Pathfinder 1E PaizoCon 2010 News

[IronWolf]

PaizoCon 2010 is happening this weekend in Bellevue, Washington. All sorts of cool stuff going on out there for Paizo and Pathfinder fans. While I am not out there I have been using twitter to keep up with what is going on out there.

Thanks to Kobold Quarterly and their twitter feed for people not there we can learn hear about what is happening at the con. So credit for this information goes to them, but I thought some here might find it interesting - especially the additional information on the Advanced Player's Guide.

Upcoming Adventure Path

• The new Adventure Path will be Gothic Horror with Whispering Tyrant in Ustalav.
• Wes Schneider will be writing the fiction for that series.

Promo Reaper Mini

• A promo mini from Reaper for Varian from Dave Gross' novel at GenCon.

Pathfinder Fiction

• Robin Laws and Paul Kemp novels expected in 2011

World Guide

• The World Guide: Tien Sha will follow the World Guide: Inner Sea.

Ultimate Magic

• Erik Mona announced a new hardback in the works called Ulimate Magic for 2011.
• The book contains a magus class of a weapon wielding spellcaster for 2011.
• There will be a public play-test for this.

Advanced Player's Guide

• New race benefits such as dwarven SR.
• Alchemist mutagens changed a lot from play-test, including better poison, fire and more.
• Cavaliers now have access to teamwork feats.
• The inquisitor's Judgment is simplified and get max bonus right earlier.
• Added new Life Mystery to the Oracle base class.
• All 11 core lasses gain archetypes that swap out some abilities. For example, Drunken Brute for barbarians and 48 new rage powers.
• 163 new feats in the APG including archmage feats, racial feats such as Childlike for halflings and Iron Guts for Dwarves.
• New weapons and equipment like the mancatcher, glaive-guisarme and other Golarion-specific items.
• 57 new pages of new spells, about four or five new ones for every core rules base class.

Again, thanks to Kobold Quarterly and their twitter feed for all of this information from the con.

 

[Gorbacz]

Regarding the New Ustalav Horror AP, authors scheudled are:

Tim Hitchcock
Jason Bulmahn
Greg A. Vaughan
Richard Pett
Michael Korts
Wes Schneider

 

[Crothian]

Awesome, thanks guys!

 

[MerrikCale]

I was already looking forward to the APG but now I can't wait for the Magus playest. Yahoo!

And Tien Sha will be quite cool. I imagine early 2012 will have a Oriental Adventures type book

 

[ancientvaults]

After reading the preview of the Advanced Player's Guide on the blog I feel like a deflated balloon. 163 new Feats! Gah! More race options.
Sure, some of it sounds great, but all of those new Feats alone are already making me waffle. And more race options? Sheesh. Might be a skipper at my game table.

 

[IronWolf]

After reading the preview of the Advanced Player's Guide on the blog I feel like a deflated balloon. 163 new Feats! Gah! More race options.
Sure, some of it sounds great, but all of those new Feats alone are already making me waffle. And more race options? Sheesh. Might be a skipper at my game table.

From the Paizo Blog: Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Preview Banquet Recap

A good, slightly more verbose summary of the twitter news from the con posted above.

I do agree with you ancientvaults, I hope this doesn't kick the Pathfinder line off through a series of splat books turning the Pathfinder RPG down the same path 3.5 took.

With that said, the racial options sound like they could be useful and possibly just subtle tweaks to help characters fit the mold for certain classes or thoughts of that race than they currently do.

163 feats sounds like a boat load and makes me nervous as well.

Hopefully Paizo has thought things out and this isn't the beginning of a neverending churn of crunch that continues to ratchet the power level up making the core classes once again second fiddle.

 

[ancientvaults]

I agree. With the release of the GameMastery Guide I was building up the Pathfinder confidence at the table. I was happy to see the Advanced Player's Guide coming out, but I hope it doesn't become a monster, as you said, like 3.5. I wouldn't find 163 new Feats to be a good thing. I have a hard time getting some players into Pathfinder over OSR games because of Feats & Skills, now there are more! Yikes!

 

[Steel_Wind]

The concerns about power creep in Pathfinder are understandable, especially given the issues that plagued the 3.5 line of D&D.

That said, there have already been a very large number of feats and racial traits published in the Paizo product line over the past three years. Perhaps because those feats and traits have been dispersed over 60 books, it is easy to miss them. That doesn't mean they are not there.

While I am sure that there will be new material in the APG in terms of feats and traits, my suspicion is that the APG will largely serve to consolidate (and perhaps revise) most of those existing feats and traits that have already been present for a long time in the Golarion setting. Certainly with respect to the racial trait features set out in the various Golarion products and in the Web Enhanceent available off of the Paizo website, character traits are now being enshrined as an official part of the game in the APG.


I raised the question of feats, new spells, power creep and play balance in the Advanced Player's Guide directly with Paizo's lead designer, Jason Bulmahn, in an interview which will be featured in this week's Chronicles: The Pathfinder Podcast.

We hope to have Episoide #02 of the podcast out by Friday the 25th.

 

[IronWolf]

The concerns about power creep in Pathfinder are understandable, especially given the issues that plagued the 3.5 line of D&D.

That said, there have already been a very large number of feats and racial traits published in the Paizo product line over the past three years. Perhaps because those feats and traits have been dispersed over 60 books, it is easy to miss them. That doesn't mean they are not there.

Agreed. I am sure if someone quoted the number of feats and traits that have already been released through one of the many supplements I would be as equally astounded. And to Paizo's credit, they often are secondary to the fluff making it even easier to gloss over them.

While I am sure that there will be new material in the APG in terms of feats and traits, my suspicion is that the APG will largely serve to consolidate (and perhaps revise) most of those existing feats and traits that have already been present for a long time in the Golarion setting. Certainly with respect to the racial trait features set out in the various Golarion products and in the Web Enhanceent available off of the Paizo website, character traits are now being enshrined as an official part of the game in the APG.

Consolidation would be helpful, so from that aspect it may be a chance to bring feats and traits already released into a more central format.

I raised the question of feats, new spells, power creep and play balance in the Advanced Player's Guide directly with Paizo's lead designer, Jason Bulmahn, in an interview which will be featured in this week's Chronicles: The Pathfinder Podcast.

We hope to have Episoide #02 of the podcast out by Friday the 25th.

Excellent! I was actually checking earlier today to see if Episode 2 was out.

 

[Gorbacz]

Truth to be said, some of the previewed APG content is stuff that's 10 years due - Fighters with "move and full attack" option and Rogues sneak attacking concealed targets are fixing some of the bigger facepalms of 3.0/3.5