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I've been a subscriber since the beginning and, at this point, I have 145 Adventure Path books and 50+ stand alone adventures. Besides the adventures themselves, there are a ton of rules and character options contained in those 200 volumes... more than anyone can reasonably keep track of.
Proposal, now that we're kicking off Pathfinder 2.0, I'd like to suggest that Paizo consider publishing an Anthology at the end of each year (or each summer, at the end of their cycle) that reprints all the new spells, feats, ancestries, backgrounds, classes and sub-classes, monsters and threats, etc. that were published in the adventure paths and stand alone modules Don't waste any space on context or fluff for them (other than maybe a teaser paragraph for the AP/adventure), just reprint the stats and rules.
I suspect it would be a fairly quick/easy/cheap product to put together given that all the content would already be created and would just need to get formatted into a new book.
I don't think it would hurt existing AP/adventure sales because I doubt there are many people who only buy APs/adventures for the monsters and spells. But I do think a decent number of folks who don't currently buy the APs or adventures might pick up an Anthology to get the extra crunch for their home campaigns. And then I know that, even as (ESPECIALLY as) a current AP/adventure subscriber, I'd pay the extra money to get all the crunch from the year collected in one place so that if I want to use a cool feat or background I saw in an AP once, I won't have to go flipping through dozens of books to find it. At 1/year, each Anthology would corral goodies 12 AP volumes and 1-2 modules each year. That's a lot easier to reference and transport if I'm playing in Pathfinder Society or something.
Anyway, just a suggestion. I'd be curious what other GMs and players think. Would you buy an Anthology each year? And are you a current AP/adventure subscriber?
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Why would such a product sell when 2e.aonprd.com and pfs.d20pfsrd.com will already have that content available for free?
I would like it, but I doubt it would sell well enough to justify a print edition.
A pdf however might, layout isn't necessarilly cheap buuttttt the art is already made.
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Why would such a product sell when 2e.aonprd.com and pfs.d20pfsrd.com will already have that content available for free?
PFS: you are required to own the book the rules come from to use them so if you don't buy everything, it cold be a huge boon to pick up a single item to cover multiple releases.
Updates: since they almost never errata rules unless there is a new print run, this would allow incremental, mid print run fixes.
People that want crunch separate from fluff: some books have lots of background info but little player info for instance, A player might want something that collects all that player info by itself. For the player that likes their own books, it allows a much smaller collection of book with no chance of finding out adventure info.
Then there are guys like us who will buy anything Paizo puts out related to PF. At least a PDF would be great. I agree, for what it's worth.
It is very rare for Paizo to put out anything without having a PDF version available. The Pathfinder comics are the only published material with game rules and no PDF counterpart that I know of.