Wait, where was it confirmed that Choral himself is a red dragon? I knew that was a popular theory but not that it was canon.
Wait, where was it confirmed that Choral himself is a red dragon? I knew that was a popular theory but not that it was canon.
LO: Legends, I think?
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I’ve realized that I desperately want more Axiomites and Proteans in AP plots. You can do a lot with them: a destructive Protean Chorus trying to unmake part of the universe, being ensnared in some bizarre bit of Axis legal precedent and fleeing for your life, receiving revelations from Nerriseminek or a cosmic repair mission from Valmallos…
They’re more Pathfinder than angels and devils, y’know?
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I’ve realized that I desperately want more Axiomites and Proteans in AP plots. You can do a lot with them: a destructive Protean Chorus trying to unmake part of the universe, being ensnared in some bizarre bit of Axis legal precedent and fleeing for your life, receiving revelations from Nerriseminek or a cosmic repair mission from Valmallos…
They’re more Pathfinder than angels and devils, y’know?
That would be amazing. I would also love more Primal Inevitables and Protean Lords.
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I’ve realized that I desperately want more Axiomites and Proteans in AP plots. You can do a lot with them: a destructive Protean Chorus trying to unmake part of the universe, being ensnared in some bizarre bit of Axis legal precedent and fleeing for your life, receiving revelations from Nerriseminek or a cosmic repair mission from Valmallos…
They’re more Pathfinder than angels and devils, y’know?
Been wanting this for years, hopefully the call for chaos sneks and planar robot invasions get answered one day x'D
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It would also be a trivial retcon to have Choral be a crimson-scaled one of the new 8 dragon types.Trivial but not desirable. Choral will remain a red-colored fire breathing dragon named Choral when and if we do more with him in a remastered adventure.
That is what I hoped for too. But it does mean it is not coming anytime soon.
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Hi folks!
After I finished running my homebrew of a Norse-themed campaign set in the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, I just wanted to say that I think the whole area is full of potential.
I know the area was more associated with Pathfinder 1, but as far as I have understood, this is not to be taken as a strict rule.
Also, I know some viking themes emerge in Reign of Winter and Jade Regent, but they do only incidentally and sparsely.
I am SO curious to see how the talented writers at Paizo deal with a Viking-themed campaign. I would personally go down a sandbox route mixed with some linear adventures, such as this outline.
- 1st module: The characters join a raid sailing under the command of a Linnorm King. Something dramatic happens and they somehow become heroes (they are the only survivors, their Linnorm King betrays, does something unexpected, has to be saved by them).
- 2nd module: The characters go back to the Land of the Linnorm Kings and are noticed by Arma, who asks them to go beast hunting. They also have the chance to interact with the other Linnorm Kings, perform tasks for them and gain Reputation.
- 3rd module: Now heroes of some renown, the PC take on the challenge to defeat a linnorm and become Linnorm Kings themselves. After gaining the title in the first part of the adventure, they have this huge sandbox where they can choose to build their "kingdom", raid foreign lands or rival clans, build ships, build an army, muster followers, and so on.
- 4th module: A huge conspiracy involving several Linnorm Kings is set in motion. The heroes have to choose which sides to take.
This is just an example, but it is indicative of how much potential is there. After Opir died in the canon, and new Linnorm Kings vie for power, the land is rife with adventure and... its theme is very strong! We also have the Viking archetype already!
Please Paizo make my dream come true!
EDIT: This was originally a new thread, but I moved it here.
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I love cultural-oriented APs. I will be exploring Minkai in a variation of the Jade Regent in PF2e, but I would love a Linnorm King AP! Exploring other areas in Tian Xia would be fun, and wherever the Polynesian analogue is (based on that temp cover art for the next season of PFS in the blog announcement)...
I look forward to any and all of those that may be offered down the road!
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Y’know, an 11-20 about the chaos in the Drow city of Zirnakaynin is kind of a slam dunk, and could give a Sky King’s Tomb party a full Darklands campaign arc.
I’ve realized that I desperately want more Axiomites and Proteans in AP plots. You can do a lot with them: a destructive Protean Chorus trying to unmake part of the universe, being ensnared in some bizarre bit of Axis legal precedent and fleeing for your life, receiving revelations from Nerriseminek or a cosmic repair mission from Valmallos…
They’re more Pathfinder than angels and devils, y’know?
Stitching this together with some other prior ideas: what if this got rolled into the Sarkoris Scar AP?
The Worldwound was a colossal violation of the cosmic order, and damage to the fabric of reality still remains in many places across the region - the say nothing of the damage done to time in the Sky Citadel of Jormurdun. With so much planar and temporal chaos left over, I imagine Aeons are all over the reconstruction effort (albeit on a very different level than mortals).
At the same time, one imagines an ambitious Protean might want to pick at those seams enough to send the Material Plane fraying apart, and several heretical Protean choruses are obsessed with the Abyss... while there's at least one in canon sworn to oppose its demonic servants.
Of course, any Sarkorian god-caller worth their salt would be capable of earning the favor of both Aeon and Protean spirits, but such a thing would be a legendary feat!
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I would see the last part for a Shaman rather than à Summoner though.
I'm of the opinion that a Druid, Shaman, Sorcerer, or Witch are all plenty capable of being a God-Caller, rather than it strictly applying to Summons with a bound Eidolon. If you're handling the spirits on behalf of the clan, you get the title, regardless of class.
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I would love to see something truely underwater themed. I'm not talking about land walking ancestories visiting the underwater world of Golarion, but a push to have more aquatic ancestories and a story completely built around the world that exists below the waves. I've always been fascinated by the ocean and creatures in it, and would love a fantasy take on this. I recently saw the mermaid crewmember for howl of the wild in her little land legs wheel chair and thought it was a shame that we don't have stories about a full aquatic adventuring party doing their thing under the sea. Maybe a few more ancestories to improve the diversity of characters and I think you could do something really cool. I think its an underserved niche.
I just confirmed to myself that Seaweed Leshies exist while contemplating ahayford's suggestion of an underwater adventure path.
Planar adventure AP- particularly among the Elemental Planes. My goodly Elemental Lords NEED me!
Goal is to restore the balance between harmful and helpful elemental forces. I’d also like to know whatever happened to the Concordance of Elements pathfinder faction.
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Planar adventure AP- particularly among the Elemental Planes. My goodly Elemental Lords NEED me!
Goal is to restore the balance between harmful and helpful elemental forces. I’d also like to know whatever happened to the Concordance of Elements pathfinder faction.
According to the Rage of Elements previews...
Planar adventure AP- particularly among the Elemental Planes. My goodly Elemental Lords NEED me!
Goal is to restore the balance between harmful and helpful elemental forces. I’d also like to know whatever happened to the Concordance of Elements pathfinder faction.
According to the Rage of Elements previews...
** spoiler omitted **
Yes please!
Is it someone or a group of someone’s? Since we know Season of Ghosts is (initially) set in the past, it makes sense that they could do this- but if the emancipation was largely carried out by an individual rather than a group I suspect that to be code for the event occurring ‘offscreen’ as it were.
Another counter-possibility is that a group of adventurers aided the individual, and this is where Paizo storytelling becomes complicated so as to not upstage each player group’s headcanon. It’s why we have Kressida Kroft as Queen of Korvosa rather than some named protagonist-adventurer, as this protects the canonicity of everyone’s respective, Crimson Throne party.
I do want to see more planar- adventure paths. I enjoy Golarion and would prefer the path still starts or ends there, but I’m a bit annoyed that we haven’t seen the elemental Planes featured in AP’s that much since the early days of pathfinder. Also, while not an AP, the Year of the Stolen Storm remains one of my favourite pathfinder seasons thematically.
There’s just so many planar cities that remain underdeveloped, though to be fair the same could be said of many cities in Golarian as well.
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I'd be over the moon if Starfinder 2e's release somehow enables a high-level Numeria AP. Beating up on the Dominion of the Black would be a lot of fun!
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With the Exemplar class and PF2 mythic rules inbound, I now think a divine-charged romp around Iblydos is inevitable at this point.
...there's a sneaky chance it ends up being the story of some new hero-gods in Vudra instead, though.
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Another Sandbox Campaign I'm tired of the rail roads.
Especially don't want another AP where your party is trying to fullfil an NPCs quest!
Another Sandbox Campaign I'm tired of the rail roads.
Especially don't want another AP where your party is trying to fullfil an NPCs quest!
Did you like Quest for the Frozen Flame, the 2e hexcrawl AP they did?
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I thought Quest for the Frozen Flame was brilliant. While the Hexcrawl elements were really fun, the story being a "chase" story puts players on a clock. It's a different feeling from a more relaxed sandbox you'd find in the likes of Kingmaker or Skull & Shackles.
I'd like another sandbox campaign that lets players take their time, inhabit the world and leave a mark. Doesn't necessarily need to be a kingdom, but certainly there's plenty of unfilled parts of the map that would do well to put PCs as the proactive force in a region, rather than reacting to a threat.
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I thought Quest for the Frozen Flame was brilliant. While the Hexcrawl elements were really fun, the story being a "chase" story puts players on a clock. It's a different feeling from a more relaxed sandbox you'd find in the likes of Kingmaker or Skull & Shackles.
I'd like another sandbox campaign that lets players take their time, inhabit the world and leave a mark. Doesn't necessarily need to be a kingdom, but certainly there's plenty of unfilled parts of the map that would do well to put PCs as the proactive force in a region, rather than reacting to a threat.
Agreed to that. Quest for Frozen Flame was a lot of fun but it felt like there was little opportunity for true exploration, as the other tribe was hot on our heels.
I'd love to see a more exploration based campaign. Perhaps an alignment of the stars causes a portal to a hitherto unknown massive demiplane created by the archwizard Nex to open, and the heroes are sent in (or sneak in) to try to see if he is inside. Or, for that matter, a land of the lost style hidden valley would be fun to explore. The only hesitation I have regarding this is due to the highly leveled nature of Pathfinder 2e. I'd almost be tempted to run the campaign with the proficiency without level adjustment to make all monsters powerful but not overwhelmingly so, no matter where they went on the map.
Not sure how well this would work as an AP, but it would be fun to see it!
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How about a three part heist themed AP, akin to Keys for the Golden Vault, but with an over-arcing storyline? Outlaws of Alkenstar skirted the edges of this territory, but never fully committed. You probably wouldn't be able to write it as a conventional AP, requiring more of an urban sandbox to really shine.
I have a story hook planned, where the characters at lvl 4 enter a lair of a cult, and after clearing it they meet the BBEG and it's servant, a Thanadaemon. BBEG says to take care of them and leaves to find new cult members to do his bidding.
Thanadaemon instead summons his boat and takes players to Abaddon, where they have to travel to a safe haven from which they could return to the Universe. Perhaps through Outer Rifts and Hell's layers.
I have a story hook planned, where the characters at lvl 4 enter a lair of a cult, and after clearing it they meet the BBEG and it's servant, a Thanadaemon. BBEG says to take care of them and leaves to find new cult members to do his bidding.
Thanadaemon instead summons his boat and takes players to Abaddon, where they have to travel to a safe haven from which they could return to the Universe. Perhaps through Outer Rifts and Hell's layers.
There is a free mega-dungeon called Escape from Carceri available on Drivethru RPG right now, that sounds perfect for what you are describing.
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/454550/Escape-from-Carceri?affiliate_id=36 142
Really want an exploration ap centered around being trapped on Valkus Isle in Nex, with Khulo as a home base as the pcs have to figure out how to bring down the Stalwart Wall and free everyone on the Isle
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I thought Quest for the Frozen Flame was brilliant. While the Hexcrawl elements were really fun, the story being a "chase" story puts players on a clock. It's a different feeling from a more relaxed sandbox you'd find in the likes of Kingmaker or Skull & Shackles.
I'd like another sandbox campaign that lets players take their time, inhabit the world and leave a mark. Doesn't necessarily need to be a kingdom, but certainly there's plenty of unfilled parts of the map that would do well to put PCs as the proactive force in a region, rather than reacting to a threat.
Agreed to that. Quest for Frozen Flame was a lot of fun but it felt like there was little opportunity for true exploration, as the other tribe was hot on our heels.
I'd love to see a more exploration based campaign. Perhaps an alignment of the stars causes a portal to a hitherto unknown massive demiplane created by the archwizard Nex to open, and the heroes are sent in (or sneak in) to try to see if he is inside. Or, for that matter, a land of the lost style hidden valley would be fun to explore. The only hesitation I have regarding this is due to the highly leveled nature of Pathfinder 2e. I'd almost be tempted to run the campaign with the proficiency without level adjustment to make all monsters powerful but not overwhelmingly so, no matter where they went on the map.
Not sure how well this would work as an AP, but it would be fun to see it!
Here's a thought:
The "Immortal War" or whatever AP which is coming out in 2024 will feature the death of a major god. My pet theory is that it will be Gozreh.
Let's say that in one of the AP volumes the PCs are cast into some weird primordial soup of mixing elemental planes, and they have to hex crawl through a constantly changing environment, with true exploration as the DM is given like a ton of tables to randomly generate encounters and features?
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The "Immortal War" or whatever AP which is coming out in 2024 will feature the death of a major god. My pet theory is that it will be Gozreh.
The death of a major god in the PF2 Pantheon comes as part of the Remaster rebranding and the move away from anything mentioned or associated with the OGL.
Consequently, Asmodeus is far and away the most likely candidate to chat with Aroden, soon.
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The death of a major god in the PF2 Pantheon comes as part of the Remaster rebranding and the move away from anything mentioned or associated with the OGL.
Consequently, Asmodeus is far and away the most likely candidate to chat with Aroden, soon.
Not quite. The death of a deity is a storyline we started working on over a year ago. The OGL event, and the resulting Remaster of the rules is a separate event that we had to shift gears to focus on. One doesn't necessarily influence the other. It's just that the public was made aware of these two developments in reverse order since the OGL event was very public.
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The "Immortal War" or whatever AP which is coming out in 2024 will feature the death of a major god. My pet theory is that it will be Gozreh.
The death of a major god in the PF2 Pantheon comes as part of the Remaster rebranding and the move away from anything mentioned or associated with the OGL.
Consequently, Asmodeus is far and away the most likely candidate to chat with Aroden, soon.
Well, let's just say that it is the big A who takes the fall. Gets got by something, throws hell into a power struggle.
Most of the levels of Hell are AWESOME. A high-level hex crawl in Erebus - a cyclopean ruined library, where players have to ascend up book shelves the size of mountains and descend through pipes large enough to carry oceans and that house vermin of unusual size? or Stygia, where lurk the ghosts of qlippoths and worse in temples to gods who cannot be?
Yeah. Gimme that hex-crawl all day.
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The "Immortal War" or whatever AP which is coming out in 2024 will feature the death of a major god. My pet theory is that it will be Gozreh.
The death of a major god in the PF2 Pantheon comes as part of the Remaster rebranding and the move away from anything mentioned or associated with the OGL.
Consequently, Asmodeus is far and away the most likely candidate to chat with Aroden, soon.
Well, let's just say that it is the big A who takes the fall. Gets got by something, throws hell into a power struggle.
Most of the levels of Hell are AWESOME. A high-level hex crawl in Erebus - a cyclopean ruined library, where players have to ascend up book shelves the size of mountains and descend through pipes large enough to carry oceans and that house vermin of unusual size? or Stygia, where lurk the ghosts of qlippoths and worse in temples to gods who cannot be?
Yeah. Gimme that hex-crawl all day.
I could totally see a Mythic AP where the PCs have to explore Hell to find the Key to Rovagug's prison. Because who holds the Key is the indisputed master of Hell.
But there is a small caveat : the above applies only if the one who holds the Key is also the ruler of one of Hell's layers.
So, who will the PCs give the Key to ?
I could totally see a Mythic AP where the PCs have to explore Hell to find the Key to Rovagug's prison. Because who holds the Key is the indisputed master of Hell.
But there is a small caveat : the above applies only if the one who holds the Key is also the ruler of one of Hell's layers.
So, who will the PCs give the Key to ?
Dispater or Mephistopheles seem like the most obvious choices to me given that they both look the most like "traditional" devils and working with them would probably leave less of a bad taste in player's mouths than some others.
Asmodeus' death opens room for Diabolism in general to take his place. Pantheons have been one of the most interesting 2e creations, and it would be nice for one to make it to Core.
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Well, let's just say that it is the big A who takes the fall. Gets got by something, throws hell into a power struggle.
Most of the levels of Hell are AWESOME. A high-level hex crawl in Erebus - a cyclopean ruined library, where players have to ascend up book shelves the size of mountains and descend through pipes large enough to carry oceans and that house vermin of unusual size? or Stygia, where lurk the ghosts of qlippoths and worse in temples to gods who cannot be?
Yeah. Gimme that hex-crawl all day.
. . . You're pitching Hellish adventures to the demon guy.
I could totally see a Mythic AP where the PCs have to explore Hell to find the Key to Rovagug's prison. Because who holds the Key is the indisputed master of Hell.
But there is a small caveat : the above applies only if the one who holds the Key is also the ruler of one of Hell's layers.
So, who will the PCs give the Key to ?
The obvious answer is "we will keep it for ourselves and also usurp at least a layer of Hell, neener neener."
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Well, let's just say that it is the big A who takes the fall. Gets got by something, throws hell into a power struggle.
Most of the levels of Hell are AWESOME. A high-level hex crawl in Erebus - a cyclopean ruined library, where players have to ascend up book shelves the size of mountains and descend through pipes large enough to carry oceans and that house vermin of unusual size? or Stygia, where lurk the ghosts of qlippoths and worse in temples to gods who cannot be?
Yeah. Gimme that hex-crawl all day.
. . . You're pitching Hellish adventures to the demon guy.
The obvious answer is "we will keep it for ourselves and also usurp at least a layer of Hell, neener neener."I could totally see a Mythic AP where the PCs have to explore Hell to find the Key to Rovagug's prison. Because who holds the Key is the indisputed master of Hell.
But there is a small caveat : the above applies only if the one who holds the Key is also the ruler of one of Hell's layers.
So, who will the PCs give the Key to ?
That would be the choice with the most fun in Continuing the Campaign : usurp at least a layer of Hell, and then decide which PC gets to be the ruler and hold the Key.