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Paizo
Paizo Inc. (; originally Paizo Publishing) is an American role-playing game publishing company based in Redmond, Washington, best known for the tabletop role-playing games ''Pathfinder'' and '' Starfinder''. The company's name is derived from the Greek word , which means 'I play' or 'to play'. Paizo also runs an online retail store selling role-playing games board games, comic books, toys, clothing, accessories and other products, as well as an internet forum community. History Paizo was formed by Lisa Stevens, Vic Wertz, and Johnny Wilson in 2002 to take over the publication of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' magazines ''Dragon'' and ''Dungeon'', formerly published in-house by Wizards of the Coast. Paizo publisher Erik Mona is the former editor-in-chief of ''Dragon'', while former editor-in-chief of ''Dungeon'' James Jacobs oversees the ''Pathfinder'' periodicals. The company started producing a bimonthly magazine called ''Undefeated'' in 2003, and in 2004, resurrected the ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
The ''Pathfinder Roleplaying Game'' is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) that was published in 2009 by Paizo Publishing. The first edition extends and modifies the System Reference Document (SRD) based on the revised 3rd edition ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') published by Wizards of the Coast under the Open Game License (OGL) and is intended to be backward-compatible with that edition. A new version of the game, ''Pathfinder Second Edition'', was released in August 2019. It continued to use the OGL and SRD, but significant revisions to the core rules made the new edition incompatible with content from either Pathfinder 1st Edition or any edition of D&D. Starting in 2023, the game instead uses the ORC license, though it remains backwards-compatible with the existing OGL-licensed Second Edition rules. ''Pathfinder'' is supported by the official ''Pathfinder'' periodicals and various third-party content created to be compatible with the game. Gameplay ''Pathfinder'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starfinder Roleplaying Game
The ''Starfinder Roleplaying Game'' is a science-fiction/science fantasy role-playing game published by Paizo Publishing. It is built on Paizo's previous game, the ''Pathfinder Roleplaying Game'', both in its game mechanics and universe, but adapted to a more futuristic style than its fantasy predecessor; game content is intended to be easily convertible between the two systems. Like its predecessor, the ''Starfinder RPG'' supports adventure paths and other material written by Paizo and third party publishers. Background ''Starfinder'' draws inspiration from many other science-fiction and space opera franchises, including ''Star Wars'', ''Alien'', ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', and ''Warhammer 40,000''. Paizo first released a science-fiction product in 2012, with the ''Distant Worlds'' supplement to ''Pathfinder''. After the success of ''Distant Worlds'', Paizo decided to create the new system, using it as a base. The ''Starfinder RPG'' was announced in May 2016 on Paizo's websi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeon (magazine)
''Dungeon'' (originally published as ''Dungeon: Adventures for TSR Role-Playing Games'') was one of the two official magazines targeting consumers of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game and associated products; ''Dragon'' was the other. ''Dungeon'' was first published by TSR, Inc. in 1986 as a bimonthly periodical. It went monthly in May 2003 and ceased print publication altogether in September 2007 with Issue 150. Starting in 2008, ''Dungeon'' and its more widely read sister publication, ''Dragon'', went to an online-only format published by Wizards of the Coast. Both magazines went on hiatus at the end of 2013, with ''Dungeon'' #221 being the last issue released. History TSR ''Dungeon'' (initially titled ''Dungeon Adventures'') first received mention in the editor's column of ''Dragon'' Issue 107 (March 1986). Lacking a title at that point, it was described as "a new magazine filled entirely with modules" made available "by subscription only" that would debut "in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazing Stories
''Amazing Stories'' is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but ''Amazing'' helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction. ''Amazing'' has been published, with some interruptions, for 98 years, going through a half-dozen owners and many editors as it struggled to be profitable. Gernsback was forced into bankruptcy and lost control of the magazine in 1929. In 1938 it was purchased by Ziff-Davis, which hired Raymond A. Palmer as editor. Palmer made the magazine successful though it was not regarded as a quality magazine within the science fiction community. In the late 1940s ''Amazing'' presented as fact stories about the Shaver Mystery, a lurid mythos that explained accidents and disaster as the work of robots named deros, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Stevens
Lisa Stevens is an American editor, CEO and founder of Paizo Publishing, and COO of Goblinworks. She began her career in games in the 1980s, working with Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen to help produce the tabletop roleplaying game ''Ars Magica''. She later worked at White Wolf and Wizards of the Coast before founding Paizo. She announced her gradual retirement from her role in June 2020. Education Stevens attended Saint Olaf College, where she met game designers Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen.Appelcline, Shannon"History of Game, #10" 3 January 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2013. Stevens received an MBA from the University of Washington. After graduating from St. Olaf, she continued to spend time on campus running ''Dungeons & Dragons'' games. Career Stevens joined Tweet and Rein-Hagen in the game company Lion Rampant, which published '' Ars Magica'' in 1987. Lion Rampant started as a volunteer organization, and they needed Stevens to volunteer at the company for her editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon (magazine)
''Dragon'' was one of the two official magazines for source material for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game and associated products, along with ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon''. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, ''The Strategic Review''. The final printed issue was #359 in September 2007. Shortly after the last print issue shipped in mid-August 2007, Wizards of the Coast (part of Hasbro, Inc.), the publication's current copyright holder, relaunched ''Dragon'' as an online magazine, continuing on the numbering of the print edition. The last published issue was No. 430 in December 2013. A digital publication called ''Dragon+'', which replaced ''Dragon'' magazine, was launched in 2015. It was created by the advertising agency Dialect in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast, and its numbering system for issues started at No. 1. History TSR In 1975, TSR, Inc. began publishing ''The Strate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pathfinder (periodical)
''Pathfinder'' is a line of roleplaying game supplements published by Paizo Publishing since 2007. Originally designed for use with the revised 3rd edition of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', they transitioned to the first edition of the ''Pathfinder Roleplaying Game'' in 2009, then to the second edition of ''Pathfinder'' in 2019. Three lines of supplements are produced as of August 2019: *''Pathfinder Adventure Path'' *''Pathfinder Adventures'' *''Pathfinder Lost Omens'' One previous line, ''Pathfinder Player Companion'', has been discontinued. Business model All ''Pathfinder'' books are published under the terms of the Open Game License (OGL). While the magazines ''Dragon'' and ''Dungeon'' were both licensed to make use of certain iconic elements of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' intellectual property, including material drawn from official settings published by Wizards of the Coast and unique monsters such as illithids, the terms of the OGL forbid the use of such "closed" IP elements. Conve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jacobs (game Designer)
James Jacobs is an American designer and author of role-playing games and texts in the fantasy, horror and the occult genres. Career Jacobs has been involved in the role-playing industry since the age of sixteen, when his adventure "Scepter of the Underworld" was published in ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon'' #12 in 1988. in ''Kobold Quarterly'' #12 Jacobs grew up in Point Arena, California, and went to college at the University of California, Davis. He moved to Seattle after graduating from college and worked his way into Wizards of the Coast's sales department. Jacobs has been the developer, lead designer, and sometimes cartographer on releases for Bastion Press, Green Ronin Publishing, Wizards of the Coast, and Paizo. Jacobs has authored and co-authored several other products for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy roleplaying game, including ''Dungeon Master's Guide II'', ''Lords of Madness'', ''Frostburn'', and ''Red Hand of Doom''. He also wrote ''Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Gaming License
The Open Game License (OGL) is a public copyright license by Wizards of the Coast that may be used by tabletop role-playing game developers to grant permission to modify, copy, and redistribute some of the content designed for their games, notably game mechanics. Language of the license The OGL states that "in consideration for agreeing to use this License, the Contributors grant You a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive license with the exact terms of this License to Use, the Open Game Content". The OGL defines two forms of content: ;Open Game Content (OGC) :...the game mechanic and includes the methods, procedures, processes and routines to the extent such content does not embody the Product Identity and is an enhancement over the prior art and any additional content clearly identified as Open Game Content by the Contributor, and means any work covered by this License, including translations and derivative works under copyright law, but specifically excludes Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wizards Of The Coast
Wizards of the Coast LLC (WotC or Wizards) is an American game Publishing, publisher, most of which are based on fantasy and List of science fiction themes, science-fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail game stores. In 1999, toy manufacturer Hasbro acquired the company and currently operates it as a subsidiary. During a February 2021 reorganization of Hasbro, WotC became the lead part of a new division called "Wizards & Digital". WotC was originally a role-playing game (RPG) publisher that in the mid-1990s originated and popularized collectible card games with ''Magic: The Gathering''. It later acquired TSR (company), TSR, publisher of the RPG ''Dungeons & Dragons'', and published the licensed ''Pokémon Trading Card Game'' from 1999 to 2003. WotC's corporate headquarters is located in Renton, Washington, which is part of the Seattle metropolitan area. The company publishes RPGs, board games, and collectible card games. It has received numerous awards, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Mona
Erik Mona (born April 1974) is an American game designer who lives in Seattle, Washington. Career Mona was the Managing Editor of issues 1 and 2 of the ''Oerth Journal'', an online publication devoted to the ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting, and the Editor-in-Chief from issues 2–7. Mona had the opportunity to talk to designers like Robert J. Kuntz, Robert Kuntz on the GreyTalk mailing list in 1990s, where Kuntz shared stories of the early days of the Greyhawk campaigns. Mona became the head publisher of Paizo in April 2006. Mona served as the editor-in-chief of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game magazines ''Dragon (magazine), Dragon'' beginning in 2004 and ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon'' from 2004 to 2006; at the time, both magazines were published by Paizo until the license through Wizards of the Coast expired in September 2007. Mona and other editors at Paizo were fans of Greyhawk, and thus featured the setting in ''Dragon'' and ''Dungeon'' magazines while Pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Path
An Adventure Path is a series of interlinked adventures (campaign) for tabletop role-playing games which can be played in succession and lead characters to advance from lower to higher levels, through a particular path of events. While campaigns exist for many role-playing game systems, the specific term Adventure Path discussed here applies to published adventures for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and ''Pathfinder'' fantasy roleplaying games. Adventure Paths in opposition to normal campaigns usually have an own setting and rule set apart from the basic rules and settings. Origin and ''Dungeon'' magazine Though the term was originally applied to the series of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' 3rd Edition modules beginning with ''The Sunless Citadel'', it later came to refer to several lengthy series, each consisting of 11 or 12 installments, published sequentially in ''Dungeon'' magazine. Typically set in the ''Greyhawk'' campaign setting, the ''Dungeon'' adventure paths are: * '' Shackled C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
