Anniversary editions


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Hey Guys,

Quick question.

I have both the Rise of the Runelords and Curse of the Crimson Throne special anniversary editions.

Is this now something Paizo's going to do for all the adventure paths, starting now then from Second Darkness?

I can see them all lined up on my shelf, so it would be real nice.

You guys got any idea about this?

Silver Crusade

Not at this time but anything is possible, it'll probably be 5 or more years from now before they do another one if they did, since if people knew they could hold off for a few months and buy the hardcover for cheaper it would mean a loss of a LOT of money for Paizo. They have to basically be sold out of almost every issue as well.

Liberty's Edge

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I think it would make a lot of sense to make Anniversary Editions of those APs that were originally published for D&D. It's a great chance to port them over to Pathfinder and get new sales.

As for APs that were alreasy Pathfinder to begin with? Maybe after a really long time has passed. Ten or fifteen years later, maybe. Otherwise they do risk hurting their sales base, for some reason when there's the prospect of a "soon-to-come, better edition", a lot of people put off buying until later, and out of those who do, a large number forget or decide not to buy.

Grand Lodge

Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

They can't use the one originally written for D&D (Age of Worms and Savage Tide) because WotC owns them and all the associated IP.

Shackled City (the first AP) was compiled into a hardcover before WotC yanked the Dragon/Dungeon licenses back in-house.

-Skeld

Liberty's Edge

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Skeld wrote:

They can't use the one originally written for D&D (Age of Worms and Savage Tide) because WotC owns them and all the associated IP.

Shackled City (the first AP) was compiled into a hardcover before WotC yanked the Dragon/Dungeon licenses back in-house.

-Skeld

My bad, I meant for the D&D System. A Pathfinder update to Second Darkness and Legacy of Fire would be most welcome.


I think the additional presence of Starfinder makes this actually *less* likely to happen anymore, especially if the new game does better than expected... enough that they decide to expand the offering.

Sczarni

Also Crimson throne is just a hardcover edition, not a anniversary edition.

They have been on the record saying that creating one of these basicly takes a designer off the other products for 9-12 months.

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

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Adventure Path compilations will continue to be done only extremely rarely. Please see this post for further explanation.


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Vic Wertz wrote:

Adventure Path compilations will continue to be done only extremely rarely. Please see this post for further explanation.

Vic Wertz wrote:
Adventure Path compilations will continue to be done
Vic Wertz wrote:
Adventure Path compilations will continue to be done
Vic Wertz wrote:
Adventure Path compilations will continue to be done

me happy!


Vic Wertz wrote:

Adventure Path compilations will continue to be done only extremely rarely. Please see this post for further explanation.

So... You're telling me there's a chance...

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

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Like I said last March in the thread I linked above:

I wrote:
Reprinting APs will continue to be extremely rare. Not never, but rare enough that you shouldn't plan on any given AP ever being compiled... Nobody is working on another compilation beyond Curse, and nobody will be working on one anytime soon.

This is still where we are.


Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber

Just for the record, there is no anniversary involved in the Curse of the Crimson Throne hardcover edition.


Zaister wrote:
Just for the record, there is no anniversary involved in the Curse of the Crimson Throne hardcover edition.

wrong, I bought it as a anniversary present for my SO.

Silver Crusade

I do like this news!


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Hythlodeus wrote:
Zaister wrote:
Just for the record, there is no anniversary involved in the Curse of the Crimson Throne hardcover edition.
wrong, I bought it as a anniversary present for my SO.

OK, I can't argue with that. :)

Dark Archive

The earliest likely hardcover compilation is "Legacy of Fire" in 2019.

That is not a certainty though.

Book 4 is sold out.
Book 5 & 6 have yet to sell out of between 25 and 99 copies each.

When that happenes, there will be talk about doing a hardcover in earnest.

Dark Archive

Kingmaker or Carrion Crown are now options too!

2017 and 2018 are pretty full with Starfinder and other stuff, but i could see Kingmaker or Legacy of Fire in 2019.
Probably the former.

Silver Crusade

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The most important determinant of whether further hardcover collections will happen are the sales of CotCT.


Gorbacz wrote:
The most important determinant of whether further hardcover collections will happen are the sales of CotCT.

I got mine!

Acquisitives

Pathfinder Adventure Path, Rulebook, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
Knight who says Meh wrote:
Gorbacz wrote:
The most important determinant of whether further hardcover collections will happen are the sales of CotCT.
I got mine!

me too!


Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Got both editions, standard and limited, here. :-)

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder Adventure, Adventure Path, Pathfinder Accessories, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Got mine!

Silver Crusade Contributor

I only have the limited edition, but I'll probably pick up the regular version at PFS one of these days. That Retail Incentive is powerful stuff. ^_^


Starfinder Charter Superscriber

I 100% plan to get one, BUT I can't justify it to myself until I finish running my present group through Rise of the Runelords :(


and just to make it known: I bought both RotRL:AE as well as CotCT:HE and would absolutely buy a SD hardcover (whatever that edition will be called), LoF not so much


In case anyone's gathering data ...

I got the compiled/updated hardcovers of both RotR and CotCT, plus I bought the PDFs of the compiled versions. (I also have the 3.5 hardcopy versions, but they're on a "back shelf" now.)

Whenever it's possible, I would REALLY like to buy a compiled/updated version of SD (preferably with a slight re-write of certain parts), and one of LoF would not be amiss either. The PDFs are a "must", of course! (Again, I already have the 3.5 hardcopy versions.)


Yeah, I have both hardcover editions. Yes, I'll buy more if you sell them. No, I'm not picky about which one gets the hardcover treatment.


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captain yesterday wrote:
Yes, I'll buy more if you sell them.

I normally don't like to chime in on these threads when Vic's made it clear what will happen will happen when it happens, if it happens.

That said, I'm in the same boat. Because Paizo.

I hate "new and improved" because it usually means that the box has changed shape or size, or there's a different stink to the product, or that it's now cheaper to manufacture but costs more while tasting more like dirty socks.

But Paizo.

When they revisit and compile their older APs, they get better. James spends so much time revisiting the threads about what made part of the adventures work, and what didn't, and adding new touches and modern classes/monsters/spells that the new and improved versions are... worth it.

So yeah. Paizo.

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