Rawbeard wrote:doe Paizo still publish things? I am so out of the loop the moment I stop playing a game I sometimes realize in wonder that that game still exists.
Absolutely. They are squeezing blood out of that stone at a comparable rate to when 4th edition D&D was new. Last month saw what are technically
twenty published releases. Now, to be fair: literally
nine of those are variant covers for 2 issues of a comic book. So if you don't count the two whole issues of Pathfinder Comics that came out last month, there were only nine releases. And most of
those were minor accessories. CDs of background music, a deck of druid themed cards, a battle map with some random wintery shit drawn on it, a tie-in novel, and shit like that.
But there was still an Agents of Evil Pathfinder Player's Companion (book of power creep options for evil characters plus some rants about playing bad guys, like Champions of Ruin or AEG's Evil, but Oathfinder flavored), a campaign setting book for Cheliax (it's a devil cult country for you to be an edgelord in), a stand-alone adventure, and part four of the Hell's Rebels adventure path. That's like four "real" releases for the game. Two adventures, a campaign setting bit and a power creep book. That's a full release schedule for D&D. We haven't seen more than that in a month (unless you count the d20 boom) since the early nineties.
Now... the Cheliax Campaign Setting book is a 64 page softcover pamphlet that they want to sell to you for $23. And Agents of Evil is seriously
thirty two pages and sells for eleven bucks. There isn't a lot of "value" for these. They are very minimalist works that are being sold in low volumes for high margins. These are the kinds of books that any game writer could hack out in a week and a half, which looks to be what they are doing.
But they exist. Which is more than can be said about 5th edition D&D supplements.
-Username17