I'm hoping someone from Paizo can answer this for me, but anyone with the information I thank in advance. My question is this: will the content in the Adventure paths be reprinted down the line and appear in Core Books? For example, the APs have already shown several new playable races, tons of new gear and a few new connections and spells, not to mention gazette entries for locations.
Will all this (eventually) show up in Core Books down the line? I don't know if I can shell out $10~$20 per AP module (each being a small sum of 60~70 pages, which is admittedly not that much when you consider if you're not using the story 80% of that is now irrelevant to you).
Is that the draw of the Adventure Path sets? 100% unique information that will not appear anywhere else? I find it hard to swallow if very important information (much like this last module containing very important information about the Drift and its properties and characteristics) like this secreted away in modules people may not be interested in purchasing.
If the history of Pathfinder is anything to go by, some of the content in the APs will get into hardcovers eventually. It comes down to what the developers believe it interesting or important enough to spend pages to reprint (some of the setting information, especially, will likely be reprinted in Pact Worlds).
But, yeah, that's part of the draw of the Adventure Paths (it's also the draw of the hardcovers). If you want all the Starfinder content, you may wish to consider purchasing all of the Starfinder products.
If the history of Pathfinder is anything to go by, some of the content in the APs will get into hardcovers eventually. It comes down to what the developers believe it interesting or important enough to spend pages to reprint (some of the setting information, especially, will likely be reprinted in Pact Worlds).
But, yeah, that's part of the draw of the Adventure Paths (it's also the draw of the hardcovers). If you want all the Starfinder content, you may wish to consider purchasing all of the Starfinder products.
Well, the theory is that you don't want all of the Starfinder content. For example, you don't want the adventure that's the bulk of the AP, but you might want the couple of pages of a race or on Drift mechanics.
This is the point I was trying to ask/make. I don't want the story-specific items or characters, settings etc.
I do however, want the content in the back matter of the APs (general spells, equipment, races, bestiary entries, etc.).
I'd be surprised if, at the very least, those didn't all eventually make it into the SRD. That seems to be the MO on the PF SRD.
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Some things presented in the backs of the APs will eventually make it into hardcovers. Just like monsters from the Pathfinder AP bestiaries have later appeared in hardback Pathfinder Bestiaries, so will some monsters from the Starfinder AP Alien Archives later show up in Starfinder Alien Archive hardbacks. Other information and articles from the APs will appear in Starfinder hardbacks — notably, the gazetteers of Absalom Station and Castrovel from the Dead Suns AP have gone into Pact Worlds, along with some of the Drift information from Starfinder AP #4 (basically how the Drift works, but not the gazetteer of Alluvion aand notable locations of the Drift).
That being said, we don't have Campaign Setting or Player Companion product lines for Starfinder, so the only way we have to regularly present new information — both rules and setting material — is through the Adventure Paths, and we will continue to do so going forward. Otherwise, new material can only come out in big hardback rulebooks, which are on a much slower release schedule (approximately three per year) than monthly softcover Adventure Paths.