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Paizo is working on an introduction boxed set to Pathfinder

Started by Benoist, October 03, 2010, 10:50:22 PM

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October 03, 2010, 10:50:22 PM Last Edit: October 08, 2010, 05:16:15 PM by Benoist
http://twitter.com/JasonBulmahn/status/25706526391
(Link to Jason Bulmahn's Twitter account where he acknowledges the boxed set is in the works)

Oh-ho...

EDIT - relevant Paizo thread on their message boards:
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/pathfinderRPG/paizo/pathfinderIntroGame

Spinachcat

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October 04, 2010, 12:21:53 AM
Good for them.   I have less than zero interest in 3e, but any attempt to bring new blood into the hobby is very welcome.

As for intro sets, the one I'm most interested in seeing how it hits the marketplace is the new Gamma World.   I'm fascinated to see if Hasbro pushes it into Wal-Mart & Toy'R'Us and mainstream stores.  

I wonder if Paizo has the $$$ to push their Intro Set into more than the usual RPG game stores.  If so, a great looking box might be a good Christmas item via book stores...if Barnes & Nobles is still standing for the 2011 holidays.

Evansheer

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October 07, 2010, 07:00:06 AM
I hope they go with a sort of Pathfinder Basic approach instead of just making it an intro set that's just the incomplete game.  Anything really as long as they don't just go "Only four races, four classes, and five levels.  Buy the full game if you want to play a half-orc bard."

Then again that worked for Dragon Age RPG, didn't it?  At least on the limited levels front?

Seanchai

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October 07, 2010, 11:22:15 AM
Quote from: Evansheer;408414Then again that worked for Dragon Age RPG, didn't it?  

Did it?

I, too, will be very curious as to what they do with it. Particularly if they make a "complete" game and, when it once again fails to draw crowds of new gamers into the hobby, what people's excuses for its failure to do so will be.

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#4
October 07, 2010, 12:44:14 PM
Quote from: Evansheer;408414I hope they go with a sort of Pathfinder Basic approach instead of just making it an intro set that's just the incomplete game.  Anything really as long as they don't just go "Only four races, four classes, and five levels.  Buy the full game if you want to play a half-orc bard."

Then again that worked for Dragon Age RPG, didn't it?  At least on the limited levels front?

I don't see how four classes and five levels does not constitute a complete game.
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October 07, 2010, 12:47:14 PM
Quote from: Benoist;408021http://twitter.com/JasonBulmahn/status/25706526391

Oh-ho...

EDIT - relevant Paizo thread on their message boards:
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/pathfinderRPG/paizo/pathfinderIntroGame

GOOD.

 I look forward to selling it at the store some day.

By-the-way, as an FYI for some of you on here: At the nearby BORDERS bookstore PATHFINDER core books share shelf space with the WotC Dungeons & Dragons 4/e hardback and two or three White Wolf World of Darkness hardbacks.


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October 07, 2010, 09:47:44 PM
Quote from: Koltar;408452GOOD.

 I look forward to selling it at the store some day.

By-the-way, as an FYI for some of you on here: At the nearby BORDERS bookstore PATHFINDER core books share shelf space with the WotC Dungeons & Dragons 4/e hardback and two or three White Wolf World of Darkness hardbacks.


- Ed C.

That is interesting Ed. At the Borders around here, Pathfinder is not to be found. In fact, I haven't seen Pathfinder at any store within 100 miles of me. I'm pretty sure the new store my friends are opening will carry it, as we had a positive experience with it at GenCon.

Benoist

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October 07, 2010, 10:04:22 PM
In Port Coquitlam (East Vancouver), at Chapters you can find 4th edition books and the Pathfinder core rules book.

Seanchai

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October 08, 2010, 12:53:59 AM
Quote from: PaladinCA;408519That is interesting Ed. At the Borders around here, Pathfinder is not to be found.

The core Pathfinder books are in my Borders.

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October 08, 2010, 11:42:10 AM
Quote from: Seanchai;408560The core Pathfinder books are in my Borders.

Seanchai

All of the Borders in my area have been the suck for RPGs. They barely carry anything for D&D 4e. And what they do have is organized by gorillas on crack. The stuff that is there is everywhere in the section with no consistency whatsoever. :idunno:

Benoist

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October 08, 2010, 11:53:30 AM
Interesting anecdote: in the Chapters of PoCo I talked about above, you can find 4th edition books with computer, programming, and PC/Console walkthrough books, while Pathfinder may be found with the fantasy graphic novels at the other side of the store.

I just thought this was an interesting aspect of book organization right there.

PaladinCA

#11
October 08, 2010, 12:50:41 PM
Quote from: Benoist;408652Interesting anecdote: in the Chapters of PoCo I talked about above, you can find 4th edition books with computer, programming, and PC/Console walkthrough books, while Pathfinder may be found with the fantasy graphic novels at the other side of the store.

I just thought this was an interesting aspect of book organization right there.

Yep. No one has a clue what an RPG is or where it should go. I suppose I should check the graphic novels section of my local Borders. There might be a Pathfinder core rulebook hiding in there. And I have a 40% off coupon....

Seanchai

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October 08, 2010, 02:11:49 PM
Quote from: Benoist;408652Interesting anecdote: in the Chapters of PoCo I talked about above, you can find 4th edition books with computer, programming, and PC/Console walkthrough books, while Pathfinder may be found with the fantasy graphic novels at the other side of the store.

I just thought this was an interesting aspect of book organization right there.

Eh. My Borders moved all the RPGs next to the CRPG books, Pathfinder, White Wolf, and Warhammer 40,000 included.

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October 08, 2010, 02:13:19 PM
It's really interesting, in the sense that RPG books are thought-of as spin-offs from computer RPGs, WoW, NWN and the like, now.

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October 08, 2010, 02:16:12 PM
Quote from: Seanchai;408683Eh. My Borders moved all the RPGs next to the CRPG books, Pathfinder, White Wolf, and Warhammer 40,000 included.

Seanchai

What CRPG books? Like strategy guides and this kind of stuff?
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