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"Goodbye, Jean-Luc, I'm gonna miss you. You had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end."
- Q, Star Trek: TNG

Pathfinder RPG Rulebook Video Preview

by Ken Newquist / July 14, 2009

Erik Mona, publisher at Paizo, gives a sneak peak of his just-arrived copy of the company's upcoming Pathfinder RPG. I've got to admit that I felt a wave of nostalgia while watching Erik flip through the book; it's certainly captured that classic D&D feel. From the gorgeous illustrations to the faux parchment backgrounds to the dense columns of text, it feels like the D&D I played for so many years.

It's so unlike D&D 4E. Its pages upon pages of powers statblocks demarcated by red, green and blue headers feel like nothing that's come before in the D&D universe (which, I'm sure, is the entire point).

Good work Paizo!

Topic: 
Role-Playing Games, Pathfinder, Games

Comments

Seems pretty good. Eric doesn't really sound too excited in his presentation, though. Maybe not the best way to launch a 'new' game.

Also, it looks like they've got everything from the PHB and DMG in the book. The SAME prestige classes. The SAME magical items. The SAME pc and npc classes. I get that they're the successor to 3x D&D but geez. I hope there's SOME new stuff! :)

And ultimately, I still haven't checked into what they've done with high level combat. If that aspect of the game is substantially the same then I can't see us adopting Pathfinder long-term.

Dunno. I haven't been really excited about Pathfinder and this hasn't changed the situation any, I guess

Submitted by evilgenius on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 12:21pm

That's about what we expected though: all the same classes and prestige classes from the OGL you were expecting, with maybe 25% new content to bulk things up to bring them in line with the '3.75' baseline of end-of-days 3rd Edition.

This game's all about not changing the status quo (or at least, not changing it much). I'll still pay my $50 to get a copy, but yeah, high-level combat could still be a show stopper for us. That said, maybe we're fixing on that too much; we've run plenty of 1st-12th (occasionally 1st-14th) level stuff just fine using the old rules and I bet it would work just fine for ur-Flan as well.

Submitted by Ken Newquist on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 2:33pm

Looks pretty cool. Yeah, as Evilgenius said, not the most inspired presentation, but the book looks pretty cool. I'll most likely be getting one, and his flipping through the book does get me jonsing to play some more D&D, err, Pathfinder, err, whatever. ;)

Submitted by Jonkga on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 2:14pm

Yeah, if nothing else it certainly makes me want to run a Pathfinder session at Nuke(m)Con and/or MepaCon. :)

Submitted by Ken Newquist on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 12:44pm