Hags can be insidious villains, using disguise spell to manipulate, corrupt and mislead the PCs. Or hags can lead ogres gangs to brutal confrontation. There are mischevious green hags, powerful annis hags, swimming sea hags, soul-stealing night hags, guts-freezing winter hags, terrorific blood hags... And their covens can be as diverse as dangerous. For Changeling characters, a hag could be even their own mother! Hags even have their own goddess Gyronna. Hags have a constant presence in Golarion, where Irrisen is governed by winter witchs and evil feys. So I think a Hags of Golarion book could be very useful and necessary. Whto do you think?
I downloaded the Skulls and Shackles player guide. And I was disapointed. I'm not criticizing the campaign. Just the ship battle rules. While I like seeing firearms and cannons in the rules, I dislike the technology level: we jump from the middle ages to the XVIII century. We directly have fragates! Even we have asomewhat ridiculous image of crossbowmen cannon-like shoting! Instead of having matchlock muskets or similar, you can shot every turn. That's not a musket, that's a Lee-Enfield rifle. But the worst it's a complete lack of boarding rules. Pirates are all about grapples, jumping to the other's deck. Fighting to death, covering the planks with blood... Destroying the enemy ship with ballistas and cannons doesn't bring any money. So I think Paizo should go back to the middle ages and bring rules of galleys, trirremes and dromons. Arrows, grapples and boarding, more boarding! Perhaps in the Shackles they use cannons and fragates, but I hope Katapesh and Vudra still have place for RE Howard' like piracy! More Lepanto than Trafalgar...
I'm reading the Inner Sea Bestiary, and I'm trying to understand the psychopomp concept (guiding the souls to other life, etc), and how to insert one in my campaign.
Galt is a very interesting country, and I've looking for more info about it at official products, but nothing AFAIK (not even a module setted in Galt). I always ask myself how a country which has spent 60 years in perennial revolution can still survive. Perhaps the PCs could be real Bonapartes, raising the armies to defend Galt from foreign invaders (Cheliax?), then facing revolutionary turmoil, next taking power (to save the homeland, of course!). Aux armes, citoyenns! |
