Isn't Bugley just making the word a better place? Why aren't people thanking him?Exactly!
Now if someone could just explain why I suddenly get this message everytime I log in?:
"You suck. What do you infer from that, biatch?!?-J J"
;-)
No reason. And those incidents where someone poops in a news paper, puts it on your doormat, lights it on fire, and then rings your doorbell are completely random.
If only I had the time to write my own adventures I certainly would. Unfortunately life doesn't grant me that pleasure.
I buy the AP's to fill that void.
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I don't want pages of new monsters [a separate pdf could have those. How about a Monthly Bestiary pdf? ]
I don't want PF Journals [a separate pdf could have those. How about a monthly Pathfinder Journal pdf?]
I don’t want an article about Dragons in Golarion [that material is for PF companion/chronicles]
I don't want a mini stand-alone module [PF Modules is where they should be]
I want an Adventure Path, plain and simple, right up to level 20 [or at least close to it]
I appreciate the later issues of each AP sell less copies but I also understand that you are considering an Epic level book. If there is a demand for Epic, you could argue there is a demand for the AP's to continue to higher levels?
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If only I had the time to write my own adventures I certainly would. Unfortunately life doesn't grant me that pleasure.
I buy the AP's to fill that void.
.I don't want pages of new monsters [a separate pdf could have those. How about a Monthly Bestiary pdf? ]
I don't want PF Journals [a separate pdf could have those. How about a monthly Pathfinder Journal pdf?]
I don’t want an article about Dragons in Golarion [that material is for PF companion/chronicles]
I don't want a mini stand-alone module [PF Modules is where they should be]
I want an Adventure Path, plain and simple, right up to level 20 [or at least close to it]
I appreciate the later issues of each AP sell less copies but I also understand that you are considering an Epic level book. If there is a demand for Epic, you could argue there is a demand for the AP's to continue to higher levels?
I've said this before but I guess it bears repeating.
The way an AP works, you pretty much have to have at least one person read, develop, and edit every adventure, start to finish, so that the six adventures flow together right and feel more like they were written by one mind rather than a lot. And on a monthly schedule, there's a physical limit to how many pages and words of an adventure that one person can handle... as it works out, we're pretty much at that limit with 40–50 page adventures. If we expand that, we'd either have to go to a bi-monthly release schedule (which is bad for an AP) or we'd have to have at least two people working on the adventures, no one of which would be able to read and develop in detail the whole thing. And then we'd have a situation like what convinced us to quit doing set pieces—namely, that we were having trouble fitting them together smoothly.
This particular discussion has been beaten into the ground, though I suppose it is bound to turn up on occasion.
I believe all of the articles, in addition to the adventure, are, in fact, necessary. They give life to the adventure, and they provide further information for the inevitable wanderings.
Best.
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If the final adventure starts at level 12, then what do you end up fighting? A marilith? While that might be interesting, it's no Kyuss or Demogorgon...
Having said that, I'm looking forward to Kingmaker; it sounds like a different change of pace from "save the world from the BBEG...again".
I've seen a lot of interesting villains in the pages of Pathfinder which I actually prefer to Kyuss or Demogorgon. And with this I do not only mean the AP's BBEGs but also people like Nualia, Dr. Davaulus or Saul Vancaskerkin which are at the lower end of the spectrum.
In fact that's what made the Eberron Setting so appealing to me, namely that it was first and foremost a setting presenting stories for low-level characters (this changed over time, and it didn't the setting anything good).
So while Golarion is not Eberron and while I'm probably in the minority here, I have no problems to envision an interesting villain at the end of an Lvl 1-8 -AP. I even suspect that I could much more easily relate to such a villain than to those epic critters.
This said I don't care so much about level range than I care about the story aspect. And I've trust that Paizo would be able to create a lvl 15-20 AP which was just as interesting and appealing as were those we know.
I've seen a lot of interesting villains in the pages of Pathfinder which I actually prefer to Kyuss or Demogorgon. And with this I do not only mean the AP's BBEGs but also people like Nualia, Dr. Davaulus or Saul Vancaskerkin which are at the lower end of the spectrum.
It's a matter of taste, of course. But if I were playing an adventure path up to level 20, I'd probably be a bit underwhelmed if the final encounter was with a shifty casino owner as opposed to a demigod or a demon lord (for instance).
I like the low level modules of an AP, for me they are an special period of the adventurer live of the PCs. And I haven't any problem with low level AP but I think that the high level AP is also necesary (and desirable). And although i'm contrary to the idea of an AP of levels 12-14 is only half AP I understand the frustration of the people that believe with the APs will decrease their rank of levels instead of diversify it with the time.
Please excuse my terrible english.