Important Highlights

New Content

• PF2 - Lost Omens Firebrands is now available! Purchase Now
• PF2 - Dreamers of the Nameless Spires, the 3rd issue of the Gatewalkers AP, is now available! Purchase Now

Game Mechanics

• PF2 - If something made you trained in a subset of weapons, like Archer Dedication making you trained in simple or martial bows, those weapons would not display as trained in the purchase window if it was your only source of training in those weapons.
• PF2 - If something made you treat a subset of weapons as simple instead of martial or martial instead of advanced, and you were trained in the new group and the source was not most ancestry feats that did this, those weapons would not display as trained in the purchase window.
• PF2 - The weapon proficiency lists should now report more comprehensive information.

Vault Viewer Changes and Improvements (2023-03-30)

• Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide and Treasure Vault are now available in the Vault Viewer! Purchase Now
• Numerous refinements to the previous vault content, including presentation, formatting, indexing, and linking.

Patches

• Patch 2023-03-30
• Patch 2023-04-06
• Patch 2023-04-07
• Patch 2023-04-11
• Patch 2023-04-14

The Nitty Gritty

Bug Fixes

• All games - some characters could get into a state where minions could not be activated
• PF2 - Circumstance bonuses to ranged attack and damage rolls were stacking.
• PF2 - The dwarf elemental heart heritage's Energy Emanation ability was not calculating its DC correctly.
• PF2 - The gnome's Natural Performer feat was not allowing an alternate skill selection if Performance was already trained.
• PF2 - The lizardfolk's Sharp Fangs feat did not have a damage type set for its fangs attack.
• PF2 - The champion's Blade of Justice feat was only adding damage dice to melee weapons.
• PF2 - The champion's Blade of Justice feat didn't have an activation to convert weapon damage to good.
• PF2 - The paladin and antipaladin champions' Divine Smites weren't listing their persistent damage as part of their Strikes' effects.
• PF2 - A cleric with the flexible spellcasting class archetype was being prompted to select a cantrip for their Divine Font.
• PF2 - The wizard's staff nexus thesis wasn't properly tracking spell slots expended for extra charges.
• PF2 - The Assassin Dedication's Mark for Death ability was adding too many deadly dice.
• PF2 - The dragon disciple archetype's Claws of the Dragon feat wasn't modifying the effects of the dragon claws focus spell.
• PF2 - The lich archetype's Spell Gem feat was not offering any spells to choose from.
• PF2 - The Arcane Sense feat was not having its detect magic displayed at the correct heightened level.
• PF2 - Shields with special materials were not always displaying the correct hardness, HP, and BT.
• PF2 - Items with Cast a Spell activations will now display a warning message before they are purchased for characters who can't cast spells or have the Trick Magic Item feat.
• PF2 - The haunting hymn spell wasn't calculating its damage correctly when heightened.
• PF2 - The wildfire focus spell was calculating its damage incorrectly.
• PF2 - Boons were not having their reputation level prerequisites fulfilled correctly.
• PF2 - A character's heritage wasn't listed on the printed character sheet.
• PF2 - When customizing an NPC, HP was being capped at 99.
• PF2 - Basic NPCs were able to add ancestries in addition to the generic ancestry they use, which would result in errors.
• PF1 - The Shikigami Style feat wasn't applying its effects.
• SF - The boost shield mechanic trick was enhancing the energy shield even when not activated.
• SF - The soldier's gloom gunner fighting style was adding the ominous fusion to weapons before the Shadow Fusion ability was gained.
• SF - The soldier's gloom gunner fighting style was displaying inaccurate DCs for the ominous fusion's critical effect.
• SF - Alternate racial traits were replacing abilities from sources other than the race.
• SF - The pahtra's Talented ability was not allowing the selection of a custom Profession.
• SF - The description of the Periastra Training feat has been updated.
• SF - Strength from worn power armor was fulfilling feat prerequisites.
• SF - Weapon accessories were not correctly adding Bulk to the weapon they were added to.
• SF - Weapons with the disarm and trip traits were not adding their bonuses to disarm and trip while equipped.
• SF - While an operative weapon is equipped, Dex will now be used in place of Str for combat maneuvers if it would result in a better modifier.
• SF - Individual combat maneuvers were not being displayed on the Play tab if they have individual bonuses or penalties.
• SF - The Pale Stranger template graft was not having its prerequisite fulfilled by the Expert array.
• SF - Several summoned creature choices would not show useful text for their summaries.

Patch 2023-03-30

• When creating characters, added a "Choose Iconic Character" option, which presents a list iconic PCs and other pregenerated PCs to select from.
• Grouped all character creation/import options under a unified menu
• When the window is resized below the width where the navigation and side panels can both be pinned open, the side panel now auto-collapses instead of remaining overlaid.
• Vault Viewer - Fixed cases of definition menus being incorrectly organized, especially when definitions are spread across mutliple books.
• Vault Viewer - Fixed Advanced Search filters incorrectly excluding keyword results when using book filters
• Vault Viewer - Fixed the "Opening" link at the top of the book navigation panel not working

Patch 2023-04-06

• PF2 - The shadowdancer archetype's Shadow Magic feat wasn't adding a focus point.
• PF2 - Skill feats from archetypes were being displayed as choices in the Class Feats and Free Archetype Feats tables, when they should only be able to be taken from tables where skill feats are normally allowed.
• PF2 - Weapon traits were appearing the the Racial Abilities table of animal companions.
• PF2 - Runes that had a damage type prereq, such slashing for the vorpal rune, would not display as valid for weapons with the versatile or modular traits that allowed then to deal that damage type.
• PF2 - Bucklers made from special materials were being given the wrong hardness, HP, and break threshold.
• PF2 - Per designer clarification, when using your normal unarmed attack bonus while polymorphed into a battle form, that bonus should include item bonuses such as from handwraps of mighty blows.
• PF2 - NPCs were not increasing the die size of weapons with the two-handed trait when wielding them in two hands.
• PF2 - Creature adjustments that added a natural attack could not have that attack's damage customized.
• SF - The SRO race's datajack and comm unit couldn't be removed.
• SF - The homeworlds for races from Alien Archive 4 were missing.
• SF - Reconfigurable clothing has had modifications option added for purchase for all current clothing options.
• SF - The price of each reconfigurable clothing mod was including the base cost of reconfigurable clothing.
• PF1 - some abilities were being duplicated on the character

Patch 2023-04-07

• PF2 - The PFS restrictions for Lost Omens: Firebrands have been applied.
• PF2 - Recent updates to the PFS restrictions to several books have been applied.

Patch 2023-04-11

• PF2 - Ranged weapons weren't benefiting from item and potency bonuses.

Patch 2023-04-14

• PF2 - The proficiency bonus for class DC wasn't being calculated correctly.
• PF2 - The Weapon Proficiency feat was only granting proficiency in simple weapons.
• PF2 - Fixed an issue preventing a small number of PF2 characters from loading