Vic Wertz's page

Kor: there are some bad scans on plasticrypt.

I think those are actually photos of the screen they used in the presentation.

I do have some more info (still not quite everything we need to create full product listings, though):

Standard Booster Packs will contain 4 figures: 1 will be Large and 3 will be either Medium or Small.

Standard Booster Bricks will contain 8 Standard Booster Packs, for a total of 32 minis (8 Large and 24 Medium or Small). There should be no duplication within a brick.

Standard Booster Cases will contain 4 bricks, for a total of 128 minis (32 Large and 96 Medium or Small). *Most* cases will contain a complete set of all 60 Large, Medium, and Small figures.

Note that, counting the Gargantuan Rune Giant, there are really 65 figures in the set: 60 are Large, Medium, or Small; 4 are Huge.

Love this. Will we see more Android Apps from Paizo? (Please say yes)

We don't have anything specific to announce, but I think it's likely.

The cover artist is Steve Prescott.

Does somebody know if Paizo is doing some of their actual reaper minis in these new mini line “bones"?

They haven't talked to us about the possibility, as far as I know.

BTW, Erik and Jeff got to see actual Reaper Bones at the GAMA Trade Show last week, and they were pretty impressed. It's apparently not the same material as Legendary Encounters; it's kind of springy.

Cool!

Plus, you know... Smith & Jones!

Will there be updates for more fumbles and crits in the future?

There are no current plans for that.

I've updated the image and description to reflect the finished product.

WizKids has set an April 11 street date for this set.

I am a slowpoke and only just tired to get a room.. No conblock rooms were left so I think I will be staying offsite. :(

What size room were you trying to book?

The Highlady Athroxis link does not go to the correct page.

Fixed. Thanks!

Boy, you folks were busy last night! Thanks!

This is probably a dumb question but is there any reason why we subscribers can't get the PDF now? I primarily use the PDF anyway.

See the last paragraph of Staffan's post, two posts up from yours.

After meeting and playing at Bruce Cordell's table I fully admit he's human....

I hope that people who meet me report to others that I "appeared reasonably lifelike."

Who's "Daigle?"

You know, shipping from the US to Europe does take a bit longer than shipping within Europe. There's this little thing called "the Atlantic Ocean" in between. I'm guessing that you, like I, have opted for the cheap international shipping option for your subscription. That means your stuff gets shipped by an actual ship rather than plane. I believe these shipping times can be pretty random, because the vessels stay in port until they are full which can delay things by another week or so if you're unlucky.

The USPS discontinued international surface mail in 2007, so everything we ship overseas does indeed go by plane... but unless you've chosen International Priority, your mail is, well, quite literally not a priority. Planes get filled with higher priority items first, so non-Priority mail can sit and wait for a while. And the same is usually true when it reaches customs at the other end.

You're spot on regarding the PDF stuff, though!

The area of a hex is very close to .5 sq. miles.

According to the US Census Bureau, the area of Pullman is 9 sq. miles, and the area of Garfield is .7 sq. miles. The area of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument is about 172 square miles, but that includes more than just the mountain.

Was meaning to make a decent one, but found myself with a lil spare time to fire this out in the meantime.

Pathfinder Soundbyte

I'll hopefully do another soon.

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A couple of questions, one general and one personal:

1. Have these positions been filled, or are one or both of them still open?

2. Have I been eliminated from the list (as I assume), or am I being considered? I'm currently operating on a "no news = bad news" standpoint; it would be helpful to know if that's not the case.

Both positions are still open. I don't know the status of Project Manager resumes, but I believe Gary has contacted all of the prospects for Software Developer.

Taken together, the last three posts explain the reasons behind our policy pretty well. (Thanks, folks!)

Any word on the cost of the huge boosters, someone posted a price of $24.99 on another thread?

I do not have confidence in that figure at this time. (I'm aware that one of the slides WizKids showed had that price on it, but remember that this was a presentation for retailers, and so not all of the prices discussed there are necessarily retail prices. If you've seen those slides, you'll note that the Booster Packs are labeled "MSRP," while that price is not.)

Just to ensure I understand things - you said the rune giant incentive will be "tied to the booster pack case" but I presume that's more relevant to retailers than to those of us who buy through you, correct?

It's relevant to paizo.com buyers because, like the Huge Black Dragon for Heroes & Monsters, customers without Pathfinder Battles subscriptions will need to preorder a case of RotR Booster Packs, probably prior to some specific date, in order to be able to preorder a Rune Giant. Preordering a case of RotR Huge Packs does not offer the same privilege.

Or they can start looking for printers in countries that don't celebrate Chinese holidays.

In the last year, I think we've had two products that were actually delayed by the printer, not by us... and those were both printed in the USA.

...(pdf is now listed as available April 25th...) nevermind than having the actual print copy stuck in the mail to Europe for another three weeks.

The PDF release date is the anticipated retail release date. We usually begin shipping to subscribers about a week and a half before that.

The whole Chinese New Year issue is mostly a misunderstanding, in two different ways.

1. At one point people were asking for an updated schedule, and I told them that we wouldn't have new information for a couple of weeks because our printer was closed for the holiday. And then I saw people saying elsewhere that I had said the *products* were late because of the holiday. That wasn't the reason any products were late—it's just the reason I didn't have up-to-date information on delivery dates at that time.

2. If we plan for a product to reach the printer *before* the holiday, and we don't make it in time, then that product gets delayed for another two weeks until the printer reopens. But that's not actually the printer's fault—that's our own. And it *did* happen this year. Everybody busts our butts trying to prevent that, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

Deathwatch - How does it work?

You'll want to ask that over in the Rules Questions forum.

When Ryan asked for 10–20 second videos, I was worried that people wouldn't have time to say anything much... but you guys have made the most of it! Thanks!

...give us some way to browse the images on the web page.

This is on our to-do list.

I think they refer to all their oversized minis as collosal, regardless of actual size. take a look at the heroclix colossals, they really vary greatly in size. The rune giant looked gargantuan rather than colossal

Yep—that's something we need to retrain WizKids on for this line. The Rune Giant is actually Gargantuan, with a 4-inch diameter base. I've edited my initial post.

Cat-thulhu wrote:

So any idea of the pricing on the huges, individual or case?

I'm guessing that that is what Vic is waiting on before putting up the page. Certainly the price of the case will depend on the number of boosters, which Vic mentioned above he didn't know yet.

Yeah, I'm waiting on all of that, plus we also need estimated shipping dimensions and weights. Because folks are traveling from GAMA, I don't expect to have all of the information I need until the middle of next week at the earliest.

What was the completion rate for Heroes and Monsters. Any word on the possible common, uncommon, or rare spread yet?

I don't know what the *actual* rate was, but the *goal* for H&M was nearly 100%. As for the spread, I don't think WizKids really likes to talk about that beforehand, because things change in production.

I'm not sure of the exact number of boosters per case just yet, but a case of boosters will usually contain a complete set of Small, Medium, and Larges, just like Heroes & Monsters did.

More info on that point: In order to keep the number of boosters per case down to a reasonable level, a little less than 7% of cases will likely contain all but one figure from the set, while a little more than 93% of cases should contain a full set. It's not quite as good a completion rate as Heroes & Monsters, but still, the cost of some completists having to pick up one figure on the secondary market should be much less than the cost of the extra boosters that would have been required to increase the level of completion as high as it was for H&M.

wspatterson wrote:

Is there no proper map folio besides those 3 posters for this AP?

I'm just about to start running the Jade Regent and having maps of the areas would be very useful. I can't find the 3 posters that you mention; are they separate to the AP? I've received all six parts of my subscription and there weren't any poster maps included.

They're in the separately available Jade Regent Poster Map Folio.

Our friends at WizKids announced some of the Runelords set specs to retailers in their GAMA Trade Show presentation this week, and I'd like to pass them on to you. We still don't have *quite* enough info to put up an actual product page, but I'd hope we have it all in place by next week.

The 60-figure Rise of the Runelords set will be released in August.

It will be sold in 4-figure Booster Packs and individual Huge Packs.

(I *believe* that Booster Packs will contain either 1 Large and 3 Mediums -or- 1 Large, 2 Mediums, and 2 Smalls, but I'm not 100% certain on that at this time.) MSRP for a Booster Pack is $14.99.

I'm not sure of the exact number of boosters per case just yet, but a case of boosters will usually contain a complete set of Small, Medium, and Larges, just like Heroes & Monsters did.

Individual Huge Packs will contain one of four different Huge minis. These will be shipped to retailers in cases of four, with one of each figure in each case. (That is to say, if you buy a case of four Huge Packs, you'll get one of each of the minis.)

The Gargantuan Rune Giant Figure will be an incentive tied to the Booster Pack case; it will work much the same way as the Huge Black Dragon did for Heroes & Monsters.

Pathfinder Battles case subscribers will get a case of Booster Packs *and* a case of Huge Packs, with the guaranteed opportunity to buy the Gargantuan Rune Giant at a 75% discount. (If you subscribe with a quantity of two, you'll get two cases of Booster Packs, two cases of Huge Packs, and the guaranteed opportunity to buy two Gargantuan Rune Giants at a 75% discount.)

WizKids also showed photos of two minis that haven't yet been announced on our blog: the Rune Giant and Karzoug. I'm sure Erik will blog them soon!

1/2 square mile is not 1/2 mile square. 1/2 square mile is .707 mile square, or 3700 feet on a side. Typical city blocks are ~330 feet on a side.

I assumed Scarlette was talking about area, because asking about the square dimensions of a hex makes no sense. To be really clear, I meant what I said: the area of a hex is just about .5 square miles.

Other hex stats:

Inside diameter ("edge to edge" distance): .75 mi
Inside radius (center to edge): .38 mi
Outside diameter ("corner to corner" distance): .87 mi
Outside radius (center to corner): .43 mi
Edge length: .43 mi
Area: .49 sq. mi

(This is all assuming that a hex is .75 miles edge-to-edge; there may be technical reasons why that dimension may need to be *slightly* different, but this will be close.)

Did you say you're in the LEGitimate BREAdmaKING BUSINESS?

Doing the math, hexes would be 1/2 mile square ? I dont think a village would fit. And we are starting with 4500 people in this area. I am thinking this first area will be covered fairly quickly.

Yes, the area of a hex is just under half a square mile.

As for your other concern, you might want to read this thread.

Er, not sure about the sizing for this. Is this using some standard American sizing? Sorry if this is a stupid question, not used to ordering apparel online (and I'm in Australia, for added confusion)

I found a US-Australia T-shirt size conversion chart here.

Sorry for the delay... it's now available.

We're soon to have a meeting to discuss some possible adjustments to our branding, and now that the pawns are starting to become an actual line, that'll be part of that discussion.

Its all speculation from Ryans posts, I just figured if I split it down the middle, give or take a few % it wouldn't be off by much LOL.

So long as everyone realizes that it's highly speculative, carry on!

I was just reconstituting some dried porcini mushrooms in cognac and breaking down a slab of rendered pork belly for dinner tonight...

And definitely carry on with that!

Vic Wertz wrote:

BlackUhuru wrote:

Ryan mentioned in an earlier blog he expects around 100 active players in each hex.

Also not seeing that in the blogs...

On Mar 1, in Player-created buildings and structures thread, Ryan posted:

"The design assumes a median character density of 100 logged in characters per Hex. Once we hit our stride I expect we'll be adding Hexes on a very regular schedule."

I don't think 100 active players and a median density of 100 logged in players are the same, but I think that's where the number 100 came from.

And it's *very* different from the total number of characters associated with a particular settlement.

Distant Worlds and Pirates of the Inner Sea should both once again be available for purchase at Amazon.

This product should once again be purchasable at Amazon.

This book should now be buyable at Amazon again.

50% of the remaining hexes zoned for PvE content (can't build structures).

50% of the remaining hexes zoned for construction ( 117 hexes we can build on).

Where are you getting that from?

Ryan mentioned in an earlier blog he expects around 100 active players in each hex.

Also not seeing that in the blogs...

Edition warring is still boring and pointless.

Can't you also use Goodreader to download it directly from your paizo.com account?

Our friends at Reaper will also be running their "paint-and-take," where they supply a mini and painting supplies, along with some guidance to help you improve your painting skills.