I'm now a pathetic full-blown Paizoholic. I have been a subscriber to the AP, Chronicles, and Companion for as long as they have been available, but I have managed to resist the lure of the Modules simply because I don't need them. However, now the need for the Paizo fix has become too great, and to make matters worse they also enticed you with the "Superscriber" tag, so I finally succumbed. Please help...
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I'm now a pathetic full-blown Paizoholic. I have been a subscriber to the AP, Chronicles, and Companion for as long as they have been available, but I have managed to resist the lure of the Modules simply because I don't need them. However, now the need for the Paizo fix has become too great, and to make matters worse they also enticed you with the "Superscriber" tag, so I finally succumbed. Please help...
Welcome to our newest member of Paizoaholics Evilash.
<Everyone>Welcome, Evilash</Everyone>
Of course, you've still got a chance. As long as you resist subscribing to Planet Stories, there's still a part of you that can escape.
Welcome evilash.
I am resistant to your "so called" modules!
You will never take me alive!
I am resistant to your "so called" modules!
You will never take me alive!
*Waves hand* These are the modules you are looking for...
Hi evilash! The cookies are over there. *points to table with cookies and coffee*
Yay! Glad you enjoy! Welcome aboard!
How much does the Superscriber typically cost per month? Any average? Highs? Lows? My problem is my monthly budget is pretty tight, so I can't afford any surprizes. So if its a pretty fixed cost per month that I can accurately budget for I would join your club. Once gas prices get back down below $3.50 per gallon. If that ever happens.
The company really needs to just start an official "Just slap the darn logo on it and we'll buy it" club.
LOL! Too true. :D
I'm ruined. I bought my first Planet Stories - Anubis Murders - and it was enjoyable. *gulp* It's only a matter of weeks before my willpower is worn down and I buy the next one.
Do not tempt me with these planet stories...
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How much does the Superscriber typically cost per month? Any average? Highs? Lows? My problem is my monthly budget is pretty tight, so I can't afford any surprizes. So if its a pretty fixed cost per month that I can accurately budget for I would join your club. Once gas prices get back down below $3.50 per gallon. If that ever happens.
The Adventure Paths cost cost $19.99 a month (reduced to $13.99 with the 30% subscription discount), the Modules cost $12.99 every other month and the Companion will cost $9.99 the months a module doesn't ship.
The bugbear for regular pricing is the Chronicles which is highly variable (for example the Hardback setting book, due out in August is $49.99, but that's the exception and most stuff seems to be about $17.99).
Alternatively, the FAQ has most of the answers
Chief Technical Officer
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How much does the Superscriber typically cost per month? Any average? Highs? Lows? My problem is my monthly budget is pretty tight, so I can't afford any surprizes. So if its a pretty fixed cost per month that I can accurately budget for I would join your club. Once gas prices get back down below $3.50 per gallon. If that ever happens.
Well, "Superscriber" consists of:
The monthly Pathfinder Adventure Path sub, which is 30% off cover price (and you get a free PDF). Since AP volumes are $19.99, that means subscribers get them for $13.99. But that also gets you the Pathfinder Advantage, which is a 15% discount off MSRP of nearly everything in the store, including other subs (see the AP subscription page for details).
The bimonthly Pathfinder Modules sub, which isn't normally discounted, though you get the free PDF... but if you're a Pathfinder AP subscriber, the Pathfinder Advantage means you get 15% off anyway. Since modules are normally $12.99, that means superscribers pay about $11.05.
The Pathfinder Companion subscription is also bimonthly, and it's schedule alternates with the Pathfinder Modules. The Companion is normally $9.99, which means the Pathfinder Advantage brings it to about $8.50, and subscribers get a free PDF.
The wildcard is the Pathfinder Chronicles sub. The products in that line have varying schedules and prices. Though it's mostly monthly-ish now, and the majority of the products are 64-page books priced at $17.99, we do semi-annual Map Folios at $14.99. And in August, that line will include our campaign setting book, which is a 256-page hardcover for $49.99. Of course, the Pathfinder Advantage Discount still applies, as do the free PDFs, but you can see how that line can vary from $12.75 to $42.50.
Then, there's the matter of shipping. You can choose to have everything shipped once a month to save on shipping, or you can have us ship each item as it arrives; you can also choose to ship via Priority Mail or even UPS. And, of course, the cost of shipping varies depending on where you are, what service you choose, and how many packages you're having us send.
So if an "average" month consists of a 100-page Adventure Path volume, a 32-page Module, and a 64-page sourcebook, that would come to a bit less than $50, shipped.
Don't try to justify it with cost. You can't fool me with your math trickery.
Vic used to sell crack to schoolkids before he started this job.
"just try it once... you will like it." ...so he says.
RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32
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I have to admit they've wrecked my entertainment budget a couple of times now.
And I really meant to pick up Alone In The Dark on the release date too...
Bloody modules and their high production values.
Yeah I hate workin' the streets every weekend just to pay for my monthly fix.
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Yeah I hate workin' the streets every weekend just to pay for my monthly fix.I have to admit they've wrecked my entertainment budget a couple of times now.
And I really meant to pick up Alone In The Dark on the release date too...
Bloody modules and their high production values.
Still, I bet you sleep easier at night knowing you're not gunrunning.
Those 437 grenade launchers were for home protection.
Oh I hate you Paizo! I hate you so much!
Why? Because Im slowly becoming a paizoholic too!
You know... if shipping didnt cost so much for me and if my salary came in dollars, Id be a superscriber before that option even existed! But, for now, it would be the equivalent of spending 120+ dollars a month which I cant explain to my wife ;)
Worse of all... I know I wont use half of what Id get. And still, Id pay for it anyway...
Curses!
I can think of worse things to be a "holic" of.I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand the rules for word endings. They're probably "over-workaholed".
Mmmm godiva martinis (chocohol :p )
This is a personal ad to be featured in some random publication...somewhere...
Lonely, bereft and dissolute winged reptile seeks friendly and welcoming Paizonians. This crimson scaled, winged serpent just can't seem to stop himself from buying an extremely addictive product. That is why he is spewing flame right now. This dangerous product is called, Pathfinder.He blames Nick Logue, whom he has seen standing on street corners, offering a taste. Nick Logue, standing there in a suspiciously rumpled trenchcoat....and nothing else but Pathfinders! That affable dragon, Mike McArtor, he tried to stand up for the innocent....so the dastardly Dr. James Jacobs sent him of to the gulags. He isn't freelancing...thats just what they call it when they chain you up in the basement and force you to write for basic sustenance.
I've only begun to touch the surface...the evil genius of a book stealing Mouse, Vic Wertz! Sometimes I have to wonder what hes stolen from me...certainly my innocence (Nick too). Then there is the evil mastermind...the Mona, Erik. Luring into thinking this an innocent and joyful game of youthful (or elderly or midder-agerly??)indiscretion we trusted them...trusted their foul and gleeful lies! Now we cannot stop...its even worse than when I was addicted to that weird abyssal drug from the Book of Vile Darkness...far worse! RUUUUUUNNNNNN!!!!
Hmm...apparently Lilith has returned...with those damnable luhix-laced cookies....
The last kind word as was ever said to me...
"Hey, snakey, bake these for me will you..."
Now you all know my poor and ultimate fate....oh the serpentanity!! (?)
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Worse of all... I know I wont use half of what Id get. And still, Id pay for it anyway...Curses!
Only half?? Lucky you.
And I think we'd better stop before this turns into a Monty Python "You think you had it hard" skit. ;-)
Back when I was a gamer in the 70's, we had to MAKE our own modules. I used to sit in the hot, blistering sun and scribe my modules with my own blood, while sitting in a hole in the road. Each minute, a car would come by, mocking me for my love of RPGs, and spit on me while I penned my masterpiece.
And kids today think they have it hard, with their Paizo adventure paths and superscriber accounts. Luxury I tell you. Luxury.
-Lisa
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Yup. And iffin ya wanted mini's, ya had ta make corncob doll men, and shoebox dioramas fer dungeons. I used ta have to tattoo m' character sheets on my belly with a pin and blue ballpoint pen ink. It wern't funny when a cobold kilt yer cob elf fighter, nossir.
Ink? Ink? You were lucky. I had to make make my own ink from the dog. And as for miniatures, well, toenail clippings were good enough for us. And if we made too much noise, our dad would get into out hole and kill us before making us get up before we went to bed to go down pit for coal to eat. Damn kids have it easy nowadays.
Well now, we 'ad it tough. We used to 'af ter make our dice out of our own finger bones. On' way we could a had a module, were by writing our own, and we ad ter use monsters we statted oursels out o old copies of the finantchul times, an a slide rule. Use to make miniatures out of ivory we sold blood to buy, and then carve them with a sewin needle made of our own sharpent cocxyx.
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Back when I was a gamer in the 70's, we had to MAKE our own modules. I used to sit in the hot, blistering sun and scribe my modules with my own blood, while sitting in a hole in the road. Each minute, a car would come by, mocking me for my love of RPGs, and spit on me while I penned my masterpiece.
And kids today think they have it hard, with their Paizo adventure paths and superscriber accounts. Luxury I tell you. Luxury.
-Lisa
Soda just came out my nose. Seriously. It stings too.
"AND GET OUT OF MY YARD!"
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Well, not *exactly* crack: Magic: The Gathering. (It's like crack with cool art.)Vic used to sell crack to schoolkids before he started this job.
"just try it once... you will like it." ...so he says.
I sold my last original black lotus on e-pay a few months ago. I think I got $700+ for it. I'm not sure the going rate for crack but I'm sure it's comparible.
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Worse of all... I know I wont use half of what Id get. And still, Id pay for it anyway...Curses!
Only half?? Lucky you.
And I think we'd better stop before this turns into a Monty Python "You think you had it hard" skit. ;-)
Back when I was a gamer in the 70's, we had to MAKE our own modules. I used to sit in the hot, blistering sun and scribe my modules with my own blood, while sitting in a hole in the road. Each minute, a car would come by, mocking me for my love of RPGs, and spit on me while I penned my masterpiece.
And kids today think they have it hard, with their Paizo adventure paths and superscriber accounts. Luxury I tell you. Luxury.
-Lisa
And THIS is why Paizo rules, top to bottom. The frakkin' CEO of the company is just as big of a geek as the fans, and she's not afraid to admit it, either.
And yes, I have been watching too much BSG lately.
See I have this addiction, when I start to get into something, I must have ALL that is out there. About 10 years back my RPG wasnt much fun at the time, so my FLGS decided to introduce me to a CCG called L5R, what I was told was a Samurai based game more complex than Magic( a game i wasnt a fan of). I bought my little starter deck, a few boosters, and I thought I was ok, until I was thouroughly trounced by the local boys, who had all these cards I had never seen before. SO, being the person I am, and having the resources I decided to go out and BUY my self EVERYTHING related to the game, and I mean EVERYTHING. I bought CASES upon CASES, to the point where I had more cards than every single player in 3 counties around me. A new edition would come out, Order me a case please. And so it went, to the tune of about $3500. So now YOU bastards are trying to sucker me in with all these little subscritions, and the 30% off cover, and 15% off back issues, knowing my addiction, you...taunt...me. I feel ashamed of the fact that ppl like you are out there.
P.S.
And I am SOOO glad you don't take PAYPAL, for I would already have bought everything Pathfinder related:)
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Well, not *exactly* crack: Magic: The Gathering. (It's like crack with cool art.)Vic used to sell crack to schoolkids before he started this job.
"just try it once... you will like it." ...so he says.
I sold my last original black lotus on e-pay a few months ago. I think I got $700+ for it. I'm not sure the going rate for crack but I'm sure it's comparible.
At some of the first shows where Wizards showed off Magic, I had the task of walking up and down the aisle, opening up booster packs, and handing out free cards to passersby. I distinctly remember giving out alpha Black Lotuses, moxes... you name it. (I also recall really enjoying that my job allowed me to say "Here you go, sir—have a Power Leak.")