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Kristopher Miller 644, Fri, May 22, 2009, 07:54 PM

Is there any chance that Paizo will ever be able to release the collected "Demonomicon of Iggwilv" articles in a style similar to the "Dragon Compendium," or at least in a PDF? I loved those articles, but due to lack of finances I missed out on the last year and a half of Dragon's publication, and therefore missed several installments.


Paul Ryan (Paizo Charter Superscriber), Sat, May 23, 2009, 12:25 AM

Kristopher Miller 644 wrote: Is there any chance that Paizo will ever be able to release the collected "Demonomicon of Iggwilv" articles in a style similar to the "Dragon Compendium," or at least in a PDF? I loved those articles, but due to lack of finances I missed out on the last year and a half of Dragon's publication, and therefore missed several installments. It's unlikely that they can, due to their licensing agreement with WotC. Once the contract to publish Dragon and Dungeon magazines ended, they lost the right to do anything more than sell the backstock of physical copies and the PDFs they had already produced. I've seen posts from people with Paizo saying that they'd love to be able to release the final issues in PDF but can't because their agreements with WotC won't allow it. Something like the compilation you want would be similarly blocked. Unfortunately, unless Paizo can get permission from WotC to do something like that, you're stuck for buying back issues.


James Jacobs (Editor-in-Chief, Pathfinder), Sun, May 24, 2009, 12:02 PM

Once upon a time, Erik and I were talking about releasing a book version of the collected "Demonomicon" articles, likely at a point where we'd covered a dozen or so demon lords in the magazine and then the book could do a couple more "bonus" ones. Unfortunately, all of these articles are owned by Wizards of the Coast. The day we lost the licenses to the magazines, we essentially lost the option to make a compilation book of the Demonomicons. And now that WotC's deep into 4th edition, the chances of them wanting to do a 3rd edition compilation of a series of articles in old print Dragon magazines is, I would have to guess, zero. Paizo.com has several of the back issues still available though, both in print and PDF form. I'm not sure they're ALL available though...