Pathfinder Chronicles: Guide to Absalom (OGL)

A beautiful poster map reveals the entire city in glorious detail.

w00t!!!!

Will there be more Urban adventures to complement this?

Will there be more Urban adventures to complement this?

There will be more urban adventures, but you'll really want to pay attention to the Pathfinder Society, which will have plenty of stuff set in Absalom.

After the awesome of the Korvosa guide, I think I've just found my Christmas present.

For me, and for everyone else too! ;P

Ya know, I'm also looking forward to this book. I'll definitely be picking it up. I got to write up a little chunk of the city in Gallery of Evil and it was a ton of fun. I never realized how much I enjoy city building. I'm looking forward to seeing how all of the rest of city turns out and if anything has been added to my little corner of the hub of civilization.

This will be the best book for those running Pathfinder Society.

I am already drooling copiously for this...

Oh wait...

Thats horrendous flame!

I am looking forward to lots more Urban adventures too. This should be an awesome book.
I like this avatar.

Yes Please!

I'm looking forward to seeing how all of the rest of city turns out and if anything has been added to my little corner of the hub of civilization.

For the record, I loved your little corner, and have high hopes of adding to it!

Owen, are you writing this? If so,
a)that rocks!
b)you need to get your name on the product description above!
c) I can't wait!

Btw, I saw the sketch today of Wayne Reynolds' cover for this book. I have one word to say...

Frickinawesomemaniastokism!

-Lisa

I've posted the final cover. If you still see a mountain view, reload your browser's image cache.

Okay, that looks sweet! Sweet! SWEEEEEEET! Nice.

The lack of poster map in this is very disappointing. Any chance of getting a poster map to buy on its own?

The lack of poster map in this is very disappointing. Any chance of getting a poster map to buy on its own?

We were unable to get things to come together properly in time for this project, but we expect to provide a large map of Absalom in an as-yet-unannounced product for next spring.

Now that is the way I like my Pathfinder products--graced with WAR!!!

Now that is the way I like my Pathfinder products--graced with WAR!!!

Yeah, the official cover is just amazing :D

Is it me, or does Joshua...er...Ezren look real menacing in that painting?

Nice cover!

I like Merisiel's expression on the cover: "Only eight thugs? We can take 'em."

Uh oh, looks like January could be a double month...

Uh oh, looks like January could be a double month...

Yes December seems slow this year :-(

It is because of the Christmas season, since the printers get busy. Currently, our schedule has product arriving in the third week of the month. But the Christmas rush caused a 10 day delay or so, causing the products to be pushed to the end of December. We won't know an exact date until we get closer.

To combat this problem, we are working our schedules so that product is supposed to arrive in the first week of the month. That way, if there is an slippage due to customs or Christmas or whatever, the products will still come out in that month. However, moving a schedule up is a very hard task that only comes in baby steps. Hopefully, we can get this accomplished by next fall.

-Lisa

Hopefully, we can get this accomplished by next fall.

-Lisa

No hard feelings from here, just looking forward to your products and would like to read some of them over the holidays.

*runs around in desperation*
jeje sorry had to do that

i really really hope its ships early
snif
i want to put a campaign in Absalom... because i fell in love with the city and have been wanting to do a city campaign for a while

and while Korvosa is nice... its to strict for the things my players want to do (like being heroic vigilantes saving damsels from slavers and that sort of things)

Ya know, I'm also looking forward to this book. I'll definitely be picking it up. I got to write up a little chunk of the city in Gallery of Evil and it was a ton of fun. I never realized how much I enjoy city building. I'm looking forward to seeing how all of the rest of city turns out and if anything has been added to my little corner of the hub of civilization.

iu just got my claws in Gallery of Horror... mostly because a friend of mine told me there was a map of Ivy District... (which i need to begina a campaign, since i have a player deeply interested in Sheylin and the art around her we decided to use the Ivy District... i imagined the temple of Sheylin a bit different, but i loved the rescription of the groove, quite similar to what had in mind... just i have soemthing else in the center... still i think i am taking yours :D}

a question do you or anyone else involved in the book, could tell me where they put the Temple of Calistria? i thought it would be in the Ivy too, but i sawthey put it elsewhere...

since it will take a month or more to get the copy of Absolom guide... could someone tell me where this temple would appear? thanks :D

whoa! the Starstone Cathedral by Ben Wootten just looks awesome!

its a plae i want to visit... and i hope not to stay :D

also the first guard looks very impresive

i can wait for my Guide to Absalom... can i have it now?

yoda8myhead wrote:

The lack of poster map in this is very disappointing. Any chance of getting a poster map to buy on its own?

We were unable to get things to come together properly in time for this project, but we expect to provide a large map of Absalom in an as-yet-unannounced product for next spring.

I hope this un-announced product also has a map of the whole island with Absalom too. Is there at least a small map of the city on the interior cover or something?

Totally awesome pic of the city and the Cathedral. Precisely the way to depict the city.

whoa! the Starstone Cathedral by Ben Wootten just looks awesome!

its a plae i want to visit... and i hope not to stay :D

also the first guard looks very impresive

i can wait for my Guide to Absalom... can i have it now?

I hope this un-announced product also has a map of the whole island with Absalom too. Is there at least a small map of the city on the interior cover or something?

Guide to Absalom has a full-page map of the city and the towns that butt up against the city's outer wall. It identifies all the city's districts and such.

Coridan wrote:

I hope this un-announced product also has a map of the whole island with Absalom too. Is there at least a small map of the city on the interior cover or something?

Guide to Absalom has a full-page map of the city and the towns that butt up against the city's outer wall. It identifies all the city's districts and such.

Can we see this as another art preview? I think it'd not only make people want to buy the book (cause who doesn't love maps?) but will also be helpful to people running the Pathfinder Society scenarios, and being able to send players (and GMs) to a public map would be niiiiice.

Sean K Reynolds wrote:

Coridan wrote:

I hope this un-announced product also has a map of the whole island with Absalom too. Is there at least a small map of the city on the interior cover or something?

Guide to Absalom has a full-page map of the city and the towns that butt up against the city's outer wall. It identifies all the city's districts and such.

Can we see this as another art preview? I think it'd not only make people want to buy the book (cause who doesn't love maps?) but will also be helpful to people running the Pathfinder Society scenarios, and being able to send players (and GMs) to a public map would be niiiiice.

** spoiler omitted **

yes please!!!! already in the middle of an Absalom campaign and Paizo doesn't sends my copy yet... we need our maps! :D

pretty please :D

Sean, I owe you a pie now, don't I?

A full page map?! This city deserves a poster map!

Sean, I owe you a pie now, don't I?

i think we owe him at least a pizza, but long dstance pizza always arrive cold :S

Edit: because my memory is lax... THANKS!!!!!!

Excellent blog entry today!!!

ok i first saw the map and went crazy
came to the forum to thank
then i read the entry in the blog *^_^*

i can imagine Jason as he makes and designs the map under the constant vigil of the fading candle... awesome design indeed

but more like a crab monster i thoug it wasa brain-map :D

Guide to Absalom has a full-page map of the city and the towns that butt up against the city's outer wall. It identifies all the city's districts and such.

Hurray! There's stuff outside the walls! Absalom is a real city! (I am often frustrated by fantasy city maps where there is lots of stuff inside the city walls and nothing, not even a tavern or wagon-seller, outside.) Hurray!

Sean K Reynolds wrote:

Guide to Absalom has a full-page map of the city and the towns that butt up against the city's outer wall. It identifies all the city's districts and such.

Hurray! There's stuff outside the walls! Absalom is a real city! (I am often frustrated by fantasy city maps where there is lots of stuff inside the city walls and nothing, not even a tavern or wagon-seller, outside.) Hurray!

Thats a good point. It is rare.

So... how does this map match up to the city district map shown in Gallery of Evil?

After looking at the map posted in the Paizo Blog and re-examining the one in Gallery of Evil, I can't quite see where they match up...

Trust me, making that work was important. It's hard to tell in the map posted online because the tags obscure what you're looking for, but the Ivy District shown in GoE fits nicely into the posted Absalom map ... right under the letters "ist" in "Ivy District." Not under as in "south of," under as in "OMG there are giant letters in the sky above us, about to crash down upon us and destroy our very expensive homes! Don't they know we're rich!"

The Ivy District is tiny. Absalom is huge. On the Absalom map, I think the entire Ivy District is smaller than my pinky fingernail. But it's on the map.

Awesome!

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought there were goodies in here that Society members could use on their characters

Just got mine yesterday. Great book!

haven't got the physical one, but my digital oneis great

i have just 2 complains... there are not all the prices for livingin for district, only half of them...

and it would have been great that like in Guide to Korvosa it showed small maps of each distrcit saying where each location stands (not the districts, but the interesting places)...

ii know i would have beena lot bigger book if it had that... but it really would hae been useful

the only 2 districts i know well are Precipice and Ivy and that is becuas ei got both urban modules

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought there were goodies in here that Society members could use on their characters

I think you're looking for this

the only 2 districts i know well are Precipice and Ivy and that is becuas ei got both urban modules

Some of the Puddles district notable places were mapped out in silent tide PFS senario

Matthew Morris wrote:

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought there were goodies in here that Society members could use on their characters

I think you're looking for this

Thank you Cpl_kirstov, that would be what I'm remembering.

Just in time for season 1

Quick question:

On page 3 it mentions an appendix with movers and shakers, and fighting techniques. Was this simply something that didn't make it into the final product?

thanks,
Heather

Montalve wrote:

the only 2 districts i know well are Precipice and Ivy and that is becuas ei got both urban modules

Some of the Puddles district notable places were mapped out in silent tide PFS senario

yes... but still i don't know in whichplace of the map they are, jeje :)

i am more inmto where in the map i would find a store or somewhere important than havign actual maps of this place, those i can work them myself

but the other... yes its a bit more complicated