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I'm sooo exited on your decision to support and evolve 3.5!
And I'm imagining how this will be, when the real thing is finally released. So, I have a few questions to help me do so...
1. It will replace the current 3.5 PHB that will most surely get out of print after the release of 4E. So, will it have all the rules the 3.5 PHB has (like movement, gods, all the spells)?
2. Will you include certain setting-specific things like f.e. dogslicers in the weapon charts?
3. Will you do an additional DMG or will there be DM-specific chapters included in the rulebook?
4. How will you treat monsters? In the Alpha rules it is noted that some monsters have to be changed to use them with the revised rules; so can we expect a 'Monsters of Golarion'-book or something like this?
5. Will there be new core-classes or will you settle for variant classes? How will you tread PrCs? Are Golarion-PrCs an option?
I'm sooo exited on your decision to support and evolve 3.5!
And I'm imagining how this will be, when the real thing is finally released. So, I have a few questions to help me do so...1. It will replace the current 3.5 PHB that will most surely get out of print after the release of 4E. So, will it have all the rules the 3.5 PHB has (like movement, gods, all the spells)?
2. Will you include certain setting-specific things like f.e. dogslicers in the weapon charts?
3. Will you do an additional DMG or will there be DM-specific chapters included in the rulebook?
4. How will you treat monsters? In the Alpha rules it is noted that some monsters have to be changed to use them with the revised rules; so can we expect a 'Monsters of Golarion'-book or something like this?
5. Will there be new core-classes or will you settle for variant classes? How will you tread PrCs? Are Golarion-PrCs an option?
1. That is the plan.
2. That is the plan.3. Included in this book.
4. More to come.
5. No new core classes are planned at this time. As for the rest, more to come.
Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Do you think there's still any usefulness in getting the Rules Compendium, or will most of it be rendered unnecessary by the Pathfinder RPG?
Seems like the latter to me. The rules compendium was done to get all the subrules and rules-additions that appeared in various splat books into one place. The goal of the PFRPG seems to get rid of unnecessary subrules and will (hopefully) gather all the rules needed into one book as well. I'd only buy the Rules Compendium if I'd plan on playing WotCs 3.5...
If you plan on playing PFRPG it wouldn't make much sense from my pov.
Do you think there's still any usefulness in getting the Rules Compendium, or will most of it be rendered unnecessary by the Pathfinder RPG?
I agree with Absinth's point, however, the final Pathfinder RPG book won't be out until August 2009. The Rules Compendium still an excellent book for 3.5 games.
Edit: For clarification...I'm slow this morning.
DM Jeff
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules, GameMastery Maps Subscriber)
Point of curiosity.
Will the rules presented in the book be considered Open Game Content?
I expect the answer is yes, and may well have missed it being posted elsewhere.
At this time, the only content we expect to be closed is setting-specific stuff like gods and such. (And there won't be a lot of that.)
I personally think there ought to be two books. 400 to 500 pages each. One for players, and one for D.Ms.
The P.F.D.M.G ought to include all the S.R.D monsters, and collect the Golarion monsters. It ought to have a larger selection of magic items that utilise some of the excellent concepts in the WotC magic item compendium.
The P.F.R.P.G ought to include a comprehensive spell list that obviates the need to use any other books. Like the Spell Compendium, covering the niches that the P.H.B. doesn't.
I see the move toward greater quality in R.P.G products as a definite trend. The production values and design of 4th edition are probably going to surprise a lot of people. Pathfinder should do what Ptolus did, and really knock one out of the park, so that anyone who has the 4th edition P.H.B and the P.Rpg side by side can immediately see which is more solid and playable, and which allows more options.
Paizo seems to me to be a company that understands that quality and service trump price for geeks. We expect perfection and get very snide at really trivial things that mess with our hobbies.
Make the best game books anyone has ever seen, for any system.
Headhunt Monte Cook.
Poach cartographers from National Geographic.
Keep a consistent art style, internal and external.
Put cloth bookmarks in.
Add a c.d or d.v.d of bonus material of higher quality than Ptolus, or offer online stuff.
Run a short story contest here on the boards to find a fiction author, and sell the best as a P.D.F.
Buy or otherwise get the membership lists from living greyhawk and direct email them.
Make an A4 colour ad that we fans can print out at home and stick up at cons and F.L.G.S (Wayne Reynolds art plus goblin song?)
Make a set of digital tools and put Lilith Darkmoon in charge of hiring.
Get the pathfinder miniatures prepainted in plastic and make them available as sets, by adventure.
Have a luxury line of battlemaps from the A.Ps printed on one inch scale for immediate use, or at least as P.D.Fs, like many of us want. We will pay per map, if I am any indication.
Look at the modifiable PDFs being produced by 01 games, and adopt the technology for your P.D.Fs.
Just some suggestions off the top of my head.
I'm sooo exited on your decision to support and evolve 3.5!
And I'm imagining how this will be, when the real thing is finally released. So, I have a few questions to help me do so...1. It will replace the current 3.5 PHB that will most surely get out of print after the release of 4E. So, will it have all the rules the 3.5 PHB has (like movement, gods, all the spells)?
2. Will you include certain setting-specific things like f.e. dogslicers in the weapon charts?
3. Will you do an additional DMG or will there be DM-specific chapters included in the rulebook?
4. How will you treat monsters? In the Alpha rules it is noted that some monsters have to be changed to use them with the revised rules; so can we expect a 'Monsters of Golarion'-book or something like this?
5. Will there be new core-classes or will you settle for variant classes? How will you tread PrCs? Are Golarion-PrCs an option?
1. That is the plan.
2. That is the plan.
3. Included in this book.
4. More to come.
5. No new core classes are planned at this time. As for the rest, more to come.Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Hello Jason,
thanks for sharing!
How big will be the changes for all my 3.5 monster books?
Similar to the changes from 3.0 to 3.5 or do they grow obsolete by PRPG?
:(
Cheers,
Günther
