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So where does this one take place?
So hyped! I wish my Bloodborne-Lovecraftian campaign was delayed by 5 months so I could shamelessly rip from what is looking to be utterly fantastic work.
Awesome! I really love the new products. Great old one sleeping? Hmm... I wonder which one?
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Awesome! I really love the new products. Great old one sleeping? Hmm... I wonder which one?
Xhamen Dor, probably. It slumbers by a lake, doesn't it? It is also featured in an article in this very book.
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Slumbers in a lake, if I recall correctly. ^_^
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Where Xhamen-Dor’s comet came to rest is unknown—but its cult agrees that the fallen star that bears the Great Old One’s core lies at the depths of a large but remote lake somewhere in the world.
Slumbers in a lake, if I recall correctly. ^_^
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Where Xhamen-Dor’s comet came to rest is unknown—but its cult agrees that the fallen star that bears the Great Old One’s core lies at the depths of a large but remote lake somewhere in the world.
Ah yes. Good catch. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the lake the abandoned city lies on.
YAY!!! More fighting Lowls the idiot! :p ;)
I can't wait to read that article about the Necronomicon.
Slumbers in a lake, if I recall correctly. ^_^
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Where Xhamen-Dor’s comet came to rest is unknown—but its cult agrees that the fallen star that bears the Great Old One’s core lies at the depths of a large but remote lake somewhere in the world.
Doy! This is what happens when you are half asleep when posting. Also, for some reason I was thinking Xhamen-Dor was the guy in the mountain next to Xin-Shalast, but I now remember that is Mahr.
Mahr is the mountain. Xhamen-Dor is in the lake. I'm pretty sure Cthulhu is in R'lyth having a good snooze.
I know. But I had to make sure people understood that. ;)
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Brilliant cover image. Who's the guy on the front?
While we have no specific knowledge of his identity, his wrappings are suggestive of a denizen of Leng. The mouthparts poking out seem to confirm that. Most denizens don't have horns as big as that, though...
He's wielding the favored weapon of the King in Yellow, so he's probably tightly associated with the Unspeakable One.
That blot on his arm is likely a mote of Xhamen-Dor, givne the adventure's association with that being.
I don't remember seeing any horns on denizens of leng. But he could have a template or even class feature for that anyway.
The dangling tentacles alone fill me with glee every time a new final cover is announced!
Ruyan.
So we have motes nows? Not Moits?
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I don't remember seeing any horns on denizens of leng. But he could have a template or even class feature for that anyway.
In the original Lovecraft story The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which the denizens are taken from, they wear those yellow turbans and wrappings to hide their horns. (They're not very big horns - think tiefling.)
Well that explains the turbans then.
*always thought they wore turbans to keep their heads warm*
My knee jerk reaction to the old god in the lake was Glaaki. But after reading about Xhamen-Dor I have to go with him.
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I don't remember seeing any horns on denizens of leng. But he could have a template or even class feature for that anyway.
They normally hide them under their turbans/headwear, and often aren't so huge... but horns on the denizens of Leng is direct out of Lovecraft...
Brilliant cover image. Who's the guy on the front?You'll find out soon enough who she is!
OOo... Spoiler! ;)
I find that cover all kinds of disturbing. Love it!
I thought something like that might be the case. You can really see it in her abdomen.Brilliant cover image. Who's the guy on the front?You'll find out soon enough who she is!
Wait that's an abdomen?!!
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Wait that's an abdomen?!!I thought something like that might be the case. You can really see it in her abdomen.Brilliant cover image. Who's the guy on the front?You'll find out soon enough who she is!
Look at the curve of her back, and the part of her body behind the rightmost tentacle.
...apparently infestation by Xhamen-Dor is great for your figure. I wish I had curves like that. ^_^
Still Kal...
It's not as easy to tell. At least for me. But then again, I couldn't tell the difference between a moth and a butterfly.
Infested by Xhamen-Dor isn't something I'd recommend for weight loss though.
As he is strongly tied to this AP, and specially to this volumes, as it contains details about him, is it safe to suppose that Xhamen-Dor is the Great Old One among the monsters in the bestiary article?
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I'd consider it a fairly safe bet. Among other things... the GM needs those stats if the players wake it up. ^_^
I enjoy providing numbers. Numbers give players the hope that, in the horrible event they do awaken a Great Old One, they stand some chance. Sometimes numbers start with a plus sign and are divisible by 43. Sometimes players regret their actions. Sometimes the GM gets to use the really big stat blocks.
Perhaps that's relevant to this adventure and/or its backmatter—not my place to say just yet. I think we'll have to wait until subscribers start getting their copies.
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Signs! Elder signs!
or, it could be like how they give stats for the Spawn of rovagug in the adventure as an if you do wake it up, here's the stats, we'll still be giving you Ghatanothoa, Chaugnar Faugn, Rhan-Tegoth, or Yig. Mhar, Orgesh and Xhamen-Dor can easily be worked into the adventure, making people search for them, but I doubt they'd have gotten the rights to use those great old ones without making them stats. Chaugnar Faugn is the only one of those mentioned that are listed in the front page's Product Identity, so he's a likely candidate for one of the last two. i wouldn't mind seeing a double-sized bestiary to work the rest of them in, since, with four of the great old ones from the pulps being left, they'd have to put two in the last two, or three in the very last one. I hope they stat all of them, personally, Cthulhu and Hastur were getting lonely being the only CR 29 and Cr 30 aberrations
The final adventure (Black Stars Beckon) only has a single support article, and that's the Continuing the Campaign one. It stands to reason that its Bestiary could also be a few pages longer to accommodate additional GOOs.
We don't have a final description of Black Stars Beckon, but right now it also includes "a history of Golarion."
...snip...The final adventure (Black Stars Beckon) only has a single support article, and that's the Continuing the Campaign one. It stands to reason that its Bestiary could also be a few pages longer to accommodate additional GOOs.
Yak. Why would there be goo in this one?
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We don't have a final description of Black Stars Beckon, but right now it also includes "a history of Golarion."
The final adventure (Black Stars Beckon) only has a single support article, and that's the Continuing the Campaign one. It stands to reason that its Bestiary could also be a few pages longer to accommodate additional GOOs.
I remember reading somewhere that James Jacobs said that the "History of Golarion" article got cut, but that could have changed.
Also i don´t think we get more than one GOO per Bestiary, because all the other ones by HPL or Paizo can still be in Bestiary 6 or 7 or inserted when needed.
Xhamen-Dor could be in the NPC Gallery or the adventure itself OR in the Bestiary of book 5, but book 6 will most likely only have Chaugnar Faugn.
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The history article did indeed get cut. It wasn't the right place to do an article like that, honestly, and the Continuing the Campaign article has some good stuff that we got to get into as a result of having more room.
There's only one Great Old One in this one, like all the rest.
Chaugnar-Faugn isn't out of question, but he was illustrated in the first book of the AP. If I'm not mistaken, it was said that "not getting an illustration" was a hint about the Great Old Ones that would be stated in the AP.
So, while I'm not sure if this is still a thing, I'm guessing that the last Great Old One to be stated will be either Ghatanothoa or Orgesh.
So excited for this book. The 5th book in an ap series is typically awesome
I'm new to subscriptions and saw that this book dropped off the radar on my Subscriptions page, January isn't in the upcoming section and book 5 isn't the most recent or next at the bottom. Not really worried but just curious if this is normal and what people know about why it happens?
Loving the AP by the way!