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I recently got a small handful of cash as a result of selling some old stuff to a used book store, and immediately thought "Cool! Maybe I can pick up the PDFs of Inner Sea Combat and Inner Sea Gods!"
Then I looked, and there's this huge price gap between them. I had thought that they were comparable hardcover books. Is one of them massively smaller than the other or something? Why the price differential?
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Inner Sea Gods is a long (250ish pages) hardcover book with tons of info about the various gods and lots of faith specific crunch.
Inner Sea Combat is a shorter (60ish pages) soft cover book with various bits of info about different martial schools and crunch for martial type characters.
So which to buy sort of depends on what you want it for. I personally prefer Inner Sea Gods, but I own both and like them both.
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Inner Sea Combat is a softcover with far fewer pages than the 200+ page Inner Sea Gods.
ISG has a lot more stuff to look at and even with the higher price, I think you'd enjoy it :) There's a ton of options for divine casters, and a few treats for those of other classes as well.
Ah, so there IS a big page difference. That explains it.
Hm, okay, so which would you say offers useful goodies for the broadest range of possible PCs?
Do what now? Paizo has coupons? Sorry, inexperienced shopper here.
Right, what's all this, then?
http://paizo.com/store/blog/v5748dyo5lg52?Make-Your-CMB-Check-to-Grab-This- Sale
- Coupon for 10% off any one order in May (with some restrictions, see full article)
And the coupon is an untyped bonus, which stacks with Pathfinder Advantage...
Pathfinder AdvantageAnd what's that?
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Pathfinder AdvantageAnd what's that?
Pathfinder Advantage is the 15% discount you get off almost everything else when you subscribe to the Adventure Path line (which, itself, comes with a 30% discount and free PDF).
If you're a Paizoholic like I am (just look at that list of my subscriptions ...) then subscribing to the Adventure Path line more than pays for itself, even if you never actually use the AP books. If you do use them (and I do) then it's an even better bargain!
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Oh wow, thanks!
No problem. Your arguments are always well reasoned and thought out, and I appreciate the thoroughness of them. Not to mention the PFS snowball thread :) Also, those of us who peruse the customer service board to help them out need to stick together.
And don't forget you still have two days (give or take a few hours depending on geographical location) left to use the 10% off coupon! :)
Inner Sea Combat from the Campaign Setting line is the Golarion themed companion to Ultimate Combat from the RPG line. Likewise, we have Inner Sea Magic for Ultimate Magic, Inner Sea NPC Codex for the NPC Codex, Inner Sea Bestiary for Bestiary 1/2/3/4.
Inner Sea Gods is one of the few hardcovers from the Campaign Setting line and provides information on the deities that has been updated and expanded beyond what was in Gods and Magic and the articles in various APs.
I would honestly suggest ISG, I own both books and feel I got more bang PER buck than ISC.
ISG
-Tons of interesting fluff that is often relevant
-3 PrC that are actually good
-A mountain of feats that mostly suck, but a few good gems in there
-Tons of cool items
-The PrCs need information from the fluff parts of the book to work, so it's not all online
ISC
-Some semi-interesting, but situationally useful fluff
-1 good PrC (Ulfen Guard)
-Tons of terrible archetypes and like 3-4 good ones including a Cavalier Archetype that lets you make spring attacks that count as mounted charges and don't provoke AoO
-some items
-Because this is a primarily crunch book it is all on the d20PFsrd
Once again I highly suggest Inner Sea Gods over ISC.
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-The PrCs need information from the fluff parts of the book to work, so it's not all online
Yes it is. The Archives of Nethys have all of it, for example (look under Deities for the Boons). d20pfsrd specifically just doesn't.
My mistake, but even then ISG is still a much better piece.