Paizo Ends Pathfinder Adventure Path Softcovers, Switching to Quarterly Model

Paizo is ending its line of monthly Pathfinder Adventure Paths, with a new quarterly hardcover replacing the long-running product. Paizo announced the change yesterday on its blog, with the shift beginning next year. The new hardcover Adventure Paths will be a minimum of 256 pages and will have a retail price of $79.99, which is cheaper than the cost of purchasing four softcover adventure paths. Paizo also stated that they'll release one Adventure Path starting at Level 1, another ending at Level 20, with the remaining two falling somewhere in between. Each Adventure Path will cover 9-10 levels of play.

The first two Adventure Paths announced for this format are Hellbreakers and Hell's Destiny, which both cover the upcoming war between Andoran and Cheliax.

The Pathfinder Adventure Paths series started as an evolution of Paizo's monthly Pathfinder magazine series. To date, Paizo has released 222 Pathfinder Adventure Paths. Early Pathfinder Adventure Paths were for campaigns that lasted six issues and typically encompassed Level 1-Level 20 play. However, more recently, the Adventure Path structure has shortened and grown more flexible, with shorter length campaigns with more variable levels of play.

 

[carmachu]

This makes no sense. The price point is $10 less.

If we’re citing outlier purchase situations, then I can wait a year and get it for $50. Or buy it from a friend in a couple of years for $20. Or get it as a gift for free. The point is, the book costs less.

It makes no sense to you, because youre unwilling to listen and understand.

You keep repeating over and over its $10 less. To you. To others who wait, its $10 to $20 more

 

[Staffan]

It makes no sense to you, because youre unwilling to listen and understand.

You keep repeating over and over its $10 less. To you. To others who wait, its $10 to $20 more

You're comparing an MSRP of $80 to a price of $60-70, which presumably includes then includes some form of discount from the MSRP of 3 x $30 = $90. Wouldn't whoever discounted the current model have a similar discount for the new one?

 

[Morrus]

It makes no sense to you, because youre unwilling to listen and understand.

Knock off the ad-hominems, please. If you're unclear about the rules, you can review them here.

You keep repeating over and over its $10 less. To you. To others who wait, its $10 to $20 more

But why have you decided that the softcovers get cheaper when you wait, but the hardcovers for some reason won't? If you want them cheaper than RRP, then wait and buy them cheaper than RRP, just like you do with the softcovers.