It’s one thing to face a dragon armed with a longsword and a suit of magic plate mail, but what if you had an atom gun and powered armor? How many zombies could you blow up with a rocket launcher? What happens if you’re standing next to a graviton reactor when it explodes? All of these questions and more are answered within the pages of the Technology Guide—an invaluable manual of items, hazards, and character options for use in science-fantasy settings like Golarion’s Numeria, land of savagery and super-science!
Within this book, you’ll find:
Rules for dozens of new technological items, including weapons, armor, force fields, hologram generators, grenades, cybernetic implants, nanotech devices, remote controls for robots, and more!
New feats, spells, and archetypes for technologically savvy characters, along with rules for how your skills interact with super-science.
Extraordinarily powerful scientific items and artifacts, such as extinction wave devices, powered armor, and nuclear reactors!
The technomancer prestige class, which allows you to use magic to command robots and power your technology .
Rules for artificial intelligences, the effects of the passage of time on technological items, the dangers of radiation, the seven skymetals of Numeria, technological traps, and more!
The Technology Guide is a must-have for GMs running the Iron Gods Adventure Path or anyone looking to introduce super-science into any Pathfinder adventure or campaign setting.
Nice book with a lot of sci-fi items,, something like Wizardry in Golarion .. I woud like to give this book 5/5, but I cant. Reason why I cant do like that is simple, the quality of paper is just terrible. Paper Quality of Paizo books is going down, what is sad .. for me 4/5
The Technology Guide provides gamemasters with the information and items they need to add technology into their fantasy games. It's not particularly exciting or innovative, but that's not really its point. Instead, it forms the necessary baseline for other books to build upon, much like the Core Rulebook provides the baseline rules for the entire game. If you want technology in your games, it's a book you really can't do without.
I picked up this as a pdf because it looked interesting, and I was not disappointed. I used it to write an adventure (crashed UFO in a fantasy setting), and it led to the most fun I have ever had running a game. It would be useful if it had suggestions for other books containing some of the referenced monsters (such as certain types of monsters which I found on the pfsrd), but all in all it does exactly as promised.
Any chance that books like this that Pathfinder deems there are not enough buyers for another printing to become available via OneBookShelf (drivethrurpg) Print on Demand services? Maybe there are not thousands, but probably a few hundreds of people want a dead tree copy, you may call it service for the community.
I'm disappointed that the errata doesn't cover the Savage Technologist's rage bonuses issue. It's an easy enough house rule fix, but still disappointed.
No errata necessary, as it's correct as written. James Jacobs thought there was an error as well at first, but then someone pointed out what they thought the intent was, and he realized they were correct.
Do the two heavy armors introduced in this book, specifically the spacesuit and smart armor (expanded form), reduce a wearer's speed when running to only 3x their speed like other heavy armors do?
On page 37, the stats for dermal plating lists the implantation score for Marks I - V, but Mark III seems to say "4" when the pattern suggests it should instead say "6", when compared to the other varieties.
The front inside cover has four different tables for glitches of timeworn equipment, while the back inside cover has the front cover picture without any words and logos, as was usual for this product line.
The front inside cover has four different tables for glitches of timeworn equipment, while the back inside cover has the front cover picture without any words and logos, as was usual for this product line.
Thanks for letting me know. I found the table of glitches and cover art without labels but wasn't sure that was meant to be the material from the covers. The POD version doesn't have anything printed on the inside of the front or back covers, but does have the contents of the front and back covers printed as an additional page at the end of the book.
When I was worried that I might be missing something, and after I posted my question, I looked to see what was on the front/back covers of a couple other Campaign Setting books. Like this one, the Construct Handbook had the front cover reprinted at the back, but the First World Realm of the Fey book has a map of the First World that I initially thought spanned the front and back covers, but upon further inspection saw was just duplicated inside the back cover without labels.
Anyway, I've just finished my initial reading of Technology Guide. Lots of stuff I'd like to use, but I'm not actually running a sci-fi/technology-focused game, so I'll have to choose judiciously.
Can this book get an update for Pathfinder 2e - This post is just to show interest in PF2e tech book
Thanks for your feedback. It sure would bring Pathfinder and Starfinder closer together. Be sure to check our Guns & Gears and Treasure Vault.
I noticed some items/features in these books use some of the mechanics of some items/features in the Technology guide. Sadly not really a fan of Starfinder rules or how it does Sci-fi overall. I like the Idea of having technology that is completely divorced from magic. I also like having magical technology. It really comes down how items and features decribed I don't really get or like the description for the Chameleon suit in G&G as an example (It seems like it would be uncomfortable and somewhat noisy I also personally find it hard to imagine) Where as the Chameleon suit in the Technology guide seems to me at least is more thematically tangible.
The Technology guide Chameleon suit also is a good alternative to invisibility. This is to me is how technology should function as a way of bringing magical abilities and effects to someone who doesn't have them.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" while the qoute is true, in a world of high magic wouldn't their be people trying to essentially develop technology so you are not reliant on magic.
