Monte Cook Joins the Pathfinder RPG Team

[Lich-Loved]

w00t!

[Viktor_Von_Doom]

Whoo?

[joela]

Viktor_Von_Doom wrote:

Whoo?

Here.

[sykoholic]

Viva la Revolucion!!!!!

*looks to WotC*

EAT IT, BIZNATCHES!!!!!

[Zynete]

Why so angry at another company when you should be happy?

[Charles Evans 25]

Tharen the Damned wrote:

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Hmmm. I am not a fan of some of the things done by the Warlock class, which was originally part of the Arcana series. (Edit: In fairness, the Warlock class was, if I understand correctly, not intended to be used in the context of the 3.5 core rules, but as a part of the entire 'arcana evolved' alternate rules set.)

I think you are confusing some things:

The Arcana Series was done bei WoC and is intended for use with 3.5. Monte has nothing to do with any 3.5 product WoC produced. The Warlock Class is an alternate PC Class intended for the use in a 3.5 game.

Arcana Evolved was written by Monte Cook and published by Malhavoc Press (Montes own Company). Arcana Evolved is an alternate PHB cum Setting Book. There is no Warlock Class in Arcana Evolved.

You can use Core 3.5 Classes and Arcana Evolved Classes side by side as their Power Levels are not so different as long as they only use Material from their on Books. So an AE Magister uses AE Feats and Spells and a 3.5 Wizard uses 3.5 Spells and Feats.

Thank you for correcting me on this; I occasionally muddle these books with 'Arcana' in the title. This removes a niggling doubt I had in mind over this news, and moves me from cautiously enthusiastic about it to enthusiastic.

[Mikaze]

Oh my....

[Joshua J. Frost]

Viktor_Von_Doom wrote:

Whoo?

WHAT!?

[Pathos]

Joshua J. Frost wrote:

Viktor_Von_Doom wrote:

Whoo?

WHAT!?

OMG... WHERE?!?!?

[Lilith]

Pathos wrote:

Joshua J. Frost wrote:

Viktor_Von_Doom wrote:

Whoo?

WHAT!?

OMG... WHERE?!?!?

And for how much? :P

[Cpt_kirstov]

Lilith wrote:

Pathos wrote:

Joshua J. Frost wrote:

Viktor_Von_Doom wrote:

Whoo?

WHAT!?

OMG... WHERE?!?!?

And for how much? :P

Why do you want to know?

[Pathos]

Cpt_kirstov wrote:

Lilith wrote:

Pathos wrote:

Joshua J. Frost wrote:

Viktor_Von_Doom wrote:

Whoo?

WHAT!?

OMG... WHERE?!?!?

And for how much? :P

Why do you want to know?

Hides his National Enquirer press badge

No reason...

[Anaxxius]

Oh well...

[Zynete]

Anaxxius wrote:

Oh well...

I'm sorry.

[lastknightleft]

Zynete wrote:

Anaxxius wrote:

Oh well...

I'm sorry.

not as sorry as you're gonna be ;)

[Zynete]

lastknightleft wrote:

Zynete wrote:

Anaxxius wrote:

Oh well...

I'm sorry.

not as sorry as you're gonna be ;)

Huh?

[Pathos]

Zynete wrote:

lastknightleft wrote:

Zynete wrote:

Anaxxius wrote:

Oh well...

I'm sorry.

not as sorry as you're gonna be ;)

Huh?

Was something said?

[Zynete]

Pathos wrote:

Was something said?

Well. You did just say "something."

[lastknightleft]

no he didn't

[DeadDMWalking]

Just for my own edification - Is it true that the Book of Experimental Might I & II are not available for physical purchase? They are PDF or Print on Demand only?

I'd like to buy them, but only if I can buy a phsyical product.

[Pathos]

On page 2, Lisa did comment, when that very question came up, about having physical copies of the books available.

"Working on it...

[Epic Meepo]

Monte Cook working on the core rules!

Salvatore, Greenwood, and Baker working on the campaign setting!

What's next? Michael Whelan working on the illustrations?

[sykoholic]

I think the inclusion of Salvatore is still in the works... unless I've missed something.

I will openly admit without any shame whatsoever that I am a Drizzt fan (even though I pronounce it wrong) so IMO, Salvatore possibly being involved with Pathfinder is just too cool

[Azzy]

Watcher wrote:

You noticed Mike McArtor is no longer an 'Associate Editor' didn't you? ;) They dropped the Associate.

That's cool! A well deserved promotion, IMO.

[Azzy]

Wow, got trapped in hyperlink hell.... Focus, Azzy, focus!

Wow. I'm glad to hear this news. I gotta say, when 3.0 came out I turned a critical eye towards the DMG (after the sheer crap that was the 2e DMG). After reading it, though, I was quite impressed--this was a *REAL* DMG. Monte did a great job on it, and I was severely disappointed to hear that he wasn't recalled to work on the 3.5 DMG. I'm glad to hear that Jason will get to pick Monte's brain.

[ehb1022]

Really excellent news! smurf is all around.

[Bhalzabahn]

I join the chorus of brains exploding, OMFG et cetera...

Seriously. The news of Monte getting involved just gave me a gamer-gasm.

Thank you, Monte Cook and Paizo Team for making this happen!

[Guennarr]

Wow!!!

Paizo more and more grows into the Who is Who of the world's most popular rpg!

Now all of my favourite D&D designers do work for Paizo. :-)

Cheers,
Günther

[Guennarr]

Jason Bulmahn wrote:

Well, to be honest folks, I do not think we will be incorporating the 20 level spell system (its too damaging to backwards compatibility imo). There are some things that Monte is doing that I really like that will not fit into the design goals for the PFRPG. That said, he has published some of these great rules in BoXM and BoXM2, and they are just as compatible with the PFRPG as they are with 3.5.

Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing

Hello Jason,

does the cooperation with Monte only include adaption of some of the rules published in BoeM 1 & 2?

Or does he actually operationally work with you on those open issues heatedly discussed in these forums?

I'd welcome the latter alternative very much! (especially considering that it is basically just you working on this gargantuan project)

Cheers,
Günther

[Vic Wertz]

Guennarr wrote:

does the cooperation with Monte only include adaption of some of the rules published in BoeM 1 & 2?

Or does he actually operationally work with you on those open issues heatedly discussed in these forums?

Monte posted a pretty good summary in his blog entry on the topic. I'd suggest giving it a read!

[SirUrza]

sykoholic wrote:

I think the inclusion of Salvatore is still in the works... unless I've missed something.

He's writing the introduction/preface for the book as said earlier by Mike.

Vic Wertz wrote:

Guennarr wrote:

does the cooperation with Monte only include adaption of some of the rules published in BoeM 1 & 2?

Or does he actually operationally work with you on those open issues heatedly discussed in these forums?

Monte posted a pretty good summary in his blog entry on the topic. I'd suggest giving it a read!

As I said on page 4 (I think) and Lisa said somewhere else. People just don't like to read.

[SSquirrel]

Viktor_Von_Doom wrote:

Whoo?

No it's [Ric Flair]WOO![/Ric Flair] :)

DeadDMWalking wrote:

Just for my own edification - Is it true that the Book of Experimental Might I & II are not available for physical purchase? They are PDF or Print on Demand only?

I'd like to buy them, but only if I can buy a phsyical product.

Print on demand prints and ships to you just like if you would order it from Amazon. Sadly he has decided against a Complete BoXM sadly, but sounds like less than 10% of his sales would have gone that route so it's reasonable to not do the extra fiddling to get it into one book after the fact.

[Hojas]

GUESS WHAT??

chicken butt :)

sorry, I had to do it......

[tallforadwarf]

Lisa Stevens wrote:

Phaerie wrote:

Now can we get print copies of BOXM I & II at the Paizo store? Please? :)

Working on it... :)

-Lisa

w00t!

[SirUrza]

SSquirrel wrote:

Viktor_Von_Doom wrote:

Whoo?

No it's [Ric Flair]WOO![/Ric Flair] :)

A resounding Woo! please. ;)

[Guennarr]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Monte posted a pretty good summary in his blog entry on the topic. I'd suggest giving it a read!

Thanks for the pointer, Victor!

Sir Urza wrote:

As I said on page 4 (I think) and Lisa said somewhere else. People just don't like to read.

My apologies for hurting your feelings, Sir Urza. I am not living in these boards and might have missed the information while scanning this 250+ postings thread.

Sir, I am pretty sure, though, that your valiant stand against board vandals will be valued highly by your liege lords. ;-)

Cheers,
Guenther

[Charles Evans 25]

Save us Monte Cook, you are our only hope!
Once again we have a debate raging on one of the alpha threads: (*This playtesting one this time* ) about whether or not the third edition EL/CR system was supposedly designed to handle One PC on one monster fights with any degree of reliability.

Please, please, post to clarify and put an end to this madness. :D