Vote: Are you interested in a bi-monthly or monthly release of the adventure decks?

[brad2411]

I am good with monthly with a gap as they have now. I finish an adventure path usually within the allotted time. It takes me about 2-4 weeks to get through one chapter and when rise was coming out that means I was stuck for a month or more to continue playing the game.

If you are also playing the OP then you need to take that into consideration when you play. It is like my subscription to the adventure path line, I know that if I start playing an AP then I am not going to finish it before the next one comes out. I still subscribe to the AP line because I am a collector and like having all the books. If money gets tight I unsubscribe and then buy the books I missed at a later date when I have the money. You also do not need to play the new set right when you get it.

In fact I will be replaying Rotrl with some friends that have never played the adventure card game in a few weeks. That will not stop me from buying or playing the next set.

[Michael Klaus]

Just thinking about simple homeplay I am okay either way since I would simply stop buying if time/expenses wouldn't allow me to keep up.

For OP I always thought that the original timeframe of six months was pretty tight. Aren't there like 36 scenarios in season of the shackles, too? But I have no experience in that at all.

[Myfly]

Michael Klaus wrote:

Just thinking about simple homeplay I am okay either way since I would simply stop buying if time/expenses wouldn't allow me to keep up.

For OP I always thought that the original timeframe of six months was pretty tight. Aren't there like 36 scenarios in season of the shackles, too? But I have no experience in that at all.

Yes there are over 30 more compared to the homeplay version.

So could you do double the game load within 6 months?

[elcoderdude]

The OP Season of the Shackles has 28 scenarios.
Adventure 1: 6 scenarios
Adventure 2: 4 scenarios
Adventure 3: 4 scenarios
Adventure 4: 4 scenarios
Adventure 5: 4 scenarios
Adventure 6: 6 scenarios

[Greyhawke115]

Bi-monthly, assuming that means every other month :)

[StrykerWolf]

I'm not sure that I care so much about whether the release schedule is monthly or bi-monthly. I care more about the volume of content that is released in a year.

If Paizo were to release 2 complete APs in a single year, that would probably be too much content for me, both in expense and in time. What would almost certainly happen is that I would discontinue my subscription for an AP, intending to start back up again with the next AP. But then I would likely never pick it up again because I will get distracted by something else.

If Paizo would continue to release about 1.5 APs in a single year (what they are doing right now), I'm ok with that. It gives me a little less time to completely explore sending multiple parties through each AP, but still gives me sufficient time to at least run through once or twice prior to the new AP starting, and still give me some time for other gaming. A couple of months buffer between the end of one AP and the start of the next gives sufficient time to finish 1-2 run-throughs, assuming a monthly release cycle.

If Paizo were to release only 1 AP per year (bi-monthly), that might actually be a bit on the slow side for me. I do think there is sufficient content in a given AP for a year's worth of plays, and a full year would give me sufficient time to completely explore all of it, but I will also start to get bored. For example, with RotR, I ran 3 different parties of 4 all the way through (and more parties through up to the 4th/5th pack). It started to get a bit stale after that.

So, to sum up, I like what Paizo is doing right now - having the monthly subscription makes sure that I always have some new content to work with, but the break between APs gives me sufficient time to wrap up the previous AP before starting the new one. Without that break, I might not continue my subscription.