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<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="image right noborder outside" href="http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/08/where-hell-old-school-renaissance-come.html"&gt;&lt;img class="upload" title="Old School RPG" src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/OSR-Logo.png" alt="Old School RPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I just sent the following mail to Paizo customer service:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl class="quote"&gt;&lt;dt /&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Hello! I&amp;#x2019;d like to cancel my Planet Stories and my Pathfinder Modules subscription. The unread books are piling up and even though I wish I&amp;#x2019;d have more time, I end up doing other stuff instead of reading the books. Sorry! As for the modules â I&amp;#x2019;ve recently switched all my campaigns over to old school D&amp;amp;D and find that doing stuff myself works just as well. I&amp;#x2019;ll also be canceling my Pathfinder Adventure Path subscription once the current Adventure Path ends â there&amp;#x2019;s a little bit of a completist left in me â but I&amp;#x2019;ll send you another email once that happens.&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt /&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Cheers&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt /&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Alex&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why is that? I no longer play the system, and I no longer need the wordy style.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Two out of three &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/MyCampaigns"&gt;campaigns I am running&lt;/a&gt; use &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.goblinoidgames.com/labyrinthlord.html"&gt;Labyrinth Lord&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I stopped the one of the D&amp;amp;D 3.5 game I was running and converted the other to &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.arkenstonepublishing.net/solarsystem"&gt;Solar System RPG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;We finished &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Legacy of Fire&lt;/em&gt; using Pathfinder and will be switching to a &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.harphq.com/"&gt;HARP&lt;/a&gt; campaign instead&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;abbr title="do it yourself"&gt;DIY&lt;/abbr&gt; spirit of the &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://campaignwiki.org/planet"&gt;old school D&amp;amp;D blogs&lt;/a&gt; has convinced me that &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/How_I_Roll"&gt;my preferred style&lt;/a&gt; of gaming (it&amp;#x2019;s a continuous journey as far as I can tell) involves &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;very little preparation&lt;/em&gt; and reading only &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;very short descriptions&lt;/em&gt; of adventure localesâthe Pathfinder products, however, require hours of reading and note takingâthe Pathfinder stuff is not &lt;em&gt;short&lt;/em&gt; enough&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2011-06-09_Delays"&gt;A few months ago&lt;/a&gt; I wrote that &amp;#x201c;I find myself unwilling to spend a lot of money for role-playing game products as I realize how little material I actually read and use â even though I play around ten times every month.&amp;#x201d; Still true.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;With all the money saved, I might be buying &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://henchmanabuse.blogspot.com/2011/06/dungeon-module-ase1-is-for-sale.html"&gt;Anomalous Subsurface Environment&lt;/a&gt; and the latest issues of &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.fightonmagazine.com/"&gt;Fight On&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class="near" title="Names" rel="nofollow" href="http://swordsandwizardry.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=12"&gt;Knockspell&lt;/a&gt; instead. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table class="user"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th align="center"&gt;Items &lt;/th&gt;&lt;th align="center"&gt;Price &lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;ASE1: Anomalous Subsurface Environment (Standard Paper)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;$20.18&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Realms of Crawling Chaos &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;$17.95&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Fight On! #12 - Spring/Summer 2011&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;$9.99&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Knockspell #6 softcover &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;$12.00&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;em style="font-size: 80%; font-style: normal;"&gt;Subtotal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;$60.12&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;em style="font-size: 80%; font-style: normal;"&gt;Shipping and Handling&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;$31.24&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;em style="font-size: 80%; font-style: normal;"&gt;Shipping Discount (OCTGROUND305)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;$-31.24&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;em style="font-size: 80%; font-style: normal;"&gt;Total&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;$60.12&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Pathfinder"&gt;Pathfinder&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Pathfinder"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Old%20School"&gt;Old School&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Old%20School"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Keep%20It%20Short"&gt;Keep It Short&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Keep%20It%20Short"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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