Wayfinder #01.pdf

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Foreword
I should have known better.
I mean, I already knew that all of you were
a step above the rest. Since we launched
Pathfinder only a few years ago (it still
boggles my mind that I’m about to send vol-
ume #25 off to the printer—seems like only
yesterday I was worrying that Nick Logue
wasn’t going to be up to the challenge of
properly capturing the backwoods horror of
“Hook Mountain Massacre”—another thing
about which I should have known better),
you guys and gals (by which I mean all of
Pathfinder’s fans) have produced fan fiction,
fan art (even—especially—of the naughty
variety!), websites, recorded goblin songs,
paper miniatures, chat rooms, and videos.
We have a home-made leather-bound copy
of the Beta in the office as the result of your
hard work. Last year at Gen Con we saw
the first Pathfinder cosplay—a priestess
of Desna that Wes and I freaked out about
perhaps a little too much (I hope we didn’t
scare her off from doing another costume
this year!). You’ve given us holidays (Erik
Mona day), you’ve founded a convention
in our honor, and you’ve ordered us pizza
when we had busy days at the office. There’s
even a school play of “Burnt Offerings” in
production as I write this! We’ve asked the
director to send us pictures.
So I’m not sure why I thought that
Way-
finder
would be short.
When Liz asked me to write the fore-
word for
Wayfinder,
of course I immediately
agreed. “This would be a great place to
thank all of the fans for their dedication,
creativity, and support,” I thought, but when
she sent me the PDF to do “a quick review,”
I was stunned. Here was no 10-page collec-
tion of house rules and tales from the game
table. This was a huge treasure trove of exactly
the sorts of things I’d love to publish in a
Pathfinder product. And it was 72 pages long!
Excited, intrigued, and quite a bit humbled,
I spent the next hour or so looking through
Wayfinder’s
contents. Inside you’ll find origi-
nal artwork, fiction, spells, encounter areas,
magic items, poems, character traits, prestige
classes, monsters, templates, cartoons… the
list goes on and on.
I won’t lie. Two years ago, things were
pretty scary at Paizo. The company had been
built on the business of magazine publishing,
and while we’d started to dip our toes into the
book publishing scene and had our own web
store up and running, the magazines were very
much the backbone of the company. We had
no idea if a line of monthly adventure path
books would be successful, but we had no
real choice but to find out.
Now, here we are two years later, and
Pathfinder’s expanded from adventure paths
and modules into player-focus supplements,
gazetteers, Game Master sourcebooks, hard-
cover campaign settings, and in only a couple
months, our very own RPG. It’s been a crazy
two years, but the advance orders and buzz
building about the
Pathfinder RPG Core Rule-
book
is incredible. And, of course, we pretty
much owe it all to the people who actually
threw down their hard-earned money to sup-
port Paizo and our crazy schemes. So… thank
you, everyone! Thanks for supporting us, for
inspiring us, and for keeping up the demand
for high-quality products!
But most of all, thanks for reminding me
what it’s like to be a fan. It’s easy to lose sight
of that from this side of the industry.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some 72
pages of awesome to read!
James Jacobs
Wayfinder
Fan

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