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)

OPC Musings

Congratulations on surviving Gen Con, players! I’m assuming, anyway. Like the June update, I’m writing this before Gen Con even begins. What did you think of those new announcements? That Starfinder Second Edition sounds pretty cool! [note to future self: remove this if we don’t announce it so I don’t blow the surprise]

Seriously though, I’m SO excited to finally be able to share all the new information with you all! The new edition of Starfinder, a playtest coming up for Pathfinder, the Remaster on the horizon, and so much more. It’s an exciting time at Paizo HQ! And this blog is chock-full of information, so let’s dive right in.

Digital Adventure Releases

These adventures will be available on August 30, 2023.

Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society Intro: Year of Unfettered Exploration*
Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-02: The Blackwood Lost*

Starfinder Society

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-06: Tomorrow's Seekers*†
Starfinder Bounty #9: Burning Ambitions

*part of a subscription
† released early to Venture Officers to run during the month of August

Convention News

This section usually lives at the bottom of the blog, but there’s some news I wanted to make sure had a prominent place! The OP team’s travel schedule for the rest of 2023 has been locked in. Here’s where you can come out and meet us!

August 18-20: I will be at Dragonflight in Bellevue, WA somewhat unofficially.

September 1-4 (Labor Day weekend): I will be attending Gateway in Los Angeles, CA.

Additionally, Josh Foster will be attending DragonCon in Atlanta, GA!

September 29-October 1: Jessica Catalan and I (as well as possibly others) will be attending SkålCon in Minneapolis, MN. A number of Paizo staffers and freelancers will also be at BigBadCon in San Francisco, though we don't have an official presence.

Finally, and perhaps most newsworthy...

December 1-3: Paizo returns to PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia, PA! Volunteer applications are now open. This convention will be the first chance for you to demo Starfinder Second Edition with a member of the Starfinder team!

We'll also be running acquisition-focused tables of Pathfinder, Starfinder, and for the first time, board game demos of Goblin Firework Fight and Elemental Stones! I'm very excited to be returning to the show. Again, applications are now open, and we’d love to have you join us!

On top of all of these, the fall months are some of our most active for local conventions. These smaller conventions are a great way to meet your local Pathfinder and Starfinder community, so we recommend you check out our convention calendar to find one near you!

Sanctioning Updates

Has anything interesting been released for Pathfinder lately? Probably not, right?

Ah, well, except Pathfinder Rage of Elements. That’s pretty exciting, and it’s now sanctioned for play! Rules are available on the Character Options page, and there are new boons in the Boon Store for some of the Uncommon options.

For Starfinder Society, the Drift Hackers Adventure Path sanctioning documents have finally been uploaded, allowing you to earn credit for playing through the adventures!

Coming up next will be sanctioning for Pathfinder Adventure: Rusthenge and the Sky King’s Tomb Adventure Path, as well as Starfinder Enhanced. Now that we’re on the other side of Gen Con, we’re also going to be spending time working on the rules regarding the new Remastered books, which we hope to have ready well in advance of their release.

Pathfinder Class Playtest

The Pathfinder Rules & Lore team has announced the next class playtest scheduled for September 1! Pathfinder Society will support this playtest as we’ve supported all class playtests using the rules in the Guide to Organized Play. In short: you can build and play characters using the new rules and apply credit to your existing characters as if they were pregenerated characters.

Remember that GM participation in playtests is opt-in. If a GM chooses not to allow characters from a ruleset they’re not familiar with, that’s entirely acceptable! We hope you all enjoy the newest creations from the Rules & Lore team.

Starfinder Second Edition Field Tests

Starfinder Second Edition is coming! In anticipation of the full playtest in 2024, the Starfinder team has begun releasing Starfinder Field Tests. These bite-size PDFs are packed with information on upcoming classes and rules, as well as the design team’s goals and thoughts. You can download the first one at starfinderplaytest.com.

We just want to clarify that for Starfinder Society play, these options are not legal. Once we get closer to the full playtest, we’ll share the specifics of how Starfinder Society will support it. For now, please enjoy the previews and get ready to playtest at our conventions next year!

Pathfinder and Starfinder Society on Foundry VTT

Some exciting news for our Foundry GMs and players!

Starting August 30th, we’ll be giving Pathfinder and Starfinder Society the same premium treatment on Foundry VTT that we’ve been giving our Pathfinder Adventure Paths. Each of these modules will be a one-time purchase that will be updated throughout the season with new content as we release it, and will be available in both a streamlined version that only provides maps and tokens for those who own the PDFs as well as a deluxe version that also includes fully-styled journals containing all of the adventure content. Keep an eye on the Paizo blog for updates!

First Seeker Election

The polls have opened for the Starfinder Society’s First Seeker election! Agents are flocking from around the galaxy to cast their votes. The early polls are in, and the race is neck and neck (and neck and neck)!

While Starfinder Society Scenario #6-06: Tomorrow’s Seekers releases at the end of the month, Venture Officers have been granted early access to maximize your opportunities to play the adventure before casting your vote. We encourage you all to get out and meet the candidates! As it’s repeatable, you can even play it multiple times for credit to get the clearest view of your options. Once you’ve done so, head to paizo.com/firstseeker to cast your vote.

Pathfinder Society Year 5 Updates

With the launch of PFS Year 5 last week, the following updates have gone into effect!

• The changeling versatile heritage is now freely available to all players, due to the Society’s adventures involving the night hag Aslynn.
• More adventurers of uncommon ancestries have joined the Pathfinder Society in the past few years, so the tengu and ratfolk ancestries are also freely available!
• Additionally, in preparation for their inclusion in the upcoming Pathfinder Player Core book, the tiefling and aasimar versatile heritages are freely available to all players.
• Boons for all of the above freely available options have been removed from the Boon Store. Players who previously purchased those boons will have them updated to grant a free use of the resurrection ritual to those characters, as we have done for past ancestries.
• Finally, due to the influx of planar energy throughout Golarion, the geniekin versatile heritage has been reduced to 40 Achievement Points! This boon has also been updated to include the talos and ardandeheritages from Pathfinder Rage of Elements.

Boon Updates

Boon Request Threads

The OP team gets requests all the time for boons for character options. Now that the Boon Store is up and running, I thought it would be best to centralize those requests in one location, so I did that! There are now Boon Request threads for Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society pinned in their respective forums. Feel free to head over to favorite the suggestions you like and add new ones if they haven’t already been posted.

Seeker of Knowledge

Just a note that, now that replays are functional, the Seeker of Knowledge boons in the boon store also now work correctly! Purchasing one of these boons grants your account 4 SFS Replays, one per reputation tier. Players who previously purchased these boons should now see four additional Replays in their account as well.

Retail Incentive Program Updates

Our Retail Incentive Program is designed to help players support the game stores and venues that host our games, often for free, while earning in-game benefits. Over the past year, we’ve heard some recommendations to improve it, and I’m delighted to share the new version of the program now!

You can download PDFs of the rules for Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society now on the Retail Incentive Program page. The major changes are:

• Adding a new “heroic” tier, unlocked when a table spends of $100 or more
• Altering or replacing boons that reduced the gold cost of healing now that those benefits primarily use Achievement Points
• Making the benefits more versatile and/or slightly more useful

Overall, the intention of programs like the RIP and the Accessory Perks is to provide incentives to players and GMs to support our products and venues. The goal is not for these to be hard rules, but to encourage GMs and organizers to adopt a “spirit of the law” reading of any of these programs to ensure all players are enjoying themselves. Thanks to all the volunteers who provided feedback on these revisions!

GM Recognition

Campaign Service Coins

This month, two new Campaign Service Coins were awarded to volunteers by their RVC. We award these coins to members of the community who have gone above and beyond to provide an exceptional program to the community at large. Campaign Coins are awarded based on nominations; if you believe someone in your community is deserving of this award (whether or not they are a Venture Officer), send an email to organizedplay@paizo.com with their name and reasons

Congratulations to:
Bill Tobin, who now holds a campaign coin and OP ID #896
Brad Grinstead (bigrin42), who nows holds a campaign coin and OP ID #897

Until next time - Explore! Report! Cooperate! And unlock the elemental power within you!

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

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!

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

Not going to Gen Con? Save the dates for our Gen Con panels—Thursday August 3^rd thru Sunday August 6^that 10 am Eastern. Tune in live or catch the VODs to learn more about the Remaster project, Pathfinder Rage of Elements, and more!

Releasing today, July 26^th 2023

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Pathfinder Society Scenario 4-16: Dacilane Academy’s First Great Prank War

Exam time has always been stressful for the students of the Dacilane Academy, so J Dacilane has come up with a plan: have a group of Pathfinders help them pull off the first ever Dacilane Academy Great Prank War! Surely nothing can go wrong! However, once a caravan of fey traveling nearby catches a whiff of the chaos, they're more than willing to come and join the prank war—with or without an invitation! It's up to the Pathfinders to calm down the friendly fey, defeat the evil fey that infiltrated the caravan, and ensure that the students have the best prank war ever! Should be easy as pie! (Quick, duck that pie!)

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-05: Unearthing Ulumbia

The Starfinders have vowed to stop the Organization, a mysterious and violent criminal syndicate whose true name remains unknown and whose machinations threaten the lives of millions. Digging into the Organization’s past has revealed an interest in ancient Ulumbia, a long-destroyed civilization from Deepwater Prime with few archaeological remains of value or importance. So why the interest? Travel to Deepwater Prime to unearth the secrets of ancient Ulumbia—a mission destined to drive the Starfinders into direct conflict with important agents of the Organization.

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-17: Trapping the Hag’s Claw

In the conclusion of the Year of Boundless Wonder, the Pathfinder Society and one of the members of the Decemvirate have pieced together a careful plan. Using one of the mysterious items from the vault, the draught of dreams, the Society will lay a trap for Aslynn, catching her via her own greed and desire to control dreams. The plan requires bait though, and Zarta Dralneen has stepped up to prove her loyalty to the Society yet again and finally finish off Aslynn. However, despite their secrecy, she's caught wind of the plan and is ready to overturn it and finally be done with the Pathfinder Society once and for all!

Releasing August 3rd, 2023 at Gen Con, online, and at your FLGS or book store!

Pathfinder Rage of Elements

BRAVE THE ELEMENTS!

Blaze like the sun! Crash like the waves! Rumble like a rockslide! Pathfinder Rage of Elements introduces the kineticist class, gifted with an amazing command over the elements. New spells and items within also provide elemental magic options for all character classes. Explore the majestic Elemental Planes, including two new ones: the wondrous, decaying Plane of Metal and the vast, orderly forests of the Plane of Wood! On top of all this comes a horde of new monsters from all six Elemental Planes, ready to battle adventurers or be summoned by them. Step through a portal to adventure and harness the primordial power of nature with Pathfinder Rage of Elements!

Pathfinder Rage of Elements is also available as a deluxe special edition, bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Pathfinder Adventure Path #193: Mantle of Gold (Sky King’s Tomb 1 of 3)

UNCOVER LOST TREASURES!

Invited to a prestigious storytelling festival in Highhelm, the greatest dwarven city in Golarion, a clan’s eclectic guests explore every corner of the metropolis to build their own legends. Yet when these budding celebrities find a relic linked to one of dwarvenkind’s greatest heroes, they’re drawn into a mysterious and ancient urban intrigue that kicks off a deadly treasure hunt. The Sky King’s Tomb Adventure Path begins with “Mantle of Gold,” a complete adventure for 1st- to 5th-level characters.

Starfinder Adventure: Operation: Seaside Park

SAVE THE DAY!

When a derelict ship infested with dangerous, hostile aliens comes crashing into an amusement park in the heart of the Pact Worlds, it's up to the heroes to protect their planet from the worst the Swarm has to offer! Play as one of five unique heroes battling against a dire threat to the galaxy in an unlikely place. You'll be up against the Swarm, a species of adaptable, bug-like aliens that devour everything in their path. Happy bug hunting, heroes!

This Free RPG Day adventure is available as a FREE PDF, or a print edition for $5.

Pathfinder Adventure: A Few Flowers More

FLOWER POWER!

A hero's work is never done! Especially when strange new plants start appearing in the woods—plants whose presence draws all manner of trespassers eager to take advantage of the sudden, mysterious bounty. But where are these plants coming from, and what sinister development in the heart of the forest does their arrival signify? Could it be the beginning of an invasion from another dimension... or something worse?

This Free RPG Day adventure is available as a FREE PDF, or a print edition for $5.

Starfinder Flip-Mat: Grav Trains

ALL ABOARD!

Sometimes it’s too much of a hassle to prep your starship for takeoff just to fly a short distance across the planet’s surface and land at another starport, where you then have to pay the docking fees—especially when that world has reliable high-speed grav-train travel! And sometimes your heroes are hired to guard precious cargo en route from one settlement to the next. This double-sided map presents a pair of grav-train lines, one with two passenger lines running parallel above a bustling city, and the other with goods in transit through a wasteland. Starfinder Flip-Mats present ready-to-use science-fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Grav-Trains, you’ll be ready for the next time your player characters ride the grav-rails!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Urban Tavern

BARROOM BLITZ!

Pull up a stool in the taproom or take your pick of feast hall seats in this perfect accessory for danger and downtime in any tabletop fantasy campaign! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. Depicting two city-based taverns, this double-sided map makes the perfect place to start your next adventure!

FLIP-MAT CLASSICS

The most popular Pathfinder Flip-Mats in history return! These fan-favorite maps feature versatile adventure settings—city streets, forests, ships, taverns, and more—and now they’re back for a repeat performance. Durable and lavishly detailed, these essential adventure set pieces will bring excitement to your game table for years to come!

Pathfinder Battles: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix

From our friends at WizKids comes a collection of miniatures featuring monsters and characters from the Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure Path!

• Pathfinder Battles: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix - Danger Island Denizens Boxed Set
• Pathfinder Battles: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix - Tournament of Trials Boxed Set
• Pathfinder Battles: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix - Contenders and Champions Boxed Set
• Pathfinder Battles: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix - Syndara the Sculptor, Final Form Boxed Figure
• Pathfinder Battles: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix - Martial Arts Masters Boxed Set

Purchasing Pathfinder Rage of Elements? Remember to take a look at the Core Preview page for a document outlining all of the changes coming with the Remaster in advance of the Pathfinder Player Core and Pathfinder GM Core releases in November.

Note: The Pathfinder Harrow Deck has been delayed and is currently targeted for August. The Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults (5e) has also been delayed.

Browse all our Foundry VTT products here, including the new volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path #193: Mantle of Gold (Sky King’s Tomb 1 of 3)."

Our partners at Archives of Nethys, Demiplane, Fantasy Grounds, Hero Lab Online, and Roll20 are prepping content for the Gen Con release as well—remember to buy your PDFs on paizo.com to get a discount via the PaizoConnect API. Or pay full price on their platforms, sync your account, and get a complimentary PDF on the Paizo Store.

Need some sound to spice up your table? Our partners at Syrinscape have a collection of Pathfinder and Starfinder soundtracks for your home game, streamed games, and more! New this month—Giant Scorpion Battle Music.

Thank you for playing Starfinder and Pathfinder!

Shop the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

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!

OPC Musings

Happy July, everybody! I hope those of you who attended Pride events last month had a lovely time; I certainly enjoyed Seattle Pride. Now, however, is the month of a different sin. Tragically not Sloth, there’s too much to do!

Gen Con is less than a month away! We’ll have over 500 tables of games running in Indianapolis and several hundred sessions online as well. I can’t wait to see the Sagamore filled to the brim once again; Gen Con’s a lot of work, but the dopamine hit is worth it. After that, no rest for the wicked—we’ve got plenty to do this fall between the Pathfinder Remaster, fall conventions, and several other things I’m so close to being able to talk about.

Luckily, this month’s update is much shorter than last month’s! Look out for a blog later this month about the Pathfinder Society rule changes for Year 5, but for now, let’s dive in.

Digital Adventure Releases

These adventures will be available on July 26, 2023.

Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-16: Dacilane Academy's First Great Prank War*

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-17: Trapping the Hag's Claw*

Starfinder Society

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-05: Unearthing Ulumbia*

*part of a subscription

First Seeker Election

Last month we announced the four candidates to be the next First Seeker of the Starfinder Society! If you haven’t checked out the blog already, head over to meet Aurora Everbright, Dr. Heldin Sevaile, Nykiti Lampadephoros, and Sarmak.

On Paizo Live last week I also revealed the campaign posters for the candidates! The art team hit it out of the park with these. Head over to paizo.com/firstseeker to download the posters so you can print them out and plaster them all over your game store’s walls.

The ballot will open on August 3 with the launch of SFS #6-06: Tomorrow’s Seekers at Gen Con. We encourage everybody to play through the scenario as many times as you want before casting your vote! The polls close on October 31, 2023.

Sanctioning Update

We’ve had a busy month in the sanctioning mines! Last month we released sanctioning for The Enmity Cycle, the standalone Pathfinder adventure, as well as Pathfinder Lost Omens Highhelm, the latest infusion of Golarion lore. We also posted sanctioning documents for both A Few Flowers More and Operation Seaside Park, the two Free RPG Day adventures for this year (for Pathfinder and Starfinder, respectively). Remember that after Free RPG Day, these adventures are not permitted to be run for credit until July 25, 2023.

We’ve been hard at work getting Pathfinder Rage of Elements ready for Gen Con, and I think you’ll see it ready for play on the first day of the show! The Stolen Fate and Drift Hackers Adventure Paths are also ready to fly as soon as the sanctioning documents are in my hands, which should be any day now. After that, our focus will turn to the Sky King’s Tomb AP, as well as the twin knockout punches of Starfinder Enhanced and the new Pathfinder Player Coreand GM Core.

GM Recognition

This month, two new Campaign Service Coins were awarded to volunteers by their RVC. We award these coins to members of the community who have gone above and beyond to provide an exceptional program to the community at large. Campaign Coins are awarded based on nominations; if you believe someone in your community is deserving of this award (whether or not they are a Venture Officer), send an email to organizedplay[at]paizo[dot]com with their name and reasons.

Congratulations to:
Joe Blomquist, who now holds a Campaign Coin and Organized Play ID #876
Jeff Stop, who now holds a Campaign Coin and Organized Play ID #877

Conventions

Watch this space next month for what I hope will be some very exciting news on the convention front! I’m not able to discuss it just yet, but we’ve got some big news coming.

Until then, I’ll remind you all that in addition to Gen Con in a little under a month (!!!), there are plenty of local conventions this summer and fall. Check out our Conventions calendar to see where you can find Paizo Organized Play activities!

I told you this month was shorter! Until next time—Explore! Report! Cooperate! And, apparently, gossip?

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

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

Looking forward to more Paizo news? Join us this Friday, June 30^th at 4 p.m. Pacific for the return of Paizo LIVE—our monthly fireside chat show on Twitch!

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Pathfinder Lost Omens Highhelm

DELVE THE MOUNTAIN DEEP!
When the first dwarves reached the surface of Golarion, they constructed enormous keeps to serve as their new home. The mightiest of these keeps was Highhelm, a Sky Citadel built deep within the Five Kings Mountains. While other Sky Citadels have fallen since those ancient days, Highhelm holds strong, serving as one of the major centers of dwarven culture. Delve into Emperor’s Peak to experience Highhelm in all its glory. Learn about everyday life in the city, dwarven culture, and the various clans who influence the Sky Citadel. Explore the city’s layers and surroundings, each featuring mysterious locations and sites of intrigue suitable for a multitude of adventures. Brave heroes and canny adventurers can even visit Highhelm for animal companions, martial training, new equipment, and more! What secrets will you find in the depths of Highhelm?

Pathfinder Lost Omens Highhelm is also available in a faux-leather bound, metallic debossed Special Edition.

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift

A bold crew of adventurers must race to an isolated world to stop a catastrophic war for faster-than-light technology!

In the science-fantasy universe of the bestselling Starfinder Roleplaying Game, five down-on-their-luck mercenaries sign on to help a robotic avatar of the hyperspace dimension bring starship technology to a previously uncontacted planet. But with sinister forces bent on exploiting the new world, it'll take all the heroes' guns, wits, and magic to make it off their space station alive… From Starfinder RPG co-creator James L. Sutter (Pathfinder: Runescars) and artist Edu Menna (Army of Darkness) comes the launch of a brand-new, out-of-this-world adventure!

Featuring playable character stats for Navasi, the iconic envoy, and new character options based on the content of the exciting comic - including a new playable species - all officially sanctioned by the Starfinder Society! The Starfinder RPG Rules Appendix has been written by Alexander Augunas!

Pathfinder Adventure Path #192: Worst of All Possible Worlds (Stolen Fate 3 of 3)

FACE YOUR FINAL FATE!
The defenders of destiny have traveled all over Golarion ....

spoiler

and to the far reaches of reality itself

...in search of the elusive cards from the Deck of Destiny and now possess most of the once-scattered magical harrow deck. Yet unforeseen complications lie in wait, for the gathering of the final cards will be no simple matter... The Stolen Fate Adventure Path concludes with “Worst of All Possible Worlds,” a complete adventure for 18th- to 20th-level characters!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Darklands Dangers Multi-Pack

DANGERS IN THE DARK!
The notorious subterranean Darklands hold as many dangers as they do treasures! Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Darklands Dangers Multi-Pack provides ready-to-use caverns and tunnels for the busy Game Master. Whether heroes are exploring an underground monster’s den, caves riddled with strange fungi, flooded passageways, or sprawling lava tubes, these deadly depths have you covered with four different combat maps in all! With the Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Darklands Dangers Multi-Pack, you’ll be ready the next time your players delve into the darkness!

This set includes two flip mats, each measuring 24" × 30" unfolded, and 8" × 10" folded. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master’s arsenal!

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-03: Project Dawn

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters.
After foiling a vicious robbery, the Starfinder Society is hot on the trail of the Organization, a mysterious and violent criminal syndicate whose true name remains unknown. A team of clever Starfinders are dispatched to the planet Verces to investigate Dayside Inc., a shell corporation with suspected ties to the Organization. Your orders are simple: sneak in, snoop around, and don’t get caught! But intel uncovered at Dayside Inc. hints that the Organization is planning something that will threaten the lives of millions. Who is the Organization? What is Project Dawn? And most importantly, do the Starfinders have time to stop it?

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-15: In Glorious Battle

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 9th- through 12th-level characters.
Though Tar-Baphon’s malevolent presence is thought to be the scourge of Ustalav and the Gravelands, it’s also distinctly felt within the Hold of Belkzen. Belkzen has been preparing for the next assault since the Battle of Nine Broken Skulls, when Tar-Baphon attempted to wipe out Belkzen, making them an example to the rest of Avistan.

However, Belkzen won that battle, with a pivotal role played by the Burning Suns, led by Mahja Firehair. The Whispering Way, though, is patient, and while the orcs won a brief respite, they are not safe. One of Tar-Baphon's chief lieutenants, Geir, is planning a major assault. Mahja learned of this and has called up the Pathfinders for aid. They need her connection to Ardax White-Hair, the overlord of Urgir, and so the Society has sent a group of their very strongest to aid in what is sure to be one of the most intense battles in the Broken Lands.

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-04: Secrets Long Submerged

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 9th- through 12th-level characters.
Thanks to the exemplary work of the Starfinder Society, a team of agents has been invited to Pholskar, planet of the giants, to further investigate the sunken ruins of a fallen sky city. Evidence uncovered by the Starfinder Society on a previous expedition revealed a dark secret that destabilized Pholskar’s political balance. With the backing of progressive bureaucrat Elthel, the Starfinders must navigate this political turmoil to conduct their underwater excavation.

This scenario builds off the events of Starfinder Society Scenario #4-09: Through Sea and Storm. While playing this past scenario enriches the experience of this adventure, it is not required.

Coming soon in July and August, brave the elements with Pathfinder Rage of Elements and uncover lost treasures in Mantle of Gold, the beginning of the Pathfinder Sky King’s Tomb Adventure Path. Preorder or subscribe today!

Note: The Pathfinder Harrow Deck has been delayed and is currently targeted for August.  Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults (5e) has also been delayed.

Time for a status update on some of our core books in the Paizo Store.

• The Pathfinder Core Rulebook, which sold out in January and was restocked in April, is in stock and selling fast. It will not be reprinted but will be remastered into Player Core and GM Core, coming in November 2023! These core books will also be available in Hobby Retailer Exclusive Sketch Covers, which you can ask your FLGS to order for you today!
  • The Pocket Edition of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook is out of stock and will not be reprinted.
• The Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide is currently out of stock. The warehouse kobolds are working their strange magic and may find some stored in some of the warehouse’s deepest corners, but if they do, those will likely sell quickly! Have no fear, though! This content will be remastered as part of GM Core.
• The Pathfinder Bestiary (1) is in stock and will not be reprinted. The content in the Bestiary will be remastered in Monster Core, coming March 2024.
• The Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide was also restocked and we currently have healthy quantities. Remastered content for much of it will be coming in July 2024 with Player Core 2with the notable exception of the witch class, which will be remastered in Player Core 1.
• We are currently sold out of Pathfinder Beginner Boxes, with news on that to come!

Many of these products can still be found at your FLGS or local bookstore, even if we no longer have them in our warehouse.

Browse all our Foundry VTT products here, including the new volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path #192: Worst of All Possible Worlds (Stolen Fate 3 of 3).

Our partners at Archives of Nethys, Demiplane, Fantasy Grounds, Hero Lab Online, and Roll20 have all added these new products to their sites as well—remember to buy your PDFs on paizo.com to get a discount via the PaizoConnect API. Or buy them on their platforms, sync your account, and get a complimentary PDF on the Paizo Store!

Need some sound to spice up your table? Our partners at Syrinscape have a collection of Pathfinder and Starfinder soundtracks for your home game, streamed games, and more! New this month: Umbral Dragon Battle Music.

Thank you for playing Starfinder and Pathfinder!

Shop the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

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

We have two short new adventures with pregenerated characters that are perfect for new players and veterans alike!

Pathfinder Adventure: A Few Flowers More

A Pathfinder Adventure For 4th-Level Characters by Linda Zayas-Palmer

A hero’s work is never done! Especially when strange new plants start appearing in the woods—plants whose presence draws all manner of trespassers eager to take advantage of the sudden, mysterious bounty. But where are these plants coming from, and what sinister development in the heart of the forest does their arrival signify? Could it be the beginning of an invasion from another dimension... or something worse?

In A Few Flowers More, you take on the role of one of four unique leshys—mobile plants who have been granted wills of their own. When word of strange supernatural developments in the depths of the forest comes to light, it falls to you and your friends to take care of things!

A Few Flowers More is a short adventure for 4th-level characters that serves as a sequel to A Fistful of Flowers, yet it can be played on its own. This adventure takes a band of leshy heroes into the very depths of a primeval forest and pits them against a supernatural threat that’s literally out of this world. The four pregenerated characters also provide a quick way to jump into this exciting Free RPG Day offering right away! Grab your friends, grab some dice, and play the role of the forest’s newest heroes!

Starfinder Operation Seaside Park

A Starfinder Adventure for 3rd-level characters by Jenny Jarzabski.

SAVE THE DAY!
When a derelict ship infested with dangerous, hostile aliens comes crashing into an amusement park in the heart of the Pact Worlds, it’s up to the heroes to protect their planet from the worst the Swarm has to offer! Play as one of five unique heroes battling against a dire threat to the galaxy in an unlikely place. You’ll be up against the Swarm, a species of adaptable, bug-like aliens that devour everything in their path. Happy bug hunting, heroes!

Copies will also be for sale and for free PDF download at paizo.com approximately 30 days after the event.

Prep for the next Free RPG Day

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!

OPC Musings

Welcome back to the OP Monthly Update! I know we missed last month, that’s entirely my fault. I was on my honeymoon, and then we announced a little thing called the Pathfinder Core Remaster, and by the time I came up for air, it was already mid-May!

Luckily it’s smooth sailing now, which is a lie, because convention season is in full swing! As I write this blog we’re doing our final preparations for PaizoCon Online. I can’t wait for this show, and I’m so excited for our upcoming shows like UK Games Expo and Gen Con. Not to mention, this fall I’ll be heading to a few local conventions! More on that soon, hopefully. For now, I’ve got a supersized OP update to deliver, so let’s get started.

Digital Adventure Releases

These adventures will be available on June 28, 2023.

Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-15: In Glorious Battle

Starfinder Society

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-03: Project Dawn
Starfinder Society Scenario #6-04: Secrets Long Submerged

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Pathfinder Core Remaster

Last month, we announced the Pathfinder Core Remaster: an overhaul and update of our Pathfinder Second Edition ruleset, a necessary but difficult maneuver given the events of recent months. I am sure that for many of you, the first question was “how will this affect Pathfinder Society?” The short answer is: we don’t know yet! The longer answer is that these books literally don’t exist fully yet; they won’t go to the printer for another month or so. Until they do, we can’t begin to answer these questions.

Rest assured that as soon as we can, the OP team will be diving into the new rule changes to figure out how to make the updates as seamless as possible for the community. For now, I ask for your patience on this topic. There will be many questions to answer in the weeks ahead, but we’ve got a steady hand on the metaphorical tiller.

FAQ and Boon Updates

In the quiet time before convention prep, the Pathfinder Society developers and I had some time to sit down and hammer out some updates to boons available in the boon store, as well as to handle some FAQs for the program. The full updates are available on the FAQ page, but here’s a summary of the changes:

• The Second Chance boon has been updated to indicate that purchasing and using this boon also covers the cost of recovering your body and any lost possessions if necessary. If a character is undead (such as a skeleton), they can use this boon to benefit from a similar ritual to restore themselves to their previously undead state.
• Similarly, an FAQ clarifies that in the event that your character ends a scenario alive but otherwise inaccessible (such as being imprisoned or transported to another plane), the Second Chance boon can be purchased and used to return your character to safety.
• Another FAQ clarifies which version of an item or character option to use in the event the option is reprinted in another book. In short, a hardcover printing of an option is considered the standard option unless otherwise stated. This applies to both Pathfinder and Starfinder Society.
• The Secondary Initiation boon has also been clarified to cover how it handles entry requirements for organizations (it handwaves them as occurring offscreen) and which ranks PCs can choose to be within organizations (anything reasonable is fair game, but no, your PCs are not fourth-mark Firebrands).
• Finally, we have issued one minor clarification to the Magic Arrow feat from the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide, which you can find on the Character Options page as normal.

Starfinder Society Year 6 Updates

Program Changes

SFS Year 6 launched at PaizoCon Online! Hopefully, anyway; I’m writing this before the show, so if a dinosaur attacks, someone let future me know. The following Starfinder species are now considered “always available”: gnoll, hanakan, kiirinta, quorlu, raxilite, shimreen. Players are free to build characters of these species as often as they like; as always, characters with an Admittance Boon for these species gain an additional +2 to one ability score immediately.

The Achievement Point cost for a boon to play a character of the following species has been reduced to 80 Achievement Points: astriapi, cephalume, contemplative, trox, uplifted bear, urog. Meanwhile, the following species are now playable with the purchase of a boon from the online Boon Store: entu colony, huitz’plina, grippli, kitsune, kobold, psacynoid, samsaran, scyphozoan, trinir, and tryziarka.

Finally, a few more boons have been added to the Boon Store! Starfinders who enjoy having a permanent emblem of their position can now purchase the Marked Starfinder boon for 2 AcP after playing at least one session to gain a Society Subdermal Graft. Additionally, characters can now undergo a Training Montage (or Extended Training Montage) to retrain their character’s abilities! These provide more robust retraining options than the previously available mnemonic editor. Full text of these boons, as always, can be found on the Starfinder Society FAQ page.

The Guide to Organized Play: Starfinder Society has been updated with all these changes, as well as a brand-new overhaul and visual upgrade! Incredible thanks to Jared Thaler and Peter Nalepa, both of whom have worked very hard to make the guide more user-friendly and accessible. They’ve created a feedback thread on the forums for comments or questions.

First Seeker Election

Last month we formally announced Starfinder Society #6-06: Tomorrow’s Seekers! This scenario will allow you to meet the four PCs who were selected to vie for the title of First Seeker. You may note my name on the cover as the author; I’m so excited for this adventure and for you all to meet these wonderful colorful characters!

Look for some upcoming blogs where we’ll be revealing the candidates, their platforms, and a bit more about them. Campaign season begins when the ballot opens at Gen Con (August 1–4), and the voting period will close in mid-October. If you want to cast your vote, don’t miss your chance to play the scenario in that two-month period!

Sanctioning

One of the reasons we could get away with missing April’s blog was that it was a pretty quiet month on the release front! Luckily, we’ve got some new toys for you this month!

For Pathfinder Society, this month’s new release is the brand-new standalone adventure, The Enmity Cycle. The sanctioning documents for this adventure are just waiting to be exported; once they are, we’ll be sure to add them to the product page.

On the Starfinder side, the new hardcover rulebook Starfinder Ports of Call has been released and sanctioned for play! Visit the Character Options page for all the details. While you’re there, why not check out the new options from the Drift Hackers Adventure Path, which are also now sanctioned! Chronicle sheets for players and GMs will also be available on the product page for the AP as soon as they’re exported.

Coming up next, we’ll be getting sanctioning documents out for the Free RPG Day adventures (foreshadowing for the next section)! After that, for Pathfinder Society we’ve got the Stolen Fate Adventure Path and Pathfinder Lost Omens Highhelm on the docket, and Starfinder Society will be pretty quiet until the fall!

Free RPG Day

June 24 is Free RPG Day here in the United States! This initiative provides retailers with exclusive access to free RPG products from a number of companies, including Paizo. We have two adventures in this year’s kit: A Few Flowers Morefor Pathfinder and <em>Operation: Seaside Park for Starfinder

If your store is participating in this event, sanctioning documents and chronicle sheets will be available prior to the event! You’ll be able to get credit for your Organized Play characters after participating in these adventures. Free RPG Day is a great way to kickstart a new RPG group at a store, so we encourage you all to head to a participating retailerfor the event!

GM Recognition

At PaizoCon Online last weekend, I awarded three individuals with brand new Campaign Coins and Organized Play IDs. We award these coins to members of the community who have gone above and beyond to provide an exceptional program to the community at large. Campaign Coins are awarded based on nominations; if you believe someone in your community is deserving of this award (whether or not they are a Venture Officer), send an email to organizedplay[at]paizo[dot]com with their name and reasons.

Congratulations to:
Jofiane “Fi,” who now holds a Campaign Coin and Organized Play ID #887
Milan Badzic, who now holds a Campaign Coin and Organized Play ID #888
and Harmeshver “Resh” Singh, who now holds a Campaign Coin and Organized Play ID #889

GM Ranks

Whether stars, novas, or glyphs, achieving a 5 ranking in any program involves a substantial amount of time. To achieve the 5th milestone, a GM must run 150 games, of which at least 50 must be unique scenarios and 10 special scenarios, as well as run between one and three games for Venture-Captains (program dependent). A conservative estimate of the time needed to reach the 5th milestone is 650 hours!

This month, we had one GM earn their 5th Nova for Starfinder Society and one earn their 5th Glyph for Pathfinder Society (second edition).

5th Nova (SFS): Terry T
5th Glyph (PFS2): Tim Munsie (TMun)

Congratulations to our outstanding GMs and volunteers!

Conventions

It’s convention season! As this blog is posted, I’ll be getting ready for my first games at UK Games Expo in Birmingham. It’s my first official trip abroad and I can’t wait to meet our European community! If you’re in the area, come say hi!

We've also announced PaizoCon South Pacific, running from June 30–July 2 in Sydney, Australia! While I won’t be attending (this year...), the Paizo community will be turning out for a great time.

And of course, there are tons of local conventions in your area! Check out our conventions calendar to see what events are happening near you and go roll some dice.

That’s quite enough from me—thanks for sticking with the supersized update. There’s a reason we try to do these monthly! Until next time, Explore! Report! Cooperate! And have a spot of tea!

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

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
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• 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!

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

Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite first launched in 2021, allowing fans of Pathfinder and Starfinder to publish their own adventures and game supplements. Since then, gifted creators have made some very impressive titles and shared their passion for their favorite games with other equally passionate fans. The site has grown consistently since its inception, and we are working together to expand it even more in the coming year.

Infinite Masters, an invitation-only group of Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite designers spotlighted by Paizo, have paved the way for the highest-quality content on both Pathfinder and Starfinder sites.

The Infinite Masters have collaborated and grown not only in numbers but also in talent and creativity. Just see for yourself! The latest products to join the Infinite Masters list include:

• Cooking Unleashed from Connor Berkheiser
• Danger Dossier by Andrew White
• Galactic Magic: The Feats Chapter by Owen K.C. Stephens, Dustin Knight and Sasha Laranoa Harving
• Impossible Lands+ from Derry Luttrell, Tony Saunders, Jamie Trollope, Helen Savore and Ruvaid Virk
• Impossible Paths: Clockwork Clinic from Helen Savore
• Queerfinder Issue 2 from The Gallant Goblin, Alysse Dalessandro, Anne Richmond, Azra Hawthorne, Ben Joah, Grady Wang, Irene D.B., Isabelle Thorne, MicahDraws, Michelle Jones, Shawn Banerjee, Simone D. Sallé, Theo Thourson, and Vanessa Hoskins

Throughout PaizoCon, we will be offering select titles at 25% off across each of our Pathfinder Infinite, Starfinder Infinite, and DriveThruRPG sites, so be sure to grab your favorites — or find a new favorite! — during the sale.

Infinite Masters Helen Savore (she/her), Derry Luttrell (he/him/they/them), Jamie Trollope (he/him), and John Holmes (he/him) will join Roll20's own content developer, Eve Crockett (they/them), on a panel to discuss the program, sharing wisdom and advice based on their experiences so far. Look for them and other outstanding experts in the PaizoCon Discord and ask your burning questions!

In addition, as we announced last year, community creators will soon be able to convert or create content for play on the Roll20 virtual tabletop. Our talented Content Conversion team is actively working to get the first titles up to show you how amazing these Pathfinder and Starfinder titles look on the Roll20 platform.

Finally, we’re excited to announce that Infinite Masters, as of March 2023, can now submit their titles for print-on-demand. We have high hopes for this program, and if it proves as successful as we expect it will, we plan to offer similar services to all Infinite Creators in the future. We print via Lightning Source in black-and-white, standard color, and premium color, in numerous formats and sizes. We can’t wait to see these gorgeous PDFs for print for your tables.

Want to get involved and share your ingenuity? Check out these tutorials and informative  articles on how you can get your products onto the Pathfinder Infinite / Starfinder Infinite marketplace. 

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

But first, it’s not too late to plan to join us online this Friday through Sunday, May 26th–29th, for adventures at PaizoCon Online! Tons of games, Twitch streams, Discord panels, and partner prizes await!

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Starfinder Ports of Call

AT HOME IN THE STARS
Every galactic adventurer needs a place to call home—even if only until their starship is fueled for the next journey. Explore 10 major port cities full of adventure and intrigue, from Drifter’s End on Absalom Station to the chasm city of Precipice on distant Apostae or the theme park planet of Golarion World. Learn about smaller ports as well, like the starship port of Skydock on Verces, or the collection of warships known as Bastion that fend off the Swarm.

Along with all this, Ports of Call also features:

• A map of Desna’s Path, the Starfinder Galaxy.
• Loads of player options, including four new species!
• Expanded downtime rules, new starship options, a cargo subsystem, new NPCs, side job adventures, and much more!

Pathfinder Lost Omens Monsters of Myth Special Edition

RELEASE THE BEASTS!
For every great hero found on Golarion, there lurks an even greater monster. Some of these creatures have earned their notoriety from local folktales and ancient epics. Others built their reputations on the backs of victims, performing acts so horrifying they defy embellishment.

Monsters of Myth presents 20 monsters from all over Golarion. Each entry includes lore on the creature’s place in the world, statistics to use it as an adversary, guidance for including the monster at any level of play, and rewards for heroes who face such a legendary foe!

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Pathfinder Adventure: The Enmity Cycle

YOU EITHER BUILD OR DESTROY
On the cusp of completing a grand project that would wow audiences and build solidarity between the five squabbling cities of the desert nation of Thuvia, a trio of renowned artists suddenly go missing, putting their plans on an indefinite hold. Who could be behind such treachery—and why would such a villain desire an end to art? Explore the Thuvian city of Lamasara as your characters investigate the disappearances and prevent a poisoned performance from shaking the desert nation. Pathfinder Adventure: The Enmity Cycle is a standalone adventure for 4th-level characters that also includes a gazetteer of Thuvia’s five cities, and a selection of new magic and monsters for any Pathfinder campaign.

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: The Enmity Cycle

BREAK THE CYCLE!
Bring your adventures in The Enmity Cycle to life on your tabletop with this double-sided full-color Flip-Mat featuring a spacious desert home and a riverside amphitheater ready for a performance! With this gorgeous map, you’ll be ready to take on the dangers of Thuvia in style!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: The Enmity Cycle measures 24" by 30" unfolded and 8" by 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 Adventure Path #191: The Destiny War (Stolen Fate 2 of 3)

FIGHT FOR YOUR DESTINY!

Spoiler

Now that fate’s defenders have begun to recover the scattered cards of a powerful harrow deck, formidable villains seeking to control destiny itself have taken note. When these foes invade the heroes’ magical domain, it becomes apparent that an all-out war for destiny itself is building.

Can you prevail against the nefarious forces who bring a fury of fiends against you and seek to control the future? The Stolen Fate Adventure Path continues with “The Destiny War,” a complete adventure for 14th- to 17th-level characters.

Starfinder Society Intro: Year of Fortune's Fall is a Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters.

The Starfinder Society travels to Castrovel to attend a museum gala celebrating the grand opening of its latest archaeological exhibit: a showcase of ancient civilizations of the Vast. With artifacts and belongings from the Scoured Stars in tow, the Starfinders prepare an exhibit display, network with esteemed archaeologists and organizations, and enjoy the event. But when a gang of violent thieves interrupts the gala, it’s up to the Starfinders to save lives, preserve priceless artifacts, and bring the thieves to justice!

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-13: Within the Prairies is a Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters.

With permission secured and access granted, a team of Pathfinder agents must escort an ancient star gun to one of the last remaining star gunsmiths, a mysterious figure that hasn’t been seen in several years. The Pathfinders must convince the gunsmith to emerge from hiding and repair the weapon, allowing them to return it to its original home and make connections with a town in Arcadia.

Angered at having been tricked by the Society, a villain watches from afar and plots to attack the group, endangering innocent lives in the process. It’s up to the Pathfinders to defeat her and her forces, ensuring peace within the prairies of Arcadia!

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-02: Drift Scars is a Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters.

The Drift Crisis has ended, but not all has returned to its former equilibrium. Mysterious paths through the Drift, termed "Drift lanes," have emerged, including one near Triaxus. It is this Triaxian navigational anomaly that Fitch, leader of the Wayfinders, tasks the Starfinders with exploring. But a gang of pirates has already claimed the Drift lane as their own and fiercely defend their prize! The Starfinders must deal with this threat, as well as attempting peaceful negotiations with whoever happens to be on the other side of this strange new tunnel through the Drift.

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-14: Shattering Golden Chains is a Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters.

A mysterious genie appears before the Pathfinders as they finish settling into the Sedeq Lodge and asks for assistance in seeing that their former oppressor sees justice. The Pathfinders must infiltrate the home of the genie binder and free the elemental beings that he's bound to his service, then confront him about meddling in the freedom of other beings and trying to overthrow the Pathfinder Society in Qadira. Unfortunately, his powerful benefactor tipped him off, so he's just as ready for the Pathfinders as they are for him!

Starfinder Society Special #4-99: A Time of Crisis is a Starfinder Society Special designed for 1st- through 6th-level characters (subtiers 1–2, 3–4, & 5–6).

While traveling to a distant star system as part of an archaeological mission, a Starfinder Society fleet is forcibly ejected from the Drift. Seemingly stranded on an unknown world, the surviving Starfinders must band together to survive the various threats mounting around them. Can they thrive in this new home, or will they become just another casualty at the start of the Drift Crisis? This adventure can be played for credit twice, each time with a different PC, regardless of level range. Likewise, a GM can apply credit for running this adventure up to two times to a different PC in a level range of their choice.

Starfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Battlefield

WAR ROOM
Make room on your gaming table, because Starfinder Flip-Mats just got an upgrade! Measuring a titanic 30" by 46" when unfolded, this new double-sided map presents not one but two sprawling battlefields. One side features a massive, bombed-out urban battleground, while the other depicts the weathered ruins of an icy combat trench. Both sides are perfect for standard ground warfare or exciting mech vs. mech combat! Starfinder Flip-Mats provide ready-to-use science-fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Battlefield, your player characters’ opportunities to be heroes just got bigger!

Coming soon in June, delve the mountain deep with Pathfinder Lost Omens Highhelm and face your final fate in Pathfinder Adventure Path #192: Worst of All Possible Worlds, the climax of the Pathfinder Stolen Fate Adventure Path. Preorder or subscribe today!

Note: The Pathfinder Harrow Deck has been delayed and is currently targeted for July. The Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults (5e) has also been delayed.

Thank you for playing Starfinder and Pathfinder!

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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

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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.

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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.

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

What’s Warhorn?

Warhorn is an online game scheduling platform. In addition to signing up for games, you can use the Discussion tab to ask questions of your GM or fellow players. Your GM can add links to the sign-in sheet and their VTT ahead of time.

Registering on Warhorn

1. If you haven’t already, create a Warhorn account. Remember the email you used, as the PaizoCon ticket purchase process will ask for this email!
2. Visit the PaizoCon Online 2023 Warhorn.
3. In the upper right corner or on the right side of the screen, click “Register.”

That’s it! You’re now registered for the event. Clearing attendees to sign up for games is a manual process. At least once every 24 hours, we’ll go through and grant the correct permissions to every user who has bought a ticket since our last check, so please be patient!

Once you’re cleared to sign up for games, you’ll receive an email from Warhorn letting you know. In the meantime, you can view the event schedule and plan out what games you’d like to join!

Signing Up for Games

1. Navigate to the listing for the game you want to join.
2. Click “Sign Up to Play” at the top of the player list.
3. For scenarios, you’re now signed up to play! For lottery games, you’ve joined the queue to potentially be selected to play in that game.

Lottery Games

Some of our events run by Paizo staffers or community members are likely to be in very high demand, and we don’t want to limit them to the fastest clickers. As such, we’re designating some games as Lottery Games in their description. Players who are interested in a Lottery Game can sign up as normal before 9am Pacific time on May 15, 2023. On this date, the signups will be closed and the players will be randomly chosen to play. Should any of these players drop, the seat will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you have any questions about the signup process, be sure to drop them in the comments, or head over to the Paizo Events Discord server. We can’t wait to see you at PaizoCon Online!

PaizoCon Online 2023 Team

OPC Musings

Happy spring, everybody! The sun is shining, the birds are singing, or at least I assume they are. I live in Seattle. That’s not how it works here.

We’ve got a busy few months coming up for Organized Play! I’m going on my honeymoon at the end of April, PaizoCon is in less than 60 days, and after that–well, you’ll see. We’re hard at working churning out the next few months of scenarios. I think you’re really going to like what we’ve got planned for you!

Digital Adventure Releases

These adventures will be available on April 26, 2023.

Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-12: Negotiations for the Star Gun*
Pathfinder Quest (Series 2) #14: The Swordlord’s Challenge

Starfinder Society

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-16: To Catch A King*

*part of a subscription

Getting Started Pages

One of the consistent problems we’ve had in Organized Play is that there’s no one-stop overview of how our programs work to give to new players. Well…not anymore! Thanks to some help from Josh Foster, our Organized Play Developer, as well as Maryssa Lagervall and Andrew White on the tech team, I present our brand new Getting Started pages for Pathfinder and Starfinder Society! These pages are intended to give new players everything they need to get started and find their gaming group. We hope you find them useful and informative! If you see any errors or have suggestions for improvement, don’t hesitate to let us know.

Sanctioning Update

This was a big month for Organized Play sanctioning!

Pathfinder Society

For Pathfinder Society, the Gatewalkers Adventure Path recently released its final volume. Chronicle Sheets and sanctioning documents are now available on the store pages.

The big news, of course, is the sanctioning of Lost Omens: Firebrands. As I announced on the forums last week, we’re trying something new by listing the reasons why certain options aren’t permitted in the campaign. This is an experiment to see if the community can handle this feedback without using it as an invitation for debate, or as ammunition against our designers, editors and writers.

Starfinder Society

This month saw the release of the Drift Crisis Case Files! We broke from tradition slightly on this book as well by sanctioning each case file as a double-length scenario. Our hope is that doing so provides organizers with some additional content to be run at events with longer slots or over multiple weeks at a retail location. Let us know how it works for you!

Upcoming

Looking ahead, the next books on our radar are the Drift Hackers Adventure Path and Ports of Call for Starfinder. It’s likely that, due to internal issues, the Drift Hackers AP will see a slight delay from street date, but we should have it (and Ports of Call) ready by PaizoCon Online. On the Pathfinder side, the next adventure release is The Enmity Cyclein May, and we won’t have another hardcover until June with Lost Omens: Highhelm, but right now we’re on track for both of those. We’ll also be working to ensure the documents for the Free RPG Day adventures for both systems are available in time for the June 24 event!

Updates

We’ve also just pushed a couple of minor changes to the Treasure Vault items on the Pathfinder Character Options page. We added a missing access condition to the polytool to bring it in line with Lost Omens: Gods and Magic, permitted the black tendril shot thanks to errata, and removed the cassisian helmet from legality. Any character who purchased the helmet can sell it back for full price.

GM Recognition

Campaign Service Coins

While at GenghisCon at the end of February, I was able to award a Campagin Coin. We award these coins to members of the community who have gone above and beyond to provide an exceptional program to the community at large. Campaign Coins are awarded based on nominations; if you believe someone in your community is deserving of this award (whether or not they are a Venture Officer), send an email to organizedplay@paizo.com with their name and reasons.

Congratulations to:
Zach Armstrong, who now holds a Campaign Coin and Organized Play ID #883

GM Ranks

Whether stars, novas, or glyphs, achieving a 5 ranking in any program involves a substantial amount of time. To achieve the 5th milestone, a GM must run 150 games, of which at least 50 must be unique scenarios and 10 special scenarios as well as run between one and three games for venture-captains (program dependent). A conservative estimate of the time needed to reach the 5th milestone is 650 hours!

This month, we had one GM earn their 5th Star for Pathfinder Society (first edition) and two earn their 5th Glyph for Pathfinder Society (second edition).

5th Star (PFS1): Jerry Wayne
5th Glyph (PFS2): Doug Hahn, Michelle Moniz

Congratulations to our outstanding GMs and volunteers!

Convention News

Convention season is in full swing! Our Convention Calendar is chock-full of events from around the world, and we encourage everyone to go out and support their local shows.

PaizoCon

On the PaizoCon front, tickets for the show went on sale yesterday, and we're excited to see you all! Game signups will begin on April 10 for our GMs and April 17 for all attendees. Make sure to register on our Warhorn beforehand so we can get you set up to sign up!

We’re also excited to be partnering with KublaCon in California for PaizoCon @ KublaCon! If you’re interested in playing in physical space with the community, they’re our exclusive partner for a physical event this year. You’ll be able to play all the new PaizoCon releases, including the Starfinder Special on Saturday morning, and watch the panels from their viewing space. Tickets and hotel rooms are available now on their website, and signups for games are already open on their Warhorn.

Gen Con

This week we began signups for GMs at Gen Con Online 2023! All the information is available in our blog, but GMs will be able to run the new scenarios and be rewarded as if they were attending the event in Indianapolis, all from the comfort of their home! We look forward to seeing you all virtually, we expect a great turnout for our events this year.

For Gen Con Indy, while GM applications are still open, at this stage we may not be able to offer new volunteers badges or hotel rooms. We welcome all GM volunteers, we can always use more people interested in running tables or filling in for last-minute drops!

UK Games Expo

Finally, I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be attending UK Games Expo this year! I’ll be running a few games in our Organized Play space and otherwise just visiting the show to make connections. If you’ll be at the show as well, feel free to reach out, I’d love to say hi to our UK community!

Until next time - Explore! Report! Cooperate! and show your flair with a Pathfinder pin!

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

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

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

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First, in case you missed it, enjoy our new trailer for the Pathfinder Treasure Vaults rulebook, featuring the kobold Purepurin!

Rebels with a cause! The Firebrands are some of the more infamous adventurers across the Inner Sea, filled with braggarts and rebels alike! Pathfinder Lost Omens: Firebrands  and Pathfinder Lost Omens: Firebrands Special Edition  take an in-depth look at the various members of the organization that strives to fight injustice and look good while doing it. It features information on how to join the Firebrands, details on important members of the group, new options for Firebrand characters, and advice for playing campaigns focusing on rebellion or achieving fame!

A Dream is Never Just a Dream! In Pathfinder Adventure Path #189: Dreamers of the Nameless Spires (Gatewalkers 3 of 3) , the gatewalkers’ quest for answers reaches its exciting conclusion when the player characters reunite with [redacted], but the occasion turns sour when they discover sinister [redacted]. The final leg of the party’s quest to unravel their memory gaps and fulfill [redacted] takes them to [redacted], where [redcted] evils await. The Gatewalkers Adventure Path concludes in “Dreamers of the Nameless Spires,” a complete adventure for 8th- to 10th-level characters.

In Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-11: Prisoners of the Electric Castle , after following the signal from a magical key to a remote estate in Ustalav, the Pathfinder Society made contact with a truly unusual being as well as the mysterious Ardis Scholars. Yet the scholars are now in dire straits--thanks to the machinations of a long-time foe of the Society, most of their members have been imprisoned in a flying castle tucked away in the Shadow Plane! It's up to a group of veteran Pathfinder agents to mount a daring rescue. But those agents must tread carefully, or the bizarre castle, infused with nightmares and otherworldly technology, will become their eternal prison.

A FINE ESTATE!
Elegant treasures and political secrets lie within noble estates, making them excellent targets to rob or defend. Regardless of the inclination, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every courtyard or banquet hall. Depicting the ground floor and roof of a noble estate, this beautifully detailed double-sided map, Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Noble Estate , sets the perfect scene for escapades among the elite!

THE EYES ARE ON THE CASE!
Absalom Station: home of the Starstone and bustling heart of the Pact Worlds. Since the Drift Crash, it’s also become a haven for refugees, as well as a lost and found for everything from valuables to loved ones. People would do just about anything to get their lost treasures back. That’s where the Eyeswide Agency comes in. Drift Crisis Case Files tells three stories of intrigue, having the player characters take on the roles of detectives working with the Eyeswide Agency. In this book, you’ll find:

• Three adventures (designed for characters of 3rd–4th, 7th–8th, and 10th–11th levels) intended to be run as a series, plus advice for using these adventures as part of a longer campaign.
• A codex of nonplayer character contacts to add intrigue to your campaign, many of whom the investigators can call on for favors to help close a case.
• New rules and options for characters who want to play psychics, including two new archetypes: psychic detective (sometimes called “headscanners”) and psychic charlatan.

In Starfinder Society Scenario #5-15: Beta Test  a famed demoscene artist and vidgame designer extends an invitation to a team of prestigious Starfinders to beta test his latest full-immersion virtual reality game at a trendy local arcade. Dive into the vibrant virtual world of Tortoiseshell Cove and play as colorful squox intent on nurturing the perfect farm! But when the lines between simulation and reality become blurred, real lives are put on the line.

STEP RIGHT UP! HURRY, HURRY, HURRY, HURRY!
Come test your skills at one of the many carnival games or experience the thrills of a looping hovercoaster moving at full speed! Visit one of the many concession stands to enjoy snack foods from across the galaxy! It’s all here and eagerly awaiting a group of adventurers enjoying a well-earned vacation or investigating a mystery lurking beneath the park’s cheerful facade. This double-sided map features a small carnival midway on one side, and a small section of a much larger (and cleaner) theme park on the other. Starfinder Flip-Mats present ready-to-use science fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Amusement Park, you’ll be ready for the next time your players want to unwind!

Creating a new NPC every time the player characters enter a shop or chat with a local on the street can be a real challenge, but the Starfinder 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!

April’s new game gear will include Pathfinder Lost Omens: Grand Bazaar Special Edition, Pathfinder Adventure Path #190: The Choosing (Stolen Fate 1 of 3), and Starfinder Adventure Path #51: Into the Dataverse (Drift Hackers 3 of 3), so subscribe today!

Thank you for playing Starfinder and Pathfinder!

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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)

Digital Adventure Releases

These adventures will be available on March 29, 2023.

Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-11: Prisoners of the Electric Castle*

Starfinder Society

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-15: Beta Test*

*part of a subscription

Starfinder Society Year 6

The Year of Fortune’s Fall is upon us, Starfinders! This month, Jessica announced the theme for Starfinder Society Year 6, launching at PaizoCon Online at the end of May. When a mysterious and powerful criminal syndicate, dubbed the Organization, enacts a bloody attack within the Pact Worlds, First Seeker Ehu Hadif vows to bring an end to their predations. Yet, this attack is only the opening salvo in a plot destined to doom millions.

It’s up to you to unravel the plans of the Organization and bring the group’s leaders to justice! This Organization has been waiting in the wings for years, but now they must be stopped before it’s too late!

Replays

One of the most-requested features in my time here has been the ability to replay scenarios. Whether it’s because you have another character who would fit perfectly into an adventure or just because you want to help make a table fire, this has been something players and GMs have asked for constantly. I’m delighted to tell you that, thanks to the tireless work of our tech team, this is now possible!

If you check your Organized Play account, you will see that you now have Replays available for Pathfinder Society (both first and second edition) as well as Starfinder Society. Here are the rules governing these Replays, which will be added to the Guide to Organized Play during the next update:

• All players (current and future) start with 2 replays. Current players may have obtained additional replays as a thanks for your patience while we got the system up and running. [1]
• GMs will earn one replay for each GM rank they achieve. Additionally, on January 1st of each year we will run a report to grant GMs one replay per GM rank for each active system. [2]
• Additional replays for PFS2 and SFS can be purchased at a rate of 40 Achievement Points per replay. This cost does not increase over time. Players must purchase a replay prior to completion and reporting of the scenario they are replaying.
• Players must indicate to their GM when they are using a replay. When reporting a replayed scenario, the GM should check the “Consume Replay” box next to the character’s information so they earn full credit for the scenario.
• Players who replay a scenario earn full rewards as a result of their playthrough. They get access to any boons and items on their Chronicle Sheet, as well as gold, XP and Reputation, all subject to the outcome of the scenario.
• Replays are not used when GMing a scenario; GMs will continue to earn table credit and AcP for GMing a non-repeatable scenario.
• Replays can be used on sanctioned content that is scenario-length or shorter, such as One-Shots, non-repeatable Quests and Free RPG Day adventures. Replays cannot be used on long-form content such as standalone modules or Adventure Path volumes.

[1] The formula for additional replays is 2 replays for every 50 games played or GMed in the program prior to February 18, 2023.
[2] This functionality does not exist yet, tech is currently assessing the feasibility of doing so, but I'm confident in our/their abilities. If it is infeasible to do so automatically in a short timeframe I will investigate manual solutions.

As a reminder, per the rules in the Guide to Organized Play, players must inform their GMs when they are replaying a scenario, whether it’s because they are using a Replay or because it is a Repeatable scenario they have played before. Players replaying a scenario should not use metagame knowledge to ruin the experience for first-time players.

GMs are explicitly permitted to limit signups to their tables based on non-discriminatory criteria, such as limiting a run of a scenario to first-time players if they prefer.

We’re also aware of some minor issues with reduced Achievement Points or table credit that occurred as a result of this code update. We’re digging into the exact causes but hope to have fixes rolled out very soon. In the meantime, if you have any questions about incorrect counts of any points, including Replays, don’t hesitate to email orgplayreportingerrors@paizo.com. Thank you for your patience as we made these technical updates, and enjoy the new Replays!

Starfinder Errata Updates

Last month, the Starfinder team announced a host of new errata and updates to the core Starfinder rules. Any rule changes like this are always considered to apply immediately to Starfinder Society play, so these changes are now in effect at our tables.

Additionally, some of these changes address the initial reasons we did not allow certain character options for play in Starfinder Society. We’re pleased to announce that the following options are now legal in Starfinder Society play:

• Starfinder Armory: all garottes and vibrogarottes
• Starfinder Pact Worlds: mature xenolash
• Starfinder Drift Crisis: thasphalt blaster
• Starfinder Interstellar Species: Devastating Throw, Draconic Shot, Hurl Ally, ink gland augmentation, linnormling creature companion
• Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path: Zeitgeist mystic connection

The Starfinder Society Character Options page has been updated to reflect these changes, as well as to remove some additional clarifications that are now part of the core rules.

Sanctioning

Last week, with the release of Treasure Vault, we sanctioned the options for Pathfinder Society play! Delve into the vaults and discover your new favorite items! Sanctioning is posted on the Pathfinder Society Character Options pageas usual, and boons are available in the Boon Store.

This month, we’ll be taking a look at Lost Omens: Firebrands and the Drift Crisis Case Files for Starfinder, with the goal to get sanctioning for both ready for street date.  After that, while we prepare for Starfinder Ports of Call in May, we’ll be working on the Drift Hackers and Gatewalkers Adventure Paths.

GM Recognition

GM Ranks

Whether stars, novas, or glyphs, achieving a 5 ranking in any program involves a substantial amount of time. To achieve the 5th milestone, a GM must run 150 games, of which at least 50 must be unique scenarios and 10 special scenarios, as well as run between one and three games for venture-captains (program dependent). A conservative estimate of the time needed to reach the 5th milestone is 650 hours!

This month, we had one GM earn their 5th Star for Pathfinder Society (first edition).

5th Star (PFS1): Gregg Homerding

Until next time - Explore! Report! Cooperate! and enjoy revisiting some favorite scenarios!

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

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.

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

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Venture Into The Vault!
Pathfinder Treasure Vault reveals the glittering hoard of a terrifying dragon, as presented by the creature's plucky kobold assistant. This 224-page hardcover rulebook presents a catalog of new gear from nearly every category of equipment and magic item available in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game while introducing entirely new categories of items. Give your character the perfect tool for the job with signature weapons, customizable relics, and wondrous items to fit your every need while preparing for any eventuality with potions, elixirs, wands, and more!
—Pathfinder Treasure Vault back cover text

Pathfinder Treasure Vault is part of the Pathfinder Rulebook subscription, and Pathfinder Treasure Vault Special Edition is part of the Pathfinder Special Edition Rulebook subscription. The Pathfinder Treasure Vault Pocket Edition is a non-subscription offer.

The Gatewalkers Adventure Path continues with Pathfinder Adventure Path #188: They Watched the Stars (Gatewalkers 2 of 3), part of the Pathfinder Adventure Path subscription. Get started with the free Player’s Guide PDF! Also available for Foundry VTTs!

After they walked through that glowing gateway, nothing was ever the same. A band of characters become paranormal investigators in order to figure out the cause of a global amnesic episode. Their quest takes them to lands near, far, and outside reality altogether. Along the way, the characters meet fellow "gatewalkers," defeat alien monsters, and explore strange realms also touched by the so-called Missing Moment. And when it comes time to learn the grim truth of what happened to them on that fated summer night, what then?

The Starfinder Drift Hackers Adventure Path is the exciting conclusion of the Drift Crisis in which faster-than-light travel breaks down, and the galaxy is thrown into chaos. Go from 7th to 13th level as you travel into the dataverse to save the Pact Worlds!

None of you are strangers to adversity. You’re all veterans of adventure to some degree—not yet legendary heroes of myth whose names are whispered throughout the galaxy, but far from novices taking their first few steps into a wider world. However, like the rest of the galaxy, none of you has dealt with such a wide-reaching catastrophe as the Drift Crisis. Several months have passed since the Drift Crash began the upheaval, and speculation has run rampant on infospheres throughout the Pact Worlds and Veskarium about its causes and remedies. Will answers ever emerge? Can the Drift be restored to what it once was? Or are these throttled Drift travel times and constant interruptions in communications and shipping the new normal for every sapient being that relies on this form of faster-than-light travel?

—From the free Starfinder Drift Hackers Player’s Guide PDF

Starfinder Adventure Path #50: Clockwork Demons (Drift Hackers 2 of 3) part of the Starfinder Adventure Pathsubscription.

The Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse Special Edition is part of the Pathfinder Lost Omens Special Edition subscription. It’s a gorgeous addition to your bookshelf and another way to enhance your Strength of Thousands Adventure Path experience.

The Pathfinder Society subscription’s most recent offerings are Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-09: Killer in the Golden Mask and Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-10: Arclord's Abode, both in PDF only!

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-14: Ghost Level Delve is part of the Starfinder Society subscription.

This month we have two other non-subscription offers—Starfinder Bounty #7: Voyage on the River Betweenand Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Winter Forest.

Read the February 2023 Organized Play Scenario Previews blog for the exciting details of the new adventures, including a Bounty that gives you a one to two hour taste of Starfinder, even if you don’t yet play in the Starfinder Society. They are available to play for free at participating local game stores!

Plan the future of your games with our Release Schedule, with products listed month-by-month, along with associated subscriptions.

Explore our Paizo Subscriptions and see what we’re releasing up to 9 months away. Like crowdfunding campaigns, by committing in advance, subscriptions help us estimate print runs, so we offer you a complimentary PDF. Ownership of a digital product lets you use our Paizo Connect system to sync with our digital partners—who can then also offer a discount on their products and services. If you’re interested in multiple subscriptions, you can save more with our Paizo Advantage offering.

The next hot batch of new releases will occur on March 29, 2023 and include Pathfinder Lost Omens: Firebrands, Starfinder Adventure: Drift Crisis Case Files, Starfinder Deck of Endless NPCs and the climactic Pathfinder Adventure Path #189: Dreamers of the Nameless Spires (Gatewalkers 3 of 3)!

Thank you for playing Starfinder and Pathfinder!

Shop the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

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Adventures Ahead!

Aaron Shanks,
Director of Marketing
Paizo

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

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Isis Wozniakowska (she/her)

Hey all, Isis Wozniakowska here, I wrote Starfinder Society Scenario #3-21 and #5-04 as well as the upcoming Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-10, and I've done work for Pathfinder Secrets of Magic, Pathfinder Dark Archive, Starfinder Interstellar Species, and more to come.

I got into this whole TTRPG writing thing by answering an open call for writers of color, which is not the kind of thing I can advise when a lot of people I know ask me how to get into this. It's something I think about a lot, how I sometimes feel like I've gotten more chances as a writer lately because I can answer these specialized calls for people who come from specific backgrounds. It's taken me months to come to terms with that possibility of having my own privileges recently as the creative world tries to diversify its talents. And it's been especially complicated for me as someone who spent her formative years living with a white European father in a nicer city than people with my skin color often do.

But I think these days I've finally learned that these opportunities are important because they're the kinds of opportunities that my mother's family couldn't have had years ago, and that my dad as an immigrant never had the luxury of being offered either. So I'm here, I'm creating fantasies and cultures in a world as diverse as our own. And I'm proud to call myself a Black writer or a Mixed writer or whatever other adjectives need to be thrown in front of there to remind myself that I'm here building a name for myself and my family going forward. And I can be proud of the fact that I get to have opportunities that people like myself would have never had in generations before me.

If you want to find more of me, my Twitter is a @wozenstein, and you can always keep an eye out for more Paizo work from me in the future.

Shan Wolf (he/they)

Hi everyone, I am a freelance game designer and contributing author on both the Pathfinder and Starfinder lines. My credits include Starfinder Bounty #4: Poacher’s Prize, the Adventure Toolbox for book 1 of the Starfinder Drift Hackers Adventure Path, the Starfinder Ports of Call hardcover, the Adventure Toolbox for book 2 of the Strength of Thousands Adventure Path, and the upcoming Lost Omens Highhelm sourcebook. My primary focus as a writer is in Black and Indigenous liberation narratives, monster creation, archetype creation, history and lore, and writing revolutionary and inherently anti-colonialist themes.

Besides all that, I am a huge Pathfinder and Starfinder booster. I love these games as they help bring to life amazing fantasies about being heroes and saving the world, or universe, and that is always something I’m interested in doing, or just talking about in general.

If you’re interested in my work, or hearing my views, feel free to take a look at my twitter @Fenrirs_Chosen and you will see an outspoken and passionate advocate for Black liberation, and making the tabletop space more open, safe, and inclusive.

Erin Roberts (she/her)

Happy Black History Month, y'all! I'm Erin and in addition to being a prose writer and a creative writing teacher, I've been a freelancer for Paizo for a couple of years—how time flies! I've written for a few Lost Omens books, bringing things like Impossible Cake (Pathfinder Lost Omens Grand Bazaar), the Tunwalkers (Pathfinder Lost Omens Knights of Lastwall), reflections on time from the Ladies of Shadow tea and assassination guild (Pathfinder Lost Omens Travel Guide), and a look at the artists and buildings of Golarion (Travel Guide) to their pages. I've also had fun in space, writing a bounty (Starfinder Bounty #3: A Green Place) and adding to vlaka lore (Starfinder Interstellar Species).

Outside of the Paizoverse, I’ve written for D&D (Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel), World of Darkness (Hunter: The Reckoning Fifth Edition) and several awesome 3PP and indie projects (including Anansi’s Tapestry of Lives and Moonlight on Roseville Beach). What’s next? I’m a game writer for a future Foundry VTT project and you can catch my freelance work in projects like Pathfinder Lost Omens Firebrands, Pathfinder Lost Omens Highhelm, and other fun places not yet revealed by the mythical powers that be. I also chat with a bunch of writing folks every week as one of the hosts of the Writing Excuses podcast, new every Sunday. I usually share whatever shenanigans I'm up to next on Twitter at @nirele, so feel free to follow me there!

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!

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

You will find our Release Schedule here, with products listed month-by-month, along with associated subscriptions. It’s a great way to plan the future of your games.

Also, you can explore our 14 Paizo Subscriptions and see what we’re releasing up to 9 months out. Like crowdfunding campaigns, by committing in advance, subscriptions help us estimate print runs, so we incentivize you to subscribe with a complimentary PDF. Ownership of a digital product lets you sync with our digital partners, who can then also offer a discount on their products and services. If you’re interested in multiple subscriptions, you can save more with our Paizo Advantage offering.

Subscriptions are important us, but so are game and bookstores, and we know they’re important to you, too. We already have a great list of retailers who’ve opted into our Where to Buy page, but now is a great time to help the list grow! Feel free to ask your favorite local game or bookstore about their programs and see if they’re interested in joining our list.

So, what’s new? You can find the list of New Physical Product Releases in January in our Forum Announcements channel. These announcements happen monthly and let you know when your card will be charged and when shipping starts. By the way, we now take American Express and are exploring non-credit card options.

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We currently have an Open Gaming Sale offering 25% off print copies of the Pathfinder Beginner Box, Pathfinder Core Rulebook 2nd Edition (4th printing with errata), and Pathfinder Core Rulebook Pocket Edition to help you get started with the Pathfinder RPG. Don’t miss the free PDF copy of the Lost Omens World Guide to help you get to know our setting. Simply add the PDF to your cart and use discount code OPENGAMING at checkout. Offer valid through midnight PST, January 25, 2023

This month we have two special non-subscription offers— Pathfinder Adventure Path: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix and Pathfinder Adventure Path: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Special Edition. These are hardcover compilations of the original three-volume campaign that takes your party from level 11 to 20 as you compete in the Ruby Phoenix Tournament!

The Pathfinder Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Battle Cards are also available as 4" x 6" sturdy printed cards and a digital version. This product is also part of the Pathfinder Accessories Subscription.

In the Pathfinder Rulebooks Subscription, the paranormal-themed Pathfinder Dark Archive, with the popular new psychic and thaumaturge classes, is available if you subscribe now! And next month, you can “venture into the vault” with Pathfinder Treasure Vault! This 224-page hardcover rulebook presents a hoard of new gear from nearly every category of equipment and magic item available in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, while also introducing entirely new categories of items!

The Pathfinder Lost Omens Special Edition Subscription is a relatively new offering that catches up on previously released setting hardcovers. These deluxe special editions are bound in faux leather with metallic debossing and a bound-in ribbon bookmark! Pathfinder Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide Special Edition with geniekin, androids, kitsune, sprites, and more, is the new release this month. You can look forward to Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse Special Edition next month.

Paizo was founded on our Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscription and we’re excited that Pathfinder Adventure Path #187: The Seventh Arch (Gatewalkers 1 of 3) is now available! The Gatewalkers Adventure Path starts at level 1 and is a three-part monthly campaign in which a team of paranormal investigators unravel the mystery behind a mass amnesic episode which left them with lost memories and strange powers. The adventure continues with the Pathfinder Adventure Path #188: They Watched the Stars (Gatewalkers 2 of 3) next month. This Adventure Path is intended to have Foundry VTT support at the time of writing this blog. Download the free Player’s Guide PDF and get started building characters today!

But wait, there’s more! This month, the Pathfinder Society Subscription offers the Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-08: Battle for Star's Fate and the Starfinder Society Subscription offers Starfinder Society Scenario #5-13: Finding the Forgotten. These PDF-only adventures are perfect for a solid one-shot gaming session, regardless of whether you officially join Organized Play. But officially joining is a great deal! Retailers who host Organized Play get all the Quests, Bounties, and Scenarios for free—so bring your friends and get the goods!

Pathfinder Maps Subscription has the Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Alien Ruins and the Starfinder Maps Subscription has the Starfinder Flip-Mat: Basic Terrain Multi-Pack. These rugged maps offer inspiring location art, great for any TTRPG! Investing in them will create a lifetime of adventure (though we’re not responsible to TPKs).

While they don’t have new releases this month, don’t miss the Pathfinder Lost Omens, Pathfinder Battles, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Accessories, and Starfinder Adventures product lines. Go into Exploration Mode and find your path to friendship and adventure with open gaming products from Paizo!

Thank you for playing Starfinder and Pathfinder!

Shop the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

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Adventures Ahead!

Aaron Shanks,
Director of Marketing
Paizo

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.

OPC Musings

Well would you look at that number at the top, it’s already 2023! Don’t forget to date your checks correctly, I know I’m forever scribbling out the previous year for the first month or so.

I’m very excited for what’s coming in 2023. Obviously we have some fantastic products coming down the line, but I’m even more excited about the future of Organized Play. We’ve got two great metaplots in the works for you, and we’re going to be working hard to make the program even better this year. It’s a new year and we’ve got a lot to talk about already, so let’s dive right in!

Digital Adventure Releases

These adventures will be available on January 25, 2023.

Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-08: Battle for Star's Fate*

Starfinder Society

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-13: Finding the Forgotten*

*part of a subscription

Pathfinder Core Rulebook Errata

Earlier this week, the Rules & Lore team announced a new errata policy, as well as posting some new changes to the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. Obviously these changes are going to affect Pathfinder Society play, so here’s how to handle them:

• All new rule changes in the 4th printing of the Core Rulebook are in effect immediately.
• Dust of disappearance has been made uncommon. Any character who previously purchased the item may keep it. It will be added to the Avid Collector - Core Rulebook boon for future purchases and characters.
• The horse animal companion rules have been updated, and apply immediately. Any character who no longer wants a horse animal companion may freely change their animal companion to a new animal. Retraining out of an animal companion entirely follows the normal rules for retraining.
• The alchemist class updates provide a number of changes and upgrades. Any alchemists built under the old rules can freely retrain their research field and any feats except those that specifically prohibit doing so (such as lineage feats). Any items purchased with gold can be sold back for the full purchase price. Retraining out of the alchemist class entirely can only be done with the normal retraining rules.
• The Core Rulebook now allows all characters to take two free ability boosts instead of the printed options for their ancestry. Newly created characters in Pathfinder Society may use this rule; previously built characters may not unless they rebuild the character from scratch with a boon.
• However, to retain the legality of numerous existing characters, the Pathfinder Society campaign will continue to offer the Voluntary Flaws optional ruleset and retain the text within the Guide to Organized Play.

Once again, these changes go into effect immediately. Please let us know if you have any questions or if we missed any updates that you’re not sure how to handle!

The Replacement of Ehu Hadif

This is your final reminder that if your character is interested in becoming the new First Seeker, time is running out! The deadline to purchase the First Seeker Candidate boon and send in your information is January 16, 2023. This is a hard deadline; after this date, submissions will be closed and we’ll begin to review the candidates and make decisions.

Toys of Boundless Wonder

Last month, multiple regions and local game stores came together for our Toys of Boundless Wonder event to play games and boost donations for Toys for Tots. The event was a smash success, with over 60 tables during the two-week event and 18 simultaneous tables playing this year’s Pathfinder Society Special! There’s a full writeup on the League of Aroden site, which I encourage you all to check out, but I wanted to include some photos here. Stay tuned for details on next year’s event!

Left to Right, photos taken by Ryan Youngbar and Trevor Peryea

Left to Right, photos taken by Patrick McElfresh and Zach Davis

Sanctioning Update

Last month, we posted boons to unlock various character options from the Blood Lords Adventure Path! Your characters can now take the Ashes mystery, cast new and horrifying spells, and more! We also updated the text of the Undead Companions boon from Pathfinder Book of the Dead to incorporate some undead companions from this Adventure Path. The full text of these boons is, as always, available on the Pathfinder Society FAQ page.

Looking ahead, the next two projects on our radar are the Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure Path compilation, as well as Pathfinder Treasure Vault. Right now we’re on track to have sanctioning for both books available on their release!

GM Recognition

GM Ranks

Whether stars, novas, or glyphs, achieving a 5 ranking in any program involves a substantial amount of time. To achieve the 5th milestone, a GM must run 150 games, of which at least 50 must be unique scenarios and 10 special scenarios as well as run between one and three games for venture-captains (program dependent). A conservative estimate of the time needed to reach the 5th milestone is 650 hours!

This month, we had one GM earn their 5th Glyph for PFS2. Congratulations!

5th Glyph (PFS2): Bill Tobin

Conventions

With a new year comes new conventions! Our convention calendar is already looking rather full in January, and February and March are starting to fill out as well. Check it out and see if there are any conventions in your area to play Pathfinder and Starfinder Society!

I’m also pleased to announce two more conventions where I’ll be making an appearance!

First, I’ll be attending DunDraCon in Los Angeles, California, from February 17¬–20. It’s my first official trip to California and my first time in Los Angeles, so I’m excited to spend Presidents Day with our LA lodge!

After that, I’ll immediately be heading to Denver for GenghisCon the next weekend, February 23–26! The Mile High City is host to one of the Great Plains’ premiere conventions, and both Tonya Woldridge and I will be attending.

If you’re in the area of either of these shows, I encourage you to come out and say hi! Visiting local shows is one of my favorite parts of my job, and it’s wonderful to see the various communities come together.

Finally, for those of you eager to volunteer at Gen Con or PaizoCon this year, come back to the blog next week for some more news…

I’ll see you next week for more! Until then—Explore! Report! Cooperate! And have fun in the desert!

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

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.

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

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Starfinder Roleplaying Game

Starfinder Adventure Path #49: A Light in the Dark (Drift Hackers 1 of 3)

Author: Jessica Catalan
Cover Artist: Rodrigo Gonzalez Toledo

GLOOM AND DOOM
As the Drift Crisis continues, the heroes arrive at the Drift city of Alluvion only to find it dangerously unstable, both physically and politically. By agreeing to aid a desperate android priest of Casandalee, the heroes can help heal these divides. To do so, they must venture into a cursed part of the city where technology fails in order to restore light and power to the area.

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume begins the Drift Hackers Adventure Path and includes:

• “A Light in the Dark,” a Starfinder adventure for 7th-level characters, by Jessica Catalan.
• A player’s guide for this Adventure Path, with advice on making characters perfect for bringing an end to the Drift Crisis, by Joseph Blomquist.
• A toolbox featuring a look at Alluvion during the Drift Crisis, a treatise on cybernetic enhancements that includes new augmentations and feats for those who use them, a collection of interesting creatures, and a travelling satellite that helps androids live again, by Joseph Blomquist, Jessica Catalan, Alison Cybe, Andrew Geels, and Shan Wolf.
• Statistics and deck plans for a reliable exploratory starship, by Jessica Catalan.

Stay up to date, get a complimentary PDF, and help qualify for the Paizo Advantage discount with the Starfinder Adventure Path Subscription.

Learn more in the free Drift Hackers Player’s Guide.

Learn more about the Drift Crisis in which faster-than-light travel breaks down and the galaxy is thrown into chaos.

Starfinder Bounty #6: Songbird Rescue

A Starfinder Bounty designed for 1st-level characters written by Nicole Heits. Art by Alecksander Ribeiro.

Among the hand-built altars to forgotten and dead deities that cover the surface of the airless moon of Yashu-Indiri, a servant of a murderous god turns shrines into deathtraps and harnesses fell magic to drag down passing starships. When these engineered accidents cause a priestess of Shelyn—vanished goddess of art, love, and beauty—to go missing on a trip to Yashu-Indiri, a team of heroes is sent to locate and rescue her. If these heroes aren’t careful, they’ll be the next lives claimed in this grim harvest.

Starfinder Bounties are a limited run of short, entry-level, PDF-only adventures designed to get you playing Starfinder quickly. They are easily dropped into existing campaigns. While the content is sanctioned for use in the Starfinder Society Organized Play program, you don’t have to be in the program to enjoy them!

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-12: Envar's Expeditions

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters written by Kendra Leigh Speedling. Art by Luiz Lanzarin.

Take a tour of Near Space on the trail of Envar Tamm, star of the extreme travel v-log series Envar’s Expeditions. Ordered to save Envar and bring him home to his mother, the Starfinders track Envar’s digital data tags to exciting, over-the-top travel destinations to find and assist the thrill-seeking influencer. Survive a colossi-safari on Daimalko, outrace a storm on Gaskar III, mingle with the local brenneri on picturesque Varturan, and more! This is one vacation you’ll never forget!

Stay up to date with the Starfinder Society Scenario Subscription.

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Pathfinder Society Guide Special Edition

THE NAME OF THE GAME!
Founded over 400 years ago, the Pathfinder Society has witnessed—and influenced—some of the most pivotal events for the Inner Sea region and beyond. Throughout it all, Pathfinder agents have held to their iconic adventuring creed: Explore, Report, Cooperate!
The Pathfinder Society Guide throws open the gates on one of the biggest adventuring associations on the world of Golarion. Ally with these intrepid scholars, oppose them with the help of their many foes, or join them to seek the heights of fame and glory within the pages of the Pathfinder Chronicles!

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Stay up to date, get a complimentary PDF, and help qualify for the Paizo Advantage discount with the Pathfinder Lost Omens Special Edition Subscription.

Also available at Pathfinder Nexus.

Pathfinder Adventure Path #186: Ghost King’s Rage (Blood Lords 6 of 6)

Author: Jessica Catalan
Cover Artist: Natasha Nanook

RAGE AGAINST SHADOW
The newest Blood Lords have discovered who’s behind the conspiracy that threatens the nation. The ghost king Geb wants this traitor destroyed. The player characters must venture to the Boneyard to discover the location of the traitor’s realm, a place of shadowy horror and mind-bending reality! The Blood Lords Adventure Path concludes with “Ghost King’s Rage,” a complete adventure for 18th- to 20th-level characters.

Stay up to date, get a complimentary PDF, and help qualify for the Paizo Advantage discount with the Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscription.

Learn more in the Blood Lords Player’s Guide.

Also available at Pathfinder Nexus and Foundry VTT.

Pathfinder Abomination Vaults Battle Cards

Delve Deep!
What untold horrors await in the sprawling megadungeon of the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path? This box contains 200 cards detailing every creepy aberration, sneaky hunter, and subterranean horror. Each card features a beautiful, full-color image on one side and that creature’s statistics on the other for quick and easy reference. Show your heroes what they’re facing while keeping the stats you need close at hand!

Stay up to date, get a complimentary PDF, and help qualify for the Paizo Advantage discount with the Pathfinder Accessories Subscription.

Pathfinder Bounty #21: Against the Unliving

A Pathfinder Bounty designed for 3rd-level characters written by Sen H.H.S. Art by Sebastian Rodriguez.

The squire of a long-dead knight asks for the help of heroes in investigating the site of their master’s death. A bleak island awaits the heroes, now inhabited by the dead and undead alike. It’s up to the PCs to retrieve mementos of lost knights and lay to rest any lingering spirits on the island.

Pathfinder Bounties are a limited run of short, entry-level, PDF-only adventures designed to get you playing Pathfinder quickly. They are easily dropped into existing campaigns. While the content sanctioned for use in the Pathfinder Society Organized Play program, you don’t have to be in the program to enjoy them!

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-07: A Most Wondrous Exchange!

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 5th- through 8th-level characters written by Kendra Leigh Speedling. Art by Wassim Adkhal.

It's time for a trip to the Grand Bazaar of Absalom! This thriving market hosts wondrous shops of all sorts, whose proprietors are experts in a variety of wares. Having recently acquired a vast number of strange magic items, the Pathfinder Society needs groups of agents to visit the Grand Bazaar and exchange favors with these interesting shopkeepers in order to better understand some of the treasures that have fallen into the Society's hands. Thankfully, the Society's new ally, Biglock, has a good idea of where to start!

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Testaments to both the stubbornness of architects and the power of nature, swampland ruins fall quickly but linger long. Be they abandoned and slowly sinking villages or remote, deteriorating fortresses in the wetlands, the ruins featured on this Flip-Mat no longer serve as castles or citadels. Now, only monsters dwell within! Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Swamp Ruins measures 24" × 30" 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!

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

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Starfinder Galactic Magic

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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!

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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)

OPC Musings

Happy Kuthona, players! Whether you celebrate Winter Week, First Choices, Crystalhue, Renewal or any other holiday, this time of year is one to gather with friends and family (safely) and enjoy the holidays. I hope you’re all looking forward to your favorite holiday traditions!

This month’s update may be a quiet one, but I assure you that we’re anything but quiet behind the scenes. We’ve started planning for 2023 conventions and over the past couple of weeks, I’ve also heard the pitches for the new seasons of Pathfinder and Starfinder Society. I think you’re all really going to like what we have planned for next year!

I don’t think I have another blog where I get to talk to you all directly before the holiday break, so before I go, let me just say: thank you all so much for your support of our games. We love what we do, each and every one of us, and I’m so lucky that my job puts me in such close contact with our community. I get to hear stories from your tables and experience firsthand the joy that gaming brings. I hope you all have wonderful gaming plans for the holidays, and that your cup runneth over in the new year.

Digital Adventure Releases

These adventures will be available on December 14, 2022. Note the early date due to the holidays!

Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-07: A Most Wondrous Exchange!*

Pathfinder Bounty #21: Against the Unliving

Starfinder Society

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-12: Envar’s Expeditions*

Starfinder Bounty #6: Songbird Rescue

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The Replacement of Ehu Hadif

For those of you with Starfinder Society characters interested in becoming the new First Seeker, time is running out! The deadline to purchase the First Seeker Candidate boon and send in your information is January 16, 2023.

We’ve got quite a few candidates already, but the more the merrier! We welcome all entries and look forward to hearing about your characters.

PaizoCon Online 2023

Prior to Thanksgiving, we announced that PaizoCon 2023 will be an online-only event. We’re already hard at work planning the show, but we’re looking for attendee feedback on what you’d like to see next year! Please head over to last week’s blog post and drop your thoughts in the comments.

I can already tell you that we’ll be premiering our new Starfinder Society season and interactive special, as well as launching some new Pathfinder Society content as well. We’re looking forward to Memorial Day weekend!

Sanctioning Update

November was a very busy month for us, with major releases across both our product lines.

For Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands is now sanctioned for play! The new ancestries are available in the boon store and the options are listed on the Character Options page. Next on our radar is reviewing the character options from the Blood Lords Adventure Path, which we hope to add via boons in the boon store. We’re also starting the process of sanctioning Pathfinder Treasure Vault, which has set a record for “most individual character options in a single book” for this edition.

One note on the Impossible Lands sanctioning: we initially listed the kashrishi’s Community Knowledge feat as Restricted. However, the community pointed out that it’s identical to the android’s Nanite Surge feat, which is legal, so we’re changing Community Knowledge to be legal as well.

Over in the Pact Worlds, Starfinder Interstellar Species is now sanctioned for use in Starfinder Society play! Enjoy the new evolutionist class as well as new options themed around 25 fan-favorite species with the sanctioning on the Character Options page. Additionally, Starfinder Adventure To Defy the Dragon is now sanctioned for credit! Players and GMs earn one level of credit for playing this adventure.

GM Recognition

GM Ranks

Whether stars, novas, or glyphs, achieving a 5 ranking in any program involves a substantial amount of time. To achieve the 5th milestone, a GM must run 150 games, of which at least 50 must be unique scenarios and 10 special scenarios as well as run between one and three games for venture-captains (program dependent). A conservative estimate of the time needed to reach the 5th milestone is 650 hours!

This month, we had one GM earn their 5th Glyph for PFS2.

5th Glyph (PFS2): Emese Kollár

Until next time, Explore! Report! Cooperate! And stay warm out there!

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

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!

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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.

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

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Starfinder Roleplaying Game

Starfinder Interstellar Species

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 to uncover all-new cultures, histories, and character options—but also 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 how to craft 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.

Read the preview blog.

Note: This product is part of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscription.

Starfinder Adventure: To Defy the Dragon

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!

Starfinder Adventure: 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.

Read the preview blog.

Note: This product is part of the Starfinder Adventure Subscription.

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Starfinder Flip-Mat: Metropolis

Bright Lights, Big City
Nothing beats the hustle and bustle of a high-tech metropolis: citizens rushing to their destinations, hover vehicles locked in traffic jams, and vehicles of mass transit rumbling high above or far below the streets. Not to mention the undercurrent of adventure lurking in every alley, shopfront, or rooftop. This double-sided Starfinder Flip-Mat features the streets and skyscrapers of a cutting-edge city center on one side, and a wide-open traffic circle around a modern sculpture garden— perfect for a vehicle or mech combat—on the other. Starfinder Flip-Mats present ready-to-use science fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Metropolis, you’ll be ready the next time your players hit the town!

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Impossible Lands

Embrace the Unnatural
A war between two undying wizards once raged here for over a thousand years. Though peace has since reigned for millennia, the ghosts of wartime atrocities still haunt every corner of the lands they touched. People go about their day-to-day lives in a land that defies logic, praying the specters of history won’t rise again to plunge them back into chaos and carnage. Explore a world where cities are built on foundations of genies and wishes, where undead legions clash against titanic war engines forged from flesh. Travel a region where magic still writhes and roils from the wounds inflicted upon it—from the cavern depths where all spells lie dead to the scarred desert where the slightest arcane spark can erupt into a maelstrom. Can your heroes make their mark on a land ruled by the cruel egos of so many others, in the heart of the Impossible Lands?

Read the preview blog, “Embrace the Unnatural: Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands”

Read the preview blog, “Cook Up Some Impossible Lands Cuisine!”

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Impossible Lands Special Edition

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

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Pathfinder Adventure Path #185: A Taste of Ashes (Blood Lords 5 of 6)

Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
The newest Blood Lords follow a poisonous conspiracy to the bone-walled metropolis of Yled, just as the city is girding for war against the nation’s greatest enemy. From spectral theater performances to Yled’s secret defense installations, the Blood Lords must foil a plot to reduce the dead to ashes. The Blood Lords Adventure Path continues in “A Taste of Ashes,” a complete adventure for 15th- to 17th-level characters.

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Pathfinder Relics Deck

Magic That Grows With You!
Few things draw the attention of a hero more than a mysterious magic item, especially one that grows in power with them, becoming a legend in its own right! This deck allows you to plan out the powers of your relic and serves as a handy reminder of what mighty feats it can accomplish! The Pathfinder Relics Deck contains 84 relic power cards and 24 relic seeds, each featuring ideas for a powerful magic item!

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Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Deadly Mines Multi-Pack

Don’t Dig Too Deep!
Wondrous treasures can be found beneath Golarion’s surface. Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Deadly Mines Multi-Pack provides ready-to-use maps of four dangerous mines for the busy Game Master. Your heroes can explore a partially flooded surface mine, an abandoned shaft infested with fungus, winding tunnels leading to ancient ruins, or a sunken site of evil magic! Don’t waste time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Deadly Mines Multi-Pack, you’ll be ready the next time your players venture below!

This set includes two flip mats, each measuring 24" × 30" 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!

Note: This product is part of the Pathfinder Maps Subscription.

Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Monster Lairs

Beware: Monsters!
Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Monster Lairs Expansion Set is an addition to the Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Villain Lairs Starter Set, with 24 full- color 6 × 6-inch double-sided tiles stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason Engle. Not all foes are interested in plotting grand schemes or building complicated fortresses—sometimes, the worst foe is simply a monster. But even the most awful of monsters need somewhere to live! 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 monster’s den by hand when Flip-Tiles can do it for you? The Monster Lairs Expansion Set includes:

• Icy shore
• Soggy isles
• Underground caves
• Lava lairs
• Sky-high nests
• Dungeon dens

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Featured Partner Products

Pathfinder Battles: Impossible Lands

Pathfinder Battles: Impossible Lands - Impossible Foes Boxed Set

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Pathfinder Battles Impossible Lands Accursed Constructs

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Pathfinder Battles: Impossible Lands - Mukradi Boxed Figure

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Pathfinder Battles: Impossible Lands - Heroes and Villains Boxed Set

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Pathfinder Battles: Impossible Lands - Masters of Magic Boxed Set

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Pathfinder Battles: Impossible Lands - Adult Umbral Dragon Boxed Figure

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Paizo Product Schedule

Our November physical street date is today, November 16. November digital subscriptions will authorize on November 28 and fulfill on November 30. The December physical subscriptions will authorize on November 28, start shipping November 30, and street date December 14. Our December digital subscriptions will authorize on December 12 and fulfill on December 14. December product highlights include: Starfinder Adventure Path #49: A Light in the Dark (Drift Hackers 1 of 3), Pathfinder Adventure Path #186: Ghost King’s Rage (Blood Lords 6 of 6), Pathfinder Lost Omens: Pathfinder Society Guide Special Edition, and Pathfinder Abomination Vaults Battle Cards!

Thank you for playing Starfinder and Pathfinder!

Shop the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

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!

Order your copy of Starfinder Interstellar Species at your local retailer or the Paizo Store!

OPC Musings

This month I was lucky enough to attend two local conventions! CinCityCon in Cincinnati, OH and Scarefest in Asheville, NC both welcomed me with open arms. One of the best parts of my job is getting to see the effect our programs have on the community, and these two weekends were a great opportunity for that. I got to see community members rejoin games that hadn’t been seen since before the pandemic, and even run some games for players who had never played before.

Conventions are one of the most valuable ways we have to reach new players, and I’m glad I got to see it in action. It’s wonderful to know that the community has remained resilient through the pandemic, and I can’t wait for what 2023 brings. I highly recommend visiting either or both of these conventions, you won’t be disappointed!

Digital Adventure Releases

These adventures will be available on November 30, 2022.

Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-06: Signal from the Electric Laboratory*

Starfinder Society

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-11: Archivist's Inquiry*

*part of a subscription

The Replacement of Ehu Hadif

For those who didn’t hear last week, Starfinder Society First Seeker Ehu Hadif Ko’ra Amares of Clan Tolar, House Zye, tenth devotee from the line of Ahmu, is retiring! The Lorespire Complex is already abuzz with discussion about who will replace him and how that might change the Society.

If your character thinks they’re right to take up the mantle, they can now apply! There is a First Seeker Candidate boon in the Boon Store available for all character with 45 or more Reputation with one faction. Once you purchase it, you’ll be given instructions on how to submit your character’s information. We’ll evaluate the candidates and choose the best to put up for a vote.

Good luck, Starfinders!

Sanctioning Update

In October, we released 27 new products. That’s a lot of content! Let’s take a look at what’s newly sanctioned and what’s coming up.

Pathfinder Society

Obviously, the big headline is the Kingmaker Adventure Path. This giant is now sanctioned for play; unlike previous adventures, instead of chronicle sheets for distinct parts, Kingmaker has one generic chronicle sheet. GMs should give out a chronicle for every 3 levels their players earn while establishing their kingdom.

Additionally, the Kingmaker Companion Guide is now sanctioned! This book contains seven shorter adventures featuring some of the companions, and there are chronicle sheets available for each of them. Completing these adventures will grant players access to specific character options provided by those companions.

Finally, King Merlokrep rides again in the Crown of the Kobold King adventure! This module takes some classic first edition adventures and updates them for second edition play. The module is sanctioned for play in two halves; each half grants one level’s worth of XP and commensurate rewards.

This month, our major release is Lost Omens: Impossible Lands. Our sanctioning for this book is complete and it should be ready to post on street date. After that, we’ll start work on creating boons for the character options in the Blood Lords Adventure Path, as well as clearing some time on our schedules for the upcoming Treasure Vault release.

Starfinder Society

Over in Starfinder, the Drift Crisis is ongoing, and now you can experience it with the Drift Crashers Adventure Path! This adventure is now sanctioned for play; chronicle sheets are available on the product pages, and the character options are listed on the Character Options page.

This month also brings the release of Starfinder Interstellar Species, a very exciting book that dives into some of Starfinder’s most popular species and brings the new evolutionist class to life! We’re still working on our internal review of this book, but it’s looking good for a street date sanctioning on this as well. To Defy the Dragon, the standalone adventure, will also be released in November, along with its sanctioning documents. After those two, it’s pretty quiet on the Starfinder front until the release of the Drift Crisis Case Files in early 2023.

FAQ Answers and Boons

We’ve got some answers to some new FAQs over on the Pathfinder Society page! While the big headline is the questions to “how do undead PCs even work in PFS,” there are a couple of others regarding animal companions that have been outstanding for a while now. Go ahead and check them out!

GM Recognition

Campaign Service Coins

We award Campaign Service Coins to members of the community who have gone above and beyond to provide an exceptional program to the community at large. Campaign Coins are awarded based on nominations; if you believe someone in your community is deserving of this award (whether or not they are a Venture Officer), send an email to organizedplay[at]paizo[dot]com with their name and reasons.

This month, we were able to award Campaign Coins at CinCityCon, Scarefest, and Gobloween. Congratulations to:

Erika Emrick, who now holds a Campaign Coin and Organized Play ID #875
Jess Miller-Camp, who now holds a Campaign Coin and Organized Play ID #878
and Landon Hatfield, who now holds a Campaign Coin and Organized Play ID #879

GM Ranks

Whether stars, novas, or glyphs, achieving a 5 ranking in any program involves a substantial amount of time. To achieve the 5th milestone, a GM must run 150 games, of which at least 50 must be unique scenarios and 10 special scenarios as well as run between one and three games for venture-captains (program dependent). A conservative estimate of the time needed to reach the 5th milestone is 650 hours!

This month, we had one GM earn their 5th Nova for SFS, and one GM earn their 5th Glyph for PFS2.

5th Nova (SFS): Joseph Blomquist
5th Glyph (PFS2): Aerine Caerwyn

Until next time - Explore! Report! Cooperate! And build your kingdoms!

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

Do YOU have what it takes to become the next First Seeker of the Starfinder Society?

Three years ago, First Seeker Luwazi Elsebo fulfilled her mandate as head of the Starfinder Society and announced her retirement. Four prominent Starfinders stepped forward to vie for the mantle of First Seeker. Each candidate was based on the character of real-world players who had purchased the “Rising Star” boon. These candidates were featured in Starfinder Society Scenario #2-07: Four for the First. Starfinder Society players from around the world cast their votes and elected Ehu Hadif Ko’ra Amares of Clan Tolar as our First Seeker.

Artist Beatrice Pellagatti

In many ways, Ehu is the quintessential Starfinder. He recentered the Starfinder Society around themes of exploration and research, and broadened our horizons in Near Space and the Vast. When faced with trials and tragedies, Ehu has held the Starfinder Society together, ushering us through the Data Scourge digital attacks, the devastating Drift Crisis, and inner turmoil. The future has more excitement in store for Ehu Hadif but, much like Luwazi Elsebo, Ehu has fulfilled his mandate as First Seeker. With the culmination of the (currently unannounced) Season Six of the Starfinder Society, Ehu will be stepping down as First Seeker and a new crop of Starfinder Society agents will step forward as candidates to take his place.

It is therefore my honor to announce the release of a new boon: First Seeker Candidate. This boon is available for purchase to Starfinder Society characters with at least 45 Reputation with any faction. When you purchase this boon, you’ll be directed to send us an email with specific information about your character. This boon is only available for a limited time, during the lead up to Ehu Hadif’s retirement. Your last day to submit your entry for consideration is January 16th, 2023.

If you’re one of the players who qualified and submitted your character for consideration after Ehu’s election using the “Rising Star” or “Starfinder of Note” boons, rest assured that we still have your character’s application, and they’ll be entered into consideration alongside all our new candidates! If you would like to update any previous submissions, please email us at organizedplay@paizo.com with any new information, including your character’s goal as First Seeker.

The Starfinder Society is a living campaign influenced and shaped by players all over the world. This is a tradition I’m proud to uphold. To all of our fans, players, volunteers, and GMs: thank you for your continued support and engagement. I look forward to embarking on this exciting journey with all of you!

And to all of our First Seeker candidates: I wish you the best of luck!

Jessica Catalan
Starfinder Society Developer

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.

Pathfinder Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Path Trailer

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.

Humble Bundles offer great deals and support great causes. Purchasers get a say in how much of their donation goes to each participant at checkout.

Thank you for playing, and giving the gift of, Starfinder and Pathfinder!

—The Paizo Team

Support the Give the Gift of Pathfinder & Starfinder Bundle!

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

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The Pathfinder Kingmaker Suite

Back in 2019, mere months after the launch of Pathfinder Second Edition, we also ran a crowdfunding campaign to update and expand the Kingmaker Adventure Path. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the Stolen Lands are once again yours to explore, with 13 different products using the Pathfinder First Edition, Second Edition, or the 5E rules systems.

The Kingmaker Adventure Path presents a full-length campaign that chronicles the rise of a new nation—a kingdom built and ruled by your player characters! Face off against bands of bloodthirsty bandits, deadly and dangerous monsters, and mysterious menaces from other realities as you fight to claim the Stolen Lands as your own. Will you rule with justice and mercy, or will you become the very monsters you fought to oppose? In the Kingmaker Adventure Path, the destiny of the world’s newest nation is yours to decide!

Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path

WHO RULES THE STOLEN LANDS?
The Stolen Lands have long been the domain of bandits and monsters, but no longer! Your party has been granted a charter to explore these wilds, defeat its dangers, and build a brand new nation. Yet not everyone will welcome you as new neighbors, and powerful supernatural forces have their own plans for the region. Can you defeat your kingdom’s enemies and become one of the greatest new nations in the world?

This hardcover edition of Kingmaker contains:

• All six chapters of the original Kingmaker Adventure Path, expanded and updated for use with Pathfinder Second Edition.
• Hundreds of pages of new content that expands the campaign to cover the full range of levels from 1 to 20.
• Extensive rules for building and running kingdoms, settlements, and armies, along with narrative-based rules for quickly resolving mass combat.

Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path Special Edition

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Pathfinder Kingmaker Companion Guide

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...
The heroes of the Stolen Lands need all the help they can get! The Pathfinder Kingmaker Companion Guide presents several fully detailed NPC companions ready to provide all sorts of assistance, as well as several new adventures set in the Stolen Lands. Expanded rules for camping in the wilds and enduring a wide range of hazardous weather events make the Kingmaker Companion Guide an indispensable addition to your Kingmaker campaign.

Pathfinder Kingmaker Companion Guide Special Edition

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Pathfinder Kingmaker Bestiary (PFRPG)

HERE THERE BE MONSTERS!
From feral beasts to supernatural spirits from the realm of fey, the Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path forces heroes to test their might against hundreds of foes—be they bandit lords, evil kings, or demigods. The Kingmaker Bestiary (First Edition) presents rules for many monsters and villains, along with traps, hazards, and potential allies compatible with any Pathfinder First Edition game. Challenge your heroes while playing through Kingmaker or a campaign of your own design!

Pathfinder Kingmaker Bestiary (5E)

HERE THERE BE MONSTERS!
From feral beasts to supernatural spirits from the realm of fey, the Kingmaker Adventure Path forces heroes to test their might against hundreds of foes—be they bandit lords, evil kings, or demigods. This book presents rules for many monsters and villains, along with traps, hazards, and potential allies compatible with any 5E game. Challenge your heroes while playing through the Kingmaker Adventure Path or a campaign of your own design!

Pathfinder Kingmaker Kingdom Management Screen

GUARD YOUR DOMAIN!
Keep the essential rules for kingdoms and armies on hand—and protect your notes and die rolls from players’ eyes—with the Kingmaker Kingdom Management Screen! This beautiful four-panel, portrait-style screen features the sprawling map of the Stolen Lands on the players’ side, while the GM’s side presents key information from the Kingmaker Adventure Path’s rules for Kingdom turns and warfare encounters.

The Kingmaker Kingdom Management Screen gives you the tools you need to keep Kingdom turns and warfare battles moving: a list of Kingdom skills, important notes on Kingdom and Army level advancement, turn orders, Kingdom events, army conditions, and more. Constructed with high-grade hardcover book stock, this durable screen is perfect for travel, convention play, and regular use.

Pathfinder Kingmaker Kingdom Management Tracker

BUILD YOUR KINGDOM!
The Stolen Lands are a vast wilderness, long held by bandits and monsters. Until today! Now, a new band of heroes explores this wilderness frontier. What sort of nation will they build? Who will they ally with? What fate lies in store for the world’s newest kingdom?

With the Kingmaker Kingdom Management Tracker, you’ll have a living document that tracks the growth of your kingdom from its first day to the height of its glory! This sturdy folder’s 16 kingdom-defining pages include plenty of room to track your kingdom’s statistics, along with its settlements and armies. So venture out into the Stolen Lands and build yourselves a kingdom that’s the envy of the world!

Pathfinder Kingmaker Poster Map Folio

YOUR KINGDOM AWAITS!
During the Kingmaker Adventure Path your player characters can build and rule an entire kingdom! From exploring and mapping unknown regions to leading dangerous expeditions into the depths of an ancient wilderness, the Kingmaker Poster Map Folio provides the maps your players need to leave their legacy!

Within this map folio, you’ll find six huge four-panel poster maps essential to the Kingmaker Adventure Path: the mysterious village of Varnhold, the oppressed city of Pitax, and four linked maps that present the infamous Stolen Lands in their entirety.

Even if you aren’t running or playing the Kingmaker Adventure Path, the maps inside can serve as new wilderness regions, villages, or cities for any RPG campaign.

Your kingdom awaits!

Pathfinder Kingmaker Pawn Box

THREATS TO THE KINGDOM
The monsters are coming! The Kingmaker Pawn Box is here to help you keep your players busy with the wide range of allies and enemies they’re destined to encounter during your Kingmaker campaign. This jam-packed collection contains hundreds of monsters pulled from both the Kingmaker Adventure Path and Kingmaker Companion Guide, perfect for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any fantasy RPG. Pawns include lumbering giants, sinister fey, carnivorous plants, wild beasts, deadly bandits, traitorous brigands, helpful companions, and more. Printed on sturdy cardstock, these pawns slot into a size-appropriate plastic base from the Pathfinder Pawns Base Assortment, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures. The Kingmaker Pawn Box is the best way to ensure you’ve got the perfect monster on hand for every Pathfinder Roleplaying Game encounter!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Kingmaker Adventure Path Campsite Multi-Pack

PITCH YOUR TENTS!
Whether it’s a semi-permanent encampment, a fortified wilderness hideout, or simply a place to set up tents, every wilderness explorer eventually needs a campsite. This Flip-Mat Multi-Pack features three different campsites for your players to explore: a simple clearing in the woods, a hidden forest hideout, and a sprawling goblin encampment.

Each Flip-Mat in the Kingmaker Adventure Path Campsite Multi-Pack measures 24" × 30" 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 Flip-Mat: Kingmaker Adventure Path Noble Manor Multi-Pack

RULE YOUR KINGDOM!
Be it an aristocrat’s manor or a sovereign’s throne hall, all nobles and rulers need places to live and hold court. This Flip-Mat Multi-Pack features two wings of a sprawling mansion fit for nobility as well as two versions of a throne room: rustic wood and elegant stone.

Each Flip-Mat in the Kingmaker Adventure Path Noble Manor Multi-Pack measures 24" × 30" 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 Flip-Mat: Kingmaker Adventure Path River Kingdoms Ruins Multi-Pack

LEGACIES LEFT BEHIND!
Mysterious ruins lie hidden within far-off reaches in the wilderness, ancient remnants of long-lost civilizations. This Flip-Mat Multi-Pack features four ruined locations: an overgrown keep, a decrepit river crossing, a dilapidated swamp settlement, and a forgotten shrine.

Each Flip-Mat in the Kingmaker Adventure Path River Kingdom Ruins Multi-Pack measures 24" × 30" unfolded and 8" × 10" folded. A Flip-Mat’s coated surface can handle any dry-erase, wet-erase, or permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master’s arsenal!

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Legends Special Edition

The heroes of the Age of Lost Omens forge their path through an uncertain world, but that world has been shaped by many others who came before or who now stand beside them!

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Pathfinder Adventure: Crown of the Kobold King

RETURN OF THE (KOBOLD) KING!
One of the first Pathfinder adventures returns in an expanded format! The town of Falcon's Hollow is in peril as Kobold King Merlokrep, first of his name, is ready to expand his domain! A classic adventure awaits, ready to bring a new brand of heroes from 1st to 6th level.

Pathfinder Adventure: Crown of the Kobold King Special Edition

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark and can be used with the Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Crown of the Kobold King.

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Crown of the Kobold King

FEAR THE KOBOLD KING!
Trouble brews in the hinterlands of the lumber town of Falcon’s Hollow! This Flip-Mat details a ruined monastery and a local cemetery—sites that both play key roles in the machinations of the sinister and cruel Kobold King. These sites are suitable for use in play with Pathfinder Adventure: Crown of the Kobold King or for any ruined monastery or rural cemetery found in your own campaign.

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Crown of the Kobold King measures 24" × 30" 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 Adventure Path #184: The Ghouls Hunger (Blood Lords 4 of 6)

THE BLOODY BURDEN OF ARISTOCRACY
Formally inducted as Blood Lords, the characters find the danger accompanying such a prestigious promotion to be just as great as the reward. To thwart a poisonous plot, the characters must fend off power-hungry peers, escort the priest-king of a ghoul nation, and quell a cannibalistic cult. The Blood Lords Adventure Path continues with “The Ghouls Hunger,” a complete adventure for 11th- to 14th-level characters.

Pathfinder Adventure Path #184: The Ghouls Hunger is also available on Foundry VTT, learn more here!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Pirate Island

“X” MARKS THE SPOT!
Wonders (and dangers!) await you on these shores! Whether the adventurers find themselves shipwrecked on a remote shoreline or have come seeking hidden treasure, this map has you covered! Don’t waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Pirate Island, you’ll be ready the next time the PCs set sail!

Pathfinder Book of the Dead Battle Cards

UNLOCK THE GRIM CRYPT!
Book of the Dead adds a massive number of undead creatures to use as adversaries and for summon spells in your game, and these 120 cards make the dead rise even the easier! Each card features a beautiful, full-color image of a Book of the Dead creature on one side, while the other provides that creature’s statistics for quick and easy reference. Make the monsters come alive with this beautiful accessory and always have the stats on hand!

Starfinder Roleplaying Game

Starfinder Adventure Path: Dead Suns

A THREAT TO ALL LIFE
When a fragment of an ancient alien superweapon surfaces in 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 both 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.

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.

Starfinder Adventure Path #48: Masters of Time and Space (Drift Crashers 3 of 3)

FIND YOUR WAY HOME
Somewhere inside the Tesseract—a colossal four-dimensional structure hidden in the Drift—lies the secret to preventing galactic catastrophe! But the heroes aren’t the only ones prowling the never-ending corridors and bizarre architecture of this ancient, ruined megastructure, as their nemesis, the erinyes Malacanta, is hot on their heels!

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume concludes the Drift Crashers Adventure Path and includes:

• “Masters of Time and Space,” a Starfinder adventure for 5th-level characters, by Ron Lundeen.
• Ways for you to continue your Drift Crashers campaign well beyond the final fight, by Joshua Hennington and Jason Keeley.
• A toolbox featuring a collection of space anomalies, weird spells and curious biotech augmentations, a collection of beings from other planes, and a world whose atmosphere will alter your perceptions, by Tineke Bolleman, Jessica Catalan, John Curtin, Sasha Laranoa Harving, Ron Lundeen, Quinn Murphy, Shay Snow, Sara Thompson, and Isabelle Thorne.
• Statistics and deck plans for a warship constructed in the very forges of Hell, by Ron Lundeen.

Starfinder Bounty #5: Echoes of Woe

A Starfinder Bounty designed for 1st-level characters.

A century ago, tragedy claimed the lives of the patients and staff at a rural Castrovelian hospital. Now, thanks to a profitable land deal, investors from the nearby city of Qabarat have given the town a means to demolish the dilapidated building and build a brand new laboratory in its place. All that remains is to enter the hospital and clear it for demolition. There’s just one catch: the hospital is haunted, and no one in town dares enter… It’s up to a team of outside troubleshooters to brave the hospital’s haunted halls and clear the site for demolition! Will our heroes survive their brush with the past? Or will they be the hospital’s latest victims?

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Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-05: The Arclord Who Never Was

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters.

A skull with glowing eyes was among the many objects which recently turned up in the Pathfinder Society’s vaults, and none of the other objects are quite so talkative as this one! In fact, the skull isn’t an object at all, but a person. The Society isn’t sure who, or what, they are, and the skull seems to have lost their memories. Nonetheless, the skull requests—no, insists—that the Society return them to their former glory at once!

Grand Archivist Zarta Dralneen has determined that the skull is from Quantium, the magic-filled capital of Nex. She dispatches a group of Pathfinders to conduct a simple research mission and guide the skull around the city, hoping to jar the skull’s memories and learn the truth.

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-09: Counterfeit History

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters.

When an archaeological expedition co-managed by the Starfinder Society and Cahadusar University is imperiled by the Firewings gang, the Society wastes no time dispatching a pair of formidable Starfinders to save the day. When an internal inquiry reveals these Starfinders are cunning criminals, a fresh team of agents is sent to the Marixah Republic to bring these malfeasants to justice, put an end to their schemes, and salvage the archaeological expedition!

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-10: Shadow of the Vault Lord

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 9th- through 12th-level characters.

A group of elite Starfinders is called to Salvation’s End to convince the residents of Vault-23A to evacuate the false moon. But the citizens of this utopia feel no fear and claim to have successfully fought off the forces of the mysterious Vault Lord—a tyrant who seeks to seize Salvation’s End as his kingdom. As the Vault Lord’s plans for conquest enter the next phase, the Starfinders are stranded behind enemy lines and must overcome a gauntlet of traps, trained soldiers, and the Vault Lord’s sadistic lieutenant to escape with their lives!

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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.

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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!

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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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