Jesper at Blood Brethren Games's page

Provided the KS is a success, when is the estimated release date then?

Last summer, our request drowned in Liz' busy preparations for PaizoCon or GenCon or something, I'm afraid.

Now that Christina Stiles has put out a call for writers, I decided to cast a spell of reanimation on the thread in the hopes that Liz will see it and take the question to the powers that be :-)

I would also suggest Patreon - a crowdsourcing platform

Congrats! :-)

Thanks for the offer but even with the coupon I still have to provide all my credit card data :(

Is there a work-around?

Glad to see you are still publishing materials for Pathfinder despite what you wrote earlier this year :)

Thank YOU Endzeitgeist!

During last week's sale by Rogue Genius Games, Rite and Raging Swan Press I skimmed though hundreds of your excellent reviews, trying to figure out how to best spend my money.

It was a tremendous help - but also a huge temptation, so I actually ended up spending $97.99! :-D

Most times the product descriptions did not really help me make up my mind - your reviews did.

So thank you for being there to guide me and a whole lot of other players and game masters. We are grateful :)

Hi Owen,

Just picked up Ultimate Options: Story Feats and Bullet Points: 5 Magical Disease and look forward to reading them!

I'd like to suggest making more encounters that cannot be killed - obstacles, hazards, puzzles (maybe not traps, there are so many trap books out there). But basically anything that will force the PC's to stop and think before resolving to use brute force :-)

If you are still giving out books for suggestions, I'd like the Genius Guide to Gruesome Dragons.

If you haven't heard from anyone and you want to be a little more proactive in seeking out publishers, this thread is probably of interest to you :-)

http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qe0v?How-does-one-submit-their-work-to-a-3rdpa rty

Of course their intention is to get the word out. That doesn't change the fact that the method is in violation of Facebook's guidelines, which state:

3. Promotions may be administered on Pages or within apps on Facebook. Personal Timelines must not be used to administer promotions (ex: “share on your Timeline to enter” or “share on your friend's Timeline to get additional entries” is not permitted).

Some friendly advice:
It is strictly against Facebook's own rules to make sharing of content a requirement for participating in contests, give-aways etc. Furthermore, in my personal perspective, it is annoying as hell.

You'll likely be reported for encouraging spamming and your page and contest could get shut down. So I strongly recommend that you change that part of your contest.

No questions - just wanted to say congratulations on the nomination! :-)

Any news on the release date?

http://talesofthefroggod.com/blog

Fixed the link :-)

Sounds awesome - I'll have to get that one! :-)

Third-party publishers should feel free to contact me regarding anything on the website, sales or otherwise. This is something that is on my radar to discuss with the Powers What Be. :)

Hi Liz

Glad to hear your response, so I sent you an e-mail on Monday, but so far there has not been any indication that you got it?

How long do you think it will take before the Powers What Be make up their minds? I would have thought it was a rather simple matter to settle one way or the other?

Well if you're the owner of a company whose products Paizo sell, I'd have thought you'd already be in email contact with them, but if not have you looked at the 'contact us' page of the Paizo site?

I know some of Paizo's people in sales, but none of their people responsible for web ;-)

I was told that simply posting here would be enough to get Paizo to respond, but that doesn't seem to be the case, unfortunately.

Any ideas on who to contact directly?

Ah, I see, thanks.

So tremorsense is more useful in the sense of e.g a monster being able to sense someone sneaking up on it from behind - but it would still need to turn its head to strike the person - otherwise it would simply attack the relevant hex (e.g. with a tail slap) and receive all the normal penalties and miss chances in doing so?

If a blind master fencer (example) is wearing Tremor Boots with a radius of, say, 20 feet - how many of his penalties for his Condition: Blinded would then be removed would you say?

As far as I can tell, he would not suffer the miss chance to striking other creatures in melee but which/how many of the other penalties would still be in effect?

Several times in the past 6-8 months, various Third Party Publishers have announced calls for submissions in the "Compatible Products from Other Publishers" forum here at Paizo.com.

However, not all readers are frequent enough visitors to spot these open calls and so have missed their chance to participate in them.

A while back, we had a discussion about having a single sticky thread at the top of our forum where open calls and other contests could be cross-announced. One reader suggested that I post here in the hope that Paizo would see this and grant us our wish :-)

Suggested text for the opening post of such a sticky thread:

Headline:
Announcement thread for 3PP Open Calls

Post:
This thread is intended as an easy reference point that allows forum users to see, which Third Party Publishers currently have Open Calls open to participation.

Do NOT post your open call only in this thread!

If you are a 3PP, create your own separate Open Call thread and simply announce it here with a link to your thread.

If you are a forum user and spot a new Open Call, please feel free to drop a link to its thread as a post in this thread.

That way, each Open Call will have its own thread for announcements and questions, but anytime you visit this forum, simply referring to this sticky thread will tell you if there are any new Open Calls that you have missed.

Good luck and have fun! :-)

You should check out this thread in which a lot of 3PP explain if and how they'd like to be approached in such situations :-)

Good luck!

I'll try and find some time later today or Sunday to send in a request for a sticky thread for Open Calls. Thanks for the comments everyone! :-)

Here you go!

Thanks!

I'd just post it in the website feedback thread. (Or flag this and ask for it to be moved.)

I'm afraid I don't know what or where that is. I'll see if I can flag down someone from Paizo :-)

It could be a good idea assuming that they would be get unsticked after the submission deadline passes to make place for new ones.

Well, I didn't mean that all Open Calls be sticky while they are active - rather that a there would be a single thread in which announcers could cross-post their Open Calls (in addition to opening their own threads for the purpose).

Let's suppose you only check this forum once a week. You'd instantly see if there was 1-2 new posts in the sticky thread and find the links to whatever Open Calls you might have missed during the week.

Anybody know who at Paizo to write to and request a sticky thread? Liz or someone else? :-)

Here's a thought: from time to time several companies put out an Open Call for freelancers. In the past months, we've seen Kobold Press, Raging Swan Press and Jon Brazer Enterprises do it, and maybe there have been more that I have missed.

I know from reading the other threads mentioned that there are always a few who don't see such announcements until it is too late for them to participate.

So, my suggestion is to make a single sticky thread in this forum, where companies can cross-announce their Open Calls? They'd still run their own threads about their individual open calls, but this way anyone can browse the sticky thread and easily get up to speed with any current open calls.

What do you think? :-)

As I recall, the information you needed was on a page with multiple links to other pages with information, as well as the templates. Perhaps it would be better to stick with just one master page full of all relevant info.

Other than that, no - nothing confusing about it. :-)

Is there a link anywhere? I looked at Little Red Goblin's website and blog but couldn't find anything?

EDIT: Nevermind. Found it on RPGNow ;-)

A few things:

Robust mass combat system that scales to squad level, minor skirmish and major battle. The Paizo one is fine but very shallow.
A bolt on to the magic system that allows for much more epic casting. Kinda like get 20 casters together and they can cast an uber fireball that wipes out a town.
A book full of intrigue storylines that can be threaded into your campaign.
More Artifacts. Way more artifacts. And minor artifacts like +1 swords that have a really great backstory.
Really deep support of the Paizo planes. City of Brass is awesome. Let's see a book of 20 planar locations or waypoints.

These are the first things that come to mind anyways.

Some really good ideas there, Alan, and several of them have crossed my mind before. I can't set a specific time table but I hope and believe you'll see a couple of items from that list from Blood Brethren Games in 2014 :-)

That is a shame. Well, thanks for investigating the matter and digging up an answer for me!

Yup, missed that ;-)

Just a bit of "office gossip": http://seankreynolds.com/misc/a-new-chapter-indiana.html

Thanks for your great work, Creighton, for giving us a chance and for introducing the freelancers by name and bio in your product. You are the kind of publisher every freelancer dreams of working for :-)

Spread the word in a few cartographer forums on Google+

Hope you get a lot of great entries! :-)

Awesome feeling to finally be flipping through the pages - and discovering that I have 5 items, not 4, in its pages.

Congratulations to everyone who made the cut - it is a pleasure to read all of your great items! :-)

I am looking for GM information regarding the Plane of Shadows and Fetchlings and came across a reference for the Shadowsfall setting by Jon Brazer Enterprises.

It sounds interesting, but in the product line I can only find a player's guide and the Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane?

Does a book for GMs about the setting exist?

February 18th? That is great news - I'll have my double debut as a freelancer next week then! February 18th for Jon Brazer Enterprises and February 20th for Raging Swan Press - can hardly wait! :-)

Hi Alexander - haven't read it all yet but it looks interesting.

A blogger's tip: link directly to the individual blogpost, not to the blog itself. Otherwise your links are outdated in a few days and people (like me) get very confused if we try to follow them to get to some specific content ;-)

Looks very interesting! Good luck - hope you can keep up the momentum. 3 posts a week is a lot, I find.

Very interesting interpretation Owen!

I always took the "names are IP" part to mean character and place names as such. Not names of e.g. monster races, spells or feats, which I've always considered part of the rules crunch? (= OGC).

Are other 3PP's here genereally on line with Owen on this? That is "names" are mentioned as IP, you'll have to rename spells, feats, monster races etc. before using them?

That depends.

In TGGtHA, it would have been our responsibility to say what was open content.

If we said "All material other than trademarks, art, and design elements are Open Game Content' then you are free to use the term "Explosive War Muffin," and retain the fluff. We opened that up.

If we said "All game rules are Open Game Content, while all names, proper nouns, story elements, fiction, description, trademarks, art, and design elements are closed content, and not to be used without permission," THEN you'd need to call them Muffin Bombs, and use different fluff.

Very interesting!

Btw, it is patreon, not paetron.com :-)

Because I just bought the One Bling, I put my vote on the Gadgeteer :-)

Just wanted to praise the initiative by Cheapy and say thanks for the heads-up regarding Trade Routes Expanded - Caravan Rules Sourcebook. I didn't know that product existed and it fits very well with something I am planning, so I am going to buy that product! :-)

Well, Endzeitgeist's two 5-star+seal of approval reviews of The Corpseshaper's Toolbox and One Bling To Rule Them All piqued my interest, so count me in for $8.25 later tonight :-)

Just curious: Is there a reason the Herbalist is in the "Other" category - instead of "Classes"?

Awesome! Will it include anti-dragonslayer tactics? :-)

Thanks for posting this. It is slightly annoying that the entire system is depending on everyone using a complete S15, no omission.

Let's say a poor chap mistakenly believes Paizo's own S15 to be in order and uses the Advanced Race Guide in a 3PP product, quoting just the S15 from ARG believing it to be complete. That person would then be in violation of of the OGL, because Paizo's S15 in ARG is incomplete...

I must admit, I only know your Tinker class from a spectator's point of view, that is - I know you've released it and it's been quite successful as far as I can understand. But I don't know how it works or anything.

I like what you propose above - not so much from a gameplay point of view or a player's point of view, but from a storytelling point of view (as a Game Master). I like the notion that a single, somewhat isolated culture could have developed in this direction. It would make encountering them fairly unique and a memorable experience.

I can easily see PC's defeating a foe with a biomechanic enhancement and then trying to figure out if it is possible (and safe) to use that item as they would any other magic item :-)

Lots of fun possibilities. For that reason alone, I'd be interested in hearing more about this project!