Q&A with the “Senior Folks at Paizo” on Reddit

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In case you’re not a regular on Reddit: Erik Mona (Publisher), James Jacobs (Creative Director), F. Wesley Schneider (Managing Editor) & James L. Sutter (Fiction Editor and Developer) have done a lengthy “As Us Anything” (sort of a crowdsourced Q&A) on Reddit.

Some highlights:

  • They point out a couple of 4E features they don’t like, but say they are so busy with Pathfinder that they don’t have a lot of experience with 4E.
  • State that the 2013 Adventure Paths will be announced at PaizoCon and GenCon, but you might be able to read between the lines in their other answers.
  • To break into the industry: “Just do it: go to the Pathfinder Society web page and try to write a scenario, compete in RPG superstar, go to Kobold Quarterly or another third-party publisher you respect and try to talk your way into an assignment, write for fan publications like Wayfinder… Once you’ve built up some credits, you’ll be much more marketable. It’s a snowball effect, but you’ve gotta get it rolling.
  • Say they don’t have plans for other settings.  They try to make Golorian as diverse as possible for different sub-genres of fantasy.  Where that’s impossible (maybe Steampunk) it seems they might make a mini-setting as part of a sourcebook.