I am considering doing a dual stat Monte Cook's arcana Evolved and pathfinder comapatible book about the AE race known as the Faen, Monte has expressed in the past the possiblility of allowing us to do a dual stat version of the project, but I wanted to gauge Pathfinder Fan support for such a move before I went farther, plus the designers will want to have to do the extra work as well.
Steve Russell
Rite Publishing
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I will be totally honest. I am not a huge fan of dual stat books. It tends to make the books a lot bigger and cost everyone more. Now the same book in more than one version, like what Frog God Games is did with the Sword and Wizardy book. Now that I would be in favor of, just saying.
I'm sort of with D_M on this one. I'm not a big fan of Dual Stat books in general, but if it came down to that as the only option, I'd probably still get it.
If you are doing Print on Demand as the model for the Dead Tree Product, then I really think that doing 2 seperate books would be the way to go. All of the fluff can be re-used for both books, so it would simply be a matter of replacing the differing content into a second layout, which should theoretically keep the page counts of both versions the same for printing purposes.
If you're not doing PoD however, then doing two seperate books can get a little dicey and may not be as financially viable for you.
I'd most certainly be all for a Pathfinder version though. :)
The reason I cannot due two separate books has to do with the licencing, Monte was being kind enough to let us dual stat the book. But i have to have the AE stuff in there or I can't use the AE Ip stuff in there.
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The reason I cannot due two separate books has to do with the licencing, Monte was being kind enough to let us dual stat the book. But i have to have the AE stuff in there or I can't use the AE Ip stuff in there.
Well if thats the case, then I think the more important question is how much the dual stats would increase the cost of the book. Or would it increase the cost enough to lose some who would have bought it for AE, yet gain more people buying it for PF to make up for their lose and the extra time to dual stat it.
You could always do a pledge, figure out the cost and then see if you can get enough pledges to make it feesible.
Right now it will have no cost increase for the patronage project.
It will have no cost increase for the cost of the PDF.
And due to the way our print/distribution model with Cubicle Seven works, there should be no cost increase to the retail price of the final print product
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See, I'm not nearly as wary of dual stat PF-AE as I would be for most systems. Other than a few skill combinations being different and DR still being under the 3.0 rules, AE and Pathfinder are pretty darn close. I really don't see how this would be a major problem or take up more than one or two lines on a page. Maybe you'd have to have different progression tables for prestige classes, but other than that, I'd see no real issue with PF/AE dual stat books.
Also an Interview today!
Today we are talking to Bill Collins and Hans Cummings about their newest patronage project Faen: Book of Mischief for Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
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Faen: Book of Mischief is now 28% to goal with 52 days left to go (out of 60). We have raised $275 out of our $1000 threshold goal.
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See, I'm not nearly as wary of dual stat PF-AE as I would be for most systems.
Kvantum - thanks. I'm not worried either. It will take a little more work on the end that fans don't see. That's all.
If there's something you'd like to see - please let us know. I'm one of the authors.
Part II of our interview is now available.