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More flesh to the bones of the settings themselves. My favorite is the Forgotten Realms, but geesh... felsh them all out. Best example of what I would like to see would be "Daggerford"
http://www.wizards.com/forgottenrealms/pdfs/North_170-238_daggerford.pdf
I really don't need a $29 book written in general way about regions. I am not sure what Wizards is spending on the binding of these hardcovers, but really.. just stop that. What I could really use are $6.99 paperbacks really detailing a few towns this well. I have a campaign, and it's moving North, and I buy that detailed area.
"FR1 Waterdeep and the North" is another great example, or even "Skullport".
Ya want to spoil me, sell me a cd with maps, like ya did in the old days.
Ya want me to empty my wallet, and happily live in poverty then sell searchable PDF's. I am fine with any little program I have to install that makes it so I can't share it. The Searchable PDF's would be awesome. Do that and let me know where I can make arrangements for Wizards to take direct deposits from my bank account.
Lot's of times I read that authors "whittled it down" and that drives me nuts. I am not asking for free enhancements, although they are really cool. Just put a coupon in the back of the book where I can buy more flesh that ya keep whittling down.
Uhm...
I am not sure that last part came out right, but ya get the picture.
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Yah, there is a great argument about leaving freedom to the DM, but ya kill that anyway when ya have NPC's that have been detailed over the last 20 years. (Khelban, Mirt ect ect)If ya want a way around that ya can mark off NPC's that are expendible, or at least highlight those that are part of the official on going storyline for updating.

BTW, why not make the old stuff available, so we don't buy them from used book merchants for 20 bucks a pop. When you go to the Wizard's Novel Section, and they suggest "Start Here in the Sembia Series" ya go straight to "That's unavailable"
That's kinda silly for a buisness to do. It's also sadistic to do to your fans.

You have no idea how much we want to make every back issue of Dragon and Dungeon available for download. Seriously. We're hot for it like pancakes on the sun.

However, Paizo doesn't own the rights to everything ever published in the magazines. For recent stuff, we do. But for a lot of the older content (e.g., 3.0 and before), we have to track down the original authors and get clearances. As you might imagine, that takes time and money. And material and verbal components, as well as XP.

Also we are not able to sell any issue as a download if we still have physical stock. That's part of our deal with those wizards, the ones on the coast. They are extraordinarily powerful and have awesome spells....

It's amazing the range those Wizards have. I am sending them a nastygram about suggesting to buy all their "Sembia Novels" as a "Starting point to the Forgotten Realms Campaign setting", only then found that 2 of the darn books are out of print. Sadistic, just sadistic.

I bet if ya just started sellig those Dragon/Dungeon issues on PDF, all those hard to find author's would come to you, but I get ya that that would not be a good thing.

If I understand you correctly the missing authors are a key component, but if there was just some particualr wizard on the ol' Coast that needs convincing by all means, please give them up.

PS Thanks for the quick response. That was pretty amazing.

Gold Mine Alert
Instead of trying to guess what we want, just sell us everything. Especially all those "not available" Dragon, and Dungeon Mags.

Figure out some way to make it secure so ya know we're not sharing with the internet entire.

IMVHO, selling a program which attaches to our current Dragon Magazine Archives, that
(a) stops sharing
(b) allows us to add on the purchase of the new secure Dragon & Dungeon Mags from you. Adobe already has the technology.

Seems like a potential goldmine for you. I would buy my entire collection again just to have it searchable.