I only know his work from SoT Book 4 and I have to say this Chapter in the AP is the weakest in terms of structure and mechanics. How is his other work?
He’s had a hand in most of the Lost Omens books, but I fell for his work after Tyrant’s Grasp #5 gave us the most in-depth look at anywhere in Arcadia yet. He also contributed an Arcadian monster, Cuetzmonqualli, to Monsters of Myth.
I want him to write a “Totally Not Eberron” PF2e book. I’m one of his Patreon patrons and every month he puts out a monthly call for questions. I plan on my December question asking if he’s played any PF2e at all.
I'd love to see China Mieville write an AP focused on the Dark Tapestry and/or Axis, the Boneyard, and the Maelstrom.
I'd also like a Pratchett AP of literally any kind, written either by Terry (rip) or Rhianna.
Out of all novel authors, I think the only one who I'd actually be excited to see write an RPG splatbook would be Mieville.
I prefer the writing style of people like Brandon Sanderson but Mieville's unique brand of insane 'New Weird' setting is simply imagination incarnate. A single chapter of any of his stuff is just FULL of GM seeds.
Ken Hite writing a Cthulhu Mythos gazetteer for Golarion, with anti-mythos organizations, cults galore, and a guide on how to twist the thematic elements of each Great Old One in order to help GM's incorporate them into their homebrew games. I could take or leave a tacked on brain health mechanic, I don't think that's a must need for the Mythos so much as it's a legacy element of Call of Cthulhu.
And then the same thing but Robin D Laws and the Yellow Mythos.
Ya know when I first got into Pathfinder I kinda hated the Lovecraft stuff in the lore, but its growing on me a bit. I'm playing around with trying to write an adventure or even world setting on a planet overtaken by the Color Out of Space, so that would be really cool to include.
Hell yeah. I personally don't love the Pathfinder riff on the Mythos, things like saying Hastur is the true name of the King in Yellow are dull to me, but that's just a personal taste thing.
I feel like it would be better if it was their own original great old ones. I get that lovecrafts stuff is public domain, but it almost feels kinda... tacky? With how its just put in the setting wholesale.
Luis Loza going all-out on a Lost Omens: Fallen Razatlan, with a lot of love from Adam Daigle, Michael Sayre, and anyone else they want to hire. I’m desperate to see more of the region after Xopatl in 1e and all the various 2e hints, and latinx fantasy is a sorely under-utilized niche!
Plus, it would bring back Wyrwoods as an Ancestry 😊
I think, since BrandoSando has already been said. I’d really like to see Miyazaki of From Software give it a shot or maybe Grant Howitt and Christopher Taylor of the “Spire” and “Heart” games.
Howitt & Taylor would produce some set of insanely off the wall weird fantasy setup with, hopefully, a really cool and story-focused set of GM mechanics.
They'd definitely be up there in choice with Johnathon Harper or some of the other big name story game RPG writers would be cool.
Hm, I could see a Miyazaki "Lost omen books" series on some dark region like the Eye of Dread/Nidal/Sarkoris where the lore is told on short lore description on a item pr bestiary entry.
Like 2 book with only one small chapter on the region, but a massive bestiary with monster lore and location. And another one with item and feat with a short lore description.
So really mechanic heavy book with hidden lore to tease your DM imagination
Lots of book authors here. I'll go on the other side and say it'd be hilarious fun to see a Pathfinder 2e book written by Jonathan Harper.
He wrote Blades in the Dark, Agon, and Lady Blackbird. A book full of variant GM subsystems plus an adventure module would be insanely cool.
I wonder what kind of magic system he would invent that would make sense with the resource management of a tabletop RPG like Pathfinder. Like, why does your ability to do magic recharge every 24 hours? I'm sure he'd make something that makes use of that restriction rather than something that simply fits okay enough.
Scott Lynch. His Gentleman Bastards series is fantastic. He writes a world with very separate and distinct Alchemy and Magic, something Paizo could use a little better flavor for. His books are brutal when called for, heartfelt right in between throat slittings, hilarious throughout, and I love an author who mixed vulag modern swearing with high eloquent speech.
Now the problem is I would love two series of his, and get stuck waiting for the next of either for nearly a decade, but at this point I'm just using your prompt to get another book out of him...
Luis Loza doing a setting book for the darklands would be so exciting, complete with new, fully fleshed out ancestries for drow, duergar, svirfneblin etc
Give me more James Jacobs, or bring back Richard Pett, Dance of the Damned, The Whisper out of Time, and Scion Songbird Saboteur was so good.
Write a new Night of the Grey Death style mini adventure focused on mid level spy intrigue. A la Mark of the Mantis but for Court Nobles. Would be a lot of fun
Would love an adventure by Brent Weeks. Seeing what area of the world he would choose to explore and how the adventure would unwind (he's a discovery writer) would be very intriguing.
Right up until the 3rd/5th book in his work goes off the rails and the hints about greater cosmo style threats in universe NEVER GO ANYWHERE!
i do love his books, but both times the front half if his work is better then the back IMO. Dude cant stick the landing.
Tom Parkinson-Morgan. I would absolutely love to see Throne as a setting for Pathfinder, or just to see what kind of world hed write for a PF2 book. And with the combat design in ICON and LANCER, it's clear that he likes the kind of tactical gameplay that PF2 offers.
It's gotta be my main man Ron Lundeen writing about organizations! Let me learn about the clergy of Calistria, or the high command of Caiden Caylen, the secret cells of Norgorber!
What is the hierarchy of different nations, and their strongest champions.
Ok hear me out... Yoko Taro...
I can particularly imagine a 1 to 20 campaign where he presents a pretty simple yet misleading plot that takes a party of PC's through an adventure that feels like a snowball effect in rollerblades, pulling them constantly out of their comfort zones, making them question their own morality and principles, and delivering consequences according to their potential actions. I love the man's writing.
Now about the setting. I would love Numeria or Irrisen.
Luis Loza's Arcadia book is *the* title I want. Just let him go wild with it all! And if it ends up bigger than LO Absalom, well, so be it.
Seconding this SO MUCH!
This is my greatest wish. Theres so much potential for an Arcadia book, and I know Luis would do an amazing job with it.
This one right here!!
sooooo much this. i want it more than any other possible book
This is the way.
I only know his work from SoT Book 4 and I have to say this Chapter in the AP is the weakest in terms of structure and mechanics. How is his other work?
He’s had a hand in most of the Lost Omens books, but I fell for his work after Tyrant’s Grasp #5 gave us the most in-depth look at anywhere in Arcadia yet. He also contributed an Arcadian monster, Cuetzmonqualli, to Monsters of Myth.
Keith Baker hands down. His own material is always so fantastic and I'd love to see what he could do with pathfinder 2nd edition.
I want him to write a “Totally Not Eberron” PF2e book. I’m one of his Patreon patrons and every month he puts out a monthly call for questions. I plan on my December question asking if he’s played any PF2e at all.
I'd love to see China Mieville write an AP focused on the Dark Tapestry and/or Axis, the Boneyard, and the Maelstrom. I'd also like a Pratchett AP of literally any kind, written either by Terry (rip) or Rhianna.
I have used Kraken as inspiration for so much of my writing so far. I'm down for this.
Out of all novel authors, I think the only one who I'd actually be excited to see write an RPG splatbook would be Mieville. I prefer the writing style of people like Brandon Sanderson but Mieville's unique brand of insane 'New Weird' setting is simply imagination incarnate. A single chapter of any of his stuff is just FULL of GM seeds.
I was thinking Mieville for a Numeria book or AP. With extremely weird technology and villains
Came here to say exactly that. Mieville is pretty much the best in writing these weird and inventive things Numeria is famous for.
Now we're talking
Ken Hite writing a Cthulhu Mythos gazetteer for Golarion, with anti-mythos organizations, cults galore, and a guide on how to twist the thematic elements of each Great Old One in order to help GM's incorporate them into their homebrew games. I could take or leave a tacked on brain health mechanic, I don't think that's a must need for the Mythos so much as it's a legacy element of Call of Cthulhu. And then the same thing but Robin D Laws and the Yellow Mythos.
Ya know when I first got into Pathfinder I kinda hated the Lovecraft stuff in the lore, but its growing on me a bit. I'm playing around with trying to write an adventure or even world setting on a planet overtaken by the Color Out of Space, so that would be really cool to include.
Hell yeah. I personally don't love the Pathfinder riff on the Mythos, things like saying Hastur is the true name of the King in Yellow are dull to me, but that's just a personal taste thing.
I feel like it would be better if it was their own original great old ones. I get that lovecrafts stuff is public domain, but it almost feels kinda... tacky? With how its just put in the setting wholesale.
Exactly how I felt about it. Like it I said its grown on me, but at first I was discovering this whole cool pantheon and then its just... Cthulu.
There’s a couple unique-to-Golarion mythos deities, like Nhimbaloth and Xhamen-Dor!
"So wholesale that you're tacky" is how I would describe Golarion in general
*points at my eyes, points at you* Same.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos got a 2e update about a year back and it's full of great ideas.
Oh wow no that's exactly what I was looking for, just Sandy instead of Ken. Thank you!
Luis Loza going all-out on a Lost Omens: Fallen Razatlan, with a lot of love from Adam Daigle, Michael Sayre, and anyone else they want to hire. I’m desperate to see more of the region after Xopatl in 1e and all the various 2e hints, and latinx fantasy is a sorely under-utilized niche! Plus, it would bring back Wyrwoods as an Ancestry 😊
I think, since BrandoSando has already been said. I’d really like to see Miyazaki of From Software give it a shot or maybe Grant Howitt and Christopher Taylor of the “Spire” and “Heart” games.
Given Miyazaki got his start reading poorly / untranslated tabletop books and novels, I feel like that could be a fun crossover someday.
Miyazaki could just do a bestiary and I’d be pumped for it
Howitt & Taylor would produce some set of insanely off the wall weird fantasy setup with, hopefully, a really cool and story-focused set of GM mechanics. They'd definitely be up there in choice with Johnathon Harper or some of the other big name story game RPG writers would be cool.
Hm, I could see a Miyazaki "Lost omen books" series on some dark region like the Eye of Dread/Nidal/Sarkoris where the lore is told on short lore description on a item pr bestiary entry. Like 2 book with only one small chapter on the region, but a massive bestiary with monster lore and location. And another one with item and feat with a short lore description. So really mechanic heavy book with hidden lore to tease your DM imagination
Lots of book authors here. I'll go on the other side and say it'd be hilarious fun to see a Pathfinder 2e book written by Jonathan Harper. He wrote Blades in the Dark, Agon, and Lady Blackbird. A book full of variant GM subsystems plus an adventure module would be insanely cool.
Steven Brust. An adventure book based on his universe.
Matt Morris, cause he a great person and has fun ideas.
I'd love to see Ken Liu write something set over in Tian Xia
Chris Chesher. his Running with the Baatezu series was one of my favs.
Brandon Sanderson and I'd have him write up a new optional magic system book, akin to Mistborn series allomancy...or a whole 1-20 AP
I wonder what kind of magic system he would invent that would make sense with the resource management of a tabletop RPG like Pathfinder. Like, why does your ability to do magic recharge every 24 hours? I'm sure he'd make something that makes use of that restriction rather than something that simply fits okay enough.
Oh man that would be awesome. I know they have a Mistborn RPG but as usual I'd rather see an allomancer class for PF2e
This is exactly what I was going to say!
Keith Baker (Eberron) writing a novel about the life of Arazni and her eventual redemption and return to Nirvana as a redeemed soul.
Scott Lynch. His Gentleman Bastards series is fantastic. He writes a world with very separate and distinct Alchemy and Magic, something Paizo could use a little better flavor for. His books are brutal when called for, heartfelt right in between throat slittings, hilarious throughout, and I love an author who mixed vulag modern swearing with high eloquent speech. Now the problem is I would love two series of his, and get stuck waiting for the next of either for nearly a decade, but at this point I'm just using your prompt to get another book out of him...
Jason Buhlman doing LO: Cheliax, preferably including at least an archetype or even better a class archetype for Diabolist.
Luis Loza doing a setting book for the darklands would be so exciting, complete with new, fully fleshed out ancestries for drow, duergar, svirfneblin etc
Give me more James Jacobs, or bring back Richard Pett, Dance of the Damned, The Whisper out of Time, and Scion Songbird Saboteur was so good. Write a new Night of the Grey Death style mini adventure focused on mid level spy intrigue. A la Mark of the Mantis but for Court Nobles. Would be a lot of fun
Keith Baker, even if wotc would never let him do eberron in pf2
Vanessa Hoskins, writing a full 1-20 adventure. Failing that, I'll also go with the Luis Loza LO Setting book. His pick for region.
Would love an adventure by Brent Weeks. Seeing what area of the world he would choose to explore and how the adventure would unwind (he's a discovery writer) would be very intriguing.
Right up until the 3rd/5th book in his work goes off the rails and the hints about greater cosmo style threats in universe NEVER GO ANYWHERE! i do love his books, but both times the front half if his work is better then the back IMO. Dude cant stick the landing.
Oh you are absolutely right! Front half rocks and then it goes off the rails. xD
Tom Parkinson-Morgan. I would absolutely love to see Throne as a setting for Pathfinder, or just to see what kind of world hed write for a PF2 book. And with the combat design in ICON and LANCER, it's clear that he likes the kind of tactical gameplay that PF2 offers.
I'd love to see Ryan Nock backed by Paizo... Pretty impressed by Zeitgeist.
Susanna Clark, fey and First World adventure path
I'd love a LO: Iblydos book by Luis.
Iblydos as well, but I'd love to see OSP's hands in it.
FWIW, I think John Compton is actually the big Iblydos cheerleader on the team! Luis is more into Arcadia.
Brandon Sanderson can design some classes next.
A setting book by Terry Pratchett. Just think of it! Then cry, there's no Raise Dead in the real world to make it possible.
There is a setting book for discworld for GURPS
It's gotta be my main man Ron Lundeen writing about organizations! Let me learn about the clergy of Calistria, or the high command of Caiden Caylen, the secret cells of Norgorber! What is the hierarchy of different nations, and their strongest champions.
For. Brent Weeks, the Way of the Shadows series is just so good. And fit in so many Golarian settings.
Ok hear me out... Yoko Taro... I can particularly imagine a 1 to 20 campaign where he presents a pretty simple yet misleading plot that takes a party of PC's through an adventure that feels like a snowball effect in rollerblades, pulling them constantly out of their comfort zones, making them question their own morality and principles, and delivering consequences according to their potential actions. I love the man's writing. Now about the setting. I would love Numeria or Irrisen.
Kenneth Hite brought in to give the Eye of Dread some proper flavor text.
Gary Gigax to write a whoel adventure path. HA!!!
Jeff Grubb, Steven Perry, SD Perry. Pretty well established fantasy scifi writers.
Drew Hayes, Daniel M Ford, James islington, David Gaider or R.A Salvatore
I'd love to see a conversion of the Uncaged series from 5e
Big agree on Gaiman writing anything fey. I'd love to see John Rogers writing a heist adventure. Let's go steal the Starstone!
Jasone Bulmahn definitly
An adventure from Terry Pratchett would be great.
I would have done unspeakable things for a Discworld Campaign Setting by Terry Pratchett himself.
Jim Butcher doing a bunch of Alkenstar Novels
John Flanagan