Paizo Publishing

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Paizo Publishing
legal form
founding 2002
Seat Redmond , Washington , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Lisa Stevens ( CEO )
Branch Pen & paper role-playing games , board games , books
Website www.paizo.com
Status: 2019

Paizo Publishing is an American game publisher for pen and paper role-playing games based in Redmond , Washington . The publishing house was founded by Lisa Stevens in 2002 and focuses on sets of rules, game aids and adventures for the world's oldest fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, as well as the two spin-off systems Pathfinder and Starfinder developed by Paizo .

Publishing history

The publisher Paizo Publishing was founded in 2002 and initially published until 2007 the role-playing magazines Dragon and Dungeon , founded by TSR , which were licensed by the publisher Wizards of the Coast as the official rights holder of the Dungeons & Dragons series. The publisher Erik Mona was the editor-in-chief of Dragon and the former editor-in-chief of Dungeon was James Jacobs, who is now the publisher's creative director and has been responsible for the Pathfinder collateral materials since 2007 . The company's name is derived from the Greek word παίζω Paizō , which means 'I play' or 'to play'.

In 2008, Paizo launched the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game , which is based on Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 and uses the d20 system published under the Open Game License . Pathfinder developed into one of the most important fantasy role-playing game systems alongside Dungeons & Dragons and is still the main line of the publishing house today. In 2013, the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords, a card game implementation of Pathfinder , which is also known in German as the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game - The Awakening of the Runic Rulers at Ulisses Games was published.

In 2012, Paizo started a kickstarter campaign with the spin-off company Goblinworks to implement Pathfinder as a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). The campaign was funded by nearly 9,000 backers who together raised nearly US $ 1.1 million.

In 2014, the company changed its name to Paizo Inc. In May 2016, Paizo announced Starfinder, a new science fiction role-playing game that was released on November 17th.

Awards

Lisa Stevens at the 2009 ENnie Awards

Since the publishing house was founded, numerous sets of rules have been awarded prizes from the role-playing scene. Since its publication , the rules of the Pathfinder system have received both Origin Awards and ENnie Awards. In 2003, Paizo Publishing received an Origin Award for the magazine Dragon

In 2014 Paizo Games was nominated for the Diana Jones Award , with the development of Pathfinder being the main focus. In the same year LisaStevens was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the Origin Awards.

In 2018, the Starfinder RPG system received an Origin Award as Fan Favorite Best Roleplaying Game.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Pathfinder Adventure Card Game - Review on boardgamejunkies.de, April 28, 2016; accessed on February 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Pathfinder Online: A Fantasy Sandbox MMO , campaign on kickstarter.com, April 28, 2016; accessed on February 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ Starfinder - SciFi Pathfinder variant is coming , announcement at Ulisses Spiele, May 30, 2016; accessed on February 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ Holger Christiansen: Review: Starfinder - Pathfinder in Space or something of its own? Review on teilzeithelden.de; accessed on February 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ ENnie Awards in the pathfinder wiki; Compilation of all ENnie Awards given to Paizo and Pathfinder up to 2016; accessed on February 13, 2019.
  6. ↑ Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees on gamingreport.com, June 25, 2004; accessed on February 13, 2019.
  7. ^ The 2014 Award on the Diana Jones Award website ; accessed on February 13, 2019.
  8. ^ Origin Awards Hall of Fame ; accessed on February 13, 2019.
  9. ↑ Starfinder Wins Origins Award! on paizo.com, June 19, 2018; accessed on February 13, 2019.

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