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Having started college as an engineering major, I (and my grade point average for those first two semesters) can confirm that putting math and physics under Knowledge (engineering) is 100% accurate. :P I would categorize astronomy under Knowledge (geography) since it's got a lot of navigation...

The thing with the OGL is that if it DIDN'T exist, Paizo wouldn't exist in the way it does today. I'm not sure what we would have done after the magazine license went back to WotC—probably would have just turned into a web store for a year and then MAYBE if we lasted we would have tried out some...

Yeah; by linking whether a natural attack is primary or secondary to the TYPE of attack (be it a bite or a hoof or whatever), we can get away from the awkward issue of timing determining which attack is primary and which is secondary. This means that no matter what order a monster makes its...

Because Call of Cthulhu is AWESOME, that's why! :) Also, I approve that these boards correctly spellchecked the word "Cthulhu" and corrected my initial fast-typing of "Ctulhu" to the correct spelling. Iä Chaosium! Iä Enworld!

Huh... Interesting to hear that "At Your Door" has been "almost universally panned," because I really quite liked that one. Maybe because of the T.E.D. Klein elements, but probably because when I ran it back in college I had a GREAT time with it. But yeah... Masks of Nyarlathotep is pretty much...

Well... "Masks of Nyarlathotep" is regularly cited as the best RPG adventure ever written for any system, so that's a good place to start! I also rank "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" and "At Your Door" quite highly on the list of awesome Chaosium adventures. But basically, the only thing you...

If you use the quick rules for the advanced template, you don't adjust stats at all; this is the assumption we make for most advanced creatures, since the template is simple enough that you don't really need to rebuild the entire stat block to use it; that's the entire point of a simple...

Yup. We had to reinvent the XP progression, of course, since that bit of rules wasn't actually in the SRD. We went for a 3-track option to give GMs options on how to run their games, and for all Pathfinder adventures, we assume the Medium advancement track so that it's less of a hassle for GMs...

Well, since Paizo's founder and owner (my boss) was more or less at ground zero helping make Vampire and Magic the smash hits they turned into... I'd say our chances are better than slim. :P

Well... to be fair, it wasn't just one element that sunk TSR. A wide range of campaigns splitting your audience and increasing your production costs (spend more to sell multiple products to basically the same amount of people you could sell one product line to) certainly didn't help, but it...

I wouldn't really call calling an Ulfen a viking a "screw up" as much as it is, perhaps, a little bit lazy on the writing side of things. Being able to describe a creature as a viking does in one word what a more in-depth description cannot. And sometimes, sub-optimal choices are made under the...

To echo some earlier sentiments... there's not a lot of charm effects in the game, but they happen to be spells that show up a LOT. Not only as prepared spells, but as monster spell-like abilities. Hardly lame at all, in my opinion, since the chances of encountering a charm effect in an...

They're ABSOLUTELY usable in other campaigns. In fact, that's one thing we try really hard to do with our Adventure Path products. Each volume is 96 pages long; about 50 of those pages are the actual adventure. The remainder of each volume has support articles (including the kingdom building...

Folks are pretty close on the money for Paizo adventures. We generally assume about 900 words for a full page of text. Stat blocks and illustrations reduce this number, obviously. For a 32 page module, we ask our authors to provide 20,000 words. For a Pathifnder adventure path installment, we...

Intentional. if we just let grab give a +2 bonus, it'd be easier to just give Improved Grapple as a bonus feat. Grab gives a +4 because it's more powerful than a mere feat. And because monsters who grab should be pretty good at it; getting in melee combat with a grabby monster should never be...

While damage reduction helps the beholder, at high CRs the expectation is that monsters will have DR, immunities, and the like, so that's sort of implied already. Besides, DR won't help the beholder at all against energy damage, force damage, or untyped damage. Sure, he's got his antimagic eye...

Another bit of advice: when updating 3.5 monsters, don't be afraid to change their stats or their HD. It's best to keep their CR unchanged, but you should adjust HD and ability scores and natural armor bonus and maybe even its natural attack damage at least to bring the monster's CR up in line...

Actually, he IS a god, even though he didn't start out as a god. We do allow the lesser archdevils and demon lords and Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the like to grant spells though. In Pathfinder, there's basically 2 categories of deity: god/goddess and demigod/demigoddess. The god/goddess...

Well... We use Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary a LOT for our adventures; it's probably tied with the Tome of Horrors Revised for the "d20 book we use most often" for Paizo adventures. In my opinion, the Advanced Bestiary works quite well with the Pathfinder RPG. I make changes to the templates...

Probably less. Although Erik IS galavanting over on the East Coast all week on vacation, so I guess he has an excuse until Friday...