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Thank you for checking and getting that information for us. It is a little sad you guys are leaving what I think was a great design and colouration but I'm assuming there are reasons.

I'll just have to see the new books outside of core after they release.

Hopefully this books was just the outlier.

Jeff D. Boback wrote:

Just got my hands on my copy of Rage of Elements Special Edition and it leaves me wondering: What's going on with the printing in the special edition book line? They started out looking great, then the style changed after the "core" books, which is fine if the core and non-core books are different, then Treasure Vault is blue...ok, I guess, it's an item book, not a "class" book, after all.

Now this. Plain red, no border embellishment on the cover like previous class books, no leather-like pattern in the cover like previous books. Obvious drop in material quality for the cover. The reason I became a special edition subscriber in the first place and own every special edition book - the fact the special edition books looked amazing on your shelf and felt great in your hand - is rapidly disappearing.

What's going on, Paizo?

Props to the Lost Omens line for keeping standards up, at least.

The new remastered core 4 Special Editions will have a simian look. But every SE rulebook will be unique going forward, including Howl fo the Wild. Spine consistency it not a feature of the line.

Please communicate low quality issues to customer service, so they can track it.

Sorry to clarify, going forward the SE books are dropping the border embellishment that the previous SE had and are only going to display title?

I have to say that is a major down grade. Previously the back cover was kept interesting with the filigree border, if they are going to be just plain and empty, I don't think I will continue purchasing the SE line.

Aaron Shanks wrote:

Hey fans, as you know the image at this time is a mock-up, but I've asked Jon, our Community and Social Media Specialist, to have a chat with our art and editorial teams and find out what their intensions are for this new blue cover. Thanks!

We have our answer. It will be a dark blue, not Lost Omens blue, with gold foil. The Paizo has had plans to move away from a single color going forward.

I will echo the other voices here as someone who purchased the SE exclusively due to the consistency the provided on the book shelf, I am extremely disappointed in the decision to move away from the single colour for each of it's product lines. It made sense with the APs as those are all basically stand alone, but here it has really cut my interest in your physical products.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

I'd be a bit sad if this is published in Blue, unless they make it part of the Lost Omens line. I like that all the other books were colour coded to the line that they came from, even allowing for a little variation in the Special Edition APs.

Quick question, If i purchase this; will I be getting a copy of a PDF of the product alongside it?

If so, will one of the Paizo Butlers™ travel to my address to dramatically reveal the PDF's USB from under a bell on a silver platter?

So the linked article states that it comes with a code to unlock the PDF on Pathfinder Nexus, that new service that recently launched. In the Nexus launch announcement they said that any pdf you get there automatically gets added to your Paizo account as well, so this should come with 2 different copies of the pdf.