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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6020651" data-attributes="member: 37579">Two big player books a year and one GM book isn't that bad. There are four assumed accessories for PCs and three for GMs (okay, 7 for GMs as the player books are also assumed). The only games without book creep are dead games that aren't supported. Everyone at the table has an iPad, some with an PF app, some with the books. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But since I run the game and gaming is my big hobby I have all the books on a shelf behind me, so it's not an issue.Except that they totally don't. They put ALL the rules content of all their books <a href="http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/index.html" target="_blank">online</a>, so if you don't have a particular book for one monster/NPC you can print it out, or play from a laptop, or spend 5 minutes scribbling out the needed stats onto a sheet of paper. Conversely, WotC assumes everything is core from the regular books to the Dragon articles. The only reason fewer books are needed is because monsters have separate rules and are reprinted in full.Paizo could do that as well but it comes at the cost of adventure pages. It's a cost either way: either you loose dozens of pages in reprinted statblocks and content or you need extra books. Next time you look through an AP make a note of every page where a monster is just referenced and deduct 1/2 a page. That said, I do hope they "call" the assumed books at some point. I think we've reached a saturation point and can manage with some optional content for a while. I'm happy to buy books but there's only so much I can integrate into my campaign.</blockquote>

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