For me it's about money and how to get the best bang for my buck. That said, I'd like to see mega-adventure products where everything needed for the adventure is right there in one package - be it boxed set (preferably) or soft/hardcover book complete with maps, pull outs, etc, at a cost of around 20-40 bucks. I like this option better than AP's because there are usually six chapters with Player's Guides and such and the final tally is about $150 bucks give or take.
Along that same line, I'd like to see a "campaign" with lycanthropes or maybe a "seven seas" type adventure - hell, you might be able to combine the two!
And kudos to Lisa for saying that Paizo is gonna take their time and do things right!
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Goalrion globe is still at the top of my list. Sure, it would require the mapping of the rest of the world, but for the price I'd pay for something like that, you'd more than make your money back on whatever that would cost. To save on production, storage and shipping costs, I would also settle for an inflatable Golarion globe beach ball. Thanks for listening and I look forward to seeing this wonderful addition to your catalogue in the next round of solicitation.
I think its silly to assume there even will be soulknifes and psychic warriors.
It'll probably be a totally different psionics system.
Not sure why you'd think that. Why should a psionics treatment not attempt to be as backward compatible as their revision of any other classes?
As for the soulknife, s/he just needed a few tweaks, and those were done admirably in the Untapped Potential book by Dreamscarred Press (it's a variant soulknife, in the back, and I quite enjoy it!).
For the record, Psychic Warriors are one of my all-time favorite D&D classes.
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1. Flip-mats that correspond to big "setpiece" fights in adventure paths. If chosen carefully, you could tie the flipmat into the AP without decreasing the utility of the flip-mat to those not using the AP. Plus it throws a bone to the people (like me) who would like to see some of the AP maps produced at table scale. Seems like an all-around win.
I think that's a fantastic idea...finding a way to tie in some of your flipmats directly to your adventure paths. Awesome idea!
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3. Map tiles printed on thicker cardstock, with an eye toward maximizing possible permutations and combinations. Die-cut (ala WotC tiles) if possible, but I realize economies of scale (or lack thereof) might make that impossible.
Actually, I'd love to see a product to allow map tiles to be connected more securely together. Our group makes frequent use of Paizo's flipmats, but we seldom use any of Paizo's tile sets (although we have them all). Something that would allow us to (securely) build a map of tiles to cover the gaming table would be a huge benefit to us. Whenever we try to make use of tiles, they get knocked out of place and they're constantly needing to be adjusted. Also, there is a Gargantuan-sized orange cat that occasionally visits our table (he's actually only Gargantuan in a 1 inch equals 5 foot scale -- just thought I should clarify that). When he scampers across a flipmat, It's no harm done, but he'll destroy a village full of map tiles before you can blink).
So please produce either some kind of tile connectors, or a line of cat training guides. Your choice.
small plastic miniatures that are semi-random and come 5 or so in a box for a whopping $14....
okay, seriously...
the profit thing. I really think that Paizo does well with what they make now and that's a fine track to keep on. I've wanted someone to make a snap together block (like a lego but not having to be compat with legos) that is more stony in appearance (yet able to snap together in a uniform fashion) and very basic... you could get dozens of them in a flat gray or so for little cost...
for those of us that do not need 100000% realism on the mini board but would like something to make custom wall sections that can be reused and rebuilt over and over again. But that's probably not Paizo's bag... maybe a dice company might look at that....
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9) A hard- or softcover collection of PF Society Scenarios. I already buy the pdfs, but honestly, I'd buy a print version in a second.
I'd second that. I don't have a color laser, so it'd probably cost me as much or more to print the .pdf files than it would to buy a compilation or three in book form.
On the downside, just because I'd buy it doesn't mean there'd be a real market for it...
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Perhaps the best way to do a psionics book and hit best case would be to follow the path of PFRPG. As in do a open beta test, come up with some basic rules with a alpha 1 and go from there.
That sounds like an excellent idea! Although I wonder how stressful another beta playtest would be for the folks at Paizo? Still, this would probably produce the best result possible.
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A Robert Lazeretti 4 part poster map of Golorion. Same style as the awesome Greyhawk map. Key locations from all the pathfinder modules and adventure paths marked on the map.
Easy way to do this is to poly bag the Adventure Path product the map would come with, and add a dollar or two to the cover price for those four installments. Add the equivalent price to the subscription cost.
more maps with the adventure path products. 11"x17" pull out maps of key encounter areas.
As much as I loved box sets (man I do miss them something fierce), I am not in favor of Paizo coming out with any. For most of the reasons Lisa already elaborated on.
I also don't want to see Paizo come up with another campaign setting world. Expanding Golarion's setting to the East and the West would be fantastic. More monster books? Sure. Books detailing the other planets in the solar system: definitely be great as a couple of Chronicle books. Expanding the planes (which is already being planned by looking at the Devils) is also something I'd love to see. There's also tons of areas of the world that have only been just touched upon. Love to see more about Ustalav, or the Land of the Linorm Kings (which I suspect will have an AP published for it in the next couple of years already).
Rulebooks for the RPG itself: well a Psionics book would be fun. A variant rule book like Unearthed Arcana would also be great. If they decided to expand the Pathfinder rules to cover modern day, or sci-fi, depending on how they went about it, it may be fun. (Though I will admit there are other game systems out there that do this quite well already). As well as a pulp rule book. However I don't want to see campaigns based on these rules (books like the a pulp book could be used in regular Pathfinder games assuredly). Why? Simple: Dividing of their market. If several campaign settings begin to be released, Paizo will only be dividing their market. How many of you that are currently subscribed to all things Pathfinder could afford two or three extra subscriptions beyond the ones you currently have? My guess isn't many. You'd have to decide: Do I want to stick with Pathfinder or do I want to go with this new campaign? Sure, they'll get some new fans, but many of the fans of Pathfinder will be forced to choose. Thus splitting their market.
Splitting up their markets, and producing high-cost boxsets (that didn't sell as Lisa pointed out) is what did in TSR. I do not want to see Paizo go that way.
So yeah folks at Paizo, you already knew all this, but I felt the need to throw it out there... :)
So how about that lycanthrope AP set in the Land of the Linorm Kings? (Just throwing it out there... just throwing it out there.)
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*cough*I don't know if anyone has mentioned this elsewhere but I would absolutely love a Pathfinder Society Scenarios compiled hard copy book. I don't play in the society. I hate PDF's so I won't buy them but I would love to have a book chronicling all of the scenarios maybe with some extra material.... I'm a completionist and it frustrates me that I don't own them but if I can't put em on the shelf I don't want them enough to shell out the cash.
This is an awesome idea. Indexing the adventures by various tags like level, type (urban, delve, etc), premise, plot (mystery, treasure hunt, etc) would make such a compilation even handier for a GM looking for the right one to insert into the campaign.
I'd also like to see the Rise of the Runelords AP in a single hard back updated for PFRPG.
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I have a suggestion for a couple of products to aid the GM of the Pathfinder RPG. Number one, a set of based tokens that can represent the monsters of an encounter, enough 5 ft thru 30 ft based tokens for an average encounter. Number two, a GameMastery deck of the Pathfinder Bestiary so that you can show the players what each token represents. Maybe even make little stands to display the cards in front of the GM.
Has anyone ever made transparent tiles that can be placed on a flip-mat to add features that previously weren't there? I looked at the Fiery Dragon page, and it looks like the circles are printed on a white background, and it made me wonder how well those circles would show up on most flip-mats with a transparent background. It would be sweet to add things in such a way that they look almost like they were part of the map to begin with.
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GameMastery deck of the Pathfinder Bestiary so that you can show the players what each token represents.
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Good call, Bugmage. As someone who still has and cherishes the TSR Monster Cards, I think having cards for each monster from both the Beastiary and the various APs and modules wouldn't just be practical but also unbearably cool. I think the price of the cards would be worth it just to save the money spent on ink and paper printing up images of whatever critters the players would run into.
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On the subject of boxed adventures, I will tell you this: most of the boxed adventures that you are so fondly thinking of from the old days at TSR lost money for the company and thus aren't viable business models. I too loved opening the box and checking out all the cool do-dads. Matter of fact, I own every one of those boxed sets. But the cost to print things like that is high and, off the top of my head, I think a boxed adventure like that would have to cost near $50 to $60 to make sense. And in this economy, I don't know how many people would buy something like that.
That said, we will keep searching for ways to do something like this affordably. Because it would be da bomb!
-Lisa
How about a bunch of "loose-sheet" style products repackaged into one big box set? (i.e. map folios, world map, couple of setting-relevant flip-mats; etc.)
Personally I want to see an Egyptian, Native American, and/or Aztec/Mayan setting.
There was Maztica for AD&D, nothing for 3.e and Maztica was eliminated from the FR in 4e. I don't want conquistadors or anything like that, just a setting for one or all of those, mostly the Aztec/Mayan. Religion, culture, weapons/tools and monsters... lots of monsters. I have no doubt that Paizo could do a rockin job on any one of these settings and I would definitely buy it. I'm sticking with the Patfinder/3.5, tried 4e but it's not for me, and that's what I want Paizo to make.
I second that idea!! Maybe not a full-on hardcover book, but something soft-cover, 50-100 pages.
And kudos to Lisa for saying that Paizo is gonna take their time and do things right!
Agreed!!
Kudos, Lisa!
I would also settle for an inflatable Golarion globe beach ball.
Oh yes...
Has anyone ever made transparent tiles that can be placed on a flip-mat to add features that previously weren't there?That's a really good idea.
Indeed! Consider my vote cast.
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I would also settle for an inflatable Golarion globe beach ball.do you want an inflatable Golarion Globe?...or Inflatable Seoni? ;-)
that would be two globes, sir. And I wouldn't object to such a product, though I think my very understanding and permissive fiancee would finally draw a line in terms of what Pathfinder products I could and couldn't make.
Make?
I'm afraid to ask what dropped out of that sentence.
I'm sure it will make you sick, HD, but I just washed down an apple fritter with a couple of Illy espressos...
Where in the heck you find your coffee in the US, anyway?
Illy is afar better than anything Starbucks roasts, it just isn't in the top ten of Italian export coffees ;)
French Market Coffee with Chicory. That's all I'll drink now. (Luzianne and Cafe du Monde are OK)
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Where in the heck you find your coffee in the US, anyway?
The shop I used to manage carries it. Retail is $28 a kilo. The owner has a place outside of Florence, and he spend six months there learning how to make gelato and tasting different brands of coffee. He chose Manuel, and I must say it is the BEST coffee I've ever had...
Chicory...well, grandmother always said, if you don't have anything nice to say,
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I'd like Paizo to make a change to the Forums so that would I could watch threads I haven't posted in, but find interesting and want to keep track of. Maybe cap this at 20 such threads at a time.
We have RSS feeds for that. Click the little orange icon on the top right of any thread in an RSS-aware app.
I'd like to see Paizo add the ability for me to combine shipping of stuff I buy on the website with my monthly subscription. That would be awesome.
Oh wait... Dude! That's awesome!
I guess what I want is my next shipment when it's ready. :-)
On the issue of Psionics, I love my Expanded Psionics Handbook that I had to get from Ebay because I couldn't find one locally or in a shop online even before 4e came out. I think an open playtest for PFRPG Psionics would be awesome. I hope the base psionic classes aren't changed too much when that time comes, but I haven't actually got to use them on the table so can't tell how broken they are.
As for the Psionic Powers, those could probably use some tampering. Even in 3.5e, spells got revised and republished in multiple books (and notably Spell Compendium) but powers didn't get the updates and reworkings.
My party's primary divine spellcaster has expressed disdain at the nerfing of spells between Complete Divine and Spell Compendium, but it's good. Fixes things. Powers never got that treatment.
A wish-list to prioritize my purchasing of all the stuff they already make (and carry).
I think its silly to assume there even will be soulknifes and psychic warriors.
It'll probably be a totally different psionics system.
Not sure why you'd think that. Why should a psionics treatment not attempt to be as backward compatible as their revision of any other classes?
As for the soulknife, s/he just needed a few tweaks, and those were done admirably in the Untapped Potential book by Dreamscarred Press (it's a variant soulknife, in the back, and I quite enjoy it!).
For the record, Psychic Warriors are one of my all-time favorite D&D classes.
Because they're not the core rules, and are regarded by JJacobs at very least, but subtly I think by all the crew as game-breaking in many ways, it has been said they'd like to do them radically different. J stated above that they would playtest them primarily so that people would be aware of the changes, which suggests radical differences. And they are against base class glut, so you may only see the psion, maybe one other base class and hopefully a psion/monk prestige class.
A wish-list to prioritize my purchasing of all the stuff they already make (and carry).Soon(-ish).
What a day that will be...
On the subject of boxed adventures, I will tell you this: most of the boxed adventures that you are so fondly thinking of from the old days at TSR lost money for the company and thus aren't viable business models. I too loved opening the box and checking out all the cool do-dads. Matter of fact, I own every one of those boxed sets. But the cost to print things like that is high and, off the top of my head, I think a boxed adventure like that would have to cost near $50 to $60 to make sense. And in this economy, I don't know how many people would buy something like that.
That said, we will keep searching for ways to do something like this affordably. Because it would be da bomb!
-Lisa
I'm by no means a businessman, but, why not sell each component separately? Then you could produce x amount of each component based on popularity, and for those who like to get the whole collection, well, they can.
Because they're not the core rules, and are regarded by JJacobs at very least, but subtly I think by all the crew as game-breaking in many ways, it has been said they'd like to do them radically different. J stated above that they would playtest them primarily so that people would be aware of the changes, which suggests radical differences. And they are against base class glut, so you may only see the psion, maybe one other base class and hopefully a psion/monk prestige class.I think its silly to assume there even will be soulknifes and psychic warriors.
It'll probably be a totally different psionics system.
Not sure why you'd think that. Why should a psionics treatment not attempt to be as backward compatible as their revision of any other classes?
As for the soulknife, s/he just needed a few tweaks, and those were done admirably in the Untapped Potential book by Dreamscarred Press (it's a variant soulknife, in the back, and I quite enjoy it!).
For the record, Psychic Warriors are one of my all-time favorite D&D classes.
I don't want to turn this into a threadjack, but those 2 classes are in the EPH. Are you saying that book isn't a core book? I thought Complete Psionic wasn't a core book, but the EPH was. As such, if you were to update 3.5 psionics, it seems to me you'd have to at least keep the "core" psionic classes. Or maybe it's my understanding of the word "core" that's at fault here.
I'm also not privy to conversations (on these boards?) that changes made would be radical in scale, so if you're right about that, I guess anything goes.
I guess I can always stick w/ my EPH if I don't like a potential Paizo remake. No harm, no foul as we say.
One final thing. I can't speak for the P. Warrior, but most people's complaints about the Soulknife aren't that it's "broken", but rather, it's underpowered and overly complex in its mechanics. Something I think the variant version I mentioned above addresses to some degree.
I've been thinking about this for a while, running through all the various wiseass answers I could come up with. (Organic cheese, quilts, CDs of the Paizo staff singing acapella Xmas carols, etc.) Then I happened on what my pipedream would really in truth be... A Pathfinder game for the PC along the lines of Atari's TOEE from some years back. Fairly faithful to the rules and letting me assemble my own party to my specs from the beginning.
-Especially- if it featured a former or future Paizo Adventure Path.
-Especially-especially- if it was one of the old Dungeon paths that are a lot harder to actually assemble to a playable completeness these days. (Though I understand that would make it even more ridiculously farfetched.)
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At the top of my current wish list:
* A series of novels set in Golarion
* More standalone dungeon crawl modules
* A rogues-gallery type book featuring adventuring bands and mercenary groups rather than individuals -- of different alignments and levels.
* A Pathfinder comic. Maybe something online, if actual comic books are out of the question.
* A swimsuit issue. :-)
I have a suggestion for a couple of products to aid the GM of the Pathfinder RPG. Number one, a set of based tokens that can represent the monsters of an encounter, enough 5 ft thru 30 ft based tokens for an average encounter. Number two, a GameMastery deck of the Pathfinder Bestiary so that you can show the players what each token represents. Maybe even make little stands to display the cards in front of the GM.
I second both of these whole heartedly. Wow. I have a ton of miniatures and use them in play, but this idea is great, and I would use these in a heart beat.