Chief Technical Officer
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What is the best way to support this release? Should I pre order, buy it online after it comes out, buy it from my local gaming shop or get it from a con? Does it make any difference? I want to do my bit in making it the greatest release ever!!!![Sarc]buy a copy each place[/Sarc]
Seriously, buy it where ever, but if you have a FLGS, I'd say offer to run some demo games.
This is indeed the best answer to the question.
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You might recall that PDFs become available for sale on the retail release date of the associated print product. So August 13 is the day for the PDF as well.
(Subscribers should be getting the PDFs shortly before that, when their subscriber copy ships.)
Do I get a pdf as well, when I preordered it? Really?
I mean...really???
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I preordered the PF RPG a long time ago, and never regreted it. I am eagerly awaiting the final version of the game, and then will run Ptolus once more.
I've read the blog of your first campaign - awesome stuff and a great bunch of players you have there! If you go pbp let me please know!!!
I preordered it here in germany (4 times for my players) and one book I preordered here (for me). I so hope a pdf will come with it for free!
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Chief Technical Officer
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You might recall that PDFs become available for sale on the retail release date of the associated print product. So August 13 is the day for the PDF as well.
(Subscribers should be getting the PDFs shortly before that, when their subscriber copy ships.)
Do I get a pdf as well, when I preordered it? Really?
I mean...really???
I meant that people with *Pathfinder Roleplaying Game* subscriptions will get the PDF for free when their copy ships. We'll be announcing the details of that subscription early next month.
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Ah, thanx! I hope preordering it, and subscribing afterwards will not conflict somehow, and a pdf is still with the order...
PFRPG-Subscription...mmmmmhh :)
No worries—if you preorder and then subscribe to the line, one of your preordered copies will be treated as your subscriber copy, with all appropriate benefits.
That is to say, if you preordered one copy, and then subscribe, we'll send you one copy (not two), and it will count as your subscriber copy. If you preordered five copies and then subscribe, we'll send you five copies, with one of them counting as your subscriber copy.
On Amazon I'm seeing this for $31.49? and the Bestiary for $26.39?
http://www.amazon.com/Pathfinder-Roleplaying-Game-Core-Rulebook/dp/16012515 05/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I2LM5OG44LMZ0G&colid=3SPI6IYRR4QIJ
http://www.amazon.com/Pathfinder-Roleplaying-Game-Bestiary/dp/1601251831/re f=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I38XFSGW9973MK&colid=3SPI6IYRR4QIJ
Is there going to be a price snafu or are we seeing confused vendors?
Thanks!
The heck with Amazon - I'm going to my first GenCon specifically to pick this hefty tome in person!
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Hmmm, on Amazon UK, the prices are around $5 out (£2-£3) from the current exchange rate conversions on the Paizo site....So RPG is a little bit cheaper, and bestiary is a little more expensive...
These would be dwarfed by the cost of shipping though.....
Chances are these won't come with a PDF though, so we have the choice, subscribe, get hit with huge shipping costs, but get a free PDF; Or buy the two books from Amazon, and buy the PDFs separately, if possible....I know the second approach wasn't feasible for the BETA (hell even buying just the PDF and having it printed/bound in the UK cost more than the softcover did to have shipped!)
Decisions, decisions....
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So I'd really rather give my money directly to Paizo than Amazon, but the price discrepancy on the pre-order is huge. Is there any reason for this, other than Amazon is selling for very little profit here, trying to pull in volume sales?
This has been covered in more detail in other threads, but we sell our own products at the MSRP so we don't look like we're unfairly price gouging stores. Stores (including Amazon) purchase the books from the distributor for a reduced price, and despite the fact that there's an MSRP printed on the book, that's merely the manufacturer's suggested retail price; the stores are free to sell the books for whatever they want. They can even sell them for less than it cost them to get the books.
Amazon's got less overhead and more volume than most stores, so it can discount the books it sells a lot more than many other locations. It's not something that Paizo has any control over, in any event.
Hi Vic,
My players and I are dead keen for this book. Just wondering when the new subscription policy is up.
Sorry for my impatience!
They will be making an announcement at PaizoCon and then the rest of us poor, neglected, abused people who were not able to addend will EVENTUALLY find out the details.
~GRINS and runs~
Probably less than a week from now.Hi Vic,
My players and I are dead keen for this book. Just wondering when the new subscription policy is up.
Sorry for my impatience!
Or what he said.
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Probably less than a week from now.Hi Vic,
My players and I are dead keen for this book. Just wondering when the new subscription policy is up.
Sorry for my impatience!
I am glad this is about ready. I have been waiting for months. Wish there was a game mastery subscription for maps and cards and such. I am always having to check the page looking for new maps, etc.
Can't wait...
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CEO
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Probably less than a week from now.Hi Vic,
My players and I are dead keen for this book. Just wondering when the new subscription policy is up.
Sorry for my impatience!
I am glad this is about ready. I have been waiting for months. Wish there was a game mastery subscription for maps and cards and such. I am always having to check the page looking for new maps, etc.
Can't wait...
Look for a map and card subscription to arrive sometime in June. At least that is what we are hoping to do. :)
-Lisa
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Probably less than a week from now.Hi Vic,
My players and I are dead keen for this book. Just wondering when the new subscription policy is up.
Sorry for my impatience!
I am glad this is about ready. I have been waiting for months. Wish there was a game mastery subscription for maps and cards and such. I am always having to check the page looking for new maps, etc.
Can't wait...
Look for a map and card subscription to arrive sometime in June. At least that is what we are hoping to do. :)
-Lisa
Thank you so much. I am there...
What are we looking at for the purchase price of just the PDFs?
I have a pre-order into Amazon for both the Core Rulebook, and the Bestiary, with the intent to buy the PDFs from Paizo down the road, but now I'm debating cancelling that pre-order for the subscription (which comes with the PDFs free, right?).
In the early days of Paizo, we used to print suggested retail prices in other currencies, but some of our international distributors asked us to stop.
So there's no SRP for the UK? Can I only find out what this is going to cost over here by going to my ULGS when it's released and looking at the price sticker on it?
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In the early days of Paizo, we used to print suggested retail prices in other currencies, but some of our international distributors asked us to stop.So there's no SRP for the UK? Can I only find out what this is going to cost over here by going to my ULGS when it's released and looking at the price sticker on it?
Most things have an RRP (recommended retail price) which tends to be what Waterstones sells at.
Or just glance at Amazon...that will give you a good clue....
Out of curiosity: What's that "Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL) Preview Edition" thing from the release schedule (http://paizo.com/paizo/about/schedule) - not that i'll buy it, 'cause I want the real thing ;-)
Eagerly awaiting news of the new subscription, too.
*need ... more ... books ... in ... my ... library*
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So, where did I put this blasted key?
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This is perhaps a stupid question, but are there any plans to release a players guide, ideally with a price point hovering ~$20? I've already pre-ordered this (from Amazon) and will likely get the *.pdf when it comes out. My players, however, are poor and whiny college students who think nothing of dropping the money on frivolous items such as food, beer, and Xbox games but will make a right howling over the purchase of this fine tome. I think a players guide would be a fine way to bridge that gap, and if (gods help us all) they GM later, well, its always nice to have a spare copy of the rules. I'd personally purchase a players guide too, just to keep the core rulebook clutched tightly in my greedy claws.
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Creative Director
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This is perhaps a stupid question, but are there any plans to release a players guide, ideally with a price point hovering ~$20? I've already pre-ordered this (from Amazon) and will likely get the *.pdf when it comes out. My players, however, are poor and whiny college students who think nothing of dropping the money on frivolous items such as food, beer, and Xbox games but will make a right howling over the purchase of this fine tome. I think a players guide would be a fine way to bridge that gap, and if (gods help us all) they GM later, well, its always nice to have a spare copy of the rules. I'd personally purchase a players guide too, just to keep the core rulebook clutched tightly in my greedy claws.
No plans yet. The game is huge; I'm pretty sure the only way we'd be able to do a $20 player's version of the game would be to cut 70% of everything, so we'd have like 3 races, 4 classes, half the skills, a quarter of the feats, and it would only probably detail things up to 3rd or 5th level. At which point it's not really a player's guide as much as it is a beginner's set, which is a different product. Probably a good idea for a product, in fact, but not one we've put on any schedules yet.
Has it been a week yet? I feel like a month or two has passed since your post.Probably less than a week from now.Hi Vic,
My players and I are dead keen for this book. Just wondering when the new subscription policy is up.
Sorry for my impatience!
, half-way,
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Chief Technical Officer
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In the early days of Paizo, we used to print suggested retail prices in other currencies, but some of our international distributors asked us to stop.So there's no SRP for the UK? Can I only find out what this is going to cost over here by going to my ULGS when it's released and looking at the price sticker on it?
You could go now and tell them it's going to be USD $49.99, and ask them how much they expect to sell it for....
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Chief Technical Officer
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Out of curiosity: What's that "Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL) Preview Edition" thing from the release schedule (http://paizo.com/paizo/about/schedule) - not that i'll buy it, 'cause I want the real thing ;-)
That's a preview copy for licensees. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. These are not the droids you're looking for. Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you.
How are you?
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Out of curiosity: What's that "Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL) Preview Edition" thing from the release schedule (http://paizo.com/paizo/about/schedule) - not that i'll buy it, 'cause I want the real thing ;-)That's a preview copy for licensees. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. These are not the droids you're looking for. Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you.
Set phasers on stun....
We're sending a squad up.
Still curious about individual-purchase PDF price...
We're sending a squad up.Uh, uh, negative, negative. We have a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak... very dangerous.
Who is this? What's your operating number?
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Chief Technical Officer
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Who is this? What's your operating number?We're sending a squad up.Uh, uh, negative, negative. We have a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak... very dangerous.
[BLAM!]
Boring conversation anyway! Lisa! We're going to have company!
Oh.. wait. I mean, "We have a company."
This thread had some of the best V.W. humor evah.
This may have been asked earlier but will there be any deals that will include a pdf copy with the physical?
Scrolls up... oh... apparently there's something in the works.
Still curious about individual-purchase PDF price...We are too!
I think the core rulebook PDF will probably be fairly inexpensive, but we haven't finalized that yet.
$30 odd?
