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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.

No discussion; it's pretty much set in stone at this point that the book will be only one book—the attraction of having the core rules in one book that's less expensive than two books is pretty alluring, after all. I suppose it's possible that we might do something crazy with a reprint some...

This is an amusing and interesting idea. Of course, in the 30 or so years since those 1E books were published, the world's gone through a LOT of changes. I honestly don't even know if using the same paper stock and binding as those older books is even possible. It's certainly not something that...

Actually, I believe the main reason it's less expensive than the other two is that it's a single book. It's a BIGGER book, for sure, but it's generally less expensive to print and ship a single book than it is to do two books (although more expensive in both counts when compared to a single...

I'm not sure of the exact plan regarding PDF versions of the Pathfinder RPG once it's done... but I do know that there WILL be a PDF version of the RPG available. And since the rules themselves are going to be pretty much 100% open content (or 99.99% open... we'll probably not have the deity...

We're currently in the high-level play portion of the open playtest of the Pathfinder RPG; while we've been gathering feedback on how best to address the problems with high-level play this whole time, it wasn't until the start of last week that we really opened the issue up for public discussion...

With Dragon #323 and Dungeon #114, we did a relaunch for both magazines in an attempt to renew interest and excitement. For Dungeon, the relaunch went quite well—it continued on a mostly uptrend in subscriptions and popularity and positive feedback up to the final print issue after some pretty...

I honestly have no idea. I have my theories, of course, but the simplest explanation is probably the right one: they bit off more than they could chew. Paizo does this a lot, too, of course! :) It's part of what makes working in the RPG industry a non-stop thrill ride!

Not quite... Even without the GSL delay, I strongly suspect that there would have been a Pathfinder. It might have been less popular or less successful (or more; who can say?), but 3.5 remains the system that Paizo prefers, GSL or not. Note: That doesn't translate into "Paizo hates 4th...

Yeah, I've long argued that a truly sandbox type adventure isn't really an adventure at all, it's a supplement or a gazetteer or a campaign setting. The strength of this format is, of course you can get a LOT of different adventures out of the book; the Isle of Dread is a classic example of an...

Nah; they're essentially the same monster. The bottom one is from Dungeon, and is of an undead chimera (but still basically a chimera... but he's undead, hence the washed out color of the creature).

This thread is incredible! One of the coolest examninations of D&D dungeons I've seen in a while! (runs back to continue reading posts...)

Although "Guide to Korvosa" does indeed describe the city before the events that take place in "Curse of the Crimson Throne," we more or less assume at Paizo that unless your group has played "Crimson Throne," it hasn't happened yet. We'll probably not be doing much more with Korvosa in the...

I guess the 30-second speech version would be something like this: "The Pathfinder RPG is basically the same game you already know how to play, but we've tightened up some rules and made the base classes more appealing all the way to 20th level, and added in a lot of new options in feats while...

It's certainly an image thing of publishing for a live vs. a dead system. It doesn't look very cool if, 2 years from now, a new gamer comes to Pathfinder and we say, "Yeah; you might be able to find the rules to play our game in some used book store or on ebay, but we can't actually sell those...