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Since the PF Campaign Setting is pretty crunch-light, there's not a super compelling reason to update the setting to the new rules; it's already pretty close to fitting the final game as it is. There are a few changes we could make, but not enough to warrant reprinting the PFCS. Once we sell out...

We do have a revised and streamlined method for generating NPCs in the book, in any event, including a lot of advice on what feats and skills to give them. The fact that skills themselves work a bit more simply (max rank = HD, not max rank = HD +3, and so on) goes a long way toward making NPCs...

Part of it is the simple fact that we're busy busy busy, and have been for the entirety of Paizo's existence—producing monthly gaming products, be they magazines or books, is a non-stop series of looming deadlines, and as a result we simply don't have time to be completely familiar with every...

I could see where they could be counted as fey, but I prefer them as humanoids. They've got ties to the outer planes, after all, via those wiley barghests, and that implies to me that they're not fey (who generally don't trace roots back to the outer planes but to something else more closely...

Actually, the reason mostly boils down to the fact that the magazine business is not one that Paizo's interested in returning to—it's not cost effective, and this is a VERY bad time for magazines, particularly new ones that lack Dragon and Dungeon's 30 years of history and momentum and presence...

"Hate" is indeed way too strong a word. I do not hate 4th edition, but I don't care for it. I much prefer 3.5-based rules, and am quite proud of and pleased with how the Pathfinder RPG is shaping up. In any case, don't feel weird about converting Pathfinder content to the system of your choice...

And that's why I'm not a fan of the phrase "Backwards Compatible." That, and because it infers that 3.5 is "backwards" or "not as good." While I, personally, like what we've done with PF RPG better than 3.5, the 3.5 rules are still perfectly usable as is. In any event, yes, Pathfinder RPG will...

James is indeed on these boards! When I say "more options," I mean that each class has more options. In 3.5, many classes already had a lot; clerics are a great example, in that a cleric of a god of fire and a cleric of a god of the sea, in being able to choose different domains, are going to...

To this point, that's been the Pathfinder Adventure Path's solution. We haven't written one yet using the Pathfinder RPG rules, though, since they're not done yet. EDIT: of course... the actual level ranges of our Adventure Paths have varied in Pathfinder (Runelords goes from 1st to about 17th...

There are a lot of good points and excellent observations in this thread... many of which were the same good points and excellent observations that led us at Paizo to choose to limit Pathfinder's adventure paths to the 1st–14th level band, or thereabouts.

It is like porn. Don't take my word for it... but R-rated content is probably okay. NC-17 or X rated content probably isn't. Sticking to PG-13 content's probably the safest bet, but even in PG-13 movies you've got F-bombs and profanity and nudity and hearts being ripped out of chests. Heck...

It's worth remembering that we've had the rug yanked out from under us by WotC once already. The loss of the magazine license was actually handled pretty graciously and nicely by WotC—it could have been a LOT worse for Paizo, but WotC was very generous with the event (as seen by their extending...

Yup; while I'm very pleased that the revisions to the GSL are out and seem to be a lot less restrictive—we're committed to the Pathfinder RPG at Paizo now and have no intention to produce GSL versions of adventure paths or other Pathfinder products. There's a lot of fan-based conversions going...

Yup; Paizo rhymes with "pie dough."

The number of Beta downloads is convenient because it's a public number; we've got plenty of other marketing numbers and research and whatnot to help us decide what our print run for the PFRPG should be. It's just a handy public number to show off, really, to show that there's a pretty sizable...

We can't use classes and prestige classes that aren't OGL, but we CAN use content from the already vast open d20/OGL options out there. And I do suspect that we'll start building our own options; we already are, in fact, in several of our current products. I fully expect that in the PFRPG...

The PFRPG playtest was a LOT bigger than we ever anticipated it would be. We were expecting to get a few thousand folks if we were lucky, but what we got was, to this date, over 45,000 downloads of the rules and the corresponding flood of posts on the playtest forums. It's pretty exciting... but...

It's probably best to wait until the game's out and then just check it out in the store, I suppose... although the Beta IS a free download, so it's nothing to check it out anyway. The final form of the game isn't something we're going to be showing off publicly until summer (Gen Con, to be...

The primary reason we decided to do the Pathfinder RPG was because we wanted to keep producing the same types of adventures and sourcebooks we've been (quite successfully) producing for 3.5 for years now. With WotC's move to 4th edition, the 3.5 rulebooks no longer are in print. For now, sure...

Not really... just that monsters come in cycles, I guess. We do only half as many modules a year now, but starting with Into the Darklands, new monsters started appearing in Pathfinder Chronicles products. The bestiary in Pathfinder itself still churns out 4–6 monsters a month too. In any...