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What a lovely birthday gift for me!
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Still bit confused on whether tian xia is split into regions or if continent isn't using meta regions at all :O
If I remember correctly, Tian Xia doesn’t have meta-regions; they were a contrivance for the 2e core and LOWG’s organization that proved to work quite well, and then Arcadia being mostly blank-slate meant they could intentionally design meta-regions from the ground up.
While I bet you probably could carve Tian Xia up the same way, my own attempts have always felt like forcing it.
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It does feel bit inconsistent with other continents having them, but I guess its okay as long each of countries do get good amount of content each of them since meta regions did have benefit of "well, alkenstar wouldn't really gets its own setting book, but impossible lands could"
Especially since Tian Xia had like... 26 countries not counting darklands?
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It does feel bit inconsistent with other continents having them, but I guess its okay as long each of countries do get good amount of content each of them since meta regions did have benefit of "well, alkenstar wouldn't really gets its own setting book, but impossible lands could"
Especially since Tian Xia had like... 26 countries not counting darklands?
Entirely speculation here, but the book is called "Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia World Guide" like the original World Guide setting book, as opposed to "Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia" like Mwangi or Impossible Lands. Could be purposeful, signaling that more regionally focused books can now start coming from this part of the world. It also could just be an entirely different style of book. I hope it's the former though, this book is ever so slightly shorter than Mwangi and it'd be a shame if this was the only big setting release we got for Tian Xia.
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Entirely speculation here, but the book is called "Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia World Guide" like the original World Guide setting book, as opposed to "Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia" like Mwangi or Impossible Lands. Could be purposeful, signaling that more regionally focused books can now start coming from this part of the world. It also could just be an entirely different style of book. I hope it's the former though, this book is ever so slightly shorter than Mwangi and it'd be a shame if this was the only big setting release we got for Tian Xia.It does feel bit inconsistent with other continents having them, but I guess its okay as long each of countries do get good amount of content each of them since meta regions did have benefit of "well, alkenstar wouldn't really gets its own setting book, but impossible lands could"
Especially since Tian Xia had like... 26 countries not counting darklands?
I think this will be all for the time being. And if this book sells well, it will give more incentive to make additional books about Tian Xia.
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There was talk of potentially doing Travel Guides for other continents if the first one sold well, and it gets exponentially easier for the team to do further Tian APs with the setting actually written - I’d expect both of those before something like a “Lost Omens: Minkai” deep dive.
OOOH
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There was talk of potentially doing Travel Guides for other continents if the first one sold well, and it gets exponentially easier for the team to do further Tian APs with the setting actually written - I’d expect both of those before something like a “Lost Omens: Minkai” deep dive.
I'd buy the f#*& out of that book though