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Rather than a lich, I'd go with demons. Authority in Galt is arbitrary, capricious, and always changing, and it beggars belief that no evil force wants a piece of the souls in the Final Blades. Have the Grey Gardeners be in fact a demon cult (easy to imagine them wanting to piggyback onto a movement opposed to the diabolists in Cheliax) who are also involved in turning the mob against each new revolutionary council. The demonic overseer is enjoying the spectacle of mortals willingly harvesting souls for his/her benefit and is collecting enough souls to rise to the rank of demon lord.

Another angle would be to have the PCs start out helping someone bring order, only to discover they've installed Napoleon.

they die like all critters, when the adventurers kill them and loot their dead mangled corpses.

I like the sound of mines that can be tiled together semi-arbitrarily! The waterfront is similar in that regard and I approve of it 100%.

@Vic:

If I may make a suggestion, I would definitely also get a dungeon-tile set that is built with this in mind. In fact also "expansion" sets 1 and 2 for such a set. Consider: an 18-tile map pack that can be combined semi-arbitrarily into a small or a massive sprawling dungeon - elongated or compact, whatever carries my fancy.

What about a calendar book with the Golarion calendar for the year? As I GM I have wished for such a thing. It would have the holidays all marked, and room to jot down notes. Something smallish for a calendar (A4) on a tear-away pad for game notes shrinkwrapped to Campaign-Setting Booklet about the months and such would not go amiss. I would include 3 copies of each month on the pad for multiple campaigns/extra space/value added.... so, 36 pages in the pad? Maybe round it out to 40 or 50 or whatever's cheapest by adding individual event sheets.

I'd pay $20 (or nineteen ninety whatever).

Didn't want to hijack the opposite thread:

I love the variety of cultures and ethnicities. I love that the core setting isn't just Medieval European Fantasy Again.

I love the Shoanti.

I love Osirion and all of its Egyptianess.

I love the Mwangi Explanse and the countless cultures found within. I love Jalmeray and all its over-the-top fantasic nature.

I love Numeria with its barbarians fighting robot scorpions with machine-gun mandibles.

I love that there's an island with Kamen Rider looking assassins that may or may not fight pirates and dinosaurs.

I love Dehrukani even if there's isn't much to know about it yet.

I love the entire Belkzen/Lastwall/Nirmathas/Molthrune stack of nations and all the themes that can be explored there.

I love how Ustalav covers all the Universal and Hammer tropes and still has room for everything Ravenloft was and more.

I love horrible, nightmarish Nidal.

I love the complicated and ethically murky scene in Katapesh.

I love the cultures and possibilities that have sprung out of Geb, Nex, and the Mana Wastes, and how they can easily grow into cultures that have absolutely no near-real-world analogues.

I love Varisia, period.

I love how weird the gnomes are. I love that the elves aren't presented as an infallible race as a whole. I love that good orcs, drow, goblins, etc have been pointed out with both examples and possibilities.

I love that almost every planet in Golarion's solar system is a campaign setting unto itself. I love that psionics have a place on both Golarion and those other worlds.

I love the fleshed out and complex pantheon, and all of the entanglements that tie it together. I love that the various gods and their churches have been developed so that opposing bodies of the faithful can easily be weaved into plots that aren't just good vs. evil/order vs. chaos. I love the nuance present there. I love that the benevolent goddess of dreams was originally a giant alien bug. I love that the god of courage got drunk and doesn't even remember how he became a god. I love the Shelyn/Zon-Kuthon conflict.

I love the way the Darklands are arranged, especially Orv.

I love the Andorens' uniforms right alongside the Egyptian-garb the Osirianis wear rigth alongside whatever wild clothing Carolina Eade designs for Jalmeray and Druma right alongside more medieval European attire coming from the various nations that support that. I love the variety.

I love how the various outsider races relate to each other, and how complicated some of their alliances can be, such as the coalition of good and evil outsiders guarding the stream of souls.

I love that there are demons living in Elysium by way of Calistria's realm, and how this makes one of the heavenly planes that much wilder and exciting.

I love the First World.

I love that so much is left open for us to build upon and make it our own.

Thank, Paizo.

A set of straight forward adventures involving Intrigue in the realm of Irrisen. This could either be accomplished with natives, Ulfen, or Varisien's fighting through a slew of Baba Yaga's minions. I just finished Winter Witch, Saw Troll Hunter, and have been reading a book of norwegian folk tales and would love to sync my teeth into a campaign based in these lands.
I would favor the adventure where the adventurers play natives of the land and work their way up in influence in winter witches' court. Something like a murder investigation in White Throne would become so much more interesting if the suspects to be interviewed are witches, winter wolves, trolls, or worse.

How about a dragon? They're kind of a staple monster in the game and I haven't seen even a whiff of one yet. (Granted, I've only played half of RotRL, read some Carrion Crown, and playing in CoT now.) But I thought dragons were the Holy Grail of gaming and Paizo is giving them no love. (I might just not be playing the right AP's.) Are they just overdone for you who've been playing for 30 years?

I'd like to have an AP based on dragons.

Kaer Maga mega-dungeon.

Columbuslike Journey to Arcadia

Linnorm Kings Viking Adventure

Couldn't agree more. A concise clarification on animal companions and mounted combat with expanded rules would be nice also.