![]() Leather-Bound Pathfinder BetaLeather-Bound Pathfinder Beta Thursday, April 30, 2009So our fans are apparently crazy... crazy awesome. Check out this leather-bound copy of the Pathfinder RPG Beta sent to our office by Sean, who posts on the messageboards as yellowdingo. The lovingly made book was well used by Sean and his fellow Beta playtesters, and includes all of the web enhancements for the Beta, as well as his personal notes from the playtest. It's really quite amazing! ... David Eitelbach ... Editorial Intern ...Tags: Community Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Playtest ![]() Infernal Sorceress Nominated for Origins Award... Infernal Sorceress Nominated for Origins Award Wednesday, April 29, 2009Here at Paizo we're pretty darn proud of our Planet Stories line of fiction. Reviving classic fantasy and science fiction by the likes of authors such as Leigh Brackett, Henry Kuttner, and Gary Gygax has been a labor of love for Publisher Erik Mona, Senior Editor Pierce Watters, and Editors James L. Sutter and Christopher Paul Carey. It's with great pride, then, that we announce that Gary Gygax's Infernal Sorceress...Tags: Andrew Hou Gary Gygax Infernal Sorceress Origins Awards Planet Stories ![]() Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder #23—The Impossible EyeSnagged from the Vault: Pathfinder #23—The Impossible Eye Monday, April 27, 2009It is with the greatest pleasure that we are able to bring you some fantastic art with which to start your week. Featured here is the cover to Pathfinder Adventure Path #23: The Impossible Eye, painted by Jesper Ejsing. Valeros looks like he's really gotten in over his head this time! ... Vadid and Nahk ... Preview Purloiners ... Imprisoned by Flame ... A world of fire and wonder awaits! The path of the...Tags: Dragons Jesper Ejsing Monsters Snagged From the Vault Wallpapers ![]() Paizo Twitter... Paizo Twitter Friday, April 24, 2009We've been tweeting! As of yesterday afternoon Paizo has its very own Twitter account. Come join the more than 200 Twitter users already getting nearly 24-hour-a-day updates on all sorts of Pathfinder info, Pathfinder RPG details, and other Paizo ephemera! Follow along on the Paizo Twitter page right here. ... There's also a new Twitter page for Planet Stories, where you can get endless updates on all your favorite pulp science fiction and fantasy...Tags: Community Paizo Pathfinder Adventure Path Planet Stories ![]() Roots & Beginnings: Book of the Damned (Part 2)... Illustration by Tylor Walpole ... Roots & Beginnings: Book of the Damned (Part 2) Friday, April 24, 2009As promised, here is part 2 of Roots & Beginnings: Book of the Damned: ... Wes: There are a lot of interesting stories about demons in Hebrew mysticism and collections of angelology. Sean K Reynolds lent me a fantastic book, the Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels, by Gustav Davidson, which was a major source of inspiration. Another interesting source was accounts...Tags: Devils Hell Interviews Tyler Walpole ![]() Adventurers of Sandpoint!Adventurers of Sandpoint! Thursday, April 23, 2009Sean K Reynolds loves painting miniatures. In fact, he enjoys it so much that he's willing to sit down with Hank, Alison, Brock, and me every Wednesday and give us painting tips. For those of you attending PAIZOCON, you'll have the opportunity to receive some of Sean's expert advice in his painting workshop. ... Hopefully these snapshots of some minis painted by Sean will be enough to whet your appetite for the miniature painting extravaganza....![]() Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder Adventure Path #23: "The Impossible Eye"... Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder Adventure Path #23: The Impossible Eye Wednesday, April 22, 2009Fortune favors the bold, dear readers, and today the Preview Purloiners were brave (or foolish) enough to fetch a piece of art from the penultimate chapter of the Legacy of Fire, Pathfinder Adventure Path volume #23: The Impossible Eye. Illustrated here by Jason Engle is the black jinn, a spiteful being of elemental fury; these creatures will harm mortals if they can. ... Vadid and Nahk ......Tags: Snagged From the Vault ![]() Roots & Beginnings: Book of the Damned... Illustration by Tylor Walpole ... Roots & Beginnings: Book of the Damned Tuesday, April 21, 2009The Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting gave readers a glimpse of the tortuous layers of Hell and the diabolical machinations of the archdevils who rule them, and The Great Beyond, A Guide to the Multiverse, scheduled to be released in June, will further whet the appetites of those who crave to add a healthy dose of the infernal to their game. The definitive treatise on Hell, however, is...Tags: Devils Hell Interviews Tyler Walpole ![]() Half-Elf, All Druid, No Tree Hugging... Illustration by David Bircham ... Half-Elf, All Druid, No Tree Hugging Monday, April 20, 2009When you think of characters in game-world fiction, what first comes to mind are the fighters, wizards, and rogues. Priests are fine if they're sufficiently powerful and conflicted, otherwise, not so much. Bards generally play second fiddle, you should pardon the expression, and paladins are seldom cast in starring roles. The druids, apparently, are too busy communing with nature to bother with...Tags: Channa Ti David Bircham Druids Elaine Cunningham Legacy of Fire Monsters Pathfinder Journal ![]() The Roof is on Fire!... The Roof is on Fire! Friday, April 17, 2009You may have noticed a preponderance of previews lately on the Paizo blog. As exciting as it is to see new art and sneak peaks of things to come in Pathfinder, the number of previews in fact correlates directly with the amount of work we have to do here in the office. In short: things here at Paizo have been pretty crazy. With the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook and Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary just around the corner, the...Tags: Portraits Tyler Walpole ![]() Official Call for Paizo Publishing Gen Con 2009 Volunteer GMs and Assistants!Official Call for Paizo Publishing Gen Con 2009 Volunteer GMs and Assistants! Thursday, April 16, 2009Hello! ... This is the official call for volunteer GMs and assistants to help Paizo Publishing run events at Gen Con 2009. (If you're looking for the Origins volunteer thread, click here.) In order to be sure that Gen Con 2009 is the best possible play experience, I need a minimum of 42 volunteers (54 volunteers total on Friday and Saturday night) with no maximum—I'll keep taking...Tags: Community Conventions Gen Con Pathfinder Society ![]() Hunting the Planes... Hunting the Planes Wednesday, April 15, 2009Readers with a keen eye might spot something a little different on the credits page to Pathfinder Adventure Path #22. Tucked in there amid all the who's-whos and what's-whats is a dedication to Spooky the Mighty Hunter, feline familiar and cat of legend. I personally didn't know Spooky, as he was Gary Teter's long-time partner in crime, but when Lisa came to us with the news that our web czar's slinky sidekick had moved on to hunt upon other...Tags: Cats Familiars Kevin Yan Legacy of Fire Monsters ![]() Snagged from the Vault: Genie Binder... Snagged from the Vault: Genie Binder Tuesday, April 14, 2009From upcoming Pathfinder #22 we bring you the mighty genie binder, whose dark magic commands the awesome might of the djinn, depicted here by artist Kevin Yan... ... While any spellcaster capable of casting planar ally, planar binding, and binding spells can conjure and bind genies, the true genie binder is a spellcaster who has devoted his life to the pursuit of this practice. Most genie binders study the works of Sulesh the...Tags: Kevin Yan Legacy of Fire Portraits Prestige Classes Snagged From the Vault ![]() Snagged from the Vault: Otyugh... Snagged from the Vault: Otyugh Monday, April 13, 2009From the upcoming Pathfinder Chronicles product, Dungeon Denizens Revisited, behold the vile otyugh, as depicted by artist Ben Wootten. ... The strong scent of rotting garbage precedes this walking horror. It stumbles on three massive legs that end in flat stumps with broad toes. Atop these is a gigantic mouth full of crumbling teeth that seems to stretch from one side of its broad body to the other. Extending from its body is a trio of...Tags: Monsters Otyughs Snagged From the Vault ![]() Worth Waiting For!... Worth Waiting For! Friday, April 10, 2009Even though Free RPG Day is still 70-some days away, we just got in our first look at this year's offering, the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bonus Bestiary, here in the Paizo offices, and for a freebie, just let me say wow!. Way more than just a preview of the upcoming Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, this 16-page mini-manual of monstrosities shows off new rules for monsters straight from the Pathfinder RPG, a rundown of just 257 of the monsters you can...Tags: Free RPG Day Monsters Nagas Tyler Walpole ![]() Snagged from the Vault: Two-Headed Ruhk... Snagged from the Vault: Two-Headed Ruhk Thursday, April 9, 2009From the Bestiary of Pathfinder Adventure Path volume #21 comes this twisted menace, the nightmarish two-headed ruhk, as depicted by Tyler Walpole... ... Beating its greasy, night-black wings, this gigantic two-headed vulture picks across the ground upon two earth sheering talons. Craning its twin massive heads forward, the terrible avian opens its giant twin beaks to unleash a blood curdling shriek. ... Vadid and Nahk ......Tags: Legacy of Fire Monsters Ruhks Snagged From the Vault ![]() Within the Star Chamber... Within the Star Chamber Wednesday, April 8, 2009The next stop on our impromptu virtual tour of the Paizo offices brings us to the conference room, where brains are racked and PCs are slain. A long, wide table dominates the center of this room. Windows tinted against prying eyes march above rows of low cabinets filled with terrain and chairs that sit pressed against the walls. Vast armies of miniatures stand attentively atop nearly every surface, scattered in ways that make sense only to...![]() Snagged from the Vault: Ratsheek... Snagged from the Vault: Ratsheek Tuesday, April 7, 2009For those of you who have been following the adventures of the druid Pathfinder Channa Ti in Elaine Cunningham's Dark Tapestry Pathfinder's Journal, as featured in the Legacy of Fire Adventure Path , we bring you the visage of Ratsheek, the villainous gnoll, as depicted by artist David Bircham... ... Vadid and Nahk ... Preview Purloiners ...Tags: Channa Ti David Bircham Elaine Cunningham Gnolls Monsters Pathfinder Journal Snagged From the Vault ![]() The Shadow Under Sandpoint Campaign Begins!... The Shadow Under Sandpoint Campaign Begins! Monday, April 6, 2009Last Thursday an unlikely group of strangers gathered on the docks of Sandpoint, beginning what will doubtlessly be one of the most unfortunate misadventures in the usually peaceful town's history. This marks the beginning of the Paizo editorial pit's new biweekly Pathfinder RPG Campaign: James Jacobs's The Shadow Under Sandpoint! Watch the calamity unfold with ongoing character reports, missives, comments, journal entries,...Tags: Monsters Playtest Sandpoint Sandpoint Devil Shadow Under Sandpoint ![]() Snagged from the Vault: Dungeon Denizens Revisited... Snagged from the Vault: Dungeon Denizens Revisited Friday, April 3, 2009Closing out this week's blogs, we unveil a terrible creature that epitomizes the savage and insatiable hunger possessed by you, our ravenous readers: the bulette, illustrated here by Steve Prescott... ... Of all the beasts that populate the wilderness, few are as feared as the bulette. Known sometimes as the landshark, the bulette is a sleek predator, moving as fluidly through earth as those primeval eating machines...Tags: Amiri Barbarians Bulettes Dwarves Harsk Iconics Monks Monsters Rangers Sajan Snagged From the Vault Steve Prescott ![]() Snagged from the Vault: Great Beyond, A Guide to the Multiverse... Snagged from the Vault: Great Beyond, A Guide to the Multiverse Thursday, April 2, 2009Occasionally the Vault contains wondrous oddities, such as this map of the Eternal City of Axis, rendered beautifully by Rob Lazzaretti. This map, and more information about Axis and the other planes of the Outer Sphere, can be found in Pathfinder Chronicles: The Great Beyond, A Guide to the Multiverse, due out in May. Of course, nothing but perfect symmetry should be expected from the axiomites and...Tags: Axis The Great Beyond Maps Rob Lazzaretti Snagged From the Vault ![]() Snagged from the Vault: Dark Markets, A Guide to Katapesh... Snagged from the Vault: Dark Markets, A Guide to Katapesh Wednesday, April 1, 2009Our latest foray into the treacherous Vault has met with success once again, dear readers! Today we bring you a preview of the dreaded ghul, the restless undead spirit of a fallen genie, illustrated here by Tyler Walpole. The ghul appears in the bestiary of Pathfinder Chronicles: Dark Markets, A Guide to Katapesh, due out in April. Fear the power of the genies, even in death! ... Vadid and Nahk ... Preview...Tags: Ghuls Katapesh Monsters Snagged From the Vault Tyler Walpole |