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That process is still in the works, but we've worked with contractors to get it started and will likely need to hire more contractors to finish it up. And it's not the entire Adventure Path for those products—just monster and NPC stats that don't already exist in the associated rule set.

Excellent post. In my defense, I didn't stipulate which ocean I was comparing Square to, though. I didn't even stipulate it was an Earth ocean or a real ocean. :p That said, if Paizo's resources were to increases by 300 times to match what Square has at their fingertips... I suspect that we'd...

I'm sorry you feel betrayed, but you underestimate how much work it would be and overestimate the amount of resources we have to do something like this in a way that would be worth charging money for/increasing book costs for (which we would have to do, to justify the new hires we'd need to make...

We've avoided dual stat books for a few reasons; here's three that come to mind. 1) We've pretty much thrown all-in on supporting 2nd edition. I'm proud of the work we did in 1st edition, but I personally feel that 2nd edition is more enjoyable to play and to write for. Its improvements and...

If you have a favorite RPG writer, telling them how much joy their work has brought you is both the easiest and most effective way you have to brighten that writer's day. I've worked with Owen for years, and as depressing as his facts are... that doesn't change them from being true. And to Owen...

I'm nowhere close to being done with chattering about Sandpoint. The original outline I created for the Sandpoint book was, as it worked out, a 320 page book that had a LOT More sandboxy feel to it, including about 200 pages of short adventures from 1st to 10th level, ranging from dungeons to...

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...