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
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.
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?
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.
Seanchai
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.
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.
- Ed C.
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.
In Port Coquitlam (East Vancouver), at Chapters you can find 4th edition books and the Pathfinder core rules book.
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.
Seanchai
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:
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.
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....
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.
Seanchai
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.
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?
Quote from: boulet;408686What CRPG books? Like strategy guides and this kind of stuff?
That's where I saw 4e stuff in PoCo.
Strategy guides, walkthroughs for games like World of Warcraft, Neverwinter Nights, Halo, Fallout and the like.
Quote from: Benoist;408684It's really interesting, in the sense that RPG books are thought-of as spin-offs from computer RPGs, WoW, NWN and the like, now.
No they're not .
Not at all stores.
What I've noticed at the nearby BORDERS is that they tend to stock the RPG books near the Science fiction and fantasy books - usually the shelf section reserved for SF graphic novels, harbacks, and unusual-sized or 'coffe table' sized SF/Fantasy books.
(Like the Art of Star Trek or ART of Lord of the Rings type Books) there also appear to be at least one or two of their employees who are closet gamers or Sci Fi fans...they often chit-chat with me whjen I'm masking DVD or paperback purchases and a couple of them recognize me from the game store. So definitely a few gamers amongst them.
As for other BORDERS store and JOSEPH-BETH type places - I think the variation of where RPG books are categorized or placed all depends on if that store has workers that know gaming or not.
- Ed C.
Quote from: Koltar;408698What I've noticed at the nearby BORDERS is that they tend to stock the RPG books near the Science fiction and fantasy books - usually the shelf section reserved for SF graphic novels, harbacks
It's the case at my local B&N, they're between manga and SciFi/Fantasy/Horror books.
Quote from: Benoist;408690That's where I saw 4e stuff in PoCo.
Strategy guides, walkthroughs for games like World of Warcraft, Neverwinter Nights, Halo, Fallout and the like.
Yup. Took me a while to find 'em, too. I noted with some interest that the new shelf clearly visible to the front bank of registers...
Seanchai
Quote from: Seanchai;408712Yup. Took me a while to find 'em, too. I noted with some interest that the new shelf clearly visible to the front bank of registers...
Seanchai
Someone is trying to spot potential new recruits you think ? :)
Quote from: boulet;408724Someone is trying to spot potential new recruits you think ? :)
Or keep an eye on a subject that is disproportionately prone to shoplifters.
RPGPundit
The Barnes & Nobles I've been to in both LA and SF have the RPG stuff next to or among the CRPG guides. Makes sense to me. Lots of overlap there.
Oddly, what RPGs they carry is always a mystery. Rarely the same books twice when I visit the stores. I haven't seen Pathfinder, but usually 4e, White Wolf, Rifts and then a smattering of mid-tier RPGs.