Why did you give Wizards class features?

Why didn't you change or remove time stop/teleport/save-or-sucks/etc despite bragging about how you "fixed magic"?

Why are you replacing psionics with a vancian system?

PAIZO PUBLISHING SUCKS ASS

Thanks to mailing problems, I never got the check I did for a Dragon article. It's been ages, but is there any chance that they'll be willing to change it into store credit for me?

Proof or GTFO.

What's paizuri?

>>6796227
1) There as an overall increase in power level. Wizards, while already powerful, did need a bump up.

2) Community feedback and compatibility. And I haven't bragged about anything.

3) The vancian system was already in place. We simply didn't remove it. And we haven't replaced psionics. We have, in fact, done absolutely nothing to, for, or against psionics. Use them as much as you want.

Also, note, I'm not a dev. =)

>>6796254

Surprisingly enough, yes. Email the sales manager. He also pays the bills.

Sometimes I forget that /tg/ is still part of 4chan.

Never change, baby.

Is there a general sense of shame at marketing to the pissed-off neckbeard demographic rather than making something that can stand on its own merits, or are you basically all whores?

>>6796266

What proof would you accept?

>>6796314

Shame? No. We do tend to make fun of our demographic, though.

Also, we are proud of our product. Note, the RPG rules are not the only thing we make. We actually make it so that we can make the things that do stand on their own.

Whores? Only some of us. =D

really? only one or two questions and the rest trolls?

>>6796198
are you planning on doing any pathfinder modern or future supplements?

Why don't sharks have that thing where after a successful bite attack they can just grab you in their jaws and shake you. I mean, dogs have it, if I recall, but sharks do not. whats up with that?
(excuse my lack of clarity. Books not available atm.)

>>6796621

Actually, the publisher and I have talked about it. We both agree that it wouldn't be a bad idea at all. At the worst, it gives us more shelf space in mainstream bookstores. Note, B&N and such mostly stock...core rulebooks. So the more of them we have, the more space we get in the bookstore.

Also, we think we could do a decent job with a modern or future.

>>6796627

They guy who wrote the shark didn't think of it and the guys who went over it didn't connect the two? Maybe they figured a shark would more take a chunk out than shake you.

What's Mike MacArtor doing these days? I went to college with him. Now that he's famous, he doesn't answer my emails?

>>6796674
Guy clearly hasnt seen how sharks eat. Not that I'm complaining. Saved my ass. Just have to stay out of the water from now on for fear of house-errata'd sharks of death.

Elves: Taller or Shorter than humans? You guys seem inconsistant on it.

>>6796693

Lol. Mike doesn't work for Paizo anymore. Last thing he did for us was Dragons Revisited. I don't talk to him too much, but last I heard he was working for a search engine optimization company.

Famous, eh? I think he would disagree.

You don't think the new "smite evil" is just a liiiiiiiiiiiittle bit overpowered? By comparison to the rest of the core book? Not even a little bit?

What do you actually do? I assume your job title is not "Guy who answers questions on 4chan"?

>>6796656
If you think it's possible, even if you're some radom fa/tg/uy on the internet, thanks for this.

Personally, I'm prepping to blend elements between either pathfinder/d20 modern/future or 3.5 and the same.

>>6796706

Taller. If it's ever different, that's a mistake.

>>6796712

Dunno. I don't play paladins. I'm a wizard man.

>>6796714

I don't give away who I am on the very off chance that I both choose to answer something that could risk my job and it gets traced back to me. But, I already said I'm not a dev...so either admin or warehouse would be the choices.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

>>6796753
a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

>>6796753

Well, he wouldn't Chuck Norris, and that's the only Chuck that counts.

How do you feel about the Savage Tide path? I like it, but I have a fairly big beef with fighting Demogorgon at the end. I don't think this is something you should do anywhere close to 20 and I feel it creates a letdown into epic levels. It's hard to follow up taking on the biggest demon lord.

>>6796745

Possible, yes. But it's a couple years off at the earliest.

Does juggling fall under Performance or Acrobatics?
What about rolling around ontop of a giant ball?

Are you guys going to do anything with epic levels?

>>6796789

Savage Tide was before my time (but not by terribly much). I hear it's awesome. Never played it.

Boxers or briefs?

>>6796812

Yes! The epic level book is on the schedule. It hasn't been solicited, so it's not officially official, but we're thinking about it and getting the gears rolling.

>>6796809

Eh, I would personally say either would cover either. What would it have been in 3.5? Probably perform, so there it stays.

What do you guys think of 4th edition, privately?

What have I got in my pocketses?

>>6796852

Thank fuck. Anyone can do epic better than Wizards did. Are you guys going to take the same approach of stacking feats and a theoretically infinite progression, or something different? What about epic magic?

The Cyphergate... let's be honest. It's a Stargate, isn't it?

>>6796832

Commando. But most in the office are boxers, I believe.

>>6796853

Privately, we think that it's too damn simple and that it has changed the game too much. There's only one person in the office who plays it, and he only does it because his buddies work at WotC.

We are also glad that WotC gave us this opportunity by disenfranchising such a large portion of their audience.

>>6796860

A rocketses.

>>6796874

Lawl! I'll have to ask James on Monday, as I don't know. But teleporting you to another planet is by no means out of the question.

>>6796882

Related question, what do you guys think of Fantasycraft? It's sort of competition to you guys, though I don't think it has the hype and name recognition Pathfinder has.

Is there any homebrew material you guys like? I'm not trying to say you're ripping stuff off or anything, just curious.

>>6796874
"NO, it is called the FARgate, it has a mohawk and a wheelchair so we don't get sued".

>>6796901
Could you email me after you talk with him, if it isn't too much trouble? I've got 10 bucks riding on it. Depending on which way it's facing Riddleport might get wiped out in that big surge thing that happens whenever it turns on. Which is, you know, sufficiently awsome.

Keep up the good work man. I just got into it recently and I'm enjoying it very much.

You stand before the cave of tits. What do you do?

>>6796903

I'd never even heard of it until just now. Tell me about it. =)

>>6796920

Are you talking rules or settings? And houserule style or radical rules changes?

When we really like it, we tend to publish it. Golarion is James' homebrew setting, after all. The RPG is a collection of houserules, in essence. We publish Monte's houserules and homebrew when he'll let us. =)

Really, we don't see much else of what's out there. There's a *lot* of content out there.

>>6796951

Draw my witchblade.

What do you think about the Princes of the Damned book and it's taken on the Nine Hells?

>>6796998

It's a d20 system that was released in the same era and spirit of Pathfinder. It's much more revisionist than Pathfinder, being closer to a new game instead of house rules.

You have a choice of either saving the innocent victim sentenced legally to execution, thereby violating the laws to which you have devoted your life, or standing by and allowing the victim to be wrongly executed, thereby violating the noble purpose of upholding good to which you have also dedicated your life.

What do you do, paladin. What do you do?

>>6797018

I haven't read it. I spend more time on the chans than I do in our campaign setting.

The pictures look nice, though. =)

>>6797044

You save the person. A paladin is lawful GOOD, not LAWFUL good, if you understand. Besides, an unjust execution is in violation of the spirit and intent of the law. The law(through a LG prism) is not meant to harm the innocent.

>>6797044

Fall. Atone. Pick up levels of Greygaurd.

Alternately: Fall. Pick up levels of Blackguard.

I don't believe you. Give the secret sign.

>>6796198
Why do you make a such a bad product?

>>6797120

Which one is that? We have several.

Do you think Wizards is going to recover much of the disenfranchised 3.5 audience with 4th edition down the line? Do you think that Pathfinder will create a permanent niche?

>>6797135
Pathfinder.

>>6797044

You save the person. Heck if you know they are innocent you may even be able to gather proof

Have you or anyone you known ever played a little game called Dwarf Fortress?

>>6797135
If you were a real Paizo employee, you would know which one I'm talking about.

Ok, Paizo employee answer me this then.

Why don't any of the Pathfinder Society adventures seem to be play tested? I currently run Society events for my home group and hope to branch out and work to connect a public society group to my local gaming store.

My problem is that most every Society adventure seems to have overkill and underwhelming encounters in them. From a 3rd lvl Cleric with undead minion fighting 1st lvl characters to then fighting Mites (what are they? The sub-kobald?). Does anybody really play through this stuff once or twice.

Also, why does a T-Rex have a reflex save like Neo from the Matrix? It can dodge lighting!

>>6797147

It wouldn't be a secret if he posted it on 4chan.

Has Wizards been hostile to you guys? Have they tried legal threads or generally been poor spirits about the OGL?

Does this mole look cancerous to you?

>>6797138

Honestly, no. Whenever there's an edition change, you lose a significant portion of your player base. In theory, you gain that number and more back. I think those who didn't want to move to 4E but would have in time have been given another option and are pretty happy with it.

Yes, I think it's a permanent niche. This size of it, I'm not yet sure of. Heck, 1st and 2nd still have a niche (Hackmaster, Castles and Crusades [or whatever their names are, I'm too lazy to double check that]).

>>6797144

Heard of, yes. Played, no.

You guys should totally start recording your casual games and releasing them as a podcast ala RPGMP3.com or the PAPvPDnDpodcasts. Not a question, just think it would be awesome. Good publicity and whathaveyou.

>>6797208
You still haven't answered by question.
>>6797120
>>6797139

Why did you change outsiders to two good saves instead of all(3) good saves?

>Heard of, yes. Played, no.
Shame. I'm sure you'd have lots of fun.

>>6797224

>by question

What is this? Jeopardy?

Elvis or The Beatles?

What do you feel the strongest class in Pathfinder is? Why?

>>6797165

They aren't playtested. Playtesting is the responsibility of the author, and they're not going to do it, generally. The devs don't have the time to playtest them. They have about 500 pages a month to get through. And, frankly, the dev assigned to the Scenarios sucks ass. They're going to be handed off to someone else very, very soon. (On a related note: said dev fucking butchered my scenarios. They are nothing like what I turned over.)

T-Rex: Ummm... /me pulls out Bestiary. CR 6, Ref of 7? Doesn't seem that bad to me.

What alignments do you and your coworkers fall under?
Bonus points: What race fits them best?

>>6797281

Straight fighter is the best. No contest. :)

>>6797283

If you guys can hurry replacing that guy's ass, everyone would be very grateful. I cannot emphasize this enough.

>>6797261
So, are you going to answer my question, or just continue to be an evasive douche?

>>6797188

Hostile, no. They've been a bit...cooler since the whole thing went down. But not actively hostile, no.

>>6797219

It's been considered. But the people you would want to hear play are actually kind of shy.

>>6797235

No idea. Balance, I assume.

>>6797277

Beatles.

>>6797281

I haven't played/played with all of them yet. I'm leaning toward paladin, though. But, as I said, I'm a wizard man, myself.

>>6797283
They have a Ref of +12
CR 9
You are Fake!

What do you think about the rampant piracy of Pathfinder?

What other games, besides dnd/pathfinder/etc do you play/wish-you-had-time-to-play?

How difficult is it getting a venture like Paizo off the ground, what with publishing and distributing and whatnot?

How do you feel about the whole game vs simulation vs story thing? Where do you feel the focus should lie? and no copping out and saying the middle.

What, to you, is the defining element of a role playing game?

Why is wolfsurfing not a skill and when will this be fixed?

>>6797287

Gah! There are over 30 of us! Um...office as a whole: probably neutral with chaotic tendencies, generally good.

Elves and gnomes?

Do you prefer to DM or play a PC?

Favorite monster... a) to fight? b) to throw against players? c) in general?

Favorite race?

Tell us about your current favorite character.

Has there ever been a character concept you've really loved, but just havn't been able to realize? Tell us about it.

>>6797333

Huh, you're absolutely right. I dunno what I was looking at in the PRD. I must have misclicked and not double checked.

So, to answer the question: because James loves dinosaurs. /nod

>>6797354

Finally! The real questions! My DM has been forcing me to use some kinda ride check system with penalties. It's absurd!

Are there any features from previous editions you'd like to bring into Pathfinder?

How does it feel to be the RPG equivalent of those guys who register a misspelling of a popular domain name?

>>6797386
Fuck, really? Mine has been using handle animal with acrobatics checks every round.

>>6797322
Option 2, senor troll.

>>6797334
Personally, doesn't bother me at all. I'm on the fuckin' chan, are you kidding?

As a company? Not a whole hell of a lot we can do about it. We view it as free advertising under the assumption that if the book's good enough, you'll want a physical copy. We do give the rules away for free on the website too, so...not a big deal.

>>6797380

I prefer to play, but I'm a perfectly competent DM.

>>6797435

Related question about piracy. What do you think of Wizard's approach to sue pirate distributors in 4e, as well as suspending PDF sales?

I am a glue huffing table top gamer, what the hell is paizo and why should I care?

>It's been considered. But the people you would want to hear play are actually kind of shy.

This is very disappointing. Clearly they need to man up or you need to lower your expectations of who we would want to hear.

>>6797334
We all know where you started avatarfagging. Now stop or die.

Do you have names for the stock PCs that appear in a lot of the art, or is that secret locked in the black heart of Wayne Reynolds?

>>6797454

How can you blame them? The entire music industry went bankrupt when people illegally copied songs using compact cassette. They never recovered!

How do you guys feel about mature themes in Pathfinder? I'm not talking about porn, but more serious issues, references to sex and homosexuality and other things Wizards avoided.

why didn't you fix the sorcerer's staggered spellcasting?

How long have you read/lurked /tg/?

>>6797337

Shadowrun, Grimm Fantasy, Vampire 2nd Ed.

Extremely. "How do you make 1 million dollars in the game industry? Start with 2 million." Paizo is a rare success story.

Personally, I think that it lies in simulation. The rules are there to describe how you interact with the universe. The rules are also there to support the story, and the story can, will, and should subvert the rules. Now, making the rules fun and support the story, that is the art of the game.

I find that the essence of a tabletop RPG is allowing you to do what you want. "I want to blow up buildings with fire from my mind!" I can do that. "I want to wield a sword bigger than me!" I can do that. "I want to do fifteen flips down a ten story cliff!" I can do that.

>>6797381

To throw at players, otyugh. To fight...hmmm...I'm not sure. Humanoids, probably.

The character I haven't played yet is the still spell wizard with single level of fighter and plate armor. =)

How does is it feel to know that you will never, ever make something as cool as this?

>>6797617

Paizo made Malcanthet, who's the coolest demon lord. So I think you're incorrect about Demogorgon there.

>>6797617
>orange, two headed tentacle baboon
>cool
wat

Paizo...

How does it feel to find out Jim Profit and The Koga are one and the same?

Make san check.

>>6797415
It feels like a successful business that lets us keep making games, senor troll.

>>6797410

Personally, I've only played 2nd, not 1st. The thing I remember most is the retarded reason wizards couldn't wear armor (metal interfering with magic) and magic aging you. So, no. =)

>>6797454

Retarded, on both counts. I know what Wizards' revenue stream was on those pdfs...and they're retarded for cutting that off.

>>6797495

Yes! For example, scantily clad there is Seoni. There's also Valeros (the fighter), Lem (the bard), etc, etc.

>>6797617
>cool
>MM2

lol

>>6797648

What WAS Wizard's revenue stream with them?

Any good "natural 20 saves the day from certain doom" stories?

Is there anything you guys felt 4th edition did right?

favorite video game?

>>6797501

We live them. See Hook Mountain Massacre (incest, rape, slaughter). See Sandspoint (homosexual halflings, if I remember). Our fighter/sorcerer is homosexual as well.

We don't go balls to the wall, though. Which is unfortunate in my opinion. I think we should push the envelope harder.

>>6797505

Power levels. More spells, later access. Also, compatibility.

What's the highest level game you've ever played in for 3.5/Pathfinder?

>>6797648

Please tell me that she has some kind of warmth spell on her half-clothes. She just looks uncomfortable there in the snow. That fur cape thing is way too little too late.

The President has been kidnapped by ninjas!
Are you a bad enough dude to save the president?

>>6797691

Yeah. Wizards seemed reluctant to even admit sexuality existed(Even the succubus skirted the issue as much as possible) and homosexuality was off the table except one very oblique reference in one sourcebook.

I don't want to go call Book of Erotic Fantasy here, but it's daft to ignore it too. Wizards seemed petrified of admitting it existed.

>>6797469
I'm sure plenty of people don't. I'm hoping from massive backlash from the ignorant, myself. It would amuse me.

>>6797661

Enough to pay the salary of at least one employee, probably two.

>>6797674

Sure. It's not a bad game. There's plenty in there that's fun. But, I hear all the time, "It's not D&D." /shrug

>>6797690

Hmmm...Final Fantasy...mmm, 6, 7, 8. Maybe Fallout 2... No, no...Planescape Torment! That game rocked my socks. Too bad the interface is so dated now. It's hard to play.

Why does your artist draw such bulgey eyes?

It creeps me out.

>>6797736

Yeah. Have you noticed that 4th edition makes it's bones by being 'not D and D'? They butchered FR and the system underpinnings far more than they had to to make a new edition. It feels like a lot of the long running traditions and style of Dungeons and Dragons was intentionally lost.

>>6797719
I saw it at a bookstore, sitting innocuously next to all the other D&D books. I lol'd.

>>6797748
What is this characters name and what is her carrying capacity because jesus fuck.

>>6797704

Straight from lvl 1 up...lvl 13. I've done some higher level stuff out of the box.

>>6797710

I just assume she has the arctic subtype. =P That and/or cheesecake always stays warm.

Whats the longest single session you've ever been a part of?

How much multiclassing and PrCing do you like to do? Do you optimize much?

>>6797748
I think she's a half-spider.

>>6797780

By you I mean Paizo in general.

is this being archived?

>>6797648
>metal interfering with magic
>retarded
um... I disagree. Used solely as a reason to bar armor is stupid, of course, but metal, iron in particular, has always been something magic doesn't like. That's constant across tons of folklore. Not saying going with it is ideal, but it's certainly not retarded.

>>6797796

Already did. Feel free to upvote it, I guess.

>>6797719
BoEF is why Wizards instituted "quality controls" on 3rd party products. Personally, I dislike that we did the same to stave off that type of thing. I think it's needed.

>>6797748

Because we told him to. That's the archetype for our elves, right there, what we send all the artists as a reference. We send Wayne a concept, and we take what he gives us and say, "Thank you, may I have another!"

>>6797757
4th hews a lot closer to 2nd than 3.5 ever did.

Besides, people said exactly the same shit when 3.0 came out.

>>6797810
Which explains the metric asston of metal magical items, right?

>>6797764

That's...Marisiel I think. And her carrying capacity is "knives".

>>6797779

Only about 10 hours. Nothing special.

>>6797818
What kind of concept? Is it just in writing, or do you have some doodlers among your number?

How well do your artist get payed?

>>6797851

Generally just writing. The type of thing we might send Wayne is, "The next iconic is a female barbarian. She should have a really big sword. Her armor should look real but not too much of it. Give her a fearsome aspect." The rest is in his hands. We give other artists a bit more direction than that, but we have a *lot* of trust in Wayne.

>>6797859

Ok. 1600 for a cover, 300 for a half page color piece.

>>6797499
>How can you blame them? The entire music industry went bankrupt when people illegally copied songs using compact cassette. They never recovered!
Actually there is a convincing argument to be made that the music industry has suffered largely because of unreasonable pricing, though I hardly think the cassette posed any... sort... of... Hey, wait a minute! Is that the "sarcasm" I've been hearing so much about in my lit. class?

What is good in life?

What do you guys think of alignments and how they relate to the Outer Planes? Are you guys toying with changing them at all?

>>6797818
You don't like the BoEF? Why?

>>6797906
Nooooo. Ya think?

>>6797466

Hmmm...who would you want to hear? We assume people would want to hear James, Jason, Erik, Sean, Wes.

>>6797923
Because it was awful and you should feel bad. Not OP.

>>6797888
How horrible would it be if you had to do all the art yourselves? Please give an example. If you don't have a scanner, rock some MS Paint.

>>6797923

*I* love it. I think it's exactly the type of thing 3rd party publishers are there to do. The company doesn't want anything that could get someone in trouble associated with them. Bad PR is not something that the powers that be want to see. I don't like it, but...

>>6797957
It wasn't awful. It wasn't great, but there are a lot of worse books out there. Mostly by Green Ronin.

>>6797975

I can understand it. I lived through the bad times D and D had back in the day, when it got so much bad press. Avoiding that is only reasonable business sense, let the third parties do it.

>>6797987
>Mostly by WotC
fix'd

What are the mistakes you guys feel Wizards made with 3.5?

BoEF ignored the obvious fact that humans are the foremost sluts of the multiverse. Seriously, if you encounter a half-anything, it's almost certain that one half is human.

>>6797975
>implying paizo gets any press anywhere that people who aren't already playing would see

Have you ever got a piece of art work back that was shocking in it's (poor) quality or content?

>>6797958

Better than some products out there. Attached is one of mine. If you look at the bottom of this page, you can see some of Sean K's art: http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/tags/seanKReynolds

We do also have a real artist on staff. He's a graphic designer.

>>6798012

Second. First is dragons; dragons can fuck ANYTHING.

>>6798018

Yes! We've given quality rejection partial payments on two pieces in the past couple of months. Some of it's bad. Some of it's really bad. I really, really hate the cover of Demon Within, personally.

>>6798022
That flumph is better than the original flumph.

>>6798010
The game was fine. The mistakes came in marketing and handling. You'll note, we still use 3.5, essentially. =)

>>6798081

What do you feel the mistakes were in marketing and handling, then?

>>6797949
Lets be honest, the success (over time) of the podcasts will be determined less by the fame of the participants and more by the actual quality of the participants. The best group you can get together, the most entertaining group to listen to, the most creative DM and the most involved players, thats who we want to listen to. You get those guys together and you'll have some something good. Obviously fame is important to attract people, because a lot of people don't care about joe average's game. But fame doesn't necessarily equal role playing ability (in my experience). You get the best guys you can find for the podcast. Guys who aren't shy and who are able to really open up despite being on tape. Then all you have to say is that its one of "paizo's inhouse gaming groups" or something. The quality will carry it and people will be genuinely interested in a thing like that. Sure I don't care how bob down the street plays his game, but fuck, bob isn't a professional fucking gamer. You guys earn your daily bread off of this stuff even if you aren't James or Jason or whoever.

I mean, come on, we're content whores over here. We'll suck up just about anything and goddamn the three hour drive to work each morning could really stand to be filled up with some high adventure.

Bumping before bed.

Alright cats and kids. OP here. I'm going to bed. I'ma gonna keep this page open. If it hasn't 404'd by tomorrow when I get up, I'll answer some more.

>>6798214

Er...yes! =)

We shall endevour for maximum bumpatude, good sir. God speed and many thanks.

well...that was probably the best thread i've read on 4chan in a whi...well...ever. real or fake, that was awesome.

bumpin'

bumpa dump

moar

Oh oh oh, I have one, have you guys translated your Pathfinder adventure paths into the 3.7 system yet?

>>6800089
It's probably on their wiki if it's been done.

Bump cause i'm heading to bed

bump. keep the tread alive people. the hope for more rests on it.

mornin bump

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bump, I suppose.

Someone order a morning bump?

pmub

Were the Paizo guys sad to have lost Dungeon and Dragon magazines, and would you take them back now if given the chance? Or was it mostly joy at having the strings cut?

bumper-san

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Keep the faith, lads.

BUMPERU GAIDEN!!!

>>6796198

Just what IS Paizo anyway?

>>6808227

b-b-b-bump!

Bump. its almost been 24 hours since this thread started. hopefully op will return soon.

>>6809627

Probably not happening but it's worth a shot.

Keep the faith. The glory shall never die!

Damnit OP. Now I feel betrayed.

>>6797847Which explains the metric asston of metal magical items, right?

Actually if you go back to the beginning of all that, magic items used to require things like meteoric iron, not terrestrial iron. But regardless, the folklore is still there and the other poster has a good point.

Restricting mages to not using metallic armor was both good for game balance which has been a perfectly good reason for all sorts of other game tweaks.

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>>6812275
>>6812277
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He got fired.

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