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Besides reigniting my passion and drive to roleplay and game as often as I can manage it, Paizo also introduced me to these boards. I'm not a big name or anything but this is the most I've ever posted on a messageboard before. I don't know why but I feel like it's ok to just kick back here.
Also ... it's made me have to reimagine what pops into my mind when I hear the word "gnome".
*in my best Napoleon Dynamite voice*
That's because Paizo made gnomes frikkin' sweet!
Paizo is like Pedro Sanchez. A vote for Paizo does make all your wildest dreams come true.
What I want to know is how has Paizo influenced you over the years? Everyone is invited to respond to this question.
When I started college in the fall of 2002, I joined my local gaming club, and many of the adventures my first college DM ran were from old issues of Dungeon magazine. The first 1-20 campaign I ever played in at college was a modified version of the Shackled City Adventure Path, using the races and classes from Arcana Unearthed. That was when I truly fell in love with gaming as a hobby. When I started my first campaign as DM, I had a player insist on playing a Grippli out of an issue of Dragon Magazine. So really, Paizo has always been a factor in my gaming experience.
However, it wasn't until the double-whammy of Monte Cook's retirement and the beginning of 4e that I really started to appreciate Paizo as a company. At some point I got a link to Paizo's site shortly before the release of Pathfinder #1. Like everyone else, I fell in love with Paizo's interpretation of goblins, and so I started buying the APs, one issue at a time through my fine local gaming store. I follow the blog more or less habitually, and eventually decided to register on the forums and even order a few 3.5 products when they went on sale as a result of the d20 license termination. A friend of mine went to GenCon last year and picked up a copy of the Pathfinder Beta on my behalf, and since then, he has been running a campaign using those rules with the Eberron setting that has been quite entertaining. I was also incredibly pleased when I heard that the Book of Experimental Might would be published by Paizo, giving me a chance to pick up the books in hardcover.
Ultimately though, I think the greatest influence that Paizo has had on me is with their open call for PFS adventure submissions. Without this open invitation, I doubt that I would ever have made the jump between DM and published adventure writer. On a certain level, I felt like even if I failed to see publication, it was worth it to try, to see if maybe I did have the chops to produce something that people besides my local group might play and appreciate. Much to my amazement, my pitch was the one that Mr. Frost chose to see developed. Despite a virus that wiped my OS kernel, an ice storm that left most of my home state without electricity, and the illness of Mr. Frost, I nonetheless managed to turn in my work on The Eternal Obelisk on time, and I feel a great sense of accomplishment for having done so.
-C. Robert Brown
Thanks to Paizo, I really feel like a part of a larger gaming community, instead of just my little circle of friends.
Also, thanks to the incredibly high quality of their product, I started getting interested in layout and design again for the first time since college. And I think most of us know where that ended up.
Working in China. Not much of a gaming community.
Paizo is really the only way I can continue to be a gamer.
Patrick Curtin
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Battles Case Subscriber)
Hmmm ....
I had spent the better part of seven years, basically the entirety of the 3E era as an inactive gamer. There just wasn't a lot of folks gaming, and I couldn't travel far because of issues with my daughters. I loved 3E and the OGL, I thought it was brilliant and it brought many of my houserules into its core mechanic. I bought the monthly book, and kept my ongoing subscription to Dungeon and Dragon.
When I heard that they were taking the two mags digital I was crushed. I decided to try the first AP since I had some extra time left in my subscriptions. I began to read the messageboards and I was stunned. I had gone to other gaming sites before, but they seemed to be rife with the smug 'comic-book guy' type of gamer who sneers at anyone who doesn't devote their entire life to RPGs. The folks here seemed much more adult and mature (with a nice vein of silliness), so I took a chance and joined a PbP.
10,000 posts later, I have to say Paizo has helped me reintegrate with the greater roleplaying community, and that's a good thing. I much more enjoy my time here than I ever did raiding in EQ or questing in Wow.
Their products have made my home game better (my players love when they get to draw from the critical hit deck, and love when I draw from the fumble deck, and I love flip maps and initiative tracker).
Professionaly it has led to Rite Publishing supporting the Pathfinder Rpg and I am always comparing my products to Paizo products wondering how do I make mine as good (or better, its go to strive.)
Steve Russell
Rite Publishing.
Well, I for one am glad that you are here on the Paizo boards. ~hands you a beer and some cookies~ This is in case Lilith has not welcomed you to our madhouse already!Besides reigniting my passion and drive to roleplay and game as often as I can manage it, Paizo also introduced me to these boards. I'm not a big name or anything but this is the most I've ever posted on a messageboard before. I don't know why but I feel like it's ok to just kick back here.
Also ... it's made me have to reimagine what pops into my mind when I hear the word "gnome".
Thanks a lot. It's been good to be here and you've always been pretty cool as far as I'm concerned. You've also been very welcoming so that's been a huge bonus to me.
I kind of creeped onto the boards little by little so never got a welcoming, so thanks for that as well :D
Well, I for one am glad that you are here on the Paizo boards. ~hands you a beer and some cookies~ This is in case Lilith has not welcomed you to our madhouse already!Besides reigniting my passion and drive to roleplay and game as often as I can manage it, Paizo also introduced me to these boards. I'm not a big name or anything but this is the most I've ever posted on a messageboard before. I don't know why but I feel like it's ok to just kick back here.
Also ... it's made me have to reimagine what pops into my mind when I hear the word "gnome".
Thanks a lot. It's been good to be here and you've always been pretty cool as far as I'm concerned. You've also been very welcoming so that's been a huge bonus to me.
I kind of creeped onto the boards little by little so never got a welcoming, so thanks for that as well :D
~grins~ Well, I am glad to be of assistance. I hope that you have fun here. Relax and just be yourself.
