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The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« on: August 20, 2018, 04:43:24 PM »
So, a lot of the content that's currently in Arhosa doesn't necessarily fit the material any more, or is otherwise outdated/in need of a lot of work. Plus, it's all getting turned into print books, which necessitates a further splitting of the material into discrete chunks. Some of these are obvious (Rituals, Runes, etc.), others a little less so. So here's my proposal going forward for how to chop up all the existing content for Arhosa. This will almost certainly necessitate extra content being written in many places to fill in the gaps, especially around setting or flavor content. Still debating moving things out of the ACS (mostly the PrCs + ACFs) into either a Player's Guide to Arhosa or a Complete Arhosa. PGtA being the likely candidate.

Arhosa Campaign Setting
Arcanist, Champion, Ecclesiast, Gallant, Savage, Totem Master
Biyou, Flonha, Hanian, Llethu, Pybyr, Yn Gyntaf
Arhosan feats (minus racials for missing races), Ancient Martial feats, Totem Master feats
Animalism, Craft, Spellbond, Use Gateway, Warcraft, Skills revamp
Ancient weaponry/items
Fusillades
Seedcasting
Fortes
NPC Classes
Animist, Beastslayer, Delver, Gatehunter, Hanian Guild Mage, Highland Soarer, Living Sun Warden, Spellbonder
Arhosan ACFs

Tome of Ritual Magic
Ritual Magic, see Arhosan Adaptation section.

Stone and Symbol
Runecarving, see Arhosan Adaptation section.

Magics of Arhosa
Chronomancy, Spellsong, Threshold

Vivisection and Resurrection
Necromancy content - all valid in Arhosa, see ACS for some details

Races of Arhosa
New Races: Adeg, Chanwyr, Cyfnewid, Duskscale Pybyr, Kier
PrCs: Adeg Historian, Biyou Arcane Scholar, Chanwyr Composer, Cynewid Wildborn, Flonha Lifeweaver, Furnace-born Barricade, Hanian Float Mage, Kier Raider, Llethu Noble, Pybyr Fluctator, Tandda Scout, Yn Gyntaf Tribal Champion
Feats matching races
Flavor text around races/setting
To-do: Duskscale Pybr prestige class

Player's Guide to Arhosa or Complete Arhosa
Arbalester, Artillery Mage, Axethrower, Blade Savant, Bodyguard, Brigand, Creator, Frenzied Mind, Linebreaker, Llethu Launcher, Painwarper, Realist, Recycler, Thundercrack, Warcaster, Warleader

Lore
Arhosa - Anthology comprising two novellas (Skycities of Arhosa, Machinations of Arhosa) and a short story (Warlands of Arhosa)
Storms of Arhosa - Short story
Gateways of Arhosa - Short story
Children of Arhosa - Short story
Stone of Arhosa - Short story
Flesh of Arhosa - Short story
Raiders of Arhosa - Short story
Tandda of Arhosa - Upcoming short story

Dropped content
Warcaster base class
Centurion
Convergence + Combat Focus feats
Crossbow Skirmisher
Twilight Walker + Daylight/Nightlight feats
Echocaller + PrCs
Historian + PrCs
Osteomancy
Athaghoel + Feats/PrCs
Hastro, Helfarch, Niwl, Caeth + Feats/PrCs
Heginyn, Hegwyd, Tro Ar Fyd, Ferthyr + Feats/PrCs
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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2018, 05:28:58 PM »
Osteomancy rebuilt like I want would work fine.   :P

I don’t have time to really dig into this right now (ugh, so many homebrew reviews that I need to do), but why no Twilight Walker?

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2018, 06:05:31 PM »
Osteomancy could get saved if I get around to rebuilding it, but it's too much effort right now.

Twilight Walker doesn't really fit the theme of Arhosa or the design sensibilities any more. Most classes are going to be 3 or 5 levels long, and twilight walker also just piles in a very heavy shadow theme, which is now mostly shifted over to threshold. I also just don't like it on review, really.

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2018, 08:55:59 PM »
On Twilight Walker, fair enough.  It could be general homebrew pretty easily.

I actually had an Osteomancy rebuild figured out at one point in time.   :p

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2018, 09:01:14 PM »
You're welcome to tackle Osteo. I'll help of course.

What do you think about the rest of the changes or divisions?

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2018, 12:36:15 AM »
I'll tackle Osteo when I have time.  :P

I'll also need to re-read a bunch to get a handle on the rest.

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2018, 06:30:38 AM »
Fair enough. You know where to get ahold of me if you need anything.

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2018, 04:50:21 PM »
I'll also need to re-read a bunch to get a handle on the rest.

Just a nudge xD

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2018, 05:02:09 PM »
How many projects am I supposed to work on at one time?  :P

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2018, 05:03:49 PM »
All of them?  :lmao

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2018, 05:14:10 PM »
 :shakefist

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2018, 08:13:24 AM »
Did you really expect a different response ?  :flutter

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2018, 03:18:40 PM »
No, not really.

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2018, 06:49:39 AM »
Updated the lead post with links to all of the books currently complete or underway. Magics of Arhosa has all existing Chrono and Spellsong content (aside from Chanwyr), needs to have Threshold added. Arhosa Campaign Setting just has a long intro and Biyou so far.

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2018, 11:07:34 AM »
Added Flonha

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2018, 05:00:55 PM »
Added Hanian.

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #16 on: November 16, 2018, 03:13:30 PM »
Llethu complete.

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2019, 08:47:22 AM »
Arhosa Campaign Setting has races & the Arcanist complete.

Magics of Arhosa has the Thresholder added to the book.

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2019, 09:25:35 PM »
Champion, Ecclesiast completed.

Gallant reworked mechanically.

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Re: The Great Arhosa Rebuild
« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2019, 03:15:02 PM »
Debating dropping Hegwyd, Heginyn, Ferthyr, Tro Ar Fyd, and the ritual races. Also, potentially, the Athaghoel.