I am reading along. And Owen and I have had a couple of conversations about things we might want to update. Of course, we want to do new stuff too, not just play our old hits. :) Chris
Thanks, Lisa! Chris
Let me put it to you this way: I would be quite cross if we didn't have this for PaizoCon. Which is in July. Chris
We just launched our new Kickstarter: the Advanced Bestiary for Pathfinder! I've had a lot of people ask for this over the years. Now's your chance to make it happen! Chris Pramas
We are happy to announce that game industry veteran Owen K.C. Stephens is joining Green Ronin Publishing as our Pathfinder RPG Developer. Owen's experience with the d20 System and its descendants goes back to the early 2000s, when he worked at Wizards of the Coast with me during the development of Dungeons & Dragons, Third Edition. Owen's design credits include the Star Wars Saga RPG, The Wheel of Time RPG, Dragon Magic, Inner Sea Magic, and The Guide to Absalom. His extensive freelance work with Green Ronin includes Thieves' World, The Black Company, The Advanced Gamemaster's Guide, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying Campaign Guide, and one of our favorite books from the d20 era, Bastards & Bloodlines. Owen is also the Lead Developer for Super Genius Games. Owen will be taking over and expanding our Freeport line. He will also develop a new edition of a book well-familiar to Pathfinder fans: The Advanced Bestiary! And that's just for starters. Please welcome Owen aboard! We are delighted to have him on Team Ronin. Chris Pramas
Hmm, maybe I should start a service for visiting gamers. :) Chris
Hold on to your tricornes folks.... Freeport is funded! And then some! We smashed two stretch goals this weekend, so now the book will include a poster map of the city and feature a new Wayne Reynolds cover. We've added a lot to this Kickstarter since it began, so here's a run down of what you get at the Freeport Pirate level ($100 or more). * You get a print and PDF copy of Freeport: The City of Adventure. * You get all six parts of the Return to Freeport PDF adventure series as they release in 2014! This is all new material. * You get a 28mm degenerate serpmentman miniature. * You get a PDF of the forthcoming Dark Deeds in Freeport adventure from our friends at Kobold Press. * You get a book plate with art by John Kovalic of Dork Tower fame and signed by Freeport creator Chris Pramas. * You get two paper ship model PDFs from Fat Dragon Games, the medieval cog and The Sea Dragon. * You get PDFs of the Player's Guide to Freeport and the poster map of the city. * You get PDFs of not only the Pirate's Guide to Freeport, but also ALL the rules companions: Castles & Crusades, FATE, Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, 3rd Era, and True20. * You get PDFs of the Fiery Dragon Counter Collection Gold, Freeport Trilogy: 5-Year Anniversary Edition, Fiery Dragon's Summoned Monster Counter Collection, and Dark Wings Over Freeport. * Lastly, if the project funds, we will make the Freeport rules content available to ALL Pathfinder users of Hero Lab for FREE. 17 hours to go!
I just added three new entries to the Kickstarters FAQ that should answer some of the questions asked here. Q: Which rules set is this for, Pathfinder or D&D 3.5? A: Freeport: The City of Adventure Third Edition and the Player’s Guide to Freeport are straight up Pathfinder. Some of the PDF rewards, like Dark Wings Over Freeport and The Freeport Trilogy, are older books that use the D&D 3.5 rules. Q: Green Ronin has only published one Pathfinder book before. How can we be sure the Pathfinder rules in Freeport: The City of Adventure will be up to snuff? A: The answer is simple: we are hiring experts to design and develop the rules sections. Green Ronin and Fiery Dragon have a lot of experience with the d20 rules but we understand that Pathfinder is its own beast. Our focus will be on the expanding the city with new locations, NPCs, adventures, and the like. For the rules sections we are working with experience Pathfinder freelancers to make sure they are cutting edge. We intend to use existing Pathfinder classes, monsters, magic items, and so on where appropriate. We want this to be a great book in every respect. Q: I only want the printed book of Freeport: The City of Adventure itself. How can I just buy that? A: We will be selling the finished book through game stores, book stores, and our webstore after it ships to backers. If you only want the book, you’ll be able to get it that way. You could also try talking to your local store and seeing if they’ll buy into the Kickstarter at the Sea Lord’s Guard level.
Let me just say: Chris is VERY AWARE of my interest in working on this book--in any way, shape, or form. It could very well happen. But whether or not it does, I hope you'll support this endeavor because it could herald big things for the Freeport line, a line many of us want to see thrive. Thanks for the vote of confidence, Christina (and Erik, Wolf, and Owen). Christina approached me about working with us again a few months ago and I told her I had a project coming up she'd be perfect for. This is it and we're talking about specifics.
I understand the concerns that some of you folks have. I saw the same sort of thing when older companies jumped into the d20 market. Some of them thought they could put out any old thing, slap a d20 logo on it, and it'd sell. They didn't bother to learn the system well or hire people who already did. Those companies did not do well in the d20 era. With Freeport and our other d20 releases, we always tried to put quality first. That has not changed. Some of the things you have suggested were already in the works before we even launched the Kickstarter. We have 28 days of this campaign left. There are many more announcements to come and I think you'll be happy with what we have planned. The goal here is to make a great Pathfinder Freeport book and we will do whatever it takes to make that happen if we get funded. Thanks.
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