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Aw, c'mon! I didn't hear any booing from the stage, unless it was kind of a joke or something. I certainly wasn't trying to be a dick or anything. I just figured people were getting sick of my ugly mug on stage so many times. You sort of run out of things to say after a while, and I was trying...

Mark: It's something I interjected during a Gen Con seminar yesterday. --Erik

In the immortal words of Mr. Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?" --Erik PS: While I have said many times that a lot of Pathfinder buyers doubtless read the AP installments and do not play them, I can't imagine I ever said it was anything like "50%" as quoted earlier in this thread. The...

I say combine them. I don't have the time to look through multiple folders (many with little noticeable traffic), although my interests are varied. Paizo and WotC have very good "dedicated" fora for 4e and Pathfinder, and I always appreciated a brisk and lively General forum. I do agree that it...

As long as we're being PC regarding a person who absolutely does not deserve it, perhaps we should not marginalize her gender by referring to her antics as "hysterics". Just sayin'. --Erik

Wow, that's really cool! Couldn'ta happened to a better module. One of my all time favorites. The link to the 2004 Stephen Colbert interview is a fascinating bonus feature.

Off the top of my head, of the 6 RPG products listed, only one of them is a traditional hardcover book. One hardcover in four months is obviously a change in business plan. I'd known that the shift to Essentials would mean a reduction in standard 4e stuff, but I found that a bit surprising. Two...

Interesting. I was not aware of that change. It's good to hear, as I always understood that the novels line was very profitable, at times more so than the gaming lines. --Erik

I have no insider information other than what Phil posted to his blog, but I do have a copy of the Wizards of the Coast 2011 Spring Catalog on my desk at the moment, and it contains (among a LOT of other eyebrow-raising game-related things) some information that may provide some clues as to...

I know WotC has (way) more. I didn't think of GW. Both are good examples of companies with multi-million-dollar brands likely to attract outside interest. Fantasy Flight probably has more total employees, but many work on board games and non-RPG stuff. That's true of some of our employees as...

And yet, in this business, there are perhaps one to three companies with a larger full-time staff than Paizo. Most companies "smaller" than us consist of a married couple and maybe some contracted freelancers. A lot more are just one dude cranking out PDFs. I think _that_ tells you more about...

I don't have much to say on this topic that I didn't say yesterday, but upon reflection I'd like to apologize to eyebeams. I completely disagree with a lot of his conclusions, but that doesn't make him stupid, and it was lame of me to kick off my contribution to this discussion by calling him an...

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This is all well reasoned, but there are about a dozen reasons why launching your own IP is preferable to licensing someone else's, and "some RPG fans are kind of dicks online" is quite low on the list. Like, really really low. --Erik

I can't speak for Chris, but that seems pretty meta. If the end result is the same licensed game, is the strategy behind it really that important? Especially if it is totally inscrutable to the customer? I know that Paizo has never approached another company (other than Malhavoc) to license...

Esplain.

Out of curiosity, do BioWare (Dragon Age RPG) and DC Comics (DC Adventures) not count as companies looking to extend their "transmedia" brands with RPG expressions? If we're not talking about companies like that, what exactly are we discussing? --Erik

Whatever. What you see as me trying to buff up my "populist cred" (a load of BS so smelly it might come from the armpit of just the sort of gamer stereotype you and eyebeams are perpetuating) I see as you piling on the tired old cliche of "the customer is the problem" that I see parroted again...

Ok. That doesn't make your observations any less wrong. --Erik

I can think of about 26 full-time employees at Paizo who are probably glad we didn't take this idiot's advice. --Erik ~ considering that we are not discussing some random person on the internet, but someone who is an ENworlder and posting in this thread, it is certainly NOT appropriate to call...