Pathfinder 1E [Paizo/Necromancer] Paizo & Necromancer Announce New Roleplaying Product Partnership

Paizo Publishing and Necromancer Games Announce New Roleplaying Product Partnership

Tegel Manor slated for summer release

April 10, 2007 (BELLEVUE, Wash.) – Paizo Publishing, LLC and Necromancer Games, Inc. have agreed in principle to partner in the creation of future Necromancer Games releases. The two hobby gaming companies have signed a letter of intent to team up in the publication of Tegel Manor, a revised classic Judge's Guild adventure module, and other Necromancer releases.

"From the very beginning of the Open Game License, Necromancer Games has produced evocative, exciting products with that classic ‘First Edition Feel’ everyone seems to love but few seem to really understand," said Erik Mona, Paizo's Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Dragon. "The guys at Necromancer certainly understand, and I can’t wait to bring Paizo’s top-notch production and publishing approach to this great brand. Orcus himself must be smiling right now. I certainly am."

"I can't tell you how excited we are to be working with Erik Mona, Lisa Stevens, James Jacobs and the people at Paizo," says Clark Peterson, President of Necromancer Games. "I feel like a paladin that just found a holy sword. It is a perfect fit for us."

Release dates for projects produced by the Necromancer-Paizo team will be announced in the coming months.

Yay!

Awesome news, I hope it's a huge success for both companies!

Hah! Finally !!

WOW!!! THAT brings back memories... To both companies, I wish you success and I hope that is embrasses all that Judge's Guild put together back then, it was a true classic.

Outstanding!

This is great news - you'll have my purchase.

JoshuaFrost said:

Paizo Publishing and Necromancer Games Announce New Roleplaying Product Partnership

Tegel Manor slated for summer release

April 10, 2007 (BELLEVUE, Wash.) – Paizo Publishing, LLC and Necromancer Games, Inc. have agreed in principle to partner in the creation of future Necromancer Games releases. The two hobby gaming companies have signed a letter of intent to team up in the publication of Tegel Manor, a revised classic Judge's Guild adventure module, and other Necromancer releases.

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So it sounds like nothing is finalized.

I'm also wondering what the big deal is so to speak. I don't see Piazo products in Borders or Barnes & Noble. Unless Necromancer is going to have stuff published in Dragon and Dungeon Magazine, I'm not seeing Paizo replacing White Wolf, whose products I do see in the stores, as being the BIG NEWS so to speak.

Guess we'll see as more details come around...

Man, are you cynical or what?

Paizo products are indeed in the bookstores, and we are getting more and more penetration every month. The recently released Art of Dragon book has sold ten times as many copies in bookstores as it has in the core hobby channel, and this has also been true of the Shackled City and Dragon Compendium hardcovers. We have not put other books in the book channel because, until very recently, we were not a book publisher.

Our recently announced GameMastery Modules line as well as our new Planet Stories fiction imprint will be sold into the bookstores in huge numbers, and Necromancer products will be solicited to bookstore accounts right alongside them.

We are distributed into the book channel by Diamond Book Distributors, who are a major force in the industry.

--Erik Mona
Publisher
Paizo Publishing, LLC

JoeGKushner said:

So it sounds like nothing is finalized.

I'm also wondering what the big deal is so to speak. I don't see Piazo products in Borders or Barnes & Noble.

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I do all the time.