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Your point about Strixhaven is very good. For the publication part, it would not require time travel, since Strength of Thousands was announced well before the first volume was published but it would make for quite an efficient production cycle for the Wizard's book.

Also, isn't is funny D&D releases a magic school oriented adventure path after Paizo published Strength of Thousands this year? For those who don't follow Pathfinder : adventure paths #169 to #174, Strength of Thousands, place the players in the role of students at the Magaambya magic...

They are following the same pattern as the Paizo adventure path model. Adventure material : 57-63 pages : 63-69% Setting: 6 -12 pages : 7-13% Options: 6 pages : 7% NPCs and Monsters: 16 pages : 18% Adventure material: 142 pages : 64% setting details: 27 pages : 12% Player material: 12 pages ...

ICV2 monitor the game market : This looks like the latest report : ICV2 Spring 2021

To better understand the level of integration of PF2 in Foundry. You have all the ancestries, class features, feats, spells, items and monsters details in the system. To add an ancestry, feat or spell to your character you just need to drag it to your sheet. The sheet will change its values and...

With 4% they actually lost ground since the global growth is 6% (They are down to 52.9% of campaigns), but yes it is impressive. What is even more impressive is D&D 3.5 that manages to gain some ground with its 6% growth! (They are up from 1.01% to 1.02%)

And this includes games that are not RPGs. We use Roll20 to play a space battle wargame using the hex grid, an image of a star field and the appropriate tokens. We can even turn the ships to they face the proper hex side.

Paizo should have hired them for the launch of their second edition!

Long term view: D&D is the sum of 3.5, 4e and 5e. PF is the sum of PF1 and PF2. It's a shame we don't see how high D&D 5 peaked before going down. Nor do we see the raise of CoC. Anyone knows why Q3 2019 is the CoC quarter? We can also see the slow lost of shares of 4e, 3.5 and PF1 at a...

I would have a different hypothesis. The Foundry effect. (Foundry Site) PF1 continues its steady declines in usage share on Roll20. In the previous quarters you can see PF2 slowly converting PF1 games. The lost PF2 games in Q4 2020 either don't exist or they are elsewhere. ORR group data...

That 4 months old report shows the moment PF started gaining shares again, it will be nice to see the numbers for Q4 to see if the trend continues. Year Quarter 2nd 1st Total 2019 Q2 6.46% 6.46% 2019 Q3 0.57% 5.72% 6.29% 2019 Q4 1.13% 4.97% 6.10% 2020 Q1 1.23% 4.49% 5.72% 2020 Q2...

They usually publish the quarterly 2 weeks after it ends. The Q4 2020 is about a month late ...the re-tweet looks like an error from Chaosium...

This is the report for Q3 2020 that was published on October 15th 2020? This was covered 4 months ago...

Could you give an example of what elements you are talking about? I'll give an example: In the Earthdawn RPG (any of the 4+ editions), there is a direct connection between the game mechanics and the narrative element. A "fifth circle elementalist" is something you would use both in and out of...