| Nostirius |
Because of Geek and sundry, Critical role, other youtubers, rpg in a box games, rpg video games the market has changed. More and more people are willing to give rpg's a shot. Your Starfinder sales should give a hint of that. It's also why now after almost 10 years I have a group to DM for again and while a pen, paper and some dice might have been plenty 20 years ago many of these new players like to have something more to get them invested in the story,situations and battles.
I started using maps (flipmats, map packs, others(google images) and my own creations. I recently bought the d&d 5e spell cards (huge succes) and looked into minis (way to expensive for me and random boosters, seriously?) Then I found the pathfinder pawns. Now don't get me wrong I love Pathfinder but my current group wanted D&D 5e so thats what I play atm. The 4 boxes pretty much everyone told me are usefull for that were Bestiary 1, Summon Monster, NPC Codex Box and The Monster Codex box. They work for pretty much any fantasy rpg.
The fact that 3 of the 4 were unavailable at the time boggled my mind. I told my group it wasn't going to happen and I know atleast three new(ish) groups that looked at pawns but couldn't get the ones they needed and either printed some free paper minis or use the same minimal collection of old Minis for all monsters.
It is only because one of my players wanted the pawns so badly that he told me to throw (his) money at it to puzzle together a collection from the adventure pawns that worked for my campaign. I did and over the months I bought enough to keep me going for years especially with Bestiary 1 and the NPC codex box now present. The only box I still want and need is this one. I was thinking about buying a second bestiary 1 box to have some more duplicate basic monsters but then I read this thread and decided no they are not going to trick me in buying two or three boxes just to be able to put a decent number of basic monsters on the board.
I like to stay civil but let me tell you this. The fact that you can't make any workable reprint of this makes me angry and sad. Angry enough to make an account and tell you you're making a mistake. And no I do not want to give you 25$ for a pdf and then print and cut them myself for an inferior product. I'd like to complete my collection. That makes me and my players happy. Even if you have to charge 50$ for it, fine. In return I'll recommend other dms to invest in your pawns. Because then you can supply the products they need/want. That's how it works. You make the customer happy they tell others. Atm I'm not inclined to do so.
We don't need the box or the bases, just the pawns. Keep the 4 basic sets (Bestiary 1, NPC Codex, Summon monster, Monster Codex)in stock at all times. They make new dms invest in your product line! You might even want to advertise them as such. Basic set for all starting dms the must have collection for fantasy rpgs.
I want you to do well, make more awesome map packs, flipmats (basic snow/desert maybe? hint hint) and pawns.
But not reprinting this in any form... It's not like these things spoil over time. Investing in the future right? Or don't you plan on being around for more then a year?
This is my view/opinion, do with it what you will.
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Reprint please, mistake not to do so.
+1 instabuy if available in any print edition form.