Huge glut of books lately; any chance we’ll see a “yearly wrap-up” volume of all the Pathfinder materials (say, the 2007 materials at the end of 2008, 2008 at the end of 2009, etc…) with errata (if any)? I’d shell out for a single hard-cover easy (or better yet, get it out by Christmas, cough). I’m guessing it would be sans adventures, but with maybe a synopsis of the goings on in the paths + the stuff Nick is doing.
Sure, but it isn't a question of waiting. Can't buy all the small stuff, so regardless of what they'd do, it wouldn't result in additional revenue; would buy the big thing as a one shot.
Hardcover > Splatbooks
If you look for the last question on a Hardcover Adventure Path, you will see an answer on this subject from one of the boss men, clearly stating why they don't intend to do it.
Normally I’d be far too lazy to go look for such a response, but your own non-linking / quoting indolence catapulted me from my catatonia, forcing me to use the search feature for this hardcover post. I do see a reply from Vic, but it is same response as above about waiting, and specifically in response to the adventures themselves, neither of which apply to the original question.
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Huge glut of books lately; any chance we’ll see a “yearly wrap-up” volume of all the Pathfinder materials (say, the 2007 materials at the end of 2008, 2008 at the end of 2009, etc…) with errata (if any)? I’d shell out for a single hard-cover easy (or better yet, get it out by Christmas, cough). I’m guessing it would be sans adventures, but with maybe a synopsis of the goings on in the paths + the stuff Nick is doing.
While hardcover APs would be nice, they're hardly essential with pathfinder anyway; even toting an entire 6-issue AP to a game is not exactly a huge burden.
Normally I’d be far too lazy to go look for such a response, but your own non-linking / quoting indolence catapulted me from my catatonia, forcing me to use the search feature for this hardcover post. I do see a reply from Vic, but it is same response as above about waiting, and specifically in response to the adventures themselves, neither of which apply to the original question.
Sorry, I am not usually such a lazy poster, but I am at work and should be doing my accounts. Mark my report card as must try harder.
Did you find the one with the analogy about rent and living in caves?
Normally I’d be far too lazy to go look for such a response, but your own non-linking / quoting indolence catapulted me from my catatonia, forcing me to use the search feature for this hardcover post. I do see a reply from Vic, but it is same response as above about waiting, and specifically in response to the adventures themselves, neither of which apply to the original question.
Try this thread instead. (link)
I asked the same thing yesterday and got a pretty detailed response from James. I'm sure there are more reponses in different places, but this one's probably the freshest. :)
Did you find the one with the analogy about rent and living in caves?
ROFL, sweet! I did not, but I will definitely look for it now.
Oh, and thanks Hogarth.
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Yeah... the cash flow thing is a big reason we don't want to set up a precedent for everything we produce in a year to be obsoleted by a hardcover at the end of the year.
Another good reason: We don't have the resources or manpower to do something like re-edit and re-lay out everything we do into hardcover form at this time. Doing so would, ironically, result in MORE errors, I suspect, since we'd have less time to edit the books we have to do to stay in business and have promised to release on a monthly schedule since that time would suddenly be taken up re-editing and tinkering with products that are already 95% to 100% functional as it is.
Sure, but it isn't a question of waiting. Can't buy all the small stuff, so regardless of what they'd do, it wouldn't result in additional revenue
But if they went ahead and told us that they will be available as a big hardcover, they'd lose revenue as a lot of people would wait for the big book to arrive. The single issues woudln't sell enough, and the whole thing would be discontinued.
Okay, that's cool, but what about a year or so down the road, when the Pathfinder magazines are out of print and hard to come by? Also, I'd like to avoid Dragon-itis, where I'm flipping through the ToC (table of contents) of four dozen books just to find one article on medical properties of real-world plants. (Which I eventually just made photocopies of.)
To some extent, this is covered by PDF digital releases, but it doesn't solve the matter of getting everything on ancient Thassilonian society other than going through the first six Pathfinders and making your own 'crunch' article with copy and paste.
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Okay, that's cool, but what about a year or so down the road, when the Pathfinder magazines are out of print and hard to come by? Also, I'd like to avoid Dragon-itis, where I'm flipping through the ToC (table of contents) of four dozen books just to find one article on medical properties of real-world plants. (Which I eventually just made photocopies of.)
To some extent, this is covered by PDF digital releases, but it doesn't solve the matter of getting everything on ancient Thassilonian society other than going through the first six Pathfinders and making your own 'crunch' article with copy and paste.
So would a yearly index of articles satisfy the rest of your concerns?
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Okay, that's cool, but what about a year or so down the road, when the Pathfinder magazines are out of print and hard to come by? Also, I'd like to avoid Dragon-itis, where I'm flipping through the ToC (table of contents) of four dozen books just to find one article on medical properties of real-world plants. (Which I eventually just made photocopies of.)
To some extent, this is covered by PDF digital releases, but it doesn't solve the matter of getting everything on ancient Thassilonian society other than going through the first six Pathfinders and making your own 'crunch' article with copy and paste.
Well... Pathfinder isn't a magazine, despite the fact it's a monthly release product. It doesn't touch magazine distribution, doesn't have ads, and isn't handled by us or our printers or our distributors as a magazine. It's a book. And since it's a book, if one sells out, we have the option to reprint. So far, the only one we've sold out of is Pathfinder 2, and we're in the process, I believe, of looking at what size of print run a reprint could be.
The goal is to keep Pathfinder adventures in print as long as there's demand for them.
An index of the contents of Pathfinder would be cool. I'll look into seeing how we can get that done.
we started one on www.pathfinderwiki.com. Its still a work in progress though
An index of the contents of Pathfinder would be cool. I'll look into seeing how we can get that done.
Linkified! Hey, everyone else is doing it ; )