How would you say, for instance, Burnt Offerings compares to Whispering Cairn, size-wise? Did Dungeon tend to have larger installments than Pathfinder does, or smaller ones?
In other words, is a Pathfinder AP basically half the size of a Dungeon AP?
My assumption would be that Pathfinder adventures must be a bit bigger, since six installments in Pathfinder get you to about sixteenth level while the same in Dungeon gets you to more around twelfth. But XP ain't the sole indicator of module length.
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From what I can tell they are about the same length as far as page count and adventure content is concerned, though the DungeonAPs may be a tad longer. The big difference is 3.5 characters advanced in level considerably faster than in Pathfinder so levels 1-20 was more easily achievable given the size.
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It's been a while since I had my head in the Dungeon space... but if I recall correctly, the average adventure path installment in Dungeon was about 26 to 28 pages long. The longest one, IIRC, was Enemies of my Enemy, which clocked in at 46 pages, which is still shorter than the shortest Pathfinder AP adventure, which is usually around 48 to 50 pages long.
(Whispering Cairn plus the Diamond Lake backdrop was 50 pages long, minus a few pages that were advertisements. Burnt Offerings plus the Sandpoint article was 64 pages.)
So, assuming an average Dungeon installment lake of about 28 over 12 issues, that's 336 pages of adventure, not counting a support article like the Diamond Lake thing we'd do ever three or four issues.
And assuming an average Pathfinder installment of about 50 pages over 6 volumes, that's 300 pages of adventure, not counting the 10 to 20 additional pages each volume of support material and new monsters that feature in the adventure.
Thanks, JJ! That's exactly what I needed.
Thanks for double-checking!