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I look at the NPC Gudie, specifically the Paizo character chapter and say COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. :)

So much of the Realms is from Ed Greenwoods own personal writing as well as his own campaign. So to that end, I really like fleshed out characters. But then again, Ed and the Paizo peeps have a special advantage over others, they're more or less creating and editing their own setting, so when something (in this case character) goes to print, it's more or less how they intended.

If what Seeker says is true, disappointing.

*face palm*

So I've been going through it, I love it. I've already found 4 npcs I can use even if I don't run a Golarion set campaign.

This book really reinforces my wish that Paizo would do a Chronicle or Companion for the Iconics. Not just covering the core group, but also the Prestige class and Advanced Player's Guide characters.

JoelF847 wrote:

My wife recently special ordered Outlaws of Mars at a B&N for a gift for me, and when she picked it up, they said several people had been asking about Planet Stories books lately.

Yessssss.....

*shakes head*

Let me start by saying I have both editions of the Forgotten Realms Campaign (box)Set. I also have the City of Splendors, The North, and an incomplete Menzoberranzan.

In any case the original boxset covers far less of the Realms then the Pathfinder CS. I'm not even talking about the silly add-on settings people either like or hate. I'm talking about Faerun proper here, there's the whole middle chuck on faerun that's not covered or barely covered. As for the "town descriptions" you mention, go back and have a look. It's less then 3 paragraphs and most are barely over a dozen sentences.

Now I love AD&D and 3e Realms, but I really don't want it any boxset to be like that ever again. If there ever was a boxset I would want Paizo to emulate, it'd be Necromancer's City of Brass set. THAT however came with a $70 price tag and was full black & white, something I know Paizo isn't going to do.

If we were to look at anything, one would have to look at the new Dragon Age boxset by Green Ronin, $30 full color with around 130 pages and realize you don't want a campaign setting to ever come like that.

I came across Logue's website and apparently he has hired some help to finally get the job done

I'm confident that the Serpent's Skull AP and Nick Logue's upcoming Razor Coast will fill that void for me

sieylianna wrote:

The only people that I've met who really like 4e are the ones who are new to gaming and don't have a basis for comparison.

I've heard that as well. In that sense, 4E is good. Because it is bringing in new people to the hobby.

A lot of people b#~!~ about 4e, the truth is that they needed to cut back their gaming budget and WotC decided to give them a reason to skip 4e (the same happened to WW with the nWOD). Prior realm shattering events haven't substantially hurt FR sales. The problem is to get folk money today you need to have a good system and good setting. 3.x benefits from substantial R&D put in by WotC, 4e is a marginal setting designed by marketing. It doesn't really matter how good the setting material is when it's tied to a marginal system.

As for the setting material, it's not even supported. Two books, one adventure. That's it. Dragon and Dungeon offerings for the Realms have been pathetic and nothing that couldn't have been done if we weren't still in the 3.x timeline.

The Realms as a gaming universe were pulverized so that lazy authors and editors didn't have to look at PDFs from the TSR line (because WOTC never finished updating the important parts of the Realms to 3.x!!!!!) to make sure they weren't contradicting something. If Spellplague didn't kill something the timeline jump did.

Paizo knows we want ROTRL compiled into a hardcover. We know Paizo is willing to break the no compilations rule for special occasions.

So the answer guys is to just be patient. When that special occasion is coming up, they'll have a chance to put it in their schedule, which will allow them to make time for it.

Just a side note, but neither DC nor Marvel are struggling, since DC is owned by Warner Brothers and Marvel was just recently bought by Disney.

MerrikCale wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Since we currently don't have concrete plans for EITHER of those... who can say?

does that mean there are some preliminary ideas for a Runelords compilation?

We have preliminary ideas for a LOT of things. Even this thread contains preliminary ideas for a Runelords compilation.

I'm an auditor, not a game company marketing guru ;-)

Star Trekkin' across the universe, On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk. Star Trekkin' across the universe, Boldly going forward 'cuz we can't find reverse.

I think that's rather presumptous. Paizo is not THE spiritual successor to TSR. All of the companies that produce roleplaying games that continue in that same venture of imagination's frontier are rightful heirs to that spirit. White Wolf, Steve Jackson, Wizards of the Coast and countless others have equal right to that claim.

In the interest of full disclosure . . . FR had Kara-Tur, Maztica, the Hordelands, and Zhakara all stapled onto it under TSR (not that those were bad settings on their own, just that often these things were done without the first thought being how to fully incorporate them in a way consistent with the setting).

And while I agree they are black marks on the Realms, they didn't alter the Realms. They just used real estate on land far far away.

TSR was also the entity in charge during some of the most dramatic abuses to the Greyhawk setting.

Spelljammer and Planescape both "overwrote" aspects of the cosmology or the afterlife that existed in campaign settings before these "oversettings" came out.

TSR also presided over what is pretty much the blueprint for the Spellplague, Dragonlance's Fifth Age and its transition to the original Saga system.

They also released a series of novels concurrent with the release of a new campaign setting that immediately invalidated the products that had just come out (Dark Sun).

I'm only pointing this out to make sure we don't get out the rose colored glasses too quickly. TSR, especially in the 2nd edition days, could and did make some pretty big mistakes with their settings and how to manage them.

Should we do a podcast, we'll do it in house. We have folks here with broadcast radio experience who can put something like this together.

Now, if they wanted to devote a Pathfinder Companion to the clothing fashions of the various nations/enthicities of Golarion, that might be interresting.

Now I am grabbing up a lot of RPG podcasts, but I'm finding that most of the fantasy based ones are DnD focused and haven't found any that focus primarily on the Pathfinder RPG.

Winzip and Winrar here. Whichever the mouse happens to float to when I right click the file. ;)

As much crap as was brought up over a single Christmas Card send out ... I'm seriously doubting this calender thing will ever come out.

I do not endorse this ; )

I asked paizo to do this a long time ago.. back when Dark Whispers started.. and stopped. I'd still enjoy it.

I took out the 500 character limitation on the RSS format feeds. Let's see what that breaks!

With some added EPIC flavor (new Runelord etc...)?

Weren't the big pantheons covered in Deities and Demigods?

I think a lifesized cardboard standup of Seoni would likely get some attention... And sell well also.

I also really like this type of book, but I don't think it was done all that well in 3.5. I don't like a big splat book full of feats, prestige classes and new gimmicks. But I have a lot of fondness for the 2e Wizard's Handbook, Theive's Handbook, and Fighter's Handbook....blah blah blah... Plus, I think these books appeal a lot to newer players and would be a good way to ease someone new to the game from the core rules into the campaign setting/APs.

Of course those softcover handbooks were priced and made much differently then supplement are these days.

And I support an anniversary hard cover of Rise of the Runelords. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvH7fMTIfHo

I dunno.

I liked the ruleset and wish D&D 4e was more like it, but I don't know about patronage.

Run you fools.

Here's a crazy question...

What about Ghostwalk?

Does WOTC own that or can Sean do a Pathfinder RPG update to it?

If it's only 2 levels I'm out. I bought both boxsets for 3.x and found the 3.5 boxset that came with the softcover PHB the most useful... because it came with a softcover PHB (which I love!)

Considering WOTC 4e approach to releasing a DM book and a Player book for their "settings" I doubt they'll be licensing anything. Even if they don't think something will sell super well, they can control the cost with a low initial print run.

I cant help but be proud that even Neil used my pic to inspire his work
check it out on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsmCgV_ncjM

For $20,000 no less... http://www.nealadamsstore.com/Supergirl-painting_p_469.html

SirUrza wrote:

KaeYoss wrote:

Anyone else thinking "Swallow"? :D

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No.. but now you've got me curious.. was it AD&D or 3e?

Pretty sure it was 3e.

And you're quoted because I look for all outlets. I forgot to delete that post after I found it. :)

Does that mean she has white hair in the original?

What I think the publishers want is not that the ebook will be more expensive then the Actual book, but that the price of the ebook for new books that are released in hardcover that are going for $30 be priced higher on Amazon, at 12.99-14.99 instead of 9.99, because they believed the 9.99 price for new books was undercutting the HardCover price too much.

The ebook is the same fracking thing. It doesn't have less content. It's not made out of different materials.

Quite frankly it's unacceptable to me.

So you know not all ebooks are are priced at 9.99 on Amazon, some are lower, from what I can see they mostly price match the Mass Market paperback printing price for the books. They seem to be always cheaper the then Hardcover price but not then the paperback price, or not significantly lower then the paperback version.

Why would I want to pay the same exact price for a ebook that I am paying for the Mass Market paperback version?

Anyone else thinking "Swallow"? :D

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I voted with my wallet a looong time ago.

I never once paid for a WOTC PDF. Why? WOTC was selling their PDFs for THE SAME price as the printed copy. The PHB is the ONLY book I'd ever consider buying twice (and have.. I have 4 copies of it, the first copy, the replacement, and 2 discounted softcover versions which I love!) because of extensive wear and tear. But I'd certainly not consider paying for a digital copy of it for the same price.

Forget about the SRD for a sec, how much work is REALLY put into taking the production digital copy (for printing) and making it a retail digital copy (for PDFs)? I'd wager a dozen mouse clicks and an hour or two of just going through it to make sure there aren't any errors. Hardly justifies a $30+ price tag when "the work" put into the book is SUPPOSED to be paid for by print sales.

If your a "major creator of content" and your product isn't good enough to sell hard copy, you probably shouldn't be depending on digital sales.

All that aside, we are talking about novels and such... plain text documents that will be sold to us completely in black & white in MANY cases. Just like kindle books, if the printed copy is $9.99 and the digital copy is priced for more then half that, I won't be buying the same book twice nor will I be buying it if I've never read it.

To be honest, if I've benefited in any way from the kindle store, it's been the previews. I've been able to download the previews of the books, read them when I can, and decide if I want the printed copy.. since the digital copy certainly wasn't priced attractive (and in a lot of cases, not discounted at all!)

Dark_Mistress wrote:

Sara Marie wrote:

SirUrza wrote:

Now we gotta see the witch in her full glory!
Seoni might have some competition...

Might? Trust me, when you see the color version of the witch... there is no might. She blows all the others waaaaay out of the water!

edit: Also, why does it have to be a competition? Why can't everyone win?

Isn't that who your forum icon is? The witch iconic that is. From what little there is to see I think she will be in the running.

Yup, only a friend in a high place did a couple little changes to it, like changing the hair color.

So basically we agree that we're nerds and we are willing to pay money for scantily clad official renditions of recognized characters.

I still want to hear the story about Merisiel, Kyra, and Valeros in the bath house from the picture in LOF "the Jackal's Price"... there's gotta be something fun there.

SirUrza wrote:

UGH! You had to look up Denning? Troy "the Axeman" Denning! He's written all over the place and when bad things have to happen in a franchise he's the author people seem to go to. :)

Not to mention when you want to invalidate a campaign setting as soon as it comes out. ;)

(shrug) Probably sometime before the six new iconics get their stories. And I suspect only Valeros, Seoni, and Merisiel will get new writeups. Kyra's is already pretty good, but maybe it could stand a rewriting...

I was just go say...! I had to look up Troy Denning and David Cook....

Guess I'll just have to use a PDF reader of some sort on the iPad then.

Core is in 2nd, no third yet. Bestiary is still in the first if the PDF is to be believed. :)

As for the "Meet the New Iconics" blog posts... we want to probably use them to start building up anticipation for the book's release. Doing those now would be seriously jumping the gun. Expect them some time in the summer, I guess.