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Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia World GuideEvery rejection, every disappointment has led you here to this moment. Don't let anything distract you from it. From Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Swiftpaws the Maned Wolf wrote:

Season of Ghosts is connected to the Tien Xia books ...

Hi, Swiftpaws. May I ask what Tien Xia books you refer to in this post, please? I am considering Wardens as our next campaign. As a GM, it's nice to know as much as you can!

Best,
Don (Greyson)

The TIan XIa World Guide releasing April 2024 and the Tian Xia Character Guide coming in August 2024.

I meant that the one chapter per pdf download option was fine.

The pdf for the whole softcover has the Sandpoint map as both the inside front and inside back covers, though the physical SC has the IBC as the Sandpoint Hinterlands.

The pdf of the whole softcover has the map of Sandpoint as the inside front and inside back covers, without the Sandpoint Hinterlands, though that map is present in the physical book. (And the multiple pdfs zip.)

7 Dooms For Sandpoint: There's no place like home.

Man, 7 Dooms is a big zip. Monster Core was like 97MB/64 MB for One file per chapter/single file, but it is 279/180!

The fact that society scenarios now have spoiler tags to show what maps it uses is good. It would also be nice if the map product pages could show what adventures use that map.

Norgorber again?

Vyre is still right next to Ravounel.

Which license does this product use?

Is the Starfinder Playtest rulebook text a copy-paste error?

What level does this AP end at?

Ron Lundeen's Skaldwood Blight is a 1-20 AP for Pathfinder 2e that's about 250 pages, with Treerazer as the final villain (though because of the OGL's rules on product identity, he named it Treereaver and used the stat block). It had a hardcover release through Kickstarter, and is based on a project on Ron' blog where he did a full AP in a very short word count limit, and talked about some of his design choices.

It's not an official Paizo product, but since the setting is thinly settled and Viking-inspired you could put it in Iobaria without too much trouble.

Scoured Stars AP hardcover did not have one when I checked the usual place.

From Masafumi Kobayashi in Noroi: The Curse, apparently.

Season of Ghosts: No matter how terrifying, I want the truth.

Will this be ORC license? I notice the serial number has changed from 90xxx to 15xxx.

The Craft part of the general skill feats table still lists Snare Crafting. The Ranger head note on page 93 suggests rangers have some snare-related class feats, but none appear in the Ranger class description. Also, there are no snares in the Player Core or GM Core books.

This is dumb. Why bother mentioning it if it’s not going to be released for years or maybe not at all?

Also, since it has a product number and the products PZO9555 (The Fall of Plaguestone) and PZO9557 (The Slithering) definitely do exist, keeping this page saves everbody the bother of explaining what would be a gap without it.

Huh. A change to the product number pattern.

Sky King's Tomb: The dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness...

New cover art posted.

I see we're now getting product pages for books 6 months before their scheduled release instead of the 8 months in advance we've had in the past. Is that going to continue going forward, and what's the reasoning behind it?

I'm not sure, but I speculate that they have another Tian Xia AP planned to go along with the Tian Xia setting products they've announced but not yet posted product pages. They have announced that issue 200 will be an extra-long adventure based on James Jacobs's office campaign, as well.

logic_poet wrote:

After reading more of Rage of Elements, it seems Fey will be replacing Sylvan. That's probably for the best, or else I'd struggle to remember Muan.

Will Daemonic, Infernal, or Shadowtongue be taking new names under the ORC license?

Daemonic and Shadowtongue are names we invented. Infernal is not; that's a D&D-invented language from 3rd edition, so we'll be renaming it, but I'm not sure we've revealed that one publicly yet so that'll have to wait a bit. (Even though "infernal" is a real word, part of the remaster is distancing ourselves from OGL associations, and this is a prime example of that sort of thing.)

Thanks for the reply. I always liked how in PF 1e, the daemons didn't have their own language but always were fluent in Infernal and Abyssal, as if they would switch sides based on whoever made them the best offer.

Yes, I've been getting minis in my subscriptions. Usually in boxes big enough to have the foam peanuts, mostly when the month includes hardcovers.

So were any new Ap or modules announced during the keynote?

As of 69 minutes in, not so far. Jenny Jarzabski confirmed she continues to work on the Starfinder Mechageddon AP. Otherwise, I did not catch any mention of any adventure or AP that does not already have a product page. Also, the setting book discussion focused on the Highhelm book, rather than any coming attractions.

During Michael Sayre's portion, he mentioned that some of the further out stuff will be tightly linked, and also said that he could not speak its name without spoiling what it's about.

If not PaizoCon, then let's hope for the Gencon keynote.

I also liked this feature and was sad to see it go.

After reading more of Rage of Elements, it seems Fey will be replacing Sylvan. That's probably for the best, or else I'd struggle to remember Muan.

Will Daemonic, Infernal, or Shadowtongue be taking new names under the ORC license?

Final cover art is up.

Final cover art is up.

How long are each of these presentations?

Cthonian is the new name for Abyssal, since the word itself means precisely that: "Of or relating to the underworld," and the Outer Rifts are a full-on supernatural underworld.

Aklo is public domain (having been invented over a hundred years ago by writer Arthur Machen in his short story "The White People").

And Sakvroth has been a Darklands language since the start; we're now transitioning to it as a name we own rather than one we borrowed.

Thanks! I infer from this that my supposition about Empyrean is correct. How about Fey vs. Sylvan?

I was thinking that a wayang might be an interesting choice for this AP.

A little work with Ctrl-F later, and I find that Aklo still appears as its own language, and that there's now Fey and Sylvan. Maybe SHthonian is going to be the new Daemonic? This seems like it'd be a good topic for a blog post soon!

Are these the new ORC License compatible names for Aklo, Celestial, and Undercommon?

Justin Franklin wrote:

Prince Setehrael wrote:

My pdf's for this book are showing 0B and I'm unable to download the pdf. My Rage of Elements worked just fine though.

I have reached out to CS.

I am seeing the same. So definitely an issue.

Just adding my voice. I am having the same issue.

It seems to be a pretty widespread issue; I emailed CS yesterday afternoon and my instance of the problem is still unresolved. Hopefully enough people will email that a pattern will emerge and debugging will be easy.

Will there be online panels? And has the schedule been posted?

But rises again, stronger and harder.

The versatile human heritage they gave her is responsible for her having an extra class feat. And I finally realized where her extra skill feat is coming from, but that still leaves the extra general feat, and the Tanning Lore vs Warfare Lore skills.

James gets at this point as well above, but to be clear: The versatile heritage human heritage grants a first-level general feat. The Natural Ambition human ancestry feat grants a first-level class feat, and is available to humans to take as their ancestry feat at first level.

From listening to discussions from Paizocon, this AP sounds like there will be plenty to do with the downtime system.

Do we know when the players guide will drop?

Not that I've heard. I listened to the monthly review show they do on their Twitch a few days ago, and while they described it, they did not name a date. Best guess is "soon".

logic_poet wrote:

keftiu wrote:

Man, I want a Treerazer AP.

Ron Lundeen's Skaldwood Blight AP, which is exactly this, has been out for about a year on drivethrurpg.

As I’ve been pretty consistent about in the past: the whole point for me is the Golarion canon element. A 3pp offering doesn’t do much for me.

I wouldn't expect to see such an AP anytime soon. Also, with the SRD issues, I doubt they'd make an anti-Tarrasque AP when they could make an AP about a Spawn of Rovagug of their own design. If they were going to advance the setting by going after one of the major villains, I'd rather they choose Razmir or Bellimarius before Treerazer, since the politics of the aftermath for either of those would be more widely important to the world.

A rehabilitation of the elves vs. Treerazer might be nice, but I doubt it's happening anytime soon. Maybe GenCon seminars will say one way or the other.

As for Rage of Elements, I'm more interested in the wood rather than the metal plane.

ETA: The setting for Skaldwood Blight is light and generic enough that you could put in Iobaria no problem.

Man, I want a Treerazer AP.

Ron Lundeen's Skaldwood Blight AP, which is exactly this, has been out for about a year on drivethrurpg.

Stolen Fate AP: The future is not set. There is no fate, but what we make for ourselves.

Lost Omens Highhelm: Torag's might alone will never be enough. You must learn to stand together and rely on each other. -Hammer and Tongs

I would hope they continue to just keep incrementing the counter, but you may be right.

Did anyone catch any details about the new backgrounds at PaizoCon? If not, maybe someone could ask Vanessa if she's in a panel today.

Does anyone have a link to the Twitch stream archive to see the earlier stuff? ETA: In case anyone else is similarly situated.

I sure hope this product gets a mention at tomorrow's keynote!

I would probably offer an unused snare of some kind.