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Every time I try to go to the Pathfinder Compatibility License page - from any link - or anytime I try to go to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game faq I end up at http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/pathfinder/pathfinder RPG instead. Every single time. Both links take me to the same place. I've cleared cookies multiple times and it's still doing that. Did I miss some sort of announcement that those pages would be down for a while or something?
I'll take a look as well, do you currently have anything on the market, you'll have to forgive me, I'm just now starting to learn that 3rd party publishers can be better than sticking to one company :) Paizo of course were the ones who taught me that. We do not yet have a product out. We are brand new. The Book of Arcane Magic to be released in September will be our first print product, though we may have a PDF or two - at least one of which will be a freebie - available before September. Robert
We believe our product will be quality material, and that just because it does not carry the Pathfinder Compatibility logo will not make it any more or less of a quality product. We aren't rushing a product out the door. We are simply not passing up five months of work just to have the Pathfinder Compatibility logo on the cover. Our plans were in the works before Paizo announced the Pathfinder Compatibility license, and the original intent was that it would just be released under the OGL, but based on the OGL Pathfinder rules. Paizo's announcement of the compatibility license is wonderful, and means our products won't just be OGL, but be able to carry that logo as well, after August 2009, but our current schedule is the same as it was before Paizo announced their compatibility license. If we don't get to see the final rules until August, and we find that there is something that needs to be corrected and/or changed from the beta to the final as far as our product goes, we will do a free web enhancement for it (we are planning a free web enhancement for each product anyway). Of course, the product will be a perfectly fine OGL product either way. We are confident in what we are producing at 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming, and think that you will like what you see when it hits the shelves. Robert
So will you be using OGL material or will you be using Beta material if you dont get the final rules early? The simple answer is "Yes". Paizo is producing the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game under the Open Game License. That makes Pathfinder OGL material. If we don't get the final rules early, we are using the beta for our first few products. They won't carry the Pathfinder Compatibility logo, but even if they did they would still be OGL. Wouldnt it make more sense to wait for Pathfinder since there is a glut of OGL material already out there covering the classes? If we want our product out as soon as possible after Paizo releases the final Pathfinder Roleplaying Game core book in August, we have to have our book done now. If we do not get the final rules early and we wait until we do see them in August, we would then be lucky to have a single product written, produced, printed, distributed and released before the end of 2009, and probably not until early 2010. By releasing our products without the Pathfinder compatibility logo, but produced under the OGL and based on the beta, we can get several products out before the end of 2009. Robert
As for the books how can you already have a preview for next month and the final does not come out until August? Good question! The previews we post will be based on the beta edition, and will NOT carry the Pathfinder compatibility logo anywhere on them. The previews will just be pure OGL only, and if we don't get the final rules early, our first couple of published products will be OGL only and not carry the compatibility logo either. Robert
Thanks for you interest! The compatibility license and the community use license are separate licenses and publishers cannot use the community use license. Therefore, our material will be under the compatibility license only, and will have no connections to Paizo's campaign world. Robert
Thanks Vic! I see that now. I don't know how I missed it the 8 or so times I read through the license. Robert Thomson
You should not put the compatibility license logo on a product if you're not sure the rules you're using are compatible with the PF RPG. One could certainly use the Beta to start work on a product, but we would prefer folks wait until they see the final rules before they release anything that says "Pathfinder Compatible" on it. It'll make our lives and yours less complex, as far as confused customers go. Thank you! That is exactly the answer I needed. I was 99% sure that was the case, but it never hurts to have clarification on things. Robert Thomson
Thanks, but I'm not looking for Golarion-specific details. We are planning to use the compatibility license, not the community use license. :) But the OGL itself will cover everything we need for now if we don't get the final rules early. My main concern is that, if using the compatibility license, can we put the compatibility logo on a first product without having seen a copy of the final rules? Robert Thomson
We'll be providing a way that established publishers can have access to the final rules fairly soonish, so that they can have products in the pipeline before that date. Stay tuned for specifics. For those of us who are new and therefore not established, will we be able to just use the Beta for now to try and have something out in time, and do a "revised" edition of our product or a free web enhancement to cover any differences between Beta and final after we see the final in August?
No. They are not ruining the game for everyone, they are ruining the game for YOU, and you ONLY, because you think the the game revolves around you. Stop being a pompous prick.
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