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Whatever did happen to this product line? Are there any further plans on continuing it?

I always did like the extra tidbits of content at the end of the comic.

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It has 4 new races, 3 new archetypes, 1 new class, several feats/magical items, 4 new creatures and slightly more.

Though I'd like to know what the type/subtype of the Esufey are, and can they fly? They say they may have wings.

The new class is known as Omdar/Omdura. It's a 6th level Spontaneous Diving Cha Caster using the Cleric/Inquisitor list.

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It has 4 new races, 3 new archetypes, 1 new class, several feats/magical items, 4 new creatures and slightly more.

Though I'd like to know what the type/subtype of the Esufey are, and can they fly? They say they may have wings.

The new class is known as Omdar/Omdura. It's a 6th level Spontaneous Diving Cha Caster using the Cleric/Inquisitor list.

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One way to make the Signature Skill and Rogue's Edge more enticing as a feature is to have choices.
Sure you have the choice of what skill you want to focus in, but the problem is that some choices at certain ranks just don't appeal to your character.

It could even come in the way of a new usage of a skill, similar to Occult Skill Unlocks or how Spymaster's Handbook added new uses of Skills.

E.g.
Heal:
5 Ranks: The DC to provide First Aid is reduced by 5.
10 Ranks: When treating Diseases/Poisons, the competence bonus provided is increase by 2.
15 Ranks: Any Heal task which requires a duration longer than a standard action is halved.
20 Ranks: Healer's Kit uses are not consumed upon usage and you may perform Heal tasks without one at no penalty.

Diplomacy:
5 Ranks: Add 1.5 times your Charisma bonus to your Diplomacy check.
10 Ranks: When you use the Aid Another action, the bonus you provide is increased by 1.
15 Ranks: After a minute of knowing a humanoid, you can appeal to the humanoid (as Charm Person, but language-dependent), by attempting a Diplomacy check at a -20 penalty opposed by the humanoid's bluff. Treat your Ranks as the CL.
20 Ranks: You can draw the attention of a crowd (as the Bard's Fascinate Bardic Performance, except language-dependent) Treat your ranks as Bard levels for this.

Steath:
20 Ranks: Gain +1d6 Sneak Attack. This becomes +2d6 when the Enemy is unaware of you.

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The items are still pending on my account, is it Humble Bundle's, Dynamite Comic's or Paizo's side that is responsible for shipping the items?

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Well I've seen some ideas thrown about for poison/disease card decks, that those are cool too, but within the Golarion setting I was wondering if Paizo could release:


  • Country/Location Cards: with info on their sizes, capital, ruler, alignment. This would help make learning about Golarion easier. I've had players who had difficulty getting into lore cause reading just isn't what they're looking for in games. But if we condensed information into bite sized cards, they could get into it easier. There's 28 nations of so in Avistan alone, not counting the lost kingdoms, which there'll be a player companion for soon. There's also the 3 layers of the Darklands, the planes and other planets to consider for possible locations.
  • Deity Cards: alignment, favored weapon/colour/animal, even obedience if there's space, maybe at the back perhaps. Not everyone plays divine classes or memorized the deity list. It might help, especially for newer players on knowing who the deities are since they usually play a big part in many campaigns. Most of the Pathfinder Accessory Card Decks come with 52 cards, the trouble of course is picking which of the deities make it into this deck.
  • Character Creation Cards: now this is mostly geared towards newer players, but one of the more time-consuming things for new players is creating a new character, usually due to the sheer amount of choices. So a few cards acting as an outline to the steps required to create a Pathfinder Characters, so race, class, feats, traits. 7 cards dedicated to the 7 core races. Cards depicting different classes and what they're good at. I'm not too sure what else this deck can have that wouldn't copy from the Rules Reference Deck.
  • Races Deck: Pathfinder has a good number of races (around 80 last I counted, not counting sub-races). A Race deck could be useful for GMs to quickly make up NPCs, or for experienced players to have a little fun by drawing a random race out of the deck and forming a character around the race they drew.

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Maybe this gets answered in Planar Adventures, maybe it doesn't, might as well make a thread and speculate.

1st question: So there's about 20 planes that aren't called demiplanes. (4 elemental, 2 energy, material/shadow/first, ethereal/astral, 9 alignment)
But are these planes considered major to everyone or just from the perspective of Golarion?

If its the latter, are these planes only significant due to the Golarion worshiping the gods living there?
If it's the former, then I have nitpick. There's a discrepancy on the amount of gods in different planes. Evil deities don't strike me as the sort to cohabitate with each other.

2nd question: Some forum posters have noted that there's a large number of evil deities. But most of them are demigods and are killable by PCs by normal means.(Archaekek wasn't meant to have a statblock)
The number of roughly 270 Evil deities vs 98 Good deities, drops drastically to 31 Evil true deities vs 29 Good deities. I'm going to make a rather large assumption, but from what I understand, most of the good-aligned deities stay in the good planes. Whereas the evil deities are relatively spread out and not associated with each other.
There's only demon true deity in The Abyss, that's Lamashtu, and unless any stronger Qlippoths appear, a good majority of the Abyss seems up for grabs for any real deity to stroll in and take over. It's not like Lamashtu has any reason to protect other demon lords, unless she prefers fighting demons over other creatures.
How about Abaddon. The thing that strikes me is that it seems Urgathoa and Zyphus are living in the Horsemen's realm, even though they are true deities and the horsemen are just 4 demigods. Sure, I can maybe see that Urgathoa or Zyphus doesn't have aspirations to own a plane. But how did it come to be that 4 demigods own an entire plane, but the Abyss is shared by countless demigods. Does Urgathoa keep trespassers out in exchange for territory?

3rd question:
Hell - Asmodeus, Archaekek, Minderhal (3)
Abaddon - Urgathoa, Zyphus (2)
Abyss - Lamashtu (1)
Axis - Norgorber (1)
Material - Rovagug, Ydersius, Nhimbaloth, Nyalathotep, Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth (6)
Ethereal - Camazots, Ghlauder (2)
Shadow - Zon-Kuthon (1)
??? - Lissala, Dhalavei, Droskar, Dahak, Urazra, Scal, Sicva, Ulon, Fumeiyoshi, General Susumu, Lao Shu Po, Yaezhing, Apep, Set (14)

Where exactly do these other deities live. I listed evil deities because I can imagine they don't play nicely with other people by nature of their alignment. Norgorber's realm surprised me.

4th question:
Are pantheons really more or less just cliques for Gods. When the Osirian Pantheon shifted their focus away from Golarion due to their worship falling out of favour, was it a group effort that they all moved or just something that each of them gradually did, independent of each other. Or like the Elven, Vudrani, Tian Xia pantheons, are they like a group package in that they interact mostly solely with each other. Just like how the Dwarven Pantheon keeps to themselves, letting Torag do most of the interactions outside of the group.

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How come there isn't a Pathfinder Comics subforum yet?

Will Pathfinder Comics material be Society Legal?

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As of the Worldscape One-Shot: Lord of the Jungle, two Roman demigods Romulus and Remus have been introduced.

But with their introduction, do you think more of Earth's other deities will follow? (I know of Osirion and Egyptian deities, I'm still waiting for them to be further fleshed out in Golarion lore.)


I've been recording down a list of languages, deities and races within Pathfinder content.

Google Sheet Link

Don't be afraid to contact me if you notice any errors or if I've missed anything.

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Or combine it with Pathfinder Tales, at least.


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Did I miss any languages out?

Google Sheet Link

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In the latest blog post, they posted the domains and favored weapons of Acavna and Amaznen. Aroden himself has had an entry too.
Are there other dead deities with information on their domains or favored weapons?

Bonus question, Shelyn and Lissala has a change in favored weapon and alignment over time. What other gods had these changes?

I'm calling these Deity Variants until a better name comes along.

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Imagine if classes were specialized to specific combat maneuvers just like they are now with Class Skills. It can come in the form of not triggering AOO, or giving the improved feat or a flat +3 like class skills.

So e.g., Rogues get a +3 to Steal and Dirty Trick checks. Barbarians get +3 to Bull Rush, Sunder, Drag and Overrun. Monks could get all Combat Maneuvers as class maneuvers. Swashbucklers get +3 to Disarm and Trip. Etc.

Whereas the casting classes wouldn't have much if any class maneuvers.

This would buff martials a bit and give more incentive to use combat maneuvers outside of specifically building into it.

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Dhalavei has Asura servants, the same alignment as Asuras, and has similar motives in that both want to destroy the universe systematically.

So is Dhalavei an Asura goddess in the same way that Zon-Kuthon is a Kyton God?

Also, Camazot's realm is said to be Xibalba, the same place where Sahkils live. It's said that one of his main areas of concern is fear, which is also a sahkil thing, so is he related to the sahkils? Or is it just a shared residence similar to how Urgathoa and Zyphus are roommates with the daemons and horsemen.

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I know there's Walkena from Undead Unleashed, and the two hero-gods from Distant Shores.

Are there any others?

Or any other form of Quasi-deities. (Deities that grant 3 or less domains)

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In Kingmaker: Rivers Run Red (Part 2), Ceratioidi have their own language called Ceratioidi.

Then in Bestiary 3, which came out later, the Ceratioidi speak Aquan instead of Ceratioidi now.

Cause I'm compiling a list of languages in Pathfinder and I want to know if Ceratioidi has been retconned.

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There's a Pathfinder Roleplaying Guide Supplement book from the Vampire Hunter D Kickstarter.

and a Niobe Pathfinder Paizo Roleplaying game module from the Niobe Kickstarter.

But other than that, is there other books? And is there any way to get the Vampire Hunter D book. The Kickstarter has ended, so I can't pledge for it anymore.

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Currently there are no mechanics involving worshipping a group of Gods, though certain characters, such as Oracles are encouraged to do so, but there is little benefit to do so despite these Deities easily being grouped up by alignment, or by race or by plane.

In real life, there are religions that pray to a group of Gods. They pray to specific Gods in different situations but they venerate the pantheon as a whole. Why should polytheism be lesser than monotheism?

In Pathfinder, unless you worship a core god, it's very difficult to have much interaction between your deity and NPCs beyond surface level stuff. If someone worships Pazuzu or Dagon, and your character knows who those deities are, would you treat worshippers of either differently or just clump them together. Same goes for worshipping Kurgress or Immonhiel, do you get treated differently despite one just being an Empyreal Lord and the other being a Demigod? Point being with such a large amount of deities, unless you worship a core god, there's not much flavourful difference, unless you group up similar deities into pantheons.

Certain Pantheons would have a general alignment to them. Like Archdevils or the Hell Plane are all Lawful Evil. The Eldest are generally True Neutral. Goblin Hero-Gods are generally Neutral Evil. And the Elven Deities are generally Chaotic Good. So followers of a pantheon would still abide generally by the majority alignment of the deities. Deities can belong to more than one pantheon.

Just because there are evil gods in a pantheon does not mean you worship evil. You recognise the traits that the evil deity has and his relation to the other deities. You are loyal to the pantheon's alignment and worship it as a whole.

Crunch-wise, a pantheon could offer another way to have domains and subdomains without the need to create extra deities. This would add on to the existing deity system and flesh out the existing ones. New obediences and boons could be created for worshipping a pantheon. Instead of Deific Obedience, it would be Polytheic Obedience. They would otherwise be identical in function to Deities. They can have their own unique spell/summon rules, traits, archetypes.

Fluff-wise, groups of gods are already normally put together in Golarion. Would it be out of place for a farmer to pray to Erastil for a good harvest, and to Pharasma for his pregnant wife. Or a Paladin to dedicate himself to the forces of Heaven, representing the Lawful Good Empyreal Lords. Or an Elven Ranger to pledge himself to the Elven Gods.

You could assign traits/flavour to what kind of person worships the Gods of different Pantheons, like Nirvana or the Eldest. Single Deity worshippers could see Pantheon worshippers as undecided and uncommited, but regarded an ally compared to worshippers of other gods from other pantheons. Most NPCs would be unaware of obscure​ deities, but they could know about the pantheons they belong to. They may not know who Dagon is, but they will know what Demon or Fiend Worship is. It opens up more conversation, rather than "I have not heard of such a deity."