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Why not do one big 12 volume year long AP that goes from level 1-20?
More than enough time to get there and more than enough room to expand on anything you want to.
- Torger
Because having 2 Adventure Paths a year has many advantages that outweigh having only 1 a year.
The biggest being if you don't like any one AP, you only have to wait 6 months for the next one rather than a year.
Wait, you guys realize you're NOT supposed to burn him, right?
Poor thing. =(
But 'e turned me into a newt!
i got better...
Why not do one big 12 volume year long AP that goes from level 1-20?
More than enough time to get there and more than enough room to expand on anything you want to.
- Torger
Because having 2 Adventure Paths a year has many advantages that outweigh having only 1 a year.
The biggest being if you don't like any one AP, you only have to wait 6 months for the next one rather than a year.
That makes sense.
I didn't mean switching over to 12 volume APs forever but I think doing it once and ending up with a super detailed mega campaign from level 1-20 would be pretty sweet.
I'd be stoked about it anyway.
- Torger
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James,
Do you think there's room for the possibility of some AP overlap? A one-time anniverssary-style celebration AP that runs for an entire year with 12 installments, but after #6 there is still another AP that starts up in the traditional format? Even if a kickstarted needed to be run to help comp some of the costs?
I know the main problem is manpower, but I feel like Paizo has a pretty strong stable of authors that it might be able to work out if it was a one time event. But that's just an outsider's perspective on something like that.
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Creative Director
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James,
Do you think there's room for the possibility of some AP overlap? A one-time anniverssary-style celebration AP that runs for an entire year with 12 installments, but after #6 there is still another AP that starts up in the traditional format? Even if a kickstarted needed to be run to help comp some of the costs?
I know the main problem is manpower, but I feel like Paizo has a pretty strong stable of authors that it might be able to work out if it was a one time event. But that's just an outsider's perspective on something like that.
Kickstarter isn't really necessary for Paizo, and wouldn't solve the problem anyway, since changing the point in a product's lifetime when the money comes in doesn't change the fact that if that money comes in all at once, the cash flow isn't there to support the day-to-day costs of running a business.
Ah. I thought it would be a good, workable idea.
But that's probably why I'm not really in business.
Has there ever been any consideration into the odd trilogy AP? Sometimes a DM wants to run more than a single adventure, but not a whole AP. I think it would be great to see some 3 issue trilogy arcs that span several levels, but don't require the level of time and commitment that running a full AP does.
Crypt of the Everflame/ Masks of the Living God/ City of Golden Death come to mind.
Also, the new supersized modules will take PCs from (for example) 1st to 6th level.