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So... here's an insight....

...From what I'm hearing... they haven't got a game.

I'm not worried about download issues-I'm not giving that company a single ounce of my insight or experience.

I'm not interested in Sixth Edition, or Seventh, or Fifth-I'm completely finished with anything coming from that company.

Further, they've demonstrated:
>They can cancel Dungeon and Dragon magazines in a moment's notice.
>They can cull all the legacy AD&D module .PDFs overnight
>They can design a game that isn't in step with the spirit of it's origins, history, traditions, or culture
>They can fire their designers every Thanksgiving
>They can advertise using nasty messaging toward "senior" gamers i.e. grognards, and , neo-grognards
>They cannot, to save their lives, anticipate high load on their servers when releasing information nor take appropriate action to correct it
>They can fill the industry with poor quality splat books
>They can rally the gamer-based with intention to split, divide and conquer when it suits their financial interests
>They created, and continue to foster a hostile rules-lawyer style of gamist play that draws support from their Magic the Gathering background, and is further compounded by ritual college-like 4-year cycles of repeatedly printing and publishing the same material over and over again in different ways, while gouging the general gaming community
>They can stop providing free supporting content when hiding it behind a subscription price puts free money in their pockets.
>They renounced Gary G., and wouldn't even speak with him when he sat alive at GENCON on Gygax street, but then paid platitudes to him when they decide to reprint the 1e AD&D DMG and PHB.

Therefore: they will not receive a single word of support from me.

D&D neXt is little more than the death knell of 4e support, and the revelation of their own continued greed, neglect, and disconnect from the gaming community.

Just reposting this, because every once in a while it's nice to remind everyone that this is the sort of community where a post like the one above can be publicly favorited by three other people, and given a "^ here here," (sic) by another. All in a forum where attacks on other companies in the industry are ostensibly not allowed.

The hardest part about being a fan of Paizo is having to reconcile being a part of the Paizo fanbase.

I guess my mentality on this falls in line with "What's so boring about Golarion that people already want to get off from it?"

It's not that I find Golarion boring at all. I love it. There's all sorts of areas of Golarion I want to see more about. Vudra (despite my slight dislike of psionics) and anything related to the Ulfen peoples and the places they live are at the top of the list.

For me though, I love planets. Real world and in fiction. This dates back to at least second grade when we did a study of the solar system. Maybe before. In Star Wars, my single favorite book ever published is The Essential Atlas, which is a big book of planets. Every time there's a big news release about a new real world planet that's been discovered, I'm excited. Until I realize that no human being will ever visit any of these places within my lifetime.

So that's part of why I want a planets AP. It's wish fulfillment for something I'd love to be able to do in real life but never ever will.

There's also the issue of getting players. I used to play Star Wars Saga Edition. It wasn't easy to find players. With Pathfinder, there are at least 20 people locally who play PFS who I could potentially recruit as players.

It will be a whole lot easier to recruit those players into a planetary campaign if I've got a Paizo AP to work from. I could homebrew something. I've been working on ideas for an interplanetary campaign since I first came across info about Castrovel. However, Paizo's adventure-crafting skills are known and respected, especially among PFS players. That makes it easier to convince players to try a campaign idea that is not a typical Pathfinder campaign.

To top it off, the planets in the Golarion system are just freakin' cool. They fire my imagination, like Jamelray and Vudra do. Like the Land of the Linnorm Kings, Irrisen, and the Land of the Mammoth Lords do. Like the Eye of Abendego does. Like the Worldwound does. Like tales of lost Azlant do.

So it's not that I find Golarion boring and want to leave it behind permanently. I just want to expand my options a bit.

For $275 per case, I would hope I'd get every one of them in a case, not "very nearly" all of them. I'm not about to spend that much money on a hope, not in today's economy and job uncertainty.

Let me be the first to say that if buying a case full of plastic toys for your magical elf game of choice makes you pause and consider the economy and your own job uncertainty, maybe spending $275 on a case isn't a great idea. Priorities. Tuck that wad of bills under a mattress or something. It just isn't the sort of purchase you should make if you're living on anything less than stable financial ground.