I think we will get a elemental based book, not sure if it will cover all of them or just specific types (ifrits, etc). Hopefully, if we do, we will get variants based on having Efreet, Salamander, or Azer ancestry, for instance.
For the Dragon-blooded, excluding Kobolds (which have there own race book coming up), there really isn't a dragon-blooded race, and the Paizo developers hate Dragonborn. They think dragons are made mundane if you have a "dragon" adventuring in your group.
Although for what it is worth, the Midgard campaign setting has a dragonborn esq race.
As for the Dragon-descended, Kobolds definitely could have a book of their own.Beware the kobolds of March
While Kobolds getting their own book is indeed nice, though I'm not a fan of the race outside of cannon fodder, I think if there was ever to be a book about descendants of dragons, that kind of information would be best left to an actual, full-on Dragons book.
Kinda like how there's no actual Half-Orc book but there is a book on Orcs: "Yet, rather than focus this companion exclusively on half-orcs, beings without a specific culture or unified society, insights into the details of orc life should serve half-orc players far better than a lengthy investigation into the unpredictable details of their own harsh and wildly varying realities. So, on one hand, the desire to serve half-orc characters fueled this accessory’s creation." - Orcs of Golarion, page 7
If Paizo wanted to release a book on people with dragon blood in them, I think the best thing they could do was release a Dragons of Golarion book and have a subsection within it detail some information about descendants of dragons.
That said, a situation like this needs to be handled with some care. Teiflings and Aasimar are about as popular (if not more so, in some cases) as the core races and their divine heritage is really interesting to explore, but once you release a book about them, people will start wanting whole books dedicated to a single race. How many books before people start asking for a Catfolk of Golarion book (I really do, so that's basically 0 seconds), or a Merfolk of Golarion book, etc. etc.
Which, now that I think about it, really isn't a bad thing. More stuff for the different races would be kinda neat, but it wouldn't be neat to bog-down the developers with wanting only content for the different races (although I'm still waiting to hear if you plan on making a Lycanthrope book, devs).
I don't see a Dragon Compainon for a few reasons. Namely, in Golarion dragons are not meant to be PCs. That statement comes with an implied "duh," but I also mean that there aren't any 0 Hit Die draconic races. I think this is deliberate. 4th Edition D&D made dragonkin part of their core setting, and I believe Paizo has intentionally avoided going that route. Personally I like it that way and hope it remains so - I don't want dragons being diluted by having a bunch of anthropomorphic mini-drakes running around.
Of course the inevitable counter argument is "but a draconic race wouldn't make dragons any less cool." My reply is to each his own.
Just because Dragons aren't meant to be PCs doesn't mean that there can't be any supporting material for them. I mean, isn't that the whole point behind books like the Draconomicon?
The devs actually statted out a race in the Advanced Race Guide as an example in the Race Builder called the Wyvaran that are (let's face it) winged dragonborn with no breath weapon. THis race will never be an official Golarion race (I forget where I read that). But one does already exist if somebody has a need for a draconic race.
Because it won't exist in Golarion officially, don't expect a Companion for it.
+1 at Harrison Catfolk idea, +7 at the Lycanthrope one.
* Blood of Fey?
+1 at Harrison Catfolk idea, +7 at the Lycanthrope one.
* Blood of Fey?
There IS a Fey Revisited book coming out...
There IS a Fey Revisited book coming out...+1 at Harrison Catfolk idea, +7 at the Lycanthrope one.
* Blood of Fey?
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There isn't many 0HD Fey, so...
Forgetting something?
Just because Dragons aren't meant to be PCs doesn't mean that there can't be any supporting material for them. I mean, isn't that the whole point behind books like the Draconomicon?
ha ha ha
And just because they don't want a dragon race in Golarion, it doesn't mean they shouldn't make one at all.
There are no good drow - that's too Forgotten Realms-y. Dragons don't live secretly among humans as puppet masters - too FR. There aren't uber wizards walking around solving all the world's problems in novels - FR again.
So it's all Forgotten Realms's fault. Gottcha.
If you want to be snarky about it, than yes, it is Forgotten Realm's "fault." A more realistic way to look at it is that Paizo is trying to differentiate itself from other well-established settings.
So it's all Forgotten Realms's fault. Gottcha.
Yes, I was being snarky.
Actually, there is a dragon race in the setting. It's the Dragonkin of Triaxus.
I can't remember. Was that the Dragonkin race located in the back of the ARG?
For that matter, if you read the Half-Dragon entry in the Bestiary, they specifically state that Half-Dragons are less the result of Dragons interbreeding with non-Draconic species & more the result of magical experimentation.
Dotting.
Although the Midgard Campaign setting also has Dragonkin, which ARE a 0 HD playable race. Regrettable that they use the same name.
My personal belief is that if there are "holes" in the rules or flavor that Paizo is unwilling to fill for now or the foreseeable future, that is the best time for a 3pp to step in.
I have found that people will tend to do what they want in a campaign what they wish to do whether or not it fits with the world they are playing in.
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a Blood of the planes book would be pretty sweet.
a variant bloodline or two each, for the Fetchling, Ifrit, Oread, Sylph, Suli, and Undine
and an 100 traits table for each one.
Examples could include wood and metal oreads, sand and storm sylphs, ice and rain undines, and smoke and volcano ifrits.
Wyvarans are interesting as a chromatic related race that could go the evil or neutral route. A metallic drake/draconic race would be appreciated, but I know they are not going to approach it. Maybe if a draconic race was associated with the divine maybe it could work?
I would still like to see a Blood of Elves and Bood of Orcs to give more variation to half-elvs and half-orcs.
Maybe they could do something with the bloodlines for sorcerers and dragon disciples, though I am not sure that that would need a specific product.