So I posted in the comments in response to Paizo’s decision to print out-of-print adventure paths on demand, and thought I’d try to take the community’s temperature on something as somebody who is out a lot of time and money after collecting them. My thought was this:
I would suggest that older AP’s where half or more than half of the parts are out of print be POD as compendiums or grouped together like Wrath of the Runelords or Curse of the Crimson Throne (not totally rewritten like these two, just compiled together.) This way people can get a physical copy and the people that have spent a lot of time and money trying to track down this stuff can have a little something collectible that is identical in function, with only a difference in aesthetic. I would think everybody wins with this. Carrion Crown, Kingmaker, Skull & Shackles, Legacy of Fire, Jade Regent, and Wrath of the Righteous come to mind. Those were/are all rather expensive and hard to track down, and it’s not like they have a “single hole” that people need to patch, so grouping them together would make sense. It wouldn’t require people to spend a lot on a whole AP to just get a missing part. Examples of good AP’s to start reprinting piece by piece would be Iron Gods, Mummy’s Mask, and Shattered Star (Serpent’s Skull?). Reign of Winter, Council of Thieves, and Return of the Runelords were good plays by Paizo in this regard. All you have to do with these is start printing the first part again. So I wanted some community feedback on this. Would there be a difference to most of you all if this route was taken? It’s not like AP’s part by part are easier to read or something. This solution seems like it takes everyone’s circumstances into account.
I personally have spent probably upwards of $1300 dollars on out of print adventure paths of the past few years, and I’m not exactly rolling in it. These are like THE thing that I collect. These AP’s haven’t really been mentioned by Paizo in a long time, and the shift in focus to 2e makes their decision to suddenly start reprinting them surprising honestly. I’d love to go back in time and not buy them, and just wait for a POD option for everything. It was one of those things where, because they’re softcover, they are going to deteriorate over time, so if you wait and Paizo doesn’t do a POD (which seemed to be the case) then for all I know their gonna is cost double and I’ll just never get a physical copy.
But yeah, thoughts? It’s sort of creating (more like allowing for) collectible versions of Paizo’s products.
