I'm still going to bang the drum for a gladiator themed AP, but I realize that there are multiple difficulties in getting it to work.
However an underwater themed AP is a much more viable product line. For starters, you have an entirely open underdeveloped area to work with. It's still on Golarion, but an area of the sandbox that is almost completely untouched. Almost anything you can think of can be placed here at the moment and the opportunity for follow up adventures and supporting paraphernalia is absolutely immense.
If done right, the AP sets the stage for exploration of this "undiscovered world". Then the guides, bestiaries, and pawns associated with it contribute to the revenue stream and heartily encourage continued exploration of its cold mysterious depths.
Just please don't use "Under the sea" as the title or place any pineapples on the sea floor.
An entire AP under water would be a good excuse to play as aquatic races.
Druma is an area with a distinct culture and not much in the way of canonical information. I'd quite like to see that fleshed out a little.
However an underwater themed AP is a much more viable product line. For starters, you have an entirely open underdeveloped area to work with. It's still on Golarion, but an area of the sandbox that is almost completely untouched. Almost anything you can think of can be placed here at the moment and the opportunity for follow up adventures and supporting paraphernalia is absolutely immense.
If done right, the AP sets the stage for exploration of this "undiscovered world". Then the guides, bestiaries, and pawns associated with it contribute to the revenue stream and heartily encourage continued exploration of its cold mysterious depths.
Just please don't use "Under the sea" as the title or place any pineapples on the sea floor.
Plus, they could work out a way to provide maps that somehow work on every axis! I mean, if you're going to be fighting under water, you'll not have to worry about that silly x-axis only, but the y-axis too! Need to figure out a better way of doing that on these maps other than clear dice containers flipped upside down! =D
Plus, they could work out a way to provide maps that somehow work on every axis! I mean, if you're going to be fighting under water, you'll not have to worry about that silly x-axis only, but the y-axis too! Need to figure out a better way of doing that on these maps other than clear dice containers flipped upside down! =D
They are already going to need this for Starfinder anyway. Doing a "test run" of a proposed 3D combat system in an underwater AP before Starfinder launches gives them a chance to make and revise whatever system they come up with. It also gives them a chance to tweak the system for playability and fun factor a long time before launch.
Kingmaker set a great number of the building rules for Ultimate Campaign. If done right an underwater AP could very well set the bar for space combat in Starfinder.
I wouldn't mind seeing something with Ravenloft-esque themes of horror and madness. (Strange Aeons is a great dip into horror and madness, but it's not quite the same lol)
Carrion Crown is already the semi-Ravenloft homage.
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Druma is an area with a distinct culture and not much in the way of canonical information. I'd quite like to see that fleshed out a little.
Indeed! Other than some oblique references to 'dietary and sexual restrictions' and that they love them some money, we really know very little about the Kalistocracy, and some AP articles might be a great way to flesh them out (since I'm not sure they'd warrant a 64 page volume any time soon).
The area's got strong ties to the Five Kings mountains, dwarves in general, the mysterious Lake Encarthan and 'Isle of Terror,' the church of Abadar, Kyonin, Razmiran, etc. and so has a ton of interesting directions it can go.
Yeah, we are going to find out what AP is after Ironfang this weekend:)
I hope for a lot of things, doesn't mean I will get any of them though. At least if I am not interested I can just skip it.
If it is not set in Varisia in honor of the 10 year anniversary I will be surprised. That being said I would like to see it set somewhere other than Inner seas region but I'm not holding my breath on that.
If it is set in Varisia I will skip it.
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If it is set in Varisia I will skip it.
Well, I'll make sure to sign back up so as to offset your skipping it. ;)
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Another visit to varisia would be fantastic. It's the heart and soul of the setting. My favourite place on golarion.
Mammoth Lords would be cool, but for my money its Iobaria!!!!!!
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At the time the AP after Ironfang Invasion comes out it will have been five years since the last visit to Varisia.
Or you can say it like this: there have been as many APs between the first and most recent Varisia APs than there will be between that most recent Varisia AP and the upcoming AP after Ironfang Invasion. So it's not like it's all Varisia all of the time.
They are going to preview the Adventure Path after Ironfang this weekend at GenCon, right? Right?!
Hmm. That looks like a deluxe edition. I hadn't heard about that before..
The panel should be over by now, should it not?
Is it Galt?
Not that I care.
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121 - Lost Outpost by Jim Groves
122 - Into the Shattered Continent by Robert Brooks
123 - The Flooded Cathedral
124 - City in the Deep by Amber E. Scott
125 - Tower of the Drowned Dead by Dean
126 - Beyond the Veiled Past by Thurston Hillman
121 - Lost Outpost by Jim Groves
122 - Into the Shattered Continent by Robert Brooks
123 - The Flooded Cathedral
124 - City in the Deep by Amber E. Scott
125 - Tower of the Drowned Dead by Dean
126 - Beyond the Veiled Past by Thurston Hillman
But James Dean is dead.
Unless Aboleth faked his death...
Authors for part 3 and 4 seem missing/incomplete. Have to investigate.
Why is everyone always puttign him down?