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Does anyone know if the psychopomp ushers would be in this? I started reading about them and I'd like to see them updated. Plus if they're in this book we could get Yivali's commentary on them as psychopomps, which would be neat.

They're confirmed to be in it yup

LotsOfLore wrote:

Curmudgeonly wrote:

Hey Aaron, any word on an updated PDF?

Still nothing on this front ?

By the way, I just bought Howl of the Wild and it's spectacular, no issues with the pdf. So it seems that this was a tragic occurrence limited to Rage of the Elements...
I will keep waiting, my finger on the pdf buy button xD

Note that Aaron is not working for Paizo anymore, and he was the only one looking at the forums outside of moderating. (And he was ddoing it off the clock more often than not...)

The best way to get an answer would be to contact Customer Support.

Damn that sucks, Aaron was great

The_Minstrel_Wyrm wrote:

Just wondering if the recently announced "Spore War" high level AP (also a 3 part adventure path I believe) ... <snip>

Could this be the "Treerazer" AP!?? Σ(0o0)

it is, yeah. It's about Treerazer finally deciding to try and take over all of Kyonin and the PCs trying to stop him.

Yakman wrote:

Are there going to be premades? High level PC creation is a lot of work, even in 2E.

Nope. You'll be making your own PCs for this one, but we do include some advice at the start of the adventure for your GM to use and share to help create characters for this one.

Is this going to be on the level of what was done for 7 dooms (which was fantastic by the way), or more simplistic?

Are there any other published adventures/aps that you would recommend for getting PCs up to level for this?

“I invite you to visit Droon!”

*punching ground*

I want to! I WANT TO SO BAD!

I'm really hoping that the droon teasers in this are bread crumbs for a soon-to-be-announced southern garund lost omens book, its a region of the world we've really never explored in anything 1e or 2e. We know more about Akiton than we do about southern garund lol

I'm certain that when Secrets of Magic, Guns and Gears, and Dark Archive go out of print they will errata and reprint them in accordance with the remaster. The big question is, are we anywhere close to that? Is that like a next year thing, or a 5 years away thing?

IS there any reason specifically that they didn't do settlement stat blocks in this? Is that a remaster thing?

have we figured out all 7 dooms yet?

Isn't War of Immortals set to be a 1-20? I thought I recalled that as part of the announcement, but it could be my assumptions running away with me.

War of Immortals is a sourcebook, not an adventure

oh hyped to actually see conrasu in something, if thats actually the final cover art and not just a placeholder

Hazelnut51 wrote:

I'm sure this has been answered somewhere before, but when November comes around and it's time for the Rulebook subscription to do its thing, will it charge me for both books and shipping at once, then send them out together, or will it be one than the other a bit latter?

They both be charged and sent together.

Appreciate the pirate speak Aaron ;)

Man, literally 'how the worm turns' out to be apparently awesome.

It'd be neat if it wasn't a Conqueror Worm, but just, like, this Worm, you know, hangin' out, doin' worm things and *bam* "Who the frak is dinging the clingcling on MY cave system?"

She's not a conqueror worm, she's a cave worm - there's an article about them in SKT 2.

Aaron Shanks wrote:

Update: This Harrow Deck has been moved from May to June 2023. We are not making a PDF/JPG version. We are in discussions with licensed partners and will say more at PaizoCon.

Correction. We are now planning offer a PDF/JPG version on release day. :)

Much appreciated Aaron, thanks!!

Regarding the Pathfinder Rage of Elements PDF: on full screen (27"), nothing is pixelated or unreadable. We consider the product to be acceptable, but we'd like to better, if we can.

The constraint is the file size vs our current upload system. We had to run a second compression on it because, using our normal method, the original file is too big to be uploaded to our site. We are looking into getting a higher res version, that is also small enough to upload, but we don't know if or when that will happen.

Therefore, we have no immediate file update planned.

Will this be fixed with the switch over to the new website that is planned?

As I've been away for awhile but is there a reason Droskars entry was omitted but their entry in the Avatar and Pantheon section is there?

I believe its because Droskar already got a full write-up in Age of Ashes 4 (Fires of the haunted city).

There's also some value in making the number of places you need to look for "all the druid feats" manageable instead of having them spread across 18 different books.

you can find every druid feat ever printed in any book all in one place on AON for free though, so not really sure that this is a pertinent argument.

No, thanks, I'd prefer the game to grow horizontally, not vertically.

I disagree with this. I can only play one class at a time, so if I'm in the middle of a game adding new classes does functionally nothing for me, as cool as it is. More feats for my current class, however, are absolutely super valuable and provide more options for me to grow my character.

yak117 wrote:

Are there any plans for this to go back into print?

Not at this time, as far as I'm aware. We typically don't reprint individual volumes of softcover books.

Any plans for an Age of Ashes hardcover? I love this AP, one of the best thats been printed, but it could also definitely use a balance pass lol.

StarlingSweeter wrote:

I love backmatter articles so much I just wish there was a way to easily know what was in which AP. For example Bloodlords has an entire fleshed out section on Hags and Covens which would be incredibly useful to anyone planning a story around them but how are they supposed to know to find them in the back of Book 2 of Bloodlords? Or the entire Op-ed on shadows in the 3rd.

Like I was doing some research on the religion of Urgathoa only to find out some of the most detail written about her isnt in Gods and Magic (though you can find some great stuff there) but in book 5 of the Carrion Crown Ashes at dawn.

The best way I've figured is to look at the pathfinder wiki and look at the sources in the article but that isnt flawless.

TLDR: I love backmatter articles a lot please let me find them easier

On 2e AON at least, there's a page showing the titles of every back matter article under... Sources? I think.

Yup, they're all listed and searchable here on AON:

https://2e.aonprd.com/Articles.aspx

Within the last month, I spent over $1000 on books to switch my group over to Pathfinder. This feels like a slap in the face.

Nothing stopping you from using those books. They are completely forward and backward compatible, and even if they weren't you don't need the company's permission to use your books lol. There is literally no downside to this for existing players who already own books, its only upside for new players, so I really don't know why people are complaining about it.

MMCJawa wrote:

Paizo has always held to the "5 dragons per theme" rule. So unless they are doing some retconning and reorganization of dragons not sure we will see completely new types for the two planes

"The god of humanity is dead and prophecy is broken..."

This is very amusing in hindsight, given what we know now about dragons in Monster Core

stream is live for those who want more answers

https://www.twitch.tv/officialpaizo

For people wondering about significant class reworks, the description of Player Core 1 says this:

including revisions to the witch

and Player Core 2 says this:

including a revised alchemist, champion, and oracle!

So the two biggest suspects are getting major revisions, plus champion (probably because of alignment) and - the only one that surprises me - Oracle, which I thought was a phenomenal class already.

sucks that there's no digital version for these, as everyone has said. I hope Paizo can maybe reconsider in the future.

voyaging across the waters of the lake... does that sound to anyone else like a seafaring piece of the adventure? very excited for that if so

As far as we know has this been delayed?

I'm guessing from the fact that Ly'ualdre is posting chapter titles that the pdf has gone out to subscribers, so I would imagine no. They've never distributed the pdf before they were ready to distribute the physical copies.

Paizo says there are supposed to be 4 LO books per year - one every quarter. We only know two of them (KoL and TG) so there is definitely still room for this book.

No word yet on either a Technology book or a sailing one - we have most of 2022’s releases sketched out already (a year heavy on spooky stuff, weirdness, and undead), with store pages up for all of them.

assuming they continue their goal of 4 lost omens and 3 rulebooks per year, we still have 3 more lost omens and 1 more rulebook to hear about for 2022. One of those Lost Omens is probably Impossible Lands, but thats still only 4/7 major books of the year that we know about.

I'm not sure about some of your decisions. Specifically, needing to complete outlaws of alkenstar to gain access to Guns and Gears, and needing to complete bloodlords to access book of the dead, seem like mistakes to me. Its strongly implied that PCs in bloodlords will benefit from being undead, something they can only be using BotD, and I think not allowing PCs in alkenstar to be gunslingers is a mistake. Maybe have these books unlock at the same time as their connected adventures?

KaiBlob1 wrote:

Feros wrote:

I just got the PDF as my subscriptions came through. The location numbers from the guide are all there. It is glorious. :)

Awesome, I was hoping it wasn'tjust the same map that came with the book printed bigger.

Nope! And there is a complete location index on the inside of the folio cover so it doesn't mar the map!

Wow. I feel like maybe they should've done some more marketing of this, I think if people knew what it was going to include (and that it wasn't just an enlarged version of an image we've gotten several times before) many more people would've been interested.

I just got the PDF as my subscriptions came through. The location numbers from the guide are all there. It is glorious. :)

Awesome, I was hoping it wasn'tjust the same map that came with the book printed bigger.

yeah looking at the reddit post it seems obvious, especially with that fact that the ball happens on the same day as Razimiran was founded.

What do y'all think this is leading to? Maybe an AP or a high-level standalone adventure. I hope its not a pathfinder society thing.

** spoiler omitted **

what makes you say that?

So, I was recently watching the msot recent Paizo Live, and in it Erik Mona's paizo live spoiler is that:

I would pay particular attention to the company that some of the prominent elder generation of Blakroses have been keeping recently, perhaps behind their husband's back, and that may lead to some additional clues about the true identity of a particularly charming gentleman who was first introduced... well, I'm not going to say when he was first introduced, that's too many clues. [...] Its a BIGGG deal.

So I did some digging on this big deal and I am 100% certain that he is referring to lord Synarr Diadalos, a new friend of Lady Dhrami Blakros, the wife of the curator of Blakros Museum. He was first introduced I believe in this tale of lost omens where it is shown that he is a potential starstone aspirant. He is also listed in the villians section of the NPC index at the end of the Absalom book, despite nothing obviously villanous being mentioned about him in either source. He is also listed as a level 19 human wizard.

His house, Starspine Manor, mysteriously appeared in the Ivy district one day, pushing apart two houses that had previously been together.This house was also the site of a large and popular masquerade ball last year which he has apparently promised to make an annual tradition.

The Absalom book also says he has been spending time with Tontartigan Dellby, the headmaster of Absalom's Endiron School, for some unknown reason. he is also a fashion enthusiast, a patron of the arts, and a regular customer at several renowned Absalom restaurants.

Finally, the most interesting thing I picked up about him is this line, written at the end of the Open Game License section at the very end of the book:

Lord Synarr is not who he says he is!

So what do you all make of this? This is clearly building to something big, but what specifically I have no idea. Maybe Snyarr will succeed and Golarion will have a new god some time in the near future? Maybe that masquerade ball he's planning will be an adventure?

we might get an announcement at paizocon in May

Oh wow yeah I didn’t even look at the price, that’s huge, especially because it’s only half the length of a rule book. Any explanation for this?

Ayy my point about small fleshwarps made it in

whats the highest level creature in the book?

since you didnt answer it before:

Are there rules for if a previously livingplayer character dies and becomes undead (ie how to handle the transition, stat changes, etc)?

are the effects of agents of edgewatch/the radiant festival discussed in the precipice quarter chapter or elsewhere in the book?

how much is there on the undercity?

god this book sounds so fantastic

The book is about to be sent to the printer. I’ll take a look at the final PDF for the first time next week. We are of the opinion that spoilers and previews via blogs aren’t what we’re looking for because they’re not evergreen. Buuuuuuut, how do you feel about an early AMA Q&A here on the product page? Try something new for 2022?

sounds great.

Are there rules for if a previously livingplayer character dies and becomes undead (ie how to handle the transition, stat changes, etc)?

With the concept and mechanics of "Blood Magic" being cut from Secrets of Magic, I wonder if it might be in Book of the Dead or The Dark Archives?

I think one or the other is quite likely - Logan Bonner was asked on discord during paizocon about whether they would release it as a free web supplement and he said that they already have an idea where it might go, which means something in production at that time, which almost certainly is either BotD or DA.

Noticed we didn't have a thread for this yet, so what is everyone hyped about for Dark Archive? Thus far we know:

2 New classes:
* Thaumaturge - magical non-caster that uses various "implements" to perform tasks; "the best" at recall knowledge and finding weaknesses. Cha main ability
* Psychic - spontaneous occult caster that uses either emotion or logic to cast spells; has other "strange powers" as well as spellcasting. Either Int or Cha main ability

8 treatises from the pathfinder society's Dark Archive, including:
* Cryptids
* secret societies
* temporal anomalies

Also includes one-page short articles about more specific paranormal/occult things, specific magic items were mentioned here.

So what are people's hopes, dreams, and other expectations for this book?

I wonder if blood lords will have a stipulation requiring you to play as an undead ancestry. IF so it would be the first pf2 AP to have hard restrictions on player options.

Care to comment on the recent drama, or if you already have do you have the link to it? You're probably the person I respect the most at paizo (and it seems not even the worst of the threads had anything bad to say about you) so I'm curious as to your perspective/opinion on these issues before I take any kind of action

Rysky wrote:

Yeah we kinda have to get Witchwyrds at some point, if not playable at least in a bestiary simply because Katapesh still exists.

There's a monster statblock for them on AoN, apparently printed in Age of Ashes #5. It has them as a level 6 arcane caster, capable of snatching magic missiles out of the air and throwing them back.

Also reprinted in Bestiary 2 on page 294

im excited to see monsters we've never heard about before

many celestials do serve specific good deities (sarenrae, desna, iomedae, and shelyn all have specific angel/azata/archon servitors, etc), but they don't have to.

Its important to remember that your eidolon doesn't blindly serve you - it is a creature of its own, with its own thoughts and opinions. It is bound to your will and thus will do what you tell it to, but it has its own plans and views and will likely express them to you, especially if it disagrees with you.

Summoner: "go save that guy falling off of a cliff"
demon eidolon: "don't you think it would be more fun to let him fall?"
Summoner: "no, go save him!"
demon eidolon: "fine"