In addition to three major releases at Gen Con, Paizo also pulled in nine ENnie Awards (including Best Publisher), announced a license to Obsidian Entertainment (Fallout: New Vegas) for electronic games based on Pathfinder (starting with a mobile version of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game), and hosted nearly 10,000 Pathfinder Society players.

Those releases, by the way, were:

• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide—featuring ten new character classes, including arcanist, bloodrager, brawler, hunter, investigator, shaman, skald, slayer, swashbuckler, and warpriest.
• Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles—which launches players on a series of pirate adventures, includes improved rules, and introduces four new character classes.
• Pathfinder Adventure Path: Iron Gods—a fantasy and technology mash-up, with barbarian, robots, cultists, and crashed spaceships.

Product news aside, Gen Con presented me the opportunity to sit down with Paizo’s publisher, Erik Mona, for a fantastic discussion about growth, diversity, setbacks, and surprises. I invite you to listen. The recording is just under 22 minutes.

Download: Interview-With-Paizos-Eric-Mona-at-Gen-Con-2014.mp3

• Comments Off on Gen Con 2014—An Inteview With Paizo’s Erik Mona

Gunship: First Strike! is the flagship release from Escape Pod Games, due for Kickstarter launch on February 15th. This space combat game has been in development in designer Steve Wood’s laboratories for over 20 years and is a story of believing in an idea even when the odds are against you. After countless revisions and improvements, it is now ready to to ship to Kickstarter backers around the world. We spoke to Steve to find out about the games history.

First of all, thank you for taking the time to speak to us Steve, tell us how you first become interested in boardgames?

I was lucky enough to play lots of fun games as a kid and my gaming interest REALLY took off as a teenager with Car Wars. At a young age, building a custom vehicle and using it in explosive combat against your friends was just the coolest thing ever. Read the rest of this entry »

• 2 Comments