While such a book would be awesome, it would be a pretty big book.. each of the articles on the deities are 6-10 pages (8 pages being the most common). The core deities alone would comprise 160 pages if all the articles were to be added, so it would pretty much have to be a hardcover (or split into multiple volumes).
Plus those who do have the APs would have little reason to buy the book if it was all reprints. I'd say there are many products Paizo would want to put out before a combination book like that.. Maybe they will once the early AP volumes start becoming hard to find?
are there any plans in combining the stuff from the AP's into one source, for those of us who cant afford all the AP's?
I presume you have Gods and Magic already. But since you didn't mention it, I figured I should.
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are there any plans in combining the stuff from the AP's into one source, for those of us who cant afford all the AP's?I presume you have Gods and Magic already. But since you didn't mention it, I figured I should.
yes, i have that one. thanks though.
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Since roughly half of them have spells and stuff tailored for 3.5 rather than PF (granted, that's not a huge deal to convert, and many of them won't require any conversion at all, unlike, say, Poison Egg), I imagine that someday there will be a larger book that combines the stuff from the APs and Gods & Magic for the 'big 20.'
The Faiths & Pantheons books from the FR setting seemed to be pretty popular, and were filled mostly with fluff about the priesthoods of the various dieties of that setting, so it would probably make sense that something like that would come out for the Golarion dieties, and include room for the expanded AP write up info, the modified summoning list options, variant 'churches' within the faith who might not agree on particular details (a purely elven temple of Calistria might be different than a multiracial one, and one that focuses on her vengeance and trickery aspects and is dominated by CE sorts would likely be significantly different than one that is run by a CG priest and focusses on love and pleasure and passive resistance and anti-slavery activities along the Chel/Andora border, for instance).
It's certainly a subject warranting a larger book than the Companion or Chronicles lines would generally accomodate, that's for sure, and if such a book also fleshed out some of the 'lesser' gods who aren't in the big 20 (Sivanah, Milani, Brigh, Alseta, Gyronna, Razmir, Achaekek, Groetus, Apep, Wadjet, Yuelral, Ketephys, etc.), it could easily be hardcover-sized.