Wicht's page

Have Wicht write it up for you. I'm not sure if you met Jonathan at GenCon last year, but he's a trusted freelancer with Rite Publishing. And a friend of mine, as well.

I think any player, outside of playtests, who sets out to "break the game" is probably being a total douchebag. Be prepared to boot him. He sounds like trouble.

How do you make a shapeshifter laugh? Pooka the belly!

Story!

In the 90s I wrote a number of random name generators, by race, for Dragon magazine. I use them a lot in my own campaigns, and many of my playtesters have print-outs of them as well.

Many can be found online, though no one seems to have the kuo-toa name generator I wrote...

Starting on Monday, and every weekday for the next year Rite Publishing will give away one product a day (PDF or Print) to one lucky winner chosen by me. Sometimes responses will be judged, sometimes the winner will be selected at random.

What product do you think we should start off with?

Steven D. Russell
Rite Publishing

"Seriously, Betty, you know what this [yeti] could mean to science. If we find it, and it's real, it could mean a lot. It could mean actual advances in the field of science."

[/lost skeleton of cadavra]

Here's a question - when people come to the Reaper booth at GenCon, they often say "I need to find the Pathfinder minis, because we play Pathfinder."

I get it. But we make over 4,000 figures, and only about 100 of them say pathfinder. Yet all of them are compatible with the game - so why won't players look at the green or purple cards, but only the pretty beige ones?

Note to self: When I see Bryan next, I must ask him which minis are compatible with Pathfinder.

Vegetables are what food eats.

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Hey Vic, Gary, whoever handles this stuff:

First of all, just so you know what I'm going on about, I'm talking about this page, which I get to by clicking the PATHFINDER logo over there <--- right under the paizo logo, and then clicking on the "Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatible Products" link.

Now, maybe I'm just being nitpicky and overly concerned about semantics, but I think that link should only show third party publishers, and not paizo's own products. Because Paizo's Pathfinder books aren't compatible with Pathfinder, they are Pathfinder. A thing can't be compatible with itself; that's an irrational nonsequitor. It's all noon blue apples.

But the real reason its bugging me and I'm posting is because I can't find any page that shows all the 3PP stuff sans paizo with a Bestselling sidebar, which I really want because the bestselling 3PP stuff is a) probably of decent quality and b) more likely to be familiar to more players, and thus more likely to actually be allowed/get used/provide value after purchase. You'll notice that the Bestselling list on the Pathfinder page is the same as on the Pathfinder Compatible Products page, so its redundant and doesn't help.

Anyways, it seems to me that the Pathfinder Compatible Products page should be that page. And the page that the PATHFINDER logo over there <--- links to should be more like this page that takes you to everything paizo sells with Pathfinder on it.

It wasn't until I started poking around trying to find the Pathfinder page (as opposed to the Pathfinder RPG page) that I realized you guys are actually making a distinction between Pathfinder and Pathfinder RPG, which I personally find counter-intuitive (since most people refer to the Pathfinder RPG simply as "Pathfinder"). I know whenever I click on the PATHFINDER (RPG) logo over there I am subconsciously expecting to be taken to the Pathfinder page, and always find it a bit disorienting to not be able to reach modules, APs, companions, etc. from the Pathfinder RPG page.

Long story short, I think it'd be nice to a) have a page with a bestselling list that is just Pathfinder compatible third party publishers, and if b) the Pathfinder link over there took you to something that combined the best of the Pathfinder and Pathfinder RPG pages, maybe ditch the randomized image and add the box with links to the faq, forums, etc.

Maybe change the name of the Pathfinder RPG page to the Pathfinder Core Rules & Expansions page?

Just some suggestions. Take 'em or leave 'em.

Jeranimus Rex wrote:

wizoroc wrote:

So unless a real study on marketshare or sales is made public, I just don't see this.

I actually heard from somewhere that Pathfinder and D&D now have a roughly equal share at the moment.

Afraid not.

Scott is totally right here. Pathfinder has surpassed D&D in most of the markets that I check.

Thanks for ninja'ing me Scott!

-Lisa