Pathfinder Lost Omens: World Guide

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This indispensable 136-page guidebook to the world of Pathfinder presents everything you need to know for a lifetime of adventure in the uncertain Age of Lost Omens. The god of humanity is dead and prophecy is broken, leaving adventuring heroes like you to carve their own destinies out of an uncertain future!

This gazetteer features 10 diverse regions packed with thrilling and deadly possibilities and is accompanied by a giant two-sided poster map depicting the heart of the Pathfinder setting.

Written by: Tanya DePass, James Jacobs, Lyz Liddell, Ron Lundeen, Liane Merciel, Erik Mona, Mark Seifter, and James L. Sutter

ISBN: 978-1-64078-172-6



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Just buy the inner sea world guide

2/5

I picked this up because some people were telling me there would be a full map of Garund available, and with the Lizardfolk/Iruxi in the nearby release of Lost Omens Character Guide I really hoped there would finally be some information on Droon. I got neither of those things. the rest of the book is pretty meh as well. The Inner Sea World Guide is cheaper and provides much more information.


Love it

5/5

Great stuff.


Snappy, if brief, setting outline

5/5

Lost Omen World Guide is something of an extended primer to the campaign setting. It describes the Pathfinder world, paints some broad strokes and hopefully gets you excited about it. It does that job very well, between excellent art and brief but concise writing, it sets the tone of the place and hooks you up. There's nowhere as much detail in this book as in 300+ pg campaign setting tomes, but this book's job isn't to be a comprehensive reference. It's more of a pitch, and a very good one at that.

For existing players, LOWG presents a quick update of the setting, incorporating 10 years of storytelling to push the Golarion world a bit forward, figuratively and literally. There's a new nation here, a smoldering ruin in place of a vibrant city there and there's a new person in charge over there. But these changes are minor to moderate, as the writers have purposefully avoided the "realm-shattering event changes everything" paradigm of some other fantasy RPG settings.

There's some rules content, but sparse. One very welcome element of it are numerous backgrounds. The PF2e core rulebook is rather sparse with those, so any expansion is more than welcome.

Did I mention that the art is gorgeous? Because it is. The book is easily worth its price as an art book alone.

Overall, a great purchase IF you don't expect it to be a super-detailed campaign setting almanach. Manage your expectations and you'll be as happy with this purchase as I am.




5/5


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Grand Lodge

I'm not sure why, but the only download available is One File Per Chapter. Hopefully that gets fixed before subscribers get their access.


Pathfinder LO Special Edition, Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, PF Special Edition Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Superscriber

<blinks> You have access to downloads already?

I think I got that in one or two other products, come to think of it. Maybe I should go back and check to see which ones.


TOZ is a Society Super GM/VentureDude.

It's a perk of the job.


:( I don't have it yet sadly :(

Sovereign Court

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Oliver Veyrac wrote:
:( I don't have it yet sadly :(

Same. For me, it's the downside to having so many subscriptions set to ship at the same time. The savings is nice, but the wait on pdfs (even just a couple days) hurts.


I'm glad this is coming because I had to delay my Rulebook, AP and adventure line to get the 15% discount with 4 lines. SO then it's got to get to NZ, but at least I will have the PDFs soon!


Will the downloads for this be available once the product ships? Or will we have to wait for the actual release date like the core rule book?

Grand Lodge

You should get your download as soon as your order ships. The CRB was a special case due to the 2E launch.


TriOmegaZero wrote:
You should get your download as soon as your order ships. The CRB was a special case due to the 2E launch.

That’s what I’d though, but couldn’t find that confirmation anywhere I looked. Which was obviously the wrong place to search


Are there any new ancestries and/or heritages in this book?


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Cruel Illusion wrote:
Are there any new ancestries and/or heritages in this book?

I think it's only new thematic Backgrounds for the regions, and a new Archetype for each region.

But in October you'll get the Character Guide, and that's going to be filled with new heritages and four new ancestries and nearly 100 new ancestry feats.


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Jorsalheim wrote:
Cruel Illusion wrote:
Are there any new ancestries and/or heritages in this book?

I think it's only new thematic Backgrounds for the regions, and a new Archetype for each region.

But in October you'll get the Character Guide, and that's going to be filled with new heritages and four new ancestries and nearly 100 new ancestry feats.

Just three new ancestries: Hobgoblin, Leshy, and Lizardfolk.


David knott 242 wrote:
Jorsalheim wrote:
Cruel Illusion wrote:
Are there any new ancestries and/or heritages in this book?

I think it's only new thematic Backgrounds for the regions, and a new Archetype for each region.

But in October you'll get the Character Guide, and that's going to be filled with new heritages and four new ancestries and nearly 100 new ancestry feats.

Just three new ancestries: Hobgoblin, Leshy, and Lizardfolk.

My bad, I don't know where I had the four from. Multitasking can be a hard feat to master. :)

Dark Archive

Is there any word on what parts of this are legal for PFS2? Or a link to an additional resources page for second edition Society?


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I just got access to the PDF as a subscriber, but there is only the "one file per chapter" download. I hope we will get a single file version as well.


Codeman wrote:
Is there any word on what parts of this are legal for PFS2? Or a link to an additional resources page for second edition Society?

I haven't heard of any update but ultimately you'll find that information on the PF2 society page under "Character Options" (click).

I imagine the page will get updated before or around the street date.

Dark Archive

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redeux wrote:
Codeman wrote:
Is there any word on what parts of this are legal for PFS2? Or a link to an additional resources page for second edition Society?

I haven't heard of any update but ultimately you'll find that information on the PF2 society page under "Character Options" (click).

I imagine the page will get updated before or around the street date.

Thank you so much for the info and especially the link! You are my favorite kind of person!


I have access to the PDF as a subscriber as well and only have the one file per chapter download..any word on getting this fixed?


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mach1.9pants wrote:
I'm glad this is coming because I had to delay my Rulebook, AP and adventure line to get the 15% discount with 4 lines. SO then it's got to get to NZ, but at least I will have the PDFs soon!

Just warning you, even with the 15% discount you are paying more thanks to the shipping costs than if you bought the book online and bought the pdf from the site. (although you do get pdfs earlier)

Not that I don't want to support Paizo, just that I have found that their products get to me a lot later and cost a huge amount to ship from this site (even compared to smaller indie rpg teams).


I expect "One File Per Chapter" will remain the default until next week.


Any comment on the maps from those who have the PDF? Are they all redone? Anything strikingly new?


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Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber

What do you mean by "redone"?

Maps in the adventure:

Spoiler:

The inside front cover has a map of the tree city of Akrivel. There's a half page hex map for exploration of a 100-mile wide region of the Mwangi Jungle around Akrivel with an accompanying full page map of 6 encounter areas. Finally, there are full page maps for a mine entrance and the stronghold of the Scarlet Triad. All of these maps are new.


The Gleeful Grognard wrote:
mach1.9pants wrote:
I'm glad this is coming because I had to delay my Rulebook, AP and adventure line to get the 15% discount with 4 lines. SO then it's got to get to NZ, but at least I will have the PDFs soon!

Just warning you, even with the 15% discount you are paying more thanks to the shipping costs than if you bought the book online and bought the pdf from the site. (although you do get pdfs earlier)

Not that I don't want to support Paizo, just that I have found that their products get to me a lot later and cost a huge amount to ship from this site (even compared to smaller indie rpg teams).

thanks, but yeah I know, trying to support Paizo. I'll be switching to ad hoc Amazon purchases once the flow of products means I won't be keeping up. Even the reduced PF2 rate of publication will be to much for me, eventually


Can anyone confirm that the blue and yellow symbol in the Broken Lands blog post is indeed Casandalee's holy symbol?


Zaister wrote:

What do you mean by "redone"?

Maps in the adventure: ** spoiler omitted **

What adventure? This is the thread for the Lost Omens World Guide.

Silver Crusade

David knott 242 wrote:
Zaister wrote:

What do you mean by "redone"?

Maps in the adventure: ** spoiler omitted **

What adventure? This is the thread for the Lost Omens World Guide.

I'm guessing Zaister is talking about Age of Ashes.

Grand Lodge

Steve Geddes wrote:
Any comment on the maps from those who have the PDF? Are they all redone? Anything strikingly new?

I only see the same map with the new country borders and names. Not having the single file version, I haven't checked through everything yet.


Cheers.


Are there any maps that give more detail outside of the Inner Sea region? In particular -- Do we have anything better than the maps on page 418 of the Core Rulebook?

Grand Lodge

I don't see any maps outside of the Inner Sea, unfortunately.

Scarab Sages

Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

Will the foldout poster map come in a second seperate PDF for subscribers?


Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path Subscriber
TriOmegaZero wrote:
I don't see any maps outside of the Inner Sea, unfortunately.
James Jacobs wrote:
We WILL finally have a detailed global map though, which I'm very excited and relieved about! :P

James mentioned there would be a global map of Golarion in there, and reconfirmed this at Gen Con, as I remember. Maybe the map just isn’t accessible in one file per chapter format for whatever reason?

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The original intent was to reproduce the global map featured in the Core Rulebook, but the book just had too much awesome stuff going in, so we couldn't fit it in.


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Luis Loza wrote:
The original intent was to reproduce the global map featured in the Core Rulebook, but the book just had too much awesome stuff going in, so we couldn't fit it in.

Oh, okay. Unfortunate, but understandable. Will there be a big version of Golarion’s global map floating around anytime soon then, that was originally planned for this book? I’d totally be willing to buy a poster map of that separately, and I’m sure I’m not alone.


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Rysky wrote:
David knott 242 wrote:
Zaister wrote:

What do you mean by "redone"?

Maps in the adventure: ** spoiler omitted **

What adventure? This is the thread for the Lost Omens World Guide.

I'm guessing Zaister is talking about Age of Ashes.

Oh, right, somehow I thought I was in the Cult of Cinders thread. Now this makes much more sense. Sorry for the confusion. :D


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It would be super cool if we got a book like this for all the continents and subcontinents.


You mean like a "World Guide"? ... Oh, wait... *jk*

Dark Archive

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And someone already made before release a review about how they didn't like how assumed AP endings include options they didn't like :P

Like seriously, even if you dislike that aspect that much, there are middle options like 2 or 3. In general I prefer giving reviews based on quality of book and content rather than pure personal preference. The "Art is book and setting is good" doesn't really sound like its worth one star out of five.

If the parts you think offend 1e veterans affect the enjoyment of book that much, give it at least 2 stars if you think its still good for newbies. Otherwise you are essentially saying good parts of the book or archetypes aren't worth anything

Silver Crusade

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"anyone who truly cares about their setting"

It's not my setting anyway, I just play in it.


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Rysky wrote:

"anyone who truly cares about their setting"

It's not my setting anyway, I just play in it.

Ha! I'll raise you one with:

It's not my setting anyways, I just take the parts I like (for my group's setting).

Admittedly, it's not as concise as yours, but... <shrug>

Carry on! :D

--C.

Grand Lodge

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Single file version is available!

Silver Crusade

Yay!

And before I got mine available hehe.... >_>


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We should accept that folks will have differing views on what this book represents. It is their opinion. Others will look at it differently, we cant all just mindlessly cheerlead everything the company puts out or call for Brigading a negative review. Going that route will end up giving us substandard products which helps no one - consumer or company. If the review is critical so be it. If your review is positive so be it.

I personally felt deceived when the world map did not come out. I know that was one of the major reasons I purchased the book and a lot of folks were pumped about that detailed world map. I don't even know when the correction was made in the product page, but Paizo new before hand and should have said something, which they only chimed in after folks noticed it in their pdf and posted on it.

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