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Since Fantasy Grounds does a much better job of supporting PF (both editions) than Roll20, I think their quarterly release information (which Morrus helpfully posted here) is probably a more accurate guide to PF trends. One interesting thing regarding the Fantasy Grounds data is that it...

I think you got confused about which numbers I'm comparing. (Which is reasonable; I can see how my post was confusing without some context.) To help provide that context: The May 5th-7th numbers weren't the big dips and drops I was talking about -- those are the numbers I was saying were very...

Yeah, the ranking posted on Amazon changes from hour to hour. What you want to look at is a daily aggregator of the ranking which is much more stable. The daily aggregate numbers are the one's I've been posting, taken from here: Amazon Sales Estimator There's a lot of variation between these...

A brief update for those who find tracking these kinds of numbers interesting. Both 5e and PF2 have seen big shifts in Amazon rankings over the past three days: Over the last couple days (May 5th-7th) 5e's rank has slipped back into the 120ish range (5th: 118, 6th: 126, 7th: 127). Over the last...

That's fair. I certainly agree that the earlier they announced the coming of PF2, the more time they could give 3PPs to adjust. (Though there's a bit of a double-edged sword here, since I'm sure the announcement of PF2 dramatically dropped sales in 3PP PF1 products too. So in that sense, 3PPs...

While I can understand these publisher’s frustration, it’s not clear there was any alternative open to Paizo that would have made things any better. Paizo let the 3PPs know a new edition was coming over a year in advance. Suppose instead Paizo had told them two years in advance. That would...

Yeah, this seems to be a consequence of Paizo having to write the adventure before the rules were finished, and before they had a good feel for the difficulty of the game. (The Plaguestone module suffers from a similar problem, and is brutal.) In any case, you’re definitely not alone in your...

I'm a little confused by this "divergence in Amazon data" for 5e and PF2 people are trying to explain. Their ranking trajectories mirror each other pretty closely, and the big picture changes in rankings all seem to have pretty straightforward explanations. So, looking at the daily tracker...

Was that the announcement they made in March? Or is this an announcement that was just made? After their March announcement, they stated in April that they were opening warehouse services again, using social distancing measures, and were back to fulfilling orders...

There's no question that they started off hot, with two of their most popular APs. But whether there was a general downward trend in quality is an interesting question. Looking through the 25 APs that Paizo has released so far, the APs I feel were generally not well-received were: Second...

By the way, thank you for posting this. It's great to get some quantitative data (not merely ranking data) to sink one's teeth into. (Where did you get this, by the way? Do you have access to more than a year of data? If you did, one could start making educated guesses about all sorts of...

Could be. Though note that this was April 2019, not April 2020. Why would there have been a large surge of 2e meatspace games being forced online then, before COVID-19 was even on the scene? (And why a surge in 2e in particular, and not other RPGs?) Inquiring minds want to know!

Actually, D&D 5e is pretty flat too. (Excluding the last month, where everything jumps.) The most interesting change actually looks to be with D&D 2e, which triples its Jan-Mar numbers in April, and stays there. Wonder why that was...

There’s no question that the PF1 forum on Paizo is still active. But there are more active threads and more new posts in the PF2 forum. (Just to be clear, I don’t take this to mean anything regarding the success or lack thereof of PF2. After all, it would be very surprising if this wasn’t the...

Paizo has allowed Roll20 to do all of its APs, it’s just that Roll20 has fallen way behind schedule in making them available. (By contrast, Fantasy Grounds has kept up with each leg of Paizo’s APs as they’ve been released.) Apparently staff shortages at Roll20 and other delays have something to...

Unfortunately, I think COVID-19 has begun to lead to changes in their release schedule: https://paizo.com/products/btq021bz/discuss?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Absalom-City-of-Lost-Omens#40 “Update: Sorry to be the bearer of bad news folks, but unfortunately Absalom: City of Lost Omens and the...

That’s intentional. Paizo tries to stagger it’s APs so that it releases one “mainstream” AP and one more experimental AP each year (though sometimes scheduling issues result in back to back mainstream or back to back experimental APs). So looking at the APs they‘ve produced for the PF1 ruleset...

Thanks for posting this; it’s helpful to get a feel for what having it is like. How are you feeling now? And have your wife or child started showing any symptoms?

FWIW, I think the answers you're looking for are in this paragraph: "Vesk reproductive biology has resulted in a high population, a fact that early vesk society struggled to cope with. Vesk Prime simply did not have enough land, resources, or jobs for an ever-growing population. Rather than...

One interesting resource I just found that sheds some light on this: Amazon Sales Estimator - Estimate Monthly Sales Volume per Product Just plug in the ISBN-10 number for the product (e.g., 0786965606 for the PHB 5e book, 1640781684 for the Core PF2 book, and so on), and it provides a...