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Just came across this article that I thought others might enjoy.
A Look at Pathfinder 2nd Edition Roleplaying Game One Year Later
For one, congrats on the #2 spot, Paizo! That's fantastic news, it's great to hear 2e is doing that well.
For two... That little paragraph about four classes not being enough seems very suspicious. And exciting. I hope the author of the article has good sources. :)
A decent article, but not sure where they're getting the 20 playable races in the Bestiary from.
A decent article, but not sure where they're getting the 20 playable races in the Bestiary from.
Looks like it's a relic from a cut-and-paste goof; the sentence refers to the Starfinder Alien Archive.
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There is a typo in that article that has excited my imagination -- a reference to a "Swashbulker". I am picturing a cross between Zorro and a sumo wrestler here.
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I also have some tips from little birdies as well as NDA protected information, so I need to be really shifty here.
*narrows eyes*
I also have some tips from little birdies as well as NDA protected information, so I need to be really shifty here.*narrows eyes*
More or less confirms what lots of people thought, that the hardcover we get for Gencon 2021 will have at least another 2 classes.
Which is great! Very good news! Wonder what they are, and how many? Another 4? That'd bring us to 20 classes!
I also have some tips from little birdies as well as NDA protected information, so I need to be really shifty here.*narrows eyes*More or less confirms what lots of people thought, that the hardcover we get for Gencon 2021 will have at least another 2 classes.
Which is great! Very good news! Wonder what they are, and how many? Another 4? That'd bring us to 20 classes!
I also doubt that "shifty" is coincidental. The basic idea for the shifter seems more tailor-made for 2E than for 1E. I expect we'll get three main types of class feats: combat-oriented feats (feats like Sudden Swipe and Attack of Opportunity), druidic wild shape feats, and a version of 1E's aspect feats.
2021's book is probably an Advanced Class Guide or one of the Ultimate Books. If we're right about the shifter being one of the new classes, then it's probably the ACG. The next Bestiary is set to have kind of an urban theme, so it would be weird to follow it up with an Ultimate Wilderness style book. I don't know if we'll get ten entire classes (in fact I quite doubt it), but I think we'd get things like the Inquisitor doctrine (it's probably going to be a doctrine) and some prestige archetypes. With any luck, we'll get an entirely new class or two.
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I also have some tips from little birdies as well as NDA protected information, so I need to be really shifty here.*narrows eyes*More or less confirms what lots of people thought, that the hardcover we get for Gencon 2021 will have at least another 2 classes.
Which is great! Very good news! Wonder what they are, and how many? Another 4? That'd bring us to 20 classes!
I also doubt that "shifty" is coincidental. The basic idea for the shifter seems more tailor-made for 2E than for 1E. I expect we'll get three main types of class feats: combat-oriented feats (feats like Sudden Swipe and Attack of Opportunity), druidic wild shape feats, and a version of 1E's aspect feats.
2021's book is probably an Advanced Class Guide or one of the Ultimate Books. If we're right about the shifter being one of the new classes, then it's probably the ACG. The next Bestiary is set to have kind of an urban theme, so it would be weird to follow it up with an Ultimate Wilderness style book. I don't know if we'll get ten entire classes (in fact I quite doubt it), but I think we'd get things like the Inquisitor doctrine (it's probably going to be a doctrine) and some prestige archetypes. With any luck, we'll get an entirely new class or two.
Just to note, they have explicitly stated as recently as PiazoCon that they will not be doing 1:1 2e versions of 1e rulebooks after they finish the APG.
So I suspect that whatever form the book for 2021 takes, it won't be called Advanced Class Guide or Ultimate X. They have said that they will do books more like Occult Adventures. How such a book includes a shifter, I'm not sure.
It could literally be about Unusual traditions in Golarion, and thus allow for gunslingers, shifters, magus in the same book. Which would be a very thematic grounded book, with lots of varied options. Which I think is what they want.