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If past Seasons of Pathfinder society were collected (or, in the case of Season 0, updated, then collected) into a single Season hardcover?
I would absolutely buy that product.
Moreover, I wonder if there are a large number of Paizo customers who do not currently buy any PFS scenarios or who do not take an interest in Organized Play who might buy such a collection for use in their home games?
I know that the collation/assemnbling of any existing products by Paizo needs to weighed against cannibalizing existing sales and deterring future sales of forthcoming products. I get that.
At the same time, I think that if a Season that was many years out of date were to be published in such a fashion, it would attract interest from the broader mass of Paizo's customers who are not current customers of this product line -- and who might take interest in future electronic releases of scenarios if their interest was focused on the product by such a compilation.
Worth considering.
If past Seasons of Pathfinder society were collected (or, in the case of Season 0, updated, then collected) into a single Season hardcover?
I would absolutely buy that product.
Moreover, I wonder if there are a large number of Paizo customers who do not currently buy any PFS scenarios ow who do not take an interest in Organized Play who might buy such a collection for use in their home games?
I know that the collation of any existing product by Paizo needs to weighed against cannibalizing existing sales and deterring future sales of forthcoming products. I get that.
At the same time, I think that is a Season that was many years out of date were to be published in such a fashion, it would attract interest from the broader mass of Paizo's customers who are not current customers of this product line -- and who might take interest in future electronic releases of scenarios if their interest was focused on the product by such a compilation.
Worth considering.
This would be the best Pathfinder product since the Core Rulebook.
It's easier for me to picture a big paperback B&W omnibus for seasons 0-3. "Okay, so these are all missing half of the current factions for organized play, and almost twenty scenarios are OGL. But it's also a @#$%-ton of short adventures for when you need one fast for your home game." A lot of the value of a print collection would be in the indices.
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I second the idea of a paperback omnibus over hardcover for photocopying purposes (Chronicles & Faction Missions) and agree I'd buy it. There is a lot of story you never really get to see because it doesn't come up through role play/the course of the scenario.
I'm not so sure about a Subscription Service, as a I play more than I GM and it would be hard to have those scenarios and avoid looking at them. I imagine the potential price break would be a boon for non Venture Captain/Lieutenant organizers, however.
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I want one, but while we are considering mythical product features, I'd like to see season 0 fully updated and full stat blocks instead of book references. The ability to run these scenarios without my 30+lb bag of references would make it worth the re-buy.
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I imagine that a big issue is that all the earlier seasons are still eligible for PFS play. The adventure PDFs are watermarked with the purchaser's name, to discourage re-distribution of the adventures (they would obviously like a DM who's going to run a module to buy it, rather than get the PDF, or a photocopy, from another player).
As long as an old season can still be played in PFS, I would be very surprised if it would get re-released in book form (which would have to be custom-printed each time to maintain the watermark scheme).
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I wouldn't say that we would never do this. It's been something we've discussed as early as Season 0.
The main problem is that the resources it would take to do this well are already more than wholly consumed by the current development demands of the Pathfinder Adventure Path, the Pathfinder Modules line, and the current season of Pathfinder Society itself.
Right now I'd say it's more like an opportunity that is waiting for its moment. There are plenty of challenges, but something like this is certainly not off the table.
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Another problem with the book form, especially the hardback format, is that it is not conducive to actually using the scenarios.
Book wono't lie flat, or is too fragile to use. Hard to keep non-facing pages with relevant information readily accessible. Etc.
These are among the challenges I'm talking about.