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  1. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder core book pdf problem?

    I was one of those who got trapped in Indy for an extra day, but I'm here now perched like a vulture waiting and ready to look over the revisions and fixes to the PDF. Hopefully we'll get it up and running soon! As for the size of the PDF... yeah, it's VERY large. If you're not running with...
  2. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder "Complete" Books in the future?

    I don't envision the Golarion setting books changing much. Some will be crunch light, like the city books and the Great Beyond. Others will be crunch-heavy, like the upcoming NPC Guide. I suspect most will fall somewhere in the middle, like Into the Darklands, and be a pretty good mix of crunch...
  3. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder "Complete" Books in the future?

    We'll have more to say on this subject in a few days at Gen Con... but I can say that no one at Paizo's particularly interested in putting out a legion of crunch-filled rules option books. We may do a few, more if fans demand more, I suppose, but our focus will for the most part remain on...
  4. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder First Print Run Sold Out

    So far there's been very little celebrating. When we got the news, it spread through the office like zombie plague, and everyone was pretty excited, but we don't really have time right now to drop everything and go crazy with parties... especially with the Pathfinder Bestiary, the Adventure...
  5. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder First Print Run Sold Out

    I'm not sure how this all panned out, honestly. I know I was surprised to recognize game elements like prestige classes and some skills and feats and all that when I fired up the game. Enough that I went looking through the manual for indications that it was officially licensed somehow from...
  6. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder First Print Run Sold Out

    Bioware's "Knights of the Old Republic" RPG used what was basically the d20 system, as did its sequel. So there's certainly ample precedent for a video game to use the d20/OGL/whatever system as its core mechanic.
  7. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder First Print Run Sold Out

    Slim. Of course... if someone had asked me this question a month ago, I would have said none. AKA: with each developing day, I am more and more convinced that things like pre-painted plastic minis (and video games, and movies, and LARPs, and genetically-engineered for-real goblin dogs) are...
  8. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder First Print Run Sold Out

    We have most of the monsters in the Bestiary on one page, and even with the stat block and a nicely sized piece of art... I was actually quite pleased and a little surprised at how much flavor we were able to get in for the 350+ monsters in the book. We're working on a preview of the book right...
  9. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder First Print Run Sold Out

    Nope; the copies we've set aside to sell at Gen Con are set aside in their own safe bubble. We'll be bringing a fair amount to Gen Con, and are talking about how we'll handle selling it if demand goes through the roof so that, hopefully, we'll have some to sell all four days. Still... judging...
  10. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder First Print Run Sold Out

    Heh... I was waiting to see a post like this pop up! :-) Fans are, of course, passionate about the games they play. To a fault, in some cases. I love them for that anyway, but I do wish that fans of PFRPG and fans of 4E could and would get along better. Hopefully once PFRPG is out and folks can...
  11. James Jacobs

    Whence the displacer beast?

    That would be Pathfinder #22: "The End of Eternity."
  12. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Sneak Peeks Part 2 (New thread)

    To a certain extent, that's because we built the fighter with a different goal in mind—we wanted to show off feats and some other stuff, and neglected to take in to account how it would look setting him up with a low Will save. We've been trying to keep that type of thing in mind going forward...
  13. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Sneak Peeks (Old thread)

    One more thing Bringing monsters more in line with their CR (as was done with the allip) is also a way that the PFRPG is addressing concerns about the 15 minute adventuring day. A CR 3 encounter shouldn't leave a group of 3rd level characters ruined. It should be one of many encounters they...
  14. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Sneak Peeks (Old thread)

    A few points of interest... 1) The "Paizo golem" from today's (6/30/09) blog is intended more as a "happy Paizo Anniversary" post then a for-real preview of how all constructs or monsters work. 2) Making the monsters "more powerful" is not the design goal of the Pathfinder Bestiary. We're...
  15. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Chronicles setting: what does it offer?

    With Council of Thieves, though, we're moving back to the old Player's Guide format sort of. We'll have a free PDF Player's Guide to Council of Thieves available at about Gen Con o'clock.
  16. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Chronicles setting: what does it offer?

    These are concerns for me as well. For the Adventure Paths, we've been taking care so that even if one takes place in the same area as another (as in the case of the first three APs), the actual locations don't cross over. And while we throw in easter eggs now and then, we also try to keep each...
  17. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Sneak Peeks (Old thread)

    Yup; it's a typo. We fixed it back to 18–20 on the blog post.
  18. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Adventure Path: How Successful?

    I own the three core books, played 4E once for about 2 hours (after becoming frustrated that I couldn't create a cleric of the Raven Queen that didn't feel like a sun worshiper or battle cleric or anti-undead cleric), and that's about it. Some others at Paizo are more familiar with the game than...
  19. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Adventure Path: How Successful?

    This perception is probably the part about working in the industry that distresses and saddens me the most, because Paizo is not anti-4E, any more than we are anti-GURPS or anti-Chess or anti-Hide and Seek. I admit that there's a pretty strong anti-4E or anti-WotC sentiment among a lot of Paizo...
  20. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Adventure Path: How Successful?

    Close, but not exact. I'm probably one of the biggest fans of psionics at Paizo, actually, and the flavor and concepts of psionic powers has always intrigued and fascinated me across all editions of D&D. But I've also had some pretty bad experiences with psionics in play... and ALL of those are...
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