Thank you Paizo


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I really appreciate the announcements and product releases that Paizo have made over the last days.

I am so glad that Paizo are trying very hard to give us what we have been asking for. Because I know we ask for weird things that don't fit and are completely the opposite of what the next person asks for. As a community we aren't reasonable. But Pathfinder is finding a way to deliver something of everything.

Scarab Sages Design Manager

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Gortle wrote:

I really appreciate the announcements and product releases that Paizo have made over the last days.

I am so glad that Paizo are trying very hard to give us what we have been asking for. Because I know we ask for weird things that don't fit and are completely the opposite of what the next person asks for. As a community we aren't reasonable. But Pathfinder is finding a way to deliver something of everything.

We genuinely try!

Grand Archive

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Best ttrpg on the market plus we get awesome support. That's why I always get hard copies. Y'all have earned it.


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I've been eating good since 2019. Kudos to the devs for all the fine dining!


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Really stupendous stuff all around, from the hype for the Godsrain-related event to how much love, passion, and research went into the Tian Xia releases. Everyone involved deserves the best <3


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Yup it's well organized, creative, and done with heart. Love the team, love the content!


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I want to add another hearty “thank you” to the Paizo team. I appreciate your hard work and am thankful for your wonderful product.


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I've been a massive Paizo fan since I stumbled on the SRD back in PF1E; thanks for all the great work you guys do, and particularly for the efforts to make your game accessible. I honestly don't know if I'd be a TTRPG player if it weren't for you guys and your open, machine-readable resources and PDFs.

Envoy's Alliance

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I started looking into Pathfinder back in 2021. The entire culture of the company is so different from... Others, who may or may not be int based casters where the land meets the ocean.

The creators go out of their way to cultivate discussion with the community, eagerly respond to feedback, and seem to want to make sure that there is no character concept that "Can't" be a pathfinder character.


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Been a Paizo loyalist since I first spotted Burnt Offerings on the shelves of my FLGS back in 2007.

There have been ups and downs of various sorts since then, but I can truthfully say that my baseline appreciation for the work put in and the way they engage with the playerbase has never been seriously shaken.


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Things I Like about Paizo.

- I appreciate their overall market strategy. They're playing the FLGS game writ large - pour blessings into the community until people buy your stuff out of gratitude and appreciation and wanting to give back. I appreciate that. It results in a much nicer player experience than... the market strategies of certain other companies.

- I appreciate that they're willing to learn. I appreciate that, when they've made mistakes, they've been willing to actually admit that they made mistakes and then work to fix them and then had those fixes stay fixed. It's as if they actually respect the intelligence of their community as a whole. I appreciate that.

- They put a lot of effort into Doing It Right. I don't know how they do what they do. I have no visibility behind the curtain... but I can see that the things that they produce have real quality, in a number of ways, and I know enough about some of those kinds of quality to know that they are legitimately hard problems that pretty much inherently indicate that someone put in real work to make it all happen.

- I appreciate the position they take on... political matters, shall we say. It's refreshingly no-load. Golarion is really good about enabling all sorts of people to play as adventurers that are like them... but it's not preachy about it. It's just sort of quietly there in a no-big-deal sort of way. We're not here to make each other unhappy about who wants to do what with who or how many of them there are or little details about what shape their body happens to be. We're here to get everyone together and go on a crusade against Tar-Baphon. Come on. Let's focus on what's important.

- I love the engagement. I really do. I love the fact that I can toss ideas and insights out there and the devs can and sometimes do read them and I can feel like I've managed to contribute at least a little in my own small way. I love the whole beta thing - all of it. I love the real, obvious benefits it brings to the final result character classes that wind up available for use.

- I love that Golarion has multiple distinct countries built on structural evil that continue to exist and function and have a place in worldwide geopolitics that isn't just "evil empire trying to take over the world, soon to be wiped out by destined heroes". I love that we have different ones, based on different things, that they don't necessarily all get along, and that, at least at a first-order level, each of them makes sense as something that could endure for a reasonable length of time without collapsing to bizarre demographic impossibilities (Hi, GW!)

I'm just generally in favor of Paizo. I think they're nifty.


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I don’t agree with a lot of that company/organisational stuff, but looking at both Howl of the Wild and the Tian Xa character options - specifically the awakened animal Ancestry in the former and the latter’s Yaoguai Ancestry (as well as the proliferation of Large options) it definitely seems like the current ruleset’s inbuilt elegance is finally exploring its potential - truly interesting concepts that really blow open the options for characters without exploding the ruleset.

It actually feels like PF2 really has a handle on providing new flavourful options that don’t evince power creep or bloat. And the designers and developers (both current and those responsible for the core of PF2) should be proud of that achievement and excited to take part in its continued existence.

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