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A reasonable solution might be to credit every author that was involved in the original creation process on the title page as 'designers' with Mike credited as the 'developer'

Personally, not me. The idea of the world has changed too mcuh from the original ideas, and besides they were not the ones I intended to work with, but those who have invested their own creative work and ideas in these deserve at least that.

The group of talented writers and artists Mike lined up for this project makes me excited. I hope it funds so that I get to read their wonderful work!

Todd's and Carolina's art is simply amazing.

What I have heard is that not all writers are as involved (or even involved) in the project as the Kickstarter claims. At least Steven Schend say he is not involved in any way with the Kickstarter or Talonspyre.

Also I have heard there is a dispute about the setting's name that needs to be resolved first.

Woohoo...... Lots of pressure! but you guys make the best quality RPG stuff in the world so I can see that translating into the MMO world.

not the same beast... none at all.

The question in my case is what woudl be looking at...

I suppose they will open Absalom or specific regions (Varisia or the River Kingdoms) first, then the ones with less movement or support matterial.

It would be interesting to see the Factions in game, just hope not everyone needs to work for the Pathfinders in order to play, it would be more interesting to be able to join to different faction or groups through gameplay and have this ones ruled by DMs not just AIs.

Instead of Guilds there could be Adventurer's or Mercenaries Companies, but please don't make that mandatory.

more on this later...

This game is dead before it lives if it is going to be free to play, or any variation there of.

Name one notable free to play mmo that continuously makes head lines? None! There are no free to play WOWs or free to play EVEs.

Free to play is another way to say, decent into mediocrity.
Free to play games survive, but they do not live.

Every single free to play game out there is infested with some kind of farmer trying to make real world money.

I am very disappointed.

Triga is right in one aspects. Every time you see a MMO going from montly to free-to-play the first thing that comes to mind is "shit... they have troubles"

Happened to Champions, happened to City of Heroes, happened to Age of Conan...

free-to-play and microtransactions is a good way for this mmorgs to still give something back, so its hard to see a Pathfinder MMORG as serious if you see it as "free-to-play", a mixed composition of subscriptions and micro-transactions could be the way to go, and I understand the reasons... you need a big player base to support so big investment... and Pathfinder while it has become a big name in roleplaying community... well the roleplaying community is not that BIG. And not every roleplayer will be immersed into this game (because they don't have a computer that will run it, or they don't like mmorgs, os they play already other mmorgs, etc), so they need to check all the options.

Agreed, having Ryan along this trip was very helpful. again, it was a pleasure.

Congratulations to everyone for the great work all of you did along the contest, special congratulation for the Top 6 and the winners for reaching so far, it was a tought competition this year, really tought. (and thanks googledocs for giving me ways to save time)

And yes... that cover is awesome... just look at what it does to our site's banner :D

But yes, this has been a few mad weeks... and there still work prior to PF Chronicler Anthology 2. We are sure you will like the end result.

Ernesto I.

I think I saw a post that said August 20th. If correct, that is a month.

Thanks Dark Sasha, aye I do believe it was a full month, still I will ask Ted to make it clear.

Ok, since I beat Laura this time, its my turn to announce that Round 2 begins from now on. But, we will make things a bit different now, please read this Round 2

Montalve wrote:

Thanks Laura, I see you have a good eye :P
the announcement was going to be in a couple more hours :P

Sorry to steal your thunder, Montalve! I was/am super excited! :)

lol, don't worry :P but I expected them to see the whole thing, still, its good you helped making them official :)

by the way congratulations to you and all the rest, they are some very cool stories from all over Golarion, unfortanetely other quite good stories were left out, competition become quite step this year.

Looks like it. Weird thing is that the postings are all dated January 11th. Still, those are the ones. I recognize a couple from the editing forum.

That posting is just to give them an order

there will be an announcement soon and We wanted that people had easy access to them.

It appears that the top twenty have been posted to the Pathfinder Chronicler webpage here.

Congratulations to the Top 20 and all participants!

Thanks Laura, I see you have a good eye :P

Alright. Thank you, Montalve!

my pleasure

Where exactly would I post it? I just want to make sure I don't put it in the wrong place.

well if you are still aiming for the contest under the forum "Pathfinder Fiction Contest 2011", either Luna or Malik should be able to give you the password for that section.

If you prefer to keep it at that lenght and just want to get it published (either online or at the anthology) then under Short stories in the "Pathfinder Chronicler Writing Submissions" forum.

I saw this and wrote out a short story I had been meaning to write for months in about an hour and a half... sadly it stands around 1800 words so I don't think I can submit it... and there is no way to trim it to 1500... gods know I tried.

bring it to the forums, someone might give you a different perspective that can help you trim some of it.

otherwise we can always consider it for the next Anthology, no promises, just hard work.

Well, poop. Here I was hogging computer time to get my submission in, and the deadline's been extended. I suppose that's a good thing; I'm still not satisfied with it. I suppose dropping it in the forums and getting some feedback might help.

always a wise choice

Lunalynx wrote:

Gailbraithe wrote:

What are y'all complaining about. I turned mine in on the first day submissions were open and couldn't even get access to editors.

Not complaining in the least. I think this gives people who submitted early the same chance as those who waited and got a few edits to now get someone else's eyes on their story. So since we have time Gaibraithe, feel like meeting at the boards for a once over?

I'm confused. Can I edit and resend my submission?

since we re-opened submisions, yes

That is a long tale of woe, which I will not relay here. Needless to say it is also the reason why I suddenly have more time to write and edit.

Oh I suppose I know how that story goes :P

So, just to be clear, if you've ever had a story or article professionally published, even in a niche market, you can't enter?

Ted might explain better the mathemathics about that, I do remember something about 5 cents per word and/or 5000 copies of your work being printed.

And no, we are talking very specific about fiction, articles and role playing material are different beast as people saw last year when Neil Spicer not only participated but also won.

if you can send the specifics of what you wrote to the contest email we would be able to give you a definitive answer.

Thank you for responding Montalve. Please explain how you are going to maintain anonymity when we are posting our story in full view of all who have the proper passwords on your forums. Perhaps that is not as big a deal as you made it out to be via the rules on how the story was to be submitted.

It's pleasure to be of service.

About your question: We judges have no access to such part of the forum, Malik aka Robert Gresham will handle the passwords. And even if I had the password I would enter and check them... I am to lazy to read 3 times what I will be receiving in my email and saving in a very specific folder in my computer.

Another question: would it be possible to submitt a completely different story later for potential consideration in the Anthology that is not part of the contest? If the answer is yes, when would it be appropriate to do so?

1) Yes

2) Why haven't you submited it already to our forums? :P
je, meaning whenever you want, but its in another area, please submit it under Short stories in "Pathfinder Chronicler Writing Submissions" express both your interest of having people editing it and that you are interested in it entering into the next anthology.

Of course that means lot of work, we plan to put there only the best of what we get, than includes the work of us regulars. And the next Anthology is planed to have mostly new works unpublished in our page, mostly, 1 or 2 might slid, but its not the main idea.

So how do those of us who may have submitted go about getting our stories out of submission to go through the editing process?

Hi, thanks for asking Luna

is as easy as posting the story for editing in our Pathfinder Fiction Contest 2011 forum

we judges would wait for the final version of that story, that is why we had stopped judging since we knew of the change of plans

I was wondering a bit about this as well. It seems rather strange to change the rules after submissions have been accepted. It might favor those who waited till the last minute as opposed to those who followed instructions and got their stories in on time.

We understand that, and we had discussed it along, this is in part for the benefit of everyone who took part already in the contest and whose who might have not learned of it.

Also I want to point that we are intent in a very different experience than just a writing contest, we are aiming for something bigger than just a competion.

Are you also extending the second portion of the contest to match or are you going to force writers to come up with 4500 words in 15 fewer days?

no, that stays the same

Thanks for the post James :D

For those unaware of what the contest brought at the end of the day you can check our Pathfinder Chronicler Anthology

Some might have noticed Sutter's post in the Paizo's Blog.
Some others might have not, please all those interested in the contest (either if they had already submited or not) please read our latest post here: Pathfinder Chronicler

Montalve may be ok with profanity but I think you take a risk in including it. You have three other judges that may not be so open minded. Profanity in itself is hard beast that is tasteful in fantasy. If we were in the bronx from a broken home and mama and dad did crack, I might go toward the realistic side. In fantasy?

Harder to find such an understandable situation.

just because we had been used to a lot of juvenile fantasy my friend

Conan could be decently spoked or quite insulting, depending who he meet. Profanities as many other words and elements well used can bring an story to be more "realistic" of get people better immersed into it... or they can throw it by the side by making it sound like modern cosplay.

Is the first round a blind judging as well? I thought that was the case for the final five (or at least it is the only round labeled as a blind judging on the contest page)? If so, then an edit for me is indeed in the cards simply to keep the tale anonymous.

EDIT: oops, misread. I'll probably still make at least one or two edits if there is any potential for concern.

no worries the blind editing is the last one for the final judge, in any case I judge an story for itself I hardly check the names except to grad them :P

Quick submission question. As to the PG-13 restriction (for which I have no issue), would use of any speech considered vulgar or profane be a point of disqualification or is it more along the lines of a true PG-13 rating. I'm not dropping the proverbial f-bomb in the tale, but I have two words (one used twice) that could pose an issue if the use of any vulgar/profane language is a point for disqualification.

I suppose it would depend on the words and the context.

Personally, I don't have this problem since I do tend to push toward the mature version of our craft.

But no, for the contest I believe it won't carry you any trouble.

Of course, Ted might have a different thing to say about this matter, specially at the moment of making such story public.

This will be the first time I've ever submitted fiction for a writing contest, and I have to say, I've loved the process! I personally found a lot of inspiration through my research as a GM for my Kingmaker/home campaign.

Thanks, Pathfinder Chronicler for providing me with the impetus to branch out in this creative direction. I think I've found a new favourite hobby to tide me over between games!

Our pleasure Laura, if we get one more person to write constantly after each contest we have already achieved one of our goals (of course if we get even more people to do it, they all are welcome)

Please remember that articles may end up in anthologies. Be mindful of the publishing laws and so forth of the United States and that certain things may make it Very Hard for your story to be selected for such honouring.

Okay, I have to go away and do some work on my profile now.
<Wanders off>

this last is true to everyone, including those who are part of Pathfinder Chronicler :P

Zuxius wrote:

We still wait for your story with Maggie however and would like to see it in Volume II.

And now that I'm on summer break, I'll be jumping back into this really soon!

excellent *cue Monty Burns*

ok... that is why I should check all my resources before giving something for a fact :P

Still Neil your questions gave us things to think.

Well after all the reason of the contest is to give the winner exposure to the powers that be, and that was the concensus, you got that price, the idea is to have more people getting that same exposure.

And we understand your position about the contest... oh very well I understand. Well we hope to read more from you and thanks for the support.

Still Ted might say something else.

*Returns to belated work*

I think the biggest problem is, the class has to be generic enough to allow clerics of any faith. Domains are supposed to make each one flavored for their faith, but you can only spare so much room for each one considering the number of domains. You can't add specific class features to the class progression, like armor training, because not every cleric trains in armor.

the domains in the Beta had a lot of flavor, it was lost when they made them nothing but extra spells...

Personally that was one of the reason that turned me from Pathfinder, I decided to give a chance, but in the end with other thignsshowed me PF was not a game for me.

Free ticket to 2nd part sounds good to me.

ok, sending my own piece. There is some hard work from my editors on these piece, so i hope you like it... whichever its destiny may be. hate wordcount :P

Edit: sent, lets hope the head editor likes it

*mumble grumble*

lol ok my last 1500 word story right now is around 3500... and if all goes well it will stay there :P

Hey, I kinda like Harg and Krag Bellower. They seem like a perfectly nice pair of half-orc rent-a-cops. Perhaps I will steal them, if you don't want them anymore. ;)

looking at it that way, indeed, they sound like good troubleshooters... :P

Is the 4500 word story supposed to be an expanded version of the 1500 word story?

no

So yeah, I suppose the best would be to to work on 2 different stories (even if related to each other) since now.

we are not looking for 1500 summaries of the main 4500 story. We want to see how you work with flash fiction.

Flash fiction in many ways are harder than short stories, you need to focus in the essentials and take away all the noise from the story.

Actually I am with both Neil and Todd on this.... we already have a theme: Golarion.

Wayfinder already has themes for each publication, I think there is no need to limit both the contest and future anthology with the same rules, specially since both concepts are quite different.

Also originally I was against the 2 rounds thing... but after the alst mad rush... yeah... I think we need less to read... still a good story and a good author can be find both in a short story or on flash fiction.

Montalve, I've gone ahead and adjusted the order and sent you an updated confirmation email for you.

thanks Liz you are a love :)

Montalve wrote:

Liz Courts wrote:

Hey Montalve, I'll go ahead and get a replacement order sent out. Sorry about the missing order!

its ok, thank you Liz

there is any chance i can change the address even if the price increases?

Yes, as long as the shipping is still domestic (rather than international). I've suspended the order until I hear from you concerning the address change.

lol ok you read my mind.

Then send it to the SAME address just change the destinatary to have my name and do it with the fastest shipment, that way I will be able to track it.

Thanks Liz :)

Hey Montalve, I'll go ahead and get a replacement order sent out. Sorry about the missing order!

its ok, thank you Liz

there is any chance i can change the address even if the price increases?

Hi there,

Sadly to inform that this order never arrived to its destiny, and it had passed more than a month since I asked these, since I have no #tracking number any way to know what happened to my book?

It was a gift for a friend's birthday :(

Now we add Robert Greshams's (aka Malikjoker) Shattered Dreams to our Halloween Collection, the story of stonemason whose life has suddenly went into the dark halls of nightmares.

LN Kunithe gives you a safe word?

Congratulations, Sean and Jodi! May you have many happy gaming years together!

Coincidentally, I just got married on Halloween Eve. I love being married to a gamer! ;)

congratz to you too Rhys!

congratz and best of wishes for both of you Jodi and Sean

Gorbacz wrote:

I will not reveal my informers. They risk a lot to deliver the news.

And it isn't Monte. However, the person in question used to be employed by the same company as Monte ... wait, what was it ... Sorcerers by the Shore ? Witches of the Waterways ? I can never remember ...

Aw...I was hoping you were talking about Greg Costikyan. Pathfinder could use a little influence from Toon and Paranoia. :-)

Iomedae forbids!

by the way congratz Stephen :)
Saga was cool

Thanks for the support and the comments Wes, I am sure the guys are pretty proud of this work :)

Just finished to read the Dangling Thread, which was the only one missing to me, and I loved it. Great ending. Its a werewolf story in Darkvale in Andoran, to say more, its to give to much spoiler, its better to read it.

Between these stories there is:
*Quiet Retirement by Curnt Bounder

An story of an old pathfinder seeking some peace on his old years... but finding that retirement might not be what he was expecting.

When we judges were still evaluating stories, one of my fellow editors, Robert Gresham, told me about an awesome idea. To call for an internal challenge of Horror Stories based on the Pathfinder Chronicles Gothic Horror Book.

We all grew quite exited about it, but between the contest and real life the challenge has been a bit slow and many stories are still on the works. Still... I would like to show you what we have been doing and which is ready for all to see: Pathfinder Chronicler's Horror Stories

I hope you all enjoy our hard work as much as we enjoyed writing all these stories.

My favorite kind of Bump:

Here's Admiral Jose Monkamuck

He's my first gnoll ever. Hope he'll suit your needs or some such.

Enjoy! :)

really cool piece man :D