Pathfinder 1E Monte Cook joins Pathfinder team

[Khairn]

This is outstanding news! I love Monte's work, and added to Paizo, this is just a win-win in my eyes.

Congrats to both!

 

[DM_Jeff]

I can't imagine anything wrong with such a great union. Huzzah to Paizo and Monte!


And you know, really, I find it so funny and ironic that 4e folks are coming here stirring the pot.

-DM Jeff

 

[Jackelope King]

Very interesting. I'm excited about 4e, but I'm also very interested in what comes of Pathfinder. My hat's off to Paizo for the open process they're using in developing the game.

 

[bento]

Reading this thread makes me wonder...

How far will Pathfinder have to go before it is a sub-game like Iron Kingdoms and such and not really 3.5 at all.

Personally I think they have crossed that line already.

I am willing to grant that there is the possibility that it might become popular enough to supplement 3.5, but I see that chance as pretty slim.

I think that most people who are participating in the Pathfinder alpha aren't really concerned that a strong line is adhered to, as much as shaping the 3.5 core rules into something that people can continue to enjoy for many more years.

With all the years of playing that 3.5 has allowed, most folks know the pain points in the game - rules like grappling, the deadliness of early level characters, class levels where nothing happens or the difficulty in playing high-level characters. I believe Pathfinder is trying to help alieviate these problems. So Pathfinder's mission is to take the rules elsewhere.

With my own group, we like 3.5 and have a comfort with it, but we don't like playing low-level characters, and we always quit a campaign before we get too high. If we can incorporate some new rules that broaden both sides of the game, we'll do it.

 

[Wepwawet]

My hat's off to Paizo for the open process they're using in developing the game.

This.

 

[Gotham Gamemaster]

Reading this thread makes me wonder...

How far will Pathfinder have to go before it is a sub-game like Iron Kingdoms and such and not really 3.5 at all.

Personally I think they have crossed that line already.

I am willing to grant that there is the possibility that it might become popular enough to supplement 3.5, but I see that chance as pretty slim.

Pathfinder is not meant to be 3.5. Backwards compatibility with 3.5 is a design goal, but not the only one. The correct question would be "How far will Pathfinder have to go before it its a sub-game and not really 3.75 at all?"

 

[Umbran]

Monte is good at what he does - this bodes well for the game he works on.

However, my guess is that it doesn't bode well for Monte's fiction projects...

 

[DaveMage]

Reading this thread makes me wonder...

How far will Pathfinder have to go before it is a sub-game like Iron Kingdoms and such and not really 3.5 at all.

Personally I think they have crossed that line already.

If they do cross that line with the final product, then you'll be exactly right.

My (great) interest will be gone if the product is not usable with my current 3.x library.

 

[Jack99]

I can't imagine anything wrong with such a great union. Huzzah to Paizo and Monte!


And you know, really, I find it so funny and ironic that 4e folks are coming here stirring the pot.

-DM Jeff

Yeah, because people can't possibly be interested in more than one game, right? I mean, I know that 4e lost you at hello (to quote yourself), and that you thus never really approached it with an open mind, but that doesn't mean that other people aren't willing to follow other games with an open mind and judge it by it's merits.

 

[La Bete]

Great news! Regardless of what you think of Monte's work (I'm not a huge fan), this is very good for PRPG, greatly increasing (I believe) the overall quality of the end result rules-wise.

Yay!

And you know, really, I find it so funny and ironic that 4e folks are coming here stirring the pot.

-DM Jeff

Actually, the 4e folk being told to go away and find another forum/thread is even funnier, really.