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Nyarlathotep wrote:

AnarionZelle wrote:

... Only one copy of Burnt Offerings is offered on Amazon right now for $999.00.

Was surprised to see this! Finally a retirement plan I can get behind :)

Took a quick look on ebay and found someone selling* the complete AP plus a few Chronicles books for about 30$.... but no individual listings of Burnt Offerings!

Impressive work for Paizo indeed.

* Edit: 30 for shipping too, but still 60 bucks ain't bad.

Well, the bidding is up to $60.00 now, not including shipping, and there are still almost 5 days to go. I am betting that the ending bid for these will be nowhere near $60.00 when the dust settles.

:(

Well, the bidding ended up at $130.85 (shipping included), which is not a bad price for everything included (worked out to about $14.00 per book). However, it is rather a steep price to plunk down on a game system/setting that I have never played. I am guessing at this point that I will have little luck in finding the beginning of this adventure path and should just let it go. Maybe it just wasn't meant to be :( Thanks for everyone's help and responses, though. Happy gaming!

Thanks, guys! I'll keep my fingers crossed!

:)

AnarionZelle wrote:

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My [unsolicited] advice: Buy the PDF, print out the relevant pages in black & white, clamp it together with a bullbog clip. I do this for pretty much every thing I run (Pathfinder, Star Wars, and others) and it works great. This nice thing is you can go through it with a highliter (yellow for skills, green for rewards, red for enemies/threats, and blue for information) and make notes on it without fear. Then... chuck it in the shredder when you're done!

Alternatively, you might try starting a thread asking fellow Paizoans if they have seen a copy at their local book/game stores. People here are generally pretty helpful when it comes to spreading the Paizo-love. (I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone was willing to buy it and send it to you at cost; just because we're friendly folk.)

-Skeld

Thanks for the tips, Skeld. From what I have seen so far, I don't doubt that the Paizo folks are a friendly lot. I have tried printing a couple of pdfs out before, but for me they are not the same as an original copy. I think that I will take you up on your suggestion to ask if anyone has access to a copy of Burnt Offerings and Hook Mountain for a reasonable price. I have experienced the generosity of the gaming community in the past and have shared myself on a few occasions. Maybe I will come across someone here who can help me out.

:)

AnarionZelle wrote:

...but am offering this response in the slight hope that Paizo may consider a reprint.

We actually gave reprints a try once, with the first AP volume that sold out (#2). The economics of printing are based heavily on volume, so in order to have a similar cover price, you need to print a similar quantity, and the demand for the reprinted volume wasn't as big as we'd hoped, so straight reprints are off the table for now.

Have you considered having the PDF printed and bound locally?

Wow, I am super impressed at the level of customer support that I am experiencing here. Thanks for taking the time to respond, Vic. It would seem that there would be some risk in reprinting the AP, then. I accept your reasoning, but would posit that reprinting the first AP would be a little different from reprinting subsequent APs. Most people trying out Pathfinder for the first time will likely want to start at the beginning. By keeping a stock of at least the first and possibly the second AP, you would allow those coming into the Pathfinder fold to experience it as others have. Some might change their mind after trying the first path and move on, while others will keep going, but everyone would have the opportunity to start from the beginning. It would seem that Paizo is poised to really take off with Pathfinder, and keeping the door open for those who were not in from the beginning doesn't seem like that large of a risk. But then I have never ran a company, nor had a book published, printed, or distributed, so my reasoning may be woefully off the mark.

AnarionZelle wrote:

... Only one copy of Burnt Offerings is offered on Amazon right now for $999.00.

Was surprised to see this! Finally a retirement plan I can get behind :)

Took a quick look on ebay and found someone selling* the complete AP plus a few Chronicles books for about 30$.... but no individual listings of Burnt Offerings!

Impressive work for Paizo indeed.

* Edit: 30 for shipping too, but still 60 bucks ain't bad.

Well, the bidding is up to $60.00 now, not including shipping, and there are still almost 5 days to go. I am betting that the ending bid for these will be nowhere near $60.00 when the dust settles.

:(

AnarionZelle wrote:

I am a latecomer to Pathfinder, and would like to run Rise of the Runelords. I have noticed that Burnt Offerings is only available in pdf. Is there any chance of it being reprinted so those of us who are new could get hard copies?

We have no plans at this point of reprinting Burnt Offerings or the other installments in Rise of the Runelords that are out of print or getting very close to being out of print. I wouldn't be surprised to see us eventually do some sort of reprint or repackaging of Rise of the Runelords, but that's not something we'll be doing soon. The best bet would probably be to check used bookstores (perhaps Amazon.com's used book section?) or eBay or to scour FLGSs in the area.

Thank you for your prompt reply to my inquiry. Normally your advice would be good, but in the past few years (at least to my knowledge), certain unscrupulous speculators have jumped on the opportunity that certain out of print gaming books/materials provide by offering them for outragous prices. Only one copy of Burnt Offerings is offered on Amazon right now for $999.00. Of course, no one will buy at that price, but it has the effect of encouraging others to either hoard unused copies or to jack up their prices as well. Normal supply and demand, it seems, and I can't really say that there is anything wrong with that. However, it does discourage those of us who would like to participate in the Pathfinder Adventure Path from the beginning, and will affect your sales of these adventures to people who are completest. Why purchase this adventure path when there is little hope of ever obtaining all of them?. To some, it might even disuade them from trying Pathfinder altogether. I realize that there is probably little that you can do to alleviate this situation, and I certainly mean no disrespect to you or Paizo, but am offering this response in the slight hope that Paizo may consider a reprint.

I am a latecomer to Pathfinder, and would like to run Rise of the Runelords. I have noticed that Burnt Offerings is only available in pdf. Is there any chance of it being reprinted so those of us who are new could get hard copies?