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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5451431" data-attributes="member: 20741">All of their subscribers follow this "adventures are read for entertainment" model to one extent or another; moreover, it's not hard to see why.Consider for a moment the sheer volume of adventure material that Paizo puts out in a given year:12 x 96 pp. Adventure Paths6 x 32 pp. stand alone Modules~25 x 16 pp. Pathfinder Society ScenariosThat's ~ 1,744 pages of adventure material per year that Paizo publishes. The setting material which Paizo publishes is in addition to thie material, and approaches an additional 300-400 pages per year, exclusive of hardcover content.2,150 pages + per year. That's a LOT.You could be an extremely busy GM with gamers camped outside your front door begging to play at your table every night of the week. And you would still have a very hard time using all of that adventure material in one year.More frequently, customers will be playing one AP for 12-24 months, while at the same time they continue to purchase the other APs that are published during their campaign. That adventure material is read as it is acquied monthly (to varying degrees). That GM may return to it when the current campaign is over -- and it may not be. Some other AP may get the nod for the "next campaign."If a campaign last 24months, there will have been at least three (and maybe four) other APs the GM has collected during the course of the length of time it takes to play that campaign. It is extremely difficult to "keep up" with each AP -- and few even try to do so.Now, it is true that for a minority of customers, the ability to collect and read APs is as close to gaming as they get in their current circumstances (for a variety of personal reasons). But the fact that many  adventures are only read (and rarely actually run) has been true for decades. It isn't something new to Paizo or Pathfinder. What is new, is that Paizo recognizes that reality and openly acknowledges that the AP format inherently develops greater "reader interest" from issue to issue than non- AP issues of Dungeon Magazine did.  That's one of the reasons the AP format was so successful.The point to take away is that there is no shame in recognizing that there is great value-in-use in terms of how well an adventure reads. To be a great adventure you have to: (1) Look good, (2) Read Well and (3) Play Well. All three factors are important. It's not just about the gameplay.When you look at the sheer mass of hardcvoer material that was put out for 3.xx, I expect that the adventures of that era that were read at least once was at a frequently higher than the cornucopia of rules wihch were read at least once during the same time line.  The broad mass of those rule books were flipped through, glanced over, and put on a shelf.The ability of a gamer to purchase FAR more material than they can read (let alone use at the table) in a given period of time is one of the main things which keeps this hobby going.  </blockquote>

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