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Will there be a combo pack available for the Hardcover and PDF outside of being a AP subscriber? I wouldn't mind some of the PDF features that you noted, but paying an extra $40 on top the pre-order I made for the hardcover seems a bit excessive.
Subscribe to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game subscription before your hardcover ships. Start with the Character Folio and you'll get the folio and PDFs of the folio and the hardcover for 9.99 plus shipping. Then cancel the subscription after your stuff ships. Much better than $40 dollars.
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Will there be a combo pack available for the Hardcover and PDF outside of being a AP subscriber? I wouldn't mind some of the PDF features that you noted, but paying an extra $40 on top the pre-order I made for the hardcover seems a bit excessive.Subscribe to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game subscription before your hardcover ships. Start with the Character Folio and you'll get the folio and PDFs of the folio and the hardcover for 9.99 plus shipping. Then cancel the subscription after your stuff ships. Much better than $40 dollars.
The Rise of the Runelords PDF is tied to the having the AP subscription, not the RPG sub. So the starting volume in question is Pathfinder AP #58, not the Character Folio.
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Will there be a combo pack available for the Hardcover and PDF outside of being a AP subscriber?Nope.
It pays to subscribe! (And in addition to getting the PDF, AP subscribers also get the Pathfinder Advantage discount—15% off MSRP—on the book.)
It sure does...especially when you keep making such good stuff.
Anniversary RoTRL + Shattered Star = the reason I reactivated my AP subscription.
To answer some long awaited questions: yes, this will have interactive maps. The interactive map file is 30 pages long, contains 44 different maps and is super shiny. There are a few features we've added to the PDF, and a Lite version has been made.
That's just awesome! Thanks a bunch, Chris!
Now, onwards to TPK my group, so we can start RotRL...Ruyan.
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I remember mention of a new Player's Guide for the anniversary edition. Is that going to be going up the same day as the PDF's release or has it been scrapped since I read that?
Nothing said about it being scrapped. I suspect it'll come out either the week before Paizocon so that those getting it there can have it, or the week after as the subscriber's copies go out.
42 bucks? That can't be accidental.
It's a coincidence. $60, take away 30% (reduced pdf price for all other adventure paths books), and you have $42 :)
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I'm an AP subscriber but there's no way I can pre-order this because of the postage.
No pdf for me... and I'll have to wait for hard-copies to arrive in UK shops. Can't you just send a crate straight from China?
Shame there's no pdf discount for overseas subscribers, or similar... I know it's not Paizo's fault (especially with the changes to overseas shipping about two years ago) but it does sometimes feel like an overseas subscription isn't worth as much as a US subscription, even though it costs more.
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...actually, my American aunt is coming over in August, maybe she can bring it over...
So this should arrive at the same time as the monthly subscription shipment? I only ask because if it'll take awhile longer I'd rather just have my subscription stuff ship separately.
So this should arrive at the same time as the monthly subscription shipment? I only ask because if it'll take awhile longer I'd rather just have my subscription stuff ship separately.
Paizo times all of their new releases so that they ship at the same time as each other each month.
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The other hardcovers are rules hardcover, and are discounted since you can get most of the information for free on the PRD. It's not that the Runelords PDF costs more, it's that the other hardcovers cost less. Check the individual AP PDF costs and you should see they are discounted the same percent as the hardcover PDF.
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Well, I'm 100% okay with an expensive PDF if there's added value. As a vocal proponent of interactive maps, I can hardly complain at the $42 for thirty maps.
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So has anyone from Paizo explained the logic behind the PDF costing 4 times as much as the other hardcover PDFs they put out?
Love to hear it.
In addition to TOZ's eloquent assessment, also keep in mind that this isn't simply one hardcover book but a collection of six AP modules in one place. It's 6 PDF's in one.
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In addition to TOZ's eloquent assessment, also keep in mind that this isn't simply one hardcover book but a collection of six AP modules in one place. It's 6 PDF's in one.So has anyone from Paizo explained the logic behind the PDF costing 4 times as much as the other hardcover PDFs they put out?
Love to hear it.
By that token it's actually a discount. Individual AP volumes are 19.99 each, or 13.99 for the PDF, so 41.99 is actually half price.
So has anyone from Paizo explained the logic behind the PDF costing 4 times as much as the other hardcover PDFs they put out?
Love to hear it.
Because they want to make the rulebooks (which this isn't) far more accessible to get people into the game in the first place. This isn't breaking any rules in their system: it's a hardcover, yes, but primarily it's an adventure path. And the pdf is getting the exact same discount as any other adventure path pdf.
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The other hardcovers are rules hardcover, and are discounted since you can get most of the information for free on the PRD. It's not that the Runelords PDF costs more, it's that the other hardcovers cost less. Check the individual AP PDF costs and you should see they are discounted the same percent as the hardcover PDF.
To nitpick, the Inner Sea World Guide is also $10.
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Ah, true. I think the fact that it was comprised of mostly recycled material contributed to that decision.
Edit: Nevermind, it's to make accessing the world easy for new buyers.
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Bah, now that I've preordered this I keep checking the page every other day for an early pdf.
It isn't even July yet! :P
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The other hardcovers are rules hardcover, and are discounted since you can get most of the information for free on the PRD. It's not that the Runelords PDF costs more, it's that the other hardcovers cost less. Check the individual AP PDF costs and you should see they are discounted the same percent as the hardcover PDF.To nitpick, the Inner Sea World Guide is also $10.And most of the info in it is available for free on two different wikis:
http://www.pathfinderwiki.com and http://pathfinder.wikia.com
Always use pathfinderwiki.com. The other one is cluttered with adverts and not really updated as all of the wiki enthusiasts have moved over to the other site.
You can test it by going on both and searching for something new: these are the results if you search for the latest novel, Nightglass
Searching Pathfinderwiki.com for Nightglass
Searching pathfinder.wikia.com for Nightglass
There's little that I would love more than to do a compilation of Age of Worms or Savage Tide for Pathfinder.
But there's also little that I would love less than "filing off the serial numbers" of either of those two Adventure Paths, since the fact that you meet who you meet and go where you go is pretty much the main thing I love about them.
Can you imagine if Manzorian had to get renamed for copyright reasons? Ugh!
Elsewhere, Vic said they didn't expect shipments (and PDFs) to start going out until after PaizoCon.
Our Lady Succubus is just going off of the available info on our subscriptions page, which states:
Payment method authorized: July 6
Should ship by: July 13
Works out to the same thing, actually, as PaizoCon is July 6-8. :)
Just further reason no one should get their hopes up about getting access to PDFs by the 4th. Link to Vic's post about shipments starting after PaizoCon
I believe the answer is "Many."
If I preorder a second copy of this for my brother, is there any way I could "gift" the pdf to him?
Last time I saw anything about this, the only way to "gift" a PDF was to give someone a gift certificate for the amount, because all PDFs are watermarked to the account they're purchased from.
That was in 2009, but I don't think anything has changed since then, unfortunately.
Gbonehead,
The CS guys are amazing -- they'll get you fixed up.
Can't wait to get the hardcover shipped!
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+1
Paizo customer service is indeed legendary. I'd say mythic, but I'll reserve that for (hopefully) the near future .... :-)
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I believe the answer is "Many."Technically, the answer is "Many, we hope." It hasn't hit our warehouse *yet*, but we are still expecting it in time.
And it's in the warehouse! (We still have a few other products due in before the monthly shipment, but it's on schedule to happen the week after PaizoCon.)
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If I preorder a second copy of this for my brother, is there any way I could "gift" the pdf to him?
Well... yes and no.
You can gift a PDF to someone using the gift options at checkout. But this is only for PDFs you purchase. You cannot gift a free subscription PDF, as this is part of the subscription fulfillment process and is an exclusive benefit of having a subscription.
So if you want to gift your brother a PDF, you'll have to buy the PDF separately.
Thanks,
cos
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If I preorder a second copy of this for my brother, is there any way I could "gift" the pdf to him?Well... yes and no.
You can gift a PDF to someone using the gift options at checkout. But this is only for PDFs you purchase. You cannot gift a free subscription PDF, as this is part of the subscription fulfillment process and is an exclusive benefit of having a subscription.
So if you want to gift your brother a PDF, you'll have to buy the PDF separately.
Thanks,
cos
Yeah, I suspected that might be the answer, but it can't hurt to ask. 8^)
Thanks, Cos!
What is the definition of "interactive" maps?