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We're still working on it, but it turned out to be significantly more awesome and complex than we originally counted on, so we've shuffled the schedule around a little bit.
The book is currently in development, but we haven't slotted it onto the schedule officially yet.
There are still several high-profile Pathfinder projects for 2017 that have yet to be announced.
Do you mean The Villain Codex? Which is still there.
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We're still working on it, but it turned out to be significantly more awesome and complex than we originally counted on, so we've shuffled the schedule around a little bit.
The book is currently in development, but we haven't slotted it onto the schedule officially yet.
There are still several high-profile Pathfinder projects for 2017 that have yet to be announced.
Cool, thanks for the info!
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Do you mean The Villain Codex? Which is still there.
Encounter Codex is a separate product that was announced at Paizo Con together with Villain Codex.
Ah. I missed that announcement. More bad news for my budget :)
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Well, there's NPC Codex, Monster Codex and Villain Codex, so it's not like there isn't quite a lot pre-made encounter material out already.Those are NPC statblocks and not ready made encouter design though :(
But that's the most work-heavy part. Besides, the Villain Codex in particular has much more, with story hooks and encounter groups.
Of course, the more the merrier, so I can't wait until the Encounter Codex comes around.
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Also, check out Appendix 2 of the NPC Codex (Encounter Groups), and the end of each chapter of Monster Codex and Villain Codex.
Eh, this shouldn't affect me. I was just going to wait for the end-series compilation gift package and buy them all at reduced price anyway.
You know. The Codex Codex.
Is this still under development? Or has it been shelved due to hecticness?
I want more codexes....
Evolving is reassuring. Reassessing would be a worry. :p
Thanks, Vic.
Codexes....
I am hopeful that we will see this eventually. I am glad that it is evolving. I'd rather see a fully developed product that expands the game rather than one that stopped short just to make a release.
Codices are, for me, just like the Bestiaries, a must have.
I was pretty curious to know what was this "Encounter Codex", and I hoped for it to be a book of monsters with class levels (like in Monster Codex) arranged by terrain - so we had pre-generated encounters for all sorts of scenarios.
I would love to see pre-generated encounters for the following terrains: Urban, Forest, Jungle, Swamp, Plain, Mountain, Cave, Underground, Ruins, Desert, Sea Surface, Underwater, and Arctic/Snow.
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Just to note, today I was trying to figure out how to buff RotR's final boss fight from CR 22 encounter to CR 23 because players did everything they could get xp from and ended up on level 18. And because they did everything, they have tons of helpers from final dungeon and thats not including cohorts. So I was trying to figure out encounter designing rules only to figure out its basically "just calculate exp players get, thats your encounter CR"...
...So basically, I think guide book on designing encounters would be really helpful to me and any other newer gm :'D Or heck even just gms who have only run APs, if you only run ready made material then ye don't get opportunity to practice designing encounters yourself...
Just wanted to remind Paizo that this would really be awesome book
It might have been cancelled or it might come out sometime next year, only time will tell. It wasn't of any interest to me but I understand what it is like to be excited for something then it gets pushed back or cancelled all together.
Looks like we won't get this for PF 1.