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I sleep pretty well at night. I think the OGL was a benefit to the industry and to the players, and I think it is still generating good works. All I know is that, if you hadn't had the crazy idea to create the OGL and then champion it through the halls of WotC when all of us thought that you were insane, then I wouldn't have been able to have the success that Paizo has become, and I might well be out of this business that I love so much. Working with you was a constant stream of challenging my assumptions on the RPG business and in the end, I came away with a much better understanding about how it all works together. I am happy to say that you were right. And Paizo stands as a testament to your vision. Thanks so very much my friend! -Lisa
Not really but I will research it once I've finished up the writing sample. Family are all UK citizens, I actually hold a multiple-entry unlimited stay visa for the US (not sure if it allows me to work, as I haven't wanted to before). Both adults are graduates and professionally qualified... daughter's 14 and has already expressed a wish to live in America! Let me know what you find out Megan! -Lisa
Unfortunately, we have no experience with things like Green Cards. And I don't have anybody with any expertise with them. Are you familiar with any of the rules and regulations for Green Cards? -Lisa
I believe we put our order in with the distributors yesterday. So soon. Soon. -Lisa
My degree is in Biology. I turned down a fully paid tuition plus expenses for marine biology to start my first game company. -Lisa
Just got my new core rules book, its not the 4th printing. I did notice the quality of the paper is poorer, and vibrant nature of the first printing is gone. That aside I think amazon shipped me a third or second printing. Just thought that I would point out that we have used the exact same printer and the exact same print specs on each printing of the book, so any perception about different paper quality or vibrant nature of the printing job is probably due to an adrenaline rush as you got your first copy of the game. :) -Lisa
One good thing though, Starting next month and every month after that they will always release at least one low level Scenario, though that won't fully help you it will at least give you one you can always run every month.You're right! This is absolutely great planning on their part, and I was ecstatic when I read the blog about it. But the demand for how often we play at our store is just too great for this to be enough. What if we sanctioned Pathfinder Modules and Pathfinder Adventure Paths? Would the addition of those longer adventures help to fill in the gap for those who are so committed that they blow through the new scenarios faster than I can blink? -Lisa
We also have Ulisses Spiele doing the German translation and Wyrd Edition doing it in Italian. Add to that the Black Book edition folks doing French which was linked above, and you have all the translations that we are currently doing. -Lisa
Yeah, those pesky ducks - they delayed Paizocon dates announcement last year too Jeff Alvarez is working on getting the dates set up. Patience. :) -Lisa
Awesome! Amazing! Thank you! -Lisa
Yeah, the normal version of the book is available for 50% off the cover price. As for finding these, I literally did that today. Our warehouse is huge and full of all sorts of things. There is a big pile of boxes labelled "For Lisa and Jeff to Sort." I've been going through them slowly and today I found these last few limited editions of our first book. -Lisa
Another really fun crossover comic involving my two favorite gaming worlds! Huzzah! :) -Lisa
I do believe I stand corrected then. From now on I'll say if James has his way :) You know us, we all have strong opinions that many times come out when we post on these boards. And James is the Creative Director, so he has a lot of sway when it comes to these decisions. But they won't be made in a vacuum and the decision on what to do is far enough away that we haven't talked about it as a group. James has made his opinion clear on the boards and we very well may follow his thoughts, but then again we could end up going a different way. Which is why I say to not sweat things like this until we start letting you know officially through blog posts and playtests and such. -Lisa
It would be great if we periodically heard some stories from said game. As I prepare to start a Kingmaker campaign, I would be interested in how things develop. I've been thinking about making it a regular Paizo blog post, but then again, I wanted to do that for my Rise of the Runelords campaign and I just never found the time. But I will see what I can do this time around. :) -Lisa
We just started our Kingmaker campaign and the players decided to roll 4d6 and take the 3 highest rolls, and then assign them to stats in the order rolled. Then, the players could swap stat rolls with another player if they wished. The strange thing is that I didn't ask them to do this, they just thought it would be a fun way to roll up new characters. -Lisa
Psionics is far enough off in the future, that we really have no idea about how we plan to do them. Different staff members have their ideas, so occasionally they will post about how they think that we should do it one way or another, but nothing is set in stone. Or even wet mud. Once we get psionics on the schedule, we will gather the forces inside Paizo and brainstorm and plot until we come up with something that we all dig. Nobody could predict what that will be at this stage, so don't believe anybody who says that James said this or Erik said that or Jason spouted off about this. Because the end result will probably be something that no single person could conceive right now. And then it will be open playtested and made even better. So no use in worrying about something in the future that hasn't even been contemplated as a group here at Paizo. You will know when we start to plan for psionics, and then we will ask for lots of input. -Lisa
I've heard this mentioned before by Paizo staffers in regards to other similar products (the Pathfinder computer game comes to mind). I can't say I disagree with your reasons, but I'm curious to how often you're actually approached to do something like this. I think as the brand grows it would be fantastic if you were to pull off some interesting licensed products like RPGs, animated series, and the like, but if it means getting somebody to come to you first, what really are the chances of that happening? I don't know enough about the industry to know this, so I'm just curious. We get approached all the time, but it isn't just about getting it done, but getting it done right and up to the quality standards that Paizo has. When I was at Wizards of the Coast, I did licensing for three years. You get approached all the time, but many times they don't pan out. As Pathfinder grows, I expect that we will continue to get approached by bigger and bigger companies, and someday, something will come together. -Lisa
With the volume of animated series on the market, I find it hard to believe that it would be an unsound financial decision. The key reason why it would be an unsound decision if Paizo did it ourselves is that we don't know the first thing about making animated series. There are many companies around the world that do know a lot about that, but not Paizo. Now, I bet those companies couldn't create RPG products if their life depended on it, but Paizo could. That is why you end up licensing this sort of thing out to another company, because you just have the skills inhouse to do it right. -Lisa
Even if Paizo had all the money in the world, I would never greenlight a big investment that got no return. That would be the ultimate in stupidity. :) That said, if an outside company with experience in making animated series came to us with the idea the OP stated, we would be open to it, but it wouldn't involve Paizo money and very little of Paizo staffers' time. -Lisa
I always assumed something approaching the real numbers came out when Paizo folks go out with WotC folks and everyone has a little bit too much to drink. Despite the two companies more or less being in competition there have to be a lot of friendships still between individual people who work for both. Actually, no. Both our companies are professional enough to not let sales numbers and such slip out when we are hanging out as friends. The data I am referring to is garnered from other sources, not employees of WotC. -Lisa
Still, I'm pretty skeptical that this is a measure of OVERALL sales (I'm thinking especially about distribution in the big chains), but yes this IS very significant. We actually have very good data about sales into the "big chains" like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, etc. through a company called Bookscan which records every single sale through those chains and aggregates them. Believe it or not, we know the sales of RPG products through book stores much more accurately than we do through hobby game stores. Weird, I know. :) -Lisa
It may not be scientific, but it jives well with some much more scientific data that we have internally. We will never be able to have 100% transparency about how sales of somebody else's products are going, but we can get some pretty good data that customers don't have access to. And that data tells us that icV2 is pretty much right on. Which is pretty cool, IMHO! :) -Lisa
I guess my point is to not sacrifice the quality that Paizo is known for in order to stuff more goodies into the box. Whenever I open my wallet to buy something that says Paizo on it, I know I am buying a product of superior craftsmanship. I'd rather see no starter set than one that contains crappy newsprint booklets and cheapo dice. That is a key point. One of the things that I will never let our guys do (and I doubt they would want to) is sacrifice quality. I'd rather have less in the product and keep what's left high quality than get more but cheaper stuff. -Lisa
I guess you have to contact the Space Monkey ... I mean, Hyrum Savage (yes, it's a real name), Paizo's new Marketing Manager and (as of today), PFS Coordinator. That is correct. Also, Hyrum has access to Josh's email and he and Mark Moreland are working their way back through unanswered messages, so there is a chance that they may answer your email from there. But I would email hyrum.savage@paizo.com just to be sure. :) -Lisa
Awesome! I think that's the main issue: affordability. Once they start climbing past $15, I tend to tune out.T-shirts would be nice, but they've said they do not sell well enough for them to look into them that much. And THAT is the problem. Quality t-shirts with full-color printing can cost a lot of money to print. So far, we haven't been able to do it at a price point where we could charge less than $20 something and that is just too high to make sense. But we'll keep tilting at the windmill. :) -Lisa
OMG! NEW ART! What a blatant fan suck-up Mark! You just couldn't handle that Sara Marie is now much more popular, could you? So you had to not only give them one new piece of art, but three! Blasphemy! Let them eat text, I say! You just wait until I get into work today young man! You just wait! Spoiler:
I am just giving Mark a hard time, if you didn't read the tongue in cheek in my post. Just making sure
He was also one of the original Lion Rampant creators of Ars Magica, originally produced by Lion Rampant which merged with White Wolf magazine to become the company you know today. (they already shared a lot of the same staff) Can you guess who also was one of the original Lion Rampant creators and helped build the World of Darkness and was the person who came up with the White Wolf Magazine merger? -Lisa
We did get a couple hundred more copies of this book from our book distributor who in turn got them back from book stores. We only accept whole copy returns, so this means that we have been able to get some "restocks" from the book trade that we have been able to offer through the website, though not enough to bring back into the distribution system. -Lisa
Not to leap to conclusions, but there are a lot of recent products on the "under 1000" list, especially the two (3?) newest Planet Stories books. Is Paizo cutting the print run on these, or are they gaining popularity? There can be a lot of reasons for something getting low in stock. Sometimes we underestimate the print runs and other times the product just sells a lot faster than we anticipated. -Lisa
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