Pathfinder 1E Paizo no longer publishing Dungeon and Dragon

[Nightfall]

Al,

Yeah I loved that bit from Robot Chicken. Good idea.

 

[IanB]

It falls to Phil Lacefield, Paizo's Sales Manager, to make these determinations. Its only fair, as he lost a leg to the last blizzard.

If you eat Bulmahn, I move up a notch in DDM Limited rankings. Who do I have to pay to make that happen?

 

[Breakdaddy]

For the first part: I can't see how it really could hurt it more than this would. WotC is making some categorically BIG mistakes in my opinion, and one of the biggest is leaving the customer base in the lurch while they are in transition to "premium content." Letting their e-support license with codemonkey lapse, and then letting the magazines lapse, is like telling a starving man that better food than his bread and water is coming, stopping the bread and water, and then waiting two months to prepare a sumptous meal, only to be surprised that he starved to death in the interim.

For the second part: Quality of the content won't matter if it's (1) electronic-only, and (2) takes a year to get here. It's a poor move on the part of the company to kill all support licenses before there's even product to be made. All of this seems predicated on someone reading the results of the surveys from last year about "premium content", and drawing a VERY bad conclusion from it.

I seem to find myself in agreement with you alot, Hank. This is no exception. I have no idea what WOTC is thinking, but I will not get on board the E-Train that they setting up. I will likely support Paizo's new subscription "book" just on principle, and would have already done so, but the cost seems quite steep to me. I get Warpstone from the UK for less cash than this, and it's perfect bound as well and has only a few less pages. If the product is quality, I will give it a shot anyway. Good luck Paizo!

 

[Nightfall]

Break,

Well, maybe Amazon.com will have it a tad cheaper.

Ian,

I never thought Buhlman was that tasty...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Or the beginning of a new series of articles on WotC's site called "The Ecology of..."

There is no reason why WotC can't publish all of the articles online now.

There was no reason they didn't do it previously, instead of Shingling in the Realms, but that's what we got instead of something actually useful to a large number of folks.

It has been years since WotC consistently had useful stuff online, like the Far Corners of the World or the Spellbook series.

They're going to have to do one heck of a freebie issue or two to make me think they've suddenly gotten religion again.

 

[Vocenoctum]

I just called my wife to tell her about this.

We both remember buying Dragon magazine back in 1980...

Dragon was how I actually was introduced to the game, back in issue 80something.

And the excitement for both of us AND our parents when we got published in those pages in 2005...

It's one thing to find out that Paizo won't be publishing it anymore.

No offense to Paizo (because I love them dearly and they saved the magazines for so long), but the real blow is that the magazines are being canceled completely.

It really does feel like the end of an era. I'm sad to see the door close.

I lack the words to describe the feeling of loss caused by this announcement. (And this is coming from someone who hasn't even read the last three issues to arrive in the mail).

My sub's both run out in an issue or two, and I had decided not to renew. I wish they'd keep Dragon going, but since I don't like the current trend of the mag's, I think that's a bit of a pipe dream to wish for the continuation of something I won't personally buy.


Ah well. The thread is already past the point where I could catch up to it, so that's my sole contribution.

 

[Nightfall]

Whiz,

That or start handing out free money to us gamers.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I never thought Buhlman was that tasty...

How could he be, a cambion demigod whose other nickname is "The Old" just has to be a little gamey . . .

 

[James Jacobs]

Question: Can we get Pathfinder on PDF like we get War of the Burning Sky?

I ask this because I would probably run this online. I prefer maps I can move into MapTool, and text I can cut and paste.

Also, any possible chance that Keith Baker might pen an adventure? I was disappointed when he didn't write Scuttlecove. Any reason for that by the way that you can share?

As Josh mentioned upthread, yup; PDF versions of Pathfinder will be available.

As for Scuttlecove, Keith had to back out at the last minute because he just didn't have time to write the adventure. I would have loved to have him write it, and would have loved to see what he did with the material, but alas he simply didn't have the time, so the duty fell to Rich Pett who swooped in at the 11th hour to save me from having to write the thing... whcih was much appreciated, since that resulted in me having time to go home to sleep after all!

 

[Mycanid]

Whiz,

That or start handing out free money to us gamers.

Ah HA! Just had to drop by and say hi NF.

[Sorry for the OT post folks. Back to the thread!]