to any one stat. If you made your character in January before the change, you may request a refund of your Achievement Points.

Changes have been made to dragonkin partner bonds. You may select another player's character to form your partner bond with. Just mark down their Organized Play number on your character sheet. If they are permanently slain, you can select a new partner. You may choose to not form a bond at character creation or select one later.

Starfinder Society 1-99: The Scoured Stars Invasion is now available to be played or GMed twice, once in each level range.

In sanctioning news, Fists of the Ruby Phoenix is now sanctioned with work being underway to sanction Treasure Vault. There are new boons to spend your Achievement Points on from the Age of Ashes Adventure Path, including some that haven't been printed in other rulebooks. The Beginner Box is now sanctioned fully in campaign mode, which means you can bring in any character the GM permits even if they aren't built using the Beginner Box rules.
 

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Gonna buy this. I’ve already got physical copies of a lot of this stuff, but $33 CAD for digital copies is still a fantastic deal (so I can read adventures on my phone).
 

Retreater

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Gonna buy this. I’ve already got physical copies of a lot of this stuff, but $33 CAD for digital copies is still a fantastic deal (so I can read adventures on my phone).
Yeah, I had much of it, but didn't have the single volume Abomination Vaults or Foundry module - which is worth the cost of the bundle alone.
I loaded it just to see an official module on Foundry. The presentation and bells and whistles blows away any VTT experience I've seen.
 

Yes, it does! (To my immense satisfaction.)
Also, they just got Pathbuilder import working again for Foundry. Make your character in Pathbuilder and send it to Foundry. It works great.
The fan content for Foundry is impressive and appreciated.
And though i have never used it, I read recently that the PDF import utility for Foundry works again with PF2.
Glad this was mentioned, I didn't know it existed! I wanted to import Troubles in Otari, but the best I could find is someone made the maps. A quick search for the PDF importer and I was able to import the PDF I bought from Paizo which took care of the NPCs and journal entries. Thanks!
 

There's a promo running until February 18th on Paizo's site for the Starfinder Beginner Box or Core Rulebook to get 25% off with promo code OPENGAMING. The same promo code will get you a free PDF of the Pact Worlds book, no purchase necessary to get the discount.

Shipping is pretty steep on the Beginner Box, $18 for me. I'm curious about Starfinder though so grabbed the Pact Worlds book to check out how the material is presented before I buy anything else.
 

Steel_Wind

Legend
There's a promo running until February 18th on Paizo's site for the Starfinder Beginner Box or Core Rulebook to get 25% off with promo code OPENGAMING. The same promo code will get you a free PDF of the Pact Worlds book, no purchase necessary to get the discount.

Shipping is pretty steep on the Beginner Box, $18 for me. I'm curious about Starfinder though so grabbed the Pact Worlds book to check out how the material is presented before I buy anything else.
Starfinder is one of those things where the Starfinder Organized Play Scenarios for the game are really good. Thursty did a great job with them. There is plenty to work from from in the SFS to stitch together a campaign without difficulty -- and homebrew as you may prefer within those boundaries that you choose.

Generally? Plan to avoid starship combat; it just doesn't work all that well. The rest is A-1.
 

Reynard

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Starfinder is one of those things where the Starfinder Organized Play Scenarios for the game are really good. Thursty did a great job with them. There is plenty to work from from in the SFS to stitch together a campaign without difficulty -- and homebrew as you may prefer within those boundaries that you choose.

Generally? Plan to avoid starship combat; it just doesn't work all that well. The rest is A-1.
I'll just make a counter point that I have had a lot of success with Starship combat and the rules as presented in Starship Operations Manual make it even better.
 


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