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Wondering about the progress of Beauties & Beasts and Book of Divine Love. Any word?
2018? Wow, I REALLY need to check the forums more often. My deepest apologies.
Unfortunately, Beauties & Beasts, as well as the Book of Divine Love, has been cancelled. The former due to issues with the writers, and the latter because future revision plans makes that book obsolete. While T.Catt is still planning a revised edition, now called "Ultimate Edition," I believe, the plan is to make the new version compatible with P2E, which neither I, nor T.Catt has had much experience with yet. We've also both been busy with other projects (including SoR 5E which, I believe lacks only cover art to be completed), so no development has yet happened there.
The truth of it is that the original development for SoR was done for D&D 3.5, and the PF version is a conversion done, mostly, by a third party. Since it was a conversion, much of it still doesn't really match the Pathfinder design approach. The Ultimate Edition will (hopefully) be an attempt to make the class Pathfinder-native rather than just a conversion from 3.5. 5E is a very different approach to the class and includes a lot of improvements (we think), improvements that can also be made for PF. For example, the Love's Blessings are no long tied to specific deities, but rather one of three categories, Passion, Romance, or Empowerment, that each love goddess represents. That way, the class becomes more adaptable to any setting and conceivably any love goddess. We very much like that approach and feel that will work just as well in a new PF edition as it does in 5E.
There has been some discussion of presenting both a revised P1E class and a P2E class in the Ultimate Edition, but that decision hasn't yet been made. I'm still hoping to rework my Modern PF game, The Modern Path 3.0 to be P2E-compatible as well, but, again, its hard to develop for a system you've hardly played. Our hope is that TMP3 will see a release first so SoR UE can include TMP3 material as well. We'll see how that goes.
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