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I love Magritte. --Erik

Sorry, sorry, sorry! I should have said BASE classes. The CORE classes are the 11 found in the Core Rulebook. Period. --Erik Mona Publisher Paizo Publishing

We'll announce the book and classes at the Pathfinder RPG Q & A seminar at 5:00 PM on Saturday, August 15th at Gen Con Indy. The seminar will be held in the Marriot Indiana Ballroom F. --Erik

Sorry. Should have said _base_ classes, not "core" classes. To a lot of people that means the same thing, but they aren't quite the same thing. Core implies "part of the core game," or "these classes are more or less common." That's not what we're doing. We are, however, fleshing out a handful...

Here's a tidbit unrevealed elsewhere. We decided the next four core classes for Pathfinder today. As in the whole staff agreed on the conceptual and mechanical niches and we've officially green-lit development. And we'll announce which ones at Gen Con! --Erik

Well, GW may have taken away my vortex grenades, but at least I can still use my squats and zoats. --Erik

Best start saving up, Bulmahn. --Erik

I am hoping to get in on that 40k action by the end of the year. It's been way, way too long since I rolled scatter dice on a vortex grenade. :) --Erik

Treebore sez: >>> Paizo says they printed more than 5 times their best selling product, >>> No, that's not what we said. We said that _pre-orders_ for this book were five times higher than our best-selling product. That's not quite the same thing. To be pedantic. --Erik PS: How many did we...

I worked with Linae Foster fairly extensively during my tenure as editor-in-chief of Dragon and Dungeon magazines, and I always found her to be an excellent business partner with a great attitude and a strong ability to get things done. In fact, without Linae it would have been impossible to put...

A lot of people will pilgrimage to that statue. I wish Gail the best of luck and hope they are able to pull it off. --Erik

I am playing in a bi-weekly Pathfinder RPG campaign. We started with the Beta and have moved on to the final rules (which are awesome). Right now I don't think anyone is using any 3.5 stuff, but that's largely because we are getting used to the new rules and having fun with an "out of the book"...

From the LoTR Wikipedia page: "In a 1999 poll of Amazon.com customers, The Lord of the Rings was judged to be their favourite "book of the century." Not sure that trilogy is as marginal as you think. --Erik

Yes. Don't kid yourselves. Dungeons & Dragons (and especially the associated novels business) is one of the most reliable, steady publishing operations in the science fiction and fantasy field today. It doesn't get nearly the critical reception other "mainstream" novels receive, but it doesn't...

It depends on what you mean by obscure. Salvatore rules the roost of the game fiction tie-in world, which is a very reliable world complete with the potential for sales that even the "big boys" like TOR would be impressed with. A huge-selling D&D novel is a huge-selling fantasy novel, period...

I'd say he's probably best known by general science fiction fans in their 40s and older, fans of D&D, and general readers of science fiction, in that order. I don't suspect most general readers have ever heard of him, but then they've probably never heard of a lot of the authors discussed on...

Except the part where it talks about his influence among professional science fiction authors and the science fiction reading community in general without regard to Dungeons & Dragons, sure. --Erik

Again, yes, I'm not arguing that his renown does not match his genius or talent. Just pointing out that a guy who has enough fame to get covered like that in the times is not truly obscure in the way that, say, most of the FR novelists are or most publishers of independent RPG companies are...

The Dying Earth cycle is one of only a handful of books by Vance that can be categorized as fantasy. Some deep-geek science fiction fans will balk at calling The Dying Earth stories sword and sorcery, instead inventing a "Dying Earth" genre for them to inhabit (perhaps because S&S is too much of...

Yes. Some of Vance's in-print material is from small houses running sub-5000 print runs (which in today's market is hardly "small"), but Orb has kept those Demon Princes and Dying Earth Ombinuses in print for most of the decade, and I've seen both of them, numerous times, in places like Barnes...