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Since WotC no longer has a forum I dunno where else to post this.

Recently there was a collaboration between Goodman Games and WotC

http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?3977-WotC-Goodman-Games-Partner-To -Reprint-Classic-Modules-for-5E

That got me thinking, we are already in 2017, 4e is no longer the latest D&D edition, the pathfinder vs 4e war is part of history. So I was thinking if Paizo could ask permission out of WotC to print a book with conversions of classes, monsters and whatnot that were not part of the 3rd edition OGL and could never be officially converted to Pathfinder. It could be called "The Lost Handbook".

I suppose profits could be distributed evenly or be donated to some worthy cause. In the end players and DMs would benefit from all that cool material that was out of reach for pathfinder campaigns.

Of course, if atm Paizo and WotC are still fierce opponents and not frenemies, maybe a 3pp could negotiate such a deal.

Lately there have been quite a bit anime adaptions of light novels with fantasy rpg elements (Grimgar, Overlod), not to mention animes about card games (Rage of Bahamut: Genesis, Wixoss) or computer games (Hyperdimension Neptunia, Tales of Zestiria).

It is quite obvious that this animated series are 24 minutes advertisements, so it boggles the mind that Paizo has not done their own. It would help to improve sales of many products.

1) It could help introduce Pathfinder in the Japanese (and other asian) market(s). Pathfinder has been translated to other languages, but not the H-U-G-E japanese market, that is akin of microsoft never selling windows in the asian market.

2) It could help advertise the Pathfinder card game.

3) It could help advertise the pathdfinder computer game Obsidian is making. If you are thinking "hey, that one will be released in one or two years"; well, if Paizo starts working in making an anime it will be released in one or two years also.

Remember that nowadays any anime is streamed almost simultaneously, so the advertisement would include as many countries as Paizo allows. If an english dub is also made it might even be shown in traditional channels like Toonami.

Yeah, I know making anime is worth a little fortune, but also doing computer games and IMO they go hand in hand quite well, if successful enough a Pathfinder themed anime might pay at least partially for itself (in disc sales and streaming rights royalties), unlike regular advertisement where you have to get your money back in sales of the advertised product.

Also, as I said before, an animated series is advertisement that could still be shown on YV years down the road (like the D&D Cartoon) so it is like the energizer bunny, it keeps going and going ...

p.s. It would also help get young new players into pathfinder.

I would like to buy Spheres of Power from your store, but the book price increases when I log in with my account (and reverts when I logout). Here are some screenshots.

Before logging in:

http://i.imgur.com/xedotad.png

After logging in:

http://i.imgur.com/xYXwZix.png

I think limiting clerics to positive/negative channeling makes little sense, specially for Lawful Neutral and Chaotic Neutral alignments. Also, I think Paladins ideals are goodness AND order but there is nothing in their abilities that says out loud "lawfulness".

So I was thinking to limiting channel (whatever) to one step away from the neutral (whatever) alignment. In simple words, neutral good clerics can only channel positive energy, lawful good, chaotic good and neutral clerics may channel positive energy. Therefore neutral evil clerics can only channel negative energy, lawful evil, chaotic evil and neutral clerics may channel negative energy. under this arrangement lawful/chaotic neutral clerics would have no channel ability, so I thought about creating a channel order/chaos ability:

-Channel order/chaos energy. At 1st level instead of channeling positive/negative energy a cleric may choose to channel order/chaos instead. The effects of channeling order/chaos grants to everyone on a 30 foot radius Damage Resistance equal to the cleric caster level for one minute per caster level. This damage resistance can be bypassed by chaotic/lawful weapons. Extra channeling order/chaos per day are gained every time three levels (4th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 19th ).

Since with this changes some clerics can no longer access the turn/command undead feats they can now have access to:

-Smite Chaos (same as Smite Evil, prereq. channel order, change references from “evil” to “chaotic”, change first line of page 61 from “undead” to “undead/fey”). Only paladins get the benefit of the Holy Champion (20th level) ability.

or

-Smite Law (prereq. channel chaos, change references to “law”, and reference from “undead/fey” to “construct/abomination”).

Paladins change their smite evil into smite chaos.

Any comments and suggestions welcome.

I am just curious, but is there a chance that we get a computer game using the pathfinder setting/ruleset? I ask because besides word of mouth, computer games are one of the best publicity any RPG can get, IMHO that is why games like GURPS or TORG or Paranoia never went "mainstream", because they never had a gold-box computer game.

I would love to see an article about vestiges for all those dead forgotten realms deities, too many died during the times of trouble so it is a perfect match :)

How about updating some material that has appeared recently in Dragon that has not been updated in any other place? Comes to mind issue #313 (post 3.5 but pre XPH) where the mind mage and psi-spell feats appeared. Updating those and adding epic level progression would be quite nice :)