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Is This The World Record For Most Official RPG Monsters?
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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 7687985" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>There are now 100 issues of Pathfinder Adventure Path. Each PF AP has eight pages of bestiary material. That's before we touch 61 modules and another 230 PFS Scenarios, which typically have 2-4 pages more of monsters in a module and 2 more in a PFS Scenario, each. And that tips the scales.</p><p></p><p>The same can be said for world setting / adventure material at this point. And to suggest that Golarion now has more gaming material written about it than Forgotten Realms does is a rather bold statement, but it's true. Page count is now north of 18,000 of adventure and setting material. C-R-A-Z-Y numbers when you consider the time frame in which that stuff has rolled out. </p><p></p><p>People ridiculed WotC for the ridiculous number of hardcovers 3.5 generated. They simply ran out of things to write about and slap between two hardcovers. All of that is a fair observation. But the truth is that Paizo blew by all of THAT via softcover publications by several orders of magnitude now. When it comes to uptake, it turns out that modules and setting material sells quite well, thank-you-very-much.</p><p></p><p>The Paizo publication machine has become monstrous in scope. It is so large that in house at Paizo, only one guy (Mark Moreland) comes close to actually having read it all, or nearly all (he's probably the only one who has read more than 2/3rd of it, tbh). </p><p></p><p>At this stage, the only thing that D&D IP can claim a clear "quantity" record on in terms of published pages is novel support. That record will be held by WotC for many, many more years to come I suspect. However, at current publication rates, <em>Pathfinder Tales</em> is starting to mass a rather large library. It's still dwarfed by WotC's - but it is actually starting to make a dent in that massive head start. The fact is is even perceptibly catching up <em>at all</em> in terms of page count for novel support is quite remarkable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 7687985, member: 20741"] There are now 100 issues of Pathfinder Adventure Path. Each PF AP has eight pages of bestiary material. That's before we touch 61 modules and another 230 PFS Scenarios, which typically have 2-4 pages more of monsters in a module and 2 more in a PFS Scenario, each. And that tips the scales. The same can be said for world setting / adventure material at this point. And to suggest that Golarion now has more gaming material written about it than Forgotten Realms does is a rather bold statement, but it's true. Page count is now north of 18,000 of adventure and setting material. C-R-A-Z-Y numbers when you consider the time frame in which that stuff has rolled out. People ridiculed WotC for the ridiculous number of hardcovers 3.5 generated. They simply ran out of things to write about and slap between two hardcovers. All of that is a fair observation. But the truth is that Paizo blew by all of THAT via softcover publications by several orders of magnitude now. When it comes to uptake, it turns out that modules and setting material sells quite well, thank-you-very-much. The Paizo publication machine has become monstrous in scope. It is so large that in house at Paizo, only one guy (Mark Moreland) comes close to actually having read it all, or nearly all (he's probably the only one who has read more than 2/3rd of it, tbh). At this stage, the only thing that D&D IP can claim a clear "quantity" record on in terms of published pages is novel support. That record will be held by WotC for many, many more years to come I suspect. However, at current publication rates, [I]Pathfinder Tales[/I] is starting to mass a rather large library. It's still dwarfed by WotC's - but it is actually starting to make a dent in that massive head start. The fact is is even perceptibly catching up [I]at all[/I] in terms of page count for novel support is quite remarkable. [/QUOTE]
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