Name the four best adventure writers for Pathfinder?

[Chuck Wright]

Louis Agresta wrote:

GeraintElberion wrote:

I would put Logue at the top for Razor Coast alone.

To be fair, while RC is Logue's brainchild/heartchild/creative c-section, and he wrote about a third of the core book, Hitchcock wrote the other third.

There's a third missing. ;)

[Joshua Goudreau]

Chuck Wright wrote:

Louis Agresta wrote:

GeraintElberion wrote:

I would put Logue at the top for Razor Coast alone.

To be fair, while RC is Logue's brainchild/heartchild/creative c-section, and he wrote about a third of the core book, Hitchcock wrote the other third.

There's a third missing. ;)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that terrible math.

[Athansor]

The other third is appendices! :p

But seriously the other third is probably a compilation of Lou Agresta, Adam Daigle & John Ling? Lou seems to be following this thread, maybe he can confirm.

[Greg A. Vaughan]

Well, two-thirds of it were actually co-written by a combination of the Rand Corporation, the Queen of England, and the Bilderberg Conference. So there's that. Not sure what to do about the extra third now, though.

[Athansor]

Haha, I cracked open my Razorcoast book and Greg wasn't kidding:

Contributing Authors: Lou Agresta, Tim Hitchcock, John Ling, Nicolas Logue
Special Guest Designers: Wolfgang Baur, Adam Daigle, Tom Knauss,
Frank Mentzer, Richard Pett, David Posener, Craig Shackleton,
Greg A. Vaughan, Brendan Victorson
Developers: Lou Agresta, Nicolas Logue, Greg A. Vaughan

[Scion of Yig]

Greg A. Vaughan wrote:

Well, two-thirds of it were actually co-written by a combination of the Rand Corporation, the Queen of England, and the Bilderberg Conference. So there's that. Not sure what to do about the extra third now, though.

The extra 3rd goes towardss the lizard people who live under the Timesss-Mirror building in Loss Angeless. They manage a wormhole under the Timess building as their day jobss, but with print news media being what it iss they may consider doing 3pp full time.

It'ss a shame though, they actually do rather well as wormhole wranglerss.

Ssssssssss

[Bill Webb]

While I appreciate the praise from Kthulu, etc. I am and adventure writer---not a pathfinder writer.

I think my encounter dynamics may be better than most---and certainly my historical/scientific accuracy is way better than most--but creative goes to Richard and Greg--hands down.

Matt and I are old hacks--we do well on old what works--but we lack the game mechanics that make these guys great.

[Louis Agresta]

Joshua Goudreau wrote:

Chuck Wright wrote:

Louis Agresta wrote:

GeraintElberion wrote:

I would put Logue at the top for Razor Coast alone.

To be fair, while RC is Logue's brainchild/heartchild/creative c-section, and he wrote about a third of the core book, Hitchcock wrote the other third.

There's a third missing. ;)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that terrible math.

See, where's John Ling when you need him? Fixing the bad math without John: I wrote the last third, and the Ling9000 made sure all of our crunch made sense -- line after every single laborious line -- plus rewrote chunks that needed updating from 3.5 to Pathfinder.

To this day, to make John break a cold sweat, just sneak up behind him and whisper "wereshark stat block." Last time, he sat, shook and wept softly for nearly an hour. If you want to see him run screaming, whisper "jone more fel lycanthrope, John...just. one. more. Promise..." He often slams his head on the doorjam trying to get out. It's really funny.

Adam was a guest monster designer, letting me develop him a little, as he brought my undead cannibal pygmies from "idea on the back of my eyeballs making them sweat" to all those words on the page and something you can actually play. His genius brought us the septum fetish, magical cookpots and mutated living totem poles that rip off parts of their undead selves to throw at you as range weapons. Thank you Daigle. Thank you.

[Zherog]

Louis Agresta wrote:

To this day, to make John break a cold sweat, just sneak up behind him and whisper "wereshark stat block." Last time, he sat, shook and wept softly for nearly an hour. If you want to see him run screaming, whisper "jone more fel lycanthrope, John...just. one. more. Promise..." He often slams his head on the doorjam trying to get out. It's really funny.

This isn't far from the truth...

[Richard Pett]

Greg A. Vaughan wrote:

Well, two-thirds of it were actually co-written by a combination of the Rand Corporation, the Queen of England, and the Bilderberg Conference. So there's that. Not sure what to do about the extra third now, though.

I hope you're not taking the Very Special Lady's name in vain or I'll have to harshly cuff you and challenge you to another duel. Huzzah!

[Orthos]

*sells tickets*

[Jacob Trier]

Michael Kortes
Neil Spicer
Crystal Frasier
Mike Shel

[Sunderstone]

I have to pick 5 (not in order)...

James Jacobs
Richard Pett
Neil Spicer
Brandon Hodge
Tim Hitchcock

I really wish Erik Mona would write more

[dmchucky69]

Richard Pett wrote:

Greg A. Vaughan wrote:

Well, two-thirds of it were actually co-written by a combination of the Rand Corporation, the Queen of England, and the Bilderberg Conference. So there's that. Not sure what to do about the extra third now, though.

I hope you're not taking the Very Special Lady's name in vain or I'll have to harshly cuff you and challenge you to another duel. Huzzah!

Lighten up Francis.

;)

[Qstor]

Paizo
Greg Vaughan
Tim Hitchcock
Jim Groves

3PP
Ben McFarland
Creichton Broadhurst
Nick Logue

[Coltaine]

Clearly it says something about my tastes:

Pett
Logue
Hitchcock
Vaughan

Others
Baur
Broadhurst
Mona & Jacobs (Return to Castle Greyhawk is one of the best dungeon designs i have ever seen)

[Marc Radle]

Nice to see Creichton Broadhurst mentioned - he's definitely a great adventure writer.

I know I sure learned a lot from him!

[John Benbo]

Marc Radle wrote:

Nice to see Creichton Broadhurst mentioned - he's definitely a great adventure writer.

I know I sure learned a lot from him!

Agreed on both points!