Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia World Guide

Announced for April 2024! Product image and description are NOT final and may be subject to change.

Awesome list of authors. This will be a must have and a welcome update of the old book.

When will the Lost Omens subscription be updated so I can start with this? This will be joining my collection, and I already have Highhelm.

What a lovely birthday gift for me!

Huzzah! On my birth month! :P

Still bit confused on whether tian xia is split into regions or if continent isn't using meta regions at all :O

Still bit confused on whether tian xia is split into regions or if continent isn't using meta regions at all :O

If I remember correctly, Tian Xia doesn’t have meta-regions; they were a contrivance for the 2e core and LOWG’s organization that proved to work quite well, and then Arcadia being mostly blank-slate meant they could intentionally design meta-regions from the ground up.

While I bet you probably could carve Tian Xia up the same way, my own attempts have always felt like forcing it.

It does feel bit inconsistent with other continents having them, but I guess its okay as long each of countries do get good amount of content each of them since meta regions did have benefit of "well, alkenstar wouldn't really gets its own setting book, but impossible lands could"

Especially since Tian Xia had like... 26 countries not counting darklands?

It does feel bit inconsistent with other continents having them, but I guess its okay as long each of countries do get good amount of content each of them since meta regions did have benefit of "well, alkenstar wouldn't really gets its own setting book, but impossible lands could"

Especially since Tian Xia had like... 26 countries not counting darklands?

Entirely speculation here, but the book is called "Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia World Guide" like the original World Guide setting book, as opposed to "Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia" like Mwangi or Impossible Lands. Could be purposeful, signaling that more regionally focused books can now start coming from this part of the world. It also could just be an entirely different style of book. I hope it's the former though, this book is ever so slightly shorter than Mwangi and it'd be a shame if this was the only big setting release we got for Tian Xia.

CorvusMask wrote:

It does feel bit inconsistent with other continents having them, but I guess its okay as long each of countries do get good amount of content each of them since meta regions did have benefit of "well, alkenstar wouldn't really gets its own setting book, but impossible lands could"

Especially since Tian Xia had like... 26 countries not counting darklands?

Entirely speculation here, but the book is called "Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia World Guide" like the original World Guide setting book, as opposed to "Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia" like Mwangi or Impossible Lands. Could be purposeful, signaling that more regionally focused books can now start coming from this part of the world. It also could just be an entirely different style of book. I hope it's the former though, this book is ever so slightly shorter than Mwangi and it'd be a shame if this was the only big setting release we got for Tian Xia.

I think this will be all for the time being. And if this book sells well, it will give more incentive to make additional books about Tian Xia.

There was talk of potentially doing Travel Guides for other continents if the first one sold well, and it gets exponentially easier for the team to do further Tian APs with the setting actually written - I’d expect both of those before something like a “Lost Omens: Minkai” deep dive.

OOOH

There was talk of potentially doing Travel Guides for other continents if the first one sold well, and it gets exponentially easier for the team to do further Tian APs with the setting actually written - I’d expect both of those before something like a “Lost Omens: Minkai” deep dive.

I'd buy the f@$~ out of that book though

This book will not have the ancestry information, correct?

This book will not have the ancestry information, correct?

The new ancestries will be in the Lost Omens Tian Xia Character Guide.

Thanks for the information.

super excited for this! going to mine it heavily for the Asian inspired part of my own setting hopefully each country gets a decent amount of pages for information . just wish we didn't have to wait till August for the character guide

This and the other book regarding Tian Xia are what got me to start a Lost Omens subscription. I am looking forward to the releases.

Is there any way to subscribe/get the pdf and get the special edition version?

That would be the Special Edition Subscription option.

That would be the Special Edition Subscription option.

Thank you!

Gods I wish I had my hands on this book already.

The Character Guide too.

Will there be new monsters?

Will there be new monsters?

Yes, there are over 20 pages in the Bestiary Chapter—all published under the ORC and in the remastered format.

There are some pretty great rulebooks coming out in 2024!

Me checking every day to make sure there wasn't a glitch in the matrix and the book is actually being released today

Any idea whether this setting book will spoil any relevant plot threads in Season of Ghosts? Just wondering if I can recommend this setting book to my players.

Any idea whether this setting book will spoil any relevant plot threads in Season of Ghosts? Just wondering if I can recommend this setting book to my players.

The (initial) goal, before the remaster kerfuffle, was to have the books release closer to the AP, so they would support each others. They are indeed very great books for your players.

I'm excited to be getting this one soon, it'll be fun to read all the entries for places, and I'm excited for the 20-or-so pages of monsters, I'm hoping that there's another Oni or two in there.

When is the character guide set for release?

When is the character guide set for release?

Looks like it got stealth-updated for an August release. Alas!

:(

Got my PDF, but is there a reason it's 350MB in size?

Also curious numbering for the book, being PZO13001. Are we getting a revised Campaign Core book as PZO13000?

Got my PDF, but is there a reason it's 350MB in size?

Also curious numbering for the book, being PZO13001. Are we getting a revised Campaign Core book as PZO13000?

Paizo always starts new "lines" with 1 (at least since second edition). The core rule book number ends with 1 (PZO2101). The very first Lost Omen book started with 1 too (PZO9301).

Weeping waiting for my pdf to arrive

Got my PDF, but is there a reason it's 350MB in size?

Also curious numbering for the book, being PZO13001. Are we getting a revised Campaign Core book as PZO13000?

Ooh, nice! Anything stand out to you as really cool or exciting?

Got my PDF, but is there a reason it's 350MB in size?

Also curious numbering for the book, being PZO13001. Are we getting a revised Campaign Core book as PZO13000?

Since around 2021 I wanna say, file sizes have been balooningi n size compared to how they used to look. Rage of Elements included an attempt at fixing that, but somehow it just ended up super low-res while still barely being the size they ued to be.

Shamus Nicholson wrote:

Will there be new monsters?

Yes, there are over 20 pages in the Bestiary Chapter—all published under the ORC and in the remastered format.

What monsters are included in those 20+ pages? Kami? More oni? Kappa?

Kvantum wrote:

Got my PDF, but is there a reason it's 350MB in size?

Also curious numbering for the book, being PZO13001. Are we getting a revised Campaign Core book as PZO13000?

Since around 2021 I wanna say, file sizes have been balooningi n size compared to how they used to look. Rage of Elements included an attempt at fixing that, but somehow it just ended up super low-res while still barely being the size they ued to be.

The PDF for Mwangi Expanse is only half the size of this one and that was the previous largest one I've got, even being a Superscriber.

So I notice that the product description promises a poster map, but the PDF I received yesterday does not appear to have one. Did it just get missed on the digital version by mistake, or is there not a poster map after all? It’s be a total bummer if so.

Got my PDF, but is there a reason it's 350MB in size?

Also curious numbering for the book, being PZO13001. Are we getting a revised Campaign Core book as PZO13000?

Does this book have Tian Xia Darklands guide or only surface nations? How many pages for each nation in medium? Do we have description of local culturs of core races, like we have in Mwangi with Matanji or Mualijae?

MY BOOK SHIPPED!

*Yes!*

Darklands get a section, with descriptions of several subterranean nations within.

Each section is about 8 pages, though some that incorporate a neighboring non-nation geographic region (like Minkai and the Forest of Spirits, or Xidao and the oceans) are longer on account of including the latter.

There's no bespoke ancestry descriptions (though all the ancestries we know are coming in the followup book are mentioned and integrated throughout) - those might be in the Character Guide.

*Looking at the map* Ooh, there are names I don’t recognize on here.

With the release of Tian Xia, I was looking forward to the Anito. However after reviewing the PDF, it appears that the Anito were not given a stat block or guidance on how to run in a game. Only that they are "nature spirits". Which is unfortunate as there isn't a "nature spirit" category like there is for spirit guides or house spirits. I wonder if this was missed by mistake or would be in the character guide in August?

Is that Shelyn sitting with Kofusachi on page 20?

Really intrigued by the *old, old* lore so far, and my brain invented what is probably a false connection to Starfinder.

If anyone has any questions feel free to ask me.

If anyone has any questions feel free to ask me.

Which critters are in the bestiary section (name, level, traits)?

VerBeeker wrote:

If anyone has any questions feel free to ask me.

Which critters are in the bestiary section (name, level, traits)?