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jkaynin wrote:

Hi. I just have a few questions.

Good questions....let's see if I can help clarify.

1. Yes, the Age of Lost Omens is still going on. The Aftermath refers to Tar Baphon's escape. The new campaign setting starts after his return, and that's what we are making our theme: Golarion after the Return of the Whispering Tyrant. With that is all the finished results of the previous APs...so the world has changed A LOT.

2. If you venture beyond the Inner Sea region (those 10 areas in the Lost Omens World Guide) you are kind of stepping outside of the setting. I'm a little wary of doing that because it's part of the world Paizo has not fully addressed yet. Anything you write could be completely nullified by future Paizo products. We like Wayfinder to be complimentary to Paizo content, so that it gets good mileage for years and years. So, Qadira is safe.

3. That is the key, yes. If you can write two articles that can be taken separately, and no dependence upon each other, that's OK. The reason we have this rule is that earlier on in Wayfinder, people would circumvent the word counts for an article by just making TWO articles to cover it. The result was that if we liked one article, we were forced to accept BOTH. I know, gamers gaming the system, right? It happened often enough, we needed the rule. If we deem two articles that are by the same author to be related AND dependent on each other, they both get rejected. So....don't do that.

Thanks for answering so swiftly.

1. Right. There are a lot of changes then!

2. Okay, that makes sense. I should be able to keep the idea to the Inner Sea region, especially with Qadira.

3. Thanks for clearing that up. I can see why that'd be frustrating. I'll have to throw out the fiction idea then, because it would talk about the new ancestry a little too much (even if it were only a small part), and I don't want to force that onto anyone.

Hi. I just have a few questions.

1. It might just be me, but I'm little confused about the theme: "Lost Omens: Aftermath". The Age of Lost Omens is still present, isn't it? Does it just means what's happened since the previous Age finished?

2. Are we allowed to write about things beyond the Inner Sea region? The idea I had in mind is rooted in norhtern Casmaron, yet has had effects that have mainly spilt over into the northeast of the Inner Sea region, with trickles into the other parts.

3. For entries, if I were to submit a piece of fiction and an ancestry that complimented each other (yet weren't dependent on one another), would that be acceptable? You don't need the ancestry to understand the fiction, nor the other way around. It would provide extra information for either one if both were published, though they'd still be understandable if only one was published.

I hope these questions don't seem too silly.

I'm very excited to see how this issue turns out! It's such a great thing to be able to see the community get around the game (and for Paizo to be so supportive of it). It's just another reason why I admire the Pathfinder community so much. :)