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Here is a direct link to the ORC License Seminar at Gen Con this year. I am not yet certain if the panel will be recorded on video, but we'd love to see you if you are at the show and have questions about the license!

I'm curious.

If you were in charge of Pathfinder, based on what you've read in any official source and what you've seen at your game table, what FIVE archetypes would you make sure to include in the first year of Pathfinder Second Edition?

Please list the name of the archetype and the base class it modifies. Feel free to tell me why.

It's ok if you don't like the way that concept is currently implemented. Just your top 5 in concept if not always in execution. Or maybe there's a mechanical element you like--that's cool too.

Assume for now that we're talking about archetypes that modify the base 11 classes in Pathfinder First Edition, plus the alchemist.

Thanks much for your time and consideration! I'm thinking about this stuff today, and I thought it might be fun for you to think about it at the same time!

Thanks in advance for folks helping our team raise funds this year! I'm very excited about the cool dungeon we put together for last year's effort, and having played this year's games I'm really looking forward to Paizo doing very well in this year's tournament.

If you backed my efforts last year, I still owe you some "thank you" swag, which I'll be sending out shortly. Expect to hear from me soon to confirm shipping details. Thanks for your patience, as this process has taken a lot longer than I anticipated last year. But your stuff is coming soon!

Folks,

At 1:00 pm PST (about an hour from now), Erik Mona, F. Wesley Schneider, James L. Sutter, and John Compton will be livestreaming a Pathfinder RPG/Humble Bundle 4-hour Mini-Marathon from the Paizo offices.

The Mini-Marathon will feature the authors of the Pathfinder comics from Dynamite as they play through several of the encounters provided with Pathfinder comics, to celebrate the launch of Humble Bundle's new "Pathfinder, Presented by Dynamite" book bundle, which you can grab HERE.

Tune in at 1:00 to the OfficialPaizo Twitch channel to join us!

As a reminder, there's still one week left to shore up your digital Pathfinder collection with the Humble RPG Book Bundle: Pathfinder! Don't miss out!

See you on Twitch in just about an hour!

After a lengthy search in which I had a chance to discuss Pathfinder Society in depth with more than 25 dedicated volunteers, I'm happy to announce that we have a new Organized Play Coordinator, Tonya Woldridge!

Tonya's first day at Paizo is today, and I expect she will come along with her own hellos very shortly.

Tonya has distinguished herself with a record of exemplary service to the Pathfinder Society program, from her time as Venture-Captain of Ontario to her service as VL of the UK, to her time in the trenches as a 5-Star Game Master. Tonya was also the Gen Con HQ Co-Lead this year, giving her excellent insight into the largest RPG organized play event in history.

In a field of extremely impressive candidates, Tonya distinguished herself with tons of excellent ideas about how to move the campaign forward. I was also impressed by her grasp of the campaign's scope and history, and her enthusiasm to make Pathfinder Society bigger and better than it has ever been.

I'm thrilled to appoint Tonya as Paizo's Organized Play Coordinator. The campaign has a great future ahead of it, and I know you all will appreciate Tonya's demeanor and attention to detail as we all work together to move things forward in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.

Please join me in welcoming and congratulating Tonya Woldridge on her new position.

Amazing things are in store!

Folks,

I wanted to drop by to the General Forum and give a quick update on where we stand filling the Campaign Coordinator position recently vacated when Mike Brock decided to move on to other things.

At and since Gen Con, I've had the opportunity to discuss the campaign in interviews with more than 20 of the most qualified, dedicated, and impressive pool of candidates I've had the pleasure of interviewing for any position I've tried to fill in my entire campaign.

It's really touching to see how the Pathfinder Society campaign has impacted so many lives, and it's gratifying to see so many excellent candidates stand up and offer themselves for consideration for the campaign's top spot.

The preliminary round of interviews is now over. Next week, I will go through all of my notes from all of my interviews and select a small number of candidates for another interview, this time with Paizo's CEO Lisa Stevens and Pathfinder Society Developer John Compton in addition to myself.

I hope to have concluded this second round of interviews by the end of the week, and expect to make an appointment relatively shortly thereafter.

I know many of you are also very dedicated to the campaign, and eagerly await a word on new campaign leadership.

I assure you that things are moving forward briskly, and that we are headed into a fantastic future almost no matter which candidate is chosen.

Thanks for your patience, and thank you for your continued support of the Pathfinder Society!

Folks,

As many of you know, our current Organized Play Coordinator, Mike Brock, will be moving on to another job outside Paizo shortly after Gen Con. Mike has done a fantastic job coordinating the international Pathfinder Society campaign, and we are very sad to lose him.

However, the show must go on, and that means we're currently on the hunt for a new Organized Play Coordinator.

We've just posted the job listing here on paizo.com. Please take a look!

At this moment, we are limiting applicants to folks who have Venture-Officer experience, or who have at least 2 years of professional experience running an organized play campaign for a major game company.

Pathfinder Society is one of Paizo's most important programs, and it is very important to me that the new coordinator comes from "within the ranks," as someone who understands the campaign's infrastructure and the important role that volunteers play in making it such a success.

Please join me at Gen Con to give Mike Brock a hearty send-off and a round of applause for a job very well done.

After that, we'll have a new captain at the helm. Maybe that new captain is YOU!

Folks,

When the new code for paizo.com rolls during this evening's downtime, we'll be fixing a lot of little bugs and problems with the Pathfinder Society scoring system. Generally speaking, this should return some missing sessions to your record, but as with any major code revision there's a chance some things will fall through the cracks.

There may also be some slight shifts in star ratings. The system currently counts Adventure Card Guild sessions toward your star rating, but it shouldn't, and this will be fixed with the new code.

Please take a look at your personal play records following the reappearance of the site, and let our customer service team know if you see any problems.

Thanks!

Thanks to the lads from Know Direction, who were kind enough to invite me and Brandon Hodge to be their guests this evening. The topic was Occult Adventures, the major 2015 Pathfinder RPG hardcover rules release.

We also briefly discussed Pathfinder comics, including major revelations about the next Pathfinder comic series from Dynamite, with stories from Pathfinder co-creators Erik Mona, F. Wesley Schneider, and James L. Sutter.

You can listen to the wide-ranging interview on the other side of the link.

Hats off to Wizkids, these look exactly as advertised; crisp, clean, dynamic.

While I've always liked the iconics in the sets (well except for two perhaps)I can happily agree these look to be leagues above them, especially Sajan. I'm really waiting on Amiri, the original, much like Seoni, is a benchmark NPC in my eyes. Incredinbly well done. Given the step up these show I'm expecting to be blown away by my favourite barbarian (although I think the iconic bloodrager is closing fast). Of course that's set 2, so I will need to use my weakest personality trait - patience! Curse you slow moving time! I can not wait for these to hit the shelves!

Folks,

Please consider supporting Paizo by voting in the 2014 ENnie Awards! We've been honored with several nominations this year, including:

Best Interior Art: Inner Sea Gods
Best Cover Art: Mythic Adventures
Best Cartography: Wrath of the Righteous Poster Map Folio
Best Free Product: Pathfinder Module: We Be Goblins Too!
Best Monster/Adversary Product: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 4
Best RPG-Related Product: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Rise of the Runelords Base Set
Best Supplement: Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Campaign
Best Miniatures: Pathfinder Battles Wrath of the Righteous set

Please drop by the following link and show your support!

VOTE FOR PAIZO HERE!

Thanks!

Folks,

Every year, after the convention winds down at 2:00 on Sunday, I host an informal miniatures trading afterparty in the hotel bar.

Please bring along your excess, unwanted miniatures (painted, prepainted, or unpainted) and join us for a lively and fun event.

We all have a bunch of figures we probably will never use. They can be gems for someone else looking to offload stuff you will probably love!

Most of the action tends to focus around prepainted figures like Pathfinder Battles, D&D Minis, Heroscape, and the like, but lots of folks (including yours truly) will have metal figures on hand.

I'll even be bringing along several "blank" Pathfinder Battles bases at various sizes, which are great for conversions.

The event should last a couple of hours. It's always great fun, and all are welcome.

Just don't forget to bring your minis!

I was a judge the very first year of RPG Superstar, before public voting on the Wondrous Items open call round. Three of us read about 1000 submitted items, the good and the bad, over the Thanksgiving weekend. It was a lot of work, it was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot myself from all of the submissions.

In the years since, I've had to step back a bit from RPG Superstar as the duties of co-running Paizo as a whole have taken up more and more of my time. Yesterday, however, I found myself with a few hours of free time, so I wandered into the judges chambers and started voting on items from this year's contest.

And I've got to tell you, you guys are doing a fantastic job.

Yes, there are plenty of items that don't follow the rules, or that are simply spells in a can, or that just don't earn their designer a spot in the next round. But as a whole, the quality of submissions has increased leaps and bounds from that first year. Even the bad items are better than they used to be.

Items are more likely to be in the right format, are more interesting, and are flat-out more creative (as a whole) than in previous years. Sure, I've judged far fewer than 1000 items so far, but I can say that after only an hour or so of reading I saw several items I would be happy to publish in a Pathfinder supplement, something that definitely wasn't the case that first year (and a few years after that).

I know that waiting to find out the results of the first (or any) round can be excruciating, especially as other judges can focus on the negatives and on the items that don't deserve the superstar title, making you second-guess your efforts.

But from the perspective of someone who was there at the very beginning, I'm very impressed with a LOT of items this year, and I'm eager to follow the contest as the rounds go on.

You guys are doing an excellent job this year. Keep up the good work, and good luck in future rounds!

Be sure to pack a few of your unwanted miniatures before you come to PaizoCon!

For the fourth year in a row, I'll be hosting a post-convention miniatures trading market in the hotel bar! Bring your unwanted miniatures (prepainted, plastic, metal, or otherwise) and get ready to barter like there's no tomorrow!

I'll be bringing a HUGE box of extra figures, and hope to swap some of my doubles, triples, and flat-out unwanted figures with you. It's a great way to keep your collection in check, and to pick up figures you didn't even know you needed!

The Miniatures Trading Afterparty will go from 1 to 3 PM on Sunday, at the hotel bar (location subject to change, but we'll be around). It's been a great event in years past, and I think everyone has left happy.

So bring your unwanted minis, an idea of what figures you DO want, and get ready to TRAAAAADE!

Folks,

We just sent Planet Stories subscribers an email letting them know that Robert Silverberg's THE CHALICE OF DEATH will be the last Planet Stories volume for the foreseeable future. We've had a lot of fun with the 33 books we've released in this series to date, but sales of the line into bookstores have been sluggish, and the line has the fewest number of subscribers of any Paizo product, by a considerable margin. That's not a good combination, so for the immediate future we are pushing the "pause" button to consider our options and chart a new course for the imprint.

As many of you know, Planet Stories is a personal labor of love of mine, and something I've poured enormous amounts of time and energy into over the last five years. I am currently talking with my partners in Paizo's senior management to determine what comes next for the line. I have a list of projects longer than my arm that I'd love to do, but in order to make them happen we need to restructure the business, and that's going to take some time.

Given the huge popularity of Pathfinder (and the fact that Pathfinder projects already dominate much of my "free" time), I can't promise a timeline on when I can bring my evil plans to fruition, so for the time being I ask that Planet Stories fans remain patient. I AM working on something, and I do not intend to let the project end permanently with this announcement.

We've removed the option to begin a new Planet Stories subscription as of today. Planet Stories subscriptions are no longer required to achieve "superscriber" status on paizo.com. Current Planet Stories subscribers will continue to enjoy a 15% discount on previous Planet Stories volumes, and if you're missing any of our previous volumes, a good way to show your support is to pick up books you may have missed the first time. Should the line begin anew, we will give subscribers plenty of warning so they can know what to expect, and when.

I'm happy to answer whatever questions I can here in this thread and elsewhere in the Planet Stories discussion folder, which isn't going anywhere.

So, for the time being, keep your eyes on the stars and a fresh charge in your blaster pistol. The future of Planet Stories is lurking up ahead just beyond the next star.

More soon.

--Erik Mona
Publisher
Paizo Publishing

This is very exciting news, and we're thrilled to finally get to share it with you! We plan to monitor this thread throughout the day and the coming weeks, so let us know what you think!

Howdy, folks. I recently did an interview with author Ed Gorman on Robert Silverberg's THE PLANET KILLERS and the Planet Stories line.

You can read it here!

I have a little challenge for you guys, just for fun.

For a long time now, online forums have used the word "gish" to describe a class that is essentially a fighter/magic-user from the old 1e days. More recent approaches to this class have included the hexblade and the spellblade, from our pals over in Renton.

Every so often we have cause to discuss such a class in meetings here at the office, which brings up a problem.

The word "gish" sends us up the friggin' wall.

I challenged my staff to come up with a better name than "gish" to end this annoyance, and thus far they have been unable to do so satisfactorily. So, since 170,000 minds are better than 10, I've decided to ask you guys.

What is a better name for the "gish" class concept?

THE RULES
---------

1. NO NONSENSE WORDS: I don't want to replace the "gish" with a "schmonktarn," thanks.

2. NO PORTMANTEAUS: This is two words smooshed together: Spellblade. Hexblade. Nothanks.

3. ONE WORD: All other base classes are ONE word. This one should be no different.

Sounds easy, right?

Not so easy round these parts.

So, what's a better name for these guys that fits all three criteria?

Please save us from annoying ourselves in meetings. The situation is growing desperate.

Thanks!

I've seen these Asian dragons in person, and they are absolutely wonderful. I can't wait to snap up a set for myself!

These are absolutely great. Sean Reynolds brought them into our regular Pathfinder campaign, and we all love them.

What are your favorite villains to appear in the PFS campaign so far? I'd love to hear about your experiences with memorable bad guys from the dozens of scenarios we've reprinted so far.

Please list the villain, the scenario from which is comes, and why you liked it so much.

This data will help me finish a PFS-related writing project in which I am currently engaged, so I am most curious about the subject.

Thanks!

Noted Robert E. Howard blog The Cimmerian has just posted a lengthy review of the Planet Stories edition of A. Merritt's THE SHIP OF ISHTAR!

Editor Deuce Richardson had previously called our edition "the best version ever" of this classic tale, and now that he's had a chance to re-read it and see the beautiful Virgil Finlay illustrations, well, let's just say he's still a fan.

You can read the review HERE.

If you've not already done so, please consider purchasing THE SHIP OF ISHTAR right here on paizo.com! It's one of our absolute favorite Planet Stories books to date, and it make a great introduction to the line!

I'd love to hear from fellow Planet Stories readers about their thoughts on this exciting, beautiful novel!

I'll be a special guest at Dragonmeet in London on November 28th of this year. I'd like to have some "walking around" money on the trip, so I've decided to put some of my extra RPG and D&D collectibles on a "London Fund" eBay auction/fundraiser.

Please take a minute to check out my auction. There's a lot of really rare stuff there, including some GREYHAWK oddities, the ultra-rare DUNE: CHRONICLES OF THE IMPERIUM RPG, and other really fun stuff.

I also tried to include some fun anecdotes in the product descriptions, to make reading them worth your while.

Check out the London Fund auction today!

(Please note that this auction is not in any way affiliated with Paizo, which is why I'm posting here in the off-topic area.)

Wow.

I've read a ton of Henry Kuttner's work, and consider him one of the very best authors I've explored extensively since kicking off the Planet Stories project.

But up until tonight, I'd never had a chance to read his very first story, "The Graveyard Rats."

I am still creeped out thinking about it. It's one of the most effective horror short stories I've ever read.

I found it in a beautiful hardcover from Centipede Press called "Two-Handed Engine: The Selected Stories of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore," which I recently picked up from Half-Price Books. I think there may be a SFBC version available.

If you have this or can get it, I strongly suggest checking it out. It's filled with great stories, but this one in particular is a doozy.

And, if you haven't had a chance yet, please check out the Planet Stories editions of:

Elak of Atlantis
The Dark World
&
Robots Have No Tails

He really is quite good.

At Gen Con I heard some grousing about the lack of a coherent meta-plot for the Pathfinder Society campaign. I suspect this is in part driven by the focus of the faction prestige system changing from a competition of team vs. team to a personal goal related to availability of rewards. And the fact that we haven't announced which faction "won" season 0.

I've heard people requesting more linkages between adventures, more of a sense of "something going on" in the campaign beyond the events of a given scenario.

Do you feel this way?

Do you disagree, and prefer things the way they are now?

Do you wish your in-character actions had more of an impact on the overall "plot" of the campaign?

Should the campaign have an overall "plot" at all?

Please discuss.

Just one added note for Paizo.com customers.

We'll be discussing the scope and future of this range here at Gen Con over the next few days, and I imagine both Paizo and Reaper will have much more to announce by way of details in the next few weeks.

For the time being, this does not change the available miniatures currently in the Pathfinder range, though many of those sculpts will eventually be rolled into the new line, which will include new sculpts on a monthly basis.

It will be a few months before things start appearing in stores and here at Paizo.com, so if you're dying to get one of the currently available miniatures, you may want to place your order sooner rather than later.

I'm very excited by this development, and expect amazing things.

More soon!

We've just implemented some changes to the Planet Stories imprint and to Planet Stories subscriptions that we believe will significantly increase the quality of the books in general and enhance the value of your subscription.

Starting with June's Robots Have No Tails, by Henry Kuttner, Planet Stories subscribers will enjoy a 30% discount on new Planet Stories volumes (up from 20%). Additionally, subscribers will be able to order older Planet Stories books at a substantial 15% discount off the cover price as an added benefit of subscribing. We hope this new discount structure makes it easier for collectors to pick up volumes they may have missed from earlier in our series.

Also in June, Planet Stories will shift to a roughly bimonthly publication schedule, with six volumes scheduled per year into the future. We're worried we may be producing Planet Stories books faster than subscribers are able to read them, so we want to slow things down a bit and give each book a chance to make a strong impact on the marketplace and in the minds of our faithful readers. We hope to increase the frequency in the future, but doing so will require significantly more subscribers than we have now and better penetration into local and national bookstores. We believe these changes will come with time, and reducing the frequency in the meantime gives us an opportunity to ensure that Planet Stories has the best possible foundation in the years to come during a very challenging period for the book publishing industry.

The biggest change to the line will become apparent when we send out Robots Have No Tails in the upcoming weeks: We've completely revised the Planet Stories format to pack in more story for your buck and to include illustrations that harken back to the pulp era from which many of our stories are drawn. In the case of this summer's The Ship of Ishtar, by A. Merritt, we've even negotiated rights to publish illustrations by noted pulp illustrator (and the best man at the wedding of C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner) VIRGIL FINLAY!

Those of you familiar with Finlay's marvelous work will no doubt be jumping up and down with excitement. Those of you who have not encountered his work are in for a real treat. Other Planet Stories volumes will contain interior illustrations (many original to the Planet Stories line) as well, and we hope to set a new standard of design excellence with the series. We've posted sample page layouts on the Robots Have No Tails product page to give you a taste of what's in store in the very near future.

The very best way that you can help to ensure a bright future for Planet Stories is to subscribe, and to evangelize the line to your science fiction and fantasy-reading friends. We hope to double the number of Planet Stories subscribers in the next year, and we're going to need all the help you can provide in order to achieve that goal.

We're more excited about the Planet Stories line than we've ever been. In many ways, we're finally publishing these stories in a format that does them justice and best matches our original plans for the line. We hope you love what's in store, and that you continue to support Planet Stories.

It means the (strange adventures on other) worlds to us.

Sincerely,

Erik Mona
Publisher
Paizo Publishing, LLC

A lot of us have iPods and MP3 players and computers and stuff. A lot of us love music.

I hereby challenge Paizocon attendees to create a 4-song playlist of your very favorite songs you'd love to share with other members of the community and bring it to the convention for a listening party hosted by yours truly.

Here are the rules:

1. No lame-ass fantasy movie scores and stuff like that. Honest to god kick-ass music of any genre without regard to whether or not it fits into the historical context of a fantasy game or whatever. Kick ass, awesome music you love so much you want to share it with other people.

2. The music doesn't necessarily need to be super-rare. If you think "Detroit Rock City" needs more converts, fly the flag high. This is really an event aimed at people who consider themselves somewhat snobbish in their musical tastes, though, so the deeper and awesomer the cut, the more likely that you will gain the respect of your peers.

3. Please burn the music to a CD so I can review each one at my leisure and play them on a CD player at the party. There will be prizes for awesomeness awarded to the mix I deem as the SWEETEST, as well as some goofy prizes handed out at the party.

4. Try to keep to shorter songs. Songs longer than 5 minutes are pushing it. Do not include them unless their sheer awesomeness is overpowering and commands that you disobey a rule in the spirit of rock and roll or heavy metal thunder or elfin folksy purity or whatever. Under no circumstances include a song longer than 7 minutes.

5. Name your mix something triumphant and awesome.

6. Be prepared to evangelize and defend shoddy choices.

I'll figure out the time and place for the listening party later, but it is highly likely that it will be after-hours.

Please note that CDs will be discarded after the event. The idea is to listen to awesome music, not distribute it.

My friend (and Downer artist) Kyle Hunter got me into the new album by The Decemberists. I'd previously bought one of their CDs, listened to it twice, and filed it away forever without even ripping it to MP3.

This one is something different. Here's how allmusic.com describes it:

"A 17-song suite (think one continuous song with track ID's peppered throughout for sanity's sake) about a girl named Margaret, shapeshifters, forest queens, and fairytale treachery, Hazards of Love is ambitious, pretentious, obtuse, often impenetrable, and altogether pretty great."

Surely some of you have heard this record.

Discuss.

Folks,

The editorial staff has been tinkering with a wordpress blog over the past few months, getting a feel for the technology and posting only when we had time. I can't promise that we'll ever get to the point where the blog has posts every single day, but I just spent some time posting a general update for the line that I suspect would interest many of you.

Please come take a gander at the Planet Stories wordpress blog and see what we've been cooking up. We've already got posts from Ben Bova and Joe R. Lansdale (to say nothing of contributions by me and senior editor Pierce Watters).

It'd great to have a few of you pay us a visit!

I'm interested to hear opinions about the Pathfinder Chronicles Map Folios. So far we've got one released or slated for every announced Adventure Path, and another one filled exclusively with city map posters on the way.

Do you like this sort of thing? Would the world be torn asunder if they were not a regular feature?

I need to make some decisions about 2010, and I don't really have a sense of whether these are "working" or not.

Please help me determine this.

Thanks,

Erik

I am pleased to report that Paizo Publishing has been nominated for an Origins Award this year!

Our nominee is the Planet Stories novel Infernal Sorceress, by Gary Gygax. This "lost novel" from the father of fantasy roleplaying was originally written for TSR, who rejected it in what the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design has now solidified as a purely political move.

It's a fun story of two swordsman-rogues and weird magic.

I encourage everyone who hasn't had a chance to read this final Gygax fiction offering to give it a shot.

The final awards will be determined by the Academy and the attendees of the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio on June 27th. If you'll be at the show, please be sure to vote for Paizo!

We've put a lot of work into the Pathfinder RPG, and I'm happy to announce today that we are launching a new game system for the RPG, based in large part on customer playtest feedback.

Please see the announcement here.

PS: We also posted new cover mock-ups for the Core Rulebook and the Bestiary.

Are you on Facebook? Want a chance to keep up with the latest Planet Stories news, check out a cover gallery, and pledge your devotion to the coolest science fiction imprint since, well, since the original Planet Stories?

Then head on over to the Planet Stories fan page on Facebook and join up!

Tell 'em Erik sent you!

The current Epic Level rules are a mess.

The way to make the game more mythic in scope is not to make it more bloated with math.

So if Paizo does an "Epic Level" book, it will probably be a complete re-do. With that in mind, I'm very curious to hear what people think about the idea of play beyond level 20.

What are you looking for conceptually?

What are you looking for mechanically?

If you're skeptical, what can we do that might get you to give this one a try?

Any deal breakers?

The current Epic Level rules are a mess.

The way to make the game more mythic in scope is not to make it more bloated with math.

So if Paizo does an "Epic Level" book, it will probably be a complete re-do. With that in mind, I'm very curious to hear what people think about the idea of play beyond level 20.

What are you looking for conceptually?

What are you looking for mechanically?

If you're skeptical, what can we do that might get you to give this one a try?

Any deal breakers?

One of the most frequently requested topics for Pathfinder RPG rules exploration once we've put the Core Rulebook to bed is Psionics.

It seems to me like a vocal and forthright minority of d20 players REALLY like psionics as written, and would like to see us publish something for which backwards compatibility is the primary design goal.

I would guess from my experience over the last two decades of playing the game that about half of the total audience does not like psionics. A lot of them REALLY don't like psionics for one reason or another.

The funny thing is that I think an overwhelming majority of d20 gamers are OK with the idea of telepaths, empaths, psychics, and the "concept" of psionics.

And yet a lot of them do not allow the current (or any previous, let's be honest) version of the psionics rules in their campaign.

I am convinced there is an audience for a Pathfinder RPG Psionics book.

I am uncertain how to proceed from that basic assumption.

So I'm asking you:

What does Psionics mean to you?

How can I get you to buy a psionics book and use it in your campaign?

What is an absolute deal-breaker?

Thanks again for the give-and-take.

--Erik

In July we officially kick off the Pathfinder RPG with the release of the Pathfinder Bestiary. The massive Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook follows in August, but beyond that we have not yet announced additional rules support for the game.

That support IS coming, and we're in the process of finalizing what form it will take.

The current plan is to release between 2-3 hardcover rulebooks per year, including additional Pathfinder Bestiaries.

What form would you like these books to take? Would you be interested in subscribing to such a line, provided the books cost somewhere around $35 a pop?

What titles/ideas would you like to see us explore?

We're all worried about rules bloat. What is your opinion of new classes and races?

Are you as tired of prestige classes as I am?

Discuss.