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Ultimate Rulership and Ultimate Battle from Legendary Games are a must if you are using the kingdom building or mass combat rules from Ultimate Campaign.

Was it ever confirmed if there will be a Harcover/PDF bundle option.

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<Fires up an old copy of Alpha Centauri>

<Wishes Firaxis would just release an updated version of Alpha Centauri>

I'm sure Firaxis wanted to also, unfortunately EA owns the rights to the game and I'm sure I don't need to explain EA.

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I'm sticking to Pathfinder personally.

Paizo has done a great job at fostering a 3rd party ecosystem in the last few years that I think has already surpassed its predecessor. Unfortunately I don't think Hasbro has the kind of corporate culture that would allow this to happen again like it did back in the 3.5 days.

Is prioritizing orders which do not have Great Golem Sale items an option?

If Paizo has an intelligent just in time order picking system (which I suspect they do), then they are already getting the orders out at the highest rate possible.

Also there is the Zobeck Gazetteer that is the definitive guide to that city.

I know, and it was the Bundle of Holding that introduced me to Zobeck. I'm just a big fan of hard covers, and I really like the feel of the paper and binding of Kobold's hard cover books. I think an updated print compiling existing material with new material through KS stretch goals would be something to look forward to.

Either way Midgard has joined Deep Magic as one of my favorite books to have at my night stand.

Someday, yes, but not before June at the earliest.

I finally got my hand on this book thanks to the minions at Paizo. Between this and Deep Magic, I've been really impressed by your hard covers. I really hope we can see another one soon. (Maybe a kickstarted expanded guide to the city of Zobeck.)

It looks like I missed the new print run. :-(

Is there any hope of another in hardcover?

Quick heads up!

Deep Magic, the massive hardcover tome of spells and magic from Kobold Press is now shipping!

Better yet, Deep Magic fully supports the various spell-casting New Paths Compendium classes :)

Truly good news from both statements!

I don't expect to see much in the near future other than a revised core rule book. The rules FAQ is starting to get a little long and there's a few things in the current CRB that don't fit all that well anymore in the direction that game has evolved. (Not to mention missing tables that ended up having to be printed in other books.)

If there are any major rule changes they will likely be piloted in other books first.

OMG! I can't believe I missed this blog post!

Seriously Lisa, if you find yourself back in Wisconsin for the holidays you should seriously consider showing up as a regular Pathfinder Society player on Saturday morning at Chimera Hobby Shop or on Sunday morning at Gnome Games! The North East Wisconsin PFS group would be too shocked to know how to handle it (and knowing my luck it will be my turn to GM.) :-)

Happy Holidays to our Care Bears in Redmond, WA!!

How are the prospects looking so far of getting our subscriptions in the hands of subscribers by Christmas this year? If there's still a good chance, I want to gift my nephew with one of those cool Pathfinder Message Bags. He's only 11, but he's quickly become one of Pathfinders biggest fans.

If things continue to look dire, I'll probably buy it for myself at least and just get him his first Pathfinder Bestiary on Amazon with my Prime membership.

Either way, keep the hot cocoa flowing for everyone!!

The blood rager is not a hybrid class. It's an archetype. An alternate class at best.

Its rage power comes from Sorcerous Bloodlines, hence why its a hybrid class and has lesser capabilities of casting spells. This class has a huge amount of potential for those of us who want to use the bloodline concept in a melee character. A dragon bloodline rager is just begging to be a Dragon Disciple.

Hey now that lvl3 is missing a perk, can we add another Bloodline Feat, or does someone have something else in store for that level?

Bloodrager looks like an awesome class for Dragon Disciple and it should counts as being a sorcerer for the prestige class.

The only thing I would add to Bloodrager is that classes that allow levels to stack when determining bloodline powers should also stack when determining the number of rounds you can bloodrage. This will make fix the issue of a Bloodrager having too short of a number rounds to bloodrage as a Dragon Disciple.

I'm still waiting for my final shipment notice so I can drool over my tablet while reading my PDF copy.

To those who got their final shipment notice, I'm jealous of each and every one of you!! :-)

This got listed as back-ordered. Are we expecting a new printing?

Half of my Reaper Paints from my side-cart didn't get moved into my monthly shipment. Is this normal behaviour, because I really did need all my paints with this months shipment. They were all listed as in stock when I purchased them.

If the release date is the 30th then subscribers would get it 7-8 days earlier so it wouldn't be next week.

I think Paizo lost control of their shipping goblins again. This usually happens every time a popular Pathfinder hardcover is about to get released.

My subscription order for this just got pushed out to December along with the rest of my subscriptions and huge sidecart (I always have my orders held for monthly shipments.) Is there a last minute 2 month delay for this issue, or did my order become a victim of computer gremlins?

This book is worth it despite the small delay. Paizo has gotten so good with their Bestiaries that it's kinda scary.

I hope this comes soon because I side-carted Tome of Horrors 4 and a bunch of Reaper paints.

Oh Well, I guess good things come to those who wait.

I feel this book is way overdue, but maybe it actually is coming at the right time. Either way, I'm going to be impatient for this book to come out.

Is it me, or is this running 8 months late?

I got my pdf Thursday as part of my subscription. I also can't wait until I get my hard copy.

I was blown away by the response to Bestiary 3... you don't usually see people saying nice things about at THIRD monster collection.

I was shocked too, but it really was a good book.

I'm not sure if this will push people over the edge in excitement, but Frog God Games mentioned a few weeks ago that volume 4 of "The Tome of Horrors" is being published late this summer.

I'm looking forward to all the new TPK options this year!

Every Bestiary has included a small percentage of monsters that debuted in Adventure Paths; this one is no exception.

This explains why my AP Bestiary binder continues to grow despite my culling of monsters that graduated into the Bestiary hardcovers.

April 15th is a national day of mourning for Americans. so great is the despair that it is felt as far away as Golarion.

I dare anyone to buy the Slumbering Tsar through this special and successfully run the entire thing in one weekend!

I personally would like to see a 92-128 page expanded "Complete Elves" book released. This idea of needing to keep "GM" and "Players" information physically separate is bad because it means I need to buy two books as a fan of Pathfinder. This separation is pointless since most players also GM anyways (or should be.) A good player will always keep player and character knowledge separate while playing.

The Elves of Golarion book is mostly compatible with PFRPG already, since most of the crunch can be used without any conversion. What little conversion there still is involves mapping deprecated 3.5 skills to their PFRPG equivalents when dealing with some of the traits.

Maybe this book will be worth it, but by the description alone this looks like a cut back version of Seekers of Secrets. I would like to see PFS get the same kind of excellent treatment that the Inner Sea World Guide got by its third incarnation instead of remaining as a bunch of small books with a lot of duplicate information.

Another PFS book? I also agree that these are coming out too often. The thing is there should be enough material by now for a single compiled book that we could consider to be core assumption, but now there are three separate books written about pathfinder society with different sets of information.

I think it would be a better idea to just compile all this into the free Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play PDF and then just sell a print version of the same book. The print edition would still be less expensive and less of a hassle then trying to print everything out on a printer.

Are we expecting issue 4 of the Pathfinder Comic this month?

Maybe we will have an Adventure Path were the Flumphs end up being incoherent heralds for the "Great Old Ones."

Actually a more accurate phrasing of my question would be: will the NPC Pawn Box contain art that is not in the NPC Codex?

The developers had mentioned that they will be filling this pawn set with additional common NPCs.

I have an interesting question.

Are there plans to adjust the rules in Pathfinder Society to allow us to use this book when we need a temporary character to play a higher tier session? Right now I think we are currently limited to the 4 basic iconics when we need to do this.

This just got pushed to February! :-(

All I want for Valentine's Day are Pathfinder Pawns! :-)

This book looks like another "must have."

I notice that the book description indicates this book is going to have rules for fame. Are these the same fame and prestige rules from Pathfinder Society? Will this book become part of the core assumption then?

I hope this is a web based app that doesn't rely on plugins.

This would be perfect for tablets.

PCGen v5.17.20 is our fourth beta in the lead-up to our 6.0 release. We've continued to squash bugs and improve the stability of PCGen. Thanks again for the great feedback and reports of issues!

I just downloaded and installed it.

Keep up the good work!

My copy arrived last Saturday, I was rather surprised that it took only 3 days for me.

Yeah, I've been using the business card holders for mine. They work great for the medium and large, but the smalls slip and slide around. Right now I have a strip of wide masking tape down the middle of each page to seal off the openings. So far its worked ok, but I'd love a better way to store the small/tiny pawns.

Stick the larger pawns in front of the small ones. They should help keep the small ones from falling out.