Our plans for Ultimate Equipment and Paths of Prestige

Mathias · July 20th, 2012, 11:12 AM

Hi everyone,

We wanted to provide a Hero Lab update related to Pathfinder and the major new books Paizo is releasing at Gen Con, “Ultimate Equipment” and “Paths of Prestige”. Both of these books require a substantial amount of work to implement in Hero Lab. “Ultimate Equipment” contains thousands of items, a large number of which are new, while “Paths of Prestige” encompasses 30 new prestige classes. Each of these alone represents a large amount of content for us to add, but the two combined are huge.

Unfortunately, we only received the "Ultimate Equipment" material from Paizo on Tuesday, with "Paths of Prestige" arriving earlier this month. This means that we have substantially less lead time than usual to get these two massive books entered into Hero Lab.

We’ve already begun incorporating both of these books into Hero Lab. Based on where things currently stand, we wanted to let everyone know that we do not expect to have add-ons for “Ultimate Equipment” or for “Paths of Prestige” available in time for Gen Con. We will release these add-ons as soon as they are ready and will keep everyone posted as to their potential release dates.

Please note that it remains our goal to release material for Hero Lab at the same time new books are released. Based on recent discussions with Paizo, we believe it will be easier to achieve this goal in the future. Unfortunately, those changes will not help with these two upcoming books.

Thanks in advance for everyone's patience as we scramble to get these books ready as soon as possible.

enrious · July 20th, 2012, 12:05 PM

Thanks for letting us know about this in advance - it makes patience much easier to come by.

Thazar · July 20th, 2012, 12:47 PM

Agreed. Transparency always helps to reduce nerd rage.

r2pclaw · July 20th, 2012, 01:44 PM

Thanks Mathias, it's appreciatted, and I would rather you guys get it done right the first time (or as close as you can with that much information) then rush it and be patching stuff for weeks on end. You have a quality product and I don't see the need to change that policy.

pathar · July 21st, 2012, 03:20 PM

Y'know, I'm glad I came to check up on this today, because these are exactly the two books that I'm planning to be devouring in the near future. Thanks for letting us know.

Dwayne · July 21st, 2012, 03:32 PM

Thanks for letting us know. Take all the time you need. I am sure everyone here will understand.

ub3r_n3rd · August 21st, 2012, 10:27 AM

Just out of curiosity, not trying to rush you guys at all, but do we have an ETA on the Ultimate Equipment?

Follow up to that, will it be it's own data package or part of one of the others?

John · August 23rd, 2012, 05:06 PM

Hi. We've been making some good progress, but don't have a firm date yet. We'll provide an update in our newsletter next week. We expect UE will be a stand-alone data package.

ub3r_n3rd · August 28th, 2012, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John

Hi. We've been making some good progress, but don't have a firm date yet. We'll provide an update in our newsletter next week. We expect UE will be a stand-alone data package.

Thanks for the update! Looking forward to the newsletter!

FullMadness2012 · August 29th, 2012, 12:34 AM

How big of a puppy will the file be?

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enrious Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 175 July 20th, 2012, 12:05 PM	Thanks for letting us know about this in advance - it makes patience much easier to come by.
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Thazar Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Sunny WA State Posts: 141 July 20th, 2012, 12:47 PM	Agreed. Transparency always helps to reduce nerd rage.
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r2pclaw Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Edmonton Posts: 11 July 20th, 2012, 01:44 PM	Thanks Mathias, it's appreciatted, and I would rather you guys get it done right the first time (or as close as you can with that much information) then rush it and be patching stuff for weeks on end. You have a quality product and I don't see the need to change that policy.
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pathar Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 27 July 21st, 2012, 03:20 PM	Y'know, I'm glad I came to check up on this today, because these are exactly the two books that I'm planning to be devouring in the near future. Thanks for letting us know.
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Dwayne Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 418 July 21st, 2012, 03:32 PM	Thanks for letting us know. Take all the time you need. I am sure everyone here will understand.
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ub3r_n3rd Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4 August 21st, 2012, 10:27 AM	Just out of curiosity, not trying to rush you guys at all, but do we have an ETA on the Ultimate Equipment? Follow up to that, will it be it's own data package or part of one of the others?
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John Ex-Staff Lone Wolf Staff Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 257 August 23rd, 2012, 05:06 PM	Hi. We've been making some good progress, but don't have a firm date yet. We'll provide an update in our newsletter next week. We expect UE will be a stand-alone data package.
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FullMadness2012 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 23 August 29th, 2012, 12:34 AM	How big of a puppy will the file be?
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