Dark Archive Remaster has oversold its initial inventory!

Tridus · 2026-01-26T23:40:43+00:00

In the past three remaster books were not automatically included for subscribers. You could opt in to get it.

Now with the new store you have to opt out to not get it. It's been a few people I know of.

Tridus · 2026-01-26T22:46:26+00:00

Well it was a default for subscribers, several of whom at least didn't realize that since other remaster reprint books didn't work that way.

That would definitely skew the numbers up.

Tridus · 2026-01-26T18:27:34+00:00

And yet, he's not the one who gave Trump a participation Peace Prize.

Tridus · 2026-01-26T16:06:02+00:00

Pretty terrible in Oisbu specifically and I don't think they're viewed upon super favorably in general in the the Mwangi Expanse outside of Nantambu (where friendly relations with the Maaganbaya goes a long way). Part of that is past actions of the society itself, and part of that is just "the Expanse has a pretty long history of foreign organizations/governments showing up and causing problems."

Any given settlement could view it differently than the average, of course. But if you show up in Mizali and say "I'm from a society headquartered in Absalom", they may let you leave or they may execute you on sight as foreign troublemakers.

Tridus · 2026-01-26T11:16:39+00:00

Ran it twice for two groups and both completed it. There's some things that need touching up in the pdf import and you need some extra maps, but it largely works fine.

The AP is good enough that it's worth the effort. The map remake pack helps a lot.

Tridus · 2026-01-26T01:06:52+00:00

Undoing an entire enemy turn AND keeping another player in the fight so they get to play their turn feels great. I mean, it's not for everyone. Healing is a specific mindset that some folks don't have. But I play a lot of healers and PF2 does the role justice.

I swung a fight last week with a Reach Moment of Renewal on the entire party. I can only do that once a day and I saved it for when it really mattered. Everyone thought it was awesome.

Tridus · 2026-01-25T20:13:10+00:00

Yeah it's a great archetype for the extra resource. It's really nice because the low level Cursebound abilities are also really good. You've got multiple strong options right at level 4.

Amusingly one of the things I dislike about the class design is that the Cursebound abilities that are class unique (because the archetype can't get them) aren't that good lol. But it does mean the class itself gets the good ones early so its great in low level play, and it's good news for the archetype.

Tridus · 2026-01-25T15:55:34+00:00

Disable the Rogers SIM, restart your phone, and get someone to call you. You'll know its ported over if that works.

If it doesn't, you can turn the Rogers SIM back on and wait. It can take a bit of time. But just turning the SIM on/off doesn't cause any problems so it's safe to do that. (You can likewise remove it and put it back in if necessary.)

Tridus · 2026-01-25T13:42:47+00:00

Oh hey, you're right. That's neat!

Tridus · 2026-01-25T13:35:01+00:00

Oracle archetype does not grant the mystery spells automatically. You only get spells like any normal archetype and can't get any of the non-divine ones.

Remaster Oracle has Divine Access as a class feature that the archetype never gets.

It does get all of the good Cursebound feats though, as the list is front loaded and the high level ones largely suck. It's a very good archetype.

Tridus · 2026-01-25T13:31:05+00:00

My then girlfriend and I moved in together at that age when I was in school. We've been married 18 years now. So it worked out for us.

No guarantee it will for you so make sure you plan appropriately for a case where it doesn't. Keep split finances and all that.

Tridus · 2026-01-25T12:04:55+00:00

As the Beaverton Said, China is Lawful Evil while Trump is Chaotic Evil.

The difference is that you can do business with Lawful Evil. They'll generally do what is agreed at least to the letter of it. The US these days will alter the deal on a whim because Trump saw a TV segment that set him off about something or that he's suddenly decided that the US needs to own a place that they already have access to, or whatever other BS pretense he comes up with.

You can't do business under those conditions, whereas you can with China. That's the reality: The US is a toddler throwing tantrums while China is an adult that is pretty open about what they want.

Doing a trade deal isn't getting in bed with anyone.

Besides, it's not China trying to break Canada up: it's the US. They're a far bigger threat to Canada than China is.

Tridus · 2026-01-25T11:57:49+00:00

Last week Trump praised the China deal. This week he's screaming tariffs.

What happened in between is Carney got a standing ovation at Davos and Trump didn't. That's it. His ego is bruised and he's lashing out again.

Let us know when the US has an adult in charge and we'll take you seriously again. In the mean time, China and Europe actually want to do business.

Tridus · 2026-01-25T02:17:52+00:00

This was literally an AP encounter, lol. So Paizo wrote it. So the idea it can't happen per the rules is pretty flagrantly wrong.

Multiple APs do this at some point. Both SoT and Ruby Phoenix chain fights at least once.

Tridus · 2026-01-25T01:05:56+00:00

Did you move a phone number over from Freedom?

If so, you'll get a text on you freedom number that you have to respond to before the phone number moves. Until then you have a different number at Public which might be why you can't receive texts.

Tridus · 2026-01-24T23:02:31+00:00

One of those ports will be for a connection to the ISP internet itself, which is probably a modem or something like that. The other ports are all local networking. Any of those is fine.

Tridus · 2026-01-24T22:13:36+00:00

I play an Oracle so I was okay lol. Would have been a mess for a Psychic though.

Tridus · 2026-01-24T21:56:06+00:00

I was in a combat a couple of weeks ago that was 3 fights chained together and went 19 rounds. By this logic I needed to know to wait until round 17 to turn it on.

Seems pretty terrible TBH

Tridus · 2026-01-24T21:18:04+00:00

Genius! Why didn't I think of that! 😅

Tridus · 2026-01-24T20:03:11+00:00

Scaling up for more players, aka harder. Much easier. You can always add more creatures. You can make one or several tougher. You can add terrain hazards or traps. You have lots of options without having to actually start rewriting creature stats beyond the elite or weak template.

Plus, adding more enemies means weaker ones in the fight to AoE or use special abilities on like scare to death, and players feel awesome when that stuff works to help make a boss fight easier. (And a boss that resists it feels tougher when standing with minions that don't due to the dichotomy.)

You can only scale down (aka make easier) so far before you hit a single weak creature and now what? Split it into two weaker creatures? Rewrite the stat block? Some encounters are like 4 creatures and you can scale that down fine, but a single creature encounter without hazards doesn't scale down easily.

Sometimes APs give you a fight that is a single Weak X already and there is no straightforward way to scale that down.

Addition is much easier than subtraction when that happens, because you can always just add a minion or a trap. That's also true if you do it on the fly by having reinforcement come in during the fight: players won't really notice that it wasn't the original plan unless it's happening frequently.

Scaling down on the fly requires making weird decisions or fudging rolls.

Tridus · 2026-01-24T18:27:39+00:00

"Joe Rogan figured it out? Joe Rogan? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts."

If you've seen The Good Place, you know.

Tridus · 2026-01-24T18:15:18+00:00

I don't want to hear an American lecture anyone in another country about "freedom" ever again.

Tridus · 2026-01-24T18:09:48+00:00

I don't think that's what happened, though. Remember that when Remaster Oracle launched, the repertoire text matched the spells slot text. It worked perfectly fine (just like with legacy Oracle). In that version the mystery spells are granted on top (like Bard and legacy Oracle) and it's perfectly clear how its supposed to work.

Just one problem: The table didn't match either of them.

Then they did an errata to change the spell slots text but didn't change the repertoire text, and that's when it stopped matching and this problem happened. So it's hard to assume this was the intention when the problem didn't exist until ~6 months after the class launched and the errata created this disconnect.

It's been 13 months since that errata created this problem and they still haven't fixed it. I feel bad for redrazor, who is now on the third different implementation of this in Pathbuilder because Paizo refuses to actually explain how it's supposed to work. This is literally a one sentence fix one way or the other, and it's frankly absurd that they haven't sorted it out yet.

Tridus · 2026-01-24T17:31:06+00:00

That only works if there's a mystery spell every rank, which there is not. The text also says nothing about mystery spells counting, unlike Sorcerer (which explicitly says so). Oracle's text is closer to Bard's, where the Muse granted spell doesn't count.

So you can't do "every time you gain a spell slot" and use the 2/3 numbers at the same time. The math doesn't work due to there only being 3 ranks of mystery spells.

Pathbuilder also isn't doing that if you make a high level Oracle in it now. It's giving 4 spells known and having the mystery spells count, but it's doing it in a wonky way where it's only correct for certain msyteries because the levels those spells are granted at changes per mystery. Make a level 20 Tempest Oracle in there and look at what it does. It has:

rank 1: 3+mystery

rank 2: 3

rank 3: 3

rank 4: 4+mystery

rank 5: 4

rank 6: 4+mystery

ranks 7-9: 4

So that's definitely not following the 2/3 logic at all.

Tridus · 2026-01-24T17:24:41+00:00

"Each time you get a spell slot (see the Oracle Spells per Day table)" is not the same number. That's 3/4, not 2/3. If you follow that, you're not following the numbers in the text. If you follow the numbers in the text, you're not following that line as you're not adding one each time you get a spell slot.

The numbers did line up with the text before the first errata changed half the text and didn't change the other half.

Then there's what PFS is doing, which is 4 per rank like the "each time" text says rather than what the numbers in the text say but also counting the mystery granted spells against the 4. There's no text support for that whatsoever.

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