Pathfinder Rage of Elements

Is there a new character sheet out there somewhere for the Kineticist? I was thinking the Core Remaster Preview document would include one.

I doubt it. They stopped making sheets for classes after adv. Players guide and I tho k they said they wouldn't be doin anymore pregens or class sheets for other classes

The pdf currently says unavailable...when will it be available?

The pdf currently says unavailable...when will it be available?

Looks available to me currently, must've gone live on the hour.

The pdf currently says unavailable...when will it be available?

Also seems to be available to me.

What do you mean with "Magnus Prime"? Hrmpf.

Got the book which is nice, but yeah I do admit I do still miss alignment a bit, at least aps have removing it gradually since tomb of sky king still has it x'D Guess pfs might be forced to have it for longer unless they want to invalidate pre remaster options that use alignment

Pardon my ignorance, but wasn't the concept of alignments... kinda hated in recent years? I think the biggest problem is how there are now so many shades of grey that alignments just don't reflect enough anymore.

Whatever wider opinion is unrelated to my opinion xD

That and while I think I occasionally posted in alignment threads, I never saw big need to get defensive about alignment because I thought if it would be removed, it would be in like ten more years in PF3e x'D

This is a thread about Rage of Elements, not about alignment changes in Remaster.

Looking through it now. Its a bit disappointing that Kineticist doesnt get expert proficiency until 7th, making them quite a bit less accurate than other damage dealers. At least they get to Legendary, but it is very late in the day.

Looking through going to post any questions here.

Tremor deals 1d8 damage but scales with d10's. That seems...unusual. Is it intentional?

Just want to echo previous comments about the compression used for the pdf - it does not look great on a display.

It's disappointing to see so many jpeg artefacts, right from the cover onwards - there's great artwork here but it's been overzealously compressed, that I feel sorry for the artists. I hoped the individual chapter pdfs would be better, but it is the same issue.

It's below the standard I've come to expect from Paizo, and looks more like a pirated pdf than one I've just paid $20 for. Treasure Vault has a similar number of pages and looks fine. Can this really not be better compressed?

Otherwise, I'm very happy to finally have this and looking forward to trying out all the great content.

I also think the art is really good, but the quality of the images is just very disappointing. It's hard to properly appreciate the art considering how it almost looks blurry? I'm sure other people understand the technical side of things better than I do, but I do know it doesn't look good.

While alignment is not really necessary to run a monster under the currently existing rules, it is kinda important for deities since it's a large portion of the divine spell lists' damage and determines what champion subclasses you can play.
So... any chance someone at Paizo would be willing to share the pre-remaster alignment & follower alignments of the new wood & metal elemental lords so that we can actually play clerics & champions of them without having to wait 3/11 months and buy a whole different book?

Hopefully after GenCon Paizo can redo this PDF? The image quality is horrifically subpar. I don't care if the single file PDF is 100 or 200 MB; I want to appreciate the art! But instead I am so distracted by how bad it looks... Kind of a bummer since I'm so excited about this book!

Grasp of the Deep doesnt make much sense. Shouldnt the failure entry says full damage? Is the damage in the failure entry in addition to the 6d6 or just a reference to it?

I remember they were originally working on a Metal Druid, but I guess that didn't pan out?

Grasp of the Deep doesnt make much sense. Shouldnt the failure entry says full damage? Is the damage in the failure entry in addition to the 6d6 or just a reference to it?

My guess is that first sentence is supposed to be in the "success" entry, since it's basically the same. Failure stating that the target takes 6d6 damage (so full damage) corresponds to what is usually done.

I remember they were originally working on a Metal Druid, but I guess that didn't pan out?

They scrapped it after they decided to remove druid's metal anathema in the remaster making the metal druid archetype (I think?) feel less necessary. Might be an actual core druidic order in the remaster maybe.

Does anyone know where I can find the remaster summary document for rage of elements? Does anyone know if Sylphs, Ifrits, Undines and Oreads have been renamed?

Here you go! Ifrits are renamed (since that's now the names of the fire genies) but I think everyone else is the same.

And it came out on Roll20 as well, looking forward to some dwarfy Blast action in as that is what I'll be GMing next fairly soon!!

Good times

Tom

Just want to echo previous comments about the compression used for the pdf - it does not look great on a display.

It's disappointing to see so many jpeg artefacts, right from the cover onwards - there's great artwork here but it's been overzealously compressed, that I feel sorry for the artists. I hoped the individual chapter pdfs would be better, but it is the same issue.

It's below the standard I've come to expect from Paizo, and looks more like a pirated pdf than one I've just paid $20 for. Treasure Vault has a similar number of pages and looks fine. Can this really not be better compressed?

Otherwise, I'm very happy to finally have this and looking forward to trying out all the great content.

Another comment to echo and support this issue; I have also raised a ticket with Customer Service so that they can track it.

Hopefully we will see a "hi res" aka "normal" version released following Gencon.

Thrillington wrote:

Just want to echo previous comments about the compression used for the pdf - it does not look great on a display.

It's disappointing to see so many jpeg artefacts, right from the cover onwards - there's great artwork here but it's been overzealously compressed, that I feel sorry for the artists. I hoped the individual chapter pdfs would be better, but it is the same issue.

It's below the standard I've come to expect from Paizo, and looks more like a pirated pdf than one I've just paid $20 for. Treasure Vault has a similar number of pages and looks fine. Can this really not be better compressed?

Otherwise, I'm very happy to finally have this and looking forward to trying out all the great content.

Another comment to echo and support this issue; I have also raised a ticket with Customer Service so that they can track it.

Hopefully we will see a "hi res" aka "normal" version released following Gencon.

Good idea, I also sent in an email about this. Hopefully they see that this matters a lot to people - I for one would not keep buying pdfs on here if they are all going to be of this low quality going forward.

AJCarrington wrote:

Thrillington wrote:

Just want to echo previous comments about the compression used for the pdf - it does not look great on a display.

It's disappointing to see so many jpeg artefacts, right from the cover onwards - there's great artwork here but it's been overzealously compressed, that I feel sorry for the artists. I hoped the individual chapter pdfs would be better, but it is the same issue.

It's below the standard I've come to expect from Paizo, and looks more like a pirated pdf than one I've just paid $20 for. Treasure Vault has a similar number of pages and looks fine. Can this really not be better compressed?

Otherwise, I'm very happy to finally have this and looking forward to trying out all the great content.

Another comment to echo and support this issue; I have also raised a ticket with Customer Service so that they can track it.

Hopefully we will see a "hi res" aka "normal" version released following Gencon.

Good idea, I also sent in an email about this. Hopefully they see that this matters a lot to people - I for one would not keep buying pdfs on here if they are all going to be of this low quality going forward.

I may do the same. I don't consider myself a picky person or one who expects high quality, but the quality is *really* low even for my already low standards.

Wait, Lini isn't on the front cover? I thought she was, but it appears to be a generic man instead...

That “generic guy” is Yoon.

She is the Iconic Kineticist, the class in the book.

Just wanted to share the response from Customer Service regarding the PDF image quality in RoE. Good news is that they are working on a fix!

Thanks for writing in about this issue! At this time our art team is aware of this PDF image quality issue and that the compression in the zip file and file size it's self are what is mainly causing this and are actively working to get that pdf looking better for everyone in the future. We ask for your patience while that file is addressed as most departments are still getting back from gen-con atm thanks for your time and patience in this manner.

I got the same response too! Very pleased. :)

So it's been almost two weeks now, I just wanted to check in. Is there any word on a fix for the pdf?

Regarding the Pathfinder Rage of Elements PDF: on full screen (27"), nothing is pixelated or unreadable. We consider the product to be acceptable, but we'd like to better, if we can.

The constraint is the file size vs our current upload system. We had to run a second compression on it because, using our normal method, the original file is too big to be uploaded to our site. We are looking into getting a higher res version, that is also small enough to upload, but we don't know if or when that will happen.

Therefore, we have no immediate file update planned.

Regarding the Pathfinder Rage of Elements PDF: on full screen (27"), nothing is pixelated or unreadable. We consider the product to be acceptable, but we'd like to better, if we can.

The constraint is the file size vs our current upload system. We had to run a second compression on it because, using our normal method, the original file is too big to be uploaded to our site. We are looking into getting a higher res version, that is also small enough to upload, but we don't know if or when that will happen.

Therefore, we have no immediate file update planned.

Is there a way to get a refund then?

Regarding the Pathfinder Rage of Elements PDF: on full screen (27"), nothing is pixelated or unreadable. We consider the product to be acceptable, but we'd like to better, if we can.

The constraint is the file size vs our current upload system. We had to run a second compression on it because, using our normal method, the original file is too big to be uploaded to our site. We are looking into getting a higher res version, that is also small enough to upload, but we don't know if or when that will happen.

Therefore, we have no immediate file update planned.

Will this be fixed with the switch over to the new website that is planned?

Regarding the Pathfinder Rage of Elements PDF: on full screen (27"), nothing is pixelated or unreadable. We consider the product to be acceptable, but we'd like to better, if we can.

The constraint is the file size vs our current upload system. We had to run a second compression on it because, using our normal method, the original file is too big to be uploaded to our site. We are looking into getting a higher res version, that is also small enough to upload, but we don't know if or when that will happen.

Therefore, we have no immediate file update planned.

Hmm, that's a bit odd considering the Rage of Elements PDF is easily the smallest of the rulebooks at 23MB, when Treasure Vault is sitting here at 145MB... and the Fists of the Ruby Phoenix hardcover PDF is at 180MB...

Clearly, there's room for less compression.

Aaron Shanks wrote:

Regarding the Pathfinder Rage of Elements PDF: on full screen (27"), nothing is pixelated or unreadable. We consider the product to be acceptable, but we'd like to better, if we can.

The constraint is the file size vs our current upload system. We had to run a second compression on it because, using our normal method, the original file is too big to be uploaded to our site. We are looking into getting a higher res version, that is also small enough to upload, but we don't know if or when that will happen.

Therefore, we have no immediate file update planned.

Is there a way to get a refund then?

We see the product as acceptable, but you are welcome to email Customer Service and ask.

Aaron Shanks wrote:

Regarding the Pathfinder Rage of Elements PDF: on full screen (27"), nothing is pixelated or unreadable. We consider the product to be acceptable, but we'd like to better, if we can.

The constraint is the file size vs our current upload system. We had to run a second compression on it because, using our normal method, the original file is too big to be uploaded to our site. We are looking into getting a higher res version, that is also small enough to upload, but we don't know if or when that will happen.

Therefore, we have no immediate file update planned.

Will this be fixed with the switch over to the new website that is planned?

We can't say at this time.

Aaron Shanks wrote:

Regarding the Pathfinder Rage of Elements PDF: on full screen (27"), nothing is pixelated or unreadable. We consider the product to be acceptable, but we'd like to better, if we can.

The constraint is the file size vs our current upload system. We had to run a second compression on it because, using our normal method, the original file is too big to be uploaded to our site. We are looking into getting a higher res version, that is also small enough to upload, but we don't know if or when that will happen.

Therefore, we have no immediate file update planned.

Hmm, that's a bit odd considering the Rage of Elements PDF is easily the smallest of the rulebooks at 23MB, when Treasure Vault is sitting here at 145MB... and the Fists of the Ruby Phoenix hardcover PDF is at 180MB...

Clearly, there's room for less compression.

I believe the issue is the size of the source file. As I said, our art team is still looking into it.