Pathfinder Editors

Yesterday I put up an open call on Paizo’s forums for Pathfinder crunch editors. As I said there, it is no secret that Jon Brazer Enterprises is working on a Book of Beasts and we’re looking for editors to make sure all of our crunch is good.. I was going to get around to putting the same open call up on our website but before I had a chance, I was flooded with emails from those wanting to help out and take part. So I am glad to say that we’re good on editors for the time being. In the future, we’ll be looking for grammar editors, but that day is not today.

Thank you everyone that volunteered. The next Book of Beasts is really coming together. We’re really excited about it.

Vote In The Ennies

Incase you hadn’t heard, Ennies Voting Is Now Open! We’re really excited for this year’s nominees. While we urge you to vote what you feel are best products in the respective categories, we ask you to strongly consider voting for Super Genius Game and Alluria Publishing as a Pathfinder 3rd party publisher winning an Ennie will help to spread the word of Pathfinder Compatible publishers and help to show that we make well written products as well. Many gamers are unaware that we compatible publishers even exist and other believe that because Paizo did not publish it, it must be inferior. Your vote can help make the difference.

Also, we would like to point out that you can vote for Jon Brazer Enterprises as your favorite RPG Publishing company. But the most important thing we can stress is that you vote.

Flagons and Dragons Interview

Recently, I was interviewed by the folks at Flagons and Dragons. It was a real pleasure talking to Carl Bussler and I hope to game with the whole crew someday (since they’re like an hour away from me). After listening to the interview, give their other episodes a listen if you have not already. I hope you will find them as entertaining and I do.

Enjoy. And thank you again Carl for interviewing me.

What’s Going On With JBE And Traveller

Hey everyone,

If you follow me on Twitter and Facebook, you’ll know I have been talking alot about Pathfinder quite a bit lately and not much Traveller. You are probably asking yourself, “So has JBE dropped Traveller altogether? Is there any Traveller in your future?” The short answer is, we have not dropped Traveller, but we are in a hold at the moment.

Our strategy for a while now has been: one Traveller book, one Pathfinder book, repeat. With the launch of the Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference to Kingdom Building, I was getting ready to work on my next Traveller book. We settled on it being a book of Warp Ships (with a working title of Mech Tech ‘n’ bot: Warp Speed). Early artwork has been purchased and I started laying out some deck plans. We were considering making some changes to the warp engine rules and were were even considering releasing the rules as an open playtest.

Then Mongoose announced Star Trek will be coming to the Traveller system.

While we’re thrilled about this, it is also a bit of a problem for us. You see if we did anything other than what Mongoose does, our ships will largely be viewed as “wrong.” We simply do not know if Mongoose will be going with the warp engine rules in the core book or not. While they may, they may customize them some. Plus there are other design choices that will going into that book that we would like to wait and see on. So after much discussion, we are taking a wait and see approach on our next Traveller book. Then we need to evaluate how much jives with existing OGL material and what we definitely cannot use. I don’t know precisely how long we will be waiting so we just ask for patience.

Our d66 line has been on hiatus for a while. Sales of the lists have slowed in recent months so we decided to give it a break for a few months and start it back in up in the fall. We’re guessing everyone has enough names for the time being and we’ll release more after we’ve given everyone a chance to use the names they already have.

So we will be quiet on the Traveller front for a while but we’re not gone. We’ll be back boldly going where no 3rd party publisher has gone before.

Pictures of PaizoCon

This past weekend Jon Brazer Enterprises attended PaizoCon. We hd alot of fun and met some awesome gamers. Naturally we took alot of pictures. We thought we’d share a few of them with you.

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Jeff, Cosmo and several others of the Paizo Crew rocking the registration table.

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Ryan Dancey, James Sutter, and James Jacobs before the Future of the Adventure Path Seminar

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Brian Lewis and Jennifer Page at the signing table.

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Picture of the contents of the Pathfinder Beginner Box

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Image of WAR artwork for one of the covers of the Pathfinder Jade Regent AP.

JBE Schedule at PaizoCon 2011

Jon Brazer Entrprises is going to be at PaizoCon in a big way. We are thrilled and are spending just about every waking moment planning for it. We’d love to meet you there.

Thursday Evening
The Meet and Eat at the Crab Pot-Bellevue (see this thread for details). Both myself and my wonderful girlfriend and editor, Janel, will be attending and can’t wait to scarf down some crab with our fellow gamers.

Friday
9am – 8 Kender Walk into a Bar game. I’ll be running a wacky game where the players play kender and are free to steal, pilfer and eat every shiny dodad in sight. Atleast until they get thrown out of the bar, if there is a bar left to get thrown out of.

1pm – The Savage Species of Kaer Maga game. When 8 heroes of wildly different races help stop a zombie attack. But can they save the missing children some seemingly intelligent zombies stole? Play a Fetchling Ranger or a Tengu sorcerer or one of a number of other races not from the core book.

Saturday
1pm – Secrets of a Small Press Publisher Join Wolfgang Baur, Stan! Brown, Owen Stephens, and myself as we discuss what being a small press publisher is like. Bring your questions and we’ll give you the straight answers into what its like publishing for your favorite Role Playing Game.

Evening – Paizo Preview Banquet. Janel and I will be attending the preview banquet in full anticipation to find out what our favorite publisher is going to be doing for a while to come. We hope that you’ll be at our table.

Dealer’s Room
Meet Janel and myself at our table in the Dealer’s Room. We are bringing:
Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference for Kingdom Building (PFRPG) – Get all the rules you are looking for in one easy to reference tome, now in perfect bound
Book of Beasts: Monsters of the River Nations (PFRPG), Surprise your players with new and interesting monsters in their adventures through the River Nations.
d66 Compendium (Traveller), Find the perfect name or description for your sci-fi role playing game.
Mech Tech ‘n’ bot: Mech Squadrons (Traveller), Because the only thing more fun than driving a tank down main street is driving the mech that steps on the tank. Get vehicle and mass combat stats for these vehicles as tall as buildings for your Traveller game.
Each of these books comes with our PDF Guarantee!

While you’re at our table, enter our drawing to get all our Pathfinder PDFs for free.

We can’t wait to see you there!

Book of the River Nations Back In Stock

I just received word that the reprint of the Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference to Kingdom Building hit the warehouse yesterday. If you were not able to get ahold of a first printing book, they will soon be available. Order today from your local game store or your favorite gaming webstore.

Pathfinder: Book of the River Nations Released

Rule Your World

The Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference for Kingdom Building organizes all the rules players and game masters need to explore new lands, build nations and defend against invading armies. This volume covers every aspect of exploration, kingdom building and mass combat. New feats, spells, magic items and class options equip your character to conquer and rule your own corner of the world.

The Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference for Kingdom Building is now available in PDF at Paizo.com and RPGNow and will soon be available in print at your local game store and your favorite online gaming retailer. Ask for it at your local game store TODAY!

Pathfinder and associated marks and logos are trademarks of Paizo Publishing, LLC, and are used under license. See paizo.com/pathfinderRPG for more information on the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Pathfinder: The PDF Guarantee and the River Nations

All week long, Jon Brazer Enterprises has been telling you about what is inside the Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference to Kingdom Building. Now let me tell you what you get with the print book. Every Jon Brazer Enterprises RPG book that can be found in your local game store carries with it our PDF Guarantee. Incase you are not familiar with our PDF Guarantee, here it is:

If you buy one of our print products regardless of where you buy it, you get the PDF for free.

There are three ways you can get the free PDF of the Book of the River Nations. The first is to buy the book from a location that can give you the PDF. Game stores that participate in Bits and Mortar can give you the PDF when you purchase/order the book direct from them. Also Paizo.com offers a free download to those that purchase the book direct from them. If you are purchasing the book from another online retailer or from a game store that does not participate in Bits and Mortar, you can still get a free PDF. All you have to do is take a picture of either the purchase receipt (with any privacy/credit card information blacked out) or a picture of yourself holding the book at an odd angle. (We reserves the right to ask for an additional photo or a few questions about the book’s contents if we feel the image may have been photoshoped. This is merely a precaution against piracy.) Finally, if you do not have access to a digital camera, simply send us an email. We will ask a few questions about the book’s contents to verify that you do have the book and then we will send you a free download.

For this particular book we’re taking it a step further. Many gamers purchased this book as three separate PDFs. If you bought all three Book of the River Nations PDFs before May 7th, you get the PDF for free as well. We appreciate our customers and want to thank them. Because of your purchase, Early next week we’ll be sending out coupons to everyone that purchased all three PDFs at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow.com. If you purchased all three PDFs from these sites, make sure your privacy settings are set so we can send you an email (under the My Account section). If you purchased the three separate PDFs from Paizo.com, send us an email and we’ll send you a few questions about whats in the PDFs.

The email to contact us at is contact AT jonbrazer DOT com. Please put “PDF Guarantee” in the subject line.

Pre-order the Book of the River Nations: Complete Players Reference for Kingdom Building today at your local game store or at Paizo.com. Tell your game store today to reserve you a copy! Remember all Jon Brazer Enterprises Print book receive a free electronic copy as part of our PDF Guarantee.