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Because they're more primitive than dinosaurs, true mammals, and true reptiles. And one way we model "more primitive" in that regard is a slightly lower intelligence.

I'm gonna RISK IT ALL and post a reply to this before reading the rest of the thread... I certainly know dimetrodon isn't a dinosaur. Just as I know that neither is the pteranodon or the elasmosaurus (both of whom appeared in the first bestiary) and the tylosaurus (which appeared in Bestiary...

Yup, and unlike Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard's estate has been pretty diligent about maintaining control. Sort of. It's a little complicated, as always seems to be the case with copyright law... but we actually have a pretty good relationship with the estate thanks to Planet Stories (we've...

While we did indeed tie flumphs to the Dark Tapestry, I wouldn't say that we've made flumphs a part of the Lovecraft mythos. I'm not so sure that's a two-way street. ;-P

We have indeed been putting Lovecraftian monsters in our Bestiaries from the start, along with some other creatures from public domain literature—we generally provide a partial list of these monsters in the first paragraph of each Bestiary's introduction: Bestiary 1: H. G. Wells's morlocks...

Hellknight is a good option for a lawful evil heavilly armored character. We have not and have no plans to update the blackguard prestige class, though; our take on the fallen paladin is instead the antipaladin archetype. We knew some folks would end up preferring the blackguard prestige class...

Anyone who's tried to pick up a frightened cat would not find it weird for a creature to make a full-attack action with all attacks available. ;-P

While it's true that we don't put ALL of our open rules up on the PRD, that's not at all because we're trying to misdirect things or be obtuse or nefarious. It's merely that, for better or worse, we just don't have the time and resources to put all of the rules from our Adventure Paths, Player's...

I've looked through it but haven't done much with it. It's interesting looking though, that's for sure! Apart from details on several new player races and several new deities, there's not a lot of rules content in the Dragon Empires Gazetteer—it's primarily about presenting the setting itself...

Psionics are a tricky subject. The people who want psionics in Pathifnder the most, as far as I can tell, are overwhelmingly fans of the 3.5 Power Point system (or some variant). I'm probably the BIGGEST fan of psioncis at Paizo, but I'm absolutely NOT a fan of the power point system. I much...

Partially correct; we WANT to hear back from folks about the playtests. That's why we make them public. The main place we look for that feedback is on our forums at Paizo, but we also look elsewhere. Stephen and my presence on this board should be proof that we at least look at EN world (but we...

Hey there, everyone! First off... thanks for checking out the playtest! There's already some great feedback here in this thread, but I'd love it if you could also post in the playtest forums over at paizo.com as well. We DO read ENworld here at Paizo quite a lot, but playtest feedback has a...

Officially, no, there are not psionics yet in Pathfinder. At some point, though, we'll need to make that decision for Golarion (since, traditionally, there ARE psionics in our campaign setting), at which point we'll have to decide if we want to take our own stab at developing official psionic...

I'm relatively sure that quote from Erik was him talking about how and when a magazine publisher actually gets the money they're owed from magazines. AKA: If you launch a new magazine on day 1, and assuming you have a 6 month period where the contents are written, edited, laid out, and printed...

We've already illustrated an adventure bath. Took place in Pathfinder #23, in the middle of Legacy of Fire...

The way Golarion's multiverse works is inclusive; its universe is as big as our own, and works mostly the same way. Some regions of the universe are, essentailly, in regions of dead magic or close enough that they might as well be—that's where Earth, the Milky Way, and everything in between is...

I can confirm that Malcanthet missing from that list is indeed nothing more than an editorial error.

I'd also like to chime in on Gygax's Gord novels. They're GREAT fun to read, and they have a lot of cool (mostly non-canon, but still cool) demon stuff in there. Good times.

It probably is more than a coincidence, but I certainly didn't design Sifkesh to be a replacement for what's-her-name. The fact that they're both demon lords of suicide, though, means that they're going to be similar. The fact that I wrote a lot of the 3rd edition demon content AND that I wrote...

Nocticula's really the only one that does pose a few difficulties between various editions of the game, but that IS because there are certain "gaps" that we had to fill in Pathfinder that we couldn't use from traditional D&D due to the fact that a few key demon lord niches (particularly those...