Pathfinder Lost Omens: Gods & Magic

Will all deities included have Edicts and Anathema listed? That alone would greatly expand a lot of under developed deities (The Tian Xia pantheon...)

All of the deities showcased in the book will feature the basic information required to worship them and play a champion or cleric of their faith (edicts, anathemas, domains, favored weapon, and so on). While we couldn't fit every god ever mentioned in Pathfinder's history, we did try to cram in as many as we could. That includes a number of the Tian deities!

All of the deities showcased in the book will feature the basic information required to worship them and play a champion or cleric of their faith (edicts, anathemas, domains, favored weapon, and so on). While we couldn't fit every god ever mentioned in Pathfinder's history, we did try to cram in as many as we could. That includes a number of the Tian deities!

That... is... AWESOME!

Also, I had the chance to see the actual cover only today and Good Golly Miss Molly, it's friggin' astounding!!

Can't wait for January!

All of the deities showcased in the book will feature the basic information required to worship them and play a champion or cleric of their faith (edicts, anathemas, domains, favored weapon, and so on). While we couldn't fit every god ever mentioned in Pathfinder's history, we did try to cram in as many as we could. That includes a number of the Tian deities!

[VIBRATING DAIKITSUN ZEAL INTENSIFIES]

Ragathiel? Alesta?

Will Aroden's edicts, and anathemas (from when he was alive) be listed?

Will Aroden's edicts, and anathemas (from when he was alive) be listed?

Nope.

While it might be something interesting for folks to know, it's not useful since he's dead and can't grant spells.

deuxhero wrote:

Will Aroden's edicts, and anathemas (from when he was alive) be listed?

Nope.

While it might be something interesting for folks to know, it's not useful since he's dead and can't grant spells.

…. or can he?

Joking aside, I guess it'd be useful for Homebrewing Aroden to be alive or "Let's play in the past" sort of games, but having mechanics for something you can't use in character would be weird

deuxhero wrote:

Will Aroden's edicts, and anathemas (from when he was alive) be listed?

Nope.

While it might be something interesting for folks to know, it's not useful since he's dead and can't grant spells.

A shame. Hopefully they will be included in Legacy of the Lost God or The Dead God's Hand since both look like they'll be focused on him.

Oh? We have the former Adventure League top guy writing for us now? :)

Adam Daigle wrote:

deuxhero wrote:

Will Aroden's edicts, and anathemas (from when he was alive) be listed?

Nope.

While it might be something interesting for folks to know, it's not useful since he's dead and can't grant spells.

…. or can he?

I wish.

That cover art really moves me.

Especially after I just finished my 6.5 year campaign that ended with the PCs succeeding the Test of the Starstone.

What did they ascend to be?

What did they ascend to be?

The party became "micro gods" (4 mythic tiers, divine source and longevity path abilities for free) with the explanation their souls have integrated with the multiverse and would eventually grow strong like other demigods. They used their new power to rescue a captured demigoddess, re-unite her with her love, steal a world-ending artifact, bring Razmiran's capitol to its knees, and unite nations in one climatic battle against a city-sized undead abomination from another dimension.

And it all started as a level 1 adventure in 2012.

- The kitsune magus became a goddess of knowledge, magic, and swordplay as well as taking the place as herald to the Yatagarasu, a homebrew goddess of repose, darkness, and revenge.

- The former slave soulknife became a god of strength, endurance, and freedom. Believing there's still much he needs to learn about himself and the world before he can have worshippers, he began traveling the world on his pet hydra with his sensei at his side.

- The suli monk became a goddess of strength and community and took the throne as queen of her homeland, leading her once divided kingdom into a new era of unification and peace.

- The catfolk oracle became a goddess of the dead, prophecy, visions, and fate. She fulfilled her destiny as becoming her tribe's Oracle of Death, but decided to expand that role to maintaining the harmony of life and death across the Inner Sea. The campaign ended with her returning home and making plans to topple Geb and other parts of the Inner Sea where the restless dead abuse the living.

For Christmas a year or so ago, I drew holy symbols for all their characters (the top left four).

All of the deities showcased in the book will feature the basic information required to worship them and play a champion or cleric of their faith (edicts, anathemas, domains, favored weapon, and so on).

Out of curiosity, does this mean that rules for non-good champions* will be appearing in (or prior) to this release?

*he asketh about his favorite 2E class, hopefully?

Thanks in advance (and even if the answer is no, I'm still very much looking forward to this book)!

Yes, there will be champions for all alignments except neutral.

Luis Loza wrote:

All of the deities showcased in the book will feature the basic information required to worship them and play a champion or cleric of their faith (edicts, anathemas, domains, favored weapon, and so on).

Out of curiosity, does this mean that rules for non-good champions* will be appearing in (or prior) to this release?

*he asketh about his favorite 2E class, hopefully?

Thanks in advance (and even if the answer is no, I'm still very much looking forward to this book)!

Rules for playing evil champions are coming in the Advanced Player's Guide, so this is going to be a case of us getting information on the evil deities before you can play an evil champion of said deities. We hope people don't mind being patient for a few months until they can play their evil champions. There are plenty of ways to be bad in the interim! ;)

This will be a most welcome book.

The Penecontemporaneous One wrote:

Luis Loza wrote:

All of the deities showcased in the book will feature the basic information required to worship them and play a champion or cleric of their faith (edicts, anathemas, domains, favored weapon, and so on).

Out of curiosity, does this mean that rules for non-good champions* will be appearing in (or prior) to this release?

*he asketh about his favorite 2E class, hopefully?

Thanks in advance (and even if the answer is no, I'm still very much looking forward to this book)!

Rules for playing evil champions are coming in the Advanced Player's Guide, so this is going to be a case of us getting information on the evil deities before you can play an evil champion of said deities. We hope people don't mind being patient for a few months until they can play their evil champions. There are plenty of ways to be bad in the interim! ;)

That's awesome, thank you! :-)

...and neutral champions?

"Soon™:

This can't get here fast enough!

When might shipping information be available for the book?

Orders should begin generating on the 9th and shipping should begin on the 13th if all goes smoothly per the shipping thread.

Orders should begin generating on the 9th and shipping should begin on the 13th if all goes smoothly per the shipping thread.

*hee hee hee hee*

>:)

Hooray

Orders should begin generating on the 9th and shipping should begin on the 13th if all goes smoothly per the shipping thread.

Thank you!

Good Twitch Stream. A lot of cool stuff, but I think I really like the depictions of in-world art of the deities. Nethys' depiction as Ancient Egyptian Art is phenomenal!

Actual Egyptian or Osirion?

Good Twitch Stream. A lot of cool stuff, but I think I really like the depictions of in-world art of the deities. Nethys' depiction as Ancient Egyptian Art is phenomenal!

Where is said stream?

Feros wrote:

Good Twitch

Stream. A lot of cool stuff, but I think I really like the depictions of in-world art of the deities. Nethys' depiction as Ancient Egyptian Art is phenomenal!

Where is said stream?

Twitch.tv/officialpaizo

Thank you. Certainly stoked for thus book even more now!

Since nobody asked it yet on stream I've been watching:

Did any of Orc Deities from Belkzen book get in or at least on the chart?

Edit: Aww man, it got mentioned that they got cut from this book :'D

Well hope we have more books like this, especially since with this format inner sea faiths and faiths of golarion type small god books are less likely. At least by next book more rules(and maybe weapons!) have gotten added to system so books need less to introduce new stuff to make gods have all mechanics available.

Oh hey, I figured out a question that wasn't asked in stream!:

Is there anything about gods' heralds & servitors & unique planar allies and summoning them? It doesn't sound like book will have bestiary entry for them, but if nothing else, I want Paizo to know that I really loved heralds and different divine servitor entries in god articles and wanted more of them in 1e than the core 20 heralds(was glad few of other ones got detailed in ap articles) :'D

I'm kinda sad if Pathfinder will be moving away from Heralds, Tarrasque isn't mentioned to be herald of Rovagug(though to be fair, him being divine herald never made full sense to me since Herald's have quality of being summonable AND being revived upon death and Tarrasque is already borderline immortal) and Age of Ashes seems like it would have been cool chance to feature Dahak's herald but there isn't such bonus bestiary entry

Actual Egyptian or Osirion?

Osirion, but in Ancient Egyptian style!

Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:

Feros wrote:

Good Twitch

Stream. A lot of cool stuff, but I think I really like the depictions of in-world art of the deities. Nethys' depiction as Ancient Egyptian Art is phenomenal!

Where is said stream?

Twitch.tv/officialpaizo

Linkified!

I'm looking forward to Ragathiel. I hope that some of the PRC's from Inner Sea Gods get up updated.

Did they mention anything about champions of other alignments?

Did they mention anything about champions of other alignments?

Only that by providing the anathemas for deities that accept evil followers, they were preemptively ready for when evil champion causes are released in the Advanced Player's Guide.

Wow, so that's what the Starstone looks like, I always thought it was as big as a minivan at least. Also, holy crap in a daemonic hat, looks like the Starstone has racked up an IMPRESSIVE LIST of failures (or victims, depending on your point of view I guess).

Makes one wonder what on Golarion is the main prerequisite (or prerequisiteS) for passing the Trial of the Starstone? Maybe you have to possess mythic power already before attempting the trial (or trials)?

I mean it's been around for centuries and it is widely known that success makes you a god.

Hundreds if not thousands would have tried over the ages...and only three have succeeded the Trial, well four I suppose but Aroden had a different challenge compared to the others.

Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:

Did they mention anything about champions of other alignments?

Only that by providing the anathemas for deities that accept evil followers, they were preemptively ready for when evil champion causes are released in the Advanced Player's Guide.

That is what I thought. I had the understanding that there would be champions of other alignments other than good in this book.

Speaking of what it looks like, what did everyone think it looked like?

I thought it was this large psychedelic reality shifting shiny orb that was clearly out of this reality xD

And definitely thought it would be bigger at least due to Aroden raising entire island with it

A rock, so close to the image shown.

Granted I always envisioned it being more vertical than horizontal for some reason.

Wow, so that's what the Starstone looks like, I always thought it was as big as a minivan at least. Also, holy crap in a daemonic hat, looks like the Starstone has racked up an IMPRESSIVE LIST of failures (or victims, depending on your point of view I guess).

Makes one wonder what on Golarion is the main prerequisite (or prerequisiteS) for passing the Trial of the Starstone? Maybe you have to possess mythic power already before attempting the trial (or trials)?

What's incredible is those are just the bodies of the people who made it to the stone. There are others who failed the first task—cross the chasm to the cathedral without using the bridge and in a manner that no one ever successfully used before—or fell to the traps and tests inside the cathedral itself.

That's a whole lot of dead would-be gods...

I always imagined one of those early Final Fantasy crystals—a big floating LoZ Rupee-lookin’ thing!

I thought it would look like a rock.

It's so nice when something is cooler than your head canon.

Man, that one skeleton on the right. Can you imagine getting that close to being a God? Literal inches, your fingertips almost brushing an item coveted by thousands, and still...you are found unworthy.

The trauma of that has do horrors to someone’s soul.

Maybe that is why mortals should not attempt to become divine;]

I guess I'm just a traditionalist on that there is a difference between the gods and mortals and almost never do the two become one.