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<blockquote data-quote="noodohs" data-source="post: 9275406" data-attributes="member: 7033037"><p>I don't think I know of any 3PP releases that have been purely for monetary gain, at least for A5e. Yes, the publishers do get money for them, but in most cases I imagine (based on my wife's experience) that it's barely enough to justify having released it at all. Usually they are done because there's a gap that the person feels is not covered by current options and they want to fill that void. A5e in general has a serious lack of archetypes right now, IMO, and given that it still uses archetypes the same way as o5e, which is to say a single option you pick unless you multiclass, that heavily limits what you can do with them, so they can feel pretty limiting. Maybe you don't feel limited, but the more I play and try to find options that match a specific idea I have in my head, the more I find the existing options don't fit.</p><p></p><p>To the original question, does DTRPG have a way to bundle together things from multiple publishers? I know it's still less convenient than having every archetype in the same PDF/book as the base class, but maybe having a single price for everything would help some people. I don't mind them being separate, though, as the idea of having everything in one book doesn't even exist in official content unless you ignore every release that happens after the first book. We already have archetypes in the GPG, Dungeon Delver's Guide, even some other official supplements, and none of these include the base class. So that just seems like a strange reason not to buy archetypes to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="noodohs, post: 9275406, member: 7033037"] I don't think I know of any 3PP releases that have been purely for monetary gain, at least for A5e. Yes, the publishers do get money for them, but in most cases I imagine (based on my wife's experience) that it's barely enough to justify having released it at all. Usually they are done because there's a gap that the person feels is not covered by current options and they want to fill that void. A5e in general has a serious lack of archetypes right now, IMO, and given that it still uses archetypes the same way as o5e, which is to say a single option you pick unless you multiclass, that heavily limits what you can do with them, so they can feel pretty limiting. Maybe you don't feel limited, but the more I play and try to find options that match a specific idea I have in my head, the more I find the existing options don't fit. To the original question, does DTRPG have a way to bundle together things from multiple publishers? I know it's still less convenient than having every archetype in the same PDF/book as the base class, but maybe having a single price for everything would help some people. I don't mind them being separate, though, as the idea of having everything in one book doesn't even exist in official content unless you ignore every release that happens after the first book. We already have archetypes in the GPG, Dungeon Delver's Guide, even some other official supplements, and none of these include the base class. So that just seems like a strange reason not to buy archetypes to me. [/QUOTE]
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