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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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I like the flavor, but....

3/5 —

Most of the Artwork that is not reprinted is subpar, and a lot of descriptions are the same as they were in previous books. I was honestly shocked at how much was just copy and pasted.

Though, after my initial bad reaction, and taking the time for a good read, I like what actually is new in the book quite a bit.

It is definitely worth the PDF price if you don't have the softcover book of the damned PDFs already and would like to save by just getting this instead.

I would only recommend the hardcover to someone, like me, who obsessively needs to have all the hardcover books. But you already bought it didn't you.

Sidenote: please please please get someone to make a decent piece of art for Asmodeus, or just retcon it and let all artwork that is currently for Dispater be Asmodeus, most of the art for him is amazing. I've been waiting for a good looking piece of art on him since the 3.0 days.

The PDF is a good buy

4/5 —

I buy all my books via PDF, so I very much appreciate the price point. I hope they continue this trend of blending flavor and crunch from the campaign line into the main line. That way I get the best of both worlds. Thank you, Paizo.

There are reprints in the book, but I don't mind them. First, it's nice to have all this information in one location. Second, they well promulgated the fact that there were reprints. Less chance that way that someone bought this blind and were surprised by the reprints.

Personally, I bought this book because I love when Paizo creates more flavor for their deities. I would have preferred if this book had just been Inner Sea Gods but for fiendish deities. This book lacks things like the deities' sacred colors, priests' roles, spell list alterations, specialized divine servitors. If those were in this book, it would have received a 5 star rating. However, that would be a different book, one that is unlikely to exist because this book fulfills many of that book's functions.

I appreciate that they explain how Exalted et all work with Fiendish Obedience, however they don't give a similar rule for the Divine Paragon Cleric archetype. I would guess that you just bump up when you get the rewards by 2 levels, but then again maybe not.

The best part for me was all the very flavorful boons (most entirely new!!). Most of them made sense with the rules too. One that I was very confused by Evangelist boon for the demon lord of driders. You bite an enemy, inject them with eggs, and the forcibly reincarnate them into a spider with a humanoid head. Cool. Super flavorful. Unfortunately, it doesn't explain what the mechanical effects of that reincarnation are. Do your stats change? I don't know. Can you make webs with your gross, new spider body? Your guess is as good as mine. Despite not making much sense to me in the finer mechanics, it remains rather cool. So even when I'm scratching my head in confusion, I'm still enjoying the reading.

Seen many many times before, but never in this format

2/5 —

My two major points about this book are this: 1) It's almost entirely reprints, and 2) It's a campaign setting book.

So for my first point, while I say it's a reprint, at least in this case it makes some degree of sense (though $45 for it really feels like you're being cheated out of your money, the $10 price is much more acceptable). Much of the evil deity material has been stuffed away in the backs of APs or in small segments of Campaign Setting books, so having a book which is more or less complete collection of those bits of information is useful. And even then, at least there's new bits of flavor text to go along with the entries, which makes it not a complete copy+paste job like much of the Adventurer's Guide. Still though, a lot of it (like 1/4-ish of the book) is reprinted boons. There are some new ones, which is nice, but the total amount of new material (including feats, magic items, boons, rituals, and monsters) is barely enough to fill a campaign setting book.

Which brings me to my second point: that this is a campaign setting book masquerading as a core line rulebook. This I blame mostly on page limits, since I believe all the books are restricted to certain numbers of pages, and the amount contained in this book fills almost 300 pages with material. The thing is, probably 1/2 or more of that material is pure fluff. Lots of setting information about the Evil-aligned planes, tons of lore information about the various deities and demigods, and a 30 page "excerpt" from the book of the damned in hard-to-read writing font describing the lower planes again. If all the old material had been completely removed and some of the more verbose sections had been trimmed down, this would fit nicely into a campaign setting book called "Book of the Damned". Even just selling this directly as a campaign setting book would have fit perfectly, since it matches the format of things like Inner Sea Gods, but with a larger pagecount. But this book honestly is probably the least deserving of being put in the core line due to its content being almost entirely fluff. Adventurer's Guide, as much as I disliked that book, was at least full of options for players and fluff was second to that. Aquatic Adventures would be a better fit than this for a core line book.

tl;dr It's a good buy for $10 if you want a collection of Evil deity boons and a smattering of new material, don't buy for $45.

Shut up and take my soul!

5/5 —

I and my group have been cackling with glee all day as we went through the book and we are happy to say that it exceeded our expectations in every way.

As a GM: Tons of lore, fun tools and VERY good options for NPCs. The Infernal contracts is going to be hysterical if we ever play in an evil campaign.

As a Player: Tons and tons of crunch, both very flavourful and powerful options for those willing to sign their soul away. Never thought I'd see the day when there's a legal way for a player to become a Worm that Walks!

And the Souldrinker, one of my favourite PRC's ever, had its most powerful ability removed and still it ends up not only feeling stronger but also more fair. That's how you reprint a Prestige Class.

The criticism I have is that it might be a tad light on the feat and that we would have liked some more spells and maybe discoveries. Still I think this is one of the most fun packed books you've put out in ages.

Lots of reprints and some questionable art

3/5 —

This book is basically all three 'book of the damned' campaign setting books smushed into one book, with a few extras and new things sprinkled in. If you already own the campaign setting books, I personally feel this book is not worth the price tag, it's just too much reprinting. If you don't own them, and plan on having a lot of villains that serve devils / demons / daemons, then it is worth a purchase.

The art in some areas is terrible, the 2 worst offenders being Andirifkhu on page 17 and Charon on page 36. It is so bad, I honestly thought it was a mistake at first.

Overall, these 2 issues take a chunk out of the rating for me.

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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...
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

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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