Ladies and Gentlemen: Your Top 32!

Congratulations, everyone!

It's always cool to see all the new names we haven't seen before, but I always get a kick out of seeing the familiar faces too. And it's especially awesome to see old faces but new to the 32+alternates list people, i.e. theheadkase and GM_Solspiral! Way to go, guys!!!

Congrats to all of the Top 32, but especially to my talented wife Kalyna, fellow Fat Goblin Jeff Swank and Taylor Hubler! Now make maps!

Well done, and good luck Top 32! You guys are in for a crazy adventure.

@John Leclaire:

Hide of the Hagfish is an excellent item. It made my top 32, and wasn't even a close call. I didn't order my top 32, but things that weren't close calls numbered about 20 or so. Then there were maybe a half-dozen that were obviously in once I compared them against the next batch. Then things got more difficult.

You were in that 20 or so, "this is definitely in my top 32 list, no question" group. Like I said, I have no idea if you would have been #1 or #20, but there was never a question that you belong in this group of designers.

I hope this helps you overcome any stage fright so that you can turn in your best map work. I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do!

Congrats, everyone! I recognize a lot of names this year- past contestants and 3PP freelancers. It's going to be quite the season!

Congratulations to those that made it.

Well done everyone! Especially pleased to see quite a few through that I was on the pit crew for too, so no pressure those peeps, Monica won last year and I was on her pit crew, so no pressure :P

To those about to doodle, we salute you!

Congratulations to everyone!
I have SUCH wonders to show you!

My congratulations as well to the top 32 & alternates!

Congratulations, everyone! These are all top-notch items and you should all be proud of what you created. Huzzah!

Congratulations to all that took the plunge and entered!

To those going through to Round 2, huzzah! Best wishes on smooth mapmaking.

Congrats, everybody!

*fist-bumps Joseph*

Tag me in!

*fist-bumps back*

Now the impatient wait begins until I can vote for maps...

Congrats everyone! Wow me!

I'm a little shell-shocked, but thanks to everyone who upvoted my item - I honestly didn't expect to make the Top 32. Insanity! Time for deep breaths, and from this time forth, my thoughts be mapmaking, or be nothing worth!

Congratulations!

Very happy to see some of my favorites!

Thank you and congratulations. This looks to be the best season yet.

Congrats guys.

Did anyone notice that the site didn't go down at any point? This was a triumph!

Congratulations everyone, and great job tech team!

Did anyone notice that the site didn't go down at any point? This was a triumph!

I'm making a note here: "huge success".

Isaac V wrote:

Did anyone notice that the site didn't go down at any point? This was a triumph!

I'm making a note here: "huge success".

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

Jacob Kellogg wrote:

Isaac V wrote:

Did anyone notice that the site didn't go down at any point? This was a triumph!

I'm making a note here: "huge success".

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

At Paizo Science: We do what we must because we can.

Zombieneighbours wrote:

Jacob Kellogg wrote:

Isaac V wrote:

Did anyone notice that the site didn't go down at any point? This was a triumph!

I'm making a note here: "huge success".

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

At Paizo Science: We do what we must because we can.

For the good of all of us.

Mark Griffin's user link is still broken (points to https://people/MarkDGriffin instead of https://secure.paizo.com/people/MarkDGriffin).

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Congratulations to everyone! Lots and lots of familiar names and faces this year.

Repeaters:

• Charlie Brooks (2015 Top 32)
  
• Taylor Hubler (2015 Top 32)
  
• Joseph Kellogg (2013 Top 16, 2014 Top 16)
  
• Elizabeth Leib (2009 Top 32)
  
• Mark Nordheim (2013 Top 32, 2014 Top 16)
  
• Chris Shaeffer (2012 Top 16, 2013 Top 32, 2015 Top 16)

Freelance Forge members:

• Kiel Howell
  
• Joe Kellogg
  
• Mark Nordheim
  
• Jeffrey Swank
  
• Robert Thomson
  
• Nick Wasko

Third-party publishers:

• Daron Woodson (Abandoned Arts)
  
• Frank Gori (Flying Pincushion, d20pfsrd, Tricky Owlbear)

Wayfinder credits:

• Kiel Howell (Wayfinder 10, 11, 12, and 13)
  
• Joseph Kellogg (Wayfinder 11 and 13)
  
• Elizabeth Leib (Wayfinder 2, 3, and 4)
  
• Mark Nordheim (Wayfinder 13)
  
• Jeffrey Swank (Wayfinder 11 and 12)
  
• James Thomas (Wayfinder 11)
  
• Nick Wasko (Wayfinder 13)
  
• Stephen Stack (Wayfinder 13)
  
• Frank Gori (Wayfinder 9 and 10)
  

Pathfinder RPG designers previously credited by third parties:

• Kalyna Conrad (LPJ Design's Obsidian Apocalypse and Path of Undeath; Fat Goblin Games's Carnival of Sinners, Campaign Kits: Maidenhill and Her Many Secrets, and Bleeding Hearts and Chocolates)
  
• Kiel Howell (Fat Goblin Games's Ten-Foot Poles and cover credit on Vathak Hauntings: Red Rose Manor; Raging Swan Press's GM's Miscellany: Random Wilderness Encounters and Random Encounters: Wilderness II; Flying Pincushion's Into the Breach series)
  
• Taylor Hubler (Fat Goblin Games's Ten-Foot Poles and 5 Haunted Items; d20pfsrd's Blood & Steel, Book 1: The Fighter; Flying Pincushion's Into the Breach series)
  
• Mark Nordheim (Flying Pincushion's Tides of War: Mounted Charging Feats and Into the Breach series; Rogue Genius Games's From the Forge: 13 Evil Spells; Outland Entertainment's Arcane Focus: Secrets of Sensory Magic)
  
• Walter Sheppard (Jon Brazer Enterprises' Daddy Delves: Doom of the Sky Sword)
  
• Jeffrey Swank (Fat Goblin Games's Call to Arms: Ten-Foot Poles and Secret Societies of Vathak: The Final Phase; Purple Duck Games's Purple Duck Storeroom: More Magic Pants!; Frog God Games)
  
• James Thomas (Kobold Press's Tales of the Old Margreve, Streets of Zobeck, Zobeck Gazetteer, Alleys of Zobeck, Midgard Campaign Setting, Midgard Tales, Midgard Bestiary, Southlands Bestiary, Temple of Dagon, Kobold Quarterly #23, and the KoboldPress.com blog; Green Ronin Games's Freeport: The City of Adventure)
  
• Nick Wasko (Raging Swan Press's GM's Miscellany: Random Wilderness Encounters, Random Encounters: Wilderness II, Village Backdrop: Starspun Hollow; Rogue Genius Games's From the Forge: 13 Evil Spells; Outland Entertainment's Arcane Focus: Secrets of Sensory Magic)
  
• Daron Woodson (Open Gaming Monthly 4; Rite Publishing's Pathways #22; Amora Games's Liber Influxus Communis)
  
• Frank Gori (Kobold Press's Deep Magic and Wondrous Items: Helmets & Shields Made from Monster Hides; Open Gaming Monthly 4 and 5)

Pathfinder RPG designers credited by Paizo:

• Elizabeth Leib (cover credit, Pathfinder Society scenario #28: Lyrics of Extinction)
  
• Mark Nordheim (item in Daughters of Fury, credit in Tears at Bitter Manor)
  
• Walter Sheppard (Pathfinder Society Quests: The Silverhex Chronicles)

I'm also in Wayfinder Garrett!

I'm also in Wayfinder Garrett!

Fixed!

I'm also in Wayfinder Garrett!

So is Kalyna.

Congratulations to my fellow Top 32 contestants! You all did great work. Looking forward to seeing everyone's maps :)

Congratulations to all 36 contestants and alternates. You're in for some of the most exciting and challenging weeks of your gaming career, so strap in and enjoy the ride. I can't wait to see what talent you'll get to show off in forthcoming rounds!

I, too, was in a few Wayfinders. One under Caleb T. Gordan and I think twice under my actual name.

Oh. My. Glob.

Thank you, everyone. Also, this.

Congratulations to everyone! Lots and lots of familiar names and faces this year.

Hey, I'm on a list.

Congratulations to everyone! I look forward to seeing your maps.

Congratulations everyone! Best of luck in round 2 :)

BIG congratulations to all the Top 32+ winners! ^_^

Voting was very difficult near the end there... tons of tough choices. I even voted for the gown of many graves over my own item at one point!

This was probably my last chance to enter... so hopefully, I'll get to work with some of you in the future!

Well done Top 32!
A lot of my keepers, so I am not surprised to see so many repeat names.
Welcome to the new folks!

Well, I was not expecting that ... 0_0

My very sincere thanks to everyone who upvoted me, and a plague of Pugwampi on anyone who downvoted me.

Congratulations everyone, good luck to the rest of the top 32+alts, and oh god I have to go make a map.

Well, I was not expecting that ... 0_0

My very sincere thanks to everyone who upvoted me, and a plague of Pugwampi on anyone who downvoted me.

Congratulations everyone, good luck to the rest of the top 32+alts, and oh god I have to go make a map.

Don't cancel the plague of Pugwampis! We need the work!

...you wouldn't believe our union dues! :P

Congratulations all! Well done on getting the public on board. Now impress us with your imagination and skill!

:D

P.S. I'm very busy this week (work is nuts this time of year) and I am seriously sleep deprived from going for Champion voter. But I am determined to comment on every entry like last year, so expect a comment on your items sometime this weekend!

Sorry for the omissions; I've flagged the list here as a double post and put the list on Google Docs.

Specifically:

• Kalyna Conrad (Wayfinder 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
  
• Taylor Hubler (Wayfinder 8 [as Caleb T Gordon], 9, and 11)
  
• Robert Thomson (Wayfinder 9)
  
• Philip Tucker (Wayfinder 4)

That brings the total number of Top 32+4 with Wayfinder credits to 11+2, or more than a third of the field.

And a double shout-out to everyone in the Top 32+4 who aren't on the list at all. Show us what you got, wildcards! YEE HAW

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm truly honored to have made it this far! I'm glad you liked (or at least heartily tolerated ;) my item, and I hope to improve as the competition continues.

Now I'm off to complete my map. Or die* trying.

*probably not, but I may transmute into a puddle of nerves for the next coupla days

And a double shout-out to everyone in the Top 32+4 who aren't on the list at all. Show us what you got, wildcards! YEE HAW

Woohoo, I'm a wildcard!

Congrats to all, and good luck with that map turnaround. I'm looking forward to seeing what you all can do.

@John Leclaire:

Hide of the Hagfish is an excellent item. It made my top 32, and wasn't even a close call. I didn't order my top 32, but things that weren't close calls numbered about 20 or so. Then there were maybe a half-dozen that were obviously in once I compared them against the next batch. Then things got more difficult.

You were in that 20 or so, "this is definitely in my top 32 list, no question" group. Like I said, I have no idea if you would have been #1 or #20, but there was never a question that you belong in this group of designers.

I hope this helps you overcome any stage fright so that you can turn in your best map work. I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do!

Thank you CripDyke!! I'm over my initial shock and ready to bring my "A" game to this next round! Let's do this thing people!!

Glad I'm a wild-card!

I'm super excited to move forward!

Congratulations to everyone! Lots and lots of familiar names and faces this year.

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Thanks for putting this together, Garrett. I was noticing the same thing, but didn't have the time today to cross reference everyone/everything.

Thank you to everyone who voted for my item. It's an honor to be in the alternates, especially against such fierce (and in a lot of case experienced) competition.

Good luck to all of you. :)

Well this is nerve wracking, and unexpected. But it's also encouraging to see I was able to come up with something so many people liked despite being a complete novice here. I'll do my best to keep up with the the standards set by all these other wonderful designers in the map round!