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I will flat out disagree with your assessment. You are ignoring the reality that they sold mostly digital materials. They didn't sell that many hard copy CRBs. In the TTRPG industry, print costs are tremendously high. When they sold the digital copies, they were making mostly pure profit. This...

Paizo didn't give away anything. They made over a million dollars in sales. Consider the only physical property involved in that bundle was the CRB, and while that was a great price, it wasn't the main seller. Everything else sold was digital. The only costs involved were the actual development...

Just before 2e released I told the players at my lodge that I would start running 2e for them so they could try it out. At that time we were able to run a total 3 to 4 tables at our monthly Saturday event in two slots. We had about 12 dedicated players who made at least one of the slots and...

I think that's probably the main group that hates 2e. That group craves overpowered characters. In a homebrew setting, that's perfectly fine. The GM can easily add some more levels to the monsters to compensate for the power level in order to make challenging encounters. I run Pathfinder Society...

So what you are saying is that you haven't played Pathfinder Second Edition. I started playing and running AD&D back in 1979. I enjoyed the role play aspect of the game and the tremendous amount of fun I had for years. It is quite obvious that what Gygax and Arneson started has evolved over...

It comes down to whether or not you've played 2e. There is great balance in the system. There are plenty of options available, and even more with the addition of the APG to the system. "My experience with players is that those who don't like 2e have never played it beyond the playtest. If one...

The main rulebook is not what really drives profitability for a company. Game companies like WotC and Paizo make far more money on selling accessories, additional rulebooks, expansions, and adventures. I am far more excited by the upcoming Pathfinder 2e Beginner Box and how that is going to...

Back when PF1 came out it didn't have a D&D 5e to deal with. PF2 has done quite well when that is taken into account. They also had a larger print run for the 2e CRB compared to 1e books over the years due to changing circumstances with the tariff wars. Objectively speaking? PaizoCon had over...

Paizo is doing quite well with Pathfinder Second Edition sales during a pandemic. They sold out of the first run of Core Rulebooks which is pretty good when you factor in the pandemic and tariff wars which are wreaking havoc in the TTRPG industry. Thanks to their Organized Play Foundation...

This was a rather informative article that explains quite a bit about things I wondered about. I am not surprised at the amount of face time that has to be invested in business. Personal connections have always been an important part of the business world in any segment of it.

Best I can do is provide you a link to the Paizo store page for them. That has pictures of them on it.

The Battle Cards are really nice. I got to use them a couple times before the pandemic kicked in and we had to cancel our Society events. I have pulled them out to use them when running online though. When players use Recall Knowledge, it is nice to have the information available to me so I can...

Someone else would have bought the property and maintained it. It was a brand with name recognition and a profitable product when managed by competent business professionals.

I am thankful she created Paizo. I am having such a great time playing the products they came up with, especially Pathfinder Second Edition. I still am not happy with her for enabling MTG to exist though. I still feel that was a crime against humanity which is offset by Pathfinder.

You can't stay neutral on a moving train - Howard Zinn. There's a lot of backlash coming from the failures of many to change the way they do things. History shows us this taking place repeatedly. The removal of statues honoring traitors to the United States, the demands for police reform, the...

I think we'll have one. Despite one individual who shall go nameless but definitely not blameless, the world is pouring a lot of resources into research in order to develop one. If nothing else, we'll get something that drops mortality really low. Plus it is going to mutate. Historically, these...

I am so bummed out over this even though I know this is also for the best. Since I started going to Gen Con it has become the highlight of my summer. Living tabletop gaming has just been devastated by this pandemic. I really hate sitting here knowing that I can't plan any live games for my...

I have always liked limiting magic in any campaign I ever ran. As a GM I felt like I had two choices, limit the magic or go full bore into a magic-oriented campaign. Back when I ran AD&D 1/2e I could do that and it worked well enough. When I got back into gaming with Pathfinder 1e, I had to make...

I'd say a lot of people have drawn erroneous conclusions based on what they want the results to be and are ignoring the reality of the world around them. But I can't change your minds. All I can do is to continue running and playing PFS2 sessions with the growing audience of players, the players...

I can promise you that PF2 was not at Origins because the Playtest is not Second Edition. There were quite a few substantial changes made before PF2 was finally released. The sessions that were at Origins were Playtest rules sessions, not Pathfinder Second Edition sessions. I think they were the...