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As a little update, Ian wrapped on the Godhand expansion last Sunday. I'll see when I can get it formatted and out the door.
Hooray! I'm looking forward to seeing the updated version. ^^ This is a funny class - so easy to make jokes with - so it has a special little place in my heart. XD
The dragonhand archetype we've got to look forward to really reminds me of Megaman Starforce.
So now I'm wondering how many people made Godhands who are androids with blue armor.
Because thinking about it, an arm that changes configuration for different powers, that's totally megaman.
Probably too late to suggest an archetype that consumes the souls of dead opponents to replace morphologies with their abilities...
It sold well enough that making an expansion seemed feasible, so if more support shows up I imagine it would depend on how well the expansion sells, or until they're sick of it over at LRGG.
Whichever comes first. :)
It sold decently but there is more to determining if we should expand a product than "how well did it sell". Things like community engagement and feedback, what kind of ideas we have for future content, and reviews. For example: Tome of Ethical Necromancy sold REALLY well but I don't think Ian has said "yeah- I got an idea for 4 more of those" (though I could see him writing "Tomes" along the same vein on other topics) and there hasn't been a desire for more.
We actually sent out a year end survey on Facebook and Patreon and used that pretty heavily to determine our production schedule for the first part of this year.
It sold decently but there is more to determining if we should expand a product than "how well did it sell". Things like community engagement and feedback, what kind of ideas we have for future content, and reviews. For example: Tome of Ethical Necromancy sold REALLY well but I don't think Ian has said "yeah- I got an idea for 4 more of those" (though I could see him writing "Tomes" along the same vein on other topics) and there hasn't been a desire for more.
Considering Martial Magic floated the idea that Necroknight was the necromancy equivalent of the cresting that Shujaa get I'm kind of surprised to hear that you don't actually have active plans for the other schools of magic.
But some things just seem to scream for more options, in my experience.
I like necroknight, I wouldn't say no to more necroknight material, but it didn't make me go "Oh! Oh! Oh! You could do this with it or this or this or this" like say the Godhand.
Although since there's already a pseudo-ghost archetype I could see a bunch of archetypes for other undead types, a deadly gaze pseudo Bodak for example seems like a fun idea...
But to make this more appropriate for this book, why I was just thinking of a few more Godhand options the other day like a Stray Spell Godhand who goes even more Mega Man, consuming spells/magic items to change their godhand, or an Arma "Living Weapon" archetype.
We actually talked about what cresting looks like for other schools of magic. I won't go into it too much, as we have plans based on it, but just know that it's not a topic that has escaped our view ;-)
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Well, one thing I have in my own little headcanon is that worldshaper from Alt. Path Magic is almost a transmutation crested character and I probably would have written it as such (and a bit differently) if we'd had cresting back then. La Rosa from Alt Path Divine feels a lot like how we'd probably address a divination crested character. (The mystic seeker prestige from Alt. Path Martial could probably fit that slot too.)
It'll be interesting to see how things shape up in Pathfinder 2. We have a blank slate to kind of re-introduce classes and concepts that kind of developed all helter-skelter since we started. Like I know we want to codify that "cosmic" power source (aka "kashun") we've explored (we actually do that in the upcoming Alt. Path Magic 2 which just finished playtest and initial editing). I REALLY want to take another crack at things like battle chef, davatti, and multiman. We did davatti and multiman as Starfinder conversions but haven't released them yet (it's a big process and Starfinder sells... ok) and that just made me want to do them all over again.
We've toyed with couching our content in a broadly accessible setting like we did with Red Sector in Starfinder. It's the kind of "here is some flavor specific to the setting but the class/content itself is super setting neutral. If you want to fit it in, here is how that'd look."
We've toyed with establishing a few "core" races for LRGG. Probably stay spells, maybe gaoth and some stuff from Racial Guide 4, and we'd probably toss wug in there because we love it so damn much.
Lot's upcoming. We've, for sure, got the Godhand support (probably launching today), Alt. Path Magic 2, probably a pure "culture" book, and more. We've talked internally about the next Alt. Path after Magic 2 and it's looking like it'd either be Ascetic 2 or a skill-focused Alt Path book (focused on rogues, bards rangers, etc with new ways to use skills and the like).
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Just saying...
The Expanded Godhand