Lisa Stevens's page

There are quite a few people who decided to add extra books on to their sub orders this shipment. Way more than normal. So there are a LOT of subs that will need to be processed by hand rather than machine. Which will take some time. But we are putting our backs to the grindstone and shipping out a LOT of packages, so hopefully we can finish soon.

-Lisa

I turned over the text for the cards yesterday, so we are THAT much closer to getting these out the door! Now Sarah gets to weave her artistic magic on them to make the beautiful! What's that Wes, I need to write up the rules? Sigh, never done. Never done. :)

-Lisa

Are we actually going to see a half-orc by WAR in the iconics line?

-Lisa

Any idea if Reaper plans to release Karzoug or Scribbler at the lower price point? I'd love to pick these up but dollars is tight and I will be sad to discover I could have saved a few bucks by waiting for a Reaper release.

-Lisa

Vic Wertz wrote:

The second printing has not yet arrived in our warehouse; it'll probably be another week or two.

We have a small quantity of the 1st printing left that had been reserved for sale here at paizo.com; we'll continue fulfilling webstore orders with those copies until they're gone.

So next week... maybe?

-Lisa

http://www.reapermini.com/ says arriving next week!

-Lisa

Reaper site says available from Monday!!!! :)

-Lisa

Indications are that we'll know by June what the first book in the line will be.

-Lisa

I wanna know when to expect to find it at the FLGS.

-Lisa

Delayed again? I just noticed my subscriptions now show Pathfinder Adventure Path #27: What Lies in Dust (Council of Thieves 3 of 6) (PFRPG) Print Edition is scheduled to ship late November or early December 2009. The product release page still shows mid Nov which is correct?

-Lisa

I think it means that Lisa has one duck in a row. I'd like to hear some additional quacks.

Quack twice for Sean K Reynolds.

EDIT: Is it a row if there is only one duck in it?

-Lisa

I hope Clark Peterson is back as a judge. Heck, I'd like to see all the same judges back. Any word on the judges?

-Lisa

Thanks Lisa, next week or so sounds better than early December!

It seems I had my weeks mixed up. It looks like it is the week after when the shipment is supposed to arrive. Still well before December, but not in a few days like I thought. Sorry for the mix up!

-Lisa

Is this gonna be the final artwork for the cover? I hope so, Lookin forward to this one!

-Lisa

I don't know. I think it shows that Lisa doesn't flog them enough. I mean if they have so much time to answer our questions, surely that's a sign they aren't working hard enough. :-P

-Lisa

Vic Wertz wrote:

We're a ways from having anything show-offable.

But I can assure you that they do work just fine with Adventure Paths and other published adventures—we've been using them to great effect in our Rise of the Runelords campaign.

So Vic, I'm not the only GM that is woefully behind on great campaigns.

-Lisa

So I noticed today that Council of Thieves #3 is listed as shipping 'late November or early December', which is a little frustrating when we got the last one in September. It's probably just as (or far more) frustrating for you guys as it is for me, so I won't belabour the point.

My question is, I've ordered the Bestiary and set to ship it along with the adventure path to save on shipping. I'm concerned that it might be out of stock or something by the time its ready to ship and I'll miss out - how likely is that?

What is the cheapest shipping option I can get for the Bestiary to my listed delivery address if I go ahead and ship it seperately now (the Aussie dollar is pretty good against the US dollar today - who knows how low it might have slipped by early December)?

Council of Thieves #3 is arriving next week most likely and will start shipping then. I am guessing that what you are looking at is the street date, which tends to be two weeks or so later than when we start shipping subs.

-Lisa

Will there be more decks like this one ? The idea opens up a whole can of possibilities !

-Lisa

At first blush, it reminds me a little of Jonathan Tweet's "whimsy cards." Didn't he eventually turn that into Everway?

-Lisa

please dont flame me, but could this be used in 4e?

-Lisa

This is my little baby. I am not quite ready to reveal the mechanics and such, but rest assurred we will preview this in the Paizo blogs before it releases. I am using a variant of these cards in my home campaign and they are a blast! Paizocon attendees will be able to use them in a very unique event that we are also not ready to unveil. :)

-Lisa

I really like to read the chatter if anything. It gives me inspiration and renewed energy, and makes me want to go out and buy things.

-Lisa

It shows and has for awhile unavailable. Does this mean it is gone for good in print? just checking as it is one of the few issues I missed and was unable to pick up yet.

[a moment of silence please]

The end of an era.

-Lisa

Dark_Mistress wrote:

I like the art.

I'm pretty sure that's a mock up.

-Lisa

I have 8 goblin costumes that are 11 year old sized. They are complete with a couple of torches, masks, and dog-slicers!

-Lisa

How long of a backorder are we looking at?

-Lisa

Now I am worried that my hints are TOO subtle and nobody except for about 5 people are going to get them and those five people probably aren't even reading this thread!

This is what happens when you try to get too cute for your own good. :)

-Lisa

LMPjr007 wrote:

I know I am a little early for this BUT... since my wife and I are expecting our firt child in early May 2010 I was just wondering if there have been any date set for PaizoCon 2010 yet? Maybe before early May perhaps? Just a thought...

I certainly do not speak for Paizo, but I beleive Lisa said in another thread that it is almost certainly going to be in June.

-Lisa

Lisa Stevens wrote:

My theory is that it has to do with ducks.

-Lisa

Did someone step on a duck?

-Lisa

Will the playtest be conducted the same way as before with everything released in a pdf? Or will it just be a available via the forum only? Inquiring minds want to know. ;-)

-Lisa

GentleGiant wrote:

Could it be...?
Might the playtest kicking off tomorrow, Friday, be what Vic is hinting at HERE?

My theory is they will be announcing the playtest start date and schedule tomorrow.

-Lisa

Will Reaper be releasing a miniature for Kyra or she lost forever now?

Thanks

-Lisa

Lisa Stevens wrote:

Aaron Bitman wrote:

Now, I'm expecting Lisa to put a piece of pizza crust to her upper lip, signifying a mustache, and say in a false baritone "Curses! Foiled again!"

Foiled again by those nosy kids and their dog! Curses!

-Lisa

What, no pic of the crusty mustache?

"Excellent, Mona! Excellent! We can bind all those Complete Encounters into a single book and sell it for a thousand dollars each! Those bumpkins won't see it coming! Now leave me alone while I book my corporate jet for the Caymans."

:)

-Lisa

Now, I'm expecting Lisa to put a piece of pizza crust to her upper lip, signifying a mustache, and say in a false baritone "Curses! Foiled again!"

-Lisa

Now you're just being mean.

:)

-Lisa

OK! Time to order it from his site then! Thanks Lisa.

[Edit]Ack! Even on his own site it looks available but is not. Where oh where can I get a copy of this without paying $250 on Amazon?!

[cue music]

-Lisa

Someone save Rob some pizza.

-Lisa

<munch, munch>

Btw, its Alison's birthday!

Today, a Papa John's pizza truck rolls up to the new Paizo digs and unloads pizza and soda for the whole company, courtesy of our very cool fans here on paizo.com. Pizza good...

-Lisa

Having our amazing fans buy pizza for the whole company. THAT is what's best in life! :)

-Lisa

Any reason there's no "add to cart" button, or even a backorder or currently unavailable tag on this page?

-Lisa

No huge announcement for the new Paizo editor, but it seems the cat is officially out of the bag. Congratulations Rob! Can't wait to start bugging you about making more frequent blog posts and canon discrepancies and other annoying fannish behavior.

Anyone who missed it can see Lisa's subtle announcement here.

-Lisa

To end this off-topic tangent, Alison is going to school to learn how to make computer games. When she moved up here to Seattle, that was always her goal and her job at Paizo was to make enough money to make that a reality. So we always knew that her time in customer service had a clock on it. She is helping out every few days on a part-time basis.

Or goblins kidnapped her.

-Lisa

BryonD wrote:

Any updates for those of us subscribers still pending?

I'm not in the screaming crowd, but I am surprised to find myself still waiting, and curious for an update.

Thanks

and..... Behold the power of Murphy!!!
email arrives right after asking....

-Lisa

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

He's also disabled anonymous comments. Hey, I always said who I was in the comments!

Sorry about that. I certainly never -meant- to disable anonymous comments. Everyone is welcome at my blog! Apparently, I hadn't checked my settings in so long, it went back to a "default." Please, give it another try and let me know if it lets you comment.

And I am SO doing Towny Tuesdays at some point...

Thanks for doing these blogs! I am compiling the info to use in my home campaign. You can never have too much info on Absalom!

-Lisa

Lisa Stevens wrote:

I am sure I am missing some, but you get the idea.

How could you forget Snowpocalypse!?

Tarren Dei wrote:

If only there was some way to arrange that "the wrong place" was my house.

You say that now. But when pallets and pallets of the same book show up in your garage, I think you'll think twice about subverting deliveries to Paizo.

As for diverting shipments to your house, realize that we will expect you to mail out all the subscription shipments yourself and will be forwarding all the complaints we get to you. :)

-Lisa

Lisa Stevens wrote:

There isn't a single more important thing being done at Paizo right now than a) getting back on schedule and b) staying on schedule.

-Lisa

As far as I can tell from the threads here, almost all the "delays" (in quotes to acknowledge comments upthread that a change in shipping date does not always constitute a meaningful delay: Oct 5th or Oct 25th, it's still shipping in October as promised) have been due to things largely or entirely outside Paizo's control.

Printer taking more time than normal to print something
Customs holding a shipment
The local delivery trucks delivering to the wrong place
Authors bailing on us at the last second
Authors delivering a manuscript that has to be substantially rewritten
Artwork not arriving by the due date
Artists bailing at the last second
Editors being sick
Editors quiting and us not being able to hire a replacement fast enough
GenCon (I know, we know about this in advance, but it still messes up the schedule)
Christmas (ditto. It is not like extra work days appear to replace the holiday ones)
Moving the office
Putting out the last issues of Dragon and Dungeon while simultaneously having to put out the AP and modules

I am sure I am missing some, but you get the idea. There are a lot of moving pieces and while we are trying to work towards a time when we are far enough ahead that simple things like a convention or holidays won't blow the schedule. But that isn't a place that you can get to quickly. Baby steps. Baby steps.

-Lisa

I just saw that one last night and thought the same thing. Before that, I was thinking that the Bloodhulk would probably be the closest approximation.

-Lisa

However, I must say that constantly shifting release schedules is very disheartening.

And I speak for the whole staff when I say that. There isn't a single more important thing being done at Paizo right now than a) getting back on schedule and b) staying on schedule.

-Lisa

I have tried to "make my own" by purchasing the PDFs, but since they are SECURED, Acrobat won't let me extract pages, save as images, or edit the maps to delete the GM room numbers, etc. In short, the PDF is worthless as compared to Paizo's previous practice when you published Dungeon Magazine.

I just grabbed a secure PDF of Bastards of Erebus and had no problem doing the things you mention above. I am using Adobe Reader 8.1.7 for the Mac and I was able to select both pictures and maps and drag them to my desktop or to a folder. Yes, you can't do a Save As function, but selecting and dragging works just fine and you can rename them once they are on your computer. The Westcrown map on page 56 came out just great, with the name Westcrown coming over but none of the tags. And it extracted as a TIFF file. I was also able to do the same thing with any of the images in the PDF.

-Lisa

Hey y'all:

I am sorry that a few of you got caught in this mess. I will get to the bottom of why people weren't notified when I am back in the office on Monday. I will also get together with my team and come up with a solution to try to make it up to you. Unfortunately, since none of us are in the office, it will have to wait until Monday.

I do want to reiterate something that I said earlier in this thread. Because of the way our agreement with VISA and Mastercard is set up, it would have been illegal for us to ship people's products out in a different configuration than we emailed them it would. Like I said earlier, we were told by our printers that all of the products would be in our warehouse by the 12th of October. Then one printer switched dates on us after we had locked in the subscription shipments. At that time, we were literally stuck with having to wait unless we heard differently from our customers. I know it sucks to basically tell us to ship them as they come in and then get screwed because a) you subscribe to all of the products and b) something outside your control and Paizo's control causes this, and we are just as frustrated about it as you are, believe me.

As far as I know, we sent emails to everyone affected by this. I can't verify this until Monday, but I will. I can't verify delivery of the messages since SPAM filters and other blocking agents sometimes cause paizo.com emails to customers to get shunted away. But I will verify that we sent them.

Once more, my apologies for anybody in this boat who was affected by this.

-Lisa