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I think it depends somewhat on whether you're planning on playing or running? I ended up buying the Bestiary's 2 & 3 next after the core group, but that's because I run for my family and more monsters to fight was more useful than more character choices.

Ehh....there's 350 monsters in the Bestiary Number One. I think that should be enough for me, and it matches up perfectly with the Bestiary Box, so I never need miniatures. To me it's not about what the monsters are, so much as it's about what you DO with the monsters. How much character the monsters have, and so on. I feel if my players want more options in terms of monsters, there's a massive amount of resources for me to get more monsters from, including stat blocks, that don't require me to spend 40 bucks on a new tome that offers no real new rules and numerous amounts of re-tread monsters, or even ten bucks on the PDF.

As for my playing situation, I'm the only of y group who owns rulebooks and other supplements. They have their own dice, but that's about it. They rely on me to provide them with ways to play, so it's a fine line I balance between providing options for them as well as for me. I would LOVE to actually be a PC one of these days. But for now I' saddled with the DM position. It's actually become damaging to me in a way, because I feel I could be a much better DM if I was a PC once and a while. I am using Golarion as a setting, despite making my own stories for my characters within them, because having a well constructed, pre-made world at your disposal is so convenient for a DM.

SO, I currently own,

Core Rulebook
GameMastery Guide
Advanced Player's Guide
Bestiary

Which I believe are the core rulebooks.

I also have a Pathfinder Screen, The Beginner Box, a Bestiary Box, a Critical Hit Deck, and a Critical Fumble Deck.

Which rulebook or supplement should I focus on acquiring next? I believe Ultimate Combat, Magic, and Equipment are the big ones, but which of those three should be prioritized? Is the Inner Sea World Guide worth getting?

No one has consider bringing this design flaw to Paizo? Well, I guess that's the purpose of the thread...but still if it's an issue many have, yu would think ore people would be upset about it.

Idk if this is the right subforum for this, but it is something that concerns me, as a Core Rulebook owner. It's wonderful that Paizo combined a DM's Guide and PH in one book. Very economic and convenient. However, the thickness of the tome kind of oversteps it's bounds in comparison to the other core books. Whereas the kind of binding used on the thinner books is fine given their thickness and page weight, the flimsy nature of the binding is not suited for the task of keeping together the Core Rulebook. I've noticed this issue with at least 3 Core Rulebooks(All the ones I've come across), including my own. The spine of the book is extremely loose and flimsy, it almost feels glued on. It makes the book feel extremely fragile, and given it's weight, to avoid the spine ripping, I feel you need to be exceedingly careful with it. but this is a difficult feat when the book is being used on an extremely consistent basis by a group of varying individuals.

This feels like a design oversight to me, and I feel like it's something Paizo should definitely look into upon future printing of the Core Rulebook. I'm worried one day my book will fall apart in my hands, and would hate to see that happen to someone else. I think the Core Rulebook needs something more akin to school textbook binding.