Should you opted to spend your PaizoCon On-line enjoying video games, don’t fret, we watched the Twitch streams to catch all the information and spoilers that Paizo put out. If you wish to stay spoiler free, now’s the time to again out of this text, as a result of let’s be sincere, PaizoCon is the time for all the spoilers to return out.
Pathfinder Hellfire Disaster​
After Gorum’s Loss of life within the Godsrain, varied factions try to collect up the shards of Mythic Energy referred to as Warshards. This consists of Abrograil Thrune, the pinnacle of Cheliax who sends out Hellknights to seek out and take the Warshard held by the Hellbreaker’s League. Andoran sends a basic, who’s captured, accused of espionage, and executed, which drags them into warfare on the facet of the Hellbreaker’s League.
The Battle of Hellknight Hill can be a Gen Con occasion with actual terrain, coping with the Warshards dropped throughout Godsrain. There’s discuss a possible launch of the situation after the Gen Con unique launch. We are going to wait and see!
Battlecry is a brand new supply e book for warfare themed adventures, and combating usually. Commanders can be getting a tactic referred to as Alleyoop the place they spend an motion to let allies change gadgets as a free motion/response combo, and if it’s a consumable, the catcher may activate it with the identical response. The Guardian will see a couple of tweaks like gaining 12 hit factors per stage, bodily resistance at first stage not tied to armor specialization (regardless that they want medium or heavy armor), taunt, and some feats. Dragged in after the Godsrain from a sub planar place referred to as the Fray are the Jotunborn.
You possibly can’t have battles with out new automobiles like the Air Cycle, Siege Dragon, Medical Wagon, Necroroamer, and Steam Turtle, simply to call a couple of. The Subject Propogandist is a brand new archetype with a lot of persuasion feats and good at spinning tales. Battlecry will even have 20 pages of recent troop statblocks, together with dino troops if Michelle is to be believed.
There can be Remastered Hellknights, simply not in Battlecry. Extra of the subsequent part of this disaster can be introduced at Gen Con.
Organized Play​
Starfinder Society 2E will kick off at Gen Con with #1-00 Collision’s Wake, a prequel to Invasion’s Edge. This can be a double-length situation that has you exploring the crashed starship. #1-02 can be a primary contact situation on a moon within the surrounding photo voltaic system. #1-04 can be a relay race throughout the station. #1-05 will introduce the Funtionary, who can be an essential individual to the metaplot.
Starfinder Society Gamers Information could have two ancestries: Ikeshti and Shobhad.
Should you play a Starfinder 2E situation earlier than September fifth, it is possible for you to to make a single Skittermander character for Pathfinder 2E.
Strix at the moment are free to make for Pathfinder 2E. There will even be a charity boon at Gen Con referred to as the Enterprise Gossip Archetype.
Battle for Nova Rush would be the situation launched for Free RPG Day in June. It will introduce Nova Rush as the brand new iconic starship.
Starfinder Launch Starmap​
Galaxy Information is about up by story sort. This lets you select the place to set your tales by what sort of planet it’s: Battle-torn, Excessive-tech, Bizarre, Horror, and many others. The Xenodruids are part of the Xenowarden faction, permitting you to mystically bond with a planet. This might let you be a Pathfinder Druid who can be a Xenowarden.
Participant Core will now have all the gadgets. That is to permit the gamers to embrace the gadgets, the weapons, swapping out augmentations and such. Lessons bought some vital adjustments: some operative talents that had been too good bought nerfed, the Solarion improved it’s photo voltaic mote and flare, nimbus surge performs higher with reactive strike, weapons bought a giant buff once they did a go with math, and a bunch of spells bought some huge alterations.
GM Core could have cinematic starship fight and a extra detailed hacking system. The cinematic starship fight will do extra than simply hitting one another. The 2 examples given had been: Asteroid Ambush, the place you’re given totally different victory circumstances, and Scanning a Dying Solar, the place the victory situation is about getting sure data and getting out. There can be extra tactical guidelines popping out sooner or later, however the workforce wants a bit extra time to iron out all the wrinkles.
We additionally bought a small sneak peek of Swoltred, however we have to examine again at Gen Con for extra particulars of Bantred.
Guilt of the Graveworld provides us playable undead, Corpsefolk versatile heritage, and Illebrian the unique species of the planet.
There can be a twenty fifth stage creature within the Alien Core referred to as Illamantula. It’s on the duvet of Galaxy Information. If you wish to punch the manifestation of social media and toxicity within the face, there may be an alien only for that: Civisdaemon.
World of Misplaced Omens​
Misplaced Omens Shining Kingdoms focuses on the excessive fantasy area, six nations and lore about them. The Bibliodaemon, dying by paperwork is again. It additionally has stuff about eagle knights, together with an archetype. Every Misplaced Omens e book progresses the timeline so that you get to see the defend from Excessive Helm accomplished (the dwarves lastly accomplished one thing in an honest timeline for as soon as).
In November, we’ll see Misplaced Omens Draconic Codex. Which is all about dragons, no Wyvarans. There can be a Drake Rider Archtype, archdragons, and a dragonet ancestry. Barrage Dragon are the Oprah of drive missiles, together with capturing them as a breath weapon. Conspirator Archdragon has a capability that lets it excise itself out of your thoughts, so if you happen to suppose you noticed it do one thing, no you did not. Sar’shalatu, was talked about in Divine mysteries, is the primordial mom of all dragons which can be nice and is Apsu’s spouse (can we are saying pulling above your paygrade?). The Magma Dragon has a burrow pace as an alternative of a swim pace as a result of magma continues to be extra rock than water. The Copper Dragon bought remastered into the Mocking Dragon.
Adventures in Golarion​
Gatewalkers has been up to date to remastered, with the artic expedition getting a retool to take of quite a lot of the drudgery and make it extra about infiltration. They added two extra deviant talents which is able to present up at no cost within the Gamers Information for Gatewalkers.
Fantasy Speaker Journey Path takes us to Iblyos the place regular characters can grow to be dwelling gods. Hero gods are public figures, appearing as a divine patron. The second quantity could have an growth of the management guidelines.
Revenge of the Runelords AP sees a well-known runelord coming again (Xandergul). The primary quantity could have 4 new mythic destinies out there. Every runelord has their very own polearm distinctive to them and you can be combating quite a lot of runelords because of Xandergul’s talents.
One theme that can be seen all through second version APs is ramifications from first version APs. You set it in movement, now cope with the results.
Creature Characteristic​
One of many huge issues touched on on this panel was the speculation of how creatures had been made. They need monsters to have mechanics that assist their story components and must be enjoyable to battle. Eliciting a powerful emotion with a monster is sweet. There was point out about starship sized creatures probably coming sooner or later as soon as tactical starship fight is out.
Alien Core could have some cool creatures. Void Palm is a plant that may manipulate gravity. Garragakals can latch onto your hull in house and drain the lifetime of the crew. The Cannon Archon may be wielded as a weapon by a worthy mortal. Wayward Warp live dimensional rifts which can be personified editions of Witchwarper quantum fields. Corpsefleet Recruiters go round and management senseless undead to hitch the Corpsefleet. The all too actual Tax Class Civil Robotic has the power repossession, however may be placated with credit.
Monster Core 2 can be out in November (sure, November is all about monsters and aliens). Misplaced of monsters can be given the remastered therapy. Mimics are again with loads of new talents associated to their varieties. Golems will make a reappearance to be extra primarily based on Jewish folklore with a divine connection. New Algothullu will pluck recollections from another person’s mind and go them to different Algothullu, some amassing libraries. Swarmstriders are what occurs when a billion little bugs take over a corpse.
The Rune Dragon’s scales are all runestones and it may well grant them to you if you happen to achieve its favor. It may swap between runes to get totally different resistances and results, so it’s essential to watch what runes it prompts when you’ve got the misfortune of combating it. It may additionally throw exploding runes and it’s breath weapon places a bunch of runes in every single place.
The Despair Dragon is sustained partly by worry. Their tongue ends in a bladder that they’ll inflate to resemble an animal or humanoid, ship it out 20 toes, and lure you in.
What’s higher than one goblin head? 4! The Gobmob is mainly a hydra with 4 goblin heads, who all bicker with one another.
And with that, we wrap up one other PaizoCon! I attempted to cowl the whole lot I might, but when I missed one thing, please let me know within the feedback. What was your favourite bit of reports that got here out from the weekend?
