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Sigh... this is great... but I so could use this now. (Or at least very soon.) My regular Monday night game group (The Monday-Knights) :-)
Started off with Crucible of Chaos. They finished that some time ago, and I was having some random encounters for them as they decided to try and find the Ruins of Kho... with the idea that perhaps they could "cannibalize" any pieces/parts from Kho and use with the reconstruction of Ulduvai. Heh heh... well then I snuck in and laid a "clever" GM trap... as they were the right level... and I didn't know what I was going to do yet with Kho... I got them involved in the second half of Legacy of Fire (they encountered a party of gnoll raiders, one of whom was a female fiendish gnoll cleric (of Rovagug) and she had the map of Kakishon on her person.) Player curiousity got the better of them, and WHOOSH into Kakishon they went. Now they are dealing with efreeti and other such fire-themed threats (say that five times fast) as they completed "Edge of Eternity" and are now into "The Impossible Eye".
Anyway... sorry for the near thread-jack... it's just that this book would be so awesome to have sooner than May 2010. But... who knows... they haven't completed Legacy of Fire yet... maybe something bad will happen to them along the way... y'know with Xotani the Firebleeder.
So many great products, so few days available to run Pathfinder games.
TMW
Me too. Heck, extend the page count to get in more stuff if you have it, I'll happily pay more for this one. Mwangi is a locale I think many people will get a lot of recurring value out of.
I would totally pay double if there were even a small web enhancement on this locale. I have been waiting for a jungle themed book since the first environment series books came out for 3.x from WotC
Me too. Heck, extend the page count to get in more stuff if you have it, I'll happily pay more for this one. Mwangi is a locale I think many people will get a lot of recurring value out of.
While I appreciate folks being excited and eager for books... we can't easily expand wordcounts. Mostly because we already run pretty much at capacity (or maybe even a little beyond capacity) as to how many pages per month we can actually produce!
THAT SAID! The good news is that, in the case of the Mwangi Expanse, folks are going to get a LOT more than one single 64 page book. You'll also get the Sargava Companion, which while technically not about the Mwangi is close enough. But we'll also be doing the Serpent's Skull Adventure Path starting in August, and that'll give out 6 volumes of jungle fun, including some detailed looks at treasures and monsters and creatures and legends and locations in the Mwangi. And then, later in the year, we'll also be doing "Lost Cities of Golarion" which will include more info about the Mwangi Expanse... we couldn't do a book called "Lost Cities of Golarion" without doing one from the Mwangi Expanse, yeah?
So while expanding "Heart of the Jungle" out to more pages is a no-go... there'll certainly be no shortage of Jungle Mayhem this year!
[quote=]While I appreciate folks being excited and eager for books... we can't easily expand wordcounts. Mostly because we already run pretty much at capacity (or maybe even a little beyond capacity) as to how many pages per month we can actually produce!
THAT SAID! The good news is that, in the case of the Mwangi Expanse, folks are going to get a LOT more than one single 64 page book. You'll also get the Sargava Companion, which while technically not about the Mwangi is close enough. But we'll also be doing the Serpent's Skull Adventure Path starting in August, and that'll give out 6 volumes of jungle fun, including some detailed looks at treasures and monsters and creatures and legends and locations in the Mwangi. And then, later in the year, we'll also be doing "Lost Cities of Golarion" which will include more info about the Mwangi Expanse... we couldn't do a book called "Lost Cities of Golarion" without doing one from the Mwangi Expanse, yeah?
So while expanding "Heart of the Jungle" out to more pages is a no-go... there'll certainly be no shortage of Jungle Mayhem this year!
Cool! Did the Tyrant Ape make the cut for this book...and will the book feature an adventuress in sacrificial ape altar danger? Do tell. ^^
Yes, finally a bit of attention to the deep, dark, dinosaur infested south. I've been running a Sargava/Mwangi expanse treasure hunting game for about four months now--the area was too good not to explore. It has however proven very dangerous when you throw in a lot of survival elements and make it low magic (Sargava has no Chelaxian-esque wizardly class, and the Aroden clergy is out of juice).
What I have liked is adding my own touches, populating it with my own take on the monsters that dwell there (a lot from dark sun, abberations, evil cultists, yes even giant gorillas, poisons and so many hostile plants). Currently I have two new monsters I've made personally and the players have encountered one type.
* Savannah spirits that appear as attractive and alluring Mwangi women, men, or even animals on heat; but seek to charm, grapple, pull their targets in, wrap around them (malleable bodies) and burn away their souls and bodies in a wave of internal heat and negative energy d6s. They worked quite well.
* Agile, man-like plants. Spelunky influences abound here. Make a template for a medium sized quick plant type and add all sorts of nifty special abilities (web, spewing caltrops, regurgitating with vigour a poison dart area of effect, higher intelligence and the use of tools). This will be ready soon.
The Mwangi expanse borrows a lot of tropes (Indiana Jones), but it can also give so much freedom and a chance to surprise players, and even cause a reconsideration of the benefits of classes (wizards and rogues have problems in non-temperate environments). I will get this book in time.
Skimming through this, I'm very impressed w/ this product, and looking forward to the next AP even more now. Nice homage to Heart of Darkness on p.20.
This will be a useful product even if you don't play in Golarion. For example, if you play in GH, the Amedio Jungle & Hepmonaland areas could incorporate lots of good stuff from this book.
Hey, um...
when are the
chimp men, bat men, and harvestmen gonna get statted up?
Charau ka will be statted up in the revised Campaign Setting Hardcover due out this fall.
The harvestmen and the bat men are going to be statted up in Pathfinder Adventure Path bestiaries during Serpent's Skull sometime around this winter.