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Just released in PDF form is What Came Before: 25 Fantasy Backgrounds all designed for 5E. If you are looking for more choices for your character or even want to use these to give some more life to your NPCs, this is an excellent product for that...

Yes, this is all mostly a matter of semantics. The underlying issue at hand is that currently WotC is suffering from the stigma of "not producing any new books of their own". Crawford is saying that they do...sort of. Crawford is trying to split hairs on the word outsourcing. Fundamentally that...

He might not call it outsourcing but it is. Every outsourced product always has feedback from the company that controls the IP. This is not a unique thing and is part of the process of outsourcing. verb (used with object), outsourced, outsourcing. 1. (of a company or organization) to purchase...

Care to be more specific.

I love reading the Adventure Paths from Paizo. I don't particularly like Pathfinder or 3E, but I do enjoy reading them.

April 7th (Elemental Evil) - September 15th (Out of the Abyss) Seems like such a long time between releases. Yes, I know they are going release-lite with 5E but still seems a long time...to just get an adventure.

Turning a profit is fine...but I think it is priced out of many people's budget.

Charts are always misleading...is this gross sales, units sold, profit after paying the license fees?

Charts are always misleading...is this gross sales, units sold, profit after paying the license fees?

Who cares? I hate these sort of teaser announcements. Either tell us what it is or keep quiet until you can. This sort of thing always smells like desperation..."um we got nothin' right now, but, soon, we'll be awesome again!" Not to mention (as this thread shows us) the reality of the "big...

I liked the article. A lot of stuff I can use. Major complaints I've seen are... "I want my free game material to have pictures and look like a paid-for product." "I wouldn't have done it that way"...and with 5E you can do it your own way. However, for those of us who never got into Eberron and...

Then you are not the target audience...much the same way people who don't care about Birthright/Dark Sun/Planescape/Ravenloft/Greyhawk/1E/2E/3E/4E etc will never buy any of those pdfs.

To take this a step further...could this be a test to see if there is a market for a digital Dragon/Dungeon magazine for 5E? Could they be planning a Dragon magazine for $4.99 for a month's content? Instead of putting it behind a subscription, will they release a new monthly digital magazine...

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I'll disagree on some points... I did not like the maps that much. The coloring blurred together making it harder to differentiate areas. Also on some the numbers for locations were too close to the background color and hard to find. Some of the editing seemed sloppy. There were locations on...

4E tried that and look where that got them. No, Pathfinder made their niche by giving the fans what they wanted, a continuation of 3E. If they stop doing that then they will lose their place and a lot of fans.

As a relevant side question: Do you think the 3rd party publishers may be adding to the weight and bloat of Pathfinder? There is now so much material available from 3PP that it feels as if there is too many options. While Paizo has avoided much of the crunch rules (new classes, etc) which makes...

As a note of comparison, Forgotten Realms has about 105 different source material for it spanning 4 editions of D&D (excluding adventures and novels) (source: http://worldsofdnd.wordpress.com/product-lists/forgotten-realms/forgotten-realms-products/). According to Paizo...

I guess for me, I want something I can use without having to do lots of extra work in order to use it. Sure there are lots of work-arounds, but if I wanted to do that much work I wouldn't have spent the money and simply did it myself in the first place. The purpose of a published adventure is so...