Hi all,
Now that both Player Core 1 and Player Core 2 have been released, I have a request that I think would be extremely useful for players using the Remaster rules. I would really like the ability to completely hide all content from the Core Rulebook and Advanced Players Guide from showing up in the character builder. The reason for this is that there are still items that were Remastered, renamed, and changed enough that the old Legacy version still shows up in the builder along with the Remaster version. I tend to report this kind of thing when I see it, like my post from about a month ago about a Champion I was building that was still showing a ton of unnecessary Legacy options. But I do think a more helpful solution would be to just hide all the content from both of those books. I think this we clear a lot of clutter in the builder, and would be particularly helpful for newer players trying to figure out what options they can take. I do think this should be an optional filter, but with PC 1 and 2 released there isnât anything left from the old CRB and APG that Iâm interested in having in the builder.
For what itâs worth weâre also working on cleaning up those old CRB and APG entries so they donât show up unless you specifically enable legacy content. That said, Iâll pass the feedback along, it ties in with other requests Iâve seen for a better way to filter.
I do appreciate that itâs something that youâre working on, and I do hope you pass the feedback on. I really love Demiplane and I know the remaster really created a mess for basically every Pathfinder compendium and character builder out there. I do think being able to filter out sources has a lot more uses than the one I mentioned, such as being able to filter out content from adventure modules that you donât want your players to have access to. But at this point thereâs enough changes in terminology and rules, particularly for spellcasters, that I would love to just be able to filter out everything that hasnât been remastered lol. Like Iâve lost count of the number of times a player told me that their spell didnât provoke reactive strikes because it doesnât have the manipulate trait, but itâs a pre-remaster spell with somatic casting. Dealing with Legacy stuff that is alignment-based is also a headache. Best for my brain to just get rid of all of it for now and wait for the remastered versions to come out.
Any updates on this? Timeline?
Just so I understand, if we donât enable Legacy content, then only Remastered shows up? Or is there an âOnly Remasteredâ option? Thanks!
Correct, by default it should only show remaster content unless you specifically enable the option to show legacy content.
Thank you!!
Just to clarify, if you have âShow Legacy Contentâ disabled, what you actually get is all the remaster content plus all legacy content that has not yet been remastered. For example, you will only see the Player Core versions of the classes that used to be in the Playerâs Handbook, but you will also see the Magus and Summoner classes from the Legacy book Secrets of Magic, because those do not have remastered versions.
What I was hoping for with this thread was a setting to completely disable any books that are not remastered. My reason for this is for some of my less experienced players itâs confusing when, for example, some of their spells list verbal and somatic components and some donât. The errata released for the older sources doesnât actually clean up all of that Legacy clutter. Currently the only way to do this is to use the search filters to only enable the remastered sourcebooks for every single choice you make for your character, and thatâs just a mess.
Correction: I guess I was just suggesting to hide anything from the PHB and APG, but honestly just the ability to disable any non-remastered sourcebook would be great.