Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Horror Realms (PFRPG)

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Horrors Await Within

Terrors beyond compare lurk in the world's shadows, yet the bravest of Golarion's heroes must face these nightmares again and again. Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Horror Realms helps bring the spine-chilling terrors presented in Pathfinder RPG Horror Adventures to the Inner Sea region and beyond, presenting new rules, detailed ghastly locations, and unnerving character options for your campaign. Inside the pages of this book, you'll find:

  • Information on how the eerie corruptions introduced in Horror Adventures can be incorporated into the world of Golarion, along with details on three new corruptions to vex your players or empower your villains.
  • Seven locations ripe for exploration in horror-themed campaigns, including haunted villages, islands rampant with cannibals and necromancers, and more!
  • Numerous horror-themed class options for characters, including rules for corrupted animal companions, spirits from the depths of space, exploits of the sinister Outer Planes, haunting bardic performances, aberrant eidolons for summoners, and more!
  • Full details on three new categories of variant haunts—incursions into this reality from the First World, miraculous resonances from the gods, and technological surges.

Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Horror Realms is a perfect companion for Pathfinder RPG Horror Adventures, and is intended for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and Pathfinder campaign setting, but can easily be used in any fantasy game setting.

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Mixed bag of horror

3/5

Much of my sentiment about Horror Realms echoes what Marco said first. This is just really an expanded review of the sections.

This volume opens with 2 pages of useless fiction. I know fiction is getting the runaround these days, but it doesn't belong here.

Next, we head into the rules section. Quirks are a flavourful way to increase the horror factor. These would've made great campaign traits if rules were added. I don't use the arcanist in my games, but the exploits look good mechanically and flavour-wise. These would also be great to build NPCs around. Bards gain new sanity reducing performances and the mute musician archetype. I'm not sure how good the mute musician is, but it seems especially geared toward Horror Adventures with a strong prevention and infliction of mind affecting abilities. Accursed animal companions seem like a great way to add horror and consequence to treating loyal companions as meat shields. The scarred monks has a variety of thematic powers to choose from, each adding a variety of effects to a character. The face collector in particular creates interesting RP potential. Eidolons can now gain extra aberrant traits and spells from the psychic list. The biggest drawback about the rules section is that so many rules books are required to get the most out of it. Haunts close out the rules section at the end of the book and seem mechanically good as well as flavourful.

Each of the regions presented was also given suggestions for which horror trope it would best fit, which I loved. I think I would've preferred a region for each trope, instead of multiple ideas for a region, however.

I did not find the witch fen particularly creative or innovative. Likewise, Farnvale would've been great if Raging Swan hadn't already done the same theme better. In fact the similarities are so close, how is this not plagiarism? Likewise, Kalva could've used more of a dark fantasy theme. I felt it was too broad of focus to be any good. The mushrooms were a great idea, and maybe this could've been better presented in the Underdark? Uskheart presents interesting druid followers of Zon Kuthon, however the locations are largely uninspiring. It felt to me like just another cliche group of spiteful druids with variant woodland animals.

But there are some gems in this section. The first few pages of Geb are extremely well done. Great writing, evocative locals and a very alien feel to traditional fantasy places make this one of the outstanding entries. Hopefully the new Geb book is this good. Shenmen takes us to Tian Xia, and it is a very atmospheric place of ghosts and spiders with an excellent RP aspect. Satravah was the standout location in this volume with a really thematic and interesting location and background. If this had been fleshed out to the standards of Raging Swan's Village Backdrops, it would've been truly outstanding.

So is it worth getting? Depends what you want out of it. The rules seem pretty good, if that's your main draw. If you want horrific locations, look to Raging Swan's Village Backdrop series and read the summaries and reviews there. You'll find much more to your liking. I wouldn't pay more than half price for this one.


Very good new rules, locations are so so, great art, crude maps!

4/5

GOOD:
The new Arcanist exploits, Bardic Masterpieces, Mute Musician (bard) archetype, Accursed companion rules, Scarred Monk archetype, 14 oracle curses, Dark Tapestry Shaman Spirit and Abberant Eidolon are mostly good to great both for players and NPCs.
The Farnvale, Crabfield Island & Shenmen locations invoke lots of adventure ideas.
Most of the interior creature illustrations.

BAD:
The Crown of the World, Kalva, Uskheart & Vale of honorless graves locations are unimaginative imo.
The location maps leave much to be desired.

UGLY:-


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Oh. Wendigos come from awesome. That's why.


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Rysky wrote:
Oh. Wendigos come from awesome. That's why.

Yep. They come from awesome and Strange Aeons as well, mighty Rysky. :)


"Aberrant eidolons for summoners"

Paizo, are you trying to seduce me?

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Zaister wrote:
I meant in this thread. People seem to want that a lot and I'm just wondering where that comes from.

Howls on the wind, mostly.

Lantern Lodge

I hope we get a corruption based on the Dominion of the black.

Silver Crusade

Ooooooo...


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Zaister wrote:
I meant in this thread. People seem to want that a lot and I'm just wondering where that comes from.

Sometimes you just gotta wendi-go with it.

Silver Crusade

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Cthulhudrew wrote:
Zaister wrote:
I meant in this thread. People seem to want that a lot and I'm just wondering where that comes from.
Sometimes you just gotta wendi-go with it.

But when d'ya go with it?


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Whenever I'd guess Luthorne.

*pats Rysky on the shoulder* It's okay. He can't hurt you.


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Thomas Seitz wrote:

Whenever I'd guess Luthorne.

*pats Rysky on the shoulder* It's okay. He can't hurt you.

{scribbles GM note on Cthulhudrew's character sheet that he has failed another save vs. pun corruption}


Cthulhudrew wrote:
Zaister wrote:
I meant in this thread. People seem to want that a lot and I'm just wondering where that comes from.
Sometimes you just gotta wendi-go with it.

That's a good one!


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Ooooooooooo! Haunting Bardic Performances?! Very nice...


Does that mean that there are eidolons that are of the aberration type, or they just have unique apperences and abilities?


Nick,

I'm assuming they're aren't true outsiders probably. Maybe aberrations with the extra-planar type. But that's just a guess. I mean my feeling is they're going for making eidolons that are more Mythos based.


The NPC wrote:

"Aberrant eidolons for summoners"

Paizo, are you trying to seduce me?

Paizo has to try?

But yes. For all that I want to hate Unchained Summoners, an aberrant eidolon could maybe make me play one.


I'm pretty sure it will be Mythos based but who knows.

I do know that I'm hopeful for a look see at the Gardens of Lead for one example.

Silver Crusade

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Thomas Seitz wrote:

I'm pretty sure it will be Mythos based but who knows.

I do know that I'm hopeful for a look see at the Gardens of Lead for one example.

Oooo, yeah that's one of the most intriguing places in Ustalav to me.


Is this book 64 pages? (I can never keep track since Paizo won't list page counts in the store interface.)

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137ben wrote:
Is this book 64 pages? (I can never keep track since Paizo won't list page counts in the store interface.)

With the exception of the Inner Sea hardcovers and the 96-page Inner Sea Faiths, Campaign Setting books are 64 pages. ^_^

Dark Archive

It looks like this could get moved to november 16th.
It doesn´t show up in the october 2016 new reease shipping thread YET...


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On the other hand, it does show up on my "My Subscriptions" page as part of the upcoming shipment. Either that page (along with the top part of this page) is wrong or the first post in the October shipping thread needs to be updated.

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David knott 242 wrote:

On the other hand, it does show up on my "My Subscriptions" page as part of the upcoming shipment. Either that page (along with the top part of this page) is wrong or the first post in the October shipping thread needs to be updated.

The shipping thread is due to be updated sometimes today...


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Thank you very much. I did get the impression that there would be an update to that post.


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I'm sure we'll get a clearer idea of when this will ship probably later in the afternoon.

Also I'm glad Rysky loves my Gardens of Lead suggestion.

Silver Crusade

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They'ze cool.


They are indeed. That and Bastardhall. :)

Dark Archive

Katina Davis wrote:

Horror Realms has indeed been moved back to November, but it looks as though it may not have been updated in all the necessary places in our system. I've passed this info along, and it should be fixed soon. Thanks for pointing it out to us!

Just let me know if there's anything else I can help with in the meantime.

Thanks!
Katina

Dark Archive

A lot of "pushbacks" at the moment.

AP #111 has been written months ago (as said by the writer), i am not sure what the problem with "Horror Realms" or "Blood of the Beast" is.

As it is both september and october have four products for the Pathfinder Roleplaying game (i´m not counting the card game).

I´m also pretty sure some of the products announced for november will get moved to december, because november as it is now is too full with TWO pawn sets, one hardcover, one AP, TWO campaign settings, TWO player companions, one flip-mat, one module AND the new Pathfinder Battles: Deadly Foes miniatures.

December and january have only 5 or 6 products scheduled so far.


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Writing is only part of it - they can't send our manuscripts straight to print. There's also editing, layout, copyfitting, art, printing, shipping, and far more. The delay could be related to any of these. ^_^

(That said, having more pushbacks to reduce the burden on a single month wouldn't be the worst idea.)


Could be something as simple as "customs holding shipment in port" or "Printer had an issue to resolve, print-run missed the boat".

Anything else would have delayed the books earlier, I think.


I'm guessing it's probably something other than the writing that holding up the wheels of progress.

Regardless I can wait. :)

Liberty's Edge

Could be worse. Could be "ALL OUR SERVERS CAUGHT FIRE AND COMMITTED SEPUKU, WHILE OUR COMPUTERS INCINERATED THEMSELVES."
infinitely worse


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ErisAcolyte-Chaos jester wrote:

Could be worse. Could be "ALL OUR SERVERS CAUGHT FIRE AND COMMITTED SEPUKU, WHILE OUR COMPUTERS INCINERATED THEMSELVES."

infinitely worse

{pokes head out from server rack} Thank you. It's always nice when someone recognizes our 'wampian accomplishments.


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It used to be far worse (and with fewer products per month). It seems to me these "light months" are few and far between nowadays. Ultimately, they're juggling a lot of projects and staff members often work on several at once - so I suspect delays in one tend to have flow on effects to others in complicated ways.

I don't know if it's just confirmation bias, but I think since Jessica started the rate of slippages has greatly reduced.

I'm personally glad they keep pushing - the alternative is presumably less products. :(


Well it looks like I will have to get this one after all since it comes out the same time as the first world book.


Hey it's on the list so it was a no-brainer to me.


The aberrant eidolon sounds interesting.

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Steve Geddes wrote:

It used to be far worse (and with fewer products per month). It seems to me these "light months" are few and far between nowadays. Ultimately, they're juggling a lot of projects and staff members often work on several at once - so I suspect delays in one tend to have flow on effects to others in complicated ways.

I don't know if it's just confirmation bias, but I think since Jessica started the rate of slippages has greatly reduced.

I'm personally glad they keep pushing - the alternative is presumably less products. :(

My understanding is that it's been damp in the area of China where we print our books, which means ink takes longer to dry, which means some of our printer deadlines ended up being late for a number of products. (I.e. we shipped them believing they were on time, but they ended up being too late.) Things like customs hold-ups or production problems with a book can also put us behind -- for a while there we had a comfortable buffer, but we've spent a lot of that buffer on Starfinder, so we were shipping things by the skin of our teeth for a while.

Thankfully, we're through the worst of Starfinder competing for development resources on regular products, so things should be good for a while (though, of course, that's hitting now as far as products shipping to customers--I believe all the January print products were shipped with a decent amount of buffer). They may get hairy again when Starfinder's competing with monthly products for editing resources, but we're working on ameliorating that.


Don't worry Jessica. We still love you. :) And you know all the stuff you write.


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Jessica Price wrote:
Steve Geddes wrote:

It used to be far worse (and with fewer products per month). It seems to me these "light months" are few and far between nowadays. Ultimately, they're juggling a lot of projects and staff members often work on several at once - so I suspect delays in one tend to have flow on effects to others in complicated ways.

I don't know if it's just confirmation bias, but I think since Jessica started the rate of slippages has greatly reduced.

I'm personally glad they keep pushing - the alternative is presumably less products. :(

My understanding is that it's been damp in the area of China where we print our books, which means ink takes longer to dry, which means some of our printer deadlines ended up being late for a number of products. (I.e. we shipped them believing they were on time, but they ended up being too late.) Things like customs hold-ups or production problems with a book can also put us behind -- for a while there we had a comfortable buffer, but we've spent a lot of that buffer on Starfinder, so we were shipping things by the skin of our teeth for a while.

Thankfully, we're through the worst of Starfinder competing for development resources on regular products, so things should be good for a while (though, of course, that's hitting now as far as products shipping to customers--I believe all the January print products were shipped with a decent amount of buffer). They may get hairy again when Starfinder's competing with monthly products for editing resources, but we're working on ameliorating that.

Cheers. It's easy to forget that business-to-business transactions are rarely as straightforward as retailer-to-customer. I wouldn't even have considered a damp China in my list of things which might have gone wrong...

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Steve Geddes wrote:
Jessica Price wrote:
Steve Geddes wrote:

It used to be far worse (and with fewer products per month). It seems to me these "light months" are few and far between nowadays. Ultimately, they're juggling a lot of projects and staff members often work on several at once - so I suspect delays in one tend to have flow on effects to others in complicated ways.

I don't know if it's just confirmation bias, but I think since Jessica started the rate of slippages has greatly reduced.

I'm personally glad they keep pushing - the alternative is presumably less products. :(

My understanding is that it's been damp in the area of China where we print our books, which means ink takes longer to dry, which means some of our printer deadlines ended up being late for a number of products. (I.e. we shipped them believing they were on time, but they ended up being too late.) Things like customs hold-ups or production problems with a book can also put us behind -- for a while there we had a comfortable buffer, but we've spent a lot of that buffer on Starfinder, so we were shipping things by the skin of our teeth for a while.

Thankfully, we're through the worst of Starfinder competing for development resources on regular products, so things should be good for a while (though, of course, that's hitting now as far as products shipping to customers--I believe all the January print products were shipped with a decent amount of buffer). They may get hairy again when Starfinder's competing with monthly products for editing resources, but we're working on ameliorating that.

Cheers. It's easy to forget that business-to-business transactions are rarely as straightforward as retailer-to-customer. I wouldn't even have considered a damp China in my list of things which might have gone wrong...

It was news to me too! :-)


Talking about the product itself, I really hope that among the locations we get information on are the island of Kalva and its raving cannibal Viking berserkers as well as that weird fungus that seems to be controlling everyone (slasher and cosmic horror for one low price). An update on poor Gillamoor in Isger would also be welcome. Whatever happened with that whole miniature zombie apocalypse, anyway?

And the idea of 'First World Incursions' sounds great. I always did love some scary-nasty fey.


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When shipping starts for subscribers, I'd be very grateful on any aberrant Eidolon details! I missed the boat on adding this to my subscriptions.

Dark Archive

So, what are the seven locations in the book actually and do they have detailed maps?

Thanks


Marco,

I'd wait until some time Tuesday or Wednesday. Mostly because I don't think subscribers have it yet.

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If you've got questions, I've got answers.

-Skeld

Silver Crusade

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Skeld wrote:

If you've got questions, I've got answers.

-Skeld

Do you think love can bloom even on a battlefield?


Skeld wrote:

If you've got questions, I've got answers.

-Skeld

Aberrant Eidolon information would be awesome! I love new Eidolon stuff.

Silver Crusade

Skeld wrote:

If you've got questions, I've got answers.

-Skeld

Is there anything for Barbarians?

Thankies in advance, Skeld ^w^

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