Not sure if anyone else noticed, but on Amazon when you click on the link for the Pathfinder RPG there is a private seller offering a very good condition used copy of the Pathfinder Role Playing Game for 999.99 dollars. Not sure what he's trying to sell but it sure seems interesting...
It does have a sweet shipping rate of $3.99.
Maybe he got it from the future?
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As a matter of fact, it's Jason Bulmahn's leather bound Hardcover of the pre-print, replete with nasty drawings and comments by Monte Cook and delightful behind-the-screen remarks by the whole editorial team commenting on "obnoxious playtesters" and such like.
Now, if Paizo was remotely as thoughtful about pre-release material as WotC was in late 2007, they'd scan the entire thing and sell a slim paperback printed on magazine paper for $29.90 each under the title "Paizo presents: Fans & Designers, or, Married with Children. Get your preview of the preview of the beta of the test verion of the final thing RIGHT HERE!"
As it is, there's pictorial evidence that Jason broke the scanner just before that plan saw implementation. To avoid embarassing questions, Jason quickly calculated the money the original would have to fetch to keep boss Mona happy with the numbers.
Don't believe me? Multiply $29.90 (plus $ 0,30 postage) by a reasonable estimate of expected purchases (that's the magical 33), and you hit the mysterious 999.99 price tag. Scary, ey?
I really wanna buy this thing just to see what comes in the mail. For 999.99 dollars it better be crafted on gold gilded pages and have a personal autographed foreword from President Obama detailing his favorite pathfinder campaign.
But then who would have written it, Vic? You can't base your work on a book you will write but haven't written yet :)
Maybe he got it from the future?Then I wish he'd put it up for sale about a year ago... it would have saved us a whole lot of effort.
By your bootstraps, eh?
Maybe he got it from the future?Then I wish he'd put it up for sale about a year ago... it would have saved us a whole lot of effort.
Don't be silly. That would be a paradox...
It's theoretically possible that certain events in the present had to occur in present day for our libram dealing H. G. Wells to be able to breach the time-space continuum and go to the future and get it. Like possibly the book going off to print.Maybe he got it from the future?Then I wish he'd put it up for sale about a year ago... it would have saved us a whole lot of effort.
Quite true.
He may have also been restricted to return to the same time as he left.
But now you're just making things up. We all know time travel doesn't work like that!
Surely someone would have used the Pathfinder RPG to simultaneously kill Hitler's grandfather and prevent Lincoln's assassination by now.
Surely someone would have used the Pathfinder RPG to simultaneously kill Hitler's grandfather and prevent Lincoln's assassination by now.
I must buy this past-future edition of Pathfinder before our fragile time bubble collapses. It can be harnessed for good and for evil. Mankind is not morally ready for its unbridled power.
Don't be silly. That would be a paradox...
So? Paradoxes can work. It all makes sense.
A simple chain of events. No impossibility at any time.
Read "By his Bootstraps" - it's on the net I think. Fun paradox story. And get All You Zombies if you can. That one's really twisted.
I posted about this in the product thread for the book. The price is obviously set that high so he can purchase more uranium for his time machine.
I posted about this in the product thread for the book. The price is obviously set that high so he can purchase more uranium for his time machine.
And here I thought time machines were powered buy plutonium....clearly this is why mine doesnt work!
You can't do time machines with readioactive crap.
You need tachyons.
The book isn't being offered any more. Either the time paradox removed that one book entirely from the space-time continuum, or James Jacobs bought it.
It's a quantum thing. We noticed the paradox which closed it.