Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Why? Couldn't you just...not buy everything? You'd rather they made less stuff for other people instead?
D&D General Is DnD being mothballed?
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Vaalingrade
Legend
I too want to miss out on some of the best books in the game and also Forgotten Realms content.
Azzy
ᚳᚣᚾᛖᚹᚢᛚᚠ (He/Him)
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I see no other reason for actively desiring less product.
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
People keep saying this, but Paizo kept up a release schedule at that pace for over a decade (and is still doing so, I think; I don't pay much attention to PF2) and is doing fine.
Which is to say, it's not so much an issue of unsustainability as it is not hitting return on investment at the level a multinational conglomerate (or whatever Hasbro is) demands. For a small company that isn't looking to make nine-digit annual revenues, that release schedule seems to work just fine.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
I mean, and they are reaching a smaller audience.
darjr
I crit!
Paizo was the pioneer of the slow release cycle. How soon we forget. I think they even had to defend it a few times too.
I also remember people claiming WotC was copying the tactic from Paizo.
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
If you're implying that they'd reach a larger audience if they released fewer products, I don't think there's much (if anything) to support that supposition.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Actually seems quite plausible to me, based on not just WotC success but that of most indies: with Paizo's name recognition, I think they could leverage a less breakneck pace to grow their audience even more. Ballooning product lines are inherently limiting.
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Alzrius
The EN World kitten
Really? Because looking at their release page for 2008, after they went their own way, it doesn't look that slow to me.
Even if we snip out things like play-aids (i.e. map packs, etc.) and organized play adventures and stick purely to sourcebooks and modules, here's what they released that year:
- Sins of the Saviors (Rise of the Runelords #5)
- Hangman's Noose
- Crucible of Chaos
- Spires of Xin-Shalast (Rise of the Runelords #6)
- River Into Darkness
- Curse of the Crimson Throne Player's Guide
- Edge of Anarchy (Curse of the Crimson Throne #1)
- Guide to Korvosa
- Classic Monsters Revisited
- Pathfinder Chronicles Gazetteer
- The Demon Within
- Seven Days to the Grave (Curse of the Crimson Throne #2)
- Flight of the Red Raven
- Escape from Old Korvosa (Curse of the Crimson Throne #3)
- Tower of the Last Baron
- Revenge of the Kobold King
- Guide to Darkmoon Vale
- A History of Ashes (Curse of the Crimson Throne #4)
- Skeletons of Scarwall (Curse of the Crimson Throne #5)
- Pathfinder Campaign Setting
- Crown of Fangs (Curse of the Crimson Throne #6)
- Shadow in the Sky (Second Darkness #1)
- Hungry are the Dead
- Treasure of Chimera Cove
- Elves of Golarion
- Gods and Magic
- Children of the Void (Second Darkness #2)
- The Pact Stone Pyramid
- Into the Darklands
- The Armageddon Echo (Second Darkness #3)
- Osirion, Land of Pharaohs
- Guide to Absalom
- Endless Night (Second Darkness #4)
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