Q1 2009 Products

[Knightfall]

I guess this should really have its own thread. - KF72

Forked from: Pathfinder RPG Beta Preview 3

Paizo just announced the various Q1 products for 2009. Here's a link to the Pathfinder Chronicles section...

http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/pathfinder/pathfinderChronicles

New under this category are the following...

• Second Darkness Map Folio (Jan '09)
• Dragons Revisited (Feb '09)
• Dark Markets -- A Guide to Katapesh (Mar '09)
• The Great Beyond -- A Guide to the Multiverse (Apr '09)

 

[Knightfall]

Other Q1 products

Here's the Pathfinder Adventure Path products coming out in Q1 of 2009...

• PF #19 -- Legacy of Fire Chapter 1: "Howl of the Carrion King" (Feb '09)
• PF #20 -- Legacy of Fire Chapter 2: "House of the Beast" (Mar '09)
• PF #21 -- Legacy of Fire Chapter 3: "The Jackal's Price" (Apr '09)

Here's the Pathfinder Companion products coming out in Q1 of 2009...

• Legacy of Fire Player's Guide (Feb '09)
• Taldor, Echoes of Glory (Apr '09)

 

[Knightfall]

Almost forgot these...

Pathfinder Modules for Q1...

• S1: Clash of the Kingslayers (Jan '09)
• E2: Blood of Dragonscar (Mar '09)

 

[Cat Moon]

I'm not into the Pathfinder scene, but we do ocasionally still play 3.5.

I might have to check Dragons Revisited and The Great beyond. I've got a soft spot for dragons and planar material.

 

[Knightfall]

I'm not into the Pathfinder scene, but we do ocasionally still play 3.5.

I might have to check Dragons Revisited and The Great beyond. I've got a soft spot for dragons and planar material.

Dragons Revisited and The Great Beyond are definitely on my must buy list. FYI... The Great Beyond was written by Todd Stewart whose EN World handle is Shemeska.

 

[Tinner]

dragons revisited and the great beyond are definitely on my must buy list. Fyi... The great beyond was written by todd stewart whose en world handle is shemeska.

sold!

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Wow, the material for 2009 looks great so far.

I've got the first adventure path and I'm looking forward to next month. I'll be coming into a bit of a windfall, and I'll be parlaying part of it into pathfinder products. I'm looking forward to September too. Thats when Amazon will be shipping the Beta rules and the campaign setting. I've already pre-ordered the campaign setting.

 

[Alzrius]

Dragons Revisited and The Great Beyond are definitely on my must buy list. FYI... The Great Beyond was written by Todd Stewart whose EN World handle is Shemeska.

Todd's a cool guy, but I worry that the book might reflect his design philosophy - which I don't completely agree with - a bit too much. Namely, he believes that planar lords (that is, demon princes, archdevils, etc.) and gods should be completely beyond stats, and that they should only have stat blocks for avatars given.

Also, he's an expert on the Planescape cosmology, whereas TGB is a completely new planar arrangement. No yugoloths there, Shemmy.

 

[The Black Kestrel]

He might be writing it, but since Erik Mona is the publisher and James Jacobs is the editor-in-chief of Paizo I think its a safe bet we'll see stats.

 

[James Jacobs]

Todd's a cool guy, but I worry that the book might reflect his design philosophy - which I don't completely agree with - a bit too much. Namely, he believes that planar lords (that is, demon princes, archdevils, etc.) and gods should be completely beyond stats, and that they should only have stat blocks for avatars given.

Also, he's an expert on the Planescape cosmology, whereas TGB is a completely new planar arrangement. No yugoloths there, Shemmy.

Yup, he understands that this is not Planescape. At the same time, it's close enough that you could probably lift elements from The Great Beyond and port them directly into Planescape without TOO much work.

That said, Planescape is not open content; we couldn't riff too much off of it even if we wanted to. Golarion's multiverse is, instead, built around a different model than the Great Wheel (it's more like an onion than a wheel), and the outer planes skew far more heavily toward being inspired by real-world mythology from all the world's cultures rather than made-up places (although there are certainly a few brand new planes nevertheless).

In any case, in Pathfinder, there's only one demon (Lamashtu) and one devil (Asmodeus) who are true gods, and therefore won't get stat blocks. All the other demon lords and archdevils are demigods at the best, and that means they CAN have stat blocks. They won't in "The Great Beyond" since there won't be room for that, but that certainly doesn't mean that we aren't going to do a Fiendish Codex style product some day.

As for yugoloths... correct, there are none in The Great Beyond. There ARE daemons, though, and courtesy of the EXCELLENT Tome of Horrors, we can use a lot of the daemons who, in WotC's works, are known as yugoloths. We just call them by their original 1st edition names. They're also more into the "Soul Collecting" scene than the "Fiendish Mercenaries in the Blood War" scene. (Since there's no Blood War in our multiverse for them anyway.)