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Hey Aaron, Andrew - creator of Foundry Virtual Tabletop here. I appreciate your engagement in this thread, although in the interest of preventing any alarm or confusion within our shared community I have some additional details I'd like to add. I thought it worthwhile to weigh in here to try and share perspective.

As you correctly point out, Foundry Virtual Tabletop is differently structured than the other businesses that Paizo partners with. We don't sell 3rd party content in a managed marketplace - instead we prefer to partner with publishers like Paizo and make it as easy as possible for them to create and sell their own content designed for Foundry VTT. We recognize this adds some complexity to the process of publishing material - but we also believe that it offers publishers a number of big advantages in terms of producing their own products and retaining revenue from those products.

Foundry Virtual Tabletop and Paizo do have an official standing relationship as content partners, as announced several months ago. Through this relationship, Paizo has created and published several products designed specifically for Foundry VTT which are available for purchase in your web store.

As for the original topic of whether it's possible for the PF2e community development team for FVTT to get early access to products, I can understand how that would be useful to them - but also completely understand how that is a privilege typically given to conventional "licensed partners" who pay for the rights to sell Paizo products themselves. Aaron's also perfectly correct about the risks of releasing full print resolution images in unprotected ways. We work tirelessly to protect the rights of publishers and do our best to prevent the use of our platform for copyright infringement.

I must admit a little confusion regarding your comment that "Foundry does not want to be a licensed partner" - I think (and hope) that this came across differently than you had intended. We certainly want to partner with Paizo wherever possible through whichever partnership channels are available for us to jointly utilize. It will certainly be a process for us to jointly explore this space and figure out the right ways to proceed, including whether it makes sense to participate in the "licensed partner" program in whatever capacity makes sense for our business model. I certainly hope to see more commercial offerings from Paizo for Foundry VTT in the future!