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Can this become official board policy?

There's been a lot in this thread about flooding the market or starving it. I just ran across an example of some of what Paizo is going through with their current product planning. http://paizo.com/store/blog/v5748dyo5lhaf?This-is-My-Last-Transmission-My-Friend-Be From the look of it, they...

Personal experience - my wife has been interviewing for a job out of state. I looked up the local game stores in the college town we might be moving to, and they are all MTG focused with no mention of D&D or even PFS. I may be SOL on this hobby.

Some of what I've seen here is beyond just passive aggressive and borders on just plain abusive. I mean, we know that industry people in the past have posted on these boards, and that suggests to me that they still do, but without revealing their identities. Possibly they just lurk.

I think they may benefit from people not bothering to cancel subscriptions and people with hoarder mentalities. My wife has a couple of magazine subscriptions that just keep renewing and she wants to get around to reading them so she keeps them, but she never reads them and she never cancels...

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PbP? I don't know that acronym.

The problem isn't knowing where to buy the books. The problem is player attrition and having an infrastructure for helping new players get into the hobby. The stores offer a venue for new players who don't have friends that already play. I guess the ideal is that new players come into stores...

You are a horrible person. I don't need to interact with you anymore. Have a nice day.

It means that it was more successful than they had anticipated.

I think we'll see 2 AP a year as the minimum. I also think that we'll see Campaign Settings, but at a more measured rate. Maybe 1 per year. I would like to also see monster, modules, and howtos on how refluff a race/class into something else. That could be freebies on their site or some sort...

Both happened. It sold a bunch for a few years (2-4?) and then fizzled. There was a schism. Both happened. Multiple reasons for the schism and for the fizzling including a few that were directly connected. Both have been very well covered in this thread.

Thanks. Should be corrected now. Need to read over it again and make sure I didn't goof up somewhere else.

I'm unsure as to what point you're trying to make. I think we can say that in 2007/8 4e launched and burned brightly until it fizzled out in 2011/12, and during the time between then and when 5e launched Pathfinder carried the torch and made more money than D&D for that time. I also don't...

TSR was a producer of books for a long time. You'd have thought that they'd know how to manage the costs of production by 1997. However, they produced more books than they could sell to a degree that they went :):):):) up and WotC bought the corpse. That's just the most relevant example...

That's a flawed interpretation. The correct interpretation is this: If it made enough profit it wouldn't have gone dormant. Selling books is only part of that equation. You can sell plenty of books, but if you have too many returns or your cost of production is cumulatively too high, then...

That's a bit of a non-sequitur. The only numbers we have are the Icv2 numbers right? Unless you can convince walmart and amazon to give up their numbers (the video game industry struggled for years with this) you're kind of SOL. Really, the only people who know how much product is selling...

As long as it has hysterical parents groups and PTA meetings devoted to it, I think it could work. Maybe an episode of 60 minutes about it as well? Possibly someone claiming that their son summoned demons by playing Pathfinder and that the demons made him gay. That would get the game some...

What D&D has, that Pathfinder will never have is several years in which parents groups and and national news programs accuse it of corrupting the morals of the American youth. This is the reason that D&D is seared into the American conscious.