No that is differently a Goliath Scorpion machine, notice the torso mounted stinger.
Sweet, sweet pic
Finally!
The Iconic Widow Maker Mech!
Well played Moreland !
"A Timber Wolf tarnished by your barbaric freebirth hands is a horrendous thought."
That is SO CRAZY it might have blown my mind...
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The artwork is fantastic, but I really hope this isn't an indication of PF going more sci-fi. I don't mind basic tech in the game, but giant robots? That's not my cup of tea.
The technology that can be found in Numeria has been part of the games we all play since humble the beginnings of D&D.
But never fear, for:
What happens in Numeria, stays in Numeria.
RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8
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"A Timber Wolf tarnished by your barbaric freebirth hands is a horrendous thought."Finally!
The Iconic Widow Maker Mech!
Well played Moreland !
So says the member of Clan: My Little Pony.
Feh, you can keep your clan tech, if I have to, I'll take a ROTS Void-sig Archer to make my point.
(Or just beat you with an X-tech Wolverine, to twist the knife)
"I think we'll need a bigger boat..."
That's a fine piece of artwork, though it brings up the question of why Numeria hasn't conquered all it's neighbors with BattleMechs yet.
Unless those are just defense robots guarding the wrecks...
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"A Timber Wolf tarnished by your barbaric freebirth hands is a horrendous thought."Finally!
The Iconic Widow Maker Mech!
Well played Moreland !
So says the member of Clan: My Little Pony.
Feh, you can keep your clan tech, if I have to, I'll take a ROTS Void-sig Archer to make my point.
(Or just beat you with an X-tech Wolverine, to twist the knife)
As for Lights and Mediums... now... that's a different kettle of fish altogether.
The Archer claim depends on the configuration. If it's the MML Archer refit... yeah sure. If it's one of the weird stealth LRM boats, not so much.
I'd wager a stock CDA-3F or 3G could make a void-sig LRM Archer incredibly uncomfortable. Maybe not win, but definitely make it extremely miserable. I could see a Clan light/medium speed duelist design like the Solitaire or Grendel doing the same.
Great. Now I have Will Smith's "Wild Wild West" running through my head.
Why do I imagine some chick to come in from the left, beat up that big demon robot thing, and then undress and dance to summon some ginormous outsider to tear it to shreds?
So says the member of Clan: My Little Pony.
Feh, you can keep your clan tech, if I have to, I'll take a ROTS Void-sig Archer to make my point.
(Or just beat you with an X-tech Wolverine, to twist the knife)
"Neg, barbarian. Someday your dishonor might allow such a victory, but that day is not today."
A huge thanks to all of you and to Jacobs for not calling for a knife fight when we told him what the numbers were. :)
(In all honesty when Jacobs found out the number he was more than happy to cough up the piece.)
Now, what can we do for November?
Hyrum.
Director of Brand Strategy
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The artwork is fantastic, but I really hope this isn't an indication of PF going more sci-fi. I don't mind basic tech in the game, but giant robots? That's not my cup of tea.
This reaction is partly why James was hesitant to release this as the first preview of the coming World Guide. While this image is awesome, and totally captures the spirit of Numeria, it isn't indicative of the flavor of the rest of the book. Rest assured that we'll be showing off some of the more traditional fantasy art down the road. Not that it'll be of any lower quality, of course.
Awesome. I would love to make some fantasy/tech maps to go along with that!
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The artwork is fantastic, but I really hope this isn't an indication of PF going more sci-fi. I don't mind basic tech in the game, but giant robots? That's not my cup of tea.
As Mark said... this reaction is exactly why I was hesitant about showing off the artwork. We might have 100 new pieces of art, 99 of which are sword & sorcery fantasy, and 1 piece of new art that's science fiction fantasy, but if we show off that 1 piece and not any of the other 99, it makes it look like, to the public, the whole book is filled with robots. Which is patently not the case. There's just as much sci-fi in Golarion now as there was a year ago—that is to say, there's a SIZABLE region in the north central area of Avistan where robots and lasers and flying cars and metal men can be found, "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks" style.
Of course, if this thread is an indication, a lot of folks share Paizo's excitement for this type of genre mixing, and we all know where that kind of synergy leads...
Of course, if this thread is an indication, a lot of folks share Paizo's excitement for this type of genre mixing, and we all know where that kind of synergy leads...
To awesome adventures? :P
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That's a fine piece of artwork, though it brings up the question of why Numeria hasn't conquered all it's neighbors with BattleMechs yet.
First of all... the giant robots are monsters, not resources, for Numeria. They play the same role in Numeria that giants play in Varisia—they're more interested in conflilct with Numeria than the neighbors. Numeria's robots aren't into conquering other nations. At least... not YET!
THAT SAID. Here's another reason why Numeria hasn't conquered its neighbors.
Worldwound: Filled with demons led by things like balor lords.
Mendev: A nation more or less filled with highly trained crusaders backed by one of the Inner Sea region's most powerful religions.
Brevoy: Not only is this region too far away from the robots, but it's filled with armies as well.
River Kingdoms: Too much water; the robots would all rust. (Also, the Outlaw Council and the River Kingdoms' habit of rising up against invasions is pretty rough on invaders, robots or not).
Ustalav: Even robots are afraid of vampires, liches, Hannibal Lecters, and Yog-Sothoth.
OMG!!!!can I now propose PFS scenarios for numeria!!!! I have one ready! I am talking to you Mark!
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The artwork is fantastic, but I really hope this isn't an indication of PF going more sci-fi. I don't mind basic tech in the game, but giant robots? That's not my cup of tea.
I know you've already gotten the official response on this from multiple people, but let me take a fan's perspective: this is a great picture to show us first. It's not great because giant robot = awesome sauce. It's great because it captures the central feature of the Inner Sea region: it's about as heterogeneous as you can get.
There's a land of dark horror. There's a land of totalitarian devil worshipers. There's a land of revolutionaries experimenting with democracy. There's a land of mummies and sand. There's a land of dark secrets in the jungle.
... and yes, there's a land of high tech monsters and wrecked alien spaceships.
The Inner Sea is about, as far as I can tell, exploring every genre of popular RPG fantasy to have contributed to the legacy from which Pathfinder inherits, and that definitely includes fantasy/high tech fusion (obviously starting with roleplaying back in Barrier Peaks, but also owing to classic fantasy literature as far back as Dune and Pern and many, many others right up to the modern day with video game crossover fantasy/SF like World of Warcraft). It would be remiss for Pathfinder to ignore this rich history.
The trick is keeping all of these elements contained enough that any one campaign / AP / scenario can ignore the bits it doesn't want. IMHO, this is why Numeria is located nearby to much of the action of the Inner Sea, yet far enough out that no one HAS to go there or travel through it to get to/from most of the rest of the world.
What's wonderful about this is that bringing all of these genres together lets us explore, not just the individual elements on their own, but how they play together. How do the vampires and liches of Ustalav interact with the democratic revolutionaries of Andoran? What kind of cult(ural) contact exists between Osiria and Cheliax? These boundary interactions bring some really rich story-telling possibilities (on the fiction and roleplaying fronts) to Golarion that most fantasy worlds would have trouble introducing.
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Worldwound: Filled with demons led by things like balor lords.
Now you have me imagining some automaton in Numeria firing up an emergency medical lab to "repair a survivor" recovered from an excursion to the Worldwound. Obviously those horns are some sort of cancerous growth. The bright red skin indicates some sort of radiation exposure. These are all fixable, given time and advanced cloning techniques...
Worldwound: Filled with demons led by things like balor lords.Now you have me imagining some automaton in Numeria firing up an emergency medical lab to "repair a survivor" recovered from an excursion to the Worldwound. Obviously those horns are some sort of cancerous growth. The bright red skin indicates some sort of radiation exposure. These are all fixable, given time and advanced cloning techniques...
Because history has shown us the merging a demonic presence with a machine always works out so well.
Great plot hook.
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Worldwound: Filled with demons led by things like balor lords.Now you have me imagining some automaton in Numeria firing up an emergency medical lab to "repair a survivor" recovered from an excursion to the Worldwound. Obviously those horns are some sort of cancerous growth. The bright red skin indicates some sort of radiation exposure. These are all fixable, given time and advanced cloning techniques...
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We might have 100 new pieces of art, 99 of which are sword & sorcery fantasy, and 1 piece of new art that's science fiction fantasy, but if we show off that 1 piece and not any of the other 99, it makes it look like, to the public, the whole book is filled with robots. Which is patently not the case.
That said, I would love a book for pathfinder full of robots!!!!
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We might have 100 new pieces of art, 99 of which are sword & sorcery fantasy, and 1 piece of new art that's science fiction fantasy, but if we show off that 1 piece and not any of the other 99, it makes it look like, to the public, the whole book is filled with robots. Which is patently not the case.That said, I would love a book for pathfinder full of robots!!!!
It'd be easier for us to send you a box full of robots. We're still struggling to perfect robots thin enough to be placed inside of a book.