Hi all. We know the adventure path got pushed back and it sounds like we will see it in April, but was there a date given? Just trying to budget accordingly.
Thanks.
PDF available Apr 25:
It's showing that for me, which means it'll ship around April 18th~ give or take 3-or-so days.
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Paizo doesn't set release dates until the product is in thier warehouses. This is to combat delays in shipping and customs from making them miss releases. The product schedule has:
late Apri Pathfinder Adventure Path #55: The Wormwood Mutiny (Skull & Shackles 1 of 6) (PFRPG)
I think that is the closest you're going to get fro a release day until it hits the warehouse
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My subscripton style is set to ship stuff AP issues when tose are released, which should work out to monthy but obviously hasnt been this year.
Right now I have S&S1 mid april, 2 in early may and 3 in mid June. So I guess 4 5 & 6 will all be in July if they plan on catching up for Shattered Star at gencon?
I gotta say, this is the only time I have been truly disappointed in paizo. I don't love everything they do, but that is usually matters of taste. This is like a broken trust.
At the very least, I'd appreciate a solid statement on when things are coming out. I understand that things sometimes slip, but honestly, this is getting a bit silly. My discretionary funds are limited, and I'd appreciate being able to plan on whether I've got some stonking great bill coming due in July.
The last I heard from Vic was they were going to try to ship every 3 weeks instead of once a month for a bit this summer, but nothing is set in stone yet.
I know it sounds odd, but blame the Seattle Snowstorms of January and Chinese New year. These set them back in production and resulted in nothing shipping in March.
I'm not sure what will be done, but I remember reading somewhere that they might be shipping 2 issues of AP at the same time late in Skull and Shackles (or possibly Skull and Shackles 6 with Shattered Star 1).
Could be that Justin Franklin is right, too. I don't have time today to really dig for what Vic Wertz ACTUALLY posted on the subject, but the answers are out there on the boards.
-Aaron
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I know it sounds odd, but blame the Seattle Snowstorms of January and Chinese New year. These set them back in production and resulted in nothing shipping in March.
I'm not sure what will be done, but I remember reading somewhere that they might be shipping 2 issues of AP at the same time late in Skull and Shackles (or possibly Skull and Shackles 6 with Shattered Star 1).
Could be that Justin Franklin is right, too. I don't have time today to really dig for what Vic Wertz ACTUALLY posted on the subject, but the answers are out there on the boards.
-Aaron
I'd like to, but this year 5 out of 5 the Feb module didnt ship in Feb.
I went back and found my shipment dates
3/6/08 Edge of Anarchy
3/23/09 Howl of the Carrion King
3/10/10 Stolen Land
3/03/11 Haunting of Harrowstone
Those were the dates I got he email saying they expect to ship in the next week, though usually it is within a day or two of that it is shipped.
Still, not once in February.
I love Paizo so don't think I am just bashing them or anything, this is just getting irritating, especially since the winter APs are generally far more exciting to me than the summer ones.
Creative Director
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It's more than that... it was sort of a perfect storm of unseasonable snow and production delays on OUR end (not the shipping end of things) that got us tangled up, what with additional products like Runelords hardcovers and the like causing us to spread our resources a bit TOO thin.
Hiring Adam Daigle to help 100% with the Adventure Path should help us to get the APs back on schedule and keep them there, though.
Once WE are sure of the ship dates for these things, we'll make those dates public... but until then, alas, we can only give our best guesses.
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Chief Technical Officer
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We *can't* set firm release dates until things are in our warehouse, since the last portion of the shipping process—US Customs clearance and trucking—which obviously can't be firmly scheduled until the product clears Customs—is unfortunately the most unpredictable part of that process.
That said, assuming nothing out of the ordinary happens, we expect to have the next set of products arrive just about two weeks from today, and we'll begin shipping subscriber copies and preorders immediately. If that goes as planned, the official retail release date will be April 25.
Our hope for the rest of the AP is that we can space things roughly every three weeks after that until we're fully caught up in August. There is a high probability that we'll double up in August, and if we can't get those three-week windows to work out, we'll have to double up in July as well.
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At the very least, I'd appreciate a solid statement on when things are coming out. I understand that things sometimes slip, but honestly, this is getting a bit silly. My discretionary funds are limited, and I'd appreciate being able to plan on whether I've got some stonking great bill coming due in July.
I dont know if it will work for you (and it might be a bit late to be useful), but I've been buying myself Paizo gift vouchers through February and March. Then, when I get his with a large order, I can choose the "use my gift certificates for my subscriptions" option and so my expenses are smoothed out. (In my case it's actually to defray the hit of multiple miniature subscriptions, but the principle is the same).
.It doesnt matter when the orders actually ship that way - you just buy yourself a $20 gift voucher every week/fortnight/day/whatever suits and the expenses mount up regularly, even if the orders come through in 'lumps'.