Pathfinder Tales: Reign of Stars

Announced! Cover image is a mockup and subject to change.

YES!!!

So excited to see Alaeron and Skiver back!

More Tim Pratt = more great Pathfinder Tales!

City of Fallen Sky was the worst Tales book.
Liar's Blade was a real pleasure.

I hope this is more Liar's

City of Fallen Sky was the worst Tales book.

Liar's Blade was a real pleasure.

I hope this is more Liar's ** spoiler omitted ** and less City of ** spoiler omitted **.

We'll have to agree to disagree then. I enjoyed City of the Fallen Sky a lot, though agree that Liar's Blade was better. There's several tales books I would consider the worst, but CotFS wasn't even close.

To each their own though...

I honestly enjoyed City of Fallen Sky a lot. I'm not sure why you consider it to be so bad. I can't wait to get my hands on this new book because I really liked the alchemist main character from Sky.

I also rather enjoyed City of the Fallen Sky. In fact I think I enjoyed it more than Liar's Blade, which I also enjoyed. Either way I am also looking forward to this book.

City of the Fallen Sky is one of my favorite Tales novels. While I really enjoy Liar's Blade, I very much preferred City. Great characters, entertaining writing, interesting settings, and gripping plot. Really looking forward to this one.

Do any of these books take place on Castrovel, Akiton, or Verces?

Do any of these books take place on Castrovel, Akiton, or Verces?

None so far, though I might recall a tease from James about that.

Edit: Nope - was thinking of outer planes (Redemption Engine) and metallic dragons (Dave Gross' next book).

Really looking forward to coming back to Alaeron and Numeria, CotFS was the first book I read in the series and I've been waiting to come back to these characters for a while. hopefully we'll see Alaeron run into Rodrick (and Hyrm) again at some point

Though Liar's Blade is one of my top 5, I was amazingly excited to see this sequel announced. CotFS was solid, (and is the reason I'm so excited for PFS season 6) and I'm looking forward to more Technic League fun!

You can count on my purchase!
I am very excited to see the return of Alaeron. Liar's Blade was great in a Fritz Leiber sort of way, but City of the Fallen Sky was my kind of book. Really looking forward to this.

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Let's hope that this will be better than the previous book with Alaeron, don't get me wrong Liar's Blade was awesome but CotFS was one of the worst tales i have read (the worst being song of the serpent by FAR but i haven't yet read all of the pathfinder tales).

Disagree with the above. Are you sure you're not thinking the Worldwound ganbit?

Nice cover! Once again we have Alaeron throwing a bomb up at something that seems to be attacking him!

I was not a big fan of City of the Fallen Sky, but I adored Liar's Blade. Thus, I will give Tim Pratt the benefit of the doubt. I'll make a decision based upon the evidence contained within the pages of this book.

I have read all of the Pathfinder Tales except The Redemption Engine, and that last one is just a matter of time.

Disagree with the above. Are you sure you're not thinking the Worldwound ganbit?

I haven't read worldwound gambit yet (since i have read a lot of bad things about that book it's quite low on my reading list).

Anorak wrote:

Disagree with the above. Are you sure you're not thinking the Worldwound ganbit?

I haven't read worldwound gambit yet (since i have read a lot of bad things about that book it's quite low on my reading list).

I consider The Worldwound Gambit the best PF Tales novel to date. YMMV.

The Worldwound Gambit was just awful, I couldn't even force myself to finish it as the writing was so execrable. But I've enjoyed CotFS and Liars Blade - fun character development with good motivations and snappy pacing. I'm looking forward to this one.

Tangentially, City of the Fallen Sky had a great in world depiction of going up a level, IMO. I'm surprised to hear such strongly held negative views. I thought alaeron was a terrific character.

Very glad to see the sequel.

Looking forward to this one. I liked City of Fallen Stars better than Liar's Blade, but I enjoyed both books.

Love the Aleron character! A great science/geek role! Looking forward to this...

You go, Tim!

Yay-laeron!

Also, while I wasn't much a fan of Worldwound Gambit, I think Song of the Serpent bottoms out my list. Especially the constant dialog splicing. "That is," runnetib said, "just my opinion."

Can't wait to buy and read this, I really enjoyed the characters from City of the Fallen Sky.

This is next on my read and review list as soon as it arrives in the mail. Damn international shipping being so slow...

Well, just finished reading the novel. I really, really enjoyed. One area I thought went by a bit faster and would have enjoyed more description and showed some of the planning. The rest was great and gives a great overall feeling of how Numeria functions/operates along with the general attitudes. Great timing releasing this with the Iron Gods AP.

Looking forward to more Alaeron adventures!

Hee hee!

In City of Fallen Sky and Reign of Stars, it is quite clear that Alaeron is

I have a question in general for Pathfinder Tales authors: do you imagine or even stat out characters as PCs in the Pathfinder RPGs? I'm sure that some of what the characters do in the novels would be difficult to do in the RPG, but maybe not. I'm wondering how much of the events in the novels are imagined as possible events in a Pathfinder session.

This and the first book are definitely in my top 5 favorite pathfinder tales. The Snappy dialogue and quite possibly one of the best characters I've seen in a novel in a long time (Skiver obviously) Make both of these books a must read. I've had City of The Fallen Sky sitting on my shelf for 2 years and i finally decided to read it and Death's Heretic on a whim recently. Suffice it to say I loved COTFS so much I went and bought ROS immediately after finishing it and read both in 2 days and 4 sitting total

1.City of The Fallen Sky
2.Skinwalkers
3.Death's Heretic
4.Reign of Stars
5.Winter Witch

Just in case you were all wondering.

Reviewed on the Kobold Press blog.

I love this book so hard.

Last night I finally figured out what it was reminding me of: Terry Pratchett's Ankh-Morpork and all the lovable, slightly cockeyed scoundrels therein. Some of them are clever and some of them are brutes, but they all seem to be approaching the world about ten degrees tilted from the ordinary. I get exactly the same vibe here.

It's pretty great. It's also a really fun approach to Numeria, which is just the perfect larger-than-life setting for these characters to play in.

I used to be one of those hardcore "keep the sci-fi out of my fantasy!" people, but Tim Pratt's Pathfinder Tales have made me do a total 180 on that one.

Do the events of this novel happen before or after the events in Iron Gods?

OK I think the novel is after the conclusion of Iron Gods...

I wonder if Golarion is done with Alaeron?

I love that Skiver is learning to speak Alaeron,
"Best go with [apology] variation number 3."

Reviewed.

is there a snowballs chance in hell that the bit about the trap made from a blue dragon glad is a reference to this?