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At $100,000 Wolfgang comes to your house for the weekend and runs a marathon Midgard game for you ;)

Expected to come out in July. I am hoping we have some copies for PaizoCon.

I'm really happy with how this book turned out! A LOT of work by a LOT of people went into it, but the end result is going to be worth it.

I'm actually looking at the final, color printer's proof on my desk right now in fact :)

I'm a stretch goal. Woot. :)

Marc Radle wrote:

Next goals are announced: a hardcover for all backers when we hit 800, and Owen Stephens writes blood magic at $44,000 (possibly including a godling spell or two...)!

Let's just say godlings will be mentioned in my blood spells... :D

Great to see Mr. Stephens involved! :)

Thanks Cheapy! The response overall to the Battle Scion has been really positive :)

If by "I bet you're kicking yourself you didn't get it published here first :)" you mean instead of first publishing the base class in Wayfinder, then ... nope, not at all :)

I was quite pleased to have it appear in Wayfinder a few years ago first - I wouldn't change that fact even if I could! :)

We're passed the $43,000 mark!

Next goals are announced: a hardcover for all backers when we hit 800, and Owen Stephens writes blood magic at $44,000 (possibly including a godling spell or two...)!

Anyone else think there is no tension because we know Gandalf, Bilbo, and Legolas survive for LOTR?

Nope - it's just the nature of prequals.

The trailer was great and I have every confidence that the movie will be great as well. I also trust that Jackson knows when it's appropriate to deviate from the books in order to make a good movie.

Slavishly following the book when adapting it for another medium (film, TV, stage) is usually a bad idea- what works on the page does not always work as written on screen. A good writer / director understands that ... and Jackson is a very good writer and director!

Heh ... I kind of *do* know what's in store in the art side... and there is MUCH potential for some serious awesomeness!!!

Yeah, I think this one is going to be BIG! The Kickstarter has only been live for a few hours and already it has over 100 backers and it's 2/3 of the way to the funding goal! That's pretty fantastic! Heck, most folks on the West Coast haven't even logged onto their computers yet :)

The reeeaaaally exciting thing is going to be once that funding goal is reached and the stretch goals start to be released - i.e. the Goal Scroll starts to unfurl :) Trust me, there are lots of REALLY AWESOME stretch goals on that Goal Scroll!!!

I assumed you escaped!

Hey everyone. I'm really happy with how this turned out and SUPER excited for it to come out!

Check out a little preview here:

The Sunken Pyramid is at the Printers!

I strongly disagree, James. The player took the feat and the cohort is a part of his character, much in the same way a familiar or animal companion is a class feature of a character

The GM wouldn't build your animal companion for you or decide what feats or skills your animal companion takes, nor should he decide how your cohort levels up for you.

And, judging from the links Cheapy posted above, it would seem Jason and Sean would agree.

I was once the third-most hated man on the internet. I stopped taking internet arguments personally LONG ago. :)

I like you Sean!!!! ;)

Also no! Pathfinder and Paizo are just getting started for crying out loud!

Zark wrote:

Marc Radle = 30 favourites
OP = 0 favourites

And Gary's post has 51 favorites...

:D

Oh no! I don't want to be in a competition with Gary!!!

That said, I'm up to 33 now, so ... watch you back Teter ;)

I loved DS9! It might actually be my fave (after the original series of course)

To each his or her own! :)

Really? I don't begrudge you your right to be ticked off but ...

Man, as hard as the Paizo staff works, I don't have any problem with this at all. Besides, it sounds like they are going over lunch and will only will be gone the time it takes to see the movie and get back - I don't think a few hours is going to make much difference in the over all time it takes to get orders out.

Let them have a small bit of fun over an extended lunch - they certainly deserve it!

Heck, my first thought when I read that was ... "wow, yet another reason why Paizo is the most awesome place to work!" ... followed quickly by "Why oh why don't I work there?!?!" ;)

It comes with optional systems, and a not half bad Character background generator.

Heh ... I'm sure after the months and months of hard work, the Paizo crew will be thrilled to hear the Character background generator is 'not half bad' :P

At the risk of shifting gears back to the actual movie itself ... :)

So far, most reviews and comments from people who have actually seen the movie have been very positive. I'm hoping to see it this weekend!

You know that with 4 under the belt now, I am going to be really anxious to see if the White Necromancer shows up in this series.....just saying ....might be a cookie included....little bribery :)

Ha! Well, there is actually no cookies or bribery needed ...

a) because I'm not really a cookie or sweets kind of guy (give my chips and onion dip or nachos with jalapenos and extra cheese any day :)

and

b) the aforementioned Expanded White Necromancer is already done and finishing up in editing as we speak! :) I'm quite happy with how it came out - new feats, new spells and a couple new archetypes I think people will really find interesting ... *cough* undead companion that scales up as you do *cough*

But enough about that! Back to the Battle Scion! Let's see if we can get it up to the #1 Most Downloaded spot this week! :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to do the review Mr. Fish! Really glad you liked the class. (I also really like the Force Blaster archetype :)

Oh, and you are dead on regarding the trio of legendary magic items which once belonged to Gax the Great ... he is absolutely my little tribute to the great Gary Gygax :)

Let's discuss why the tier system should exist in the place. Oh, wait, ninja'd by Icy.

I have to agree. Please don't do this. It was of very dubious worth during the 3.5 days and ended up being nothing but a source of argument.

Please let's drop this before we go down the same road.

Check out BBC's Sherlock. He's pretty awesome.

He's also going to be the voice and CGI actor bringing Smaug to life in the remaining two Hobbit movies.

Interesting read:

Aint it Cool.com Movie Review

I like Paizo's new classes very much. A few are not for me personally (the gunslinger for examle) but overall, I have no problem whatsoever with thim.

I think more options is a GOOD thing and more classes for players to choose from is never a bad thing. I'll admit that I may be biased in this regard, as I have had a number a new classes released by various RPG companies (Kobold Press, Super Genius Games etc) but still ... I just don't see the problem with giving people more options.

Nice! A kiss reference!!!!

Anytime you can fit my favorite band into a thread, you're ok in my book!!!

For years at Gen Con I walked all the way to Chick-fil-a for every food break to get something that that wasn't thick with red meat, but then they had to mouth off and now we don't give them money.

My son worked at Chick-fil-a during his senior year of high school and got to encounter much of that first hand. He was so disgusted and ticked off at the company over it he declined an offer to work there again this summer while he's home from college. Good kid - I was a proud papa :)

Can someone please make the dragonlance chronicles ...? Loooong over due!

This! 1,000 times this!!!!

Wolfgang Baur wrote:

About 13 pages. As a heavily martial class, it's a little shorter than, say, the Shaman.

Sounds like just enough pages to go into detail without unnecessary padding.

A perfect way to put it!

Oh, and the Expanded Battle Scion jumped up to the number 5 spot on Paizo's Top Ten 3PP downloads for this past week - up 5 spots from where it debuted at number 10 when it first came out the week before! So, THANKS SO MUCH to everyone who has downloaded it so far!!!

Kind of a funny story ... we are currently playing in the Rise of the Runelords Anniversary edition and I'm playing a 12th level paladin of Iomidae/cavalier (order of the star) whom I REALLY like ... I mean, a LOT! It looks like he is going to be taking over a certain ... location

so I took the Leadership feat and plan to use the followers to man said 'location' (I have this cool idea of these loyal followers becoming elite Knights of Iomidae under my command who are mostly stationed there)

Anyway ... as the cohort I get from Leadership, I thought it would be fun to make a lawful good Battle Scion. The trouble is, he turned out to be so awesome, it turns out I now kind of want to play him MORE than my beloved paladin/cavalier! I'm already thinking in the dark corners of my mind that if my paladin should happen to get killed in battle, it wouldn't be the worst thing ever ... since I then could take over my Battle Scion cohort as my new character :)

Who knows? My paladin just might be a bit more reckless than normal in battle during this weekend's game ...

I've got, oh I'd say about 85% of all the actual Dragon Magazines that were printed before that ended. I'm still on my quest to complete the collection.

Hey, Me Too! ;)

There appears to be a cut and paste error from the Elven Archer in the table. Or at least I presume the Battle Scion doesn't suddenly get Precision +2d6 for no reason at 9th level.

Also Fighter Training isn't mentioned in the sumamry table and, from a personal point of view, I'd prefer Spell Tactician to be split up as it's abilities are quite distinct and don't really follow a progression. Plus it means lesss apparently dead levels on the table.

These are fairly trivial points, however. Spell Tactician question, though. When the archetypes replace the 11th level Spell Tactician ability, do they get that ability at 13th level rather than the noraml 13th level ability or do they just lose the 11th ability and get the normal 13th level ability at 13th level? Also, do they lose the increased bonus to Combat Casting?

Hey Paul!

As Wolfgang pointed out, the Kobolds are already on that nagging copy/paste snafu!

Regarding your other comments, these are not bad ideas. Fighter Training was one of the last things to be added to the class, and it unfortunately did not make it into the table. And, although certainly not required, listing Spell Tactician on the table at each level it is received might not be a bad thing as well

I'll see what I can do about getting the table updated :)

Oh, and a BIG THANKS to everyone who has purchased The Expanded Battle Scion so far (and if you haven't yet - what are you waiting for? ;) It cracked Paizo's Top Ten List for the week, which is pretty cool considering it just released a week ago! :)

I happen to LOVE really good black and white illustrations!

I stand by Raging Swan's commitment to quality 100% (and not just the stuff I've done for them ;)

I think the issue here is that the other person is not just making a comment, he really is attacking Raging Swan simply because his own product got 4 stars instead of 5. He is also attacking the reviewer, who, in my opinion at least, has quite a good reputation and gave that person's product a perfectly fair review.

Bottom line for me is this - everyone is entitled to express and opinion. What that guy is doing goes WAY beyong that. Compare that guy's approach to Raging Swan's an decide for yourself who is the classier company.

+10 points for the Eddie Izzard reference!

It's even better if you read the title as James Mason :)

So then get back to work! :)

Lethal with Blade and Blast!

For years, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game fans have lamented the absence of an 'arcane paladin' type of class—one with full base attack bonus, limited spell access (to arcane spells instead of divine) and a small set of interesting, flavorful special abilities.

Lament no longer! The Expanded Battle Scion is just such a class!

The Expanded Battle Scion includes:

• Force Blaster and Bonded Scion archetypes

• 5 new feats including Awakened Arcane Bond, which imbues your arcane bond object with intelligence and will

• A Prepared Spell Tracking Sheet, usable by any prepared spell caster

• New rules for legendary magic items, and 3 new items: the legendary shield, sword and armor of the first battle scion

If you dream of scattering your enemies with a powerful force attack before finishing them off with lethal bladework, New Paths #4: The Expanded Battle Scion is for you!

New Paths 4: The Expanded Battle Scion

Judy also has a plant, which reminds us there's an outside, and Jessica has a variety of whiteboards that remind us why we can't ever go outside. Logan has a catapult.

HA!!! Gotta be one of the funnier things I've read in quite some time! :)

Just looked through this - very nice! :)

Typically artists contact prospective companies directly

I could do Youtube-reviews, yes - not sure, though, they'd be particularly popular. Gotta think about it.

Regarding ads - well, there's the thing with ad-blindness - recent research has shown that most people have managed to completely block any input from advertisement. Additionally, it could come off as dishonest: Say I have an advertisement of publisher x on my site and give a book of the publisher a good rating - might be problematic. I'd be suspicious. And then there's yet another thing: If a publisher pays me for advertisement and I rip a product to shreds, wouldn't that be weird? Also: Not sure whether there's an interest in advertising thusly in the first place....

So yeah, I contemplated advertisements and used banners for some time, but they just don't work.

Thanks for the suggestion, though!

I tend to agree - having ads on your site, especially from publishers who's work you review could absolutely be seen as a conflict of interest.

Honestly, I almost think what you do with your reviews is more of a public service, and as such, I don't think adding some kind of PayPal donation link would be a bad idea at all.

Sooo...as some of you may have noticed, I now have my own homepage, Endzeitgeist.com.

I post my reviews usually at least one day in advance there and have an RSS-feed that delivers all reviews conveniently.

Since you fine people here on the boards are essentially who I do this for, I'd like to ask you some questions:

1) I'm planning on tagging my backlog to make searching the site via tags/categories more efficient..BUT: Every moment I spend tagging, I can't write new reviews. What would you want me to prioritize? Tagging the backlog or writing new reviews? I can't judge what would be more useful to you.

2) What type of review are you most interested in? Short, Bullet Point-length files? Big books? All? I'm asking since e.g. Razor Coast for example will eat A LOT of time and I usually print out my books. Since the print book will come in summer, that would require reading the monster on screen when I could wait and read it in print.

3) Do you want me to join facebook/connect the page to fb? I don't like the platform one bit, but might bite the bullet if you folks tell me to.

4) Have you ever clicked on a link on my page to the respective product I reviewed? If not, what would make you? I'll be brutally honest: Reviewing as many files as I do, even with my at best erratic sleep-rhythm, takes a lot of time (it's almost a full-blown job by now) and at least being able to afford a pdf once in a while via affiliate sales would be nice.

5) Where do you read my reviews? Endzeitgeist.com? GMS magazine? Nerdtrek? Here? OBS? d20pfsrd.com's shop? Pathways? Lou Agresta's RPGaggression? What would make you visit my site?

Thanks for your attention and thanks for the continuing support and for reading my ramblings!

Cheers!

Hey End! I can certainly give you my opinions on a few of these (and, as a wise man once said ... I am the world's foremost expert on MY opinion! :)

3) No interest in that at all. I am not a fan of Facebook and have no interest in checking out Facebook pages ...

5) Well, since I frequent these boards so much, I tend to mainly read them here right now. Perhaps posting part of your review here on Paizo.com (including the star rating), and then adding a 'To read the rest of the review, click here' link, which would then take the reader to the full review on your site?

Hope that helps a little!

I also can't get past the current art style (sorry but, to be blunt, I kind of hate it). I actually picked up the first two issues but the art turned me off so much I gave up on the remainder of the series.

I think what you posted of the new artist's work looks too be a pretty big imporovement though. Really interested to see it inked and in color

blackbloodtroll wrote:

This is not a Pathfinder build, but still posted in a Pathfinder forum?

it was a 3.5 analysis on the advice forum.

the advice forum doesn't matter whether it is pathfinder or 3.5. there are no 2 seperate advice forums.

it was to prove a point to a friend that you could do 100 DPR or more by level 10-11 with a well build martial class using 3.5 material.

Paizo isn't exclusively pathfinder, and we intend to incorporate some aspects of pathfinder maybe. i just wanted help proving a real martial can outdamage an army of 40 magically controlled plushies 9 or 10 levels earlier than the damned dolls.

and really, PF is little more than a series of houserules for 3.5 so really. because pathfinder is a set of 3.5 houserules. it can also be considered a 3.5 forum.

First of all .. wow.

Second, flagged thread because it should be moved to th correct forum.

Agreed! This one was a lot of fun to be involved with!

gamer-printer wrote:

Little Red Goblin Games wrote:

LMPjr007 wrote:

If you are serious about starting a 3PP you might want to first go work for one and lead the ins-and-outs. There is a lot of movie parts to a 3PP business and most of have nothing to do with game design.

I second this with ever fiber of my being.

It's what I do.

Thirded. Decide if you want to publish or if you want to write—the two often do not intersect as well as you might think.

An EXCELLENT point!

I remember initially thinking I might want to form a little 3PP company myself, since I like (and, I like to think at least, I'm pretty good at ... :) writing, rules design, illustration, cartography and layout/graphic design. Heck, I thought, why NOT form a company and do all of this myself?

After a little soul searching, I realized that, while I like doing all of the above, I do NOT particularly like writing contracts, dealing with production schedule delays etc. I very quickly realized that what I wanted to do was create - be it by writing, game/rule design, illustration, cartography or layout/graphic design. And, for me at least, that entailed becoming a freelancer so I can work with lots of different 3PP companies on lots of different and interesting projects. It did not mean starting my own company.

I guess the moral of this little ramble is - listen well to what Liz and others have said and REALLY make sure you WANT to create a 3PP company before you take the plunge!

Wow - THREE weeks in a row!

Gygax magazine was once again the #1 best-seller on both Top Ten Non-Paizo Products list for this week ... Top Ten Print and Top Ten PDF lists.

Reviewed first on endzeitgeist.com, sent to GMS magazine, Nerdtrek and posted it on dtrpg. Cheers!

Looks very interesting, Mike!

My take away from this is ... Paizo has every right to be extremely proud.

I have nothing against Wizards or D&D - heck, I played and LOVED D&D since First Edition AD&D all the way to 3.5. I'm now very much a Pathfinder guy of course, but I have nothing against Wizards - 4th Edition just left me cold and did nothing for me.

The point is, it is a pretty amazing achievement for Paizo to see the Pathfinder RPG consistently rank right up there with D&D in sales and popularity, and in many cases beat it. It doesn't matter if you prefer D&D, Pathfinder or play both - such a feat is very impressive and should not be diminished.

Dear God! For about three seconds I panicked ... and then remembered what day today was ...

I really hate April Fools Day ...

Congrats End!!!!