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I've got Adventure Path and Companion subscriptions, but they are fairly new and I want to purchase the products that I missed. Do I still get those PDFs for free or do I have to purchase them seperately? I really like the PDFs, but I'm not sure they are worth the extra money.

I agree with Sebastian in that I'd like to see more meta-rules. How to design your OWN Prestige Classes, for instance. How to balance the creation of new spells, new feats, etc.

Just to elaborate a little more, I think the way to avoid rules bloat is to provide books that are better tools and less catalogues of cool stuff. There's a ton of cool stuff out there, but much less in the way of design guidelines or behind the scenes explanations of how to do stuff.

I also would love to see a book explaining how an adventure path is designed. What's the process for generating ideas, what are some considerations in designing cool climaxes and bosses, statting up new monsters, making a single monster survive long enough to challenge the party, how to tailor particular adventures in the path to fit the abilities of certain classes/races, etc. Something very practical and concrete, not at a high level and abstract ala dungeoncraft. Ideally, such a book would dissect an existing adventure path.

I agree that 2-4 per year would be ideal. My main concern is that all of the rules, especially Prestige Classes, are balanced with existing material. The only thing worse that rules bloat is power creep.