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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 5133986" data-attributes="member: 5948">Make international mail order vaguely affordable?  Maybe check out Steve Jackson Games' option of Standard International Mail or whatever they call it - much, much cheaper than anything Paizo offers now.Other than that - the APs are obviously the core product and will continue for some time (and good on them), but it's probably starting to get to the point where Paizo can see the 'supplement bloat' iceberg sitting on the horizon.  While there's no player splatbooks beyond the Advanced Players Guide at this point (though I'm sure there'll be an APG2 down the track), we're already seeing dwarf and elf books, and a dragon book, and fiends books, and from there the path to the Complete Gude to Otyughs of Golarion and hyper-nichey overspecialisation is pretty well-beaten and hard to avoid, judging on the TSR/WotC experience.Worlds get full.  Even if it's 5-10 more APs (and 50-odd regional and monster sourcebooks) down the track, there's only so much you can write about a place before you start repeating or contradicting stuff, or going into meaninglessly close detail.  Eventually Paizo will have to step beyond Golarion in its current form.  They've said that the timeline will stay static (which I heartily agree with), so they'll have to spread their wings geographically rather than temporally.There's a few major rules releases that can still happen.  Psionics in particular (they're not my thing, but some people love them) and epic level (that's why the Whispering Tyrant EXISTS, damn it!).  The other continents and planets of Golarion are almost tailor-made for single-book treatments of Oriental/Indian Adventures, pulp sword and sorcery of various types, steampunk maybe, etc etc.  But even this is getting nichey.Hmm.  I think all I've established here is that I'd be a bad CEO of Paizo, cos I have absolutely no idea about where to take the company over the next 3-5 years, but it's definitely an interesting situation for them.  I love Golarion as a setting, but I really don't think it's going to be enough for them to hang their hats on permanently and where they move to next is probably the most important decision for them to make as a company since deciding to go it alone with the PFRPG.</blockquote>

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