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Nice, gotta find a way to work this into my homebrew campaign, which does have our pal Mr. Fafnheir leaving his "caves and crags" in a rage. (My BBEG claims to have killed him but has actually trapped him in a divine binding with the help of Lamashtu and Ragadahn).

My PCs are going to free him and turn him loose on BBEG but it'll be a tenuous alliance at best.

Maybe I'll make this text available to the PCs so they can use it to goad him into taking action, if he feels hesitant...

Then again another part of me wonders if Fafnheir didn't hear the rumors that this text survived and made a special trip, starting that library fire himself to cover the record of his shame, maybe not staying long enough to finish the job for fear of attracting Dahak's attention.

Bottom line is that these things are common, so before anyone mashes the "I'm taking my business elsewhere!" button, consider whether any other company is actually better at life, or whether, like Paizo a week ago, was just better at keeping their detractors silent. You're likely just buying yourself a few years of blissful ignorance before you find out that the people you thought were great have some deeply problematic behaviors.

Because, frankly, everyone has deeply problematic behaviors, and the more time you spend with someone (or someone spends with you), the more likely they are to see it manifest.

The commonality of a problem is relevant if you think you can take your guilt-free dollars elsewhere, but it's not relevant if your goal is to see this community and team (especially the workers) thrive. In that case, it's fair to ask for corrective action. And of course, we still have only a few sides of the story but corroboration, yadda yadda, etc.

There will be monsters from 1E, updated to Second Edition. With monsters like the Sandpoint Devil, which already has stats in Bestiary 2, we're providing new content to help with Sandpoint Devil adventures and campaigns. We have a nice mix of existing monsters and brand new monsters in this book to help out flesh out new stories and foes. The monsters hail from all over Golarion, so look forward to monsters from beyond Avistan and Garund!

Sounds like Luis is getting his Arcadia on, after all.

My thoughts as well. In a game built around playing with a group of friends, I don’t imagine a book or two going to waste.

Of course, this may not be the product for someone who’s 4/6 of the way there, but you know.

Additionally, getting a printing with updated errata (for those with a first printing of the CRB) is nothing to sneeze at.

Yeah, Marketing is definitely looking into bundle options. Nothing to announce.

Happy to be exhibit A for customer interest and/or market research :)

I was wondering, given that Bestiary 3 will fill out the "Core" books of second edition as stated by the Paizo Team, would there be any sort of bundle product in the works to capture the 6 main books?

If I'm not mistaken, that's CRB, APG, GMG, and Bestiaries 1-3.

Thoughts? Even if not a specific printing or product "boxed set," could be a bundle at a 10% discount or free PDFs with purchase of all six; something comparable to the subscription services?

Just a thought, sound off below on if you'd be interested in such a product.

I played around with it for the first time today, and am a little confused here and there. I'll have to sit down and read the examples a bit more thoroughly.

What I would have loved is a "monster creation character sheet" or basically a worksheet to track all of these steps. Hoping somebody will homebrew one someday...

Exciting! I'll have to pick this up when it comes around.

This is the sort of thing that will finally motivate me to upgrade from my 2003 Compaq laptop computer.

Good work Paizo, you win.

All Tyler and I ever used those macs for was creating databases, editing word docs, streaming pandora, and doing the occasional research.

The layout computers and the photoshop station computer were much better. :)

Welcome to the exciting world of Paizo, Kelley! :) Hope you have as much fun as I did while I was editorial intern!

What Patrick said.

Coincidentally, I'm graduating this December (two quarters early! woo!) with, you guessed it, a Creative Writing major from UW.

Small world. :)

Guys:

I did a lot of work on this project and I can tell you that this book is so totally fricken awesome that if you don't buy it I will find you and I will... well, I'll...

I'll be a door to door Template salesman who uses aggressive sales tactics!

Are you sitting at the desk kitty-corner to Crystal or adjacent to her? Mine was the one adjacent. If you're nice to her she will give you candy.

I sense a petition mounting!

d'awwww you guys are the best

also, my bad for misremembering Voice in the Void is actually Pathfinder Society Scenario #35, not #36.

I blame Ross for not correcting me.

My next blog will be my farewell blog, since I obviously never got around to the Brevoy one.

I would be coming into the offices tomorrow to say goodbye to dearest Tyler, but I have to do a museum fieldtrip/questionaire thing about the history of Seattle instead. And the museum hours are very un-Paizo friendly.

I'd love to see a preview of the Brevoy gazetteer that will appear in Stolen Land. Of course, art is great, but if not possible, an excerpt from the article would be awesome.

This does sound interesting, as I've worked with a bit of the Brevoy articles. The trick will end up being what they'll let me say and what they won't... but I'll definitely look into this.

AND I'LL ATTACH SOME ARTWORK, OKAY?

Actually, I've been slated to do next monday's blog as well, so feel free to let me know if there's anything that interests you about procedures at Paizo, or personas, or content, or (I'm know, I know) new artwork (though that's really not my department).

This because I've yet to finalize any plans for that blog's content. ;)

In the case of my most recent blog, I asked Wes for some work to do and as he was swamped and unable to write the blog he was scheduled for, asked me to throw something together. From there I spoke with James Sutter and Chris Carey to figure out what I could conceivably write about and what would be of interest to you fine fans, and off I went.

Typically we send blog submissions to Chris by 3:00 the day before it goes live so he can run a quick copy edit and censor our hidden messages to our loved ones. (They don't want us to escape, you see)

Then they go to Ross for the final posting magiks.

As far as world flavor is concerned, I could see certain regions/states/nations of Golarion cracking down on any Alchemist who is basically creating massive inflation. Especially in a way that mirrors modern counterfeiting.

So, basically, while a chaotic character might seek to take advantage of a philosopher's stone, they'd eventually run into economic and political oppression.

Maybe a detect magic spell (or something similar) could discover residues of the transformation, and merchants wouldn't accept the gold since it'd be "dirty money."

There are a lot of ways for a GM to make this difficult for a PC if they're really abusing it too much.

This one is very cool, guys. Check it out, you won't be disappointed.

Mine has, uh... original photography?

How about that?

Actually, since I wrote mine without being promted to, I have no idea when they'll put it up. If ever.

:P

Holy crap, thanks guys for making this topic. A black friday sale didn't even occur to me.

I swiped all of the board games on the list, apparently saving 139 dollars off of the list price.
:)

Is that a dishonest thing for an intern to do?

I even have a blog ready and lined up to go.

'Course, if there's nobody in the offices to upload it, that's what you get.

/shrug

There's going to be a video?

This makes me happy.

(I, being busy the weekends that most of the troop is going down for the live show)

This is awesome and I can't wait to see what you guys have put together!

Sorry about the glitch, that was me trying to redirect the funds into my personal checking account.

It should be working now, let me know if there are any other problems.

;)

I see now that Matt is empty desk blog and Tyler is funny coffee illustration blog. Welcome, Tyler.

Matt, this puts you behind in the Great Intern Race. Better start finding those preview pics fast, man. Make 'em big; make 'em beautiful.

EDIT: Matt, you're quick on your feet, but I have no idea what you are linking to.

Don't you? It's the paizo homepage of course.

As far as preview pics, don't tempt me to tell you what they could be of and then not share. That would be too deviously rewarding.

And anyone who claims this is foul play:

You've been threating to blackmail and beat us! You've set up an unequal power dichotomy! What did you expect?

:)

*Fanfare*

Tyler Clark: the musical.

How is it that this topic escaped my eyes for so long?

Thanks for the welcomes, guys. It sure is good to be here!

As to my "natural blogger" state, I may have dabbled... for a few years...

>_>

Everybody, welcome Sara as well to the customer service team. :)

I think Chris Carey is supposed to catch those.

;)

Eh, from everything I've seen it's a pretty cozy business/distribution district. Which is to be expected from a publishing company's lair.

I'm sure we'll get you guys some pics--just as soon as the place looks lived in.

:)