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Originally Posted by Villadelfia
- Do bestiaries count as core rulebooks? Paizo seems to think so as those are included in the core subscription.
- Does that mean basically everything BUT this?
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Yep, Bestiaries are included (as would the Monster Codex be if it was going to come out this year, for example). So are "unusual" books like Inner Sea Races (scheduled for September). The things the "2015 bundle" excludes that I can think of are:
* Paizo books that released in 2015, but which are included in a package we released in 2014 (e.g. all this year's Player Companion and Campaign Setting books up until now)
* Adventure paths (which weren't even announced at the time we announced the 2015 bundle)
* Non-Paizo products (like the Tome of Horrors or Advanced Bestiary)
* Any other things we might decide to do but haven't been announced yet. For example (pulling this out of thin air, we have no plans for this) if we decided to sell a download with a bunch of Pathfinder images in it, that wouldn't be included.
The intent behind it was to include all of the "normal" Paizo things we release each month - "core" hardcovers, player companion books and campaign setting books.
If we do a 2016 package next year, adventure paths may or may not be included in it. Assuming two APs at $25 each, that'd almost double the price, so I'm not sure if it's something that people would want.
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Originally Posted by Villadelfia
I would say make it a permanent offer, but only to those who qualified when the offer was made so the workload has an upper limit on you guys. Unless of course you project the growth of people qualifying to be small enough to result in a negligible workload for you guys, then you might as well keep the offer open for new people.
Mind, you I'm still going under the assumption that hero lab is a pretty niche product. From what I gather the pathfinder module is by far most popular one if the forum is anything to go by. And that means you're selling this to a group that has the ability to do everything hero lab does for free, if they do it manually. It's based on that assumption that I say that there won't be, and never will be that many people that would qualify for the offer, and that therefore the workload on your side is low enough to make this feasible. Please correct me if this assumption is incorrect.
By the way, is the management page written in ASP.net or classic ASP? If it's the former, I'd be willing to offer my help to implement the functionality. It's what I do for a living.
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Thank you for the offer - unfortunately it's all in classic ASP. And anything we do to add additional sales functionality has to be automated, which means working in old, antiquated ASP code that's a trial to change - that means it doesn't matter how low the volume would be, it'd still be a big chunk of work on our end to implement.
