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Pathfinder Infinite: July in Review

Welcome back to another exciting collection of Pathfinder Infinite & Starfinder Infinite Top Performers!

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Highhelm

Digging Up Some Highhelm Authors!

Though Lost Omens Highhelm has been out for some time now, we wanted to take one last look at the book and the authors who made it possible. Dwarves are known for their fine crafts and the work these authors put into Highhelm would make any dwarf proud to display this book next to their finest blades and armor. As these authors share a bit about them and their work, consider letting them know if you like their work in the comments or following them on social media!

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Welcome to Gen Con 2023!

Hello Pathfinders and Starfinders!
We’re excited to welcome you back to another year of “The Best Four Days in Gaming” at Gen Con Indianapolis.

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Pathfinder Rage of Elements

Find Your Path, July 2023

This month’s new releases invite you to brave the elements, set off on the trail of dwarven treasure, and explore the ruins of Deepwater Prime! Note, while the Organized Play scenarios release today, many of these products will be released on Thursday, August 3rd as part of our Gen Con release. Check out these products at your FLGS, bookstore, on paizo.com, or at our Gen Con Booth #203!

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Paizo, Mirrorscape Bring Starfinder, Pathfinder to Augmented Reality

Paizo is announcing a partnership with Mirrorscape, an all-new XR tabletop gaming platform, to make Pathfinder and Starfinder available in authentic 3D and augmented reality.

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Explore the World of Battlezoo in Pathfinder Second Edition and Meet New Ancestries with Our New Kickstarter!

Hi everyone, Mark Seifter here. I’m excited to announce a new Kickstarter from Roll For Combat, which is live at http://kickstarter.rollforcombat.com!

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Pathfinder Rage of Elements

Brave the Elements!

Close your eyes and imagine a magician drawing upon ancient forces and casting a spell, bringing magic into the world. What spell do they cast? When you think of magic, what do you see? Conjured torrents, exploding fireballs, pillars of stone—these spells, by my estimation, are precisely the sort that never stray far from our minds. The elements are quite inseparable from magic and, indeed, from all life. Our reality could never exist without them; there would be no water in the creeks, no forests of trees, no sun shining in the sky if the elements had not been shaped into being at the dawn of creation.

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Introducing the Sky King’s Tomb Player’s Guide

Discover dwarven drama as you descend into the Darklands!

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The Abomination Arsenal: Part 3

STILL ALIVE!

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Highhelm

Delve The Mountain Deep!

My most honored friends—you who have held true to your word and our mission, you who have been faithful through centuries of toil, you who continue to strive for the prosperity of our nation—to you do I address my final thoughts.

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Highhelm

Find Your Path, June 2023

This month’s new Pathfinder and Starfinder releases invite you to walk the halls of Highhelm, take your fate into your own hands, and follow the Organization’s trail of conspiracy ever deeper. Check out these products at your FLGS, bookstore, or on paizo.com!

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Prep for Free RPG Day on June 24!

Once again, Paizo is offering engaging and whimsical adventures for Free RPG Day! Participating hobby game stores around the world will have piles of exclusive new RPG adventures from many publishers and other exciting brand-new RPG related items!

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Meet the Iconics: Yoon

Yoon was only eight when she learned of fire; the power to command and control flames awoke within her, as it had within her grandmother, and her grandmother's grandmother before her. Fire was a good friend to have, for Yoon was on a journey across Tian Xia, fleeing her old home of Minkai and heading down the coast to Hwanggot, the land her parents had left decades ago. Her flame kept her warm at night and protected her from monsters and bandits, and she had friends she met along the road to teach her survival and point her toward the next village or inn.

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The Ultimate Game Master Screen Kickstarter to Support Pathfinder & Starfinder Rulesets!

Forged Gaming, the company behind the Ultimate Game Master Screen Kickstarter, announced today that the project will support the Pathfinder and Starfinder RPGs with official rulesets and content. These products will be included in the ongoing Kickstarter as add-ons to the Ultimate Game Master Screen campaign. The addition of these iconic RPGs to the Ultimate Game Master Screen offers Pathfinder and Starfinder Game Masters even more opportunities to take advantage of the new product’s customizability.

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PaizoCon Online 2023: Glimpses into the future of Pathfinder, Starfinder, and more!

From the Pathfinder Remaster Project to Starfinder Enhanced, the team at Paizo has a plethora of new content coming down the pipeline. This year’s PaizoCon Online featured speakers across Paizo’s creative team who teased at new products and projects.

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Meet the Crew of the Zoetrope!

I hope everyone had a great time at PaizoCon Online! It was great to talk to everyone in a little more depth about Pathfinder Howl of the Wild, and all the animals and beasts that this book about wilderness expedition contains as the Zoetrope airship journeys across Golarion in search of mythical beasts.

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Welcome to PaizoCon!

PaizoCon Online 2023, the celebration of all things Paizo, begins today! Join us for free, fun panels at twitch.tv/officialpaizo. Meet friends and network on our Discord, with prizes, partner presentations, staff AMAs, and more!

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Celebrating PaizoCon 2023 with New Infinite Masters

On behalf of Paizo and Pathfinder Infinite / Starfinder Infinite, Roll20 is thrilled to discuss our Community Content Program in celebration of PaizoCon! Paizo is one of our favorite publishing partners, and we are happy to support them now and in the future.

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Starfinder Ports of Call

Find Your Path, May 2023

This month’s Pathfinder and Starfinder releases offer new places to call home, monstrous myths, missing persons, and a duel with destiny! Check out these exciting new products available today at the Paizo Store and local bookstores and game stores around the world, including Starfinder Ports of Call, Pathfinder Adventure: The Enmity Cycle and Pathfinder Flip-Mat: The Enmity Cycle, and the Pathfinder Lost Omens Monsters of Myth Special Edition!

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Fine-tuning Ancestries

Your journey to adventure with the Pathfinder Remaster starts with the Player Core, a mighty tome containing all the rules you need as a player to create a character and take them on epic quests! Just as before, making a character is as simple as ABC: picking your Ancestry, Background, and Class!

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Unleash More Heroes: Official Pathfinder 2nd Edition Character Tools Open Beta Is Live

Shelyn smiles upon us! After a rigorous closed alpha test, open beta is now live for Demiplane’s Pathfinder NEXUS Character Tools. The Character Builder and Character Sheet are purpose-built tools tailored to help you weave thrilling adventures as a GM, experiment with unusual character builds, and share the fun of tabletop RPGs with friends new to the game.

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Apex of Power

Over the past few weeks, we’ve given you a look at two new dragons from the Monster Core, due out early next year. And while I'm sure folks are eager to throw a diabolic dragon and a mirage dragon at their players, this week, we wanted to turn our attention to some of the new material you’ll find in the GM Core, a book packed cover to cover with everything a GM needs to run Pathfinder Second Edition!

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Pathfinder Second Edition on Foundry VTT: Meet the Team

A very fond hello to everyone. I’m Nath (Anathema), the project coordinator for Foundry Virtual Tabletop (Foundry VTT). I’m joined by Viviane (Cora), who leads content development on our Pathfinder products. Some of you might remember our discussion of that development process in the Bestiary Token Pack blog post. We were also honored to attend last year’s PaizoCon and are excited to return this year.

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RPG Superstar 2023 Entries Due Soon and Battlezoo Bestiary: Strange and Unusual Out Now!

Just a few more weeks remain to submit your monsters for this year’s RPG Superstar contest! The contest ends on May 28th, the Sunday of PaizoCon, so there’s still enough time to write up to three monsters and enter at https://rpgsuperstar.com/, but only if you get started soon! And if you need help and feedback on your monster before submission, check out the Roll For Combat Discord for helpful advice and feedback at http://discord.rollforcombat.com/.

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Remaster Preview: Oh, my! It’s a mirage!

Hey everyone, Luis Loza here! I'm back to talk about another addition to the draconic ranks in Pathfinder Monster Core. If you haven’t seen our preview for the new diabolic dragon, be sure to check that out as well! Anyway, on to the latest preview!

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Remaster Previews: Dragons Most Diabolical

Hey, everybody! Luis Loza here with the first in a series of previews of the upcoming Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster. If you aren’t fully up to date on what the Remaster is, make sure to check out our recent blog post announcing the project along with our video where Jason Bulmahn (Director of Game Design) and Logan Bonner (Pathfinder Lead Designer) discuss a few of the things to expect.

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First Look at Pathfinder Remastered Covers

This morning, at the annual GAMA EXPO game industry trade show, Paizo publisher Erik Mona unveiled the sketches of the just-announced Pathfinder Player Core and Pathfinder GM Core hardcovers to hobby game retailers and distributors. We will update the product pages for the new books when the final full-color pieces arrive in the coming weeks, but Pathfinder cover artist Wayne Reynolds’s illustrations have us so excited we couldn’t wait to show them off to you in all their glory.

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Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project!

Today, we are pleased to reveal the Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project, four new hardcover rulebooks that offer a fresh entry point to the Pathfinder Second Edition roleplaying game! The first two books, Pathfinder Player Core and Pathfinder GM Core, release this November, with Pathfinder Monster Core (March 2024) and Pathfinder Player Core 2 (July 2024) completing the remastered presentation of Pathfinder’s core rules. The new rulebooks are compatible with existing Pathfinder Second Edition products, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates as well as some of the best additions from later books into new, easy-to-access volumes with streamlined presentations inspired by years of player feedback.

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Find Your Path, April 2023

From world-class shopping to world-class harrowing—our new Starfinder and Pathfinder wares offer you an abundance of adventure!

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Inside Pathfinder Comic: Wake the Dead

Hi, my name is Fred Van Lente, writer of comics and prose (my latest novel, Never Sleep, debuted a few weeks ago: check it out if you like historical thrillers about America's first female private detectives). The fine folks at Paizo asked me to drop by to tell you a little bit about my new Pathfinder comics series, Wake the Dead, premiering from Dynamite in May. This is volume eight of the long-running Pathfinder series, and we're doing something a little different this time out.

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Introducing the Stolen Fate Player’s Guide

Teach those who would steal fate from the world that there’s a price to pay!

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The Abomination Arsenal: Part 2

Our second marathon is a wrap, so let’s get to it! In case you haven’t caught up on the first report, our party of gunslingers succeeded in delving the top level of the Abomination Vaults, but at a cost. We fared much better on this marathon: we started to click more as a party and improved on some of the combat strategies needed to pump lead into every monster in a megadungeon. It’s hard to say at this point, but if we play as well through the remaining marathons as we did here, we might just gun down the entire Abomination Vaults.

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How to Warhorn

Registration for PaizoCon Online games opens next Monday! If you haven’t already, be sure to purchase your ticket now. If you’ve never used Warhorn to sign up for games before, here’s a brief explanation on how to register for the event and sign up for your games.

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Pathfinder Beginner Box Days

If you have ever wanted to try out Pathfinder Second Edition, the mod team at r/Pathfinder2e has a perfect opportunity for you! During the last week of April, dozens of GMs and hundreds of players will be gaming with the Pathfinder Beginner Box during Beginner Box Days!

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Paizo Partners with BKOM on Two Pathfinder Games!

BKOM Studios and Paizo are joining forces to bring two new Pathfinder video games to the market! One will be launching on Steam later this year, and the second is in early stages of development.

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Daring Authors and Rebellious Writers!

Pathfinder Lost Omens Firebrands is here! Just like with any rebellion, there were a lot of people that put in work to make this book possible. Among them are the wonderful authors for Firebrands. We wanted to give them a chance to share their excitement for the book, as well as some information about themselves and their projects. If you’ve enjoyed these authors’ work, let them know in the comments below or by following them on social media!

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Delving the Fool’s Dungeon

Creating a dangerous dungeon to challenge adventurers is a lot of work. While the various architecture aeons, drafter devils, engineering elementals, and other dungeon designing minions here at Paizo are generally great at their job, there are some times when the rooms they create don’t quite hit the mark. While we typically just set those aside for incineration at a later date, we were running out of space at the delving warehouse. To clear up a bit of space, we figured that we could just set a few of those unused rooms out on the curb for anyone to pick up. So, today on April Fools’ Day, we invite you to come on by and grab any of these rooms and throw them into your next dungeon!

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Pathfinder Infinite: February in Review

Hey Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite fans! We’re squeaking it in at the last minute, but here’s a look at last month’s Infinite top performers!

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Find Your Path, March 2023

Rebels, nobles, prisoners, detectives, artists, carnies and an entire deck of NPCs await you in Paizo’s newest releases for your gaming table!

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Pathfinder Play Weekend

StartPlaying is excited to announce our newest partnership with Paizo: Pathfinder Play Weekends!

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Welcome to RPG Superstar 2023: Elemental Storm!

Hi everyone, Mark Seifter here. I’m excited to announce the hotly anticipated 2023 edition of RPG Superstar, as the premiere Tabletop RPG design contest returns for another great year! For those of you who aren’t familiar, RPG Superstar is a contest for aspiring designers, originally created by Paizo and licensed by Roll for Combat for the last few contests. Like in the last contest (RPG Superstar Strange & Unusual, whose final bestiary is coming out very soon), I’ll be your head judge again this year, and we’re gathering a bigger and broader group of judges than ever before, including some new surprise faces on the panel.

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Meet the Rules & Lore Team!

Toward the end of last year, Paizo went through several departmental reorganizations to more accurately reflect the types of products we create and allow various subject matter experts to work more closely with the peers whose efforts mirror or complement their own. We’ve also had some new additions to the team (and more to come, so stick around through the end of this blog) whose names we’d like you to know. I’ll let everyone, including me, introduce themselves in their own words!

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Tales of Lost Omens: Tall Odds and Broken Bones

“This stretch of coastline is straight as Abadar’s hair part. We’ll just have to go in full sail and fuse-ready, and hope the conjured fog gets us close enough.” Shimali Manux drummed her fingers on her cabin’s fold-out desk, glowering at a map of Chelaxian waters like it had spat in her tankard. Esidries, her first mate, ran a hand through her long, shaggy hair, then adjusted her eyepatch. She seemed to have her own grievances with cartography.

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Tian Xia: Coming 2023–2024!

Hi everyone, James here with some news! Starting this fall, Pathfinder will be turning the globe a bit as we head to a region we know a lot of you have been waiting for. Eleanor, James Jacobs, and I—not to mention the rest of the team and a stellar list of authors—are proud to announce the setting of the next few Pathfinder projects coming down the road: Tian Xia! Starting at the end of this year and continuing into 2024, we’ll be diving into this region like never before to bring you adventures, stories, and character options inspired by this land, so let’s take a look at what’s coming up!

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Paizo and Artificial Intelligence

Over the last few months, the world has seen a huge upsurge in interest, use, and quality of algorithm-generated imagery and text. Since we launched the company in 2002, Paizo has made its reputation with the assistance of countless traditional artists and writers, who are just as integral to the success of our games as our in-house editors, art directors, designers, and developers. The ethical and legal issues surrounding “AI art” and writing prompt programs—and the serious threat they pose to the livelihoods of partners who have helped us get to where we are today as a company—demand that we take a firm position against the use of this technology in Paizo products.

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Architects of the Vault!

Hello!
I’m Michael Sayre, the design manager here at Paizo and one of the cover authors for Pathfinder Treasure Vault alongside Mark Seifter and Kendra Leigh Speedling. I was the voice for both the plucky kobold Purepurin and the mighty dragon Valashinaz, as well as the writer for the new base weapons, story-based crafting, and a wide variety of other items scattered throughout the book, like the new thrower’s bandolier previewed in the “Varmints in the Vaults” blog.

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A Message from Aslynn, Queen of all Hags

I am Aslynn, queen of all witch covens
Those that see me know I, hag above hags
Witch above witch, the best of them slovens
My cauldron’s full of such terrible gags
(I crush their sweet little dreams in my fist)

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Find Your Path, February 2023

Huzzah, it’s New Starfinder and Pathfinder Day! The Pathfinder Treasure Vault rulebook is at the top of our marquee in hardcover, Special Edition and Pocket Editions.

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Pathfinder Comics Return with Wake the Dead!

Dynamite Entertainment is proud to debut the long-anticipated next Pathfinder comic book series! Tabletop RPG connoisseur and fan-favorite writer Fred Van Lente is revving up an all-new party and campaign for Wake the Dead, kicking off this May!

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Uplifting voices for Black History Month 2023

We’re in the heart of Black History Month! In honor of Black excellence in the tabletop industry and beyond, here are some wonderful creators in our community to introduce themselves and share some of the amazing work they’ve done.

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Explore Third Party Kon This Weekend!

Third Party Kon is ready to celebrate the PaizoVerse! TPK is a celebration of the PaizoVerse's rapid expansion in all its forms during the President's Day weekend, February 17-20. As Paizo and other publishers announce their support for the Open RPG Creative License (ORC), there has never been a better time to make or try third party content. The mods at r/Pathfinder2e have seen the incredible growth of the community even before the age of the ORC, and TPK wants to recognize that.

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Pathfinder Infinite: December & January in Review

Hey Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite fans! I hope you’ll forgive us for not putting together a December-in-review blog last month; we had a lot going on in January. But fear not! We can cover both December and January in this month’s Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite roundup.

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So You Wanna Try Out Pathfinder Bundle!

You didn’t have to be an Infinite Eye psychic to know this was coming. We’ve partnered with our friends at Humble Bundle to create a special digital deal to help you and your friends play Pathfinder and support a great open-source cause!

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Varmints in the Vaults

“Whoa, you’re here already? Are you the Magaambya delegation or the group from the Pathfinder Society? Either way, one moment.”

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On the Other Side of the Gate

Those of you excited for a campaign filled with strange shenanigans have no doubt been paying attention to the Gatewalkers Adventure Path. If you get to play in this one, you’ve probably already picked up your free Gatewalkers Player’s Guide and started coming up with your character. If you’re planning to GM this campaign, you’re probably eagerly awaiting the first volume to hit your local game store’s shelves so you can get to prepping.

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Gardens of Plenty

Nixret sighed as she entered the expansive aviary, and immediately cringed at the cacophony of bird calls assaulting her pounding head. She—a kobold with mottled emerald and jade scales, dressed in the plain grays of a Pathfinder initiate—stood before one of the Scrolls’ many gardens of wonder, this one devoted to the production of feather tokens. Her task this morning, much to her dismay, was to tend to it. On her own.

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Find Your Path, January 2023

Happy New Releases Day! Many of you may have a new or renewed interest in Pathfinder and Starfinder, so I’d like to tell you about all our new open gaming products, including subscriptions and special offers, and point you toward what’s coming next!

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The ORC Alliance Grows

Over the course of the last week, more than 1,500 tabletop RPG publishers, from household names going back to the dawn of the hobby to single proprietors just starting out with their first digital release, have joined together to pledge their support for the development of a universal system-neutral open license that provides a legal “safe harbor” for sharing rules mechanics and encourages innovation and collaboration in the tabletop gaming space.

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Paizo Announces System-Neutral Open RPG License

For the last several weeks, as rumors of Wizards of the Coast’s new version of the Open Game License began circulating among publishers and on social media, gamers across the world have been asking what Paizo plans to do in light of concerns regarding Wizards of the Coast’s rumored plan to de-authorize the existing OGL 1.0(a). We have been awaiting further information, hoping that Wizards would realize that, for more than 20 years, the OGL has been a mutually beneficial license which should not–and cannot–be revoked. While we continue to await an answer from Wizards, we strongly feel that Paizo can no longer delay making our own feelings about the importance of Open Gaming a part of the public discussion.

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Third Party Kon, a Celebration of the PaizoVerse

Paizo publishes more adventures, character options, and monsters for Pathfinder and Starfinder than many could play in a lifetime…

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Introducing the Gatewalkers Player’s Guide

Months ago on a crisp summer evening, aiudara across Golarion were flooded with a brilliant white light. In this flash, those witnessing it saw something familiar, something compelling that made them step through the gate. Those who returned don’t recall what was on the other side, but what transpired will have changed them forever. This is their Missing Moment.

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Changes to the Way We Make Changes

Welcome to 2023 everyone! With the Second Edition of Pathfinder now in its third year, the folks on the rules team are really thrilled to see how all of you are engaging with the game and telling thrilling stories of adventure with friends and family. Behind the scenes, we’re continuing to make the game as good as it possibly can be by creating brand new content and going back to make sure that our existing books are working the way we intended.

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The Abomination Arsenal: Part 1

Our first marathon is in the books, and it’s time to report out! We knew when we started this project that it wasn’t going to go down like a typical dungeon crawl—or megadungeon for that matter. Instead, this campaign shot off with an excessively violent bang (series of them, actually) that left a character dead and a level full of face-down mitflits. We’ve played a lot of dungeons over the years, but we’ve never riddled one with ricochet marks. In short: Gunslingers are a great time, everyone should try four!

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Pathfinder Infinite: November in Review

Hey Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite fans! This month we’re looking at the top performers from November across both platforms, as well as a look at what’s new in December.

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Pathfinder Bestiary Token Pack for Foundry VTT

The Foundry Virtual Tabletop team recently released a new project in partnership with Paizo: a comprehensive artwork and token pack that covers every creature in the Pathfinder Bestiary, Bestiary 2, and Bestiary 3 for Pathfinder Second Edition.

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Pathfinder & Starfinder Community Content Coming to Roll20

For over a year, we’ve watched Pathfinder Infinite evolve in both style and substance as more and more community creators have brought (and continue to bring!) their many talents to the worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder. From rulebooks and adventures to accessories and magic items, the rich fabric of Golarion and the Pact Worlds continues to spin out in wondrous new patterns.

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Available Now: Gloom, Doom, Rage, and Shadow

We know you will love what we got you—a fearsome foe or two, maybe even a troop or swarm, in every encounter. Happy Holidays!

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Get Your Happy Holidays Discount Code!

Our 20th Anniversary Year is coming to a close and we want to say: thank you and Happy Holidays!

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Introducing the Narrative Team

Hi! Those of you who have been watching the credits of recent products or the discourse on social media may have noticed some shake-ups in Paizo’s staff recently.

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Quests are Back!

I’m excited to announce that we’ve decided to bring back a bit of a blast from the past: Pathfinder Quests!

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Many Years Ago...

...I and Wes Schneider took over the big conference room at Paizo and began to work out what Pathfinder Adventure Path was going to do to follow up its first official campaign for the Pathfinder Roleplaying game. We knew we wanted to do a sandbox-based Adventure Path (in part because we were excited by the challenge, and in part because there was a lot of call and request for something like that from Pathfinder gamers at large), and by the end of an afternoon-suddenly-become-evening-without-us-noticing, we’d sketched out Kingmaker, the idea for building a kingdom, the grid-based settlement-construction concept, and the basic ideas for the region in which the campaign would take place. I went on to craft the outline for the Adventure Path and started hiring authors, while Wes focused on writing a detailed gazetteer for the Stolen Lands that would appear in the Guide to the River Kingdoms alongside the launch of Kingmaker itself.

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The Ultimate Faeries Kickstarter From Legendary Games Ends Today!...

The Ultimate Faeries Kickstarter from Legendary Games is heading into its final hours, featuring Faerie Campaigns and the Faerie Bestiary for Pathfinder Second Edition and DnD 5E!

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Paizo and TYPE40

Type40 is very proud to announce our new partnership with Paizo! We absolutely love the rich and inspiring lore of Pathfinder and Starfinder and look forward to creating new and exciting ways to help you enjoy your games.

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Pathfinder Infinite: October in Review

Hey Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite fans! This month we’re looking at the top performers from October across both platforms, as well as a look at what’s new in November.

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Accessorize Your Game Sale

From adding flavor to the use of Hero Points to building new NPCs and new worlds to explore, Paizo has published many exciting Starfinder and Pathfinder accessories. Today through Black Fireday, Small Business Starday, and Cyber Moonday ACCESSORIZE YOUR GAME with the best the industry has to offer!

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A Better Author List? Impossible!

Do you know who writes the things you love? While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple name in a byline doesn’t give readers much information on the people who work to bring the setting to life! As a final blog to wrap up our promotion of Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands, I reached out to the authors of the book with the intent of promoting them, as well as any other personal work they would like to showcase, so that new fans of their work could find other projects, RPG products, websites, livestreams, and more to enjoy!

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Available Now: Evolutionists, Mechs, Warring Wizards, and Minis!

Our Starfinder releases include a hardcover rulebook filled with new types of alien species, an adventure where players can pilot starmetal mechs to oppose a dragon, and a map of a bustling city. Pathfinder players can now purchase an extensive hardcover that dramatically expands the Age of Lost Omens setting, a penultimate Adventure Path volume, and several accessories—including new WizKids minis!

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Cook Up Some Impossible Lands Cuisine!

The Impossible Lands tell a tale of life adapting in the face of destructive hubris. No magical power has been able to restore the blighted fields of the country of Nex, after the necromancer Geb transformed them into rock. What little progress exists is there due to the long, hard toil of ghoran hands and mortal farmers' sweat. Raising livestock on what meager grains that can be coaxed from the fields is—even in the Impossible Lands—quite impossible. The region's food consists of scraggly native crops, imports from Katepesh, expensive goods from other planes, and magically polluted fish from the rivers and oceans. Most of these, visitors note, have a very distinctive aftertaste.

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Wrath Of The Righteous Season Pass 2 Detailed

Owlcat Games has revealed information on Season Pass 2 and its three premium DLCs for the critically acclaimed epic cRPG Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

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Give the Gift of Pathfinder & Starfinder with this new Humble Bundle!

We've brought you three Humble Bundles this year in celebration of Paizo's 20th anniversary. So, we decided to try something new for our "grand finale" and designed a bundle that would be the perfect gift to give the other gamers in your life as the holiday season approaches.

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Available Now! Stolen Lands, Kobold Crowns, and Dead Suns Reborn

With 27 new Starfinder and Pathfinder roleplaying game products being released this month, some of which have been years in the making, October 2022 may be a record-setting month for Paizo!

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Back the Coins of Absalom Kickstarter Today!

Hi, everyone! Paizo invited me to write a guest blog to announce the newest project from Campaign Coins. Coins of Absalom is now live on Kickstarter! At Campaign Coins, we have been making coins for years. We’ve had a blast making licensed Pathfinder hero point tokens and pins, but this is our first full set of currency for use in Pathfinder campaigns.

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Savagesparrow Studios Launches Kit and Kaboomle Kickstarter

Let's Get Ready to Launch!
Hello friends! Jen here from Savagesparrow Studios, the internet's most awesome place for cool streetwear inspired by tabletop and gaming culture. Flashback to The Whole Kit and Kaboomle blog where we announced our partnership and plans. We're SO stoked to partner with Paizo for our first collection inspired by goblin chaos: Kit and Kaboomle: A Pathfinder Apparel Collection.

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The Ultimate Faeries Kickstarter is here from Legendary Games!

The Ultimate Faeries Kickstarter from Legendary Games is now live, featuring over 1300 pages of incredible content for Pathfinder Second Edition, Pathfinder First Edition, and Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (DnD 5E) to make any campaign featuring the fey more marvelous, magical, and mysterious!

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Embrace the Unnatural: Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands

A war between two undying wizards once raged here for over a thousand years. Though peace has since reigned for millennia, the ghosts of wartime atrocities still haunt every corner of the lands they touched. People go about their day-to-day lives in a land that defies logic, praying the specters of history won’t rise again to plunge them back into chaos and carnage.

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Pathfinder Infinite: September in Review

Hey Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite fans! This month we’re looking at the top performers from last month across both platforms. In August, we saw incredible growth on Infinite in no small part thanks to the generous bundle offered by Infinite publishers, and I’m happy to report that September was another strong month! The number of products being released for both Pathfinder and Starfinder continues to grow, and reviews for each month’s products are better than the last.

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Upgrade Your Game Sale

The world of Golarion is rich in history and culture, and over the years many artists have helped to define a unique look and feel for the world and its denizens. Now, Paizo brings you an opportunity to upgrade your game with a sale on many of the outstanding Pathfinder Battles miniatures from our partners at WizKids/NECA™, as well as our own Pathfinder and Starfinder Pawns sets. From Adventure Paths to quintessential monsters from the Inner Sea and beyond, this is an opportunity to upgrade your game at a great price, but only for a limited time. The sale ends November 4!

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Pathfinder Adventure: Crown of the Kobold King

Remembering the First

All hail King Merlokrep, First of His Name, All-Mighty King of the Truescale Kobolds, and Bearer of the Crown of the Kobold King!

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Paizo PDF Pricing Changes

For many years, Paizo has largely set PDF pricing as a percent of the full print MSRP. While this process worked well early on, the rise of digital goods and expressions has matured, and the exceptions made for certain categories to be priced higher or lower has somewhat scrambled the logic used to build those systems.

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Welcome New Companions!

Later this month, the beloved Kingmaker Adventure Path makes its Pathfinder Second Edition debut with a slate of over a dozen products, both updating the fan-favorite campaign to the new rules set (as well as updating the Pathfinder First Edition rules and expanding into D&D 5E) and incorporating content from the bestselling Pathfinder: Kingmaker computer game from Owlcat Games.

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Pre-Order Bonus for Abomination Vaults 5E!

Now through midnight October 31, pre-order Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults (5E) or Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults (5E) Special Edition and get a complimentary PDF of that product when yours ships. You will also receive a $5 off coupon code for the Pathfinder Abomination Vaults Pawn Collection while supplies last.

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Pathfinder Adventure Path #143: Borne by the Sun's Grace (Tyrant's Grasp 5 of 6)

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

This Hispanic Heritage Month, we thought it’d be fun to have some of our staff, freelancers, and members of the community write up some magic items inspired by their background and culture to put into your games!

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Your (Travel) Guide to Great Authors!

The Lost Omens Travel Guide has been out for a few weeks and we wanted to take a break from all our travels throughout the Inner Sea to highlight the authors who made the book possible. There’s been a lot of love for Travel Guide and we wanted to give these authors a chance to share their excitement for the book, as well as some information about themselves and their projects. If you’ve enjoyed these authors’ work, let them know in the comments below or by following them on social media!

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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is out on consoles

We at Owlcat Games are excited to announce that Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is now available in the PlayStation Store, Xbox Games Store, and on Nintendo Switch Cloud Streaming. All the free DLC we previously released on PC is also included (Faces of War, Love Beyond Death, Paint of War, and A Visitor From Distant Lands).

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Introducing the Kingmaker Player’s Guide

The hardcover edition of Kingmaker presents the largest Adventure Path Paizo has ever published. More than just a conversion of a beloved First Edition Pathfinder Adventure Path, the Second Edition Kingmaker Adventure Path has been significantly expanded with four brand-new adventures (including a new beginning and a new ending) that feature more than enough content for your group to go from 1st-level explorers all the way to 20th-level rulers of Golarion’s newest nation!

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Gods & Magic

Available Now! September Releases

In this month’s new releases, you will find a menagerie of convictions, invasions, secrets, calamities, promenades, pubs, and superstars for roleplaying excitement! There is also a free PDF from the past that you might have overlooked. Our digital-only releases occur on Wednesday, September 28th. For today’s print-and-digital releases, read on!

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The Abomination Arsenal

Order of the Amber Die here, back with our eighth project since 2014! In case you aren’t familiar with our work from past projects, we’ll give you the staccato version. We only play published adventures. We use the complete rules set. We’ve had the same GM since our founding: 1987. We like to push the envelope of tabletop roleplaying. We only play marathon sessions—days at a time. We’ll play on location. Our GM isn’t afraid to kill characters or TPK us; he’ll do it in front of the community, too. Imagine us like a roleplaying team, complete with a captain to help the players. We revere one d20 above all others, and that is the Amber Die. It doesn’t roll more 20s than it should, but it chains them when it does, and doubters have always been converted. After more than 150 adventures, we’ve even gotten rid of RPG absolutes: yeah, we’ll split the party.

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Pathfinder Infinite: August in Review

August was another hot month for Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite! We saw over 40 new entries, including more Pathfinder Dark Archives expansions, monster creation tools, and some great Starfinder products hitting the charts. Read on to learn about the top performers on the site last month!

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Regarding the Lost Pages of the Dark Archive

This blog post goes over the lost pages of Dark Archive that some of you may have received or seen circulating in the past few weeks, as well as what lies at the end of them. If you’d prefer to work out the lost pages yourself, or give them to your players to solve together, you can now find them on the product page for Pathfinder Dark Archive.

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Interact with the Pathfinder Heroic Endeavors Liveplay!

Pathfinder Heroic Endeavors is a new, limited-run weekly Pathfinder actual-play live stream featuring a rotating cast of players and GMs (14 and growing). The game is set in a homebrewed world first explored on the Dragons and Things Network that has now been given a home on Paizo's official twitch channel Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). Each episode, the licensed heroes of Heroic Endeavors Incorporated risk life and limb to protect the people of Cavaloshia at reasonable rates unmatched by “other” adventuring companies. Every episode offers a complete adventure arc, allowing new viewers to tune in any time Heroic Endeavors is live without missing a beat.

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The Whole Kit and Kaboomle

We at Paizo are thrilled to announce a new partnership with Savagesparrow Studios! Are you going to be at PAX West? Be sure to check out a sample from the upcoming Kickstarter at Booth TT7304! Now we'll let Jen, the artistic genius behind Savagesparrow, introduce herself, her company, and the exciting things we have in store for you soon™!

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Starfinder Adventure Path #47: Nightmare Scenario (Drift Crashers 2 of 3)

Available Now: Almanac, Armory, & Aspis!

This month’s new releases include abundant new lore, new adventures of varying lengths, new rules sprinkled throughout, established content that has been repackaged in more convenient or collectable formats, and a new set of Flip-Tiles can be used for a wide variety of tabletop RPGs!

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A Taste of Thuvia

By Pallomar Gladhammer, traveler extraordinaire and the greenest “dwarf” in the Gladhammer clan

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Meet the Infinite Masters: Part 3

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been spotlighting our Infinite Masters! If you missed the last couple spotlights, you can check out last week’s here and our first spotlight here!

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Meet the Infinite Masters: Part 2

Last week we started our celebration of all things Infinite by introducing you to some of our Infinite Masters authors. This week we’re continuing the spotlight!

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Be A Monster! Pledge Now for Roll for Combat Kickstarter’s Final Week

Roll for Combat is a partner who is publishing their own line of Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks and adventures under the Battlezoo brand. Check out this update of the New Battlezoo Kickstarter Campaign from Roll for Combat’s Director of Game Design, Mark Seifter!

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Pathfinder Terrain Expands into the City of Absalom

A guest blog on new Pathfinder Terrain by Michał Hartliński at Archon Studio.

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Celebrating Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite

Over the next two weeks, we’re celebrating all things Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite. The Infinite marketplaces, powered by DriveThruRPG, are your one-stop shop for licensed digital content from the Pathfinder and Starfinder communities, including adventures, classes, fiction, and more that takes places in the Lost Omens campaign setting.

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Pathfinder Infinite: July in Review

July was a wild month for Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite! We saw over 40 new entries, including the first titles from our newest batch of Infinite Masters. But let’s start by looking at the top performers on the site last month!

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall

Ever Stalwart, Ever Vigilant: Knights of Lastwall Authors!

While Pathfinder Lost Omens Knights of Lastwall has been out for some time now, we wanted to take another look at the book and the authors who made it possible. Much like the Knights of Lastwall put in the effort to further the cause of good, these authors gave their all to create the latest exciting entry in the Lost Omens line of books. As these authors share a bit about themselves and their work, consider letting them know if you like their work in the comments or following them on social media!

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Announcing New Infinite Masters

With the release of Dark Archive, we welcome a new slate of community creators into the Infinite Masters program. Infinite Masters is an invitation-only cadre of the most active and influential members of the Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite community, whose work consistently sets the standard for quality and professionalism, and who receive early access to official Paizo releases in order to support them with Infinite content as close to release date as possible. Look for new releases to expand the reach of Dark Archive and add even more supernatural mysteries to your games from some of these Infinite Masters.

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Available Now: Archives, Rallies, Feasts, and Flowers!

So many fantastic Paizo products are coming out this month, including Pathfinder’s biggest rulebook of the year, the first Pathfinder Lost Omens Special Edition, two Free RPG Day adventures, two Flip-Mats, an intergalactic race across land and sea, a bounty to save a nigh-extinct species, a handy pocket edition, numerous Society releases, and the start of a new Pathfinder Adventure Path that’s perfect for less than good-hearted adventurers!

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New Battlezoo Kickstarter Campaign

Paizo has many partners who produce content under a variety of licenses, including media partners like Roll for Combat, who—in addition to streaming high quality Pathfinder and Starfinder actual-play podcasts and running the RPG Superstar design talent competition—publish their own line of Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks and adventures under the Battlezoo brand. Check out this overview of their newest Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign from Roll for Combat’s Director of Game Design, Mark Seifter!

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Scribes in the Shadows: Meet the Authors of the Dark Archive!

Pathfinder Dark Archive is almost here! This book wouldn’t have been possible without the creativity and skill of the authors who contributed. To celebrate the release, we wanted to turn the blog over to these writers to reflect on their inspirations for the project and let you know what else they’re up to. Without further ado, here are some of the creators responsible for bringing the paranormal to you! If you liked a section, consider letting them know in the comments or following them on social media!

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Pathfinder Revolution! launches on Kickstarter from Steve Jackson Games

Tabletop publishers Steve Jackson Games and Paizo Inc. have joined forces once again for the release of Pathfinder Revolution!, funding on Kickstarter July 18 - August 4. This new edition of the classic Revolution! board game combines the best elements of the base game and follow-up expansions into one package, setting it in the universe of Paizo’s Pathfinder RPG. Players secretly bid to influence powerful figures and control the city of Korvosa through bribery, blackmail, and force.

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Exciting New Releases On Pathfinder Infinite

It’s been a while since we last shone a spotlight on the Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite marketplaces—where community content creators can sell game supplements set in the Pathfinder and Starfinder settings—but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a lot going on there! We’re working closely with the staff at DriveThruRPG, who host both Infinite sites, to give more attention and publishing resources to community creators, especially members of the select Infinite Masters community (more on that below). First, let’s look at the top performers on the site last month!

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Pathfinder Dark Archive

Iconic Encounter: In Truth’s Light

At least this isn’t in Ustalav, Mios thought, smiling wryly to themself as they approached the Lily Lounge. It hadn’t taken much investigating into the recent mysterious disappearances in Augustana to find all signs pointing to this new luxury lounge, famous almost overnight. If this were Ustalav, Mios figured, the lodge would be full of vampires. Or werewolves. Or some kind of vampiric werewolves like those vukodlaks from last winter.

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Crusade Comes to the Consoles

We at Owlcat Games and our partners at Prime Matter are happy to announce that the PC adaptation of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous adventure path is coming to consoles on 29 September 2022.

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Pathfinder Adventure: Crown of the Kobold King

Happy Anniversary, Kobold King!

July 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of Paizo as well as the 15th anniversary of the world we now know as the Lost Omens campaign setting. In 2007, with the licenses for Dungeon and Dragon magazines set to expire, Paizo had to take some big risks to stay in business—risks that ultimately paid off. With a much smaller staff taking a stab at something new, Paizo released a series of short standalone adventures telling the tale of the rise (and fall) of the kobold king, Merlokrep, in the northern wilderness of Andoran. Over three adventures, Hollow’s Last Hope, Crown of the Kobold King, and Hungry Are the Dead, authors Jason Bulmahn, Tim Hitchcock, Nicolas Logue, and F. Wesley Schneider established the foundations for what would grow into the Lost Omens setting we continue to explore and expand today.

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Paizo Subscriptions Update

It’s time to announce some changes to the Paizo Advantage program, add a few new subscriptions, and say goodbye to a few others.

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Iconic Encounter: Fear, Fortitude, and Fury

Gazing past his easel at the bustling Commerce District of Niswan, Thaleon’s thoughts wandered once again. They rarely stayed put, but life would hardly be any fun if they did. There were so many delicious new sensations to take in, from the kites dancing overhead to the tempting sizzle of vegetable wraps from a nearby food stall. He observed the colors of the market, his eye lingering on a small shrine where a priest was drawing the rose of Shelyn in colored powders. The Rahadoumi elf didn’t worship to any gods himself, of course, but he had nothing but respect for the old priest’s lifelong devotion and mastery as his fingers effortlessly scattered a vibrant green around the rose’s exterior. Thaleon turned back to his own easel to paint with his mind’s eye, the emotions of the market his palette. He blended the vibrant gold of a cunning merchant’s intellect with the frustrated red of the customer she had just outwitted in a battle of bargains. Now for some green as well, the color of growth, flexibility, potential...

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A Midsummner Night’s Market Meeting

There’s my favorite customer in the world! I’ve been looking all over the Grand Bazaar for you. I’m so glad you agreed to meet me after dark. It’s much more comfortable without that burning sun and fewer prying eyes. I don’t share my secrets with just anyone and I know you’ve been looking forward to my upcoming shipments. A night market is the best market, I’ve always said so. Except, have you ever been shopping in Shadow Absalom? No? Well next time dearie, let’s meet there!

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Pathfinder Society Year 4 Rule Updates

Greetings, Pathfinders! As the beginning of the Year of Boundless Wonder approaches in August, we wanted to let you know about the changes coming to the Pathfinder Society program. Aside from the updates in this blog, we don’t have any other rule changes or alterations to the program planned; this year should be quieter on that front, rather than the radical changes we’ve had in previous years.

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Pathfinder Adventure Path #182: Graveclaw (Blood Lords 2 of 6)

Introducing the Blood Lords Player’s Guide

The ghost king of Geb rules a nation where the living and undead work uneasily side-by-side. The power behind the throne, and the true rulers of Geb, are the Blood Lords: a scheming group of undying necromancers whose whims affect millions. Joining the Blood Lords isn’t easy, but your band of less-than-good-hearted troubleshooters is destined to ascend their ranks for exposing a dangerous plot to the nation.

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Now Available: Spells, Smoke, Storms, and so many Aliens.

Here we are at the crossroads, that magical in-between place with PaizoCon over and Gen Con ahead. The cycle of Starfinder and Pathfinder Adventure Paths and Organized Play seasons are renewing themselves and must-have accessories abound. Explore what is new from Paizo this month!

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Pathfinder Dark Archive

Meet the Iconics: Thaleon

Thaleon was born in the deserts of Rahadoum, in a time before the sands had come to claim Manaket.

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Seasons of Pathfinder Society

Late last year, in my new role as the creative lead for Pathfinder Society Organized Play, I sat down to plan the plots and themes for Year 4. One of my first experiences on the Organized Play team back in January 2021 was to sit in on the pitch meeting for Pathfinder Society Year 3: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It was thrilling to see what Thursty had planned for the year, and I couldn’t wait to see how it turned out.

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Meet the Iconics: Mios

Growing up in Caliphas, in the haunted nation of Ustalav, Mios Uriev learned that monsters can look like anyone, but they normally look like the rich.

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Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults

The Abomination Vaults Comes to 5E!

I’m Ron Lundeen, the development manager responsible for the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path. At Paizo, we have a lot of confidence in our adventures. We’ve been crafting phenomenal campaigns for many years, and the Pathfinder Second Edition rules have only helped us make more. The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path has been one of our best campaigns, and our fans love it. But a lot more gamers all over the world play the newest edition of the world’s oldest RPG, and we wanted to show them how great Paizo’s Adventure Paths can be, too.

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Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults

The Abomination Vaults in One Big Book!

I’m Ron Lundeen, development manager responsible for the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path. I knew this campaign would be a big hit from the start: it has old-fashioned kick-down-the-door dungeon exploration seeded with interesting NPCs, side quests, and tons of roleplaying. The authors—James Jacobs, Vanessa Hoskins, and Stephen Radney-MacFarland—really blew me away by adding exciting action sequences and compelling character personalities to every dungeon level. The Abomination Vaults present more than a place to fight monsters and grab loot (although there’s plenty of that!), but an opportunity for heroes to solve mysteries, negotiate old feuds, rescue innocent people, and much more. And, of course, the villain lurking behind the scenes is a terrifying and powerful enemy. She’s right there on the cover and, wow, does she look angry!

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Paizo at UK Games Expo

While Paizo gears up for PaizoCon the last weekend in May, our partners across the Atlantic are preparing for UK Games Expo, which runs the following weekend, June 3-5. The largest tabletop gaming convention in the United Kingdom, UK Games Expo is the perfect opportunity for European Paizo fans to get their game on!

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Audio Pathfinder Adventure, Shardfall, Coming To Mobile Soon!

Wanderword, the leader in interactive audio entertainment, is teaming up with Paizo to bring Pathfinder to life on mobile devices later this year with the all-new Pathfinder Shardfall!

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Today on Paizo LIVE: Slayers, Saloons, Crisis, and more!

Wow, can you believe that by the end of this month, Paizo will have released well over 30 products in 2022?! Also, this is the last Paizo LIVE episode before PaizoCon and PaizoCon Online at the end of May. So, we are revving our previews with Pathfinder Book of the Dead, Pathfinder Adventure Path #178: Punks in a Powderkeg (Outlaws of Alkenstar 1 of 3), Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall, Starfinder Drift Crisis, Paizo Organized Play, upcoming conventions, and our new partnership with Foundry Virtual Tabletop. Please join us for Episode 011 of our 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests today Friday, April 22, 2022, from 4–6 p.m. PST.

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Organized Play Sanctioning Update - April 2022

Greetings, players! With the Book of the Dead release coming next week, we wanted to take a moment to talk about sanctioning content. The rulebook resulted in a fair amount of discussion internally, and we thought it was a good idea to take a step back and look at how our sanctioning works.

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On the Next Paizo LIVE: Slayers and more!

It’s a big month for Paizo LIVE, our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about upcoming Pathfinder and Starfinder releases. This is the last episode before PaizoCon at the end of May, so we will preview Pathfinder Book of the Dead, Pathfinder Adventure Path #178: Punks in a Powderkeg (Outlaws of Alkenstar 1 of 3), Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall, Starfinder Drift Crisis, Paizo Organized Play, upcoming conventions, and our new partnership with Foundry Virtual Tabletop. Please join us for Episode 011 from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific on Friday, April 22, 2022.

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall

Free Samples!

There you are, dearie! How’s my favorite customer in the world? I’ve been telling all my subscribers: new shipments are on the way, so place your preorders and subscription requests today.

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Iconic Encounter: Wreckers Reunion - Part Four

“Droven?”

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Paizo And Foundry Virtual Tabletop Content Partnership

Paizo is proud to announce that we have officially partnered with Foundry Gaming LLC to bring premium content to Foundry Virtual Tabletop. This new level of partnership represents the culmination of nearly a year of communal effort from Paizo, Foundry Virtual Tabletop, Sigil Entertainment Group, Syrinscape, and contributors from the FVTT Pathfinder Second Edition development community. We have heard the outpouring of support from the Foundry VTT userbase and are extremely excited to continue to work with the Foundry team to bring Pathfinder content to their platform in a way that emphasizes the quality of our respective products.

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(You Look) Fly, You Fools

I bet you thought after two years of April Fools Bestiary blogs (check them out here and here) that we’d be sure to do another April Fools Bestiary this year. Alas, we have fooled you. It is a jest. A harmless bit of innocent whimsy, in the spirit of April.

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Today on Paizo LIVE: Goblin Adventures Galore!

If your schedule allows, kindly join us for Episode 10 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific today, March 25, 2022. Our monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show will feature Paizo staff and guests talking about our upcoming Pathfinder and Starfinder releases. You’ll have a great time exploring the new products with me.

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Last Chance for the Kobold Hoard!

The curtain rises. The set evokes somewhere deep within the dimly-lit-yet-safe-and-sanitary Paizo warehouse. Tall, industrial metal shelves full of pallets and cardboard boxes reach to the high ceiling above with wide corridors stretching to infinity. Some boxes are half open. Perhaps there’s a discarded mask or two on the floor and a forklift partially visible. The time of day is uncertain in the artificial light. The sound of an athletic, yet not truly violent, scuffle is heard from offstage or as a sound cue. With a flash, a small red reptilian figure with a slender, yet well-fed body and long tail appears out of a yellow cloud, smelling of rotten eggs. Enter Boldo.

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On the Next Paizo LIVE: Goblin Adventures Galore!

Goblins and pigs! The Swarm and a dangerous cult! Twisted evil magic and a quest to prove yourself worthy of the title of Mammoth Lord! Pickles and… pickles—this month Paizo’s games have something for everyone. So, let’s talk about it all. Join us for Episode 010 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific next Friday, March 25, 2022. Our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show will feature some of the Paizo staff and guests talking about upcoming Pathfinder and Starfinder releases.

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Absalom, City of Lost Omens

Tales of Lost Omens: Dyrani Of The Harvest

The crowd in front of the vast chasm surrounding the Starstone Cathedral was slightly larger today than most days. Visitors from all over Golarion stopped by the great pit every day to marvel at the ancient edifice at its center, to dream of the stone hidden away behind its massive walls, lethal traps, and immortal guardians. It was said that the Starstone granted immeasurable power to any who could touch its crystalline surface and pass the final test of spirit. Those who succeeded became gods. Most simply fell to their deaths in the chasm outside and the rare few who made it in the cathedral were usually never heard from again.

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Don’t Miss the Pathfinder First Edition Character Options Humble Bundle!

This Humble Bundle sale and charity fundraiser marks the first of a series of bundles to celebrate Paizo's 20th Anniversary! Between Starfinder and two editions of Pathfinder, Paizo has developed a reputation for giving players the ability to craft and customize nearly any character they can imagine. This bundle allows you to kick off the celebration with the game that started it all.

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Pathfinder Infinite: February Month In Review

February was the most active month on Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite since the platforms launched in October, and it’s great to see the communities really starting to come into their own. Pathfinder Second Edition has the most support, as you can see from the high-performing titles listed below, so we here at Paizo encourage creators with an idea for a Starfinder, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, or Pathfinder First Edition product to put it up on the marketplace; now’s the time to capitalize on limited competition!

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Pathfinder Guns & Gears

Iconic Encounter: Wreckers Reunion - Part Three

Droven could hardly believe the twists and turns the last few days had taken. Month after month, season after season, he’d traveled the continent of Arcadia, searching for passage back to Absalom, an ocean away in the region known as the Inner Sea. He had spent more than a few days in the last weeks carefully examining the soles of his metal-reinforced boots. Long ago, he’d promised one of the first friends he’d made in Arcadia, an old half-orc named Darv, that if he still hadn’t found a way back to Absalom by the time the soles of wore thin, he’d return to Darv’s workshop to begin a new life.

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Iconic Encounter: Wreckers Reunion - Part Two

“Whirp–click?” the tiny construct asked of Droven, who rotated the lenses of a pair of clockwork glasses he’d been tinkering with.

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Today on Paizo LIVE: Mammoth Releases!

Paizo LIVE 009 is today! Please join Paizo staff members Linda Zayas-Palmer, Jason Bulmahn, Jessica Catalan, Alex Speidel, and me as we take a closer look at the new Pathfinder and Starfinder products coming soon to your local game store and paizo.com. Our live Twitch show starts at 4 p.m. Pacific today, February 18, 2022, and will end early so that we can attend a special internal send-off for Mark Seifter. You can wish him well here.

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Iconic Encounter: Returning Home - Part Four

Amiri's arms burned as she hauled herself upward. Her hands cramped from finding tenuous grips on small extrusions of stone, and one particularly vicious bit of rock had sliced open a good gash below her knee out of what she assumed was sheer spite. She unspooled her rope as she went, securing it whenever she found an anchor point she was sure could bear Branum and Oska's weight.

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On the Next Paizo LIVE: Mammoth Releases!

Paizo LIVE has become one of my favorite events. If you haven’t joined us, it’s our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and guests talking about upcoming Pathfinder and Starfinder releases. Join us for Episode 9 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific next Friday, February 18, 2022.

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Iconic Encounter: Returning Home - Part Three

Iconic Encounter: Returning Home - Part Three Wednesday, February 9, 2022 THE SPLINTERING OF BONE Branum and Oska muttered to each other as Amiri prepared. She did her best to ignore them. She couldn't understand them, anyway—they were talking in an odd, garbled tongue, and suddenly she remembered that, too. The twins with their private language, infuriating Maruk because he thought his children were making fun of him. He'd always been going on about how his son was going to be as mighty a...
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Iconic Encounter: Returning Home - Part Two

Sometimes, when Amiri was bored, she considered all the ways she could have died over the years. Not that she had any desire to analyze them strategically, as one companion had suggested. Nor to contemplate the inevitability of death and its philosophical implications, as another had asked.

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Happy Lunar New Year 2022!

This Lunar New Year, we thought it’d be fun to have some of our staff, freelancers, and members of the community write up some magic items inspired by lunar new year to put into your Pathfinder games!

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Iconic Encounter: Returning Home - Part One

The sky was scabbed over with ominous looking clouds, but Amiri refused to take them as an ill omen. Just being back here in these mountains was all the bad luck she needed.

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Now Available: Starfinder Galactic Magic, Quest for the Frozen Flame, and more!

From the new Starfinder Galactic Magic hardcover to the first volume of the Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Path, Broken Tusk Moon, to the first Starfinder Bounty, here are some innovative and exciting new Starfinder and Pathfinder products to enhance your favorite games at paizo.com and your local game store!

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Quest For The Frozen Flame: Eiwa's Lesson

I remember the years of struggle. Long, stretching seasons where sunlight was sparse, and the hungry night arrived all too quickly. I remember the rites and songs as we laid follower after follower to rest, forced to move ever onward. Parent and child, animals, friends: none were safe as we carved our new paths and founded our new lives.

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Add Dimension to Your Encounters!

There’s just something about an epic horde of enemies on the table that brings the sense of danger to the scene. For over a decade, Paizo has partnered with the hobby leader WizKids/NECA in bringing characters and foes to life in three dimensions. With iconic sets of heroes and villains, the Builder Set series of Goblins and Undead, and sets tied to key Adventure Paths and regions of Golarion, the Pathfinder Battles line of prepainted collectible miniatures are a fast way for Game Masters to being the world to life on the tabletop.

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Join Us Today for Moons and Magic in Paizo LIVE!

Paizo LIVE is our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and guests talking about upcoming Pathfinder and Starfinder releases. Join us for Episode 8 of Paizo LIVE today from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific. Catch past episodes on YouTube.

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On the Next Paizo LIVE: Moons and Magic!

Paizo LIVE is our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and guests talking about upcoming Pathfinder and Starfinder releases. Join us for Episode 8 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific next Friday, January 21. Catch past episodes on YouTube.

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Time is running out to grab the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginners Bundle!

Last month, we launched the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginners Bundle to support The Trevor Project and Tabletop Gaymers. At the time of writing, it’s sold over 6,000 bundles, raising over $30,000 for the charities. Read all the details in our announcement blog. This deal on an epic collection of Pathfinder Second Edition essentials ends Saturday!

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Tales of Lost Omens: The Audition

“You stand defeated, Voradni Voon!” Melika shouted, brandishing her tin sword at Elophos. The older actor bellowed, throwing his hands up in a defiant gesture meant to cover a quick tightening of the straps holding on his minotaur horns, which had begun to slide dangerously sideways.

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Tales of Lost Omens: A New Game of Drouge

“A new game?” Kesara asked, her old Vudrani hands already sweeping the drouge pieces off the embroidered cloth, milk-pale jade and black onyx figurines vanishing like magician’s coins between her bony fingers.

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Monsters of Myth

Authors of Myth

Let these mythical creatures not be overshadowed! Our freelancers aren't monsters in any sense of the word, but according to the vernacular of today's internet, you could call them absolute beasts! While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple name in a byline doesn’t give readers much information on the people who work to bring the setting to life. Instead, I reached out to the authors with the intent of promoting them—as well as any other personal work they would like to show off, so that new fans could find other projects, RPG products, websites, livestreams, and more to enjoy! If there's a section in the book that you particularly liked, why not check out the author behind it today?

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Iconic Encounter: Pointed Questions

As the white-bearded man casually strolled across the rainy courtyard, shadowy figures kept pace with him atop the buildings surrounding the square. The older man didn’t seem aware of the dark shapes stalking him, first from a distance, then closer, along his path. Nor did he show surprise when the ruffians stepped out of the shadows, blades glinting. The tallest of the black-clad figures spoke with a low growl.

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Monsters of Myth

December New Releases: A Metropolis and Mythic Monsters!

From awesome beasts and a quartet of taverns to a mega city, you’ll find three new Pathfinder products to explore at the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store—plus one exclusive soggy-jungle Pathfinder Bounty to download here on Paizo.com.

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Introducing the Quest for the Frozen Flame Player’s Guide

The herd is on the move. The hunt is on!

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Author Spotlight: Absalom Nights

It’s been a long journey, but Absalom, City of Lost Omens is almost here! That means it’s time for the authors of that book to step forward and take a bow. While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple name in a byline doesn’t give readers much information on the people who work to bring the setting to life! I reached out to the authors with the intent of promoting them—as well as any other personal work they would like to show off, so that new fans of their work could find other projects, RPG products, websites, livestreams, and more to enjoy! If there’s a section in the book that you particularly liked, why not check out the author behind it today?

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Happy Holidays from Paizo!

Thank you for your support this year! Here's our gift to you!

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The Windsong Testaments: Fafnheir's Lament

The manuscript that follows is taken from but a single source, stored at Windsong Abbey. It is impossible to verify the authorship of “Fafnheir’s Lament”; the book in which it is contained also includes a bestiary and various tales of monster-hunting. If authentic, the lament—written in Skald—must have been copied and recopied many times over its ten-thousand-year history, potentially introducing scribal errors. Translation was further complicated when a fire broke out at the abbey centuries ago; an anonymous librarian saved the book, but not before the manuscript was singed along one edge. The damage was not extensive, but enough to make many passages difficult to read and some phrases entirely indecipherable. The edition presented here represents the best efforts of the abbey’s staff.

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Join Us Today for Holiday Delights in Paizo LIVE!

Paizo LIVE is our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and guests talking about upcoming Pathfinder and Starfinder releases. Join us for Episode 7 of Paizo LIVE today from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific. Catch past episodes on YouTube.

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Support Charities with the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginners Bundle!

Forge a path into limitless fantasy adventure with this epic collection of Pathfinder Second Edition essentials! This bundle is filled with the books new explorers need to create heroes and set out on their journey in the legendary Pathfinder tabletop RPG universe, including the Core Rulebook, monster-filled Bestiary, and ready-to-play adventures—along with the physical Beginner’s Box at the $50 or more tier. Plus, you choose how much of your purchase supports The Trevor Project and Tabletop Gaymers!

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Pathfinder Guns & Gears

Tales of Lost Omens: Sleep’s Fractured Reflection

Do you remember sleep?

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Pathfinder Guns & Gears

Iconic Encounter: Peril & Portals

It’s strange how quickly a life-changing period spanning years can be replaced by what was once normal. Droven was certainly happy to be back in the field undertaking a Pathfinder mission again, and even happier to have an opportunity to deploy some of the gadgets and weaponry he’d created during his long exodus in Arcadia. He’d even lent his latest weapon, a gun that could create portals, to his partner for the exercise, a clever halfling freelancer from Cheliax who’d come highly recommended by a fellow Pathfinder.

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On the Next Paizo LIVE: Holiday Delights!

Paizo LIVE is our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and guests talking about upcoming Pathfinder and Starfinder releases. Join us for episode 7 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific next Friday, December 10. Catch past episodes on YouTube.

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Guest Blog: Pathfinder Arena Kickstarter Update #1

Pathfinder Arena is now live on Kickstarter. The project already has nine stretch goals unlocked!

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Out-of-Print Titles Return as Print-on-Demand

We’ve been publishing Pathfinder books since 2007 (the first of which didn’t even use the Pathfinder branding). Over the nearly 15 years since GameMastery Module D-0: Hollow’s Last Hope came out, many titles have gone out of print. While they’re available as PDFs on paizo.com in perpetuity, for a lot of fans, those books that came and went before they started playing are something like holy grails for their collections.

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Presales for the Gold Edition of Absalom: City of Lost Omens Begin!

Beadle & Grimm’s Pandemonium Warehouse is releasing its first-ever premium box edition of a Pathfinder release. Why, it’s Absalom, City of Lost Omens! Presales of the Gold Edition begin today, with 10% off to anyone who orders by November 28th.

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Save 25% on Paizo Digital Products with the Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale!

Grab Black Friday through Cyber Monday deals at paizo.com with 25% off your favorite digital products! From now until midnight Pacific time on Monday, November 29, you can save 25% on all Paizo digital products. The sale is not valid on products from licensed or compatible publishers, subscriptions, or e-tickets.

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Tales of Lost Omens: Surprise!

“I don’t like the look of that sloop,” said Daker, punctuating the last word with his ever-present sneer.

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Pre-Sales For The Gold Edition Of Absalom City Of Lost Omens Begin November 26

Q&A with Beadle & Grimm’s Product Development Goblin, Donk

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Pathfinder Arena is live on Kickstarter

Pathfinder Arena, a competitive board game set in the Pathfinder roleplaying game’s Age of Lost Omens setting, is now live on Kickstarter!

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Available Now: Free RPG Day 2021 Adventures!

Those adorable little Free RPG Day one-shots with pregenerated characters are now available. Since they’re free PDF downloads, or only a few dollars in print on the Paizo store, they’re perfect for giving new players a taste of Pathfinder and Starfinder. Veteran players can simply enjoy a side session of fun!

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Prepare Your RPG Superstar 2021 Monster Entry with Arcane Mark, Roll for Combat, and Nonat1s!

On Thursday, November 11th at 5 PM Pacific/8 PM Eastern, Arcane Mark is teaming up with Nonat1s and Roll for Combat to bring you a special edition of one of the features from our stream, Build a Monster Workshop, hosted on the Nonat1s YouTube channel. Build a brand-new monster based on ideas and decisions you can vote for in chat! Then, catch Linda, Mark, Nonat1s, and Stephen talking about monster building in general, as well as the ongoing RPG Superstar Contest, the newly released Battlezoo Bestiary for Pathfinder, and more! Don't miss the live stream tonight!

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November New Releases: Whispers and Doorways

Both new Adventure Path volumes this month allow you to face challenges on new worlds. We continue to release all the Pathfinder rulebooks as Pocket Editions, a popular new option. A new Pathfinder card deck is ready to help players remember to use those Hero Points. Homebrewers will find session inspiration in crypts, lava, jungles, and ghost towns with our new maps. You’ll find over eight new Pathfinder and Starfinder products at the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today.

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Pathfinder Guns & Gears

Iconic Encounter: Tracks In The Snow

Nhalmika Ironsight ran through the fresh snow. It wasn’t that much snow—it wouldn’t reach higher than mid-shin on a human—but it was higher than Nhalmika’s knees. And there’s a big difference, she now knew, between running through snow below your knees and running through snow above them. But she nevertheless ran on, hefting her scattergun to keep it free of moisture that might foul the firing mechanism. Most humans would find the large gun to be far too heavy, but Nhalmika carried it with practiced ease. So perhaps there was a fair tradeoff somehow.

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Tales of Lost Omens: Uncontrolled Detonation

They all agreed that it was Ak’s fault. Poog, Reta Bigbad, Mogmurch, Chuffy Lickwound, even Mogmurch’s toad Amfibier agreed—in a gravelly voice that sounded nothing at all like Mogmurch muttering through closed lips. Ak had been the first to climb into the back of the wagon, and so the other four goblins had no choice but to follow him, only to become trapped when the longshanks and his two terrible horses had arrived, forcing them to cower under a tarpaulin as the wagon rolled into... a human village? The sounds and smells were inconclusive.

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Watch the Pathfinder One-Shot: Head-Shot the Rot Live Play Tonight!

Tonight, we premiere Pathfinder One-Shot: Headshot the Rot at 6 PM Pacific! We'll take a break at 7:30 Pacific for a special Paizo LIVE interview with Adam Bradford, Chief Development Officer at Demiplane, to learn more about Pathfinder Nexus!

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Guns and Gears Authors!

Wow, as of the time I’m writing this the last couple weeks have been eventful, to say the least. One event that would be an absolute shame to overlook is this, the Guns & Gears author blog! Below are an array of the freelancers who helped make Guns & Gears possible. I want to note not everyone involved had the time to write or submit an introduction for themselves, so please keep an eye on the credits of the final book to see everyone else who helped make this project possible!

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Tales of Lost Omens: Diplomatic Escort

“Typically, when a patrol is sent out to escort a diplomat, they can handle themselves!”

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Free RPG Day is TODAY!

Free RPG Day works with top RPG publishers to create the can’t-miss RPG event of the year at hobby game stores around the world. Participating stores will have piles of exclusive new RPG adventures and other exciting new RPG-related items!

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Shoot to survive in the Pathfinder One-Shot: Head-Shot the Rot!

Taking a much-needed relaxing break in between escapades, four gun-toting adventurers post up in a dingy bar in one of Alkenstar's entertainment districts. Right across the street at a theater, people flood inside to catch the premiere of a highly-advertised play, but what comes out of the theater is far more dangerous. As people scatter to safety in the dusty streets, its up to the group of gunslingers in the bar to set things right.

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For Sale: Awesome Words by Awesome Authors!

While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple name in a byline doesn’t give readers much information on the people who work to bring the setting to life! We reached out to the authors of Lost Omens Grand Bazaar with the intent of promoting them—as well as any other personal work they would like to share, so that new fans of their work could find other projects, RPG products, websites, livestreams, and more to enjoy!

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Save the Date: Pathfinder Arena Kickstarter Set for November 23!

Pathfinder Arena is coming to Kickstarter on November 23rd at 10 AM EST.

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Tales of Lost Omens: Threading The Needle

Arvin Utner knew his next words would save him or doom him. His head started to perspire beneath his powdered wig. A rivulet of sweat ran down behind his left ear, leaving a small white smear from the wig’s powder.

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Don’t miss the Pathfinder: Threshold of Knowledge SoundPack for Free RPG Day

Free RPG Day is right around the corner, and the Syrinscape team couldn’t be more excited. You probably already know that Paizo is offering up an amazing Pathfinder adventure called Threshold of Knowledge. But what you might not know is that Syrinscape will be along for the ride! As you and your fellow students work to figure out the mystery of your missing teacher, you’ll have the magic of Syrinscape to help set the scene.

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Paizo LIVE Tonight! Treats, no Tricks!

Join us for Paizo LIVE, Episode 6, from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific tonight, Friday, October 8! Paizo LIVE is our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about all things upcoming from Pathfinder and Starfinder. Catch past episodes on YouTube.

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Iconic Encounter: Wreckers Reunion – Part One

“REAGENTS!”

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Tales of Lost Omens: Special Delivery

“No no no no nononoooo!”

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On the Next Paizo LIVE: Treats, no Tricks!

Paizo LIVE is our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about upcoming sweet Pathfinder and Starfinder goodness. Join us for episode 6 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific next Friday, October 8. Catch past episodes on YouTube.

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The Final Week of Battlezoo Bestiary and the RPG Superstar 2021 Launch!

The Battlezoo Bestiary Kickstarter has been a massive success to date, including three huge books not only fully compatible with Pathfinder Second Edition but all developed by some of the most trusted Paizo names.

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Pathfinder Guns & Gears

Tales of Lost Omens: Wheels Aflame

Dust settled, leaving two figures behind in the carnage. One a looming mass of hulking muscle and teeth. The other a gnome, small, but—against all odds—still up.

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Prepare for Free RPG Day: October 16, 2021

Roleplaying Game fans get ready!

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September Scenario Previews

Hiya, Starfinders! I have something special for you this month. A while back, I was discussing real-world current events that caused shipping delays with some friends, and someone jokingly commented that it would make a great Starfinder Society scenario. I couldn’t get the thought out of my head, and as I let the idea percolate, it kept getting weirder and weirder. How weird is it? Well, let’s just say the Society might solve a shipping crisis in more than one way.

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New Releases: Nanotech, Mechs, Pawns & Battle Cards

Deepen your Pathfinder and Starfinder experiences with the new Starfinder Tech Revolution hardcover rulebook, Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Battle Cards, and Pathfinder Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Pawn Collection accessories at the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

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Order of the Amber Die: The Slithering Salve: Part 2

Our first project of Pathfinder 2nd Edition—The Slithering Salve—is complete! That's right, last month we assembled the Order for another marathon session of Ron Lundeen's module, The Slithering. The August humidity in New Jersey was enough to curl even the sturdiest character sheet, but we embraced it as part of our Mwangi experience and came out alive (mostly, see below).

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One Small Step For Paizo, One Giant Leap for Beadle & Grimm's

It was just about a year ago that we announced the Complete Character Chronicles Kickstarter, our first foray into the world of Pathfinder. Thank you so much for supporting us, believing in us, and backing us.

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Paizo at Gen Con Keynote with Publisher Erik Mona

Join Paizo Publisher and Chief Creative Officer Erik Mona for a peek at upcoming Paizo releases!

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Announcing Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite

Today at Gen Con, we announced a new way for members of the Pathfinder and Starfinder communities to create content to expand the brands and make a lasting mark on the games we all love: Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite.

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Join us Tonight for Inferno Bloom, the Conclusion of the Pathfinder Secrets of Magic Liveplay!

When the Pathfinder Secrets of Magic Liveplay began, four esteemed graduates from the College of Mysteries in Absalom were sent to a tiny desert village in eastern Thuvia along the banks of the Junira River. Rumor had it that everyone in this small community had suddenly developed magical abilities. Power that, if left unchecked, might spell their doom. Perhaps more troubling, it seemed even those who just visited the town received powers as well!

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Boricubos: The Lost Isles – Support Latin American Monsters & Adventures!

The mythology of Latin America rarely features in RPG supplements. Pathfinder has gone beyond fantasy Aztecs and Mayans to find creatures for their bestiaries, but when one of Legendary Game’s authors pitched a campaign setting based on his Puerto Rican Taino heritage, a new project was born.

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Join in the Fun, Mystery, and Action of the Secrets of Magic Liveplay!

Ding, they’ve all leveled up to 7! And they have new loot!

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Help Geek Grind Coffee Grow K-Cup Coffee Offerings!

Hello again from Geek Grind Coffee! We are passionate gamers and lovers of all things that celebrate art and imagination! It is with these loves brought together that we created Geek Grind Coffee. But now we need your help!

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The Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Computer Game is Available Now!

The Worldwound. A cursed land that threatens all life. Not a wasteland, or the site of a natural disaster, but an abscess through which the mortal world bleeds into the Abyss. One hundred years ago, this realm teemed with life. Gardens flourished and cities thrived here, but now death reigns over all.

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Watch Secrets of Magic Liveplay on Thursday!

While the Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic liveplay is usually on Wednesdays at 6 pm Pacific, we are taking the night off to support and call attention to the growing problem of hate raids on marginalized streamers. In short, there has been a “recent explosion of ‘hate raids’—in which trolls overwhelm streamers’ chats with bot-powered fake accounts that spam hateful messages.” We are standing in solidarity with other streamers to take September 1 off to say #TwitchDoBetter. We need Twitch to make additional tech tools to create a safer space a top priority. You can join us tomorrow, Thursday September 2 this week.

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Strength of Thousands: Magaambya Staff

The first chapter of the Strength of Thousands Adventure Path, Kindled Magic, is now available and contains an article describing nine students who are the peers (and either friends or rivals) of the player characters. Several teachers will be described in a similar way in the upcoming Pathfinder Adventure Path #172: Secrets of the Temple-City. But students and teachers aren’t the only important NPCs at a magic school. To help you further populate the Magaambya, here are three other figures commonly encountered on campus who didn’t make it into print due to space limitations. Enjoy!

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Monsters and Dragons and Pirates, Oh My!

After over a year and a half of hard work, today is when we at Roll For Combat launch our Kickstarter for the RPG Superstar Battlezoo Bestiary, the culmination of the RPG Superstar contest from last year finally assembled in hardcover book format. However, we didn’t stop there! Not only are we launching the Bestiary, but we’re also launching the new Monster Parts System, the Battlezoo Ancestries: Dragons hardcover book, and the new level 1-10 Jewel of the Indigo Isles Adventure Path, all for Pathfinder Second Edition!

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Coming Soon: Tech & Teachers

The September 2021 product release date is scheduled for the 22nd, less than a month away. So, lets preview what the Fall equinox will bring to Paizo.com and your favorite local game store! Beware some light adventure spoilers.

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Pledge to the NIOBE & DURA: Wrath of the Ancient Kickstarter and Get the Pathfinder: Niobe Adventure!

“We all have a Niobe inside ourselves, and it’s time to let her roar.”

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More Stream Overlays for Pathfinder & Starfinder

Months ago, as we were preparing for the Jasper’s Game Week 2021 charity fundraiser, we received an email from Anne “Hearthsinger” Richmond (on Twitter at @annerichmond) saying that Jasper’s Game Day’s usual Twitch overlay volunteer wasn’t available. She knew that our art department put together some overlays for Pathfinder Second Edition and Starfinder, but they had a few more players at each table than those overlays could hold. They needed overlays for a GM, plus five or six players, for some of the virtual tabletops for the event.

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New Spells from the Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic Liveplay!

In the Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic liveplay, you can have a great time learning the Pathfinder Second Edition game and get a first look at some of the exciting new material in the upcoming Pathfinder Secrets of Magic rulebook, scheduled to release on September 1st. We’ve seen new spells, feats, and of course, the new magus and summoner classes.

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Roll For Combat’s Battlezoo Bestiary Coming to Kickstarter!

The summer heat is causing all sorts of monsters to stir from hiding, including the 100+ new creatures in the Battlezoo Bestiary! This catalog of creative critters, perfect for Pathfinder GMs looking for sinister new foes to sic on their players, goes live on Kickstarter this August 31st! Sign up to be alerted when the Kickstarter goes live next week at: http://kickstarter.rollforcombat.com/

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Strength of Thousands: Music Is Math Is Magic

Anchor Root was no stranger to anxiety. It had been one of her closest companions since childhood. She had hoped, briefly, that getting away from her home and clan would ease the burden, but if anything, arriving at the Magaambya had only made things worse. Each project, assignment, or presentation was just another expectation on top of an already precarious tower of expectations she had been trying to climb since birth.

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Scrying on Subscriptions: Pathfinder Lost Omens

Do you want to be sure to get the latest and greatest Pathfinder and Starfinder products shipped to you directly from the Paizo warehouse upon release? Of course, you do! When you become an ongoing subscriber to one of Paizo’s many product lines, you'll have that security.

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Combat Tracker Apps for All from Digital Dragon Studios

Earlier this year, Digital Dragon Studios unveiled the official Pathfinder 2nd Edition Combat Tracker App for everyone to try, and we've had a great deal of fun listening to all the ways folks are using it! Thanks to your feedback, we’ve made quite a few alterations over the last few months, from two new systems to a variety of in-app improvements, and we’re excited to share them with you!

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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is Almost Here!

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, the computer RPG developed by Owlcat Games, comes out on September 2, and we couldn’t be more excited! In this adaptation of the 2013 Pathfinder Adventure Path of the same name, the player is tasked with saving a dark and gritty demon-infested world from ruin—or damning it to its fate. After an incredible $2 million Kickstarter campaign and beta release, the game will initially launch on Steam, the Epic Games Store, and GOG for PC/Mac, with console adaptations for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One following next spring, on March 1, 2022. But you don’t have to wait until the game is out to get your copy! Choose from three exciting editions by preordering today on your preferred platform!

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New Cantrips from the Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic Liveplay!

In the Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic liveplay, you can have a great time learning the Pathfinder Second Edition game and get a first look at some of the exciting new material in the upcoming Pathfinder Secrets of Magic rulebook, scheduled to release on August 25th. We’ve seen new spells, feats, and of course, the new magus and summoner classes.

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Conjuring Phrases: Meet the Secrets of Magic Authors part 2!

If you missed our earlier blog with the first group of authors, you can find it here! Without further ado, let’s jump into part 2 of our Secrets of Magic author spotlight. So as to not miss out on the creators’ fantastic words, don’t forget to preorder the book here on paizo.com or reserve a copy from your local game store!

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Conjuring Phrases: Meet the Secrets of Magic Authors part 1!

When putting together a book, the lead designer or developer gives the text its framework and structure, with the authors breathing life into the shell, then returning it to the designer for molding into its final form. In the case of Secrets of Magic, Pathfinder Lead Designer Logan Bonner set the stage for the many authors who contributed to the book. While each author receives credit in the book itself, space is limited. By shining the blog spotlight on them, we can share more information, including what parts they worked on or other projects they’re involved with.

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Grafts and Drawbacks: More Pathfinder and Starfinder-Compatible Products

Check out the new Pathfinder and Starfinder-compatible products added to the Paizo Store in the last two months!

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Tonight on Paizo LIVE: Magic, Tech, or Junk?

Join us for episode 5 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific tonight. Paizo LIVE is our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and guests talking about all things Pathfinder and Starfinder. You can watch past episodes on YouTube.

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Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic Liveplay Has Gone to the Goats!

Join a halfling summoner, dwarven wizard, half-elf magus, and kitsune witch for a first look at some of the exciting new content in the upcoming Pathfinder Secrets of Magic and watch as they uncover the true danger that awaits them in the sands of Thuvia! This unique, 10-episode, actual play show airs live every Wednesday at 6 PM Pacific through September 15 on Twitch.tv/OfficialPaizo!

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On the Next Paizo LIVE: Magic, Tech, or Junk?

Paizo LIVE is our almost-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about all things Pathfinder and Starfinder. Join us for episode 5 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific next Friday, August 13. Catch past episodes on YouTube.

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August 2021 Organized Play Update

The news last week about reduced scenario production is, of course, disappointing. We’re saddened that we won’t be bringing as much new Pathfinder and Starfinder Society content to your tables, but we hope you will take this opportunity to try out some of our other sanctioned content for both programs. I myself am starting to plan for a Strength of Thousands run with some of our local players, and I’m very excited for it!

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Catch up on the Secrets of Magic Liveplay!

In Episode 01 | A Lively Welcome: Four scholars are sent to a small desert town to investigate a wild tale. Rumor has it that everyone in the community has developed magical abilities. Upon arriving, they learn that the rumors might be true—and that such power can be quite dangerous!

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Iconic Encounter: Swimming Lessons

“Alright Tuku. Today you’re going to teach me about water spirits!” Ija turned toward her companion and gave a fierce grin.

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Expanding on the Expanse

Since the launch of Pathfinder Second Edition, we’ve released a number of adventures set in the Mwangi Expanse. The upcoming Strength of Thousands Adventure Path might be one of the most anticipated, but we've also explored the Expanse in Age of Ashes, the standalone adventure The Slithering, and multiple Pathfinder Society scenarios. Such a vast and beautiful locale invariably invites exploration beyond what has already been presented, however, and there's no better resource for that than Pathfinder Lost Omens The Mwangi Expanse!

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Secrets of Magic Liveplay!

In Episode 01 | A Lively Welcome: Four scholars are sent to a small desert town to investigate a wild tale. Rumor has it that everyone in the community has developed magical abilities. Upon arriving, they learn that the rumors might be true—and that such power can be quite dangerous!

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Tales of Lost Omens: The Promised Price

Marcus was miserable.

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Class Is in Session! Strength of Thousands Player’s Guide

Education is far from easy at the oldest and most prestigious magic academy in the world. The newest students at the venerable Magaambya school of magic must deal with mysterious infestations, supernatural intruders, and sinister plots—all while juggling their classes!

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Iconic Encounter: Whispers in the Storm

Twice have I been born, and with each birthing, I have gained a lifelong companion. The first companion was pain, learned the moment I was freed from my mother’s womb to the sight of my “father” standing over me with a drawn blade. Lord Bhrostra introduced me to my companion daily for years, finding new excuses to beat me and new ways to remind me that I was a blight on his house. Pain surrounded me in its warm embrace when my true sire, the elf Lairsaph, shattered my knee and left me broken, a gift to the men who hunted him so that he could escape while I paid the price for his crimes. That pain made me strong, tempered me against hardship, and set my foot on the path toward my second companion: the whispers.

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July Scenario Previews

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Organized Play: Pathfinder & Starfinder Interactive Preview

It all started when Starfinder launched and John Compton (lead of Organized Play development at the time) kept threatening me with a “Time Capsule Boon” where he’d let Pathfinder Society Characters transition into Starfinder Society. It was something of the atomic bomb equivalent of threats to be uttered in the office. The idea of crossing the streams between the campaigns was ludicrous. LUDICROUS, I SAY!

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Magus goes BOOM! Catch up on the Secrets of Magic Liveplay!

Last week, four “Enigmas,” esteemed graduates from the College of Mysteries in the metropolis of Absalom, traveled to a tiny desert village in eastern Thuvia, along the banks of the Junira River. The halfling summoner Fairel (Bonnie Gordon), dwarven wizard Ingot (Xander Jeanneret), half-elf magus Dond Oom (London Carlisle), and kitsune witch Hachi (Michelle Nguyen Bradley), followed rumors that everyone in this small community had suddenly developed magical abilities. After overcoming an ambush that helped them learn each other’s abilities, including an explosive spellstrike critical hit from the magus, they crested the nearest dune to find the bustling, arid hamlet before them.

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Tales of Lost Omens: On The Move

Nkayah yawned from her post in the tall tree. The job of scouting and protecting wanderers was always more exciting on the move. On the move, she had to stay on her toes, taking silent cover behind trees or climbing into the jungle canopy to maintain line of sight with the strangers and visitors who passed through Ekujae lands. She lived for the silent chase as she assessed outsiders’ motivations. For over a century and a half, Nkayah had ensured non-Mwangi travelers posed no threat to the Ekujae, and that they didn’t release any of the myriad evils trapped within the heart of the jungle—intentionally or not.

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Gods of the Expanse

The Mwangi Expanse is a vast and diverse place. The region’s people hold a variety of beliefs that include gods not seen anywhere else. You can read about a number of these gods, including returning gods like Grandmother Spider and new gods like catfolk god Adanye, in Lost Omens Mwangi Expanse.

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The Growing Pathfinder Society

During Year 3: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries, the Pathfinder Society finds itself under attack as dangerous threats loom over lodges across the Inner Sea. Fortunately, the Society’s recruitment efforts over the past two years have been successful. To represent these changes as well as other developments in Pathfinder lore, we’ll be updating several of the Pathfinder Society Achievement Point boons to make it easier to create characters of several different ancestries. These adjustments will go into effect when Year 3 launches on August 19th.

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Secrets of Magic Liveplay Premieres Tonight

Join a halfling summoner, a dwarven wizard, a half-elf magus, and a kitsune witch to get a first look at some of the exciting new content in the upcoming Pathfinder Secrets of Magic, and watch as they uncover the true danger that awaits them in the sands of Thuvia! This unique, 10-episode, actual play show starts tonight at 6 PM Pacific at Twitch.tv/OfficialPaizo!

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Tales of Lost Omens: The Calm Before the Storm

“…and from the village of Mua’bri, I bear an earthenware cauldron, banded in lightning and dusted with gold, that the potters of the village bequeath to your majesty so that their work might be remembered forever...”

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Meet The Mwangi Expanse Authors!

While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple name in a byline doesn’t give readers much information on the people who work to bring the setting to life! I know some of you have been clamoring to know who wrote what section in the Mwangi Expanse, so I reached out to the authors of the book with the intent of promoting them—as well as any other personal work they would like to share—so that new fans of their work could find other projects, RPG products, websites, livestreams, and more to enjoy!

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Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic Liveplay with Jason Bulmahn Premieres Wednesday, July 14

Four esteemed graduates from the College of Mysteries in Absalom are sent to a tiny desert village in eastern Thuvia along the banks of the Junira River. Rumor has it that everyone in this small community has suddenly developed magical abilities. Power that, if left unchecked, might spell their doom. Perhaps even more troubling, even those who just visit the town receive powers as well! Can these four spellslinging scholars work together to get to the bottom of this mystery before rogue magic tears the place apart?

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No-Prep Character: Gristleburst

The goblin alchemist Gristleburst is the fourth and final member of the protagonist adventuring part in the Pathfinder novella, The Shroud of Four Silences, by Pathfinder Tales veteran Liane Merciel. You can find the No-Prep Character (NPC) entries for his compatriots, Eleaukas, Lisavet, and Wendlyn, on previous blogs. Check out the party’s full adventure here on paizo.com or on the Kindle bookstore.

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Welcome to the Expanse!

You’ve been waiting, and here it is! Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse is out today, coming out hot just before the Strength of Thousands adventure path invites you in for an extended stay. Within these pages you’ll find never-before-revealed secrets and information on the people, history, geography, and major cities of the Expanse, brought to you by a team of exceptional authors. With people wondering what can be found inside the pages of this book, let’s sneak a peek at the table of contents.

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Scrying on Subscriptions: Pathfinder Rulebooks

Let’s take a closer look at Paizo Subscriptions, what you can subscribe to right now, and what is coming next in this new series! First, we will look at the Pathfinder Rulebook and Special Edition Rulebook Ongoing Subscriptions.

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Mwangi Expanse: No Place Like Home

Our latest book, Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse is already trickling into the hands of our subscribers ahead of its upcoming release! With it comes new ancestries, deities, and a ton of lore to inspire characters, both native to the Expanse and visiting from other regions of the Inner Sea. We’ve talked a bit about how to adventure when your character comes from another region of Golarion, such as Absalom or Varisia, so today, we wanted to highlight building a character from the Mwangi Expanse. One of the authors for this book, Jabari Weathers, wrote some great guidance for this in the introduction of the book, as well as some questions to help you dig into your character’s connection with their home and what kind of adventures that might spark.

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Pathfinder Encounter: Red Waves Aflame

The city of Bloodcove, on the western coast of the Mwangi Expanse, is one of the region’s major port cities, a veritable melting pot where a merchant can find any item they’re looking for, a traveler can find any dish to fill their belly, and an outlaw can find any number of places to lay low. While it’s named for the crimson waters that flow between its giant mangroves and reflect the burning sunset, the city is also a chaotic one. Pirate captains and cutthroat merchants vie for control and brawls are tolerated as long as they don’t cause to much disturbance, providing another possible interpretation of its name.

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July 2021 Organized Play Update

Recently, I foolishly declared that because a couple of our major conventions were delayed, this summer wouldn’t be as bad on the convention front. I retract this statement! We’ve got PAX Online this month, PaizoCon Europe Online next month, and Gen Con after that. Oh, and after that is my wedding. So much for my relaxing summer!

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Tales of Lost Omens: Chance Encounter

Jiella, don’t run! It’s me, your sister! Come, listen. I’ve only an ounce of time.

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Today on Paizo LIVE: King of the Mountain, Malevolence, Galaxy Exploration, and More!

Paizo LIVE is our monthly two-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and guests, like RPG authors, talking a little bit about all things Pathfinder and Starfinder. Join us for Episode 4 of Paizo LIVE today from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific! Catch past episodes on YouTube.

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June Scenario Previews

Greetings, Starfinders! This month, the Data Scourge metaplot continues in Starfinder Society #4-03: Battle for the Beacon. Over the past months, Drift Beacons have been winking out, leading some in the Society to believe that this event and the ongoing digital attacks might be connected. Play as a group of agents sent to investigate and repair one of these Drift Beacons in this adventure for PCs levels 5–8 by Abbey Schnell!

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From Errant Champion to Vile Vapors: More Pathfinder and Starfinder-Compatible Products

Check out the 20 new Pathfinder and Starfinder-compatible products added to the Paizo Store in the last two months!

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No-Prep Character: Wendlyn

It’s been a few months since we last checked on our adventurous friends in the town of Otari, but you can now get the entire Shroud of Four Silences novella in eBook form here on paizo.com or on the Kindle bookstore. Next, we’ll look at the pyromaniac scamp, Gristleburst, wrapping up our No-Prep Character series based on the novella’s main adventuring party. What would you like to see next in the world of Pathfinder (or Starfinder) fiction? Do you prefer blog-based flash fiction, email-based serialized novellas, or something else entirely? Let us know in the comments below.

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Pathfinder Society Intro Scenarios

Last week we announced the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries, and this week we’re taking a closer look at the three scenarios releasing when the new season launches. Those of you who have had the opportunity to play our new intro scenarios for Starfinder Society, which debuted at PaizoCon Online in May, already have some idea of what’s coming! We’re taking the same approach for this upcoming series of Pathfinder Society intro scenarios. Let’s take a closer look at each of these adventures, as well as an exciting new friend your characters get to meet!

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Tales of Lost Omens: Golden Splinters

“Are you lost, child?”

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PaizoCon 2021: Pathfinder Arena Update

Enjoy this Guest Blog from our friends at Giochi Uniti with an update on the Pathfinder Arena board game. Download the draft rulebook, and sign up to follow the crowdfunding campaign!

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Pathfinder Society: Year 3 Announcement

With the Pathfinder Society’s attention focused on distant lands as of late, new threats have arisen closer to home. The Grand Lodge is suddenly overwhelmed with desperate calls for aid from lodges across the Inner Sea—and from the Society’s allies within the city of Absalom itself! Are these unrelated events, or a unified effort to undermine the Pathfinder Society? Whatever their origin, one thing is certain: if left unchecked, these threats may topple some of the Society’s greatest lodges and alliances!

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June 2021 Organized Play Update

I thought about writing “no musings, head empty, only PaizoCon” in this space but Tonya told me I couldn’t I decided against it. Instead, I’m going to take this space to give a shout-out to some people who went above and beyond in making PaizoCon Online happen this year. Please note that I’m writing this two days before the convention due to deadlines, so if I forgot someone, I can still blame Convention Brain.

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Save 20% or More at the PaizoCon Sale

From now through May 31st (Pacific time), take 20% off a single order* on Pathfinder and Starfinder products at the Paizo Store using the code PaizoCon2021 at checkout. This includes:

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Hideous Laughter Productions Presents: Bestow Curse!

Hello again Paizo-verse friends and family alike! It’s Steve from Hideous Laughter Productions, and I’m so thrilled to present to you all an exciting new project our team has been working on for a while now. It’s called Bestow Curse, and let me tell you, we couldn’t be more excited for you to hear about this.

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Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary Humble Bundle

Today, we’re launching the Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary Humble Bundle to support Stop AAPI Hate. The bundle’s tiers include PDFs of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, Bestiary, Lost Omens World Guide, Lost Omens: Gods & Magic, Gamemastery Guide, all six volumes of the Extinction Curse Adventure Path and, at the highest tier, a physical copy of the Pathfinder Bestiary!

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PaizoCon Online 2021 Twitch Events

We’ve written about the hundreds of Paizo Organized Play games occurring at PaizoCon Online, and the Paizo Events Discord is taking shape, with many partners and contributors hosting content in their channels. We are adding channels daily, including a #giveaway channel, where attendees can enter to win some awesome prizes. Thank you to all our Paizo Licensed Partners who contributed to our giveaways.

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Celebrating Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021!

May is Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month! In this blog, we wanted to give the members of our community the chance to introduce themselves and talk about their experiences and influences in their own words. Enjoy!

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I, You, We Be Goblins

The PATHFINDER: FUMBUS! Kickstarter campaign, featuring Pathfinder’s iconic goblin alchemist in his first comic book adventure, has been fully funded! The current stretch goal is the Fumbus Rookie Trading Card—a limited-edition collectible! The campaign ends Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. PDT.

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Pathfinder First Edition Pocket Editions Preserve a Legacy of Play

Back in 2018, Paizo CEO Lisa Stevens made a statement that still guides us today:

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Join Us for Jasper’s Game Week and Raise Funds for Suicide Prevention and Awareness

Jasper’s Game Week, running from April 30th-May 11th 2021, is a TTRPG streaming event with both streams to watch and games to play run by Jasper’s Game Day (JGD). With our partners Paizo and MiniTerrainDomain and sponsors Ardent Roleplay/Meeples and Dragons, Hearthsinger Games, Penny for a Tale, Lark Adventures, and the Paizo Organized Play Convention, we are raising money for suicide prevention and awareness.

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Fists of the Ruby Phoenix: The Flash of Fists

“Annnd with a terrifying tail whip to the jaw, the Taiga Tyrant is down! She’ll be feeling that in the morning! Our winner is the Summer Swordsman of Ekkeshikaar!”

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Watch the Pathfinder One-Shot: Dinner at Lionlodge Liveplay at PaizoCon!

Paizo is pleased to announce that Pathfinder One-Shot: Dinner at Lionlodge, a new liveplay adventure, will air at PaizoCon 2021 on Saturday, May 29 at 6 p.m. Pacific at twitch.tv/officialpaizo. It will feature the talents Glass Cannon Network!

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Pathfinder Arena Update and Survey

The last update of Pathfinder Arena reveals the first tiles and cards of the core set. The Arena is always changing during the game: players can push the tiles orthogonally to reach new areas, or to unleash a monster on an opponent. The entire Arena is made by single tiles; however, some are more important than others.

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New Ways to Play on VTTs

We’re now well past the 1-year mark for social distancing, working from home, and other ways to deal with the ongoing pandemic, and that means we’ve all had a long time to start Pathfinder and Starfinder games on virtual tabletops (VTTs), like Astral, d20Pro, Fantasy Grounds, the Foundry, and Roll20. As we approach our second virtual PaizoCon next month, I wanted to give an update on some of the progress we’ve made in making distanced play easier for both players and GMs.

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No-Prep Character: Zhang Yong

In the great fighting tournaments across Tian Xia, a competitor will occasionally perish in the heat of battle. Sometimes their lust for battle, desire to win, or enduring competitive spirit lingers, often resulting in a haunting. When this happens, it’s up to a ghost eater to defeat the lingering soul to send it to the afterlife.

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Creating an Organized Play Character

With PaizoCon Online coming up and Year 3 on the horizon, we thought we’d take a moment to talk about how to create a Pathfinder Society character and show you the different options available to players. I’ve got my friends “Zonya” and “Minda” here to help me out; any resemblance to actual persons with whom I work is purely coincidental, I assure you.

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High Magic and Unconventional Heroes: New Compatible Products

Pathfinder- and Starfinder-compatible publishers submitted fourteen new products to paizo.com.

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Spring into Action with the April Showers Sale!

All Paizo PDFs and digital products are 25% off through Sunday, May 2nd! Just click on the “On Sale” tab in your favorite sections of the Paizo Store and add it to your cart.

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Despair on Danger Island, Malevolence, and The Gilded Cage Next on Paizo LIVE!

Join us for Episode 3 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific next Friday, April 23. Paizo LIVE is our monthly two-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about all things Pathfinder and Starfinder. Paizo LIVE is also archived on YouTube.

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Tales Of Lost Omens: Adumbration

I’m sorry, but that painting isn’t for sale. This particular item I’m keeping for myself.

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Introducing the Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Player’s Guide

The powerful sorcerer Hao Jin has returned to the Material Plane to preside as grand judge over her world-famous fighting competition, the Ruby Phoenix Tournament. Contenders from around Golarion flock to the tournament to compete for a prize from Hao Jin’s legendary treasure vault. Does your team have what it takes to become this year’s Ruby Phoenix Champions?

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PaizoCon Pathfinder Society Release Preview

Before I let Thurston talk about our upcoming scenarios, one quick announcement: the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is now sanctioned for play! Sanctioning documents and Chronicle Sheets can be downloaded on the product pages or at this direct link. Alright, on with the show!

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Bestiary 3 and Early April Releases

March’s new releases rolled to April 7 but are worth the wait; they include Bestiary 3 with over 300 creatures, an unwelcome turn of events in Crash and Burn, and a relic left behind by one of the Outer Gods in Eyes of Empty Death!

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Draw Your Weapon with the Pathfinder Magic Armaments Deck!

Available in print and digital download on Wednesday, April 7!

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Oops, We Did It Again: Foolish Monsters 2021: A Rope of Sand

With such glowing reception to last year’s April Fools’ Bestiary Blog as “None of these are canon” or “John Compton what have you done,” we knew we had to come back this year! More monsters. More typos. Less (fewer?) lead-in text where I try to justify what we’ve done with the blog slot the marketing department entrusted us with. The April Fools’ Bestiary is in motion now, and it can’t be stopped. Let’s see what foolish monsters hath sprung from 2020–2021 Paizo.

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International Transgender Day of Visibility

Today, the International Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate and recognize the lives of transgender people in our gaming community. As several of the authors in today’s blog point out, roleplaying games have a unique ability to let us explore, sometimes for fun, sometimes to learn about ourselves, and often both at the same time. By continuing to work to ensure that Paizo has transgender representation in our stories, and our community, we hope to provide space and time for players and GMs, authors and artists, partners and competitors, employees and fans, to be able to travel through life’s journey, living, learning, growing, and of course, gaming.

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Join us for Paizo LIVE, Episode 2!

Join us for Episode 2 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific this Friday, April 2. Paizo LIVE is our new monthly two-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about all things Pathfinder and Starfinder. Paizo LIVE is also archived on YouTube.

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Celebrating Women in our Community Part 2

Last Thursday, we shared a blog highlighting the presence of women creators and professionals in the Paizo community. We have so many fantastic women that today we take the opportunity to celebrate more of them. Every aspect of Paizo involves women and they make our spaces richer for their contributions. Let’s give it up for more awesome women in the Paizo community!

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Pathfinder Arena Art Revealed

The most recent update on Pathfinder Arena includes plenty of exciting news. The wonderful cover art of the core set, realized by Wayne Reynolds, is completed. The logo underwent some changes too and we are proud to share the definitive cover of the game.

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Celebrating Women in our Community

Both in the office and in our works, Paizo honors the presence of women creators and professionals in our spaces. Today, we want to introduce you to a few of those fantastic staffers and freelancers that make our games amazing! Some submissions came from the women themselves, some from their friends and colleagues, and we are so very pleased to share them with you!

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March 2021 Organized Play Scenario Previews

The organized play development team prepared quite a few treats for the community this month. From the developers:

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Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Bonus Monster

The release of the Pathfinder Bestiary 3 is just over the horizon, and as a preview of the content you'll find within, we wanted to offer an exclusive stat block that GMs can use anytime, with or without the book. Former Paizo developer Chris Sims created the following creature by turning a clockwork mage into a divine warden (both found in Bestiary 3) to make a mechanical servant of Brigh, goddess of clockworks and invention. Seems like it might come in handy later this year when Pathfinder Guns & Gears comes out, doesn't it?

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Beasts and Archetypes: New Compatible Products

Pathfinder- and Starfinder-compatible publishers submitted fourteen new products to paizo.com.

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Authors of Awesome Ancestries (And Heritages)!

While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple name in a byline doesn’t give readers much information on the people who work to bring the setting to life! To wrap up our look at the Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, we reached out to the authors of the book with the intent of promoting them—as well as any other personal work they would like to share, so that new fans of their work could find other projects, RPG products, websites, livestreams, and more to enjoy!

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Introducing the Pathfinder Combat Tracker App

If you’re a fan of the Pathfinder Combat Pad for tracking initiative (and if you aren’t, you should check it out – it has magnets!), then we have a fun new twist that we think users will enjoy. We’ve put it in your pocket!

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Introducing Paizo One-Shots!

Today’s debut of Sundered Waves marks the first appearance of a brand new type of Paizo digital adventure--the One-Shot! Written by Paizo’s Director of Game Design, Jason Bulmahn, Sundered Waves features a jaunt through a pirate’s puzzle-filled dungeon, and is the first release in a new downloadable adventure line!

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Watch Paizo LIVE and Pathfinder: Sundered Waves Liveplay!

The first episode of Paizo LIVE premiered on Twitch, but it’s now available on YouTube! We had a great talking all things Pathfinder and Starfinder with:

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GM's Appreciation Day 2021

The amount of work, courage, and passion each Game Master puts into their gaming session is simply amazing. In celebration of those who GM, we created a coupon code to celebrate you. Use gmthanks21 on your next checkout at paizo.com for 20% off your order.

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New Releases from February 2021

This month’s new releases include an experimental starship, more megadundeon, five new playable races for Starfinder, and a hardcover book of ancestries for Pathfinder!

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Pathfinder Encounter: Phinelli’s Miracle Elixir

Few things are more challenging for a Game Master than creating an encounter on the fly, but one of those more-difficult tasks is making an impromptu encounter set in a crowded city street packed with all manner of details you have to draw on the map before the players start to lose interest. Luckily, Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Red Light District is available now, so you’ll never again need to sketch out winding alleys, interior locations of ill repute, or a canal of questionable cleanliness. While this map is by no means necessary to run the following encounter (designed by Vanessa Hoskins), they certainly go well together!

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Pathfinder: Sundered Waves Liveplay at the Gen Con Spring Showcase

Paizo is pleased to announce that a new liveplay adventure will air at the Gen Con Spring Showcase on Saturday, March 6th at 5 p.m. Pacific at twitch.tv/gencontv. And to make it even better, the original cast of Troubles in Otari is returning for this special Gen Con event!

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Adventurers of All Sizes!

We here at Paizo like to keep you up to date on our upcoming releases. Our most recent big release is Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, a book focused on expanding existing ancestries as well as providing you with brand new ancestries and versatile heritages to inspire all manner of adventurer. Let’s take a look at what’s inside.

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Join us for Paizo LIVE!

Gloriously geeky talk is in the air! Join us for the premiere episode of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific on Friday, February 26. Paizo LIVE is our new monthly two-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about all things Pathfinder and Starfinder. Of course, Paizo Live will also be archived on YouTube for easy viewing.

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No-Prep Character: Chea

Last week, we shared a no-prep character, Urok, to give you a brief glimpse at the orderly aphorite versatile heritage. We have another NPC this week showcasing another unrevealed aspect from Lost Omens Ancestry Guide. This week we’re going to preview another new versatile heritage: beastkin! I’ll talk a bit more about beastkin after showing you the NPC, but for now, let’s look at our no-prep beastkin, Chea.

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February Organized Play Scenario Previews

This month we’re heading back to the false moon of Salvation’s End to explore yet another of its mysterious Vaults. Surely nothing weird will happen this time, right? This totally normal and routine exploration mission is detailed in Starfinder Society Scenario #3-17: Clone Batch Catastrophe by Christopher Wasko.

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Tales Of Lost Omens: The Seventh Fall

Sixteen point five two eight… move the seven… Taihei tried to hold the quantities in his head, but they jittered and danced. No matter, he could manage. He dipped a brush into his inkstone and found a patch on the back of his right wrist where a cluster of silver dots raised in precise intervals against his golden skin, counted off ten dots, drew lines on either side, and covered seven dots with ink. Leaving three. Now… what was the trajectory coefficient again… he felt for a second like the answer was close, before the chirping of bell crickets pierced the tearoom-turned-study.

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No-Prep Character: Urok

Today we’re kicking off a new batch of No-Prep Character blogs, which feature a ready-to-run NPC for busy Game Masters. This time around, Eleanor and I worked together to showcase some of the as-of-yet unrevealed ancestries appearing in Lost Omens Ancestry Guide. Each of these NPCs uses one of the new ancestries or versatile heritages featured in that book, but feature all of the rules information you need to include them in your adventures right away! This week we showcase a new versatile heritage: aphorite! I’ll talk a bit more about aphorites after showing you the NPC, but for now, let’s look at our no-prep aphorite, Urok..

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Desert Ruins and the Weird Wild West: New Compatible Products

January brought fourteen new Pathfinder- and Starfinder-compatible PDF products to paizo.com.

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Tales Of Lost Omens: Clues In The Moonlight

The creature ripped out the man’s throat with its claws, blood spraying across the leaf-littered forest floor. Its furry bulk pinned the body to the ground. Lips pulled back from razor-sharp teeth as a low, ripsaw growl rumbled deep in the thing’s throat.

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Final Days to get your character's perfect set!

As we close in on the completion of our campaign, we can't thank those who have already backed the Adventurer’s Curated Dice Collection enough and encourage those that are on the fence to grab these for when we (sooner than later) get back to gaming in person!

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From Pathfinder Spells to Savage Powers

The Pathfinder core rules contain 289 spells by our count. Savage World Adventure Edition includes 54 powers. When it came time to figure out how to translate the expansive, robust Pathfinder magic system to work in the smaller, dynamic Savage Worlds power system, we had to boil everything down to their core.

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Tales Of Lost Omens: The First Of Many

Flowers. Puh.

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Pathfinder Society: Digitization Update

Greetings, Pathfinders! As we come to the end of January, we wanted to provide an update on the status of our digitization efforts. There’s some exciting news below, in addition to some general information, so read on!

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Pathfinder Arena Survey Online

The Pathfinder Arena survey determines which heroes we will include in the heroes' expansion pack. Find it online at the Pathfinder Arena Official Facebook Group!

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New Releases for January 2021 from Paizo

This month sees the near-completion of the set of Pathfinder rulebooks in popular Pocket Edition. Adventures hooks include favors for a friend, packages to deliver. and dangerous dungeons to delve!

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No-Prep Character: Lisavet

This week we send out the final chapter of The Shroud of Four Silences. For those still experiencing technical difficulties receiving emails, we’ll leave signups open to get these (at a rate of a chapter a day to help you catch up). Additionally, we’ll have an ePub version of this story available here on paizo.com and the Kindle store as soon as possible, and we’ll be doing this again once we work out some of the kinks in the email garden hose, so to speak. For now, enjoy this glimpse into to one of the story’s four protagonists, the Sarenite acolyte Lisavet.

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Introducing Jasper’s Game Day

Hi! We’re Jasper’s Game Day and we’re here to change the world, one game at a time!

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Organized Play Scenario Previews

This month, we’re releasing the exciting continuations of two Year 3 series, Frozen Ambitions and The Vast Experiment. Don’t worry if you haven’t found a table for the others in the series yet, as they can be played in any order. Frozen Ambitions: The Preluria Connection by Tineke Bolleman sends the PCs to Near Space, where they take on a contract job for a mysterious organization and find themselves caught up in mercenary intrigue, seedy science, and a high-octane vehicle chase! Next up, The Vast Experiment: Fast Choices by our very own Mike Kimmel takes the Starfinders to Verces, where they take part in a bit of corporate espionage and get the chance to pick the manufacturer for the Society’s next generation of ships!

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No-Prep Character: Eleukas

As The Shroud of Four Silences, the new serialized Pathfinder novella from Liane Merciel, comes to a close, we’re presenting NPC stat blocks for all four of the main protagonists, allowing you to incorporate them into your ongoing campaigns. Whether they serve as allies, competitive rivals, or even replacement player characters, take these new heroes and make them your own. We look forward to seeing what challenges face them beyond the story’s conclusion next week.

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December 2020 Compatible Products

Check out the new Pathfinder- and Starfinder-compatible products—all PDFs—recently posted on paizo.com in the last month of 2020.

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Going, Going, Gone! – January 2021 edition

Get these goodies before they’re gone for good!

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A Light in the Fog: Abomination Vaults Player's Guide

When the mysterious lighthouse called Gauntlight glows with baleful light, the people of Otari suspect that it’s an ominous prelude to sinister events. Heroes must explore the ruins around the lighthouse and delve into the dungeon levels below. Hideous monsters, deadly traps, and vengeful ghosts all await the heroes who dare to enter the sprawling megadungeon called the Abomination Vaults!

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GM's Toolkit: Secret Keeper's Mask

Over the last few months, we’ve provided a number of new mechanics in the blog to give Game Masters running Otari-based campaigns a few more tricks to add flavor to the region based on the exploits of the heroes in Liane Merciel’s ongoing novella, The Shroud of Four Silences. We’re getting to the end of that tale, with Chapter 11 going out to our mailing list this week. To avoid spoilers, we’re hiding this week’s GM’s Toolkit entry below—keeping it secret, if you will—for only those who know the true villains at the heart of the story or who don’t mind learning it before reading it for themselves. Make sure you stay on top of future serialized fiction offerings by ensuring your privacy settings allow us to send you marketing emails.

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Darklands Rising: From the Vaults

This week, we conclude our preview of the forthcoming Pathfinder Battles: Darklands Rising set of prepainted plastic miniatures from our partners at WizKids. Before we get into looking at the final figures in the set, I wanted to provide an update on Darklands Rising’s release. Due to a number of logistical issues, some game distributors have not received their orders of Darklands Rising, so WizKids has pushed the release date back 2 weeks to February 3, 2021. This should give the remaining product time to make it to distributors and then to retail stores in time for everyone to have the same street date. We hope this won’t cause anyone any problems, and thank the community for your understanding.

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Your Character, Your Dice, Your Way

We are very excited to be given the opportunity to partner with Paizo, and knew we had to try something new with it, though at that stage we were unsure what that would be. After we had met with the Paizo team for the first time, and the creative juices were flowing, the idea of doing something big for Pathfinder Second Edition kicked in. We had an interesting thought: what if you could truly, completely customize your dice to your character? Not only by selecting dice colors that match the color palette of your character but also unique glyphs to represent their class, their abilities, their weapons, and their choice of spells.

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Introducing Cosmic Crit Podcasts

Greetings gamers and non-binary beings, and hello to the extended Paizo family and community. This is Patrick, the GM and podcast host of Cosmic Crit LLC, and I’m excited to officially announce that we signed our licensing partnership with Paizo!

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Pathfinder Encounter: Heaving Kobolds

This week in The Shroud of Four Silences, the adventurers find themselves in pitched battle in the heart of the Fangspark kobolds’ warren. Enjoy this standalone encounter inspired by these events, which you can add to any Pathfinder second edition game, whether it’s one set in Otari (like Troubles in Otari, the Pathfinder Beginner Box, or this month’s debut volume of the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path), somewhere else in the Age of Lost Omens setting, or a campaign of your own creation.

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We Be Life-Size!

Happy New Year, Pathfinders! While it’s been nice to have a few weeks to spend with our families, we’re all back in the office* and ready to kick 2021 into high gear. What better way to usher in a follow-up to the year that shall not be named than with a life-size goblin figure from our partners at WizKids?

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Join Paizo and Level Up Dice

We have some very exciting news! Paizo and Level Up Dice are partnering up to launch something huge for Pathfinder Second Edition players and more! We’d love for you to join us on https://www.twitch.tv/levelup_ttv on Tuesday, January 5th at 7 p.m. EST for a sneak peek for our joint adventure to learn more.

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A Caroling Horse (Of Course. Of Course.)

Happy holidays, one and all! Whether you're celebrating the season, stuck working, or enjoying business mandated days off, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say we could all use a bit of festive cheer this year. Winter traditions range from the sweet to the downright malevolent (check out Krampus in our upcoming Bestiary 3), but by far one of the strangest is the Welsh tradition of the Mari Lwyd. This spooky, shrouded creature has a horse's skull for a head. It shows up either during Christmas or the New Year—depending on how much the local church freaks out about its presence—and carols at the doorways to peoples' houses, demanding entrance using Welsh rhymes. Those who let the Mari Lwyd inside must offer the creature hospitality, usually in the form of alcohol and cheese. (Golarion scholars are still debating the absolute definition of “cheese”, but the general rule is that if you have to ask if something counts, it doesn't.)

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Pathfinder Bounties Offer Ease and Adaptability

“An older halfling woman in bright clothes quickly approaches, a large golden wolfhound at her side. She places herself before the heroes with a glint in her eye and grins.

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The New Faces of Design

Creating new rules and expansions for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game takes a lot of work. Over the past year, the design team has been focused on rounding out the core of the game, with the release of the Advanced Player’s Guide and the Beginner Box, and as we continue planning and working on projects for 2021 and beyond, it has become clear that we need more help to continue bringing great additions like these to your game table.

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The Last Minis Preview (of 2020)

The Paizo offices (or our home offices, I guess) may be closed for the holidays, but that doesn’t mean we can’t show off some of the great new minis coming next month in WizKids’s Pathfinder Battles: Darklands Rising set of prepainted plastic miniatures.

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GM's Toolbox: Gravehall

The restless dead sometimes wander the world as skeletons or zombies, but necromancers are as innovative as they are evil. This trap consists of several corpses interred within the earthen walls and ceiling of a narrow passage. When living creatures enter the 5-foot-wide and 20-foot-long tunnel, the corpses animate and lunge from behind the dirt, their rotted limbs grasping and their maggot-ridden faces moaning.

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Worlds Collide: Pathfinder® for Savage Worlds

You may have heard Pinnacle Entertainment Group is converting some of Paizo’s legendary Adventure Paths to the Savage Worlds game system. Don’t worry…we’re not trying to steal anyone away from our friends at Paizo! Because friends they are—our founders have known each other for more than two decades!

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Support ComicBooks For Kids!

My friends and supporters, I first want to first thank you for reading this, for supporting Paizo, and most of all, for supporting ComicBooks For Kids!

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A Few Nightmares Before Christmas

We’re just a few days from the most magical day of the year, but for Pathfinder players, every day is filled with magic, be it a healing potion, consecrated ground around a Pharasmin temple keeping the restless dead at bay, or a tactically cast wall of fire spell. As we delve deeper into the Pathfinder Battles: Darklands Rising set of prepainted plastic miniatures from our partners at WizKids, it’s hard to think about all that right now. I’m downright terrified of some of the creatures that lurk below. So, of course, I’m going to share some of them with you now!

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November 2020 Pathfinder and Starfinder Compatible Products

Last month I started a new monthly blog presenting the new Pathfinder- and Starfinder-compatible products—all PDFs—recently posted on paizo.com. Here they are for the month of November 2020.

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Those Who Dwell in the Depths

Last week we got our first glimpse into the myriad creatures included in the forthcoming Darklands Rising set of Pathfinder Battles prepainted plastic miniatures from our partners at WizKids. But there are still such wonders to explore in these unplumbed depths! There’s no rest for the wicked—especially among demon-worshiping drow and daemon-loving urdefhans—so let’s dive in!

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Pathfinder Society December Previews

A teenage human clears red and yellow leaves from the roof before he collapses down with an exaggerated groan next to a girl on a checkered picnic blanket.

“Good afternoon to you too, Sab,” the girl says as she tosses him an apple from a small basket and smoothes her skirt out. “I take it the make-up practical went well.”

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12 Golem Goodies—New Releases for December 2020

Here it is, our last product launch day of 2020. We’ve got adventures that run the spectrum—from beginners expanding beyond their hometown to a crew of scoundrels, rogues, and misfits doin’ a little bounty huntin’ and rustlin’ to high-level heroes who must save the City at the Center of the World!

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Get your Pathfinder Monster Lore Humble Bundle today!

Our newest Humble Bundle is here to help you deepen your knowledge of Pathfinder monster lore!

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What’s Better Than One Large Mini in a Booster?

It’s been a while since I last previewed a set of Pathfinder Battles pre-painted plastic miniatures from WizKids, but I’m back for a year-end surprise. A few weeks ago, I got an email from one of our primary contacts at WizKids that Pathfinder Battles: Darklands Rising, originally announced for an April 2021 release, was actually going to be in and ready for release in January. “Would that be a problem for you?” he asked. No. No it wouldn’t. The more minis we can get, the sooner we can get them, the better!

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New Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts Are Here!

This week, our partners at WizKids released the thirteenth wave of Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts unpainted plastic miniatures. Thirteen! I can’t believe our little baby is a teenager already. As we approach the darkest, coldest (and likely most socially distanced) part of winter, I imagine a lot of folks are going to have some free time to paint minis, and we’ve got you covered!

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Otari Logger Marks

This week on our series of Otari-themed blogs, we’re looking at Otari’s primary industry: logging. While none of the pre-written Otari campaigns (the Pathfinder Beginner Box, Pathfinder Adventure: Troubles in Otari, or the forthcoming Abomination Vaults Adventure Path) assume the player characters are loggers, the industry’s impact on the region is unmistakable. While exploring the woodlands around the town, player characters or GMs may wish to add a bit of local flair with the following rules for logger marks. Readers of the ongoing novella, The Shroud of Four Silences, will recognize these marks when they get to this week’s chapter, entitled “The Redpitch Grove.” What signs will Eleukas, Wendlyn, and Lisavet find, and what dangers will they help the party avaoid (or lead the party toward, instead)?

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Black Friday Sale - Save 25% on Paizo Digital Products!

Looking to fill out your Pathfinder Adventure Path collection or add some new tools to your VTT gaming, Paizo has you covered. Come and celebrate Black Friday at paizo.com with 25% off your favorite digital products! It runs now until midnight Pacific time on Monday, November 30, save 25% on all Paizo digital products. The sale is not valid on products from licensed or compatible publishers, subscriptions, or e-tickets.

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Beadle and Grimm's Character Chronicles Go Digital!

We're very excited to announce that all unlocked Character Chronicles are now available for purchase as PDFs! The PDFs will be fillable for typists, or just for writing on with a stylus.

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Pathfinder Beginner Box Sanctioning

As promised in our monthly update blog, we’ve been working hard on sanctioning playable content for Pathfinder Society (second edition). Today, we’re pleased to announce that the adventure “Menace Under Otari,” part of the Pathfinder Beginner Box, awards credit for Pathfinder Society characters!

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Downtime Activities at the Dawnflower Library

Adventurers don’t spend every waking moment in moldering crypts or dangerous fens. When heroes need a break, they can take some downtime in a friendly town like Otari! The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path provides new downtime options for characters who have befriended some of the town’s notable characters. Here are some downtime activities the heroes can take at Otari’s largest temple, the Dawnflower Library.

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Troubles in Otari Livestream

A new Pathfinder Second Edition livestream begins on the official Paizo Twitch channel! Tune in Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Pacific time to catch the latest adventures!

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Introducing Hideous Laughter Productions

Hello to everyone in the Paizoverse, Steve here from Hideous Laughter Productions and today I’m thrilled to help announce that Paizo and our network have signed a licensing deal to help us grow our shows and continue sharing our adventures across the globe!

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Pathfinder Society November Previews

Marcus Farabellus strides into the common room, looks around at the handful of agents lounging on the benches, then points his finger at several individuals in quick succession. “Belker, Nepsin, Hoger, Klar, Tennit, Greensward.” Grab your kits and head to Valsin’s office. He’s got a task for you over at the Blakros Museum. Farabellus gives them a friendly smile and nods, then turns sharply on his heel and leaves the room, ignoring the uproar his announcement generates.

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No-Prep Character: Morlibint

Today we’re proud to debut the first of a dozen blogs by Developer Ron Lundeen featuring content for your game set in or around the town of Otari. Whether you’re running the Pathfinder Beginner Box, the Troubles in Otari adventure, the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path, or a campaign of your own creation, this No-Prep Character can serve as a valuable ally for your players’ characters. Morlibint even makes an appearance in this week’s chapter of Shroud of Foul Silences, so if you’re not already receiving it by email, sign up in your paizo.com privacy settings today and start catching up! How will you use Morlibint in your campaign?

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Heroes, Scoundrels, and Prison Breakers: RPG Treasures for November 2020

This month starts a new chapter with the launch of the Pathfinder Beginner Box and we are excited to share it with you! In fact it will require a blog of its own so for now let me share the details of the newest Pathfinder and Starfinder RPG loot coming your way in November!

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Prepare for Adventure!

The Beginner Box for Pathfinder Second Edition has arrived, and it’s ready for action! This hefty box contains everything a new player needs to begin a lifetime of fantasy adventures, serving as an entry point for players new to roleplaying games, experienced gamers new to Pathfinder Second Edition, and Pathfinder veterans looking to teach friends and family. Inside, you’ll find:

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Order of the Amber Die: The Slithering Salve Part 1

In case you're new to our projects or what Order of the Amber Die is all about, here's a quick rundown: We have been dedicated to pushing the envelope of tabletop role-playing since 1987. After more than five years on the Paizo blog, including three full Adventure Paths and the Pathfinder Playtest, we were looking for a new project, and our first one in Pathfinder 2nd Edition no less. We had never presented anything from Paizo's modules line, but just a few minutes after scanning the options, a new project was born: The Slithering Salve! Over the years, author Ron Lundeen has shown up as one of the more frequent names from the adventures we've played, and The Slithering will mark the fourth adventure of his that the Order has taken on.

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Pathfinder: Kingmaker on the Planet of Discounts!

Make haste and grab your copy of Pathfinder: Kingmaker Definitive Edition at a 35% discount on the Playstation Store now through Friday November 20!

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October Pathfinder and Starfinder Compatible Products

Here are the new Pathfinder- and Starfinder-compatible products posted on paizo.com in October 2020.

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Pathfinder Tales: The Shroud of Four Silences

Hey, Pathfinder fans! It’s Mark Moreland, your friendly neighborhood Director of Brand Strategy, with a bit of exciting news about web fiction over the next few months. Today, to celebrate the release of the second-edition Pathfinder Beginner Box next week, we’re launching the first chapter of a serialized novella by fan-favorite author, Liane Merciel (Nightglass, Nightblade, Hellknight).

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OffWorld Designs BOGO Sale!

OffWorld Designs teamed up with Paizo in 2013 to bring you great quality screen printed t-shirts for their games. We have a lot to choose from and are having an unprecedented Buy One – Get One sale, just in time for the holidays.

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Sanctioning Update: Adventure Paths

In our monthly announcement, we stated our intention to sanction more content this month. Mid-month, we released our sanctioning for Lost Omens Pathfinder Society Guide. Today we’ve got more exciting sanctioning news for our community!

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Beadle and Grimm's Kickstarter Launch.

By the time you read this, we'll be live!

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Pathfinder Arena Board Game, Coming 2021

Giochi Uniti has announced it will release Pathfinder Arena, a new board game set in the Pathfinder roleplaying game’s fantasy fiction Age of Lost Omens setting. The game will be available through a crowdfunding campaign in 2021.

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Pathfinder Society October Previews

We’ve got another full month of PFS adventures, so let’s take a closer look at what the Society is getting up to this month!

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Beadle and Grimm's Complete Character Chronicle update.

We launch our kickstarter on the 27th, and we wanted to reach out and give you an update on our progress.

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Meet The Authors!

With the Lost Omens Pathfinder Society Guide now out, I wanted to delve a little further behind the scenes to the authors who actually wrote the material contained within. While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple name in a byline doesn’t give readers much information on the people who work to bring the setting to life! As a final blog to wrap up our promotion of the latest Lost Omens book, I reached out to the authors of the book with the intent of promoting them—as well as any other personal work they would like to promote, so that new fans of their work could find other projects, RPG products, websites, livestreams, and more to enjoy!

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Geek Grind Offers Three Pathfinder Coffees and Mugs

We created the Geek Grind Coffee Company utilizing our family's decades of passion, skill, and expertise in the cultivation and roasting of mountain-grown Colombian coffee. We are a mixed American and Colombian family living between the two countries. Through Geek Grind you have immediate access to our Colombian farms and unique quality that only a direct sourced coffee relationship can bring to you.

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Getting to Know You: Venture-Captain Sigvard Tornkvist

Zarta looks at her desk, where a small note sits atop a larger sheaf of papers. She picks up the note cautiously, glancing downward at the signature, then back at the top, a small look of puzzlement on her features.

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Your Social Club for Life-long Adventure!

Our release dates are accelerating in anticipation of the holidays! Just two weeks ago we posted about the New Releases Coming October 2020 and today they are here! Let’s take a look inside the first few pages of our biggest release, the Pathfinder Lost Omens: Pathfinder Society Guide.

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Interview with Venture-Captain Narsen

Ambrus Valsin sits down and opens his copy of Absalom’s Anon and Afar broadsheet, scanning it for news of Pathfinder agent activity around the world. An article on the back page catches his eye and he pauses to read.

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Society Writ Large

When most people hear the name “Pathfinder Society,” they likely associate it with Paizo's real-world organized play program. Yet the Pathfinder Society is a long-established and influential organization within the world of Golarion itself. Explorers from the Society have set foot onto continents basically unknown to the Inner Sea, while the Pathfinder Chronicles have provided evening entertainment for some and inspiration into adventure for others. They have brought distant and long-forgotten sites into the forefront of cultural discussion, and hold some of the most complete libraries on certain subjects as can be found on the planet. Their allies are varied and many, from the crusaders who fought to close the Worldwound in Mendev and who now struggle against the Whispering Tyrant's armies, to the powerful Blakros family of Absalom—which was recently discovered to have gained its riches by sacrificing members of its family to forces in the Shadow Plane. Their enemies are just as disparate, from the exploitative Aspis Consortium to the Peacebuilders of Absalom, who are nothing more than aggravated neighbors who have become collateral damage in the Pathfinders' dealings one too many times.

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New Releases Coming October 2020

Halloween may be hampered by this year, but we will help keep your imagination alive with a plethora of tricks and treats, including adventures that have you holed up in an abandoned guildhall as you wait out a torrential storm, decisions that could affect the future of the galaxy, and a guide to lifelong discovery, friendship, and adventure!

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How to update PFS characters to Year 2 format

Last week, we updated the Guide to Organized Play: Pathfinder Society. While we understand the timing of the update was unfortunate given my scheduled absence, we had a perfect storm of available collaborators, convention schedules, staffer movement, and blog slot vacancies. I’m passionate about my role as OPM, but I still need to take a breather and I used a limited opportunity to do so. Today we’re trying to address some of the feedback we received, in particular how to bring existing characters up to date. We plan to continue the conversations as needed, so please keep constructive criticism coming our way.

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Band of Bravos Podcast!

Paizo’s official Pathfinder Second Edition live-play show, Band of Bravos, is coming to your ears as an audio podcast! Listen to the first three episodes now and hear new episodes every week. It's a great opportunity to jump in at the beginning of the story.

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September 2020 Pathfinder Society Releases

This month, we have Pathfinder Society Scenario 2-03: Catastrophe’s Spark where the Pathfinder Society explores a facility in the cyclopes ruins of Min-Khadaim uncovered in last month’s adventure, seeking to get to the bottom of a mysterious disappearance. This dungeon delve by Tineke Bolleman is designed for characters of level 1–4. Next, Luis Loza takes us over the horizon with a level 3–6 adventure, Pathfinder Society Scenario 2-04: Path of Kings, as the Society follows the legendary route of the Linnorm Kings to scout a site for a new Pathfinder lodge in northern Arcadia.

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Tales of Lost Omens: The Dying Wish

At least this time, Newt knew the firestorm he was heading toward.

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Roll For Combat Launches the Agents of Edgewatch Actual-Play Podcast

Roll For Combat, a licensed partner of Paizo, is pleased to announce the debut of our newest Pathfinder Second Edition actual-play podcast! Making its debut this Friday, September 18th, and running weekly after that, we will be starting a playthrough of the brand-new Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path

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Order of the Amber Die: Beyond the Veiled Past

Let's get this out right away: It's an awesome feeling to complete an Adventure Path. As we all know, you don't have to scan the message boards very hard to find stories of how many groups almost made it to volume six of an AP. Not too long before the historic events of 2020, we assembled for exactly that: one final marathon of Ruins of Azlant. Our odyssey was at its conclusion, and what made this marathon equally nostalgic was that it was our last adventure of the Pathfinder 1st Edition era.

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Iconic Encounter: The Drawings On The Wall

Propped on his black toenails, Fumbus craned to see the bearings on the pretty brass compass. He swiveled an expectant grin back and forth between the wizard and the wayfinder, not sure which face was harder to read. Colder still was the reinforced door before them...though not for long. The fuse on the goblin’s bomb was hissing shorter, apparently outside Ezren’s notice.

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This Month from Paizo, September 2020

This month features Pathfinder premium figures, an undercover infiltration Pathfinder adventure, a fast-approaching threat from beyond the stars in Starfinder, and exciting accessory support!

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Tags: Organized Play Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories Pathfinder Adventure Path Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Pathfinder Society Starfinder Starfinder Adventure Path Starfinder Roleplaying Game Starfinder Society

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RPG Superstar Public Voting Is Open!

After judging hundreds of monster entries by an all-star lineup of professional RPG authors, the RPG Superstar 2020 contest is ready to head to the final phase – public voting!

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Strength of Thousands Adventure Path

The Strength of Thousands Adventure Path is coming in July 2021! This six-part, monthly Adventure Path takes characters from 1st to 20th level. It’s set in the Magaambya magic academy in the Mwangi Expanse, the oldest and most prestigious magic school in our world. We’ve been looking to tell a “magic school” story for a long time, and we’re thrilled to tell a non-Western magic school story set in the Magaambya. In Strength of Thousands, the characters start as students, become teachers, and ultimately hold the fate of the school in their hands.

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Lost Omens Mwangi Expanse: coming June 2021!

Hey, there! Luis, here! Eleanor and I have been hard at work getting the next book in the Lost Omens line ready to go, and we’re proud to announce it here for you today. Lost Omens Mwangi Expanse is coming June 2021! This 312-page book will be our deepest dive in all of Pathfinder’s history into the Mwangi Expanse!

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The Seeds of Characters

Before you sit down to play a tabletop RPG like Pathfinder or Starfinder, you need a character. I mean, sure, you could play one of our nifty pregenerated characters for a while. But sooner or later, you’re gonna want to let your own imagination roam, making characters that help you tell the stories you want to be part of. But where to start? Here are four sources of inspiration that work well for me and other people I’ve played with.

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Tales of Lost Omens: Assault Formation

“We can do it.”

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Join us for PAX Online September 12-17

PAX Online runs September 12–20. Don’t miss our Pathfinder Lost Omens Announcement Panel on Saturday, September 12 at 2:15 p.m. PDT on @PAX3 and @OfficalPaizo on Twitch. Join our hosts, Developers Luis Loza and Ron Lundeen, and a Special Guest, as we reveal and explore the next hardcover for the Pathfinder Lost Omens setting, the next Pathfinder Adventure Path, take a look at the Pathfinder Beginner Box with Publisher Erik Mona, and more. Then play amazing Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society games with friends around the world from September 12 through 17!

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Tales of Lost Omens: The Jungle Claims Everything

“This may be it,” Aliyama stated carefully, consulting her wayfinder.

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Changes to Digital Map Assets

I began a 12-week leave of absence at the beginning of February, during which life at Paizo, the games industry, and pretty much everywhere else changed due to the advent of COVID-19 and the resulting lockdowns. When I returned from leave at the end of April, I, like everyone else, was working from home and the to-do list I had left for myself in January suddenly needed to be rewritten.

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Pathfinder Battles: Bring Your PC to Life!

Fans of prepainted plastic gaming miniatures are no doubt familiar with the high-quality premium figures from our partners at WizKids, most notably the various Iconic Heroes sets we’ve released over the years. With the finest attention to detail of any mini in the Pathfinder Battles line, these figures raised the bar of what a prepainted miniature could be.

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Rarity and Availability in Organized Play

A dhampir human who wields sword and flame. A leshy vigilante who patrols the streets in a bright mask. A hobgoblin champion who looks positively dashing in his Golden Legion epaulets. Today, let’s take a bit of a look into how rarity and access combine to show what options are legal for use in Organized Play (and how you can play that dhampir leshy vigilante dragon disciple, if that’s what you want!).

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August 2020 New Releases

We had some amazing new releases last month; are you ready for more? This month features a dire wake-up call, a zealot’s grand plot, a bounty on the creature known locally as "the Whitefange Wyrm"!

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Free RPG Day adventures now on paizo.com!

This year Free RPG Day was Saturday, July 25, 2020. Designed to support your favorite local games stores with increased traffic, participating stores had exclusive new adventures, as well as giveaways and prizes. But in this time of social distancing, many plans were askew. Some stores were closed, others had curbside pickup.

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Introducing Band of Badgers

The latest weekly live stream campaign from Band of Badgers explores the world of Golarion from the time of ‘Rise of the Runelords’ as the band of heroes start their journey across the lands of Varisia and beyond. They will be facing goblin raids, a cult of serial killers, fight backwoods ogres, stop an advancing army of stone giants, delve into ancient dungeons, and finally face off against a wizard-king in his ancient mountaintop city.

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Meet The Legendary Authors!

While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple name in a byline doesn’t give readers much information on the people who work to bring the setting to life! To wrap up our preview of Lost Omens Legends, we reached out to the authors of the book with the intent of promoting them—as well as any other personal work they would like to share, so that new fans of their work could find other projects, RPG products, websites, livestreams, and more to enjoy!

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Tales of Lost Omens: Connections

Toulon flipped through the pages of the report, keeping one eye on the woman. She looked pale with illness and the constant clearing of her throat did nothing to disprove the notion. She gave him a weak smile, more grimace than grin. He continued leafing through the report.

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Beadle & Grimm's Comes To Pathfinder — Chaos Ensues

Today, during Paizo Publisher and Chief Creative Officer Erik Mona’s “Paizo in 2020 and Beyond” seminar from Gen Con Online’s virtual main stage, we announced a partnership with Beadle & Grimm’s, whose high production values on campaign support materials for D&D have been incredibly well-received in recent years. They approached us not about making campaign props and such, but rather for something entirely new that both they and we here at Paizo HQ are incredibly excited about: Complete Character Chronicles! I’ll let the guys from Beadle & Grimm’s explain their vision and plan themselves, but wanted to officially welcome them to the Paizo family and express our enthusiasm about what’s to come.

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Edgewatch Cold Case #1556.1, Evidence A

Greetings from the heart of the Inner Sea—the shining city of Absalom! It has been a stupendous day, and a rogue blackmailing a tavern owner would be hard-pressed to have filled her cup with more ale than I filled today with sights and sounds the likes of which I had never imagined. I’m sitting down for the first time since I got off the boat, if you’d believe it, to pen this letter to you all to be sent out tomorrow.

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Iconic Encounter: A Complicated Plan

Lem cleared his throat, and Merisiel guiltily ceased fiddling with her dagger, giving her full attention to the halfling standing on the table in front of her.

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Kingmaker Update

Since a bit before all of us at Paizo transitioned into work-from-home mode back in early March, my primary job has been all things Kingmaker. The upcoming 2nd-edition update is one of the largest single print projects we’ve ever attempted at Paizo, with about a thousand pages represented between the 640 page Adventure Path (compare that to, say, the 432 pages in the Rise of the Runelords hardcover compilation), the 128 page Companion Guide (which brings in all 12 companions from Owlcat’s computer game version of Kingmaker), and a pair of Bestiary companions to help folks run the Adventure Path using 1st edition Pathfinder rules or even 5E rules. And this doesn’t even touch the various accessory products—maps and screens and more!

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A Night in Katheer

Players who read though Lost Omens Legends might find that they want to learn more about just what kind of deals Baba Yaga can offer them or the cool alchemy techniques that Artokus Kirran saves for only his most important students. GMs who read through the book might see that Queen Abrogail Thrune has contracts that can offer great power (with an obviously high price) or that Runelord Sorshen can teach a new, enchanting spell. These cool new options are easy enough to hand out, but we want tables to do more than just snag a new feat or magic item. We want you to meet these legends in the flesh! At least, as best as one can with a roleplaying game.

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Free RPG Day 2020 Is Almost Here!

The new and improved Free RPG Day is Saturday JULY 25, 2020.

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Iconic Encounter: Striking Thirteen

“Now, mister, why would you bother yourself with questions like those?”

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Here We Come A’Slithering!

This month we’re proud to release our newest stand-alone adventure for Pathfinder Second Edition: The Slithering!

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Tales of Lost Omens: Rebirth

The fire in the forest clearing flickered merrily without wood or any sounds of crackling. Four fish sizzled on a blue-bronze pan, placed to the side to cool enough to safely eat. Candles and incense sticks were set in the earth, smoke rising from the smoldering tips to curl upward into the night. The occupant of the tidy campsite was absolutely stunning, her outfit rival to the leading lady of any royal court, her hair glowing like flame in the light. Yet the most notable thing, the thing that should have given Qiu's partners a bit of a clue, was the elaborate green mansion that loomed behind her, a home fit for nobles in the middle of a forest.

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No-Prep Character: Duhgik

Our series of No-Prep Character blogs, which feature a ready-to-run NPC for busy Game Masters, continues with the lovable kobold trap-maker, Duhgik, again designed by Vanessa Hoskins. You can find the rules for the kobold ancestry and the snarecrafter archetype in the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide, available everywhere on July 30.

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Pathfinder Second Edition Humble Bundle

Last month, Paizo reiterated its commitment to diversity and racial justice; today, we’re launching a new Humble Bundle to support these values. The Pathfinder Second Edition Humble Bundle supports three nonprofit organizations dedicated to supporting people of color. A portion of every bundle will benefit the Carl Brandon Society, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and the National Urban League.

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Iconic Encounter: In The Eye Of The Storm

Though the night air was still, Korakai’s feathers still rustled as if in a light breeze as he leaned on his staff and finally arrived at the mountain’s summit. The climb probably would’ve been easier if he hadn’t eaten so many skewers, but what was he to do? He’d reached the mountain trail after a long day’s travel, and he very well couldn't ignore the delicious smells and clinking glasses from the homey tavern tucked to the side of the road.

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No-Prep Character: Pr’rall

Today we kick off our series of No-Prep Character blogs, which feature a ready-to-run NPC for busy Game Masters. In most cases (but not all), we’ll use these blogs to showcase new rules options available to players in upcoming releases, such as new ancestries, archetypes, equipment, feats, and spells. Today’s NPC is Pr’rall, a catfolk dual-weapon warrior based on a character that I played in one of James Jacobs’s office campaigns years ago. Thanks to Vanessa Hoskins for converting him so wonderfully into Pathfinder Second Edition. You can find the rules for the catfolk ancestry and the dual-weapon warrior archetype in the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide, available everywhere on July 30.

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Tales of Lost Omens: Be Kind to Strangers

Patross, the staff lead, was sneering again, and Ivy knew that would soon cause trouble for her. The waitress didn't even need to look to know what had offended the surly man. The two guests that sat by the dock-side windows—prime seats of the establishment, Patross would protest!—stood out enough from the regular crowd. It was an open question on what about them offended the most. The woman's clothing was too shabby, the man's clothing was too foreign. The woman was vicious and unpleasant. Truthfully, Ivy thought that Patross was most upset that the pair were both old, and the woman incredibly ugly.

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Gen Con Preview

While Gen Con won’t be happening in Indianapolis this year, Gen Con Online promises to be just as jam-packed with Organized Play events! We’ve got nearly 900 game sessions scheduled, so let’s take a look at some of the new scenarios we’ll be premiering.

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The Scales of Fate

The Pathfinder Society organized play campaign has been, since its inception, a game where the community of players across the world can shape the stories we tell and play a hand in determining the course of Golarion. Over the years, the Society has completed many adventures alongside kobold allies, including both the Sewer Dragons and other kobold tribes across the Inner Sea and beyond. It is my pleasure to announce that, when the Advanced Player’s Guide releases in August, kobolds will be joining the ranks of always-available ancestries for Pathfinder Society players. We’re excited to meet the new kobold recruits in just a few short weeks! Until then…

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Agents of Edgewatch Player’s Guide Is Now Available!

The free Agents of Edgewatch Player’s Guide is now available! Player characters take on the role of rookie watch guards in the magnificent city of Absalom, where anything is possible—including the nefarious workings of dastardly criminals! It’s up to the Edgewatch to protect the city, a task made all the more important with this century’s Radiant Festival fully underway. From ex-gladiatorial fighters to cosmopolitan druids, a wide array of adventurers can find a calling as protectors of Absalom’s people. This player’s guide contains spoiler-free advice to prepare your characters for the challenges and opportunities ahead in Agents of Edgewatch.

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New Minis for the Big City

The Pathfinder Battles: City of Lost Omens, Pathfinder Battles: City of Lost Omens Premium Figure Adult Red & Black Dragons, and Pathfinder Battles: Thieves Guild Premium Set, prepainted plastic miniatures from our partners at WizKids, are now available!

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Iconic Encounter: The Trouble with Fishgold

“They tell stories of this stuff up in Ustalav. Call it ‘fishgold’,” Jirelle said as she turned the heavy statuette over in her hands. The craft of the ugly thing wasn’t impressive, but the value of the red-tinted gold was undeniable. “You should throw it back.”

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Iconic Evolutions: Advanced Player’s Guide

Last week everyone got their first look at the new Iconic oracle, Korakai, and yesterday, we saw Feiya in action in her own Iconic Encounter story by Wendy Wagner. What some may have noticed (I can’t say for sure, because I’m writing this before that story goes live) is that Feiya and her fox familiar Daji got a bit of an update between first and second edition. This year, we don’t have video interviews with Iconic illustrator extraordinaire Wayne Reynolds like we did for the core Iconics, but we do have his reimagined final pieces.

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Iconic Encounter: A Pulse of Evil

Feiya followed her fox familiar’s nine white tails over the rocks and up the flank of a rocky butte. The night’s cold still clung to the hollows of the land, but she didn’t mind it. After years in Irrisen’s snowy woods, the chill comforted her. Cold, she understood. These too bright plains with too few trees, however, were pure mystery to her.

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Battle of the Pantheons Winner Announcement

In our April 16th blog, we announced the Battle of the Pantheons contest, run in conjunction with folks at the Know Direction Network. On June 11th, we revealed the four finalists and opened voting to members of the community. Now, it is time to announce the winner and sanction the new Pantheon for use in the Pathfinder Society organized play program.

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New Releases: Crash, Infestation, Doom, and Apocalypse!

Do you see a theme in the dire titles of this month’s new releases? Clearly, heroes are needed at such a time as this. We present our new releases now available at your favorite local game store, online retailer, and here at paizo.com. You won’t be bored!

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Iconic Encounter: Of Wasps and Whispers

Merisiel took a deep breath, held it, then let it out slowly as she tried to relax, her arms balanced, palms up, along the chair’s slender armrests. It wasn’t working. Her belly remained tight and crawling with gutwasps—the nervous feeling in the pit of your stomach that the church of Calistria called “the tingle you get ‘fore the trick is all set.” But this was no complex prank or long-planned vengeance that had the wasps doing their thing. It was something, Merisiel forced herself to remember, that she’d brought entirely upon herself.

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Meet The Iconics: Korakai

Korakai’s earliest memory is of roiling seas. When he was but an egg, his family left the tengu homeland of Kwanlai, first trekking west to the port city of Goka before boarding a ship to the Inner Sea in search for a better life. Like many immigrants from Tian Xia, they headed for Absalom; however, where they eventually settled was not the City at the Center of the World, but the nearby Isle of Erran.

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Agents of Edgewatch Update

We at Paizo strive to represent our company’s values of inclusivity through the content of our Pathfinder and Starfinder publications. Showcasing diversity in the stories of the cultures, races, sexualities, and gender identities of our characters is something we’ve tried to emphasize since the company’s inception 18 years ago. As we wrote in our public statement earlier this month about the Black Lives Matter movement, it’s an ongoing and vital process.

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June 2020 Pathfinder Society Releases

The brass-shod heels of Ambrus’s finely-crafted leather boots clack loudly off the cobblestones of the Foreign Quarter streets as he takes his morning walk. The dwarven prince and Pathfinder, Gorm Greathammer, accompanies Ambrus this day, the two long-time colleagues enjoying each other’s company and the salt-sweetened ocean air that provides a welcome relief to the pungent milieu of sweating laborers and defecating animals who fill the district streets.

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Battle of the Pantheons Voting

Janira looks to Zarta, a worried expression on her face. “But which one should we choose? Our agents gave so many options. How do we pick one? Will others feel hurt if we don’t pick theirs?”

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Pathfinder: Kingmaker coming to consoles!

Owlcat Games and Deep Silver have revealed the date for the critically acclaimed launch of Pathfinder: Kingmaker Definitive Edition on PlayStation®4 and the Xbox One family of devices, including the Xbox One X, as well as PC. The classic RPG will take adventurers to the Stolen Lands on August 18th, featuring all previously released content packs as well as a brand new turn-based mode. The game will be available at selected retail stores as well as through the digital stores of the respective platform.

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Free RPG Day 2020

Prepare for the New and Improved Free RPG Day!

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Don't Go Beyond The Wall

Well, Pathfinders, we did it. We’ve made it to the final preview blog of the forthcoming Pathfinder Battles: City of Lost Omens set of prepainted plastic miniatures from our friends at WizKids. As each of our previews thus far have featured a theme, I couldn’t resist finishing out the series with a look at some of the monstrous inhabitants of the Isle of Kortos who can challenge parties venturing beyond Absalom’s impenetrable walls.

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Accessories Go Digital

As more and more gamers are taking their campaigns to virtual tabletops, we’re changing the format of select products’ digital assets to individual high-resolution JPGs suitable for use on those platforms. This change will make it easy to upload every card in a deck to those platforms with no graphics work or image extraction required on your part.

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These Are The People In Your Neighborhood

We’re more than halfway through our blog series previewing the forthcoming [Pathfinder Battles: City of Lost Omens set of pre-painted plastic miniatures from our partners at WizKids, and I think players are going to love this particular batch of minis especially (though GMs should find plenty here to use from their side of the screen as well). This week we look at the humanoid figures in the set, featuring a variety of ancestries perfect for any urban campaign!

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Pathfinder News From PaizoCon Online

Each day during PaizoCon Online, we’re taking a look at upcoming products, revealing new art and details, and diving deep into the day’s focus with a livestreamed Marquee Event panel and Q&A session. Today’s Marquee Event panel focused on Paizo’s forthcoming Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide. This blog is a recap of some of the previews covered in that session as well as a compilation of other Pathfinder announcements from throughout the show. Don’t forget to check out the PaizoCon Online Stream Schedule to stay on top of the latest Paizo news in real time!

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Organized Play Programs Reveal Year Information

Each day during PaizoCon Online, we’re taking a look at upcoming products, revealing new art and details, and diving deep into the day’s focus with a livestreamed Marquee Event panel and Q&A session. Today’s Marquee Event panel focused on Paizo’s exciting Organized Play programs. This blog is a recap of some of the reveals covered in that session. Don’t forget to check out the PaizoCon Online Stream Schedule to stay on top of the latest Paizo news in real time!

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Kingmaker Adventure Path From PaizoCon Online

Each day during PaizoCon Online, we’re taking a look at upcoming products, revealing new art and details, and diving deep into the day’s focus with a livestreamed Marquee Event panel and Q&A session. Today’s Marquee Event panel focused on the Kingmaker Adventure Path compilation slated for late this year. This blog is a recap of some of the reveals covered in that session. Don’t forget to check out the PaizoCon Online Stream Schedule to stay on top of the latest Paizo news in real time!

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More Premiumer Than Ever Before!

Last week I promised that we’d have a blog showing off the premium figures coming out in next month’s Pathfinder Battles: City of Lost Omens set of prepainted plastic miniatures from WizKids. Unlike a normal set, which comes with a single premium figure (or scene set) that’s directly tied to the purchase of an entire case of minis, this set features not one, but two different premium products.

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Stream Overlays for Pathfinder 2E & Starfinder

With groups coming together online to make their own tabletop RPG livestream shows for both Pathfinder and Starfinder, I wanted to share the overlays that we use in our streams so those without access to artists can take their live streams to the next level. So please enjoy these free Starfinder & Pathfinder stream overlay assets (while also following Paizo’s Community Use Policy).

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The Path

Zellara sat at the table in her small house, her Harrow deck centered on the red tablecloth. The lantern light cloaked as much as it illuminated, leaving deep shadows to gather in the corners of the room, in the spaces behind furniture and under cupboards.

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Announcing a New Find the Path Venture

Find the Path is excited to announce a new venture: Tales from Darkmoon Vale! On May 27th, we will be launching a brand new Pathfinder Second Edition mini-series audio adventure. This actual play will be available exclusively on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/FindthePathVentures) and will release weekly on Wednesdays.

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The City Below The City

Last week we started our look at the myriad figures in the City of Lost Omens set of prepainted plastic miniatures from our partners at WizKids, and I left you with the promise of divulging the denizens of the many layers of man-made, monster-made, and natural caverns below Absalom this week. Let’s dig in, shall we?

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More Monsters, More Mayhem!

More than 300 menacing monsters and fearsome foes await within a compendium of creatures from the world of Pathfinder! From classic adversaries like giants, dragons, and the jabberwock to potential allies and servants suitable for summoners of every alignment, this must-have expansion to the Pathfinder Bestiary seethes with enemies to challenge characters of any level.

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PaizoCon Online Twitch Events

While you’re catching your breath from the hundreds of Paizo Organized Play games and other scheduled events available at PaizoCon Online, make sure to visit our Twitch channel for seminars and actual-play games from the Paizo staff and our licensed partners.

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Fiction Finder: Pathfinder Legends

We’ve been taking a look at some of the works of fiction, great and small, that help us experience the world of Pathfinder. We’ve reviewed the free web fiction, short fiction, novels (and audiobooks), and comics. Now, at last, we explore Pathfinder Legends. You might have missed them!

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PaizoCon Online Special Events and Player Instructions

Greetings all!
The finalized schedule includes over 1150 Paizo Organized Play (POP) games, as well as author-run events, non-organized play games, panels on both Discord and Twitch, and a full slate of Twitch-streamed games. For the full schedule, check out the PaizoCon Online Warhorn page. Reminder, all times are listed in PDT.

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Minis at the Center of the World

It seems like it’s been forever since I made one of these preview posts, and I guess it has (and not just because every day seems like a month since everyone started working from home). There’s been a long wait for the next set of Pathfinder Battles prepainted plastic miniatures from our partners at WizKids, but the wait is soon over. Pathfinder Battles: City of Lost Omens is slated for late June, and every indication I’ve heard so far points to it releasing on time. So without further ado, let’s get into it, shall we?

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Sample Encounter The Fox's Flames

I hope everyone’s staying safe as it starts to be spring here in Seattle. In case you missed it, GM registrations have recently opened for PaizoCon Online, and we’ve already seen a ton of people signing up to run Organized Play adventures online. If you’re curious about trying out a Pathfinder Society (second edition) scenario at PaizoCon but aren’t sure what to expect, we’ve put together a sample encounter to give you a taste of a typical encounter found in organized play (and a preview of a few creatures from the upcoming Bestiary 2!). Everything you need to play is linked below!

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Fiction Finder: Pathfinder Comics

It is time to look at comics in our mini-series looking at our timeless Pathfinder fiction While the free web fiction, short fiction, and novels all have similar authors, the creatives involved in the comics have gone in other directions, including more focus on the Pathfinder Iconics!

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Fantastic Worlds Productions Creates Pathfinder Adventures

Paizo and Fantastic Worlds Productions are pleased to announce that Fantastic Worlds has become an officially licensed partner. They will premiere a new actual-play tabletop roleplaying game podcast adventure, The Greatest Show on Earth! set in the circus-themed Extinction Curse Adventure Path for Pathfinder Second Edition. They will also continue their immersive podcast in which they struggle against the wintry witch Baba Yaga, set in the Pathfinder Reign of Winter Adventure Path, using the first edition Pathfinder rules.

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Pathfinder (second edition) Achievement Point Update

Janira consults her notes, then stares at the box in her hands. She feels around the carved surface, fingers tracing the grooves etched in the wood. She pauses, her fingers splayed across the surface, as she looks back to the parchment spread out in front of her. Holding still, her fingers not moving from their assigned points on the box, she skims the notes again, then looks up at the grey-robed Pathfinder Initiate sitting across from her.

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New Dice Sets from Q Workshop!

Q WORKSHOP has unveiled official Adventure Path dice sets designed and manufactured for the Pathfinder Extinction Curse, Starfinder Attack of the Swarm! and Starfinder The Threefold Conspiracy under a license with Paizo. Each is a complete set of seven polyhedral dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d100, d12, d20) made from durable plastic and designed with precision engravings.

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Fiction Finder: Novels

Continuing our series looking back on Pathfinder fiction, including free web fiction and short fiction, we now turn to novels!

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April 2020 New Releases

From ancient dungeons and chases, to dinosaurs, squads, and pawns, Paizo’s April 2020 new releases offer an abundance of riches for you and your friends to embark on heroic escapades!

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PaizoCon Online Will Be Scheduled For May 26-31

Get ready to stay safe at home as you play awesome Pathfinder and Starfinder games with friends around the world!

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April 2020 Pathfinder Society Releases

Ambrus reaches up and pinches the bridge of his nose, looking away from the stacks of reports piled on his desk. The reports got a little harder to read each year, and not just the ones with the names of friends and students listed in the casualty reports.

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Fiction-Finder: Short Fiction

Our fiction series like the recent Tales From The Drift and The Windsong Testaments are only links in the chain, nay, pearls in the necklace in the legacy of bringing the Lost Omens and Pact Worlds settings to life. Last week we looked at free web fiction of the past. This week we revisit our short fiction!

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Battle of the Pantheons: Pathfinder Society contest hosted by the Know Direction Network

No two characters worship the same way. How and why they worship their deities are as varied as the player base of Paizo’s organized play campaign. Many players choose for their characters to follow the examples of several deities, seeing a personal connection between them that motivates and inspires their journey. In some cases, adventuring parties form around one of these custom pantheons, becoming regional memes that take on a life of their own. Perhaps you have created a Pathfinder pantheon yourself?

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Fiction-Finder: Free Web Fiction

In the toughest of times, people have always shared stories with each other, whether as a respite from harsh realities, to share a common vision and pull together as a community, or to simply boost morale. We are pausing our weekly flash fiction for five weeks and during this time, we’ll take a walk down memory lane. Will we revisit the Pathfinder fiction available today, including free web fiction, short fiction, novels, comics, and audio adventures. It's time to refuel our fantasy-fiction belt pouches and inspire new escapades!

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Band of Bravos Opening This Friday!

Renowned throughout the River Kingdoms for their amazing feats of daring, the Band of Bravos will take the stage this Friday in the King’s audience hall. These amazing heroes have traveled all across the land, defeating trolls, besting dragons, and defying the undead. Now they are going to regale you with tales of their adventures! You will shiver in terror when you hear about the time they faced the Whispering Tyrant. You’ll cheer when you learn the best way to get a Fire Giant King to surrender his crown. And you will be SHOCKED when you discover what really happened to the Shield of Aroden.

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April Update Blog

OPM Musings
While the past month brought lots of confusion and chaos to our lives, we’re grateful to our communities for providing some safe harbor in the storm. A huge shout out to the entire venture-officer team and the local GM crews who supported the FLGS until they closed and then moved the games online. For those of you that haven’t joined us in virtual, consider this an open invitation to do so! Come play, socialize, and stay strong!

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Stay at Home, Play at Home with Roll20

We have joined with Roll20 to offer free products and resources to help keep your games interesting and entertaining as we all practice safe physical distancing.

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Foolish Monsters, In April

Every now and then, someone makes a typo and realizes that they’ve accidentally created a pun or joke so bad that they must immediately drop it into their team’s work chat, triggering a wave of snickering from some corner of the office. Whenever it sounds like a monster (or something else you wouldn’t want to see in a dungeon), we’ve offhandedly said “add it to the April Fool’s Bestiary.” But surely, we’d never actually stat them up and put them into a blog or some other format for them to run rampant on the internet, right? Well, against our better judgement, here are a few of the monsters that didn’t quite make the cut for Bestiaries or Alien Archives, born of typos, inside jokes, or meetings that started before the coffee pot was quite done brewing.

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Guest Blog: Online Region Resources part 2

Yesterday, we posted a blog about play-by-post (PbP) benefits and experiences and ways play Pathfinder Adventure Card Game online. Now we continue the conversation, with a focus on virtual tabletops (VTTs) and general links and resources. If you missed Payton’s blog about home gaming options on Tuesday, I recommend you check it out, as it is a great overview of the online resources available to gamers!

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Paizo Spring Social - Save 25%!

Just because we’re practicing safe physical distancing doesn’t mean we can’t have amazing adventures together. From now through May 3rd, save 25% on all Paizo PDFs, including Pathfinder Second Edition, Starfinder, and even classic Pathfinder titles.

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Death Stalks the Farms and Fields

Inside volume three of the Pathfinder Extinction Curse Adventure Path, Life’s Long Shadows, by Greg A. Vaughan

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A Fish’s Well-Wishes

There’s been a lot of bad news related to the situation with COVID-19 right now. From those forced into isolation and quarantine, to those facing sudden financial or medical hardship, to those upset that an event they were looking forward to was canceled, a lot of people have been having a rough time. Teachers, artists, authors, performers, musicians, and many others have been stepping up to help keep spirits high despite the circumstances. In particular, I’ve been following the curious resurrection of an obscure Japanese yokai—known as an amabie, the creature was recorded as predicting a plague, but claiming that anyone who saw a picture of the amabie would be cured of the disease. Now, Japanese artists on twitter have been sharing their own drawings and other creations of the amabie to offer their best wishes for good health.

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Pathfinder Beginner Box Announced for November

New players will soon be able to take their first steps into an amazing world of fantasy adventure! Unveiled for November 2020, the Pathfinder Beginner Box will contain everything you need to learn how to play the Pathfinder, including rules to create your own fantasy hero and tools to make your own amazing stories.

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March 2020 Organized Play Scenario Releases

I hope this blog finds our communities of players weathering the social distancing restrictions. As we noted in last week’s organized play blog, we already moved some of our organized play activities online and are working to add more over the upcoming weeks. A huge shout out to the GMs who are learning new platforms and offering their skills via different mediums. For those that prefer play-by-post to virtual tabletops, Outpost III launches this week. You can find more information here.

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Pathfinder Society (second edition) Faction Showcase

Reading over our community feedback, several people noted that the faction symbols for Pathfinder Society (second) edition hadn’t enjoyed a premier and that the faction leader art only appeared in scenarios, like Pathfinder Society Scenario #1-01: Absalom Initiation! In this blog, we included a list of current scenarios that contribute to each faction’s storyline. Some factions have more scenarios listed, but fear not! We’ve still got five months to go in the Year of the Open Road and more faction goodness up our sleeves

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RPG Superstar Contest Relaunch

We welcome Roll For Combat into our fold of licensed partners! Roll For Combat will continue to create Pathfinder, Pathfinder Society, Starfinder, and Starfinder Society actual play podcasts, as well as manage the recently relaunched RPG Superstar contest.

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Echoes of the Dead God Linger

Inside volume two of the Pathfinder Extinction Curse Adventure Path, Legacy of the Lost God, by Jenny Jarzabski

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Badlands Ambush

An Encounter for a Bestiary Bundle!
Using accessories can really enhance your game, and I couldn’t be more excited for people to get their hands on the new Pathfinder Bestiary Battle Cards. I helped put them together and during the process I was constantly thinking how they could make a game easier by just plucking out the cards you need for the session and not have to flip through the Bestiary. You can even throw together a quick encounter by grabbing a few cards from the box, plucking the corresponding pawns from the Pathfinder Bestiary Pawn Box, and slapping down a Flip-Mat on your table. Since I was thinking about it, I did just that and want to share it with all of you.

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The Greatest Show on Golarion

Inside volume one of the Pathfinder Extinction Curse Adventure Path, The Show Must Go On, by Jason Tondro

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February 2020 Pathfinder Society Releases

It’s the end of February, Pathfinders, and that means we have a new slate of adventures releasing, with cats, leshys, and insurance adjustments, as well as an overnight stay in a haunted house.

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Make Your Game Your Own

Unveiling the Pathfinder Second Edition Gamemastery Guide!

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Monster Making

A short while ago, Logan Bonner and I appeared on Paizo’s Twitch stream to demonstrate the monster-building rules featured in the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide. With the help and suggestions from the chat audience, we walked people through the steps of creating a brand-new monster based on a piece of art that appears in the book. Now we’d like to share with you the result of that exercise. Meet our unofficial creature—the ailuran!

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Rise of the Runelords: Shalelu Be Food?

She heard them before she saw them.

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Pathfinder LIVE Presents “A Taste of Trunau” Featuring The Glass Cannon Podcast

Six unlikely heroes must brave untold horrors if they are to save the small town of Trunau from a bland and flavorless future. Do they have the courage to fight for flavor?

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Pathfinder Society (second edition) Character Options

Greetings, Society Members!
Earlier today, we revealed the next round of sanctioning for Starfinder Society—including the Attack of the Swarm! and Threefold Conspiracy Adventure Paths Chronicle Sheets. If you missed that blog, you can catch up here!

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Miracles Happen!

In my short time here at Paizo, I’ve learned that the production of a book is never an exact science. We know approximately how many words fit on a page and how much space a piece of art takes up. Even with these estimates, there’s always some content that does not make it onto the page. Sometimes, it feels like our books are actively working against us, constantly reshaping themselves and proceeding to taunt us about how we couldn’t fit everything we wanted into the book.

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Meet The Authors!

While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple name in a byline doesn’t give readers much information on the people who work to bring the setting to life! To wrap up our preview of Lost Omens Gods and Magic, I reached out to the authors of the book with the intent of promoting them—as well as any other personal work they would like to share, so that new fans of their work could find other projects, RPG products, websites, livestreams, and more to enjoy!

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Pathfinder Society Preview: From North to South

Here we are, barreling toward the end of another month! In case you’re not familiar with what that means, it’s time for the previews of the scenarios that are about to be released!

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The Windsong Testaments: Time’s Price

In the Trophy Room of Shyka the Many, among the infinite treasures that the Eldest has plucked from time, there sits a plinth of banded bone and gold.

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Friends In High Places

The people of Golarion have literally hundreds of gods that they could choose to follow. In fact, many people follow the teaching of multiple deities in their everyday life. A farmer might pray to Gozreh for rain, Sarenrae for lots of sunlight, and Erastil for a good harvest all in the same day. Considering this was a common aspect of so many of our characters and stories in Pathfinder, we thought that Lost Omens Gods & Magic was the perfect time to introduce a way to represent polytheism mechanically.

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Iconic Encounter: Ready

Seelah took a moment to run a mental checklist before leaving the last place of cover. The sun was high, brightly keeping shadows at bay and ensuring she had clear lines of sight. It also ensured that as soon as she stepped into the courtyard, she would be spotted. Stealth was not her area of expertise in any case. She would need different tactics to overcome her foes, and she hoped she had planned well enough. If she had not, the consequences would be dire.

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Come One, Come All, to the Extinction Curse Player’s Guide!

The free Extinction Curse Player's Guide is now available! From humble beginnings as members of the cast-off and cobbled-together Circus of Wayward Wonders, a handful of heroes will rise to avert a catastrophe that threatens to swallow the islands of the Inner Sea! Any kind of adventurer can find a home in the circus, from burly barbarians and flamboyant bards to nimble monks and flashy sorcerers, and the Extinction Curse Adventure Path welcomes them all. This player’s guide contains lots of spoiler-free advice to prepare your characters for the challenges ahead of them.

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Faith It 'Til You Make It!

Characters living in the Age of Lost Omens have the unique benefit of being able to speak directly with their gods and have these gods directly influence the world around them. This is especially true of player characters, who typically have a direct line to their given gods, particularly in the case of faithful classes like champions and clerics. You can think of Lost Omens Gods & Magic as a catalog to help you decide not only what faith your character can follow, but also what benefits you gain for said worship.

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Tales of Lost Omens: Questioning Nature

The ritual continued. Gifne sat in place as she had for the past day, eyes closed, silently repeating the mantra in her mind, communing with the Green, with the Will of the World, with nature itself. Finally, to her satisfaction, she felt nature respond.

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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

The world of Pathfinder is one of many gods, entities of unfathomable power with influence over every aspect of mortal life. To the average person on Golarion, a prayer to a god for good health, good harvests, or protection from harm is an everyday tradition. A character’s choice of a patron god can have a huge impact on that PC’s background, attitude, and overall flavor. Yet for the player of a PC who is not a member of a divine class, the choice of deity has often proven merely cosmetic. If you aren’t affected one way or another by the whims of the gods, what point is there in following their strictures—in other words, what’s in it for me?

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The Windsong Testaments: Rage of Creation

It took less than a day for the first seven worlds to end.

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Knights of Everflame Finale!

Don’t miss the epic finale of Season 2 tonight from 4 to 7 p.m. Pacific on Geek & Sundry’s Twitch channel and on OfficalPaizo! Stay tuned for the after-party at 7 p.m. when the cast returns live to talk about this season’s exploits along with what lies ahead.

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Fuel for your Solstice Storytelling

A draconic dilemma, a hostile hallucination, a gate to hold, a gate to break, a descent into the Darklands, and both monsters and horrors for your pockets --- these are our new wares to outfit your adventurous expeditions this month.

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The Black Friday 2019 sale on paizo.com

The store at paizo.com is an online retail hobby destination for gamers that carries the latest products from top hobby game publishers. You can also find the newest releases, as well as accessories like dice and maps, miniatures, T-shirts, and goblin plush toys, to quickly replenish your adventuring supplies for the next dungeon run.

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Last Week of the Playtest!

The end of the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide playtest is almost here! This is your last week to give us feedback on the investigator, oracle, swashbuckler, and witch. If you’ve participated so far, thank you so much for your help! We’ve already learned a lot about these four classes that we’ll be able to use going forward. If you haven’t yet, there’s still a bit more time to get in a game or two, and you can download it here. Either way, before the playtest period ends, be absolutely sure to head to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/APGClassSurvey to take the main survey, as well as https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/APGOpenResponse optionally if you have more detailed written feedback you’d prefer to submit to us directly.

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It’s New Comics Day on Humble Bundle!

Wednesday always means New Comic Day, when comics fans like me swarm to the racks to find the newest releases. It’s been a while since we released a new Pathfinder comic with our friends at Dynamite (more on that soon—we’re working on something really special), but we thought the approaching holiday season was a good opportunity to team up with Humble Bundle to bring you a huge selection of Pathfinder comics at the best price of all: whatever you feel like paying!

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New Releases in November

From the new biohacker, vanguard, witchwarper classes, to vibrant locations like taverns, undercities, secret monasteries, and Scarlet strongholds—these are the complete game system products we are grateful to offer you this November.

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The Windsong Testaments: The Acts of Iomedae

We can learn much from the wisdom of the divine, but we can learn as much from their actions. The truly faithful understand that not even the gods themselves are infallible, and that words and promises do not always suffice. Those among us who see no fault in the gods are worse than zealots, worse than puppets. They taint the very idea of faith with their blind devotion. When a god makes a mistake, the results can be disastrous if their faithful do not understand the error. If they take that error as gospel, they are doomed to repeat the error and compound upon it again and again. And in so doing make the initial misstep into something more. In the worst of cases, these repeated mistakes can transcend to become the new order, and not even the gods themselves can turn them back.

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Welcome to the Advanced Player’s Guide Playtest!

Welcome to the Advanced Player’s Guide Playtest! Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Welcome to the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide playtest! In the document below, you’ll find four new classes set to be introduced in the Advanced Player’s Guide in July 2020, but before we can add them to the game, we need your help to ensure they are the best they can be! To do that, we need you to create characters using these classes and give them a try. We’re hoping that each of these new characters offers...
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The Windsong Testaments: The Three Fears of Pharasma

“Reality is born. Reality must die. So somewhere in between must dwell both you and I.”

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Core Rulebook Errata: Round 1

The Pathfinder Core Rulebook has been out in the wide world for a few months now! While you’ve had a chance to put the game through its paces, we’ve been hard at work combing through feedback and questions from staff, players, and fans of the game, looking for any spots that need clarification.

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Pathfinder: Knights of Everflame Season Two Premieres TODAY!

Season Two of Pathfinder: Knights of Everflame premieres today at 4 p.m. Pacific on Geek & Sundry on Twitch! The entire cast returns for continuing adventures in collaborative storytelling utilizing the Pathfinder Second Edition role-playing game. Catch the Pre-Show starting at 3 p.m. Pacific leading up to the premiere of Season Two. New episodes air every Tuesday on Twitch at 4 p.m. Pacific, and will also appear on Geek & Sundry YouTube channel each week following the Twitch broadcast. Get ready now by going to KnightsofEverflame.com to find character bios, art, helpful links, and more!

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Knights of Everflame: Season Two Premieres Next Tuesday, October 29!

Season Two of Knights of Everflame will premiere next Tuesday, October 29 from 4 to 7 p.m. Pacific on Geek & Sundry’s Twitch channel! The entire cast returns for continuing adventures in collaborative storytelling utilizing the Pathfinder Second Edition role-playing game. New episodes air every Tuesdays on Twitch at 4 p.m. Pacific, and will also appear on YouTube the week following their Twitch broadcast.

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The Windsong Testaments: On Family Bonds

The bonds of family are strong and can blind even the gods to atrocity and awfulness. And no deity knows better the dangers of trusting one’s sibling than Shelyn, sister of Zon-Kuthon.

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The (Un)Usual Suspects!

Have you heard? The Lost Omens Character Guide is available now at your local gaming store and here on paizo.com! If you haven’t had a chance to check out what kind of awesome content shows up in the book, take some time to check out blog posts from the past weeks. All of those posts cover the cool content for ancestries and organizations, but there’s one more section of the book we wanted to show off. However, rather than just giving a typical preview, we wanted to show the book in action and have you, fine readers, follow along at home!

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Trick or Treat! October New Releases

Whether haunted, fumbling, flooded, subterranean, consumed, flaming, or maniacal—we have concocted some goodies for you this month!

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The Windsong Testaments: The Beauty of Horrors

One never needs look far from the loveliest flower to find the worms fatting on the buried dead below, providing for beauty’s banquet above. Such truths are known to the gods. There can be no light without darkness, no life without death, no good without evil. As one of the First among the gods, these truths are held as virtues to glorious Desna, Song of the Spheres. She knows and teaches that a thing of beauty to your eye may be a wretched affront to mine. Beauty and horror can exist simultaneously. Beauty and horror can be the same.

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What’s My Motivation?

Have you discovered this seeming contradiction yet? Epic roleplaying requires specificity. Great collaborative storytelling needs players who know what drives them. The better they can know “Where am I from?” and “Where am I going?” the better they can create a motivated character. And it gives everyone else at the table something to play off of.

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Scrolls and Spells and Swords, Oh My!

We’ve been taking a look at the various organizations featured in the Lost Omens Character Guide over the past few weeks. (Hop over here if you’ve missed these!) While all of these are great in their own right, there’s one organization that was an immediate shoo-in when we started early discussions for this book: the Pathfinder Society! The Pathfinders are probably one of the most well-known and most widespread organizations in our Age of Lost Omens setting. Heck, they have the name of our game in the name of the organization! There was no way we could ignore them!

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Building Monsters for Fun and Profit

The Gamemastery Guide for Pathfinder 2nd Edition is still several months away, but we knew there were a few parts of it we wanted to get in your hands sooner, and make more easily available. That’s why you can download the rules for making creatures and hazards right now! These are the Building Creatures and Building Hazards sections from chapter 2 of the Gamemastery Guide. The book isn’t quite final, so you might see a few changes to what’s in here in the published version.

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New Edition the Hard Way

This article by Jason Bulmahn, Director of Game Design, was published in the August edition of Meeple monthly. We are pleased to share it with you today.

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He's A Magic Man, She's A Magic Man!

When considering the best organizations to showcase in the upcoming Lost Omens Character Guide, we asked ourselves who the most iconic figures in our setting were—or should be. Case in point: the Magaambya. Founded by the legendary Old Mage Jatembe, credited with bringing back magic as the Inner Sea region knows it after the destruction of Earthfall, the Magaambya is the oldest magic school in the Inner Sea and possibly on Golarion. The parallel in prestige to real world institutions like Oxford and Cambridge, the Magaambya surely stood as one of the premier organizations in the Age of Lost Omens campaign setting.

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Knights of Everflame Season Two Premieres October 29!

We are thrilled to announce that Season 2 Knights of Everflame will premier Tuesday, October 29 from 4 to 7 p.m. Pacific on Geek & Sundry’s Twitch channel (twitch.tv/geekandsundry) and OfficalPaizo (https://www.twitch.tv/officialpaizo)! Save the date as the entire cast returns for escalating adventures in collaborative storytelling utilizing the Pathfinder Second Edition roleplaying game. You can also catch up on past episodes via Geek & Sundry’s YouTube channel Geek & Sundry YouTube channel (youtube.com/geekandsundry).

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Lastwall Knights, All Right!

Those familiar with the nation of Lastwall will know of the Knights of Ozem, stalwart crusaders who took up the legacy of the Shining Crusade. In honor of all who had sacrificed themselves to defeat the Whispering Tyrant and seal him within the prison of Gallowspire, the Knights of Ozem swore themselves to keep vigil for all eternity, ensuring Tar-Baphon never threatened Golarion again. The nation of Lastwall drew warriors of good to its shining white walls, each one proud of their support of a righteous cause.

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Tales of Lost Omens: The Idol and the Scythe

Legends say only a single man survived the doom that befell Fog Peak Hold. The Pathfinder sages will tell you that’s wrong: five made it out alive, though only three were still sane. The little matter of the collapse of the eastern pass had made the hold irrelevant by that point, and I guess the Taldans have been busy with other matters for the last few hundred years, so the place was never reoccupied.

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Hellknights on the Town

Last week, we took our first big look at the Firebrands, a brand new organization premiering in the Lost Omens Character Guide (releasing in just a few weeks!). While new organizations are fun, people familiar with the Age of Lost Omens will have lots of classics to look forward to as well. Pathfinder has had plenty of iconic figures throughout its history including our iconic characters like Seelah and Valeros, as well as the Gray Maidens that featured on the back of the original Core Rulebook. Among some of these more memorable figures are the Hellknights, the imposing paragons of law.

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Tales of Lost Omens: When it Rains

“Come on, Couvo!” Seliette tugged at his sleeve, breaking his concentration and causing his complex mental translation to collapse into gibberish. He blinked up at his fellow student, confused by her voluminous waterproof cloak. The last time he’d gone outside onto the grounds of the Magaambya, the sky had been blue and cloudless. He hadn’t been sequestered in this reading nook that long, had he? Maybe Seliette was off on another of her field trips. He could hardly keep track of all the to-ing and fro-ing she did with her assorted mentors. “Come on where?”

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Crits Ahoy!

With the new Pathfinder Critical Hit Deck, you can inject a dose of chaotic mayhem into the game, making critical hits feel like more than mere numerical increases to damage. Whenever a PC, or an equal or higher level foe, critically hits with a natural 20, draw a card and see what happens. Each critical hit effect has an evocative name to let you envision what just happened. Did you jab them in the calf, shatter their jaw, or pierce their heart? In addition, it lists a special effect. Unless it says otherwise, the attack still deals double damage, but attacks might instantly kill PCs or foes, control them for a round, send them to another plane, or all sorts of other devastating effects.

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New September Releases

Every month, Paizo publishes an abundance of roleplaying game riches. From epic Adventure Paths for both Pathfinder and Starfinder to generic accessories good for any game system, Paizo has just what your game table is waiting for! Here are the new products for September.

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Where There's Smoke, There's Firebrands!

While the Lost Omens World Guide can help answer things like “Where are you from?” and “Where are you going?,” I think that the Lost Omens Character Guide tries to help answer an even more critical question: “Who are you?” The Character Guide offers great information on ethnicities for our core ancestries and even new ancestries to choose from! However, there’s more to your character than your ancestry. Almost as important as your ancestry is the people you know and with whom you associate. Are you a member of the local guard or thieves’ guild? Did you join up with your nation’s army? Are you part of a doomsday cult or a church of an obscure deity?

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Don’t miss the Knights of Everflame Season Finale!

Don’t miss the Knights of Everflame Season Finale! Tuesday, September 17, 2019 Left to right: Erika Fermina, Rachel Seeley, Aki, Jason Bulmahn, Gina DeVivo, and Jeremy Steven Walker The first season of Knights of Everflame comes to a close tonight on the Geek & Sundry Twitch channel! Join Game Master Jason Bulmahn and adventurers Gina DeVivo, Jeremy Steven Walker, Aki, Erika Fermina, and Rachel Seeley as they continue their adventures in Lastwall.Watch on Twitch tonight: 4-7 p.m. Pacific...
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Knights of Everflame Will Return For Season Two!

Paizo and Geek & Sundry will produce a second season of the successful Knights of Everflame for Pathfinder Second Edition later this year! Once again, Game Master Jason Bulmahn will lead an amazing cast of adventurers into the heart of darkness on Geek & Sundry on Twitch (twitch.tv/geekandsundry). The Season 1 finale airs on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 4 p.m. Pacific, and you can catch up on past episodes on the Geek & Sundry YouTube channel (youtube.com/geekandsundry).

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Tales of Lost Omens: Seeds of Hope

In her dreams, they all sounded together: the alarm and the battle march and the frenzied call to retreat. The calls overlapped into chaos, yet Veldrienne heard them all distinctly, and she understood with the perfect, crazed, crystal logic of dreams that of course the battle march was wild with panic, and of course the first call to alarm was a dolorous cry played over the bloody field of a lost battle, and of course it all began and ended with a weak, wounded note that broke on the thrust of a dead man’s spear.

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Pathfinder Second Edition Demo Adventure Available for Download Today!

It has been just over a month since we welcomed you to Pathfinder Second Edition and the positive response has been amazing! We’ve heard from many of you that you’d like to see a short adventure as well, so today we present to you Torment and Legacy: A Pathfinder Second Edition Demo Adventure to make it even easier to experience the evolution of Pathfinder!

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Find the Path launches actual-play podcast of Tyrant’s Grasp Adventure Path on Patreon through new Paizo partnership

Paizo is pleased to announce that Find the Path is now an officially licensed partner! They have been producing a high-quality actual-play podcast of the Mummy's Mask Adventure Path since May of 2018. Now, they are expanding to provide a podcast of the Tyrant's Grasp Adventure Path, exclusively to subscribers via Patreon.

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You're A Lizard, Harry

Those of you who have been following the Oblivion Oath campaign on Paizo’s Twitch channel are likely already familiar with Zel, the lizardfolk adventurer who has been caught up in strange and frankly creepy events beyond his control. Jason Bulmahn stressed that lizardfolk—or iruxi, as they call themselves—would not be a player ancestry in the Pathfinder 2E Core Rulebook, but us developers have known for a while that they’d be quickly following along on the Core Rulebook’s coattails. In fact, Zel has been using the final lizardfolk ancestry rules for a while, and with the upcoming release of the Lost Omens Character Guide, you’ll soon be able to do the same!

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Tales of Lost Omens: Rat Trap

Watching from a hidden perch across the street, Ulthor studied the place. It was a stinking, squalid wreck in Absalom’s Puddles district. Dead fish lay half-surfaced in the sucking mud around the entrance, their rotted heads poking up as if straining for one last breath. Inside, the air was thick with flayleaf and pesh smoke, spilled ale and unwashed bodies, and the pervasive, inescapable stench of the Puddles’ foul tides. Dingy gray cloth covered the grimy windows and hung from the rafters, turning the already-dim tavern into a warren of shadows.

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Love 'Em Or Leaf 'Em

When we first started brainstorming the three new ancestries we intended to put into the Lost Omens Character Guide, leshies weren’t even on the list. We knew we didn’t want to overlap with the ancestries that are going to show up in the recently announced Advanced Player’s Guide, but that still left us with far too many contenders for the mere three ancestry slots we had available. Options included simple and popular choices such as the grippli, ambitious but potentially rules-contentious ideas such as centaurs, and even the relatively obscure mortics that appeared in Tyrant’s Grasp. As we debated, Mark Seifter came in with a message from himself and the rest of the Design Team: “What about leshies?”

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We Should Travel By Map!

It’s here! The Lost Omens World Guide is finally available on store shelves everywhere and via PDF on paizo.com. Hopefully you’ve had a chance to check out the Tales of Lost Omens to get a taste of the upcoming changes to the Inner Sea region and some amazing fiction by our wonderful authors. While those blogs were great in their own right, they were sorely lacking a little something: new rules! So, join me as I take another quick tour through the ten metaregions of the Inner Sea region and we’ll take a peek at some fun rules content.

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Tales of Lost Omens: Bad Dogs

Ketchi peered through the shrubbery at the overgrown monastery and grinned. "This must be the place!"

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Bestiary 2 Coming in April

More than 350 new monsters are coming to your campaign in April with the release of the Pathfinder Bestiary 2...but you don’t have to wait that long to see the amazing cover illustration by artist Wayne Reynolds!

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All We Are Saying Is Give Peace a Chance

Nearly 20 years after the Goblinblood Wars devastated the nation of Isger, an army of hobgoblins marched toward conquest once more. Led by the formidable commander General Azaersi—who had lost everything in the Goblinblood Wars, as so many others had—the so-called Ironfang Invasion swept across the lands of Nirmathas and northern Molthune with what seemed like an unstoppable momentum. Yet the residents of Nirmathas managed to unite in their hour of need, rallied by a group of militia commanders that proved a match for the Ironfang Legion’s legendary general. In a move that surprised nearly everyone, the heroes of Nirmathas chose to show mercy to the merciless, sparing the general and suing for peace. Azaersi agreed and pulled her armies back to her mysterious base of operations, the Vault of the Onyx Citadel, before officially founding the nation of Oprak in the mountains.

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Get Ready for 3-Action Game Night!

Pathfinder Second Edition promises to be easier to learn, faster to play, and to offer the deep character customization that we all love. Let’s prove it! Join us at OfficialPaizo on Twitch for "3-Action Game Night" this Friday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Pacific. We'll make four new characters, design fresh encounters, and play them - all in one session!

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Such a Lovely Place, Such a Lovely Face

One of the strengths of the games set in the Age of Lost Omens is the diversity of setting. From classic staples like dragonslaying and piracy to outlandish adventures fighting robot scorpions in a rugged wasteland, no matter what genre of game you want to play, you can likely find a spot on Golarion to suit your interest. With that diversity of setting comes a diversity of people. Every nation has its own vibrant cultures, traditions, and ethnicities—not just among humanity, but among all of the ancestries found within the Inner Sea region. In Golarion, the home of the shattered clans of the Five Kings Mountains, the tunnel-dwelling Kulnett of Geb, the dragon-worshiping Mwangi tribes of the Mbe'ke and the Taralu, and the completely subterranean grondaksen, there's no such thing as playing "just" a dwarf.

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It Takes A Village

Last week we started looking at the forthcoming Pathfinder Battles: Legendary Adventures set of pre-painted plastic miniatures from our partners at WizKids. This week we’ll explore the Goblin Village premium set that releases alongside the Huge booster-based set.

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Pathfinder Second Edition Conversion Guide

We know many of you are eager to convert your current games over to the new rules, so we’ve created the Pathfinder Second Edition Conversion Guide to help guide your way. Here, you’ll find tips, tricks and a mountain of advice on how to convert your game as easily as possible. It includes conversion notes for characters, spells, magic items, and monsters!

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Gen Con 2019 Highlights

Paizo's Social Media Producer, Payton, had an exciting first Gen Con! Getting the chance to meet so many of you and share the love of gaming was an absolute blast.

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Legendary Adventures Await!

Back in February, we announced the next set of Pathfinder Battles pre-painted plastic miniatures from our partners at WizKids—Legendary Adventures—and showed off a handful of the figures in the set, including the Huge dragon turtle and some of the pieces of the Goblin Village premium set releasing at the same time.

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Pathfinder Second Edition Launches NOW!

Today is the day! Pathfinder Second Edition is officially here, on store shelves, at online retailers, and soon on game tables all across the world. It’s been more than three years since we first started work in earnest on the new edition, and after all that time—and with the assistance of tens of thousands of playtesters—Pathfinder Second Edition is ready for action!

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Dwarven Forge Fall of Plaguestone Set

We’ve partnered with our friends at Dwarven Forge to create a special terrain set for the Fall of Plaguestone adventure! The terrain is focused around four key encounters in the adventure and is available for preorder today at Dwarvenforge.com. Here’s what you’ll see when the set ships in Q1 2020.

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Tales of Lost Omens: Dragonfear

They were talking about the dragon.

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The Shining Kingdoms

The Shining Kingdoms Tuesday, July 30, 2019 This is it, Pathfinders—the conclusion of our world-spanning journey through the Age of Lost Omens! It’s only fitting, then, that we end in a region full of tried and true fantasy tropes, lands of elves, dwarves, knights in shining armor, and … guillotines? Illustration by Roman Roland KuteynikovEr, we’ll get back to those tall knives in a bit. Let’s start with those elves though, shall we? Kyonin, on the southeastern corner of Lake Encarthan in...
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Knights of Everflame Premieres Tonight!

Don’t miss the Pathfinder Second Edition Knights of Everflame premiere today at 4 p.m. Pacific! Game Master Jason Bulmahn leads an amazing cast of adventurers into the heart of darkness every Tuesday from 4-7 p. Pacific.

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Age of Ashes Player’s Guide

The Age of Ashes Player’s Guide gives players everything they need to create characters for their adventures through Hellknight Hill and beyond. Within this spoiler-free guide, you’ll find:

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First Adventures

Over the past few months we’ve spent a great deal of time talking about Pathfinder Second Edition, focusing primarily on the Core Rulebook and Bestiary. While these two hefty tomes are absolutely essential for your table, there is one critical thing that they lack: adventure! After all, what is a roleplaying game without a fun, exciting story to experience?

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Tales of Lost Omens: Portents from the Deck

Irhina felt their agitation thrumming through her tiny sea cabin. It was a sharp, jangled vibration, like a dozen out-of-tune instruments all bleating different songs. Something was coming, some great weight that sat on destiny’s weaving and bent all the skeins of fate toward itself.

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Knights of Everflame Begins July 30

Paizo has teamed up with our friends at Geek and Sundry to produce an 8-episode series for Pathfinder Second Edition!

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Pathfinder Second Edition Character Sheets

Many of you are probably already dreaming up characters for Pathfinder Second Edition, writing them down in journals, carving them in ancient stones, or maybe even incanting them to the darkest corners of the Abyss. Others might be waiting on the official character sheets to begin their journey. Fortunately, that wait is over. You can grab both the full-color and printer-friendly version of the character sheet today!

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The Saga Lands

Strap in, Pathfinders, because we're entering the home-stretch of our grand tour around the Age of Lost Omens, as presented in next month's Lost Omens World Guide hardcover sourcebook. We've spent a lot of time over the last few weeks on the continent of Garund, but now we're headed back to where it all began way back in 2007 with the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path—the northern stretch of Avistan now known as the Saga Lands!

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Mastering Pathfinder

This week, we’re going to take a look at the tools the new edition provides the GM to tell awesome stories full of interesting foes and hazards as well as plenty of opportunity to shine the spotlight on the PCs and show off how incredible the PCs are!

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Tales of Lost Omens: The Snare

“There. Yes. Those two.” Excitement, wet and thick, curdled Chemurr’s voice. She coughed and swallowed noisily, but she was too agitated to keep the phlegm worms from crawling back up. Her swollen fingers clenched around Gaiter’s arm. “Come, boy.”

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Old Cheliax

In the history of Golarion, no empire has reached the heights of influence nor seen that influence ripped away by revolutionaries and anarchists than Cheliax—at least if modern accounts of Chelish history are to be believed. But in today’s Cheliax, ruled by Her Infernal Majestrix, Queen Abrogail II of the Thrice-Damned House of Thrune, the truth is malleable and is often altered to support the reigning regime rather than objective fact. From the outside, Cheliax appears as a failing state, whose territories have slipped through its fingers in the wake of decades of tyrannical rule by devil-worshipping nobles more concerned with their own power than the plight of their people, an empire in decline despite its own claims to the contrary.

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Adventure Marches On

You've created your character. You've tasted that first bite of toil and heroics, earned your first thousand Experience Points, and come back to town a hero. Is it time to hang up the sword, sidle into the local tavern, and get free drinks for years in return for spinning yarns of your youthful adventuring day?

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Countdown to Pathfinder Second Edition

Hello! Allow me to introduce myself. I am Payton Smith, Paizo's new Social Media Producer. While I’ve only been here a few weeks, I’ve been working closely with the creative team to harness the excitement of Pathfinder Second Edition. The drive and passion I've seen to create a version of Pathfinder that is easier to learn, faster to play, and yet endlessly customizable is inspiring. It is now my privilege to share their enthusiasm with all of you on the official Paizo Twitch channel!

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Tales of Lost Omens: The World Expands

Hadizah stood stiffly between two other students—one a degenerate lizardfolk and the other a savage Ekujae elf—as their frail teacher Mawunyo gestured with a staff at the vine-covered towers, graceful arches, and broad towers of the Magaambya, greatest magical academy in all of the Mwangi Expanse, if not the world.

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The Mwangi Expanse

Since we first revealed the map of the Age of Lost Omens campaign setting, with its ten meta-regions and updated names for existing locations, fans have been asking for more information about the Mwangi Expanse. Well today I'm happy to be able to grant that wish, with a brief overview of how the setting's iconic jungle has evolved between editions!

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The Play's the Thing

Last week, we built a character together, so now let's talk about how the game plays!

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The Impossible Lands

When we were first dividing the nations of the Inner Sea region into the ten meta-regions that comprise the Age of Lost Omens campaign setting, one of the first ones we floated as a proof of concept was the Impossible Lands—the nations of Geb, Nex, and Jalmeray, and the magic blasted wilderness of the Mana Wastes. This is the "high magic" part of the core setting, where centuries of warfare between archmages shaped the land and imbued the local culture with magic unlike anywhere else on Golarion.

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Tales of Lost Omens: Bound for Glory

Ishaani walked through the bustling market in the shadow of her efreeti guardian, Shadqadir. "I don't like this. It's dangerous, dealing with... these matters... out in the open." She clutched the scroll case close to her chest, though it was already secured across her body on a leather strap and further sealed with magic.

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Experience Builds Character

Making a character in Pathfinder Second Edition is a process that most experienced gamers will find familiar, but wherever possible, we made changes to make the process more intuitive while still giving you a mountain of choices and flexibility. It all starts with imagining the character you want to play. Maybe you want to be a ferocious dwarven warrior who takes on the aspects of an animal in the heat of battle. Maybe you want to play a wise-cracking elven con artist who grew up on the streets, but now plays at being a member of high society. Or maybe you just want to make a mysterious wizard that loves to blow things up. Pathfinder gives you all the tools to make these characters and countless more! Even if you don't have a complete concept in mind, the steps of character creation in Pathfinder are there to help you make the big decisions and focus in on a character that you are excited to play.

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Tales of Lost Omens: The Sea's Vengeance

Devrin Arlos laughed and eyed the six Chelish warships closing in on them. They'd chased Nightwave all the way from the Arch of Aroden, along the coast of Rahadoum, and through the treacherous Jagged Reach. They weren't likely to give up now. Ahead loomed the Eye of Abendego.

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Paizo Advantage and Subscription Updates

It’s rare for Paizo to make changes to its subscription program, but with the release of Pathfinder Second Edition on the horizon, we’re taking this opportunity to make some improvements. Learn more inside!

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The High Seas

Sit right back and I'll tell a tale, a tale of a frightful trip that started in a tropic port and involved a fateful ship. Tighten your floatation devices, take a deep breath, and let's dive in to our tour of the High Seas meta-region of the Age of Lost Omens campaign setting!

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Iconic Encounter: Fire in the Hold

Pathfinder fans haven't had as much time to get to know the iconic goblin alchemist, Fumbus, as they have our other iconic characters, but that doesn't mean he isn't up to the same shenanigans as the rest of the crew. He might be new to the mix, but he's far from free of high-stakes adventure. We had initially not planned on doing an Iconic Encounter for Fumbus, as he didn't have an Iconic Evolution video to accompany his story, but after the rest of the series was so well received by the community, we decided to complete the set with a piece for all twelve iconics, not just those carrying over from first edition. While this is the last Iconic Encounter for now, we've loved putting them together, and the door's always open for more of them in the future. In the meantime, enjoy this piece of flash fiction from James L. Sutter showing the sorts of stories you can tell with Pathfinder Second Edition, available August 1!

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Iconic Encounter: Hold My Beer

It seems like forever ago that we first introduced the iconic characters who have since come to embody the amazing adventures that make Pathfinder the beloved game it has become. First among them, was the iconic fighter, Valeros, who made his debut just over 12 years ago, on May 7, 2007. Since then, he's gotten a more thorough Meet the Iconics introduction, and featured in three Pathfinder Legends adventure path adaptations and nearly 50 issues of Pathfinder comics, making him one of the most omnipresent iconic characters around. That doesn't mean his story's over, however, as we've got another exciting tale featuring his antics below. Enjoy the following piece of short fiction from James L. Sutter in the next entry into our series of Iconic Encounters—brief vignettes of the iconic characters showcasing the myriad stories you can tell with Pathfinder Second Edition.

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Iconic Evolution: Valeros

We did it! We've made it through all 11 updated iconics who will appear in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook in August! There's a twelfth iconic, of course, who didn't get a video because he hasn't evolved from a previous iteration, but never fear—Fumbus doesn't mind sharing the spotlight with his friends, especially not Valeros, who the goblin alchemist is particularly fond of for his ability to drink so much! Sure, it's ale and not pickle brine or strange alchemical concoctions, but Fumbus appreciates anyone with an appetite (or thirst) that rivals his own. Valeros is one of the iconics who changed the most between editions, switching out his second sword for a shield. Check out this short video of a conversation between artist Wayne Reynolds and Paizo's Publisher and Chief Creative Officer, Erik Mona, for a glimpse into the mind of Pathfinder's most iconic visual artist and the first official look at the new version of Valeros, the iconic fighter!

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Iconic Encounter: Whispers in the Blood

Some spellcasters study tirelessly to master the arcane arts, such as the wizard Ezren, whose understanding of various treatises on magic was at the heart of his Iconic Encounter a few months ago. Others, however, like the iconic sorcerer, Seoni, gain their magical abilities from their blood, whether that's a hint of an extraplanar power or simply legendary ancestors from ages long past. Enjoy the following piece of short fiction from James L. Sutter in the next entry into our series of Iconic Encounters—brief vignettes of the iconic characters showcasing the myriad stories you can tell with Pathfinder Second Edition.

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Iconic Evolution: Seoni

We had some exciting news that dominated this space on Tuesday, and that meant that we had to push our next entry in the Iconic Evolution series back. Luckily, this week's featured iconic is incredibly accommodating. It's that patience and performance under pressure that makes her the de facto leader of the iconic heroes in the Pathfinder comics, after all! In this weekly video series, artist Wayne Reynolds takes Paizo's publisher and chief creative officer, Erik Mona, through his creative process in updating Pathfinder's iconic characters for the game's Second Edition, coming out this August. Check out this short video of their conversation for a glimpse into the mind of Pathfinder's most iconic visual artist and the first official look at the new version of Seoni, the iconic sorcerer!

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Iconic Encounter: One Last Miracle

It takes dedication and resolve to stay true to one's principles, even when doing so is difficult or disadvantageous. No Pathfinder class more exemplifies this truth than the champion, whose sacrifices for her beliefs bring her incredible power, and no character better embodies the spirit of a champion than Seelah, the iconic paladin. Enjoy the following piece of short fiction from James L. Sutter in the next entry into our series of Iconic Encounters—brief vignettes of the iconic characters showcasing the myriad stories you can tell with Pathfinder Second Edition.

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Iconic Evolution: Seelah

It's Tuesday, and that means another Iconic Evolution. This week's entry is a stalwart bastion of goodness, righteousness, and sacrifice, the stoic paladin. In this weekly video series, artist Wayne Reynolds takes Paizo's publisher and chief creative officer, Erik Mona, through his creative process in updating Pathfinder's iconic characters for the game's Second Edition, coming out this August. Check out this short video of their conversation for a glimpse into the mind of Pathfinder's most iconic visual artist and the first official look at the new version of Seelah, the iconic champion!

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Iconic Encounter: Test of the Hidden Peaks

We're hard at work training for the release of Pathfinder Second Edition, a task that requires precision of mind, feats of endurance, and the patience of a coiled viper. The task would be next to impossible if we didn't have such an inspiring example in Sajan, the iconic monk, who strives every day to perfect himself and those around him. Enjoy the following piece of short fiction from James L. Sutter in the next entry into our series of Iconic Encounters—brief vignettes of the iconic characters showcasing the myriad stories you can tell with Pathfinder Second Edition.

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Iconic Evolution: Sajan

As we strive for physical, mental, and spiritual perfection, we take a rest from our training to study this week's Iconic Evolution entry. In this weekly video series, artist Wayne Reynolds takes Paizo's publisher and chief creative officer, Erik Mona, through his creative process in updating Pathfinder's iconic characters for the game's Second Edition, coming out this August. Check out this short video of their conversation for a glimpse into the mind of Pathfinder's most iconic visual artist and the first official look at the new version of Sajan, the iconic monk!

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Oblivion Oath, Nidal, and Year of a Thousand Bites!

Catch up with our past week of streaming from the Paizo studio! To follow along with us LIVE, subscribe on Twitch @officialpaizo where we share Pathfinder and Starfinder behind-the-scenes and lore and host weekly campaigns from our own office and our partners.

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Iconic Encounter: Party Crasher

I had to search extra carefully to locate this week's Iconic Encounter, thanks in no small part to the unmatched stealth of Merisiel, the iconic rogue! Enjoy the following piece of short fiction from James L. Sutter in the next entry into our series of Iconic Encounters—brief vignettes of the iconic characters showcasing the myriad stories you can tell with Pathfinder Second Edition.

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Iconic Evolution: Merisiel

STAB! That's a rogue for you, am I right? Sneaking up on unsuspecting victims and picking their pockets or poking holes in them is what they do. Just be glad today's special sneak attack was just a new Iconic Evolution video! In this weekly video series, artist Wayne Reynolds takes Paizo's publisher and chief creative officer, Erik Mona, through his creative process in updating Pathfinder's iconic characters for the game's Second Edition, coming out this August. Check out this short video of their conversation for a glimpse into the mind of Pathfinder's most iconic visual artist and the first official look at the new version of Merisiel, the iconic elf rogue!

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New on YouTube: The First Episode of Oblivion Oath and More!

What's new on our YouTube channel this week? Our live-play of Pathfinder Second Edition kicked off with episode 1! Learn about demons and elves on Golarion! Find out what didn't make it into the Starfinder Beginner Box! Plus a sit down with Crystal Frasier, author of Soldiers of Brass.

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Iconic Encounter: The Green Within

We're now over a month into our Iconic Encounters web series, so it's only natural that we'd get to Lini, the iconic gnome druid, sooner rather than later. This week's piece of flash fiction from James L. Sutter finds the intrepid adventurer alone in the Darklands with only her faithful companion, Droogami, to aid her in battling a sinister, fleshwarped foe.

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Iconic Evolution: Lini

We’re at the halfway through our Iconic Evolutions series, so it’s fitting that we’re looking at one of the half-sized iconics this week. In this weekly video series, artist Wayne Reynolds takes Paizo's publisher and chief creative officer, Erik Mona, through his creative process in updating Pathfinder’s iconic characters for the game’s Second Edition, coming out this August. Check out this short video of their conversation for a glimpse into the mind of Pathfinder's most iconic visual artist and the first official look at the new version of Lini, the iconic gnome druid!

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Tags: Druids Iconic Evolutions Iconics Lini Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Pathfinder Second Edition Wayne Reynolds

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Paizo’s YouTube Week in Review

Pathfinder Friday: The History of Golarion's Ages! Starfinder Wednesday: When Starfinder Was Still Pathfinder!

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Iconic Encounter: Tough Crowd

An adventuring party is like a rock band, each member bringing his or her own unique sound to the collective whole. A champion or fighter may stand in front, her wailing axe cutting a line through the crowd. A cleric or wizard might hide off to the side, out of the spotlight, but filling the room with atmospheric effects, a veritable wall of sound. A witty rogue may dart about the stage with precise choreography, delivering pointed accents to her allies' riffs. But it's the bard that ties the entire ensemble together, the drummer who keeps everyone on the beat, making each of his bandmates' parts shine. Lem, the iconic bard, is Pathfinder's Ringo, and his friends certainly get by with a little of his help!

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Iconic Evolution: Lem

No Iconic Evolution this week, folks! Nah, that's just some April foolin' a day late. No class is better at playing the fool or pointing out others' foolishness than the bard, so you'd better tune your flutes and put on your dancing shoes (halflings excluded, of course). In this weekly video series, artist Wayne Reynolds takes Paizo's publisher and chief creative officer, Erik Mona, through his creative process in updating Pathfinder's iconic characters for the game's Second Edition, coming out this August. Check out this short video of their conversation for a glimpse into the mind of Pathfinder's most iconic visual artist and the first official look at the new version of Lem, the iconic halfling bard!

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The Oblivion Oath Begins!

Four unlikely heroes set sail from the port of Vellumis aboard the Sleepy Sea Cat, a slow-moving barge sailing the waters of Lake Encarthan. Packed with travelers and cargo, Captain Heliana Ironeye assures everyone of a smooth journey north to Ustalav before turning south and making for the elven port of Greengold, but tensions aboard remain high. Terrifying rumors out of the west, combined with fires throughout the city have set folk on edge, and the barge contains more than a few eager to put Lastwall behind them. In the case of our heroes, that could not be more true...

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Around the World in 32 Pages

Greetings! I've recently acquired a ticket to travel all of Golarion in the form of Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes of Golarion. Once you pick up this book from your local gaming store in digital format from Paizo.com, you'll be able to see the wonder of great heroes from around the world. If that doesn't excite you, let me give you a tour!

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Iconic Encounter: To the Last Breath

Glory to the Dawnflower! Today, Sarenrae answered the prayers of fans of Kyra, the iconic cleric! Enjoy the following piece of short fiction from James L. Sutter in the next entry into our series of Iconic Encounters—brief vignettes of the iconic characters showcasing the myriad stories you can tell with Pathfinder Second Edition.

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Iconic Evolution: Kyra

It's Tuesday, and that means it's time for our weekly Iconic Evolution! In this weekly video series, artist Wayne Reynolds takes Paizo's publisher and chief creative officer, Erik Mona, through his creative process in updating Pathfinder's iconic characters for the game's Second Edition, coming out this August. Check out this short video of their conversation for a glimpse into the mind of Pathfinder's most iconic visual artist and the first official look at the new version of Kyra, the iconic cleric!

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Iconic Encounter: One by One

Pathfinder fans have been tracking Harsk, the iconic ranger, for years now, but he's finally revealed himself and he's armed for bear! Enjoy the following piece of short fiction from James L. Sutter in the next entry into our series of Iconic Encounters—brief vignettes of the iconic characters showcasing the myriad stories you can tell with Pathfinder Second Edition.

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Iconic Evolution: Harsk

They say repeating something three times makes it a habit, so I guess we've established a steady routine for Iconic Evolutions! In this weekly video series, artist Wayne Reynolds takes Paizo's publisher and chief creative officer, Erik Mona, through his creative process in updating Pathfinder's iconic characters for the game's Second Edition, coming out this August. Check out this short video of their conversation for a glimpse into the mind of Pathfinder's most iconic visual artist and the first official look at the new version of Harsk, the iconic dwarf ranger!

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Tags: Harsk Iconic Evolutions Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Pathfinder Second Edition Rangers Wayne Reynolds

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Iconic Encounter: Puzzle Box

Pathfinder scholars are already familiar with Ezren, the iconic wizard, but even old dogs occasionally show off new tricks! Enjoy the following piece of short fiction from James L. Sutter in the next entry into our series of Iconic Encounters—brief vignettes of the iconic characters showcasing the myriad stories you can tell with Pathfinder Second Edition.

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Iconic Evolution: Ezren

Last week we launched Iconic Evolutions, a video series in which artist Wayne Reynolds takes Paizo's publisher and chief creative officer Erik Mona through his creative process in updating Pathfinder’s iconic characters for the game's Second Edition, coming out this August. Check out this short video of their conversation for a glimpse into the mind of Pathfinder's most iconic visual artist and the first official look at the new version of Ezren, the iconic wizard!

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Iconic Evolution: Amiri

It's been 12 years since famed artist Wayne Reynolds designed the core iconic characters we've all come to know and love. When we knew a second edition was on the horizon, we asked him to update them for the new era of Pathfinder. Last summer, Paizo's publisher and chief creative officer Erik Mona met with Wayne at Paizo's Gen Con booth to discuss his creative process. Check out this short video of their conversation for a glimpse into the mind of Pathfinder's most iconic visual artist and the first official look at the iconic barbarian, Amiri!

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Meet the Iconics: Fumbus

Born in Isger's Chitterwood, Fumbus's early life was practically idyllic, at least by goblin standards. The Chitterwood has been largely left to the goblins since the end of the Goblinblood Wars nearly twenty years ago, its goblin inhabitants now free of the militant influence of their hobgoblin cousins, most of whom were eradicated or driven out of Isger at the closing of the war.

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Take a Ride on the Wild Side!

G'day! We've just unleashed Pathfinder Player Companion: Wilderness Origins and if you follow me, we can take a look at this beautiful volume as it hits bookshelves and the digital downloads of paizo.com as a PDF. Now be careful as we take a peek inside!

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We Are Forsaken

Some of the exciting world-building I was able to tackle in the deluxe adventure Pathfinder Module: Cradle of Night revolves around vanished gods. Few mortals know that the Shadow Plane once had their own pantheon of wicked demigods, akin to the Eldest of the First World. Called the Forsaken, these demigods sought to expand their power and influence, but all of them mysteriously vanished at once, long ago.

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In the Shadowed Depths of the Earth

It's no secret I love adventures first and foremost, and the upcoming Pathfinder Module: Cradle of Night is one of the highlights of my first year at Paizo. This adventure was crafted by several of Paizo's veteran contributors: James Jacobs, Wes Schneider, Neil Spicer, and Greg Vaughan. Don't let the multiple authors fool you into thinking this is a collection of stories—it's a single super-adventure with a stunning beginning and a desperate urgency all the way to the end. Cradle of Night was a long time coming, but it's all the better for it, and now it's here!

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Collect Your Destiny

"Geek" is a word with myriad definitions, but for me, those definitions all have to do with passion. In many cases, this passion manifests in the form of a collection of some sort, and boy, do I have a long list of collections! Just among the few freelancers and members of the staff I polled (and some I didn't but whose collecting proclivities I know), we at Paizo collect nerd stuff that runs the gamut: action figures, agates, detergents, Doctor Who autographs, foreign currency, occult texts, planchettes, port wines, Star Wars memorabilia, stuffed animals, and tarot cards, just to name a few. But not a numismatist among them?! For shame!

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Build Them Up, Break Them Down!

Constructs have been a staple of fantasy stories for decades and it's no surprise that they are just as prevalent in the world of Golarion. These creatures include the likes of simple clockwork familiars all the way to the colossi, towering constructs the size of entire keeps. Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Construct Handbook takes a look at these created creatures and provides new options for both players and GMs that wish to build up the presence of constructs in their adventures.

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World of Niobe

A while back, our friends at Stranger Comics, creators of the Niobe comic, launched a Kickstarter that had a reward level that included a limited-edition Pathfinder book that brought the world of Niobe into the Pathfinder rules, allowing fans of the comic and character to play within the fantasy world of Asunda. They recently launched a second Kickstarter, with the finished Pathfinder book including exclusive new art. I sat down with Sebastian A. Jones, Niobe's creator, and talked about roleplaying games and their inspiration on the world of Asunda.

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Big Pathfinder/Starfinder Reference Document News!

As a fan and a community advocate, you grow attachments to things you wouldn't have ever imagined you would. One of the projects I've gotten the opportunity to make my mark on at Paizo is neatly nestled into that fan/community/design challenge niche: the Pathfinder Reference Document. As it became obvious in this last year of architecting and laying out the plans for the future of paizo.com, and as the time increased between that "last updated" date and our resources began to shift course, a problem arose that we needed to solve: how do we provide our community a free, up-to-date online version of the rules for our games? Well, I finally get to share the answer with you all!

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Art of the Planes

In previous blogs, we've talked about some of the lore and game content in Pathfinder RPG Planar Adventures, but since so many people have the book in their hands already and the forums are abuzz of what folks are discovering within, for this blog I wanted to show off some of the art.

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Monsters from Beyond

Around here it's no secret that I like monsters. Some could say that monsters are one of the biggest reasons I have a desk in this office. Monsters are not only foes for player characters to fight in Pathfinder, they also help tell stories, particularly stories beyond mortal ability or understanding.

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Divine Intervention

When talking about the planes, you can't skip talking about the planes' most powerful entities. So we're going to chat about the gods for a little bit.

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Infused With the Planes

In a previous blog, I spoke generally about some of number of player-facing rules elements found in Pathfinder RPG Planar Adventures, giving rough numbers of different kinds of new mechanics for your characters.

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Postcards From The Planes

Cities rise and fall alongside the civilizations that build them; some falling into ruin, some serving as the foundation for new settlements, and some weathering the test of time. Among the nations of humanity, some cities stretch back over 5,000 years of unbroken history, such as Taldor's opulent capital Oppara. To others who live upon Golarion, even this ancient metropolis might seem young, as the elves have civilizations that date back before Earthfall and dragons once ruled in the lands of Tian Xia while humanity was still in its infancy. And eons before even these legendary cities had the first stone placed for their foundations, there were cities among the planes that had already existed for tens of thousands of years. To venture into a planar city is to become part of a living, breathing community that has outlived the greatest of empires on Golarion—and perhaps were even founded before any living creature graced the surface of that world.

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Tags: Biagio d’Alessandro Federico Musetti Mary Jane Pajaron Pathfinder Campaign Setting Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

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20180605-Preview

Todd's Top Five

I'm Todd Stewart, that freelancer who habitually begs for planar content, aka that protean and daemon person who neither admits nor denies to actually being a glamorous neutral evil fiend.

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Wander The Planes!

There is more to the universe than where most adventurers tread. Beyond the Material Plane lies countless worlds and near infinite planes of reality, where a countless variety of beings play out their lives, many indebted to the cosmic forces of their home plane.

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More Pathfinder Content on Fantasy Grounds

Bestiary 3 is now available for Fantasy Grounds! It contains all 300+ monsters from Bestiary 3, with tokens, stats, images and full descriptions available for reference and use within the Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop. Special abilities and spells have been embedded within each monster to keep everything at your fingertips and to keep the focus on the combat and roleplaying that your players love. Since several of the races include details for playable races, we've included a separate Bestiary 3 Player Version that you can share with your players to allow them to build monstrous characters like the canny ratfolk, genie-blooded sulis and more.

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These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things (of 2017)

This past year has been a big wild ride. We launched Starfinder to great success, had a busy Gen Con watching the book fly off the shelves, and put out some amazing books that aren't set in space. We've even had some changes in our line-up, with changing job titles and responsibilities that helped a number of us take a step up. 2017 has been full of excitement (and a little chaos, but what creative endeavor doesn't have at least a little chaos?). It's been a busy year for everyone here at Paizo, and I wanted to give the developers and designers a chance to talk about some of the projects they've worked on this year that they've enjoyed working on the most. Being a creator can be rough sometimes, and it's important to feel pride about the things you've helped make.

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Tags: Adventure Card Guild Ironfang Invasion Organized Play Paizo Pathfinder Adventure Path Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Pathfinder Society Ruins of Azlant Starfinder Starfinder Adventure Path Starfinder Society

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Wilderness

Art of the Wild

Now that Ultimate Wilderness is out in the wild, there have been plenty of discussions about what's in the book. Since words only go so far, I wanted to take this opportunity to show off some of the book's art. Feast your eyes on the bounties of nature.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Wilderness

It's a Dangerous World

Sure, we can probably all name adventures named after their big, spooky destination—anything from Hall of the Flesh Eaters to Crypt of the Everflame to Ice Tomb of the Giant Queen. Yet for all the gutsy action that takes place in these fanes of dark deities and towers of trash-talking tyrants, a big part of adventuring isn't about where you're going but how you got there. That means crossing the wilderness, the great nameless expanses that for many of us boil down to random encounters and conveniently forgetting to track rations.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Wilderness

From the Wilderness to Your Table

Looking to play a character who thrives in the wild? Not in the mood for playing another city-slicker? Let me tell you a bit more about what we have in store for you in the upcoming Ultimate Wilderness. Stephen showed off the shifter in Tuesday's blog, and talked a bit about two of the three featured races: ghorans and vine leshys. Let's take a closer look at all three of these races.

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Force of Nature

Since people starting telling stories around the very first campfires, there have been heroes and villains who could shuffle off the coil of humanity in favor for something a little more wild, more primal, and more powerful. While shapechangers are nothing new in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for the upcoming Ultimate Wilderness, we wanted to present a new take on the old trope—the shifter.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Wilderness

Meet the Iconics—Zova

Zova's parents saw it coming, of course, well before she made clear her intention to travel the world and seek its wonders. They worried for her safety, but they also knew that of all their children, Zova's passion for life, her respect for the natural world, her keen perception, and her almost uncanny knack for getting the upper hand in a fight made her the best suited to leave the proverbial nest. Despite her awkward place in the clan, she still loved her family and adored her home, and promised to return as often as she could—and to bring stories of marvels from her adventures when she did.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Book of the Damned (PFRPG)

Art of the Damned!

In previous blogs about Pathfinder RPG Book of the Damned, I went over some of the rules elements in the book as well as some of the lore regarding the fiends that work against the actions of mortals. Today I want to share a few pieces of the gorgeous art found in this book. Enjoy—at your own risk!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Book of the Damned (PFRPG)

Take a Look, It's in a Book—Of The Damned!

Many subscribers already have Pathfinder RPG Book of the Damned in their hands, but I'm not going to let them have all the fun talking about what's in this book. Last week I talked a bit about some of the rules in Book of the Damned, and today I'm here to talk about some of the lore and flavor.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Book of the Damned (PFRPG)

With a Little Help From My Fiends

With a thirst for the fiendish, subscribers have begun digging their claws into Pathfinder RPG Book of the Damned. What vile and wicked things might they find within its covers?

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Stay Alert, Holy Plasma Cannons Ahead!

PaizoCon manages to land on near-perfect holiday weekends with bright and glorious sunshine making the first signs of summer at the forefront of minds in the Pacific Northwest. And as we all know, that means that convention season has begun—with local cons, big ones, and the Best 4 Days in Gaming (Gen Con) looming around the corner! I'm taking a few minutes here at the nice and quiet (and empty) Paizo offices to give those of you who didn't make it out the PaizoCon 2017 Preview Banquet last night a glimpse of some of the fun you can expect this summer (and beyond!).

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Adventurer's Guide (PFRPG)

PaizoCon Begins in... Less Than 24 Hours!

As I scramble to get my games ready for PaizoCon, I realized that I hadn't yet prepared a blog for Adventurer's Guide for today. I suspect I'll be talking quite a bit about the book in seminars and to folks for the next few days, but in the meantime, let me just show off a few more pieces of art that I particularly like... I'll have one more post next week with a bit more to say about how to integrate Adventurer's Guide into your game if all goes according to plan as well. In the meantime... enjoy the pictures!

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Tags: Adventurer's Guide Alexandre Chaudret Geraud Soulie Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Willian Liu

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Adventurer's Guide: Behind the Scenes

We've been pretty vocal (I hope!) about one of the big changes to the rulebook line with the introduction of significant amounts of world content from Golarion in the upcoming Adventurer's Guide. In fact, we've been relaxing the "world-neutral" element of the rulebook line for some time, as far back as Occult Adventures where we abandoned the generic names for planes like the Boneyard and just used the Golarion/Great Beyond names in there. By lifting this self-imposed restriction, we're not fundamentally changing the type of content we're putting in rulebooks, but it does allow us to make our own rulebooks work even better with our own campaign setting.

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Organizations of the Adventurer's Guide

As opposed to the hardcovers before (Bestiary 6) and after (Book of the Damned), the Adventurer's Guide is very much a product for players. The central idea of this book is to focus on several of the more famous (or infamous) organizations active in the Inner Sea region of Golarion. This book is not intended to present these organizations as things your characters can join (we've covered that topic before in numerous ways, after all) but instead to use these groups as themes for the presentation of new archetypes, prestige classes, magic items, spells, feats, and other player options for your characters to take. In effect, these groups serve as your characters' adventuring guides, in that once you become affiliated with them, they can guide your character into new specializations, talents, and powers.

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Tags: Adventurer's Guide Florian Stitz Pathfinder Roleplaying Game William O'Brien Willian Liu

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Pathfinder Goes Virtual... Table Top!

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is now available on Fantasy Grounds Virtual Table Top! Fantasy Grounds is rolling out their VTT platform for Pathfinder today. The initial lineup includes the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, Bestiary, Advanced Player's Guide, Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition, and the first three volumes of the Kingmaker Adventure Path. Support for more will follow very soon.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 6 (PFRPG)

Literary Monsters of Bestiary 6

For this last Bestiary 6 post (the book officially released yesterday, so I can't really call it a preview post!), I want to build upon last week's post, where I talked a bit about monsters from mythological sources. In this case, since these creatures aren't protected by copyright law and aren't the intellectual property of content creators, the field is wide open—we can create specific creatures based on these things in the same way we can stat up things like donkeys and rats. But there's another category of inspiration that we often draw upon that's a bit trickier—literary sources.

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Tags: Bestiary 6 Florian Stitz Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Rafael Rivera Will O'Brien

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It's Dangerous to Go Alone!

On the heels this month's sixth Bestiary volume comes the Pathfinder RPG Adventurer's Guide! Being an adventurer comes with it's own set of perilous challenges, but with the help of allies, a well-supplied pack, and an alliance with one of Golarion's powerful organizations, your character can go far. Until we begin exploring the finer details of the Adventurer's Guide on the blog over the next few weeks, take a look at the just-revealed final cover, featuring prolific characters from the Pathfinder campaign setting.

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Mythological Monsters of Bestiary 6

Now that Bestiary 6 is making the rounds and folks have had a chance to get over the shock of seeing archdevils and kaiju and qlippoth lords and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse and empyreal lords and all sorts of other powerful creatures like the ones we spoke of last week, I'd like to thank humanity as a whole for being such an endless font of inspiration. We've been creating monsters to fill our stories and myths since we first started telling stories and weaving myths, and over the thousands and thousands of years humanity's been around, well, that's a lot of time to create a lot of monsters!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 6 (PFRPG)

Powerful Monsters

Bestiary 6 is slithering out into the world, but even though the book is out there, I've still got a few more things to chat about the contents. Going forward, we'll continue to sow off some art from the book but these posts will be more "behind the scenes" than "monster previews."

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 6 (PFRPG)

Dragons of Bestiary 6

It should come as no surprise that, in Bestiary 6, when you turn to the "D" section, you'll see some welcome and familiar reptilian shapes. I'm talking about dinosaurs of course. Who doesn't love dinosaurs?

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Blights of Bestiary 6

So here's a secret about the text we create for the back cover of our books and the blurbs that go on our website and catalogs. They're usually done at the last minute by a developer who's been working on the product possibly for many months. In my case, that means I get a chance, finally, to play around with some writing of my own, even if it's only for a few paragraphs. When I wrote the blurb for Bestiary 6, I mentioned something called "strangely sentient oozes," because of the new category of ooze I came up with to include in the book. I didn't want to reveal their name or theme yet (that's for this blog post... read on for more!), but I did want to mention them in some way that felt nice to read and fun to write. And so I came up with the phrase "strangely sentient oozes," because I enjoyed the sound of the phrase; its consonance makes you hiss when you read it, which evokes in the mind (in theory) imagery of something slithering and sliding sloppily in subterranean sloughs or sepulchral sewers. See? I wasn't trying to give folks hints as to a new system of calculating intelligence for ooze monsters or trying to make folks deduce the nature of how a primordial ooze might become self-aware. It wasn't a clue as much as it was an attempt at lyricism.

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Demigods of Bestiary 6

Demigods of Bestiary 6 Thursday, March 23, 2017 With the reveal of Pathfinder RPG: Bestiary 6's fiendishly ferocious cover last week, the time is finally right to start looking INSIDE of this book... or should I say the STARS are right? Because yes indeed we've got three more of Lovecraft's Great Old Ones appearing in this book. In fact, one of the recurring themes you'll notice right away (it's right there on the cover) is that we're including more statistics for demigods in Bestiary 6...
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Tags: Bestiary 6 David Melvin Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Will O'Brien William Liu

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 6 (PFRPG)

Keep One Eye Open, There's Monsters Out There!

In a few weeks time, a new tome of monsters begins making its way to game and book stores, and into the hands of GMs! Until then, take a look at the amazingly wicked cover illustrated by Wayne Reynolds for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 6 and stay tuned for previews, starting next week!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 6 (PFRPG)

Onward To Adventure!

February has the tendency to sneak up on you when you least expect it, and fly right by! This first month-and-a-bit of 2017 has been chock full of exciting projects and new announcements, including our latest Humble Bundle initiative in partnership with Dynamite and our lineup of Starfinder products launching at Gen Con 2017. Since it's been a minute (or two... possibly three) since we've given folks an update on our product schedule, let's take a look at what the next few months have in store.

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Tags: Bestiary 6 Jim Pavelec Jorge Fares Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Roberto Pitturru Starfinder William Liu

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 6 (PFRPG)

That Notorious Haunter of the Holidays

Krampus has nabbed the Publisher Preview! Stay tuned for updates on miniatures and more after the holidays!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Villain Codex (PFRPG)

A Riddle Wrapped in Mystery

Villain Codex is here! This week we're unveiling some of the hidden secrets of the last five remaining enigmatic organizations. Each one has its own mysteries and hidden agendas, either hiding in the shadows or in plain sight beneath another facade.

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Tags: Bogdan Rezunenko Daniel Lopez Florian Stitz Gintas Galvanauskas Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ramon Puasa Jr. Villain Codex

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Villain Codex (PFRPG)

I'm a Man of Wealth and Taste

Last time we took a look at villains of the natural world, with an in-depth look at Nature's Scourge. This week we're headed back to civilization to shine a light on the corruption and excesses that make villains like Nature's Scourge want to just burn the whole thing down.

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Tags: Dmitri Sirenko Florian Stitz Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ramon Puasa Jr. Subroto Bhaumik Tim Kings-Lynne Villain Codex

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Villain Codex (PFRPG)

Wild Things

Last week we took a look at some magical foes from the pages of the upcoming Villain Codex, with an in-depth look at the Arcane Society. This week we're headed into the wilderness to explore some of the villains who operate on the fringes of society!

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Tags: Anastasia Ovchinnikova Gintas Galvanauskas Mark Molnar Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Shen Fei Villain Codex Yan Kyohara

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Villain Codex (PFRPG)

Villains Everywhere!

Pathfinder RPG: Villain Codex is double-dealing, backstabbing, and betraying its way into your hands next month! The book contains 20 different villainous organizations, and we're going to reveal five of those organizations each week, with themes of mystical villains, wilderness villains, civilized villains, and enigmatic villains.

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Tags: Damien Mammoliti Jose Parodi Kent Hamilton Matt Forsyth Nemaja Stankovic Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Villain Codex

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Horror Adventures

Horrifically Great Inspiration

Any creator will tell you that inspiration comes from everywhere, but for a book like Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Horror Adventures, those inspirations are very specific—and we made a list for you!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Horror Adventures

Unleashing Horror Adventures

At PaizoCon's "Horror in RPGs" seminars, in products like Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Rule of Fear, and pretty much wherever else I'm given the chance, I've talked quite a bit about how to run unsettling Pathfinder games(—you're all coming to our Horror in Pathfinder event at Gen Con, right?). In writing Chapter 6 of Pathfinder RPG: Horror Adventures, Running Horror Adventures (and in the book's section on "Playing Horror a Hero"), I've compiled some of my creepiest techniques and gaming philosophies, sharing them to help all you GMs out there make your Pathfinder games truly frightening.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Horror Adventures

Building Horror

New rules for a more nuanced fear track with seven levels, as well as for sanity and madness, allow your group to play around with the psychological consequences of the terrible events that are all too common in a horror game. The fear track has a split between lesser fear (which can cause increasing weakness but doesn't make you lose control of your character) and greater fear (where your character is so frightened that they can't help but act on it). Sanity is a sort of mental pool of hit points, and losing too much at once exposes you to a new madness (of increasing severity if your current sanity is below half your maximum). Of course, even if you lose sanity a little at a time, losing all your sanity causes you to completely lose your grip on reality.

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Mourning Rite

Earlier this week, we learned of a tragic loss to not only the Pathfinder community, but the gaming community as a whole.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Horror Adventures

The Monster Within

In just a few weeks, Pathfinder RPG Horror Adventures will be launching at Gen Con 2016 and landing on store shelves! And while the GM is the one who sets a lot of the atmosphere in a horror game, each player and character contributes to the ambience—what better way to do that than to partake in horror-themed character options? In this blog, I'll give you all a preview of the character options within this book.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Horror Adventures

Got Those Summertime, Those Summertime Adventures

Summer has arrived, convention season is at full-tilt, and in just a few short weeks Paizo staffers and gamers from all over will be heading to Gen Con 2016 in sunny Indianapolis! The show is always highly anticipated both because it's a great opportunity to get to see masses of gamers all together in one place to celebrate their hobby, and because new and exciting Paizo releases tend to drop at the show. But before we load up the trucks and ship off, let's take a look at what's coming out and what we've announced since last time we spoke.

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Tags: Caio Maciel Monteiro Chris Knight Dave Allsop Gen Con Gen Con 2016 Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Rudy Siswanto Tomasz Chistowski

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Horror Adventures

A Terrible Fate Awaits You in Horror Adventures

Nothing can prepare your characters for the nightmares that will be unleashed with Horror Adventures, set to release in just under two months. In the following weeks we will be looking inside this terrifying tome, giving you just a glimpse at the madness.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Horror Adventures

Pulling Back the Curtain—PaizoCon 2016 Announcements!

Last night's PaizoCon Preview Banquet was an amazing event, full of exciting new reveals and announcements, including the unveiling of Paizo's next roleplaying game project, Starfinder, the next hardcover volumes of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, and where Pathfinders will be headed next in Pathfinder Adventure Path and Pathfinder Society organized play. I cannot stress enough how fun and palpable the excitement is during the Banquet, and how cool it is to see folks react in person. But, if you didn't make it out to the show, read on!

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Pathfinder Adventure Path: Curse of the Crimson Throne (PFRPG)

The Queen Returns—New Pathfinder Products Announced!

All around the Paizo office the return of the sun and leaves and greenery are a reminder of upcoming trips and conventions (including PaizoCon 2016, May 27-30!) ahead this spring and summer. This time of the year is one that the Paizo staff, fans, and our community really look forward to—getting to meet many of you face-to-face, game together, and the announcements of Pathfinder products to come that we've been keeping under our hats!

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Tags: Conventions Curse of the Crimson Throne PaizoCon Pathfinder Adventure Path Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Wayne Reynolds

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Intrigue (PFRPG)

War of the Words

As a GM, one of the things I love about the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is that it allows you to play out any story you can imagine in the fantasy world within. But when those stories have fewer physical combats and more scheming, infiltration, persuasion, and other types of intrigue, the rules don’t have your back as solidly as they do for combat, so a GM, like me, who ran lots of those plots had to do a lot of improvisation. In Ultimate Intrigue, we present both subsystems and advice for players and GMs alike to sink their teeth into an intrigue game and all sorts of fun challenges they might find therein.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Intrigue (PFRPG)

Tools of Mischief

The Brilliant Planner feat lets you make a fund that you can use to pull out the item or resource you need in a particular situation, which can be pretty useful in clutch situations. The fighter gains several new combat feats that enhance his bravery (both against all mind-affecting effects and against social attacks like feint and demoralize) and even allow him to share his bravery with nearby allies. Legendary influence lets mediums choose one feat for each legend and accept influence to gain the feat they chose when they channel that legend (so you can pick things that only help you with one legend, like Selective Channel for hierophant, which has channel, Arcane Armor Training for archmage, and so on). Feats like Subtle Enchantments are great for manipulating others (in this case, it makes it harder to notice the target is enchanted with Sense Motive and gives a 50% that a target who succeeds on the save doesn't notice it had to make a Will save). The three new styles are Fox Style, which lets high-Int characters master feinting, dirty tricks, and the like, Owl Style allows martial characters to use their fighting skill to maneuver around the battlefield fluidly, and Street Style lets urban characters create combo attacks using the environment around them. And that's just a few of the feats you'll find in the book!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Intrigue (PFRPG)

The Most Intriguing Classes

The new class in Ultimate Intrigue is the vigilante. An upstanding member of society by day and adventurer by night, the vigilante has two different identities which can even have different alignments. Unless someone discovers that the two identities are the same, divinations like scrying only work when the vigilante is in the form the diviner is trying to scry. Each vigilante chooses to be either a stalker, focusing on sneaking up on foes and punishing them before the foe notices the stalker is there, or the avenger, focusing on giving foes a more straightforward beatdown and gaining a full base attack bonus. The vigilante class is extremely modular, with a talent option at every level, switching off between social talents that give him an edge in social situations and other intrigue hijinks out of combat, and vigilante talents, which generally provide powerful combat options that he can use in either identity, though it might give him away if people see him using them in his social identity.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Intrigue (PFRPG)

Meet the Iconics—Aric

Introducing Ultimate Intrigue's newest iconic character, Aric the vigilante. Be sure you also meet the Red Raven, his masked guise and alter ego.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Intrigue (PFRPG)

Meet the Iconics—The Red Raven

Ho there, stranger! If you're lookin' for shelter on a cold night like tonight, you could do a lot better than that cursed Ledinthorp estate you were prowling 'round. Come 'long. My daughters married and moved out ages ago—means we got a spare bed for a traveler who doesn't know how to stay out of trouble when there're Gray Gardeners keeping the peace.

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"Spooky? Do You Think I'm Spooky?" The Year in Review

Another year is in the bag, and with it, thousands of pages of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game content, ranging from new a whole new range of psychic classes in Occult Adventures to facing off against the demons of the Abyss in Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Wrath of the Righteous! Here's a few highlights from 2015.

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Tags: Dave Allsop Donald Crank Emiliano Petrozzi Géraude Soulié Jaime Martinez Kiki Moch Rozky Nikolai Ostertag Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Pathfinder Adventure Path Pathfinder Campaign Setting Pathfinder Module Pathfinder Player Companion Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Tom Babbey

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 5 (OGL)

Do You Think Flattery Will Keep You Alive?

Only one creature could be the winner in this Bestiary 5 throwdown, and with it, five winners of our latest Pathfinder Roleplaying Game hardcover!

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Tags: Ben Wootten Bestiary 5 Community Contests Jorge Fares Kent Hamilton Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Wayne England

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 5 (OGL)

You Only Die Twice!

This is it folks—the final matchup round for our Bestiary 5 previews, and your final chance to get in your votes and a chance to win a copy of Bestiary 5!

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Tags: Ben Wootten Bestiary 5 Community Contests Dave Allsop Jim Nelson Jose Parodi Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Wayne England

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 5 (OGL)

Remember Remember, It's Bestiary 5 This November!

With the Round 2 votes in, we're down to the final four in our Bestiary 5 previews!

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Tags: Alexandru Sabo Ben Wootten Bestiary 5 Contests Damien Mammoliti Daniel López Dave Allsop Jose Parodi Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Tomasz Chistowski

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 5 (OGL)

Let (Im)mortal Combat Continue!

We've got the results in from Round 1, and we're ready to show off Round 2 of our Bestiary 5 previews—not to mention a chance for you to win a copy of Bestiary 5!

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Tags: Aleksey Bayura Ben Wootten Bestiary 5 Bryan Sola Brynn Metheney Community Contests Ertaç Altınöz Jose Parodi Joshua Meehan Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subroto Bhaumik Tomasz Chistowski

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Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Realms (PFRPG)

Salutations, Spring!

As "predicted" in our last product update blog, fall has arrived! In fact, as I'm typing this, I'm wearing my first oversized sweater of the season and looking at decidedly orange leaves against the grey and rain filled sky. This is certainly setting the mood for an excellent Halloween night this Saturday, and what better to set the scene than going over some the tricks and treats we've released and have to look forward to in the coming months?

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 5 (OGL)

It's a Fight to the Finish!

Bestiary 5 is creeping, crawling, slithering, and sneaking its way to you soon—it's time for some previews! But we're gonna shake things up a bit, and give you the opportunity to choose what you want to see, not to mention a chance to win a signed copy of Bestiary 5 when it releases!

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Tags: Alexandru Sabo Bestiary 5 Community Contests Daniel Lopez Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Rogier van de Beek

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3 (OGL)

Halloween Monster Movie Playlist

For those of you that are big fans of monsters like me, paging through a bestiary is always a delight. While we pull many of our devious and dangerous creatures from folklore, we also draw from pop culture from time to time. Many of us here are fond of horror movies (and monster movies), and it's no small surprise that a number of our monsters are inspired by the movies we so love.

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Tags: David Melvin Eric Belisle Halloween Joshua Meehan Monsters Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ryan Portillo

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Pathfinder Adventure Path: Hell's Rebels Player's Guide (PFRPG) PDF

Are You Here for the Free Swag?

When someone offers you gaming material for free, you say "YES!" Here's a host of free gaming material, perfect for anybody just getting started in the world of Pathfinder!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide (OGL)

A New Advanced Class Guide!

Last summer saw the release of the Advanced Class Guide, a mighty tome filled with 10 brand-new classes, and a bevvy of new rules to support them. Many of you probably noticed that the book had a small problem with the cover, using the Adventure Path logo instead of the usual Roleplaying Game logo.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Combat (OGL)

FAQ on Errata

As many of you are probably well aware, we have had a number of update documents drop in the past few weeks, correcting a wide array of issues with some of our rulebooks. Seeing that some of these have caused some controversy amongst players and GMs alike, I thought I would take a moment to talk about the process of creating these documents and give you all some insight on how we decide on the changes made to the game.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures (OGL)

Occult of Indy

Many of us are heading out to Indy next week for Gen Con 2015. In the Paizo booth there will be a huge display made from Pathfinder RPG books, and the latest of them's going to be Occult Adventures. Here's a last preview at the fantastic art before it officially releases on July 29! See you in Indy!

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Tags: Caio Maciel Monteiro Estra Federico Musetti Iconics Igor Grechanyi Investigators Mariusz Gandzel Mavaro Meligaster Merisiel Mesmerists Occultists Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Quinn Rogues Spiritualists Subroto Bhaumik Wallpapers Wayne Reynolds

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures (OGL)

Occult Adventures Class Preview: The Kineticist

The kineticist is the odd girl out in Occult Adventures. All the other occult classes are spontaneous spellcasters, but the kineticist isn't a spellcaster. Instead the power of the elements surges through her, and she controls the fundamental building blocks of reality in her own way, using her own body as a conduit to unleash and shape raw bursts of power and to assist her in every aspect of her adventuring career. The kineticist class lets you play characters with strong elemental themes, just like those from all sorts of books, TV shows, movies, and other popular media. She can infuse both form (to change the shape and the delivery mechanism for her blasts) and substance (to add extra effects to her blast), making her blasts an extremely versatile weapon indeed in the hands of an experienced kineticist. The kineticist needs the Constitution to withstand those energies and the Dexterity to shape them, which also makes her an oddity among all the classes in the way she operates. She can use her powers at a baseline all day long, but she can also overclock them, pulling in more energy than her body can normally withstand to gain impressive short-term benefits and the lasting advantages of extra elemental energy coursing through her, but at a great cost to her durability.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Yoon

Today, as part of our ongoing Meet the Iconics series, we introduce the next of the six new iconic characters featured in Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures. This week we meet Yoon, the iconic kineticist!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures (OGL)

Open Your Eyes—Occult Adventures Art Preview

Subscribers are beginning to get a peek at the gateway to the unseen world in Occult Adventures, which officially hits game store shelves and the convention floor at Gen Con on July 29! Since our art department has been keeping a fairly low profile, I wanted to take over and give you another preview of the artwork gracing the pages of this book. Enjoy these selections from Occult Adventures!

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Tags: Alexandru Sabo David Alvarez Iconics Igor Greganyi Ivan Troitsky Mavaro Meligaster Mesmerists Monks Occultists Oloch Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Psychics Rivani Sajan Subroto Bhaumik Wallpapers Warpriests Wayne Reynolds

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures (OGL)

Occult Adventures Class Preview: The Mesmerist

The mesmerist creeps into the minds of his enemies, bending their wills. Our initial concept for the mesmerist was a sort of anti-bard. The class would get a similar blend of spellcasting with moderate combat ability, but instead of buffing allies, it would penalize enemies and make them softer targets. Our mesmerist achieves this not only through a robust selection of debuff spells, but also through his intense stare. He can focus on a creature within 30 feet as a swift action, imposing a penalty on the target's Will saves. Bold stare options, which the mesmerist gains starting at 3rd level, allow him to apply that penalty to other types of rolls or weaken the subject of his stare in other ways. The best part? He can mentally remove the memory of his stare from the target's mind afterward, so they forget he was manipulating them all along.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Meligaster

Today, as part of our ongoing Meet the Iconics series, we introduce the next of the six new iconic characters featured in Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures. This week we meet Meligaster, the iconic mesmerist!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures (OGL)

Occult Adventures Class Preview: The Medium

While all of the occult classes have some connection to strange otherworldly forces, the medium is the only one crazy enough to allow all sorts of spirits to enter his body and mind in order to share their strength, allowing the spirits to gain more and more influence over him in exchange for great power. The playtest medium's spirits were based on the cards of the Harrow deck. Since that meant 54 spirits, each with unique abilities, that proved far too lengthy to fit in Occult Adventures without cutting, so I've saved that work, and we're hoping to release it in some venue.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: NPC Codex (OGL)

Ultimate Intrigue—Vigilante Playtest Round 2!

Almost three weeks ago, the vigilantes of the world struck out from the shadows and began to carve their own niches in a new open playtest. After plenty of feedback and several playtests of the vigilante, the vigilante returned to his lair to recover from his wounds and prepare his toolbox for his next greatest challenge... and so, the vigilante returns, with more tricks than ever before!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Erasmus

Today, as part of our ongoing Meet the Iconics series, we introduce the next of the six new iconic characters featured in Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures. This week we meet Erasmus, the iconic medium!

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Occult Adventures Class Preview: The Psychic

We always knew Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Occult Adventures would have a full 9-level caster who could cast all the biggest and baddest psychic spells. This was our psychic, running fully on the power of her intellect. The big challenge with 9-level casters is always making them unique without making their non-spell class features too powerful. Getting full spell access is a big deal, and doesn't leave a lot of room for other bells and whistles. This is also the Pathfinder RPG's first Intelligence-based fully spontaneous caster, drawing on the strange psychic structures of her mind rather than her force of personality. And that unique mental structure leads to...

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Rivani

Today, as part of our ongoing Meet the Iconics series, we introduce the next of the six new iconic characters featured in Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures. This week we meet Rivani, the iconic psychic!

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Occult Adventures Class Preview: The Spiritualist

When souls pass from the Material Plane to the Great Beyond, most speed through the Astral Plane on their way to final judgment and placement with in the fantastical outer planes. Other souls take a detour. Highly charged emotions shake them out of the stream of souls, and toward the esoteric gravity of the Negative Material Plane. Tragically, many of these souls are transformed into horrifying and dangerous undead creatures who haunt the multiverse unleash their malice and hate upon living creatures they encounter. A select few are able to pull themselves out of this horrid free fall. These phantoms push their way back through the Ethereal Plane until they find a psychically attuned individual to serves as anchor and sanctuary for their spirit.

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Meet the Iconics: Estra

Today, as part of our ongoing Meet the Iconics series, we introduce the next of the six new iconic characters featured in Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures. This week we meet Estra, the iconic spirtualist!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: NPC Codex (OGL)

Ultimate Intrigue—Vigilante Playtest!

The streets of almost every large city are rife with corruption. Greedy merchants, cruel guards, and bloodthirsty gangs oppress the poor common folk and those who dare to stand up against them find themselves with the dagger in the back more often than not. That is where the vigilante comes in. With their true identity hidden behind a secret persona, the vigilante is unafraid to take the fight to the powerful. Of course, not all vigilantes fight for what is good and just. Some use their secret identity to commit acts of depravity, unburdened by guilt or consequence.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures (OGL)

Occult Adventures Class Preview: The Occultist

The world hides many secrets, some strange, some wondrous, and others far too terrible for the rational mind to contain. In just over a month, we'll be unveiling some of these secrets with the release of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures. Within the pages of this mysterious 272-page book, we'll uncover the secrets of the occult and detail those who wield its might. In the meantime, we'll be previewing all six of the book's new classes, and investigate a new type of spellcasting power to add to your game—psychic magic!

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Meet the Iconics: Mavaro

Starting today, we'll be introducing you to the six new iconic characters featured in Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures as part of our Meet the Iconics series. This week we'll start off by meeting Mavaro, the iconic occultist!

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Tags: Iconics Mavaro Meet the Iconics Occultists Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Wayne Reynolds

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures (OGL)

Of the Occult and Psychic Obscura!

The content we showed off from July's Occult Adventures hardcover at the PaizoCon Preview Banquet whetted some appetites for a few more details. I know many of you are looking forward to sinking your teeth into the book even more, especially after we previewed all of the art of the new iconics—and don't worry, you'll be seeing more of them soon! But for enjoy, enjoy this curated selection of art from Occult Adventures!

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Tags: Caio Maciel Monteiro Emiliano Petrozzi Nickolai Ostertag Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Roberto Pitturru Suzanne Helmigh Tomasz Chistowski

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PaizoCon Product Announcements and Sneak Peeks!

One of the exciting parts about PaizoCon for a lot of our attendees, fans, and onlookers are the juicy spoilers and announcements that come out of the show (whether it comes from one our RPG or Adventure Path panels, or the Preview Banquet). So, let's take a look at what's coming this November and beyond!

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Sneak a Peek at the Occult

While Occult Adventures is not due to hit stores and mailboxes until the end of July, other mysterious forces have found a way to glean advanced knowledge about what the tome contains. Perhaps it was spied through the dimension of dreams or ripped from the minds of one of the developers through psychic combat, but whatever the means one thing is certain. These secrets are out there and ready for you to investigate!

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Pathfinder Adventure Path #45: Broken Moon (Carrion Crown 3 of 6) (PFRPG)

Illuminating Darkness

Light and darkness. Given how powerful it is to take away someone's sight in Pathfinder, few topics share the three 'C's that make light and darkness such an important topic: Common, Crucial, and Confusing. In this blog, I will thoroughly explain light and darkness, providing a detailed example, so by the end, you will be armed and ready to run light and darkness in your games, even the edgiest of edge cases. Lets start by covering a number of important guidelines for dealing with light and darkness in your game.

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Society Unchained

Ever since its announcement nearly a year ago, players and GMs alike have been speculating about what would appear in Pathfinder Unchained. It was only a short step from there to start wondering what would appear in Pathfinder Society Organized Play. We started exploring this same question early in the book's production, and even then it was clear that some sections would not be a good fit for the campaign, others would absolutely play a role, and many others would require closer study. With the generous assistance of the Pathfinder Design Team and numerous volunteers, we were able to weigh the pros and cons and finalize what our Pathfinders might see in the field.

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Unleashing Unchained!

Alright everyone, this is the last blog before Pathfinder Unchained hits your local stores! Many of you have heard so far that with Unchained, we’re encouraging you to really experiment and play around with the system, so we thought we’d end with a bang and release information about two of the pieces of Unchained that we hadn’t previewed yet as well as give you even more content! That’s right, Unchained was so full to the brim with exciting rules changes and optional subsystems, that it couldn’t even fit it all. So let’s take a look at what we’ve got.

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Introducing New Product Launch Quests!

The Pathfinder Society team is always looking for ways to improve our relationship with friendly local gaming stores and offer things to help thank them for all they do in their support of both the Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild and Adventure Card Guild.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Pathfinder Unchained (OGL)

Magic Items Unchained

We’ve all been there. We’ve faced the sad crossroads when we realized that our favorite magic item just wasn’t cutting it, and we couldn’t justify keeping it instead of equipping the new and shinier item the party just found instead. But what about the blacksmith who becomes a hero fighting with her father’s sword? Or the halfling who found a strange item early in his career that turned out to be more than it seemed? That’s where the scaling magic items from Pathfinder Unchained come in. These items scale as you level, allowing them to be an important part of your character (these sorts of items are called wonders) or a small and handy tool throughout your career (these are called baubles) or something in between. The math is all worked out to allow GMs to use a few different systems for the advancement, including automatic advancement (in which case, it’s recommended to dole out less treasure if you want to keep the party at about the same power level) or advancement using rituals and gold (the easier method for someone running a published adventure). Scaling items have starting and ending levels for scaling, so I’ve included two of the most wondrous of the wonders: wonders that scale all the way up to 20th level!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Pathfinder Unchained (OGL)

Unchained Skills and Feats

If classes are the main chassis of a character, skills and feats are its nuts and bolts. When they let us designers loose in Pathfinder Unchained, it's only natural that we wanted to play around with how the nuts and bolts attach, and even try changing the shapes of those nuts and bolts entirely! In Chapters 2 and 3 of Pathfinder Unchained, there are not only several daring subsystems that play with feats, there so many different options for restructuring skills that it's easy to lose yourself in all the possibilities. I've gathered some of the coolest tidbits from all those options to share with you today!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Pathfinder Unchained (OGL)

Time to Break Your Chains!

Over a year ago, I went to talk to Erik about a book idea I had. The pitch was simple: "Let us do a book filled with whatever crazy ideas we have floating around in our heads". He said "no". I said, "Wait though, allow me to explain, our crazy ideas might make the game better." He said "tell me more", and Pathfinder Unchained was born.

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Strategy Guide Art Preview!

With the Strategy Guide shipping out to players at long last, it’s time to take a look at a few pieces of the fantastic art contained within its pages.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Strategy Guide (OGL)

Character Building in the Strategy Guide

In anticipation of its impending release, here's a quick walkthrough of how the Strategy Guide helps players build characters:

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10 Things You Didn't Know Were in the Strategy Guide

There have been a lot of questions and speculation on the messageboards about what's going to be in the upcoming Strategy Guide, but now that it's set to (finally!) hit shelves next month, you'll get to see for yourself. In anticipation of its debut, allow me to present a sneak peek into 10 different features I bet you didn't know were in this book.

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2014 Art Review

As we close out 2014, I wanted to end on a high note and give you one last year-end blog. I went to our Managing Art Director Sarah Robinson and Senior Art Director Andrew Vallas to get some help rounding up some favorite illustrations from the past year. Seeing how great their selections were, I also asked various members of our editorial team to pick a few of their own favorites to add. So here are some of our best illustrations from 2014!

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Tags: Ekaterina Burmak Eric Belisle Igor Grechanyi Jason Rainville Johan Grenier Kerem Beyit Kiki Moch Rizky Maichol Quinto Matias Tapia Pathfinder Adventure Path Pathfinder Campaign Setting Pathfinder Modules Pathfinder Player Companion Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Pathfinder Tales Ralph Horsley Subroto Bhaumik Tim Kings-Lynne Wayne Reynolds Yu Cheng Hong

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Occult Society Revisited

Almost a week has passed since the Occult Adventures playtest closed, and I've heard very positive feedback from the Design Team about the playtest contributions of Pathfinder Society players. Thank you for participating in the playtest and helping us tweak the classes and make Occult Adventures the best Gen Con release yet. Note that as of the playtest's conclusion, creating characters using the playtest versions of the Occult Adventures classes is no longer legal; only those who unlocked the ability to play a psychic character can continue to use that PC before the book's publication and inclusion on the Additional Resources page.

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Last Call for Feedback!

Today is the last day of the Occult Adventures Playtest. If you have already contributed to the playtest, thank you so much. These classes will benefit from your care, comments, and dedication.

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Occult Adventures Playtest Coming to a Close

Greetings from the design team. I just wanted to take a moment to remind you that the Occult Adventures Playtest is coming to a close on Tuesday, November 25 at 2 PM Pacific time. At that time, the surveys will be closed and the boards will be locked.

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Occult Adventures Playtest Surveys

Greetings from the playtest team! First off, we want to thank you for all of the playtest feedback and thoughts you have provided thus far on the Occult Adventures Playtest. There have been over 6,000 posts so far and that number keeps growing. As we comb through all of your feedback, we want to announce a new way to give us your thoughts, the Occult Adventures Playtest survey.

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Strategy Guide Update

The long-awaited Pathfinder RPG Strategy Guide hardcover arrived from out printer late last week, and we were disappointed to discover that the printer had bound all of the pages before the ink had fully dried, resulting in damage to the entire print run. We have discussed the issue with our printer, who apologized for the misprint and have agreed to replace the entire print run at their expense.

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Occult Society

As many of you know, about two weeks ago the Pathfinder Design Team began the playtest for Pathfinder RPG Occult Adventures, Paizo's upcoming hardcover book due out in the summer of 2015. I know a lot of you are already busy trying out the new classes in Pathfinder Society (there's a special Chronicle sheet available for download on the playtest's blog linked above), and in my conversations with the designers, they're thrilled to receive your feedback. In case you have tried out one of these six classes and not left feedback, why not do so now?

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Uncover the Truth: Occult Adventures Playtest!

The world is full of mysteries. Truths hidden in plain sight, obscured to further secret goals and nefarious agendas. Some dare to uncover these secrets, venturing into the shadow to learn about these strange forces, and now you can be one of them.

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Signs and Portents

Old and forgotten.
Can you hear the echoes?
Can you see the signs,
unearthed in ancient tomes?
Lost to the ages,
torn from history.

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Monster Mash

If you have not heard yet, the newest addition to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is hitting subscribers and game stores now. The Monster Codex is a mighty tome, filled with some of the most iconic foes in the game. Each of the 20 monster types appearing in this book has an expanded ecology, new rules, and 7 pages of new stat blocks across a range of CRs. Each one gives you plenty of ideas and awesome crunch to make these monsters the feature of an entire adventure or even a portion of your campaign, while saving you the time it takes to come up with the mountain of stats needed to make it happen.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Adowyn

There’s always a need for a skilled hunter, someone who can track down a threat and put an end to it. And when a quarry is particularly dangerous or elusive, there’s only one hunter the people seek: Adowyn.

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Advanced Class Guide Preview: Hunter

Alright guys, this is it! The Advanced Class Guide releases next week and this is the final rules preview blog, featuring the hunter. When describing the druid class to a new player, you would often say something "She casts nature spells, turns into animals, and has an animal pet if you want". For the ranger, it might be "He fights well against certain foes in certain terrains and eventually gets nature magic and an animal pet if you want". The hunter is a hybrid of the two, and she pushes the pet up in that list, "She casts nature magic spells and has an animal pet with all kinds of synergies." Those of you who were watching my little teasers know that there's a tweak to the hunter that, while small in terms of wordcount, I think will have major repercussions in making the hunter awesome.Flavorwise, you might have been able to pull off some of the hunter feel before with a ranger or druid character. In fact, this class was the one that was the hardest sell to me as a playtester, as the first playtest version felt like you could make an archetype of druid that traded out wild shape for the hunter abilities and it wouldn't be too out of line for an archetype. Perhaps an alternate class at most. Basically, she was a prepared Wisdom-based caster like the druid, with the druid's BAB and skill points, mostly druid weapons and armor plus bows, using the druid spell list but casting with the 6th-level spellcasting advancement of a magus. She got a bunch of teamwork feats that the companion automatically shared, which was pretty cool, and a feature called animal focus that gave her and her companion a choice from a menu of small but generally useful buffs as a swift action with very limited uses.

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A Tale of Two Covers

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide is only a few weeks from release, and we're all getting excited about what the book has to offer. Over the last several weeks, we've revealed a ton of details about the 10 classes in the book, from hints at their game details to a look at the backgrounds of the iconic characters that represent them in the book's art. Looking over the final hardcover here on my desk, I'm enormously proud of the work our team has put into it, and I'm grateful for the tireless efforts of our playtesters, who made the Advanced Class Guide shine with their diligent testing and commentary. We could not have done this book without you, and we're all really pleased with how it came together.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Shardra Geltl

Today we introduce the next of the new iconic characters from the Advanced Class Guide: Shardra the shaman. Shardra will also be a playable character in the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Wrath of the Righteous set due for release in February 2015.

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Advanced Class Guide Preview: Shaman

For many years now, roleplaying games have used the term shaman to mean a lot of different things. Most often, the term is used to describe the spiritual leader of a primitive people or tribe. The shaman would commune with the spirits to beseech them for aid or guidance. The only problem with this was that it did not closely match any of the classes we have in the game. Until now.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Zadim

Today we introduce the next of the new iconic characters from the Advanced Class Guide: Zadim the slayer.

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Advanced Class Guide Preview: Slayer

Into every generation, a slayer is born. The slayer is a hunter, a stalker, and a killer, with enough power to fight fairly and win, but the inclination to fight unfairly and win by an even wider margin. The slayer combines the stalking and combat styles of the rogue and the ranger with none of the ranger's nature focus. Basically, the slayer is Ezio from the Assassin's Creed series, the quintessential assassin and the last person you want to see leaping out at you from the shadows.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Kess

She was raised to be Lady Kessilandrie Anicia Vlastos, but the thousands of cheering fans that fill the arena's seats when she fights shout her preferred name—Kess the Bull.

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Advanced Class Guide Preview: Brawler

The monk is a disciplined martial artist who spends years of practice to perfect his body and mind. A lawful paragon, the monk has strange and mysterious ki powers. But sometimes you don't want to play Bruce Lee. Sometimes you want to be Chuck Norris. No rules, no discipline, just a headbutt, a kick in the face, and a sucker punch. Bloody, ugly, but effective. If that's what you want, the Advanced Class Guide has the class you've been waiting for.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Hakon

Past the Ironbound Archipelago, across the Steaming Sea, lies the Broken Bay, haven of scoundrels, raiders, cutthroats, and killers in the bloodiest viking traditions of the Lands of the Linnorm Kings. As a youth, Hakon waited impatiently to come of age and join the seasonal southern raids of his countrymen, eagerly absorbing the tales of distant lands they brought back with the plunder. The proud raiders boasted of desperate battles at sea, of ceaseless storms and sea monsters and foreign towns cloaked in sheets of cascading flames. Hakon committed these stories to memory, adding his own embellishments to create an oral history for his people—vowing to one day make a place for himself within it.

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Advanced Class Guide Preview: Skald

The savage warrior whose warcries and fury inspire his allies to great deeds. The respected keeper of epics and histories of a bloody and glorious past. Even before the Advanced Class Guide, the skald lurked in our collective fantasies, though he often manifested in different ways. A multiclass character here, an archetype there. But there was never really a dedicated class that captured the fury and power of the skald, until now. The skald was an easy fit for Golarion. I mean, we have the Ulfen, whose very language is called Skald, and there's plenty of other cultures where it's easy to see these fearsome and mighty battle leaders replacing the more refined and classical bard of the Lem variety.

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PaizoCon 2014 Announcement Round-Up

Missed the annual PaizoCon Preview Banquet? Enjoyed too many cocktails while there to remember what we showed off? This post is your one-stop shop for all the important announcements you may have missed!

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Tags: Alexandre Chaudret Ben Wootten Bugbears Drow Gnolls Goblins Hobgoblins Jason Engle Jason Rainville Licensed Products The Lost Coast Maichol Quinto Monsters Orcs PaizoCon Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Pathfinder Adventure Path Pathfinder Battles Pathfinder Online Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Roberto Pitturru Wayne Reynolds

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Enora

Today we introduce the next of the new iconic characters from the Advanced Class Guide: Enora the arcanist. Enora will also be a playable character in the not-yet-announced Pathfinder Adventure Card Game set due for release in February 2015.

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Advanced Class Guide Preview: Arcanist

The arcanist was one of the more difficult classes to design in the Advanced Class Guide. When the idea first came together, it was based almost entirely upon mechanics. As an arcane caster that can prepare spells like a wizard, but cast them like a sorcerer, the idea was an interesting one, but when we presented it in the first round of the playtest the deficiency became clear. What is an arcanist?

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Crowe

Today we introduce the next of the new iconic characters from the Advanced Class Guide: Crowe the bloodrager. While the complete rules for making your own bloodrager characters will debut this August in the Advanced Class Guide, Quinn features in this year’s Free RPG Day adventure, Pathfinder Module: Risen from the Sands.

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Advanced Class Guide Preview: Bloodrager

Even during the brainstorming and initial design for the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide, the bloodrager was the "weird" class. The concept was strong—a mix of the barbarian and the sorcerer that used bloodlines to fuel its arcane rage—but the weirdness came from the lack of precedent for the class. Hunters, investigators, shaman, and swashbucklers were all over history, folklore, and were even mentioned in Golarion before they were added to this book, but the bloodrager was created out of whole cloth. We thought about toying with the name or forcing it into some kind of classical archetype, but when we tried either of those, something got lost along the way.

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Advanced Class Guide Preview: Warpriest

Many years ago, back in the days of the Advanced Player's Guide, there were plans to open up the paladin class to characters of any alignment. Unfortunately, the constraints of the class and its many alignment-based abilities made it too much of a challenge to fit in the pages of that book. Fortunately, the Advanced Class Guide gave us the opportunity to revisit the idea in the form of the Warpriest.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Oloch

Introducing the next of the Advanced Class Guide's new iconic characters, Oloch the warpriest. While the complete rules for making your own warpriest characters debut in the Advanced Class Guide this August, Oloch himself stomps onto the scene in our upcoming Free RPG Day adventure, Pathfinder Module: Risen from the Sands, available at participating game stores Saturday, June 21st.

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Advanced Class Guide Preview: Investigator

Funny story. While brainstorming the Advanced Class Guide, and determining which classes were to appear in it, the investigator almost didn't make the cut.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Quinn

Introducing the next of the Advanced Class Guide's new iconic characters, Quinn the investigator. While the complete rules for making your own investigator characters debut in the Advanced Class Guide this August, Quinn features in the our upcoming Free RPG Day adventure, Pathfinder Module: Risen from the Sands, available at participating game stores Saturday June 21st.

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Advanced Class Guide Preview: Swashbuckler

As a kid, I spent a good chunk of my weekend hours watching just about anything that had swashbuckler goodness. Pirates, musketeers, and masked avengers were among the first sparks that ignited my fledgling imagination. When we set out to design the swashbuckler class our chief goal was to create a class that was fun in that Errol Flynn sort of way, while creating enough room for the many fine swashbuckler variants that have appeared in the many decades after Captain Blood.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Jirelle

Introducing the first of the Advanced Class Guide's new iconic characters, Jirelle the swashbuckler. While the complete rules for making your own swashbuckler characters debut in the Advanced Class Guide this August, Jirelle herself features in the our upcoming Free RPG Day adventure, Pathfinder Module: Risen from the Sands, available at participating game stores Saturday June 21st.

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Advanced Class Guide Previews

We are just about 10 weeks away from the release of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Advanced Class Guide. Coincidentally this mighty tome also features 10 new classes to add to your Pathfinder game. So, in anticipation of its release, we are going to be showcasing one class from the book each week until the book hits store shelves and the gamers line up at our Gen Con booth to snag a copy. Look for these previews every Tuesday.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Mythic Adventures (OGL)

Mythender in Golarion

One of the great things about working at Paizo is the after-work gaming culture. Sure, there are home games, but there are also one-shot rounds of RPGs that I might not have tried otherwise. What's more, they're run by GMs who are passionate about sharing their latest non-Pathfinder discoveries. A little more than a month ago, Paizo editor Ryan Macklin decided to run a game of Mythender, a roleplaying game about killing gods. That's right, the characters are Mythenders, powerful heroes that straddle the line between mortality and the divine in their quest to rid the world of all Myths. The game's website describes it in better and greater detail, but suffice it to say it's an intense, action-packed experience that involves handfuls of dice, encourages over-the-top descriptions, and is well suited to heavy metal background music.

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Playtest Closing Thoughts

Has it really been four weeks already? The playtest of the new classes set to debut in the Advanced Class Guide is drawing to a close. Today at 5:00 PM Pacific time, the boards and surveys will be closed, marking the end of one of our more successful playtests. It's been a wild ride for us here on the design team and the classes have seen marked improvement from their initial designs. For that, we have you to thank.

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Playtest Thoughts, Week 3

We are in the home stretch now. The playtest has been going for three weeks now and we have one week left to go. The big announcement this week is that we have released a revised version of the playtest document! Inside you will find changes and alterations to all 10 of the playtest classes, from sweeping changes to the Arcanist to smaller alterations to the Shaman.

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Playtest Thoughts: Week 2

The Advanced Class Guide Playtest continues to roll along and the design team has been getting some great feedback from the boards. It's been a busy week; we've made changes to the arcanist, launched the playtest survey, and stuffed ourselves on Thanksgiving. This week, we'll take a look at those in detail and cast an eye toward the upcoming revisions.

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Playtest Thoughts: Week 1

Greetings from the playtest laboratory! We are one week in to the Advanced Class Guide Playtest, and we are already getting a lot of great feedback and playtest data. Every week from now until the playtest's end on December 17th, we are going to be giving you our thoughts on the state of the playtest and give you some hints of the direction we are taking some of these classes.

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Advanced Class Guide Playtest is Live!

Advanced Class Guide Playtest is Live! Tuesday, November 19, 2013 Greetings, and welcome to the Advanced Class Guide Playtest! ... Next summer we will be releasing the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide, a meaty 256-page rulebook filled with new options for players of any class. In addition, the book also contains 10 brand new classes! In the design pit, we call these hybrid classes because each one takes elements from two existing base classes and blends them together to create a novel play...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 4 (OGL)

Bestiary 4 Table of Contents

Eager to snag your copy of Bestiary 4 yet? Here’s the complete run down of all the monsters you’ll be missing if you don’t.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 4 (OGL)

Bestiary 4 Preview #2

In just a week or two, Bestiary 4 will be sent out to subscribers and game stores around the world, packed full of deadly terrors and gruesome beasts. Each week, we are going to be taking a look at one of the horrifying monsters from this book, waiting to consume your PCs. This week, we are investigating a truly mind shattering foe! None can resist it. All will bow before it. Every character will want to cuddle with it?!?

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 4 (OGL)

Bestiary 4 Preview #1

In just a few weeks, Bestiary 4 will be making its way to your table, ready to terrorize players and delight GMs with over 300 new monsters! Each week, we are going to be taking a look at one of the terrible foes you will find in this meaty tome. First up, we have a creature from myth and legend, ready to rip your foes limb from limb! Grendel is one of the mythic monsters you will find in Bestiary 4, but you can use him in any campaign!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign (OGL)

Handyman Corner: Home Edition

Ultimate Campaign provides a lot of useful rules for customizing your game. So much, in fact, that I challenge a GM to not find something of use throughout its pages! Need to come-up with a background and traits for a character quickly? BAM! Ultimate Campaign. Your world is at war and you need rules for army combat? BAM! Ultimate Campaign.

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Little Bunny Fufu

I hope you have been well since I addressed you last. I come to you bearing good news—my influence has spread through the hallowed halls of Paizo. Using my mother (Editorial Intern Cassidy) as a puppet for my machinations, I have guaranteed that my legacy will prevail through the ages by immortalizing myself in the upcoming tome Bestiary 4. Feast your eyes upon my likeness:

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 4 (OGL)

Woe to You, O' Earth and Sea!

From Cthulu to nosferatu, clockwork dragons to twisted fleshwarps, Bestiary 4 comes packed with more than 250 beasties from lore and literature to add to your game. Bestiary 4 releases October 2013, but for now, the beasts come with wrath to your desktop in this new wallpaper.

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Monster Pets

Thank you so much for sharing your pets with us! After receiving over 50 emails and posts, we randomly selected Tink, an adorable sugar glider, to monsterize. According to Perram, her owner, Tink has deemed certain miniatures to be hers, and will dig through bins of hundreds of minis before squirreling it away to her nest. Thanks to both Perram for offering up his pet and to Sean K. Reynolds for helping with the design. Enjoy!

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Advanced Class Guide

Just a few weeks ago, we announced the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide, an exciting new addition to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game due out next summer. While we talked about it a fair bit at Gencon, this blog post is here to get you caught up on all the news!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Mythic Adventures (OGL)

Mythic Preview—Mythic Lich

Time for one more preview before Mythic Adventures releases this Thursday at GenCon! Here's the example mythic lich! (A mythic lich gains additional abilities at tier 8th, 9th, and 10th, such as the power to immediately counterspell hostile magic, cast 1st-level spells at will, healing every time it casts a spell, and dispel checks always rolling twice and using the result that's more favorable to the lich.)

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Mythic Adventures (OGL)

Mythic Preview—Path Abilities

Mythic Adventures releases this Thursday at GenCon! Here's a preview of some of the new mythic path abilities that you didn't see in the playtest!

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Pathfinder Player Companion: Demon Hunter's Handbook (PFRPG)

Back to the Abyss with You!

From pesky quasits to fiendishly handsome incubi, grotesque dretches to cunning glabrezu, all of the foulest denizens of the Abyss continually show that they are in dire need of slaying. To this end, countless groups and organizations across the Inner Sea train in the art of hunting, defeating, and slaying demons that crawl forth onto the Material Plane. Alternatively, these daring adventurers delve into the heart of the Abyss itself, taking the battle to the demons' home plane while performing harrowing missions to retrieve valuable treasures or rescue captured victims. Both of these themes are the focus of Pathfinder Player Companion: Demon Hunter's Handbook—a volume no demon-slaying adventurer should miss!

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Pathfinder Player Companion: Faiths & Philosophies (PFRPG)

Test Your Faith!

Player Companion: Faiths & Philosophies is on its way to store shelves and subscribers' hands, and I couldn't be more excited about this book! When threads pop up on our messageboards with questions like "Is it even possible for a cleric to not be some deity-worshiping fanatic?" and "How much do the deities ‘talk' to their followers?", it warms my heart to see that fans are truly ready for a book like Faiths & Philosophies, which is much unlike any other book we've ever done!

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Wrath of the Abyss

In short time we'll be launching the first volume of the Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path—Pathfinder Adventure Path #73 The Worldwound Incursion. Since the campaign deals with the denizens of the Abyss, we included stats for a demon lord in each volume. In the course of the Adventure Path you'll see stats and art for Xoveron, Shax, Sifkesh, Nocticula, Baphomet, and Deskari. Three other demon lords get stats in the fall when we release Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 4. In there you'll see Dagon, Kostchtchie, and Pazuzu. To give you a taste of a demon lord's power I've gleaned the following list of demon lord traits from a trusted demonologist.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Mythic Adventures (OGL)

Get Ready for a Truly Mythic Summer!

Summer has begun and everyone at Paizo is gearing up for PaizoCon and Gen Con. While we're all running around the office, check out this super cool desktop featuring our August release, Mythic Adventures. Mythic Adventures allows your characters to advance in one of six new character paths, details new mythic feats and spells, contains a horde of mythic monsters, and so much more! Also, be sure to look for more mythic options in Pathfinder Player Companion: Mythic Origins and Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Mythic Realms this September.

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Pathfinder Adventure Path #73: The Worldwound Incursion (Wrath of the Righteous 1 of 6) (PFRPG)

Gather Your Forces!

Here we have a balor taking out a silver dragon in this awesome cover illustration from Wayne Reynolds. This chaotic scene greets the PCs as they begin the Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path, which launches this August with Pathfinder Adventure Path #73: The Worldwound. This Adventure Path uses rules from Pathfinder RPG: Mythic Adventures to make this a truly mythic campaign. As the release of this Adventure Path nears, I'd like to highlight some of the other things we're working on that can help support your PCs' venture into the Worldwound.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign (OGL)

Ultimate Campaign: WAR! What is it Good For?

Sometime in the next week or so, Ultimate Campaign will be shipping out to a game store or mailbox near you. In anticipation of the release of this 256-page hardcover, we are taking a look at what you can expect to find inside. In the past three weeks, we have looked at character backgrounds, the downtime system, and rules for the GM to add to their campaign. This week, we are looking at the final chapter of the book, Kingdoms and War!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign (OGL)

Ultimate Campaign: Behind the Screen

In just over two weeks, Ultimate Campaign should hit your local game store or your mailbox. In the build up to the release of this new 256-page hardcover expansion to the Pathfinder rules line, we are showing off some of the things you will find inside.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign (OGL)

Ultimate Campaign Art Preview!

The release of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign is getting ever closer. Whether it's kingdom-building or leading an army, starting a business or crafting magic items, Ultimate Campaign is for all of the adventures that take place outside of the dungeon. The pages of the newest Pathfinder Roleplaying Game hardcover provide all kinds of useful information for your campaign, but many fantastic illustrations are contained within! Check some of them out!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign (OGL)

Ultimate Campaign: I Could Use Some Downtime

In just about three weeks or so, you should be seeing Ultimate Campaign arrive in mailboxes and on store shelves. In anticipation of the release of this 256-page hardcover, each week we are offering up a preview of what you will find inside.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 4 (OGL)

Announcing Bestiary 4!

This time there's more than just strange stories and bizarre powers amping up the threats, though. With the godlike powers soon to be unleashed in Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Mythic Adventures, there's about to be a whole new caliber of heroes in need of threats to overcome, and Bestiary 4 provides. Just as characters of any level might have mythic powers, the same is true of monsters. Infused with mythic power, legends like the immortal guardian dragon, faith-fueled juggernauts, and vampiric leanen sidhe rise to rampage across your campaign. But shattering all past power levels are truly world-ending terrors like demon lords, Great Old Ones, elohim, kaiju, and more! Simply put, no Bestiary has ever been as deadly as this.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign (OGL)

Ultimate Campaign: When I Was Growing Up...

In about a month, Ultimate Campaign will arrive in stores and your mailbox, helping both players and Game Masters add a wealth of new detail and exciting new rules to their game. Every week from now until launch, we will be previewing parts of this book to show you what it has in store!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Mythic Adventures (OGL)

Pathfinder Preview!

It's Savannah again. The prodigal intern from last summer returns... for Spring Break anyhow. It's been an accidental intern reunion here at Paizo, as my predecessor Jerome is helping out in the warehouse this week. Personally, I think I've got the better end of the deal, since I get to tell you all about some of our upcoming products and how exciting they're looking. So, from the depths of the Editorial Pit and my appropriated computer comes an intern's-eye view (when that view isn't "hiding on pallets from the cave raptors.")

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign (OGL)

Ultimate Campaign Wallpaper!

As we gear-up for the release of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign, we thought we'd share these new free, downloadable wallpapers featuring the epic cover art by Wayne Reynolds. Whether it's kingdom-building or leading an army, starting a business or crafting magic items, Ultimate Campaign is for all of the adventures that take place outside of the dungeon. Pre-order your copy today!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign (OGL)

Ultimate Campaign: The Total Game Changer

If you heard the trumpeting and roar of cheers last week, that was us, as we just sent our first hardcover of 2013, Ultimate Campaign, off to the printer. This is just the beginning of that book's long journey from the realm of electronic files into the real world, but now that it's out of our hands we can start sharing some of the secrets locked away within this guide to greater gaming.

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Pathfinder #9—Curse of the Crimson Throne Chapter 3:

Monkeying Around

Late last week, we posted up a few quick FAQ issues to resolve some problems involving the monk. There has been a lot of discussion on the monk on the boards, and while it has taken us a while to come up with some solutions, we have made a few simple changes to address these concerns. I wanted to take this blog post to review these changes and to announce a few more.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: NPC Codex (OGL)

NPC Codex Q&A

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: NPC Codex is a first for Paizo—a 320-page Bestiary-style book full of NPC stat blocks instead of monsters. We’ve asked designer/developer Sean K Reynolds to answer some questions about this latest release for the Pathfinder RPG, and why NPC Codex is a must for your Pathfinder game.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: NPC Codex (OGL)

NPC Codex Art Preview

The Pathfinder RPG NPC Codex is set to release on tomorrow, Wednesday, November 21. Each of the NPC Codex's pages features a full-body illustration by one of many Paizo artist favorites. Here's a sneak peek at some new characters to add to your Pathfinder game!

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Mythic Adventures (OGL)

Mythic Adventures Playtest

Mythic Adventures Playtest Wednesday, November 14, 2012 ... Welcome to the long-awaited playtest of Mythic Adventures. This exciting book, due out in August 2013, gives you the chance to play a hero that is a cut above the ordinary sellsword, more powerful than your average hedge wizard, and able to take on challenges far beyond those of his ordinary contemporaries. Like Hercules and Achilles, these heroes inspire legends with their every deed, facing horrible foes and taking on dangerous...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: NPC Codex (OGL)

NPC Codex Preview: Animals Can't Vote

NPC Codex Preview: Animals Can't Vote Tuesday, November 6, 2012The NPC Codex is just 2 weeks away, and it's time to talk about an often-forgotten, underprivileged group of creatures: animal companions! ... In addition to featuring hundreds of complete NPC stat blocks, this book presents 45 fully statted animal companions, generally two or three for each effective druid level. An asterisk (•) after an animal companion's name indicates that only druids (not rangers) can select that type of...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: NPC Codex (OGL)

NPC Codex Preview #1

NPC Codex Preview #1 Tuesday, October 23, 2012Prepping for a game can sometimes be a chore. You’ve got a plot to develop, monsters and treasure to assign, and NPCs to create. Over the past few years, we’ve given the busy GM plenty of tools to fill out their adventures with a wide variety of monsters and treasure, and now we are giving you everything you need to populate your world with NPCs as well. ... The NPC Codex is set to release in just over a month and we thought it was time for you to...
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Meet the Iconics: Imrijka

Meet the Iconics: Imrijka Thursday, October 11, 2012 ... Wails regularly echo through the eastern wing of Gravecharge, Pharasma's cathedral in the university city of Lepidstadt. Yet such aren't the breathless screams of the dead that so often ring through the corners of Ustalav, but rather the cries of life. Since its construction, Gravecharge has maintained a clean and well-supervised hospice for sick and orphaned youths. Just as the goddess Pharasma concerns herself with the transition of...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: NPC Codex (OGL)

Choose Your Enemy

Choose Your Enemy Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Since the Pathfinder RPG NPC Codex is so packed with images of worthy allies and deadly foes, we’re starting the previews for it a bit early. This time, check out a crew of mid-level marauders, which you’ll find both in this expansive character catalog and in the Pathfinder RPG NPC Codex Box (the humanoid-heavy sibling of the Bestiary Box). Be sure to watch this space in the coming weeks for even more NPC Codex action! ... Illustrations by Jason...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: NPC Codex (OGL)

NPCs on the March!

NPCs on the March! Monday, October 1, 2012 We're still a couple of months out from the release of Pathfinder RPG: NPC Codex, but all of the awesome art in that book refuses to be contained! Check out a sampling of 10 fantastically deadly characters by 10 fantastically talented artists. Also, be sure to watch this space in the coming weeks for in-depth previews of Pathfinder RPG: NPC Codex—releasing this December. ... F. Wesley Schneider ... Editor-in-Chief ...
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FAQs of Life

FAQs of Life Tuesday, September 25, 2012 The facts are, we are crazy busy in the office this week trying to get some books to the printer, so I’ll keep this one short and sweet. ... If you use Two-Weapon Fighting on your turn to attack with two weapons, do you also take that penalty on attacks of opportunity made before the start of your next turn? How long do the penalties last? ... No, the penalties end as soon as you have completed the full-attack action that allowed you to attack with...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box (OGL)

Free Beginner Box Transitions Download

Free Beginner Box Transitions Download Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Taking that step from the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box to the complete Pathfinder Roleplaying Game just got a lot easier with the Pathfinder RPG: Beginner Box Transitions. Players and Game Masters alike can download this free PDF to take what they learned in the Beginner Box and expand upon it, learning how to read and understand new facets of the Pathfinder RPG rules, how to advance characters to 6th level and...
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The FAQ That Time Forgot

The FAQ That Time Forgot Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Every once and a while I like to take a break from my current design challenges to tackle some frequently asked questions from our files. We've got some bigger issues to tackle soon, but these are a start. ... Ultimate Combat seems to imply that the Totem Warrior archetype (from the Advanced Player's Guide) allows you to take more than one type of totem rage powers. Is this an erratum for the Totem Warrior archetype? ... No, the line in...
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Mythic Playtest Sneak Peek

Mythic Playtest Sneak Peek Tuesday, September 4, 2012 The open playtest for Mythic Adventures should be ready by the end of September, but right now here's a sneak peek: a custom mythic minotaur! ... The terminology and formatting of some of these abilities may change—we're revealing this now to give you an idea of how an existing monster can be upgraded with mythic abilities to make it a CR-appropriate challenge for mythic PCs or a difficult (but not impossible) challenge for nonmythic...
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Mythic Adventures

Mythic Adventures Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Just over a week ago, at Gen Con, we announced the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game hardcover book due to come out next August: Mythic Adventures. Since then, there has been a fury of speculation and excitement about this book, so I thought I would give a recap of what we’ve said so far about this new addition to the game. ... What is mythic?The mythic rules offer a new way to play Pathfinder. It uses all the rules that you are familiar with, but it adds...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Equipment (OGL)

Ultimate Equipment Preview: The Devil's in the Details

Ultimate Equipment Preview: The Devil's in the Details Tuesday, August 14, 2012 The pit fiend roared in triumph as it lifted Merisiel off the ground, crushing her in its mighty clawed fist. The elf struggled to free herself, but to no effect—the devil’s grasp was just too strong. ... Brandishing a glowing longsword blessed by the gods, Valeros crept up behind the fiend, scrambling up a ridge of burning brimstone. With a grunt, the warrior leapt from the rock, bringing his holy blade down upon...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Equipment (OGL)

Ultimate Equipment Preview: Never Laugh at Live Dragons!

Ultimate Equipment Preview: Never Laugh at Live Dragons! Tuesday, August 7, 2012 The only sound that echoed through the vast cavern was the crunch of their boots on the frost-covered stone. Up ahead, nestled between drifts of snow and covered in a glaze of shimmering ice, was the treasure that the pair had heard so much about. Not two weeks ago, while talking to a drunken sod who had lost four fingers to the cold, Valeros had learned about the treasure of the white wyrm. Now both he and...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Equipment (OGL)

Ultimate Equipment Preview: Oh, For a Muse of Fire!

Ultimate Equipment Preview: Oh, For a Muse of Fire! Tuesday, July 31, 2012 The massive burning blade of the fire giant whipped through the air in a horizontal stroke, just inches above Merisiel’s head. She deftly lunged to the side to avoid the deadly strike, but singed one of her long graceful ears in the process. ... “Your assistance would be greatly appreciated,” she shouted at Valeros, who was busy fending off a pack of flaming hounds across the room. Her lunge transformed into a roll...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Equipment (OGL)

Ultimate Equipment Preview: Are You My Mummy?!

Ultimate Equipment Preview: Are You My Mummy?! Tuesday, July 24, 2012 Valeros slashed out desperately with both of his blades as he pushed back away from the trio of mummies that had emerged from the darkened crypt. Ancient, ensorcelled bandages fell to the floor in a cloud of dust as the arm of one of the horrors was severed at the elbow. Apparently uncaring of the grievous wound, the mummy continued to shamble forward, reaching out with its remaining hand as it tried to find the warrior's...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Equipment (OGL)

Ultimate Equipment Preview: Roll Up Some Loot!

Ultimate Equipment Preview: Roll Up Some Loot! Tuesday, July 17, 2012Rumor has it that everyone, both players and GMs, love to get their hands on new gear. From the new sword that would be perfect for your PC—or even better in the hands of a villain—to a wizard’s staff, gear and magic items have always been an exciting part of the game. Fortunately for all those treasure seekers out there, we’re just five weeks away from Gen Con and the release Ultimate Equipment, the next exciting hardcover...
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Pathfinder Pawns: Bestiary Box

Strategic Redesigns: Bestiary Box Preview

Strategic Redesigns: Bestiary Box Preview Tuesday, July 10, 2012 When planning for the Bestiary Box, we knew there were a few monsters that needed new art. They either didn’t fit in the pawn format, they were monster variants, or they were just missing art. There were also a handful of monsters that just deserved new art. ... Sure, the old art was suitable for the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, but we knew that sometimes it’s good to shake things up and do them over. There are many reasons to do...
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Pathfinder Pawns: Bestiary Box

Dragons Reloaded: Bestiary Box Preview

Dragons Reloaded: Bestiary Box Preview Tuesday, July 3, 2012In last week's blog I covered some of our rationale for creating the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary Box, and unleashed some of the new elemental pawn art you'll find in that box. This week we are continuing our look at the new art with the most iconic enemies in fantasy—chromatic dragons! ... When it came to creating the dragon pawns for this box, dragons posed a particular challenge. While the art for the dragons in the...
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Pathfinder Pawns: Bestiary Box

Elementary Solutions: Bestiary Box Preview

Elementary Solutions: Bestiary Box Preview Tuesday, June 26, 2012 While I enjoy painting miniatures, and I'm a fast painter, I'll be the first to admit that painting minis is a time-consuming art. GMing takes a lot of time all by itself and not everyone has the time or talent to make minis fit the evocative stories their imaginations conjure. Also, minis can be expensive. Even with the release of the Pathfinder Battles minis line, we realize that sometimes cash-strapped GMs needed a...
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Lisa Stevens Gamerati Interview

Lisa Stevens Gamerati Interview Thursday, June 21, 2012A few weeks back Paizo CEO Lisa Stevens joined a hangout on Gamerati+ where Gen Con owner Peter Adkison and numerous other participants asked her a variety of questions about Paizo, Pathfinder Online, her gaming history, and whatever else came to mind. Check out what was asked and what insider info she had to share! ... You can check out the rest of the video interview at the Paizo Publishing channel on YouTube. Thanks to Ed Healy for...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Player Character Folio

Preview: Player Character Folio

Preview: Player Character Folio Tuesday, June 12, 2012Now that the Advanced Race Guide is just about ready to ship out to subscribers and stores everywhere, it's time to take a look at another product that is due to release very soon, one that will give you a great new way to record your new dhamphir bard! ... The Player Character Folio is 16 pages of character sheet glory, containing spots for you to record not just your vital statistics and gear, but things like your family history,...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

Advanced Race Guide Preview: It's Almost Here!—Kasatha

Advanced Race Guide Preview: It's Almost Here! Tuesday, June 5, 2012 The Advanced Race Guide will be shipping out to subscribers and stores in the very near future. As we wrap up our previews of this mighty tome, it’s time to for a peek into Chapter 4 and the rules for building your own race. ... This section of the book received a good deal of playtesting late last year and we made a large number of tweaks and changes to take that feedback into account. For example, the core races do not all...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

Advanced Race Guide Preview: Of Dreams and Nightmares—Dreamweaver (Witch)

Advanced Race Guide Preview: Of Dreams and Nightmares Tuesday, May 22, 2012 While every child may curse her mother as a hag from time to time, changelings are justified to make such claims. Cursed offshoots of hag liaisons in the mortal world who are dropped at the door of mortal adoptive parents, all changelings are affected by their heritage in some way. Some rebel against it, but many come to terms with it, using the power of their heritage for their own purposes or to aid the innocent....
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

Advanced Race Guide Preview: Letting the Cat out of the Bag—Catfolk Rogue Talents

Advanced Race Guide Preview: Letting the Cat out of the Bag Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Actually, we are letting the cat out of the book. Last week, after previewing the tengu section of the Advanced Race Guide, we asked you what you wanted to see next. We received many good suggestions, but it seems that many of you wanted to see the catfolk. ... These lithe and agile creatures make excellent monks, rangers, and especially rogues, but they also have a mysterious side, as they are sometimes able to...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

Advanced Race Guide Preview: Wark, Wark, Wark!—Tengu Equipment

Advanced Race Guide Preview: Wark, Wark, Wark! Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Some time ago I played in a campaign that Jason Bulmahn was running. One of the many highlights of the campaign was Chuko. This was James Jacobs's tengu character, who always shouted Wark! when he was excited. My whole conception of tengus comes from Chuko. They are strange little creatures that steal and mark things with flags. Tengus can be unreasonable and stupidly heroic. Chuko was not the sharpest egg in the nest, just a...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

Advanced Race Guide Preview: Kill it With Fire!—Fire Bomber (Alchemist)

Advanced Race Guide Preview: Kill it With Fire! Tuesday, May 1, 2012 Everyone knows goblins have an unnatural love of fire. They love to see it flicker and burn to the sounds of their enemies' screams. While goblin adventurers, in an effort to get along with other more squeamish races, may control their pyromaniac urgings, others learn to harness that power and focus it into devastating force. ... Of course, since the goblin section of the Advanced Race Guide has plenty of options for fiery...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

Versatility is a Human Virtue

Versatility is a Human Virtue Tuesday, April 24, 2012 ... Illustration by Eric BraddockWhen planning out Advanced Race Guide we knew that humans were going to give us some trouble. What do you give the race that has the cleanest slate and the most open-ended bonus options? We sat down and had to ask what makes humans... well, human. ... We came up with a short list of human virtues. One of the strongest human virtues on the list was versatility. Humans are downright tenacious in their ability...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

A New Leaf for Companions—Plant Companions

A New Leaf for Companions Tuesday, April 17, 2012Hey, everyone. Last week we got a little sidetracked, but we are back this week with the promised preview of the Advanced Race Guide. As part of the treesinger druid archetype, elves can gain a number of plant companions in place of a druid’s normal natural bond ability. Below you will find the full rules for these leafy companions. ... Plant CompanionsEach plant companion has different starting sizes, speed, attacks, ability scores, and...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

Advanced Race Guide: Art Preview

Advanced Race Guide: Art Preview Thursday, April 12, 2012We wrested our Advanced Race Guide preview back out of the hands of Tuesday's pernicious pirates. Inside this upcoming tome of cutting-edge characters and radical races you'll find all the information you need on creating members of all three of the races previewed here, along with any other exotic beings you’ve ever wanted to play or can possibly imagine. Check back next Tuesday for your first look at some of the Advanced Race Guide's...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

The Advanced Race Guide is Coming!

The Advanced Race Guide is Coming! Tuesday, April 3, 2012We've been talking about it for many months now, but we're finally getting close to the release of the Advanced Race Guide. So, the time has come to start giving you some previews of this hefty tome of racial options and lore. ... To start, I thought I'd give you an overview of what to expect in the book. Inside, you will find four large, meaty chapters, filled with rules and information concerning all of the core races and just about...
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Carnage at Your Fingertips

Carnage at Your Fingertips Tuesday, March 27, 2012Do you like your combats bloody? When you score a critical hit or your enemy fumbles, do you want viscera to spray across the screen in you mind? Do you like the sound of your vanquished foe’s body slam against the walls of that cliff you threw him down? Then you probably already have the GameMastery Critical Hit Deck and Critical Fumble Deck. Paizo now offers them in digital form, as the iCrit and iFumble apps and they are available for both...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

Advanced Race Guide is Away!

Advanced Race Guide is Away! Tuesday, March 13, 2012Last week we sent the Advanced Race Guide to the printer. In the very near future we’ll be sharing some previews of this book, which is chock-full of new options for characters of all playable races. Until then, we thought we would whet your appetite by showing off this books amazing cover, painted by the lovely and talented Wayne Reynolds. ... And now, just for fun, if you were writing a caption for this cover, what would it be? You get...
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GameMastery Item Cards: Skull & Shackles

Ultimate Equipment: What's Missing?

Ultimate Equipment: What's Missing? Tuesday, March 6, 2012Now that we’re wrapping up the last of the Advanced Race Guide, the design team is starting to work on Ultimate Equipment. This hardcover will cover all kinds of mundane and magical items for the Pathfinder RPG. As we have a little time before the text goes over to the editors, we’d like to give you one last chance to provide feedback for the book. Is there a kind of magic item that you’d like to see in this book? Is there an item...
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Bride of the FAQ Attack!

Bride of the FAQ Attack! Tuesday, February 28, 2012She’s ready to pounce! ... If I have the pounce ability and I charge with a lance, do my iterative lance attacks get the extra damage multiplier from charging? ... No, for two reasons. ... One, because a lance only deals extra damage when you’re riding a charging mount—not when you are charging. ... Two, even if you have an unusual combination of rules that allows you to ignore the above limitation, it doesn’t makes sense that those iterative...
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Revenge of the Son of the FAQ Attack!

Revenge of the Son of the FAQ Attack! Tuesday, February 21, 2012It’s back, and it wants revenge! ... Inappropriately Sized Firearms (Ultimate Combat, page 136): Does this allow a Medium or smaller creature to use larger firearms of any size? ... The text of the rule is, The size of a firearm never affects how many hands you need to use to shoot it. The intent of that rule was to prevent a Medium character from using a Small rifle as a one-handed pistol; it wasn’t intended to let a Medium...
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Revenge of the FAQ Attack!

Revenge of the FAQ Attack! Tuesday, February 14, 2012Last week’s FAQ blog was so popular, we made a sequel! ... In a world where FAQs run rampant... ... What does “with” in the Special line for the Feral Combat Training feat (Ultimate Combat, page 101) mean for monks making a flurry of blows? ... Normally a monk who has natural attacks (such as a lizardfolk monk with claw attacks) cannot use those natural attacks as part of a flurry of blows (Core Rulebook 57). Feral Combat Training allows...
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FAQ Attack!

FAQ Attack! Tuesday, February 7, 2012It’s time to address some FAQs! These answers will be added to the official FAQ later this week. ... How is the negative energy affinity monster ability (Bestiary 2, page 299) supposed to work? ... The intent of this ability is that the creature is healed by negative energy (like an undead) and harmed by positive energy (like an undead); this is automatic and has nothing to do with the intent of the target or the energy-wielder. However, as written, the...
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Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Pathfinder Society Field Guide (PFRPG)

Analyzing a Magic Item Stat Block

Analyzing a Magic Item Stat Block Tuesday, January 10, 2012 ... Illustration by Damien MammolitiAs Ryan Dancey, Clark Peterson, Neil Spicer, and I work our way through the last wondrous item submissions for RPG Superstar, I've come to realize two things. One, magic item stat blocks convey a lot of information, and two, many people don't understand what goes into a magic item stat block. In this blog, I'll dissect a magic item stat block and explain what goes where, and why. ... Item Name:...
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PathfinderBattles

Pathfinder Battles Preview: One More Look at the Bad Guys

Pathfinder Battles Preview: One More Look at the Bad Guys Friday, January 6, 2012January 11th is the official release date for Pathfinder Battles: Heroes & Monsters, our first big set of prepainted miniatures produced in cooperation with WizKids! That means we have only two more chances to show off the final sculpts of minis we've previously revealed only as digital renders or pre-production samples. A few commenters on last week's preview blog also suggested some size comparison shots, which...
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PathfinderBattles

Pathfinder Battles Preview: From Digital Renders to Final Product

Pathfinder Battles Preview: From Digital Renders to Final Product Friday, December 30, 2011When we first started revealing images from the Pathfinder Battles Heroes & Monsters set, all we had to show off were the very earliest computer-rendered images from the first few weeks of production. These gave a good idea of the quality we were shooting for with this first set of prepainted miniatures, but the digital renders lacked some of the depth and paint steps of the final miniatures. ... Now...
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MysteryRace

Puzzling Races

Puzzling Races Tuesday, December 27, 2011 Last week Sean shared a list of the featured races appearing in the Advanced Race Guide. He’s a softie, intoxicated with a dose of holiday cheer, and was hopped up on the sugary goodness that is Andrew Vallas’s mom’s delicious baklava. (She sends a care package with enough for everyone in the Paizo offices just in time for Christmas and it is marvelous. Phenomenal even...but I digress.) ... This week, you get me. I’m not nearly as charitable, I’m a...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box (OGL)

Using the Beginner Box to Create a Pathfinder Society Character

Using the Beginner Box to Create a Pathfinder Society Character Monday, December 26, 2011 I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday and is looking forward to an exciting new year. I am sure quite a few folks gave or received the Beginner Box as presents this past weekend. Inside that box, there is a flyer for Pathfinder Society that includes a link to the website but no explanation of how to integrate the play or rules from the Beginner Box into use for Pathfinder Society play. ... One of the...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

Advanced Race Guide: Featured Races

... Illustration by Klaus Scherwinski Advanced Race Guide: Featured Races Tuesday, December 20, 2011Now that we’re wrapping up the last of the Advanced Race Guide, we’ve decided to give you a very early sneak peek at some of its contents. While Chapter 1 covers the races in the Core Rulebook, Chapter 2: Featured Races gives more details on many popular but less common races for the game, plus game mechanics like alternate racial traits and favored class options (like you saw for the core...
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Pathfinder Battles Preview: A Gaggle of Goblins and Gargoyles

Pathfinder Battles Preview: A Gaggle of Goblins and Gargoyles Friday, December 8, 2011Today’s preview blog marks an important milestone for the Heroes & Monsters set of prepainted Pathfinder Battles miniatures. With this preview, we’ve revealed all 40 miniatures in the set! In the few more weeks leading up to the formal release of Heroes & Monsters (looking like very early January, at this point), I’ll go back through the set and show off painted versions of early unpainted preview sculpts...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3 (OGL)

Familiar Foes

Familiar Foes Thursday, December 8, 2011Having written several of the monsters for Bestiary 3 during my long-ago days as a freelancer (I can’t believe it’s almost been 6 months since I started work as a developer!), I have a lot of reasons to be excited for its upcoming debut. While it was fun working on the beasties from various mythologies, I would be lying if I said all of my favorites came from that background, because this book is simply so packed with monsters both new and old. For...
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Tags: Carolina Eade Dmitry Burmak Jean-Baptiste Reynaud Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Tyler Walpole

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3 (OGL)

Unflinching Evil—Tzitzimitl CR 19

Unflinching Evil Tuesday, December 6, 2011 When brainstorming a new hardcover bestiary, we have many goals. These books give us an opportunity to support new Adventure Paths and other products. A new 300-plus-page volume of monsters gives us a chance to delve deep into the world’s mythologies and find new and interesting creatures from stories around the world. We get to express our love for classic creatures, exploring the genre’s rich history and smoothing out some of its wackiness. But it...
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Tags: Design Tuesdays Kieran Yanner Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

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RPGSuperstar2012

It's RPG Superstar Time!

It's RPG Superstar Time! Monday, December 5, 2011Tomorrow marks the official launch of RPG Superstar 2012, Paizo’s annual open-call RPG design competition! That means a lot of excitement here at the Paizo offices, because if this year’s Superstar is anything like the previous four, we’re about to discover some serious design talent that will help us years into the future. ... As in previous years, the final winner of this year’s RPG Superstar will receive a contract to write a Pathfinder...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3 (OGL)

Monsters Are Coming!

... Illustrations by Eric Belisle and Wayne Reynolds. Widescreen version here. Monsters Are Coming! Thursday, December 1, 2011The time draws nigh for Bestiary 3, so while you sharpen your blade and prepare your spells in advance of the monstrous onslaught, here's a little something to keep your mind on your task. ... Christopher Carey ... Editor ...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3 (OGL)

Misfit Love—Kamadan CR 4

Misfit Love Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Shhhhh... Don’t tell anyone, but here at Paizo we love our classic and misfit monsters. There is a tendency to look back at some of the oddball monsters that popped up in the sources of our youth and lament on how strange or even dumb they are. We take a different tact. Instead we revel in their strange and iconic natures. Any chance we get, we look for reason why even the most inexplicable monsters might exist in a fantasy world. ... If you’re a fan of...
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Tags: Design Tuesdays Eric Belisle Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

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PathfinderBattles

Pathfinder Battles Preview: A Frosty Black Friday!

Pathfinder Battles Preview: A Frosty Black Friday! Friday, November 17, 2011The Paizo offices may be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, but nothing can stop the relentless march of preview images for the upcoming Heroes & Monsters set! ... This week’s preview blog is a special treat in that it features only one miniature. But for my money, I think it’s the coolest miniature in the entire set! I’m talking about the Frost Giant! ... The Frost Giant towers over the other miniatures in the set,...
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Pathfinder Reference Document: Now 20% Cooler with Indexes

Pathfinder Reference Document: Now 20% Cooler with Indexes Thursday, November 24, 2011The new PRD has been out for a while now, but a new feature may have gone unnoticed by some. Recently, we've added a set of indices to the PRD (look toward the bottom of the menu on the left-hand side of the page). These indices were originally created as mobile content so that anyone trying to look up a single reference on their phones would have an easier time doing it. It quickly became obvious that we...
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Pathfinder Battles Preview: Spidery Secrets!

Pathfinder Battles Preview: Spidery Secrets! Friday, November 17, 2011With the very first Pathfinder prepainted miniatures, Pathfinder Beginner Box Heroes, in stores now, interest in the Pathfinder Battles miniatures line has really heated up. Now that many of you have our first four miniatures in hand, it should be clear that WizKids is shooting for very high quality sculpts and paint jobs on all of the Pathfinder Battles miniatures. I think Heroes & Monsters keeps up (and in some cases...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3 (OGL)

Enter the Dragon!—Young Forest Dragon CR 10

Enter the Dragon! Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Unless you’ve been trapped in jotund troll’s lair for the past few months, you’ve probably noticed that here at Paizo we’ve been exploring a number of Asian themes for the Pathfinder RPG. From the release of the ninja and samurai alternate classes in Ultimate Combat to the Jade Regent Adventure Path, we’ve definitely had the myths and monstrous challenges of the East on our minds. ... To kick off our preview of the soon-to-be-released Pathfinder...
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Tags: Design Tuesdays Jim Nelson Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3 (OGL)

Two New Kami—Shikigami CR 2

Two New Kami Thursday, November 10, 2011 We’re coming up on the release of Bestiary 3 in the near future, and as readers of the Jade Regent Adventure Path have noticed, we’re already using monsters from that book in the adventures! This is more or less a necessity, since when you travel to the far side of the world, you expect to see brand-new creatures and monsters, after all. We’ve been filling the Jade Regent bestiaries with all sorts of monsters inspired from Asian mythology and folklore,...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

So, you're new here?—Core Rulebook

So, you're new here? Tuesday, November 8, 2011With the release of the Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box, there are bound to be some new folks here on the blog. One of the questions we get from time to time concerning the line of RPG products is: Where do I start and what is required for me to play? So, I thought I would take this blog to go over the existing core RPG products, telling you what you need to upgrade to the full game and what you can expect to find in each of the hardcover books. ......
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Pathfinder Battles Preview: Crazy-Good Commons

Pathfinder Battles Preview: Crazy-Good Commons Friday, November 4, 2011Just yesterday, the fine folks from WizKids stopped by the Paizo offices to drop off the final batch of Pathfinder Battles Heroes & Monsters miniatures. I now have, sitting on my desk, actual production-run copies of all 41 miniatures in the set, from the lowly Goblin Warrior to the mighty Huge Black Dragon. Looking at them all lined up on my desk, I’m very impressed with the quality WizKids brought to bear on this set,...
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Pathfinder Battles Preview: Spooky Salutations!

Pathfinder Battles Preview: Spooky Salutations! Friday, October 28, 2011All-Hallow’s Eve is almost upon us, so I’ve decided to shake up the regular preview regime and show off a few spooooooooky Pathfinder Battles miniatures from the forthcoming Heroes & Monsters set, regardless of their distribution rarity within the set. ... First up is the Zombie, one of the most iconic horror creatures of all time. We figured that most GMs would appreciate a horde of these undead critters, so we’ve placed...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player's Guide (OGL)

All Hallows' Eve—Frightening Encounters

All Hallows' Eve Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Its that time of year again, and if you’re anything like me, its time to run a spooky and frightful Halloween-themed game for your players. This year, we here on the design team thought we would give you a few tricks and treats to bring to the game table. ... Frightening Encounters d%EncounterAvg CRSource ... 1–82d4 skeletons2Bestiary 250 ... 9–131 dire wolf3Bestiary 278 ... 14–191d3 giant spiders3Bestiary 258 ... 20–221 vampiric mist3Bestiary 2 277...
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Pathfinder Battles Preview: Uncommon Courtesy

Pathfinder Battles Preview: Uncommon Courtesy Friday, October 21, 2011I’m pleased to report that I have now seen preproduction samples of all 41 miniatures in the Pathfinder Battles Heroes & Monsters set, and I am thrilled with how they look! At long last we have discovered the “perfect” goblin skin tone, and the big meaty Ettin finally has the proper ink wash to make him a truly menacing brute. Things are really coming together, and folks around the Paizo office are blown away by the quality...
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PFBASH

The Beginner Box Bash!

The Beginner Box Bash! Thursday, October 20, 2011Looking for a chance to check out the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Beginner Box and celebrate the biggest Pathfinder RPG release since the Core Rulebook? Then you’ll want to head to your local game store for the Beginner Box Bash! ... Venture-Captains across the world are organizing gaming days on October 29th and 30th to bring together Pathfinder players, debut the Beginner Box, teach new gamers how to play, and introduce players new and old to...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box (OGL)

Beginner Box Add-On Content is Live!

Beginner Box Add-On Content is Live! Thursday, October 20, 2011 You’ve heard all about it, you’ve seen the unboxing, and pretty soon you’ll have your hands on your own copy of the highly awaited Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box. But why wait for your first look at the Beginner Box now that paizo.com/beginnerbox is live?! ... Just follow the link, or click on the new logo to the top left of this page, to head on over to the Beginner Box page, where you’ll find tons of details on the...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

Advanced Race Guide Playtest Wrap-Up

Advanced Race Guide Playtest Wrap-Up Tuesday, October 18, 2011 ... Illustration by Scott PurdyToday is the final day of the Advanced Race Guide playtest. If you haven’t posted your comments on the playtest document, get them on the playtest messageboard today. ... I want to thank everyone who participated in the playtest and commented on the first iteration of the race builder. Your feedback is going to help us improve the system so that we can make a truly excellent tool for GMs to build...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box (OGL)

Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box Preview!

Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box Preview! Thursday, October 6, 2011 The Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box is scheduled for an October 26th release! The very first copies arrived here at the Paizo offices just this week, and we’re thrilled with how great the product looks, and how much value we managed to pack into the box. ... But don’t take my word for it! Take a look at the embedded video below, in which I open a copy of the Beginner Box and show off its shiny new contents! ... We’re enormously proud...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3 (OGL)

Advanced Race Guide Playtest

Advanced Race Guide Playtest Tuesday, October 4, 2011 ... Illustration by Francesco GrazianiFor over two years now, we've released a plethora of new classes, feats, spells, and other options for your character, but the one area we've never really explored too deeply is races. The Advanced Race Guide is going to change all that with a bunch of new races explored in detail and new options and tools based specifically on your character's race. ... Included in this mighty tome is a system for...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Combat (OGL)

Combat Maneuvers and Weapon Special Features

Combat Maneuvers and Weapon Special Features Tuesday, September 27, 2011 ... Page 199 of the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook says, “When you attempt to perform a combat maneuver, make an attack roll and add your CMB in place of your normal attack bonus. Add any bonuses you currently have on attack rolls due to spells, feats, and other effects. These bonuses must be applicable to the weapon or attack used to perform the maneuver.” That last sentence implies that some weapons apply their bonuses...
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Stealth Playtest, Round Two—Stealth

Stealth Playtest, Round Two Tuesday, September 20, 2011 ... Illustration by Christian PearceIn case you missed it, a few weeks ago the Pathfinder design team previewed some changes we were considering making to the Stealth skill. Like any design endeavor, game design benefits from iteration. After letting all of you playtest the rules and let us know what you thought of the first draft, we went back to the drawing board and made some changes based on that fantastic feedback. ... In this round...
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The Most Dangerous Site in Gaming

The Most Dangerous Site in Gaming Monday, September 19, 2011About a decade ago, the unwritten rules for success in the tabletop roleplaying game industry were rewritten by the most dangerous man in gaming. Ryan Dancey, then a vice president at Wizards of the Coast, championed the idea of open gaming. This idea was clearly crazy. Take the crown jewels of the most popular roleplaying game in history and give them away to your competition, for free? Madness! ... In retrospect, it was not so...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box (OGL)

Beginner Box Sneak Preview

Beginner Box Sneak Preview Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Learning to play the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is about to get easier than ever before, as in just a few short weeks the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box hits the shelves of a game store near you! With the imminent release of this mighty boxed set—filled to bursting with easy-to-master rules, multiple adventures, creature tokens, dice, a Flip-Mat play surface, pregenerated character sheets, tons of tools to start building...
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Tags: Clerics Iconics Kyra Monsters Ogres Orcs Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Undead

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Community Use Package: Pathfinder Society Faction Symbols

Free Stuff on Our Website!

Free Stuff on Our Website! Thursday, September 1, 2011 ... Check out our Community Use Package!So some of you may or may not know that we updated some parts of our Community Use Package the other day. Some of you may or may not know what that even means, which is a darn shame, since we put out some really cool, really free stuff that people don't even know about. In addition to the Player's Guides for each new Adventure Path we put out every six months, below is a list of some neato things...
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Encounters with Flying Cats

Encounters with Flying Cats Tuesday, August 30, 2011 ... Fresh meat! We have to keep the cave raptors downstairs fed!Hi there! My name is Meredith Kniest, and I'm the latest edition of the Paizo Intern. I've been asked to explain a bit about myself and my experience at Paizo so far, which frankly is an awesome relief from staring at Excel spreadsheets. Oh, the joys of interning. ... I'm currently a senior at the University of Washington studying English and French. After having scoured...
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Pathfinder Module: The Harrowing (PFRPG)

Stealth Playtest—Stealth

Stealth Playtest Tuesday, August 23, 2011 ... Illustration by Yngvar ApslundHere at Paizo, the design team has a host of challenges. Some of the greatest challenges come when dealing with the rules of our game that don't work as well as we would like. For a number of weeks we have been talking about the issues concerning the Stealth skill. Over the course of those conversations we have come up with many ideas to improve this skill and make its use both clearer and more playable. ... So, here...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Combat (OGL)

Ready for Combat!

... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds. Widescreen version here. Ready for Combat! Thursday, August 18, 2011With Ultimate Combat fighting its way into eager hands, it's time to adorn your desktops with some appropriate wallpaper, featuring the ever-awesome art of Wayne Reynolds. ... Christopher Carey ... Editor ...
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Early Pathfinder RPG Product Previews—Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box

Early Pathfinder RPG Product Previews Tuesday, August 16, 2011Just in case you missed the announcements and updates at Gen Con 2011, here's some news on the next few Pathfinder RPG products. ... Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box ... Pawns from the Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box.The Beginner Box contains: A 64-page player book with information on the cleric, fighter, rogue, and wizard classes up to level 5; skills; feats; equipment; and rules for combat, adventuring, and how to handle leveling up.; A...
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Gen Con Announcement Recap!

Gen Con Announcement Recap! Wednesday, August 10, 2011 ... ENnie Awards: Product of the Year ... (for the Advanced Players Guide)Whew... another Gen Con over and done with! We had a great time at the show, in no small part due to the incredible support of our fans and customers. You all are the BEST! ... In a Gen Con filled with highlights, though, for me one of the most incredible moments came about 15 minutes after the Ennie Awards wrapped up, when we went up to the Pathfinder Society...
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Tags: ENnies Gen Con Miniatures Pathfinder Adventure Path Pathfinder Battles Pathfinder Campaign Setting Pathfinder Modules Pathfinder Player Companion Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Pathfinder Tales

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It's HUGE

It's HUGE Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 08:33 PM PacificHuge Pathfinder RPG poster! ... Sean K Reynolds ... Developer ...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Combat (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Reiko

Meet the Iconics: Reiko August 4, 2011 Reiko is the iconic character for the ninja class from Ultimate Combat. To read the story for Hayato, the iconic samurai, or Lirianne, the iconic gunslinger—both classes also featured in Ultimate Combat—click here and here. ... Situated on the western coast of Minkai, Reiko’s home town of White Wave was a quiet fishing village, little more than a collection of shacks and cabins clinging to a steep cliff face overlooking the harbor. Crushed...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Combat (OGL)

Ultimate Combat Preview #3—Alchemical Dragon

Ultimate Combat Preview #3 Tuesday, August 2, 2011We are just a few short days away from the release of Ultimate Combat and many of the subscribers already have copies of this mighty battle tome on the way to their doorsteps. For those of you not so lucky, let's take a look at some of the other great material you can expect to find inside. ... Aside from the plethora of archetypes and feats, this book has a lot of other great rules and subsystems for you to use in your game. There are pages...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Combat (OGL)

Meet the Iconics: Lirianne

Meet the Iconics: Lirianne Thursday, July 28th, 2011 Lirianne is the iconic character for the gunslinger class from Ultimate Combat. To read the story for Hayato, the iconic samurai—another class featured in Ultimate Combat—click here. ... Shieldmarshal Dahmok's greatest failing was teaching his middle daughter to read. After the loss of their mother, a lively but capricious elven explorer who viewed ten years and three children as a fling, he had hoped to rear homebody children....
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Combat (OGL)

Ultimate Combat Preview #2

... Ultimate Combat Preview #2 Tuesday, July 26, 2011During the preview banquet at PaizoCon this year, I boasted that Ultimate Combat had a gigantic feats chapter, which started off with a seven-page table, summarizing all the feats. While that is impressive, I realized later that I made a mistake—the feats table is nine pages long! ... This week we're going to take a look at the feats chapter a bit more closely, since it is such an important part of this book. This chapter contains 256...
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Tags: Design Tuesdays Dmitry Burmak Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Combat (OGL)

Ultimate Combat Preview #1

... Ultimate Combat Preview #1 Tuesday, July 19, 2011Time slips by so quickly during the summer months that it seems like a new rulebook is just around the corner. As it turns out, Ultimate Combat is due to release in just a few weeks. From now until Gen Con, we will be showing off some of the exciting new options for characters and GMs alike that hide inside this blood-drenched tome. ... To kick things off, I can think of no better way than to take a look at the classes chapter of Ultimate...
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Tags: Design Tuesdays Mauricio Herrera Paladins Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

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Outmaneuvered II: Revenge of the Grappled

... Outmaneuvered II: Revenge of the Grappled Tuesday, July 12, 2011About a month ago I was punished... er.., I mean rewarded with the task of answering questions about combat maneuvers in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. The blog was so well received that I quickly promised to do another one in short order. Well, projects flew by, and I got pulled away, and short order dragged out into weeks, but now I'm back, and here to answer more pressing questions about combat maneuvers. Ready? ......
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Tags: Design Tuesdays Grapple Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Tyler Walpole

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Surviving Dagon...

... Surviving Dagon... Tuesday, July 5, 2011If you've ever crawled out from the depths of the Abyssal sea of Ishiar after battling Dagon and his infinite number of monstrous creations for days on end, you may have an idea of what finals week of my last quarter at Western was like. The stress was immense, and I'm just as confused as you are as to what the Shadow in the Sea was doing in Bellingham, Washington. Nonetheless, I emerged victorious—or at least alive. When I found out I got the...
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Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Rival Guide (PFRPG)

Outmaneuvered

... Outmaneuvered Tuesday, June 7, 2011Even in the midst of PaizoCon preparation, the design staff just loves those crazy little rules questions that pop up on the messageboards, during actual play, or that just randomly stray into our heads when we are designing an archetype or putting the finishing touches on a monster. Since I just returned from Comicpalooza in Houston, I had a number of those questions come up while conversing with players or that popped up during play, and shared those...
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Tags: Allison Theus Animals Anti-Paladins Design Tuesdays Grapple Pathfinder Campaign Setting Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

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Pathfinder Chronicles: Seekers of Secrets—A Guide to the Pathfinder Society (PFRPG)

Ultimate Cantrips

... Ultimate Cantrips Tuesday, May 24, 2011 ... Illustration by Craig J Spearing ... It didn't take long for many of you to notice that there were no 0-level spells in Ultimate Magic. We made finding this omission easy when we inadvertently left some 0-level spell names in the section containing sample spellbooks. While future printings of the book will fix this problem by deleting the mention of those 0-level spells, until then, we thought you might like to see the developed 0-level spells...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic (OGL)

Powerful Words

... Powerful Words Tuesday, May 17, 2011It is just about here. The newest addition to the Pathfinder RPG line releases this week and you should be able to find Ultimate Magic online or at your local game store any day now. For our final look into this mighty tome of magic, we are going to look at the Words of Power chapter. ... Words of power is an alternative system of spellcasting that allows the wordcaster to create spells using any of the words that he knows. While these spells still...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box (OGL)

Adventure Begins Here!

... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Adventure Begins Here! Wednesday, May 11, 2011The first RPG product I ever purchased came in a red box, with a fighter laying the smack down on a red dragon. I was 12 and I've never stopped gaming since. I suspect that this fall some young whippersnappers will see this Beginner Box, pick it up, and begin their own journey into this great hobby of ours. With this amazing art from Wayne Reynolds, how can they not? And what can you do to make their journey...
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Tags: Dragons Elves Ezren Iconics Merisiel Monsters Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Rogues Wallpapers Wayne Reynolds Wizards

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic (OGL)

Feat of Magic

... Feat of Magic Tuesday, May 10, 2011Due to hit subscribers and store shelves in just a few days, we are continuing our look into Ultimate Magic. This week we are diving into the feats chapter, with a bonus look at spells. ... At 20 pages long, the feats chapter is by no means huge, but it does feature a little something for just about every spellcaster in the game, with a few options for nonspellcasters thrown in for good measure. While a number of these feats are here to complement one of...
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Tags: Bards Design Tuesdays Halflings Iconics Lem Monsters Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Tyler Walpole Undead

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box (OGL)

The Beginner Box

... The Beginner Box Thursday, May 5, 2011 For many months now, a good portion of the staff here at Paizo has been slaving away in secret, working on a project that has only been mentioned in hushed tones and vague inferences. While its existence has become common knowledge, few outside the halls of Paizo know much about this rumored product. Well, the time for secrecy is over! Now it is time to take our first look at the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Beginner Box! ... Personally, I have wanted...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic (OGL)

Magus Preview

Magus Preview Tuesday, April 26, 2011 ... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Every Tuesday until the book's release, we are going to be digging into some of the new rules and options you will find in Ultimate Magic. After a bit of a mix up last week, this week we are going to take a look at the new base class, the magus, and the archetypes slated to appear in this book. ... From its first appearance as part of the playtest of this book, the magus has gone through a number of iterations. The...
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Tags: Design Tuesdays Elves Iconics Magi Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Seltyiel Wayne Reynolds

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic (OGL)

Ultimate Magic: Witches and Wizards—New Familiars

... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Ultimate Magic: Witches and Wizards Tuesday, April 19, 2011This week's theme is witches and wizards: two new familiars, two new patron themes, and two arcane discoveries. New Familiars The following are two of the many new familiars presented in Ultimate Magic. ... Fox    CR 1/4 ... XP 100 ... N Tiny animal ... Init +2; Senses low-light vision, scent; Perception +8 ... Defense ... AC 14, touch 14, flat-footed 12 (+2 Dex, +2 size) ... hp 5...
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Tags: Design Tuesdays Familiars Feiya Iconics Kieran Yanner Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Wallpapers Witches Wizards

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic (OGL)

Magic Archetypes

... Magic Archetypes Tuesday, April 12, 2011For the next month or so, every Tuesday we are going to be digging into some of the new rules and options you will find in Ultimate Magic, which is due to release in May. This week, we'll take a look at some of the new archetypes that take up a full 32 pages of this 256 page tome. ... One of the first things you will notice about this book is that the new classes from the Advanced Player's Guide receive archetypes in this book (except the cavalier,...
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Tags: Alchemists Archetypes Clerics Design Tuesdays Eric Belisle Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Undead

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic (OGL)

Ultimate Magic Previews Start Next Week!

Ultimate Magic Previews Start Next Week! Tuesday, April 5, 2011 The newest hardcover for the Pathfinder RPG, Ultimate Magic, is scheduled to ship mid-May, so for the next six weeks we're previewing material from the book. Get ready for: New options and archetypes for every base spellcasting class; More information on the magus class and Words of Power system; New familiars; New magical feats; New spell descriptors and new spells; Guidelines for designing new spells. ... Stay tuned! ......
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Pathfinder Campaign Setting: The Inner Sea World Guide (PFRPG)

Monkey See, Monkey Do? An FAQ on Intelligent Animals

... Illustration by Mauricio Herrera ... Monkey See, Monkey Do? An FAQ on Intelligent Animals Tuesday, March 29, 2011This is an odd FAQ item that we see pop up on occasion in a variety of different places. What happens when an animal gets an increased Intelligence score? There are a lot of different ways this can happen, and a number of strange routes that a GM could take when resolving this issue. Today, we are going to attempt to untangle this particular knot and see if we can't come up...
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I Drank What? An FAQ on Poison

... I Drank What? An FAQ on Poison Tuesday, March 22, 2011 For quite a while now there has been a bit of confusion on how poison is applied in the Pathfinder RPG. While the application of a single dose is simple enough, the rules allow for the stacking of poisons that causes them to combine into a more powerful effect. There are, unfortunately, some timing issues with these rules that can make poisons a bit tricky to adjudicate during play. Since this issue is a bit more complex than your...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Manipulating Terrain

... Manipulating Terrain Tuesday, March 15, 2011For the last installment of the Design Tuesday blog on terrain, we are going to look at a relatively new type of terrain—terrain that you can actively manipulate. This kind of terrain can grant a creature a variety of effects, from an attack, to cover, to a special or enhanced mode of movement. ... Some of the examples of this type of terrain will look familiar. Much of it can already be found within existing encounters. Where this is the...
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Tags: Animals Bards Design Tuesdays Dwarves Halflings Harsk Iconics Lem Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Rangers Terrain Wallpapers

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Hazardous Terrain

... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Hazardous Terrain Tuesday, March 8, 2011In last week's Design Tuesday blog, I delved into the importance of terrain to push your encounter design to the next level, and provided you with some design philosophy to ponder when designing your own terrain. This week, I'm back with some concrete examples. ... The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game assumes combatants are able to use their movement abilities with little or no hindrance. Sure, there are walls, doors,...
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Tags: Design Tuesdays Dwarves Fighters Harsk Iconics Kieran Yanner Paladins Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Rangers Seelah Terrain Valeros Wallpapers

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Gunslinger Reloaded

Gunslinger Reloaded Monday, March 7, 2011Are you ready for some more fun with fantasy firearms? Well, ready or not, we are unleashing the second round of the Ultimate Combat playtest! In this round, we're bringing you the updated version of the gunslinger—a full 1–20 class in its own right, unhinged from the fighter class. This new version of the gunslinger has more deeds, many of the older deeds have been reshuffled and repriced, and we are providing you with more guns to play...
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Pathfinder #7—Curse of the Crimson Throne Chapter 1:

Design Tuesday: Fun with Terrain—First Things First

... Illustration by Kevin Yan ... Design Tuesday: Fun with Terrain Tuesday, March 1, 2011When designing an encounter, it's tempting to focus the majority of your attention on the mix of monsters and villains. After all, coming up with interesting enemy synergies and evocative scenes of terror, threat, and evil-doing go a long way in making encounters both memorable and fun. Often neglected, though, is making sure that the setting you place these bad guys in offers both threat and opportunity...
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Spell Design: Depletable Statistics

... Spell Design: Depletable Statistics Tuesday, February 8, 2011We're just about ready to send Ultimate Magic off to the printer! The last chapter is a big collection of spells, and Chapter 2 includes a 12-page section about spell design, complete with an analysis of what goes in the spell stat block and benchmarks of good, typical, and poor spells for each spell level. One of the topics discussed in that section is the idea of depletable statistics—numbers in a creature's stat block...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Condition Cards (PFRPG)

We Love Goblins!

... Illustrations by Andrew Hou. Wallpaper design by Crystal Frasier. ... We Love Goblins! Friday, February 4, 2011We definitely love goblins here at Paizo. In fact, more than anything we love them blinded, helpless, and fascinated. And with this new wallpaper, you can too! This wallpaper uses artwork from the soon-to-arrive Condition Cards, the latest Game Mastery card set from Paizo. With these cards you'll be able to easily keep track of the Pathfinder RPG's most common conditions, making...
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GameMastery Item Cards: Carrion Crown Deck

The Magic Item Will See You Now

... The Magic Item Will See You Now Tuesday, February 1, 2011Welcome to the final installment of a three-part series of Design Tuesday blogs exploring Intelligent Magic Items. Part 1 of this series can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. ... Intelligent Magic Items: Part 3 ... We've looked at how you design the history and the mechanics behind intelligent magic items, but now its time to put this information to use and look at some sample intelligent magic items. Using some art from the...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Combat (OGL)

Ultimate Combat Playtest Away!

Ultimate Combat Playtest Away! Monday, January 24, 2011Surprise! It's playtest time again. ... Today we are unleashing the playtest for Ultimate Combat, a new sourcebook for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, due to be released later this year. In this playtest you'll get a first shot at playing the gunslinger, ninja, and samurai alternative classes. ... Each alternative class gives you 20 full levels of blazing barrels, silent death, or relentless resolve, depending on the class. You can find...
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GameMastery Item Cards: Carrion Crown Deck

In Soviet Pathfinder, Ring Wears You!

In Soviet Pathfinder, Ring Wears You! Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Welcome to the second installment of a three-part series of Design Tuesday blogs exploring Intelligent Magic Items. Part 1 of this series can be found here. ... Intelligent Magic Items: Part 2 ... Last week, we examined the basics of adding an intelligent magic item to your campaign. This week, we are investigating the process of determining the powers and abilities of intelligent magic items. While this process is not too...
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Pathfinder Campaign Setting: The Inner Sea World Guide (PFRPG)

Long Live The Gorilla King!

... Illustrations by Mauricio Herrera and Peter Lazarski. Widescreen version here. ... Long Live The Gorilla King! Friday, January 14, 2010It's no secret that I love gorillas, apes, and monkeys. My avatar here at Paizo is a monkey, my personal Facebook icon for a long time was a Bili Ape, and I'm always calling my kids little monkeys. (They are the Savage Horde, after all.) When I asked the art department to create a series of wallpapers, you can only imagine my delight when Crystal showed me...
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GameMastery Item Cards: Carrion Crown Deck

Pathfinder to get the new Smart Sword

... Pathfinder to get the new Smart Sword Tuesday, January 11, 2011Welcome to the first Design Tuesday blog, a series of blogs that explore the rules of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Over the next few weeks, we're going to be exploring intelligent magic items and how to use them in your game. ... Intelligent Magic Items: Part 1 ... Adding magic items to your game is already a time-consuming process. As a GM, you must evaluate the party's needs, look at their wealth levels, and assign...
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Pathfinder Chronicles: Guide to Korvosa (OGL)

Golarion Day: Return of the Sable Company

Golarion Day: Return of the Sable Company Thursday, January 6, 2010Howdy, everyone! So, hot on the heels of the announcement of Design Tuesdays, I'm here to unveil the first installment of Golarion Day! Every Thursday, we'll try to do a post that expands the world of Golarion in some small way. Sometimes, this might be a tiny new rules element. Other times, it might be a bit of lore. It could be a brief look into an upcoming product or an interview with someone who's worked on the world of...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: GameMastery Guide (OGL)

Design Tuesdays

... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Design Tuesdays Tuesday, January 4, 20112011 is here at last, and with the start of the new year, we've got a new program that we are happy to unveil. Every Tuesday, you are going to see a blog from one of the members of the design team (that being Sean K Reynolds, Stephen Radney MacFarland, or myself), looking into the mechanics of the game and giving you tips, tricks, and tools to make your game run smoothly and easily. ... I am hoping to use these...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 (OGL)

Release the Hordes!

... Illustrations by Eric Belisle and Wayne Reynolds. Widescreen version here. ... Release the Hordes! December 31, 2010It’s the last day of 2010, and once again the Paizo offices are closed, this time in honor of the new year. It’s been an amazing 2010 here at Paizo, and we managed to cap it with a great new hardcover book. Bestiary 2 has begun to arrive in stores and in hands around the world, making it easy to surprise your players with new monsters during your games this weekend. Bestiary...
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Tags: Crystal Frasier Dragons Eric Belisle Gremlins Paizo Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Proteans Wallpapers Wayne Reynolds

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic (OGL)

Ultimate Magus Feedback

... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Ultimate Magus Feedback Tuesday, December 14, 2010As you can imagine, life around here is all about Ultimate Magic. So being the new entity, I get to write a bit in the blog about the project. I know; it's a rough life. ... You rules junkies will already know all about this, but one of the great parts of the book is the new base class—the magus. If you're anything like me, some days you wake up and ask yourself: How do I kill my enemies today,...
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Yetisburg: Titanic Battles in History, Volume 1

Extra, Extra, Read All About It!

... Extra, Extra, Read All About It! Thursday, December 9, 2010The past year has been a great one for Paizo and Pathfinder and we've been happy to help spread the Pathfinder message far and wide. Last week we had the opportunity to sit down with the fine folks from the Atomic Array podcast. It's their 50th episode and they wanted to make it a Pathfinder show, so we had James Jacobs take the time to talk to them about the upcoming Inner Sea World Guide hardcover (due in February). They also...
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Tags: Falling Goblins Hyrum Savage Paizo Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Pathfinder Tales Prince of Wolves Yetisburg

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Magus Revisited

... Magus Revisited Monday, December 6, 2010Today begins the third round of the Ultimate Magic playtest, with another look at the new magus base class. This is a class that many of you have already been playing with since the first playtest round a few months ago. We took a great deal of your feedback and heavily revised a number of elements of this class. While it is not yet perfect, it is a huge step in the right direction. ... The magus blends the powers of both a fighter and a wizard, and...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic (OGL)

Ultimate Magic Playtest

... Ultimate Magic Playtest Monday, November 22, 2010Welcome to the second part of the playtest of Ultimate Magic, a new sourcebook for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, due to be released early next year. ... We received a great deal of valuable feedback on the new magus class, but now we are going to take a look at something quite a bit different. This section of the playtest takes a look at a new way of using magic in the game with Words of Power. This system allows spellcasters to build...
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Introducing Paizo's Newest Monsters

... Introducing Paizo's Newest Monsters Wednesday, November 17, 2010Last week we showed you a few pictures of the first few copies of Bestiary 2 to straggle into the office. But we've been remiss in introducing the Pathfinder community at large to the two newest monsters to grace Paizo HQ with their presence. They showed up here around the same time I started at the company, so it's easy to see why their arrival slipped under the radar. They serve as the official golem watch-monsters,...
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Where Do I Hang My Greatsword?

... Where Do I Hang My Greatsword? Monday, November 15, 2010Coming to work at Paizo is like coming home. When I first started working at Wizards of the Coast I worked with Erik, had regular chats with Jason, and Lisa and Sean were always nearby, stalking the shadows, waiting to strike. ... Those were good times and I'm looking forward to revive them in my new digs. I'm excited about doing more work on the Pathfinder RPG. Throughout the development of 4e I watched its rise with keen interest....
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 (OGL)

Celebrating Take Your Monster to Work Day

... Celebrating Take Your Monster to Work Day Thursday, November 11, 2010Most of us aren't in the office today. But the printer proof of Bestiary 2 is! ... Wes Schneider ... Managing Editor ...
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Neoncon

Jason & Sean at Neoncon!

... Jason & Sean at Neoncon! Thursday, November 4, 2010This weekend designers Jason Bulmahn and Sean K Reynolds will be prowling the Las Vegas strip under the pretext of being guests at Neoncon. If you're planning on attending Neoncon, make sure you seek those guys out and say hi! If you have pseudo-celebrity paralysis, though, and need more of an icebreaker, I've included some suggestions along with their schedules below. And don't worry, while he looks scary, it's the other one you need to...
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Tags: Cards Community Conventions GameMastery Jason Bulmahn Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Sean K Reynolds

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Pathfinder Campaign Setting: The Inner Sea World Guide (PFRPG)

Tom Rex Found some Dinosaur Art for you Delicious People!

Tom Rex Found some Dinosaur Art for you Delicious People! Friday, October 29, 2010Greetings, meat-flavored fans! What's the scoop? Tom noticed that there is a shocking... no, criminal lack of dinosaur-themed art on this blog. Tom realized this when the Boss changed his messageboard avatar that there was unknown dinosaur artwork lurking on Paizo's servers. Tom likes dinosaur pictures, because they inspire Tom. And because Tom is so much more handsome in real life, dinosaur art makes Tom feel...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 (OGL)

Mega Monster Meltdown!

Mega Monster Meltdown! Tuesday, October 26, 2010All these Bestiary 2 monsters are CR 20 or higher. Deal with it! ... If you can. ... Illustration by Eric BelisleIllustration by Eva Widermann ... Illustrations by Jorge Maese ... Wes Schneider ... Managing Editor ...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 (OGL)

It Came from the Public Domain!

... It Came from the Public Domain! Friday, October 8, 2010In penance for yesterday's blog post being all mean about not giving out new art and punishing folks and all that, I present to you four more monsters from the upcoming Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 2! What do these monsters all have in common? They're all based on monsters that come from mythology or the public domain—see if you can recognize any of them! Look for Bestiary 2 in bookstores, hobby stores, and on paizo.com...
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Tags: Animals Bunyips Dean Spencer Lovecraft Monsters Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Scott Purdy Tyler Walpole Wendigo

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic (OGL)

Ultimate Magic

... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Ultimate Magic Tuesday, October 5, 2010With Bestiary 2 down, it's time to start working on the next massive hardcover: Ultimate Magic. Check back at this spot soon for details on the second part of the Ultimate Magic playtest. ... Wes Schneider ... Managing Editor ...
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Tags: Alahazra Iconics Magi Monsters Oracles Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Seltyiel Undead Wayne Reynolds

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 (OGL)

Vanquished Beasts!

... Vanquished Beasts! Friday, October 1, 2010If you've been paying attention over the last few weeks, you've probably noticed a lot of talk about the whole office putting great effort into wrapping up the forthcoming Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 2. Well, as of the end of the day Wednesday, the beasts—over 300 of them— were successfully wrangled into line, made to look sharp, and shipped off to the printer. Look for Bestiary 2 in bookstores, hobby stores, and on paizo.com...
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Tags: Agathions Craig J Spearing Dragons Eric Belisle Eva Widermann Hector Ortiz Mercanes Monsters Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Vermin

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Pathfinder Module: The Godsmouth Heresy (PFRPG)

Nobody Expects an Intro Set!

... Illustration by Florian Stitz ... Nobody Expects an Intro Set! Thursday, September 30, 2010This past Monday I spoiled on the Paizo Twitter feed that we're beginning the process of working on a Pathfinder intro set. Jason quickly retweeted it and it spread from there. So, what do we mean exactly when we say an intro set? First off we're not 100% sure of anything yet. What we do know is that it'll be useful for more than a couple of sessions, will be a great PFRPG teaching tool, and will...
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ThatsJustWhatTheAbolethsWantYouToThink

Inside the Pit: Monster Design 101

Inside the Pit: Monster Design 101 Monday, September 27, 2010Now that Bestiary 2 is wrapping up and Misfit Monsters Redeemed will soon arrive in all its flumph-loving, snail-flailing glory, Wes has asked me to give you all a quick lesson in monster concept design. Although everybody approaches monster design differently, while developing Misfit Monsters, we decided to codify certain key design principles by illustrating them on the Editorial Pit whiteboard. The attached image, sometimes known...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 (OGL)

2 Many Monsters!

... 2 Many Monsters! Tuesday, September 21, 2010This is the final week of editing before we ship the Bestiary 2 off to the printer and that means the whole office is neck deep in monsters. Since we've nowhere else to put them in the ever-more-crowded editorial pit, I thought a nice way to get them out from underfoot would be to exile a few to the blog. So here are a handful of beasties we no longer need immediately on hand. Enjoy! ... Art by Damian MammolitiArt by Andrew Hou ... Art by...
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Tags: Andrew Hou Damian Mammoliti Dragons Florian Stitz Golems Hippogriffs Monsters Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Qlippoth

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic (OGL)

Ultimate Magic Playtest

... Ultimate Magic Playtest Monday, September 20, 2010 ... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Welcome to the playtest of the Ultimate Magic, a new sourcebook for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, due to be released early next year. ... The playtest begins with a look at the Magus, a brand-new base class that blends the powers of a wizard with the martial prowess of a fighter. You can find this class as a free PDF in your downloads up at the top of this page or at this link. Once you have...
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Prepare to Play with Fire

... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Prepare to Play with Fire Friday, September 17, 2010The open playtest for Ultimate Magic begins Monday. ... Wes Schneider ... Managing Editor ...
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Bestiary Breakdown

Bestiary Breakdown Tuesday, September 7, 2010Greetings, fun-sized friend morsels! What's the scoop? Tom Rex here, bringing you the latest that's outrageous, from the present to the Cretaceous! (Tom wrote that himself. Tom took some poetry classes in college.) And today that means another blog picking up the slack from James Jacobs. ... According to Boss Sutter, Jacobs was supposed to write a blog post titled Bestiary Breakdown. Which is accurate because, thanks to the Bestiary 2, James Jacobs...
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Exiles of Zirnakaynin, with Special Guest Stars

... Exiles of Zirnakaynin, with Special Guest Stars Thursday, August 26, 2010After a long hiatus because of convention season, the drow nobles game continued with a hunt for the kidnapped acting matron of the House Azrinae—and split into two groups of PCs when Ylvirixna (Rob McCreary) and Alivora (James Jacobs) decided the matron (decerebrated by mi-go) was no longer in charge and ran off with her body. Confounded by this betrayal, Rackutio (Josh Frost), Phyxafein (Tim Nightengale), and...
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Tags: Demons Drow Exiles of Zirnakaynin Monsters Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Playtest

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Best Game

... Best Game Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 07:06 PM PacificAmidst some incredible competition... Gold goes to Pathfinder RPG! ... Lisa Stevens ... CEO
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Best Monster/adversary

... Best Monster/adversary Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 06:48 PM PacificSilver: Classic Horrors Revisited ... Gold: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary ... Lisa Stevens ... CEO
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Best Aid or Accessory

... Best Aid or Accessory Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 06:29 PM PacificGold for Pathfinder RPG GM Screen! ... Lisa Stevens ... CEO
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Best Free Product

... Best Free Product Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 06:01 PM PacificGold for APG Playtest! ... We were rooting for Wayfinder! ... Lisa Stevens ... CEO
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Best Production Values

... Best Production Values Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 05:47 PM PacificGold for Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook! ... Lisa Stevens ... CEO
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Best Interior Art

... Best Interior Art Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 05:40 PM PacificGold for Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook! ... Lisa Stevens ... CEO
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Best Cover Art

... Best Cover Art Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 05:36 PM PacificGold for Pathfinder RPG Bestiary! ... Lisa Stevens ... CEO
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 (OGL)

Chaos Unleashed!

... Chaos Unleashed! Friday, July 30, 2010 ... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Before the spoilers start rolling at Gen Con next week, behold the cover to your Bestiary 2! ... Tune in Monday to see if we can top this incredible cover. ... Wes Schneider ... Managing Editor ...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player's Guide (OGL)

Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Preview #5

... Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Preview #5 Thursday, July 29, 2010The Advanced Player's Guide releases in just one week and already boxes and boxes are on their way to your FLGS and subscriber copies are shipping out. One week from today, we will all be at Gen Con, handing out copies of this meaty rulebook. But that's next week. Today we have the final preview of the book, taking a look at prestige classes and some of the new rules found in the APG. ... There are eight prestige classes...
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Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Preview #4

... Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Preview #4 Thursday, July 22, 2010Two weeks and counting until the start of Gen Con 2010 and the release of the Advanced Player's Guide. If you have not already done so, you might want to reserve it with your FLGS or order online now. To help encourage you to pick up this hefty tome, I am giving you a guided tour of the goodies inside. In the past weeks we have looked at some new race and class material. This week we will be jumping around quite a bit,...
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2010 ENnie Award Voting Begins!

2010 ENnie Award Voting Begins! Friday, July 16, 2010Voting begins today for the 2010 ENnie Awards, so drop whatever you're doing and head on over to the ballot box at EN World! ... Voting continues through July 25th, but don't wait! Vote for your favorite games, products, and publishers today!To remind you before you head off to cast your votes, here's what Paizo and some of our incredibly talented friends are in the running for! ... Best Adventure Pathfinder AP #31: Stolen Land (Paizo...
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2010 ENnie Award Nominations!

... 2010 ENnie Award Nominations! Tuesday, July 13, 2010Nominations for the 2010 ENnie Awards are live and we couldn't be blown farther away! Paizo products are up for awards in 11 categories, with related Pathfinder projects showing in even more. Unbelievable! A huge thank you from all of us here at Paizo to all of our readers for your endless enthusiasm and help in expanding our rules and worlds, as well as boundless appreciation to everyone at ENWorld for organizing and hosting one of the...
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Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Preview #2

... Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Preview #2 Thursday, July 8, 2010The start of Gen Con 2010 is four weeks away, which means in just one month, the Advanced Player's Guide will be hitting game stores and subscriber mailboxes. In anticipation of this mighty sourcebook, I am taking you on a guided tour, touching on some of the highlights each week until release. Last week we took at look at the races chapter and the new alternate favored class bonuses. This week we are diving into Chapter...
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Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Preview #1

... Illustration by Alex Aparin ... Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Preview #1 Thursday, July 1, 2010The start of Gen Con 2010 is five weeks away, which means that the Advanced Player's Guide will be hitting game stores and subscriber mailboxes in just over one month. To celebrate the release of this impressive tome, we are going to be previewing parts of it every week until its release. Last week we recapped the information from the PaizoCon APG Preview Banquet. This week we are going to...
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My Magical Week at Paizo

My Magical Week at Paizo Monday, June 28, 2010 When Erik Mona called me during my weekly game of Council of Thieves, I suspected it was for some purpose other than to earn me a free reroll. (Note: Any time a Paizo employee calls you during a Pathfinder game, it is required that your GM allow you one rerolled d20.) Erik’s reason for the call was to ask me to stay in Seattle a week longer than I’d planned after PaizoCon in order to help fill the massive Inner Sea map for the Pathfinder...
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Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Preview Banquet Recap

... Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Preview Banquet Recap Tuesday, June 22, 2010With PaizoCon 2010 officially in the books, it's time to start looking forward to the Advanced Player's Guide, which releases in early August at Gen Con. On Saturday night, during the banquet, I gave a nice long preview of the book, and wanted to make sure that everyone who was not able to attend also had a chance to hear about some of the exciting new rules and features in this mighty tome. ... First off, we...
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How to run the Pathfinder RPG

... How to run the Pathfinder RPG Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:00 PM PacificJason and James host a panel on GMing for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. ... Ross Byers ... Assistant Software Developer
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GameMastery Guide Preview: It's Here!

... GameMastery Guide Preview: It's Here! Thursday, June 17, 2010 ... Illustration by Andrew Hou ... As I write this Cosmo is standing in our warehouse, shin deep in packing Styrofoam, yelling about peanuts to anyone who passes by. Such strangeness might be chalked up to the daunting nature of his task—though it is hard to tell with Cos—as he's surrounded by huge walls of boxes filled with books. Guides, of a sort. GameMastery Guides, even. Which he's helping to ship out right now....
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GameMastery Guide Preview: New Rules!

... GameMastery Guide Preview: New Rules! Friday, June 11, 2010In the past several GameMastery Guide previews I've talked a lot about the awesome art, the helpful tables, and the tidbits of advice from some of the best GMs in gaming, but in a lot of ways—as useful and inspirational as all of that can be—that's dressing. What many GMs crave is new techniques in their repertoires and new weapons in their arsenals. In short: new rules. ... We've got that. ... Aside from all the handy...
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GameMastery Guide Preview: More Art!

... Illustration by Alex Aparin ... GameMastery Guide Preview: More Art! Friday, June 4, 2010To celebrate the return of our globetrotting senior art directorix, this week's preview takes another look between the words of the GameMastery Guide at more awesome art! Welcome back, Sarah! ... Illustration by Christopher BurdettIllustration by Eva Widermann ... Next week, the wait's almost over, so it's time for the penultimate GameMastery Guide preview! ... Wes Schneider ... Managing Editor ...
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Advanced Player's Guide: It's Real!

... Advanced Player's Guide: It's Real! Thursday, June 3, 2010At last! Evidence of our last several months of hard work! Four printer proof copies of the Advanced Players Guide arrived today for our yay or nay before the full print run gets underway. But after an hour of scrutiny, gushing, and cackling, it's an emphatic yay! Just check it out! Sorry, folks, subscriber copies are still several weeks out, but if you don't have a copy spoken for already, well... Watch this spot for previews of...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 (OGL)

Rejected Bestiary 2 Ideas

... Illustration by Sean K Reynolds ... Rejected Bestiary 2 Ideas Wednesday, June 2, 2010Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 is in development, and part of the development process is making interesting connections between existing monsters to give GMs ideas for neat encounters. The achaierai is a lawful evil, four-legged, intelligent, predatory flightless bird-creature that lives in the lower planes. Kytons are lawful evil outsiders and can sometimes be found on the lower planes. As both...
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GameMastery Guide Preview: Do it Yourself!

... GameMastery Guide Preview: Do it Yourself! Friday, May 28, 2010I'm really fond of all of Pathfinder's Adventure Paths. Being able to pick out my ideas, or having art for villains or creatures I invented, or hearing about how players contended with challenges we came up with all does my inner GM proud. But although we encourage every GM to tinker and make any of our published adventures theirs, there's a rich sense of satisfaction in knowing that your players have enjoyed the story you...
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GameMastery Guide Preview: Things Get Weird!

... GameMastery Guide Preview: Things Get Weird! Friday, May 21, 2010 ... Let me let you in on one of the guiding philosophies of the GameMastery Guide. We didn’t make this book to let you run my game, or a “Paizo-brand” game, or any sort of game anyone here thinks you should run. We created the GameMastery Guide to give you the tools you need to run your game the way you want. For example, let me note a few entries in the index: Airships; Evil Characters; Extraterrestrials; Gambling;...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player's Guide (OGL)

Advanced Player’s Guide Cover Revealed!

Advanced Player’s Guide Cover Revealed! Thursday, May 20, 2010 ... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Behold! ... James L. Sutter ... Fiction Editor ...
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Dragon Slayers!

... Dragon Slayers! Thursday, May 13, 2010The last five months have been an uphill slog for the entire Paizo team. The goal: produce more than 30 accessories, Adventure Path volumes, modules, maps, novels, and hardcover books, before May 12th—the date by which our August releases need to be to our printer. The task has been daunting, and at several points along the way seemed unlikely, but at 10:30 last night, with the shipping of the Advanced Player's Guide and a scant hour and a half...
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Over the Mountain

Over the Mountain Tuesday, May 11, 2010Working at Paizo is awesome—there can be no question about that. Most days—those days when I'm in my happy-hippie, all-is-right-with-the-world mood—I show up to work and think, Wow, we're all so lucky to be editing RPGs all day! How did we ever get so lucky? That's most days. ... And some days, we •&#@ing earn it. ... Last Saturday was one of those days. Every year around this time, we start to reach the mission critical phase on our...
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This Week at Paizo

This Week at Paizo Friday, May 7, 2010It's been a busy week at Paizo... and we're not done yet. ... Sean The 'K' is for Konfident Reynolds reassures me of what he already knows.My desk midweek: ground zero for much chaos. (To answer the inevitable question here: Yes, I use them as bookmarks.) ... It may drive us crazy, but putting out so many products does make for some pretty awesome hauls. ... F. Wesley Schneider ... Managing Editor ...
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The GameMastery Guide: Mascots & Masterpieces!

... The GameMastery Guide: Mascots & Masterpieces! Thursday, May 6, 2010Aside from a metric ton of advice, new rules, charts, tools, and the like, one thing the GameMastery Guide has in spades is awesome new art! As you might have seen on the snippet from the credits page last week, a horde of fantastic artists contributed to this tome. We also did something a little unusual. Rather than illustrating every topic with our iconic heroes or scenes of battle or whatever have you, Andrew Hou...
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The GameMastery Countdown Begins!

... The GameMastery Countdown Begins! Friday, April 30, 2009In just about a month (give or take a week or so), the thousands of pages we set free into the wild promise to return to us in shiny blue binding as the complete GameMastery Guide. In the weeks leading up to the GMG's release we'll be previewing some of that tome's coolest and most innovative aspects right here on the blog. What to kick things off with ended up being a real tricky decision, though. So rather than focus on any one...
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Zirnakaynin Toolkit

... Zirnakaynin Toolkit Thursday, April 29, 2010 ... As you may have seen in recent blogs, I like miniatures and props when running a game. As my office is on the ground floor of the Paizo office and my Exiles of Zirnakaynin game is held in our large conference room upstairs, I have to carry this stuff upstairs for every game, and down again afterward. An interest in efficiency and expediency has resulted in me building a set of compartmentalized, easy to carry units of game materials. From...
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Things I Learned Running a High-Level Drow Game

... Things I Learned Running a High-Level Drow Game Friday, April 23, 2010Wednesday night we finished session #3 of Exiles of Zirnakaynin, my high-level, all-evil, all-drow-noble campaign. This session started with getting James Jacobs and Rob McCreary caught up to the rest of the group, as they missed session #2 due to bad cases of the sicky sickies. Once sisters Alivorah (James) and Ylvirixna (Rob) reached the pleasure-haven drow city of Far Parathra, they were attacked by mysterious...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: GameMastery Guide (OGL)

Planes: Anything but Plain

... Planes: Anything but Plain Wednesday, April 21, 2010Having finished hacking away at the random encounter tables for the GameMastery Guide some time ago, I was recently set to work doing the same kind of thing for the Bestiary II. This time, however, instead of providing GMs with random encounters based on a plane's alignment, I got to make a separate table for each individual plane in the Great Beyond, Golarion's cosmos. ... This is pretty exciting, because not only do these new tables...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player's Guide (OGL)

Maro's Alchemy Tracking Sheet

... Maro's Alchemy Tracking Sheet Thursday, April 15, 2010 ... Alchemy Tracking Sheet ... I'm playing an alchemist in Josh Frost's Tuesday night game. Though I've played many caster characters in my day, including some with item creation feats, the alchemist class is very reliant on consumable items—the mutagens, bombs, extracts, potions, and alchemical items it creates. Inspired by Crystal Frasier's use of our GameMastery Item Cards for her character's scrolls, I started to assemble a...
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It's Alive! And It's in My Head!!

... It's Alive! And It's in My Head!! Monday, April 12, 2010Words aren't supposed to float like this, bobbing in this slow, mildly nauseating way before my watering eyes. This sucks. And if you were at Norwescon this past weekend, I blame you. Con crud: it happens every time we go to a convention—and this time I didn't even go! ... My office quarantine makes me but one gross cog in a large, messily predictable, sick-machine. Every 3 minutes Jason, through the wall to my left, coughs...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 (OGL)

Stealth Preview

... Stealth Preview Wednesday, March 31, 2009 ... Cover Illustration ... by Wayne Reynolds ... With the GameMastery Guide off to print we need something new to start teasing you all with, and while the Advanced Player's Guide seems logical, being our next next big release, I like monsters more. So where should we look for previews of Bestiary II? Why, no farther than Pathfinder Adventure Path #33, as we've got a few homeless horrors in there that will be creeping into October's tome of...
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Final Moments of the GameMastery Guide

... Final Moments of the GameMastery Guide Tuesday, March 30, 2010At long last the GameMastery Guide has left the building. Turns out these big books take an incredible amount of work and cause a good deal of sanity damage, but after finally flipping through the color proofs, it looks absolutely incredible. In the coming weeks leading up to this monster's release we'll be showing off some of the coolest parts, but for now, take a look at a few shots from the GMG's final days of development....
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Darklands Plus Black Light Equals....

... Darklands Plus Black Light Equals.... Thursday, March 25, 2010In a fit of madness, I decided to run a high-level playtest so we could have an ongoing idea of how high-level play works in the Pathfinder RPG. In a fit of double-madness, I decided it would be an evil game. Triple-madness means everyone is playing a drow noble from House Azrinae in the Darklands. The result is Exiles of Zirnakaynin. ... As I'm a miniatures geek, this meant painting up a bunch of dark elf PCs and NPCs, plus...
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Pathfinder Chronicles: The Great Beyond—A Guide to the Multiverse (OGL)

Making the Scene

... Making the Scene Tuesday, March 9, 2010One of the neat peripheral elements of the GameMastery Guide—aside from 300+ pages of hardcore GM focused tools and rules—are new chapter openers. You know, the big pictures with the little stories next to them that start every section of the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook. Those. Our own Fiction Editor James Sutter is tackling these, and there's something really cool about finally getting a bit of a story to go along with some of the...
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Tables; Roleplaying; Metal

... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Tables; Roleplaying; Metal Thursday, March 4, 2010 One of my first duties at Paizo was to create some random encounter tables for the GameMastery Guide. It took more than three workdays, and by the end of the process I was seeing tables in my sleep. It was a little bit like the first time you play Guitar Hero, and you look away from the screen and think the world is scrolling up for a couple seconds. Except with tables. But, I'm done with that, so that's...
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Pathfinder Adventure Path #3: The Hook Mountain Massacre (Rise of the Runelords 3 of 6) (OGL)

Trollin' on the River

... Trollin' on the River Friday, February 19, 2010We've had the cover for Pathfinder Adventure Path #32: Rivers Run Red (written by our own Rob McCreary) up for sometime now, but it bears another mention, as this cover sees the climax of a long and interesting evolution. It's little surprise that we were only three months into the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path—and Pathfinder's life in general—when it came time to order art for our first troll. How to handle this got a...
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Winter 2010 Releases: An Early Look!

... Winter 2010 Releases: An Early Look! Thursday, February 18, 2010This week Paizo posted new product descriptions for dozens of products to be released in the third trimester of 2010, including new hardcover books, a revision of the Pathfinder Campaign Setting, and a brand new line of Pathfinder novels! ... We've been hard at work on these items for months, and even though you'll have to wait until at least September before they hit your game table, we're thrilled to finally be able to...
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One for the GMs

... Illustration by Alex Aparin ... One for the GMs Thursday, February 11, 2010My day... week... life as of late has pretty much been dominated by putting the final (-ish) touches on our next big hardcover, the GameMastery Guide. It's at that weird and exciting point right now where it's making that transition between a maddening number of .doc files and something at actually looks like a book. So between the dozens of tables, charts, stats, and hundreds of pages of advice, some pretty...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player's Guide (OGL)

Advanced Player’s Guide Playtest, Bonus Round!

... Advanced Player’s Guide Playtest, Bonus Round! Tuesday, February 2, 2010Although the playtest of the six base classes set to appear in the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide was scheduled to be over yesterday, we have decided to extend it by two weeks to give you a chance to review and playtest the changes from the previous three rounds. We took all of your feedback and ideas and implemented a number of changes to the classes, combining them into one handy reference PDF. You can find...
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GM Guide Spoilers!

... Illustration by Tyler Clark ... GM Guide Spoilers! Tuesday, January 12, 2010As editorial intern, it's sometimes my job to oversee the first formatting/editing/obvious-problem-catching pass on certain items, one of which is chapter nine of the GameMastery Guide! Woo! Super exciting. As a brief introduction, it includes a large number of common NPC stat blocks of various levels and classes meant to accommodate an unpredictable player group or campaign. When your players decide that the...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: GameMastery Guide (OGL)

The Game Is Afoot

... Illustration by Christopher Burdett ... The Game Is Afoot Friday, December 8, 2009I know it's been a while—whole months in fact—since we dropped a huge hardback tome on you all, but rest assured, we've got more in the works! Right now, on top of all the usual Pathfinder swag you've come to expect from month to month, we're also working away on our third huge tome, the GameMastery Guide. Meant to be the go-to source for Game Masters of all stripes and skill levels, the...
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Advanced Player's Guide Playtest, Round 3!

... Advanced Player's Guide Playtest, Round 3! Monday, December 14, 2009 ... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... The playtest of the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide is well underway, with the release of the final two classes slated to appear in the book, due out in August. In this round, we are looking at the alchemist and the inquisitor. The alchemist is all about using potions and arcane alchemy to increase your abilities. This works a bit like...
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Goblins Terrorize Bathhouse: Cunning Plan Revealed As Many Local Hunting Dogs Found Dead

... Illustration by Tyler Clark ... Goblins Terrorize Bathhouse: Cunning Plan Revealed As Many Local Hunting Dogs Found Dead Friday, December 11, 2009Earlier this year, fellow intern Matt and I were invited to begin playing in a Pathfinder RPG game run by local resident Crystal Frasier. We accepted, and Matt, Ross Byers (later to leave us for reasons involving Will saves and girl-cooties), and I began our quest to become... The Stuff of Legends. Deciding to make my life difficult, I made...
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At Times, a Marathon

... At Times, a Marathon Wednesday, December 9, 2009Comrades and Comradettes, ... Much has happened here at Paizo since I last wrote. While here, I had the privilege of watching Wayne Reynolds's iconic character sketches come in one by one, and stood in the circle of other staff gaping and gawking. Surprisingly (or not surprisingly?), nobody's favorite is the same. In my unartistic opinion, that is simply a testament to the skill of our Mr. Reynolds (who caught the Firefly pun?), who can...
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Advanced Player's Guide Playtest, Round 2!

... Advanced Player's Guide Playtest, Round 2! Monday, November 30, 2009 ... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... The playtest of the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide continues today with the launch of two more classes slated to appear in the book, due out in August. Round 2 focuses on the summoner and the witch. The summoner is an arcane caster that forms a close bond with a powerful outsider, known as an eidolon. The eidolon works a lot like an animal...
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Welcome to the Playtest

... Welcome to the Playtest Friday, November 13, 2009 ... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... Illustration by Wayne Reynolds ... The playtest of the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide begins today with the launch of two of the six new base classes set to appear in the book. The cavalier is a martial character. Like his name would suggest, he is at home fighting from horseback, but he is by no means crippled when his mount cannot be used. The cavalier gains a number of bonus abilities tied...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player's Guide (OGL)

The Playtest is Coming!

... The Playtest is Coming! Monday, November 9, 2009It is almost here! The playtest of the six new base classes set to appear in the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide will begin on Friday, November 13th. These classes will be presented as free PDF's that you can download starting Friday morning. Every two weeks we will release two of the classes, until all six have been playtested. ... Each pair of classes will be spotlighted for two weeks, but feedback will be accepted through the end...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: GameMastery Guide (OGL)

GameMastery Guide Cover!

... GameMastery Guide Cover! Monday, October 5, 2009 I may have mentioned this before, but the main villain of Pathfinder’s first Adventure Path, Karzoug, was no stranger to tormenting PCs. He was one of my homebrew campaign’s major recurring characters—a powerful wizard who served as the true menace behind the throne of an evil warlord. In my homebrew, Karzoug wielded a scythe and had already made the transition to lich and wasn’t as concerned with greed, but he was very much still the...
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Back from the Future, Part 2

... Back from the Future, Part 2 Friday, October 2, 2009One of the big highlights of Gen Con Australia 2009 was the What’s Next for Pathfinder? seminar that took place Saturday afternoon. The Pathfinder players at the show were so excited for this seminar that they took a break from their Pathfinder Society games to attend. Not surprisingly, it was pretty packed. ... Although much of what was covered during this seminar had already been announced, there were a few surprises in store,...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary (OGL)

Bestiary Preview II

... Bestiary Preview II Wednesday, September 16, 2009 ... Illustration by Peter Bergting ... Although the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary is still several weeks away from its release date, that’s no reason why you can’t get started playing adventures like Pathfinder Adventure Path #26: The Sixfold Trial or the various Season 1 Pathfinder Society Scenarios! ... The new Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary Preview II supplements our first preview (which was tailored to support Pathfinder Adventure Path...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Welcome to Paizo

... Welcome to Paizo Friday, August 21, 2009With the release of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, there are a lot of new faces here on the board, so we thought that this would be a good time to say hello and to give folks a quick tour of the site. ... I suspect that many of the new folks are here because of the Pathfinder RPG, so there is no better place to start than our new Core Rulebook. Of course, we have much more in store for this game, so you definitely want to visit the...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide Classes

... Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide Classes Thursday, August 20, 2009Now that Gen Con is over, it is time to look into the future of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Over the next year, we have a number of fantastic products in store for you, but the one that has me the most excited is the Advanced Player's Guide. We gave a few hints about this hefty 320-page tome at Gen Con during the Pathfinder RPG Q&A seminar, but I wanted to take a moment to bring the news to you directly. ......
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #14

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #14 Wednesday, August 12, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook releases tomorrow at Gen Con and game stores around the country. Over the past 14 weeks, we have look at all of the core classes and one of the prestige classes that can be found in the book. We've taken a look at a host of feats, spells, and magic items, as well as a few other rules bits along the way. This week, we are investigating the most important rule in the game. Not...
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Pathfinder Swag!

... Pathfinder Swag! Tuesday, August 11, 2009It's already starting to feel like a ghost town here at Paizo headquarters as the majority of the staff packs up and heads off for Gen Con Indy. With the debut of the Pathfinder RPG, we're totally excited, but also expecting the convention to be four days of absolute madness. So what are we doing? Oh, we're adding fuel to that fire, of course! There's already going to be tons of opportunities to get Paizo swag just by stopping by our booth, but in...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

The Reviews are Coming In!

... The Reviews are Coming In! Monday, August 10, 2009The Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook releases in just four days and the first reviews are coming in. So far, they are very positive. ... Pen and Paper Games has posted up a good review. While the reviewer would have liked to see more bridging material between 3.5 and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, I am happy to announce that we will be releasing a free conversion PDF on the same day as the Core Rulebook. This 18-page conversion guide covers...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #13

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #13 Wednesday, August 5th, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release in a little over a week, on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. Since we’re done looking at the core classes, this week we’re exploring the heights of power with Seltyiel, the iconic eldritch knight. ... Seltyiel ... Male half-elf wizard 5/fighter 5/eldritch knight 10 ......
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary (OGL)

2009 ENnie Voting Ends!

... 2009 ENnie Voting Ends! Friday, July 31, 2009Last time I'll mention it this year, promise. Voting for the ENnie Awards ends tomorrow, so if you haven't cast your ballot yet for your favorite games and accessories, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!? Intimidation? Is that's what it's going to take? Fine then, I'll leave that to Dave Allsop's mite from the upcoming Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. Now go vote! ... Illustration by Dave AllsopWes Schneider ... Managing Editor ...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #12

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #12 Wednesday, July 29, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. This week, we are delving the depths of power with Ezren, the iconic wizard. ... Ezren ... Male human wizard 10 ... NG Medium humanoid (human) ... Init +3; Senses Perception +12 ... Defense ... AC 15, touch 11, flat-footed 15 (+4 armor,...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #11

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #11 Wednesday, July 22, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. This week, we are sneaking around with Merisiel, the iconic rogue. ... Merisiel ... Female elf rogue 6 ... CN Medium humanoid (elf) ... Init +4; Senses low-light vision; Perception +12 ... DEFENSE ... AC 20, touch 15, flat-footed 15 (+5...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary (OGL)

Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary

... Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary Monday, July 20, 2009Work continues frantically as we put the final touches on the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. In anticipation of the light at the end of this beastly tunnel, here's a host of new divine creatures preparing to come to your PCs' aid in just a few short weeks! ... Art by Michael JaecksArt by Alex Schim ... Art by Andrew HouArt by Kieran Yanner F. Wesley Schneider ... Managing Editor ...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #10

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #10 Wednesday, July 15, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. This week, we are getting angry with Amiri, the iconic barbarian. ... Amiri ... Female human barbarian 17 ... CN Medium humanoid (human) ... Init +2; Senses Perception +21 ... DEFENSE ... AC 26, touch 14, flat-footed 24 (+9 armor, +4...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Core Rulebook Preview Video!

... Pathfinder Core Rulebook Preview Video! Tuesday, July 14, 2009We know most of you can’t wait to get your hands on the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, and while we can’t release the book until August 13, 2009, we have a few copies that the printer sent directly to us for approval purposes. ... And do we ever approve! The book is such a massive and beautiful sight to behold that we simply couldn’t keep it to ourselves any longer. ... We thought you deserved a sneak peek of your...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #9

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #9 Wednesday, July 8, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. This week, we are cracking some heads with Sajan, the iconic monk. ... Sajan ... Male human monk 8 ... LN Medium humanoid (human) ... Init +3; Senses Perception +3 ... DEFENSE ... AC 23, touch 21, flat-footed 19 (+2 armor, +1 deflection, +3...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary (OGL)

Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary

... Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary Monday, July 6, 2009As promised, we shall continue to astound and delight you with pictures pilfered from the pages of the infamous Pathfinder Bestiary. Featured here today are four mighty and terrible creatures from the Great Beyond. We leave it in our readers' capable hands to determine which type of fiend each illustration represents... ... Art by Tyler WalpoleArt by Tyler Walpole ... Art by Ben WoottenArt by Kevin YanVadid and Nahk ......
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #8

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #8 Wednesday, July 1, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. This week, we are taking a look at Lini, the iconic druid, and her snow leopard animal companion, Droogami. ... Lini ... Female gnome druid 8 ... N Small humanoid (gnome) ... Init +5; Senses low-light vision; Perception +15 ... DEFENSE ......
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary (OGL)

Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary

... Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary Monday, June 29, 2009While the denizens of the Pit have been slavishly wrangling hundreds upon hundreds of beasts both fascinating and foul, we've managed to slip in and liberate a particularly interesting few. Now behold! We bring to you, our faithful readers, the terrible visages of four terrifying creatures, taken directly from the pages of the fabled Pathfinders' Bestiary that nears completion deep in the Vault of the Golem. Some of...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #7

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #7 Wednesday, June 24, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. This week, we are taking a look at Lem, the iconic bard. ... Lem ... Male halfling bard 8 ... CG Small humanoid (halfling) ... Init +4; Senses Perception +12 ... DEFENSE ... AC 21, touch 17, flat-footed 16 (+4 armor, +1 deflection, +4 Dex,...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #6

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #6 Wednesday, June 17, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. This week, we are taking a look at Seelah, the iconic paladin. ... Seelah ... Female human paladin 13 ... LG Medium humanoid ... Init –1; Perception +1 ... Aura courage (10 ft., +4 fear saves), good, justice (10 ft.), resolve (10...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #5

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #5 Wednesday, June 10, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. This week, we are taking a look at Kyra, the iconic cleric. ... Kyra ... Female human cleric of Sarenrae 8 ... NG Medium humanoid (human) ... Init +3; Senses Perception +5 ... Aura good ... DEFENSE ... AC 19, touch 9, flat-footed 19 (+8...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #4

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #4 Wednesday, June 3, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. This week, we are taking a look at Harsk, the iconic ranger. ... Harsk ... Male dwarf ranger 11 ... LN Medium humanoid ... Init +5 (+9 underground, +7 mountain); Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +17 ... DEFENSE ... AC 24, touch 15,...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #3

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #3 Wednesday, May 27, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. This week, we are taking a look at Seoni, the iconic sorcerer. ... Seoni ... Female human sorcerer 10 ... Init +2; Senses Perception +11 ... Defense ... AC 23, touch 15, flat-footed 20; (+4 armor, +2 deflection, +2 Dex, +1 dodge, +4 shield) ......
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #2

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #2 Wednesday, May 20, 2009The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is set to release on August 13th, 2009, and in anticipation, we are releasing a preview of the game each week until the game hits store shelves. This week, we are taking a look at Valeros, the iconic fighter. ... Valeros ... Male human fighter 14 ... NG Medium humanoid ... Init +5; Senses Perception +13 ... DEFENSE ... AC 28, touch 17, flat-footed 23; (+10 armor, +2 deflection, +5...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #1

... Download 164 KB zip PDF ... Download 3.4 MB zip PDF ... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Preview #1 Wednesday, May 13, 2009Just under two weeks ago, we shipped the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook to the printer. Over the next 14 weeks, we will be giving you an inside look at the final game, looking at each class in turn and exploring other elements of the game. ... But first, we are taking a look at the Table of Contents for the Core Rulebook. As you can see, the book comes in at a...
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It's Still Done!

... It's Still Done! Tuesday, May 5, 2009Om nom nom! ... Jason Bulmahn ... Lead Designer
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It Is Done!

... It Is Done! Monday, May 4, 2009Note that Paizo does not encourage drinking unless you are an adult game designer who just sent a 576-page core rulebook to the printer. ... Jason Bulmahn ... Lead Designer ...
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Leather-Bound Pathfinder Beta

Leather-Bound Pathfinder Beta Thursday, April 30, 2009So our fans are apparently crazy... crazy awesome. Check out this leather-bound copy of the Pathfinder RPG Beta sent to our office by Sean, who posts on the messageboards as yellowdingo. The lovingly made book was well used by Sean and his fellow Beta playtesters, and includes all of the web enhancements for the Beta, as well as his personal notes from the playtest. It's really quite amazing! ... David Eitelbach ... Editorial Intern ...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Cover! Behold!

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Cover! Behold! ... Tuesday, February 3, 2009As quite a few of you have already seen, we've got a cover image for the upcoming Pathfinder Roleplaying Game! If you haven't, check it out! Wayne Reynolds, as per usual, shows us exactly what roleplaying is all about: magic, swords, and hungry dragons! Mark it on your calendars: 8/13/2009, it's the date your new campaign begins. ... F. Wesley Schneider ... Pathfinder Managing Editor ...
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Pathfinder Module: Crypt of the Everflame (PFRPG)

Jason's New Campaign!

... Jason's New Campaign! Friday, January 16, 2009The last year at Paizo's been really hectic and busy. I think I ran one whole session of my Call of Cthulhu game in 2008, and as for actual D&D office games, we pretty much haven't done any gaming. That's no good. Fortunately, now that we're heading into 2009, there may be a change in the air. Either we're finally getting caught up, or we're finally adjusting our sleep cycles to accommodate the new reality—whatever the reason, office...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game "White Sample"

... Pathfinder Roleplaying Game White Sample Thursday, November 27, 2008Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! ... Yesterday Managing Art Director James Davis received a very special package in the mail: a copy of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game white sample. A white sample is a totally blank book with the correct weight, paper stock, and cover stock of the final product. I asked Lead Designer Jason Bulmahn to hold the very heavy book so I could take a picture of it and share it with you. So here's...
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Pathfinder RPG Prestige Classes

... Pathfinder RPG Prestige Classes Wednesday, October 22, 2008There were a fair number of rules that had to be cut from the Beta Playtest Edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Prestige classes were one of the unfortunate casualties. Fortunately, along with the magic of the Internet, we can release these rules to you for playtesting and review. This document will be available on Monday, October 27th from paizo.com, but in anticipation, we thought we might give you a sneak peak at one of...
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Pathfinder RPG Beta Preview #4

... Pathfinder RPG Beta Preview #4 Thursday, July 31, 2008The Beta Playtest Edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game almost here. In just a few short weeks you will be able to buy your own print copy of the 408 page book, or download a free PDF. To top it off, over 25,000 gamers have downloaded the Alpha version of the Pathfinder RPG in one of its various incarnations. To celebrate these milestones, it is time to take a closer look at some of the pages of the Beta. Click here to download...
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Pathfinder RPG Beta Preview #3

... Pathfinder RPG Beta Preview #3 Thursday, July 24, 2008The Beta Playtest Edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is off to the printer and is due to be released in mid August. In anticipation, we are previewing some of the changes made from the Alpha stage as well as taking a look at some of the brand new content. In this preview, we are investigating some of the new rules that can be found in the Beta Playtest Edition. ... Equipment: All of the basic equipment is here, plus a few new...
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Pathfinder RPG Beta Preview #2

... Pathfinder RPG Beta Preview #2 Friday, July 18, 2008 The Beta Playtest Edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is off to the printer and is due to be released in mid August. In anticipation, we are previewing some of the changes made from the Alpha stage as well as taking a look at some of the brand new content. In this preview, we are taking a look at some of the changes between the Alpha release 3 and the Beta Playtest Edition.Class Changes: A number of classes received a host of...
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Pathfinder RPG Beta Preview #1

... Pathfinder RPG Beta Preview #1 Friday, July 11, 2008 The Beta Playtest Edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is off to the printer and is due to be released in mid August. In anticipation, we are going to be previewing some of the changes made from the Alpha stage as well as taking a look at some of the brand new content. In this preview, take a look at the massive table of contents and check out a few previews along the way. Chapter 1: Introduction, page 2 ... Chapter 2: Generating...
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Pathfinder RPG Alpha Release 3 Preview

... Pathfinder RPG Alpha Release 3 Preview Wednesday, May 14, 2008 The third, and final, release of the Alpha playtest version of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is rapidly approaching completion. Over 17,000 gamers have downloaded the Alpha rules and the messageboards have been buzzing with activity. Release 3 includes the final three base classes, the bard, the monk, and the ranger, along with rules on simple NPC generation, monster creation guidelines, and a host of other rules. In...
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PaizoCon 2008

... PaizoCon 2008 Thursday, May 1, 2008This past weekend, roughly thirty adventurous gamers descended upon the LaQuinta Inn in Bellevue, Washington to participate in the first annual PaizoCon. In attendance were several of our messageboard family's most visible personalities, including Lilith, Chris Mortika, Pete Apple, Grimcleaver, Timitius (who put together the event), Russ Taylor, and many more. Paizo itself made an appearance Saturday, with Lisa, Vic, James, Wes, and Erik (along with Open...
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First look at Release 3

... First look at Release 3 Wednesday, April 30, 2008Alpha release #2 of the Pathfinder RPG has already been released as a free download, and playtesters are posting up a ton of feedback on our forums. In the next few weeks we will be posting up release 3, the final release before the Beta version of the game this August. ... This past weekend saw the debut of some of the rules at Paizocon, a convention just north of our offices. Attendees got to meet with the staff and play some games. Those...
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Pathfinder #10—Curse of the Crimson Throne Chapter 4:

Pathfinder RPG Alpha Release 2 Preview

... Pathfinder RPG Alpha Release 2 Preview Wednesday, April 9, 2008The second release of the Alpha playtest version of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is rapidly approaching completion. Up this point, thousands of gamers have downloaded release 1 and the feedback has been pouring in. If you enjoyed the changes you saw in that release, wait until you see what we have in store for you in release 2. In anticipation, here is a look at the new barbarian. Bask in her new abilities, including the...
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Interview: Jason Bulmahn, Pathfinder RPG Lead Designer

... Interview: Jason Bulmahn, Pathfinder RPG Lead Designer Thursday, March 20, 2008I sat down with Jason Bulmahn, the mastermind behind the Pathfinder RPG, and picked his brain for awhile. ... What did you have in mind when you first starting working on the Pathfinder RPG? ... Since we first realized a new edition of the game was imminent, Paizo developed several plans for how we would adapt to the new publishing environment. One of those options involved ongoing support of 3.5. Since last...
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Paizo Publishing® Announces the Pathfinder RPG

... Paizo Publishing® Announces the Pathfinder RPG™ Pathfinder™ to continue under the 3.5 rules. Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Paizo Publishing today unveiled the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, a tabletop fantasy roleplaying game that will serve as the anchor for the company's popular line of Pathfinder adventures, sourcebooks, and campaigns. Today marks the beginning of a year-long Open Playtest of the new rules, which are based upon the popular 3.5 rules available under the Open...
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