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The Player's Guide for Myth-Speakers has been released. A 1-11 AP set in Ibyldos, and it's the first Mythic AP of the edition! To quote the product page:

The port of Bailax hosts lavish funeral games for a recently deceased hero, inviting all to compete for prizes and glory. When the adventurers investigate an ominous omen that interrupts the festivities, what they find won’t just transform them into mythic hero-gods, but also will incite Bailax to violent revelry and arson. Can the new hero-gods stop the city from self destruction?

So there's a lot of different people who could get dragged in to this plot.

(Bonus idea: come up with a Homeric epithet or two for your characters as well - it would suit the Ancient Greek vibes perfectly!)

So, I was looking at doing some scroll shenanigans, as one does, and I had a look at the Scroll Thaumaturgy Feat.

Your multidisciplinary study of magic means you know how to activate the magic in scrolls with ease. You can activate scrolls of any magical tradition, using your thaumaturge class DC for the scroll's DC, rather than a particular spell DC. If a spell is on the spell list for multiple traditions, you choose which tradition to use at the time you activate the scroll. You can draw and activate scrolls with the same hand holding an implement, much like you can for esoterica.

If your skill proficiency would give you a better spell DC than your Thaumaturge Class DC, can you use that higher DC with Scroll Thaumaturgy's ability to bypass Trick Magic Item?

So, I honestly thought someone else would beat me to making this thread, but apparently we've gotten all the way past book 1's release without it! The Player's Guide gives a pretty broad variety of options, considering one could be a hero from pretty much anywhere in the Inner Sea, as long as your character cares at least a little about Kyonin.

I've got two ideas right now - the first is a Aiuvarin Gnome Fey sorcerer, inspired by a fun cover of the ballad Tam Lin (amusingly, the elven parent is actually the Tam Lin equivalent, the gnome is the one who gathered up the family lore, and went and tricked a faerie queen). A second-generation adventurer feels like a fun dynamic to play with, and I haven't given sorcerer a go yet.

The other option I'm considering is a leaf order druid fungus leshy named Hyphae Song - the player's guide mentions that a lot of fungus leshies have a bad rap in Kyonin, for Treerazer-related reasons, but one of the (many) cool things fungus do, IRL, is act as symbiotes to trees, both helping them absorb nutrients, and to communicate with the rest of the forest. Playing about with that in the Fungus Demon AP seemed like an interesting time.

So, what sort of heroes are you thinking of bringing, and are they new characters or returning from a previous AP?

Alright, now that the Curtain Call Player's Guide is out, what kind of characters are people interested in bringing to this AP? It seems like it'll be best experienced with a party consisting of both Belkzen natives and foreign diplomats, which is cool.

The idea I'm most interested in is an Exemplar who was once a symbol or tool of Gorum's faithful, awakened to sapience by gaining a shard of Gorum's power, using one of tsukogami poppet, object yaoguai (for a former magic sword or holy symbol), or potentially automaton (for a statue brought to life) as a base, with the choice probably coming down to what Exemplar ends up looking like (please may we have an unarmed strike supporting ikon)

Any particular class options people are really hoping to see in the future? Like, druid orders, rogue rackets, barbarian instincts or anything? There's a fair few conceptual spaces from first edition that don't have any equivalent in the new edition, or just crazy new things that haven't been done at all yet.

I personally really want to see a blight order for druid, because detritivores deserve respect too, danggit! Or a Lunar mystery oracle, though I'm not sure if I'd prefer to see a lycanthropic curse or a moonstruck lunatic. More wizard Arcane Schools would also be really cool (Whispering Way, anyone?)

Okay, so I was wondering if there were any particular methods by which a thoroughly unpleasant, wicked, and vicious individual could end up turning into some form of demon (or other monstrous and much stronger and nonhuman creature) while still alive and retaining at least the broad strokes of their personality?
I want a plot element to reference things like the real-world Buddhist story of very wicked people managing to become an oni while still alive, and i was curious if there was already an existing creature or ritual based around that.