Jason, do you guys have any plans to cover the troop subtype, either in Ultimate War or another product?
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Will there be anything about riverine combat?
Riverine combat follows the same rules as ocean-going combat, though most rivers will only have Shallows and not The Deep. There is a paragraph about moving water and running aground, which is relevant to river battles but not that dissimilar from turbid seas or racing tides and reefs and rocks on the ocean (mechanically speaking - the water is moving and you might hit something).
So short answer: Yes, but the differences are slight in an abstract system like this.
Very cool news. Having used the subtype a couple of times now, I'm quite fond of the mechanic.
Jason, have you and your team considered mythic support for the Ultimate plug-ins? I think a commander with mythic abilities would truly bring some interesting things to the table. A.K.A. Matrim Cauthon FTW!
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Jason, have you and your team considered mythic support for the Ultimate plug-ins? I think a commander with mythic abilities would truly bring some interesting things to the table. A.K.A. Matrim Cauthon FTW!
We have! I don't know if it will be in Ultimate War or maybe in... something else... :)
Jason, have you and your team considered mythic support for the Ultimate plug-ins? I think a commander with mythic abilities would truly bring some interesting things to the table. A.K.A. Matrim Cauthon FTW!We have! I don't know if it will be in Ultimate War or maybe in... something else... :)
Ha! Glad to see we're on the same wavelength!
You know what there are enough of now that they could maybe fill a Mythic Monsters supplement all by themselves?
Gremlins.
Say it with me: MYTHIC PUGWAMPI. >:D
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Well I don't know if we're quite there yet, but there is a new Mythic Monsters preview up RIGHT NOW!
Well, let's see... eight actual gremlins, plus mites, plus your own gruens, plus your standard one new monster... yeah, eleven may be a bit short.
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Headed back over to PaizoCon in a bit to run a special session of Islands of Plunder: Tarin's Crown, but before I do I just wanted to post up the latest SUMMER SPECTACULAR PREVIEW, with a little warning: DON'T FEED THE BIRDS!
Is there any estimate on when monstrous humanoids will be available?
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137ben, for what it's worth, you're not alone. To be honest, the whole book kind of underwhelms me, at least at first glance. Putting all of the hags in one book together might have helped. Just something with a base CR of 12+ wouldn't have hurt either.
Still going to get it when it releases of course, but not one I'll be chomping at the bit for.
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Monstrous Humanoids was a bit of a tough book, given the heavy clustering of CRs that you see with that creature type. There are very few high-CR ones out there. We likewise considered the popobala (but decided we had a better place to put it) and the humbaba, but those were really the only high-CR monstrous humanoids we found in the library. After weighing the options, we decided that more iconic same-CR creatures or things that our authors were more keen to do would be a better course.
Why? Because one of the core values of LG is that the way you get great product is by having talented people work on things they are passionate about doing. Any pro can grind out a stat block for a monster and it will end up competently executed, but if you want inspired and exciting coolness you'll have a harder time getting that if people are just filling a slot because, well, somebody's got to do it. When Tom Phillips and Jon Keith said they wanted to do the adaro and the buggane and the pukwudgie for this book, my first thought was, "Really? Those guys?" These were monsters I hadn't given much thought to, but if you research them they each have some very interesting mythology from all over the world (the adaro from the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, the buggane from the Isle of Man in the southern United Kingdom, and the pukwudgie from the New England area of the northeastern United States), and they were excited to do them so I said to go ahead. If they thought it would make something awesome, then I was all for it. I think the stuff they came up with was pretty darn cool and I think you will as well, even though this product doesn't have as wide a CR spread as we usually feature.
As for hags, we had originally slated night hags to be in this book... until we remembered that night hags aren't actually monstrous humanoids but outsiders (so they got re-slotted into Emissaries of Evil). Green hags were already done in Fairy Tale Creatures, so annis and winter were the rest of the hags.
I suppose it is a point in our favor that it took us this long to create something you found a bit tiresome or overdone. I liked the idea of a creature that feeds on hunger and whose supernatural hunger actually kind of digested and destroyed the environment around it, but in the form of an ordinary mortal creature (instead of some kind of demon or dead thing), but YMMV. Just for fun, though, here are a few of the xotenga's special abilities:
Famine's Feast (Su) Anytime a xotenga is within 10 feet of a dying, fatigued, or exhausted creature, it gains fast healing 5.
Flurry of Feathers (Su) When an opponent confirms a critical hit against a xotenga, the xotenga can release a flurry of razor-sharp feathers that swarm around and fly towards the creature that confirmed the critical hit. The feathers have statistics identical to a bat swarm but are treated as a monstrous humanoid rather than an animal, as they are considered part of the xotenga (though damage to the flurry of feathers does not harm the xotenga). The flurry of feathers moves each round to pursue and engulf its target in its swarm, though it will also damage other nearby creatures if the opportunity presents itself. A xotenga can spend one use of its mythic power as an immediate action to use this ability whenever it is hit.
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And one more look at what your villains SHOULD be doing to beat those dastardly heroes! - PREVIEW UNLUCKY 13!
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All of them like solid, though there are a couple issues you might want to consider:
Bloody Recovery (Ex): When the villain is damaged by an effect that reduces it below one-half its normal hit points, or when an opponent confirms a critical hit against the villain, it gains fast healing equal to its mythic rank or tier for 1 minute. In addition, if it is affected by an ongoing effect that allows a saving throw, it can attempt a new saving throw to end the effect. If it is affected by an ongoing effect that does not allow a saving throw, it has a 50% chance to end that effect.This looks similar to the abilities elite monsters in 4e have (elite monsters are 'special' monsters which are twice as powerful as a normal monster of the same level--almost all have abilities which trigger when they are lowered to half-maximum hit-points).
Sure, and if an idea has merit for the purpose we want to use it, then by all means let's use it. Edition wars are so 2008. :)
One oddity it creates is what happens when someone with this ability ends combat at, say, exactly half max. Now, it is in that character's interest to take a single point of possibly self-inflicted damage before the next combat, gaining between 10 and 100 hp from the fast healing. This isn't necessarily an issue, since by the time this would come up out-of-combat healing is extremely cheap, but some people might find gaining an advantage from taking damage strange. If you only intend for this ability to be used by NPCs, you could eliminate that possibility by giving it a daily limit. A daily limit would, however, make it a rather poor option for a PC without further changes.
The entire book is a GM resource for the villains in the campaign, regardless of whether those villains are mustachio-twirling bad guys or crusading do-gooders in an evil game. The relevant point is that they are antagonists to the PCs and this product is designed to help them not get rolled over. The GM never needs to worry about min-maxing against him/herself. :)
...uses of mythic power equal to the weapon’s critical multiplier...Do abilities which increase your critical multiplier affect how much mythic power is drained?
Whatever your critical multiplier is, by whatever means it gets there; that's what it does.
Looks really good. I'll have to put up a review for it once it's posted to the Paizo site.
Earlier you mentioned already making mythic versions of all the hags save the night hag in emissaries of evil. It think that statement is missing the blood hag. Now given how many hags there are it makes sense that they haven't all been covered yet, but I find the blood hag to be really neat and it'd be a shame for it to be passed over entirely.
Looks like Ultimate War will be out just in time for us to start on War of the River Kings. Huzzah!
Path of Dragons looks pretty sweet.
Jason, any news on the tournaments book you were planning?
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Nope, you've got it right. Mythic Monsters: Dragons contains stat blocks for 13 mythic dragons ranging from the CR 1 mythic pseudodragon to the CR 27 great wyrm red, with new mythic abilities for all of the creatures, a brand-new mythic dragon in the fell drake, and a half-dozen or so mythic feats to make your dragons devastating. It's a small bestiary of 13 monsters plus bonus material.
Path of Dragons will be more of a toolbox of special abilities and themed path groups that you can apply to any dragon you wish, including ones that are statted out in our product or in the Mythic Adventures hardback but also any dragon you create for yourself or find in an existing adventure.
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And something decidedly more horrible than the mythic flumph. The latest SUMMER PREVIEW brings you someTHING straight out of a nightmare!
Dr. Blair: You see, what we're talkin' about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates 'em perfectly. When this thing attacked our dogs it tried to digest them... absorb them, and in the process shape its own cells to imitate them. This for instance. That's not dog. It's imitation. We got to it before it had time to finish.
Vance Norris: Finish what?
Maybe waiting to FINISH BECOMING LEGENDARY!
That thing is terrifying.
...no plants, Tiny or smaller creatures, and so forth? I suppose this pathetically neutered shell of a Thing will have to suffice. ^.^
The problem, I realize, is that it is impossible to do justice to the true horror of The Thing without literally destroying your campaign setting. Outside of an arctic environment, The Thing wins. Even as you see it, it is assimilating every single organism that it contacts. Bacteria. Germs. Grass. EVERYTHING. The entire ecosystem is being infiltrated and replaced, and it is already too late to do anything about it.
LPJr Design's "Cold Visitor" is a take on "The thing", just in case someone doesn't know the module - and yes, it happens in a cold demiplane to keep the setting intact...
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Next preview up, with a look ahead at Neil Spicer's latest collection of characters, NAUTICAL HEROES!
LPJr Design's "Cold Visitor" is a take on "The thing", just in case someone doesn't know the module - and yes, it happens in a cold demiplane to keep the setting intact...
Written by GoblinWorks own, Lee Hammock. If you live the movie The Thing you will love Cold Visitor.