Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Races (PFRPG)

Random ages would make sense for planetouch races. I can't stand the idea of a race that is a cross between mortal and immortal and can't live as long as a elf. It would have made sense that all 0HD races mature between ages 10-25 depending species though but there full life spans can very between 50 and 1000+.

The party in our current game includes a tiefling and two aasimars. The tiefling and one of the aasimars use the ARG aging stats, but one the other aasimar uses human aging stats since she grew up in a human family and looks human (Scion of Humanity).

Now if the official answer were to turn out to be that initial age is based on that of the race whose family you were born into but age categories and maximum age were based on ARG values, I am sure the player of the latter aasimar would not object at all.

Lol Elephantfolk were just a joke^^

Anyway, this could be the very right place to give Kitsune some traits!

Elephantfolk

I believe they prefer the term Pachydermfolk. ;)

I hope some elephantfolk will finaly make it out of the Mwangi plains and make their appearance in the inner sea region.

Guess they have been in Alkenstar before, since that´s closer.

Always wanted to make a elephantfolk gunslinger, so i can reload the twf-guns with my trunk. And if there´s a misfire, you just trumpet it away.

Hmm. I guess no matter what the calibers were, all of their guns would technically be Elephant Guns.

Seriously, though, I also want this race to be a thing. Babar rules!

Maybe if enough people show interest they will give us elephantfolk one day.

I would rather prefer vicious cockroach raiders and traditional tribes of termie people.

And traits for Kitsune.

Maybe we will have those when they do a ARG2;)

Unlikely - the ARG really only added support for existing races. The exceptions are the Race Builder sample races, who were later haphazardly integrated into the system.

I seem to recall that James Jacobs was against this integration in one form or another (because the races hadn't been integrated properly into Golarion). I may be misremembering, though - so sleepy. :)

I´m actually really surprised to hear that there will be catfolk in an Inner Sea races book.

Catfolk are found in Garund and part of Garund is a part of the Inner Sea so I can see them being in there. Though I admit I am surprised, and happy, that there are in the book.

Anyway, this could be the very right place to give [REDACTED] some traits!

The Overflow Archive showed there are [REDACTED] in Varisia and even Kasatha have traits!

Sssh! Spoilers, Hayato Ken!

Also, the Overflow Archives isn't a good reason to assume that the race you're talking about has anything resembling a presence in Varisia. Remember, the character you're talking about lived during the Age of Anguish some 10,000 years ago. He was a traveling minstrel and is very likely to be the exception rather than anything resembling a rule, no matter how much I wish it were so.

Plus I'm almost certain that nothing that happens in Pathfinder Society is canon unless its published somewhere else in the Player Companion / Campaign Setting line.

Please no more or at least minimal humans, and more cool races like Catfolk, Ratfolk, Gnolls (though they did have some nice stuff in Monster Codex, I want more on the non lvl adjustment Gnolls from ARG)

Kitsunes, and Wyvarans. Seriously need some more Wyvaran love.

This will be an insta-buy. Finally, I'll get a chance to check out the elf and dwarf options... and revamped at that!

Well they have already said that 1/5 to 1/4 of the book will be crunch and more then likely half of that will be reprints/updates.

Kitsune will be in a small section about the dragon empire races and wyvarans will more then likely not be in the book. We will be getting some small amount of info for catfolk and hopefully ratfolk.

Sssh! Spoilers, Hayato Ken!

uups, sorry about that!

Remember, the character you're talking about lived during the Age of Anguish some 10,000 years ago. He was a traveling minstrel and is very likely to be the exception rather than anything resembling a rule, no matter how much I wish it were so.

That only shows that inherently chaotic foxes will not be contained to the forest of spirits! It´s in their nature to wander all lands and prank on people, while mixing with them! And they are a lot less suspicious than catfolk actually. So much for the human-centric world.

Plus I'm almost certain that nothing that happens in Pathfinder Society is canon unless its published somewhere else in the Player Companion / Campaign Setting line.

Close. There was an ancient humanoid race called the "Ling" that were size Tiny. Using permanent enlarge and reduce, some relationships between human and ling worked out, and the result, much like the half-elf and half-orc, was the half-ling.

Ling?

Or Leng?

Halflings are descendants of extradimensional slavers from the Dreamlands.

That only shows that inherently chaotic foxes will not be contained to the forest of spirits! It´s in their nature to wander all lands and prank on people, while mixing with them! And they are a lot less suspicious than catfolk actually. So much for the human-centric world.

Here's to hoping less human-centric worlds in the future. Or at least no more human material in Pathfinder. They get too much as is.

Mark Seifter wrote:

Close. There was an ancient humanoid race called the "Ling" that were size Tiny. Using permanent enlarge and reduce, some relationships between human and ling worked out, and the result, much like the half-elf and half-orc, was the half-ling.

Ling?

Or Leng?

Halflings are descendants of extradimensional slavers from the Dreamlands.

They serve obediently as slips, until one day, the time comes...

Hayato Ken wrote:

That only shows that inherently chaotic foxes will not be contained to the forest of spirits! It´s in their nature to wander all lands and prank on people, while mixing with them! And they are a lot less suspicious than catfolk actually. So much for the human-centric world.

Here's to hoping less human-centric worlds in the future. Or at least no more human material in Pathfinder. They get too much as is.

Hey, careful... Most of us following this thread are human.

Hayato Ken wrote:

That only shows that inherently chaotic foxes will not be contained to the forest of spirits! It´s in their nature to wander all lands and prank on people, while mixing with them! And they are a lot less suspicious than catfolk actually. So much for the human-centric world.

Here's to hoping less human-centric worlds in the future. Or at least no more human material in Pathfinder. They get too much as is.

Doubt it'll happen. We like Golarion as is, being humanocentric. It's one of the core things that defines it.

Well at least many of the other planets in Golarion's solar system are not human centric.

KingmanHighborn wrote:

Hayato Ken wrote:

That only shows that inherently chaotic foxes will not be contained to the forest of spirits! It´s in their nature to wander all lands and prank on people, while mixing with them! And they are a lot less suspicious than catfolk actually. So much for the human-centric world.

Here's to hoping less human-centric worlds in the future. Or at least no more human material in Pathfinder. They get too much as is.

Doubt it'll happen. We like Golarion as is, being humanocentric. It's one of the core things that defines it.

It's the first RPG world in which I actually PREFER to play a human! All others I have favored elf or half-elf (AD&D/Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms being the others). Golarion being humanocentric is fantastic.

All I have been playing for years are humans until very recently. Now I am playing a catfolk swashbuckler for our currant campaign. Paizo has given us many new races that I really like such as catfolk, lashunta, kitsune, genie-kin, dhampir, and many others. I would love those races to get more love, both in game mechanics and world specific info.

Do the Jadwiga (Baba Yaga's human but weird descendants in Irrisen) get a section?

I would think they would but you never know. I wonder if there will be any difference between human ethnicities game mechanic wise. A free trait tied to what human ethnicity you have would be cool.

They serve obediently as slips, until one day, the time comes...

Just as long as there's beer and warm fires....

I would think they would but you never know. I wonder if there will be any difference between human ethnicities game mechanic wise. A free trait tied to what human ethnicity you have would be cool.

I believe most of them currently give you a free starting language. Chelaxian and Taldan are the exceptions*, since their native tongue is already free. :)

*There may be another exception - I have to double check. Jadwiga might not get a bonus. If they don't, I would personally give them cold resistance 1. :)

It would still be cool to have a free trait tied to what culture you are from. We could always make it a house rule.

Hey Paizo, imma let yo finish, but I think that Kobold Press' Advanced Races Compendium is going to be the best Pathfinder race book of ALL TIME!

Hey Paizo, imma let yo finish, but I think that Kobold Press' Advanced Races Compendium is going to be the best Pathfinder race book of ALL TIME!

Naahh, they don´t have elephantfolk either.

Hey Paizo, imma let yo finish, but I think that Kobold Press' Advanced Races Compendium is going to be the best Pathfinder race book of ALL TIME!

I'm sure that's going to be a great book. But it's a rules heavy, setting neutral book (with some Midgard sidebars).

I'm much more interested in a book about the races and their place in the Inner Sea.

I understand. Just getting the word out for the Kickstarter. :)

September just can't get here quick enough.

KingmanHighborn wrote:

Hayato Ken wrote:

That only shows that inherently chaotic foxes will not be contained to the forest of spirits! It´s in their nature to wander all lands and prank on people, while mixing with them! And they are a lot less suspicious than catfolk actually. So much for the human-centric world.

Here's to hoping less human-centric worlds in the future. Or at least no more human material in Pathfinder. They get too much as is.

Doubt it'll happen. We like Golarion as is, being humanocentric. It's one of the core things that defines it.

Dear Mr. James Jacobs.

Does this book collect and expand the Player Companions:
"Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, Orcs, Halflings, Humans, Goblins and Kobolds of Golarion", parts of "Dragon Empires Primer", "Blood of Fiends", "Blood of Angels", "People of the North, Sands and River"?

That would be great because most of them are already out of print.

Thank you for your time.

It's already been pretty much said that that is roughly what the book is going to be -- collecting, revising and expanding on racial Player Companions. However, not everything from those Player Companions will be included. The core races will be pretty well represented, but for example tieflings and aasimar will receive much less page count than their Player Companion, so what we get will probably be a very concise summary, and for more information you'll still want to get the Player Companions for the non-core races.

What Samy said. The hardcover will be gathering some but not all of the info from the Player Companions.

So it's essentially all reprint?

No. There's no reprinted text except possibly for some of the rules we're considering picking up from Player Companions. (There's also new rules text.)

All of the narrative text is new. That's not to say that concepts and information aren't repeated -- as with Inner Sea Gods, with this book we're codifying some of what we've said before while revising or letting some other things fade -- but none of this is a straight Player Companion reprint.

Is there any reason why some books, like hardcover bestiaries, have there actual cover art shown when the product is announced while most do not?

Mostly just a function of when the cover art comes in, I believe. Since, in general, the hardcovers are considerably longer than any of our other books, we have to plan them and order the text farther in advance, which means we have to know what's in them earlier, which means the cover art gets ordered earlier.

Any idea how big the feat section will be?

Not yet. We're still finalizing the pagination for the rules section.

So, who are the artist for this book?

So, who are the artist for this book?

As with all hardcover books we do, the number of artists is extensive. You'll need to wait for the book to come out to find out.

Is this going to fall into that same slim category that Inner Sea Gods fell into? A hardcover, campaign setting book that is non-introductory (a la Inner Sea World Guide) then? I'm excited about the book, but if it's going to be another $25-$30 PDF, I think I'll probably end up having to pass on it. :(

It's pretty similar to Inner Sea Gods, yes, and I believe (but am not 100% certain) it will be the same price.

I'm hoping that this will add some more options for the Advanced Race Guide builds.

I'm going to go against the grain of the thread and say that I'm mostly interested in more details about the elves and dwarves - especially about the Kyonin and Five Kings Mountains. I want to know what the elves and dwarves of Golarion are like, and how they're different from standard-issue fantasy dwarves and elves.

Well is there any chance there will be any artwork by Carolina Eade?