Over the last few months, the world has seen a huge upsurge in interest, use, and quality of algorithm-generated imagery and text. Since we launched the company in 2002, Paizo has made its reputation with the assistance of countless traditional artists and writers, who are just as integral to the success of our games as our in-house editors, art directors, designers, and developers. The ethical and legal issues surrounding “AI art” and writing prompt programs—and the serious threat they pose to the livelihoods of partners who have helped us get to where we are today as a company—demand that we take a firm position against the use of this technology in Paizo products.

Join Paizo Publisher and Chief Creative Officer Erik Mona for a peek at upcoming Paizo releases!

The PaizoCon Online 2021 panels are going up on Youtube, so you can watch them again or see what you missed. You can watch the Keynote Revelations and Starfinder Galaxy Exploration Manual panels, PaizoCon Liveplays, Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure Path panels, Pathfinder Secrets of Magic panels, panels about the Art of Paizo and The Mwangi Expanse —and now you can check out the “Secrets of...” and Ask the Experts panels!

With such glowing reception to last year’s April Fools’ Bestiary Blog as “None of these are canon” or “John Compton what have you done,” we knew we had to come back this year! More monsters. More typos. Less (fewer?) lead-in text where I try to justify what we’ve done with the blog slot the marketing department entrusted us with. The April Fools’ Bestiary is in motion now, and it can’t be stopped. Let’s see what foolish monsters hath sprung from 2020–2021 Paizo.

The first episode of Paizo LIVE premiered on Twitch, but it’s now available on YouTube! We had a great talking all things Pathfinder and Starfinder with: