Pathfinder at the local Barnes & Noble!!


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So,I'm at the Local Barns & Noble a few days ago, and what do I see on the shelf? Pathfinder's Clasic Monsters Revisited! Awesome! I had thought It was only Borders that was carying Pathfinder? (Even though the one local doesn't.)

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I'm a Waldenbooks manager who's made a serious effort to have the books available in my store based on my own interest and at the request of several customers. If your local Borders isn't carrying the books you want, let them know there is interest.

Liberty's Edge

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Walden assistant manager here, I got PF1 and 8 in stock. PF1 comes with the player's guide. :)

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Borders has not yet gotten into the game with big purchases of Pathfinder, but B&N has jumped in big with CMR (which is one reason we are almost completely sold out) and Pathfinder going forward.

All of them can special order them.

Scarab Sages

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I was in a game store in Portland yesterday and was pleased to see many Paizo products. Several flip-maps, Pathfinder AP and others. It was nice.


I picked up Classic Monsters Revisited at BN a couple of weeks ago. My kids gave me a BN gift card for Father's Day and the Pathfinder Gazetteer is going on my next order from their website... I've got to train them (or their mother anyway) to visit Paizo online to give Paizo the business directly. But, it is nice to browse quality stuff and pick it up immediately...

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SirUrza wrote:
Walden assistant manager here, I got PF1 and 8 in stock. PF1 comes with the player's guide. :)

Huh. That PF1/Player's Guide bundle was something we did especially for military PXs last August. We knew that was distributed incorrectly, but this is the first I heard of them showing up at retail....

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Blackdragon wrote:
So,I'm at the Local Barns & Noble a few days ago, and what do I see on the shelf? Pathfinder's Clasic Monsters Revisited! Awesome! I had thought It was only Borders that was carying Pathfinder? (Even though the one local doesn't.)

Good to hear, I'm going to check out my local one to see what's there.

Grand Lodge

My local gaming store subscribes to the theory that if it ain't WOTC it's crap and rarely carries 3rd party materials. So increasingly I am having to resort to online to buy 3rd party books.

If B&N is going to support Paizo then my $$ will be going to them (or Paizo.com) from now on (no other chain bookstores in town).

Liberty's Edge

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Vic Wertz wrote:
Huh. That PF1/Player's Guide bundle was something we did especially for military PXs last August. We knew that was distributed incorrectly, but this is the first I heard of them showing up at retail....

*shrugs*

It is indeed the Military pack. Diamond sent it to us. It's the only version we can order at store level, and funnily enough whoever entered it into the system named it "Patherfinder."

Krome wrote:
My local gaming store subscribes to the theory that if it ain't WOTC it's crap and rarely carries 3rd party materials. So increasingly I am having to resort to online to buy 3rd party books.

An attitude probably propagated by the first 2 years of 3.0 where most of the 3rd party offers were crap.

Liberty's Edge

We just got a couple of copies of Classic Monsters Revisited at my B&N. I slapped prestwood (the kind you can remove without damaging the book) EAS tags in them immediately. If anyone wants those suckers, they need to BUY them. I'll not have people stealing from Paizo on MY watch!

Liberty's Edge

Krome wrote:

My local gaming store subscribes to the theory that if it ain't WOTC it's crap and rarely carries 3rd party materials. So increasingly I am having to resort to online to buy 3rd party books.

If B&N is going to support Paizo then my $$ will be going to them (or Paizo.com) from now on (no other chain bookstores in town).

Man, that sucks. If you're in northern Illinois, Games Plus and Tomorrow is Yesterday are pretty solid game stores. If not... ...well, I feel for you.

Scarab Sages

Timespike wrote:
...Tomorrow is Yesterday

Ah my old stomping grounds. Now-a-days I live in Northern Indiana, and I was pleased to see Pathfinder at my local B&N too - just a few blocks away from my FLGS, which carries Pathfinder also!

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SirUrza wrote:
It is indeed the Military pack. Diamond sent it to us. It's the only version we can order at store level, and funnily enough whoever entered it into the system named it "Patherfinder."

Quite a lot of those went missing last year, and we didn't even get paid for some of them; your post has helped us place an inquiry. Thanks much!

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

Timespike wrote:
We just got a couple of copies of Classic Monsters Revisited at my B&N. I slapped prestwood (the kind you can remove without damaging the book) EAS tags in them immediately. If anyone wants those suckers, they need to BUY them. I'll not have people stealing from Paizo on MY watch!

Well, thanks!

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Vic Wertz wrote:
SirUrza wrote:
It is indeed the Military pack. Diamond sent it to us. It's the only version we can order at store level, and funnily enough whoever entered it into the system named it "Patherfinder."
Quite a lot of those went missing last year, and we didn't even get paid for some of them; your post has helped us place an inquiry. Thanks much!

In fact, I was in the process of writing that inquiry email when Vic had to go and post on this thread, thus making my RSS reader light up, making me check the new feed, and delaying said inquiry.

So...I blame Vic. /nod

Liberty's Edge

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Well as long as no one's getting into trouble and we can keep selling them. Trying to get more Paizo stuff in! :P

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