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Infinite Top Performers—Oct 2023

Tuesday, October 28, 2023

Welcome back to another exciting collection of Pathfinder Infinite & Starfinder Infinite Top Performers!

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October’s Top Performers

Titles are ranked by an average of units sold and revenue earned and presented in alphabetical order. Asterisks indicate titles that have been on a best-seller list previously. Because they’ve consistently topped the list, and due to the number of their titles that typically take up spots, “Team+” and “Team Index” have asked to be removed from the calculations for ongoing top performers lists. This will allow newer publishers or book series to get more attention. Thanks, all!


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Pathfinder Infinite Top Performers

Combination Weapons Unleashed*

Leaping into battle using the recoil of their weaponry and carving down enemies with bullets and steel, Blitzfire Warriors are a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. From the Gunpowder Combination Weapons of Alkenstar or the Transforming Combination Weapons of Ustalav, these weapons take great skill to master. If you want to make the most of Combination Weapons in Pathfinder 2e to bring out their full, unrealized potential, Combination WeaponsUnleashed is for you!


Kitsune of Golarion*

Living clandestinely among Golarion's ancestries, kitsune make formidable foes and canny heroes. Kitsune of Golarion unlocks the full potential of this ancestry, detailing kitsune from every corner of the globe. An expansion on Lost Omens Ancestry Guide penned by the same authors who pen the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.


New Magic of Thassilon: A Reimagining of Sin and Virtue Magic

In the realm of Golarion, sin and virtue represent more than just morality -- they can serve as a wellspring for potent magic and spellcraft, and have done for thousands of years. Aspiring wizards, take up this mighty grimoire and venture into the world of rune magic!

New Magic of Thassilon presents seven schools of magic, each built around the sins and virtues held in Thassilonian culture and magical tradition. It reimagines the Runelord archetype, giving it an exciting new ability that allows wizards to apply buffs and benefits to their allies.It also includes items for wizards of all stripes to use, five new backgrounds to ground your character in the world of New Thassilon, and original lore and NPCs connected to the College of Sin and Virtue, a real place nestled in the hinterlands of New Thassilon.


The Traveler’s Guide to the Darklands

Golarion is a fantastical place, full of wonder and the unknown. In The Traveler’s Guide to the Darklands, join Alphonse Lord Tabbington in an exploration of the Darklands, a place of untold beauty amid fearsome dangers.

From the pen of an all-star crew of Pathfinder designers, players and GMs alike will find options to bolster their adventures to the darkness below.


The Voidbound Isle*

The Voidbound Isle is an exploration-focused adventure that takes players from level 1-13 as they discover the secrets and mysteries of a vast, cursed island. This adventure is setting-agnostic; it can take place in Golarion or in your own original world. The bulk of its content involves exploration and wilderness survival as the party ventures throughout a strange and perilous new land, but this adventure also includes an optional city-management element, numerous side quests, and the overarching goal of uncovering the secrets of this curse-haunted isle and ultimately confronting the dark entity at its core.


Starfinder Infinite October best seller covers


Starfinder Infinite Top Performers


FrightFinder: The Radiating Abyss

A research facility named DMEI-4 has gone dark. This derelict space station contains room after room of nightmares, the unfortunate aftermath of research without morals. If you need to put the fear of the Gods into your players, or just want to show them what horrors magic and science can truly create, then introduce them to The Radiating Abyss.


Monstercology Galactica: Autumn Aliens

The Monstercology Galatica is an attempt to catalog and describe all of the many and varied creatures that we share the galaxy with. We understand that with millions of stars and billions of worlds – plus those that visit the galaxy from other planes – this is a nearly impossible endeavor. But if we do not try it, then we can never succeed. This is but one small excerpt of the greater Monstercology Galatica, focusing on creatures most often seen during the later parts of the year.


Space Cowboy’s Arsenal*

A certain type of adventurer resides in the vast frontiers of space - wayfarers and drifters, hunters whose next meal rides on their cunning, their aim, and the price on their bounty's head. They carve out their existence beyond the fringes of civilization; the easy life is as alien to them as another man's gun, and just as fickle. They prefer the unpredictable and uncharted, far from prying eyes and folks what ask too many questions. Never tied to one place, these vagabonds stay strange and savvy, doing what they can to keep alive. When the galaxy needs a job done, they call for the rough and tumble Space Cowboy.


Starfinder Infinite: Mech Threat Manual

Towering mechs, ancient elementals, territorial kaiju and many more mech-scale threats can be found in Starfinder Infinite: Mech Threat Manual! Inside, you’ll find a spread of the latest mech creations of the Outer Sphere, deadly carnivorous mechform mimics, oozes that can slip inside a mech to throttle the operator or take over the machine entirely, and more. This book provides a variety of themed threats for use in mech combat at all levels of play, and all mechs within were made in accordance with the recommended alternative rules for creating NPC mechs from Starfinder: Tech Revolution. 


Starship Maps III

This set of ship maps features hover trains, wheeled transports, and ships of all kinds, asteroids, space stations. Lots of places for the party to explore, and ships to pilot. All come in grid and gridless maps.



New & Exciting from Infinite Masters!

Want to see what’s been cooking in the Infinite Masters’ alchemy lab? Here’s a selection of new products from some of our Infinite Masters—and some pieces that have caught their eyes!

Congratulations to Team+ for Witches+ being the first Pathfinder Infinite book to reach Mithral Medal Sales!

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Thank you as always for featuring our work here. It's wonderful to see so much support!
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And this is where I get confused because I thought Infinite was for products that were *not* ORC licensed, and that PF2 Remastered works published by Paizo use the ORC.

I understood that the ORC license expressly forbade exclusive licenses like Infinite, wouldn’t that make products like Player Core 1 Expanded…in violation of the ORC by appearing on Infinite?
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Paizo owns all the content in Pathfinder Player Core and can license that content under multiple licenses. The rules in PC are licensed for anyone to use under the ORC; those same rules—as well as setting info like about Golarion and such—are also licensed to creators on Pathfinder Infinite. The ORC does not restrict Paizo to license its copyrighted material solely under the ORC.

Player Core 1 Expanded uses that material via the Infinite license, and does not utilize the ORC at all, either downstream or to use upstream content.

Thanks for the swift reply. Ok, well I definitely don’t understand any of it. I’ll be needing that flow chart Mark…I’ve broken your quote up to show what I do and don’t uderstand so maybe you can find the flaw/s in my understanding.

Mark Morland wrote:
Paizo owns all the content in Pathfinder Player Core and can license that content under multiple licenses.

Clear.

Mark Morland wrote:
The rules in PC are licensed for anyone to use under the ORC;

Yep. Got it. Anyone can publish 3PP works that use PC1 as long as they include the ORC in their work, the way we use to use the OGL. Is that right?

Mark Moreland wrote:
…those same rules (in Player Core)—as well as setting info like about Golarion and such—are also licensed to creators on Pathfinder Infinite.

I thought in the discussion the other day that it was clear that ORC products couldn’t also be licensed exclusively, which Infinite is, because that was anathematic to open gaming and the ORC?

Mark Moreland wrote:
The ORC does not restrict Paizo to license its copyrighted material solely under the ORC.

I get that there can be multiple licenses, but that it was the exclusivity of Infinite that ORC forbade.

Mark Moreland wrote:
Player Core 1 Expanded uses that material via the Infinite license, and does not utilize the ORC at all, either downstream or to use upstream content.

See this has me flummoxed. You say the content of PC1 is licensed under the ORC. Player Core 1 Expanded most definitely seems to use PC1 as its base. What am I missing?

OceanshieldwolPF 2.5 wrote:


Mark Moreland wrote:
Player Core 1 Expanded uses that material via the Infinite license, and does not utilize the ORC at all, either downstream or to use upstream content.
See this has me flummoxed. You say the content of PC1 is licensed under the ORC. Player Core 1 Expanded most definitely seems to use PC1 as its base. What am I missing?

If I may take a stab at this while we wait on the official word from Mark.....

There is not a one to one relationship between a product and a license. A person can, and should, license their material in many ways in order to take advantage of different markets, contexts, situations, etc. Like Mark said above "...can license that content under multiple licenses." Paizo licenses several products, including Player Core, through the "Infinite" license. This is in addition to licensing it, GM Core, and soon to be more, products via the ORC, through which I imagine the majority of third party publishers will leverage paizo materials.

Though I _suspect_ things like video game companies or potentially board games may negotiate with paizo to leverage even more different licenses all for still the same rules, but packaged in different ways with different terms.

Oh, wait a minute - I’m looking at it backwards. I was looking at it from the terms of the ORC, but it’s Infinite that creates the “problem”. If you publish your PF2R product on Infinite, you can’t sell it anywhere else. Even Paizo’s store.

So if you want to publish PF2R material, and have it be accessible to as many *storefronts* as possible (not necessarily *more* people, that might be on Infinite) then you avoid Infinite.

I think. Which is pretty much what I understood a few weeks ago. And promptly forgot. All without surgery on my brain. That I remember.
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Rather than quote the entire post, I will just address those elements that seem to be causing confusion.

OceanshieldwolPF 2.5 wrote:
Mark Moreland wrote:
…those same rules (in Player Core)—as well as setting info like about Golarion and such—are also licensed to creators on Pathfinder Infinite.
I thought in the discussion the other day that it was clear that ORC products couldn’t also be licensed exclusively, which Infinite is, because that was anathematic to open gaming and the ORC?

This restriction only applies to content that is licensed from upstream by the ORC. Both the ORC and Infinite license are downstream licenses for Paizo, so we can release any content we own under either or both, and neither license talks to the other. This is also how we could license something we created, like charau-ka, under the OGL, the ORC, the Infinite license, in a bespoke license to Netflix to make a charau-ka tv series, Dynamite to make comics, WizKids to make minis, etc. None of the licenses restrict what the copyright owner can do with their own IP. They only restrict what downstream users can do with that IP when they use it in their own works.

OceanshieldwolPF 2.5 wrote:
Mark Moreland wrote:
The ORC does not restrict Paizo to license its copyrighted material solely under the ORC.
I get that there can be multiple licenses, but that it was the exclusivity of Infinite that ORC forbade.

Paizo is at the top of the content stream on Infinite, and has not (to date) released any material on the platform. So anyone using Infinite is doing so with the understanding that 1) they are using at least something (be it rules or setting content) that they don't own and 2) that both content derivative of that upstream content and their original creations will be licensed downstream only under the Infinite license (and OGL if they are using upstream Open Game Content). So the publishers releasing content under the Infinite license agree to that exclusivity; Paizo never did so, as everything we produce is available on platforms other than Infinite.

OceanshieldwolPF 2.5 wrote:
Mark Moreland wrote:
Player Core 1 Expanded uses that material via the Infinite license, and does not utilize the ORC at all, either downstream or to use upstream content.
See this has me flummoxed. You say the content of PC1 is licensed under the ORC. Player Core 1 Expanded most definitely seems to use PC1 as its base. What am I missing?

The creators of PC1E got access to the PC1 content via the Infinite license, not the ORC. Those streams flow out of PC1 in two different directions. Same source material, different pathway for non-Paizo parties to use it.

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy
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OceanshieldwolPF 2.5 wrote:

Oh, wait a minute - I’m looking at it backwards. I was looking at it from the terms of the ORC, but it’s Infinite that creates the “problem”. If you publish your PF2R product on Infinite, you can’t sell it anywhere else. Even Paizo’s store.

So if you want to publish PF2R material, and have it be accessible to as many *storefronts* as possible (not necessarily *more* people, that might be on Infinite) then you avoid Infinite.

Exclusive distribution is a core part of a lot of licenses we use, so the Infinite license is in good company.

It's just as the Audible-exclusive audiobooks of the Pathfinder Tales novels are available exclusively on that storefront, based on the terms of the license Paizo has with Audible that allowed them to produce said audiobooks in the first place.

And just like the license with Syrinscape that allows them to make sound sets of our adventures and sell them exclusively on their platform.

And just like the license with Demiplane that lets them adapt our material and sell it exclusively on their platform.

While it would be awesome to always be able to sell content our licensees produce using our IP, in some cases that's not feasible (like selling Owlcat or BKOM computer games or LoreMasters content. There are already other stores (Steam, Epic, Google Play store, etc.) that do that.

In this case, one of the things Roll20/DriveThruRPG gain in exchange for managing the CCP for Paizo is that they are the exclusive marketplace for content published on it. It's nothing more than a trade-off between Paizo and DTRPG. We give them the IP, they get to sublicense it to publishers on their platform.

Someone who wanted to release Pathfinder Second Edition material on Paizo.com can do so with the Pathfinder Compatibility License and a consignment account on the Paizo Store.
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Is any of this sanctioned for PFS or SFS play? Or is this just home-campaign stuff? I don't have much experience with Infinite yet, so please forgive if this has been covered elsewhere.
RobertTHEPerylous wrote:
Is any of this sanctioned for PFS or SFS play? Or is this just home-campaign stuff? I don't have much experience with Infinite yet, so please forgive if this has been covered elsewhere.

Nope.

Nothing in infinite is on either organized play usable resources.
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