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South of a forbidding range of mountain peaks lies a land of boundless resources and untold opportunity. The Mwangi Expanse has been home to an untold diversity of cultures and peoples since time immemorial, hosting powerful, isolated city states that have often paid little attention to their neighbors. Yet the turning tides of fortune have begun to usher in changes that are rippling across the world. As a band of scholars from an ancient university venture north to aid a disaster-torn Avistan. A revolution-forged nation seeks powerful allies against foreign aggression. An undead god, once a symbol of hope to his declining nation, now grows jealous enough to turn on his self-proclaimed kin. Whether you are a diplomat seeking leverage from the most difficult of positions, a spy seeking the subtlest hint of danger from your surroundings, a guardian hoping to protect your home and people, or a warrior striking back at tyrants both native and foreign, this guide to the Mwangi Expanse offers you the ultimate resource to explore a realm of magic, monsters, and intrigue!

Written by: Laura-Shay Adams, Mariam Ahmad, Jahmal Brown, Misha Bushyager, Alexandria Bustion, Duan Byrd, John Compton, Sarah Davis, Naomi Fritts, Sasha Laranoa Harving, Gabriel Hicks, TK Johnson, Michelle Jones, Joshua Kim, Travis Lionel, Ron Lundeen, Stephanie Lundeen, Hillary Moon Murphy, Lu Pellazar, Mikhail Rekun, Nate Wright, and Jabari Weathers

ISBN-13: 978-1-64078-340-9



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Excellent book

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Very good!

Most flavorful book yet

5/5 —

This is the best campaign setting book in the history of Paizo! They not only balanced flavor with rules but they created a campaign setting book done right. It's written from the point of view of the people that live there so it can be used as a destination easily or as an origin. I love that. This is the biggest problem I have had with campaign settings books for distant locales. This is totally done right and I will cherish it forever.

Great Lore Resource!

5/5 —

This is my favorite Lost Omens book so far and I absolutely loved Legends. I normally take my time when reading through campaign source books, but I devoured this one. I plan on going back and reading some sections more carefully especially the geography areas that I sped through.

Even if you don't want to have or play in the Mwangi expanse there is so much material that can be used in any campaign setting. For example I really loved the section on Nagisa. I would love to be a player in an adventure centered around this lore. The book has lots of other great Plot hooks and compelling NPCs.

There are very few mechanics in the book, but the ancestories are definitely worth looking at. My favorite are the Anadi, sentient shapeshifting spiders. This makes me excited for future Paizo products as the quality just keeps improving.

You know what, no need for wall of text this time

5/5 —

I think this book fairly well speaks for itself :'D I don't really feel like I need to gush about each of 300 pages invidually.

This book expands ALL old ethnicities in mwangi expanse we've previously heard about. 10 book on humans, ten pages on taralu and mbe'ke dwarves each, 10 pages for all three muallijae elves each... Matanji orcs and song'o? Yeah this book makes all of them feel like real living people rather than single paragraph "well they exists and sound cool".

Then 14 pages on deities of the region and lot of them are brand new and cool :'D Then 38 pages on various geographical locations and 10 detailed city gazetteers. Bestiary includes lot of reprints from age of ashes, but also tons of new ones!

And thats not even getting into cool new ancestries. This book has made me really want to play strength of thousands and other mwangi expanse content more. I'm also happy with so many mentions of obscure lore like Smiad the dragonslayer, Shei Five Dawns, telling what happened to 1e module stuff like status of Hyrantam and Saventh Yhi nowadays(I do still want to know what happened to Pridon's Hearth and the iruxi near there!) Lot of new lore also gives more nuance to old stuff like kaava aren't evil anymore. And we got cool new villains as well, such as the guy doing power grab in Usaro ;D

(sidenote: I thought 2e was only doing character levels on ap articles, but this book proves me wrong and I love it :D I don't know why 2e does character levels when starfinder ignores them for npcs, but I fricking love it and knowingly concretely how badass a character is.)

An amazing book filled with juicy plot hooks and adventure locales

5/5 —

This is an amazing and hefty (300+ pages) book; as good as any book on RPG lore I've read. There are tons of great things about this book - amazing art, in-depth characterizations of different ancestries, including new zany ancestries like spider people and sentient crystalline orbs embedded in wood-golem-like bodies, a batch of intriguing new deities, a mini-bestiary with a slew of new creatures, and even a handful of local recipes.

But my favorite part of this book is the "Geography" section, 140 pages of in-depth descriptions of different parts of the Mwangi expanse. This section is fantastic, and absolutely dripping with juicy plot hooks and adventuring locales. An ancient city with magical spires formed from chunks of ancient buildings magically stacked on top of each other and suspended in the air? A xenophobic city ruled by an undead child who is a sun god (for real - an actual god), whose temperament changes with the position of the sun each day? A secret city build to contain an ancient well that wafts turquoise ether and sinister whispers, which is guarded by an immensely powerful tree that’s watched over it for 10,000 years? Fantastic stuff.

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Aaron Shanks wrote:
We believe the Mwangi Expanse PDF is the right size for an art-heavy 300+ page book.

please see my post above. Is there going to be a corrected version of this pdf? my Chromebook really chugs trying to open 100MB+ pdfs, and this one doesn't need to be that size. Even the 600 page core rulebook is less than 100mb.

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Lazarus Dark wrote:

okay, I split the pdf, most pages are less than 1MB per page, but here are the offending pages:

130 is 17MB. It's a full color page, so it should be a larger size, but this is still more than it needs to be compared to other full color pages.
138 is 35MB, this is too large given what is on the page.
141 is 19MB, this is too large given what is on the page.
144 is 35MB, this is too large given what is on the page.

Likely the art assets for these were put in at full resolution and not compressed. I find it hard to believe no one has pointed this out and fixed it in the months its been out?

Weeks ago I asked Art to look at the file sizes of the books as one PDF and they were not aware of any issues. I'll send your posts to them and ask for a second look, given your specificity.

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A question regarding the goloma: are these inspired by something in real world mythology, or are they Golarion originals?
Dark Archive

Pathfinder Battles set 21 has been confirmed to be named "The Mwangi Expanse".

The three premium minis (sold individually) will be:

-Adult Cloud dragon (huge)
-Dimari-Diji (gargantuan)
-Mamlambo (huge)

There is a thread with pictures over on minisgallery.com.
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Aaron Shanks wrote:
Weeks ago I asked Art to look at the file sizes of the books as one PDF and they were not aware of any issues. I'll send your posts to them and ask for a second look, given your specificity.

Thank you, I appreciate your response and effort!

BTW, I apologize if my posts came off as rude or aggressive (as I reread them now, I see they may come off that way), the intention was to convey more like incredulous/surprised, I'm not mad or anything. I know you all have had a lot of stress the last couple months, I wouldn't want to contribute to that, even a tiny bit.
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Lazarus Dark wrote:
Aaron Shanks wrote:
Weeks ago I asked Art to look at the file sizes of the books as one PDF and they were not aware of any issues. I'll send your posts to them and ask for a second look, given your specificity.

Thank you, I appreciate your response and effort!

BTW, I apologize if my posts came off as rude or aggressive (as I reread them now, I see they may come off that way), the intention was to convey more like incredulous/surprised, I'm not mad or anything. I know you all have had a lot of stress the last couple months, I wouldn't want to contribute to that, even a tiny bit.

Thanks. I am told the scale of maps is determined by the Development team, not the Art team. Which seems to imply that the files are provided as is with no additional compression. The process is not my area of expertise and the company does not teach me what the process actually is. Thank you for the time you have put into your analysis.

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Aaron Shanks wrote:
Lazarus Dark wrote:
Aaron Shanks wrote:
Weeks ago I asked Art to look at the file sizes of the books as one PDF and they were not aware of any issues. I'll send your posts to them and ask for a second look, given your specificity.

Thank you, I appreciate your response and effort!

BTW, I apologize if my posts came off as rude or aggressive (as I reread them now, I see they may come off that way), the intention was to convey more like incredulous/surprised, I'm not mad or anything. I know you all have had a lot of stress the last couple months, I wouldn't want to contribute to that, even a tiny bit.
Thanks. I am told the scale of maps is determined by the Development team, not the Art team. Which seems to imply that the files are provided as is with no additional compression. The process is not my area of expertise and the company does not teach me what the process actually is. Thank you for the time you have put into your analysis.

If they are maps, I know they constantly get asked for higher resolution maps in the PDFs for VTTs users. :X

Might be one reason.
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Elfteiroh wrote:
Aaron Shanks wrote:
Lazarus Dark wrote:
Aaron Shanks wrote:
Weeks ago I asked Art to look at the file sizes of the books as one PDF and they were not aware of any issues. I'll send your posts to them and ask for a second look, given your specificity.

Thank you, I appreciate your response and effort!

BTW, I apologize if my posts came off as rude or aggressive (as I reread them now, I see they may come off that way), the intention was to convey more like incredulous/surprised, I'm not mad or anything. I know you all have had a lot of stress the last couple months, I wouldn't want to contribute to that, even a tiny bit.
Thanks. I am told the scale of maps is determined by the Development team, not the Art team. Which seems to imply that the files are provided as is with no additional compression. The process is not my area of expertise and the company does not teach me what the process actually is. Thank you for the time you have put into your analysis.

If they are maps, I know they constantly get asked for higher resolution maps in the PDFs for VTTs users. :X

Might be one reason.

Yes, and we won't release PDFs at full print resolution (300 dpi) for piracy reasons. At least, that is the reason in my mind.

I recently started planning a Mwangi campaign but wanted to set it before the current date. I wasn't able to find much on the overthrow of the colonists in the Mwangi sourcebook, just a few lines her and there, was this covered in detail anywhere else, like a Society scenario ?
Silver Crusade

No, it happened offscreen between editions.
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Rysky wrote:
No, it happened offscreen between editions.

Thanks for confirming

Silver Crusade

No problem ^w^
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TrevG wrote:
I recently started planning a Mwangi campaign but wanted to set it before the current date. I wasn't able to find much on the overthrow of the colonists in the Mwangi sourcebook, just a few lines her and there, was this covered in detail anywhere else, like a Society scenario ?

It happened in the year 4717 AR, if that helps.

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Watch "Outcast & Outclassed - Pathfinder 2e Actual Play - A Strength of Thousands Playthrough" from WafflesMapleSyrup, set in the Mwangi Expanse, sponsored by our friends at Roll20.

I'm trying to geht the calendar in the chapter about Nantambu (Page 235) aligned with what I can find elsewhere.

It says that the first day is the spring equinox, which would be 20. Pharast in 4721.

Calender

So is the 20. Pharast equal to the added first day of the year that is mentioned in this sentence?
"These feast days are not part of any month, and an extra day is added at the new year." ?

If that is the case the 21. Pharast would be the feast day dedicated to Old-Mage Jatembe and ther 27. Pharast would be the feast day dedicated to venerating the ancestors. 28. Pharast would be the first day of the first month of the new year?

I'm a little confused by Goloma comprehension. Do they just have trouble counting amounts visually, or do they also have difficulty processing it mentally? Like can they remember how many allies they do have in a party?
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