Paizo's Pathfinder Coming Soon to Hero Lab

[brimitch]

Greetings Lab Rats!

Here's the press release that went out today announcing the partnership between Hero Lab and Paizo's Pathfinder products:

August 10, 2007 (BELLEVUE, Wash./SAN JOSE, Calif.) – Paizo Publishing®, LLC and Lone Wolf Development™ have announced that Paizo's eagerly awaited Pathfinder series of monthly Adventure Path™ modules will be fully supported by Hero Lab, the revolutionary RPG character software from Lone Wolf Development. Hero Lab users will have access to custom character types, unique items, and character art galleries featuring Pathfinder artwork. As part of an extensive partnership between the two companies, Pathfinder subscribers will also receive access to Hero Lab and the Pathfinder data files as an added benefit of their subscription. Hero Lab will support the generation of character sheets, stat blocks, and other game materials in the same format used in Pathfinder books.

"We've been delighted by the enthusiastic reception that Pathfinder has received, and we're equally delighted to be partnering with Lone Wolf Development. They've demonstrated time and again their ability to deliver software that offers unprecedented utility and flexibility to gamers. Hero Lab will be an incredible aid to our readers and players," said Erik Mona, Paizo's Publisher.

Rob Bowes, President of Lone Wolf Development, said, "When we first learned about Pathfinder, we knew that Paizo would bring gamers some of the best roleplaying adventure material that money can buy. Both Hero Lab users and Pathfinder readers are on the leading edge of the curve of RPG play, so a partnership between our two companies was a natural step. We couldn't be happier to be supporting the Pathfinder line."

The first Pathfinder data files for Hero Lab are tentatively slated for release this fall. For more information, go to paizo.com and wolflair.com.

ABOUT PAIZO PUBLISHING

Paizo Publishing, LLC is a leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, accessories, board games, and novels. Paizo's GameMastery™ line offers game masters fun and useful tools to improve their fantasy roleplaying experience. Titanic Games™, Paizo's board game division, unites the greatest game designers to create compelling, challenging games like Stonehenge, the world's first Anthology Board Game™. Paizo.com is the leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world. Paizo's Planet Stories™ line of science fiction and fantasy novel reprints promises a master class in the genre aimed at building the greatest fantasy and science fiction library ever assembled. In the five years since its founding, Paizo Publishing has received more than a dozen major awards and has grown to become one of the most influential companies in the hobby games industry.

ABOUT LONE WOLF DEVELOPMENT

Lone Wolf Development was founded in 1994 by Rob Bowes as a software consulting firm. In 1998, the company released its first self-published software product, Army Builder®, which almost immediately became the gold standard of miniatures game software. In 2002, the company unveiled Card Vault™, which applied Army Builder’s point-and-click construction technology to collectible card and collectible miniature games. Hero Lab, nominated for a 2007 Origins Award for Best Game Accessory, was released in December 2006.

Army Builder is a registered trademark, and Card Vault, Hero Lab, the Hero Lab logo, and the Lone Wolf Development logo are trademarks of Lone Wolf Development, Inc.

All other trademarks are property of Paizo Publishing, LLC. ©2007 Paizo.

[Martin]

I see on a rivals site that they have the agreement with Paizo to produce datasets for Pathfinder and Paizo themselves confirmed it.

Come on guys which is it?

[Bishop37]

Originally Posted by Martin

I see on a rivals site that they have the agreement with Paizo to produce datasets for Pathfinder and Paizo themselves confirmed it.

Come on guys which is it?

Why can't it be both? Neither has said it was an exclusive arrangement...

Rob

[Martin]

hmmm.....would be nice

[rob]

> Martin wrote:
> I see on a rivals site that they have the agreement with Paizo to produce
> datasets for Pathfinder and Paizo themselves confirmed it.
>
> Come on guys which is it?
> (end of quote)
>
>
> Why can't it be both? Neither has said it was an exclusive arrangement...

Correct. Our agreement with Paizo is non-exclusive, and it makes sense for
Paizo to team up with multiple tool developers to ensure that Pathfinder
reaches the widest audience possible. :-)

[Harbinger]

ANy idea when this support will be availiable?