News — Paizo

This week my gaming review will focus on Paizo’s award winning Pathfinder supplement, Ultimate Campaign.Now before I get into the meat of this one, let me explain a few things about myself as a gamer. First, the reason I game is to create, and because I create I’ve continued to play RPGs for some 30 years. However, as my life has become more complex and various moves continue to forbid me from enjoying a gaming group, I tend to have little chance to roll dice. What does that mean? Well, it means I get to game only once per year,...

I did a review recently of a product and was accused of, and I quote ‘not having enough meat’ in it. So, taking that to heart, I set about delving into another modern gaming supplement, Pathfinder’s Bestiary 4.Now I know what many of you are thinking, what the heck could Paizo put in a fourth huge monster supplement? Well, certainly I thought the same thing, and yet as I sat down with this very impressive 317 page hardcover book, I was soundly amazed by the content.So, to provide ‘meat’, I’m going to take you through what makes this book so...

There are those seminal moments in your gaming life, those times when something seems to fundamentally change right before your eyes. To me, the advent of D&D 3.0 was one of those, as was the introduction of ‘iconic’ characters for that setting. Still, it wasn’t unit I first laid eyes on the Epic Level Handbook that I realized just how incredible those iconic characters could be if taken to the upper levels of advancement.I was so impressed, in fact, that I focused my attention on just how I could make an epic level campaign. It wasn’t long before I had...

In September 2007 Wizards of the Coast pulled the license for both Dragon and Dungeon magazines from Paizo.  This could have been the death knell for the small company, but instead, WotC ended up creating its biggest rival in the RPG industry as Paizo refocused on the D&D 3.5 audience and created its highly successful Pathfinder brand from the ashes of its Dungeon ‘Adventure Path’ line. Still, gamers themselves might have gained a new RPG, but the end of both long-running print magazines still resonates in the market as nothing has been able to come close to taking their place....

Two weeks ago I was fortunate enough to lay hands on a copy of Paizo’s tribute to one of my good friends in the compilation book Visions of WAR: The Art of Wayne Reynolds. Now this art book means something special to me for a couple of reasons, the first of which is that Wayne and I discussed doing his art book together before Paizo came in and offered [which I was thrilled about] and the second is that a piece I commissioned from Wayne for my Art Evolution Project made it into the book. As I opened this impressive...