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Abandon All Hope!

As long as mortals have feared what awaits them after death, the threat of damnation has loomed. Powerful fiendish lords rule the deepest, darkest reaches of the Great Beyond: archdevils, demon lords, the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and more. Such is the power of their evil that even angels cannot resist it—when one servant of Heaven cataloged all the evil in existence in the Book of the Damned, Heaven's judges doomed him to exile, appalled at what he had wrought. And now you hold those horrors in your hands!

Pathfinder RPG Book of the Damned explores the evil planes and their fiendish rulers as they exist in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an open playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into a new era.

Pathfinder RPG Book of the Damned includes:

  • Descriptions for dozens of archdevils, demon lords, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and other fiendish divinities, including the foul boons they grant to their most devoted followers.
  • Explorations of otherworldly fiendish realms, including the infernal reaches of Hell, the death-haunted expanses of Abaddon, and the nightmare depths of the Abyss.
  • Several brand-new monsters to fill out the ranks of all 11 of the fiendish races, from sinister classics such as demons and devils to new favorites like asuras and sahkils.
    • New blasphemous rituals, magic items, powerful artifacts, and spells to arm your villains with or for heroes to discover and defy.
  • Three fiend-focused prestige classes, ready to vex and terrify adventurers who dare stand against their plots.
  • An extensive collection of in-world excerpts from the sinister pages of the Book of the Damned itself.
  • ... and much, much more!

ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-970-7

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Book of the Damned deals with many dark and intense concepts. The topic of demons and devils is not for everyone, nor is exploration of the themes these fiends embody and the practices they demand of their worshipers. You should make sure that your game group is comfortable with the contents of this book before using them in play—if even one player is uncomfortable with including some of the concepts in here, you should set those portions of the book (or the entire book) aside and focus on other plots for your game. Buyers should beware that the content of this book is not appropriate for all ages, and parents especially are encouraged to review the book before buying it.

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Five Evil Stars for a Five Star Evil Book!

5/5 —

Paizo's Book of the Damned does the nigh unthinkable in the increasingly politically correct gaming industry, in that it is filled with truly evil beings that commit hideous and offensive acts upon the universe. This book collects the best selling Book of the Damned series from Paizo and adds new parts here and there. If you have the previous books, it is still worth getting this for the new material, but your mileage may vary.

I absolutely love how much this book triggers people! I'd expect nothing less from a product called "Book of the Damned." The art is absolutely gorgeous, the lore is evocative and the evil contained within will help you unleash the hordes of heck on your unsuspecting players - and they'll thank you for it.

It's sold out now, so if you see a copy somewhere, snatch it up! This will be a much sought after collector's item for years to come.

Thank you for treating your customers like adults, Paizo. Every toolbox needs evil toys and this book helps fit that bill!

crappy overall

2/5 —

first 2chapters are horrid, the art is garbage. Last 3 chapters steadily grow better. I'd write more and have, but this stupid program keeps deleting my reviews! Therefore, PM me if you really want to know.

Mostly flavor for DMs, little use to players

1/5 —

I would not recommend this book to anyone except DMs who wanted a lot of deep flavor text on evil gods, evil planes and evil outsiders. The vast bulk of material is stuff that the DM can read in order to form a more coherent world view inside his head, but much of the material is such that it is not only useless to players mechanically, but even further, it is even difficult to convey to players flavor-wise.

Of the 280+ pages, about 120 (so almost half the book) is spent on detailing evil gods that were too small to receive full writeups in previous products. Gods like Baphomet, Dispater, Kostchtchie, Lamashtu, Mephistopheles, Moloch, Nocticula, Orcus, Pazuzu and Szuriel receive two-page writeups -- about 50 in total, covering about 100 pages. The other 20 pages in this section offer two-page writeups for 10 groupings like "Asura Ranas" and "Daemon Harbringers", giving brief detail to groupings gods even smaller than those who merited full two-pagers per individual. This section is essentially useless to players, but the DM can make some use of it for players by building cults that worship these guys and positioning them as enemies that have some of their background fleshed out thanks to this book. Having said that, spending almost half the book to detail the obscure gods of the guys who are going to be sword fodder for the players in three combat rounds? I think a hardcover slot could have been used for something much more useful.

The next 40 pages cover evil planes like Hell and Abyss. This, I think, is one of the more useful sections in the book, because at higher levels, players and campaigns are often going to be venturing into these environments, so getting more detail on them is very good stuff, and the DM can really use this as very concrete setting material for adventures. I actually wish that the art budget from the entire first section had been put into this section, because getting lots of cool images to use as visual aids to show players when they venture into a plane would have been extremely useful to me as a DM. Unfortunately, this is the smallest of the book's four sections, showing a big disconnect between what Paizo thinks we need and what I feel I need.

The third section is essentially the crunch section. Feats, domains, magic items, prestige classes and stuff like that. 95% of it is useless to players, and essentially exists just for the DM to build bad guy statblocks that the players are never going to see. There's a few occasional things that the players can use, like the Moon and Rivers subdomains, but by and large this section is useless unless you are the sort of DM who gets enjoyment out of building statblocks for your bad guys.

The fourth section is called a bestiary, but don't think it's like the Bestiary books simply presenting statblocks -- it has that too, but only about 14 of its 40 pages are statblocks for new monsters. The larger part of this section is flavor descriptions going over existing outsiders (like six pages for devils, six pages for daemons and six pages for demons) and giving them more flavor than existed previously. It's...not useless, I suppose. Some of the evil outsider flavor can be useful for DMs to flesh out encounters between evil outsiders and players. I guess this would be my second favorite section of the book, after the evil planes section.

Finally there's an appendix that presents excerpts from the in-world Book of the Damned in replica-like format as if you were reading the actual book. Kind of neat as a novelty but I didn't feel I got much use out of it.

So essentially there's five sections -- Gods, Planes, Crunch, Bestiary and Excerpts. Gods and Crunch are mostly only useful to build the bad guys of the campaign. Gods is more flavor side, Crunch is more crunch side. But I seriously question the decision to devote over half a hardcover to material that is mostly just useful to build the guys that might be dead in three rounds. My dislike for this decision is a big reason why I only give the book one star. Planes and Bestiary are more useful sections, but they are only about 80 of the book's 280+ pages. Bestiary is about as big as it needed to be -- I don't need any more flavor or statblocks that were presented there, so I wouldn't have wanted to see that section expanded further, but Planes could have and IMO should have been expanded far more. I could have used much, much more detail on the adventuring environments that I as DM could present to players.

Overall I just feel like this book was a big misstep and mis-gauge in what is useful. At least from my personal perspective -- other DMs may disagree. And it's miscategorized -- this book should have been in the DM-focused Campaign Setting line like Inner Sea Gods, to which it is sort of an evil sequel, rather than in the core line where, IMO, books should be more player-useful.

I should add one exception. This book could be really useful and worth its price if you are running an evil campaign. In that case, all the evil gods stuff and evil crunch stuff will actually be player-useful, which rockets the utility of this book upward. If you are running an evil campaign, I would actually consider this a four-star book.

Reprints and Bad Artwork

1/5 —

The best thing about the new Book of the Damned that can truly be said to be original to it, is the completed list of obediences. The rest of the material consists of reprints from the prior Books of the Damned, or retcons to that material that create new problems. As seems to be the usual case, the demons and the devils take the lion's share of the material, while the daemons, despite theoretically being among the Big Three of the fiendish races, are left to language in comparative obscurity; minor demon lords receive longer write-ups than in prior books, and Asmodeus' Queens of the Night get full write-ups for the first time, but among the deamons the Horsemen and the Horsemen alone receive any attention.

Perhaps the worst thing about the book however, is the artwork. While there are a few good, new pieces, usually marking the spaces between sections, most of the individual portraits of the archfiends are reprints from prior books or stunningly ugly (or in the case of the archdevil portraits from Bestiary 6, both).

I loved the prior Books of the Damned and wanted to like this book. In the end though, what little new material there cannot compensate for the book's faults, and the bad quality art makes it actively cringe-inducing to look on. Save yourself the money and buy something else.

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Isabelle Lee wrote:

I was wondering what the solution was going to be for the boons' increased power level. I'm glad you found a solution that preserves their potency. ^_^

(PFS might need to issue a Campaign Clarification for the divine paragon cleric archetype, though, since it'll still get the boons at its own rate.)

PFS doesn't allow evil characters, so it's sort of a moot point since this book's about evil.

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That totally failed to occur to me. It's been a very long day. ^_^

This is great. I love the Great Beyond and am always excited when material is released for it. Keep it coming, please!

This book is sounding mighty good. Would it be possible to get a rough percentage estimate of how much material is in the book on each fiend type?
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Lemartes wrote:
This book is sounding mighty good. Would it be possible to get a rough percentage estimate of how much material is in the book on each fiend type?

I'd say... 1/4 devils, 1/4 demons, 1/4 daemons, 1/4 all the rest. More or less what one would expect of a compilation product that gathers the three Books of the Damned into a hardcover and then adds what more or less amounts to a 4th 64 page book of the damned. It's not EXACT, because a fair amount of what was in those first 3 books (particularly among the monsters, but a few other crunchies) have been reprinted in other hardcovers and won't be reprinted in this book.

Cool. Thanks.

I will guess 1/16 Asuras.

Looking forward to this. Thank you.
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If this book mentions(as in at minimum has that inner sea gods style "name, title, domains, favoured weapon" table) all bestiary mentioned demigods for all fiend species, I'd be really impressed and happy that they finally have more to them than names :D
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Also anxious to learn about the secondary fiend lords.

Given how much you're putting into limited space, I assume there won't be summaries of the fiendish demigods like in Chronicle of the Righteous?
AlgaeNymph wrote:
Given how much you're putting into limited space, I assume there won't be summaries of the fiendish demigods like in Chronicle of the Righteous?

1 - On Book of the Damned 2 we got five to six Nascent Demon Lords per page on their sectiom.

2 - As accordingly to Mr. Jacobs, the new section about the other fiendish demigods was based on the section about the Nascent Demon Lords.

So, by looking at the section in BotD 2 from the original trilogy, one could suppose that we are getting close to three demigods per half a page, six per page. With that you can presume how long the summary for each of them will be.

Its similar to the model used in Dragon Empires for the Tian-Xia faiths, and not like the half-page summaries we are used to see like in Strange Aeons' Elder Mythos section.

Again, this are all assumptions and one should not take this as official. ;)
CorvusMask wrote:
If this book mentions (as in at minimum has that inner sea gods style "name, title, domains, favoured weapon" table) for all "bestiary mentioned" demigods for all fiendish species, I'd be really impressed and happy that they finally have more to them than names :D

Indeed, my outer cousin.

Based on the section from which their own was based - the one for Nascent Demon Lords in BotD: Lords of Chaos - as I supposed in the post above, we might get not only the main "worshiper intended" content (domain, subdomain, etc.), but also short summaries for each of these demigods.
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AlgaeNymph wrote:
Given how much you're putting into limited space, I assume there won't be summaries of the fiendish demigods like in Chronicle of the Righteous?

For archdevils, Ahriman, the Queens of the Night, the demon lords, and the Horsemen, they each get a two page entry of boons/art/flavor. Domains/subdomains/favored weapon/similar info is given at the start of each entry, but these are not all compiled into a master table in the book (at least not at this time... if there's room, I'll consider adding these tables).

For pretty much all the rest, each one gets a short paragraph of flavor, an obedience, and three boons in the form of 3 spell-like abilities. For these, all of the domains/subdomains/areas of concern/favored weapon info is summarized on a table.

So it looks like all the info is there for any entry just not always in table form. Works for me.
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This is sounding awesome thusfar!

Will it be including information and categorization of the assorted powers of Hell that haven't been confirmed as Infernal Dukes and lack domains thusfar (i.e. Astaroth, Glasya-Labolas, Nahemah, Nybbas, Orobas, Xaphan, and Zagan)?
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Will Camazotz make another surprise appearance (as he did in the first volume of the Book of the Damned series)?

Or has he been placed in 'limbo' for the time being until more is done on Arcadia (if he is indeed a major player there)?

Please & thank you.

--C.
James Jacobs wrote:
For archdevils, Ahriman, the Queens of the Night, the demon lords, and the Horsemen, they each get a two page entry of booms/art/flavor.

Mr. Jacobs, did I misunderstood something?

Are we getting TWO pages for EACH of the Demon Lords? I mean... There's a good number of Demon Lords in the original Book of the Damned. Are we finally getting two pages and arts for each of those?

And the Queen of the Night as well? Two pages + art for each of the four Queens?
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This book seems as more than worth the pause in the campaign setting line.

- 16 pgs for the Archdevils
- 08 pgs for the Horsemen
- 08 pgs for the Queens
- 02 for the lord of all Divs
- I can't guess the number of pages for the demon lords...

That's bigger than any other material on fiends I can remember...
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Mr. James Jacobs,

Along with expanding material, did you take this opportunity to recast things we knew in a different light?
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The Gold Sovereign wrote:
I can't guess the number of pages for the demon lords...

Well, if I recall, there are thirty-one of them. So... 62 pages of demonic opposite-of-goodness.

I'm very sorry to hear that all of the daemonic harbingers are getting the treatment of low CR, also-ran, nascent demon lord chumps. A decent proportion should be senior guys who are potential horseman replacements and deserving of full boons. I'd like to have seen them developed further.

The same applies to a lesser extent with Dukes of Hell, but with 12 archdevils and queens getting the full treatment I can see why you stopped here rather than add in Furcas and several other senior dukes.
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Lord Gadigan wrote:

This is sounding awesome thusfar!

Will it be including information and categorization of the assorted powers of Hell that haven't been confirmed as Infernal Dukes and lack domains thusfar (i.e. Astaroth, Glasya-Labolas, Nahemah, Nybbas, Orobas, Xaphan, and Zagan)?

Nope. Those don't really have roles in Golarion, and as such aren't characters we'll be covering in the book.

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Psiphyre wrote:

Will Camazotz make another surprise appearance (as he did in the first volume of the Book of the Damned series)?

Or has he been placed in 'limbo' for the time being until more is done on Arcadia (if he is indeed a major player there)?

Please & thank you.

--C.

What appeared about Camazotz in the original books is going to be reprinted here, but there's no new info on him.

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The Gold Sovereign wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
For archdevils, Ahriman, the Queens of the Night, the demon lords, and the Horsemen, they each get a two page entry of booms/art/flavor.

Mr. Jacobs, did I misunderstood something?

Are we getting TWO pages for EACH of the Demon Lords? I mean... There's a good number of Demon Lords in the original Book of the Damned. Are we finally getting two pages and arts for each of those?

And the Queen of the Night as well? Two pages + art for each of the four Queens?

That's exactly what I said. They all get two page entries; ammounts to about 1,400 words of text and an illustration for each, more or less.

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BobTheCoward wrote:

Mr. James Jacobs,

Along with expanding material, did you take this opportunity to recast things we knew in a different light?

With the exception of continuing to focus on the Queens of the Night by that name rather than the other one, not really. I'm pretty pleased with how we've portrayed the fiends, and this book isn't gonna change that significantly.

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Plausible Pseudonym wrote:

I'm very sorry to hear that all of the daemonic harbingers are getting the treatment of low CR, also-ran, nascent demon lord chumps. A decent proportion should be senior guys who are potential horseman replacements and deserving of full boons. I'd like to have seen them developed further.

The same applies to a lesser extent with Dukes of Hell, but with 12 archdevils and queens getting the full treatment I can see why you stopped here rather than add in Furcas and several other senior dukes.

You tell Vorasha or Folca that they're also-ran chumps! >:)

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Scholar of Damnation wrote:
The Gold Sovereign wrote:
I can't guess the number of pages for the demon lords...
Well, if I recall, there are thirty-one of them. So... 62 pages of demonic opposite-of-goodness.

The description for BotD V. 2 says over 40 Demon Lords, Pathfinder Wiki lists 32 plus 5 that are virtually unknown on Golarion...

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James Jacobs wrote:
AlgaeNymph wrote:
Given how much you're putting into limited space, I assume there won't be summaries of the fiendish demigods like in Chronicle of the Righteous?

For archdevils, Ahriman, the Queens of the Night, the demon lords, and the Horsemen, they each get a two page entry of boons/art/flavor. Domains/subdomains/favored weapon/similar info is given at the start of each entry, but these are not all compiled into a master table in the book (at least not at this time... if there's room, I'll consider adding these tables).

For pretty much all the rest, each one gets a short paragraph of flavor, an obedience, and three boons in the form of 3 spell-like abilities. For these, all of the domains/subdomains/areas of concern/favored weapon info is summarized on a table.

Hopefully it'll answer how Zepar incorporates transformation into his areas of interest. I asked Wes, twice, but his answers were (understandably, given the context) cryptic (but still informative).

Speaking of Paizo's premier horror guy, is he involved in this book? I hope so. :)
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James Jacobs wrote:
The Gold Sovereign wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
For archdevils, Ahriman, the Queens of the Night, the demon lords, and the Horsemen, they each get a two page entry of booms/art/flavor.

Mr. Jacobs, did I misunderstood something?

Are we getting TWO pages for EACH of the Demon Lords? I mean... There's a good number of Demon Lords in the original Book of the Damned. Are we finally getting two pages and arts for each of those?

And the Queen of the Night as well? Two pages + art for each of the four Queens?

That's exactly what I said. They all get two page entries; ammounts to about 1,400 words of text and an illustration for each, more or less.

Oh My Fiend God! This book surpassed all my expectations... I never dreamed about seeing all the fiend demigods in one book, let alone with two pages and art. That's far more than amazing! I'm really anxious now...

I can't even start imaging how many adventure hooks we will be able to extract from this pages... *-*

Thanks for the answer Mr. Jacobs.
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Marco Massoudi wrote:
Scholar of Damnation wrote:
The Gold Sovereign wrote:
I can't guess the number of pages for the demon lords...
Well, if I recall, there are thirty-one of them. So... 62 pages of demonic opposite-of-goodness.
The description for BotD V. 2 says over 40 Demon Lords, Pathfinder Wiki lists 32 plus 5 that are virtually unknown on Golarion...

It must be counting nascent demon lords and such; I was only counting those with full obediences and boons in BotD2, from Abraxas to Zura.

Liberty's Edge

James,
are we getting a new obedience feat/feats, or will all the fiends grant boons using divine obedience?
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If there were a limited edition of this, I would get it.

I have three soft cover books, so I'm curious as to the differences from the hard cover.
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Sooo, will this have new antipaladin codes? :D

This could prove helpful for an upcoming campaign I'm doing
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Paladinosaur wrote:

James,

are we getting a new obedience feat/feats, or will all the fiends grant boons using divine obedience?

The fiends use a Fiendish Obedience feat to grant their boons. You could use Divine Obedience if you want, though... but again, you'll need to increase the prerequisites for the Inner Sea Gods prestige classes by 2 levels if you go down that rabbit hole.

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CorvusMask wrote:
Sooo, will this have new antipaladin codes? :D

No

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The only thing that could make this book more perfect would be for it to come out now, but September is my birthday. My poor players will feel the utter damnation that this book will provide...

Muahahahahahaha!
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This ought to be a great book, I will have to figure out how to utilize it in my Ustalav Campaign

I'm sure it will go well with a nice bottle of drained virgin blood, Ambassador.
Todd Stewart wrote:
Plausible Pseudonym wrote:

I'm very sorry to hear that all of the daemonic harbingers are getting the treatment of low CR, also-ran, nascent demon lord chumps. A decent proportion should be senior guys who are potential horseman replacements and deserving of full boons. I'd like to have seen them developed further.

The same applies to a lesser extent with Dukes of Hell, but with 12 archdevils and queens getting the full treatment I can see why you stopped here rather than add in Furcas and several other senior dukes.

You tell Vorasha or Folca that they're also-ran chumps! >:)

I fear the amount of Daemonic content in this book relative to demons and devils is going to tell them that.

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Thomas Seitz wrote:
I'm sure it will go well with a nice bottle of drained virgin blood, Ambassador.

Virgin blood, quite intoxicating.

Plausible Pseudonym wrote:
Todd Stewart wrote:
Plausible Pseudonym wrote:

I'm very sorry to hear that all of the daemonic harbingers are getting the treatment of low CR, also-ran, nascent demon lord chumps. A decent proportion should be senior guys who are potential horseman replacements and deserving of full boons. I'd like to have seen them developed further.

The same applies to a lesser extent with Dukes of Hell, but with 12 archdevils and queens getting the full treatment I can see why you stopped here rather than add in Furcas and several other senior dukes.

You tell Vorasha or Folca that they're also-ran chumps! >:)
I fear the amount of Daemonic content in this book relative to demons and devils is going to tell them that.

You mean… an equal amount?

QuidEst wrote:
Plausible Pseudonym wrote:
Todd Stewart wrote:
Plausible Pseudonym wrote:

I'm very sorry to hear that all of the daemonic harbingers are getting the treatment of low CR, also-ran, nascent demon lord chumps. A decent proportion should be senior guys who are potential horseman replacements and deserving of full boons. I'd like to have seen them developed further.

The same applies to a lesser extent with Dukes of Hell, but with 12 archdevils and queens getting the full treatment I can see why you stopped here rather than add in Furcas and several other senior dukes.

You tell Vorasha or Folca that they're also-ran chumps! >:)
I fear the amount of Daemonic content in this book relative to demons and devils is going to tell them that.
You mean… an equal amount?

It doesn't sound like an equal amount of demigod two page spreads and full obediences. Based on what's been said the demons are getting a huge number, the devils at least a dozen, and the daemons maybe not more than four. Everyone else (dukes of hell and daemonic harbingers) is getting scrub-tier treatment equivalent to nascent demon lords. Hope I'm wrong and this has been poorly communicated.

Plausible Pseudonym wrote:
It doesn't sound like an equal amount of demigod two page spreads and full obediences. Based on what's been said the demons are getting a huge number, the devils at least a dozen, and the daemons maybe not more than four. Everyone else (dukes of hell and daemonic harbingers) is getting scrub-tier treatment equivalent to nascent demon lords. Hope I'm wrong and this has been poorly communicated.

Not an equal amount of demigod content, but James mentioned that the three main evil outsider groups each get (loosely) a quarter of the book. Less demigod content presumably means more space for other daemon content. Daemons don't have as many other books where they get fleshed out, so it makes sense to me.

I want full harbinger obediences and more detail on them, though, I doubt I'll prefer what daemons get instead.
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James Jacobs wrote:
O'Mouza wrote:
Chris Lambertz wrote:

Darkness has been unleashed, friends!

Announced for September, description and image are not final and subject to change.

Hi Chris!

If i have already the 3 campaign settings series "book of the damned" do i need to buy this or is just a reprint?
Thank you in advice for your answers!

Depends how much you enjoyed those three books. And depends if the idea of getting boons for every major fiendish demigod (along with illustrations of each) is appealing.

The original Books of the Damned were 64 pages each. This hardcover compiles all of those books but doesn't compile any of the monsters (they've mostly all been reprinted) and puts brand new fiends of pretty much every fiend category into the bestiary section. And there's more information on all of the other critters as well... harbingers, kyton demagogues, sahkil tormentors, rakshasa immortals, oni daimyo, etc. Some of these, like the Queens of the Night or Ahriman, get a full two page writeup, while others are handled more quickly, a-la the Nascent Demon Lord section in Book of the Damned 2, with compiled boon information and short descriptions. Plus new spells and new demonic rituals and magic items and so on.

At the very least, check it out when you see it on the shelf.

If I were a customer and had my interests in this stuff unchanged, I'd say it's ABSOLUTELY worth buying after buying the previous books.

And... sold. This may be for Golarion's Cosmology, but anything remotely planer means it's time for me to hit the Great Wheel again. Serious, a book by James, Todd, and Wes on the fiends? It's a Planescape dream come true! Hell, I may even subscribe for this one!

Apparently the 3 BotD PrCs will be getting reprinted, will there be any other PrCs, and if so, are they similar to those but perhaps more generic, or something else entirely?

Mr. Jacobs,

Are we getting any information about the gods that reside in the Lower Planes? Like Camazot, Droskar, Dahak, etc.

If I could be more specific, will there be any mention about their relationship with the denizens of these planes and how they are affected by the presence of these gods?
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So if it is not to late some things I hope make it into this book:

- Manifestation Rules and Manifestations of some of the big bads
- The Kobold Quarterly articles covering Golarion's Lords of Hell (Not the articles as exact copies, but generally the information about Barbatos and Dispater included in them) also the new Devils and manifestions included in them.
1. Manifestations of Barbatos: Bearded Prophet and The Eyes and Name
2. New Devil: Edavagor
3. Manifestations of Dispater: Crown of Fire and Molten Throne
4. New Devil: Ascensoriel
- The 5 part web article about Golarion's Wayward Children of the Abyss (again not exact copies of the articles but generally the information and new monsters included in them)
1. Peacock Spawn
2. Smoldering Host of the Risen (Template)
3. Child of Malignant Symmetry
- Voice of the Damned, the Book of the Damned's self actualization (see Hell Unleashed)

Keeping my fingers crossed, at least until expectation management says otherwise :)
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