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You could subscribe and then "opt out" (by canceling your subscription for a month, then resubscribing) when something came along you didn't like.

But I want Paizo to cater to my every whim!

Nah, if I had to do that it would be easier to just buy them without the subscription. I'm going for lazy mode - no confirmation, just a new deck in the post every so often. My alternative (pop into the shops, see what's new) is just as lazy since I'd be going in anyway.

Again, I don't think this will happen, this post is more a way of saying that the decks are good products even for non-Pathfinder players and hopefully they'll continue to be as good and useful.

vvv Aw. It was just a stupid joke, sorry about that. vvv

I know the answer to this is no and for very good reasons, or at least I'm pretty sure it is, but why not post anyway?

I like a lot of the card sets Paizo have been putting out, and would be tempted to subscribe if it wasn't for the pesky ones with all those icky Pathfinder rules on them. Item cards! Face cards! Even the chase cards, honestly - the only rules content on the cards is the DC, and I can ignore a number. But... I don't play Pathfinder, or a D&D close enough that critical decks are useful to me, let alone the buff and condition cards.

Dear Paizo, can I have a subscription to only the item/face/universalish decks and not the ones tied tightly to the rules, and also a pony?

Ah, I'll probably just keep picking a few up here and there when I stop by a better game store than the ones in my city. International shipping to the UK would eat the cost savings anyway. Besides, if Paizo did do it they'd miscategorise something with too many rules for my tastes or vice versa and I'd have Internet rage at them, or something. It's not exactly a practical idea!

You also can't airmail a pony.

BAT is clearly Barbarian, Anti-Tank.

Is Wizards of the Coast insane? Publishing a Compendium of its rules system less than a year before they implement an entirely new rules system.

It's bad enough that they had to publish non-sense complicating rules system in 3.5. Now they are admitting that they screwed up the works AND CHARGING YOU FOR IT.

Nimrods.

Have you considered that they are doing this because they are releasing a new system soon? People will still play the old system, no matter what, and now that they won't be releasing books revising and expanding it every month they can stick the rules in a single, core book, saving players from having to look up new rules throughout their collection of books.

Or, if they don't want everything nicely organised, in one place, they can keep playing as they are, and not buy it. It's clearly not necessary for play - it's just a nice option for those who plan to stick with 3.5.