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Very excited to see this...now the waiting begins. :)

Purchased and another request for a PDF version!

Really happy to see "official" wallpapers coming back!

AJC

Amen indeed!

While I would have no issue with on online "option" being able, to have the content loaded on my computer/laptop, independent of an internet connection, is critical for me. With the recent changes made by WotC, I have opted not to renew my subscription.

AJC

I kinda wish Sarah, who I would also like to thank for her excellent work, could have gotten on stage just once. The art makes a good game a beautiful masterpiece.

Yes, but it was nice to see the accolades given to her by Jason when he accepted the award for the Bestiary.

AJC

Good thing that once the book comes out, no one will remember the placeholder art!

Yep! Not much of a downside is it... ;)

AJC

Some great looking titles here; particularly interested in the Rivals Guide and Dungeons of Golarion. Truth be told, I'm pretty keen on all of them... ;)

Only downside is the placeholder art used for the PFS Field Guide - just doesn't seem to compare when held up against its companion books (IMHO).

AJC

Great news!!

AJC

Paizo is just the channel for this service.

Thanks for clarifying.

Regards,

AJC

Curious about this - does this mean that Paizo will be providing the POD service, or are they simply another channel for a POD service to take/receive orders?

Thanks in advance,

AJC

Not sure if you are aware, but a couple of contacts listed here. In particular, there is an email address for Sarah Robinson and general art submissions.

All that said, the sample is pretty nice - seems to me it would be a great fit for some of the Open Design (Kobold Quarterly) publications.

AJC

My first recollections of the game were small ads in Games magazine; at the time, I was living in the Yukon and had little knowledge of gaming or the FLGS... ;) Fast forward a couple of years and we moved back to Toronto where I hooked up with a great friend in middle school. He and his brother introduced D&D to my brother and I and we had many a great battles and sessions. Of course, back then it was all about power, wealth and power - good times.

We initially dove into the Red Box, then the Blue, followed by the Green and ultimately, the Gold. However, the bug had taken hold and it wasn't long before AD&D became the goto game, with Star Frontiers, Top Secret, Shadowrun and Battletech all vying for game time.

I find myself today thinking on these memories very fondly, and wondering how I could ever have spent so much time buried in books, maps and figures... ;)

AJC

It's what's called a "active" community... ;) ;) ;)

AJC

Thanks for the update Rob - very much like how you have packaged these.

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I do miss the horror of mind flayers and beholders

This +10...

Those two monsters strike a real chord on me - have both fond and not so fond memories of them... :)

AJC

Sent that profile with lots of stuff marked for you to update. Feel free to change anything already there or the equipment and what not.

Thanks - should have it tweaked later today.

AJC

If you shoot me an e-mail at kronvet at gmail dot com I can get you a copy of Tarin's profile. I'll change everything over to your character and flag the parts for you to finish. It'll have all the BBCode tags and what not.

Email sent - thanks!!

AJC

Again, my thanks!!

AJC

it depends on when amazon ordered them from the distributor. as I understand it, the latest printing of these two books have been out for about a month and a half, and the distributors were out (or nearly out) of second printing when the third was released to them. So if amazon/FLGS ordered thier book after that time, you should most likely get the newest printing

Thanks!

AJC

Thanks for the link - bookmarked and joined!!

AJC

Reprinted with changes:

Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook (now on 3rd printing, with incorporated errata for each reprint)
Pathfinder RPG Bestiary (now on 2nd printing, with incorporated errata)

Vic:

I'm assuming that if I were to re-order these items from Paizo, they would be latest printing? Any idea as to availability through other trade outlets such as Amazon?

Thanks,

AJC

Apologies everyone - got caught up in Real Life today; still working on my character. If all goes well, should have it ready tomorrow and posted tomorrow evening.

AJC

Thanks for the link - will definitely review it as I go along.

AJC

Just had power go back on at the house - got to love this heat wave. Will start working on a wizard or sorceror this evening and try to have something ready in the next day or so.

Regards,

AJC

Hey if AJ is really dead set on running a dwarf fighter I don't have a problem moving to another character. During the previous thread, when it looked like a fighter heavy party, I was thinking cleric for a "just in case" backup. I can still do that if necessary.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to everyone. While I would like to play a dwarf fighter, have no real problems trying something else. Given the solid showing for martial-type characters, how does a wizard sound? Have yet to try one of those out, so should be good fun.

AJC

We're investigating something that's kinda like this, but not exactly. It's not yet clear whether the idea will ultimately be viable or not, so it's premature to talk about it. However, we realized being able to sync back and forth via some appropriate mechanism will be increasingly important in the years to come.

Glad to hear it - hopefully something can pan out sooner that later. To be honest, I'd be just as happy to have it packaged as a PortableApp... ;)

AJC

Would like to throw my name in here as well. Have been itching to get into a PbP game, but have always had time issues come up that prevented me from being able to fully commit. Those are now addressed, and I'd love to get some gaming in. Current preference would be to play a dwarf fighter, should be able to have a character worked up later today/tonight.

Regards,

AJC

Wow. Let's make entirely factless speculation sound all "official", shall we?

This is how I see it: Lone Wolf was a large (compared to the other devs of the commercial tools) company, already established and having a solid base from the money it earned from ArmyBuilder.

Most other companies who made 3.x character generation software and charged for it were new, small companies, who had no previous customer base. Even if Lone Wolf ever lost money on Hero Lab, they'd still have Army Builder and their other products to fall back on. Most of the other companies in question did not have this choice.

I know the one major commercial software tool that was a "competitor" of sorts was RPGXplorer. The developers of which were two guys in Britain who were doing this when their day jobs didn't get in the way. The primary programmer became unable to support the product in a timely fashion because his daughter got extremely ill and kept having to go to the hospital. You can find all this out reading their forums. AFAIK the only reason why RPGXplorer stopped development was because the programmer did not have time to continue due to personal reasons, and not do to with sales.

You can successfully argue that Lone Wolf was the only pre-established software developer that had a strong business model to begin with, and that's why they're still around. The other companies in question were all much smaller and had a much bigger uphill climb than Lone Wolf. You can survive a member of your staff having a dying family member in the hospital. Good for you.

Perhaps you should have included all of Rob's quote:

It could also be argued that Hero Lab is the only commercial tool left *because* it's popularity enabled it to thrive, while all the other options died off.

I don't know the reasons why the other tools have disappeared over the years, but they *have* gone away. Meanwhile, Hero Lab is still going strong, and it's going strong for a diverse assortment of major RPGs.

Just another possible interpretation of the same data....

I'm just not drawing the same conclusions you seem to be, based on his comments.

AJC

Did you by any chance mean to say that an iPad version would be inherently *NON* portable? I'm going to assume so, since developing for the iPad is specific to Apple and cannot be readily ported anywhere else.

We are definitely looking at other platforms as well. The major problem is that each of the platforms requires us to pretty much rewrite our products for each platform. Apple requires Objective-C, Windows requires Silverlight, the Android is different again, etc.

We're a small company and can't do everything at once. We also need to ensure we can recoup the financial investment on each platform we support. So we're evaluating the alternatives and figuring out how best to pursue all of the different platforms on an ongoing basis right now.

My bad there Rob - wasn't clear. By "portable", I mean able to run off a USB flash drive, portable hard drive, etc., with the functionality (wishful thinking here) of "syncing" back to the primary application. For me, this would allow me to install the primary app on my home computer and have a portable version to run on a flash drive while I'm on the road for work.

Sorry for the confusion there.

AJC

For those of you asking about an iPad version of Hero Lab, the native Mac port is being done in a way that should get us a long way towards that goal. Once we have the Mac port operational, we can then tailor the interface appropriately for use on the iPad. It's a two-stage process so that we maintain full interoperability across all versions of HL, and we're well underway on stage one. :-)

Rob:

Given that an iPad version would be inherently portable, as part of the strategy, are you considering something similar for Windows systems?

Thanks in advance,

AJC

Was wondering if there were any plans to incorporate some form "portable" version for this? That is one of the huge advantages some of the free options offer for me. Given that there is DRM/licensing challenges, perhaps a version that is created as a subset of the core licensed program - ie a option to create a portable version from the installed version?

AJC

I suggest you send an email to Customer Service with a picture of the damaged item and go from there. That's what I did and I have a replacement copy coming to me in my next shipment.

AJC

Handled swiftly and promptly - thanks to the team at Paizo!!

AJC

We are working through our email backlog as quickly as possible an Sara Marie will be answering your email soon.

Thanks for your patience! :)
cos

Not a problem - received and email from her earlier today and forwarded along a picture. Thanks for the follow up.

AJC

Just finished Gardens of the Moon and really enjoyed it - now on to the next one... ;)

AJC

Sent in an email to customer service on Monday and just sent another reminder; figured I'd post here as well:

I just opened this package up on Monday and noticed that the GameMastery Guide has a noticeable "dent" on the bottom of the spine. There is no break in the skin, or white showing through, but the bottom of the spine has what appears to be a big "wrinkle" in it. I suspect it came from the printer like this as the box it came in was in excellent condition and none of the other items were damaged.

Would it be possible to get it replaced? If so, what is the process? As well, would you like this copy returned?

Thanks in advance,

AJC

Thanks - love that wyvern!

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Thanks. Figured there was some logic, but couldn't quite sort it out.

AJC

The Warhammer stuff is pretty good, as is the Exalted comics and the WoW comics. I will never play WoW but I love the comics I have picked up.

Personally, I thought the 40K comics we better (though the Blood Bowl one was great), but that license simply died last summer (IIRC) with barely a peep. I have picked up all the trades of the WoW comics and have really liked them.

I think that the challenge with any comic is the continuity of artists and writers. For me, this can be a huge deal - a major issue I found with the Boom! stuff was that I really enjoyed the initial releases but found the art changes in later volumes not to my liking.

Regardless, would love to see Paizo be able to partner up and make a foray into this form of media. Would also love to see them some Pathfinder anime.

AJC

I think this is a great idea but would hope that it would include digital content as well. For me, would love to see anything that can be typed be offered as an editable-PDF (or something similar) and then which could the be put into dry erase sleeves that could be "clipped" to the board. This would let me create and manage my character on the old computer while being able to print out for each session. Perhaps the digital version could be an extension to Hero Builder?

Cool idea regardless.

AJC

Not to sound like an idiot, but why would the "2010" catalog come out in August...wouldn't it be better to hold off until January and issue the "2011" version then? Just curious.

Regards,

AJC

While nature can definitely catch one by surprise, man's capacity to make big holes is pretty impressive: Bingham Canyon

Thanks for these and the link - great stuff!!

Love the Wyvern - very distinctive image that sets it apart from dragons.

AJC

Color by far, but as noted above, quality of the artwork is just as important.

That's weird, as it should be listed as pre-order. Don't worry, though -the good news is that Sunken Empires is not quite out yet, so you'll have ample opportunity to pick up a copy when it is released here in a few weeks!

Brandon

Thanks for confirming - I was getting conflicting info depending on where I was looking.

AJC

Thanks for this - looks interesting. Your notes indicate that it is v1.1.1, yet the download only reference v1.0 - could you confirm?

Thanks,

AJC

My copy arrived in the mail earlier this week, though pre-ordered it direct last fall.

AJC

This is now listed as "out of stock" - any idea as to when it will be available again?

AJC