Pathfinder 1E What's this I hear about a new Pathfinder setting?

[Erik Mona]

A couple of quick corrections:

Ultimate Combat will be our August release.

There will be a book about Tian Xia in the winter, but we haven't said how large it will be yet.

Carry on.

--Erik Mona
Publisher
Paizo Publishing

 

[Shazman]

Just about everything you mentioned above applies to Kaidan classes, except: Shinobi will be archetypes for alchemist, monk, ranger, rogue and sorcerer, with a Ninja prestige class available to all Shinobi classes.

Wu-jen is a word invented by Gary Gygax, yet Japan has many viable wizards from its history/folklore, I don't intend to carry GEG's fake spellcaster. Japan had Onmyoji which best represents a professional full time wizard. Japn had Jugondo which was a hedge wizard, so I'm going to use that for Sorcerer.

Shugenja - this deserves some explanation. Shugendo is a religion. Shugenja is anyone (a child, an NPC commoner) who follows the path of Shugendo. Whereas Yamabushi is a priest of Shugendo.

Christian is to Christianity as Shugenja is to Shugendo. Using shugenja to describe an oriental priest is the wrong term. So I am using Yamabushi as my 'shugenja', and it will be the PF Inquisitor.

Kannushi is a priest of Shinto, so that's Kaidan's cleric.

In Kaidan, Sohei is a variant paladin/anti-paladin and a LN 'paladin' (any lawful).

I intend to fix lots of old RPG mistakes regarding oriental settings with Kaidan.

GP

That's interesting. Thanks for the info. I didn't know that Wu-jen was a made up word or that the class name shugenja was taken completely out of context.

 

[Mojo_Rat]

names being made up or having no connection to their original myth or very litle is normal. when was tha last time a hobgoblin did yourvshoe repairs.