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Honestly I prefer the format of the original blog post, glad I didn't spend money on the PDF or i would want a refund. why did you include all kinds of feats that you didn't change? It makes it harder to tell what has and hasn't been altered, the pdf just feels like 30 repeated pages and pulling out the actual useful changes is no longer worth the effort of referencing yet another overly long document. (leaving this as my first reaction)

finally saw the appendix, that is not what they are usually used for. I still say the first 30 pages of the pdf are pointless. the whole thing could easily have fit into 10 pages and still had room for you to explain your choices and alteration like you did in the original blog post.  you wanted to profit from your otherwise good ideas and turned them into a bloated mess. I like well reasoned arguments and thorough explanations and was expecting more of those, not mostly filler. Do I understand why catch off guard now has prerequisites? Do I have any idea why you feel hamstring is balanced?(or even makes sense, you don't walk off a severed hamstring.) changes without explanations aren't useful, the WHY matters even more than the what, but you ignored it completely.

Hello there, and I’m sorry that your hatred for the PDF burns so brightly!

We’ve generally found that folks are split down the middle between preferring the original blog post and the PDF. One of the reasons we made the PDF was to respond to the 100+ comments we received on the initial post, in which people asked for rules clarifications and more detailed advice on how EitR interacted with numerous feats. We added some additional homebrew flourishes to flesh things out further but, like all aspects of the rule-set, they are completely optional.

Regardless, to say that we do this type of design work for profit is a bit humorous to me. While we are certainly grateful to all the folks who have chosen to pay for a copy of EitR, the profits we make off the publication are relatively meager (and certainly don’t cover the labour we put into it). In fact, any of our Itch.io funds go straight into a stash that we have dedicated to future TTRPG development. This is strictly a hobbyist endeavor, which is why everything Mammoth Island has made thus far is essentially PWYC.

After 13k+ downloads, and with Pathfinder 1E all but wrapped up, I don’t see us revisiting or revising this rule-set in the future. You’ll have to enjoy it as-is or move on. If you are looking for another source of Pathfinder homebrew content, I’d highly recommend Spheres of Power.

Take care!