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That's finished cover quality.
Sounds like a lot of cool stuff in there. :)
YEEESSSSSS!!!
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Finally a book about airplanes on Golarion!
At long last. Can't wait to play Wrath of the Righteous with F-22 Raptors.
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Player races from the neutral planes! Yay!
It's not the actual cover though (as lovely as the art is; it's reprinted from a very old article we did during Legacy of Fire when we first introduced the proteans)—hopefully we'll be able to show off the actual cover soon! It's RAD.
I figured that's why I said how good it was.
Can't wait to see the actual cover. So about 5 months? ;)
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Interested in the first and third bullet points, actively repelled by the second and fourth. This is a wait and see until I get some page counts for the sections.
Heh, I'm mostly here for the second bullet point and the new player races.
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This is going to be the best book of the year! *-*
Unless something about dragons.... :P
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Canon void element for kineticist plz.
What % of this book is actually information on the planes?
An expansive bestiary, is that at least 20 pages?
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What % of this book is actually information on the planes?
An expansive bestiary, is that at least 20 pages?
I'm deep in the book's development, but I can answer these.
Each major plane gets a six page section to themselves. That, combined with an additional dozen pages devoted to demiplanes, sets up about 130 pages of the book's 256 pages to be specifically focused on the planes. And there's more info scattered here and there on the other pages. SO... what percentage is "actually information on the planes"? I'd say over half. Maybe as much as 60%.
The bestiary section is looking like it's gonna be about 30 pages long, and it's got stuff from all over the planes. Outsiders are certainly represented, but there's other things as well.
Will the demi-planes(Crypt of the Dying Sun, Freehold of the Rogue Angel, The Lost, etc.) mentioned in the Great beyond book be in here?
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Will the demi-planes(Crypt of the Dying Sun, Freehold of the Rogue Angel, The Lost, etc.) mentioned in the Great beyond book be in here?
Some, but not all. The focus of this book is NOT on demiplanes, but it certainly sets up a discussion about demiplanes. The bulk of the demiplane section (10 of its 12 pages) focuses on 10 specific demiplanes—one per page. But there's a lot more than 10 demiplanes out there, especially since some of the ones we talk about in those 10 pages are ones we hadn't envisioned at the time the softcover Great Beyond book was published eight years ago.
What % of this book is actually information on the planes?
An expansive bestiary, is that at least 20 pages?
I'm deep in the book's development, but I can answer these.
Each major plane gets a six page section to themselves. That, combined with an additional dozen pages devoted to demiplanes, sets up about 130 pages of the book's 256 pages to be specifically focused on the planes. And there's more info scattered here and there on the other pages. SO... what percentage is "actually information on the planes"? I'd say over half. Maybe as much as 60%.
The bestiary section is looking like it's gonna be about 30 pages long, and it's got stuff from all over the planes. Outsiders are certainly represented, but there's other things as well.
This is exactly what I was hoping for.
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What % of this book is actually information on the planes?
An expansive bestiary, is that at least 20 pages?
I'm deep in the book's development, but I can answer these.
Each major plane gets a six page section to themselves. That, combined with an additional dozen pages devoted to demiplanes, sets up about 130 pages of the book's 256 pages to be specifically focused on the planes. And there's more info scattered here and there on the other pages. SO... what percentage is "actually information on the planes"? I'd say over half. Maybe as much as 60%.
The bestiary section is looking like it's gonna be about 30 pages long, and it's got stuff from all over the planes. Outsiders are certainly represented, but there's other things as well.
Is the First World considered a major plane? If not, can it be counted as one anyway?
Hello, if have any new class in this book ?
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Is the First World considered a major plane? If not, can it be counted as one anyway?
Yes. The First World gets a 6 page entry. This is a weird one, since it gets a whole 64 page book, so in this particular case it's likely not going to present much NEW information to folks who have read the 64 page First World book... but keep in mind that for a LOT of folks, this'll be the first time any real information about the First World will be seen (since the First World got left out of the brief planar info stuff in GameMastery Guide).
Are all the demi-planes mentioned in the Great Beyond book still cannon?
You guys mentioned that there will be a system/rules for characters being infused/infected by contact with the planes. Will this be a feat, feat tree, template, or some other mechanic?
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Are all the demi-planes mentioned in the Great Beyond book still cannon?
You guys mentioned that there will be a system/rules for characters being infused/infected by contact with the planes. Will this be a feat, feat tree, template, or some other mechanic?
Yes, they are all still canon.
The infusion rules will be via a feat tree.
Will this book have any new optional rules, alternate rules, or subsystems?
Is it safe to assume the maelstrom plane touched race will be a reprint of the Ganzi?
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I've been waiting years for this and I truly cannot wait for folks to see more details. :D
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Will this book have any new optional rules, alternate rules, or subsystems?
Is it safe to assume the maelstrom plane touched race will be a reprint of the Ganzi?
Nope; not the purpose of the book to have optional rules or new rules subsystems.
And yeah, the ganzi are one of the zero HD races in the book. Exactly how tied they end up being to the Maelstrom remains to be seen, since I've not delved into that part yet. Sometimes we have to guess when we write these initial solicitation texts for books when we're still in the process of baking the contents, after all! :-P
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It's not the actual cover though (as lovely as the art is; it's reprinted from a very old article we did during Legacy of Fire when we first introduced the proteans)—hopefully we'll be able to show off the actual cover soon! It's RAD.
PlEaSe b3 a kEkAtAr oN tHe cOvEr Of tHe fIn@l aRtW0Rk and n0t JuSt Th3 pL@cEh0lD3r aRt!
This is good but I'm still hoping beyond hope we'll be getting the following:
Chronicle of the Righteous
Concordance of Rivals
Advanced NPC Codex
Thank you for answering my questions Mr. Jacobs.
With 30 pages of monsters then every plane and dimension described in the book could get at least one new inhabitant.
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Hmm. 30 pages of bestiary seems tolerable. That still leaves 220 pages to other material that I think I will find more palatable. Glad to see the ganzi; I quite enjoyed them in Distant Shores. I think I will probably get at least the PDF, even though six pages per plane is awfully skimpy. I would've MUCH rather had half the amount of planes, and 12 pages per plane, and a Planar Adventures 2 later for the rest of the planes. 6 pages barely covers anything. I get horrible flashbacks to the 3.0 Manual of the Planes whose plane writeups were over as soon as they started.
FINALLY!! More Planes! :D
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LENG!
I am fine with 6 pages per plane since we can have every major plane and dimension covered plus a page per demi-plane.
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This could be very intriguing...I am more excited by Ultimate Wilderness (coming soon!) but the Planes can be interesting. Loved the Campaign Setting book of the Planes. Great reading, that.
So if we get roughly a 130 pages devoted to the planes, dimensions, and demi-planes. The demi-planes take up roughly 12 pages of those roughly 130 pages. So that leaves roughly 118 pages divided by six is around 19. That means we get like 18-19 different planes and dimensions.
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So if we get roughly a 130 pages devoted to the planes, dimensions, and demi-planes. The demi-planes take up roughly 12 pages of those roughly 130 pages. So that leaves roughly 118 pages divided by six is around 19. That means we get like 18-19 different planes and dimensions.
The demiplane stuff does NOT take up part of the ~130 pages on the planes.
That said... it's still way too early to assume these numbers are set in stone. Maybe wet concrete that's quickly drying though...
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Will this book have any new optional rules, alternate rules, or subsystems?
Is it safe to assume the maelstrom plane touched race will be a reprint of the Ganzi?
Nope; not the purpose of the book to have optional rules or new rules subsystems.
And yeah, the ganzi are one of the zero HD races in the book. Exactly how tied they end up being to the Maelstrom remains to be seen, since I've not delved into that part yet. Sometimes we have to guess when we write these initial solicitation texts for books when we're still in the process of baking the contents, after all! :-P
I'm hoping the Ganzi get all kinds of crazy, out-there alternate racial traits. After all, why would pure chaos interacting with mortal life ever create two of the exact same type of creature?
LENG!
Wait...where did you see Leng?!
So if we get roughly a 130 pages devoted to the planes, dimensions, and demi-planes. The demi-planes take up roughly 12 pages of those roughly 130 pages. So that leaves roughly 118 pages divided by six is around 19. That means we get like 18-19 different planes and dimensions.
The demiplane stuff does NOT take up part of the ~130 pages on the planes.
That said... it's still way too early to assume these numbers are set in stone. Maybe wet concrete that's quickly drying though...
I always assumed you used the souls of Dinosaurs and Kajiu to glue stuf together Mister Jacobs...
...Advanced NPC Codex
Eh?!! Why do we need Advanced NPCs?!
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LENG!Wait...where did you see Leng?!
Details on all of the major planes of existence and the denizens and deities who dwell within, be they legendary realities like Heaven and Hell or obscure regions like the Dimension of Time or the nightmare realm of Leng.
It's in the first bullet point.