At Paizocon today, Paizo revealed the final color covers of two of the upcoming remastered core rulebooks.
Yep! They posted a blog article a little while ago previewing it here.Apparently it's a non OGL dragon - "diabolical" I think they call it.
Yep. So some people who haven't been following Pathfinder are going to accidently purchase the Core Rulebook and Player Core. Which is doubling up on some content.No indication on the trade dress that these are different versions than og 2nd ed?
Well, that seems quite par for the course in RPG-land. The newer tends to simply substitute the older.Yep. So some people who haven't been following Pathfinder are going to accidently purchase the Core Rulebook and Player Core. Which is doubling up on some content.
Same issue is going on with Old School Essentials. Figuring out which books you need to play that game are probably the most frequently asked questions on their social media. (More than any rules questions.)
I guess the only "benefit" is that (I think) they're going to stop printing the old books, so eventually this just becomes "the standard" rulebook versions to get.
Honestly, the fact that so many other fantasy games use the D&D breakdown is depressing. It's not a terribly interesting arrangement and it certainly shouldn't be the basis for all dragons in gaming. Do new stuff! Give us new ideas!Ah yes, I forgot PF2 is remaking their dragons to shed that element of the OGL. The classic chromatic and metallics are being replaced with two each for each of the four source of magic (arcane, divine, occult, and primal) for a total of eight new dragons. (This is assuming I read this somewhere and didn’t just dream it.)
Dream dragons... or maybe luck dragons?I still don't like occult as a power source name. But... I can see an ephemeral dream dragon or such.
I’m the same. I’ve grown weary of his style. I still think his artwork is great - just not for me anymore.I enjoyed Wayne’s art in the 2008-2012ish time frame when he did magazine covers and PF. But kinda like some comic book artist I used to like, my enjoyment of his style ebbs right now. Having said that though my group always liked when I used his Dm screen PF iconics cause they liked looking at the classes/heroes.
the disproportionately large lucerne hammer head on the gm core cover bothers me to no end. i mean, come on, it's so close to an actual lucerne hammer and then the head is too big. infuriating. incredibly nitpicky, and infuriating.
In DnD worlds, he might have to hit something that's bigger than a regular human. Like player character egos.the disproportionately large lucerne hammer head on the gm core cover
I can’t speak for all of D&D, but WotC 5e for the most part has not been anything close to anime. There is some of it, but most of it is not. There is a range.I will always be a WAR fan but I do feel like we could perhaps use some other styles in Pathfinder; give us some time to get nostalgic for him. Unfortunately I imagine a "realist phase" would be... expensive. Pathfinder, and D&D (though I am not up on its recent trends) has sort of been in "animation still" mode for a long time. Maybe the success of the D&D movie can help with that though, pushing artists to try something that evokes live action.
I actually loathe that "red dragon" head. The horns look weird to me, and I am not thrilled by how its mouth opens either. Most of the other things about it, other than maybe Harsk's face, look good though.