What's Lamashtu up to?


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Liberty's Edge

I found this in SINS OF THE SAVIORS:"The Scribbler took this as a sign that Lamashtu’s designs on the region are of great importance, and rightly so, 
but for now the Mother of Monsters has chosen to keep her plans 
for the Lost Coast a secret."

I Wonder, if we can expect another AP or Module, dealing with Lamashtus Plans on the Region?

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Dryder wrote:

I found this in SINS OF THE SAVIORS:"The Scribbler took this as a sign that Lamashtu’s designs on the region are of great importance, and rightly so, 

but for now the Mother of Monsters has chosen to keep her plans 
for the Lost Coast a secret."

I Wonder, if we can expect another AP or Module, dealing with Lamashtus Plans on the Region?

Lamashtu is also the patron of Real Estate Developers. We always knew they were the vilest of evil...


delabarre wrote:
Lamashtu is also the patron of Real Estate Developers. We always knew they were the vilest of evil...

In order to drive up property prices in western Shalast, they (allegedly) caused the Earthfall, sinking Bakrakhan into the sea.

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Dryder wrote:

I found this in SINS OF THE SAVIORS:"The Scribbler took this as a sign that Lamashtu’s designs on the region are of great importance, and rightly so, 

but for now the Mother of Monsters has chosen to keep her plans 
for the Lost Coast a secret."

I Wonder, if we can expect another AP or Module, dealing with Lamashtus Plans on the Region?

Lamashtu's plans for the Lost Coast are still secret. You've encountered a super-deep easter egg that I put into the adventure to foreshadow some stuff I've got planned for the Lost Coast in an upcoming product... a product that's still quite a ways off.

For now, though, think of it only as the ominous storm clouds on the horizon...

Liberty's Edge

Awesome! Thank you, James - exactly the answer I had hoped for! :)


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James Jacobs wrote:
Dryder wrote:

I found this in SINS OF THE SAVIORS:"The Scribbler took this as a sign that Lamashtu’s designs on the region are of great importance, and rightly so, 

but for now the Mother of Monsters has chosen to keep her plans 
for the Lost Coast a secret."

I Wonder, if we can expect another AP or Module, dealing with Lamashtus Plans on the Region?

Lamashtu's plans for the Lost Coast are still secret. You've encountered a super-deep easter egg that I put into the adventure to foreshadow some stuff I've got planned for the Lost Coast in an upcoming product... a product that's still quite a ways off.

For now, though, think of it only as the ominous storm clouds on the horizon...

How far off? And can we get another easter egg?

Grand Lodge

That kinda stinks -- when I see those kinds of lines in and adventure or setting guide I assume it's for DMs to use as launching pads for their own ideas in their own games.

Of course, when we do get Paizo's Lamashtu Campaign or Adventure we, who have already done some Lamashtu stuff, can just say, "Well, in addition to the stuff I made for our campaign, Lamashtu was also planning the stuff that Jacobs just published" and it'll all work out.

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Justin Franklin wrote:
How far off?

More than a year. Probably more than two years.

Justin Franklin wrote:
And can we get another easter egg?

Nope! Not today, at least.

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W E Ray wrote:

That kinda stinks -- when I see those kinds of lines in and adventure or setting guide I assume it's for DMs to use as launching pads for their own ideas in their own games.

Of course, when we do get Paizo's Lamashtu Campaign or Adventure we, who have already done some Lamashtu stuff, can just say, "Well, in addition to the stuff I made for our campaign, Lamashtu was also planning the stuff that Jacobs just published" and it'll all work out.

GMs are certainly welcome to use throw-away lines like that as launching pads for their own ideas in their own games, but when you get right down to it, Golarion is a published campaign and it's a living world. There's actually a LOT of foreshadowing in these products that point to numerous possible ideas for adventures and supplements and campaigns we may or may not ever do.

ANY bit of lore or information we put into print is subject to possible development by us into a future book or adventure—we aren't specifically setting aside any portion of Golarion as a "GM Preserve" where we promise to never detail anything—that more or less flies in the face of Paizo's philosophy that we're building Golarion not only as a world for harried GMs to adopt for their own campaigns, but as a world for us to use as a backdrop to continue releasing adventure paths, campaign supplements, novels, and other products.

If you happen to be the type of GM who likes to develop worlds and campaign settings, and you want to use a published setting, one of the things you just have to come to peace with is the fact that, eventually, something you develop for your home game is going to be developed in a different way in print. This exact thing happened to me with Greyhawk's Doomgrinder, as an example—I had the Doomgrinder set up as a sort of "armageddon clock" with a key-shaped dungeon below it that the PCs were eventually going to have to explore at the end of a Greyhawk game I was running in order to keep Tharizdun from escaping, but then WotC went and published the adventure "The Doomgrinder" and took the creepy windmill in an ENTIRELY different direction.

Happens to every GM eventually, in other words! :)


I bet she's mating with all sorts of unsavoury things from the bottom of the sea to Cloverfield the Lost Coast.

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KaeYoss wrote:
I bet she's mating with all sorts of unsavoury things from the bottom of the sea to Cloverfield the Lost Coast.

Note to self: sweep the bedroom for hidden cameras again. Folks shouldn't have known about that.

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Todd Stewart wrote:
KaeYoss wrote:
I bet she's mating with all sorts of unsavoury things from the bottom of the sea to Cloverfield the Lost Coast.
Note to self: sweep the bedroom for hidden cameras again. Folks shouldn't have known about that.

We also know about that part of the multiverse that included stats for Butterflya and Deityzilla - maybe it wouldn't have gotten cut if you didn't include mecha-deityzilla....

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James Jacobs wrote:
GMs are certainly welcome to use throw-away lines like that as launching pads for their own ideas in their own games, but when you get right down to it, Golarion is a published campaign and it's a living world.

...

Actually, with the Cthulu elements that are hidden in the background, calling Golarion a "living" world might be a small exaggeration.


Todd Stewart wrote:
KaeYoss wrote:
I bet she's mating with all sorts of unsavoury things from the bottom of the sea to Cloverfield the Lost Coast.
Note to self: sweep the bedroom for hidden cameras again. Folks shouldn't have known about that.

Won't help. I have other sources. I won't reveal them, but let me just say: Proteans can be real gossips!

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