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Vigilant Seal

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Grimmerling wrote:
DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:
It's worse than elimination they want to feed directly off their competitors taking money directly from them. .

I'm not sure about that. Something tells me they are going to try monetise the hell out of the playerbase. Subscriptions, NFTs, loot boxes, the whole lot. I think they know this is going to cause a kickback and want to try make sure there isn't an easy alternative for players to switch to. So yeah, the goal is to eliminate the competition completely.

Vigilant Seal

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Been messing around with the Foundry VTT implementation, and all I can say is that I'm mega impressed. Fantastic job on this.

Now if you can just do me "Curse of the Crimson Throne" converted to 2e and implemented in Foundry, I will be a happy camper indeed.


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Coming form a 5e group who were heavily using DnD Beyond, it has been a very rude awakening. Possibly a fatal one as my group want to go back just because of the tooling. The big killer is cost. Yes, I know they are talking about group licensing, but they have been doing so forever, and judging by recent posts, they haven't even figured out how they want to do this yet. But as things stand, the expectation is pretty much that every player at the table buys every book that will be used. Including adventure modules. My group's reaction has been along the lines of "is this some kind of Joke?". Perhaps they have been spoiled, but fact is, that is that the competition have been offering excellent content sharing for years.

I would also note that in dnd beyond, when you buy a book or adventure, you get the full hyperlinked text of that adventure or book as well. You don't need to buy it as a physical copy at all if you don't want to.

So long and short of it, HLO is in inferior, far more expensive version of D&D beyond, and is absolutely without a doubt, if not actually hurting sales of PF2, definitely not promoting them in the same DnD Beyond does for 5e.

I have seen people here argue but poor Lone Wolf is only 6 people compared to Curse's hundreds. We can't expect the same quality of product from them even if we are paying much more. Well, to be perfectly honest, and in the nicest possible way, that is utterly irrelevant to me as a customer. I have zero, nil, nadda interest in their size, their organisation or their level of profit. I wish them well of course, but it pretty much ends there. I am not buying an inferior product, at a higher cost, because they are small. (And after the realmworks debacle, and how they let down their customers, I really would really raise a doubting eyebrow at how great they are anyway). Bottom line, if they are too small to develop and support this product properly, I strongly advise Paizo to find someone who can, because they are hurting Pathfinder2. This is

I know I'm coming across very harsh here and I do wish Lone Wolf well, but as Abadar teaches us, that is the reality of being a business.


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Ngodrup wrote:
GougedEye wrote:
AnCap Dawg wrote:
So living near Paizo means the street date doesn't apply to you? I'm confused (and jealous.)

Well I live half way around the world from Paizo in the UK and mine arrived this morning. Couldn't believe it as I was expecting it towards the end of August with shipping, so I'm just a tad chuffed at the moment.

Haven't had time to do anything but crack the CRB open and inhale the "new book" smell though because it arrived as I left for work.

Exciting!! Did you pay extra for expedited shipping? (Just trying to work out if I should allow my overhyped emotions to anticipate my books in the next few days or not)

Nope. Just the standard stuff.

Malk_Content wrote:
Can you let me know when yours was shipped? I'm in the Channel Islands so I can expect it to take an extra 3 days longer than a UK shipment.

Not sure, but they took payment on 13 July so probably then? So 5 days to reach me which is impressive.


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AnCap Dawg wrote:
So living near Paizo means the street date doesn't apply to you? I'm confused (and jealous.)

Well I live half way around the world from Paizo in the UK and mine arrived this morning. Couldn't believe it as I was expecting it towards the end of August with shipping, so I'm just a tad chuffed at the moment.

Haven't had time to do anything but crack the CRB open and inhale the "new book" smell though because it arrived as I left for work.