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I'm also pretty sure that H4 includes (as a more or less random Abyssal encounter) a city filled with 1000 liches on Thanatos. Sigh.

There's plenty of info on this in the Thanatos and Demon Web sections of Fiendish Codex Volume 1: Hordes of the Abyss, including the drow goddess's punishment at the hands of Lolth and tons of stuff about Orcus's home realm and how it dealt with his absence. Of course, a lot of this has...

We will be doing a ninja in a year or two when we get to an "Asian"-themed book. Lots of ground to cover there. --Erik Mona Publisher Paizo Publishing

Without getting too political, here's my take on why UK fans are having such a difficult time getting the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook. Amazon.com and Amazon.ca purchase their books from our North American book distributor, Diamond Books. Diamond understands the demand for this product, and like...

Paizo has laid off about a half-dozen people since it started 7 years ago, mostly because the magazines they were working on had to be closed for various reasons. The company has never conducted "regular" annual layoffs, if that's what you're asking. --Erik Mona Publisher Paizo Publishing

Believe it or not, science fiction fandom has been having this argument since at least the 1940s. I believe it was Isaac Asimov who said "the Golden Age of science fiction is 12." I think that applies pretty well to this thread so far. --Erik

Fine. It doesn't really bother me one way or the other if you trust what I'm saying or not. I agree that the "most 12 year olds' house" thing is hyperbole, but it comes pretty close to my experience as a 12-year-old in suburban Minnesota in the middle 1980s. I was at a convention here in...

I'll leave it to Ryan to explain that number, but were I to guess I'd say it was based on the extensive survey data WotC collected circa 1998 or so, in preparation for the new edition. At that time they likely determined the average length of a customer's association with the brand, and...

Someone else posted a link. I'm afraid you're just going to have to take my word on this, as the sales info on which I am basing my assertion is not online. As they say in the Princess Bride, anyone who tells you different is selling something. --Erik PS: Also, memory and logic ought to go a...

By extension, I'd add that MOST of the "fantasy" published in the pulp magazines at the time Vance was publishing his Dying Earth stories was in fact "sci-fantasy". Certainly most of the paperback books by, say, Henry Kuttner that were re-released by ACE in the decade preceding the release of...

I presume you've not read The Dying Earth, then? I'm on vacation away from my complete works Jack Vance Integral Edition, but from memory there's a story in the first Dying Earth book (Guyl of Sefere?) in which the hero adventures into a "dungeon" that is essentially a modern museum, filled with...

Right, and The Isle of Dread/Expert Set box sold in similarly staggering numbers. I've seen the "real" numbers from a source much more reliable than the Acaeum (itself a _very_ reliable source), and there's just no truth to the idea that 3e outsold the basic rules at the height of the game's...

Anyone who tells you that the third edition core rulebooks outsold the Mentzer "red box" basic set is lying to you. --Erik

Three great tastes that go great together! --Erik

I was disappointed in the justification given in Rary the Traitor. The idea that the wizard in the Circle of Eight with the highest intelligence score would study the lives of the Great Kingdom and Iuz, who were basically failures, and decide to emulate that struck me as out of the blue and...

Then you will be pleased to learn that Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk says no such thing. The adventure _does_ feature a Robilar from a different dimension, but Rary does not figure into the adventure at all, and there is no suggestion anywhere that the Rary who betrayed the Circle was...

Not really. Although we're REALLY pleased with our PDF sales, we are primarily a print publishing company. --Erik Mona Publisher Paizo Publishing

They are on the way! --Erik

I will be a special guest at Dragonmeet in London on November 28. I'd like to have some folding money while strolling through the streets of the capital, so I've dropped some cool RPG and D&D rarities on eBay as a sort of fundraiser. Highlights include the impossible to find DUNE RPG, a full...

The latest report is that the reprint should arrive in our warehouse TOMORROW, and we'll turn it around as fast as humanly possible. --Erik