My issue with Bestiary 2

[Ross Byers]

I removed a post. Inter-forum drama is not appreciated.

[Enlight_Bystand]

Word-Twisting Rumormonger wrote:

Erik Mona wrote:

The simple fact of the matter is that the hardcover rulebooks (and hardcover books in general) sell at least an order of magnitude more copies than the softcover Adventure Path volumes, modules, and sourcebooks. As a result, any pieces of art carried over to a hardcover are seen by several thousand more people than saw it the first time.

So can I take this out of context quotation as official confirmation that Paizo's Adventure Path volumes only sell several hundred copies and that Paizo is going bankrupt as a result?

Several is a nebulously defined quantity. you could say that the population of the US is 'several' hundred (3,109,190 hundred according to Wikipedia) and tthe population of the world is 'several' thousand (6,115,000 thousand, same source) and it would fit exactly to Erik's statement.

Now all they have to do is sell one copy of an AP to every American, and one copy of a rule book to everyone in the world...

[Vic Wertz]

James Jacobs wrote:

...if we hadn't recycled art (or, more to the point, if we hand't ordered art for Pathfinder thinking forward that we could then recycle that art in a Bestiary)...

That's right—it's not recycling, it's precycling!

[Ernest Mueller]

Riggler wrote:

But then I realized why as a GM am I hogging all this great art. Might as well show it off to players. I've got a sheet of paper with a diamond-shaped cutout in the center to show players art. They seem to enjoy it.

I go farther; I rip the images out of the PDFs and create slips with the images to clip to my GM screen. Less for monsters, though I do that occasionally, but the thought of having art in an AP for a NPC that the players basically aren't seeing sickens me. So I make the slips and whenever the NPC is present, I clip them to the screen using bulldog clips. It works great - the players benefit from the art and also remember which NPCs are present! It makes the NPCs more memorable in post as well.

[Erik Mona]

Word-Twisting Rumormonger wrote:

Erik Mona wrote:

The simple fact of the matter is that the hardcover rulebooks (and hardcover books in general) sell at least an order of magnitude more copies than the softcover Adventure Path volumes, modules, and sourcebooks. As a result, any pieces of art carried over to a hardcover are seen by several thousand more people than saw it the first time.

So can I take this out of context quotation as official confirmation that Paizo's Adventure Path volumes only sell several hundred copies and that Paizo is going bankrupt as a result?

I suppose that's one possible interpretation of what I said, sure!