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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6561848" data-attributes="member: 22424">&quot;Hoard...&quot; and &quot;Rise...&quot; are about twice the price of a Pathfinder AP volume, but have about three times the adventure material. Partly this is because the Pathfinder volumes also include a fair amount of supplementary material that is just lacking, and partly it's because the WotC ones don't include many stat blocks - most of them are in the free online appendix.In fairness, I think WotC have realised that the format of Tyranny of Dragons doesn't really work, and so I'd expect future paths to be a single larger hardback (as with the upcoming path).I don't think adopting the Pathfinder model of more, smaller books would work for WotC, though. The problem is that sales of a series of adventures always start much stronger than they end - with every additional volume you shed a lot of customers. Pathfinder mitigates this a lot via the subscription model, which D&amp;D just can't do - WotC simply aren't set up for direct sales.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6561848, member: 22424"] "Hoard..." and "Rise..." are about twice the price of a Pathfinder AP volume, but have about three times the adventure material. Partly this is because the Pathfinder volumes also include a fair amount of supplementary material that is just lacking, and partly it's because the WotC ones don't include many stat blocks - most of them are in the free online appendix. In fairness, I think WotC have realised that the format of Tyranny of Dragons doesn't really work, and so I'd expect future paths to be a single larger hardback (as with the upcoming path). I don't think adopting the Pathfinder model of more, smaller books would work for WotC, though. The problem is that sales of a series of adventures always start much stronger than they end - with every additional volume you shed a lot of customers. Pathfinder mitigates this a lot via the subscription model, which D&D just can't do - WotC simply aren't set up for direct sales. [/QUOTE]

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