Any more compilation modules?


Pathfinder Adventure Path General Discussion


My DM is currently running Rise of the Runelords and it is great. He purchased all the modules in the bound hardcover and I assume it was far cheaper than buying all individually.

I was wondering, for when we finish in two years or so, if Paizo had any other collections in hardcover or was planning to in the near future?

Any recommendations if so?

Thanks!


If it's what I'm thinking of, no they haven't. The closest you could get is the Shackled City which was printed prior to the PF days.

Another, though I haven't gotten my copy yet, is the Rappan Athuk made for PF...but that's not really a bunch of APs bound...but it was a multi module dungeon published by another company previously for D20...and now repackaged for PF in one big hardcover.


Paizo staff have repeatedly said that the Rise of the Runelords anniversary edition is an experimental one-off. There are no plans to produce more compiled adventure paths. There should be NO expectation that Paizo will produce another one. It took considerably more resources (time &money) to put together than they expected. There is also the fear that if customers come to expect hardbound compilations, then fewer people would buy an AP subscription.

So... Another might happen someday, but signs point to "no."

Oh: that Shackled City AP is from the old Dragon Magazine days. It's 3.5, and set in one of the D&D campaign worlds. (I forget if it's in Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms.)


Many people have asked this question, including myself, about APs and splatbooks and the answer has always been "not likely." If a specific AP, like Kingmaker, is mentioned because of its popularity, they usually also add something along the lines of "Maybe in a few years we'll think about doing it, but only if all the physical copies have been sold out for some time and it's still a popular PDF."

Then the forums usually nod, seeing the logic behind their explanation, and go into hibernation. The old thread dies and is buried under newer, more active threads, only to have another thread on the subject be born from the fertile ground later. And thus the cycle repeats itself again.

Though we all hold out hope that someday, through some miracle, it happens a second time. Hopefully with Kingmaker.

Grand Lodge

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Haladir wrote:
It took considerably more resources (time &money) to put together than they expected.

I think the biggest toll it took was on James' sanity.

I would expect that, no, there will not be another AP compilation hardcover. However, if you must hold out hope for it, then you can hang your hat on them announcing one for the Pathfinder 10th anniversary in 2017. Again, I think it's unlikely.

-Skeld


Instead of an AP compilation, what might be cool is a large soft-cover Falcon's Hollow compilation of the five (I believe) adventures with some added content filling in the level gap between Crown and Revenge of the Kobold King.

Liberty's Edge

I don't think there will NEVER EVER be another AP compilation, but unless something drastic happens, they will indeed be few and far between. So, to answer your direct question -- the near future, nothing.


What the others said, also keep in mind that most of the old 3.5 books RotRL books were out of print copies for quite some time and a couple of them didn't even had non-mint copies.


I actually don't think I'd purchase a hardcopy compilation. I've decided I really prefer the PDFs. When I run a module, I print it out on three-hole punched paper, and I put it in a binder. Along the way, I annotate the hell out of the thing, add a lot of my own material, subtract some of the module material, add notes about things my players did. I don't think I could do that with a hardbound book.

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