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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...

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...