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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6990161" data-attributes="member: 37579">It won't be required to play to the same degree as the DMG or the Monster Manual, both of which are selling half as many copies as the PHB. A big expansion probably will sell well. Initially and over time. The problem is a third or fourth big expansion. A single big expansion will sell initially and over time as the clear expansion. But when you get a third or fourth book it created competition and confusion. (Try asking a dozen Pathfinder players what book to buy second or third as a player.)Agreed. But not everyone. Or even most people. And, really, the point of game books is to use them at the game table. If they're just to collect/ read they could be a reprint of an earlier edition book. Or something like Dungeonology. Paizo expects a lot fewer sales. A LOT fewer. Like a tenth. Plus they're putting Pathfinder on hold for a quarter to launch Starfinder; they're not going to do that for fun or on a whim. It takes waaaaay longer to make a whole new game than just a new book. They had to have started work on in late 2015 to be ready to announce in mid-2016. So Pathfinder had to have been lagging as far back as then. What are its sales like now?Board games are probably the best business model. I've said that before. Meeting once every other week and playing for four hours and you can get through a LOT more games of Catan and see a lot more permutations than D&D, but they don't have monthly or even annual expansions to Catan.</blockquote>

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