Search results

All channels of sales are important to us. The hobby stores, comic book stores, book stores, online stores (both our own and others like Amazon), PDF sales, convention sales. They all come together to make the company successful. You couldn't base a business on having one of those channels...

We don't have any part time employees. The 25 full-time were folks that worked directly on Pathfinder products in design, development, editing and art. Currently, we are pushing 60 employees in the company and growing. In the next few months, we will be hiring more editors and developers to...

Well, to be fair, we also release a heck of a lot more products per month than WotC seems to be doing with D&D5 (at least insofar as has been announced). It makes sense that we would have more staff to create more products. But I am really proud of our staff here at Paizo. They do a yeoman's...

We will very quickly have 20 people working on Pathfinder-related stuff from an Design/Editing/Development POV. In other words, the folks who work full-time on creating the print products that we make. That does not include the 5 members of the art department who do nothing but Pathfinder...

Interestingly enough, the Pathfinder Core Rulebook sells more copies each quarter than in the previous quarter (with the obvious exception of the release quarter back in 2009). This includes the first quarter of this year, a time when you might expect everyone to hold off and wait until D&D5...

What I was talking about with that quote wasn't a reference to the OGL per se, but rather, the business plan for D&D 3e that Ryan, myself and our team came up with. The plan was to only come out with 3 to 4 hardcover books a year. We also planned to try to create adventures that became iconic...

Just marking this comment so we can all come back to it in five to ten years. :) Having been part of the team who made Vampire: the Masquerade and Magic: The Gathering famous, I think Pathfinder could very well be widely known in five years or so. Maybe even up to the 90th percentile in 10...

Just heard from a book store distributor that the latest icV2 that was given out at Comicon this past weekend has Pathfinder in the #1 spot for Q2. Can't find a link on the web yet, but I figure that will be coming shortly. And before this post erupts another round of edition wars, it really...

Got you beat Chris, this is my 28th straight GenCon! :) -Lisa

Yeah, that was a fun two hours plus. :) Doing Auntie Lisa's story hour reminded me that there are a lot of cool stories to tell that would be a shame if they were lost. I am starting to get motivated to write a book about my time in the game business. Now to find the time. Another great...

Only two? I count three. White Wolf. Wizards of the Coast. Paizo. Unless, of course, you don't count one of those three as a world-class RPG company. :) -Lisa

Hey y'all: A very fun trip down memory lane. Pretty much everything in Peter's reminiscing is true (to the best of my recollection) except for the reason why I left White Wolf. It had nothing to do with the corporate structure. I would have been perfectly happy being a part of the White Wolf...

Present and accounted for! -Lisa

What most people don't realize is that a lot of the folks who get internships aren't looking to get paid. As a matter of fact, for many of them, they are trying to get college credit while getting work experience and most of the college internship programs prohibit us paying the interns. I...

Just a heads up Morrus. Paizo.com has over 180,000 members with over 100,000 considered active and current. This is a touch over the 7,000 you estimated in your map. :) -Lisa Stevens CEO Paizo Publishing

I agree 100%. Which is why you will see us making a big push to create a better "gateway drug" for Pathfinder next year. Right now, the core rulebook and APG are very intimidating for new players. Heck, I've been playing for almost 30 years, and I am intimidated by the size of the rules. But...

We do not report our subscription or online sales to anybody, so they aren't used in anybody's analysis of sales ranking. iCV2 uses data from the hobby game, comic book, and book stores, if I remember correctly. Any sales by WotC or Paizo direct to the end consumer will not be taken into...

Remember that the DDI was only a small part of the whole online initiative. There was the whole Gleemax social networking website and they had a number of online games in the works that they were hoping to use to make an online game portal. I've heard the same big number, but it was for all...

Actually, it is going to slip until the early part of 2011 so that we can get it absolutely perfect. We want this book to stay in print for a long time, so are taking the time to get it right. -Lisa Stevens CEO Paizo Publishing

You've been talking to my staff, haven't you? :) -Lisa