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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9154822" data-attributes="member: 907">Right. And the cost of making each of those books is approximately fixed, so you'd be spending 3 times the money for 1.8 times the income. And at this point we run into two different kinds of approximation:1. How many books is optimal for generating the biggest absolute profit?2. How many books is optimal for generating the biggest return on investment?Because even if doubling the release schedule would increase the total profit by, say, 75%, that doesn't mean that it's a good idea. Perhaps you could spend the money you'd spend on writers/artists/etc. on something else entirely and make even more profit.That sounds it has to be a comparison of apples and oranges, and/or some things going OOP. PF2 has been out for about 4 years now, which means 48 products just counting adventure path volumes. And that's in addition to the core rules, the GMG, various rules expansions, as well as all the setting books they've done – I'm counting 36 of those over at Paizo's site, which makes for a total of 84. Given the periodical-adjacent nature of the adventure paths, it's very possible that some of them have gone OOP, but certainly not that many. As a comparison, when I look at the Legendary Bundle at D&D Beyond, it has about 40 books in it when not counting minor digital exclusives which are more like what used to be Dragon articles back in the day.So what I think is going on is that your distributor includes all sorts of other D&D products under the D&D heading – things like D&D-branded dice sets, maps, and so on. It might also include alternate covers. Meanwhile, the equivalent offerings from Paizo get put under a different heading, probably because those lines are still the same as they were in PF1. Or maybe they're separating Pathfinder 2 from Pathfinder Adventure Path, which still maintains a continuous numbering scheme from first OGL/3.5 and then Pathfinder 1 – that would make the number make sense, as 35 matches the 36 I found on the website pretty well. Either that, or your distributor just sucks at getting Paizo things.</blockquote>

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