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This blog isn't entirely about Pathfinder, but it features a new monster every Friday, often by 2012 Superstar winner Mike Welham: http://mythopoeicrambling.blogspot.com/2012/12/frightful-fridays-mashup-spectacular.html

Interesting thread. I am going to go back to the OP on this one. Apologies if I cover ground already tread. I get a feeling from reading these articles that Mike is trying to brainstorm about game theory and he wants to elicit feedback from his fanbase. It has proven to be a contentious but...

Sounds like a great project. I always love more planar stuff, and you can't get closer to the source than Mr. Baur.

I usually make up a few simple naming conventions for a fictional culture. It's fairly easy if you have a grasp on what last names were originally intended for. Let's start with a concept: The language is called 'Fessic' from the land of Fess. In Fessian culture, the sister's son (nephew) is...

I know I am psyched for this. OD has been designing some of the best 3pp content for any system. To have a chance to weigh in on an entire campaign world that will more than likely be popular for decades for less than the price of a dinner for two is a good bargain IMHO. Now I just have to...

Although a long-term gamer, I didn't realize until fairly recently (Late 2007ish) just how vibrant the online Pen and Paper community was. Although I had kept buying D&D materials out of nostalgia and a hope of eventually playing (There aren't a lot of resources in my area), I descended into the...

I do remember wondering WTF they were doing when they were pimping that tired property out. I'm sure that cost them a pretty penny.

Oh I absolutely agree. When I mentioned the hobby splitting into subgenres, I didn't mean to infer these subgenres were inferior. On the contrary, I still posit that the 2e era saw some of the best 'fluff' writing, as evidenced by some of the testimonials on this very thread. In fact, I still...

WOOT! Scurries for the site

Yep. Kinda what we are discussing :p Sorry to get the date wrong, I don't actually have the books (yet). Fair enough. But the point I was trying to make, whether Jakandor was a setting, a one-off, a new way to sell RPG material, or whatever, was that I never heard of it until last week. And...

LOL. Quite true. Old enough to be grognards, not old enough to be pioneering grognards! ;) Actually, when I was researching the setting after I heard about it, the wiki page on it says there was a planned fourth book that never got published (The upcoming release of 3e might have squashed it)...

Hey man, don't feel bad. I've been playing for 31 years, I have a ton of material and I was active when it was released, and I STILL just learned about the setting last week. But, a lot of folks called it out as their favorite setting over on the 'what D&D campaign world did you most enjoy most'...

Actually, most of the pieces were picked up on eBay and the used book marketplaces, so yeah, TSR got something for them originally, but I didn't buy them 'Mint in Box' as it were. The original point was that even though I loved several of the settings TSR was creating stuff for, I was unable to...

Nope, I misremembered. Thought there was six. Teach me not to Google my facts and try to depend on my memory :.-(

Oh don't get me wrong. I am thrilled they did put out so much stuff. I am a fanboi after all. I should have also mentioned in my original post that I waited until the 3e era to pick up about 50% of the pieces of my collection, so in effect, TSR didn't get any cash for them. I did the same with...