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Advanced Classes Guide Playtest Plans

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We'd like to announce that we will be supporting the playtest for the Advanced Classes Guide with a free add-on for everyone with the Pathfinder game system in Hero Lab. We've begun work on that, and we'll get it to you as soon as we can. Unfortunately, we didn't get access to this any earlier than anyone else, so we're only getting started today, and it's going to take us a little while to finish entering everything in this 51 page playtest package. I don't currently have an estimate on when we'll be able to get it to you, but we'll finish it as soon as we can.

A warning about this playtest material; once the Advanced Classes Guide itself is released (it's scheduled for a Gen Con 2014 release), all of the playtest material will become a part of our Advanced Classes Guide package. For those who purchase this package once it's released, the characters you've created during the playtest will continue to work in Hero Lab, and you'll get access to the new content added in the full book (with the caveat that if something about the class changes between the playtest and the full version, there may be some changes you need to make - for example, if the class selects from among several abilities, and one of the options you selected for that slot is removed after the playtest, your character will have an unselected ability to choose, in order to replace the one that's no longer legal). If you do not purchase the Advanced Classes Guide package, any levels of the playtest classes will be removed from any characters that used them. (As a note, this is the same way we handled the APG, UC, and UM playtest classes in Hero Lab).

Also, be aware that this is playtest material. We'll try to keep up with any official updates to the playtest as it proceeds, but we'll always be at least a few days behind. Also, if things about these classes change during the playtest period, existing characters using the class that changed may end up with errors.
 
Thanks Mathias

If you could post again in this thread just so we know when its ready, Im sure we would all appreciate that.

Thanks
 
Will you be incorporating any changes made between now and the book release? The material will be legal for Pathfinder Society, so there will be players needing the most up to date versions.
 
Will you be incorporating any changes made between now and the book release? The material will be legal for Pathfinder Society, so there will be players needing the most up to date versions.

They answered that question at the bottom of the OP:
We'll try to keep up with any official updates to the playtest as it proceeds, but we'll always be at least a few days behind.

I guess if you're worried about always being 100% PFS-legal, you should stay away from the playtest, because there will be a lag.
 
I guess if you're worried about always being 100% PFS-legal, you should stay away from the playtest, because there will be a lag.

Or just use a paper character sheet (or something digital) and update that until the Hero Lab files are updated.
 
Mathais, would it be possible when you put out the Play-test classes to make a a and b version of them so we can edit the b version of them leaving the a version intact?
 
Just downloaded the Advanced Class Guide update! Thanks for getting this out in time for Thanksgiving weekend.

Do you want us to use regular bug reports or should we post them on the thread?
 
Swashbuckler is wrong, it has toomany feats, following the test (which is wrong) rather than the chart (which according to the Playtest Forums, is the accurate one).
 
We'd really appreciate it if you could use the link in the regular bug reports thread to report bugs, rather than posting them in individual threads. That helps us keep everything organized.
 
Any ideas on when you´ll be able to launch the new update for the classes?
I know it came out yesterday , and had a lot of changes , but i´m just a "Herolab-dependent " when it comes to make PC´s , and i can´t wait to try out the new updates...
 
Updates for the revised playtest pdf are already in progress, but I'm not certain enough of when we'll be finished to make any announcements yet.
 
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