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The icons aren't open content. They're part of Paizo's layout design and trade dress and all that. We might add the icons to the fan resource kit some day, but they're supposed to sort of help make a Paizo new monster look identifiably like a Paizo new monster, I guess.

Both were statted up in different Pathfinder APs. 1) Deep Crow: This is a scary giant underground four-legged ancient eldritch crow monster we statted up from Penny Arcade's awesome web comic. 2) Coeurl: This is a black catlike tentacled monster invented by Sci-Fi author A. E. Van Vogt back in...

They will indeed be open content. Pretty much everything we do when it comes to crunch is open content, with the exception of things like deep crows and coeurls.

It's still VERY early in the coding stage, but what I've seen of it so far is pretty spiffy!

What Erik said about psionics and lack of communication, alas. And things aren't gonna get less busy for us in the immediate future, with our impending move to the bigger office. It wasn't anything intentional, for sure. As for the new core classes in next year's "Advanced Player's Guide," one...

Thanks for all the kind words and feedback, everyone! The final book is really cool; I think it turned out even better than the RPG and can't wait to see it on shelves. As for the monster icons... we put those in there as much as to differentiate the look of our monster stat blocks from 3.5 as...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...