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  1. James Jacobs

    Obscure demon lords

    Apart from my Demonomicon articles in Dragon (many of which have a lot of demony easter eggs and stealth references to various demon lords, old and new), you'll probably also want to check out the Savage Tide Adventure Path—particularly the last four adventures, which all take place on and...
  2. James Jacobs

    Ymeri

    We've illustrated her twice. Once on page 4 of Pathfinder Adventure Path #23, and then again on page 190 of the GameMastery Guide—that's the same illustration that appears on her Wiki page. She's basically a four-armed dragon centaur with burning wings, burning hair, and pointed ears. Wears...
  3. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Is paizo going for marketing on ebay?

    It's actually part of several auctions we just launched, in cooperation with Wayne Reynolds, to raise as much money as we can to aid the relief efforts in Japan. All of the proceeds from all of these auctions (one of which is an original piece of art from Wayne) will be donated to the Red Cross...
  4. James Jacobs

    Create Water... Too Powerful?

    Create Water doesn't create nearly enough water to flood deserts... but in hindsight, I really wish we'd upped it to be a 2nd level spell, because it IS a pretty disruptive spell to allow as a cantrip one can cast at will. And upping it to 2nd level gives folks two levels to play with "lost in...
  5. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E half draons in golarion

    Dragons Revisited was one of the earliest books we did, and we were still learning what we did and didn't want in Golarion at the time. We certainly didn't yet have our own game system at the time and were still flying under the 3.5 D&D flag. Since then, we've solidified the fact that dragons...
  6. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E half draons in golarion

    There actually aren't a lot of half-dragons in Golarion—those that exist are almost ALL half dragon, half something similar to a dragon. Like the sample half-dragon—it's half basilisk. Call it fatigue from my time spent on Dungeon magazine, where it felt like every other adventure proposal was...
  7. James Jacobs

    Other "paladins"?

    The 15-level prestige class for the Hellknight we published in Pathfinder AP #27 was something of an experiment. We've re-designed the prestige class back into a standard 10-level prestige class for its inclusion in the Inner Sea World Guide (which, I believe, is finally shipping this week...
  8. James Jacobs

    Scott Thorne, a retailer, comments on recent events

    Just an observation... having worked at a version of Paizo that revolved around directly building on WotC's intellectual properties (Dragon and Dungeon magazine) and having worked at a version of Paizo that revolved around "scavenging on the OGL," I must say... scavenging is a LOT more healthy...
  9. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Lost Cities of Golarion

    "Lost Cities" hasn't been pushed back at all. My guess: Amazon forgot to order from their distributor, or didn't order enough, and rather than get an accurate resupply quote they just guessed July. That type of thing seems to happen semi-regularly... it's frustrating.
  10. James Jacobs

    3 reasons why the design team shouldn't visit ENWorld

    And to throw a real-world, quantifiable example of proof about how listening to feedback and reading your own messageboards or similar boards can work to your favor... One of the most-often cited complaints about our adventure paths is that they're too railroady. Had I not read those...
  11. James Jacobs

    Mona's Musings: The Fall of Cthulhu

    Of course, the best part about losing the magic box is that it wasn't destroyed. It was left to float down into the briny deep, where it came to rest, dangerously open, among the sunken flagstones and ooze-draped spires of dead R'lyeh. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that, 50 years later...
  12. James Jacobs

    How to Handle a Chase

    We actually considered this, but in the end we decided not to combine all the movement rates into one because that just starts getting kinda weird and silly. Snakes are good climbers, after all, but if we combined the skills, that would make snakes equally good at flying and jumping. Likewise...
  13. James Jacobs

    D&D 4E Basic Questions about Pathfinder (4e considering a move)

    As mentioned above, while our shorter organized play scenarios (the Pathfinder Society) are PDF only, EVERYTHING else we do is both PDF and print. Which includes about 3 large hardcover rulebooks a year (ranging from 256 to 320 pages long, usually), and about 200 pages of softcover support...
  14. James Jacobs

    It's Almost the Season for WOTC layoff!

    I can comment. We are indeed working on an Introductory game. I don't have much more to say about it right now... but it's something that we've been working on for a couple of months now. It's nowhere near ready for folks to see much about yet though.
  15. James Jacobs

    It's Almost the Season for WOTC layoff!

    Incorrect. We've hired several folks in the past several weeks, including customer service, graphic designers, marketing folks, and designers/developers/editors. Our internship program is pretty standard when it comes to how internship programs work (aka: you get paid in experience and college...
  16. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Golarion Pronunciation of Drow

    Yup; we actually clarified this in one of the Second Darkness adventures. Drow does indeed rhyme with "bow."
  17. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Epic level conventions?

    I would actually LOVE to do an Epic level expansion to Pathfinder. It's a tricky subject, though, and not only because only a fraction of the people who buy a game will buy an epic level game (I'm not convinced that fraction is as small as some folks suspect, but it's certainly a fraction of the...
  18. James Jacobs

    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder and Mass Combat

    Because Bestiary 2 is our holiday season book. Since it's a new book, and the World Guide is more or less an expanded reprint, and since we couldn't do two books at the same time, the World Guide got pushed back. This also lets us put it through an extra long development and editing cycle; it's...
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