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So this a total noob question but is Pathfinder Chronicles: Campaign Setting still in print? Or is it just the PDF form? I found it on amazon once for an insane price of around $80. Ilibris does not have it at all. I also apologize because I know this has to have been covered but I didn't see it. I am at work so I can't spend quality time searching!
It's no longer in print. The Inner Sea World Guide was created to replace it, in addition to updating mechanics to the Pathfinder ruleset and replacing or adding to the world lore.
Well, $80 for that out-of-print title seems a bit steep, even for Paizo completists.
I've seen some crazy prices on recently-out-of-print gaming books (such as many 3.5 books). I blame technology: Many used-book sellers use algorithms to set prices based on what other resellers have set for their prices, and set their own prices accordingly: some a bit higher than average (to maximize profit from a single sale), some a bit lower (to increase sale volume). For titles that don't turn up for sale very often, the algorithms won't have a "standard" price for the title, and will generally set a fairly high price.
This is because whoever wrote the algorithm assumed that a title with a low level of presence on the used book market is collectible, so the code sets the price of such titles at, say, 400% of the original MSRP. If no one buys at that price after X amount of time, the price gets lowered. If still no sale, it gets lowered again.
On the other hand, if it gets snapped up within seconds at that price, then the next time that system sees that title, it will set the price at, say, 1000% of MSRP.
The big downside of automated price normalization is that you basically never find a valuable collector's item at some lady's garage sale any more.
Ohhh okay. I thought that book was focusing on the inner sea exclusively. I thought it was weird that it would be that big. I had no real interest in that part specifically so I never picked it up. Thanks guys!
I think it's called Inner Sea World Guide because the Inner Sea is smack-dab in the middle of the map between Avistan and Garund, and the book covers both continents.
They don't call it the Golarion World Guide because there are still continents that aren't covered, that also weren't covered in Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting.
I can certainly see how that would cause confusion though. I wouldn't think to buy A Traveler's Guide to the Mediterranean if I wanted to know about Germany, Poland, or Sweden either.
In much the same way, Irrisen, The Land of the Mammoth Lords, Ustalav, and the Worldwound all make appearances in Inner Sea World Guide even if the name suggests they probably wouldn't because none are on the Inner Sea.
