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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8380751" data-attributes="member: 907">Adventure paths were very much a part of the success formula for Paizo. They had a solid adventure rep after doing Dungeon for a couple of years, including two adventure paths that came out of the magazine (Shackled City and Savage Tide).Conventional wisdom in the game industry was that adventures don't make money. I think Ryan Dancey once said that adventures, and to some extent the rest of the D&D product line, essentially were ads for the Player's Handbook that paid for themselves. Paizo instead made a product line focused on adventures, and to some degree the Pathfinder RPG was made because it didn't make any sense to publish adventures for a "dead" game. It seems to have worked out well for them.I think the adventure path concept is central here. With traditional adventure publishing, you make shortish adventures that the DM can drop into their campaign, whatever that may be. That means that as a DM, I am interested in buying an adventure that both has the correct level range, fits into my setting, and is otherwise appropriate for my campaign. That's a lot of requirements. But an adventure path instead provides me with a full campaign experience, from level 1 to wherever it ends up (20 in PF2, usually about 15-18 in PF1), and usually comes with a player's guide on things to consider in order to make appropriate PCs. That means that as long as I buy into the path's core idea, I'm sure to have use for the rest of it.</blockquote>

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