| 8 people marked this as a favorite. |
Lost Omens: Arcadia.
If that's too ambitious, then Lost Omens: Fallen Razatlan.
| 5 people marked this as a favorite. |
I would slip in plans for One Thousand and One Golarion Nights. The frame story of this book is that three newbie Pathfinder players and one wise and experienced player Scheherazade are playing a rather haphazard Pathfinder campaign under the gamemaster Shahryar. The game sessions are one hour every night for almost three years. Shahryar is willing to kill off player characters, but Scheherazade helps the newbies build their characters to survive. They start with simple scenarios but improve to advanced tactics later. Some nights are simply Shahryar sharing interesting Golarion lore with the party for a break from the grind. One Thousand and One Golarion Nights is secretly a primer in Pathfinder builds and tactics.
| 9 people marked this as a favorite. |
Pathfinder: call of the sea! Rule book for island hopping nautical campaigns (made after tactical starship rules are made for sf2e so it can crib some stuff). I guess there'll have to at least be one new class for it but I wouldn't really care either way, I just want it in the rulebook line so there's enough page space for subsystems to finally run an island-hopping-style One Piece campaign!!
| 14 people marked this as a favorite. |
Lost Omens: Wide Seas. C'mon, there's a Fantasy Pacific Islander Iconic running around these days, I want to see more of those cultures on Golarion! Also can detail some cool underwater cultures and locations, which would be really fun.
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
If any options are available... a giant splat book just chock full of ancestory feats, lore expansions on them, compatibility charts (A Cayden sort of love life diary style write up), and a bunch of buffs to more mediocre general/skill feats so there is reasons to use the more... highly situational ones.
In more realistic possibilities, A TON of oneshots and quests, from all time eras, that would be leaked out individually or in a big book full of potential fun times.
Actually I really would like a big all in one" season recap book different PFS years. Could be collector items and a way to condense materials. Good for lore hounds too.
| 6 people marked this as a favorite. |
A FAQ. I'm writing a FAQ full of rules questions and official answers.
Make a print on demand version available as a book for anyone who likes that format.
|
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Unwritten Past of Golarion with the setting description, including PC options, for various ages of Golarion's history, including the height of Azlant, early Thassilon, the world at the time of the Starfall and the setting during the Age of Darkness.
Even playing a Sekmin at various periods of their empire should be feasible.
| 16 people marked this as a favorite. |
Cozy Campaign Guide: How to play low stakes fantasy in Pathfinder. Also has detailed and engaging downtime systems like Farming, as well as fleshed out goods and services costs.
|
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
*Thinks deeply on this hypothetical...*
I'd probably create a few wildly different books:
1) A book about how to create a more modern version setting for Pathfinder (like a version of d20 Modern), allowing you to run Urban Fantasy style campaigns (like Earthbound, Dresden Files, Like A Dragon, Persona, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Dimension20's Fantasy High). Something to act as an in-between for Pathfinder and Starfinder.
2) A book detailing classes, class archetypes, and archetypes that adapt the many job classes from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest (with just enough difference that Square Enix can't sue).
3) A book focused on cooking. It would detail such things as the food culture found throughout Golarion, a Gastronomy subclass for Alchemist, some kind of Chef of Iron style archetype or class, and of course all manner of new food items and equipment (magic kitchen knives that double as weapons, enchanted cooking pots, rolling pin bludgeons, weapons made of food, etc.)
4) A book that would include a number of subclasses, archetypes, class archetypes, such as:
Battle Familiar: For casters, could shift their familiar into an animal companion and share spells with a range of "self" with said familiar.
Dirty Fighting Monk: Self-explanatory
New Conscious and Subconscious Minds for Psychics
A number of class feats related to using a staff as a weapon
5) A book fleshing out the Plane of Dreams, as well as detailing how to use it in campaigns, especially how the material and dream planes can affect each other.
6) A book with new ancestries that would include at least the following:
Dogfolk
Hippo-folk (whether Giff or not Giff).
Gemstone folk
Grasshopper folk (with KAMEN RIDER themed archetype)
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
I'd issue a proper errata for the damage issues they continue to avoid. Then I'd go back and balance up a few more of the existing classes and subclasses that don't get played much.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
A FAQ. I'm writing a FAQ full of rules questions and official answers.
Make a print on demand version available as a book for anyone who likes that format.
I can't remember what company it was, but I remember one that used to not only do errata, but had them formatted such that when printed out, you could cut up the sheet and glue the new text over the old in the book. Not sure how that would work with PDF, but it's a cool idea...
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
AP about meteorology and climate change. Good idea for low-level mythic campaign. Beginning in Rahadoum after Godsrain, with next books exploring Sodden Lands and Eye of Abendego.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I can't remember what company it was, but I remember one that used to not only do errata, but had them formatted such that when printed out, you could cut up the sheet and glue the new text over the old in the book. Not sure how that would work with PDF, but it's a cool idea...A FAQ. I'm writing a FAQ full of rules questions and official answers.
Make a print on demand version available as a book for anyone who likes that format.
Yeah it is a cool idea. It's tricky for cases that require more text than the book layout allows, though, like the IWR/instance of damage stuff. But for a lot of rules updates it would be doable. For the PDF you'd just have to update the PDF and reissue it. (Though I don't know how many people are getting their rules from PDFs these days with AoN right there.)
Back in 3.5 WotC released a "rules compendium", which was a book of rules and rulings. That led to one of the wildest rules discussions I've ever seen where people argued WotC's "Rules Compendium" book couldn't actually impact RAW because in the order of book priority, it was lower than the PHB. Thus, an official, newer book specifically about clarifying rules wasn't RAW if it didn't line up with an older book.
That was the day I realized how absurd purist RAW arguments can get.
|
|
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
1) A book about how to create a more modern version setting for Pathfinder (like a version of d20 Modern), allowing you to run Urban Fantasy style campaigns (like Earthbound, Dresden Files, Like A Dragon, Persona, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Dimension20's Fantasy High). Something to act as an in-between for Pathfinder and Starfinder.I stan for Streetfinder.
I'd be down for that too. I think I can make my big time travel campaign work these days given the compatibility of Pathfinder and Starfinder, but I'm sure there's more design space there...
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
I honestly just really would love to put together a Lost Omens: First World or some other First World themed book. Been playing around with fey and fey themed options for a while now, whether for running campaigns or just as third party stuff to put together for fun. There's a lot to explore with it and I'd honestly love to see some more dedicated First World stuff like what we had in PF1e.
| 6 people marked this as a favorite. |
Dungeon Core. An expansive guide on how to create your own dungeons, from small-scale ones to full-on megadungeons, with in-depth guidelines for layouts, playing with light and the environment, setting up upcoming threats, villains, and hidden treasures, as well as how to have monsters use the dungeon to their own advantage, Tucker's Kobold's-style. The book could feature tons of new and updated hazards with extended rules and guidelines on how to use them, from simple hazards to spice up encounters to complex hazards. There'd be room in my opinion to have rules for converting simple hazards to complex hazards and back, as well as for adapting simple damage hazards to better work out of combat, e.g. such as by applying a debuff or condition other than damage, or giving upcoming enemies some kind of advantage such as by alerting them (and the book could give out guidelines on how to have different parts of a dungeon interact with one another). The book could introduce simple additional subsystems for creating pressure, from clocks to measure time pressure to more traditional attrition-based mechanics, with rules on how to factor in conditions and debuffs into the difficulty of subsequent encounters.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
I’d probably remaster Gnomes of Golarion. That book was absolutely unhinged in the best possible way--equal parts whimsical, unsettling, and deeply Pathfinder. It leaned hard into the idea that gnomes are colorful little chaos engines barely held together by curiosity and existential dread, and I’d love to see that concept revisited through a modern Remaster lens, with updated lore, art, and cultural depth.
But if I were really going full gremlin and sneaking something new onto the production schedule, I’d write a Lost Omens–style guide focused on “little people”: gnomes, goblins, halflings, and other Small humanoids.
Not just a stat or ancestry book, but a cultural deep dive.
It would explore what daily life actually looks like when the world is built for Medium and Large folk. How do these cultures design cities, tools, vehicles, and defenses? What does hospitality mean when your guest might be three times your height? How do Small ancestries navigate intimidation, patronization, or being underestimated, both socially and politically?
I’d want chapters on:
Domestic life (architecture, food, festivals, and family structures scaled for the Small)
Adventuring realities (gear modifications, tactics, and why Small heroes often survive on cleverness rather than brute force)
Power dynamics (how these peoples are treated by larger societies and how they exploit or subvert those expectations)
Inter-Small relations (gnomes vs. goblins vs. halflings; where they clash, where they cooperate, and where they absolutely refuse to understand each other)
Basically: a book that treats Small ancestries not as “cute options” or comic relief, but as fully realized cultures that have had to adapt to a world that literally looms over them.
Also: the art would be incredible. Give me cross-sections of halfling homes built into human cities, goblin marketplaces carved into absurdly unsafe places, and gnome workshops that look like they were designed by someone who has never once considered OSHA compliance.
If I’m breaking into Paizo HQ, I’m not leaving without making Small folk feel big.
| 7 people marked this as a favorite. |
While I wouldn't want it to come out for a year or two to give SF2 time to be it's own thing, I'd love to do a book about the rest of the Golarion System circa ~4726 AR.
On a less drastic note, I'd love to see Arcadia, Garund, and Casmaron get the treatment Tian Xia got.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
What no one realized... and will not be able to fully comprehend even now.... is that this isn't a hypothetical. What is described is what caused the GAP. So were this to happen again, it might cause Pharasma to be forced to intercede as the universe might not be able to withstand it happening again. Or maybe... this is the cause of the GAP in the past and it just wasn't known the true cause of the cause, that caused the GAP.
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
I know i am behind the wave here, but a Parallel Worlds AP would be interesting. Imagine going to a world where House Thrune made a pact with Heaven instead of Hell, a world where Karzoug, Areelu, Barzillai, and all the villains won their APs, and the world is terrible. I think it would be great to explore these "what ifs" since, obviously, these worlds aren't part of the "official" canon.
Honestly, this would be fascinating. It would be an opportunity to play with non-cannon variant of cannon. It would even have the benefit of having space for toolkits such as introducing characters from alternate play groups which might have had players whom participated in the same APs or adventures but had different outcomes. While dealing with this can be very easily dealt with by a GM and 'magic' portals, the ability to list various possibilities and particular ramifications of one solution over another (parallel universe, or parallel world in same universe, same world but after a time travel reset where someone tried to change things, coming from a non-existent universe by way of magic intended to create a particular variation of a hero, etc.
If found popular, it could even be a recurring realm that might interest with portions of future adventures, etc. similar to the Mirror universe, but more varied than everyone having an opposite.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Zo!'s Player Panoply!
A book of mostly player-facing options that seek to spin out existing options in new ways with class archetypes. Current thoughts include a Soldier that specializes in dual-wielding pistols to make close-range area fire attacks in unique patterns, a return of Broken Cycle Solarians and Vanguards as Solarian class archetypes, a 'Anachronistic Gladiator' archetype for Fighter.
Also, probably going to include a note somewhere saying 'Help, I'm trapped in the Paizo building and hiding in a janitor's closet'
|
| 5 people marked this as a favorite. |
Starfinder: LAST OMENS, the Remains of Lost Golarion
new ancestry options for Pathfinder Core ancestries like Orcs, Elves, Gnomes, Halflings, Leshies, and Goblins all living across the Pact Worlds.
Special class feats or class archetypes for Pathfinder classes to help them interact with the Sci-Fantasy world of Starfinder.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Something I've always wondered is if Leshies are a golarian-only thing. Primal magic is accessible anywhere in the Universe, presumably, so I reckon you could pull the ritual off to create a leshy anywhere with a plant.
My campaigns have developed a private mythos about that. Independent leshies had been rare both on Golarion and off Golarion. They became more common on Golarion recent indirectly due to the Darkness following the Earthfall of the Starstone. The gods invented the new profession of Druid to preserve nature during the Darkness (and also kami over in Tian Xia). The druids often created leshy familiars. Over the millennia, a few nature spirits that had once been leshies for the lifetime of one druid remembered the experience pleasantly, volunteered to become familiars again and again, and eventually developed the ability to become leshies on their own.
The leshy water-and-wood kineticist Monet in my mini-campaign Playtesting in A Fistful of Flowers with 7 Leshies made gardens that would encourage nature spirits to become leshies. They were part of a leshy community in the Verduran Forest that cared for young leshies.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Seeing as Paizo doesn't have a headquarters anymore one would need to master chronomancy to even attempt it.
| 9 people marked this as a favorite. |
Seeing as Paizo doesn't have a headquarters anymore one would need to master chronomancy to even attempt it.
HEAD quarters. We're sneaking into the chambers of their MINDS!
|
|
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
The Book of the Risen (Sequel to the Book of the Dead)
providing alternative takes on Necromancy that cast doubt on the black-and-white morality that most take (*Cough*PHARASMA*cough*), providing space for ethical and moral undeath and and necromancers. as well as nightmarish creatures that come forth from the void that were never alive to begin with, bringing question to the true nature of the void.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
- A new Alchemist research field that lets them make items based on spells, using the usual spellcasting rules;
- A complete rework of the Inventor, so they can have 1 innovation per 3 levels in on object, at least.
- 1 or 2 more spells of the common elemental traits
- Aether and Void elements for the Kineticist
| 7 people marked this as a favorite. |
The Big Book of Scaling Items
Imagine a book where everything is still usable at level 20 you never have to get a graft ripped out because its DC is stuck at 20 or 26.