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Hopefully, after the holiday we'll get another update. The thread started in March has now survived into September. It's like being part of one of those Kickstarters where the people running it won't reply but on occasion, someone who knows those people will chime in something. In this case, Paizo being the people who know something but are somewhat embarrassed at their association with the group running the kickstarter.
Sounds hopeful but not clear. For example, do they have the physical miniatures? If Paizo physically has the miniatures, then it's all good. Paizo in my experience is a good company. Or are they relying on the other company to ship? That would be problematic.
First, it looks like Ge Con 2018 was a great year for Paizo. Lots of playtesting info going back and forth. Having said that, now that Gen Con 2018 is officially over, can we get an official update?
Looked at the Starfinder KickStarter comments page and ouch. Selling stuff to the public before shipping it to the backers is always going to generate feelings of ill will. Not saying it wasn't something that Ninja Division had to do in order to keep cash flows going or keep its doors open but damn that's bad PR. It's too bad Paizo couldn't have Reaper do the miniatures for them but I suspect they needed more than Reaper could have provided in terms of volume/quantity/branding.
...They are telling us to expect the miniatures in the Paizo warehouse at the end of July 2018... I'll add to the chorus asking if they were able to deliver and now that Gen Con is over, if we can expect to see it delivered from Paizo to us.
Taps on mic. Is this thing on?
So we're in July with August creeping up. As we know, Gen Con is also in August. Do we have a better time/date of the miniature delivery at this point?
Looking forward to hearing the update. I would be worried if I backed the Starfinder miniatures though. Soda Pop has known for months what the actual demand would be so moving this slowly in this day and era does not seem a good sign. I backed the original Relic Knights and that was a disaster. Others can tell you about the current debacle with Robotech. Hopefully this isn't such a case and is merely a short pause.
One of the things that's 'annoying' is that Sodapop did a Black Firday Pathfinder Bundle. https://sodapopminiatures.com/index.php/news/black-friday-2017.html
So what happened? GAMA ended the 16th?
Many of the miniatures were available before
I was coming in to see when they were due to ship myself.
Put me down for the waiting for ebook option. I've blogged about some of the books over on my site and enjoyed seeing some of these harder to find works reach the stores but with Borders closed and barnes and nobles e-branch doing better than its regular one, not having these in ebook format seems to be swimming against the tide.
"What about Paizo publishing THE SONG OF KWASIN? any links to ebook publications of said material? As I just noted about Planet Stories in general, I'd like the opportunity to support the writing but my needs are changing to non-physical media due to space limits.
Any recent requests for the Karl Edgar Wagner Kane series? Night Shade books did a collection a while ago but that's been out of print for a long time. More importantly, any chance we'll see ebook editions? My physical capacity to collect is getting more and more limited and I'd like to be able to support more product but without the space to hold it, I'm forced into making only very select purchases or reading and getting rid of the material. Any help here, especially with new entries into the Planet Stories series? I can understand if the initial ones had no rights for such publication but can the new ones have it?
It's to the negative of the Republican party that they've allowed Newt to get this far to begin with because as the OP states, the Newt of the 90's has a LOT of problems. If Hermain Cain's derailment due to affairs knocked him off, Newt, who has had multiple affaris and is a known pain killer abuser, has a hella lot mot backstory to come into play.
I hope that at some point we'll see some unpainted versions as well. Dspite the best efforts of WizKids and WoTC, the prepaint does cover up a lot of detail. There is also a lot of customization posible with the old non-paints as well.
Is there an option to subscribe monthly to the PDF's only? As someone who owns a ton of gaming material and is looking into some type of tablet in the future, I can't help but wonder if PDF is my future for gaming and if Paizo will be providing support on that on an ongoing basis or if I'm doomed to carry around the corpses of trees upon my back.
Any ETA if these will be available on the old Kindle, Sony eReader or Barnes and Nobles latest addition to the flock?
Thanks for replying. e-Publishing is going to become a bigger and bigger part of things as time goes on. In some instances, it can be a substitute for publishing when you can't reach a market. For example, if you have numerous fans overseas, it might be cheaper to allow a lulu version that handles overseas issues right off the bat. In addition, it allows you to 'dip' the toe of potential readers by offering numerous freebies online. Wizards of the Coast has done this with whole novels and looking at the Kindle, other publishers and authors have as well. In terms of a direct RPG tie in, it doesn't necessarily just have to be a direct tie in. There are numerous elements of the genre that continually crop up. Travel, vast travel, to places that are generally inhospital to live as we know it and generally have a much different social value, could be easily done. Haven't looked at my big old Pathfinder campaign setting in a while, but are there planets/worlds/timeline that could be used for such a whole Adventure Path? Are there things out there that may be coming to the campaign setting if only a bold group of adventurers doesn't make it out there to stop them first? 3. Yeah, I've seen that one. Good stuff to see C. L. Moore's work more widely available. In terms of different editions, any 'omnibus' editions in the works? Any comic adaptions? Many authors ranging from Dean Koonzt to Stephen King have their IP branching out to various mediums and all those mediums touch each other making the whole greater than the individual parts. I think WoTC called this the 'skaff' effect? If there are comics of Otis stories out there, they may draw people to the novels. Hope everyone ejoyed their labor day.
They very likely are, but not because 4E is not doing well. I would say that WoTC is glutting the market right now by putting out one new book about every month. Most people can't sustain that kind of buying in the current economy and with Wizards attitude that everything is core, many people feel the need to buy everything they put out. the means thet the 3pp end up suffering as a result. Nonsense. During the 3e rein, WoTC put out 2 hardcovers a month plus minis plus maps plus other bits. This was essentially done until the end of 3.5. More product than now. Note that this did not impact 3rd parties at all during the 3e phase. The 3.5 switch over and the implosion of one of the distributors is what really kicked a lot of 3rd party companies in the lower regions. Note also that WoTC will be experiementing with formats including doing some softcovers in 2010.
I'm certainly not saying it's vital or mandatory, but e-publishing needs to be part of the future of Planet Stories. This includes the old Sony eReader and Amazon's Kindle. Now that there is software to allow owners of the iPhone to use Kindle on their iPhone, it makes more sense to appeal to that audience. This is especially true if Paizo can offer a deal where if you're a subscriber you get an electronic copy free as well an an update of when the material changes, such as the interior art, two column format you're describing. Indeed, in some instances, the e-publishing front is superior to traditional publishing as it takes far less time to make sweeping changes to the medium. In addition, and perhaps this is straight out crazy talk, where are there no RPG tie ins to any of this material? 'Planet Stories' RPG, even it it just featured Legend & Lore/Titans of the Earth style Pathfinder write ups for the main characters, monsters, and magic items, would be another way to expose the material. Lastly, is any of the material available through book clubs? I know the science fiction book club often has hard cover exclusive editions of material for example and as some people have made mention of that desire, that could give them a venue for it. In terms of price, can't say I agree with most complaints here. Dean Koonzt charges $9.99 for his third book in the Frankeinstin series and that seems to be a common pricing point among the bigger authors for a paperback. The price of things goes up. (Which gets back to the ease of digital distribution...)
I feel lilke I'm cheating since I've already had a few for the old RPG.net bit but I'll post the links here http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/479845884_26cbbb60f5_o.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/466500234_cb7db4f097_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3040/3026411296_50dfe66984_o.jpg
If it wasn't priced competitively with Skeleton Key Games and others (Like 0one etc...) then no. Especially since they're for specific adventurers. That makes their resue much less likely.
I stopped after Curse of the Crimson Throne. It and the first one are awesome but... I'm not playing 3.5 anymore. I hate doing conversion work. If I do go back and run 3.5, those two campaign arcs will take months, if not longer to run. I still pick up the sourcebooks though as they make great reading.
Thanks for responding. I'm lucky in that my FLSG, Games Plus in Mt. Prospect, has most of 'em, but even they have a hard time keeping some of 'em in stock and I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.
Is it just me or is the Croc having problems keeping the Pathfinder goods coming. As a complete outsider looking in, I keep seeing certain figures selling out. And staying sold out for weeks. Is it just that the Pathfinder stuff is selling so well or that Crocodile Games is too small to give it the attention it apparently needs?
Since Paizo hasn't done anything 4e, I imagine this is going to be 3.5 via the OGL.
We don't have a staff review section (yet? hey Vic!), but if we did I'd give this game a high rating (probably all the stars I could throw at it). I had the opportunity to demo this game extensively at PAX07. It's brilliant fun. :) Forget staff reviews. You need to send it to outsite web sites... like En World for review purposes.... yeah, that's the ticket...
I'm wondering why it's hear and not in the 4e forum.
These aren't my favorite, but they had a lot of utility because they came in different levels. Animated Objects and Elementals. The elementals in the Monster Manual aren't terrible or anything but taking something that went form small to huge for these things, especially given how much love the whole variant theme gets, just strikes me as odd.
I've been running some Goodman stuff. Good times thus far.
And I did finish Sellswords. Three PC deaths. Not bad.
Agreed i nthat they're both good books. I'm running Sellswords and I suspect session #3 will be the final of it. The players manage to get through two-four encounters per session. Agreed that it's also a great urban bit and the whole Beggar King bit feels very Sword and Sorcery. I'm just trying to figure out what I'm going to do with Dragora's Dungeon since it too is low level, as are the other adventuers from Goodman. Think I might just have the players whip up some new characters.
I"m digging on Goodman Games Sellswords of Punjar. Some real old Sword and Sorcery feel to it with a lot of grimy beggars and rogues and a ton of interesting traps along with some cursed magic!
The real question, is are the dragonborn and tielflings, etc... necessary for the Scarred Lands? In my opinion, no. One of the strengths of a campaign setting is not only how well it incorporates into the core rules, but how well it can work it's own mythos and ideas into the core rules. Since 4e changed so much of the default assumptions, the SL setting actually works better for 4e. If the dragonborn, etc... are truly necessary, they can be like the Forsaken elves and be extremely rare and under heavy eyes whenever they're seen. Party of that though will probably depend on what the GLS allows at that point too I imagine.
Good luck with the restock. Seems the old Croc isn't able to keep pace with demand.
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