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I suspect that, since Jason Bulmahn wrote part of Dungeonscape's art order, he threw in a picture of Demogorgon as a nod to Savage Tide, which was pretty much on all of our minds 24-7 at Paizo at the time. I might have even asked him if he could sneak a Demogorgon into the book, although that...

I was the primary architect of the obyriths, but I based them very heavily on concepts Erik had already explored in Green Ronin's "Armies of the Abyss" with the qlippoth. I would have actually embraced the qlippoth in FC1 if I were able, since they've got a real-world mythological origin, but...

(speaking of being pedantic) Depends if you're talking about the closed content version in the FC1 or the open version from Tome of Horrors, actually. ;) Oh... and Demogorgon > Orcus.

There has been... but we haven't been posting every final change to the Beta to the public. It's important to remember that the PF RPG is still in its Beta playtest, and will be for a couple more weeks. We're deep into the analysis of the playtest feedback, from the messagboards and from our own...

The idea of doing a series of linked adventures was indeed Chris's idea, and Shackled City did indeed launch while he was in charge of Dungeon. I'd go as far as to say that single idea saved Dungeon from going out of print before it hit issue #100, in fact. And Dave Noonan did indeed write...

Of course... if we never publish a 21st-40th level book... then level 20 does sort of become the limit. And unless there's enough demand for an epic book, we won't print it. Despite the vocal support epic level gets (and I am part of that group who likes epic level), the overall picture of how...

We don't own Shackled City; it's the property of Wizards of the Coast, and they never gave us the license/permission to sell PDF copies of "Shackled City." We can sell the print copies, but not PDF copies as a result.

One more quick note... PF RPG will focus on 1st-20th level, but it won't say "Once you hit 20th, the game ends." It'll say something like, "Once you hit 21st, the game changes." If we do a 20th-40th level game, it'll say, "Once you hit 41st, the game changes again." Details on HOW the game...

Note that you can have a level cap and not make the game finite. If we do an epic level expansion to Pathfinder RPG that expands the level range from 21st to 40th, and design that expansion so that at 21st level you're fighting dragons and at 40th level you're becoming a deity (or something like...

Agreed. In fact, I'd almost like to say that levels 15–20 are "EPIC" and leave it at that, but since the concept of higher than 20th level play's already pretty much built-in to the game, that's not really a good option. WotC's choice to extend the range to 30th and call 21st to 30th is an...

Furthermore... we've got a few threads over at paizo.com where we're asking folks to pitch in their opinions and advice and fears and wants for books like a PF RPG Epic Rules book or a Psionic book or whatever. There's three threads: Beyond the Core Rulebook asks what folk want from Paizo after...

I'd like to have SOMETHING like the abbreviated epic rules... if only so that a GM can throw a 22nd level wizard at a 20th level party. That said, the game's focus is on 1st–20th level... it's backwards compatible enough so that you can certainly still use the current 3.5 epic level rules...

We want third parties to be able to make modules set in generic worlds or their own campaign settings, with no real input from us at all. We want to control actual Golarion content more tightly—while we would certainly be interested in having third parties publish Golarion content, they'd have...

There won't be many new magic items; mostly just the items currently in the SRD. Same goes for spells. Remember, the page count is greater than the 3.5 PHB, but not as great as the 3.5 PHB and DMG put together. It's a combo deal. But without the fries. As for prestige classes, you can check...

We're still working it out, so no real details to reveal yet. I suspect that we'll end up working with the assumption of the "middle" route, though, and provide advice on how the game changes if you go low or high. We WILL be balancing monsters and the like so that the NEED for the big 6 isn't...

Not necessarily. Jason and I just had a really interesting discussion about the "magic shop problem" yesterday. While 3.5 assumes one XP progression track, we give 3 options (low, middle, high) for PF RPG, for example. We're working on something similar to that for the magic shop option, which...

Well... the vast majority of the PF RPG book WILL be of use to players. The bulk of the book's additional content over the PHB is mostly magic items—content that should probably be made available to PCs anyway, since the game's moved away from magic items being strange discoveries you find and...

I believe that's the plan. We'll have a conversion book that goes over the steps on how to take a stat block from a 3.5 adventure and convert it to the PF RPG system. And by extension, said book would also show folks how to convert a PF RPG statblock to 3.5 rules.

The primary goal of the Pathfinder RPG isn't to 100% reinvent the game. The rules in the Beta were (as they should be in a Beta) experiments. We've seen that some of those experiments work out, but others don't and we're reverting back to the 3.5 rules in some cases. In the end, the game is...

Good point! The high level PF RPG playtest board can be found here.