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<blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 9076024" data-attributes="member: 891"><p>Yep. Paizo themselves nearly floods the market. I have 4 pathfinder subs (you need 4 to get the 15% discount.</p><p>Rules, Lost Omens, Adventures, Adventure Packs.</p><p>- Beyond costs, that's a lot of reading to keep up with.</p><p></p><p></p><p>There was a 'third party con' early in the year, right in the middle of the OGL fiasco. So I used that to buy a huge pile of books at almost no cost.</p><p>...</p><p>And I have yet to have the time to read most of them.</p><p></p><p>Of those I did read - a lot of those publishers made the mistake of using it as an opportunity to offload some lower end short works. Items that do not tell me to go buy more from them...</p><p></p><p>As a buyer I have another concern that really hurts these publishers.</p><p></p><p>I got burned really hard during the d20 days. While there were some publishers I really liked but I also would buy things that looked interesting. Some of these ended up being expensive mistakes with very poorly balanced books.</p><p></p><p>When I look at PF2E, other than the new Rage of Elements book it's fairly tightly designed and well balanced. Before about 2 weeks ago my concern would have been breaking the game by introducing an imbalanced mess to my table.</p><p></p><p>I no longer have that concern. Paizo beat me to the punch.</p><p></p><p>BUT... historically this worked to keep me from wanting to add in anything with new rules or character design options. Adventures I'm OK with. I can always adjust an encounter. But a new ancestry, feat, class or whatever - could end up breaking the game. Never did I imagine Paizo would do that so hard that I could pretty much introduce a Mutants and Masterminds character and feel more balanced than an official 'common' class... but we're there now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kichwas, post: 9076024, member: 891"] Yep. Paizo themselves nearly floods the market. I have 4 pathfinder subs (you need 4 to get the 15% discount. Rules, Lost Omens, Adventures, Adventure Packs. - Beyond costs, that's a lot of reading to keep up with. There was a 'third party con' early in the year, right in the middle of the OGL fiasco. So I used that to buy a huge pile of books at almost no cost. ... And I have yet to have the time to read most of them. Of those I did read - a lot of those publishers made the mistake of using it as an opportunity to offload some lower end short works. Items that do not tell me to go buy more from them... As a buyer I have another concern that really hurts these publishers. I got burned really hard during the d20 days. While there were some publishers I really liked but I also would buy things that looked interesting. Some of these ended up being expensive mistakes with very poorly balanced books. When I look at PF2E, other than the new Rage of Elements book it's fairly tightly designed and well balanced. Before about 2 weeks ago my concern would have been breaking the game by introducing an imbalanced mess to my table. I no longer have that concern. Paizo beat me to the punch. BUT... historically this worked to keep me from wanting to add in anything with new rules or character design options. Adventures I'm OK with. I can always adjust an encounter. But a new ancestry, feat, class or whatever - could end up breaking the game. Never did I imagine Paizo would do that so hard that I could pretty much introduce a Mutants and Masterminds character and feel more balanced than an official 'common' class... but we're there now. [/QUOTE]
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