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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jared Rascher" data-source="post: 5518799" data-attributes="member: 28825">The playtests were indeed hot on the heels of the APG, but there is a little more to my trepidation than that.First, the question was asked, "how much time would you have between books?"Well, that depends on the type of book.  The APG was  largely a "player's option" book, along the line of the Complete series for 3.5.  I've not done a line by line analysis, but the APG actually seemed to have more actual rules than any of the "Complete" books, due to the fact that there was very little flavor text and none of the example characters that WOTC used, nor were there any organization write ups or the like.Also, Paizo had indicated that the APG was suppose to constitute the majority of the "player option" style books, and the statement was made that they didn't want to go the path of the Complete series, so the APG was largely suppose to be "it."  However, it wasn't.  That having been said, I've said before on Paizo's forums that if Ultimate Magic had come out at Gen Con this year  (one year between big player option books), and Ultimate Combat came out next year, I'd be a lot more comfortable with the pacing.As to not buying a book that references things that are suppose to be in the PRD until they are actually in the PRD . . . honestly, I know I'm one person, but I really want to make sure I hold a company to their promises.Its not that I don't think the people at Paizo are good people, but I think that anyone can succumb to the temptation of pushing back a promise when they are pinched for time, and if everything sells well, and no one seems worry about the PRD, its easy to push it back and not do it, much like the pushing back that has gone on with the FAQ system in order to keep new RPG books coming out.Now, if there are good sales for the AP, why would this even be a problem?  Because I'm still worried about the entry level player, someone that is just getting into the system and the APs.  I really worry that the model that is being adopted is eventually going to result in selling more and more stuff to the same group of players, until burnout occurs within that closed set of buyers.</blockquote>

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