Has there been any thought about adding synergy between the various Paizo products?
For example, I love the Gamemastery Map Tiles. What would be great would be if one of the adventures used the tiles to construct the maps.
It would be seamless for those that have either product. Those with just the module who do what they usually do with adventure maps, and those with the tiles would still have them. However, if you have both you can save a lot of time setting up any battlefields.
Some of the Item Cards feature elements from the GameMastery and Pathfinder lines. The Compleat Encounters, which came out prior to the new campaign setting, will be incorporated within it somehow (esp the last two).
So, yes. There will be some synergy. Cool, huh?
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Has there been any thought about adding synergy between the various Paizo products?
For example, I love the Gamemastery Map Tiles. What would be great would be if one of the adventures used the tiles to construct the maps.
It would be seamless for those that have either product. Those with just the module who do what they usually do with adventure maps, and those with the tiles would still have them. However, if you have both you can save a lot of time setting up any battlefields.
There most certainly has been thought along these lines. We are working out details, but we want to make sure we give you a product that does not require an additional product to use. We are getting there.
You will start seeing some item cards in our modules and Pathfinder as actual items. Maps are coming as well.. although not right away.
Jason Bulmahn
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Director of Games
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You will start seeing some item cards in our modules and Pathfinder as actual items.Very cool. Will they be pre-cut somehow, or are they going to be a perforated page we tear ourselves? I prefer the former but could live with the latter; I just hate the little bumps that are left over.
Hmm.. I may have been a bit unclear.
We are using some of the art from our item card line to represent a magic item in our modules. The cards not actually in there, but if you owned the card from the set, it would be really easy to use in game and the art would match.
That said.. we have thought about including item cards in our products, but as of yet, no viable, cost effective way has presented itself. We will keep looking though...
Jason Bulmahn
GameMastery Brand Manager
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... we want to make sure we give you a product that does not require an additional product to use.
Absolutely, one of the greatest aspects of D&D, no matter the company, has been the "all you need to play are the three core books," followed by "other titles which may enhance your enjoyment of the game include..." And the designers and editors have always done a bang-up job of ensuring players don't require additional products to play. I love the idea that all my GameMastery products might eventually seamlessly tie in to one another, but I would hate to have to own the Sewers tiles (which I just ordered, but it's an example) in order to play an adventure, e.g., no map included in the module, instead, "Please see your Official GM Sewers tile pack for encounters 12-47, Tiles sold separately..." Nonetheless, I'll figure some way now to incorporate my GM Graveyard and Haunted Mansion tiles into The Skinsaw Murders!
I love the idea that all my GameMastery products might eventually seamlessly tie in to one another, but I would hate to have to own the Sewers tiles (which I just ordered, but it's an example) in order to play an adventure, e.g., no map included in the module, instead, "Please see your Official GM Sewers tile pack for encounters 12-47, Tiles sold separately..."
If the map isn't included then that's a problem. I suggest they include a map (as in every other adventure) that happens to be made up of tiles from a given set. You don't need the tiles to run the adventure. You don't need the adventure to use the tiles. If you have both, thouigh...magic ;)
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Hmm.. I may have been a bit unclear.
We are using some of the art from our item card line to represent a magic item in our modules. The cards not actually in there, but if you owned the card from the set, it would be really easy to use in game and the art would match.
Thanks for clearing that up. And it was probably wasn't a lack of clarity on your part as much as wish projection on mine. But I did notice some familiar pictures next to the magic item descriptions in D0 (a shrunken head and a ring). Anything you want to do to make stuff I've already bought even more useful, it's okay with me.
We are using some of the art from our item card line to represent a magic item in our modules. The cards not actually in there, but if you owned the card from the set, it would be really easy to use in game and the art would match.
Is there any chance of a Paizo Blog feature or sidebars in the modules that would indicate which set the Item Card came from? Take D0: Hollow's Last Hope for instance - there aren't a lot of Shrunken Heads out there, so it was easy to cross reference the Soulspeaker with the list for Relics of War; but there are several rings in the different sets and I don't know which one is the Ring of Torag. At this point I don't own either.
Granted, I'm gradually building a better inventory of the Item Cards, but some kind of resource would be great.
Anybody got a cool database out there?
