ladydragona |
So I've been reading the thread on what everybody wants the next AP after Hell's Rebels to be. And that's all good and well but the choice has already been made and is going to be announced in about two weeks. The Paizo Dev's have been quietly dropping clues mostly about what it's not going to be for some time now. So lets put our collective knowledge together and guess what it will be before the big announcement at Paizo con.
We need to guess Location and Theme.
So to start the discussion I heard in an Erik Mona Podcast last dec that it is not going to involve the new Occult book in any way so that probably eliminates Vudra as the location and Psychic as the theme.
Errant Mercenary |
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Resource scarcity would be a welcome change of pace.
With optional rules on scarcity: conjure food/water not working, same with sustenance style items, long range teleportation blocked, scrying minimal, endure elements minutes/level or reduced effect, focus on preparation. Without making it a tedious checklist. Using those knowledge nature, engineering, survival, track.
Now that would be an off the beaten path AP.
Turin the Mad |
Turin the Mad wrote:Resource scarcity would be a welcome change of pace.With optional rules on scarcity: conjure food/water not working, same with sustenance style items, long range teleportation blocked, scrying minimal, endure elements minutes/level or reduced effect, focus on preparation. Without making it a tedious checklist. Using those knowledge nature, engineering, survival, track.
Now that would be an off the beaten path AP.
One that sounds like a heck of a lot of fun. Especially with all the reboot films making the rounds, time to queue up some Road Warrior/Beyond Thunderdome/Fury Road and get to it!
Making skills other than Disable Device, Knowledge and Perception of significant value in an AP. I like it.
Dreaming Psion |
Errant Mercenary wrote:Turin the Mad wrote:Resource scarcity would be a welcome change of pace.With optional rules on scarcity: conjure food/water not working, same with sustenance style items, long range teleportation blocked, scrying minimal, endure elements minutes/level or reduced effect, focus on preparation. Without making it a tedious checklist. Using those knowledge nature, engineering, survival, track.
Now that would be an off the beaten path AP.
One that sounds like a heck of a lot of fun. Especially with all the reboot films making the rounds, time to queue up some Road Warrior/Beyond Thunderdome/Fury Road and get to it!
Making skills other than Disable Device, Knowledge and Perception of significant value in an AP. I like it.
However unlikely this sort of thing might happen, I would surmise that it would take place in either the Mana Wastes (probably far from Alkenstar) or some backwoods/cursed region of Rahadoum.
Dragon78 |
I just hope the one after Hell's Rebels will be one of the many I would like to see.
Distant Worlds(highly unlikely)
Arcadia(unlikely)
Garund(unlikely)
Azlant(unlikely)
Tian Xia(highly unlikely)
Sarusan(highly unlikely)
Vudra(unlikely)
Hermea(highly unlikely)
First World/Fey(maybe)
Dragon themed(maybe)
Kyonin(done right, maybe)
Dwarf themed(maybe)
Under Water(unlikely)
Dimensional Travel(unlikely)
Time Travel(highly unlikely)
Kaiju themed(unlikely)
City focused(maybe)
Nex/Geb/Mana Waste(unlikely)
Law/Chaos(highly unlikely)
Lovecraft(unlikely)
Cthulhudrew |
The devs have been very tight-lipped about the next AP. There were hints about several of the others before- generalities of intent if not specifics (I noted many references to something involving orcs and Belkzen prior to Giantslayer, for instance), but I haven't seen much of anything about the post-Hell's Rebels AP.
I'm very, very curious.
ladydragona |
The only hints I can remember is what I mentioned in the beginning of this thread. Erik Mona did an interview sometime around thanksgiving on the new Occult adventures book but during it he stated that occult was not the topic of the next AP and that the subject was something special. What that implies is vague I have been looking for that podcast but haven't been able to find it. I think he did it with Brandon Hodge.
Also their were a few mentions at the Gencon press conference last year on what it is not going to be. No Mythic, no Vudra etc. I was hoping some of you all would have heard some hints that I hadn't.
UnArcaneElection |
While still hoping for a Vudra Ap with plenty "impossible" things going on, I agree with the off the beaten path chance.
- low tech
- exploratory
- resource scarcity/harsh environment
Nice idea, except for one problem: Judging from reading these messageboards and several guides, everybody has been conditioned to expect Wealth By Level as an entitlement . . . .
GreyWolfLord |
I have NO idea...but Alkenstar could be a little off the beaten track...and you could fashion something a little non-traditional with the right twists.
I suppose you could a complete underground AP in the Five Kings Mountain area?
Maybe you end up in the Eye of Abendego and have an AP with the results? Maybe it sinks you and you end up having to explore the seas of Golarion and a completely underwater AP?
Hermea could be an interesting AP if explored. Perhaps an evil aligned AP in which evil is good and good is evil? By that I mean, though society is all for the good of people, perhaps it keeps that up by intolerant and militant restrictions that do not let people have freedom...and hence an undercurrent to overthrow that domination of good?
Of course, that's getting very close to a rebellion type idea and perhaps a little close to the upcoming AP to really be there...
But then again, I have no idea what the next AP would be.
Cthulhudrew |
Erik Mona did an interview sometime around thanksgiving on the new Occult adventures book but during it he stated that occult was not the topic of the next AP and that the subject was something special. What that implies is vague I have been looking for that podcast but haven't been able to find it. I think he did it with Brandon Hodge.
Was it this Know Direction podcast?
ladydragona |
Ok I relistened to the interview and he talks about it right at the 1 hour and 2 minute mark.
Basically he implys without saying anything specific that whatever the topic for the next AP is better than using it to help push their new occult book he sounds really exited about it so I am really stoked to find out what it is.
James Jacobs Creative Director |
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I'm pretty sure we HAVE dropped a few hints here and there... but I can and have said this:
Distant Shores has pretty much nothing to do with the next AP.
In any event... we'll announce it at PaizoCon. Which is less than 2 weeks away. I'm pretty sure the first we'll say of it will be at the banquet, and then the next day we'll have more details in some seminars.
EDIT: I do predict some folks will be gobsmacked by the AP. Others will be delighted. Others will be disappointed. Others will be sad. Hopefully most folks will be intrigued and excited about this AP, which, I would say, would indeed fall into the category of (REDACTED) so there's that.
James Jacobs Creative Director |
Well I think that pretty much implies we are going experimental this time if some will be thrilled and some disappointed. So now at least we know that.
Perhaps... although I'd hardly call Giantslayer experimental, and there were plenty of people who were both thrilled and disappointed by that one.
Time will tell... in less than TWO WEEKS!