Firstly, I hope that I am not the only one to be excited about the idea of the Pathfinder Companion series. I do have some questions for the great people working on the development teams though.
The information that will be present in this Companion, for example. Will this be different from the information presented in the Pathfinder/Golarion Campaign Setting that is coming out before long?
Will some of it be reprinted (I imagine that this is unavoidable to some degree)?
My fervent hope is that the Companion will function as an in-depth supplement that compliments and expands on the information that will be in the Campaign Setting. I hope that the people in development of this product and the others in the Companion line think like I do.
Best wishes, and to the developers, this line and others like it is why I love Paizo so much. Keep up the good work.
If they are anything like the Korvosa guide, they will be good as info for DM and players without having to hide or change much of the material.
My fervent hope is that the Companion will function as an in-depth supplement that compliments and expands on the information that will be in the Campaign Setting.
This is my understanding of the product line. :)
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The information that will be present in this Companion, for example. Will this be different from the information presented in the Pathfinder/Golarion Campaign Setting that is coming out before long?
Will some of it be reprinted (I imagine that this is unavoidable to some degree)?
My fervent hope is that the Companion will function as an in-depth supplement that compliments and expands on the information that will be in the Campaign Setting. I hope that the people in development of this product and the others in the Companion line think like I do.
You've got it. The section on Osirion in the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting will be four pages long. While the Pathfinder Companion will have a small amount of information overlap with that, we'll nonetheless be able to provide a lot more flavor and crunch since it runs to 32 pages.
Lovely! And thank you for the quick response Vic. That, and not saying
"If I told you...I'd have to kill you!"
You've got it. The section on Osirion in the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting will be four pages long. While the Pathfinder Companion will have a small amount of information overlap with that, we'll nonetheless be able to provide a lot more flavor and crunch since it runs to 32 pages.
Okay, this one I definitely want.
Jason Nelson...very nice to see that some of our RPG Superstars are getting so many good opportunities from you guys. Especially considering I was one of the people that voted for his egyptian-themed land in RPG Superstar!
I'm working on the primarily fluff portions of the book (locations, history, etc). I'm honestly having a blast on this, given that it's breaking out of my pattern of writing almost exclusively planar stuff. And getting to pick up on the stuff that Mike Kortes has done to this point for Osirion is fun. He did some really cool stuff in J1 and the campaign setting hardcover.
And me handling mostly fluff as opposed to anything else probably prevents much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and unrestrained crying on the part of my editors if they had to look at any crunchy stuff from me. ;)
Thanks Todd! I'm really looking forward to reading your guys' world-building for Osirion. I'm very excited to see the setting receive this level of development!
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss this will be mine
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I'm working on the primarily fluff portions of the book (locations, history, etc). I'm honestly having a blast on this, given that it's breaking out of my pattern of writing almost exclusively planar stuff. And getting to pick up on the stuff that Mike Kortes has done to this point for Osirion is fun. He did some really cool stuff in J1 and the campaign setting hardcover.
And me handling mostly fluff as opposed to anything else probably prevents much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and unrestrained crying on the part of my editors if they had to look at any crunchy stuff from me. ;)
Will you be including information about the Jeweled Sages, as mentioned in the Pathfinder Society Player's Guide? I'm really interested in them, and the hints of astrological aspects to their power.
Ok, that cover is pretty freaking sweet. :)
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Jason Nelson...very nice to see that some of our RPG Superstars are getting so many good opportunities from you guys. Especially considering I was one of the people that voted for his egyptian-themed land in RPG Superstar!
Sorry, I just was looking at the Paizo Blog and saw the cover for this, so I'm obviously WAYYY behind the times on knowing exactly when this will come out, but this was a lot of run to write for. Obviously I like the whole desert theme, Al-Qadim, and all of that, and I had a fun time writing up the crunchy bits from the book. Hopefully people will enjoy that part as well as Todd's excellent fluffification!
Heck, I'm looking forward to seeing the final product!
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I'm looking forward to this book, hopefully we'll get some info on the old gods of Osirion that they presumably worshipped before Sarenrae and Aroden came into the picture.
As a matter of fact... it does! At least a few of them, with hints at others.
I'm looking forward to this book, hopefully we'll get some info on the old gods of Osirion that they presumably worshipped before Sarenrae and Aroden came into the picture.
Well at the very least, Nethys was once a mortal in pre-dynastic Osirion. And even before his apotheosis, there was Pharasma. As for anything beyond them or more esoteric, we'll see what makes it into the final edit of the book. :)
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You can expect to see new traits in most—probably even all—Pathfinder Companions.
Excellent. I can see that it might turn into a bit of a ramble through multiple sourcebooks to find them all -- which is why I'd like some collated version, in time -- but the traits are good for colour and I like them.
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Excellent. I can see that it might turn into a bit of a ramble through multiple sourcebooks to find them all -- which is why I'd like some collated version, in time -- but the traits are good for colour and I like them.
You can expect to see new traits in most—probably even all—Pathfinder Companions.
In what sense are you using the word "trait"?
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Excellent. I can see that it might turn into a bit of a ramble through multiple sourcebooks to find them all -- which is why I'd like some collated version, in time -- but the traits are good for colour and I like them.
You can expect to see new traits in most—probably even all—Pathfinder Companions.
Given that the traits are themed, depending on your character's backstory only on or two should ever really be needed. The core 40 traits are in Second Darkness and then specifically themed ones for different deities/races/regions are in the related sourcebook. So if you're playing an elf from Osirion, you'd need at most 3 books, unless you worship a deity featured in another book. But only getting two traits per time taking Additional Feats should limit the number of books needed per character as well.
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Given that the traits are themed, depending on your character's backstory only on or two should ever really be needed. The core 40 traits are in Second Darkness and then specifically themed ones for different deities/races/regions are in the related sourcebook. So if you're playing an elf from Osirion, you'd need at most 3 books, unless you worship a deity featured in another book. But only getting two traits per time taking Additional Feats should limit the number of books needed per character as well.
A lot of those books are things that we won't require players to have, though, which means chargen at the DM's house, which means PITA timewasting and waiting for other players to finish with the books, etc (this was an irritating problem with 3.5 splatbooks, but at least they were of more general use to the players and weren't embedded amidst campaign information that the DM is probably the only person to really care about). To my mind, these need to be collected in a book that players can own, some future version of the Gazetteer.
Out of interest am I the only one who is not seeing the final cover as it appeared in the blog quite a while ago but the picture on the product page still appears to be the placeholder cover.
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Out of interest am I the only one who is not seeing the final cover as it appeared in the blog quite a while ago but the picture on the product page still appears to be the placeholder cover.
It takes a while to go from finished artwork (posted in the blog) to finished cover (posted as the product image). However, I think you might possibly be seeing the finished cover next week...
I've posted the final cover. If you don't see Seoni taking on a nasty mummy, reset your browser's image cache.
That looks so cool! :D
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still waiting for this
wantto froce oneof our DM to jun J1 and J4 using this for us :D in the middle of a campaign, much the better :D
and about traits, i like them where they are, players should get their books too :P, they lay most of the expense on the DM so they should not complain
also msot Companions give background infromation, without manyof thesecrets, giving the players information to give more background and life to their characters
i know i do it with my elven bardfollowe of Desna and a friend wwith her elven conjurer follower of Calistria :D
Is this Pathfinder Companion similar to the supplements that gave greater detail to various areas of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting published by Wizards of the Coast
Yes :)
Is this Pathfinder Companion similar to the supplements that gave greater detail to various areas of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting published by Wizards of the Coast
only Wizards is no longer doing that
I was aware of the fact that Wizards of the Coast had stopped. I have just recently heard of this publisher so I had to ask the question. I'm hoping that this publisher is around for awhile.
same here
This has to be one of the greatest covers of any Pathfinder product. I can feel it channeling its inner Iron Maiden...
