Kesh
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Check it out. He has "joined the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game team as a Rules Consultant."
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Pathfinder 1E Monte Cook joins Pathfinder team
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Knightfall
World of Kulan DM
That's just awesome news!Kesh said:
HeavenShallBurn
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Pathfinder, the last bastion of real D&D.
Windjammer
Adventurer
Yep, that means competition with 4th edition is going to be much, much fiercer.
It's important to keep clear about a couple of things, though.
First, it's not as if Monte is now designing Pathfinder RPG. He is not. He's a "rules consultant" and what that involves is far from clear at this stage. Meaning, his contribution could be very minimal due to reasons on either (or both) sides of the deal. Frankly, him contributing a preface recalls what he did for Tome of Horrors I and II. While this signals his product endorsement, and as such is a huge marketing stunt, it's less clear what else he'll contribute.
Finally, Pathfinder RPG is, from what we can tell in its latest (pre-)release, most decidedly not D&D 3.5. It's not even clear that it's backward compatible, not clear that you'd have to swap deities, background world, adjust your monsters' CRs and so on. And something similar goes for Monte's recent Book of Experimental Might. These things take work to integrate into a running 3.5 game.
So while I share the enthusiasm and interest in this move - the RPG world is going to be a richer one in the coming years - I hesitate to score this in favour of 3.5.
It's important to keep clear about a couple of things, though.
First, it's not as if Monte is now designing Pathfinder RPG. He is not. He's a "rules consultant" and what that involves is far from clear at this stage. Meaning, his contribution could be very minimal due to reasons on either (or both) sides of the deal. Frankly, him contributing a preface recalls what he did for Tome of Horrors I and II. While this signals his product endorsement, and as such is a huge marketing stunt, it's less clear what else he'll contribute.
Finally, Pathfinder RPG is, from what we can tell in its latest (pre-)release, most decidedly not D&D 3.5. It's not even clear that it's backward compatible, not clear that you'd have to swap deities, background world, adjust your monsters' CRs and so on. And something similar goes for Monte's recent Book of Experimental Might. These things take work to integrate into a running 3.5 game.
So while I share the enthusiasm and interest in this move - the RPG world is going to be a richer one in the coming years - I hesitate to score this in favour of 3.5.
blargney the second
blargney the minute's son
It's starting to remind me of picking teams back in elementary school. 
demiurge1138
Inventor of Super-Toast
That Monte doesn't know how to stay retired, does he? 
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