First Look: Tian Xia World Guide! (Pathfinder 2nd Edition)

[@utkarshgaur1942]

After how excellent the Mwangi Expanse was, I can't wait to devour and integrate this book into my homebrew world.

[@adamu.2674]

Holy crap the Great Flood is horrifying. A mile wide aoe, an affliction that causes drained & doomed and can instantly kill, nine reactive strikes and a 2 action, 160 ft. move that can hit nine times and automatically causes the affliction on a failed reflex save? Flat out terrifying.

[@Gossamer3592]

The Lost Omens books are my fav from the PF2 lineup. Some are better than others for sure, but I'm hopeful this will be a good one. Looks good so far!

[@rgnadeus]

Quick correction - Monster Core does not have stats for Imperial Dragons. Otherwise - amazing content, as always.

[@HowItsPlayed]

Damn. I almost went back and corrected that before publishing, but thought -- "Nah, no one will even notice." And here it is... THE FIRST FREAKING COMMENT!

[@rgnadeus]

@@HowItsPlayed Sorry :|

[@HowItsPlayed]

@@rgnadeus LOL -- it's all good. 😆

[@gregcoe93]

I have a lvl2 kitsune so this book will hopefully help to build some more depth to him. Im also super excited for the character guide.

[@adamu.2674]

As a GM I'm going to devour this book, but yea some of my player friends are *itching* for the character guide. :)

[@bischiboschi7335]

So hyped for this book! Thanks for the preview.

[@RicardoPM777]

The book is amazing

[@chavesa5]

What an excellent book it seems to be so far

[@Rune_tide]

I can't wait to get this and the new ancestries. I want my tanuki! :D

[@josuesepulveda6850]

Looks cool.

[@SibeliusEosOwm]

Ooh, peeping some of those realm renames. I've heard about Linvarre and I can guess why Tang Mai was renamed, but I do kind of wonder about Songbai? Would love to know more about the design discussions that went into this book!

[@bluewilliams4911]

Tang Mai was renamed to have a proper meaning in Thai, because the original name didn’t, and because ‘dt’ isn’t used for the romanization of thai and lao words. Furthermore it was mostly confusing to ask people who can’t speak Thai, Lao, Khmer, Isaan, or a handful of other languages, to try and pronounce the d/t sound that ‘Dtang’ is trying to encourage you to say. However Songbai was is kinda formerly Shokuro and was renamed by the author to reflect the idea that the Tian-Min have a different name for the land from the Tian-Shu!

[@SibeliusEosOwm]

@@bluewilliams4911 Oh cool! Thank you so much! Tang Mai was just a little more involved than I guessed, but it makes so much sense that "Shokuro" would be known by a different name to those who lived there before a random samurai rolled in. Songbai indeed does feel like it fits much more with the rest of the former Lung Wa empire.

[@thepsion2827]

Wondering, does the Shenmen section include spoilers for Seasons of Ghosts? Have some players interested in picking this one up, but I was wondering if the book spoil the big twist.

[@HowItsPlayed]

I don't believe Willowshore (or the events there) are mentioned at all in this book.

[@KalaamNozalys]

Back when announced I remember some character options announced, but I didn't see chapters mentionning those, are they still part of it ?

[@HowItsPlayed]

Not in this book, but will probably be in the Tian Xia Character Guide that comes out in August.

[@KalaamNozalys]

@@HowItsPlayed aaaah okay I mixed the two up and thought it was a singular book ! Nice, double the tian Xia stuff

[@CodyMichael115]

Does anyone know what software he's using to flip through the book like this?

[@HowItsPlayed]

The page-turning animation is from PowerPoint.

[@squidrecluse2336]

Great stuff! Super looking forward to getting my hands on this book.

[@pl0930]

So there isn't any ancestry, archetype or anything at all in the book ? Just a refresh of PF1 lore ? Not even half onis tiefling (hunger tiefling) ? I mean FOTRP has more content than that for players.

[@HowItsPlayed]

The Tian Xia Character Guide comes out in August and it will have the crunchier content you're looking for.

[@nikidelvalle]

Wow, the original Bachuan lore was bad in how kinda offensive it was, but at least it was interesting. This rewrite is criminally boring. The changes Bachuan have gone through don't even make sense. How does a single figure - Oracle or not - just swoop in, break up a potential civil war before it even starts, debrainwash an entire population, and convert a communist economy into a capitalist one basically overnight. This is lame, and surprisingly not very based for a Paizo book. You think they'd use it to show how extremist figureheads often pervert communism for the gain of themselves and the ruling class, then show how cooperation can be used to heal from that and transition to a just society. Instead they just kinda sweep all the trouble under the rug and erase every smidge of tension or conflict. I guess I'll see when the book comes out, but geez does Bachuan even have any adventure hooks left?

[@strangerous1313]

It's called fantasy for a reason. Just play.

[@nikidelvalle]

@@strangerous1313 No. I can't because Bachuan literally doesn't have any adventure hooks to build a game around :P

[@MizakiFelix]

That was disappointing, I was hoping they would provide some new classes of such as ninja, samurai, and the Kensai.

[@HowItsPlayed]

The World Guides are 99% lore and 1% crunch (if that).

[@mentalkitty789]

We'll get those in the character guide!

[@MizakiFelix]

@@mentalkitty789 that’s awesome, do we know when that’s coming out?

[@rgnadeus]

@@mentalkitty789 I don't think we're getting Ninjas or Samurai in TX: WG.

[@rileymcleran2895]

@@MizakiFelixthe TX:CG will have some archetypes, and 6 new ancestries. Id say its safe to assume there will be new equipment/magic items as well. No new classes are in this book. Our next new classes are in War of Immortals. Paizo staff have implied in q&a’s that there probably wont be a ninja or samurai class in pf2, since the archetypes dont require their own classes to be played. Rogues/monks/swashbucklers should be able to cover the ninja characters fantasy, and fighters (and maybe the upcoming commander class) should cover the samurai fantasy. For a samurai, you could also consider the cavalier archetype. Edit: I forgot to mention the TX:CG also has a magus subclass. Magus could also be a way to play a ninja, depending on how fantastical you want your ninja to be