| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Shooting for the moon, I was thinking about 2e Pathfinder, and something I'd kind of like to see - though in no way would I expect to see it become true.
Release the core rulebook - sure, no problem. Base Classes, Base Races, Base Spells, no problem - I'm fine with this idea.
Expansion Books - because we know sourcebooks would be coming sooner or later - I would love to see act as a 'collection'.
The Book of Classes - takes all the Classes from 1e, tweaks and updates them, and releases all of them in a single book. ALL of them. Take the old Prestige Classes, turn them into Archetypes.
The Book of Magic - an encyclopedia of all spells produced for Pathfinder, plus a few score new spells. Clean them up, touch them up, there we go. Words of Power could be fleshed out in this as well.
(And as an aside - I hope overcasting is going to be a thing in 2e - take a lower level spell, cast it as a more powerful and potent spell at a higher level - 5e got THAT right.)
The Book of Races - all the Races from 1e, plus a bunch of new ones - discussing 'half + X' races, so dwarf / human? Sure. Elf / halfling? Okay. Have it talk about how the different races of dwarf, elf, etc, produce different hybrids. I'd love this. We could see tiefling elves, or genasi dwarves.
I'd love to see that, but it doesn't feel like Paizo's style. Something to do with job satisfaction or some crap like that. :)
Classes need playtesting. Releasing a couple dozen at once doesn’t mesh with that
They can’t bring over all the spells. Tears to Wine will be broken as anything remotely similar.
Overcasting is confirmed.
I can see the desire for this - the ability to consult a single book for all my spells rather than a dozen books and a hundred slim expansions - but it's not going to happen. They can't make an omnibus of content that doesn't exist yet, and each class, spell, feat, ancestry etc will need playtesting.
Which is why this is an area that apps and SRDs take over. Collect data from a hundred sources and present them more usefully.
Apps and SRDs are fine for quick 'what does that do again?' but they're really not as useful for taking one's time to browse through until something catches one's eye. I like my physical books.