Paizo News Roundup

The golem marches on, my friends, which means it’s time for the latest PAIZO NEWS ROUNDUP! The fine folks in Redmond continue to show no sign of pulling their support for the Pathfinder we know and love, even as they ramp up production on teasers for Starfinder and Pathfinder 2nd Edition, so there’s plenty of Adventure Path, Player Companion, and Campaign Setting material to explore! Let’s get to it!

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The War for the Crown rages on! Stalwart adventurers seeking to keep Taldor from collapsing into anarchy and bloodshed are run ragged keeping Princess Eutropia safe from plots and peril! In the latest installment, City in the Lion’s Eye, our heroes square off against Princess Eutropia’s main rival - the ambitious and ruthless General Pythareus! Not only does he lead an army from Zimar, a fortress of a town in its own right and detailed in a gazeteer included in the Adventure path, but General Pythareus also commands the Lion Blades, the most feared spies of the Inner Sea! Can the adventurers hope to outmaneuver the conspiracies that are coming to a head? Can they prevent civil war from boiling into international war? Can they prevail against the evils that oppose them? FIND OUT NEXT TIME IN THE WAR FOR THE CROWN ADVENTURE PATH!

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Whew, that’s enough radio announcer voice for one paragraph. Now for something less pulpy - wait, what’s this? An entire Player Companion dedicated to unearthing ancient ruins and legendary powers?! That’s right folks, the newest Player Companion: Blood of the Ancients has all the long-lost prowess you could want. A new bloodline for sorcerers and bloodragers allows them to call forth warriors of ages past, and new archetypes are unearthed to tap into ancient Azlanti kineticism and Jistkan golemcraft. There are even new spells and types of magic for those brave enough to find them! PDF available May 30th, it seems, so no need to hold your breath too long.

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This old (well, who are we kidding, young) nose of mine has been sniffing into the winds of change for tabletop games, and it smells PLANAR ADVENTURES! While we won’t discuss anything outside of the Golem’s reach here, suffice to say it seems the industry as a whole is going extraplanar, and that’s just fine with me. As just another leaf on this wind shows, a new hardcover available June 27th goes deep into Pathfinder Planar Adventures! New archetypes, spells, feats, and magic items await PCs who jaunt across planes, as well as the demiplanes and denizens that await them (some even graciously!). Pathfinder’s 20 core deities are presented in far greater detail, and are given divine boons to bestow on those who earn their favor.

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What’s that? You want even MORE planar shenanigans? How about the newest Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Distant Realms! Launching alongside Planar Adventures, this book offers a much deeper dive into six of the most prominent planar cities, their history, and their movers and shakers! Take a stroll into the iron districts of Dis, home to the fiendish king Dispater and his terrible court. Abide in the Astral Plane on the ageless shores of Yulgamot. Dabble in dark dealings in the dust-ringed Shadow Absalom, lit by a source known only as the Glare. Find unexpected allies and mischievous benefactors Basrakal, and take care that your goals remain the same when you leave! All these delights and more will be yours!

Well, that about does it for the PAIZO NEWS ROUNDUP for this edition! Keep a weather eye out here for more from the Golem, and for updates on 2E when it arrives!

contributed by Ben Reece

 

[JEB]

The original message was a bit vague. Let me be more clear, if we reprint the book, Folca will for sure be removed. Given that we are in the process of printing every single Pathfinder hardcover rulebook to date into a paperback Pocket Edition, and that we intend to keep these Pocket Editions in print as long as people keep buying them even into the Second Edition era, it's actually VERY likely that we will reprint this book (albeit in paperback, rather than hardcover form), and in that likely event, we will make all of the necessary changes to tidy up the mess, in print and PDF.

What Erik said.

But also, no, there's nothing about Folca in Planar Adventures, nor will there ever be anything about Folca in any other books we publish (or reprint) from here on out. (As a post-specific expansion of the last part of Erik's original post on the topic back in November.)

Thank you for clarifying your plans. It is good to know that Folca will definitely be removed if you reprint the book.

Some follow-up questions:
1. When will a decision be made on reprinting Book of the Damned in a Pocket Edition? Weeks from now? Months? Years?
2. If Book of the Damned is not reprinted, does that mean Folca will never be removed from the PDF?
3. Considering the exceptional nature of this mistake, why isn't this being treated as an exception to the normal errata policy?

I should add that I have not purchased any products from Paizo since I became aware of the Folca content. (I also threw out my unread copy of the book. This is not normally my policy with objectionable books, but I made an exception.) After your November 22 statement, I did not anticipate that my personal boycott would stretch out for six months. I am afraid I will have to continue that boycott, and explaining to others why I am boycotting, until such time as Folca has been removed.