Questions You Would've Asked

[kenobi65]

This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife.

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was....

 

[Dax Doomslayer]

15. When will there be adequate electronic aids with all WOTC content (i.e. ETools type thing with more functionality) be made/provided?

 

[sniffles]

12. Will the other setting finalists ever see the light of day? If they've been raided for parts for Eberron, how about just telling us what they were finally?

Repeated for emphasis.

16. Why isn't there a goshdarned Greyhawk setting hardcover book for those of us who aren't interested in Living Greyhawk but like the setting?

 

[James Jacobs]

7. Why won't you allow Paizo to update the rakasta?

That one I can answer. We probably COULD update the rakasta if we wanted, and/or if we got in an article that did so well. For the Savage Tide version of the Isle of Dread, we just didn't have room to add One More New Race to the adventure. The rakasta are mentioned here and there, but their time has passed on the Isle of Dread. Partially because having a race of intelligent cat people seemed incongrous to me on an island where mammals are not at the top of the food chain, partially because I personally don't have a big fondness for them, but mostly because we just didn't have the room to tackle adding them in to the magazine. WotC never entered the picture on this one.

 

[RangerWickett]

8. Have you listened to the MMIV feedback and promised to never, ever, ever do that to us again?

Aside from the slight overemphasis on the spawn of Tiamat, I love the MM4. Great design, great ideas.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

We probably COULD update the rakasta if we wanted, and/or if we got in an article that did so well. For the Savage Tide version of the Isle of Dread, we just didn't have room to add One More New Race to the adventure. The rakasta are mentioned here and there, but their time has passed on the Isle of Dread. Partially because having a race of intelligent cat people seemed incongrous to me on an island where mammals are not at the top of the food chain, partially because I personally don't have a big fondness for them, but mostly because we just didn't have the room to tackle adding them in to the magazine.

Sound reasoning, IMO. The Isle is already almost full to bursting with races and monsters and cultures.

The rakasta moving on to other regions (the lands of the red steel!) works fine for me.

 

[Qualidar]

"Why havent you answered question 5 about the AoW hardcover, yet."

~Qualidar~

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"Why havent you answered question 5 about the AoW hardcover, yet."

If you mean James, he and his colleagues have done so quite often. Basically, the ball is in WotC's court, and has been for a while.

 

[Shade]

That one I can answer. We probably COULD update the rakasta if we wanted, and/or if we got in an article that did so well. For the Savage Tide version of the Isle of Dread, we just didn't have room to add One More New Race to the adventure. The rakasta are mentioned here and there, but their time has passed on the Isle of Dread. Partially because having a race of intelligent cat people seemed incongrous to me on an island where mammals are not at the top of the food chain, partially because I personally don't have a big fondness for them, but mostly because we just didn't have the room to tackle adding them in to the magazine. WotC never entered the picture on this one.

Thanks, James. I wasn't referring just to Savage Tide, although I definitely understand your reasoning for leaving them out (other than as an Easter Egg). This predates Savage Tide, as Mike McArtor seemed to indicate in the past that he wanted to update them (around the time he did the lupins for Winning Races) and WotC wasn't keen on the idea.

 

[JoeGKushner]

17. Why is WoTC so slow to open up new material that they rarely support? Magical Locations, Planar Feats and other mechanics could benefit a ton from intelligent third party design.

18. Why is there such a huge page discrepancy in the 160 and 224 books for a $5.00 increase as opposed to the former 192 to 224 page books?