Well Sincubus we haven't gotten volume 3 yet of this AP, so there is a chance for one of those guys getting in there. Also who knows what volume 6 will have in it as well since a lot of that one takes place in Baba Yaga's hut.
Well Barbegazi would have been low level CR so it probably should have been in the first 2 AP's already, or it is a ChonChon/Kijimuna case.
The Mahaha and fossegrim don't have a chance to appear in the human/tank/russia AP bestiary and also not in the upcoming part 3 of this AP, the only chance is in part 4 or 6, so that's what I meant with the chances are getting smaller and smaller, not 100% of course.
a bestiary for an alien arctic world should hopefully draw on science fiction ideas of aliens on frozen worlds..fossegrim and Barbegazi wouldn't fit as well IMHO
Well maybe they are in bestiary 4 :) I hope we see a creature/qlippoth/Protean based on a the THE THING somewhere in that alien monster list.
Well maybe they are in bestiary 4 :) I hope we see a creature/qlippoth/Protean based on a the THE THING somewhere in that alien monster list.
Oh God
No
NO
That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Still squicks me out something fierce in my forties.
I never found any alien horror movie scary, even when I was very young... I kinda thought the Thing and Aliens (from the alien movies) were cool but not scary.
The stuff that freaked me out were movies like It (horror clown), Werewolves (especially when they transformed) and Freddy Kruger.
The inuit frost demon Mahaha can have both looks and attitude resembles with both It and Freddy, so that creature would really freak me out.
If they make Mahaha a demon in pathfinder the world wound AP would be a likely place to find it.
I would love a creature like the Thing(Aberration), "It"(Outsider or Aberration) would be cool and something like Freddy(Undead or Outsider) would be cool as well.
There aren't much frost-based monsters in mythology, so I thought Mahaha would be better af in snow.
Anyway we already kindof have a Freddy Kruger in Night Hags, and also the It in Aranea or Jorogumo or maybe Spider of Leng (spider with illusion powers.)
The problem with using The Thing is that it's a very all-or-nothing creature. As long as you can keep it isolated in a polar-cap environment, you can win. Once the smallest part of it reaches your planet's ecosystem, it's over barring some really extensive divine intervention.
The perfect biological weapon. Like the Witchlight Marauder from 2e's Spelljammer setting. (IIRC, the elves used it/them against their enemies during the First Unhuman War.)
Love the cover~!
I also love the cover for this one.
The perfect biological weapon. Like the Witchlight Marauder from 2e's Spelljammer setting. (IIRC, the elves used it/them against their enemies during the First Unhuman War.)
I'm actually pretty sure the witchlights were used by the orcs and goblins against the elves in the UnHuman War. The only ones that are present in the actual Spelljammer Campaign setting are those that escaped the purge. I believe there may have been an adventure centering around a Scro leader trying to retrieve one.
So did the gazeteer get changed from one focused on just the borderland between the skyfire mandate and the evil dragons, to now one for all of Triaxus?
Just a couple more weeks and I will have the volume I have been waiting for.
The perfect biological weapon. Like the Witchlight Marauder from 2e's Spelljammer setting. (IIRC, the elves used it/them against their enemies during the First Unhuman War.)
I'm actually pretty sure the witchlights were used by the orcs and goblins against the elves in the UnHuman War. The only ones that are present in the actual Spelljammer Campaign setting are those that escaped the purge. I believe there may have been an adventure centering around a Scro leader trying to retrieve one.
That could well be - I am definitely AFB at the moment! :)
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The gazetteer is a zoomed in focus on the particular region where the adventure takes place, but it does mention the rest of the planet, just not in detail.
Yeah, we didn't want to give people a bunch of specific locations on continents they'll never reach during the AP, so instead there's a lot of general Triaxus information followed by a lot of information on specific places along the Skyfire Mandate/Drakelands border--we really wanted that area fleshed out. If you're curious about the density of locations, the gazetteer is comparable to the ones I originally did on Belkzen, Kyonin, and Varisia back in the early Pathfinder days (meaning tons of tags).
Also note that the "specific area" focused on is the size of most of the Yucatan Peninsula, if I'm remembering correctly. So it's a significant region.
I really enjoyed writing the gazetteer--it reminded me of the days when we were still filling in the Inner Sea region, not knowing what was across the next border, and I hope that enthusiasm comes across in the text!
I have been looking forward to this AP because we get some more info on Triaxus, a new playable race, and an adventure on one of the planets from Distant Worlds.
I wonder if any of the new creatures in the bestiary are of the dragon type. We haven't gotten one in an AP for a while now and seeing as this world has a lot dragon themes it would be nice.
Forgot about the Clockwork Dragon haven we? :-P
I hope this bestiary is just like the previous 3 Winter Ap's full of cool creatures of ice, myth and strangeness, the next AP probably won't have them given its about humans and russia, and the last AP I hope returns to the ice, myth and strangeness theme.
Clockwork Dragons are not real dragons...they are, well clockworks
I am hoping the bestiary has a lot of shout outs to science fiction and dragons
Yes to science fiction and dragons as well.
Notice I said the dragon type and since clockwork dragons are constructs they do not count.
Notice I put the :-p smilie behind my text, meaning I wasn't 100% serious.
Well since we have gotten at least one new fey in the last three volumes maybe that pattern will continue with the next three as well.
Triaxus sounds pretty awesome, and there's a wide variety of excellent art in this volume. :P
Hm. Can't wait for the last installment of this AP, the next two leave me cold. Ahahahahah.
Ok, actually looking forward for #5 - but only in hope of getting the statblock of a badass Rasputin to finally convince me of trying a witch.
Ruyan.
Has it been confirmed that Triaxians are in this book and that they are indeed a playable race?
There are full stats for Triaxians in this volume. (And, yep, they are a 0-HD race.)
.....eeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
^_^
I thought I heard that both summer and winter-born were in this book but that was a while ago so it could have changed.
Is there a spring and fall born versions of Triaxians?
I was excited yesterday when my subscription showed that payment would be authorized today, anticipating it would then be shipping soon, but I just noticed today that the payment is now showing it will now not be authorized until next month, and will ship at the end of the month (along with Rasputin Must Die!). Did this get pushed back?
Everything that was going to ship in May for my subscription has been pushed back until June. Help!
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I Repeat my Question Mr Daigle:
Distant Worlds said that spell casters from Golarion will find "numerous differences" between their spell casting and that of their triaxan counterparts. How is this covered? Different spell effects? Different Schools? Different systems as opposed to Vancian and spontenaeous?
A sidebar in the adventure addresses these differences, but unfortunately, it's not really plausible to create an entirely new magic system for one adventure, nor to expect GMs to learn a bunch of entirely new spells to use in one adventure (not to mention the space requirements that would be needed to present such new rules). Basically, the differences are mostly cosmetic, and left for the GM to fill i.
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I Repeat my Question Mr Daigle:
Distant Worlds said that spell casters from Golarion will find "numerous differences" between their spell casting and that of their triaxan counterparts. How is this covered? Different spell effects? Different Schools? Different systems as opposed to Vancian and spontenaeous?
We allude to there being differences, and suggest some easy ways for GMs to make things *feel* different, but there are no new alternative magic systems presented or anything like that. There simply isn't enough room in one AP installment to create a bunch of new local spells and things, and we wanted to make running a game there easy on both GM and players. Plus, remember that while the various traditions of magic might be different on Triaxus in terms of components used, precise effects, etc., the same general laws of magic are likely going to hold true for all worlds on the Material Plane. When you can hop between Heaven and Hell with a spell, the distance between Golarion and Triaxus is pretty insignificant, in the grand scheme of things!
(Although having said that, my brain immediately imagines how we could treat magic on the Material Plane like space/time... wouldn't it be cool if there were things--like deities--that could create magical "gravity wells"... hmm...)
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I was excited yesterday when my subscription showed that payment would be authorized today, anticipating it would then be shipping soon, but I just noticed today that the payment is now showing it will now not be authorized until next month, and will ship at the end of the month (along with Rasputin Must Die!). Did this get pushed back?
I have the same issue. Is this a bug?
I was excited yesterday when my subscription showed that payment would be authorized today, anticipating it would then be shipping soon, but I just noticed today that the payment is now showing it will now not be authorized until next month, and will ship at the end of the month (along with Rasputin Must Die!). Did this get pushed back?I have the same issue. Is this a bug?
Customer Service tells me it's just a temporary hiccup that happens while they're processing subscriptions, and shouldn't affect the actual shipments. Crisis averted!
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Nope not a bug. Not all the subscriptions finished authorizing/generating orders last night. I restarted it this morning when I got in. Current status shows about 352 minutes until it is 100% complete. Looks like you folks were in the group that it missed yesterday. If you haven't seen your order get generated by the end of the day (5pm PST), let me know at customer.service@paizo.com.
thanks
sara marie
Ok, thanks Sara. I thought that might be the case, and I should just be patient, but then I saw someone else with the same issue in the Ultimate Campaign thread, and panicked!
I should have just grabbed my towel.