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I feel like the closest thing we've published at Paizo to an actual sandbox "adventure" isn't an adventure at all, but a book like "Sandpoint," which presents a region in great detail, offers lots of advice on how a campaign might develop, has lots of adventure hooks, map support for locations...

I can provide a bit of context here. I originally got the name Obox-ob from the list of other demon lords that was printed on page 35 of the 1st edition Monster Manual II. For whatever reason, the sound of the name really appealed to me, and I ended up using it as the name of the primary bad...

The book is world-neutral. Although I did write a big chunk of it, it's not a Paizo product and doesn't use Golarion lore. Aklo itself is a language that we picked up for use in Pathfinder, but was itself invented in 1889 by Arthur Machen in his short story, "The White People," and Lovecraft...

As far as I know, the only mention of "Dagon" in 1st edition D&D was in the "Enumeration of the Rulers of the Abyss" list on page 35. When I started doing a lot of work developing the Abyss and demon lords and the like in the articles I wrote for Dragon and a fair number of adventures that...

What Erik said. But also, no, there's nothing about Folca in Planar Adventures, nor will there ever be anything about Folca in any other books we publish (or reprint) from here on out. (As a post-specific expansion of the last part of Erik's original post on the topic back in November.)

The question of what to do with Folca going forward is a no-brainer—we won't be using him in Pathfinder content, and I'll ABSOLUTELY be using the lessons I've learned as well in striving to not repeat the mistake. But it's unfortunately not so simple to just "cut" Folca from the book, since...

As the developer of the Book of the Damned, I can indeed confirm Folca was an error of judgement. If I had a time machine I'd go back and just cut Folca from the book entirely, since the inclusion of an entity that mirorred something like Pennywise from "It" obviously missed the mark HARD. (I...

The lich is sad at being forgotten, but then funnels his sadness into anger and wrath and gets busy plotting against those who forgot him. When THE PLAN is done, he will never be forgotten again!

Correct; we haven't publicly released any global maps for Golarion yet, and have no plans to do so anytime soon.

AKA: Help James get his paycheck? I'm okay with that! ;-) For what it's worth, I do agree that the flavor text in Bestiary 5 took a pretty strong hit, and it's something I'll be doing what I can to make sure isn't a problem in the future. No promises, but yeah... there are ALWAYS ways to...

COOKIE! And yeah... turns out that having two chances to illustrate a creature means twice the chances the art will come out better (AKA: we don't order new pictures for monsters whose art came out right the first time).

Our hardcover Bestiaries are not the place to go to soak in the flavor text. We DO try to put as much flavor text as we can in there, because flavor text is one of the things that makes monsters interesting and memorable, but since the Bestiaries are world neutral and we don't actually include...

There are indeed guidelines for natural attack damage by size and type... but that's all they are. Guidelines. They can and SHOULD be adjusted as needed. In the case of the T-rex, which is a relatively high CR animal, we needed to adjust the bite damage up quite a bit since it only has the one...

"Optimized" is, in monster design, even more of an impossible goal than for a PC. I prefer to err on the side of fun, and in the case of real-world creatures, the side of what those creatures can or could do. The reason I feel Toughness and Improved Natural Attack are inappropriate for baseline...

We haven't yet, no. But we will soon, if not in the upcoming Chelaix book, then in the Hell's Vengeance Adventure Path. Not so much in Hell's Rebels.

Being the guy who developed the Pathfinder T-Rex (SHOCK!), there's specific reasons I gave it the feats it has. The Skill Focus (Perception) bit is a nod to the fact that fossil records indicate that they had incredible senses, from binocular vision to olfactory capabilities matched by few...

Hell's Rebels is more regionally focused—it's not about overthrowing all of Cheliax but defending and perhaps freeing a city and the surrounding region. BobROE is correct on the rest—we don't assume any Adventure Path is canon. This allows you to run them in any order, doesn't "force" anyone...

Hey there, all! Good to see so many folks are eager to see what we do with the Strange Aeons adventure path! It's certainly one that I've been eager to get us doing for some time now. (But no... there won't be any aeons in this AP. The name of this AP is very much a nod to one of Lovecraft's...

Thanks! Those articles were among the things I'm most proud of having done for D&D, as it turns out, and it really tickles me to see some of the things I made up are still a thing in D&D today. The opportunity to add to the growing canon and lore of D&D's demons remains a career highlight for...

YAY! Demons!!!