Wow! Again a mockup which would serve well as final cover!
Ruyan.
I wonder if this is an indication that the adventure path starting February 2014 will be based in Osirion.
If so, SWEET!
If not, then I have mixed feelings. SWEET! that we're getting an Osirion book in the Campaign Setting line. BUMMER! that it isn't a Mendev book instead, given such a book's relevance to the Wrath of the Righteous adventure path (and my own love for the Crusader Nation).
But yeah, looking very cool. :)
Considering the Player Companion for December is 'People of the Sands' my suspicion is that the Osiron AP is going to be starting in 2014.
Happy face here. AP or even better, 64 page module please
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Sadpandface here.
Unless that means that the Numeria+Distant Worlds AP is going to be the GenCon 2014 one, thusly eclipsing the release of D&D 5E and rendering it a paltry event of questionable significance :)
Give Paizo kudos for going for a sole author AP+companion+chronicle... Michael Kortes will be a busy bee.
Plus, the two Osirian modules are wickedawesome.
Learn about every corner of Osirion, including dangers of the desert, mysteries of the richest ruins, deadly new creatures, and
More Cthulhu and/or Geiger. Can't have Osirion or Golarion without that.
Glad to see this. Now if only there were one forthcoming for Cheliax or Numeria. . . .
I wonder if it will involve the undead drow infested underground pyramids mentioned in Into the Darklands.
Cool, we finally get some Osirion love.
+1 on the "Finally!" :)
... Although my wallet is starting to look sadder and sadder with each new product announcement.
Be pretty cool if this predicted Orision AP was also the "Lovecraft AP." Carrion Crown was only an appetizer to the horrors to come!
*evil cackling*
Very cool to see! Lots more stuff on Osirion to cover and expand upon. :D
Sadpandface here.
Unless that means that the Numeria+Distant Worlds AP is going to be the GenCon 2014 one, thusly eclipsing the release of D&D 5E and rendering it a paltry event of questionable significance :)
Orrr ... considering Osirion also has ties to space, is it possible that the first two adventures in the next AP will be set there, with later ones moving to Numeria and then the stars, along the lines of Jade Regent?
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Cool, we finally get some Osirion love.
Wait, finally? Osirion was one of the FIRST countries to get its own companion!
Then again, that WAS a pretty long time ago. I think that was the first Pathfinder book I wrote on after the Superstar contest and the Campaign Setting.
Also, I don't know how many things in that book are getting retconned. One of the reasons why I don't buy the 3.5 books are because I'm afraid that the information is going to get changed later down the road.
Cool, we finally get some Osirion love.Wait, finally? Osirion was one of the FIRST countries to get its own companion!
Then again, that WAS a pretty long time ago. I think that was the first Pathfinder book I wrote on after the Superstar contest and the Campaign Setting.
Likewise, it was only the second thing I'd written on for Paizo, right after the campaign setting. Been a while hasn't it! :)
Hm. Coming on the heels of the Mythic book, perhaps an Osirion AP will see the resurrection of Ulunat? *evil grin*
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Hm. Coming on the heels of the Mythic book, perhaps an Osirion AP will see the resurrection of Ulunat? *evil grin*
Hmmm...Mythic rules allow for actual Pharaoh demi-gods. We've been told that some of the pharaohs of the past fit that bill. Maybe the Ruby Prince is due for an apotheosis...
Ah, Ruby Prince, I knew there was something else I was forgetting about Osirion. Have to grab my Inner Sea World Guide and brush up on my northern Garundi trivia, try to formulate a theory before news might come out from Paizocon and spoil my speculating fun. :p
The Player Companion book also mentioned the Ruby Prince getting involved in some feud between elemental clans - that's something Paizo haven't done an AP or even module on before, that I can recall.
I was just going over the World Guide and was about to post something like that Kajehase; perhaps we'll finally learn whatever it is that the Ruby Prince has been "swelling Osirion's military" for. As you say, it is possibly something involving the elemental clans in the deserts- and, as Osirion once held sway over Thuvia and Rahadoum, it might thus involve them, as well?
War of the Sands would make a decent AP-title, wouldn't it?
(And a neat wink to the title of the "first modern" spy novel.)
Going two for two on AP names, eh? ;)War of the Sands would make a decent AP-title, wouldn't it?
(And a neat wink to the title of the "first modern" spy novel.)
If I come up with enough good names, maybe they'll let me have a sneak peak on the unannounced stuff so I can help out. ;)
if this is a hint towards a Osirion AP, anyone else hoping for the Dominion of the Black to be the big bad?
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Even if this means an Osirion AP, I'm sure I'm gonna love this book. Paizo has a good streak for things concerning Osirion - Kortes adventures and Todd Stewart's previous book were all stellar.
Also, I love the fact that we're revisiting the "Big 5" nations with proper 64p. books! Having Osirion, Qadira, Cheliax, Andoran and Taldor left with 32p. companions wasn't really fair :P
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Osirion's got some rich options for big bads. Legacy of Fire already dealt with some Rovagug-ish Spawn-badness, so I'm not sure they'd want to retread that with something to do with Ulunut, but there's still plenty of room for a visit to that pyramid full of Rovagug worshippers out in the desert.
Scene 1 - Pretty archaeologist, "Well surely no harm ever came from reading a book..."
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Idle thought concerning a possible Spawn of Rovagug attack and the presence of Mythic Rules:
A whole new Spawn attacking Sothis? What do they plan to do?
Animate and weaponize the dead beetle in which they built their city.
if this is a hint towards a Osirion AP, anyone else hoping for the Dominion of the Black to be the big bad?
I'm...torn on that one. But they're a strong contender in my heart.
Mikaze, your stream of thought i always find entertaining ;)
(so looking forward to Pacific Rim also)
I recall it being said that the next several AP's after WotR would not use Mythic rules.
They just did a dungeon crawl AP with Shattered Star, and while an Osirion/Northern Garund AP would certainly lend itself to the same, I wonder what other spin they might put on it?
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I know it's still speculation, but an Osirion AP? I haven't been this intrigued since Kingmaker was announced!
Still, as my choice of avatar would attest, I'm hardly objective on the subject. :)
Wait a second...
Reign of Winter was announced at last year's PaizoCon.
PaizoCon is this weekend.
:D
I recall it being said that the next several AP's after WotR would not use Mythic rules.
True, and probably for the best. Still, whatever it may be, if it is, gonna be all over it like sand on the Sahara. :)
I am actually wondering if we are going to get a module in January set in Osirion. It seems like we are getting a companion and campaign setting book for each module now. Although it could also be a new AP.
I could actually see an Osirion module as more likely than an AP now that you mention it. While I have no doubt that they could make an AP about Osirion, I feel that an adventure set in it would be better if focused a bit more on the new expanded modules.
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An 'Imprisoned with the Pharaos' riff, combining Dominion of the Black / Mythos elements with Egyptian-esque themes, could indeed be a fun route to take. No flirting with Mythos themes for one sixth of an AP. Dive right in. Hounds of Tindalos, sacred geometry, strings of arcane numerals that flutter about and congeal when 'solved' into terrible living equations with their own inscrutable agendas, unutterable things deep within wells over which crumbling pyramids squat like too-fragile capstones waiting to be pushed aside by that which lurks beneath...
Oh yeah.
I am actually wondering if we are going to get a module in January set in Osirion. It seems like we are getting a companion and campaign setting book for each module now. Although it could also be a new AP.
Support material for the modules actually supports the adventure path theory. The two modules following Dragon's Demand, Wardens of the Reborn Forge and Tears at Bitter Manor, have both been announced yet no support material has been announced for either of those two modules. It would seem odd, then, to announce support material for a module that hasn't even been announced yet. If we go by the notion that modules are now accompanied by relevant books in the other lines, that is.
Yeah, my money's on an adventure path. Of course, it's entirely possible that Paizo just wants to give Osirion some love in the Campaign Setting and Player Companion lines. :)
Hm. While this is certainly nice, to me the title is too close to the old companion product for Osirion (the only difference is using "Legacy" instead of "Land"). I almost didn't even click on this thread, because I assumed it was for that book, until my eyes happened to chance on the words "Campaign Setting" as opposed to "Companion".
It's probably far too late to change that, though, so I'll just be happy to get more desert-y goodness :)
I would be cool with an all Osirion AP or an AP that starts there but takes to a place "beyond". At least we will not have to wait long to find out what the next AP will be.
I suspect the extra support for the Dragons Demand has less to do with supporting a specific module than it does with the rumored scrapping/postponement of a dragon focused AP
I doubt we will MUCH Mythic in any AP that comes out next year after Wrath of Righteous (Other than maybe some monsters with mythic abilities). I think they are going to want to test the waters with the first mythic AP (Wrath) before lining up another one