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To be more precise, my interpretation of the design process was that Jonathan was "greatest among equals" rather than "clearly in control of the whole process." --Erik

I think someone (Russ Taylor or Samwise) has a photo of that post-seminar beer party, if it's the one you're mentioning. I saw it floating around Facebook not too long ago. --Erik

I figured. I also understand the criticisms of Faiths & Pantheons. Hey, we didn't want to do those statblocks, either. But one of the things that I find frustrating about that project is the idea that so much of the flavor text was regurgitated from Faiths & Avatars. I wrote about a third of...

Yeah, that was me. And actually, it was more like 13 years ago. I think the AOL area died in '95 or '96. --Erik

I can't get no respect, I swear. The link between Faiths & Pantheons and me is that I co-wrote the book with Eric Boyd! Please don't make me feel that statting out 30+ gods of 65th level or so was done in vain! I can still feel the pain from that project! :) --Erik

I may get back to the explosion dogs eventually. :) Glad you enjoyed the column. It was really fun to write! --Erik

There, fixed that for you. ;) --Erik

I can't wait to write it! But the _next_ column, wherein I delve into my insane collection of D&D bric-a-brac to show off some never-before seen D&D products from the 80s? That one is going to blow people's minds. :) --Erik

Amazon ordered a TON of books (perhaps literally) from our book distributor. There are WAY more orders, total, in to our book distributor than there are copies for them to get, but I was under the impression that most of the preorders were being fulfilled. I'll look into this more closely over...

I have a pile of notes about the world of Kalibruhn (as opposed to this OD&D manuscript) that Rob gave me a while back, and I must say it includes some phenomenal stuff. Rob Kuntz is one of the true heroes of the first generation of D&D, and many of his ideas are fascinating. One of my greatest...

Oh, and speaking of the word Open, we will be releasing ALL of these new classes in an Open Playtest format as soon as they are ready. Gamer feedback proved to be invaluable to the Core Rulebook design process, and I want to make sure we harness that energy for this book as well! --Erik Mona...

Right now the core functionality is a "live" character sheet that tracks modifiers and rounds for you. It's also networked, so for example I might cast bless on James, Jason, and Wes, and the appropriate modifiers would appear on their character sheets in real time without them having to do...

About half the staff (the ones who weren't trapped cruelly in Indy due to bad weather over St. Louis yesterday) are working on this at the moment. I expect that a new fixed up version will be ready for download possibly as soon as tomorrow. --Erik

Sad to say, Paizo has been busier than a boot in an ass-kicking contest over the course of the last year, and any drop-off in discussion about a secondary system that started more than a year before the final rules were in place should not necessarily be interpreted as lack of interest on our...

We did a much better job of predicting how many we'd need this year than we did with the Beta, so we had some books left on Sunday. Our sales were steady for the whole show (and absolutely jaw-droppingly INSANE on Thursday), and we've just logged by far our most successful Gen Con ever. We are...

No good reason other than the billion things you need to do to launch a huge book at Gen Con. I suspect we will get to this in short order. --Erik

You're welcome! Thanks for checking it out! --Erik Mona Publisher Paizo Publishing

We are all at Gen Con at the moment, so it'll most likely be some time mid to late next week before we can update the PDF to take care of problems like this. But rest assured we will do so, and we will email everyone who bought and let them know that an updated file is ready. We are committed...

I know pretty much everyone over here thinks that. I applaud WotC for what looks like a pretty exciting promotion. If I didn't already have the 4e PHB or if I was running a game and was sick of that one player who never seems to buy ANYTHING and just mooches off of everyone else, I'd strongly...

I haven't spoken to Tony in many, many months, but the last I heard from him he had some bites on animation projects related to Zogonia. While he hasn't exactly been producing new strips or maintaining his website, I know that he's still interested in his cartoons and I don't think it's quite...