Vic Wertz's page

But you'll need Bestiary 2 and 3 for certain.

...or just the free online PRD.

Vic Wertz wrote:

freeAgent wrote:

Cheapy wrote:

Did you try redownloading? Did you get the same error then?

Yup, same error. I don't know if Paizo's "customization" process that watermarks the PDFs is somehow also altering and screwing up the .hl file or if it's just bad at the source.

We don't modify that file—we just zip it up directly along with everything else.

I think the issue freeAgent is asking about is if you guys try to apply the customization to non-PDF files.

No, we don't... which is what I meant by "we don't modify that file."

Our watermarker knows what files it should and shouldn't watermark; the ones it doesn't watermark get passed unmodified into the zipping process.

As for this AP - will the .Pdf be out on time in mid-march ? or will taht be delayed due toe the chinese holiday as well. As a European subscriber, I am used to my "print" copy turning up several weeks after the online version (nice to have, though), so please, publish the pdf on shecudle, will you ?

Subscribers get their PDFs when their corresponding print edition ships, and non-subscribers can purchase the PDF on the book's retail release date.

Adventure path covers just keep getting better and better! I wouldn't mind knowing who the artist is...:D

Daryl Mandryk.

Any chance we will see new shirts offered in a color besides black?

There's a reason that shirts are always offered in black—it sells about ten times better than any other color. So, no, the odds frankly aren't terribly good.

Wouldn't listing the hardcovers about to go out of print be counterproductive as people will wait for new printings too?

Yep—when we reprint books, we don't tell anybody about it until we're ready to ship it.

But they don't belong here anyway, since this is the "Going, Going, Gone" list, not the "Going, Going, Soon To Be Back" list.

That's some awesome molding technology - are they really one piece? And considering you canny folk there, these are probably just the tip of the iceberg - the best is still yet to come!

What Erik meant by "one piece" is that there are no minis in the Runelords set that *come from the factory* in more than one piece (as opposed to the Heroes & Monsters Frost Giant, which has interchangable weapons).

Many of these minis are manufactured in multiple pieces. (Actually, nearly all of them are, given that the bases are usually molded separately.)

I understand that release dates are subject to change based on more factors than I care to think about. I just noticed that the projected release schedule is:

Song of the Serpent: April
City of the Fallen Sky: May
Nightglass: June

There is nothing listed after that. James Sutter is playing those close to his chest.

So are you trying to do monthly releases? That seems like a very ambitious schedule!

We're shooting for bimonthly, but Song of the Serpent (originally due this month) got delayed at the printer, and so we pushed City of the Fallen Sky from April to May so that we don't have two books coming out in the same month.

The book after Nightglass will be an August release, and we haven't announced our August releases yet.

Due to the linking of errata updates and new printings, is it fair to assume that if a hardcover book appears on this list, there's a possibility of errata coming for it soon?

We don't plan to reprint any of the products on this list.

(Also, I think the only hardcovers on the list are the Dragon and Dungeon books that were produced under license; since that license has expired, we couldn't reprint them if we wanted to.)

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Dragon78 wrote:

So when is the art going to be updated?

We just updated #54... so probably in about a month.

Boy—that month just flew by!

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I might have an extra space in my special attack. Heh.

Web browsers collapse extra plain spaces, so nobody but you will know. (Not that that would be a big deal anyway...)

Cheapy wrote:

Did you try redownloading? Did you get the same error then?

Yup, same error. I don't know if Paizo's "customization" process that watermarks the PDFs is somehow also altering and screwing up the .hl file or if it's just bad at the source.

We don't modify that file—we just zip it up directly along with everything else.

Great Job!

I am more interested in the packaging model....
Will the cost be similiar as well?

These are exactly the types of question that WizKids is in the final stages of nailing down answers for. And no, we won't have them today. *Maybe* we'll have them next week... or maybe the week after.

Is Mokmurian's mini shorter than the other stone giant minis, since he's supposed to be a bit of a runt (though still Large sized)?

Yep.

So I suppose the question has to be asked... Are the judges expectations too high? Are they skewed slightly the wrong direction? Are they actually getting the results they want?

Our goal is to identify new talented freelancers, and each year, we manage to do just that. A lot of Superstar finalists—even those who don't make it all the way to the end—are getting work from Paizo and from third-party publishers. So yes, it's working.

It just seems odd to see so many creative ideas get thrown to the wayside because the author wasn't wearing the developer cap when working on a new innovation.

That's kind of like saying "It seems odd to see a student get a 'C' on his creative writing assignment just because he wasn't paying attention to grammar and spelling when he was writing it." We're not looking for "either/or"—we're looking for both.

Mister Vic Wertz,

I just wanted to say I noticed that Jade Regent #4 (House of Spirits) also didn't get bulleted. I was hoping someone might fix that.

Done! Thanks for letting me know.

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Were there any other names considered at the time?

None of us can remember any. Honestly, I'm not sure there really were other choices—Johnny may well have said "How about 'Paizo?'" and we may well have said yes right away.

When I started at Wizards of the Coast, the company already had its name, and I thought it was pretty terrible, mainly because it was weird. But within a few months, I realized that "weird" is actually a really good trait for a company name, because it tends not to get confused with anything else. ( I think "unique" correlates strongly to "memorable.") Sure, for whatever reason, a lot of people would call us "Wizards of the West Coast," and I recall getting at least one solicitation addressed to "Lizards of the Coast," but on the whole, it turned out to have been a good choice. So when Johnny pitched a weird name for us, I saw that as a good thing. (I do wish it were easier to spell and pronounce, though...)

So if I am understanding what you are saying you will still have double up months? (I regard any month where two issues of an Ap ship to be a double up month)

Keep in mind that ship dates cannot ever be firm until we have product in our warehouse, which means that we don't even yet know whether #55 will ship in late March or early April, so a lot can change before August... but if I had to make a bet, my bet would be that we'll be doubling up the last chapter of Skull & Shackles and the first chapter of Shattered Star in early August, and I'd also bet that we won't have to double up *until* then.

Creativity comes in many forms. One of them is the ability to exploit that which hasn't been done... regardless of how mundane.

I'm confident this contestant is 'capable'.

But we're not just looking for "capable"—we're looking for superstar.

Contestants get one chance to show us that they're capable of designing mechanics *and* that they have a creative spark. If your item doesn't clearly suggest to us that you can do both, you have chosen the wrong item for the contest.

So when is the art going to be updated?

We just updated #54... so probably in about a month.

Uh at this point would you not need to have two double up-months?

Hopefully we'll be able to space a couple of the intervening shipments about three weeks apart so that we don't have to actually put two books into the same shipment until August.

Neil Spicer wrote:

And this is where the item kind of falls down in terms of being worthy of RPG Superstar. The cloak of resistance is certainly a staple item that the game very much needs. It's the type of item we'd always expect to see in a book of magic items. But it isn't sexy.

The first thing I thought of when I read this item was 'I can't believe this isn't in the core book.'

I think there are some serious exceptions to that line of thought that reward the augury of innovation over the competence of creativity.

Remember that we're looking for someone creative enough to write an adventure. Does this item give you any clue that the writer may have that kind of creativity?

Will this shirt ever be in other sizes like mens XXL?

This shirt is several years old, and on its way out-of-print, so I'd guess no...

Odds are really good that our double-up month will involve getting the last chapter of Skull & Shackles and the first chapter of Shattered Star in early August.

Vic Wertz wrote:

...and once the web store was online, we sold a lot of those non-back issue items in a section called "It Came from the Basement."

LOL. Sounds like a good title for a new horror-themed Pathfinder adventure module. :-D

Also, one of these days I really wish I could see that Star Wars collection you guys have amassed. I've heard it's the next best thing to visiting the Skywalker ranch.

Well, if you change your mind about coming out for PaizoCon, I'll give you a tour!

I really appreciate Erik's story of how you guys went back and saved all those older issues of Dragon and Dungeon magazine.

We also rescued Star Wars Insider, Star Wars Gamer, and Amazing Stories back issues, along with a whole pile of little promo items that had passed though the magazine department when they had published The Duelist and Top Deck—stuff like Pokémon and Magic promo cards, and other weird little promotional things.

We started selling the back issues immediately, even before we had a web store... and once we the web store was online, we sold a lot of those non-back issue items in a section called "It Came from the Basement." That department is long gone, but you can find a lot of those items (along with similar items we produced ourselves) in our Bits & Pieces Clearance Sale.

As of today, Alliance has it in one of its four warehouses—South. Odds are good that it will show up in West (the warehouse we usually order from) before we place our next order from South... but either way, it should only be a few days before we have it in hand.

The "$1 for everything" part reminded me of that weird spot in Robocop.

It has to be a helluva photocopier!

It is admittedly on its very last legs right now, and probably won't survive to our actual tenth anniversary, but considering it wasn't brand-new when we got it, it has held up very, very well.

Paizo does not buy fanfiction or unsolicited manuscripts for a variety of legal and logistical reasons. We almost exclusively go with authors who have established themselves in other venues, such as RPG Superstar, Kobold Quarterly, other game companies, and various fiction magazines.

We do, though, support the concept of fan fiction. Please see our Community Use Policy to learn more.

We had a meeting with the hotel today, and they confirmed that every double bed room in the entire hotel is booked for the show. There are still singles and kings available, and there are doubles in the neighboring Residence Inn (though that's not part of the room block, and has different rates).

VERY sweet cover! Any chance you can reveal who the artist for this one is?

Michal Ivan.

Vic Wertz wrote:

Even if the official word counter *had* said 298 words, you neglected to put the item name into the submission itself (note that it's present in the premade stat block, and the rules also specifically say "The entire submission, including the title, must not exceed 300 words"), so we'd have added those five words to word count, and you *still* would have been over. As it is, you really came in at 310 words.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. Next year I'll be sticking to the template religiously.

I just wanted to clarify—the official word counter reported 305 words on that entry, so it was over count even before we added the missing item name to the submission. I was just saying that even if the poster had been correct about it being 298 instead of 305—which he wasn't—it *still* would have been over word count once the count was adjusted to include all of the required information.

Iron-Dice wrote:

Here's a solution from another thread. Make preview run in 32 bit mode. It works like a champ. The issue is with OSX, not Paizo.

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kwiqsilver wrote:
Does anyone know if there has been any progress on this issue?

Right click on Preview in the Applications folder then click on Get Info.

Click in the tick box for 'Open in 32-bit mode'.

And that's it. Solved the problem for me...

But running it in 32 bit mode would slow it down. 64 bit mode allows it to access more ram and therefore run better.

The latest 10.7 update apparently fixed the problem with Preview and made this workaround unnecessary.

I find this a pretty short sighted and somewhat frustrating policy.

Please read my first few posts in this thread, where I go into a *lot* of detail on the topic.

...I recall seeing a few avatars that could not be found in the Avatar selection or maybe it was my imagination.

Employees (and some former employees) have unique avatars.

I know it is a little late but this product has not had it's info updated.

Thanks for that—it has now!

The product descriptions for Jade Regent #5 and #6 still haven't even been updated to the crisp, bullet-points style of all of the other Adventure Path product entries.

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(By the way, I really, really liked this book...)

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