1. Kineticists of Porphyra 3 - Purple Duck Games
2. One on One Adventures Compendium - Expeditious Retreat Press
3. Ships of Skybourne - Drop Dead Studios
4. In the Company of Unicorns - Rite Publishing
5. Kineticists of Porphyra 2 - Purple Duck Games
6. Treasury of Winter - Legendary Games
7. Kineticists of Porphyra - Purple Duck Games
8. Everyman Options: Kineticists - Rogue Genius Games
9. Way of the Wicked-Book #1: Knot of Thorns - Fire mountain Games
10. The Genius Guide to the Talented Bard
Once again this week, Kineticists interest is up. Not only do we have all three Kineticists of Porphyra (With a compilation/expansion down the pipe) but Rogue Genius Games is getting in on the action with Everyman Options: Kineticists. The Kineticists of Porphyra series seriously catches the Kineticist op to other older classes with new material to fill in the blanks and round out more obscure 'elements' like poison and light before giving new tools to give the Kineticist a huge range of things to do outside of being just another blaster caster. This is done with new items, new archetypes and of course a ton of wild talents. Not only that but you also get a few NPC stat blocks so you can drop a few in campaign for players to befriend or fight. The series has been popular for weeks now and as noted in my reviews of Kineticists of Porphyra 1 and 2 they are awesome. Everyman Games is well known for innovation and with it's recent merge with Rogue Genius Games, another fantastic crunch producer, and the excellent crunch writer Alexander Augunas, Everyman Options: Kineticists is in fantastic hands.
One on One Adventures is still in full steam proving the popularity of it's concept. you have one GM and one PC with adventures that take care to cater to the needs and vulnerabilities of specific class types so that they don't steamroll or get steamrolled by the adventure at hand. If you don't have a full table or want to make a very
Drop Dead Studios is pumping out finished products from their Skybourne kickstarter campaign kicking off with a full set of airship rules which include construction and manning. Some will want it so that they can evoke a JRPG flavor the likes of Final Fantasy or Skies of Arcadia or you may want to run a bunch of animal folk in an art deco pulpy serial adventure(a gold star for anyone that got that reference), but either way airships are awesome and you want them in your game whether you're a sky pirate, delivery boy or on a macguffin quest.
Rite Publishing has a long track record of race books that have evocative fluff, solid crunch and giving you to play creatures that are usually relegated to the realm of monsters. With In the Company of Unicorns you get to be the beast and play as a unicorn.
Treasury of Winter is a part of Legendary Game's winter subgroup of products meant to play up Slavic snowy flavors that fit well in premises like Reign of Winter. This product gives you 24 pages of awesome items to put into your wintery campaigns with a slavic folklore flair.
Before there was Paizo's current adventure path, Hell's Vengeance there was Fire Mountain Game's Way of the Wicked, an adventure path where you play as the villain instead of a wimpy do-gooder. So you can fight off adventurers, kidnap princesses, and whatever the opposite of slaying a dragon is in an epic quest to do bad.
Rogue Genius Games has put out a new installment of their Talented Class line of pdfs, this time the Bard gets a treatment. If you're unfamiliar with the series, a talented class is a base class with most of it's class features and archetype abilities broken up into a list of talents and sometimes more powerful 'edges' leaving the base class to be mostly a hollow template that takes these talents and edges. This way you can modularly build your class however you want wich results in spell-less witches, non-raging barbarians, and monks that shoot DBZ fireballs. The series has been very well recieved and so far the Fighter, Monk, Rogue, Cavalier, Witch, and Barbarian have gotten their talented treatments before the Bard. Don't forget to also pick up More Bard Talents, if you like where this is all going and especially don't forget the nearly complete Kickstarter, The Talented Bestiary.
The big thing to take away from the list this week is that there's no sign of Dreamscarred Press. This is a huge change in the status quo, especially for Ultimate Psionics which is almost always on the list. Although to be fair with Path of War material so high in the past weeks it may be lurking just under the bottom right now and the four different Kineticists books may be pushing it down.
Speaking of which, Kineticists is the current bubble starting with Purple Duck Games but there are other products that could get on the action soon, including hybrid classes related to the Kineticist and Kineticist options from Rogue Genius Games.
Way of the Wicked was a recent resurgence, possibly with people playing Hell's Vengeance and wanting more or looking for something of the same flavor but in a different setting. Either way we're looking at the summer of villains
Legendary Games has put out something for their Egyptian line that follows an interesting premise. Reincarnated characters. Besides, I think, one race the subject of reincarnation isn't very covered so I am all kinds of excited and it's going right on my wish list. Also from Legendary Games is Part 1 and Part 2 of their new Trail of the Apprentice campaign. This is part of their Legendary Beginnings line with adventures geared towards newer players and is particularly suitable for Paizo's Beginner Box.
Relatively recently Abandoned Arts started to fall under the Fat Goblin Games banner and has started releasing new material for that company. One of these is the recent Feats of War, which contains new feats for siege engineers and pilots. This is another subject that is somewhat underrepresented so it goes on the wish list.
Once again a new hybrid class comes from Wayward Rogues Publishing's Shattered Skies setting with the Incarnate Hybrid Class, inspired by cosmic horror.
Little Red Goblin Games has put out The Fighting Man-A Required Rebuild for the Fighter. Now I'm in the middle of writing a review for the massive Gonzo 2 and it is so far the very definition of fun so I may just be drunk on LRGG's design aesthetics, but I am adding this to my wishlist with the intent to buy at my first convenience. Which is a big deal for me because I spent a lot of time building resources to balance out martials and casters and gathering material that helps the Fighter class in particular so I don't exactly need this. But it's very likely a wild ride so I'll get on board to see what it's like.
Well that's it for this week. I'll see you next week with more looks at Paizo's top ten list as well as new and trending Pathfinder products that should be on your radar.
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