pathfinder

Stealing this outright from Reddit. Apologies to u/AAABattery03 (aka Mathfinder on YouTube):

For those unaware: Paizo had a massive restructuring the other day. While the thread yesterday had plenty of good discussion about supporting Paizo, buying their books, etc, what I want to bring attention to is directly helping the ones who got laid off as well.

Many of them have made BlueSky posts discussing their feelings on the matter. Obviously every single one of them is now looking for employment, and some are in need of direct mutual aid. I’ll link the ones I’m aware of here, and catalogue more as I find them. @Mods: I hope you can pin this thread or something to help bring attention to this.

Here’s the first link I could find—this is Shay, a Pathfinder Society developer who will lose that role as of July. The following link can be used to directly support them: https://bsky.app/profile/spellsinsugar.bsky.social/post/3mnuuqoxts22g

This is Lynne, an editor at Paizo, with glowing reviews from plenty of other current and former Paizo employees. You can support her by purchasing from any of the affiliate links in her bio.

Here is Costin, a designer who was part of making the Daredevil and Slayer class playtests. His pinned post has commissions, if any of you wish to “two birds one stone” your next game’s character art and your desire to show support to these folks!

Here are two links where you can donate to help RPG creators in need in general. I cannot guarantee if any of the affected employees are on here, but I’m sure no one has a problem “accidentally” supporting the larger TTRPG creator in general!

• https://www.rcrfcharity.org/

• https://cerfplus.org/grants/emergency-relief/

If any of you have any relevant information on how to support any of those affected, I’ll edit that information in. Now is the time to try and help these folks who have given us the game we all love!

Just for completeness, Lynne and Shay also have (seemingly abandoned) Mastodon accounts located here: @Lynne_M_Meyer@peoplemaking.games and here: @spellsinsugar@dice.camp. I'm sure it wouldn't suck for them to find kind messages if ever they check those feeds.