Welcome Linda Zayas-Palmer!

Awesome!!!

...Yet another person at our Banquet table who gets hired by Paizo. :) Hey Paizo, need an Archivist?

I like this part of your "job description," as described by Liz above, "making it awesomer"

See you at the next Con!

Congrats!

Just remember, when in doubt, blame Cosmo!

Welcome, Linda, and remember, do not sign anything Cosmo puts under your nose, no matter how tempting it may seem! Looking forward to many things made more awesome by your effort!

Thanks, everybody :D

And you, young Skywalker; we shall watch your career with great interest.
Chancellor Palpatine

Congrats!

Congratulation!

So, what does a developer do anyway?

Developers are to Pathfinder RPG products what directors are to films.

They're involved in concepting projects. They pitch ideas, participate in product brainstorms, take part in world-building discussions, create outlines, and determine the best freelancers to work on products.

They're freelance wranglers. They divide projects into assignments, contact and organize freelancers, oversee milestones and deadlines, stay in communication throughout the project, review freelance handovers, request revisions, and serve as liaisons to other parts of the company the freelancer might need to contact. Internally, they report on their experiences with freelancers and their work with the rest of the creative team.

They're accomplished game designers, writers, and editors. They review the work of freelancers checking to make sure their decisions are logical, interesting, and in keeping with Pathfinder game rules, world canon, and company philosophies. This often means reworking stories, revising statblocks, redrawing maps, adjusting/recreating rules subsystems, improving the writing, and creating new content whole cloth. Many of the words you read in Pathfinder RPG products are the writing of developers (and designers and editors).

They're bookmakers. They select what parts of the text will receive illustrations, write art briefs, work with the art staff to make sure text fits/fills every page, write credits pages/back cover copy/preview text, answer all questions relating to their projects (from editors, art staff, or others), and solve any of the countless problems that might arise at any step of the book creation process. They do all this while striving to keep to the march of our varied subscription lines.

And a thousand other things. A developer helms the organization and creation of content for nearly every one of our product lines—Pathfinder Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, Modules, Player Companion, Pathfinder Society, etc. Additionally, they're all active on these boards, attend and run games at conventions, and help chart the course of the Pathfinder world. They're advocates for the Pathfinder game, representatives of Paizo, and active agents in making the gaming community more exciting, engaging, and welcoming.

Rob McCreary, Mark Moreland, Adam Daigle, John Compton, and Owen K. C. Stephens are among the most clever and creative game makers I've ever met, and among the brightest and most dedicated people I've ever known.

We're expecting a great deal from Linda, but even though she's barely been here a week, I'm 1000% convinced she's going to blow all our expectations completely out of the water.

Also, Linda, what's that in the background of your photo?

It looks somehow extravagantly funereal.

If Paizo keeps hiring Boston lodgers, it'll probably get a Dunks.

Oh man... is that the plan? Is Harsk going to switch from tea to regulah cawfey? Aroden wasn't dead, he just hadn't had his Spicy Smoked Sausage Breakfast Sandwich(TM) yet? Merisiel gets new orange-and-purple armor and says "time to stab the donuts" as she dual-wields french toast sticks? Life-sized cardboard cutouts of Erik Mona in the window of every Dunks saying "Looks like you FOUND THE PATH to an UNCHAINED breakfast"?

Oh god oh god where will it end~

Seriously tho, congrats!

It's funny you say that. When I lived in Boston on Boylston St. we had a Dunkin Donuts on the first floor of our building. :)

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

If Paizo keeps hiring Boston lodgers, it'll probably get a Dunks.

Oh man... is that the plan? Is Harsk going to switch from tea to regulah cawfey? Aroden wasn't dead, he just hadn't had his Spicy Smoked Sausage Breakfast Sandwich(TM) yet? Merisiel gets new orange-and-purple armor and says "time to stab the donuts" as she dual-wields french toast sticks? Life-sized cardboard cutouts of Erik Mona in the window of every Dunks saying "Looks like you FOUND THE PATH to an UNCHAINED breakfast"?

Oh god oh god where will it end~

Seriously tho, congrats!

It's funny you say that. When I lived in Boston on Boylston St. we had a Dunkin Donuts on the first floor of our building. :)

Just looked in my kitchen... it's already too late.

Also, Linda, what's that in the background of your photo?

It looks somehow extravagantly funereal.

You are correct. It's the Taj Mahal.

Also, Linda, what's that in the background of your photo?

It looks somehow extravagantly funereal.

Wow, you really know your crypts and tombs, Wes! I was next to her in that picture, and I still would have barely known it was the taj from that crop.

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

Also, Linda, what's that in the background of your photo?

It looks somehow extravagantly funereal.

Wow, you really know your crypts and tombs, Wes! I was next to her in that picture, and I still would have barely known it was the taj from that crop.

Of course he knows his summer home. :P

Mark Seifter wrote:

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

Also, Linda, what's that in the background of your photo?

It looks somehow extravagantly funereal.

Wow, you really know your crypts and tombs, Wes! I was next to her in that picture, and I still would have barely known it was the taj from that crop.

Of course he knows his summer home. :P

Hmm...I've heard the temperature is really agra-vating in the summer, and we need him too much for Paizocon and Gencon. Maybe ol' Mumtaz will share during the winter though?

AH HA! The nosoi makes her appearance! :)

Woo, congrats!

New blood, excellent!

A thousand welcomes. Color me excited for your reign, LZP.

w00t! Congrats, Linda, and welcome to your asylum new "home"!

Congratulations =)

Welcome, Linda! I'm looking forward to seeing your work!

Congrats!

I couldn't decide whether that was the Taj or like, someplace in Washington or something. :/

Congrats!!

Linder! No suh!

This is wicked ahsome! I always knew yous was wicked smaht.

Iys was hopin you'd find a job that was pissah when you an
Mahk booked it outta heah for Paizo town.

Congratulations and wahm regahds.

Welcome aboard, Linda!!!

Congrats and welcome, Linda. Remember when everything or anything goes wrong just Blame Cosmo and move on.

I am going to have to have a talk with some people about the continuing effort to steal away my VOs ;-) Welcome to the team!

Congratulations!

Congratulations, Linda!

welcome!

Huge congrats! HUGE

And there was much rejoicing! (seriously, major rejoicing and congrats!)

Welcome and congratulations! Can't wait to see your influence on the game ^_^

Congrats, Linda!

I enjoyed our brief conversation at PaizoCon 2014, comparing notes on our respective Kingmaker games. You clearly demonstrated your ability for cunning design then.

I look forward to playing and running products you work on.

Congratulations, Linda! I can't wait to see your work.

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

Also, Linda, what's that in the background of your photo?

It looks somehow extravagantly funereal.

You are correct. It's the Taj Mahal.

Hard to get much more "extravagantly funereal" than that. ;)

Welcome from the Netherlands! :)

Welcome and congratulations! I hope you will fit right in and provide us greedy gamers with lots of good stuff ;-)

Well done, Linda! I look forward to offering congratulations in person at Paizocon.

Congrats, apparently someone has done her tomb research^^

Rock me, Linda Zayas.

Congratulations! :)

Apparently the builder of Taj mahal wanted a second one, in black marble and across the river. When he told the people who had just built TM, they killed him to save the tatters of the country's economy.

But: Congratulations!