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A game where your actions are persistent, your characters can build kingdoms, and YOU are the storyteller!

Pathfinder Online: A Fantasy Sandbox MMO

A game where your actions are persistent, your characters can build kingdoms, and YOU are the storyteller!
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Early Enrollment v10.1: Holding & Outpost Warfare

Territorial Warfare starts tomorrow! Early Enrollment v10.1 will be deployed on 30 July / Thursday.

Read all about it!

https://goblinworks.com/forum/topic/3464/

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The Wrath of Nhur Athemon Has Begun!

The Wrath of Nhur Athemon has begun. Early Enrollment v10 has gone live!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/early-enrollment-v10-release-notes/

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Early Enrollment v9 Has Been Released

Hi Backers!

Today, 13 June, we released Early Enrollment v9. Remember that if you have any enrollment level at all from the Kickstarter you can begin play immediately!

You can... Read more

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All Backers at $35 and Higher can play now in Early Enrollment v7.1!

Attention all backers!

We just released Early Enrollment v7.1 to the Live Server. This update includes Holdings & Outposts - a major new feature that lets you claim areas of... Read more

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January 31st Is the Last Day for Backdated XP

January 31st Is the Last Day for Backdated XP

You Must Have Early Enrollment To Earn This Perk!

Today is the final day of the first month of Early Enrollment.... Read more

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Game Time Management Activated Today 29 January

Backers, we are turning on the game time management functions today.

Read all about these changes in this blog.

Note: If you logged into the game in January, you... Read more

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The Last Week for Max XP in Early Enrollment

This is the Last Week for Full Early Enrollment XP

Backdating XP ends on January 31

Players this is the last week of the first month of Early Enrollment. For... Read more

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Hard is Fun!

This blog is a quick recap of all the work that has been done on the project over the past 2+ years and sets the stage for the launch of... Read more

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Important Information about Account and Character Management for Early Enrollment

We've just published important information about how to manage the client, Destiny's Twin, and Packs for those players who are going to begin playing Early Enrollment tomorrow morning!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/managing-your-game-time-game-client-characters-and-packs/

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Early Enrollment Starts Wednesday December 31st!

Early Enrollment starts at 10:00am on New Years Eve!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/48-hours-and-counting/

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Alpha 13 Live, Macintosh Beta Live!

Today, Saturday the 29th of November, we pushed the Alpha 13 build live to the servers. Everyone with any Enrollment status can play the Alpha - Open, Early, Explorer or... Read more

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Alpha 12.1 Is Live!

Alpha 12.1 has gone live on the server!  Remember, if you have any Enrollment - Alpha, Early or Open - you are eligible to play the Alpha Test.  Log in... Read more

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New Dev Blog Posted!

New Dev Blog goes live! Learn more about what we're doing to finalize the development of our game prior to Early Enrollment!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/closing-the-gap-to-early-enrollment/

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Alpha 11 Release Notes Posted

This weekend we deployed Alpha 11.  This release continues our push towards Early Enrollment by fixing a number of existing issues and improving the performance of the client and the... Read more

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Early Enrollment "Hold"

The start of Early Enrollment is very near. But it will not be the 30th of October.

https://goblinworks.com/blog/early-enrollment-hold/

Remember: If you are an Adventurer or Crowdforger Backer, you have access... Read more

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Alpha Stress Test Has Begun

As announced in today's Dev Blog:
https://goblinworks.com/blog/alpha-91-update/

All account holders of Early, Explorer or Open Enrollment will be notified via email over the next 24 hours that they are able... Read more

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Stress Test Delayed until at least Monday the 29th

We have determined that the problem with desynchs and people being teleported out of Thornkeep is a blocker to starting the Stress Test.

We're going to work on that problem... Read more

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Alpha Stress Test Starts Tomorrow Friday September 26th

The deployment of the update to the Alpha Test seems to have gone well. We are going to start the Stress Test tomorrow Friday September 26th.  If for any reason... Read more

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Comprehensive Schedule Update

We're updating our plans. Extended Alpha Stress Test and October 23rd as the start of Early Enrollment.

https://goblinworks.com/blog/comprehensive-schedule-update/

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Start of Early Enrollment Delayed

We are going to push back the start of Early Enrollment, which will also affect the Alpha Stress Test we announced last week.

Here's the blog with the announcement:

https://goblinworks.com/blog/start-of-early-enrollment-delayed/... Read more

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Open and Early Enrollees Get to Alpha Test on Monday September 22nd

The Alpha Stress Test Announced! All Goblinworks Accounts get to play starting Monday!

If you have Open Enrollment, or Early Enrollment, you will get access to the Alpha on Monday.... Read more

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Alpha 8 Is Live!

Alpha 8 is now live. This is the biggest update yet in our Alpha Test series. You can read all about the new features here: https://goblinworks.com/blog/alpha-testing-week-of-september-12-2014/

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Adventurer Add-Ons, Resolving the Print Pack Add-On SNAFU, and more!

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Major Announcements: Start of Early Enrollment, New Explorer package, Premium Items

Today we announced that Early Enrollment will begin on September 15 ... and we're extending Month 1 access to everyone who purchased an Early Enrollment package either here on Kickstarter,... Read more

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Final Week for the Land Rush!

We are in the last week of the Guild Land Rush and it is all coming down to the wire!

You can see all the details here:  https://goblinworks.com/landrush/

Anyone with... Read more

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Live Streaming Alpha today at 3pm (Pacific time)

Greetings backers!

This afternoon at 3pm (Pacific) we're going to be live streaming from inside the Alpha of Pathfinder Online. Our team is going to talk about what has been... Read more

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Your Invitation to the Alpha Test of Pathfinder Online

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Pledge Manager Closed - Now What?

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Emerald Spire and Crusader Road Novel PDFs Available on Paizo.com!

12 Comments 8 likes
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Closing the Pledge Manager in One Week! Finalize Those Pledges!

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Print Pack Add On and the Leatherette Emerald Spire Cover

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Kickstarter Rewards, Land Rush, and Crafting

Greetings backers!

This weeks' blog features an update on the Land Rush, and pictures of the Rewards that will soon be shipping out to people scheduled to receive them.

https://goblinworks.com/blog/more-info-on-the-crafting-system/... Read more

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Bug Detected for Some Users on Account Transfer

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On-Line Store, Account Transfers, and Land Rush!

Today we have a HUGE update for everyone involving our on-line store, managing your pledge, and the Land Rush for Early Enrollment.

We have a ton of material to cover... Read more

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Important Update for Crowdforger Buddy and Crowdforger Guild Pathfinder Online Backers

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Behold, The Map!

This week's development blog features Lead Designer Lee Hammock walking us through an examination of our map and its features!

https://www.goblinworks.com/blog/the-map/

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The road to Alpha and Design Blog about Escalations and Races!

This week's development blog features info about the work toward Alpha and a vBlog about Escalations and Races!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/gimme-the-prize/

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Update on the Pledge Manager tool for KS Rewards

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A quick update about the pledge tool

Backers - we want you to know that currently Add-Ons are disabled in the Pledge Manager tool on Paizo.com.  This does not affect the Goblin Squad Store, just the Kickstarter... Read more

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Dev Blog: Roles in Early Enrollment

This week's development blog focuses on roles in Early Enrollment.

http://goblinworks.com/blog/the-warriors-code/

PLEASE UPDATE YOUR KICKSTARTER REWARD.

There are still a lot of backers who have not completed the Reward proces.... Read more

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New site - new store - new Video Devblog!

Update on web resources and our first Video Devblog!

http://goblinworks.com/blog/thunderstrike/

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New Video Update for Q4 Milestone!

Earn Elite Bandit Slayer achievement and watch this new Backer Update video!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20140219

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Dev Blog features a breakdown on spending and important updates on crowdfunding

Big Dev Blog today with information on our spending, our upcoming crowdfunding platform, new hires and new screenshots!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20140205

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Q4 Milestone Complete! Chitterwood Achievement Unlocked!

Kickstarters we are super happy to announce that we have finished our Q4 Milestone!  Today's dev blog details the work we did in Q4, and sets us up for the... Read more

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First Dev Blog of 2014! And Emerald Spire Update!

Our first Dev Blog of 2014 highlights our ideas about Outposts and Points of Interest and how they relate to Settlements!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20140108

We have also gotten some updates from Paizo... Read more

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Dev Blog all about Reputation

Today's Dev Blog is up! All about Reputation!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20131218

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Dev Blog Wednesday - details on spellcasting

Goblin fans it is Dev Blog Wednesday again! Tune in for all the details on how we're implementing spellcasting into the user interface and the action economy!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20131206

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Dev Blog on Fighters and Rogues!

This week's Dev Blog focuses on mechanics for fighters and rogues!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20131120

Also, we'd like to mention that our friends at Fun to 11 are producing a licensed Pathfinder Dice... Read more

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New in-game video!

New DevBlog, with a new in-game video!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20131106

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Dev Blog: Harvesting & More Concept Art

Greetings Kickstarters!

A new Dev Blog is up - featuring info on Harvesting, plus more concept artwork!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20131009

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Post Convention Season Update!

We're finally back on schedule after the Convention Season, and here's our new Dev Blog with lots of juicy new info!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20130911

Quick backer updates:  

We are moving rapidly... Read more

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One Week to GenCon!

One more week before GenCon! Here's a blog detailing our plans for the near future!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20130807

We hope to see a lot of Kickstarter Backers at the show!  Read the... Read more

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Encumbrance & Durability Blog

Fans, it's Dev Blog Wednesday!

A shout out to Pathfinder Online's First Questers! And a huge, meaty discussion of items, encumbrance and durability changing and updating lots of previous info!... Read more

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Milestone 2 Complete!

Greetings backers!  This weeks DevBlog post is a little more on the "how are we doing" side and less on the "what are we doing" side.  We have completed Milestone... Read more

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PaizoCon Video!

A quick update this week - the video we showed at PaizoCon!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20130717

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Dev Blog about Crafting and PaizoCon

Dev Blog Wednesday! We got one in before the 4th of July holiday! Lots of info on how the crafting systems will work and how you'll turn dirt into swords.... Read more

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Dev Blog about Early Enrollment and Open Enrollment

Catching up on last week's dev blog; it's pretty important. We want to explain how we're going to roll out the game with Early Enrollment, what you can expect, how... Read more

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Kickstarter Fulfillment System & Financial Info

This week marks a departure from our recent trend of design-heavy blogs. We're going to take a deep dive into the choices the community has been making in the aftermath... Read more

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Blog about Alignment!

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Dev Blog: Combat Attack Details!

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Some FAQs about the Fulfillment system

Backers we had a pretty exciting day yesterday as the Fulfillment tool got well and thoroughly "real world" tested.  :)  Thanks to everyone who put up with a few launch-day... Read more

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Fulfillment tool is LIVE!

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Kickstarter Fulfillment System Info AND Escalation Dev Blog

This week's Dev Blog has a preface that talks about what you'll be able to do in the Fulfillment System and explains how the system will work.  We're expecting to... Read more

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Dev Blog: New Screenshots, Progress Update!

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Dev Blog about Assassins! Update on Fulfillment!

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DevBlog about Area of Effect magic & Fulfillment Update

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Dev Blog about World Building in Pathfinder Online!

It is Dev Blog Wednesday! Rich Baker takes us behind the scenes to look at the world building we're doing for Pathfinder Online!

https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20130313

No update to report yet about... Read more

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Repeating Info about Fulfillment System in the Dev Blog

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Update on Fulfillment System ETA

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Update on Fulfillment and Survey

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Goblinworks is Growing!

We are in the process of expanding the staff, in large part due to the success of the Kickstarter project!

Mark is busy setting up workstations for the inbound staff:... Read more

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Brainstorming the Emerald Spire Superdungeon!

Just wanted to give y'all a quick update. We had a meeting today to brainstorm the Emerald Spire Superdungeon (see the picture below). Starting from the two paragraphs in the ... Read more

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Amazon Payments, Kickstarter & You

Dear Backers,

Thank you so much for helping us get over the funding goal!  We are the 20th project to raise a million dollars on Kickstarter and the 10th most... Read more

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Successfully raised $1,091,194 with 8,732 backers

IT'S GNOMES!

The People Have Spoken!

The very first Crowdforging poll closed, and the result of the vote was that Gnomes will be prioritized as the next race added to the game,... Read more

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WE ARE FUNDED!

WE ARE FUNDED!

Awed, humbled, utterly blown away by your love and support.  Words fail us.

Having reached our funding goal is such an amazing achievement.  We'll be the 10th... Read more

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Final Minis Revealed! Concept Artwork! 3 DAYS TO GO!

The pace has picked up and we're blowing through funding milestones.  Rather than ask folks to wait for an update we decided to reveal the last two miniatures from the... Read more

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Final Friday Update! $700,000 Exceeded! New Mini Revealed!

Friends we're down to the last 4 days of the campaign!  To celebrate, we're announcing several final updates and reward bonuses for the Adventurer and Crowdforger reward levels.  Check out... Read more

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Announcing Pathfinder Online: Pit Fight!

Today we're announcing that we'll be producing a special testing environment for Pathfinder Online that we'll be making available by fall of 2013!  Check out the project page for all... Read more

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Environment Experience Goes Live!

We released a neat tool today that allows you to download the wilderness and dungeon environment from the Technology Demo and walk around in it via a Unity Web Application. ... Read more

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More Add Ons Announced!

We added new Add-On options to the Kickstarter today!  Check out the project page for more details!

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This was the update for January 7th:

Pathfinder Online Macintosh Support Announced!... Read more

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Unity Announcements: Macintosh Version!

On Saturday we announced that we'll be using the UNITY game engine to power Pathfinder Online.  Today we're making a special announcement about Macintosh support.  Check out the project home... Read more

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It's UNITY!

This is an announcement we've been anxious to make for a very, very long time.  The core of our software - the beating heart - of Pathfinder Online will be... Read more

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$600,000 Reached! New Mini Revealed!

Folks we just hit $600,000!  We're starting see momentum build as we move into the final week of the project!  Check out the project page for all the details!

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A new Add-On for Pathfinder Tabletop & Forum Benefits

We're creating a new Add-On today that gives you the ability to get the printed versions of the Emerald Spire and Flip-Mats, plus the miniatures andallows people to get... Read more

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New Add Ons Announced and Details of the Adventurer Level Upgrade!

We're incredibly pleased to announce that Jordan Weisman and Michael A. Stackpole are joining the All-Star lineup of designers for the Emerald Spire SUPERDUNGEON!

We're also continuing to expand the... Read more

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$35 Adventurer Tier Upgrade!

Happy New Year everyone!  We're 12 days from the end of the project and we're beginning the Big Push!  We just passed $550,000 pledged!  Here's to a quick $600,000!

Today... Read more

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Announcing the PDF Superback BONUS for Crowdforgers!

Stop the Presses!

Backers we've got a late breaking new bonus feature for all Crowdforger backer levels!

Paizo's community is very strong, and that includes friends at many excellent third-party... Read more

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More Design Info from Lee & Stephen!

Another installment from Lee and Stephen, talking about the concept of "escalations" on today's update!

We've also added some links to the Project Page to a series of Dev Blogs... Read more

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Holiday Update!

Hello Kickstarters!  Christmas is behind us, and New Years lies before us! 

Today we have another installment of video interview with Lee and Stephen, and Fear the Boot has the... Read more

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Update - Learn more about the environmental dangers in the game!

Today's update is Lee and Stephen talking about how harvesting and monsters in the environment interact.  See the video on the project main page for the scoop!

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This was... Read more

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Fear the Boot and Emerald Spire Authors (2 of 4)

Today's update features information on the Player Pack and the Alliance Pack, and features three more of the authors of the Emerald Spire Superdungeon!

Check out the project main page... Read more

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Emerald Spire Author Spotlight (2 of 4!)

Today's update highlights 3 more of the authors working on the Emerald Spire SUPERDUNGEON!

We're also promoting Mark's appearance on the Fear the Boot podcast!

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Announcing the Guild Land Rush!

Today's Big Announcement is a special promotion for people who have selected the Crowdforger Guild Reward level - a way to earn your Guild premium real estate in Pathfinder Online... Read more

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Introducing Emerald Spire Authors & Asking for Guild Info!

Today's Daily Update highlights 3 of the authors working on the Emerald Spire Superdungeon, and asks Crowdforger Guild backers to contact us to provide your Guild name.

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Reminder Daily Deal Started Today!

The Daily Deals started today!  You have until 10:00AM Pacific Time tomorrow to be a backer and get the complete set - every day you wait costs you an item!... Read more

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Announcing new Reward Tiers and the Goblin Squad Store!

Announcing the Daily Deal Promotion, Starting this Sunday the 16th!

Starting on Sunday the 16th, we'll be announcing a Daily Deal item every day until the end of the Kickstarter.... Read more

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Announcing the Daily Deal - Get In NOW to get all the Deals!

Today we're making a HUGE announcement about a promotion that will run until the end of the Kickstarter - the Daily Deal!  Check out the project main page for all... Read more

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Announcing all the Emerald Spire Authors

The list is finalized and it is simply amazing.  So amazing that we just couldn't wait to share it.  Check out the project home page for all the details!

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Adding new Value Priced Tiers - Pathfinder Society and Emerald Spire PDF

We're adding two tiers to the Kickstarter today for people looking for an opportunity to support the project at a smaller dollar value!

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This was the Daily Update for... Read more

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$300,000 Achieved! New Miniature Unlocked!

We just broke the $300,000 mark, which is a HUGE milestone for the project.  Read more on the Kickstarter Project Main Page.

We're also unlocking the Shadowfire Elemental miniature for... Read more

Announing: Crowdforger Art Lover Reward Tier: Wayne Reynolds!

We've updated the Project Page with exciting information about our first $10,000 reward tier level, the Crowdforger Art Lover reward featuring Wayne Reynolds!  Read all about it on the Kickstarter... Read more

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Weekend Update!

A recap of all the events of the past week is now on the Project Main Page!

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This was Friday's Update of the Day

Lee Hammock and Stephen Cheney... Read more

Designers Talk PvP

Today's update to the Main Page of the Kickstarter is a video where designers Lee Hammock and Stephen Cheney talk a bit about Player vs. Player conflict.

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Announcing Keith Baker's Emerald Spire Dungeon Level!

We blew through the $250,000 milestone today, which means Lisa Stevens is coming out of semi-retirement to write a dungeon level for the Emerald Spire.  That unlocks our next designer,... Read more

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Exciting New Rewards! Emerald Spire!

In celebration of reaching $200,000, Goblinworks and Paizo are pleased to announce some major additions to the Kickstarter rewards for Pathfinder Online! It's a lot more than we can talk... Read more

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Don't Fear the Reaper! 200k in the bag!

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have $200k!

This is tremendously exciting for us and it "unlocks" a number of additional project features we've been waiting to unveil.  Over the next couple... Read more

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Updated Links for Social Media!

Here are some hi-rez versions of those images:

Facebook:

http://207.115.69.131/images/PFO_KS_FB_Banner.png

Google+

http://207.115.69.131/images/PFO_KS_G+_Banner.png

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Show your support on Facebook and Google+

Here are graphics you can save to your desktop (right-click, save image as) and upload to Facebook and Google+ to show your support for Pathfinder Online!

For Facebook:

For Google+... Read more

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New Post on Early Access Beta

Mark here! I have a new post up on goblinworks.com giving more details on the Early Access Beta period. I will be active on the Paizo message boards discussing it as well.

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We Are Go For Launch

Months of planning, gallons of soda consumed, and tireless contributions from many, many people, culminated yesterday with the launch of this Kickstarter.

To say were were pleased with the result... Read more

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Project launched