Question: Where did you hire so many transmuters for your staff?

You start with blank paper, and it turns to gold.

To extrapolate, this sort of product is exactly what I would use over and over again. A cheap, quick guide to a campaign world, with tips on character creation and new useful feats. Keep 'em coming!

I think this sort of thing would pay off for Greyhawk, large areas of Forgotten Realms, and Ravenloft. Hopefully it's an idea you'll kick around.

Ptolus, Savage Tide, Castlemourn and other settings have something comparable. But yeah, it's a pretty great idea and one that every setting ought to have, in my mind.

I plan on buying 6, plus the one that I will be getting from my subscription. That way all my players can have one. Plus, for $2.00 a pop, it is worth it.

I'm in already. Paizo's a good company, and if they keep churning out stuff like they've done for Dragon and Dungeon, this should be good.

I plan on buying 6, plus the one that I will be getting from my subscription. That way all my players can have one. Plus, for $2.00 a pop, it is worth it.

The player guide will be a free PDF download FYI.

Do I have to wait until August to see my free PG for subscribing?

Do I have to wait until August to see my free PG for subscribing?

Are there plans to provide a Player's Guide for each adventure path?

Are there plans to provide a Player's Guide for each adventure path?

My players often take a significant amount of time generating new characters. Escpecially if it requires reading up on a new setting. I've shown up to more than one game to find a player frantically finishing a character for a game that was announced a month or more earlier. Is there any chance that the Player's Guides are going to be available in advance of the new adventure path, so that character generation can get a head start. If I get the Player's guide in August at the same time as the first adventure, I may not be able to play it until October.

Will there be a new players guide for each Adventure Path? If so, that would mean 2 Players Guides each year?

Ungoded wrote:

Are there plans to provide a Player's Guide for each adventure path?

Yup!

Hmmm, mayhaps I'll get one for myself now and then buy a pack in stores for any group I might wish to garner if they are going to be sold in stores as a bundle.

Hmmm, mayhaps I'll get one for myself now and then buy a pack in stores for any group I might wish to garner if they are going to be sold in stores as a bundle.

question if I turned my dungeon and dragons into pathfinder books will I recieve one of these or must I add a month to month subscribtion?

question if I turned my dungeon and dragons into pathfinder books will I recieve one of these or must I add a month to month subscribtion?

Vic, if I am a subscriber, does that mean I get a free copy of the new players guide when you start the second (and third, and fourth, and...) AP? If so, then all I can say is "SWEET!!!".

By the by, I'm writing this right now (you can tell by the four days of stubble I'm sporting). If any of you have any ideas on stuff you really really want to see in here, be sure to tell us! For example, Varisian Names: Yay or Nay?

*Rhothaerill cracks the whip* No shaving for Wes. :P

Yay to Varisian names. The cultural aspect is helpful for campaign flavor, though I'm sure it will come out in the various adventures too.

Another yay to Varisian names.

Honestly, the item I want to see the most in the Players Guide is fluff, such as an overview of the culture of the races of Varisia. Another good item would be how to fit the main core classes into the starting location, similar to what was done for Diamond Lake in the Age of Worms AP. Since this guide is specifically for the first Pathfinder AP rather than the world as a whole then taking it to that level of involvement would be useful.

Honestly, the item I want to see the most in the Players Guide is fluff, such as an overview of the culture of the races of Varisia. Another good item would be how to fit the main core classes into the starting location, similar to what was done for Diamond Lake in the Age of Worms AP. Since this guide is specifically for the first Pathfinder AP rather than the world as a whole then taking it to that level of involvement would be useful.

If any of you have any ideas on stuff you really really want to see in here, be sure to tell us!

Could you give us a brief snippet of info from the booklet? Like, for example, what is the best favored enemy for a ranger?

Honestly, the item I want to see the most in the Players Guide is fluff...

Both James and I are big fans of rules that build off fluff and, having such a focused story with RotR, we can incorporate rules that are a bit more specific than the usual "+2 on Search and Craft (underwater basket-weaving)" feats you usually see. For example, if you're a member of the Shoanti Skoan-Quah tribe, the Clan of the Skull, you might gain “a +2 bonus to your Armor Class against undead,” as ties into their cultural roles. Or, if you're a member of one of the other eight clans, you can choose the same feat (Totem Spirit) and receive a benefit that ties you more closely to another tribe, giving you both a rules benefit for the story decision of intimately tying your character to the region.

It's not all fleshed out yet, but what's coming along so far is pretty cool.

Feats for making gnomes even more badass. ^_^

Weirdo.

Could you give us a brief snippet of info from the booklet? Like, for example, what is the best favored enemy for a ranger?

That being said... goblinoids at 1st, giants at 5th. ;)

Sounds good Wes. :b:

Nice...

Hi Paizo team,

Would this also be useful for characters going through the other GameMastery Modules or is it very much tied to Rise of the Runelords?

Thanks in advance!
Bocklin

Gnomes are getting a surprising amount of love as they're one of the PHB races we thought deserved some more attention and a bit to distinguish them from the other shorty races. Of course, though, you'll see all this Mike... not just because you work 6 feet away, but because you're the biggest gnome enthusiast and critic there is.

Weirdo.

Wait... weirdo...?

Oh well. Yay! :D

Nothin' weird about a little gnome love...

Another vote for the names. Also, something I would like to see as far as fluff is some attention to the physical difference between different cultures. Not sure how many different cultures are going to be featured in this path, but a few notes on how you can look at a person and guess where they might be from based on what they are wearing, how their hair is styled, mannerisms and accent.

Me personaly I would rather see more fluff than rules (or rather all fluff and no rules) in the players guide, but it does sound like you guys are coming up with some interesting crunch.

...if I am a subscriber, does that mean I get a free copy of the new players guide when you start the second (and third, and fourth, and...) AP? ...

- Chris Shadowens

...if I am a subscriber, does that mean I get a free copy of the new players guide when you start the second (and third, and fourth, and...) AP? ...

Also, is this the only thing the "charter subscriber" gets (the spiffy messageboard tag aside)?

Sharoth wrote:

...if I am a subscriber, does that mean I get a free copy of the new players guide when you start the second (and third, and fourth, and...) AP? ...

As far as I know, nobody's even discussed how we'll be handling future Players' Guides yet.

Chris Shadowens wrote:

Also, is this the only thing the "charter subscriber" gets (the spiffy messageboard tag aside)?

Yep.

I never thought the tag was "spiffy" and stopped noting tags after a month on the boards.... Ok, except when they say Publisher, Editor or something like that. Contributors? Gah! Who cares...

;)

Does anyone think my tag is spiffy?

BFHD.

I saw on the blog today that Pathfinder #1 and the Player's guide is supposed to ship this week. Is this correct? Does this mean that consumers may have this before the end of the month? I didn't expect this until Dungeon ran out. Please say it's so!

FH

I saw on the blog today that Pathfinder #1 and the Player's guide is supposed to ship this week. Is this correct? Does this mean that consumers may have this before the end of the month? I didn't expect this until Dungeon ran out. Please say it's so!

FH

Fake Healer wrote:

I saw on the blog today that Pathfinder #1 and the Player's guide is supposed to ship this week. Is this correct? Does this mean that consumers may have this before the end of the month? I didn't expect this until Dungeon ran out. Please say it's so!

FH

That was an unclearly worded statement. It ships to the printer this week. It will then be printed and shipped back to Paizo, and then to us in its previously scheduled timeframe.

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

If any of you have any ideas on stuff you really really want to see in here, be sure to tell us!

Feats for making gnomes even more badass. ^_^

Well, there is the discount, and the PDFs...

I never thought the tag was "spiffy"

- Chris Shadowens

Since, sadly, Dungeon and Dragon is no longer going to be published, I am eagerly looking forward to this subscription as a way to feed my players when we head back over to the big sandbox. Having quick and easily accessible guides and products like this is what made me subscribe to D&D way back when. Im sure that this will have the same great attention to detail and fun-factor as past products were.

Kruelaid wrote:

Well, there is the discount, and the PDFs...

But that's for regular subscribers, too...yes? I'd meant, specifically, the "Charter Subscriber", which, I believe, was answered above.

Kruelaid wrote:

I never thought the tag was "spiffy"

Neither do I, was just pointing it out in the event it was going to be used as a "selling point" to become a "Charter Subscriber". Since I've 5 issues of Pathfinder due me after Dragon & Dungeon pass away I'm going to use them to judge whether I want to continue subscribing (which, I'm sure, I will since I've been a fan of Paizo's content for some years now, no reason to suddenly dtop) or not. I can order the Player's Guide and I'll have the PDFs available so so far I think I'm set.

- Chris Shadowens

Mr. Lacefield or other Paizo sales reps,

The player's guide is $2.00, correct? I was somewhat flumoxed because I spotted FRP Games selling it for $15.98! (http://www.frpgames.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=38004) I know Paizo is limited in its ability to influence what others sell Paizo's product for, but that price for a 16 page guide sounds a wee bit high.

Mr. Lacefield or other Paizo sales reps,

The player's guide is $2.00, correct? I was somewhat flumoxed because I spotted FRP Games selling it for $15.98! (http://www.frpgames.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=38004) I know Paizo is limited in its ability to influence what others sell Paizo's product for, but that price for a 16 page guide sounds a wee bit high.

Looks to me like someone over there didn't pay attention to the MSRP, actually... they're pricing the Player's Guide as if it were a volume of Pathfinder. Which isn't quite accurate...

When will the Player's Guide be available for download (since it's a pdf file I assume you can put a specific date on it)?
I hope it's something like August 1st, since it would then give my players a little time to read it and use it to generate their characters before the actual adventure arrives and I can start the game.

When will the Player's Guide be available for download (since it's a pdf file I assume you can put a specific date on it)?

When can we expect these to ship? Am I right in thinking that they will come about the same time as my last issue of Dungeon? Also, I know the player's guide pdf will be available for free in August (I haven't bought it, as you wonderful people will be sending me one anyway). I'd like my players to be able to download it soon, so we can get crackin'.

Printed copies of the Player's Guide will ship at the same time as Pathfinder 1: mid-August.

Can we get an option for buying a pack?
Or should I just order 5 at once?

Why do I feel like Little Orphan Annie today? The sun'll come out tomorrow, the Player's Guide for Pathfinder tomorrow, free P-D-F...

At least, I really, really hope it's tomorrow. Please be tomorrow. Please.