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2018-12-12, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Lost Spheres Publishing FAQ
Hello! I'm Michael Sayre aka Ssalarn, a developer at Paizo and author and designer of materials published by Amora Games, Dreamscarred Press, Drop Dead Studios, Legendary Games, Lost Spheres Publishing, and Rogue Genius Games.
I'm starting this thread specifically to answer questions about Lost Spheres Publishing's products, though since I'll be the primary person responding to queries here for the time being, I'm happy to tackle any questions you may have about interactions between Lost Spheres products and materials I've worked on for another company. I'll be carrying over some questions from other threads (and numbering them for reference) to get them collected in one place, starting with the following:
A001You'd choose a specific constellation and the effects would apply to any version of that constellation you conjured.
A002The panicked condition only persists while the creature is within the aura of fear; once they leave the area the effect ends. The DC formula is correct.
A003 It does not offer immunity after a save since you have the option of covering or averting your eyes, much like a gaze attack. Creatures need only save against it once per round as long as they are subject to its effects.
A004You can absolutely take essence burn to apply the increased damage from planar detonation to a weapon-like veil attack. This is also true of the Tier 2 convergence powers, though this does mean that you'll be doubling up on the amount of essence burn you'll be taking: 1 to modify the blast damage, and 1 to apply the Tier 2 effect.Last edited by Ssalarn; 2019-04-14 at 01:16 AM.
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2018-12-12, 02:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Are there any plans for further akashic race support? Walrus-folk would be amusing (gamla variant?). I recall talk of a daeva-based race as well.
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2018-12-12, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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A005 There's a significant amount of akashic race support in the upcoming City of 7 Seraphs, though all of these races are more of the planar variety rather than animalistic. Some of the races are specifically akashic (subtype included) and some of them are races with akashic alternate racial traits.
We're also going to be rolling out Akashic Realms in the not-too-distant future, which will have some additional akashic races as well (quite possibly the walrusfolk and some cactus people, though some of that will depend on what all happens during development.)
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2018-12-12, 03:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thanks for making this, things were starting to get a bit distracting and confusing having it in the Co7S thread since there was no clear better location for it. As for an actual question...
Q006: Might we see an akashic familiar archetype at some point? We've seen separate but similar archetypes such as elemental for both animal companions and familiars from Paizo, so it doesn't seem like it's entirely out of the question as long as you could figure out a balanced set of abilities for it.
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2018-12-12, 06:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, I realized we really needed a better space for things, so I touched bases with Christen and asked him if he was cool with me setting this up so we can collect the answers and funnel the questions to one location intended for that purpose.
As for an actual question...
Q006: Might we see an akashic familiar archetype at some point? We've seen separate but similar archetypes such as elemental for both animal companions and familiars from Paizo, so it doesn't seem like it's entirely out of the question as long as you could figure out a balanced set of abilities for it.
I don't know if I can squeeze it into Akashic Realms since that's going over to Christen for development and layout this month, but I'm working on something for the Pillars of Edaiho (a college in the City of 7 Seraphs) that would also be a solid product to drop a familiar archetype in.Last edited by Ssalarn; 2018-12-12 at 11:28 PM.
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2018-12-12, 07:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Q007: Pathfinder's rules don't specify the HP or hardness or ammunition like arrows or bullets, but we have to know them for the purpose of Garden Warden's Gorget. What should we do?
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2018-12-12, 08:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thanks! I guess that makes sense, since the constellation can only take one form at a time (and basically only be one receptacle). I have a lot of questions about Zodiac, but I'll try to limit it to one at a time. Here's another one:
Q008: Is it intentional for the Lion champion constellation to do as much damage as it does?
It's pretty reasonable at first, but at 7th level, once it hits large size and gets pounce, with three points of essence invested it'll be pumping out 1d8+3d6+7 (bite) plus 2d6+6d6+14 (2 claws), plus a potential rake for more damage, every single round. I don't have the time to crunch that math offhand, but I'd wager it'll probably shred any enemy of equivalent CR without a very bloated HP count or significant DR/energy resistance. It gets even sillier with Shape Veil and Titles From Distant Shores (from the Rajah playtest), which would allow you to give it a natural attack-boosting veil like Forcestrike Knuckles for even more damage. Fire damage is frequently resisted, but I dunno. It still seems like a lot.Last edited by ElFi; 2018-12-12 at 08:02 PM.
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Healer: Pathfinder remake of the 3.5 class of the same name. Light, restoration, and more positive energy effects than you can shake a cleric at.
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2018-12-12, 08:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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A007 You'll want to use the Hardness of whatever material the object is primarily made of and hit points based on the object being an inch thick for most ammunition. Adamantine bullets would have hardness 20 and 40 hit points, for example, while a primarily wooden arrow would have hardness 5 and 10 hit points. Standard rules for magical projectile weapons would apply- +2 hardness and 10 hp per +1 enhancement bonus.
A008 The Lion is about as equivalently strong compared to the other 4 essence champions as the big cat is to standard animal companions, which is on the upper side of that curve. Between fire being very commonly resisted and the amount of essence you're investing, it's going to be a very solid offensive option but one which is going to hit the same benchmarks as a druid casting buff spells on a big cat companion.
I can't really speak to the rajah and titles as I didn't really have anything to do with it and it follows different mechanical and balance expectations than the rest of the akashic materials.Last edited by Ssalarn; 2018-12-12 at 08:24 PM.
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This is the first i've heard of Akashic realms, is it already on pre-order or anything?
I keep missing all the kickstarters so now I'm worried i just missed stuff again....
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2019-01-06, 01:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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New animal companions like the giant hare and chimpanzee to go with the new constellations, new convergences and nexus capstones for demiplanes like Valhalla and the Kingdom of Five Emperors along with accompanying veil sets, a bunch of new feats including set feats that give you additional bonuses for pulling your veils from the same set, some new eclipse and radiant goodies...
It's the first akashic release that we'll be pushing out through Lost Spheres where you're actually expected to have Co7S (or Akashic Trinity) to be able to use it since there's no standalone class included, but it'll have about the same word count as Classes of the Lost Spheres: The Zodiac.
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I don't believe that Akashic Realms will require a Kickstarter. Akashic Trinity and The Zodiac have both done really well, so the line should be self-sustaining at this point. Christen will probably announce the specifics of the go-forward plan (whether that be Kickstarter, playtests, direct release with a feedback window before print, or what-have-you) once the main Co7S .pdf is completed. We don't want to delay that release any further by piling additional layout and major time consuming tasks like running a Kickstarter on top of it.
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Correction on this one, we'll be doing Akashic Realms as a series of handbooks, the first one will not have any races (just new veils, feats, zodiac cosmology, nexus convergences and capstones, animal companions, some brief planar gazeteer entries to contextualize everything, and also some reprints of various monsters and animal companions used in the materials for convenient reference).
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2019-01-13, 07:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
Cleric: "...nevermind."
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2019-01-14, 01:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, this’ll be useful! Apologies if I got the formatting incorrect.
Q009 Can a Zodiac’s companions benifit from archetypes? Either companion archetypes for those that act as animal companions, or class archetypes for those that act as classes? Or do they have to stick with the baseline for said option? I’d imagine the latter, for balance purposes, but wished to be sure.
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2019-01-14, 07:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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A009 Animal Companion archetypes are fine.
For the champions that gain class levels, you have to meet other requirements of the champion (like, The Archer says it has the archery combat style and the group hunter's bond option, so you can't take a ranger archetype that trades out either of those things), but as long as you can do that you'll generally be okay. In theory archetypes are even trades (of course that's not always true in practice) so as long as any requirements laid out in the champion are met and the archetype is one approved for use by your GM you should be fine and I personally would allow it.
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2019-01-15, 03:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Q010 I can't seem to find the range for the ranged attack ability of the Water Bearer equipment form. Does it have a range increment or max range? (also since no action is specified, I presume you can use it anytime you could make a ranged weapon attack?)
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This might be something where the best solution is for me to chat with Adam and Christen and see if either one of them is interested in doing a spheres Zodiac archetype or constellation set. I wouldn't really expect a class feature like constellations to adapt to every subsystem easily (it's a fairly complex subsystem of a fairly complex subsystem already), so conversions and GM fiat are probably the best tools here.
It's less relevant to the upcoming Asian-inspired zodiac cosmology since those are all either animal companions or monsters with standardized progressions (like sovereign dragons), so it's probably not something we'd be able to squeeze in there.Last edited by Ssalarn; 2019-01-15 at 05:57 PM.
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2019-01-15, 06:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Haven't looked closely; there any reason not to trade the ranger's proficiency and casting to get SoM talents? Or use feat buy-in?
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2019-01-15, 07:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Probably not, but SoM plays a lot more friendly with things than most other subsystems since we made it so compatible with core and added so many access points for using the system. I think one of the playtest zodiacs even had a champion that used SoM (I'd have to pull the character sheets, but I'm pretty sure we had a solar zodiac whose Bull spent its feats on Brute sphere options).
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2019-01-18, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Q011
What's the duration of darkness effect created by Imp's Eyes? Does it move with caster?
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Q012
How many improvements does the Machine Cultist archetype of the Reaper get on each invention?
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