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

July’s Top Performers

Titles are ranked by an average of units sold and revenue earned and are presented in alphabetical order. Asterisks indicate titles that have been on a best-seller list previously. Because they’ve consistently topped the list, and due to the number of their titles that typically take up spots, “Team+” and “Team Index” have asked to be removed from the calculations for ongoing top performers lists. This will allow newer publishers or book series to get more attention. Thanks, all!

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Abomination Vaults GMs Guide*

The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is an extensive campaign in a sprawling megadungeon. Your players need the right tools to navigate its dangers, and you need the tools in this GM’s Guide to keep the action moving!

Inside, you’ll find new mini adventures that connect to the dungeon, new wandering factions, a checklist of all the side quests the campaign offers, and full stat blocks for every single monster you can find on each of the dungeon’s ten levels!

Age of Ashes Vol. 1 – The Council’s Chosen

Torra is the dwarven daughter of a Breachill town official, yearning for the sort of adventure she has only found in books. Against her father’s wishes, she has chosen to participate in the monthly “Call for Heroes,” a gathering for adventurers who will tackle Breachill’s most unusual and dangerous problems. No sooner has The Call begun than Torra is thrust into peril with three unlikely companions: Sedio, a surly strongman; Antara, a half-elven swashbuckler from a distant land; and Bellis, an enigmatic halfling sorcerer. Will the four of them survive their first adventure together, much less unravel the dark mystery that awaits them within the ruined keep outside of town?

This 107-page document is a novelization of a party’s adventure through Pathfinder Adventure Path #145: Hellknight Hill (Age of Ashes 1 of 6).

Cooking Unleashed*

Across Golarion, various delicious cuisines and meals are made every day by chefs from different cultures and backgrounds. Some alchemists dedicate themselves to mixing the art of alchemy with the culinary arts to create delicious and potent treats!

Divinity Unbound: Paths of Faith

From virtuous knights of Iomedae to mysterious mages of Nethys and sinister agents of Asmodeous whispering from the shadows, Paths of Faith is the first book in the Divinity Unbound line: a series of releases allowing you to fully embrace the worship of divine beings in your own games.

Everything Shields*

Do you want to play a swashbuckling, targe-wielding duelist whose shield can exude darkness on command when you get in a pinch? How about a witch who has etched a hex onto the face of their shield to make enemies falter when they attack? All these things and many more are possible with the additional shield content brought to you by Everything Shields.

Kitsune of Golarion*

Living clandestinely among Golarion's ancestries, kitsune make formidable foes and canny heroes. Kitsune of Golarion unlocks the full potential of this ancestry, detailing kitsune from every corner of the globe. This supplement expands the work presented in the Pathfinder Lost Omens Ancestry Guide and is penned by some of the same authors who pen the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Queerfinder Issue 1: Bars of Absalom*

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Queerfinder Society's travel magazine, a guide to Golarion from queer creators and allies that’s focused on queer characters and stories! This issue features NPCs, locations, adventures, and more that center queer stories.

Queerfinder Issue 2: Absalom Winter Traditions*

Welcome to the second issue of the Queerfinder Society's travel magazine, a guide to Golarion from queer creators and allies that’s focused on queer characters and stories! Celebrate the winter solstice with festivals, fiction, recipes, and more!

Smoke and Sail: a Pathfinder 2e Naval Warfare Sourcebook

Few environments conjure feelings of excitement and trepidation more acutely than the ocean, with its endless rhythm of churning waves and all its possibilities for adventure. Tenacious crews sailing ships of all sizes make perilous journeys across the majestic vastness that stretches from horizon to horizon, certain that their vessel will carry them to shore under any sky and over any sea.

This sourcebook provides a comprehensive ruleset for running such a vessel and engaging in thrilling, ship-based combat encounters.

Temptations: Trade Your Soul for Power

Temptations is a subsystem that provides powerful abilities to characters who are willing to risk their reputations, bodies, and even their souls in exchange for power. When a mage forges a contract with a devil, a rogue bonds with a dark artifact, or a noble takes advice from a sinister advisor, they encounter temptation: the balance between what power a person might gain and what they give up in the process. This subsystem, based on the subsystems presented in the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide, models this slow but insidious battle of wills for heroes who dabble in the dark and otherworldly.

New from Infinite Masters!

With the release of Pathfinder: Rage of Elements, our Infinite Masters have cooked up some phenomenal companion supplements! Take a look at these new or upcoming products from our Infinite Masters!

• All Things Balanced: Mastering the Elements by Kevin Glusing. A collection of new feats, archetypes, impulses, and more to expand your control of the elements.
• Wisdom of Elements by Andrew D. Geels. Elemental class options for bard, druid, oracle, ranger, witch, and wizard, as well as new class feats and focus spells.

Here’s a look behind the scenes at Paizo’s internal playtests.

Welcome to one of our first blogs following up on the recent announcement of Starfinder Second Edition! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Thurston Hillman, the Managing Creative Director for Starfinder. Basically, that means that I guide the creative vision for the Starfinder brand, while also managing the great folks who work on the Starfinder Roleplaying Game. Today, as we continue our open playtest experience, I wanted to give you a behind-the-scenes look at some of the internal playtesting we’ve been doing here at Paizo!

Up until this point, the team has been doing some immediate stress tests of new classes under the GMing stewardship of our Director of Game Design, Jason Bulmahn. These involved some themed adventures about a starship that went too close to the Horizon of an Event, or a deadly jungle encounter where we learned the creature hunting us could bleed and so we could kill it. The playtests we’re reviewing here take place after those, bypassing some of our rockier initial class design, and instead focused on exploring some other aspects of Starfinder in a new game engine.

Playtest #1: Streetsweep

Map: Starfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Battlefield
Character Level: 5th

Our initial playtests generally took place in confined environments, or locations that forced some tight-quarters gameplay. This was great, because we all know that there’s going to be a ton of adventures happening in cramped starship corridors or on alien worlds with lots of dense foliage. However, those situations are only a small part of the Starfinder experience. One element that I’ve been passionate about—speaking as the developer who proverbially trademarked “1 square = 30 feet” in an adventure I developed for Organized Play—was that we needed to try out some open-area and long-range combats to make sure all these futuristic guns and grenades we’ve been working on were going to be fun and balanced in play.

Starring in this playtest:

• GM: Thurston Hillman (Managing Creative Director for Starfinder)
• Operative: Jessica Catalan (Starfinder Society Developer)
• Mystic: Dustin Knight (Starfinder Developer)
• Soldier: GM NPC played by Thurston
• Witchwarper: Jenny Jarzabski (Starfinder Senior Developer)

For a quick recap of the classes at play here…

The operative focuses on using guns and taking an aim action to get extra precision damage. Jessica’s operative for this playtest was built to be a sniper (as opposed to our iconic, who is more focused on using pistols at close range).

The mystic class creates a bond with their party members and has a vitality network that allows them to store Hit Points and deliver them to bonded allies with a single action (for those clutch heals). Dustin attempted a test build using the song connection to provide some buffs in addition to healing.

The witchwarper class activates a quantum aura, which creates bizarre effects and manipulates nearby space. Jenny’s witchwarper used the precog anomaly to help control the flow of time in and around them (as well as stacking grenades in their cheek pouches).

Finally, my soldier was built using a bombard-focused style, packing a stellar cannon and a machine gun to take advantage of being a kasatha and having four arms. For more info on the soldier and how it plays, check out Field Test #1.

We got right into the action, with the party confronting a group of Azlanti Star Empire Aeon Guards advancing through the streets of an embattled city. These well-trained troops used an ability called “aeon advance” that allowed them to spend a single action to move and fire their rifles if they ended adjacent to another Azlanti ally. This led to a vicious opening salvo, as the Aeon Guards had some exceptional initiative rolls, and advanced to slam a withering fusillade of fire into the soldier. This also led to the enemies clustering up, which turned out to be pretty useful in testing out how the soldier worked.

Once the PCs got to go, the situation quickly changed. Jessica’s operative took their first shot and opened (naturally) with a critical hit. This single shot dealt a whopping 2d12+2d6+1 damage, then doubled, then another 1d12 for the extra fatal damage dice. This dealt in the 40s for damage and immediately popped one of the Aeon Guards down, as they only had 30 Hit Points.

This set the tone for the combat as the soldier began unleashing hell with their stellar cannon, dealing regular damage to the clustered Aeon Guards. The mystic provided spot healing through their vitality network, while the witchwarper opted to try out grenades. Right now, the Starfinder team is experimenting with grenades as placed area effects with a limited range and no attack roll that use a character’s Class DC to determine targets’ saves. Our tactics were a success, and it didn’t take long for the players to overcome this Moderate threat encounter.

The second encounter of this playtest had the PCs advance further into the city, where they came under fire from additional Aeon Guard ground troops, as well as a pair of Aeon Guard snipers. These snipers held back and used a ported-over version of the “Sentry’s Aim” action found on the Archer Sentry in the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide, which let them sit back and fire with their long-range weapons and ignore cover on targets—a VERY powerful ability. Currently, the operative’s aim action isn’t quite this good, but NPCs get to cheat every once in a while!

What stood out most about this fight was the use of a simple piece of terrain on the map, a downed tree, for cover. Much of the combat saw both sides on opposite ends of a toppled tree stump, each firing at one another and then taking cover for increased AC against return fire. This led to a really fun and cinematic combat, which also forced a “sniper duel” as Jessica’s operative had to battle the two enemy snipers, one of which was almost 200 feet away, so far away they aren’t even visible on the screenshots.

This fight had some other interesting mechanics at play. The soldier fired a warning shot prior to the start of combat to suppress one of the Aeon Guards, applying a combat penalty that actually stopped the guards from hitting in the first round, and slowing their advance into cover thanks to the suppressed condition (see Field Test #1 for detailed info on how all this works). Our witchwarper was able to flush the Aeon Guards out of cover, and then the mortal coil, by zipping forward with the help of magic and tossing grenades into them as they clustered for cover behind the tree stump. Meanwhile, the mystic continued to provide healing to everyone through their vitality network, while also tossing out reliable offensive spells like noise blast to help overcome immediate threats. The combat was over in round 5, thanks in part to the precog’s aura giving a speed boost to allies that let them close the gap with the snipers in short order.

This was the end of the playtest session. In the team’s debrief we discussed how area weapons were overall way more effective on groups of enemies (big surprise, I know). This had been a sticking point in our prior playtesting where enemies were spread out or we battled single foes where the area damage didn’t make much difference. This really made us think that the soldier might need more abilities to focus on single targets, something we’re already started pondering.

It also got us talking about adventure design and including options for encouraging creatures to group up for benefits. The sniper operative was consistent, with strong capabilities of popping lower-level threats through crits and dealing reliable damage with their aimed shots, which made us concerned about the overall damage the class could put out (more on that in our next playtest!). The mystic felt like it was in a good place with how they could provide secondary healing while also actively participating in battle. The witchwarper continues to be one that we fine tune, as its quantum aura ability requires them to stay mobile and play close to enemies to take advantage of some of their unique warp spells and effects.

Stay tuned for more behind-the-scenes looks at our playtests, news about our ongoing releases, and discussions about Starfinder Second Edition!

Thurston Hillman
Managing Creative Director (Starfinder)

Today we’re ecstatic to officially announce that Starfinder Second Edition is happening. Back in 2017 we released Starfinder, a new game system and setting to stand alongside Paizo’s tried and true Pathfinder brand. Today we’re revealing the next evolution in Starfinder as we announce its second edition and lay out our plans for the future.

This new edition of Starfinder is being designed to be fully compatible with the upcoming release of the Pathfinder Remastered rulebooks and all future Pathfinder Second Edition products. This means that all your Pathfinder content going forward will be compatible with the new edition of Starfinder, and that all Starfinder Second Edition content will work in Pathfinder—with your GM’s permission, of course!

We’ll be releasing a full playtest in Summer 2024, but we wanted to announce the new edition early because it’s our intent to make Starfinder’s playtest the most open playtest Paizo has released to date.

That all starts today with the release of our first Starfinder Field Test. These documents are a little different than the playtest files we’ve released in the past. Each Field Test is a snippet of ongoing design work drafted by the Starfinder team and is intended to show what we’re working on and some of the directions we’re exploring. Our first document focuses on the first five levels of one of our new base classes: the soldier. Along with this, we’ve included some rules for futuristic weaponry and a couple of creatures for you to toss into your games.

Unlike other playtests, the Field Test documents will not be accompanied by a feedback survey, as they are intended to be behind-the-scenes looks at what is coming. Look forward to August 2024, when the full playtest launches for your feedback!

Along with the first Field Test, we also wanted to announce the first four classes to be included in the upcoming Starfinder Playtest Rulebook.

The mystic is a spellcasting class that focuses on the divine and primal traditions and has the unique ability to form a bond with their closest allies. Using their bond to impart a variety of bonuses on their allies, the mystic can also heal them through their shared bond. Once represented by Keskodai, our iconic shirren, a new iconic has taken on the role of the mystic. Chk Chk grew up in his father’s larval container, witnessing all manner of traumatizing adventures in his childhood. Now an adult, Chk Chk has become a devout worshipper of the amalgamate deity, Zon-Shelyn, and believes in channeling suffering into artistic expression.

The soldier gets its first preview in today’s Field Test and specializes in taking hits and unloading with area of effect weapons. With different fighting styles at their disposal, soldiers can focus on different areas of importance, like defense, ranged offense, or even a bit of melee effectiveness. The iconic vesk soldier, Obozaya, returns in all her glory. While she hasn’t turned over her doshko blades yet, age and battle scars have forced Obo to turn her attention to heavy weapons and contributing to the fight in a new way—but don’t worry, she still beats things up in melee!

Along with these two classes, we are also announcing the envoy and the solarian. These classes are still undergoing some internal testing, so we’re going to hold off on saying too much about them for now. What we will say is that the iconic envoy, Navasi, is returning with many years of adventuring behind her. Along with Navasi, we also have a new solarian iconic whose art we’re revealing; we’ll be keeping the remaining details under wraps for the time being. Canny viewers should notice that the art for this iconic is an ancestry that wasn’t in the Starfinder Core Rulebook. That’s because the feline pahtra species are now a core ancestry in Starfinder Second Edition!

Concept sketches for the four iconics. Chk Chk, a shirren mystic. Navasi, a human envoy. Obozaya, a vesk soldier. An unnamed pahtra solarian.
Concept Sketches by Kent Hamilton

To complement this announcement, we’ve also put together a Frequently Asked Questions page related to Starfinder Second Edition, where we’ve included a few more details about the project. Check that out and keep an eye on the Starfinder Playtest page for the latest content and news related to the newest evolution of the Starfinder roleplaying game.

We’re so excited to undertake this journey and hope you’ll be at our side as we take a step into a bold new future together!

— The Starfinder Team

-Thurston Hillman, Managing Creative Director (Starfinder)
-Jenny Jarzabski, Senior Developer
-Dustin Knight, Developer
-Jessica Catalan, Starfinder Society Developer

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.

At the Show

Paizo’s presence will be located in the Exhibitor Hall at Booth #203. This is where you’ll find all of the special products we announced last week, as well as Rage of Elements and all of our other Pathfinder & Starfinder products!

We’ll be giving out special buttons at the booth for each day of Gen Con—a unique design every day! And if buttons are your jam, you’re in luck, because we’ll also be giving out Starfinder Society and Pathfinder Society buttons in our Organized Play area!

The button designs for this year’s Gen Con releases, featuring the cover of Rage of Elements, the cover of Ports of Call, Sprax, Fumbus, and the cover images for this year’s Pathfinder & Starfinder society seasons!

Speaking of Organized Play, we’re excited to call the Sagamore Ballroom home again for Pathfinder Society & Starfinder Society! Games begin at 8 a.m., 2 p.m., and 8 p.m., generic tickets accepted as seats allow. We will also be running walk-up Pathfinder Society Bounties all day! Plus, join us Friday or Saturday evening for the Starfinder Society & Pathfinder Society Specials—collaborative event games with more than 60 tables participating in the same scenario!

Want to get a taste of what Pathfinder, Starfinder, or our board games have to offer? Take a jaunt over to Hall C, where Paizo has demo tables running 20-minute sessions all day long!

While Paizo isn’t hosting any panels as a company at Gen Con, several of our employees are participating in panels at the event!

ORC License—Q&A ft. Erik Mona
Learn about ORC License! We'll explain how game systems are licensed and evolve under the ORC, answer questions about implementation and limitations, and speculate on the future.

WTF Happened With Dungeons & Dragons’ OGL ft. Jim Butler
Journalist Lin Codega and a panel of experts (including Jim Butler and Ryan Dancey) break down what happened with the OGL 1.1 and the fan backlash around Wizards of the Coast.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Tabletop Media But Were Too Afraid To Ask ft. Aaron Shanks
A panel of media creators from both board games and tabletop RPG discussing how we got into our areas, how we work with publishers, and some of the challenges we deal with in the industry. Plus a Q&A.

And Beyond!

Even if you’re not at Gen Con Indy, there’s still fun to be had at home this weekend!

Tune in to our Gen Con prerecorded streams on Twitch and YouTube all weekend to get a glance at what’s coming from Paizo. This year’s panels include:

• Gen Con 2023 Keynote (8/3/23 at 10 a.m. EST)
• Rage of Elements—Designer’s Commentary (8/4/23 at 10 a.m. EST)
• Remaster Preview (8/5/23 at 10 a.m. EST)
• Highhelm & Sky King’s Tomb—Developer’s Commentary (8/6/23 at 10 a.m. EST)

VODs will be available on Twitch directly after the streams.

Organized Play has a plethora of online games happening as a part of Gen Con Online. Browse the available games and sign up for a seat! Note: Gen Con Online uses the Gen Con registration system, not Warhorn.

We’re putting 23 products on special for this year’s Gen Con, and giving you a 23% discount on those products August 1^st through August 6^th. The sale applies to the following products, in all forms print and digital:

1. Pathfinder Core Rulebook
2. Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide
3. Pathfinder Secrets of Magic
4. Pathfinder Guns & Gears
5. Pathfinder Book of the Dead
6. Pathfinder Dark Archive
7. Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path
8. All Pathfinder and Starfinder Basic Flip-Mats
9. Starfinder Core Rulebook
10. Starfinder Alien Archive
11. Starfinder Armory
12. Starfinder Alien Archive 2
13. Starfinder Character Operations Manual
14. Starfinder Near Space
15. Starfinder Drift Crisis
16. Pathfinder Lost Omens World Guide
17. Pathfinder Lost Omens Absalom, City of Lost Omens (Special Edition Not Included)
18. Pathfinder Lost Omens Legends
19. Pathfinder Lost Omens Pathfinder Society Guide
20. Pathfinder Lost Omens Monsters of Myth
21. Pathfinder Lost Omens Knights of Lastwall (Special Edition Not Included)
22. Pathfinder Lost Omens Travel Guide
23. Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands

23 for 23% off Gen Con 2023 Sale

We’re looking forward to seeing you at Gen Con and beyond this year!

A GUIDED TOUR
With so many places to go, you would be forgiven for not knowing where to start or what to do once you arrived at a new destination. Thankfully, two of the galaxy’s greatest travel writers have pitched in to presentStarfinder Ports of Call, providing insider commentary and local secrets that would never appear in some off-the-shelf guide published by AbadarCorp. Please meet authors Moscaru (host shirren) and Sprax (female skittermander)! Their latest publication is Near Misses in Near Space: 17 New Death-Defying Destinations.

Moscaru - Illustration by Michele Esposito

Moscaru
Although previously known as the author of the bestselling “Held in All Four Arms” romance novels, Moscaru met their own true love: travel. Now inseparable from their coauthor Sprax, Moscaru brings a cultured, historical, and analytical perspective to understanding every destination. Their tireless work in highlighting local traditions and voices has helped them win three Drifty awards as well as receive an honorary doctorate from the Qabarat University of Xenoanthropology and Xenoarchaeology. When between trips, Moscaru enjoys quiet afternoons spent with a good book and their klikharps, Sonata and Cacophos III.

Sprax - Illustration by Michele Esposito

Sprax
A precocious epicurean and fearless social butterfly, Sprax set out to travel the galaxy at a young age. Her charm and sense of reckless wonder have won her friends across a hundred worlds—as well as earning two Drifty awards for excellent travel journalism and placing seven times on the Iron Inevitable, an annual list of explorers who somehow survived self-inflicted disasters. No matter the danger, her observations helpfully capture the insights, entertainment, shortcuts, and possibilities of the galaxy’s most daring destinations. She knows how to scream “I’m sorry, I was trying to help” in over 60 languages.

These two well-traveled guides are excited to take you on a tour of the galaxy—and what better place to start than Golarion World, a planetary theme park exploring the lost world of Golarion?

Golarion World Map - Illustration by Damien Mammoliti

Sprax: Golarion World! The cheeriest place in the universe, full of fun, thrills, and good eats all enjoyed through the lens of history! I’ve never seen lost Golarion with my own eyes, of course, but if living in the Inner Sea region was half as exciting as riding the Eye of Abendego water coaster or watching the lich Tar-Baphon’s hourly assault in the Siege of Absalom stunt spectacular, then I wish I had a time machine! Ask anyone who’s been there: a trip to Golarion World is just as good as a journey into the past!

Moscaru: I enjoy delightful diversions such as Golarion World as much as the next shirren, but I have some doubts about its historical authenticity. The New Horizons Luxury Retreats executive who planned the park is supposedly a history student, but they clearly made some accommodations to entertain guests. This isn’t a disparagement! Far from it. Golarion World’s expansive theme parks are chock full of rides and shops that are sure to bring a smile to your face. In fact, there’s so much to see and do, you’ll need to spend at least a week there. Just don’t expect to come home with accurate knowledge about lost Golarion’s past.

Illustration by Victor Manuel Leza Moreno

Sprax: Her Infernal Majestrix Abrogail Thrune is hilarious! On my last visit to Cheliax Land, I followed her around for a full hour, asking about her dealings with devils, and she kept finding new and sidesplitting ways to insult me! She didn’t repeat even one!

Moscaru: I’ve noticed that Queen Eutropia Stavian always has a gaggle of adoring children in her wake, saying they want to grow up to be just like her. It’s not easy being a role model like that. I must applaud the cast members’ commitment, acting skills, and boundless patience.

Sprax: And their diabolism!

Moscaru: Excuse me?

Sprax: Abrogail Thrune! She told me that if I made an infernal pact, I could skip the line to ride the Screaming Jungle hovercoaster.

Moscaru: Ha, well, I’m certain she was just staying in character.

Sprax: And then another actor in a realistic devil outfit appeared suddenly—sent Abrogail screaming—and said I could ride the hovercoaster nine times if I just signed his fancy release form, so I—

Moscaru: Ohhhh... I shouldn’t be surprised that I leave you alone in a theme park for half a day and you manage to sell your soul.

Illustration by Victor Manuel Leza Moreno

And if the thrilling rides, interactive experiences, and “historically inspired” food options aren’t enough to entice you, worry not! Golarion World boasts an exciting selection of souvenirs and collectibles—something for every eye and every credit bank!

Illustration by Alexander Gorbunov

Looking for more of Sprax and Moscaru’s tour of the galaxy? Pick up a copy of Starfinder Ports of Call at your friendly local game store or on paizo.com!

Golarion and the Pact Worlds are filled with people of all sorts – this is just a small collection of our wonderful trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming characters!

Two of our iconic heroes- Mios, the Iconic Thaumaturge (they/them) and Kyyduh, the Iconic Evolutionist (they/them).

The world is frightening for a lot of trans people right now – with our rights under attack at local, state, and federal levels here in the United States and around the world. Trans people and queer performers like drag queens are being forced back into hiding in a cruel movement that threatens to set us back decades.

But we will not be erased – and we will keep making art and worlds that show trans and queer people that we belong. We have always been here, and we always will be – the world is richer with us in it.

In celebration of the gender diversity of both our settings and our community, this blog is a collection of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming canon characters across Starfinder and Pathfinder – as told by their writers and people who see themselves in those characters.

l’setsya Wyrmtouched (she/her), a ganzi spellcaster with flowing blue hair.

Amber Stewart (she/her)

Il’setsya Wyrmtouched began as my arcanist PC in Rise of the Runelords, where she gave me an in-character outlet to express my inner self every week through a CN, wildly unfiltered, fun by any means character. She was and remains a whole lot of -GOALS- with a bucket of common PC characteristics of mine taken to a delightful extreme: after magically transitioning via a protean artifact, the Lethe Wall of Galisemni, she’s magically skilled and silly, with high intelligence, low wisdom, a fifteen-foot-long tail, happily married to her half-faerie dragon wife. Seriously, what’s not to love? I first wrote about her and her Wyrmtouched siblings in Planar Adventures and later, when I serendipitously needed a protean-linked NPC in my volume of Agents of Edgewatch, “Ruins of the Radiant Siege,” she was right there, practically begging for the job. Of course, a whimsical hedonist who’s a literal agent of manifest chaos isn’t going to work with every party, but she’s a fun challenge, and in that role, she was my attempt to make as close to a patron saint of Chaotic Neutral transwomen as I could.

Tesyovensku (they/them), a fetchling witch

Ashton Sperry (they/them)

Howdy! I'm Ashton, your nonbinary friend on the internet and occasional freelancer for the great folks at Paizo. And now I get the opportunity to tell you all about one of my proudest achievements in my freelancing career!

Tesyovensku is a nonbinary fetchling I wrote up for Lost Omens: The Grand Bazaar. You may have even had the chance to encounter them in a certain Pathfinder Society scenario! Getting to create a character whole-cloth who shares my gender identity was a thrilling experience, and I'm so glad they've resonated with so many people out there.

Tesyovensku's story is also one about triumph over adversity, something that I think many of us are struggling to achieve these days. The future for the queer community seems bleak, and honestly, if my little contributions to Paizo's canon can provide a glimmer of hope, then I am deeply honored and touched to have made things a little bit better. Together, we can all pull through—and maybe have a nice cup of tea while we're at it.

Arhan Benimaya (he/him), a human tattoo artist.

Avi Kool (they/them) – Lead Editor

Arhan Benimaya (he/him) is a human trans man from Cheliax who fled religious persecution as a child with his family before settling in Absalom. He used his art skills to help support his family and save for a serum of sex shift, and he grew up to be a successful tattoo artist in Absalom’s Docks District. His boyfriend is an azarketi dockworker named Brine, and the two of them can be found in Arhan’s shop along with Arhan’s service dog, Apple the mastiff. You can read more about Arhan in Pathfinder Lost Omens: Grand Bazaar!

Mios Uriev (they/them) is a nonbinary human from Caliphas, Ustalav, and the iconic thaumaturge. They worked as a night coach driver before being bitten by a werewolf, but using their extraordinary resourcefulness and willingness to try anything, they cured themself—though they’re still not quite sure which cure they attempted did the trick. Upon realizing they were cured, Mios gave up the life of a driver and decided to try their hand at adventuring, knowing that all monsters have weaknesses, if only you can find them. You can read more about Mios at https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si2a?Meet-the-Iconics-Mios.

Brent Bowser (he/they)

I was struggling to find the voice I wanted for Vidrizix (NB Dragonkin) in Starfinder Bounty #8: Lost Dragon's Legacy, so I started using mine as a placeholder. The more I fleshed out the character and their relationships, the more I connected with them. I replaced instances of "he" with "they." It felt so right with Vidrizix that I realized I should do the same for myself.

Vidrizix (he/they), a purple dragon kin.

Dana Ebert (she/her)

I've been a Paizo contributor for three years now, and I'm not ashamed to admit that my all-time favorite NPC is still Iltara Clavela (she/her), who I created for Lost Omens: Grand Bazaar and put a lot of myself into. Her story has all my favorite tropes—fey blessings, ill-fated bargains, and the power of names. While Iltara was far from the first trans woman in Pathfinder, she was the first NPC whose shop offers gender-affirming transmutations to patrons! If you haven't seen this artwork by @hailiiz of Iltara and Ralliadra, a fellow trans shopkeeper from Grand Bazaar, you should check it out!

Tragellon Pearlcask (he/him), a muscular dwarf crab fisher.

John Compton (he/him) – Senior Developer

Tregellon Pearlcask (he/him)
The sky citadel of Highhelm has many mouths to feed, and local dwarves of the Pearlcask clan have developed sophisticated aquaculture that supplies the city with a wide variety of shellfish. In Pathfinder Adventure Path #193: Mantle of Gold, something sinister has sneaked into Tregellon Pearlcask’s caves, afflicting his prize crab (whose art we can’t wait to show you). His being a trans man isn’t crucial to the adventure; it’s just who he is, and he openly affirms it with Pearlcask humor. He’s described as “dressed for working on the water, wearing little beyond sturdy trousers, a teal sash around his waist, and several pearl studs in his ears. He’s muscular, with a horizontal scar under each pectoral ("Molting scars,” he acknowledges with a knowing wink, if asked)."

Michael Bramnik (he/him)

Hello there! To quote a friend, I might be, “straight enough to calibrate a Kinsey scale,” but I long for the day when months like these are no longer needed except purely in celebration. I fervently believe that LGBTQ+ visibility and positive representation are vitally important if we are ever going to move on to a better future.

For Pathfinder Society #4-05: The Arclord Who Never Was <spoiler> the character of Alyreha (who is encountered with a different name at first) is trans. I made this decision because of her study into the magic of True Names. Having been honored to escort friends to their procedures in the past and seeing just how much more “them” they were afterwards—it just felt right for the story of someone finding herself. </spoiler> It can be a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment (but is more pronounced in Isis Wozniakowska’s #4-10: Arclord’s Abode) because I think that normalization might be the most important aspect of representation, or, to use a movie quote from my childhood that taught me this lesson quite early, “peoples is peoples”—a lesson I hope future allies will learn. For this and all months to follow, I wish you all the best.

A floating skull with pink magical glow.

Rue Dickey (they-he-xe) - Marketing & Media Specialist

While I haven’t had the joy of writing any published trans characters (yet), I have seen myself in so many Paizo books- it’s one of the reasons I love the games we make and am so happy to be a part of this company! Above all, Arhan Benimaya(he/him) from Lost Omens: Grand Bazaar spoke to me very strongly as a Jewish trans man. Seeing someone who looks like me and whose story echoes with my heart made me even more certain that Golarion was a place for me.

Shay Snow (they/them) – Pathfinder Society Developer

Kyyduh is the Starfinder iconic evolutionist, which I worked on and helped create with the Starfinder team earlier this year. If you ask Kyyduh about their gender, their answer will be "Gender? don't even know 'er!" The agender pahtra uses they/them pronouns, no matter what form or shape they adapt while being an evolutionist. They identify as bisexual, with no true preference to gender, and they’ve identified as agender since they were a tiny kit shedding their first canines. They have ADHD and struggle to focus on verbal instructions, but when given written instructions they can adapt and pick up almost any skill presented to them.

Creating Kyyduh was a special experience for me, and allowed me to explore agender expression through a character that I knew would be public-facing. I was a little nervous when the blogs went live, unsure of how the Paizo community might feel about a nonbinary iconic, however I was genuinely overjoyed when I saw so many cheerful and welcoming comments, validating Kyyduh’s identity and disability. Kyyduh’s a bright, cheerful pahtra and will be facing so many upcoming adventures in the Starfinder universe!

Domakayo (he/him), a Vesk in a glittery bodysuit.

Tineke Bolleman

Domakayo (he/him), from Starfinder Society Scenario #3-15: Frozen Ambitions - The Preluria Connection. He is a little ode to drag performers.

Domakayo is a performer living on Vault of Vorlath. He performs in bars and has a dedicated fanbase. Domakayo dresses in his well known glitter bodysuit and discoball tail extension, and paints his scales in vibrant colors to mimic and exaggerate the colorations of female Vesk. His dance performances are lively and are punctuated by crushing items, a play on old fashioned Vesk courtship dances.

Domakayo loves expressing himself through his dance performances and the transformation he goes through before getting on stage. He has no stage name, finding comfort in using his own name and being who he was not allowed to be back home.

Rhenei Aldori (they/them) from The Swordlord's Challenge  always felt pressured by the demands of Ysoki society. Ysoki have a relatively short lifespan, and in Rhenei’s family there was a big emphasis on settling down while young and having kids. Classic gender roles never seemed to fit. Mom. Dad. Nanny. Caretaker. Babysitter. Even if not pressed into a parental role, their family would still press them into a caregiver role. When Rhenei clearly stated they did not wish any of this, there was a huge fallout. Rhenei left their home, and eventually ended up studying Aldori swordlord. After training, Rhenei swore the swordpact and is now Rhenei Aldori.

Rhenei loves expressing themselves by wearing colorful clothing.

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We’re happy to be able to bring so many of these characters to life here at Paizo—and to let our trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming community members know that they are safe, welcomed, and celebrated here.

If you’re looking for ways to help the queer community—especially queer youth—this Pride, consider donating to the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, volunteering with a local or online queer youth center, and speaking out against transphobia when it pops up around you. The proceeds of Paizo’s Pride Pins – available in Vigilant, Goblin, or Skittermander – benefit Tabletop Gaymers, an organization dedicated to making sure LGBTQIA+ players feel safe and welcome at the table.

Trans pride, trans power, trans rights!

Hi gay happy Pride!

Pride month is a time to celebrate queer joy, a time to be out and proud about our existence. Pride is a protest and always has been. For every victory, like the Respect for Marriage Act or the removal of the ban against gay men donating blood, there are just as many setbacks to equality. States like Florida and Texas pass law after law banning discussion of queer issues in schools and gender-affirming medical care, which whips the outrage machine into a frenzy and leads to Target employees being attacked over the yearly Pride collection. The LGBTQ+ community wonders every day what new attacks on our freedom, our right to simply exist, await us in the news.

The theme of this year’s Pride is “Rage and Resilience.” In recognition and celebration of our wonderful community of LGBTQ+ staffers and freelance contributors, we asked them to submit something about what gives them strength. We hope you enjoy hearing from them and encourage our community members to share their own responses in the comments!

Happy Pride, everyone! May you all get a new set of rainbow dice that rolls as well as mine does.

Alex Speidel (he/him)
Organized Play Coordinator, known bisexual

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Solatra (credited as Sasha Laranoa Harving; nov/nov)

Age 15. I came out as pansexual. My community was fairly progressive, but I still encountered people who thought I should just pick an easier label.

Age 16. I came out as aromantic. Anyone who had met me knew I was a hopeless romantic, in love with love, and told me it was a phase.

Age 17. I came out as a trans lesbian. I was met with anger, derision, mourning someone who did not die.

As time went on I debated if any of those things were accurate at all. I felt anger at myself for not figuring it out earlier, at my community for not letting me express myself.

Fast forward. Age 27. I'm out and proud as a xenogender aromantic pansexual lesbian. It is the multiplicity of my existence, the fact that I can be all of these things at once and love with all my heart that makes me strong.

Find what makes you strong and let it lift you up, and when people tell you your identity is wrong, know that they are simply too weak to accept your truth. In adversity there is community. In love there is life. Be strong. Together.

James Jacobs (he/him)
Pathfinder Narrative Creative Director

I find strength from friends and family, but thinking it over, I’ve got a potentially unexpected answer to the question “What gives me strength?” Horror gives me strength. I understand that the genre isn’t for everyone, but it defines who I am. From a kid watching horror movies with my dad, or while reading horror comic books and novels given to me by my grandparents, or while writing horror stories for school, the genre of fear has always given me strength. Whenever I finished a story (be it a movie, novel, game session, campfire tale, or whatever), I felt stronger, especially while growing up amid horrors both small (those endless school bullies) and enormous (the threat of nuclear apocalypse). There’s a reason horror sees its greatest growth during times of despair—and when times are good, the genre falters. It’d be nice to live in a world where I didn’t need horror to feel strong, but in the meantime, horror helps me continue my journey toward that world. Especially when I get to share my love of horror with friends or family, so… huh. I guess friends and family ARE at the core of it all!

Carlos Cabrera (he/they)

It gives me strength/I am jealous that my World of Darkness character is doing multi-gender polyamory better than me right now.

Mios, the iconic thaumaturge. Mios is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.

Marlowe Miller (they/he)

As a genderfluid Caddo person who has had my gender questioned by strangers since I started middle school, I know that I'm able to make a change just by existing as a visibly queer person. My mere presence challenges the public's preconceived notions of trans people. It's scary sometimes, I won't lie—but it's unavoidable and a responsibility I must bear. I couldn't do it without the help of my chosen family, both here at home in Alabama and in other states.

People question why I stay here when the law is becoming more hostile by the day. I stay in Alabama because I love the queer communities that flourish here, and because I know that if there weren't so many trans and gender-nonconforming people down here in the South, our lawmakers wouldn't be trying to legislate us out of existence. I stay in Alabama because there are people down here who can't leave and we need to stand together to survive. I stay in Alabama because it's my home, and I'm determined to keep it and my communities safe from people who would see it all destroyed. What gives me strength and keeps me going? Community.

Rue Dickey (they/he/xe)
Marketing & Media Specialist

Hey, I’m Rue (they/he/xe), and I’m a mixed race, nonbinary, disabled creator, as well as Paizo’s Marketing & Media Specialist! I’ve been doing freelance writing with Paizo for about a year—my first writing credit is in our newly announced Pathfinder Howl of the Wild, and I’m new here on the marketing team! Above all else, my friends and family give me strength. I have the joy of living with my two wonderful spouses, Rina and Jalen, and I know that they’ll always be there for me just like I’m here for them. My parents are proud of me even if they don’t necessarily understand what I do. It’s wonderful to know that I’m surrounded by people who I love and who love me back. Another thing I find strength in is the goodness of people—and how our community is quick to come together to support those in need. Running two very successful fundraisers for trans rights didn’t just help monetarily; it also showed folx in Florida and Texas that we care about them worldwide. And we won’t let them be erased. We’re here, we’re queer, and we won’t be erased.

Eren Ahn (they/them primarily)

If I'd been asked this prompt last year, I would have written a lot of flowery prose about the importance of family and friendships. I still draw strength from my community; I love and appreciate all of the people I've been fortunate enough to build relationships with, both being born to them and forging them through time and long conversations at 1:47am.

That being said, this year I've reached a level of self-confidence and inner strength I never had before. For the first time, I feel focused and at ease enough to fight for myself in both my professional and personal life. I draw strength in being able to live my life in appreciation of myself, and I hope that's a sentiment many others can agree with. I find a lot of peace in knowing that I always have myself in my corner. I don't know if I would be as happy as I am now without them.

You'll see my work in both Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia books, and as of this being published, I'll have announced the first creature-focused module a friend and I are collaborating on! You can learn more about that on my Twitter @chromathesia.

Amber Stewart (she/her)

I’m Amber Stewart (she/her) and what gives me strength is seeing how my work and that of my peers serves as an idealized mirror for players to see themselves represented in-game, or as a playground to explore their identity in fantasy. Coming to recognize and accept where you fit on the spectrum of orientation and gender identity is a unique thing for each of us, and TTRPGs can be part of that process—it absolutely was for me. You might not immediately recognize that something in-game reflects part of who you are, and play can help unlock some of that identity and provide an avenue for you to explore it: I know that playing female PCs (at an ever-increasing frequency over time) was for me part of my journey to accepting myself as being trans, and then as an outlet to explore that identity well before anyone in my family but my partner was aware.

Now, I might play to my own experiences more than not in my content, but with a broad freelance community, we get a LOT of voices represented. It’s cool, inspiring, and wholesome to see and I’m ever prouder of this community with each passing year.

Kendra Leigh Speedling (she/her)

Hello! I'm Kendra Leigh Speedling, bisexual (and demisexual) disaster and frequent freelancer for Paizo. You may have spotted my name on several books recently, including Pathfinder Treasure Vault and To Defy the Dragon, a Starfinder standalone mech adventure that might help tide you over until Mechageddon!.

It’s a tough time to be queer, especially for our trans and nonbinary friends and family. I’m not as recognizably queer as many others, which has advantages and disadvantages. I could stop talking about certain aspects of myself and pass as straight, but I don’t want to. My pithy answer to what gives me strength is spite. My more heartfelt answer is community, both among LGBTQ+ folks and allies in the Paizosphere and among my other queer friends. The bigots are vocal, but acceptance is increasing overall, particularly in younger generations. I think the recent backlash against us is driven by their fear that they're losing.

Sometimes I come across historical photos online, grainy black-and-white images of queer couples, of people proudly wearing clothes associated with a different gender, and I feel a sense of community across time. We have always been here. We will always be here. And we are worth celebrating.

Brent Bowser (he/they)

Growing up in a small farm town, I used to think there was something wrong with me because I was the only one. Gaming helped me find myself and others like me. I've volunteered with the Organized Play campaign for over ten years, and the caring, generous, accepting friends I've made saved my life. And if bigots and jerks don't feel welcome in Organized Play, then I've done my job.

Jessie "Aki” Lo (she/her)

My name is Jessie Lo, better known as Aki/Akino, and I’m a Bisexual Asian-Canadian freelance artist, writer, and community content creator.

Tons of things bar me from opportunities to create within this space, but what I find that gives me strength is spite. Spite is my biggest motivator, it empowers me to persevere when I feel like I can’t. As a queer woman of colour, I already live in a world where I have to work harder to get by. As an Asian woman, I am constantly fighting the stereotype of being obedient and quiet. However, I genuinely could care less of what others think, so as long as I succeed and continue to uplift marginalized voices with my work, like co-producing my multi-award winning Pathfinder Second Edition podcast Goblets and Gays. It's incredibly surprising what a healthy amount of spite can do for your motivation. Truthfully, I’m just a loud little hater who can find ways to empower and support myself and my community.

If you’d like to see more queer, spite-fueled projects, please continue to support me. https://twitter.com/akinomii_art

Caryn DiMarco (she/they)

I'm Caryn DiMarco (she/they), and my freelance work from Paizo ranges from Pathfinder Society adventures to contributions to the Lost Omens and rulebook lines. I'm so thankful for the opportunity to work with a team of freelancers, developers, editors, and more that represents the richness and complexity of the LGBTQ+ community.

Those spaces we make for ourselves and each other are a key part of what keeps me resilient. I find it easy to get overwhelmed by bad news (especially when it's so widespread). When I do, I'm able to remind myself that the small actions we take to make people feel welcome and safe make a difference. Whether that's making sure our settings represent the diversity of our world, taking steps to keep the games we play inclusive, or simply sharing the bits of LGBTQ+ culture that sustain us, all of our individual efforts become something bigger and more powerful when combined.

Grady Wang (he/him)

Growing up, the pervasive message about strength was that it comes from within—the action hero who goes it alone, the player character who levels up after each struggle, the message that boys need to suck it up. As I grow older, I’ve learned that personal strength only carries you so far. True strength comes from opening yourself up to others, even if it also makes you vulnerable. For me, strength comes from community.

I am so lucky to have found an amazing community in tabletop. From the inclusivity at cons to the thoughtful and empathetic team at Paizo to the generosity of my fellow freelancers, I have learned and grown so much. My goal is to give back and encourage the same behaviors that inspire me to stand up for my beliefs and live my truths. One such way is through the Queerfinder zine series on Pathfinder Infinite, which aims to introduce queer-identifying aspiring designers and artists to veterans in the industry. Another is working with the Storytelling Collective to provide resources for designers of all backgrounds. If your dream is to work in tabletop, please feel free to reach out. We are all stronger together.

Lovely Ria is a Pact Worlds pop icon chosen by Desna. Ria is nonbinary and uses xe/xem/xer pronouns (pronounced “zee,” “zem,” and “zer”) to represent xer genderfluidity and connection to the queerness of the alien cosmos. Ria’s wild travels took xem all the way to Cynosure, home of goddess Desna

Jenny Jarzabski (she/her/xe)
Starfinder Senior Developer

Hi, I’m Jenny Jarzabski. Working with the Starfinder team is one of the things that fills me with pride and fuels my hope every day that a better world is possible.

When encountering a Starfinder NPC (nonplayer character), you can assume that character is queer unless explicitly stated otherwise. This is only partly a joke considering the myriad weird and wonderful celebrations of queer identities in the setting.

Examining society’s gender constructs and ultimately turning them upside down is a long and proud tradition for sci-fi creators. As we create infinite fictional worlds, we imagine humanity’s own infinite possibilities. Here on Earth many people recognize multiple genders in humans, though the truth is more complex and subtle even than “male,” “female,” and “nonbinary.” In the fictional worlds of Starfinder, understanding has progressed even further. Add aliens to the mix and it gets super interesting!

For example: maraquoi, a fur-covered simian species, have seven genders that each play a different role in reproduction. Shirrens—an insectoid, choice-obsessed people who broke away from the destructive Swarm—present three genders: female, host, and male. Astrazoans are shapeshifting echinoderms with no inherent concept of gender, and synthetic lifeforms like anacites and androids can choose to adopt humanoid gender roles and pronouns or create their own.

I’m proud of my personal contributions to our queer cosmos, not to mention the fantastic additions to the Starfinder setting made by dozens of queer creators. To those creators: I’m honored to help amplify your voices and develop your work. Because of you, the Starfinder multiverse is a more beautiful, diverse reality.

Starfinder is set far in Pathfinder’s future, in an era when many alien cultures have already achieved peace and prosperity, and social progression has advanced beyond the norm here on Earth. This vibrant reality is imperiled by threats from both beyond the stars and in their own backyards, but even in the face of these dangers, a Starfinder character can proudly be who they are. And that’s why Starfinder’s worlds are worth fighting for, just like ours.

Dustin Knight (he/him)
Starfinder Developer

After years of contemplating the definition of love, I find an endless source of strength in the seemingly endless journey to completely learn what it means to love oneself. It might seem a little intense to bring this up in a blog post for a tabletop RPG company, but I couldn’t have made it this far on my continuing journey toward self-acceptance and self-respect without these games, this community, and these annual blog posts. The commitment to love expressed and confirmed time and time again by this community has helped me learn who I am and accept that with pride instead of guilt or shame. There is an unparalleled cathartic magic to roleplaying and storytelling, and I draw endless strength from the idea that my contributions to our hobby may help others down their path of self-acceptance and self-love.

Katrina Hennessy (she/they)

I hesitated to write this, not only because life is at its chaotic best, but because I feel I don’t belong. I’m not really a part of the LGBTQ+ community, yet I’m not not part of it. For most of my life I knew I didn’t fit, but I played my part anyway. I am a happily married woman with adult offspring, but I still don’t fit in The Box where most of society automatically places me.

The Paizo community provided strength and support to learn by allowing me to witness others on their own path, providing hints and a direction to look. I think I now know which labels apply, but it doesn’t really matter. All of this has helped me better accept myself and feel less different. I won’t say normal, as I’m not sure that is a word that should ever be applied to any human being. Everything about humans (and probably most living creatures) exists on a spectrum.

So, if you aren’t sure where you belong on the spectrum, that’s OK. If you want to poke around and try to work it out, this is a great community to be in while you do so. No obligations to make announcements, fly flags, or anything else. Nothing wrong with doing so and please accept and respect those who do. Being quietly personal about your status also deserves respect.

Andrew Mullen (he/him)

I’m Andrew, and a few months ago I realized I’m bi! That was sort of a weird thing to have happen, seeing as I’m a dude in his late 30s with a wife and a toddler. I guess when society assumes you’re heterosexual, and your attractions mostly match up with that, then you assume you’re straight, too.

I draw a lot of strength from my family. When I told my wife, Melissa, about the realization, she was just glad I’d discovered something about myself. As we talked more, she projected a very uncomplicated and sincere sense of affirmation. What better than that, when you’re open and vulnerable in unfamiliar territory? My parents and close friends were similarly supportive!

You know how the right acts like it owns the “traditional” family? Well, queer folks of all stripes are out here having families that look like a 1950s all-American ad. It’s very satisfying to disprove and reject bigotry by being myself.

Alexi J. Greer (they/them)

I remember living in Orlando in 2021, with my polycule and gathering of queer and trans friends. I didn’t know what would happen in the next two years, but there was something in the air that made me pause that summer. “I think we should seriously consider moving up near your family in New England,” I told my fiancé. I worked through illness and sleepless nights to make the move work, but it did. Then it wasn't even three months before I was messaging my friends down in FL. "Stay strong and keep going. We're going to make a plan to bring you up here."

What gives me strength are the people I care about and my determination to see them happy. And my confidence that we can fight for happiness; not just our own, but others' too. Happiness should be chased, not negotiated for as if it were a commodity to be rationed out. Evil pretends to represent the majority, but it's a boldfaced lie. There's a wider world that wants you here, with us, and shining as your full self. And if you're in need, I know I'm not alone when I vow to support you too.

Dynamite Entertainment’s Pathfinder and Starfinder Comics Kickstarter is in its final week, and they’ve already unlocked two phenomenal stretch goals and are on the way to a third!

This Kickstarter brings Dynamite’s Pathfinder and Starfinder comics to you as hardcover anthology volumes—giving you the opportunity to not only own the newest volumes for both series, but a chance to order the previous hardcovers in the Pathfinder comics line! This Kickstarter also brings the Pathfinder: Worldscape crossover issues together in hardback for the first time, letting you hold all your beloved iconic Pathfinder heroes and Dynamite’s own iconic characters in the same volume.

On top of the base content of Pathfinder: Wake the Dead, Starfinder: Angels of the Drift, and Pathfinder: Worldscape, Dynamite’s Kickstarter stretch goals have added over 60 pages to the graphic novels. The first stretch goal added Starfinder: Helping Hands, a 20-page story by Paizo’s own Erik Mona. Smashing the second goal means that all backers of the Pathfinder: Wake the Dead volume will get the Pathfinder: Fumbus story added to their books. And now, Dynamite is racing toward the third stretch goal—a Navasi “Rookie Card” for all backers!

But that’s not all! Backers don’t just get these wonderful stories that take place in the world of Golarion and beyond—each issue comes with exclusive rules content for the Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplaying games, written by designers Mikhail Rekun and Alexander Augunas, respectively. From character sheets to encounters, this bonus content is an exciting addition for any table!

Did someone say free add-ons? Backers will receive free PDF copies of Paizo rulebooks, corresponding to their comics:

• Pathfinder: Wake the Dead backers will receive a PDF of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook
• Starfinder: Angels of the Drift backers will receive a PDF of the Starfinder Core Rulebook
• Pathfinder: Worldscape backers will receive a PDF of the Pathfinder Bestiary (Second Edition)
• Contributors who back all three volumes get an additional PDF, the Starfinder Alien Archive, plus an exclusive goblin d20!

Don’t fail your awesome value saving throw—stop over and see what all the excitement is about!

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.

“Forged Gaming and the Ultimate Game Master Screen team couldn’t be more excited to partner with an iconic publisher like Paizo,” said Jon Barry, director of Forged Gaming. “As a GM and player myself, I can’t wait to create official content for amazing RPGs like Pathfinder and Starfinder!”

Exact details of this content are still in development. The partnership with Paizo will offer backers of the project access to officially licensed content like magnetic rule tables and game-specific trackers, as well as thematic artwork.

The Ultimate Game Master Screen Kickstarter is helmed by the team at Forged Gaming and developed in partnership with RealmSmith. Using feedback collected from over 1,500 Game Masters across various TTRPG systems, the team developed a unique Game Master screen system that is customizable, affordable, and system agnostic.

“When we started roughing-in what we wanted to build, customizability was at the core of our thought process,” said Jason Azevedo of RealmSmith and project designer. “GMing and storytelling is such a personal experience; no two games or GMs are alike. We knew we wanted to create a premium GM screen that was flexible enough to be useful to Game Masters of almost any game, and affordable. I think we succeeded on all counts. Check it out and tell us what you think.”

The Ultimate Game Master Screen Kickstarter campaign is live through June 24, 2023. Earlybird pricing, which is still available at the time of this article, is US$89 for the core product and ranges up to US$279 for the Ultimate Backer Bundle. For more information on the project and the campaign, take a look at the Kickstarter!

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.

Pathfinder Remaster

Lead Designer Logan Bonner revealed the final, painted covers for the Player Core and GM Core books during the presentation. These fully painted covers by Wayne Reynolds feature Pathfinder iconic heroes doing battle against and standing alongside new diabolic and mirage dragons, both of which will debut in Monster Core. These full-color covers will be available online and at retailers, while the Hobby Retailer Exclusive Sketch Covers, previously revealed on the Paizo Blog, will only be available through your FLGS.

Hardcover Rulebooks

Pathfinder has a variety of new rulebooks—some freshly released and some on their way. James Case, Senior Designer on Pathfinder, showcased some of the upcoming content.

Rage of Elements, Pathfinder’s latest rulebook, will be available in early August at Gen Con 2023, as well as online and at local retailers. This book adds wood and metal elemental planes to Golarion, taking players on a tour of the planes and introducing their elemental lords. Also included in Rage of Elements is a much-anticipated new class: the kineticist, an elemental adept martial class. Rage of Elements is the first Remaster compatible rulebook, giving a preview of the rule changes to come.

Coming in 2024 is the recently announced Howl of the Wild, a creature-filled book featuring an iruxi naturalist and his eccentric crew as they navigate the wilds on their airship, the Zoetrope. This book introduces six new wild-side ancestries, new creatures, regional variants of existing creatures, spells, archetypes, and more.

Lost Omens

Luis Loza, Creative Director of Pathfinder, gave a preview of Lost Omens Highhelm, an upcoming book that’s part gazetteer and part exploration of dwarven culture. This new Lost Omens entry releases in June and includes new skills, feats, ancestries, backgrounds, and mechanics to immerse yourself in dwarven culture and the city of Highhelm. Players can also expect to learn more about the dwarven pantheon, particularly eight gods not yet expanded on in Golarion.

Pathfinder Adventures

Syncing wonderfully with the release of Lost Omens Highhelm, Pathfinder’s next Adventure Path, Sky King’s Tomb, takes player characters on a quest for a major piece of dwarven history. The Adventure Path starts in August, and the three volumes will take players from levels 1–10.

Following that, our Adventure Paths take us to Tian Xia for Season of Ghosts. This ghostly, horror-flavored four-part Adventure Path for levels 1–12 takes place over a full calendar year in game—with each installment covering the length of one season in a cursed town in haunted Shenmen.

Standalone adventures return with Pathfinder Adventure: Rusthenge, a softcover book that places low-level characters in the world of runelords and their conflicts. Rusthenge will release late this year, bringing the western reaches to your table.

Partner Projects

Many of Paizo’s licensed partners are currently running crowdfunding drives or releasing new projects, such as the Dynamite Comics Kickstarter, BKOM Studios Abomination Vaults ARPG Kickstarter, Demiplane’s Pathfinder NEXUS, and more.

Breaking news! Steve Jackson Games announced that Pathfinder: Revolution, the Pathfinder expansion for hit board game Revolution, will release late this year. Pathfinder: Revolution puts players in the rebellion of Korvosa, facing off against tyrannical Queen Ileosa to save the city from her bloody path to immortality.

Starfinder

Looming big and bright on Starfinder’s horizon is Starfinder Enhanced, a book full of player options, items, spells, and rules for scaling up equipment. This book rolls out enhanced versions of four classes—the envoy, solarian, technomancer, and witchwarper—and presents new rules and changes that reflect feedback from the experiences of developers and community members alike.

Starfinder and mech fans alike can look forward to Mechageddon!, a high-level hardcover Adventure Path coming in 2024! Newly announced at PaizoCon 2023, this adventure starts on Daimalko—the planet of kaiju—and takes players through levels 3–18, letting their mechs level up with them through tier 17.

Organized Play

Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society have plenty in store for this summer’s convention season! Debuted at PaizoCon Online 2023, Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-13: Within the Prairies and Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-14: Shattering Golden Chains continued this season’s path towards conflict with the night hag, Aslynn. Starfinder Society introduced its new season with Starfinder Society Scenario #6-01: Year of Fortune’sFall and Starfinder Society Scenario #6-02: Drift Scars. Starfinder Society players also participated in the group interactive special #5-99, Battle for Bulwark!

Look forward to election day in Starfinder Society! The First Seeker has stepped down, and four new candidates have been chosen from player-submitted characters to run for their place. In Starfinder Society Scenario #6-06, going live at GenCon 2023, Society players will get to meet the candidates and vote on who will step up as the next First Seeker.

Pathfinder Adventure Path #200

Pathfinder Adventure Path #200 is coming next year, and it’s a special double-sized standalone adventure available in hardcover and softcover. Seven Dooms for Sandpoint brings Pathfinder Adventure Path #1 author James Jacobs back to that adventure’s setting, the town of Sandpoint, for a level 4–12 adventure that adapts Pathfinder’s designer playtest campaign for the first time.

Watch the PaizoCon Online 2023 Twitch Panel Playlist on YouTube!

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!

From now through May 29, take 20% off a single order* of Pathfinder and Starfinder products at the Paizo Store using the code PaizoCon2023 at checkout.

Stock up on Pathfinder Accessories, Deep Cuts miniatures, and the entire Pathfinder Battles line of prepainted miniatures from WizKids (excluding preorders or full sized figures).

Join us for the PaizoCon Keynote on Twitch from 10 a.m. to noon Pacific and on the Paizo Events Discord for partner giveaways every hour on the hour between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!

Get it before it is gone!

Inside our Starfinder Solidarity Bundle you will find everything you need for years of exciting science-fantasy play, like digital copies of the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Alien Archive, Alien Archive 2, Alien Archive 3, the Starfinder Beginner Box, as well as the entire Fly Free or Die Adventure Path. Plus, it features physical copies of Starfinder Alien Archive 2 and the Starfinder Critical Hit Deck! That is over $400 in Starfinder Roleplaying Game digital and print materials for only $45! Best of all, you choose how much of your purchase supports The Trevor Project.

But wait, there’s more! Many of our partners have amazing offers to help you unleash your hero:

• BKOM Pre-Kickstarter Campaign
• Demiplane Character Tools Launch Party Sale - Use code PF2CHARACTERS at checkout to save 20% on all Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks and Lost Omens source books (pre-orders not included) on Pathfinder NEXUS!
• Demiplane's Official Pathfinder 2nd Edition Character Tools Open Beta Is Live
• DriveThruComics Sale
• DriveThruRPG Sale
• Dynamite Kickstarter - Hardcovers of Pathfinder & Starfinder comics are crowdfunding now!
• Foundry Anniversary Sale
• Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite Sale
• Pathfinder Infinite Bundle
• TALES OF ASUNDA #1-3, NIOBE & DURA #2, MORKA MOA #3 + MORE! Kickstarter with Pathfinder First Edition content tiers

Roll20 is celebrating with newly re-packaged Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics, Pathfinder Flip-Mats, and Starfinder Flip-Mats. They also have Pathfinder and Starfinder Core Rulebook discounts, dynamic Pathfinder and Starfinder Mega-Bundles, the new digital Pathfinder Harrow Deck!

Shop the PaizoCon Sale Today!

* Discounts listed here do not stack with other discounts, including the Paizo Advantage. Not valid on subscriptions, preorders, Foundry VTT, or non-Paizo products not specifically listed as on sale. Sale ends at 11:59 p.m. Pacific on May 29.

PaizoCon South Pacific is happening again at the historic Quarantine Station in Sydney, Australia this June/July!

This year, we’re doing things a little differently and have embraced a spooky theme to celebrate the shortest days of the year here in the Southern Hemisphere. A boatload of Pathfinder and Starfinder Society content will be on offer over the weekend, alongside ghost tours and other activities that will let you catch up with other players from around the region. Activities will include:

• Low level sessions of Pathfinder Society 2E and Starfinder; beginners welcome!
• A whole pile of OP scenarios, a module, and even short adventures to play, so as to provide something for everyone.
• Dinner at The Hold on Sunday, July 2^nd (https://thehold.com.au/)

A weekend-pass is $70, or you can purchase individual sessions at $15 per person. Tickets are purchased through Warhorn via PayPal. All the details can be found here or at Warhorn, and you can keep up with the conversation on Discord. 

Please contact the organisers (Sandra Wilkinson or Nik Beattie) by email (nsworgplay@tutanota.com) or via the PCSP section in the NSW Discord (https://discord.gg/dkkPNpxGn9) if you have any questions or queries about the convention, they will be more than happy to help you out!

PaizoCon South Pacific Organisers

Hardcovers of Pathfinder & Starfinder comics are crowdfunding now!

Dynamite has launched an exciting new Kickstarter that allows fans to immerse themselves in thrilling Pathfinder and Starfinder graphic novels. The campaign is live now with hardcover editions of the forthcoming series Pathfinder: Wake the Dead, Starfinder: Angels of the Drift, and a collection of hard-to-find Pathfinder: Worldscape crossover specials. As a bonus, backers will receive playable RPG content included in each volume, extra incentive digital downloads, and more! From high fantasy to science fiction, there’s an adventure for every kind of gamer and reader.

Pathfinder comics make their return with Wake the Dead, the eighth volume in the line. Longtime gamer and comics veteran Fred Van Lente (Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Zombies) tackles this latest epic, alongside artist Eman Casallos (Vampirella).

In Wake the Dead, a party sets out on a quest to rendezvous with a defector of Geb, who has priceless secrets from that undead nation. When the team find themselves cornered by the city’s remorseless Deathsealers, can they band together for survival and escape a city full of hostile wizards alive?

As always, Wake the Dead features new Pathfinder RPG rules, including Pathfinder Society-sanctioned character options. If you can’t wait to use them at the table, be sure to pick up the individual issues coming out every other month starting May 31 at your local comic book retailer!

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift is the first-ever comic series set in the science-fantasy game’s Pact Worlds setting. Built on a foundation of the Pathfinder setting flung far into the future, Starfinder blends magic and technology, elves and aliens. Starfinder’s first, now former, Creative Director James L. Sutter writes the series, alongside artist Edu Menna (Army of Darkness).

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift stars a colorful cast of heroes who will be pulled together as a disaster in the hyperspace dimension known as the Drift has completely thrown off the galaxy's ability to travel between worlds safely.

Angels of the Drift continues the longstanding tradition of providing new game rules inspired by the contents of the comic story, and players will be able to find new Starfinder RPG species, equipment, and alien companions (among other options) in the volume’s rules appendix. Individual issues come out bi-monthly beginning June 21, so don’t wait to start using these Starfinder Society-sanctioned rules at your table!

Pathfinder: Worldscape Volume 3 binds never-before collected multiverse crossovers including Worldscape: Vampirella, Worldscape: Dejah Thoris, Worldscape: Reanimator, and Worldscape: Swords of Sorrow. The collection features adventures written by Paizo’s Chief Creative Officer and Publisher Erik Mona and former Paizo editor Christopher Paul Carey. Previously released exclusively via a Humble Bundle deal, longtime collectors will be happy to see them back in print and collected in a single volume.

Kickstarter supporters can also add previous volumes of Pathfinder comics to their pledge, including the recent Pathfinder: Fumbus special and other fun add-on options.

Go to our Kickstarter page to participate

Hey folks! My name is James L. Sutter—you might remember me as Starfinder's first Creative Director. Though I've been away for a bit, exploring new worlds, I was absolutely thrilled to return as the writer for the first-ever Starfinder comic series from Paizo and Dynamite!

Back when we were first dreaming up Starfinder, we knew we needed some sort of faster-than-light travel, but we wanted something that felt unique—not just another Star Trek-style warp or Star Wars-style hyperspace. I'd personally always been a fan of Event Horizon's "ship drive tears open a hole to Hell" idea, which seemed like it would present a lot of opportunity for adventure. At the same time, games like Pathfinder and D&D had already long established that plane-hopping through the realms of the afterlife is a great way to shortcut across vast distances on the Material Plane. So we thought: what if instead of traveling by planeshifting to somewhere like Heaven or Hell, you instead entered a whole new dimension, one dedicated to (or created by) faster-than-light travel? And what if every time you did, it tore off a little piece of one of the other planes to add to itself—making the dimension both hugely useful and a parasitic cancer on reality?

Thus was the Drift born, and with it one of the most recognizable and mysterious elements of our game's setting. We'd known from early on that we wanted Starfinder's "modern day" to be shortly after the discovery of faster-than-light travel: the beginning of a galactic land rush, complete with all the excitement, conflict, and moral quandary of an age of exploration. And the question of how Drift technology was created let us build up canon around an important new deity: Triune the All-Code, god of machines. We decided that the discovery would come from Triune sending out "the Signal," a magical message in a million different forms telling the cultures receiving it how to construct ships capable of accessing the Drift.

The Drift is crucial to every element of galactic society, from trade to basic communication—which makes any threat to it unbelievably dangerous. Starfinder: Angels of the Drift takes place during just such a threat: an event called the Drift Crisis, in which the Drift suddenly begins behaving unpredictably, shunting starships out in random locations or swallowing them whole. When our story begins, Navasi and her crew have been having a hard time finding passengers willing to brave an unstable dimension—until a spectra, a magical robot-like being native to the Drift, hires them to help it take the Signal to an advanced culture that somehow missed the message. But a new world comes with new opportunities for exploitation, and our heroes aren't the only ones eager to make contact...

Of course, a story is more than just its setting. While I've written for the Pathfinder comics before—series like Runescars, Hollow Mountain, Origins, and Goblins—with Starfinder, I knew I wanted to take a different approach. You see, in June I'm coming out with my first young adult novel, Darkhearts, a queer romance all about falling for the boy who stole your chance at rock stardom. And while the Starfinder comics aren't a romance (yet), I learned some lessons writing that book that I'll be bringing to Starfinder's epic science-fantasy action.

The most important of those is that stories are about characters—and that goes double for comics. After all, we don't return to the X-Men month after month for the plots; we do it because we want to see Wolverine be our Grumpy Mutant Dad, or watch a charismatic Magneto make some uncomfortably good points. And a character is more than just a costume or a role in a party—they're their problems, their relationships, their point of view.

So when I sat down to outline Starfinder: Angels of the Drift, I made sure that every character had some emotional or philosophical issue they were wrestling with—a challenge to their worldview that could let them grow (or not). Without spoiling where everyone ends up, below is a brief introduction to the party members and how they'll be pushed emotionally over the course of the story.

Obozaya: Our brash vesk brawler is obsessed with two things: honor and dance music. While Obo's never been one to walk away from a fight, this series will force her to ask whether there's anything more important than being the best—and if violence is always the answer.

Navasi: As self-proclaimed shot-caller for her merry band of mercenaries, Navasi's used to using quick wits and fast talk to keep her party in food and fuel. Times are tough, and she knows their vagabond life depends on her ability to cut a deal—but how much can a reformed pirate squeeze the needy before she's no longer reformed?

Ciravel: As a precog, Ciravel sees glimpses of the future, and uses them to help lead her friends—and the galaxy—down the best possible timeline. But how can she allow others to make their own choices when she can already see the outcomes? Is freedom really a virtue?

Quig: Nobody can match Quig's ability as a mechanic—or at least, that's what he thinks until he's forced to work with a spectra who can simply ask machines to fix themselves. With his role in the party in question, can our hotheaded, hard-partying rat cope with becoming obsolete?

Keskodai: For a shirren like Keskodai, individual choice is everything—the divine gift that distinguishes them from the mindless, ravenous Swarm. It's why he carries his son, Chk Chk, in a cradle-jar on his belt, so the larva can see the galaxy and decide his own place in it. But when the bullets start flying, everyone's favorite death priest will have to ask himself whether putting his child at risk is really a responsible choice.

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you'll check out Starfinder: Angels of the Drift!

James L. Sutter
Writer, Starfinder: Angels of the Drift

Humble Bundles are limited-time collections of games, books, software, and more. Simply pay what you want and choose where your money goes, including to charity—the more you give, the more you get!

Inside our new Starfinder Solidarity Bundle you will find everything you need for years of exciting science-fantasy play, like digital copies of the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Alien Archive, Alien Archive 2, Alien Archive 3, the Starfinder Beginner Box, as well as the entire Fly Free or Die Adventure Path. Plus, it features physical copies of Starfinder Alien Archive 2 and the Starfinder Critical Hit Deck! That is over $400 in Starfinder Roleplaying Game digital and print materials for only $45! Best of all, you choose how much of your purchase supports The Trevor Project.

At the $5 tier, you’ll get

• Starfinder Core Rulebook
• Starfinder Alien Archive
• Starfinder Beginner Box (PDF)
• Starfinder Player Character Folio (PDF)
• Starfinder GM Screen (PDF)
• Starfinder Adventure Path: We're No Heroes (Fly Free or Die 1 of 6)

At the $15 tier, you’ll get

• Starfinder Alien Archive 2 (PDF)
• Starfinder Adventure Path: Merchants of the Void (Fly Free or Die 2 of 6)
• Starfinder Adventure Path: Professional Courtesy (Fly Free or Die 3 of 6)
• Starfinder Adventure: Redshift Rally
• Starfinder Alien Archive Pawn Box (PDF)
• Starfinder Core Rulebook Pawn Collection (PDF)
• Starfinder Society Scenario: Pact World Warriors
• Starfinder Flip-Mat: Asteroid (PDF/JPG)
• Starfinder Flip-Mat: Ghost Ship (PDF/JPG)
• Starfinder Flip-Mat: Jungle World (PDF/JPG)

At the $25 tier, you’ll get

• Starfinder Alien Archive 3 (PDF)
• Starfinder Starship Operations Manual
• Starfinder Near Space (PDF)
• Starfinder Adventure Path: The White Glove Affair (Fly Free or Die 4 of 6)
• Starfinder Adventure Path: Crash & Burn (Fly Free or Die 5 of 6)
• Starfinder Adventure Path: The Gilded Cage (Fly Free or Die 6 of 6)
• Starfinder Pawn Collection: Fly Free or Die (PDF)
• Starfinder One-Shot: System Takedown (PDF)
• Starfinder Society Scenario: Corporate Interest (PDF)
• Starfinder Flip-Mat: Basic Starfield (PDF/JPG)
• Starfinder Flip-Mat: Spaceport (PDF/JPG)

Ownership of these digital products syncs with many of our digital partners, granting you discounts on their products, like virtual tabletops and online tools!

Finally, we are offering a $45 physical reward tier that includes all the PDF products from the lower tiers, plus physical copies of the Starfinder Alien Archive 2 and Starfinder Critical Hit Deck delivered right to your door! Fulfillment is handled by Paizo, and you’re responsible for shipping fees. We anticipate that domestic shipping will run in the $5.05-$6.20* range and that international shipping will be in the $20-$40* range.

Each tier is delivered as a separate code for you to easily download all the items in the tier. You can even give the codes away to others or designate the shipping address wherever you like—perhaps a friend, school club, or charity.

Humble Bundles offer great deals and support great causes. Purchasers can decide how much of their donation goes to each participant in the bundle by expanding the “Adjust Donation” section during the checkout process.

The Trevor Project’s mission is to end suicide among LGBTQ young people. Your donation will save lives. Every day, LGBTQ young people reach out for mental health support. When you donate to Trevor, you ensure their volunteers can continue to be there for them.

Thank you for playing Starfinder and supporting The Trevor Project!

The Paizo Team

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Starfinder Ports of Call is our upcoming 194-page hardcover book release for the Starfinder RPG that brings new locales and rules to your games. This jam-packed book provides an overview of the state of the Starfinder galaxy in the aftermath of the Drift Crisis event, as well as detailing 10 major ports that can host a variety of adventures or just act as a nice resting spot for your characters. Along with all this, there’s rules for cargo running, unique contacts to meet, interesting side jobs to take part in, new species to play as, extra rules for expanded downtime, and new starship options.

One of the most exciting elements of this book is the detail it provides on the galaxy (known as Desna’s Path), along with all manner of unique interstellar phenomena. Learn about the massive black hole at the galaxy’s heart known as Old Rovagug or scratch the surface of the magical event dubbed Pharasma’s Coil. With the Drift Crisis settling down, there’s also the new Drift lanes now crisscrossing different regions of space, connecting worlds previously separated by weeks-long Drift voyages with direct trips cut down to a single week. These lanes provide all manner of new adventuring opportunities, but also have some drastic changes to our setting—what could possibly go wrong with the warlike Veskarium having four Drift lanes crossing through their system? Nothing. Nothing could go wrong.*

Diving into the actual ports portion of the book, we’ve talked about the planetary theme park of Golarion World in past announcements and so we’ll leave that for folks to discover once the book is released. Today, let’s take a peek at two of the other ports you’ll get to explore in this book.

Though the Scoured Stars Adventure Path has had its release date pushed back a bit**, fear not! Ports of Call provides some fun tie-ins for those who’ve followed the Starfinder Society Organized Play Campaign, with some amazing follow-up in the form of the Izadamar port. Izadamar is a settlement within the Scoured Stars that began the process of repopulating and rebuilding following the events of that story. If you’ve already experienced the Scoured Stars, this is an excellent opportunity to see what’s happened since the Starfinder Society triumphed, and what new threats have emerged. Along with all this content, the book also presents playable species rules for the gaseous thyrs of the Kreiholm Freehold, who appeared in the Scoured Stars storyline and have a strong presence in Izadamar.

Going from the far reaches of the Vast back to something closer to “home” (or at least what we consider our setting’s home), the port of Drifter’s End is something people may have heard of before. Not quite a settlement of its own, Drifter’s End is actually one of the many neighborhoods on the immense Absalom Station that acts as the heart of the Starfinder setting—praise to the Starstone and its guaranteed 1d6 days in the Drift to get travel to it!

Drifter’s End is a melting pot of different alien ambassadors and visitors to the immense station. It’s a doorway where many visitors get their first taste of the diversity of the Pact Worlds by traveling through food stalls or carousing to gather information. Experienced Starfinders know that Drifter’s End is home to the campus of the Lorespire Complex that acts as the Starfinder Society’s headquarters in the cosmos. For non-Starfinders, the Society can still help you out by offering reasonably priced lodgings to counteract the constantly booked hotels within the wider neighborhood. These “Starfinder Stay” BNB-like accommodations are the homes of Starfinders who find themselves adventuring more than they stay on the station. Who wouldn’t want to sleep in a home filled with mysterious Starfinder-obtained relics. Nothing could go wrong. Nothing!*

That’s a wrap on today’s preview! Look forward to all this content and a whole lot more as we get closer to the release of Starfinder Ports of Call.

Before I go, I’d like to take a moment to thank the incredibly talented group of writers who worked on this book, including: Kate Baker, Brian Bauman, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, John Curtin, John Feil, Sen H.H.S., Joan Hong, Jenny Jarzabski, Jason Keeley, Dennis Muldoon, Hilary Moon Murphy, Chesley Oxendine, Emily Parks, Joe Pasini, Jessica Redekop, Paul Scofield, Shay Snow, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Alex Speidel, Jason Tondro, Andrew White, Shan Wolf, and Isis Wozniakowska.

On the Paizo-side, this book wouldn’t be possible without the hard development work of lead developer John Compton and supporting development by Joe Pasini. Finally, a big shout out to our editors and editing lead, Ianara Natividad.

We hope you find a whole new galaxy of adventures in this book and can’t wait to hear all the tales you tell at these ports!

Thurston Hillman
Managing Creative Director (Starfinder)

*It’s quite possible something COULD go wrong, but we’ll be the first to tell you.

**We’ve hired new professional glitch gremlin exterminators to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Our old ones just weren’t prepared for the damage on jolting surge.

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!

February's Top Performers

Titles are ranked by an average of units sold and revenue earned and presented in alphabetical order. Asterisks indicate titles that are appearing on this list for the first time. Because they’ve consistently topped the list, and due to the number of their titles that typically take up spots, “Team+” and “Team Index” have asked to be removed from the calculations for ongoing top performers lists. This will allow newer publishers or book series to get more attention. Thanks, all!

Character Classes: Tarotmaster (P2)*
Strange magic awaits within the tarot, waiting to be discovered. Including three focus arcana subclasses, card-casting capabilities, and many ways to manipulate your Major Arcana deck of spells, will you control fate, or will fate control you? Includes over 50 class feats and a multiclass dedication for those who wish to dabble only slightly in the tarot. Includes 23 pages of content for the class, five of which include art for each of the Major Arcana cards and information on spells associated with them.

Deep Space Adventures: Eldritch Emissaries (SF)*
Wielding ancient knowledge and mystical power, eldritch emissaries are individuals who have made deals and agreements with otherworldly forces that often stay hidden in the fabric of the multiverse to fulfill their own ends—but they are in turn manipulated by those same forces. This has all the rules needed to play an eldritch emissary, including new weapon special properties, critical hit effects, fusions, aeon stones, and other magical items. It also has rules for making NPC eldritch emissaries and applying optional rules to them.

Everything Shields (P2)
Take your shields to the next level! With the Everything Shields Pathfinder Second Edition supplement, you can create hundreds of customized shields and shield-focused characters. Do you want to play a swashbuckling, targe-wielding duelist whose shield can exude darkness on command when you get in a pinch? Or a mobile warrior who throws a mithral hoplon that returns after each attack? How about a witch who has etched a hex onto the face of their shield to make enemies falter when they attack? All of these options and many more are possible with Everything Shields!

Frontiers of Magic (P2)*
Magic is an ever-expanding field of study. Wizards construct new spells, druids befriend newly observed species, occultists uncover secrets thought lost, and clerics receive novel blessings. This book explores these lesser-known facets with new player options for Pathfinder Second Edition. This 144-page supplement of player options includes two new classes (mesmerist and shifter), 35 archetypes, new class options and feats for most spellcasting classes, spell skill actions, and over 60 new spells (including consolation cantrips).

Golarion Unseen: Relics of Power (P2)*
Golarion Unseen: Relics of Power offers a wide and detailed expansion to the world of relics established in the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide.

Impossible Paths: Clockwork Clinic (P2)*
People from all over the Impossible Lands gravitate to the Clockwork Clinic, queer boarding house by day, mob doctor by... well, whenever people get shot up. The reasons people were drawn here are different: to heal, to learn, to love, to escape, but the destination is always the same. What Impossible Paths brought these folks together? This book details the Clockwork Clinic and 11 new NPCs hailing from across the Impossible Lands, with art and adventure hooks. Each is meant to be a launching point into future supplements with even more material in other regions.

Minotaurs Unleashed: A Pathfinder Second Edition Ancestry (P2)
The minotaurs of Golarion are a powerful and brave people who have been overlooked for years, considered by some to be violent monsters and worshippers of the demon lord Baphomet. What many don’t know is that there are a number of diverse minotaur cultures across Golarion that seek a different path and have long since forged their own destiny. If you wish to play a powerful and cunning ancestry with a complex and untold history, Minotaurs Unleashed is for you! In this book, you’ll find the minotaur ancestry, with six heritages and 24 ancestry feats; lore from the three major centers of minotaur civilization—the Isles of Kortos, Vudra, and Iblydos; the new longhorn greataxe advanced weapon for the minotaur ancestry; a conversion of the Iblydan hero god Iapholi from Pathfinder First Edition; and hand-drawn illustrations displaying a variety of minotaurs from all across Golarion. Includes Pathbuilder 2e and Foundry VTT Support!

Niki’s Monster Logs: Gobbiestiary*
This goblin-focused rules supplement includes 10 mechanically unique new goblin monsters ranging in level from 1 to 4—from the longwinded goblin historian to the goblin follower who baits their opponents into being isolated before striking; a new weapon, the tallsplitter, that can be used by any goblin; 15 pages of pure goblin-ness; and a FoundryVTT module to make using these rules in your games even easier.

Revised Options: Curses and Wizardry (P2)*
Revised Options: Curses and Wizardry is a collection of fully rebalanced class paths for oracles and wizards! If you ever desired to play ancestors or lore oracles, or metamagical experimentation wizards, without feeling that some other curses or theses might have been more mechanically potent, look no further! Revised Options: Curses and Wizardry includes errata for the oracle class aimed at removing some feat taxes, such as Divine Access, as well as substantial empowerment of the less popular curses, enhancements for the less popular arcane schools and theses focused on improving the school spells, and a completely new arcane thesis—war magic!

Tasks and Deeds: 2 – Gogunta’s Lost Song (P2)
Gogunta's Lost Song is a simple encounter scenario designed for a single session, suitable for a 4th-level party of four player characters. While set among the swamps and fens in the central part of the Sodden Lands, the encounter can be easily adapted to take place anywhere there are swamps and marshlands. Simple application of the weak and elite creature rulesets allows the GM to quickly scale the encounter. The encounter has been designed to use the Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Wicked Dungeon map, available on paizo.com or at your friendly local game store.

Infinite, Artificial Intelligence, and You

Last month, we discussed how potential changes to the Open Game License and the forthcoming release of the Open Roleplaying Content license would affect publishers on Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite. Well, this month, I wanted to address some questions from the community about Paizo's recent statement on content created by artificial intelligence. Put simply, Paizo’s “no AI” policy applies to works sold on Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite, too.

For those looking to get into publishing material on Infinite who had planned to use AI-generated artwork, I recommend checking out some of the community-run resources that exist to help people take those first steps into community content publishing, like r/pathfinderinfinite, the Infinite Possibilities Discord, or DriveThru's own Discord where publishers can all help one another out, both for Infinite or more general publishing. There are also Infinite publishers who make and sell stock art for both Pathfinder and Starfinder that cost only a few dollars and give the purchaser the right to reuse that art in their own Infinite publications. There are also hundreds of pieces of official Paizo artwork that Infinite publishers can use under the terms of the license.

 

There are lots of ways to get art made for your publications that both support real live artists, help build up the community, and don't rely on tools with currently questionable ethics or copyright ownership. If the tools and resources above don’t meet your needs, you may consider releasing your work under the Pathfinder Compatibility License instead of on Pathfinder Infinite in order to use AI-generated art free of these restrictions, and please use the comments of this blog to let me and the rest of the team know what other resources we can potentially direct you to or provide to make those first steps into self-publishing that much easier.

Thanks for everything you do to make Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite the thriving communities they are.

Mark Moreland
Director of Brand Strategy

Following the announcement and upcoming release of our next hotly anticipated Pathfinder series (the first in several years!), we at Dynamite Entertainment are pleased to announce another huge collaboration with Paizo. Starfinder, the tabletop innovator's other smash hit game and mythos, is coming to comic books for the first time in Angels of the Drift!

For the first ever Starfinder comic series coming to stores, we hand-picked the best creative voice to take the helm. James L. Sutter served on staff at Paizo for over a decade, including as Creative Director for Starfinder, playing a critical role in developing the world and systems, translating the beloved Pathfinder formula to a science-fantasy landscape. Sutter writes Angels of the Drift alongside artist Edu Menna (Army of Darkness).

"Starfinder is all about exploring the galaxy and having epic adventures, but at the end of the day it's also about your real-world experience as a player, sitting around a table having fun with your friends," said writer James L. Sutter. "I think the comic zeroes in on that feeling—that no matter how high the stakes get, both the game and the comic are meant to be fun."

Paizo has been charting the paths of Starfinder's "iconics" for over half a decade now in game art and supplemental material, but you have been clamoring for a greater story focus on them, which is now here! Angels of the Drift is elevated by its fun, colorful cast of characters, like any great genre adventure. Navasi is a human envoy and reformed pirate, serving as the group's fast-talking, plan-crafting de facto captain. Tall, proud vesk soldier Obozaya is the main muscle. Ciravel, a precog elf who uses a hoverchair, brings the strategic know-how, while hot-headed ratfolk mechanic Quig comes with mechanical knowedlge, a pet robot, and a deadly flamethrower. Last but certainly not least is the shirren mystic Keskodai, team medic... and priest of a death goddess. This squad all pulled together as a disaster in the hyperspace dimension known as the Drift completely threw off the galaxy's ability to travel between worlds safely. It all goes south from there!

The series features a stunning trio of fantastic covers. Series interior artist Edu Menna is included in the pack, alongside Richard Pace (Second Coming) and Biagio d'Alessandro (Pathfinder). Pace's covers across the series will connect to form a larger image. All covers are all printed on premium cardstock paper.

Each issue also comes with extra content for players of the tabletop game: the full series will include playable character stats for all the heroes, new character options inspired by the comic, a brand-new playable species, and more—all officially sanctioned by the Starfinder Society!

Our Starfinder: Angels of the Drift series will alternate publication months with Pathfinder: Wake the Dead through the remainder of 2023, giving Paizo fans a great chance to follow both series and their connected mythos.

STARFINDER: ANGELS OF THE DRIFT #1 is slated for release in June 2023. Comic book fans are encouraged to preorder copies of the issue with their local comic book retailers. It will also be available for individual customer purchase through digital platforms courtesy of Comixology, Kindle, iBooks, Google Play, Dynamite Digital, ComicsPlus, and more!

Dynamite Entertainment

The Drift Crisis is an epic, yearlong meta-event spanning all Starfinder product lines, from our rulebooks to Adventure Paths to standalone adventures, to Society Scenarios, and even an actual-play! While we will soon release our final installment, Starfinder Adventure: Drift Crisis Case Files, Dynamite’s Angels of the Drift comic will extend the story as the perfect capstone adventure in the stars!

Paizo Inc.

Hey folks! You may have seen a recent product page that announced our latest upcoming book in the Starfinder RPG line: Starfinder Enhanced. Set to release in October of this year, Starfinder Enhanced is a 192-page hardback that the Starfinder team (specifically, Joe Pasini, John Compton, Dustin Knight, and all our talented freelancers) has been hard at work on in our secret orbiting starship, and we’re happy to announce it here and give a bit of context of what this book is all about. Just a little though—the book is still many months away.

At its core, Starfinder Enhanced is… well, it’s a whole lot more of everything.

A group of four different species battle against the Swarm by Daniele Sorrentino

More themes, more species, more class options, more archetypes, more feats (so many feats), more spells, more rituals, more creature companions, more items, and more subsystems to help tell the stories you want to tell and build the characters you want to build. There’s no mincing words when I say “more” because this book is the single largest influx of rules into the game since the Starfinder Character Operations Manual.

This book re-introduces some species that have appeared in older Adventure Paths and even the Starfinder Alien Character Deck. In addition to Pathfinder fan favorites like the grippli and kitsune, you’ll also encounter other notable species like moyishuus, along with a few brand-new species.

A host of over a dozen starships battle one another by Daniele Sorrentino

While we can’t get into absolutely everything in this book, one piece that I think a lot of people will enjoy is the “enhanced” versions of four existing base classes. The Envoy, Solarian, Technomancer and Witchwarper all receive a fresh coat of paint with some revised mechanics. This generally means a few key tweaks to core abilities or filling in some levels that didn’t provide interesting class options. In some cases, it’s also about opening up the classes to feel like they’re contributing more during combat and not always falling into the tactics all the time. We’re very excited to see how these turn out when they release late this year.

Not much else to say, as this book is a decent way’s out… but…

This is Destructicus. He’s a Novian, which is a Tiny-sized species who emerge from dying suns. Yes, you can play this species.

A tiny sun species by Paulo Magalhães

Thurston Hillman
Managing Creative Director (Starfinder)

Illustration by Wayne Reynolds

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.

In the coming days, Paizo will add new language to its creative contracts that stipulate that all work submitted to us for publication be created by a human. We will further add guidance to our Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite program FAQs clarifying that AI-generated content is not permitted on either community content marketplace.

Our customers expect a human touch to our releases, and so long as the ethical and legal circumstances surrounding these programs remains murky and undefined, we are unwilling to associate our brands with the technology in any way.

Stated plainly—when you buy a Paizo product, you can be sure that it is the work of human professionals who have spent years honing their craft to produce the best work we can. Paizo will not use AI-generated “creative” work of any kind for the foreseeable future.

We thank the human artists and writers who have been so integral to our success in the past, and we look forward to working with them for many years to come.

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.

So how can you get involved?

GAME MASTERS: Run a game for players! Our Game Masters page has a great selection of free third party scenarios made by outstanding authors like Mark Seifter of Roll for Combat, Shawn Pommier of Eldritch Osiris Games, and Matthew Ninness of Sinclair's Library!

We also have instructions to sign players up to your game through RPGChronicles! Games will be hosted on the r/Pathfinder2e Discord server. We definitely recommend trying one of our scenarios out, or using a Foundry VTT-ready bounty available on Paizo’s website. Remember, you can use third party options in tables that still get credit for Organized Play using Adventure Mode if you’re running an Adventure Path, the Beginner Box, Standalone Adventures, or a One-Shot Product!

If you need help designing a homebrew one shot, World Anvil is giving 40% off any yearly subscription using the code TPK2023 at checkout!

PLAYERS: Try new options available from Pathfinder Infinite authors and masters! Our Players page lists many 3PP ancestries, items, archetypes, and even classes like the Legendary Medium from Legendary Games to try! As GMs register games with us, you’ll also be able to join them! Find your GM on the r/Pathfinder2e Discord TPK Channel, then make a character to play!

EVERYONE: TPK is hosting a 24-hour stream from Friday to Monday of actual plays and creator panels, featuring some of the most well-known voices in the community! Visit our Stream Schedule to see what you might want to watch.

You should also support the content creators making the PaizoVerse so diverse! We’ve teamed up with DriveThruRPG to sell a TPK MegaBundle of third party products! The sale will go live during the weekend on our website, so make sure you don’t miss out on your chance to get tons of great stuff at a steep discount.

CREATORS: There’s still time to join the TPK MegaBundle sale and submit your own demo options for players! Visit the TPK Creators page to find out how! We’ll be accepting demo material up to February 15th.

Start your adventure into the #PaizoVerse at #TPK23!

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.

December and January’s Top Performers

Titles are ranked by an average of units sold and revenue earned and presented in alphabetical order. Asterisks indicate titles that are appearing on this list for the first time. Congratulations to all the top performers, especially “Team+” and “Team Index” (I made up that second one), whose products absolutely swept the competition this month! Keep up the great work.

The Abomination Vaults: Expanded (P2)*
This resource for GMs compiles a broad selection of ideas and content to be integrated in your Abomination Vaults game. It includes: expanded Roseguard lore and Roseguard-related content throughout the vaults; expanded lore and side quests for Otari NPCs; additional content suggestions for each level of the vaults; and much, much more! This is a pay-what-you-want title.

Abomination Vaults GM’s Guide (P2)
The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is an extensive campaign in a sprawling megadungeon. Your players need the right tools to navigate its dangers, and you need the tools in this GM’s Guide to keep the action moving! Inside, you’ll find new mini adventures that connect to the dungeon, new wandering factions, a checklist of all the side quests the campaign offers, and full stat blocks for every single monster on every single level!

Clerics+ (P2)*
Guided by the holiest (or most infernal) of powers, Clerics+ is an expansion to the cleric class that adds new ways to play a scholar of the divine in Pathfinder Second Edition! However you praise the gods, be it through steel, service, or secrets, Clerics+ is your ticket to playing the priests of Golarion in unbelievable new ways! Pick up this balanced, vanilla+ expansion to Pathfinder Second Edition today, and PRAISE BE TO THE GODS! Foundry VTT and Pathbuilder support coming soon.

Everything Archetypes: Wilderness (P2)*
Go deeper into Pathfinder Second Edition's archetypes in this expansion to several existing official archetypes from the team that brought you Everything Shields! This edition expands on 7 wilderness-themed archetypes—Animal Trainer, Bounty Hunter, Folklorist, Game Hunter, Herbalist, Horizon Walker, and Scout—providing more than 100 new feats available to dedicated characters! You’ll also find within the brand-new Treespeaker archetype, with a full page of lore and 26 archetype feats that let you embrace the fantasy of the arboreal warrior mystic, as well as 3 new focus spells and 3 new spells just for the primal tradition! Foundry VTT and Pathbuilder support coming soon.

Everything Shields (P2)
Take your shields to the next level! With the Everything Shields Pathfinder Second Edition supplement, you can create hundreds of customized shields and shield-focused characters. Do you want to play a swashbuckling, targe-wielding duelist whose shield can exude darkness on command when you get in a pinch? Or a mobile warrior who throws a mithral hoplon that returns after each attack? How about a witch who has etched a hex onto the face of their shield to make enemies falter when they attack? All of these options and many more are possible with Everything Shields!

Impossible Lands+ (P2)*
Where magic is mundane, where mutants roam, where the fey walk among men… the Impossible Lands are a region ripe with adventure. In this book, you’ll be able to choose dozens of new options to create the perfect character for these amazing settings, expanding on the stories told in Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands! Dare to do the impossible in this vanilla+ rulebook with more mechanics, more adventures, and more tales to be told by the creators of the Classes+ series. Push beyond the limits of reality and do something incredible today! Foundry VTT and Pathbuilder support coming soon.

Kitsune of Golarion (P2)
Kitsune of Golarion unlocks the full potential of the kitsune ancestry, detailing kitsune from every corner of the globe with new heritages and ancestry feats, magic items, two new archetypes, and more.

The Longnight Before Krampus (P2)*
While Irrisen is no stranger to winter storms and tumultuous weather, the town of Tahm's Praerie finds their normal Longnight festivities kept indoors on account of an unprecedented storm. The villagers do their best to celebrate the evening with candles and hearts alight, providing refuge for you and your party among warm fire and company. However, despite the festivities, something darker than the night itself seems to loom ominously over the evening, and the festivities are soon interrupted by corrupted beings of unknown origin. You must venture against the coming storm and growing darkness to save the people of Tahm's Praerie from the unspeakable evils of Krampus and his dastardly minions. This is a pay-what-you-want product.

Lost Omens Ancestries: Dragonkin (P2)
Lost Omens Ancestries: Dragonkin presents a new versatile heritage that allows characters to tap into their draconic potential to breathe fire, grow deadly claws, take flight with powerful wings, and more.

Minotaurs Unleashed: A Pathfinder 2nd Edition Ancestry (P2)*
The minotaurs of Golarion are a powerful and brave people who have been overlooked for years, considered by some folk to be violent monsters and worshippers of the demon lord Baphomet. What many don’t know is that there are a number of diverse minotaur cultures across Golarion that seek a different path and have long since forged their own destiny. If you wish to play a powerful and cunning ancestry with a complex and untold history, Minotaurs Unleashed is for you! In this book, you’ll find the minotaur ancestry, with 6 heritages and 24 ancestry feats; lore from the three major centers of minotaur civilization—the Isles of Kortos, Vudra, and Iblydos; the new longhorn greataxe advanced weapon for the minotaur ancestry; a conversion of the Iblydan hero god Iapholi from Pathfinder First Edition; and hand-drawn illustrations displaying a variety of minotaurs from all across Golarion. Includes Pathbuilder 2e and Foundry VTT Support!

NPC Index: Specialists (P2)*
NPC Index Specialists furnishes you with over 100 NPCs that do the gritty work. Versatile alchemists, talented bards, swift monks, and deadly rogues! Here you'll find over 100 ready-made statblocks for specialist NPCs of every level, from a lowly apprentice to the most awe-inspiring grandmaster! Foundry VTT support coming soon!

NPC Index: Spellcasters (P2)†
Want to save yourself hours of prep time for your Pathfinder Second Edition game? This is where NPC Index: Spellcasters shines. Here you’ll find more than 100 ready-made stat blocks for spellcasting NPCs of every level, from a lowly apprentice to the most awe-inspiring archdruid. Whether you’re planning out future adventures, converting First Edition adventures to Second Edition, or throwing together interesting magical encounters on the fly, this book does the hard work so you can play more! Foundry VTT support also available.

NPC Index: Undead Templates (P2)
The undead are on the rise! This expansion to the NPC Index line features 20 simplified templates that can be added to any NPC from the Index line or monster from the Pathfinder Bestiary volumes to create a new, undead version. You’ll retain the essence of the base creature but flavor it with undead goodness—which means a zombie fighter is going to be very different from a zombie owlbear, but both are equally and easily possible using these templates. Includes Foundry VTT support.

NPC Index: Warriors (P2)†
Saving prep time for your Pathfinder Second Edition game is where NPC Index: Warriors shines. Here you’ll find more than 100 ready-made stat blocks for martial NPCs of every level, from a lowly squire to the most terrifying barbarian chieftain. Whether you’re planning out future adventures, converting First Edition adventures to Second Edition, or throwing together interesting martial encounters on the fly, this book does the hard work, so you don’t have to! Foundry VTT support also available.

Oracles+ (P2)†
From the authors of the bestselling Witches+, Oracles+ provides new mysteries, such as beast, fate, and song; new oracle feats, including trance, relic, and mystery cult feats; and suggested errata to help balance existing mysteries! It also includes the Awakened Oracle class archetype, where your minor curse is always active, but you gain an additional boost when you’re overwhelmed by your curse! Includes Foundry VTT and Pathbuilder support.

Witches+ (P2)†
Witches+ offers new lessons, feats, class updates, and patrons, including streets, time, and spirits! The book even has new final lessons and suggested errata that helps balance existing patrons with adjustments to existing hexes! Includes Foundry VTT and Pathbuilder support.

Infinite, the OGL, and You

Both Paizo and DriveThruRPG have received a lot of questions in the last month, mostly about how potential changes to the Open Game License might affect the Infinite marketplaces. I wanted to take this opportunity to address these both for creators and consumers.

There have been no changes to the Open Game License, and creators can continue to publish material on Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite under OGL version 1.0a, as has always been the case.

At some point in the future, Paizo will transition to publishing under the forthcoming Open RPG Creative license (ORC) being developed by Azora Law. At that time, we may require publishers on Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite to do the same but will provide notice and guidance to the community when we have more information.

In the meantime, it’s business as usual.

As the Pathfinder and Starfinder player bases grow in the light of renewed interests in the brands, community content programs like Infinite are going to be that much more important. We can’t wait to see what amazing content you all come up with.

Mark Moreland
Director of Brand Strategy

We recently updated our Starfinder FAQ and Errata with a slew of new entries! You can see all these errata entries by expanding their dropdown, and they’re also fully searchable using the search bar at the top of the page.

These updates include some necessary errata for Starfinder Interstellar Species, including updated rules for Devastating Throw and Draconic Shot. Game Masters will want to read the new rules on the crush special ability from Alien Archive. And a bunch of gear has been changed to bring it in line with our other options, including thasphalt firearms, xenolash whips being a bit less oppressive in play, and a clarification that caustoject weapons can inject biohacks!

There’s also a major change to how weapon fusions work, changing the previous 24-hour cycle time on swapping these out to only 10 minutes. The team discussed it, and we realized that these were inhibiting the use of fusion seals in most games and especially in Organized Play, so we’ve adjusted these rules to be far more accommodating.

There are other changes and, as always, we welcome more questions, comments, and feedback on our Rules Questions forums. Also, feel free to discuss all these errata entries right here on the blog!

Special thanks to our Organized Play Program for highlighting many of these ongoing issues, and stay tuned to our blog for updates concerning the legality of these new options.

Dustin Knight
Starfinder Developer

Paizo continues celebrating the spirit of Open Gaming with 25% off select Starfinder releases that introduce you to the Pact Worlds! Explore the world now with a free PDF copy of Starfinder Pact Worlds. Simply add the PDF to your cart, and use discount code OPENGAMING at checkout. Offer valid through 11:59 PM PST, February 18, 2023.

Want to try Starfinder yourself (or pick up a copy for a friend)? Use code OPENGAMING for 25% off any or all of the following through 11:59 PM PST, February 18, 2023.

Starfinder Beginner Box — $39.99 $29.99

Explore the Galaxy! Launch into an exciting universe of science fantasy adventure with the Starfinder Beginner Box! Create and customize your own futuristic hero to play through challenging adventures and action-packed battles against dangerous foes! With streamlined rules, this deluxe boxed set is the ideal introduction to the Starfinder Roleplaying Game, an imaginative tabletop roleplaying game for 2-7 players. Welcome to the best launchpad for a lifetime of pulse-pounding adventure among the stars—the only limit is your imagination!

Starfinder Core Rulebook (hardcover) — $59.99 $44.99
Starfinder Core Rulebook Pocket Edition (softcover) — $19.99 $14.99

Blast off into a galaxy of adventure with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! Step into your powered armor and grab your magic-infused laser rifle as you investigate the mysteries of a weird universe with your bold starship crew. Will you delve for lost artifacts in the ruins of alien temples? Strap on rune-enhanced armor and a laser rifle to battle undead empires in fleets of bone ships, or defend colonists from a swarm of ravenous monsters? Maybe you'll hack into the mainframe of a god-run corporation, or search the stars for clues to the secret history of the universe or brand new planets to explore. Whether you're making first contact with new cultures on uncharted worlds or fighting to survive in the neon-lit back alleys of Absalom Station, you and your team will need all your wits, combat skill, and magic to make it through. But most of all, you'll need each other.

This massive 528-page hardcover rulebook is the essential centerpiece of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game, with rules for character creation, magic, gear, and more—everything you need to play Starfinder as either a player or Game Master! The next great adventure in science fantasy roleplaying takes off here, and the Starfinder Core Rulebook is your ticket to a lifetime of adventure amid the stars!

Whether you join us in the Desna's Path galaxy or explore the stars with one of the many other publishers producing great stories in their own settings, we thank you for supporting Open Gaming!

By Pete Zupan, r/Pathfinder2e mod and host of Rise of the Rulelords podcast.

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

But is it enough?

There are more ideas about ways to experience Pathfinder than even Paizo can keep up with, and the PaizoVerse community has stepped up to fulfill those needs. Authors, including a growing number of Infinite Masters, are creating new classes, monsters, and adventures every day on Pathfinder Infinite. Plus, they’re empowered to expand on the Lost Omens setting in “what if-style,” non-canon ways. Third Party Kon wants to celebrate that.

With the success of events like Beginner Box Day, we saw the power of the community to rally around a game we love. Over 300 people and 60 GMs participated in the inaugural event, and since then, the r/Pathfinder2e subreddit has surpassed 55k members. The event couldn’t have succeeded without help from the community, nor could it prosper just on player zeal. Rather, the efforts of a dedicated group of content creators and publishers have helped bring the game to a wider audience, showing people how many other options are out there. As the PaizoVerse grows, so does the love of the game. More and more often, publishers are adding Pathfinder Second Edition as an option for their rulebooks and adventures, and platforms like Foundry VTT are joining in adding exclusive Pathfinder products like the deluxe Beginner Box module and Bestiary Tokens!

Third Party Kon is a celebration of the PaizoVerse in all its forms. What is the ‘PaizoVerse’? It’s the growing collection of actual plays, bloggers, youtubers, podcasters, artists, and publishers who have made the hobby of playing Paizo-made games into a community.

During the President's Day weekend:

1. We’ll be airing a 24-hour stream of interviews from the best creators in the PaizoVerse and live plays of third party adventures from shows you know and love.


2. Of course, no gaming convention would be complete without free game demos! During TPK, players and Game Masters will get to experience the breadth of community-created ancestries, classes, spells, weapons, monsters, settings, and adventures of third party content at no extra charge.

Of course, we can’t do this without the participation of the PaizoVerse! TPK is accepting pitches to join our stream until January 14th. The first round of demo materials will also be added starting January 21st, so make sure your product is among the first that players see! Send your stuff to pf2events.com/creators.

Be part of the first PaizoVerse-run celebration! Make sure to join us for TPK, February 17 to 20, 2023 at pf2events.com, and join the largest group of Pathfinders at reddit.com/r/pathfinder2e.

The Opulos Corporation is proud to invite you to the maiden voyage of its brand-new starliner, the Void Empress! This ultraluxe starliner features state-of-the-art accommodations and amenities for 7,280 passengers to enjoy a truly transcendent experience. Shop between the stars in the Commerce Plaza, enjoy twelve soaking pools designed to accommodate 80 different species, or eat at one of our 34 galaxy-class restaurants before taking in a show at one of our five theaters! A trip aboard the Void Empress is one you'll never forget!
–promotional material for the Void Empress, presented as Exhibit A12

"It was the third day of the voyage. M'wife and I had just finished breakfast and were headed back to our room. That's when… it happened. Suddenly, the ship went sideways, and everythin' went dark for a moment. When I came to, the power was out. That's when things started getting really weird."
–sworn testimony from passenger "Quick," presented as Exhibit B34

Hi folks! I'm Alex Speidel, Paizo's Organized Play Coordinator and now, apparently, a professional streaming GM. Today, I'm thrilled to announce our newest Starfinder actual play! Starfinder Drift Crisis is an eight-episode adventure in which four brave souls aboard the Void Empress experience the Drift Crash up close and personal. These heroes must work together to survive the first moments of the Drift Crisis and make it home alive. Along the way, they'll encounter mysterious creatures, haunting obstacles, and end up facing off against an influential foe

I was so excited to put this adventure together for you all, and I can't wait for you to see it. To whet your appetites, I wanted to share a couple of my goals with this liveplay.

First of all, I wanted to make sure this series was approachable to as many people as possible. There are some TTRPG fans who aren't fully immersed in the world of Starfinder, so I tried my hardest to ensure that you don't need to know anything about the Pact Worlds to enjoy the story. Also, the episodes are about an hour each, so you don't have to devote hours of your time or worry about falling too far behind. My hope is that everyone from my parents to diehard Starfinder fans will be able to watch the series and have an awesome time.

Second, I wanted to show off the tools GMs have available to them already. As a Paizo employee, I have access to some of the best artists and cartographers in the business, but I started as a Starfinder Society GM, frantically drawing maps with wet-erase markers on blank grids. As a result, aside from character artwork for our PCs, all the art you'll see is art you can use right now. Every map is a Paizo Flip-Mat, every NPC or enemy is pulled straight from an adventure or rulebook, and even the adventure pitch comes straight from the pages of Starfinder Drift Crisis. My goal here is to show GMs that you don't need a fancy setup or hours and hours of free time to create your own campaign. We've provided everything you need to tell a story with your friends already!

Before I go, I want to introduce you to our wonderful players! I'll let them introduce their characters in episode 1, so this is just a taste.

• ChelseaBytes (she/her | Twitter | Twitch) brought such a fantastic energy to the group from the very start of session 0. I could immediately tell that she was going to be a leader for the group, and she quickly took charge in and out of character. I loved her character concept from the start, and anybody who has worked customer service will immediately relate to her.
• James Rodehaver (he/him | Twitter) will be a familiar face to fans of Dragons & Things from the GM chair. As a player though, he brought something I never expected. If you're not absolutely ready to throw down for his character by the end of this adventure, I don't know what more I can do.
• London Carlisle (he/him | Twitter | Website) was the first person to send me his character concept, and I knew we had a winner already. I think every group needs an anchor to keep things centered, and his smooth-talking, fast-thinking character is just the mix this group needed.
• Michelle Nguyen Bradley (she/her | Twitter | Website) was the person I was most excited to play with, as I was most familiar with her work, and she knocked it out of the park. She took on the challenge of playing a brand-new class, and the absolute nonsense she got up to is unparalleled. I can't wait to be able to talk about the end of this campaign.

I hope you'll join us for this wild ride on a nightmare cruise ship! I'll be posting insights from the GM chair after the episodes, so be sure to follow me on the social media platform of your choice for behind-the-scenes gossip. See you in the stars!

Alex Speidel
Game Master, Starfinder Drift Crisis
Twitter | Mastodon

Starfinder Drift Crisis premieres January 17 at 6pm Pacific time and will run for eight, one-hour episodes. It will air on our Twitch and Youtube channels simultaneously, and be posted to our YouTube channel immediately afterwards.

Greetings, Pathfinders and Starfinders!

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.

Now, we’re thrilled to further enhance our community by bringing Pathfinder Infinite content officially to the Roll20 virtual tabletop. Come February, community creators will be able to convert or create content for play on Roll20 and sell that content via the Pathfinder Infinite site so that it unlocks for users on Roll20.

Every hero needs a place to adventure, along with the occasional upgrade to their gear. Just so, every content creator wants a place where their designs can come to life. Roll20 will soon be that place! Creators can begin designing new content on Roll20 now in anticipation of the February launch. And Pathfinder and Starfinder fans will soon have a whole new runway on which to showcase their unique creations via the virtual tabletop.

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

Illustration by Kent Hamilton

From now through January 18, take 15% off a single order* on Pathfinder, Starfinder and Kobold Press print products at the Paizo Store using the code holiday23 at checkout.

It is not too late to treat yourself and the gamers in your life to our biggest releases of the year, including:

Starfinder Galactic Magic

Starfinder Drift Crisis Suite

Starfinder Drift Crisis Adventure Path

Starfinder Drift Hackers Adventure Path

Starfinder Interstellar Species

Pathfinder Book of the Dead

Pathfinder Dark Archive

Pathfinder Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Path

Pathfinder Outlaws of Alkenstar Adventure Path

Pathfinder Blood Lords Adventure Path

Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path Suite

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Travel Guide

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Impossible Lands

All our goblins, gnomes, halflings, fetchling wisps, ant gnolls, grippli, kobolds, leshies, ratfolk, kashrishi, poppets, shoonies and compact skeletons—and a galaxy of less than human-sized aliens—want to ensure you don't overlook our small releases, so you can make your perfect bundle!

Starfinder Adventures including Redshift Rally and To Defy the Dragon

Starfinder Accessories including Starfinder Spell Cards

Starfinder Society including Season 5: Year of Redemption's Rise

Pathfinder Adventures including Shadows at Sundown and Crown of the Kobold King

Pathfinder Accessories including the Deck of Endless NPCs

Pathfinder Society including Season 4: Year of Boundless Wonder

Board and Card Games including Pathfinder Goblin Firework Fight

Kobold Press, including Tome of Beasts 3, Vault of Magic, and other great 5E content

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Greetings from the future! As mentioned in our Introducing the Narrative Team blog, there have been some changes to Paizo’s teams, and perhaps none have seen more of a shake-up than the Starfinder Team!

With the restructure of the editorial department, you’ve already heard about changes to the Narrative Team under Linda Zayas-Palmer and will be hearing more about the Rules and Lore Team under Michael Sayre in the coming weeks. Today is your chance to learn about the Starfinder Team and some of the exciting changes we’ve got coming down our futuristic pipeline.

The Starfinder Team is responsible for everything Starfinder. That includes Starfinder Adventure Paths, Starfinder modules, Starfinder hardcovers, Starfinder the flamethrower… oh wait, ignore that last one! The team handles all aspects of Starfinder except for Starfinder Society, which remains under the Narrative Team due to its close connections to Pathfinder Society through Paizo’s Organized Play programs—though we keep in regular contact with our SFS developer for scheming purposes.

All right, let’s introduce the team!

Dustin Knight

Greetings Starfinders! I’m Dustin Knight, the newest developer for Starfinder! I’m taking the lead on the development of future Starfinder hardcover books. Working at Paizo is a dream come true, and I’m so excited to bring smiles to our fans around the world. I’m also elated to be able to work with the most creative and skilled artists, designers, developers, editors, and writers in the industry; my only regret is not contacting Paizo years sooner to ask for work (hint, hint). Being able to develop player-facing options is especially exciting for me given my experiences both writing new content and evaluating existing content for Organized Play—where I hope my additions to our awesome game will facilitate memorable stories for years to come.

You may have already met me lurking around various Starfinder & Pathfinder Discords, hanging with the crew on Know Direction: Beyond, and releasing my own line of Pathfinder Infinite products. When I’m not developing or writing new RPG books, I’m still finding time to play TCGs, experience the culinary cross-roads of the Seattle area, and enjoy every minute of my precious boyfriend’s incredible Starfinder campaign!

If you’re interested in working with us, please feel free to contact me at dustin.knight@paizo.com. Don’t be shy about including your availability, interests, and experiences, whether RPG related or otherwise, as it can greatly help us assign exciting content that plays to your strengths as an author! Feel free to chat me up on the Infinite Possibilities Discord.

Jenny Jarzabski

Hi, I’m Jenny Jarzabski, and I’m super hyped to keep bringing that extra sparkle to Starfinder’s Adventure Path line. I’ll be outlining and assigning Adventure Paths and modules, plus working with the rest of the team to dig deeper into Starfinder’s lore and shape the future of Starfinder as a game and brand!

My Paizo career began in Organized Play. There, I helmed the Starfinder Society’s Year of the Data Scourge before joining the Adventure Path team. Recently, I’ve stepped into my new role as Queen of Adventures—note that my actual title is Senior Developer—a role that encompasses my old job responsibilities with an added layer of creative influence and mentorship.

Besides my on-the-clock work, I’m a longtime Paizo freelancer, but adventures are my specialty. My latest published work is recently released Drift Crashers 2: Nightmare Scenario, but I have so many ‘Finder credits at this point that it’s hard to keep track. Before I became a freelance writer I worked as a teacher, bartender and certified sommelier, and event planner. I still enjoy talking about wine and, of course, tasting it! I love the outdoors, playing video games (Drakengard/NieR and Final Fantasy XIV are my favorites), watching anime, cosplay, performing, and music. I love mechs, magical girls, and tragic androids; you can expect more of this holy trinity (and many more fun surprises) in future Starfinder releases. I’m not into social media these days, but I’m active on Discord and my digital mailbox at jenny.jarzabski@paizo.com is always open! Forgive me for the Drift delay in responding.

Thurston Hillman

Hello! I’m Thurston Hillman, the managing creative director for the Starfinder Team. This is a bit of a unique title in our company as it combines the elements of manager and creative director to balance out the fact that Starfinder is a smaller team. My role comprises the usual logistical scheduling tasks as well as the oversight and guidance provided by a creative director. I work side-by-side with my co-workers and other departments to make sure that Starfinder is the best brand it can be, and to bring all the content that our fans want.

I’ve been GMing Starfinder campaigns off and on since the game came out, including some hosted on Paizo’s Twitch Channel. (Check for Pungeon Crawl!) Along with my obvious love of Starfinder, I’m a huge fan of Pathfinder, and I even GM a show as part of the Narrative Declaration team (https://www.narrativedeclaration.com) in our custom Rotgrind setting. I also run a home PF2 campaign set in the nation of Druma, for which I co-wrote the actual book back at the end of Pathfinder 1st Edition, and we’re now entering the fourth adventure in my homebrew Adventure Path that has the PCs battling against corrupt Prophets of Kalistrade and the forces of Abaddon. Yeah, that’s right, I’m using this space to TELL YOU ABOUT MY CAMPAIGN!! *insidious laughter follows*

I’ve been working with Paizo since Starfinder’s launch, where I was the Starfinder Society developer. I later helped the Pathfinder Society for a brief stint before moving into digital adventures and then back onto Starfinder in my current title. In all those roles, I’ve worked on too many products to name, and most recently I’m wrapping up work on the Scoured Stars Adventure Path, which is a dream-come-true project. Also, I tossed a never-before-seen Scoured Stars art piece into this blog, because I am ABUSING MY NEW AUTHORITY *more insidious laughter ensues*

On official channels, you can contact me at thurston.hillman@paizo.com. For the foreseeable future, I’m hands-on when it comes to outlining and assigning our current slate of projects, so while Dustin and Jenny are using their stable of freelancers and contacts, I’ll still be involved in the process for a bit. I’ll be primarily focused on supporting Adventure Paths and charting the vision for our hardback lines, but don’t be surprised if I have a special project or two that you one day hear about.

You can find me on pretty much all the socials as @OnCallGM, and I tend to answer when summoned on several Discord channels. Outside of TTRPGs, I have a stack of miniatures I need to get back to painting… so many miniatures…

Dustin Knight
Developer

Jenny Jarzabski
Senior Developer

Thurston Hillman
Managing Creative Director (Starfinder)

A Light in the Dark is set to release and welcome in the start of the 3-volume Drift Hackers Adventure Path for Starfinder. Drift Hackers is part of the ongoing Drift Crisis event, as well as an indirect sequel to the recently completed Drift Crashers Adventure Path. In this Adventure Path, a group of heroes works to undo the cause of the Drift Crisis and restore balance to the Starfinder setting. This blog reveals the free Starfinder Drift Hackers Players Guide, in which you’ll learn about all the different paths that can lead you right into the action!

Illustration by Ionnis Fiore

From corporate researchers to faithful pilgrims, this guide provides a variety of different party backgrounds to start your campaign off right. These backgrounds each provide a unique mechanical benefit, from new spell-like abilities to bonuses in combat that persist throughout the Adventure Path. Along with these backgrounds, there are also direct tie-ins for parties coming out of the Against the Aeon Throne and Drift Crashers Adventure Paths, as well as parties who’ve just completed the Liberation of Locus-1 adventure. Like the backgrounds, these tie-ins provide unique perks for your parties to reward their prior accomplishments.

New gear derived from the aftermath of the Drift Crash fills the rest of this free product. From new armor upgrades suitable for starship operations to new weapons devised from the mysterious outsiders known as spectra, the Players Guide has you covered!

Download the Drift Hacker's Players Guide Here

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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.

Octobers’s Top Performers

Titles are ranked by an average of units sold and revenue earned and are presented in alphabetical order. Congratulations to all the top performers!

Abomination Vaults GM’s Guide (P2)
The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is an extensive campaign in a sprawling megadungeon. Your players need the right tools to navigate its dangers, and you need the tools in this GM’s Guide to keep the action moving! Inside, you’ll find new mini adventures that connect to the dungeon, new wandering factions, a checklist of all the side quests the campaign offers, and full stat blocks for every single monster on every single level!

The Adventurer’s Handbook (P2)
The Adventurer’s Handbook is a collection of new and exciting abilities that every adventurer should get to know before the start of their next journey. It introduces 30 new general feats, including the outrageous hybrid skill feats: a new type of feat that requires and combines the functionality of two or more skills. With them, you can learn new combat tricks like calculated risk, evasive somersault, and unexpected maneuvers; master numerology with arithmancy, all in the numbers, and sacred geometry; or explore your more artistic side with powerful voice, enthralling artwork, and fashion master! Foundry VTT and Pathbuilder support also available.

Character Classes: Tarotmaster (P2)
Strange magics await within the tarot, waiting to be discovered. Including 3 focus arcana subclasses, card-casting capabilities, and many ways to manipulate your Major Arcana deck of spells, will you control fate, or will fate control you? Includes over 50 class feats and a multiclass dedication for those who wish to dabble only slightly in the tarot. Foundry VTT support also available.

Everything Shields (P2)
Take your shields to the next level! With the Everything Shields Pathfinder Second Edition supplement, you can create hundreds of customized shields and shield-focused characters. Do you want to play a swashbuckling, targe-wielding duelist whose shield can exude darkness on command when you get in a pinch? Or a mobile warrior who throws a mithral hoplon that returns after each attack? How about a witch who has etched a hex onto the face of their shield to make enemies falter when they attack? All of these options and many more are possible with Everything Shields.

Frontiers of Magic (P2)
Magic is an ever-expanding field of study. Wizards construct new spells, druids befriend newly observed species, occultists uncover secrets thought lost, and clerics receive novel blessings. This book explores these lesser-known facets with new player options for Pathfinder Second Edition. Some of these options are recent discoveries in Golarion, but others are new only to game mechanics. This 138-page supplement of player options includes two new classes (Mesmerist and Shifter), 34 archetypes, new class options and feats for most spellcasting classes, spell skill actions, and over 60 new spells (including consolation cantrips). Includes Foundry VTT support.

NPC Index: Spellcasters (P2)
Want to save yourself hours of session prep time for your Pathfinder Second Edition game? This is where NPC Index: Spellcasters shines. Here you’ll find more than 100 ready-made stat blocks for spellcasting NPCs of every level, from a lowly apprentice to the most awe-inspiring archdruid. Whether you’re planning out future adventures, converting First Edition adventures to Second Edition, or throwing together interesting magical encounters on the fly, this book does the hard work so you can play more! Foundry VTT support also available.

NPC Index: Warriors (P2)
Want to save yourself hours of session prep time for your Pathfinder Second Edition game? This is where NPC Index: Warriors shines. Here you’ll find more than 100 ready-made stat blocks for martial NPCs of every level, from a lowly squire to the most terrifying barbarian chieftain. Whether you’re planning out future adventures, converting First Edition adventures to Second Edition, or throwing together interesting martial encounters on the fly, this book does the hard work so you can play more! Foundry VTT support also available.

Oracles+ (P2)
From the authors of the bestselling Witches+, Oracles+ provides new mysteries, such as beast, fate, and song; new oracle feats, including trance, relic, and mystery cult feats; and suggested errata to help balance existing mysteries! It also includes the Awakened Oracle class archetype, in which your minor curse is always active, but you gain an additional boost when you are overwhelmed by your curse! Includes Foundry VTT and Pathbuilder support.

Psychics Gone Wild (P2)
In this primal expansion for everyone’s favorite occult powerhouse, expand your psychic options with new subconscious minds that allow you to draw on the power of your wisdom and empathic abilities, and new conscious minds that grant you powerful, nature-inspired abilities. The primordial conduit class archetype allows you to channel powerful energy using your body as a gateway, at risk to your own health! Push yourself to new limits with the unique primordial conduit subconscious mind and call on the awesome power of the elements with four new elemental-themed conscious minds, as well as four new archetype feats that expand your mastery over your chosen element.

Thaumaturge’s Wrath (P2)
From the bands that bind us together to the unfathomable artifacts of eldritch entities, within this tome you’ll find 10 thaumaturge implements to add to your game as well as a handful of feats to accompany them: Band, Coffin, Coin, Mask, Nail, Ossuary, Stake, Timepiece, Unfathomable, and Urn. Foundry VTT support also available.

Witches+ (P2)
Witches+ offers new lessons, feats, class updates, and patrons, including streets, time, and spirits! The book even has new final lessons and suggested errata that help balance existing patrons with adjustments to existing hexes! Includes Foundry VTT and Pathbuilder support.

New In November

November saw the release of two new Pathfinder and Starfinder hardcovers: Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands and Starfinder Interstellar Species. Infinite Masters were hard at work producing tie-in content, which you can find on the Infinite marketplace now. Among them are the Impossible Ancestries, Impossible Experiments, and Impossible Paths series supporting, you guessed it, Impossible Lands, and A Class of Species supporting Interstellar Species. Be sure to check out all the Infinite Masters releases here!

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Of course it happened while Kyyduh was alone and on their security shift. Of course.

While others were likely to gripe and moan, Kyyduh truly enjoyed their security shifts during cryosleep. Long trip through the Drift? Perfect time to read up on all sorts of interesting stuff around the galaxy. They were usually bored and twitchy for about two days of their shift, but after that they’d fall into an information hole on their datapad and bury themself into some new subject. Security shifts were dull and slow, so everyone found their own methods of entertainment, and Kyyduh’s was falling into research on a new, random topic each time. They were supposed to be more vigilant, given the Drift Crash and everything. Supposed to be keeping a close eye on the Drift monitors and the cameras that showed the engine rooms and storage. Supposed to.

Instead, Kyyduh had fallen into an information hole about the history of Eoxian bone lace. They’d found a whole article and several online video examinations theorizing on the history and origin of the craft and examining different techniques, and by the time they realized an alarm was blaring, they couldn’t have told anyone what day it was or what ship they were on. They swatted the button to reset the alarm, eyes flicking between the various monitors as they absentmindedly tucked their current weaving project (a tapestry of Meyel mid-battle dance) to the side of the console. Engines, fine. Storage, a little messy. Looks like some boxes were knocked over. Cryosleep—

Someone was in the cryosleep chamber. Kyyduh stood immediately, temper flaring at the thought of someone, something, some creature, interrupting their travels and preying on their buddies. And while they were sleeping no less!

As the doors slid open, a wave of nausea hit Kyyduh and they stumbled, grabbing onto a nearby container for support. They shook their head, feeling the plants that made up part of their body start to shift within their lungs and throat, allowing them to breathe more easily and fight off this sickness. They glanced up and spotted the intruder who, strangely surrounded by floating lights, was moving toward the life support systems.

“Hey! Not quite!” Kyyduh’s temper returned tenfold, and they jerked their arm, reforming it into a threatening cannon. “Turn around and hold still!” Their body vibrated softly as it readied an explosive shot, taking aim to hit the intruder and not any of the delicate support systems.

The intruder whipped around and Kyyduh caught a surprise burst of energy in the chest, knocking the air from their lungs, though the vines around their torso whipped together to form a bond that shielded them from most of the damage. With a roar they fired off a wild shot, missing the intruder but illuminating them enough to provide some more information. Strange hair, strange symbols— Oh by Meyel’s whiskers, a hesper? Here?

Illustration by Mirco Paganessi from Starfinder Interstellar Species.

They grit their teeth as the fey snarled at them, gathering energy around his body. Kyyduh took a few breaths, unable to fully calm down before another energy shot hit them in the chest, knocking them back against Raia’s chamber. The safety glass cracked beneath them, and Kyyduh saw red. They lunged for the hesper, shifting their arm into a claw just before they body-slammed into him, kicking him out of his float and onto the ground. The hesper struggled against Kyyduh’s weight, the denseness of his body working against him to keep him down. Kyyduh moved to hit him with their claw, but stopped when the reflection of their symbol of Meyel in the metal of a nearby chamber drew their eye to the expression on the hesper’s face. He wore a look of struggle and desperation, his cheeks thinner than they should be. Kyyduh forced themself to breathe, then gave the hesper a good shake.

“Calm down and tell me what you’re doing!” they demanded, dodging the hesper’s weak attempt to strike them once more. “Alright, enough with the hitting, come on!” They gave him another shake, slightly swatting at his face with their free hand. The swat seemed to startle the fey, at least enough that their radiation field dropped, letting Kyyduh breathe comfortably and sit up, dragging him with them. “Let’s start with the basics. What’s your name, bud?”

“Thakvine.” The hesper finally got out, calming down despite his repeated glances back at the life support systems. “Please, the Drift guided me here and I’m so hungry... Just a little bit of the power. Please. I need some. It’s been so long...”

Kyyduh gave him an inquisitive look, then a nod. “Don’t drain it dry. And you owe me.” They eased off, letting Thakvine stand and following him to the systems. Thakvine nodded in eager agreement, taking a moment as he pressed close to the machinery, absorbing the excess energy. After a moment, he looked back at Kyyduh, reaching out his hand and shifting it, making an exact copy of Kyyduh’s claw.

“You also change?” The fey asked, watching them.

“Yeah. Couple of years now. Not mutations, but plants and stuff. Doctors say I’m a natural at adaptation.” Kyyduh puffed their chest out, looking proud.

“Can you show me more? Like the gun, the cannon?” Thakvine, no longer gaunt looking, now wore a fascinated expression, moving closer to examine the moving plant life on Kyyduh’s body and armor.

The chitin on Kyyduh’s chest shifted, retracting, and they gave their claw a shake, reforming into its usual conical shape. “Sure.” They shrugged, giving Thakvine a smile. “But you’re a crew member now. Welcome to Sunrise Maiden. Your job is to help keep us focused during security shifts. Deal?” They held out their hand for a shake, laughing as Thakvine shook a single finger.

“Deal.” He agreed, before mimicking Kyyduh’s claw again.

Kyyduh laughed, wrapping an arm around Thakvine’s shoulders and glancing back as Raia’s chamber hissed open. “Hey! New crewmate!”

About the Author

Shay Snow is an agender Native American (Caddo and Swampy Cree) tabletop author and developer. They’ve contributed to Pathfinder, Starfinder, Backwater Southern Gothic, and Coyote & Crow. When they’re not playing or writing tabletop games, they can be found playing video games or talking about Indigenous issues on social media. They currently live on unceded Duwamish land with their Lakota spouse and two spoiled cats. You can find them on Twitter @spellsinsugar and keep up with their upcoming projects through their website, https://shayjay.carrd.co/.

About Iconic Encounters

Iconic Encounters is a series of web-based flash fiction set in the worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder. Each short story provides a glimpse into the life and personality of one of the games’ iconic characters, showing the myriad stories of adventure and excitement players can tell with the Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplaying games.

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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Our next standalone Starfinder Adventure features dragons and mechs!

For some of you, that’s all we need say and you can order now or ask for it at your local retailer with happy giggles.

If you need to know more, here’s the back cover text.

Long ago, four tyrants conquered Genrovis with their starmetal mechs, until the adamantine dragon Ayleth freed the world. But she wasn’t the savior the planet needed. Centuries later, her rule is rife with corruption and cruelty. After a group of rebels runs afoul of Ayleth, they must unearth the legendary mechs of old— along with other secrets of the past— and use the ancient tech to defy the dragon!

‘To Defy the Dragon’ makes a perfect stand-alone adventure, or an ideal next step for players and GMs who’ve completed other Starfinder adventures. It includes:

• “To Defy the Dragon,” a complete adventure for 10th-level characters, leading them to 13th-level.
• All the details on Genrovis, a planet powered by magical wellsprings and concealing a secret history of battle and betrayal.
• An Adventure Toolbox featuring new mechs based on ancient Genrovian technology and the dangerous creatures born of the world’s wellsprings.

This product is part of the Starfinder Adventure Subscription.

Cover art by Mirco Paganessi.

As a final teaser, enjoy this poem inspired by Old English alliterative verse.

Legend of the Four Steel Tyrants

Friends and fellows, gather forth,
I tell of tyrants, sat on thrones of old.
Peace there was upon our world,
Blessed by wealth and wellspring.
Lit by beacons and crowned by city spires.
In generations long passed, the wellspring children of Genrovis prospered,
Bright futures borne by silicon and silver,
Weaving our new world with thought‐machines.

Then, four tyrants swept from the sky,
Jealous eyes fixed on jeweled Genrovis.
They tormented peaceful cities, toppled spires,
Brought annhilation through fierce
and fanged beasts.
The first Tyrant cracked a whip of wild fire,
Setting hallowed halls ablaze.
The second smothered wellspring songs,
Reigned silence, sealed the springs in soil.
The third Tyrant charmed the clock,
To pry the precious seconds from their rightful rounds.
And the fourth Tyrant, shadowshrouded,
Commanded creatures, crazed, to slaughter.
Four foul tyrants gulped greedily at wellsprings,
Razed and ruled o’er all our lands.
Wounded and woeful, the wellspring children wept.
Ayleth heard the wellspring children’s weeping.
Swiftly she of adamantine soared,
Starwinged, she surveyed sights below,
Saw claws and fangs swarm cities,
Saw spires shatter and wellsprings wither.
The people pleaded for compassion,
Asked Ayleth for her aid.
Ayleth vowed vengeance, vast
Armies fell before her might,
With wellspring children shielded by adamantine wings.
The starwinged one battled bravely,
Bore down on gearspun frames, Unleashed fury for our forlorn people.
Four tyrants fell. Favored Ayleth triumphed,
Freed wellspring children, rebuilt wonders,
Protected peace, woke wellsprings,
Then sealed four tyrant‐shells in soil and steel,
Never to unearth again.

Praise Ayleth, proud protector!
Keeper of the wellsprings,
Queen of Clouds,
Lady of the Adamantine Heart.
Her eternal eyes see all,
Her wings embrace us warmly,
Genrovis clasped in careful claws.

Is it true? Well, history is written by victors!

Become a Legend in To Defy the Dragon!

Flexibility is a must on Pulonis.

The first thing a kit learns after taking their first steps is to make sure to stretch and limber up before running and climbing. Pahtra households often start their mornings with family stretches before breakfast.

Kyyduh may have taken this tenet too far. Sometimes. Most of the time. When they’re not taking advantage of just how flexible their body can be. When they’re not embracing the plant life that is as much a part of them as their heart and their eyes.

They grew up surrounded by machines. Surrounded by military, by guns, by ships, by technology, all of it fueling a clash that Kyyduh hadn’t so much been born into as they’d inherited. Starlance was a good place for a pahtra family to live, and with no obvious rebel connections, Kyyduh and their siblings were fast-tracked into the Veskarium’s military academy. Their siblings took the trainings and positions offered to them, succeeding and achieving and making names for themselves. Kyyduh found that their mind couldn’t seem to keep up with the words being yelled at them, the words being scribbled and erased too quickly on the chalkboards, the words appearing in the too-thick books they were expected to read too fast. They could run and climb and lift, but they couldn’t focus long enough on their commanding officer to learn when to run and climb and lift.

Kyyduh left the academy at the end of their twentieth summer. With what little money they had left from their parents, they booked passage on a ship for as far as their credits would take them, and wound up on the outskirts of the Holy Lands. They did a lot of manual labor there, listening to other, smarter pahtras and vesk discussing things like the biology of the plants growing, the geologic implications of magnetism on flora, the effects of radiation on fauna. The scientists were genuinely nice, even the vesk ones (maybe especially the vesk ones), and they explained what they were talking about to Kyyduh in a way they could understand.

Illustration by Alexander Gorbunov

The camp was studying the restoration of the Holy Lands. It was funded by the Veskarium—but what isn’t, on Pulonis? Only about half their discoveries made it to Command 6, while the rest seemed to go to Hafrerren or just to random places around the Shriek. Kyyduh learned about plants, animals, rocks, and most importantly, they learned about Pulonis and other planets. They learned about storms and the Shriek, and they fell in love with the sound of winds screaming and rain pounding.

So when the camp needed someone to fly out in a terrible storm to retrieve some valuable equipment, Kyyduh was already on the ravine crawler, ready to go. One of the scientists, an older pahtra woman named Nayawsa who often fussed over them and made sure they remembered to eat, gave them a concerned look before placing a charm of Meyel around their neck and telling them to be safe. Kyyduh gave their famous confident grin and tore off into the rain.

The ride was longer than they expected. Despite their weatherproof gear, the rain got in between the layers and made everything cling to them. There weren’t any animals out in such a wild storm, but there were plenty of trees that couldn’t be seen until they were nearly nose-to-nose with them. Kyyduh found it easy to focus when they required all their attention to keep the craft balanced and not slam into something. They located the equipment, loaded it up, and headed back. The scientists burst into applause when they came crashing through the surrounding brush. Everyone celebrated later that evening and Kyyduh was surrounded by warmth, good drinks, and friends.

This became their new norm. During storms they collected equipment, checked on animal spots, gathered samples, and made sure that everything in the camp kept running. They found it easy to stay focused, and their mind finally stopped moving a million miles an hour long enough for them to make sense of things when they were riding through the forests in the rain. Kyyduh developed a knack for being able to tell how bad a storm was going to be as it was forming, picking up on cloud movement and wind speed. They could sense the humidity in the air before the instruments started going off, and they were included in morning meetings about setup and missions.

Things changed when Kyyduh took a trip through a bad lightning storm to the edge of the Shriek. Their attention flitted away when they sensed a hymothoa nearby and they jerked the controls, slamming into a huge tree they’d passed a thousand times. The world went dark. They awoke a few times to the feeling of plants surrounding them, of vines along their fur, of their friends examining them with concerned looks.

When they finally came to, Kyyduh was different. They could feel it. They opened more eyes than they remembered; they looked in the mirror and saw a clash of plant-like features across their body. Their leg was different now, but that was the least startling change. A motion of their hand and their whole arm shifted into a giant claw and then back again. They spent time with their friends learning about their forms, finding that they could adapt their new changes by interacting with new plants, changing their body and their new biotech augmentations on a whim to better fit all kinds of scenarios.

Flexibility. Adaptability. Change. Evolution.

They found that they could change their friends, too, and when the military showed up to shut down the illegal camp, well, Kyyduh used their abilities to help everyone get away before taking off into the forest to escape off-world. They kept the charm of Meyel, though, as a reminder of a time before the Veskarium colonized their world. Nayawsa insisted.

Kyyduh found new friends and companions. Today, they maintain their laidback attitude, their tendency to joke when things get tense. They still struggle to focus in situations where they’re not fully entranced by the subject, and their impulsivity is made worse when they evolve too much, too quickly. Their lack of a filter can cause them to tumble headfirst into tough situations, but their genuine good nature and willingness to protect others save them just as often as the thick, bark-like armor that appears on their body when they’re threatened. At day’s end, they know they’re surrounded by friends and they know they have a home world that will always be a part of them, body and soul.

Shay Snow
Developer

Starfinder Interstellar Species is almost here! Scroll down for a preview of what (and who!) you’ll encounter when you pick up a copy of this new Starfinder rulebook.

Cover Artist: Ignacio Bazán Lazcano

Tendril, wing, and scale

Starfinder isn’t just a game about hackers, telepathy, and laser pistols—it’s an intersection of the many delightfully unique aliens that you can play! Starfinder Interstellar Species presents an eclectic array of strange creatures, from extradimensional kobolds and tiny raxilite plant people to mighty dragonkin and crystalline, silicon-based urogs. Be prepared not only to uncover all-new cultures, histories, and character options, but also to learn that you don’t need a spine to pilot a starship! In this book, you’ll find:

• The new evolutionist character class, able to transform their body to overcome any challenge!
• An in-depth look at 25 fan-favorite playable species, all with exciting character options including feats, spells, and innovative gear.
• Tools for creating your own playable species, including their appearance, culture, and abilities!
• A vast gallery full of versatile NPCs like assassins, explorers, investigators, and star athletes—each ready to be included in any campaign.

First, did you miss the Starfinder Interstellar Species overview our favorite Tomb Juice™ merchant shared in July? Don’t worry, the "A Midsummner Night’s Market Meeting" blog has you covered if you want a refresher!

New Class Options

an excerpt from the chapter’s introduction

The Starfinder Core Rulebook presents a wide range of class abilities designed to fulfill classic roles, objectives, and tropes. And while subsequent books present an even broader array of exciting character options, these often draw on broad themes from technology and magic to exploration and adventure.

Starfinder Interstellar Species changes that approach by focusing on the diverse societies of the Pact Worlds and beyond, exploring how they’ve adapted familiar character classes to best fit their cultural, environmental, and physiological needs. Along with seven species’ innovative approaches to classic classes, the classes chapter also provides a new character class—the evolutionist—that allows your characters to adapt swiftly to any biome or social setting.

But you get to design, too. While creating your character, consider how your species and class concepts intersect. What cultural values shape the types of spellcasting favored by members of the species? Do cultural legends inspire adventurers to emulate ancient heroes or warn them against following in the footsteps of vilified predecessors? Is there a martial tradition that incorporates one of your species’ abilities? Does your species’ culture deemphasize a specific class’s core concepts, adapting them in unexpected ways?

In Chapter 2, you’ll have the opportunity to create your own playable species—perhaps as the GM, or even as a player (with your GM’s approval). As you do, consider how your species’ culture(s), values, surroundings, and resources might inspire you to create new character options that showcase a people’s heritage and history. As inspiration for your own creative process, consider how the class features presented in this chapter do the same.

Illustration by Tianxing Xu

Meet the Evolutionist

Conflict drives innovation, and in a strange and dangerous galaxy you’ve unlocked unparalleled means to adapt. By embracing mystic tradition, extensive augmentation, deliberate genetic mutation, or relying on other extraordinary means, you transform yourself into a powerful being better suited to achieving your goals. You might adopt characteristics of a ferocious chimera, an undead scion, a cybernetic paragon, or anything in between. Yet your evolution boasts a will of its own. Your abilities fight you for control in stressful situations, even while providing lethal instincts, an innate weapon, and spontaneous adaptations that help you outmaneuver, outwit, and outmatch your foes. No matter your niche, you are an adaptable combatant who forges your destiny in flesh, bone, or steel.

Illustration by Mirco Paganess

Species of Starfinder

This chapter delves into 25 of Starfinder’s most popular species—chosen in part by our fans in a public survey in 2021. Each article explores the physiology, home world, society, and innovations in unprecedented detail. This chapter also presents the long-awaited system for creating your own playable species in Starfinder, including guidelines for design, sample abilities, and questions to ask yourself throughout the creative process to inspire a fun, engaging, and believable new species.

Playable Species of Starfinder
The Starfinder Roleplaying Game has a staggering number of alien species for you to pick from when creating a character. This [five-page!] section provides a snippet of physical and cultural information for those that exist at the time of printing, to help you choose!

Custom Species Builder
The Starfinder Roleplaying Game provides more than 100 playable species to choose from, but it’s missing a particularly fascinating species: the one you’ve yet to create! This article gives you tools and tips for making your own contribution to the galaxy’s panoply of species (while ensuring it’s of an appropriate power level for most games). Of course, you’ll still want to collaborate with your GM and other players to make sure it’s a good fit for your game.

Illustration by Ivan Onokhin

NPC Gallery

Nonplayer characters are an essential part of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game, and having a wide suite of pre-built NPCs to choose from can be a boon to any gamemaster. This chapter presents 72 NPCs of varying themes and CR, complete with stat blocks and suggestions for incorporating them into your game. Populate cities and space stations with a variety of compelling NPCs, or flesh out a story for one and have them serve as the PCs’ primary antagonist—employ them as you wish!

Have fun exploring the galaxy, and thanks for playing Starfinder!

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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.

As in the past, most of the products in this bundle are PDFs that you can redeem with codes on the Paizo Store, one code per tier. There are four tiers to this bundle, starting at $5 and ending with all the PDFs and a physical copy of the incredibly well-reviewed Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box for only $45. Additionally, you'll find the three-volume Starfinder Against the Aeon Throne and Pathfinder Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Paths. That's over $500 in Starfinder and Pathfinder goods. Plus, a portion of your purchase supports Carl Brandon Society, whose mission is to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the production of and audience for speculative fiction.

The $5 tier includes a code for ten PDFs worth about $100, including the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box, Starfinder Beginner Box, Pathfinder Adventure Path: Broken Tusk Moon (Quest for the Frozen Flame 1 of 3), Starfinder Adventure Path: The Reach of Empire (Against the Aeon Throne 1 of 3), Pathfinder One-Shot: Dinner at Lionlodge, Starfinder One-Shot: The Great Grav Train Robbery, Pathfinder Bounty: Witch's Winter Holiday, Starfinder Bounty: The Cantina Job, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Hamlet, and Starfinder Flip-Mat: Casino.

Starfinder Against the Aeon Throne Adventure Path Trailer

For $15, you'll also get the above tiers, plus a code for 15 PDFs worth $200, including the Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook (PDF), Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary (PDF), Starfinder Core Rulebook, Starfinder Alien Archive, Pathfinder Adventure Path: Lost Mammoth Valley (Quest for the Frozen Flame 2 of 3), Starfinder Adventure Path: Escape from the Prison Moon (Against the Aeon Throne 2 of 3), Pathfinder Adventure: Malevolence, Starfinder Adventure: The Liberation of Locus-1, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Malevolence, Pathfinder Society Scenario 4-01: Year of Boundless Wonder, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Arcane Library, Pathfinder Pawns: Traps & Treasures Pawn Collection, Starfinder Society Scenario 5-01: Year of Redemption's Rise, Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Starter Set, and Starfinder Flip-Mat: Forest Moon.

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In the third tier, for $25, you'll get codes for the above tiers, plus a code for PDFs of the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide, Starfinder Galaxy Exploration Handbook, Pathfinder Adventure Path: Burning Tundra (Quest for the Frozen Flame 3 of 3), Starfinder Adventure Path: The Rune Drive Gambit (Against the Aeon Throne 3 of 3), Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide NPC Pawn Collection, Against the Aeon Throne Pawn Collection, Pathfinder Society Scenario 2-19: Seven Secrets of Dacilane Academy, Pathfinder Society Scenario 4-02: Return to the Grave, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Forest Multi-Pack, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Ghost Towns, Starfinder Society Scenario 4-08: Precious Cargo, Starfinder Society Scenario 4-12: A Festive Operation, Pathfinder Map Pack: Starship Decks, Starfinder Flip-Mat: Undercity, Starfinder Flip-Mat: Ice World, and Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Space Station Docking Bay Expansion.

The final tier includes codes for the above tiers, plus a code for a physical copy of the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box for $45, plus shipping.

PDFs are associated with your account when redeemed. They are watermarked with the redeemer's email address when they are downloaded. So, you will likely want to give the codes themselves as a gift. You or they will decide where the physical Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box is shipped when the code is redeemed.

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—The Paizo Team

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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.

September’s Top Performers

Boosted Bestiary (P2)
Need a lower-level shoggoth? A higher-level flash beetle? Boosted Bestiary provides over 200 monsters from the Pathfinder Bestiary at expanded level ranges with updated stat blocks and abilities. Applying the elite and weak templates further fleshes out the entries to make it easy to fill out a wide variety of encounters using the same themes!

Eidolon Expansion (P2)
This book expands the Summoner class presented in Pathfinder Secrets of Magic with 13 new types of eidolons, 19 new feats for the Summoner class, and 11 new pieces of gear that you can invest for your eidolon, allowing you to customize your playstyle even further!

Everything Shields (P2)
Take your shields to the next level! With the Everything Shields Pathfinder Second Edition supplement, you can create hundreds of customized shields and shield-focused characters. Do you want to play a swashbuckling, targe-wielding duelist whose shield can exude darkness on command when you get in a pinch? Or a mobile warrior who throws a mithral hoplon that returns after each attack? How about a witch who has etched a hex onto the face of their shield to make enemies falter when they attack? All of these options and many more are possible with Everything Shields.

Inkfinder (P2)
Inkfinder includes over 100 magical tattoos of all levels and rarity, from the helpful Bodily Domovoi to twinned tattoos like Striking Partner. It also includes the tattoo artisan archetype, tattooed warrior archetype, and a new tattoo-maker alchemist research field!

NPC Index: Spellcasters (P2)
Want to save yourself hours of session prep time for your Pathfinder Second Edition game? This is where NPC Index: Spellcasters shines. Here you'll find more than 100 ready-made statblocks for spellcasting NPCs of every level, from a lowly apprentice to the most awe-inspiring archdruid. Whether you're planning out future adventures, converting First-Edition adventures to Second Edition or throwing together interesting magical encounters on the fly, this book does the hard work so you can play more!

NPC Index: Warriors (P2)
Want to save yourself hours of session prep time for your Pathfinder Second Edition game? This is where NPC Index: Warriors shines. Here you'll find more than 100 ready-made statblocks for martial NPCs of every level, from a lowly squire to the most terrifying barbarian chieftain. Whether you're planning out future adventures, converting First-Edition adventures to Second Edition or throwing together interesting martial encounters on the fly, this book does the hard work so you can play more!

Oracles+ (P2)
From the authors of the bestselling Witches+, Oracles+ provides new mysteries, such as beast, fate, and song; new oracle feats, including trance, relic, and mystery cult feats; and suggested errata to help balance existing mysteries! It also includes the Awakened Oracle class archetype, in which your minor curse is always active, but you gain an additional boost when you are overwhelmed by your curse! Foundry and Pathbuilder support coming soon!

Psychics Gone Wild (P2)
In this primal expansion for everyone's favorite occult powerhouse, expand your psychic options with new subconscious minds and conscious minds allowing you to draw on the power of your Wisdom and empathic abilities and grant you powerful, nature-inspired abilities. The primordial conduit class archetype allows you to channel powerful energy using your body as a gateway, at risk to your own health! Push yourself to new limits with the unique primordial conduit subconscious mind and call on the awesome power of the elements with four new elemental-themed conscious minds, as well as four new archetype feats that expand your mastery over your chosen element.

Smoke and Sail: a Pathfinder 2e Naval Warfare Sourcebook (P2)
The ultimate guide for your next nautical campaign, Smoke and Sail presents a comprehensive ruleset for easy and balanced ship-based combat encounters that gives your characters special crew actions they can use to make their time at sea that much more memorable!

Witches+ (P2)
Witches+ offers new lessons, feats, class updates, and patrons, including streets, time, and spirits! The book even has new final lessons and suggested errata that help balance existing patrons with adjustments to existing hexes!

Bestsellers Offer Foundry VTT Support

Of these top performers, three (NPC Index: Spellcasters, NPC Index: Warriors, and Smoke and Sail) also include a separate FoundryVTT module download to import the new rules into a campaign on the platform, which helped boost them into both the top earners and most popular categories for titles on Infinite. New publishers may consider doing the same for their products, as it’s an easy way to both increase revenue and marketing reach, as well as boost the content’s usability for customers.

Mark Moreland
Director of Brand Strategy

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!

Miniatures

Unleash the hordes onto your gaming table with Pathfinder Battles! This exciting pre-painted miniatures line from Paizo and WizKids adds three-dimensional style to your Pathfinder adventures. Based on the imagery found in the world of Pathfinder, these beautiful figures are sure to enhance your collection and gaming experience.

All cases – 30% off
All bricks or single boosters, excluding Impossible Lands – 25% off
Individual premiums – 25%
All available Factory Sets – 25% off

Legendary Adventures

Collect all 44 figures from Pathfinder Battles: Legendary Adventures, including classic monsters and heroes from new concept art for the Pathfinder RPG!

Ruins of Lastwall

Pathfinder Battles: Ruins of Lastwall features 44 unique figure additions to the Pathfinder Battles line. From the devout Lastwall Paladin to the cunning Skeletal Samurai you will find no shortage of allies & enemies!

Kingmaker

Pathfinder Battles: Kingmaker is the a 46-figure set release in the award-winning Pathfinder Battles line of miniatures, and features friends and foes found in them First Edition Kingmaker Adventure Path. So of course, many of these will also be found in the Second Edition Kingmaker Adventure Path!

Jungle of Despair

From playful pixies, deadly serpentfolk, and the King of the Jungle himself, Pathfinder Battles: Jungle of Despair provides a legion of high-utility monsters and heroes suitable for any fantasy roleplaying campaign.

Lost Coast

The Lost Coast is the name given to the coastal land of southwestern Varisia stretching from the city of Magnimar to the Fogscar Mountains. It is a wild and desolate country full of lingering fogs, small woodlands of pine and nettles along a rocky coastline of ragged bluffs and crashing waves. Many an adventuring party has travelled to the Lost Coast seeking fame and riches, never to be heard from again...

Skull & Shackles

Hoist the black flag and set sail on deadly seas!
The scallywags, buccaneers, and beasts of the Pathfinder Adventure Path: Skull & Shackles campaign burst onto your game table in a blast of cannon fire and brimstone!

Shattered Star

From the ashes of Thassilon, an ancient power rises!

Rise of the Runelords

The friends, fiends, and foes of Pathfinder's Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path invade your gaming table with Rise of the Runelords!

Heroes & Monsters

Pathfinder RPG combat comes to life on your tabletop with Heroes & Monsters, the debut release in the new Pathfinder Battles prepainted miniatures line!

Pawns

Printed on sturdy cardstock, each double-sided pawn contains a beautiful full-color image of a formidable monster or alien. Each pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures and bringing your Starfinder and Pathfinder campaigns to life!

Get 25% off Pathfinder and Starfinder Pawns, excluding Kingmaker, Abomination Vaults, and Fist of the Ruby Phoenix.

Pathfinder Pawns

Pathfinder Bestiary Pawn Box

The ferocious foes of the Pathfinder Bestiary come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 375 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG!

Pathfinder Age of Ashes Pawn Collection

Enemies and allies from the Age of Ashes Adventure Path descend onto your tabletop with the Age of Ashes Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 pawns for use with Pathfinder Second Edition or any tabletop fantasy RPG!

Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide NPC Pawn Collection

The spotlight isn't always on heroes or monsters. Some encounters call for a whole cast of nonplayer characters, and the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide NPC Pawn Collection is the best way to bring the most useful and commonly encountered NPCs to your gaming table!

Pathfinder Bestiary 2 Pawn Collection

An army of monsters has arrived, and they're ready to invade your game! The Pathfinder Bestiary 2 Pawn Collection is the best way to present these monsters on your gaming table. This collection of creatures represents those found in Pathfinder Bestiary 2 and are perfect for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any fantasy RPG.

Pathfinder Extinction Curse Pawn Collection

Deadly foes and memorable monsters from the Extinction Curse Adventure Path are ready to captivate your players and menace your tabletop with the Extinction Curse Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG!

Pathfinder Agents of Edgewatch Pawn Collection

Enemies and allies from the Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path take their places on your tabletop with the Agents of Edgewatch Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 pawns for use with Pathfinder Second Edition or any tabletop fantasy RPG!

Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Pawn Collection

Complete the triple threat of monster pawns! The Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Pawn Collection collects the monsters found in Pathfinder Bestiary 3 and are perfect for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any fantasy RPG. This collection presents beautiful full-color images of a wide array of new nasties, including more than 300 monsters such as dragons, clockworks, demons, devils, hags, kami, ouroboros, sprites, titans, valkyries, and more!

Starfinder Pawns

Starfinder Core Rulebook Pawn Collection

Open the shuttle bay doors and bring your science fantasy adventures to life with this beautiful pawn collection, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop roleplaying game!

Starfinder Alien Archive Pawn Box

The extraterrestrial menaces of Starfinder Alien Archive come alive on your tabletop with this box-busting collection of more than 300 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pact Worlds Pawn Collection

The characters, villains, and starships of the Pact Worlds come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 200 creature and starship pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Dead Suns Pawn Collection

The characters, villains, and starships of the Dead Suns Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 creature and starship pawns, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG.

Starfinder Pawns: Against the Aeon Throne Pawn Collection

The characters, villains, and starships of the Against the Aeon Throne Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 creature and starship pawns, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG.

Starfinder Pawns: Alien Archive 2 Pawn Box

The interstellar perils of Starfinder Alien Archive 2 come alive on your tabletop with this box-busting collection of more than 300 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Signal of Screams Pawn Collection

The characters, villains, and starships of the Signal of Screams Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 creature and starship pawns, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG.

Starfinder Pawns: Tech Terrain Pawn Collection

Bring the fixtures and fittings of the future to your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 terrain pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Dawn of Flame Pawn Collection

The characters, villains, and starships of the Dawn of Flame Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 creature and starship pawns, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG.

Starfinder Pawns: Alien Archive 3 Pawn Collection

The galactic threats of Starfinder Alien Archive 3 come alive on your tabletop with this captivating collection of creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Attack of the Swarm! Pawn Collection

Key aliens and NPCs from the Attack of the Swarm! Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with the Attack of the Swarm! Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science-fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Near Space Pawn Collection

The characters and starships of Near Space and the Veskarium come alive on your tabletop with this collection of creature and starship pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: The Threefold Conspiracy Pawn Collection

Key aliens and NPCs from Starfinder's Threefold Conspiracy Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with The Threefold Conspiracy Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science-fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Starship Operations Manual Pawn Collection

Buckle up! A vast armada of starship pawns blast their way onto your tabletop in the latest Starfinder Pawns collection! The Starfinder Pawns: Starship Operations Manual Pawn Collection presents more than 100 stunning full-color images of starships, from agile interceptors to enormous dreadnoughts.

tarfinder Pawns: The Devastation Ark Pawn Collection

Key aliens and NPCs from The Devastation Ark Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with The Devastation Ark Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science-fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Alien Archive 4 Pawn Collection

The extraterrestrial life-forms of Starfinder Alien Archive 4 come alive on your tabletop with this impressive collection of creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Fly Free or Die Pawn Collection

Key aliens and NPCs from the Fly Free or Die Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with the Fly Free or Die Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science-fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Tech Revolution Pawn Collection

The characters, vehicles, and mechs of the Starfinder Tech Revolution come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 pawns, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Thank you for playing Starfinder and Pathfinder!

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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.

Effective October 26 for new releases and November 1 for all other PDFs (including jpegs for some maps and card products), Paizo will be changing prices in the following categories. You’ll probably find exceptions for some products as well, but this guide covers most cases.

Product Category	Current	New
Pathfinder rulebooks	$14.99	$19.99
Adventure Paths	$17.99	$19.99
Standalone Adventures	$15.99–$17.99	$19.99
Bounties	$2.99	$4.99
Quests	$2.99	$4.99
Lost Omens sourcebooks	$24.49+	$29.99
Lost Omens Absalom	$38.49	$29.99
Lost Omens Regional	$34.99	$29.99
Flip-Mats (all)	$8.99–$10.49	$9.99
Map Folios (all)	$13.99+	$9.99
Flip-Tiles	$13.99–$24.99	$9.99
Flip-Maps	$10.49+	$9.99
Pawns	$13.99–$17.99	$9.99
Player Companions	$7.99–$10.49	$9.99
Cards	$15.99	$9.99
Bestiary Battle Cards	$41.99	$19.99
Spell Cards	$17.49–$38.49	$14.99
Starfinder Battle Cards	$41.99	$19.99
Starfinder Spell Cards	$20.99–$24.99	$14.99
Starfinder rulebooks	$9.99	$19.99

Digital sales are an important component of Paizo’s revenue, and your PDF purchases allow Paizo to continue producing all the great Pathfinder and Starfinder releases. These price changes will also affect the pricing discounts you see through Paizo Connect (My Partner Authorizations in your account settings) for those purchases. Not all Paizo licensees use Paizo Connect to offer discounts, and those that do use it offer various levels of discounts, so adjustments may result depending on the type of service they provide.

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Starfinder's very first campaign explodes onto the pages of this massive hardcover compilation which contains all six adventures in the Dead Suns Adventure Path, a galaxy-spanning campaign that helped launch the Starfinder universe, along with support articles, rules, monsters, and more!

When a fragment of an ancient alien superweapon surfaces from the depths of hyperspace, its discovery sets off a race to find the extraterrestrial doomsday device. Hopping from planet to planet in the Pact Worlds and beyond, the heroes must contend with the undead Corpse Fleet and the nihilistic Cult of the Devourer, each of which seeks to acquire the alien artifact for its own purposes. Can the heroes find and destroy the superweapon before their enemies seize control of it, or will the Pact Worlds’ sun go dark and cold, a harbinger of dead suns across the galaxy? The Dead Suns Adventure Path is a complete campaign that takes starfaring heroes from 1st to 13th level.

Writers: John Compton, Amanda Hamon, Thurston Hillman, Jason Keeley, Robert G. McCreary, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, and Owen K.C. Stephens

Let’s take a closer look at the new cover art by artist David Alvarez.

The Alien Archive includes over 20 creatures by John Compton, Amanda Hamon, Jason Keeley, Robert G. McCreary, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, and Owen K.C. Stephens

Illustration by Kiki Moch Rizky from APPENDIX: ALIEN ARCHIVES, page 262.

Watch the original Starfinder: Dead Suns Trailer

Don’t forget the Starfinder Adventure Path: Dead Suns Special Edition. This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

The original volumes sold out long ago, but Starfinder’s original campaign returns in this brand-new collection. Dead Suns Adventure Path presents months of pulse-pounding Starfinder play in a gorgeous adventure/sourcebook hybrid, and it incorporates errata and minor improvements over the original edition, with beautiful full-color illustrations on nearly every page!

Order yours today!

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!

August’s Top Performers

Boosted Bestiary (P2)
Need a lower-level shoggoth? A higher-level flash beetle? Boosted Bestiary provides over 200 monsters from the Pathfinder Bestiary at expanded level ranges with updated stat blocks and abilities. Applying the elite and weak templates further fleshes out the entries to make it easy to fill out a wide variety of encounters using the same themes!

Class Features: Subconscious Minds (P2)
Luis Loza presents two new Wisdom-based psychic subconscious minds found only in Class Features: Subconscious Minds! Instinctive reliance psychics grow by trusting their natural powers and becoming self-assured, whereas calculated observance psychics can observe and react to the subtle cues of existence.

Dullahan of Golarion (P2)
Whether you’re rolling a new character or looking to bring some unlife to a PC who met a tragic end, the dullahan archetype and heritage give you the ability to play a vengeance-driven headless undead! This book also includes an in-depth look at dullahans in the Lost Omens setting, including a new deity, weapon, and variant rules for playing a xingtian or nukekubi.

Hagiographies of the Veskarium Volume 1 (SF)
This expansion to Starfinder Galactic Magic gives us portfolios for the ten Saints of Damoritosh, including new gameplay mechanics for Damoritosh faithful such as spells, class features, and new options for the Divine Blessing feat!

Inkfinder (P2)
Inkfinder includes over 100 magical tattoos of all levels and rarity, from the helpful Bodily Domovoi to twinned tattoos like Striking Partner. It also includes the tattoo artisan archetype, tattooed warrior archetype, and a new tattoo-maker alchemist research field!

Into the Void - A Starfinder Adventure (SF)Creations of the Purpose-Built corporation, our heroes become stranded when their ship crashes on a desolate planet in the Vast! This level-0 Starfinder adventure has the party gradually create their characters as the story progresses, ending at level 1. While the rules can be used for any campaign, the story is intended to serve as a prequel for the Starfinder Dead Suns Adventure Path.

Kitsune of Golarion (P2)
An in-depth look at kitsune heritages and cultures from across Golarion, including Arcadia, Avistan, Tian Xia, Casmaron, Garund, and even the Crown of the World, Kitsune of Golarion provides new rules for kitsune shapeshifting, heritages and ancestry feats for kitsune characters, new magic items, and two new archetypes: the shapeshifting Noh Mask Master and the spellcasting Kyubi Scion.

Oozefolk of Golarion (P2/SF/P1)
Submit to the ooze with the oozemorph versatile heritage and ozid ancestry! With over 100 amorphous ancestry feats, 16 blobby backgrounds, 14 wobbly weapons, and some slimy summoner options, Oozefolk of Golarion includes everything you need to embrace the ooze! This book also includes rules for Starfinder and Pathfinder First Edition.

Oracles+ (P2)
From the authors of the bestselling Witches+, Oracles+ provides new mysteries, such as beast, fate, and song; new oracle feats, including trance, relic, and mystery cult feats; and suggested errata to help balance existing mysteries! It also includes the Awakened Oracle class archetype, in which your minor curse is always active but you gain an additional boost when you are overwhelmed by your curse! Foundry and Pathbuilder support coming soon!

Smoke and Sail: a Pathfinder 2e Naval Warfare Sourcebook (P2)
The ultimate guide for your next nautical campaign, Smoke and Sail presents a comprehensive ruleset for easy and balanced ship-based combat encounters that gives your characters special crew actions they can use to make their time at sea that much more memorable!

Witches+ (P2)
Witches+ offers new lessons, feats, class updates, and patrons, including streets, time, and spirits! The book even has new final lessons and suggested errata that help balance existing patrons with adjustments to existing hexes!

Appendix PSI: A Bundle of Psychic Archivists

This bundle of Infinite Masters’ material includes products specifically tailored to complement material in Pathfinder Dark Archive, with a focus on the new psychic class! Check it out here!

Dustin Knight
Guest Contributor, Infinite Master

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!

Get to know the newest Infinite Masters:

Sasha Laranoa Harving
Sasha Laranoa Harving (nov/nov), known to novs friends as Solatra, has been writing for tabletop roleplaying games since nov first rolled a d20, and has been doing novs best to take the RPG industry by storm.

Ceri Rowland
Ceri Rowland has been writing Pathfinder homebrew content since he first discovered 1e. His first campaign was written almost entirely from scratch, which seemed like a good idea at the time. Sometime later, he discovered 2e and fell in love with it, and later decided to take the plunge and start writing content for publication. His specialties are creature stat blocks and adventure modules, but he dabbles in a little bit of everything.

James Beck
Jewish LGBT writer and co-owner of Eldritch Osiris Games, James has worked with Deadly D8, written for Sinclair's Library, and has worked on several big projects.

Simon Hunter
A lifetime interest in TTRPG has become a reality for Simon as he creates and publishes adventures through Paizo and WotC IP. He couples this interest with a manic obsession for 3D printing and miniature painting, a love of coffee (both roasting and drinking), and a passion for astronomy. He really enjoys taking created worlds and adding in small additions that provide fun for players and game masters alike.

Jacky Leung
Jacky is an ENNIE Award-winning Chinese American TTRPG writer, editor, and designer. He is also the Creative Manager for Unbreakable Publishers, seeking to uplift Asian creators to tell their stories in their own voices. He has worked for Evil Hat Productions, MCDM, Baldman Games, and others. He is a big-time foodie, sampling cuisine whenever time permits or being lost in a food blogger's TikTok.

Adrian Kennelly
Adrian is a designer of supplements for a variety of systems at Azukail Games (http://azukailgames.com) and Community Content Programmes and collaborator with other publishers.

Jamie Trollope
Jamie has been running and playing in TTRPGs for 30 years. They've been an integral part of his life—a creative outlet, a way of learning about good, bad, storytelling, character development, teamwork and how to relate to each other. Jamie creates utilities for Pathfinder 2e that he hopes will save people time, like the NPC Index or Smoke & Sail: Naval Warfare. He values creativity, collaboration, inclusivity and this amazing game of make-believe we all love so much. Keep rolling 20's everyone!

Gremlin Brothers
The Gremlin Brothers—Darkwayne, Batfoot and Froghorn—aim to create top-notch adventure content to deepen the experience of playing online or in person. Their first campaign—END OF DAYS—begins in the River Kingdoms and takes players across .the continents! Check it out, starting with Volume #1: The Siege of Castle Savinoy.

Luis Loza
Luis Loza is Paizo’s Senior Developer working on the Pathfinder Lost Omens Line. He's done a lot of work over the years creating new rules, setting, and fiction content for Pathfinder First Edition, Pathfinder Second Edition, and Dungeons & Dragons. You can learn more about his work at luisloza.com.

Check out these amazing creators on Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite!

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!

Infinite Masters is an invitation-only cadre of the most active and influential members of the Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite community, those 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.

Get to know the newest Infinite Masters:

Jessica Ross
Jess (they/them) is an editor, writer, podcaster, occasional streamer, and recovering procrastinator. They’ve worked on TTRPG titles like Journeys through the Radiant Citadel, Uncaged Volume I, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, and more, and they’ve also written for TTRPGs like Scarred Lands and Starfinder. Jess also podcasts and streams TTRPGs with the d20 Dames, a family-friendly actual play podcast; these episodes and updates can be found on d20dames.com. Jess sometimes writes short fiction, and their writing can be found in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Sunspot Literary Journal. Keep up with everything Jess gets up to on their website writejess.com and Twitter @writejessr.

Alexander Augunas
Alexander “Alex” Augunas is an ace/birom TTRPG author and publisher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who has produced fan-favorite products and supplements for the likes of Paizo, Radiant House, Raging Swan Press, Legendary Games, and others. He is the Know Direction Network’s “Everyman Gamer,” and currently acts as the Master of Ceremonies for the Network’s Starfinder podcast, Know Direction: Beyond. He owns and operates Everybody Games, a Third-Party Publisher, and is a self-proclaimed fox aficionado.

Dustin Knight
Dustin Knight has been playing and improving on RPGs since AD&D in 1999. After years of hosting games at conventions around the United States, he began writing with Everybody Games, Paizo, Rogue Genius Games, and on Pathfinder Infinite. He's the host of Infiknight Reviews, the Pathfinder Infinite twitch stream, and Know Direction: Beyond. His dream and goal is to collaborate with other creatives to make more people smile with fun and quality content!
Twitch link: http://twitch.infiknight.net
Infinite Possibilities Discord: www.infiknight.net

Dylan Wokeck
Dylan loves helping others as a children's librarian, but when he’s not at work, he tries to spend as much time as possible with his wife, whether that’s going for walks or playing games together. She loves to take Dylan on real-life adventures to different states and countries. Outside of that, Dylan has been playing Pathfinder since about 2015, and he still can't decide if monk or bard is his favorite class. Dylan thanks his wife for helping with the layout template for Google Docs and Dustin Knight for doing his review show to keep Dylan motivated enough to write more Pathfinder content.

Kevin Glusing
While having heard of them, Kevin didn't actually play any TTRPGs until college in 2002, but he's always been a world builder and problem solver. After being introduced to D&D 3e by some new friends, he took up the mantle of GM and never looked back. Almost 20 years later, he works with Hal Greenberg, Doug Herring, and Ken Shannon of Samurai Sheepdog (www.samuraisheepdog.com) as Lead RPG Designer with over 80 published credits to his name and over 120 overall in which he's had some significant part. Kevin also hosts a successful Patreon (www.patreon.com/namesgames) with 4 years of successful releases and requests.

Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson lives in the wildlands of Los Angeles. An eternal GM, he has played a wide variety of roleplaying games hailing back to the 1970s. As an amateur content creator, he has written materials for Paizo, Monte Cook Games, and Schwalb Entertainment, available on DriveThruRPG and Pathfinder Infinite. Tom is a theatrical director and acting teacher and works with the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. He is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. He is "staff" to a precocious and adorable smooth fox terrier named Abigail Pippington.

W. Brian Lane
W. Brian Lane is a physics educator by day and a Pathfinder GM and content creator by night. He first played Pathfinder in 2015 and has been running and creating adventures ever since. He has self-published a novel about his first multi-year campaign. Publishing Pathfinder content under Lion's Brain Media, he loves creating archetypes and writing multi-level adventures. His Inkfinder has been ranked copper on Pathfinder Infinite, and he has been a finalist in RPG SuperStar for two years. You can also find his physics and coding content at http://youtube.com/LetsCodePhysics.

Arkon
Arkon is a college student with just enough time to run and create for Pathfinder. When he finds some extra between the couch cushions, Arkon explores different interests, editions, and media to pull from for inspiration. Most of what he makes are player options, such as classes, archetypes, spells, subclasses, etc. But as a Forever GM, Arkon also finds himself making things he finds missing. Certified oracle main and unashamed homebrew setting enthusiast.
Arkon’s Infinite portfolio: https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/browse.php?author=Arkon

Calder William CaDavid
Calder CaDavid is an LA-based challenge producer and avid game master. Calder's writing credits include work for Paizo and Dungeon in the Box, in addition to his own content.

Shop the Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite Sale!

Through August 28th, 2022, thousands of Pathfinder and Starfinder titles are up to 40% off on the Infinite marketplaces and sister sites like DriveThruRPG, DriveThruComics, and DriveThruFiction.

Not sure where to start? Check out our Paizo picks spotlighted here.

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.

Through August 28th, 2022, thousands of Pathfinder and Starfinder titles are up to 40% off on the Infinite marketplaces and sister sites like DriveThruRPG, DriveThruComics, and DriveThruFiction.

Not sure where to start? Check out our Paizo picks spotlighted here.

Showcasing the Infinite Masters

Anyone can publish licensed Pathfinder and Starfinder PDFs on the Infinite marketplaces. Sometimes we notice a community creator whose designs go above and beyond. These folks are invited to join the Infinite Masters elite creator program and create “DLC” for your favorite Paizo launches.

With Dark Archive’s launch, we just recruited a new class of Infinite Masters, and over the next couple of weeks, we’d like to introduce them, starting with:

Vanessa Hoskins
Vanessa Hoskins has worked on several Pathfinder and Starfinder products including rule books, OP adventures, and Adventure Paths. She is a board member and host of Know Direction, a cast member on Roll For Combat, Valorous, and KD's Adventurous podcasts. She is also the owner of Ninja Cat Games, a small indie video game studio. https://paizo.com/people/VanessaHoskins
http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/
https://rollforcombat.com/
https://valorousgames.com/
https://ninjacat.games/

Helen Savore
This Paper Ninja reads, writes, folds, and plays TTRPGs. It’s not surprising that her stories are filled with unexpected folds and twists that blend seamlessly with reality. In Pathfinder circles she is most well known for the Origami Folder archetype, and co-author of Vellum & Lace, all available here on Pathfinder Infinite. In addition to TTRPG writing, Helen Savore is the author of the Faerie Forge Chronicles. You can learn more about her works at helensavore.com, and find her published fiction on DriveThruFiction.

Tyler Beck
Tyler "Cartmanbeck" Beck is a scientist by training and a game designer by hopes and dreams. He has spent years helping organize the online arm of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game organized play community, and has several design credits on products for that line. He has now created a Starfinder-themed version of the game, as well as many new characters for PACG.

Jeremy Hochhalter
Powered by the magic of coffee, Jeremy publishes TTRPG content and freelances for companies such as Kobold Press, Onyx Path, and Wyvern Games! In addition, they stream actual plays and chats on their Twitch channel (whpublications). Check out their work at whpublications.com!

Kim Frandsen
Kim is a lifelong gamer, having picked up a game book at the age of 7 (thank you Fighting Fantasy), and he’s never looked back since. While his career path took him away from the wondrous realms that we create and onto the high seas, Kim returned many years later to games. His favorite character of all time is a dwarven, the one who brought him into RPGs, but he didn't get REALLY into it until his wife pushed him into taking part in RPG Superstar for Paizo in their final season. Finishing in Top 32 gave Kim the impetus to keep going. Since then, more than 100 different books and game materials have had Kim’s name in them, ranging from books to maps and to board games.

Derry Luttrell
Derry Luttrell is an animator hailing from the midlands of Ireland. They started running Pathfinder Adventure Paths with their friends in 2017, and have since completed a total of 6 (and counting!). A good portion of these APs were run for the award-winning Dice Will Roll show, the Queerest Pathfinder Podcast on the Planet, where they ask the Hard Questions like “how do you kiss a tengu?” They’re one half of the duo that makes up the Classes+ team alongside Tony Saunders (the half, they assert loudly, throws messy half-ideas at the wall before expectantly turning to the other half for approval). In their spare time, when they have it, they run a Homestuck fanserver and occasionally dabble in comic art.
Art Portfolio: https://derryluttrell.pb.studio/
Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/Derryzumi
TTRPG Twitter: https://twitter.com/dicewillroll

Tony Saunders
Tony is a writer and editor of Pathfinder Second Edition content, a moderator of https://reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e and https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2eCreations subreddits, and a long time tabletop gamer. He loves being forever GM and making adventures. He’s also a regular author for Legendary Games at www.makeyourgamelegendary.com.

Grady Wang
Grady Wang is an ENNIE-nominated writer and cofounder of The Gallant Goblin, a TTRPG review and publishing company. He is best known for being the project lead of Queerfinder, an in-world travel magazine for Pathfinder's Golarion setting. He is also a layout instructor for the Storytelling Collective's Write Your First Adventure program and a freelance writer for Paizo. Grady currently lives in Texas with his partner, Theo Thourson, and a variable number of cats. You can find his work at the following links:
TTRPG reviews: https://youtube.com/thegallantgoblin
Website: https://gallantgoblin.com/
Pathfinder Infinite: https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/browse.php?author=Grady%20Wang&affiliate_id=1398733

Theo Thourson
Theo Thourson is an ENNIE-nominated writer and cofounder of The Gallant Goblin, a TTRPG YouTube review channel and publishing company. He combines his love for gaming with his professional background as a school psychologist to advocate for mental health, safe schools, and LGBTQ+ rights. He has written I Am Your World, a 5e adventure about gaslighting, and Be All My Sins Remember'd for the Uncaged: Goddesses anthology about a neurodivergent god. He also loves all things cute and sweet, which is why he produced the Hero Plush line of cuddly stuffed animals based on TTRPG's less-represented playable options, including a rainbow set of kobold plushies. Theo currently lives in Texas with his partner, Grady Wang, and several wonderful cats. You can find his work at the following links:
TTRPG reviews: https://youtube.com/thegallantgoblin
Kobold Plushies: https://koboldplush.com/
Pathfinder Infinite: https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/browse.php?author=Theo%20Thourson&affiliate_id=1398733

Join us in celebrating all things Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite today!

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!

July’s Top Performers

The following top performers are those titles that ranked highly on the lists of best-sellers, top earners, or both and are presented here in alphabetical order.

Abomination Vaults GMs Guide (P2)
An invaluable resource for any GM looking to run Abomination Vaults, this guide includes conveniently laid out stat blocks, new mini-adventures, and wandering factions!

Boosted Bestiary (P2)
Whether you want larger encounters or challenges for higher level characters, Boosted Bestiary gives you over 200 monsters by updating the level range of monsters from the Pathfinder Bestiary, adding both verisimilitude and depth to your next adventure or summoner.

Character Classes: Symbiote (P2)
The symbiote character class lets you customize your own disease and focuses on applying different conditions and types of persistent damage. A FoundryVTT module is also available as a standalone product or as a bundle.

Class Features: Subconscious Minds (P2)
Unlock your inner potential with two new Wisdom-based psychic subconscious minds found only in Class Features: Subconscious Minds! Calculated observance psychics notice subtle details around them to enhance their spellcasting, while instinctive reliance psychics learn to trust their natural powers.

Everything Shields (P2)
Everything Shields introduces new equipment, reactions, skill feats, and new archetypes: the shield-throwing Shield Maven and the magically-infused Mirror Warrior! In addition to the hundreds of new customized shield options, Everything Shields now includes a FoundryVTT module for automatically assembling shields!

Golarion Unseen: Bloodlines (P2)
Golarion Unseen: Bloodlines will absolutely inspire your next sorcerer or multiclass sorcerer with 17 bloodlines and 51 new focus spells! Pick from conceptual bloodlines, like as maestro and time, or creature-inspired bloodlines like kitsune and medusa! Now with FoundryVTT support!

NPC Index (Warriors) (P2)
With over 100 ready-made statblocks from levels 1 to 20, NPC Index: Warriors is a complete bestiary of martial enemies ready to unleash on your unsuspecting players! This exciting supplement includes an easy 3-step guide to create more NPCs and ancestry/heritage templates!

Oozefolk of Golarion (P2/SF/P1)
Learn to love the ooze with the oozemorph versatile heritage and ozid ancestry, complete with over 100 amorphous ancestry feats, 16 blobby backgrounds, 14 wobbly weapons, and some slimy summoner options! Oozefolk of Golarion features a Golarion gazetteer of the new goo and includes rules for Starfinder and Pathfinder 1st Edition!

Smoke and Sail: a Pathfinder 2e Naval Warfare Sourcebook (P2)
An invaluable sourcebook for your next nautical campaign, Smoke and Sail presents a comprehensive rule set for intuitive ship-based combat encounters, giving your party special crew actions during combat, as well as new skill feats, underwater hazards, ships, and more!

Witches+ (P2)
Now with full Foundry VTT support, Witches+ provides new patrons, class updates, lessons, and class feats, including new final lessons for 20th-level witches and feat support for everything from leylines to potions!

The Infinite Masters Case Files

This July the Infinite Masters, an invitation-only group of Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite creators whose work consistently sets the standard for quality and professionalism, have released six new supplements explicitly for Pathfinder Dark Archive. Thaumaturge players can expand their collections with Item Implements. Acid and time manipulating psychics can’t miss From the Arkive: AMP: A Musing on Psychics. To Study Egos in Golarion includes psychic options for various base classes. Nerves and Endings gives your psychics shocking new powers. Spell Tricksters of the Dark Archive gives every spell in Pathfinder Dark Archive new spell tricks. And Class Features: Subconscious Minds gives us two new Wisdom-based subconscious minds!

Gen Con 2022 Infinite Community Megabundle

Don’t miss the Gen Con 2022 Infinite Community Megabundle. This bundle includes 60 products valued at over $200 for only $24.99! You just have until the 16th to pick it up, so don’t delay!

Dustin “Infiknight” Knight
Guest Contributor, Infinite Master

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.

Find the Infinite Masters’ latest works, including new companion titles to Dark Archive, here.

• Adrian Kennelly
• Alexander Augunas
• Andrew White
• Arkon
• Calder William CaDavid
• Ceri Rowland
• Chris A. Jackson
• Derry Luttrell
• Dustin Knight
• Dylan Wokeck
• Grady Wang (The Gallant Goblin)
• Gremlin Brothers
• Helen Savore
• Jacky Leung
• Jamie Trollope
• James Beck
• Jen Vaughn
• Jeremy Hochhalter

• Jessica Catalan
• Jessica Ross
• Kevin Glusing
• Kim Frandsen
• Leo Glass
• Liane Merciel
• Logan Bonner
• Luis Loza
• Mike Kimmel
• Monica Valentinelli
• Owen K.C. Stephens
• Sasha Laranoa Harving
• Simon Hunter
• Theo Thourson (The Gallant Goblin)
• Tim Pratt
• Tom Robinson
• Tony Saunders
• Tyler Beck
• Vanessa Hoskins
• W. Brian Lane

Congratulations to all the new Infinite Masters. We look forward to your work!

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!

June's Top Performers

Editor’s Note: Due to a miscommunication, this list originally featured only the top-performing titles from Infinite Masters. This has been corrected, and the following list reflects the top performing products in June from all Infinite publishers, listed in alphabetical order. Apologies for the confusion, and congratulations to all of June’s top community creators.

Abomination Vaults GMs Guide (P2)
In this book, GMs of the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path will find new mini-adventures that connect to the dungeon, new wandering factions, a checklist of all the side quest the campaign offers, and full stat blocks for every single monster on every single level of the megadungeon!

Boosted Bestiary (P2)
The Boosted Bestiary takes more than 60 creatures from the Second Edition Pathfinder Bestiary and updates them across multiple levels, giving you more than 200 new monsters. Menace your players with chimeras from level 2 to 20, drakes from level 0 to 14, shoggoths from level 6 to 21, and many more creatures at many more levels! Every creature has a description of its new role and gets level-appropriate powers.

Character Classes: Symbiote (P2)
Weaponizing disease and evolution, the symbiote literally grows the tools to guarantee their survival in any environment. (Standalone FoundryVTT module and PDF/module bundle also available.)

Curse of the Crimson Throne Second Edition Conversion Guide (P2)
This guide is an encounter-by-encounter conversion guide for GMs and is intended to be used as a supplement to the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path for Pathfinder first edition, which contains the story, NPC information, and adventure plot.

Everything Shields (P2)
With the Everything Shields Pathfinder Second Edition supplement, you can create hundreds of customized shields and shield-focused characters.

Kineticist: Power of the Elements (P2)
The kineticist, a fan-favorite class from Pathfinder first edition, updated for your Pathfinder Second Edition game!

Kitsune of Golarion (P2)
Kitsune of Golarion unlocks the full potential of the kitsune ancestry, detailing kitsune from every corner of the globe with new heritages and ancestry feats, magic items, two new archetypes, and more.

Kitsune of Golarion: Foxfire Adepts (P2)
Kitsune of Golarion: Foxfire Adepts is an expansion of the character flavor and options introduced in Kitsune of Golarion penned by one of its original authors, only this time focusing on the famed foxfire of this ancestral group.

Kitsune of Golarion: Starspinners (P2)
An archetype expansion for Kitsune of Golarion, starspinners enhance and fortify their star orb familiars in special shells, launching them across the battlefield like telekinetic cannonballs of doom!

Lost Omens Ancestries: Dragonkin (P2)
Lost Omens Ancestries: Dragonkin presents a new versatile heritage that allows characters to tap into their draconic potential to breathe fire, grow deadly claws, take flight with powerful wings, and more.

Queerfinder Issue 1: Bars of Absalom (P2)
The inaugural issue of the Queerfinder Society's travel magazine, a guide to Golarion from queer creators and allies focused on queer characters and stories!

Smoke and Sail: a Pathfinder 2e Naval Warfare Sourcebook (P2)
The ultimate guide to nautical adventure for Pathfinder Second Edition, Smoke and Sail presents full rules for running dynamic naval battles including ship movement, positioning, weapons, ranges and damage, templates for vessels of varying sizes and the NPC crews that sail them, nearly 100 new items of treasure, new skills and feats for your naval adventure, and much more!

The Witch Handbook (P2)
Expanding on the witch class presented in the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide, this book presents 24 class feats, 4 patron themes, 11 hex spells, and 7 lessons, sure to add versatility to any witch.

Witches+ (P2)
This love letter to the witch provides a dozen new patrons, class feats, lessons, and suggested changes to existing class features and options, including enhanced potion brewing and world-hopping witch huts.

Infinite Masters

The Infinite Masters is an invitation-only cadre of the most active and influential members of the Pathfinder 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. We’ve just invited a new slate of community publishers into the Infinite Masters program and look forward to introducing them soon.

In the meantime, check out this amazing fiction bundle from Infinite Masters Vanessa Hoskins and Helen Savore, celebrating the June release of the seventh chapter of their ongoing Vellum and Lace serial; former Starfinder Design Lead and Infinite Master Owen K.C. Stephens’ “missing” feats chapter from Starfinder Galactic Magic; and Solarians of the Inner Sea, bringing the Starfinder class to the world and rules set of Pathfinder Second Edition.

More Resources Coming Soon

As the Infinite programs continue to grow, we’ve heard a lot of feedback from creators looking for more resources, and we’re happy to oblige. In the coming weeks, we plan to release more art packs to help community publishers make content to support our major new releases, including Starfinder Drift Crisis and the Blood Lords Adventure Path. We’re also looking into adding AP-specific filters to the site so that GMs running a given campaign can quickly find community content geared specifically for them. It’s an exciting time to publish or shop on Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite, and the future is going to be even more so.

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

Paizo Advantage Changes

We’re simplifying the way that you obtain your Paizo Advantage discount. Any four of these qualifying subscriptions will now get you the Paizo Advantage! The qualifying subscriptions include:

• Pathfinder Rulebook (formerly Roleplaying Game)
• Pathfinder Rulebook Special Edition
• Pathfinder Lost Omens
• Pathfinder Lost Omens Special Edition
• Pathfinder Adventure Path
• Pathfinder Adventure (formerly Modules)
• Pathfinder Maps
• Pathfinder Accessories
• Starfinder Roleplaying Game
• Starfinder Adventure Path
• Stafinder Adventures
• Starfinder Maps
• Starfinder Accessories

*We previously posted in error that the Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society PDF line will now count as a subscription for purposes of qualifying for the Paizo Advantage.

Once you’ve been charged for your fourth subscription line, you’ll save 15% on all Paizo products purchased on paizo.com. For more details and the fine print, check out the Paizo Subscriptions page and the FAQ.

New Subscription - Starfinder Adventure

If you're looking for galactic adventure, the Starfinder Adventure line has you covered! Each 64-page Starfinder Adventure presents a short but challenging adventure designed for 2-4 session games within the world of the Starfinder campaign setting. A Starfinder Adventure can be run as a one-shot adventure or woven into any ongoing Starfinder campaign.

The first product in this subscription line releases on July 27, 2022. Redshift Rally is a complete Starfinder adventure for 7th-level characters written by Jessica Catalan. Inside, you’ll find details on the history of the Absalom Run and its current competitors, a pair of weird alien creatures, new spells and vehicle upgrades, and a new archetype perfect for players with a need for speed!

You can expect to see 2-3 Starfinder adventures released for this product line each year.

Subscribe to the Starfinder Adventure Subscription Now

New Subscription - Lost Omens Special Edition

With the Pathfinder Lost Omens Special Edition subscription, we'll ship you a deluxe edition of each new volume of the product line. Each special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Paizo releases Pathfinder Lost Omens Special Edition volumes quarterly, though you’ll see several monthly releases in 2022 and 2023 as we catch up with previous Lost Omens releases in the Special Edition format. The first Special Edition release this year will be Lost Omens World Guide on August 4th.

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Pathfinder Adventure Card Game

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President

The Drift has broken. Faster-than-light travel is unreliable. The galaxy is in chaos, and opportunists lurk in every star system. Starfinder needs heroes, and with the recent release of Starfinder Drift Crisis, your characters can be part of the action! But this book wouldn’t have happened without heroes of a different kind: the authors who joined our team to tackle a totally new kind of book, all the while with fire in their eyes, passion in their hearts, and in their brains 101 new ways for your PCs to rediscover that in space, nobody can hear you scream. Meet some of the great minds who helped bring you the Drift Crisis!

John Compton
Starfinder Senior Developer

Illustration by Miguel Regodón Harkness

Dennis Muldoon

Hi Starfinders! My name is Dennis Muldoon. In addition to being a freelance author, I'm also an avid Starfinder player, GM, and organized play Venture-Captain in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was very excited to contribute to this book, writing the Blazing Speeds adventure seed, as well as the ChiwaTech faction and volocoth devils. For more Drift Crisis-related content from me, check out the new Starfinder Society interactive special, SFS #4-99 A Time of Crisis.

Sen.H.H.S.

Hi all, Sen.H.H.S. here! You may have seen my name around some Pathfinder products such as Bestiary 3 and Secrets of Magic. I was also in Starfinder's Galactic Magic, and am delighted to be back to join the chaos that is Drift Crisis, where I wrote about the Drift before everything went sideways. You can follow me on Twitter @SenHHS to keep track of what I'm up to, though I think the disruption to the Drift has disrupted my tweets somewhat. So! You can look forward to more of my work in the upcoming [static] and [white noise] which is going to be released in [more static] hello is this thing on [all static and endless white noise]

Mikhail Rekun

Приветствую, уважаемые читатели! My name is Mikhail Sergeyevich Rekun, and I wrote the Pahtran Independence section as well as the Hymothoa.

In my day job, I’m a history teacher and historian, and as part of that I’ve spent a lot of years teaching decolonization and the end of the European imperial system to students. So when I wrote up the Pahtran bid for independence, the examples of decolonization were very much on my mind—especially the multi-cornered disaster that was the Congo Crisis, but to a lesser extent also Algeria and Vietnam. Decolonization is a big, messy, complicated subject—too big to treat seriously in either this post or the 2-page Pahtran Independence section, but I do hope that I’ve managed to capture at least a little of that messiness in a gameable format.

If you enjoyed reading about the Pahtran political crisis, I’m also the creative director of the Luminant Age project, a Weird Swashbuckler setting currently working on fulfilling our second Kickstarter. If you like the idea of your PC becoming a senator while fighting thousand-year-old glasswrought engines, please follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/LuminantA or check out our published products at https://luminant-age.itch.io!

Alison Cybe

I’m Alison Cybe, and I created the themes for Drift Crisis! It was a blast; themes are super fun elements which can do a lot to enhance your character. I know that when a player is starting out, they choose their theme based on which stat benefit they gain, but they also come with extra abilities as you level up. I like to surprise players with those; make each one quite unique to that theme! Each time I make one, I try to combine a selection of upgrades which are both fun and create a character unlike anything else!

Drift Crisis is a lore event. There’s a school of thinking in game development which teaches that heavy lore is something to be avoided; that it gatekeeps casual players from the game. I don’t believe that. Players love lore. A good, deep sense of history to the cosmos, with a large number of groups pursuing their own goals and agendas, it all creates the sense of a living and breathing world. Drift Crisis contains so much for players, outside of the options; it provides a means to look at the cosmos anew.

James Rodehaver

Hey everyone, I’m Jim, James, Evil Jimjam—it all means me. I had the honor of contributing to The Drift Crisis with the Trifold Legionnaire adventure seed. I was inspired to explore a conflict where the antagonist was so focused on a goal that they became a force of destruction. I wanted to highlight the theme that the impact of someone’s decisions, even without malicious intent, can put them on the wrong side of conflict. I also added Sovereign Trinity to the NPC rolodex. The story of some power-hungry figure with a messiah complex attempting to elevate themselves to godhood is a classic and the Drift Crisis felt like the perfect opportunity for someone to try that with Triune.

In addition to contributing to the Drift Crisis book, I am going to appear in the Drift Crisis actual play stream on Paizo’s official twitch channel. More details are coming soon, but I’m excited to play alongside some amazing pro streamers and one of Paizo’s own is going to be in the GM seat!

John Curtin

Hi Paizo, I’m John Curtin! You may know me from such internettings as Starfinder Facts on Twitter or Bearly Factual Productions on Patreon. While I’m normally full of the absurd and wacky on social media, in Drift Crisis I tackled the very serious topics of Near Space’s troubles in the Crisis, and maybe the most solemn subject of all: loot. While you’re enjoying the Treasure Tables in the back, be careful near the artifacts; some of them can get pretty nasty. Fun fact: The Leng Luminary was inspired by a lantern from my wedding to my partner! Hope you enjoy Drift Crisis as much as I plan to, and can't wait to talk more about what I have coming up in Interstellar Species!

Illustration by Laslo Ludrovan

Kendra Leigh Speedling

Hi, everyone! I'm Kendra Leigh Speedling, and I did the Cracks in the Cosmos adventure seeds/spells, the riftstalker (which got some extremely cool Princess-Mononoke-vibes art), Shaizera of Radiant, and everyone's favorite unethical highly acclaimed media mogul, Zo! I think the Drift Crisis provides a good opportunity for some cool, unusual adventures, and I had a lot of fun being a part of it (and throwing in First World shenanigans). If you end up playing Cracks in the Cosmos as a full campaign, I'd love to hear how it goes! You can find me (sporadically) on Twitter @KendraLS, and if you'd like to check out other things I've written, my credits are on my website at klspeedling.com.

Jessica Catalan

Hi, I’m Jessica Catalan! I’m the current Starfinder Society Developer and a freelance author who primarily writes for Pathfinder and Starfinder. I contributed a lot to Starfinder Drift Crisis, including the 'Drift in Crisis’ article, The Vast, factions (Eyeswide Agency, Hellknights, Tetrad), class options (mystic, technomancer, vanguard), stat blocks (gravity, vorclash, Drift Architects), and the Alluvion Fractures adventure seed. The Drift Crisis is an exciting event to be a part of and I look forward to seeing the adventures and content our community creates as a part of it!

Rigby Bendele

I contributed the Moored faction, the Chaos on Absalom Station adventure seed, the drift saboteur, and Aleksana Guryari's NPC write-up for this book. When writing the Moored, I spent a lot of time looking at the way we make meaning during a crisis. I pulled on time that I spent in activist communities when thinking about the Moored. When big moments of crisis happened, these groups would often get overwhelmed by well-meaning people finally motivated to join their local orgs. However, this also meant that orgs suddenly had to go supporting 20 people to hundreds. These moments of crisis seemed like they would be a good thing, but weathering the sudden change in resources truly taxed them.

If you want to hear more from me, you can find me on Twitter @rigbeesknees or check out my work in Galactic Magic and the upcoming Pathfinder Dark Archive releases.

John Godek III

Hi everyone! I’m an avid Starfinder player, 5 Nova GM, podcaster, and recent kidney transplant recipient. I teach entrepreneurship and marking as a professor for my day job. Prior to academia, I founded tech startups, and served on icebreakers and law enforcement cutters in the US Coast Guard. I was a federal law enforcement officer, and one of only 200 people in the world qualified to pilot polar class icebreakers. I visited both the Arctic, and Antarctica, transited the Northwest Passage, and circumnavigated North America. For Drift Crisis, my experience in federal law enforcement and as a sailor inspired my sections on the Stewards and Free Captains factions, as well as the starship infiltrating Azlanti Stellar Scout. My current work in academia aided me in drafting the Stabilization Protocol adventure seed where you track down Drift experts from across the galaxy.

I have three podcasts on the Know Direction Network: Intrepid Heroes – a Starfinder actual play with GM Ron Lundeen and Eleanor Ferron among the players, Presenting – interviews with game creators, and Digital Divination – a show with Starfinder Development Manager Jason Keeley. Recently I started a Youtube channel for the Presenting and Digital Divination podcasts: http://gamingdivination.com.

Andrew White

Hello! I'm Andrew White, Paizo's front-end engineering lead and a freelance author who has written for a whole mess of Pathfinder and Starfinder projects going back to the Advanced Player's Guide. Lately, I’ve also been working closely with the folks at Foundry VTT to convert Paizo’s adventure content for virtual tabletops. My contributions to Drift Crisis were a bunch of new class options for precogs, solarians, and witchwarpers, my favorite of which is the ability to deliberately enrage eldritch beings from beyond space and time in the hopes that they’ll eat your enemies before they eat you. Have fun with that one!

If you’d like to see more of my work, I also recently released the Danger Dossier on Starfinder Infinite, which addresses Starfinder’s only major flaw by adding froghemoths to it; I’m a contributing author to a bunch of exciting announced and unannounced upcoming Paizo projects, including one of the Drift Crisis Case Files, and I can occasionally be found retweeting stuff written by better writers at @plaguecontrol.

Kate Baker

Hi, I’m Kate Baker, frequent contributor to Starfinder and Pathfinder products, and I was delighted to get to work on Drift Crisis. This book is such a fun shakeup of the setting, and I know everyone who plays the game will find some great ideas for implementing this storyline. I particularly enjoyed getting to write the Swarm adventure seed.

You can follow me at @KateBakerGM on Twitter to find out more about what I’m up to!

Archon Studio is happy to announce the long-awaited 6th wave of Starfinder Masterclass Miniatures releases and the start of the Kickstarter fulfillment process. This brings the total number of Starfinder Masterclass Miniatures from the Kickstarter to 33, with 71 left to be produced.

This new set of miniatures is available now at the Archon Studio Store, at the Paizo Store, and will soon be at your friendly local game store. All models are manufactured in HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene Sheet), as multi-part models, ready to be assembled and painted as you see fit. Let us introduce you to our recent recruits.

As we mentioned at the start of the campaign, once we got to wave 6, we would begin to ship miniatures to backers. Details on shipping all 33 miniatures in Group 1 are below.

What Can I Expect in My Package?
Archon will deliver a set of 33 miniatures (as listed below) to every Kickstarter backer, regardless of what they purchased. If you purchased more than $400 worth of miniatures, you’ll receive two codes. If you purchased more than $800, you’ll receive three codes. This code distribution will be duplicated across Groups 2 and 3 until we’ve delivered all 104 Kickstarter miniatures to backers.

Each code grants 1 each of the following 33 miniatures:

• Anacite Laborer
• Android Mechanic and Mechanic’s Drone
• Android Xenoseeker
• Asteray
• Dwarf Soldier
• Elf Operative
• Epic Obazaya
• Ferani Nadaz
• Half-Elf Operative
• Half-Elf Steward
• Half-Orc Soldier
• Halfling Pilot
• Human Solarion
• Human Soldier
• Lashunta Envoy
• Necrovite
• Obazaya Vesk Soldier
• Ryphorian Skyfire Pilot
• Shirren Operative
• Shirren Scholar
• Skittermander
• Space Goblin War Band (Set of 6)
• Vesk Free Captain
• Vesk Mercenary
• Vesk Solarian
• Ysoki Gang Leader
• Ysoki Mystic

It does not include the 2 special edition releases from Archon Studio from the Starfinder line, which remain available for purchase through the Archon Studio Store:

• Luwazi Elsebo
• Zo!

Kickstarter Fulfillment Starts Now
Archon Studio is prepared to start fulfillment operations, but Ninja Division has informed Paizo that it does not have the money to fulfill their part of the obligation of shipping Group 1 miniatures to backers. Unfortunately, this will require additional shipping to be paid by each non-EU backer that was originally scheduled to receive their miniatures directly from Ninja Division.

North America and Rest of World: You will receive an email from Paizo containing a voucher code that must be redeemed on paizo.com to pay for shipping and provide your current shipping address. Archon will be fulfilling Group 1 at a cost of $13 per code received to these regions.

European Backers: A simple survey has been created for you to easily update your current postal address. Click here to fill out the survey.

What's Next?
Archon is already preparing the 7th wave of Starfinder Masterclass miniatures, and we will coordinate shipping Group 2 to backers as soon as Wave 12 is completed.

Thanks again for backing Starfinder Masterclass Miniatures. We know this process has taken longer than planned, and we thank you for your support as we work through the remaining waves of miniatures.

If you did not participate in the original Kickstarter, limited quantities of the miniatures will be available through paizo.com and archon-studio.com.

-Archon Studio and Paizo

Desna, Lady Luck, the Song of the Spheres and the Tender of Dreams, has aligned the stars to bring out-of-this-world Starfinder and Pathfinder joy to us all this month of PaizoCon 2022.

Starfinder Drift Crisis

COSMIC CATASTROPHE
Hyperspace is broken! In a catastrophic instant, commonplace faster-than-light travel, made possible by the Drift, fails. Travelers vanish midflight, communications scramble, and the Drift’s progenitor god Triune falls mysteriously silent. In the aftermath, empires cling to far-flung holdings, opportunists exploit the chaos, and everyone demands to know what triggered this crisis—and how it can be solved. With Starfinder Drift Crisis, you can dive right into this galaxy-spanning adventure and determine what happens next! Featuring:

• More than 100 new player options, from class options and themes to equipment, feats, and spells!
• Twenty detailed adventure seeds that provide a framework for playing a framework for playing through dozens of Drift Crisis stories, whether in encounters, adventures, or entire campaigns.
• Deep dives on the myriad effects of the Drift Crisis on factions, worlds, systems, and the galaxy at large.
• A toolbox with a vast store of information for running adventures in the Drift Crisis, from dozens of unique treasures and 20 new creatures to rich nonplayer character profiles and information on adapting Adventure Paths.

This product is part of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscription.

Starfinder Flip-Mat: Drift Crisis

A TRIP INTO TROUBLE!
The hyperspace plane of the Drift is malfunctioning, slowing interstellar trade and travel for all spacefaring citizens of the galaxy! This jumbo, double-sided Starfinder Flip-Mat features a hex grid map of a typical expanse of the Drift on one side, perfect for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game’s starship combat system. The other side is a standard 1-inch-square grid showing the interior of a technological structure—such as a Drift beacon, the satellites that help make Drift travel possible, or a high-tech temple to Triune, the tripartite deity who resides in the Drift. Starfinder Flip-Mats present ready-to-use science-fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Drift Crisis, you’ll be ready for this setting-changing catastrophe!

This product is part of the Starfinder Maps Subscription.

Starfinder Adventure Path #45: The Culling Shadow (Horizons of the Vast 6 of 6)

WHO’S THE BOSS?

An enemy armada invades! The heroes of New Horizon must launch their own forces to withstand the attack and eventually take the fight to the evil cult’s leader on the dark side of the moon. But to truly save their home, they must face the monster at the source of the deadly radiation, which threatens to kill every sentient creature in the system!

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume concludes the Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path and includes:

• “The Culling Shadow,” a Starfinder adventure for 11th-level characters, by Landon Winkler.
• Ways to continue your Horizons of the Vast campaign beyond the final fight, by Isis Wozniakowska.
• A toolbox featuring a description of the Negative Energy Plane, options for players to harness the power of that void, a collection of dangerous creatures, and a glimpse at a frozen, chalky world, by Ivis K. Flanagan, Jenny Jarzabski, Georg Mir, Andrew Mullen, Hilary Moon Murphy, Dave Nelson, Jess Nevins, Thea Seals, and Landon Winkler.
• Statistics and deck plans for an AbadarCorp long-haul freighter, by Landon Winkler

This product is part of the Starfinder Adventure Path Subscription.

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall

TAKE UP ARMS!
When the lich Tar-Baphon escaped from his prison, he destroyed the vigilant nation of Lastwall. Though its cities fell, the people of Lastwall didn’t falter! Knights of Lastwall takes a detailed look at the courageous knights who rose up to continue the fight against the undead hordes threatening the world. This book contains information on joining the knights, details on important members of the organization, new options for knightly characters, and details for playing a valiant, knightly campaign!

This product is part of the Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscription

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Pathfinder Book of the Dead Pocket Edition

THE DEAD ARE RISING!
This blasphemous tome brings the shambling menace of the undead to the forefront of your game. If you wish to stem the ghostly tide, you’ll find tools and skills to fight against the undead hordes. Or you can join the other side and turn your character into a ghost, ghoul, lich, mummy, skeleton, vampire, or zombie! You’ll also find new haunts, as well as information about the undead-plagued lands within the Lost Omens campaign setting, perfect for adding undead to your next adventure! A massive bestiary section full of undead creatures brings more threats for GMs and summonable creatures for players, including more versions of classic undead like vampires, skeletons, and zombies. This book also includes “March of the Dead,” a grim and dangerous adventure themed around an undead uprising!

Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults Hardcover

ENTER THE MEGADUNGEON!
Spiteful evil stirs beneath the mysterious lighthouse called Gauntlight. When the lighthouse emits an eerie glow, locals suspect that something sinister threatens the countryside. Brave heroes must explore the ruins around the lighthouse and delve into the dungeon levels beneath it. Hideous monsters, deadly traps, unexpected allies, vengeful ghosts, and more await the heroes who dare to enter the sprawling megadungeon called the Abomination Vaults! The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is a complete campaign taking heroes from 1st to 11th level.

Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults Special Edition Hardcover

Pathfinder Adventure: Shadows at Sundown

FEAR THE SETTING OF THE SUN!
It has been well over a decade since Queen Ileosa was defeated, but the city of Korvosa still fears the evil tyrant’s legacy. And so when ghosts of the sinister queen manifest on the streets after dark, the need for new heroes arises! Pathfinder Adventure: Shadows at Sundown is an adventure for 11th-level characters written by Landon Winkler. While a standalone story, it builds upon themes and plots from years of adventures set in the Varisian city of Korvosa, and includes new monsters and new challenges to test the mightiest heroes. Who will save the city of Korvosa from the dangers that hide in the Shadows at Sundown?

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Shadows at Sundown

FEAR THE NIGHT!
The Cathedral of Pharasma, goddess of death, has long stood watch over the city of Korvosa’s sprawling graveyard. This Flip-Mat details the cathedral itself, as well as the catacombs that exist below, suitable for use in play with Pathfinder Adventure: Shadows at Sundown or for any cathedral and attached catacomb found in your own campaign.

This product is part of the Pathfinder Maps Subscription.

Pathfinder Adventure Path #179: Cradle of Quartz (Outlaws of Alkenstar 2 of 3)

A TICKING TIME BOMB

Time is of the essence for a motley gang of outlaws if they’re to settle the score with the sinister rival who ruined them. Somewhere amid the weird and wild wastes of the Spellscar Desert lies an abandoned clockwork temple called the Cradle of Quartz. But while redemption and a fresh start might be nice perks, the outlaws seek something far more valuable among the Cradle’s time-warped halls: revenge.

The Outlaws of Alkenstar Adventure Path continues with “Cradle of Quartz,” a complete adventure for 4th- to 7th-level characters.

This product is part of the Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscription.

Pathfinder Deck of Endless NPCs

Creating a new character every time the players enter a shop or chat with a local on the street can be a real challenge, but the Deck of Endless NPCs makes it as simple as drawing four cards from the deck. These cards combine to form a unique NPC, each with their own role, motivation, personality trait, and secret agenda! With over 100 million different combinations, you are sure to get an interesting new character every time!

This product is part of the Pathfinder Accessories Subscription.

Pathfinder Alchemy Deck

THE LAB IS OPEN!
Who needs magic when you have science? A healing elixir, explosive bomb, or liberating solvent can make all the difference in a day filled with harrowing adventures. The Pathfinder Alchemy Deck contains cards detailing every alchemical item in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook and the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide, including bombs, elixirs, mutagens, poisons, and more! Each card features statistics, descriptions, and beautiful full- color illustrations. Keep each flask and vial at the ready!

This product is part of the Pathfinder Accessories Subscription.

Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Campsites

WHO’S ON WATCH
Flip-Tiles: Campsites is a stand-alone expansion suitable for use with any Flip-Tiles set, with 24 full-color, double-sided, 6 × 6-inch tiles stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason Engle. Whether your group is exploring a remote wilderness, stuck inside a sprawling dungeon, or simply trying to avoid spending money at an inn in the city, these campsites will help you plan out your evening. Suitable for experienced Game Masters and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any GM’s arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles, and convenient packaging makes for easy storage. Why map out every single campsite by hand when Flip-Tiles can do it for you?

Highlights include:

• Forest Clearings
• Swampy Isles
• Hilltops and Lodges
• Deserts or Tundra
• Dungeons and Caves
• Urban Camps

This product is part of the Pathfinder Maps Subscription.

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Gear up and advance your squad on the path to science-fantasy bug-busting adventure with this collection of Starfinder roleplaying game rulebooks, adventures, and accessories! Whether you’re fighting the literal bugs of the insectile invaders known as the Swarm or digital glitches in Starfinder Society’s Year of the Data Scourge scenarios, this bundle is filled with the PDFs star explorers need to create heroes and set out on a bug-squashing mission in the legendary Starfinder tabletop RPG galaxy. Inside you will find the Core Rulebook, two Alien Archives, and ready-to-play adventures—along with the physical Starfinder Armory at the $35 or more tier. Best of all, you choose how much of your purchase supports World Central Kitchen.

DO YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE?

Today, we’ve launching the Starfinder Bug-Buster Bundle to support World Central Kitchen! The bundle’s highlights include PDFs of the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Starfinder Armory, Starfinder Alien Archive, all 6 volumes of Starfinder Adventure Path: Attack of the Swarm!—and at the highest tier, a physical copy of the Starfinder Armory!

• The $5 tier includes 11 PDFs of the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Starfinder Player Character Folio, Starfinder Alien Archive, Starfinder Adventure Path: Attack of the Swarm!: Fate of the Fifth (1 of 6), and more.
• For $10, you’ll get 23 PDFs, including Starfinder Alien Archive 2, Starfinder GM Screen, Starfinder Adventure Path: Attack of the Swarm! The Last Refuge (2 of 6), Huskworld (3 of 6), and more!
• At the $25 tier, you’ll get 37 PDFs, including Starfinder Armory, Starfinder Character Operations Manual, Starfinder Alien Archive 2, Starfinder Adventure: Junker's Delight, all 6 volumes of Starfinder Adventure Path: Attack of the Swarm, and more!

Finally, Humble Bundle is offering a $35 physical reward tier that includes all 37 of the PDF products from the lower tiers, plus a physical copy of the physical Starfinder Armory delivered right to your door! Fulfillment is handled by Paizo, and you’re responsible for shipping fees. We anticipate that domestic shipping will run in the $11-$17* range and that international shipping will be in the $30-$45* range.

Humble Bundles offer great deals and support great causes. Purchasers can decide how much of their donation goes to each participant in the bundle by expanding the “Adjust Donation” section on the right-hand side of the page, just below the Checkout button.

Thank you for supporting Paizo and World Central Kitchen!

The Paizo Team

World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a non-profit organization addressing food insecurity during and after natural disasters and humanitarian crises, while also operating long-term programs aimed at improving livelihoods by strengthening local food ecosystems. Founded in 2010 by Chef Jose Andres following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, WCK has since served more than 8 million meals to those affected by disasters.

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Support Charities with the Starfinder Bug-Buster Bundle Bundle

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!

Paizo won’t have any staff in attendance but have partnered with the convention to debut Pathfinder Dinky Dungeon, a lighthearted adventure in which players navigate a floor full of tiles and face off against everything from deadly traps and monsters to being cursed to wear a silly hat for the rest of the game. We were very excited to work with the folks behind the show to develop this family-friendly sorta-LARP and hope attendees have as much fun playing it as we did working on it. Be sure to post pictures of yourselves playing Pathfinder Dinky Dungeon and tag Paizo’s social media accounts, and we’ll make sure to amplify the most embarrassing best ones!

For those Pathfinder and Starfinder fans looking for something a bit more traditional, we’ll also have a large organized play presence at the show. Here’s more information from Regional Venture-Coordinator Ian Hawthorne of the Isles Region:

UK Games Expo has long held a place in the UK Pathfinder Society’s heart. From its humble beginnings in the Clarendon Suites back in 2007, we have seen it grow until now it occupies three exhibition halls and several function rooms at the National Exhibition Centre, as well as spilling over into the board game and RPG haven that is the nearby Hilton Hotel.

Yes, it’s a big event! It's also the perfect place to play Pathfinder and Starfinder. Terry Thambipillai, VC for the Midlands Region, has coordinated a wonderful mix of PFS1, PFS2, and Starfinder games available over eight different gaming slots. This gives you plenty of time to enjoy a game or three and still be able to watch seminars, play boardgames, or shop until you drop. We have a mixture of games suited both to invested and new players—UKGE is a great place to play for the first time in a relaxed, supportive, and fun environment!

All the details on how to buy tickets and find us can be found on the UK Games Expo website. Hope to see you there!

In the second title developed as part of a multi-game partnership between Gale Force Nine and Paizo, you attempt to commandeer a prototype Immortal-class starship filled with top-secret tech. Can you escape Skydock aboard the vessel, or will you be caught red-handed?

Starfinder: Pirates of Skydock places players in the roles of adventurers attempting to seize a secret vessel located on Verces. To steal the starship, players must risk it all to complete dangerous tasks before they raise suspicion. Rising to these challenges requires earning glory through heroic deeds, asking for help from your friends, and perhaps obtaining a little support from external patrons who may or may not want to remain anonymous. Adventurers can work together to accomplish their goals, but only the character who has earned the most glory at the end of the game proves they have what it takes to be captain.

During the game, adventurers scavenge for loot and mastermind cunning schemes to complete objectives—all while making sure the alarm doesn’t get raised. Should it trigger, the starship launches before the adventurers are ready to escape, stranding them aboard the vessel! By equipping gear found aboard the ship—such as stun gauntlets and auto injectors, players can upgrade their character and seize control of the ATech Immortal before it’s too late.

Starfinder: Pirates of Skydock is a standalone game for 2–4 players and will be available in August with an MSRP of $60. Visit https://www.gf9.com/ for more information.

Gale Force Nine (GF9) is known for producing games such as Firefly: The Game and Dune: A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy. GF9 has teamed up with Paizo to publish original board games based on the Pathfinder and Starfinder Roleplaying Games. Through this multiyear partnership, GF9 offers board-game players a chance to interact with the heroes, villains, locations, and monsters from the Age of Lost Omens, the Pact Worlds, and beyond in an all-new way! The first release of this collaboration, Pathfinder: Level 20, is available now.

Matt Vaughan
Studio Manager
Gale Force Nine
Twitter: @galeforcenine

Brace yourselves for the Drift Crash! In one catastrophic instant, the extraplanar realm fails, cutting off the universe’s access to commonplace faster-than-light travel. Travelers vanish midflight, communications scramble, and the Drift’s progenitor god Triune falls mysteriously silent. In the aftermath, empires cling to far-flung holdings, opportunists exploit the chaos, and everyone demands to know what triggered this crisis—and how it can be solved. With Starfinder Drift Crisis, you can dive right into this galaxy-spanning adventure and determine what happens next!

Internal preview art from Starfinder Drift Crisis by Laslo Ludrovan

• More than 100 new player options, from class options and themes to equipment, feats, and spells!
• Twenty detailed adventure seeds that provide a framework for playing dozens of Drift Crisis stories, whether in encounters, adventures, or entire campaigns.
• Deep dives on the myriad effects of the Drift Crisis on factions, worlds, systems, and the galaxy at large.
• A toolbox with a vast store of information for running adventures in the Drift Crisis, from dozens of unique treasures and 20 new creatures to rich nonplayer character profiles and information on adapting Adventure Paths.

Excerpt from the Introduction of Starfinder Drift Crisis, continued from the excerpt in the blog, “On the Next Paizo LIVE: Slayers and more!”

“INFORMATION FOR EVERYONE
Whether you’re eager to play in a Drift Crisis campaign, itching to run an adventure as the game master, seeking options for other campaigns, or just delighted by Starfinder lore, Drift Crisis offers a wealth of content well-suited for everybody.

“Chapter 1 is suitable for all readers, constructed in many ways like a traditional setting supplement with details about factions, regions, and thematic character options. This chapter introduces you to the Drift and how it works before exploring what the Drift Crisis entails—all presented as possibilities, not irrefutable facts. What exactly caused the Drift Crisis and what might resolve it can vary based on the campaign’s needs, so the information here can fuel character motivations, questions, and conspiracy theories.

“You likely already know about Starfinder’s campaign setting (such as through Chapter 12 of the Core Rulebook), and while much of that information remains relevant, most worlds now experience new difficulties. How does Drift disruption impact the Azlanti Star Empire, whose far-flung territories are connected only by faster-than-light starships? What comes of Akiton’s failing thasteron starship fuel industry once the predominant faster-than-light travel technology becomes less attractive? How does the Veskarium respond when extraplanar material bleeds into its core star system and envelops several planets, cutting those worlds off from the empire? Articles ahead have the answers while also posing just as many new questions and adventure hooks to inspire your group.

“Grand organizations familiar and new are also working on how to best resolve or exploit the Drift Crisis chaos. These could be key allies in your upcoming adventures, or they could be adversaries seeking an underhanded advantage at others’ expense. What do they want? And how might your characters get involved? With Drift technologies disrupted, how do starship manufacturers respond? How does the church of Triune respond when its deity isn’t answering prayers and the galaxy demands answers that Triunites should have? Why is this calamity simultaneously profitable and infuriating for the Free Captains?

“And of course, there’s loads of what every player enjoys: exciting new character options! While these new options all tie into the Drift, catastrophes, or extraplanar power in some way, they’re well-suited for any campaign, not just for those set during the Drift Crisis. Awaken your divinatory might with the new Drift Crisis precog anchor, or start channeling extraplanar influences with new solarian revelations. Bend space with new vanguard disciplines, or alter the planar properties of your own world with the witchwarper’s plunderer of worlds alternate class features. New themes provide four great origins for your character, and new gear ensures you’re properly equipped for whatever extradimensional challenges lie ahead. Want more character content? The last page of each adventure seed in Chapter 2 includes thematic new options for PCs; if your GM is using that adventure seed to craft a campaign, though, it might be reserved as special treasure, so check with your GM about these Chapter 2 options.

“The wonderful part about the Drift Crisis is that, because there’s no one storyline, the event caters well to a group running several campaigns simultaneously, with each story run by a different GM. Once you know which adventure hook from Chapter 2 one GM is using, you can enjoy reading the other 19 virtually spoiler-free. To help with navigating all the options, check out the player option index and general index on pages 187–188.”

Internal preview art from Starfinder Drift Crisis

For an interview with the Starfinder team, don’t miss the front-page Drift Crisis article on Polygon. Explore the Drift Crisis as it unfolds throughout the year at DriftCrisis.com.

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Today brings over a dozen new Starfinder and Pathfinder products to spark joy with your family and friends! You’ll find 4 Adventures Paths volumes, 4 standalone adventures of various sizes, and 4 game accessories to enliven play. And check out Pathfinder Goblin Firework Fight—our new party game that mixes goblins, pigs, pickles, and fireworks!

Party Game (Print Only)
Pathfinder Goblin Firework Fight
Goblin Firework Fight—Promo Card: Advanced Goblin (Fumbus)

Pathfinder Adventures Path Volumes (Print and Digital)
Pathfinder Adventure Path #174: Shadows of the Ancients (Strength of Thousands 6 of 6)
Pathfinder Adventure Path #177: Burning Tundra (Quest for the Frozen Flame 3 of 3)

Starfinder Adventures Path Volumes (Print and Digital)
Starfinder Adventure Path #43: Icebound (Horizons of the Vast 4 of 6)
Starfinder Adventure Path #44: Allies Against the Eye (Horizons of the Vast 5 of 6)

Starfinder Adventures (Digital Only)
Starfinder Bounty #2: Test Flight
Starfinder One-Shot #3: System Takedown

Pathfinder Society Scenarios (Digital Only)
Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-12: Fury's Toll

Starfinder Society Scenarios (Digital Only)
Starfinder Society Scenario #4-15: Feuding Faiths

Pathfinder Accessories (Print and Digital)
Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Shattered Dungeon

Starfinder Accessories (Print and Digital)
Starfinder Flip-Mat: Casino
Starfinder Flip-Mat: Water World
Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Space Station Corridors Expansion

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Ichor slinger from Pathfinder Book of the Dead by Carl Springer.

I’ve been looking for you everywhere. Honestly, these metropolises are just too big sometimes. City at the Center of the World? City at the Center of my Bunion more like!

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Internal art from Pathfinder Book of the Dead by Mirco Paganessi and Kiki Moch Rizky.

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Internal art from Pathfinder Lost Omens Knights of Lastwall by Ainur Salimova.

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Internal art from Starfinder Drift Crisis by Laslo Ludrovan.

I know you have a taste for the latest thing. Well, you’re going to love this because it’s from the future! This image was labeled “After the Crash” from Starfinder Drift Crisis. We should put you down for a Starfinder Roleplaying Game subscription, too. That will be so drift!

What’s drift? Oh dearie, it is an adjective describing something fascinating and weird, likely never seen before or unique. I thought you knew. Moving on.

Cover art from Shadows of the Ancients by Setiawan Lee. Cover art from Burning Tundra by David Alvarez.

All these Adventures Path volumes… I’m afraid the port has made a tangled mess of the order. Pathfinder Adventure Path: Shadows of the Ancients (Strength of Thousands 6 of 6) is finally here after months of delay. But good things come to those wait, said the anadi to the sprite.

Cover art from Icebound and Allies Against the Eye by Rodrigo Gonzalez Toledo.

But wait, there’s yet more! Pathfinder Adventure Path: Burning Tundra (Quest for the Frozen Flame 3 of 3), Starfinder Adventure Path volumes Icebound (Horizons of the Vast 4 of 6), Allies Against the Eye (Horizons of the Vast 5 of 6), and The Culling Shadow (Horizons of the Vast 6 of 6) are all inbound. Meanwhile, Pathfinder Adventure Path #178: Punks in a Powderkeg (Outlaws of Alkenstar 1 of 3) and Cradle of Quartz (Outlaws of Alkenstar 2 of 3) are closer than you think!

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From the new Starfinder Alien Archive 1 & 2 Battle Cards to the second volume of the Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Path, Lost Mammoth Valley, to Pathfinder One-Shot: Mark of the Mantis, here are new Starfinder and Pathfinder products to add to your favorite games at paizo.com and your local game store!

Pathfinder Adventure Path #176: Lost Mammoth Valley (Quest for the Frozen Flame 2 of 3)

A Land Lost to Time
With danger close behind, the Broken Tusks journey through the bountiful but treacherous Lost Mammoth Valley in search of the Primordial Flame. The Tusks’ scouts will need to solve the riddles of the ancient valley and recruit a motley league of followers, all while evading the watchful gaze of the vale’s villainous overlords and unraveling a legendary artifact’s mythical past. The Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Path continues with “Lost Mammoth Valley,” a complete adventure for 4th- to 7th-level characters.

Pathfinder One-Shot #4: Mark of the Mantis

Pathfinder One-Shot: Mark of the Mantis is a short Pathfinder Second Edition adventure, designed to be played in a single session lasting 3 to 4 hours. However, with opportunities for roleplaying and plenty of combat, the adventure could easily make for two exciting evenings of play. Mark of the Mantis includes pregenerated characters (found in a separate downloadable PDF) with interwoven backstories that contextualize their relationships and further enrich the adventure itself. This adventure should be played with all four characters. If only three players are available, the GM should bring in the fourth character as an NPC. This adventure can be easily adjusted to suit any party of four themed around the Red Mantis assassin organization.

Sources: This adventure makes use of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook and Pathfinder Lost Omens World Guide. Non-Core Rulebook content is reprinted in this adventure for ease of reference.

Pathfinder Bounty #18: From Family Lost

A Pathfinder Bounty designed for Level 3.
When the Fifth Mendevian Crusade ended, the hamlet of Bulviss was one of many casualties on the Mendevian side of the border. Overrun by demons and their allies, the hamlet hasn’t been touched since a band of crusaders cleared out the demonic influence that lingered. Now, contracted by an interested party, a group of adventurers must head into the ruins of Bulviss to find a missing deed and any other surviving treasures. Have the demons truly been removed, or are there other, darker secrets waiting in the ruins?

Starfinder Alien Archive 1 & 2 Battle Cards

A BOX FULL OF ALIENS
Starfinder Alien Archive and Alien Archive 2 are excellent tools for planning exciting science fantasy adventures, but this box of 315 cards presents a new and exciting way for your extraterrestrial creatures to land on the table and join the fight. Each card features a beautiful, full-color image of a creature from Alien Archive or Alien Archive 2 on one side, while the other side provides that creature’s statistics for quick and easy reference. Show the players what alien menace their characters are facing while keeping the creature’s abilities at the ready, and watch your game come alive!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Basic

BUILD A BIGGER DUNGEON!
Be it a sprawling dungeon, a sinister castle, a haunted forest, a bustling cityscape, or any other locale where adventure and danger might lurk, with Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Basic, you’ll have more room than ever before to present your latest creation to your players! This sprawling map measures 30" × 46" unfolded and is the largest basic flip mat yet! Designed for experienced GMs and novices alike, and usable with both dry-erase and wet-erase markers, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master’s arsenal.

So grab your markers and get to creating your biggest dungeons yet, with Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Basic!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Keep

KEEP WATCH!
Whether you need to guard your domain against invasion or plan an attack against a ruthless lord, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing a remote keep. Fortunately, with Paizo’s Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics, you don’t have to! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set-pieces for the busy Game Master.

Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Fortress Chambers Expansion

Heart of the Castle!
Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Fortress Chambers Expansion Set is an addition to the Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Fortress Starter Set, with 24 full-color, 6 × 6-inch, double-sided tiles stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason Engle. With this set of tiles, you can craft a sprawling fortress interior in just a few minutes, be it for a new castle that your player characters have gained control of, or the established stronghold of a sinister villain. Suitable for experienced Game Masters and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any GM’s arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles, and convenient packaging makes for easy storage. Why map out an entire castle by hand when Flip-Tiles can do it for you?

The Fortress Chambers Expansion Set includes:

• Sprawling castle chambers
• Barracks and bedrooms
• Dining rooms and kitchens
• Fountains and statuary
• Guard posts
• Throne rooms

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As a publisher, Paizo has consistently led the way in producing games, adventures, campaigns, and accessories that bring your tabletop gaming experience to life. We take great pride in giving our players and Game Masters all the tools they need to maximize the experience.

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Our partnerships include tools from industry pros like Hero Lab (https://www.wolflair.com/) with support for both 1st and 2nd Edition Pathfinder. And our recently announced partnership with Demiplane to build an official digital toolset in Pathfinder Nexus (https://app.demiplane.com/nexus/pathfinder2e) continues to move forward with opportunities for early access.

Check out the marketplace on your preferred virtual tabletop, or our webstore at https://paizo.com/store/gaming/accessories/virtualTableTop for access to the best in adventures, maps, rules support, and more!

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Paizo and Gale Force Nine have agreed on a multi-game partnership to publish original Pathfinder and Starfinder board games.

Gale Force Nine (GF9), known for producing games such as “Firefly: The Game” and “Dune: A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy”, have teamed up with Paizo to publish original board and card games drawing from the worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder. The multi-year partnership will see GF9 exploring the rich settings of Golarion, the Pact Worlds, and beyond to bring the heroes, villains, locations, and monsters from the roleplaying systems into several new boardgames.

Starting in Q2 2022, Gale Force Nine will release two board games and one card game over the first year of the partnership, with more following over the course of the relationship. The first three titles are:

• Pathfinder: Level 20 (Q2 2022)
• Starfinder: Pirates of Skydock (Q3 2022)
• Pathfinder: Tall Tales (Q4 2022)

“The worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder are fun, diverse, and full of character,” says John-Paul Brisigotti, CEO of GF9. “We are excited to explore them further and offer fans of these games an opportunity to interact with the worlds in a new way.”

We look forward to partnering with Gale Force Nine in bringing the Pathfinder and Starfinder worlds to life as board games,” says Paizo President, Jeff Alvarez.

Pathfinder: Level 20

The first game of this partnership, releasing in Q2 2022, is Pathfinder: Level 20, a game where players take on the role of kobolds in their warren, scampering away from a 19th-level fighter who only needs five XP to hit level 20.

Will you make the heroes scamper away in embarrassment, thus being crowned the kobold champion? Or will you be the last survivor among your friends, a victory in its own right!

Pathfinder: Level 20 is a game for 2–6 players and will be available in April with an MSRP of $30. Visit www.gf9games.com/pathfinder for more information.

Matt Vaughan
Studio Manager
Gale Force Nine
Twitter: @galeforcenine

Get ready to reboot your spell caches with Starfinder Galactic Magic! This exciting new supplement dives into the most magical parts of the science-fantasy Starfinder setting, with a new class, a wealth of class options, dozens of new spells, and articles on how magic and religion affect day-to-day living in the Pact Worlds and beyond. Of course, none of this would be possible without our talented authors! Let’s learn a little more about some of them and what they worked on for this book in their own words. And if you’re a new (or returning) fan of any of these authors, be sure to check out their other projects, websites, livestreams, and more!

Jason Keeley (he/him)
Starfinder Development Manager

Illustration by Arturo Gutierrez

James Jacobs (he/him)
Creative Director

I’ve had the good fortune to write a lot for Pathfinder and helped to invent a fair portion of its deities, but always in the context of the fantasy genre. The chance to revisit some of these elements in a different genre is exciting and liberating. after spending decades with deities like Desna and Sarenrae flitting around in my head as divinities first in my homebrew game and then more recently in Golarion. Alas, there was only so much room to talk about Desnan dream stations or to explore the implications of what worshiping the goddess of the sun might entail when you’re in outer space, but hopefully the entries in this book will help spark new ideas for how to use these deities in your game! And of course, on the opposite side of the “friendliness scale,” being able to lean into the science-fiction tropes of the classic pulps and explore how Nyarlathotep and the Elder Mythos functions in Starfinder was equally delightful. But the thing I’m most excited to see once this book’s out is all the amazing content created by all the other authors in this book!

Jessica Catalan (she/her)
Starfinder Society Developer

Hello! My name is Jessica Catalan and I’m the Starfinder Society Developer. I’m also a mother, gamer, blogger, and freelance author who primarily writes for Paizo’s Starfinder and Pathfinder RPGs. You can find a list of my currently announced writing credits on my Paizo profile (meloriel). Some recently released highlights include Secrets of Magic, Guns & Gears, Lost Omens Grand Bazaar, Galaxy Exploration Manual, and Tech Revolution.

For Galactic Magic, I wrote the mystic and witchwarper class options, twenty spells, and numerous deities, including Kadrical, Lamashtu, and all the ancestral deities. Galactic Magic also marks two big firsts for me. This is the first time I was hired to create entirely new deities of my own design (Dagosarn, Flux, Isvith, Jalvari, Meyel, Romgul, Uvonn, and the Vesk Saints). Galactic Magic is also the first time I was hired for freelance development work, making this my very first developer credit.

I’m beyond thrilled to have been a part of this book and I look forward to seeing it hit gaming tables! Enjoy!

Rigby Bendele (they/them or xe/xem)

I'm a sometimes-poet, sometimes-game designer doing my best to make engaging, inclusive tabletop games. In Galactic Magic, you'll find my work in the technomancer and Oras section. When I was writing the Oras section, I thought quite a bit about Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" and the way in which cyborgs offer a rejection of the separations between animal, human and machine. This should probably tell you that I'm a queer theory nerd (which is the crux of my academic background) and that I love thinking about alternative ways of being through TTRPGs. While Galactic Magic is my first hardcover with Paizo, you'll find my name on more books soon and can enjoy more of my Starfinder work with SFS #3-07: Strike at Zone 78 and SFS #4-04: Mission Not Found.

You can find me on Twitter @slothscout.

Kendra Leigh Speedling (she/her)

Hello, all! I’m Kendra Leigh Speedling, and I’ve been freelancing for Pathfinder and Starfinder for about six years. You might remember me from this year’s Starfinder GenCon special, #3-99: Perils of the Past. I’m delighted to have been a part of Galactic Magic, helping give the “fantasy” side of “science-fantasy” some love. I did several sections for the book, including the faith introduction, the Besmara and Weydan entries, the Parallel Truths, and the new operative class options. I’ve always been fond of exploring how magic and faith interact with a highly technologically advanced setting, so this assignment was a lot of fun. I particularly enjoyed crafting the operative options, which hopefully add a little magical flair to your operative of choice!

I’ve got a few more Pathfinder and Starfinder projects in the works currently, though most of them are still Forbidden Knowledge at this point. I can confirm, though, that I got my grabby hands involved in Pathfinder’s upcoming Book of the Dead! In my non-freelancing downtime, I can be found hanging out with a book or video game—usually Animal Crossing these days—or pretending I know how to bake. You can find a full list of my writing credits at klspeedling.com and I’m on Twitter as @KendraLS, where I sporadically post cat pictures.

Besmara: illustration by Guilherme Olivieri

Sen.H.H.S. (she/her)

Hello, readers! Sen.H.H.S. here. You might have seen my name before in some Pathfinder Second Edition products such as Bestiary 3, Secrets of Magic, and many others. (See my carrd for the full list: https://senhhs.carrd.co/#portfolio) With Galactic Magic, it looks like I've made the jump over to write even more magic in a different(?) universe. This book has been a long time coming, and I hope you'll get to experience the magic (pun intended) within its pages soon. You can always find out what I'm up to on my Twitter @SenHHS. If my calculations are correct, you might get to witness me tweeting about "trace analysis in Golarion" in the next little while, for every reason whatsoever.

Shay Snow (they/them)

Hi, I'm Shay Snow, I'm an editor at Paizo, and I wrote up a bunch of species-specific spells and the entry on Zon-Kuthon, surprising exactly... no one! As my mutuals on Twitter know I'm a pretty big Zon-Kuthon fan so I joyfully jumped when offered the chance to give the pain man a new write up for Galactic Magic. You may have seen me in a few Starfinder scenarios, Pathfinder’s Lost Omens Grand Bazaar and Tech Revolution and I have a few things coming out in Lost Omens Monsters of Myth. Additionally, you can find my name on a few Coyote & Crow projects!

When not writing, I’m usually discussing Native issues and rights over on my Twitter @SpellsInSugar, where you can also sometimes catch me talking about video games and horror media. You can keep up with my work, or even contact me for hire, through my website https://shayjay.carrd.co/!

Jessica Redekop (she/they/he)

Hi! I'm Jess, and I wrote about some fabulous outsider deities in Galactic Magic ! Even though it's a smaller section, I'm particularly proud of my work in this book. It gave me an opportunity to introduce a lot of cool content into Starfinder, and there are some lines scattered through the section that are quite personal to me. I won't spoil which gods are included, but if you're familiar with my past work for PF and SF, some of them are very "me." :) I hope you like Starfinder's new and returning outsider deities as much as I do!

For more of my content check out Valiant, an actual play Pathfinder podcast on the Know Direction network, where I play Xiadani the aasimar druid. You can also find me @tectonomancer on Twitter.

Mikhail Rekun (he/him)

дравствуйте, уважаемые читатели! My name is Mikhail Sergeyevich Rekun, and you may recognize me from previous Starfinder products such as the Galaxy Exploration Manual (where I wrote about Accord and created the Starship Toolbox) and Starfinder Adventure Path #31: Waking the Worldseed (where I wrote the Hibb article), along with plenty of Pathfinder stuff. In my more mundane life, I’m a Russian-American historian, educator, and author.

Galactic Magic was a bit of a weird project for me. John Compton contacted me and said ‘we need magical nanomachines and we need them as soon as humanly possible.’ Well, I’m never one to shirk from a challenge, and produced the magical options for the nanocyte in basically a weekend. I’m reasonably pleased with the results, especially the ability to make fancy nano-runes and sigils like a proper anime protagonist. (That was what John wanted, right?)

Nanites are also of some interest to me for other reasons, as when not writing for Paizo, I’m working on Ourichor: Fulcrum of the Luminant Age alongside the inimitable Andrew Mullen and Isabelle Thorne (follow us at https://twitter.com/LuminantA). I shan’t share too much in the way of details, but let’s just say that fans of microscopic shenanigans may find our upcoming release, Armaments of the Luminant Age, of some interest to them.

John Godek III (he/him)

Hi everyone! My name is John Godek and I am an avid Starfinder GM, player, freelance author, and podcaster. I had the opportunity to write several sections of Galactic Magic and I can’t wait for you to see them! I created two brand new soldier fighting styles—the spellbrawler and the archer—along with new weapons, gear boosts, fusions, and armor upgrades that synergize with these styles as well as offer cool options for other styles and classes. In addition, I formulated nearly three dozen new magic spells, including spells that provide basic utility, create different types of barriers, and are related to or originated in the Vast. Finally, I crafted three new legendary artifacts of tremendous power, each steeped in ancient lore. Other Paizo projects I have forthcoming include work on the Drift Crisis hardcover, backmatter in Starfinder Adventure Path #44, and my very first adventure—Starfinder Bounty #1: The Cantina Job!

You can find me playing with the Emerald City Lodge in Seattle, or you can listen to my podcasts on the Know Direction Network, including: Digital Divination with Ron Lundeen, Intrepid Heroes, a Stafinder actual play, and Presenting, a podcast where I interview game designers, developers, artists, and writers.

Worlanisi: Illustration by Addison Rankin

Nate Wright (he/him)

Evening, everyone. I’m Nate Wright, a blogger on the Know Direction Network and a freelancer who has contributed to multiple works from Paizo. Some of my favorites include the anadi ancestry from Lost Omens The Mwangi Expanse and the memetic zenith from Starfinder Adventure Path #24: The God-Host Ascends. The best part about writing for this book has been visualizing the awesome abilities I’ve always wished my character could have and getting the opportunity to share that vision with the rest of the community.

If you want to see my most recent work, you’re in need of a freelancer, or you just want to watch me share cool art I found, you can find me on @RoscMan on the cursed bird app.

Dennis Muldoon (he/him)

Hi folks! My name is Dennis Muldoon, and I've been freelancing for Paizo for a few years now. I've contributed to almost every line Paizo publishes, now, most recently SFS #4-10: The Way In, the Azlanti Space Age material in the toolbox of Starfinder Adventure Path #42: Whispers of the Eclipse, and the ssumzili and golgopo monsters in Pathfinder Adventure Path #171: Hurricane's Howl. For Galactic Magic, I wrote the experimental apparatus mechanic alternate class feature for all your magically inclined mechanic needs, along with magic-themed mechanic tricks for mechanics of all types. I'm also extremely excited to bring the Lucky Drunk himself into Starfinder with a section on Cayden Cailean! My full list of credits is on my Paizo profile, and you can find me on Twitter @dkmuldoon.

Kate Baker (she/her)

Hey, Starfinder fans! I’m Kate, and I’ve been writing for Starfinder and Pathfinder for about five years. I was delighted to get to write the sections on Hylax and Talavet for this book. Hylax is near and dear to my heart after writing one of the Attack of the Swarm volumes, and I even have a tattoo of the Crown of Hylax! Talavet speaks to me equally, with such a strong focus on the importance of stories, something I’ve never appreciated more than in the last year and a half. I hope you enjoy reading about their role in the galaxy, along with the many other deities featured in this book.

Follow me at @KateBakerGM on Twitter to hear more about what I’m working on, including some upcoming projects for Starfinder Infinite!

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!

Starfinder Galactic Magic

UNLEASH COSMIC POWER
Unravel the eldritch mysteries of the galaxy with Starfinder Galactic Magic! This book explores Starfinder’s magical possibilities, providing your characters fantastic abilities to overcome any challenge. Whether you master the secrets of arcane academies, steal spells with supernatural finesse, or draw power from the gods themselves, Galactic Magic redefines what you thought possible with:

• The new precog character class! They can bend time to their will and outwit foes with combat predictions!
• Exciting ways to channel magical might, with reality-warping rituals and over 100 new spells!
• New player options, from magical variants for every character class to legendary artifacts and magic items.
• Discoveries about the galaxy’s most powerful mystical forces, from alignment singularities and metastars to deities and the boons they offer!
• A study of eldritch secrets and everyday arcana, including how a magic user navigates society and the organizations that might support and oppose them.

CHAPTER 1: CLASSES

PRECOG
Through some cosmic event, you have come to understand the ebb and flow of time to a degree that only a select few can. You manipulate time dexterously—accelerating, slowing, or even reshaping chronologies to suit your needs. The skeins of time are yours to see, and you know how to apply enough pressure to adjust their threads ever so subtly. Your ability to understand the infinite possibilities of time also shaped you into someone capable of altering the material universe through powerful spellcasting, and you can harness temporal paradoxes to foresee the future—and dictate the present—in powerful ways.

And new options for every class!

Read Meet the Iconics: Ciravel and Iconic Encounter: The Taste of Time by Jennifer Kretchmer!

CHAPTER 2: GEAR

HYBRID ITEMS
Blends of magic and technology achieve results that neither alone could ever imagine, creating the likes of null-space storage, miniaturized vehicles, subwoofers able to inspire supernatural fear, artificial lifeforms that require virtually no sustenance, and more. These devices often resist strictly antimagical or anti-technological countermeasures.

MAGIC ITEMS
Traditional magic items translate mystical energies into a portable format that nearly anyone can use. Part of the appeal comes from unshakable nostalgia, yet far more often it’s magic items’ total disregard for scientific principles—their ability to translate their maker’s will into reality—that makes them so unique and valuable.

WEAPON FUSIONS AND ARMOR UPGRADES
Survival often means eking out maximum performance from an adventurer’s gear, and a magical upgrade provides an easy edge. These weapon fusions and armor upgrades concentrate eldritch energy into functional, long-lasting forms, and these latest models lend even the most technologically outfitted explorer an arcane advantage.

ARTIFACTS
Artifacts are exceedingly rare—often unique—items beyond the ability of any but the most accomplished artisans to create, and they’re almost as difficult to destroy. These legendary items combine tremendous power with the intrinsic lore that shapes their abilities. Adventurers might dedicate their entire lives to finding a specific artifact, and recovering an artifact might spur countless high-stakes exploits.

CHAPTER 3: SPELLS

Explore new spell lists and descriptions, variant spellcasting, and rituals!

Read Iconic Encounter: Pitstop Eclipse by Patrick Hurley, featuring the iconic witchwarper and technomancer, Zemir and Raia.

CHAPTER 4: FAITHS

FAITHS IN THE UNIVERSE
The galaxy’s faiths manifest in countless forms, from tiny cults to interplanetary religions with billions of followers. Although deities almost never intervene directly in mortal affairs, their influence is very present in lay worshippers and devoted priests alike. Faith is alive throughout the galaxy, whether used for good or ill.

CHAPTER 5: THE MAGICAL GALAXY

OVERVIEW
Magic can be measured, manipulated, and predicted, or else it never could’ve been integrated with technology. Even so, cultures perceive magic in wildly different ways, and a lot of magical phenomena remains associated with myth, antiquity, physical impossibilities, and secrets perhaps better left alone. In short, despite being integrated into everyday society, magic remains... magical

Pathfinder Adventure Path #175: Broken Tusk Moon (Quest for the Frozen Flame 1 of 3)

The Hunt Begins!
If the Broken Tusk following is to survive the coming year, their bravest scouts must carve a path through a harsh wilderness. Brutal beasts, wicked rivals, and an inhospitable landscape challenge the trailblazers to withstand their enemies and the elements. But mere survival is not enough. To forge their legacies as Mammoth Lords, the scouts search for an ancient artifact to light the way forward—the Primordial Flame! The Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Path begins with “Broken Tusk Moon,” a complete adventure for 1st- to 3rd-level characters.

Read Quest for the Frozen Flame: Eiwa's Lesson, prologue fiction written by Rachael Cruz!

Don’t miss the free Pathfinder Adventure Path: Quest for the Frozen Flame Player's Guide PDF!

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Starfinder Bounty #1: The Cantina Job

A Starfinder Bounty designed for Level 1.

A scam artist is prowling the bars around Drifter’s End, fleecing the Absalom Station tourists and starship crews out of hard-earned credits with a chunk of fake horacalcum and the chance to invest in their newly discovered starmetal vein. It’s up to the PCs to track down this fake miner and haul them back to pay their dues!

Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-08: Foundation’s Price

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-4.

Following their recent successes in aiding the government of Qadira with apprehending an errant genie-binder, the Pathfinder Society earned the right to establish a new lodge in the port city of Sedeq! With the construction of the site complete, the Society sent a group to formally begin operations from the new edifice.

They never arrived.

With city officials threatening to auction off the new building should the Pathfinder Society neglect to occupy it, the Society sends another group of Pathfinders to investigate the lodge. Finding the brand new structure in a state of alarming disrepair, the Pathfinders have little time to search for answers before a booming voice greets them. If they wish to occupy the lodge, they’ll have to complete three tasks...

“Foundation’s Price” is part of the ongoing story of the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It’s the first scenario in a two-part arc detailing the events befalling a Pathfinder Society lodge in the nation of Qadira. Other arcs explore other locations across the Inner Sea. While these arcs can be played in any order, it’s recommended that players experience the scenarios within each individual arc in order.

Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-09: The Secluded Siege

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 5-8.

The Pathfinder Society has had a tenuous relationship with the government of the ancient nation of Osirion ever since the Ruby Prince increased restrictions on the activities of foreign-based explorers. Venture-Captain Norden Balentiir has worked hard to restore the Society’s reputation in the nation, and to guide the Sandswept Hall, the Pathfinder lodge in Osirion’s capital, away from its dark past.

Recently, hordes of undead have been surging up from the depths of the Sandswept Hall. Norden Balentiir fears that should this threat become widely known, it would compel the Ruby Prince to permanently shut down Pathfinder operations in Osirion. The lodge’s forces are locked in constant battle with the undead, and they need an experienced strike team to descend into the Hall’s lower levels and find the source of the undead menace!

“The Secluded Siege” is part of the ongoing story of the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It’s the first scenario in a two-part arc detailing the events befalling a Pathfinder Society lodge in the nation of Osirion. Other arcs explore other locations across the Inner Sea. While these arcs can be played in any order, it’s recommended that players experience the scenarios within each individual arc in order.

Starfinder Society Scenario #4-13: Hard Reset

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-4.

When a simulated training mission goes wrong, a team of novice Starfinders find themselves trapped in a corrupted version of the virtual reality training program. After meeting a mysterious stranger within the system, they face an important choice: exit the program, or stay and fight to save Guidance from the Data Scourge. If they choose to fight, they experience strange revelations and battle dangerous glitches—all leading to the truth behind the Data Scourge attacks.

Pathfinder Lost Omens: City of Lost Omens Poster Map Folio

You Are Here!
Explore the streets and scenes of the City at the Center of the World with the City of Lost Omens Poster Map Folio. Four folded 21.25" × 32.5" maps combine to create the largest city map ever published by Pathfinder, a wall-dominating work of art that immerses players within the intrigues and dangers of Absalom, Golarion’s most prominent metropolis.

Inspired by the Absalom: City of Lost Omens hardcover sourcebook, the City of Lost Omens Poster Map Folio presents finer detail than ever before for a city map. Whether playing the Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path, a Pathfinder Society Organized Play scenario, or a game of your own creation, this map serves as the perfect accompaniment to a campaign set in Absalom.

A million fates await the heroes of Absalom, along with approximately the same number of castles, monuments, temples, and taverns. Chart them all in meticulous detail with these gorgeous and gigantic poster maps!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Forest

LOST IN THE WOODS!
The biggest Flip-Mats in history just got bigger! This gigantic map presents a sprawling section of forest on each side— one side dense and primeval with plenty of places for monsters to hide, and the other cut through with a shaded road just perfect for ambushing player characters. Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Forest measures 30" × 46" unfolded and 8" × 10" folded. A Flip-Mat’s coated surface can handle any dry-erase, wet-erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master’s arsenal!

Pathfinder Spell Cards: Secrets of Magic

Harness the untold potential of magic in your hands! This must-have accessory for all spellcasters includes over 200 spell reference cards, covering spells from every tradition and all focus spells from Pathfinder Secrets of Magic. These easy-to-use cards give GMs and players all the information they need to unleash arcane devastation upon their foes!

Starfinder Spell Cards Supplemental

Just like the galaxy, the magic of Starfinder is infinite! Starfinder Spell Cards Supplemental is the must-have accessory for those spellcasting science-fantasy heroes whose knowledge has no bounds. More than 200 spell reference cards, covering a multitude of unique spells found in Starfinder’s hardcovers and Adventure Path volumes, give players instant access to key game details at a glance!

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