Paizo Publishing is an American

United States

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 publishing company in Redmond, Washington

Redmond, Washington

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 that specializes in game aids and adventures for "the world's oldest fantasy roleplaying game" (Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

) and its flagship spin-off game and setting, Pathfinder. Paizo also runs an online retail store

Online shop

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 selling role-playing game

Role-playing game

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s, gaming aids, board game

Board game

A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...

s, comic book

Comic book

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s, toy

Toy

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s, clothing

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 and other products. Paizo also has an Internet forum

Internet forum

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 community.

Paizo formerly published Dragon

Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...

and Dungeon

Dungeon (magazine)

Dungeon Adventures, or simply Dungeon, was a magazine targeting consumers of role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons. It was first published by TSR, Inc. in 1986 as a bimonthly periodical. It went monthly in May 2003 and ceased print publication altogether in September 2007 with Issue 150...

magazines, both published under license from Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games...

. In early 2007, it was announced that the license had lapsed and would not be renewed, effective September 2007. Paizo's new flagship product line, Pathfinder, continues the Adventure Path

Adventure Path

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 concept featured in Dungeon. Additional products set in the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting

Campaign setting

A campaign setting is usually a fictional world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame campaign. A campaign is a series of individual adventures, and a campaign setting is the world in which such adventures and campaigns take place...

 include Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Chronicles, and Pathfinder Companion.

Other Paizo product lines include the Titanic Games line of board games such as Kill Doctor Lucky

Kill Doctor Lucky

Kill Doctor Lucky is a humorous board game designed by James Ernest and released in 1996 by Cheapass Games. In 1998, Kill Doctor Lucky won the Origins Award for Best Abstract Board Game of 1997....

, and the Planet Stories

Planet Stories

Planet Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House between 1939 and 1955. It featured interplanetary adventures, both in space and on other planets, and was initially focused on a young readership. Malcolm Reiss was editor or editor-in-chief for all of its 71...

line of classic fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels.

The company began producing a bimonthly magazine called Undefeated (now defunct) in 2003, and in 2004 resurrected the venerable science fiction

Science fiction

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 title Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...

. The two publications were placed on hiatus in 2005, and finally canceled in 2006.

The CEO of Paizo is Lisa Stevens

Lisa Stevens

-Career:Lisa Stevens joined the game company Lion Rampant, which merged with White Wolf in 1990. In 1991, she left White Wolf to join Wizards of the Coast....

. Publisher Erik Mona

Erik Mona

-Career:Erik Mona served as the editor-in-chief of Dragon magazine since 2004 and Dungeon magazine from 2004 to 2006; at the time, both magazines were published by Paizo Publishing, until the license through Wizards of the Coast expired in September 2007...

 is former Editor-in-Chief of Dragon. The former Editor-in-Chief of Dungeon is James Jacobs, who is now Editor-in-Chief of Pathfinder

Pathfinder (periodical)

Pathfinder products are published by Paizo Publishing and are designed to be supplements to Dungeons & Dragons and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game...

.

Paizo announced on 18 March 2008 that they would be launching the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is a fantasy role-playing game first published in 2009 by Paizo Publishing...

. Through the new product line, Paizo would modify, update, maintain, and publish the 3.5 SRD

System Reference Document

The System Reference Document, or SRD, is a set of reference role playing game mechanics licensed under the Open Game License by Wizards of the Coast and based upon their Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game. The SRD forms the basis of WotC's various d20 System role-playing games, including the...

 (under Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games...

's OGL

Open Gaming License

The Open Game License may be used by game developers to grant permission to modify, copy, and redistribute some of the content designed for their games, notably game mechanics.-Language of the licence:The OGL describes two forms of content:...

). The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game would also support Paizo's Pathfinder campaign setting.

In March 2008 Paizo announced that it was introducing an organized play program called the Pathfinder Society Organized Play. The program was loosely modeled on the RPGA

RPGA

The RPGA , is part of the organized play arm of Wizards of the Coast that organizes and sanctions role-playing games worldwide, principally under the d20 system...

s "Living" campaigns. It releases two or three scenarios each month for members to purchase.

External links

• Paizo Publishing
• A brief history of game #2: Paizo Publishing: 2002-present, by Shannon Appelcline