Pathfinder Player Companion: People of the Stars (PFRPG)

Only 32 pages? Nutbunnies. Hopefully we'll get some new stuff for Lashunta (maybe even a racial archetype or two)?

Yeah, the place you'll want to go for android crunch and player-friendly android information is actually People of the Stars.

Among other options for androids, the four feats in the ecology article are indeed reprinted in People of the Stars, so players can access those feats easily without running the risk of getting a spoiler from the GM-focused (and lengthier) ecology article in Iron Gods itself.

Android Information Confirmed! :)

Cool, we will be getting some android love in this book. I some of the actual alien races will get at least some love in this book as well.

I have a feeling this book is going to exceed expectations.

Seriously wondering just how the three Vercite castes will be represented, especially since they're casteless until a certain age. Alternate racial traits? Or perhaps it might not be anything mechanically tied to the race at all, with stuff like God-Vessel marks and Augmentations falling under equipment, feats, etc.

I haven't heard anywhere that we will get info on the Vercites or any other of the Distant World related races. I hope we do but I will have to wait until we a get some official information on this one.

Updated product image and description to final!

Another piece of what I will need to take the spirit of SpellJammer and resurrect in Pathfiner falls into place. I will be picking this up definitely.

Ooooh! Nice cover!

Neh-Thalggu vs. a Lashunta (perhaps a ranger with Aberrations as her favored enemy?)

Hmm, no Vercites or Sarcesians (at least not notably enough to include in the description), but there will be some kasatha love, which is cool. And of course, androids, lashunta (yay!), and triaxians.

Too bad this isn't coming out at the same time as Guardians of the Galaxy. :D

AWESOME, THE LASHUNTA GET SOME LOVE IN THIS ONE and also the Triaxians, Kasatha, and of course already new the androids would.

Rules for how to play four of the Pathfinder campaign setting’s most iconic alien races: nanite-infused androids, four-armed kasathas, telepathic lashunta, and seasonally morphic Triaxians—including complementary new archetypes and feats.

I want to hug everyone at paizo right now. :}

*Turns into bear and prepares to go on a hugging spree*

I love that cover: so pulp!

YES now I will have the resources I need in order to convince a DM or to run a hybrid sci-fi/fantasy game with some interplanetary travel. Seasonally changing aliens and telepaths sound awesome! I can't wait to get my hands on it!

I agree about the cover though I wish they gave that lashunta a different hair color all the ones we have seen have had dark hair colors, I would have liked bright red or light green.

Speaking of the seasonally-changing Triaxians, I'm curious now- what happens to them when they go off-world? IIRC, the seasonal changes are generational, due to the slow planetary calendar, and so is not something that would normally be apparent in your average Triaxian. But is it just a slow, gradual adjustment to the seasons, or is it an inherent change within each Triaxian that might emerge if they were to go to a planet with more regular seasons like Golarion?

Speaking of the seasonally-changing Triaxians, I'm curious now- what happens to them when they go off-world? IIRC, the seasonal changes are generational, due to the slow planetary calendar, and so is not something that would normally be apparent in your average Triaxian. But is it just a slow, gradual adjustment to the seasons, or is it an inherent change within each Triaxian that might emerge if they were to go to a planet with more regular seasons like Golarion?

from the article in part 4 of Reign of Winter, they are described as changing over generations in a cycle that is determined by triaxian homeworld and would still happen on Golarian at the same pace.

SOMEBODY CALL 911 MIKAZE IS GOING TO HAVE A CEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE!

SOMEBODY CALL 911 MIKAZE IS GOING TO HAVE A CEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE!

Don't worry, I'm The Doctor.

*Motion Gorbacz to get Mikaze into the Tardis*

Gorbacz wrote:

SOMEBODY CALL 911 MIKAZE IS GOING TO HAVE A CEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE!

Don't worry, I'm The Doctor.

*Motion Gorbacz to get Mikaze into the Tardis*

Damn it! We just got him sorted after the last bit of good news... sigh. Back to surgery.

And so The Doctor(zergtitan) along with his new companions Gorbacz, Tinkergoth, and Mikaze went on adventures across time and space in the Tardis.

Until they were faced with The Doctor's greatest foe, Baba Yaga and her Chicken Hut.

Astronomical feats, space themed spells, and details on the most important celestial bodies in the Pathfinder gaming system...me like.

Looks like Lashunta artwork has continued to shift. Amusingly, I think that now means that of all the Lashunta pictures, none of them are particularly similar beyond the basics (i.e. antennae).

It's like Frank Frezzeta by way of Wayne Reynolds and it is glorious T-T. Gencon will be amazing this year.

Astronomical feats, space themed spells, and details on the most important celestial bodies in the Pathfinder gaming system... like me.

That is what my dyslexia led me to read, which gave me some really perplexing thoughts regarding Dragon78... that is, until I read it twice to make that is what was really stated.

In other news (and more pertinent to the discussion)...

I love the smell of Pathfinder in August! Between this, all things Numeria, Technology, Iron Gods, and the Advanced Class Guide, Paizo is making me renew a bunch of different subscriptions. My wallet curses you Paizo!

A little more then three months to go now and I am really excited for this one.

I'm looking foreword to more Andriod fluff/crunch :)

Well actually a little more then two months to go.

Since Kasatha have been mentioned in the description I hope there are some alternate racial traits. I've had a character in mind who was born with only two arms instead of four. Partly because it would give him a perfect excuse to become an adventurer (he'd most likely be bullied or treated badly by his four armed brethren, so he'd want to get out of there), and partly because I feel some GMs might be more willing to let a player choose a Kasatha who doesn't dominate with his extra attacks at lower levels.

Hoping for a little more kasatha artwork, to possibly reveal what their mouths look like, since that's still a mystery. I'd also like to see artwork of a female Kasatha, as the race description in Bestiary 4 claims there is no notable (or maybe just no obvious) differences between men and women. I'm curious if this means they are fully androgynous, or are the differences more subtle (coloration, maybe skin patterns...). But in the same Bestiary 4 entry it also claims they refuse to remove any clothing in front of other races, so maybe their clothing is simply to... puffy(can't think of a better word) to reveal any hints as to the form beneath.

No were in the Kasatha's description or stats does it say that they actually get multiple attacks if that was the case then monk in B4 would get more then a two strike flurry. Though are other advantages to having 4 arms like wielding a two handed weapon in two hands, a shield in the third and a fourth with a potion or wand. Also you could have a weapon, a shield, and a bow, etc.

Something tells me I might have to ambush the UPS guy outside the gaming store if I want to get my hands on this...

Here Devastation Bob, you can barrow my hypno-gun;)

No were in the Kasatha's description or stats does it say that they actually get multiple attacks if that was the case then monk in B4 would get more then a two strike flurry. Though are other advantages to having 4 arms like wielding a two handed weapon in two hands, a shield in the third and a fourth with a potion or wand. Also you could have a weapon, a shield, and a bow, etc.

Multi-Weapon Fighting

If you have more than two arms you can use this instead of two weapon fighting. Thereby having four attacks off the bat as long as you have 13 dex. It's ridiculous.

Dragon78 wrote:

No were in the Kasatha's description or stats does it say that they actually get multiple attacks if that was the case then monk in B4 would get more then a two strike flurry. Though are other advantages to having 4 arms like wielding a two handed weapon in two hands, a shield in the third and a fourth with a potion or wand. Also you could have a weapon, a shield, and a bow, etc.

Multi-Weapon Fighting

If you have more than two arms you can use this instead of two weapon fighting. Thereby having four attacks off the bat as long as you have 13 dex. It's ridiculous.

But they don't have it by default.

I don't know if I'm correct but I think I know what the homeworld of the kasatha's is.

These people, dubbed the Ice Clans, are primarily human, though at least two white-skinned Shobhad clans live there as well. Yet these tribes are clearly not the first people to have resided here. In the tangle of frigid and foreboding mountain ranges around the northern pole, ancient and abandoned cities of molded stone and weird metal towers have stood empty since times beyond memory, perhaps even since before the world’s seas froze. Scattered carvings indicate that the residents were tall, four-armed humanoids, giving rise to the notion that these might have been the ancestors of the Shobhads, yet the strange and stylized masks worn in all the drawings keep scholars from being sure, as does the tendency for even well-equipped adventuring parties to disappear in the mountains.

This might be them, making their homeworld Akiton.

Just a guess.

Last I heard they said the Kasatha are not from the Golarion solar system.

The feat just says it replaces the two-weapon fighting feat for creatures that have more then two arms. It does not say that it grants the creature multiple attacks.

I don't know if I'm correct but I think I know what the homeworld of the kasatha's is.

Distant Worlds Pg.19 wrote:

These people, dubbed the Ice Clans, are primarily human, though at least two white-skinned Shobhad clans live there as well. Yet these tribes are clearly not the first people to have resided here. In the tangle of frigid and foreboding mountain ranges around the northern pole, ancient and abandoned cities of molded stone and weird metal towers have stood empty since times beyond memory, perhaps even since before the world’s seas froze. Scattered carvings indicate that the residents were tall, four-armed humanoids, giving rise to the notion that these might have been the ancestors of the Shobhads, yet the strange and stylized masks worn in all the drawings keep scholars from being sure, as does the tendency for even well-equipped adventuring parties to disappear in the mountains.

This might be them, making their homeworld Akiton.

Just a guess.

Yeah, Akiton was my original hypothesis, given the four arms, until I went back and saw that they came from a red star instead of a red planet...so seems like they're definitely from a different star system. Or the future.

Last I heard they said the Kasatha are not from the Golarion solar system.

The feat just says it replaces the two-weapon fighting feat for creatures that have more then two arms. It does not say that it grants the creature multiple attacks.

You get one main hand, and the rest are considered off hands. Each off hand would get an attack of it's own in addition to the main attack. So your main hand gets one, and then three more.

Szenden wrote:

Dragon78 wrote:

No were in the Kasatha's description or stats does it say that they actually get multiple attacks if that was the case then monk in B4 would get more then a two strike flurry. Though are other advantages to having 4 arms like wielding a two handed weapon in two hands, a shield in the third and a fourth with a potion or wand. Also you could have a weapon, a shield, and a bow, etc.

Multi-Weapon Fighting

If you have more than two arms you can use this instead of two weapon fighting. Thereby having four attacks off the bat as long as you have 13 dex. It's ridiculous.

But they don't have it by default.

The Multi-Weapon fighting feat simply lowers the penalties. They can attack in such a manner without the feat (albeit with a massive penaly, -6 main hand, -10 all off hands). I linked the feat because it's what makes the four attacks far more viable. And just like with two weapon fighting, using light weapons in the off hands lowers the penalties as well.

Hey guys, let's keep this thread about the product, not about multi-weapon fighting and other such Cuisinart impressions.

The only problem with this book is IT'S TOO SHORT.

With only 32 pages, and lots of other stuff to get through, each of the racial writeups is gonna be what, 4 pages? 6 max? I would pay through the nose for ARG depth writeups.

I think we will be lucky to get 4 pages for each race considering all the other stuff this book is supposed to contain:(

I am SO looking forward to this book - even if the Vercites are apparently not presented as a playable race.

IIRC, both the Shobhad and Witchwyrds (like the Pactmasters of Katapesh) descended from a single ancestral race on Akitron.

The Kasatha are another thing altogether. Maybe one inspiration was from the Dark Sun campaign setting? :)

This next batch of covers (Iron Gods, this one, Numeria, etc.) are some of the most awesome in the Pathfinder library. Kudos, guys.

-Skeld

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WANT

I was really really really hoping for Vercites though... Maybe they might still be included in a smaller section? As a sort of human-variant or such, like the Akitonians?

Rules for how to play four of the Pathfinder campaign setting’s most iconic alien races: nanite-infused androids, four-armed kasathas, telepathic lashunta, and seasonally morphic Triaxians—including complementary new archetypes and feats.

W-we're iconic too! We're the ones with all the spaceships! :(

Well I do hope to get stats for the Vercites one day but until then at least we still get info those four.

The only bad thing about this and Iron Gods is that I won't have enough time to put things together for Furpocalypse on Halloween. But I will say this, with all the Numeria love I'm seeing this year, Furpocalypse 2015 will see a dark science fantasy scenario with pre-gens drawn from the list of Kymera subraces I have been developing.

I'd rather they have more material on a few races than a paragraph each on many races.

Which isn't to say I don't want Vercites -- quite the opposite -- I want them in a product that has room to do them justice!