I like how we already have a nation where tieflings can be found and now we have a nation for the aasimar. Same goes for many of the other non-core races like the tengu, the nagaji, and the samsaran. I just wish I could play them in Pathfinder Society games as I don't have a home game where I live now and am not even close to finding one.
I am curious to learn mroe about the nations we got a taste of in Kobold Quarterly 19 as some peaked my curosity and a couple left me slightly disappointed. I am hoping that I will learn more to change my opinion of Bachuan and Hwanggot. However, my interest was peaked in regards to Amanandar, Jinin, Goka, Minata, Po Li, Shaguang, Shokuro, Xa Hoi, and Zi Ha.
Also, I am curious to know, when will the Paizo page for Dragon Empires will show the magnificent cover we got to see in Kobold Quarterly 19?
Please don't let Kitsune be small sized while in their real form. PLEASE DON'T LET KITSUNE BE SMALL SIZED WHILE IN THEIR REAL FORM! (prays at the altar)Kitsune are Medium humanoids. They can assume a single (fixed) human form; their true form is a fox/human hybrid. With a feat (to be presented in Dragon Empires Primer) they'll be able to assume the form of a normal fox or perhaps more.
Yay for this good news! And I am curious to see how a shapeshifting PC race gets handled in the game. I've seen how Hengeyokai were done in a PDF by Rite Publishing, it'll be interesting to see how they scale against an "official" race of shifters.
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I'm sure there's stuff you don't want to spoiler yet about the Dragon Empires; but what about things that were added only recently? (I like to think of such undertakings as the Dragon Empires setting as a living and dynamic thing, so on those grounds I imagine there might be new things that got added - i.e. recent unplanned additions - that do not specifically need the veil of secrecy.)
Do you mean recent additions in game? Or recent additions by us at Paizo TO the game?
Do you mean recent additions in game? Or recent additions by us at Paizo TO the game?I'm sure there's stuff you don't want to spoiler yet about the Dragon Empires; but what about things that were added only recently? (I like to think of such undertakings as the Dragon Empires setting as a living and dynamic thing, so on those grounds I imagine there might be new things that got added - i.e. recent unplanned additions - that do not specifically need the veil of secrecy.)
Just type up everything you know about Tian Xia and post it here. That should get us all on the same page. ;)
Just type up everything you know about Tian Xia and post it here. That should get us all on the same page. ;)Do you mean recent additions in game? Or recent additions by us at Paizo TO the game?I'm sure there's stuff you don't want to spoiler yet about the Dragon Empires; but what about things that were added only recently? (I like to think of such undertakings as the Dragon Empires setting as a living and dynamic thing, so on those grounds I imagine there might be new things that got added - i.e. recent unplanned additions - that do not specifically need the veil of secrecy.)
Works for me... ;)
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Works for me... ;)Just type up everything you know about Tian Xia and post it here. That should get us all on the same page. ;)Do you mean recent additions in game? Or recent additions by us at Paizo TO the game?I'm sure there's stuff you don't want to spoiler yet about the Dragon Empires; but what about things that were added only recently? (I like to think of such undertakings as the Dragon Empires setting as a living and dynamic thing, so on those grounds I imagine there might be new things that got added - i.e. recent unplanned additions - that do not specifically need the veil of secrecy.)
Alas, doesn't work for me. You'll have to stay patient for a few more weeks or months or whatever.
Alas, doesn't work for me. You'll have to stay patient for a few more weeks or months or whatever.Works for me... ;)Just type up everything you know about Tian Xia and post it here. That should get us all on the same page. ;)Do you mean recent additions in game? Or recent additions by us at Paizo TO the game?I'm sure there's stuff you don't want to spoiler yet about the Dragon Empires; but what about things that were added only recently? (I like to think of such undertakings as the Dragon Empires setting as a living and dynamic thing, so on those grounds I imagine there might be new things that got added - i.e. recent unplanned additions - that do not specifically need the veil of secrecy.)
I figured, but you can't blame me for trying. ;)
Will there be archetypes in it?
Any thing that is the equivalent of the shugenja?
I think it is the primer that is for player characters and this on is more for DMs.
Do you mean recent additions in game? Or recent additions by us at Paizo TO the game?I'm sure there's stuff you don't want to spoiler yet about the Dragon Empires; but what about things that were added only recently? (I like to think of such undertakings as the Dragon Empires setting as a living and dynamic thing, so on those grounds I imagine there might be new things that got added - i.e. recent unplanned additions - that do not specifically need the veil of secrecy.)
What I mean is that certain things about Dragon Empires were determined a long time ago and form part of the product blurb. There are also certain things that are cool, special or for whatever reasons are not detailed before the release of the product itself (like details on new gods in the Tien Pantheon).
However, since the product itself is a multi-party effort with many people contributing to it; I suspect there have been cool new things added over time that would be part of the product blurb, had they been known at the time of writing. Or to put it another way: things that we don't know about Dragon Empires, that are okay to tell us.
Though...
Do you mean recent additions in game? Or recent additions by us at Paizo TO the game?
...I'll take either of these two too :)
When will we see the final cover art?
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Will there be archetypes in it?
Any thing that is the equivalent of the shugenja?
No archetypes in this book; there'll be 4 archetypes in the Dragon Empires Primer, though.
The shugenja equivalent is at this point more or less an oracle with elemental mysteries... we did some stuff for them and other divine casters in Ultimate Magic and Ultimate Combat to give some "Eastern Flavor" to them... but no actual otpion called a shugenja.
It's in Kobold Quarterly 19, very impressive picture
I really hope they update the cover and description soon.
It will be nice to find out more about the cultures and there history.
I really hope they update the cover and description soon.
And so they did. Looks nice.
Wow nice cover, that should have been used for a hardcover book though.
I wonder if that is a Forest imperial dragon?
OMS!
That is an awesome cover.
Now you *have* to make a hardcover, just so you can commission an art piece that is even more awesome.
I have to say this again I really like the cover for this book.
Nice cover.
The pick-up line goes like:
Nice cover. When does it open.
I like that pick up line.
So it is a Forest Dragon, I was right.
I am exited about this book, I am real big on mythology especially greek, egyption, norse, celtic, and japanese. But will be nice to see some stuff inspired by cultures I am less familiar with.
Does this book have any "crunch"? like monsters, villians, game rules for magical places/things, etc.
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There's a guy out there. Lives in the feral Albion. Some say he had a name once, but he doesn't use one any more. He just carves out "WAR" with his claws when he wants to leave a message.
They say he's the best at what he does, but what he does is quite pretty.
That's awesome, though because of the 'but' instead of an 'and' I initially read that as quite pricey.
Unfortunitly the Primer got pushed back to january but so far this one hasn't.
Have been eagerly awaiting the Dragon Empires since I first heard there was going to be a possibility of this book. European medieval style is all well and good, but here recently it's been the Egyptian and Oriental themes that have caught my attention, and my desire to make my players earn those xp's. Am hoping there will be a full map equaling the size of the inner sea map released so that I may expand the world on my wall, and speaking of, are we looking at another full setting or two before we have a globe, or will this cover all of our major continents, leaving us a few islands to flesh out before all the lands have been named and identified. If we look at the Inner Sea as the European nations, and Tian Xia as our Oriental nations...do we have an "America" (for lack of better analogy) still to come to round out the world?
Have been eagerly awaiting the Dragon Empires since I first heard there was going to be a possibility of this book. European medieval style is all well and good, but here recently it's been the Egyptian and Oriental themes that have caught my attention, and my desire to make my players earn those xp's. Am hoping there will be a full map equaling the size of the inner sea map released so that I may expand the world on my wall, and speaking of, are we looking at another full setting or two before we have a globe, or will this cover all of our major continents, leaving us a few islands to flesh out before all the lands have been named and identified. If we look at the Inner Sea as the European nations, and Tian Xia as our Oriental nations...do we have an "America" (for lack of better analogy) still to come to round out the world?
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That would be Arcadia.
Man I love that cover but I still wish the iconic Samurai was there as well.
Looking the Forest Dragon's stats on the preview shows that it is the same CR range as a Red Dragon of the same age catagory.
If the Primer has the rules for playing those new races then what does this book give us about the new races?
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Man I love that cover but I still wish the iconic Samurai was there as well.
Looking the Forest Dragon's stats on the preview shows that it is the same CR range as a Red Dragon of the same age catagory.
If the Primer has the rules for playing those new races then what does this book give us about the new races?
The info on the races in the Primer is basically the same info in this book, but stripped down significantly to just the barebones rules needed to build that race. But there's also a few extra feats for some of the races in the Primer.
So both books have the stats to play the races then, cool.
Unfortunitly the Primer got pushed back to january but so far this one hasn't.
Oh no :( I hate waiting for cool products
Yeah I am not big on waiting ether but it is what is.
Do we have an update on the release date for this one? I have a campaign being held hostage until this book gets to my doorstep. LOL
Do we have an update on the release date for this one? I have a campaign being held hostage until this book gets to my doorstep. LOL
We're still on schedule for late December for this book—check this page for our product schedule.
I don't know if this is the gazatteer containing the map of Kasai, the capital of Minkai. If it is, then I designed the map of the city, though I didn't do the cartography itself in final form - I'm looking forward to see the final version of Kasai. To see what my research and design skills cooked up for the final look of the city. I also included some of the textual sites within the city as part of the written portion of the gazatteer.
I don't know if this is the gazatteer containing the map of Kasai, the capital of Minkai. If it is, then I designed the map of the city, though I didn't do the cartography itself in final form - I'm looking forward to see the final version of Kasai. To see what my research and design skills cooked up for the final look of the city. I also included some of the textual sites within the city as part of the written portion of the gazatteer.
The gazetteer of Kasai that you and I worked on, gamer-printer, will be in Jade Regent #6 and comes out next month.
We're still on schedule for late December for this book—check this page for our product schedule.
Domo Arigato, Gninja-Sama.
The gazetteer of Kasai that you and I worked on, gamer-printer, will be in Jade Regent #6 and comes out next month.
It looks like I spoke too soon since it has now been pushed back. AP 54 is now not available until February.
humm it seems I love and Hate you. I hate that it's only 63 pages but I love that it's only $20. If I buy the book from you do I get a discount on the pdf? I forgot how that works.
If you subscribe to the Adventure Paths, you get a discount on all Paizo-products.
Can we expect to see a 300+ page guide on Tian-Xia akin to the Inner Sea World Guide?
No, not yet. As the designers had stated earlier, this book and the primer are the only ones we get in the foreseeable future.
humm it seems I love and Hate you. I hate that it's only 63 pages but I love that it's only $20. If I buy the book from you do I get a discount on the pdf? I forgot how that works.
If you subscribe to the Campaign Setting line (or the majority of our other available subscriptions), you get the PDF for free.
If you subscribe to the Adventure Path line, you'll get the Pathfinder Advantage discount, which will get you 15% off a great many things (see the FAQ here).
Haldir, contact Customer Service immediately after submit your order with your subscription that way that can get it set up correctly. (This happens when we have two items on the same subscription go out at the same time.)