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Pathfinder on the bookstore shelves? Forked Thread: The 3.5 renaissance!
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cangrejoide
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If D&D tanked enough that Hasbro would sell the rights ( which seems unlike since D&D has more value as a brand name than and actual P&P RPG) or even licensed, I would be very curious about what a White Wolf version of D&D would be. ( If scarred lands are any evidence of this then I say it would be awesome.)
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Unfortunately, this is my view as well. My long-running group, and the other I play in, are sticking with 3.5.
I love a lot of the fluff in the APs, modules and campaign setting, but the rule changes seem like anything but an improvement.
ProfessorPain
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Something like Savage Worlds has a lot of mainstream potential.
We've been working pretty hard to get our books into bookstores, but there are a couple of inherent challenges. The first is our frequency. We release one Adventure Path volume, one Chronicles setting product, and either a 32-page Pathfinder Module or Pathfinder Companion player's supplement every single month. Bookstores generally do not carry products with no spines, so the 32-pagers are immediately below the threshold of what most major book retailers will want to carry. Sometimes a local manager or employee is a gamer and special orders these items for their store, but mass market distribution on these items is frankly really spotty, and is not factored into our profit models in a significant way.
The APs are likewise a challenge, because it is difficult to keep an entire story line in stock and, frankly speaking, the people who order books for bookstores do not know what an "Adventure Path" is, or why there are six volumes in each one, or what have you. We've been explaining this for three years, but with some buyers is is an uphill battle.
What major book chain buyers want is a reasonably priced hardcover book that can be shelved "spine out". That's why the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting hardcover is the most likely book you'll see in a Barnes & Noble and Borders. When the Core Rulebook and Bestiary come out this summer, my expectation is that they will be fairly widely available in major book chains.
This is something we're working on nearly constantly. I've got two staff members half-way across the country visiting Books-a-Million (who has been great) to show off covers and sell sheets for the new game, and I imagine they have been very well received.
--Erik Mona
Publisher
Paizo Publishing, LLC
The APs are likewise a challenge, because it is difficult to keep an entire story line in stock and, frankly speaking, the people who order books for bookstores do not know what an "Adventure Path" is, or why there are six volumes in each one, or what have you. We've been explaining this for three years, but with some buyers is is an uphill battle.
What major book chain buyers want is a reasonably priced hardcover book that can be shelved "spine out". That's why the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting hardcover is the most likely book you'll see in a Barnes & Noble and Borders. When the Core Rulebook and Bestiary come out this summer, my expectation is that they will be fairly widely available in major book chains.
This is something we're working on nearly constantly. I've got two staff members half-way across the country visiting Books-a-Million (who has been great) to show off covers and sell sheets for the new game, and I imagine they have been very well received.
--Erik Mona
Publisher
Paizo Publishing, LLC
Aus_Snow
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I go to Borders and B&N a lot. Over at Borders, it's 4e, Anima RPG, and a couple of White Wolf books. Over at B&N, it's 4e, 3.5, Anima RPG, L5R, Burning Sands, Traveller (Mongoose), Serenity, BSG, quite a few White Wolf books, and Dark Heresy stuff. Their RPG section looks like an actual RPG section. At least that's what the stores here in the Bay Area are stocked with, maybe it's different in other parts of the country.
Borders is experiencing major financial difficulties at the moment. They're looking for a buyer, and in the mean time they've vastly trimmed down their offerings. I wouldn't expect much from them until everything gets sorted out (the latest rumor is that the Canadian chain Chapters/Indigo is looking at acquiring them).
Barnes & Noble has a much wider assortment of RPG stuff at the moment. Their 4e displays around here seem to have just about everything, and there's a smattering of White Wolf and assorted other stuff as well (most provided by White Wolf's distribution arm, PSI). I've been seeing the Pathfinder Campaign Setting hardcover again and again recently, though stores seem to have only about two copies at a time and these can sell out quickly. They also seem to stock our books Classic Monsters Revisited and Gods & Magic with some frequency.
--Erik
Barnes & Noble has a much wider assortment of RPG stuff at the moment. Their 4e displays around here seem to have just about everything, and there's a smattering of White Wolf and assorted other stuff as well (most provided by White Wolf's distribution arm, PSI). I've been seeing the Pathfinder Campaign Setting hardcover again and again recently, though stores seem to have only about two copies at a time and these can sell out quickly. They also seem to stock our books Classic Monsters Revisited and Gods & Magic with some frequency.
--Erik
