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Legacy of Fire is AP #4. It's the one we're going to be launching in a few weeks.
Council of Thieves is AP #5. It launches at Gen Con, and will be the first PF RPG AP.
Kingmaker is AP #6. It's set in the River Kingdoms. That's about all we'll be saying about it for many months, though! :)
I just noticed that this post was there... huh.
Kingmaker is AP #6. It's set in the River Kingdoms. That's about all we'll be saying about it for many months, though! :)
Huzzar, months of wild speculation and intense dissection of any sentence that falls from James' lips/pen/keyboard.
All I know so far is that this will be the first AP in which the PCs begin as Vargouilles questing for ancient magics that will return their bodies.
And that is followed by KINGSLAYER and that is followed by Clash of the Kingslayers... hmmm... don't we already have that? Is that a prequel AP? Apisode One?
<banter mode off>
Just kidding around. I find the chaotic political environment of the River Kingdoms ideal for an Adventure Path.
No, no... once you've playd Clash of the Kingslayers, don't you need a new king? Ergo, Kingmaker! ;)
Mr Baron
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Modules Subscriber)
I was hoping it would have been done by Ed Greenwood. No offence meant James. Has Paizo approached Ed about doing one of the Pathfinder Books?
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James Jacobs is our standard placeholder for all products that we don't know who the author is. He won't be writing this book as far as I know, and we haven't announced who will be yet. Once we have an author, we'll change the name on the website here.
-Lisa
Do you know that Ed contributed to the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting book?Thanks. Still hoping for an Ed Greenwood Pathfinder Book. That would be pure win.
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And many of us are surely hoping that you'll use Ed as a freelancer on more projects! 'Dwarves of Golarion', for example, would be pure gold if done by Ed -- I'm still using his book 'Dwarven Deep' in every FR campaign I run. :)
(BTW, did Ed write the stuff on Hold of Belkzen in the Campaign Setting? That was an amazing bit that surely felt like his work! :))
I was hoping it would have been done by Ed Greenwood. No offence meant James. Has Paizo approached Ed about doing one of the Pathfinder Books?
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No offense taken.
We've talked with Ed in the past and he's worked on stuff with us before (such as the aforementioned Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting Hardcover), and we'll be quite likely to talk to him again to get him to work on other Pathfinder products as well. He's a busy guy though, and getting his schedule to sync up with Paizo's is a tricky task...
In any case, we haven't announced who's writing this book yet, mostly because we're still assigning parts of the book. It won't be by one author, though... that's all I know for sure right now.
Legacy of Fire is AP #4. It's the one we're going to be launching in a few weeks.
Council of Thieves is AP #5. It launches at Gen Con, and will be the first PF RPG AP.
Kingmaker is AP #6. It's set in the River Kingdoms. That's about all we'll be saying about it for many months, though! :)
I wonder if two months is enough "many".
I wonder if two months is enough "many".Legacy of Fire is AP #4. It's the one we're going to be launching in a few weeks.
Council of Thieves is AP #5. It launches at Gen Con, and will be the first PF RPG AP.
Kingmaker is AP #6. It's set in the River Kingdoms. That's about all we'll be saying about it for many months, though! :)
Mr Mona has let slip some stuff about Kingmaker here.
Oh, for crying out loud. Kingmaker is also a boardgame from the 1970s about the War of the Roses, a British Indie Rock band, a Marvel comics character, and the bloody 16th Earl of Warwick, with whom the term originates.
Nobody's going to be confused or litigious about this because Neverwinter Nights went to the well, too.
Oh, for crying out loud. Kingmaker is also a boardgame from the 1970s about the War of the Roses, a British Indie Rock band, a Marvel comics character, and the bloody 16th Earl of Warwick, with whom the term originates.
Nobody's going to be confused or litigious about this because Neverwinter Nights went to the well, too.
::applauds::
Thanks for the historical perspective. Usually you have to go to the Richard III Society to see Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, referenced on on a message board. :)
Right-thinking is invasive. Being right-thinking about Pathfinder increases your chances of being right-thinking about Good King Richard. I'm waiting for somebody to sign on to the compatibility license and offer a historically accurate (i.e., Ricardist) War of the Roses sourcebook.
I'm a shameless threadjacker, sorry.
Oh, for crying out loud. Kingmaker is also a boardgame from the 1970s about the War of the Roses, a British Indie Rock band, a Marvel comics character, and the bloody 16th Earl of Warwick, with whom the term originates.
Nobody's going to be confused or litigious about this because Neverwinter Nights went to the well, too.
Learn something new every day. I never heard of any of that stuff you mentioned but I think the 16th Earl of Warwick gets the title.
Learn something new every day. I never heard of any of that stuff you mentioned but I think the 16th Earl of Warwick gets the title.Oh, for crying out loud. Kingmaker is also a boardgame from the 1970s about the War of the Roses, a British Indie Rock band, a Marvel comics character, and the bloody 16th Earl of Warwick, with whom the term originates.
Nobody's going to be confused or litigious about this because Neverwinter Nights went to the well, too.
Of course, this is also where GRRM gets some of his inspiration for the titular head of the Lannisters.
Right-thinking is invasive. Being right-thinking about Pathfinder increases your chances of being right-thinking about Good King Richard. I'm waiting for somebody to sign on to the compatibility license and offer a historically accurate (i.e., Ricardist) War of the Roses sourcebook.
I'm a shameless threadjacker, sorry.
But since you're a Ricardist, all is forgiven.
A few years back, I was asked to write an article entitled "Richard III and the Princes in the Tower" for Renaissance Magazine. I started out a traditionalist, but by the time I'd read a stack of books (I always do way too much research) arguing both sides (actually, "several sides" would be more accurate), I ended up firmly in the Richardist camp.
And yes, a War of the Roses source book sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
So, how far ahead do you guys try and get the cover art done? Like this is a Dec. release, but with it going to the printers, wouldn't it need to be done like next month?
Covers usually go up a month or so before the release of the product, they may have some, but they are rarely put up on the website until a month or so before the product. Hope that helps.
It's fun to go through the A Game of Thrones and tag all the thinly-veiled analogs to historical figures from the War of the Roses. :)
Of course, this is also where GRRM gets some of his inspiration for the titular head of the Lannisters.
What about the Game of Porcelain Thrones?
So, how far ahead do you guys try and get the cover art done? Like this is a Dec. release, but with it going to the printers, wouldn't it need to be done like next month?
We generally try to order art for covers very early, often six months or more before the book ships to the printer. But also, we give our cover artists a long time to perfect the covers. In addition, the actual design of the cover usually ends up being one of the last steps in the process. As for shipping to printer dates, those are generally 2 months before release... so we're still five months ahead of when we'll have to start thinking about that for this product.