paizo.com Recent Blog Posts in Paizo Blogpaizo.com Recent Blog Posts in Paizo Blog2024-03-28T20:17:24Z2024-03-28T20:17:24ZVenture-Gossip on the Townhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sijj?VentureGossip-on-the-Town2024-03-28T17:30:00Z<article>
<h1 itemprop="headline">Venture-Gossip on the Town</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 28, 2024</p>
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<p>Hello, Pathfinders!</p>
<p itemprop="description">You know, I genuinely thought that this column would be much quieter than the delicious solstice report from last time but, by Calistria’s sweet whip, there has been <em>so much</em> hustle and bustle, I barely know where to start!</p>
<p>Okay, so first off: there’s mutterings about sending a group of Pathfinders up to Freedom Town. <em>Apparently</em> Old Baphy is sending more undead to harass them, so I’m hoping this means we’ll be seeing more of Mr. I’m So Handsome Uirch!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/322a7ac2-60da-4ef7-aac8-e8f11d113db6/UirichOfTheBurningSun_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/322a7ac2-60da-4ef7-aac8-e8f11d113db6/UirichOfTheBurningSun_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Illustration Fabio Di Bernardi: Uirch of the Burning Sun, Uirch stands with his signature gauntlet, smiling a little."></a>
<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/6e7d1012-4360-43b6-8055-8c76d453f8e8/Ulthun_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/6e7d1012-4360-43b6-8055-8c76d453f8e8/Ulthun_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Illustration by Hassan Tabrizi : Watcher-Lord Ulthun stands in his full military garb with sword and shield."></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Left to Right: Uirch of the Burning Sun by Fabio Di Bernardi, and Watcher-Lord Ulthun by Hassan Tabrizi </p>
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<p>Also, I was out and about at the Grand Bazaar, like I usually am on my off hours, poking around who knows what and who knows where and I saw a certain <em>watcher-lord</em> shopping with a fancy lady! Now, we all know there’s been certain glances between this lord and an acting leader, but it seems those may have just been glances, because her arms were <em>very firmly</em> around his (well-built) upper arm.</p>
<p>Oh, and the biggest news is that Eando Kline was seen storming out of a meeting with all of leadership and the Waterfall! He’s extremely displeased about something, and you know I’m on my way to find out! I tried to peek in and see what was occurring, but Old Muttonchops sent me on my way, <em>as usual</em>.</p>
<p>Don’t you worry, I’ll figure out what’s happening and will report on it in my next update!</p>
<p>Keep your eyes peeled for my next column, and enjoy your adventures, Pathfinders!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">With adoration,<br />
Your Beloved Venture-Gossip</p>
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<p><em>Explore! Report! Cooperate! Gossip!</em></p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Shay Snow<br />
<em>Pathfinder Society Developer</em><br /></p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Venture-Gossip on the Town</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 28, 2024</p>
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<p>Hello, Pathfinders!</p>
<p itemprop="description">You know, I genuinely thought that this column would be much quieter than the delicious solstice report from last time but, by Calistria’s sweet whip, there has been <em>so much</em> hustle and bustle, I barely know where to start!</p>
<p>Okay, so first off: there’s mutterings about sending a group of Pathfinders up to Freedom Town. <em>Apparently</em> Old Baphy is sending more undead to harass them, so I’m hoping this means we’ll be seeing more of Mr. I’m So Handsome Uirch!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/322a7ac2-60da-4ef7-aac8-e8f11d113db6/UirichOfTheBurningSun_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/322a7ac2-60da-4ef7-aac8-e8f11d113db6/UirichOfTheBurningSun_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Illustration Fabio Di Bernardi: Uirch of the Burning Sun, Uirch stands with his signature gauntlet, smiling a little."></a>
<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/6e7d1012-4360-43b6-8055-8c76d453f8e8/Ulthun_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/6e7d1012-4360-43b6-8055-8c76d453f8e8/Ulthun_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Illustration by Hassan Tabrizi : Watcher-Lord Ulthun stands in his full military garb with sword and shield."></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Left to Right: Uirch of the Burning Sun by Fabio Di Bernardi, and Watcher-Lord Ulthun by Hassan Tabrizi </p>
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<p>Also, I was out and about at the Grand Bazaar, like I usually am on my off hours, poking around who knows what and who knows where and I saw a certain <em>watcher-lord</em> shopping with a fancy lady! Now, we all know there’s been certain glances between this lord and an acting leader, but it seems those may have just been glances, because her arms were <em>very firmly</em> around his (well-built) upper arm.</p>
<p>Oh, and the biggest news is that Eando Kline was seen storming out of a meeting with all of leadership and the Waterfall! He’s extremely displeased about something, and you know I’m on my way to find out! I tried to peek in and see what was occurring, but Old Muttonchops sent me on my way, <em>as usual</em>.</p>
<p>Don’t you worry, I’ll figure out what’s happening and will report on it in my next update!</p>
<p>Keep your eyes peeled for my next column, and enjoy your adventures, Pathfinders!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">With adoration,<br />
Your Beloved Venture-Gossip</p>
<br>
<p><em>Explore! Report! Cooperate! Gossip!</em></p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Shay Snow<br />
<em>Pathfinder Society Developer</em><br /></p>
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</article> <p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/organizedPlay">Organized Play</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety/pathfinderSocietyScenarios">Pathfinder Society Scenarios</a></p>2024-03-28T17:30:00ZThe Godsrain Prophecies Part Eighthttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sijh?The-Godsrain-Prophecies-Part-Eight2024-03-27T18:30:00Z<article>
<h1 itemprop="headline">The <em>Godsrain Prophecies</em> Part Eight</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 27, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description"><em>One of the theories that I intend to run by my Lady in my compilation of these so-called</em> Godsrain Prophecies <em>is that they may be warnings of some kind. This is a relatively new addition to my admittedly large list of potential reasons for their existence, which range from sensible hypotheses to outlandish theories, including one recent concern that this has all been a test by my Lady to discern whether I am trustworthy and analytical enough to handle some of her more complex research needs. I know she would never do such a thing, in truth, but after a particularly vivid dream (involving my being back in one of Lorminos’s classes and asked to deliver a talk about a research paper I had somehow forgotten to do), my anxiety briefly took hold.</em></p>
<p><em>The warning theory is of particular interest to me because it reflects an ongoing scholarly debate about the ability to prevent a true prophecy. As noted in</em> Beyond Aroden <em>(which I believe I have already mentioned in these pages), there are some who believe in the Fate’s Chain theory, which holds that any action taken to prevent a foretelling only hastens its speed and effects. Conversely, others believe that all prophecy presents the opportunity to exert free will. In the words of one notorious scholar, “those who lie down in front of the hooves of prophecy instead of taking the reins of their lives deserve to be trampled to dust, even if only metaphorically.” Fiery words, and ones I am not sure I believe, but given the gravity of this particular set of prophecies, I do like the idea that this might be an opportunity to shift the course of the future. </em></p>
<p><em>–Yivali, Apprentice Researcher for the Lady of Graves</em></p>
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<h2>The Death of Desna</h2>
<p>The thing about journeys, especially the good ones, was how easy it was to lose track of the past. Hard to move forward while looking behind you. Desna had always believed that. Each new night, each new step, had something new to offer up—a bit of knowledge to excite her, a dark horizon to invite her, a way for love to keep her grounded as she wandered from place to place.</p>
<p>But something else was out there. A threat that she’d forgotten from the void between the stars, seeking only to expand its brutal, ceaseless silence. Not an enemy that could be caught or stopped forever, but something she’d held at bay as it consumed star after star, by making them anew as she had done since the beginning. Back then she’d set the stars like jewels, each a perfect piece of art, and now they were a chorus that only she could truly hear, gentle bells that softly chimed and brought new hope to dreamers.</p>
<p>Except with so much journeying, she’d let the task slide down her list, forgetting to replace the stars that steadily winked out. She hadn’t heard their quiet ringing slowly growing quieter, as something more than silence brought new fury to its form. And by the time it reached her ear, that music wasn’t quite as rich, and starlight twinkled that much less, and butterflies flapped weakly. Absence had turned to abscess turned to deep vulnerability, and what was of the past became the killer of the present. In one fell swoop of emptiness, no longer held back by her lights, something of the Dark Tapestry she thought she’d left behind took her and Cynosure as one, and with her all the stars that filled the skies above Golarion.</p>
<p>Desna was loved by many, and all stepped up to play a part and try to build a new world in the space left by her death. Cayden Cailean raised cups “to Desna and to freedom” (though he stayed still for many months, sometimes with Kurgess by his side, drinking to his memories and running up his tab). Shelyn offered welcome to those who sang in Desna’s name, collecting songs and poems so she would not be forgotten. (And when they sounded out of tune, as if something was missing, she called them Desnal melodies and blessed those who repeated them, ignoring art’s new promise for the haunting elegies). Sarenrae sought her vengeance but had no one to strike out against, and so she turned to healing in its place (by never letting hurt inside, and building walls around her heart she dared Shelyn to climb).</p>
<p>No one could prove the daytime light was any different than before, but even on the fairest day, there was something in the air—a stagnant sort of thickness that weighed upon the spine. Scouts moved slowly, and travelers lingered though they knew to hurry (to get themselves to safety long before the starless night). With no means by which to navigate, sailors called off voyages, reduced to tiny odysseys that kept the shore in sight. And while the feeling dissipated, slowly easing day by day, everything about the world felt dormant for a time.</p>
<p>Even as the pace picked up, no stars returned to fill the sky. At night, only the moon shone down, and paths forward could change in ways unlucky and impossible; more often did travelers disappear from the shadowed roads ahead. And while some blamed her ancient nemesis, Ghlaunder, who was emboldened by Desna’s demise, or Zon-Kuthon, who reveled in the new depth of the darkness, only Desna would have known that what killed her waited, determining its next advance, growing in the spaces left within a starless night.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/3f655840-ab47-4ad2-ad3f-e5734b411d5a/EvolvingProhecyImage_Wk8_1300x2000.jpg"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/3f655840-ab47-4ad2-ad3f-e5734b411d5a/EvolvingProhecyImage_Wk8_1300x2000.jpg" width="500px" style="padding: 10px;" alt="An array of 20 portraits depicting the gods of the Pathfinder setting. Asmodeus, Cayden Cailean, Desna, Erastil, Nethys, Pharasma, Urgathoa, and Zon-Kuthon’s portraits have been marked “safe.”"></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Do the stars and their keeper, Desna, truly protect the Universe from some fell threat that hides in the darkness beyond them? May the stars shine forever, if so!</p>
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<p><em>The Dark Tapestry? It has been some time since I thought about that void of space, which has long been reported to be the home of godlike beings far beyond my comprehension. Maybe this is why I am the most intrigued about Desna’s seeming knowledge of the place and its dangers. It is the first I am hearing of a potential connection, though that may simply be because I do not attend the right discussion groups. Whether or not this prophecy turns out to be true (or, again, maybe a warning that my Lady might be able to give to Desna to prevent this outcome), I will add a note about the possible link between Desna and the Dark Tapestry to my collected papers covering her works as a deity. I am not sure when or if I will have the time to publish any of the works I have begun to write, or if there will be room in my papers for all of the data I now have, but I am glad that I have at least begun collecting information. If these prophecies make nothing else completely clear, my own takeaway is this: it is important to understand what you know (and don’t) about the gods.</em></p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px">About the Author</p>
<p>Erin Roberts has been thrilled to be able to contribute a few small threads to the fabric of Golarion in the pages of books like <em>Lost Omens Firebrands</em>, <em>Lost Omens Highhelm</em>, and <em>Lost Omens Travel Guide</em>. In addition to her work for Paizo, she freelances across the TTRPG world (and was selected as a Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program Winner in 2023), has had fiction published in magazines including <em>Asimov’s</em>, <em>Clarkesworld</em>, and <em>The Dark</em>, and talks about writing every week on the <em>Writing Excuses</em> podcast. Catch up with her latest at <strong>linktr.ee/erinroberts</strong>.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">The <em>Godsrain Prophecies</em> Part Eight</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 27, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description"><em>One of the theories that I intend to run by my Lady in my compilation of these so-called</em> Godsrain Prophecies <em>is that they may be warnings of some kind. This is a relatively new addition to my admittedly large list of potential reasons for their existence, which range from sensible hypotheses to outlandish theories, including one recent concern that this has all been a test by my Lady to discern whether I am trustworthy and analytical enough to handle some of her more complex research needs. I know she would never do such a thing, in truth, but after a particularly vivid dream (involving my being back in one of Lorminos’s classes and asked to deliver a talk about a research paper I had somehow forgotten to do), my anxiety briefly took hold.</em></p>
<p><em>The warning theory is of particular interest to me because it reflects an ongoing scholarly debate about the ability to prevent a true prophecy. As noted in</em> Beyond Aroden <em>(which I believe I have already mentioned in these pages), there are some who believe in the Fate’s Chain theory, which holds that any action taken to prevent a foretelling only hastens its speed and effects. Conversely, others believe that all prophecy presents the opportunity to exert free will. In the words of one notorious scholar, “those who lie down in front of the hooves of prophecy instead of taking the reins of their lives deserve to be trampled to dust, even if only metaphorically.” Fiery words, and ones I am not sure I believe, but given the gravity of this particular set of prophecies, I do like the idea that this might be an opportunity to shift the course of the future. </em></p>
<p><em>–Yivali, Apprentice Researcher for the Lady of Graves</em></p>
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<h2>The Death of Desna</h2>
<p>The thing about journeys, especially the good ones, was how easy it was to lose track of the past. Hard to move forward while looking behind you. Desna had always believed that. Each new night, each new step, had something new to offer up—a bit of knowledge to excite her, a dark horizon to invite her, a way for love to keep her grounded as she wandered from place to place.</p>
<p>But something else was out there. A threat that she’d forgotten from the void between the stars, seeking only to expand its brutal, ceaseless silence. Not an enemy that could be caught or stopped forever, but something she’d held at bay as it consumed star after star, by making them anew as she had done since the beginning. Back then she’d set the stars like jewels, each a perfect piece of art, and now they were a chorus that only she could truly hear, gentle bells that softly chimed and brought new hope to dreamers.</p>
<p>Except with so much journeying, she’d let the task slide down her list, forgetting to replace the stars that steadily winked out. She hadn’t heard their quiet ringing slowly growing quieter, as something more than silence brought new fury to its form. And by the time it reached her ear, that music wasn’t quite as rich, and starlight twinkled that much less, and butterflies flapped weakly. Absence had turned to abscess turned to deep vulnerability, and what was of the past became the killer of the present. In one fell swoop of emptiness, no longer held back by her lights, something of the Dark Tapestry she thought she’d left behind took her and Cynosure as one, and with her all the stars that filled the skies above Golarion.</p>
<p>Desna was loved by many, and all stepped up to play a part and try to build a new world in the space left by her death. Cayden Cailean raised cups “to Desna and to freedom” (though he stayed still for many months, sometimes with Kurgess by his side, drinking to his memories and running up his tab). Shelyn offered welcome to those who sang in Desna’s name, collecting songs and poems so she would not be forgotten. (And when they sounded out of tune, as if something was missing, she called them Desnal melodies and blessed those who repeated them, ignoring art’s new promise for the haunting elegies). Sarenrae sought her vengeance but had no one to strike out against, and so she turned to healing in its place (by never letting hurt inside, and building walls around her heart she dared Shelyn to climb).</p>
<p>No one could prove the daytime light was any different than before, but even on the fairest day, there was something in the air—a stagnant sort of thickness that weighed upon the spine. Scouts moved slowly, and travelers lingered though they knew to hurry (to get themselves to safety long before the starless night). With no means by which to navigate, sailors called off voyages, reduced to tiny odysseys that kept the shore in sight. And while the feeling dissipated, slowly easing day by day, everything about the world felt dormant for a time.</p>
<p>Even as the pace picked up, no stars returned to fill the sky. At night, only the moon shone down, and paths forward could change in ways unlucky and impossible; more often did travelers disappear from the shadowed roads ahead. And while some blamed her ancient nemesis, Ghlaunder, who was emboldened by Desna’s demise, or Zon-Kuthon, who reveled in the new depth of the darkness, only Desna would have known that what killed her waited, determining its next advance, growing in the spaces left within a starless night.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/3f655840-ab47-4ad2-ad3f-e5734b411d5a/EvolvingProhecyImage_Wk8_1300x2000.jpg"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/3f655840-ab47-4ad2-ad3f-e5734b411d5a/EvolvingProhecyImage_Wk8_1300x2000.jpg" width="500px" style="padding: 10px;" alt="An array of 20 portraits depicting the gods of the Pathfinder setting. Asmodeus, Cayden Cailean, Desna, Erastil, Nethys, Pharasma, Urgathoa, and Zon-Kuthon’s portraits have been marked “safe.”"></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Do the stars and their keeper, Desna, truly protect the Universe from some fell threat that hides in the darkness beyond them? May the stars shine forever, if so!</p>
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<p><em>The Dark Tapestry? It has been some time since I thought about that void of space, which has long been reported to be the home of godlike beings far beyond my comprehension. Maybe this is why I am the most intrigued about Desna’s seeming knowledge of the place and its dangers. It is the first I am hearing of a potential connection, though that may simply be because I do not attend the right discussion groups. Whether or not this prophecy turns out to be true (or, again, maybe a warning that my Lady might be able to give to Desna to prevent this outcome), I will add a note about the possible link between Desna and the Dark Tapestry to my collected papers covering her works as a deity. I am not sure when or if I will have the time to publish any of the works I have begun to write, or if there will be room in my papers for all of the data I now have, but I am glad that I have at least begun collecting information. If these prophecies make nothing else completely clear, my own takeaway is this: it is important to understand what you know (and don’t) about the gods.</em></p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px">About the Author</p>
<p>Erin Roberts has been thrilled to be able to contribute a few small threads to the fabric of Golarion in the pages of books like <em>Lost Omens Firebrands</em>, <em>Lost Omens Highhelm</em>, and <em>Lost Omens Travel Guide</em>. In addition to her work for Paizo, she freelances across the TTRPG world (and was selected as a Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program Winner in 2023), has had fiction published in magazines including <em>Asimov’s</em>, <em>Clarkesworld</em>, and <em>The Dark</em>, and talks about writing every week on the <em>Writing Excuses</em> podcast. Catch up with her latest at <strong>linktr.ee/erinroberts</strong>.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Find Your Path — March 2024</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 27, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Hail and well met, Pathfinders and Starfinders! This month’s new releases call on heroes to save the town of Sandpoint, bring a host of remastered monsters to your table, and send you into Azlanti Space!</p>
<p>In celebration of <em>Pathfinder Monster Core’s </em>release, we’ve got a special “Who’s That Monster?!” stream today, March 27<sup>th</sup>, at 12 p.m. Pacific on twitch.tv/officialpaizo!</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/store/pathfinder/adventures/adventurepath/sevendoomsforsandpoint">Seven Dooms for Sandpoint</a></h3>
<p><strong>BACK TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN... </strong></p>
<p>The town of Sandpoint has seen more than its fair share of danger over the years, including harrowing fires, prolific serial killers, goblin raids, and attacks by giants and dragons, but now the so-called Light of the Lost Coast faces its greatest threat yet! Something sinister has been manipulating events all along, and a new band of heroes must step in to save this legendary small town from seven deadly dooms! Return to the town where it all began with the Seven Dooms for Sandpoint Adventure Path—a full campaign for 4th- to 11th-level characters that’s presented in its entirety in this super-sized volume!</p>
<p>Seven Dooms for Sandpoint is available as a <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02et8?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-Seven-Dooms-for-Sandpoint">double-sized softcover</a> or an alternate art <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02eyl?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-Seven-Dooms-for-Sandpoint">hardcover edition</a>!</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex5?Pathfinder-Monster-Core">Pathfinder Monster Core</a></h3>
<p><strong>FIGHT FOR GLORY! </strong></p>
<p>Intense battles call for intense monsters! Inside <em>Monster Core</em>, you’ll find over 400 creatures, including fantasy classics like elves, ogres, and all-new dragons; wild animals from giant ants to ferocious wolves; and unique monsters that threaten the world of Pathfinder, like sinspawn and noxious needlers. These creatures cover all levels of play, from the slow and mindless zombie shambler to the ultrapowerful demonic Treerazer! This collection is an ideal resource for Game Masters planning their next battles and player characters looking for monstrous allies to summon.</p>
<p><em>Pathfinder Monster Core </em>is also available as a <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02elt?Pathfinder-Monster-Core-Special-Edition">Special Edition Hardcover</a>, faux-leather bound with foil debossing and an in-bound ribbon bookmark.</p>
<p>Also, check your FLGS for the hobby retailer exclusive Sketch Cover!</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02f07?Starfinder-FlipMat-Shopping-Mall">Starfinder Flip-Mat: Shopping Mall</a></h3>
<p><strong>SHOPPING TRIP! </strong></p>
<p>From the hustle and bustle of a busy shopping center to the dilapidated, overgrown shell of a once-appealing plaza, there’s adventure to be found in malls across the galaxy. One side of this Flip-Mat depicts a futuristic mall, with an open entryway for crowds to mingle, numerous shops, and a luxurious food court to enjoy a bite to eat. The opposite side shows an abandoned mall and is the perfect site for a haunting or the remnants of a post-apocalyptic civilization.</p>
<p>Starfinder Flip-Mats present ready-to-use science-fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. With <em>Starfinder Flip-Mat: Shopping Mall</em>, you’ll be ready for the next encounter!</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex7?Pathfinder-FlipMat-Boarding-School">Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Boarding School</a></h3>
<p><strong>SCHOOL’S IN SESSION! </strong></p>
<p>Whether your players are students themselves or the ones responsible for solving a tricky problem before things get out of hand, turn to <em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Boarding School. </em>From frightful legends that students speak of in hushed whispers, to struggles to contain failed alchemical experiments, to lighthearted stories of schoolyard mischief, these school buildings feature everything you need for an academic adventure, including classrooms, dormitories, a lunchroom, and a library.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exa?Starfinder-Society-Scenario-615-Extraction-from-Azlanti-Space">Starfinder Society Scenario #6-15: Extraction from Azlanti Space</a></h3>
<p>A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 11th- through 14th-level characters.</p>
<p>The Azlanti Star Empire is a vast union of diverse species, worlds, and star systems under the tyrannical dominion of humans who left Golarion for the stars long before the Gap. Under the leadership of Star Imperators Iorian and Yridela Ixomander, the Azlanti Star Empire seeks to bring all inhabited worlds under its hegemony, exploiting their knowledge, labor, and resources for the good of the empire. With a navy rivaling that of the Pact Worlds and the Veskarium combined, its ruthless legions of gem-augmented Aeon Guard pose a terrifying threat to the inhabitants of the galaxy. Most systems—including the Pact Worlds—have forbidden their citizens from entering Azlanti space, lest they draw the Imperators' covetous eyes.</p>
<p>Yet, a foe as powerful as the Azlanti Star Empire can’t be ignored, and numerous factions have dispatched agents into the Star Empire to operate in secret, acting as the eyes and ears of the Pact Worlds—a first line of defense against invasion.</p>
<p>When an undercover Starfinder broadcasts an emergency call for extraction from New Thespera, at the heart of the Azlanti Star Empire, Venture-Captain Naiaj dispatches a team of highly experienced Starfinders to answer the call. Infiltrate the Azlanti Star Empire, retrieve a Starfinder in peril, and escape with your lives—if you can!</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex8?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-512-Mischief-in-the-Maze">Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-12: Mischief in the Maze</a></h3>
<p>A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters.</p>
<p>The Maze of the Open Road has mostly been stabilized, and yet agents are still ending up at the wrong destination. While no one has been hurt, Venture-Captain Sigvard Tornkvist fears that it might be a matter of time until injury or worse results. She tasks the PCs with investigating the cause of these mishaps, and dealing with it, if possible. Little do the PCs know what they’ve gotten themselves into, but there’s a nonzero chance they’ll find themselves in a dance-off before their mission is complete.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exb?Starfinder-Bounty-12-Under-Pressure">Starfinder Society Bounty #12: Under Pressure</a></h3>
<p>A Starfinder Bounty designed for 4<sup>th</sup>-level characters.</p>
<p>Illegal gas mining operations are nothing new on the enormous Pact Worlds gas giant Liavara, but mining platform pilot Alana Eledin thought she had a foolproof plan to get past the mining syndicates’ and the Confluence Agents’ watchful gaze. She and a crew of desperate fortune seekers would power up a derelict platform they used to work on and take it down into the depths, to the limit of the structure. Of course, no plan is perfect, and reactivating the maneuvering systems on the old rig sent out an alert. Now a Confluence Agent, with Deep Station’s troubles still fresh in mind, has assembled a team of deep pressure specialists and the PCs to, if possible, rescue the derelict and learn what sent it plunging into the clouds. What no one involved has realized is that there’s a greater danger than the immense pressure facing everyone involved.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex9?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-513-Thick-as-Thieves">Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-13: Thick as Thieves</a></h3>
<p>A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 5th- through 8th-level characters.</p>
<p>The simple mission is: deliver a letter. However, upon entering the magical hedge maze to do so, the Pathfinders find that two of their sticky-fingered friends have arrived at the same time and intend to hide a powerful elemental artifact within the Maze of the Open Road! This completely realigns the keystones of the maze, leading to planar interruptions and wild disruptions to operations. It's up to the Pathfinders to realign the keystones, calm down an angry genie, and help everyone who's been misplaced along the way! (And just maybe get that letter delivered!)</p>
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<h3><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/">Pathfinder Gallowspire Survivors</a></h3>
<p>Prepare to face Gallowspire's hordes for as long as it takes…<em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em> launches on Thursday, April 4. Brave heroes can buy <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/"><em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em></a> on Steam in Early Access today, or try the demo, as they await the Whispering Tyrant’s return. Wishlist and follow the game on Steam to get notified of the launch. Keep up to date with all the information by joining the<a href="https://discord.com/invite/9MZwjRKetk"> official Discord server</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gallowspiresurvivorsgame/">Facebook page </a>and following <a href="https://twitter.com/BkomStudios">BKOM Studios on X (formerly Twitter)</a>.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Find Your Path — March 2024</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 27, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Hail and well met, Pathfinders and Starfinders! This month’s new releases call on heroes to save the town of Sandpoint, bring a host of remastered monsters to your table, and send you into Azlanti Space!</p>
<p>In celebration of <em>Pathfinder Monster Core’s </em>release, we’ve got a special “Who’s That Monster?!” stream today, March 27<sup>th</sup>, at 12 p.m. Pacific on twitch.tv/officialpaizo!</p>
<p>Never miss a release with our <a href="https://paizo.com/store/subscriptions">Paizo Subscriptions</a>—for everything from rulebooks to accessories.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/store/pathfinder/adventures/adventurepath/sevendoomsforsandpoint">Seven Dooms for Sandpoint</a></h3>
<p><strong>BACK TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN... </strong></p>
<p>The town of Sandpoint has seen more than its fair share of danger over the years, including harrowing fires, prolific serial killers, goblin raids, and attacks by giants and dragons, but now the so-called Light of the Lost Coast faces its greatest threat yet! Something sinister has been manipulating events all along, and a new band of heroes must step in to save this legendary small town from seven deadly dooms! Return to the town where it all began with the Seven Dooms for Sandpoint Adventure Path—a full campaign for 4th- to 11th-level characters that’s presented in its entirety in this super-sized volume!</p>
<p>Seven Dooms for Sandpoint is available as a <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02et8?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-Seven-Dooms-for-Sandpoint">double-sized softcover</a> or an alternate art <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02eyl?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-Seven-Dooms-for-Sandpoint">hardcover edition</a>!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/7c33cc2a-58e4-4082-93ec-24768cec1aab/MonsterCore_AllCovers.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/7c33cc2a-58e4-4082-93ec-24768cec1aab/MonsterCore_AllCovers.png" width="80%" style="padding-right: 10px; padding left: 10px;" alt="Pathfinder Remaster Monster Core all covers feature the hard cover, the special edition cover, and the sketch cover"></a>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex5?Pathfinder-Monster-Core">Pathfinder Monster Core</a></h3>
<p><strong>FIGHT FOR GLORY! </strong></p>
<p>Intense battles call for intense monsters! Inside <em>Monster Core</em>, you’ll find over 400 creatures, including fantasy classics like elves, ogres, and all-new dragons; wild animals from giant ants to ferocious wolves; and unique monsters that threaten the world of Pathfinder, like sinspawn and noxious needlers. These creatures cover all levels of play, from the slow and mindless zombie shambler to the ultrapowerful demonic Treerazer! This collection is an ideal resource for Game Masters planning their next battles and player characters looking for monstrous allies to summon.</p>
<p><em>Pathfinder Monster Core </em>is also available as a <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02elt?Pathfinder-Monster-Core-Special-Edition">Special Edition Hardcover</a>, faux-leather bound with foil debossing and an in-bound ribbon bookmark.</p>
<p>Also, check your FLGS for the hobby retailer exclusive Sketch Cover!</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02f07?Starfinder-FlipMat-Shopping-Mall">Starfinder Flip-Mat: Shopping Mall</a></h3>
<p><strong>SHOPPING TRIP! </strong></p>
<p>From the hustle and bustle of a busy shopping center to the dilapidated, overgrown shell of a once-appealing plaza, there’s adventure to be found in malls across the galaxy. One side of this Flip-Mat depicts a futuristic mall, with an open entryway for crowds to mingle, numerous shops, and a luxurious food court to enjoy a bite to eat. The opposite side shows an abandoned mall and is the perfect site for a haunting or the remnants of a post-apocalyptic civilization.</p>
<p>Starfinder Flip-Mats present ready-to-use science-fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. With <em>Starfinder Flip-Mat: Shopping Mall</em>, you’ll be ready for the next encounter!</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex7?Pathfinder-FlipMat-Boarding-School">Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Boarding School</a></h3>
<p><strong>SCHOOL’S IN SESSION! </strong></p>
<p>Whether your players are students themselves or the ones responsible for solving a tricky problem before things get out of hand, turn to <em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Boarding School. </em>From frightful legends that students speak of in hushed whispers, to struggles to contain failed alchemical experiments, to lighthearted stories of schoolyard mischief, these school buildings feature everything you need for an academic adventure, including classrooms, dormitories, a lunchroom, and a library.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exa?Starfinder-Society-Scenario-615-Extraction-from-Azlanti-Space">Starfinder Society Scenario #6-15: Extraction from Azlanti Space</a></h3>
<p>A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 11th- through 14th-level characters.</p>
<p>The Azlanti Star Empire is a vast union of diverse species, worlds, and star systems under the tyrannical dominion of humans who left Golarion for the stars long before the Gap. Under the leadership of Star Imperators Iorian and Yridela Ixomander, the Azlanti Star Empire seeks to bring all inhabited worlds under its hegemony, exploiting their knowledge, labor, and resources for the good of the empire. With a navy rivaling that of the Pact Worlds and the Veskarium combined, its ruthless legions of gem-augmented Aeon Guard pose a terrifying threat to the inhabitants of the galaxy. Most systems—including the Pact Worlds—have forbidden their citizens from entering Azlanti space, lest they draw the Imperators' covetous eyes.</p>
<p>Yet, a foe as powerful as the Azlanti Star Empire can’t be ignored, and numerous factions have dispatched agents into the Star Empire to operate in secret, acting as the eyes and ears of the Pact Worlds—a first line of defense against invasion.</p>
<p>When an undercover Starfinder broadcasts an emergency call for extraction from New Thespera, at the heart of the Azlanti Star Empire, Venture-Captain Naiaj dispatches a team of highly experienced Starfinders to answer the call. Infiltrate the Azlanti Star Empire, retrieve a Starfinder in peril, and escape with your lives—if you can!</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex8?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-512-Mischief-in-the-Maze">Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-12: Mischief in the Maze</a></h3>
<p>A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters.</p>
<p>The Maze of the Open Road has mostly been stabilized, and yet agents are still ending up at the wrong destination. While no one has been hurt, Venture-Captain Sigvard Tornkvist fears that it might be a matter of time until injury or worse results. She tasks the PCs with investigating the cause of these mishaps, and dealing with it, if possible. Little do the PCs know what they’ve gotten themselves into, but there’s a nonzero chance they’ll find themselves in a dance-off before their mission is complete.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exb?Starfinder-Bounty-12-Under-Pressure">Starfinder Society Bounty #12: Under Pressure</a></h3>
<p>A Starfinder Bounty designed for 4<sup>th</sup>-level characters.</p>
<p>Illegal gas mining operations are nothing new on the enormous Pact Worlds gas giant Liavara, but mining platform pilot Alana Eledin thought she had a foolproof plan to get past the mining syndicates’ and the Confluence Agents’ watchful gaze. She and a crew of desperate fortune seekers would power up a derelict platform they used to work on and take it down into the depths, to the limit of the structure. Of course, no plan is perfect, and reactivating the maneuvering systems on the old rig sent out an alert. Now a Confluence Agent, with Deep Station’s troubles still fresh in mind, has assembled a team of deep pressure specialists and the PCs to, if possible, rescue the derelict and learn what sent it plunging into the clouds. What no one involved has realized is that there’s a greater danger than the immense pressure facing everyone involved.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex9?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-513-Thick-as-Thieves">Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-13: Thick as Thieves</a></h3>
<p>A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 5th- through 8th-level characters.</p>
<p>The simple mission is: deliver a letter. However, upon entering the magical hedge maze to do so, the Pathfinders find that two of their sticky-fingered friends have arrived at the same time and intend to hide a powerful elemental artifact within the Maze of the Open Road! This completely realigns the keystones of the maze, leading to planar interruptions and wild disruptions to operations. It's up to the Pathfinders to realign the keystones, calm down an angry genie, and help everyone who's been misplaced along the way! (And just maybe get that letter delivered!)</p>
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<h3><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/">Pathfinder Gallowspire Survivors</a></h3>
<p>Prepare to face Gallowspire's hordes for as long as it takes…<em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em> launches on Thursday, April 4. Brave heroes can buy <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/"><em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em></a> on Steam in Early Access today, or try the demo, as they await the Whispering Tyrant’s return. Wishlist and follow the game on Steam to get notified of the launch. Keep up to date with all the information by joining the<a href="https://discord.com/invite/9MZwjRKetk"> official Discord server</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gallowspiresurvivorsgame/">Facebook page </a>and following <a href="https://twitter.com/BkomStudios">BKOM Studios on X (formerly Twitter)</a>.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Infinite Top Performers—Feb ‘24</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Tuesday, March 26, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Welcome back to another exciting collection of Pathfinder Infinite & Starfinder Infinite Top Performers!</p>
<h2>What is Infinite?</h2>
<p>Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite is a program that allows you to create content (adventures and locations; monsters; character classes, archetypes, and backgrounds; fiction; etc.) based on Paizo’s intellectual property (IP), including Pathfinder’s Lost Omens campaign setting, and to make some money while you’re at it. Your work might even be recognized by the community and earn you an invitation into the Infinite Masters elite creator program.</p>
<p>For more info on Pathfinder Infinite, Starfinder Infinite, and how to get started, <a href="https://help.pathfinderinfinite.com/hc/en-us/categories/12777144310039-Community-Content-Creator-Questions">check out the FAQs</a>!</p>
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<h2>February’s Top Performers</h2>
<p>Titles are ranked by an average of units sold and revenue earned and 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!</p>
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<h2>Pathfinder Infinite Top Performers</h2>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/468381/The-ABCD-of-Edicts-and-Anathema?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>The ABCDs of Edicts and Anathema</em></a>•</h3>
<p>Dive deeper into the new system of Edicts and Anathema from the Pathfinder Second Edition remaster. Over 700 edicts and anathemas for the ABCD of character creation: Ancestry, Background, Class, Deity.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/470040/Faiths-Reward—Nethys?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Faith’s Reward—Nethys</em></a></h3>
<p>The All-Seeing Eye is often derisively referred to as the "god of wizards." While that's not entirely wrong, it isn't exactly <em>right</em>, either. <em>Faith's Reward—Nethys</em> examines the influence of Nethys as the god of magic, including new spells, new feats, new items, new archetypes, and a new spell research subsystem to allow you to build or modify spells!</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/470978/Godsrain-Contingencies?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Godsrain Contingencies</em></a></h3>
<p>When Yivali held death in her talons, she feared delivering such terrible warning without also hope. Included in her annotations was research into <strong>what the world might become</strong> if each god’s death were to occur, and thus what <strong>contingencies could be made</strong>.</p>
<p>This product contains a <strong>handful of player options for each scenario</strong>. While there is a primary focus on the fall out for followers of each god, there are options for many types of players. The <strong>centerpiece is the </strong><em>return to service </em><strong>ritual</strong> and how <strong>each god’s death leads to which potential successor gods</strong>, what that new relationship looks like, and providing which potential benefits.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/465460/Kitsune-of-Golarion-Remastered?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Kitsune of Golarion Remastered</em></a>•</h3>
<p>Providing an in-depth expansion of Pathfinder Second Edition's vulpine ancestry, <em>Kitsune of Golarion Remastered</em> provides players and GMs alike with everything they need to make this vibrant ancestry of shape shifting fox folk feel at home in the Age of Lost Omens. Based on Gold Best-Selling product <a href="https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/381454/Kitsune-of-Golarion"><strong><em>Kitsune of Golarion</em></strong></a>, this product aims to not only remaster, but redefine the content from this original offering into an indispensable product for the entire table, tailless or not.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/460420/Player-Core-1-Expanded?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Player Core 1 Expanded</em></a>•</h3>
<p>Has inspiration struck, but <em>Player Core 1</em> doesn't have a subclass to fit? Whether you are looking for a Cleric spy, a swaggering Rogue, or a Druid with a will of steel, you will find myriad options within, made by 4 Infinite Masters and specially tuned for the PF2e Remaster! Feats, subclasses, focus spells, and more for the classes of <em>Player Core 1</em>.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/465720/A-Lurkers-Subclasses-Vol-III?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>A Lurker’s Subclasses, Vol III</em></a>•</h3>
<p>A wide variety of subclasses, feats, and alternate class options—whether it comes from mastering the use of sound to bringing religion to the more physical classes. And let us not forget options of various levels of technology, from Steampunk, to tech which is science fiction even to Starfinder, to bringing forward old favorites from Pathfinder.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/462024/Enhanced-Mechanic?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Enhanced Mechanic</em></a>•</h3>
<p>Experience the new Enhanced mechanic—revised for balanced and easier play. This expansion includes several new and revised mechanic tricks, drone chassis, and drone mods.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/380221/Starfinder-Infinite-Adventure-Card-Game—Core-Set?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Starfinder Infinite Adventure Card Game—Core Set</em></a></h3>
<p>This is a brand-new adventure card game core set based on the award-winning first Starfinder adventure path, Dead Suns. This game uses the basic ruleset of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Core Set, but expands upon it in several ways, with new card types, mechanics, and characters. This download includes all of the rules necessary to play the Starfinder Adventure Card Game, a set of eight characters designed to be used with the game, and three full adventures based on the first three books of Dead Suns. </p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/471523/Starfinder-Mission-1-Only-Trying-to-Help?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Starfinder Mission 1: Only Trying to Help</em></a></h3>
<p>When the lights go out somewhere in Absalom Station, station staff already stretched thin find themselves unable to cope with a forced entry into the maintenance passages. Will the player characters be able to find out what went wrong and start to set things right?</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/376054/Starfinder-Infinite—A-Tail-of-Betrayal?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>A Tail of Betrayal</em></a></h3>
<p>In this standalone adventure, the players find themselves as prisoners trying to clear their name. They start their adventure competing in the fighting pits of Akiton in order to survive. Given a mission, will the heroes be able to purge their record of any wrong deeds and escape? What is the mission? How will they complete the task? Can they be sure others will keep up their end of the bargain? Can they track down the real criminals responsible and bring them to justice? bargain? Can they track down the real criminals responsible and bring them to justice?</p>
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<h2>New & Exciting from Infinite Masters!</h2>
<p>Want to see what’s been cooking in the Infinite Masters’ alchemy lab? Here’s a selection of new products from some of our Infinite Masters—and some pieces that have caught their eyes!</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/415864/Clerics?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Clerics+</em></a>—The expansion on Clerics from Team+ is now remastered!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/472266/Foam-and-Fortune-Adventures-In-Soap-Scum-Cove?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Foam and Fortune: Adventures in Soap Scum Cove</em></a>—A Pathfinder Second Edition Adventure for 5<sup>th</sup>level characters.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/472767/Interstellar-Species-Ogeir-Space-Ogres?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Interstellar Species: Ogeir (Space Ogres)</em></a>—A new playable species for Starfinder First Edition.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/472642/Together-with-Elements-Archetypes?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Together With Elements Archetypes</em></a>—12 new archetypes, 123 feats, and a bunch of elemental options!</li>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Infinite Top Performers—Feb ‘24</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Tuesday, March 26, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Welcome back to another exciting collection of Pathfinder Infinite & Starfinder Infinite Top Performers!</p>
<h2>What is Infinite?</h2>
<p>Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite is a program that allows you to create content (adventures and locations; monsters; character classes, archetypes, and backgrounds; fiction; etc.) based on Paizo’s intellectual property (IP), including Pathfinder’s Lost Omens campaign setting, and to make some money while you’re at it. Your work might even be recognized by the community and earn you an invitation into the Infinite Masters elite creator program.</p>
<p>For more info on Pathfinder Infinite, Starfinder Infinite, and how to get started, <a href="https://help.pathfinderinfinite.com/hc/en-us/categories/12777144310039-Community-Content-Creator-Questions">check out the FAQs</a>!</p>
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<h2>February’s Top Performers</h2>
<p>Titles are ranked by an average of units sold and revenue earned and 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!</p>
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<h2>Pathfinder Infinite Top Performers</h2>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/468381/The-ABCD-of-Edicts-and-Anathema?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>The ABCDs of Edicts and Anathema</em></a>•</h3>
<p>Dive deeper into the new system of Edicts and Anathema from the Pathfinder Second Edition remaster. Over 700 edicts and anathemas for the ABCD of character creation: Ancestry, Background, Class, Deity.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/470040/Faiths-Reward—Nethys?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Faith’s Reward—Nethys</em></a></h3>
<p>The All-Seeing Eye is often derisively referred to as the "god of wizards." While that's not entirely wrong, it isn't exactly <em>right</em>, either. <em>Faith's Reward—Nethys</em> examines the influence of Nethys as the god of magic, including new spells, new feats, new items, new archetypes, and a new spell research subsystem to allow you to build or modify spells!</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/470978/Godsrain-Contingencies?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Godsrain Contingencies</em></a></h3>
<p>When Yivali held death in her talons, she feared delivering such terrible warning without also hope. Included in her annotations was research into <strong>what the world might become</strong> if each god’s death were to occur, and thus what <strong>contingencies could be made</strong>.</p>
<p>This product contains a <strong>handful of player options for each scenario</strong>. While there is a primary focus on the fall out for followers of each god, there are options for many types of players. The <strong>centerpiece is the </strong><em>return to service </em><strong>ritual</strong> and how <strong>each god’s death leads to which potential successor gods</strong>, what that new relationship looks like, and providing which potential benefits.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/465460/Kitsune-of-Golarion-Remastered?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Kitsune of Golarion Remastered</em></a>•</h3>
<p>Providing an in-depth expansion of Pathfinder Second Edition's vulpine ancestry, <em>Kitsune of Golarion Remastered</em> provides players and GMs alike with everything they need to make this vibrant ancestry of shape shifting fox folk feel at home in the Age of Lost Omens. Based on Gold Best-Selling product <a href="https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/381454/Kitsune-of-Golarion"><strong><em>Kitsune of Golarion</em></strong></a>, this product aims to not only remaster, but redefine the content from this original offering into an indispensable product for the entire table, tailless or not.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/460420/Player-Core-1-Expanded?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Player Core 1 Expanded</em></a>•</h3>
<p>Has inspiration struck, but <em>Player Core 1</em> doesn't have a subclass to fit? Whether you are looking for a Cleric spy, a swaggering Rogue, or a Druid with a will of steel, you will find myriad options within, made by 4 Infinite Masters and specially tuned for the PF2e Remaster! Feats, subclasses, focus spells, and more for the classes of <em>Player Core 1</em>.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/1c08103a-5da0-45d2-92a3-f5ad42d54d74/SF_Infinite_Mar24.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/1c08103a-5da0-45d2-92a3-f5ad42d54d74/SF_Infinite_Mar24.png" hspace="5" width="90%" alt="A spread of the covers of the Starfinder Infinite Top Performers." ></a>
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<h2>Starfinder Infinite Top Performers</h2>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/465720/A-Lurkers-Subclasses-Vol-III?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>A Lurker’s Subclasses, Vol III</em></a>•</h3>
<p>A wide variety of subclasses, feats, and alternate class options—whether it comes from mastering the use of sound to bringing religion to the more physical classes. And let us not forget options of various levels of technology, from Steampunk, to tech which is science fiction even to Starfinder, to bringing forward old favorites from Pathfinder.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/462024/Enhanced-Mechanic?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Enhanced Mechanic</em></a>•</h3>
<p>Experience the new Enhanced mechanic—revised for balanced and easier play. This expansion includes several new and revised mechanic tricks, drone chassis, and drone mods.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/380221/Starfinder-Infinite-Adventure-Card-Game—Core-Set?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Starfinder Infinite Adventure Card Game—Core Set</em></a></h3>
<p>This is a brand-new adventure card game core set based on the award-winning first Starfinder adventure path, Dead Suns. This game uses the basic ruleset of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Core Set, but expands upon it in several ways, with new card types, mechanics, and characters. This download includes all of the rules necessary to play the Starfinder Adventure Card Game, a set of eight characters designed to be used with the game, and three full adventures based on the first three books of Dead Suns. </p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/471523/Starfinder-Mission-1-Only-Trying-to-Help?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Starfinder Mission 1: Only Trying to Help</em></a></h3>
<p>When the lights go out somewhere in Absalom Station, station staff already stretched thin find themselves unable to cope with a forced entry into the maintenance passages. Will the player characters be able to find out what went wrong and start to set things right?</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/376054/Starfinder-Infinite—A-Tail-of-Betrayal?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>A Tail of Betrayal</em></a></h3>
<p>In this standalone adventure, the players find themselves as prisoners trying to clear their name. They start their adventure competing in the fighting pits of Akiton in order to survive. Given a mission, will the heroes be able to purge their record of any wrong deeds and escape? What is the mission? How will they complete the task? Can they be sure others will keep up their end of the bargain? Can they track down the real criminals responsible and bring them to justice? bargain? Can they track down the real criminals responsible and bring them to justice?</p>
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<h2>New & Exciting from Infinite Masters!</h2>
<p>Want to see what’s been cooking in the Infinite Masters’ alchemy lab? Here’s a selection of new products from some of our Infinite Masters—and some pieces that have caught their eyes!</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/415864/Clerics?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Clerics+</em></a>—The expansion on Clerics from Team+ is now remastered!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/472266/Foam-and-Fortune-Adventures-In-Soap-Scum-Cove?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Foam and Fortune: Adventures in Soap Scum Cove</em></a>—A Pathfinder Second Edition Adventure for 5<sup>th</sup>level characters.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/472767/Interstellar-Species-Ogeir-Space-Ogres?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Interstellar Species: Ogeir (Space Ogres)</em></a>—A new playable species for Starfinder First Edition.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/472642/Together-with-Elements-Archetypes?affiliate_id=2791261"><em>Together With Elements Archetypes</em></a>—12 new archetypes, 123 feats, and a bunch of elemental options!</li>
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<p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinder">Pathfinder</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderInfinite">Pathfinder Infinite</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderRoleplayingGame">Pathfinder Roleplaying Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSecondEdition">Pathfinder Second Edition</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/starfinder">Starfinder</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/starfinderInfinite">Starfinder Infinite</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/starfinderRoleplayingGame">Starfinder Roleplaying Game</a></p>2024-03-26T21:00:00ZTian Xia Days: The Dead Eat Firsthttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sijf?Tian-Xia-Days-The-Dead-Eat-First2024-03-26T17:00:00Z<article>
<h1 itemprop="headline">Tian Xia Days: The Dead Eat First</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Tuesday, March 26, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">It’s 30 minutes until midnight and the river’s delta is gleaming with bits of gold dust coming off the tips of the fires scattered about. Dragon-tailed lanterns illuminate the paths as multi-generational families recount raucous stories.</p>
<p>Overheard, a gravelly voice mixed with sincerity comes from an elderly kobold: “Do you remember that time when...”</p>
<p>Cut off, an innocent yet bright voice coming from a toddler yells, “We’ve already gone over this, ông nội! I wasn’t even born yet! You and grandma met <em>ages</em> ago...!”</p>
<p>A family of seven bursts out into loud laughter as they filter into the streets, seamlessly mixing in with the noises of carts carrying crafts and garments, silks and spices; from afar, melodies of wood, wind, and percussion firmly grace the air.</p>
<p>It’s the second day of the Festival of the Loss: Xa Hoi’s yearly celebration of the lives of the recently deceased, but also the ancestors that have been watching over the collective for centuries.</p>
<p>Bordering each side of the river, home cooks, restaurant chefs, and food stall owners squat, cooking fragrant foods on portable stoves and fires. Closer to the water are tables draped with lucky red fabric, used year after year, dishes placed carefully. The food is surrounded by burning incense that wafts up to the heavens:</p>
<p>· Pillowy, perfectly cooked rice next to crisped, barbecued game glazed with a translucent, sweet red sauce that reflects all the lanterns and lights.</p>
<p>· Bowls of fragrant broth, simmered for a full day prior to pull the flavor from livestock bones and aromatics into the perfect infusion, filled with tender noodles and garnished with fresh herbs.</p>
<p>· Beautiful golden pancakes still sizzling on the griddle, loaded with glowing leaves and minced meat, folded into half-moon parcels.</p>
<p>· Rice paper rolls stuffed to the brim with fresh vegetables, herbs, noodles, and steamed prawns caught and delivered just the morning prior, served next to a sweet, crunchy peanut sauce.</p>
<p>· A three-layered bean and jelly parfait drizzled with a viscous cream, multicolored glutinous rice dumplings in a ginger syrup, and big, round fried pastries covered with seeds, filled with a mixture of locally harvested sweet beans.</p>
<p>Yet, no one has approached the tablescape. Though outsiders might be curious why this mile-long spread adorning the riverside isn’t being touched, for the people of Xa Hoi, it’s because it’s tradition. You see, the dead always eat first.</p>
<p>Legends have been told of ancestors who moved to the afterlife and existed miserably because they were forgotten. Instead of joining those who've moved on peacefully to look over their family’s health and luck, these now-lost souls are cursed for eternity. Wondering why their families have forgotten them they manifest as bad luck, nightmares, or even come to our mortal plane themselves, seeking attention and respect.</p>
<p>This is why the dead always eat first. The meals are put out under the full moon of the Festival of the Loss to invite those who protect Xa Hoi to join in celebration, feast, and remembrance.</p>
<div class="blurbCenter">
<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/a7d66f46-d011-4b3d-84f5-5431aebd861f/PZO13001_XaHoi_Opener_2700x1800.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/a7d66f46-d011-4b3d-84f5-5431aebd861f/PZO13001_XaHoi_Opener_2700x1800.png" width="90%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="humans, kobolds, and nagaji relax in boats and on the docks by a river, lit by festival lanterns and glowing flowers at night"></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Illustration by Luis Salas Lastra</p>
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<p>As the hour and minute hand of clocks join at midnight, there’s one more moment of silence. A single, unified prayer. One big breath inhaled together with hands pressed close to the hearts—families are sending final well-wishes to their loved ones. Then, as if on cue, the chaotic symphony of music and laughter and joyous conversation rises back to fill the streets along the river as families take turns making their plates and enjoying the delicious, jubilant dinner.</p>
<p>As some folks go back for seconds, many start making their way toward the center of the city of Ngon Hoa, where the rivers meet. Shining brighter than the lanterns that line the river, a stage next to the water is covered with vibrant tapestries lined with golden trim. Embroidered into the curtains are stitched portraits of dragons and warriors and empresses and flowers, seamlessly flowing into each other like scenes from a play, draping across the fabric.</p>
<p>Though performers have been rotating throughout the night, in and out of the larger festival grounds, with lighter crowds watching and cheering them on, now, people start to enter en masse, staking their place on the damp, grassy ground with blankets and stools to see the annual water puppetry show, Múa rối nước. On stage, the orchestra sets up gongs, wooden flutes, drums, chimes, and string instruments rarely seen outside of Xa Hoi. At the stage’s edge, closest to the water, lie ornate hand-carved wooden puppets, ranging from humans to dragons, merfolk, and nagaji, mirroring the crowd that has gathered around.</p>
<p>The spotlights bolt up and down, right to left, finally converging to shine over the river, and the water seems to slow down. The Sorcerer Storytellers rise enchantingly from below the surface and begin the show to roaring applause. They recount stories over the water to tell of this year’s troubles and successes, their magic manipulating not only the puppets from the stage, but shaping the water itself with swipes of their hands like a timeless dance that’s both familiar and not from this world. Their silken garments, meticulously crafted by masterful seamstresses, almost seem to enhance their dragon-blooded magic, each embroidered stitch exuding small glimmers of light as they perform. Dramatic scenes reenact wars with swelling, cacophonous music and powerful imagery, these darker moments interwoven with flashes of occasional victorious triumphs while plumes of water fly high to the sky in unison with the music.</p>
<p>As the show ends with a magnificent finale, swirls of iridescent water whipping around in a display of elegant magic, the festivities start to wane. At a glance across the river, the ornate and lavish outfits start to dwindle as workers change into their ordinary uniforms. The next day's tasks still must be done. The incense has burned down to the bottom, leaving small piles of gray ash at the base of ceramic bowls. Performers start packing up their instruments and tear down their festival stages. Carts that once held celebratory candies and toys are stowed away for household wares and common fabrics—the tables’ lucky red clothes are folded up and stored for next year’s celebration, too. Farmers head back toward their plots to tend to the crops and livestock. Store owners start opening shops for the last few hours before the sun starts to rise once more in Xa Hoi.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px">About the Author</p>
<p>Danny Quach (he/him) is a tabletop marketing professional by day and the internet’s emotional support himbo by night. He’s the author of <a href="http://digitalthiccness.substack.com/">Digital Thiccness</a>, a substack dedicated to making information about marketing, social media trends, and building digital communities as accessible as possible, sprinkled with personal musings and projects and pop culture through a queer lens. When he’s not writing and collaborating on <a href="https://digitalthiccness.substack.com/p/portfolio">TTRPG projects</a>, Danny can be found lifting heavy things, eating tasty things, watching scary movies, and listening to 2000s emo/screamo music. Follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/br00taldan">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@br00taldan">TikTok</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/br00taldan/">Instagram</a>.</p>
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<p>To bring this and other Tian Xia stories to life in your Pathfinder game, check out the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex6?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Tian-Xia-World-Guide">Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia World Guide</a> (releasing in April) and the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02etu?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Tian-Xia-Character-Guide">Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia Character Guide</a> (releasing in August), both available for preorder now—Customers who <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy80ie?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Subscription">subscribe to the Lost Omens product line</a> will receive both books and a complimentary PDF of each upon their respective release!</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Tian Xia Days: The Dead Eat First</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Tuesday, March 26, 2024</p>
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<blockquote>
<p itemprop="description">It’s 30 minutes until midnight and the river’s delta is gleaming with bits of gold dust coming off the tips of the fires scattered about. Dragon-tailed lanterns illuminate the paths as multi-generational families recount raucous stories.</p>
<p>Overheard, a gravelly voice mixed with sincerity comes from an elderly kobold: “Do you remember that time when...”</p>
<p>Cut off, an innocent yet bright voice coming from a toddler yells, “We’ve already gone over this, ông nội! I wasn’t even born yet! You and grandma met <em>ages</em> ago...!”</p>
<p>A family of seven bursts out into loud laughter as they filter into the streets, seamlessly mixing in with the noises of carts carrying crafts and garments, silks and spices; from afar, melodies of wood, wind, and percussion firmly grace the air.</p>
<p>It’s the second day of the Festival of the Loss: Xa Hoi’s yearly celebration of the lives of the recently deceased, but also the ancestors that have been watching over the collective for centuries.</p>
<p>Bordering each side of the river, home cooks, restaurant chefs, and food stall owners squat, cooking fragrant foods on portable stoves and fires. Closer to the water are tables draped with lucky red fabric, used year after year, dishes placed carefully. The food is surrounded by burning incense that wafts up to the heavens:</p>
<p>· Pillowy, perfectly cooked rice next to crisped, barbecued game glazed with a translucent, sweet red sauce that reflects all the lanterns and lights.</p>
<p>· Bowls of fragrant broth, simmered for a full day prior to pull the flavor from livestock bones and aromatics into the perfect infusion, filled with tender noodles and garnished with fresh herbs.</p>
<p>· Beautiful golden pancakes still sizzling on the griddle, loaded with glowing leaves and minced meat, folded into half-moon parcels.</p>
<p>· Rice paper rolls stuffed to the brim with fresh vegetables, herbs, noodles, and steamed prawns caught and delivered just the morning prior, served next to a sweet, crunchy peanut sauce.</p>
<p>· A three-layered bean and jelly parfait drizzled with a viscous cream, multicolored glutinous rice dumplings in a ginger syrup, and big, round fried pastries covered with seeds, filled with a mixture of locally harvested sweet beans.</p>
<p>Yet, no one has approached the tablescape. Though outsiders might be curious why this mile-long spread adorning the riverside isn’t being touched, for the people of Xa Hoi, it’s because it’s tradition. You see, the dead always eat first.</p>
<p>Legends have been told of ancestors who moved to the afterlife and existed miserably because they were forgotten. Instead of joining those who've moved on peacefully to look over their family’s health and luck, these now-lost souls are cursed for eternity. Wondering why their families have forgotten them they manifest as bad luck, nightmares, or even come to our mortal plane themselves, seeking attention and respect.</p>
<p>This is why the dead always eat first. The meals are put out under the full moon of the Festival of the Loss to invite those who protect Xa Hoi to join in celebration, feast, and remembrance.</p>
<div class="blurbCenter">
<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/a7d66f46-d011-4b3d-84f5-5431aebd861f/PZO13001_XaHoi_Opener_2700x1800.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/a7d66f46-d011-4b3d-84f5-5431aebd861f/PZO13001_XaHoi_Opener_2700x1800.png" width="90%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="humans, kobolds, and nagaji relax in boats and on the docks by a river, lit by festival lanterns and glowing flowers at night"></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Illustration by Luis Salas Lastra</p>
</div> <br>
<p>As the hour and minute hand of clocks join at midnight, there’s one more moment of silence. A single, unified prayer. One big breath inhaled together with hands pressed close to the hearts—families are sending final well-wishes to their loved ones. Then, as if on cue, the chaotic symphony of music and laughter and joyous conversation rises back to fill the streets along the river as families take turns making their plates and enjoying the delicious, jubilant dinner.</p>
<p>As some folks go back for seconds, many start making their way toward the center of the city of Ngon Hoa, where the rivers meet. Shining brighter than the lanterns that line the river, a stage next to the water is covered with vibrant tapestries lined with golden trim. Embroidered into the curtains are stitched portraits of dragons and warriors and empresses and flowers, seamlessly flowing into each other like scenes from a play, draping across the fabric.</p>
<p>Though performers have been rotating throughout the night, in and out of the larger festival grounds, with lighter crowds watching and cheering them on, now, people start to enter en masse, staking their place on the damp, grassy ground with blankets and stools to see the annual water puppetry show, Múa rối nước. On stage, the orchestra sets up gongs, wooden flutes, drums, chimes, and string instruments rarely seen outside of Xa Hoi. At the stage’s edge, closest to the water, lie ornate hand-carved wooden puppets, ranging from humans to dragons, merfolk, and nagaji, mirroring the crowd that has gathered around.</p>
<p>The spotlights bolt up and down, right to left, finally converging to shine over the river, and the water seems to slow down. The Sorcerer Storytellers rise enchantingly from below the surface and begin the show to roaring applause. They recount stories over the water to tell of this year’s troubles and successes, their magic manipulating not only the puppets from the stage, but shaping the water itself with swipes of their hands like a timeless dance that’s both familiar and not from this world. Their silken garments, meticulously crafted by masterful seamstresses, almost seem to enhance their dragon-blooded magic, each embroidered stitch exuding small glimmers of light as they perform. Dramatic scenes reenact wars with swelling, cacophonous music and powerful imagery, these darker moments interwoven with flashes of occasional victorious triumphs while plumes of water fly high to the sky in unison with the music.</p>
<p>As the show ends with a magnificent finale, swirls of iridescent water whipping around in a display of elegant magic, the festivities start to wane. At a glance across the river, the ornate and lavish outfits start to dwindle as workers change into their ordinary uniforms. The next day's tasks still must be done. The incense has burned down to the bottom, leaving small piles of gray ash at the base of ceramic bowls. Performers start packing up their instruments and tear down their festival stages. Carts that once held celebratory candies and toys are stowed away for household wares and common fabrics—the tables’ lucky red clothes are folded up and stored for next year’s celebration, too. Farmers head back toward their plots to tend to the crops and livestock. Store owners start opening shops for the last few hours before the sun starts to rise once more in Xa Hoi.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px">About the Author</p>
<p>Danny Quach (he/him) is a tabletop marketing professional by day and the internet’s emotional support himbo by night. He’s the author of <a href="http://digitalthiccness.substack.com/">Digital Thiccness</a>, a substack dedicated to making information about marketing, social media trends, and building digital communities as accessible as possible, sprinkled with personal musings and projects and pop culture through a queer lens. When he’s not writing and collaborating on <a href="https://digitalthiccness.substack.com/p/portfolio">TTRPG projects</a>, Danny can be found lifting heavy things, eating tasty things, watching scary movies, and listening to 2000s emo/screamo music. Follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/br00taldan">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@br00taldan">TikTok</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/br00taldan/">Instagram</a>.</p>
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<p>To bring this and other Tian Xia stories to life in your Pathfinder game, check out the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex6?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Tian-Xia-World-Guide">Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia World Guide</a> (releasing in April) and the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02etu?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Tian-Xia-Character-Guide">Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia Character Guide</a> (releasing in August), both available for preorder now—Customers who <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy80ie?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Subscription">subscribe to the Lost Omens product line</a> will receive both books and a complimentary PDF of each upon their respective release!</p>
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<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, November 09, 2023</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Are you ready for the return of PaizoCon Online 2024? Join us Memorial Day weekend, May 24th–27th, as we once again bring events to your screen with an amazing long weekend of panels, giveaways, and, of course, gaming!</p>
<p>If you’re new to Pathfinder or Starfinder, PaizoCon is an annual weekend-long event where we celebrate our team, our community, gaming, and all things Paizo!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/eaf17253-b60e-4079-93f1-2b5ec6215bb2/PaizoConOnlinelogo2024_700x500.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/eaf17253-b60e-4079-93f1-2b5ec6215bb2/PaizoConOnlinelogo2024_700x500.png" width="550px" style="padding: 10px;" alt="PaizoCon Online 2024: Save The Date: May 24th through the 27th"></a>
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<p>Like last year, parts of the show you know and love will remain free, but we’re continuing to have a ticketed event with community-run games and activities at the same time!</p>
<p>What to look forward to this year!</p>
<p>Some of you may have attended conventions hosted on Tabletop Events before, but many of us have not! If you haven’t, here’s how to get your badge for the show.</p>
<ol>
<li>Visit the convention page at <a href="https://tabletop.events/conventions/paizocon-online-2024"><strong>https://tabletop.events/conventions/paizocon-online-2024</strong></a> (also linked at paizocon.com).</li>
<li>Click “Get/View Your Badge” under Attend in the top menu bar OR click “Buy Badges” on the right side of the screen.</li>
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<li>There should be one badge type listed: the Attendee badge. Click the green “Buy” button.</li>
<li>Enter your first and last name, as well as your Discord username. Your Discord username will <strong>never</strong> be shared publicly, and is just so we can assign you special roles on the Paizo Events Discord server.</li>
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<li>On this screen, you can also purchase a badge for a friend! Information on adding and purchasing badges for friends can be found <a href="https://help.tabletop.events/article/122-friends">on this page</a>.</li>
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<li>Click “Add to Cart” when you’ve finished entering your information. Once you have all your badges in the cart, click Checkout.</li>
<li>Follow the instructions to enter your credit card information, and you’ll be all set! Welcome to PaizoCon Online 2024!</li>
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<h2>Submitting Community Events</h2>
<p>New this year, the community is able to submit events for inclusion in the PaizoCon Online schedule! These can be RPG events featuring Pathfinder or Starfinder, as well as other systems or even other types of games entirely! Want to introduce people to your favorite indie RPG? Looking for players for the new board game you just bought? Finally want to settle who the best Mario Karter in the community is? You can host all these events and more!</p>
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<li>From the PaizoCon convention page, go to “Host” in the top bar, then click “Submissions.”</li>
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<li>Click “New Submission” and choose an event type. For this explainer we’ll be using an RPG event, but most events will ask for the same or similar information.</li>
<li>Fill in the requested information! Let the staff and prospective attendees know as much as you can about the event you’re submitting. Once you’ve filled in the information, click Create!</li>
<li>After submission, staff will review events and either approve them (adding them to the schedule), contact you for more information, or reject them. We reserve the right to reject events for any reason.</li>
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<p>You can submit events any time before <strong>May 24, 2024</strong>. However, if you want your event to be on the schedule before it initially gets released, it must be submitted by <strong>March 28, 2024.</strong></p>
<p>If you have any questions about event submission, please reach out to us at <a href="mailto:paizocon@paizo.com">paizocon@paizo.com</a>.</p>
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<h2>Other Activities</h2>
<h3>Portfolio Reviews</h3>
<p>After the success of last year’s Friday portfolio reviews, the Art team has added an extra day onto their review schedule! Portfolio reviews will remain free on a first-come, first-served sign up basis, but this year we’re giving ticket purchasers the chance to sign up early.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in having your writing samples reviewed, we’re also offering writing reviews on Friday and Saturday this year as well!<br /><br /></p>
<p>Stay tuned for more information and registration in the coming weeks!</p>
<h3>Livestreams</h3>
<p>Get ready for a weekend full of fantastic livestream programming including seminars, interviews, liveplays, and the annual weekend opening keynote on the <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/officialpaizo">Official Paizo Twitch channel</a>!</p>
<p>Stay tuned for the full stream and activity schedule coming soon!</p>
<h3>Friends of Paizo:</h3>
<p>We’ll once again be joined by multiple friends of Paizo in the Discord this year! Chat with, ask questions of, and learn more about the amazing work of teams like BKOM Studios, Foundry VTT, Roll20, and more!</p>
<p>Last year’s convention was entirely online, but this year we’re introducing <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sih9">PaizoCon@!</a> Our new pilot program allows you to experience PaizoCon in person with your fellow Pathfinders and Starfinders at participating local game stores! Check back <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sih9">on this blog</a> to learn more.</p>
<p>We look forward to seeing you all online this year! Stay tuned for more updates and announcements about PaizoCon 2024!</p>
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<center><h3><strong><a href="https://tabletop.events/conventions/paizocon-online-2024">Get your tickets for PaizoCon Online 2024 today!</a></strong></h3></center>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Get Your Tickets for PaizoCon Online 2024!</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, November 09, 2023</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Are you ready for the return of PaizoCon Online 2024? Join us Memorial Day weekend, May 24th–27th, as we once again bring events to your screen with an amazing long weekend of panels, giveaways, and, of course, gaming!</p>
<p>If you’re new to Pathfinder or Starfinder, PaizoCon is an annual weekend-long event where we celebrate our team, our community, gaming, and all things Paizo!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/eaf17253-b60e-4079-93f1-2b5ec6215bb2/PaizoConOnlinelogo2024_700x500.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/eaf17253-b60e-4079-93f1-2b5ec6215bb2/PaizoConOnlinelogo2024_700x500.png" width="550px" style="padding: 10px;" alt="PaizoCon Online 2024: Save The Date: May 24th through the 27th"></a>
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<p>Like last year, parts of the show you know and love will remain free, but we’re continuing to have a ticketed event with community-run games and activities at the same time!</p>
<p>What to look forward to this year!</p>
<p>Some of you may have attended conventions hosted on Tabletop Events before, but many of us have not! If you haven’t, here’s how to get your badge for the show.</p>
<ol>
<li>Visit the convention page at <a href="https://tabletop.events/conventions/paizocon-online-2024"><strong>https://tabletop.events/conventions/paizocon-online-2024</strong></a> (also linked at paizocon.com).</li>
<li>Click “Get/View Your Badge” under Attend in the top menu bar OR click “Buy Badges” on the right side of the screen.</li>
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<li>There should be one badge type listed: the Attendee badge. Click the green “Buy” button.</li>
<li>Enter your first and last name, as well as your Discord username. Your Discord username will <strong>never</strong> be shared publicly, and is just so we can assign you special roles on the Paizo Events Discord server.</li>
<ul>
<li>On this screen, you can also purchase a badge for a friend! Information on adding and purchasing badges for friends can be found <a href="https://help.tabletop.events/article/122-friends">on this page</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/87d7107d-8ed1-4f9c-89ac-d64c1e621c08/PaizoCon2024Tickets_Picture2.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/87d7107d-8ed1-4f9c-89ac-d64c1e621c08/PaizoCon2024Tickets_Picture2.png" width="700px" style="padding: 10px;" alt="PaizoCon on Tabletop.Events Ticket purchasing screenshots"></a>
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<li>Click “Add to Cart” when you’ve finished entering your information. Once you have all your badges in the cart, click Checkout.</li>
<li>Follow the instructions to enter your credit card information, and you’ll be all set! Welcome to PaizoCon Online 2024!</li>
</ol>
<br>
<h2>Submitting Community Events</h2>
<p>New this year, the community is able to submit events for inclusion in the PaizoCon Online schedule! These can be RPG events featuring Pathfinder or Starfinder, as well as other systems or even other types of games entirely! Want to introduce people to your favorite indie RPG? Looking for players for the new board game you just bought? Finally want to settle who the best Mario Karter in the community is? You can host all these events and more!</p>
<ol>
<li>From the PaizoCon convention page, go to “Host” in the top bar, then click “Submissions.”</li>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/45422305-2cfe-41d6-8398-650a067309c0/PaizoCon2024Tickets_Picture3.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/45422305-2cfe-41d6-8398-650a067309c0/PaizoCon2024Tickets_Picture3.png" width="700px" style="padding: 10px;" alt="PaizoCon on Tabletop.Events Ticket purchasing screenshots"></a>
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<li>Click “New Submission” and choose an event type. For this explainer we’ll be using an RPG event, but most events will ask for the same or similar information.</li>
<li>Fill in the requested information! Let the staff and prospective attendees know as much as you can about the event you’re submitting. Once you’ve filled in the information, click Create!</li>
<li>After submission, staff will review events and either approve them (adding them to the schedule), contact you for more information, or reject them. We reserve the right to reject events for any reason.</li>
</ol>
<p>You can submit events any time before <strong>May 24, 2024</strong>. However, if you want your event to be on the schedule before it initially gets released, it must be submitted by <strong>March 28, 2024.</strong></p>
<p>If you have any questions about event submission, please reach out to us at <a href="mailto:paizocon@paizo.com">paizocon@paizo.com</a>.</p>
<br>
<h2>Other Activities</h2>
<h3>Portfolio Reviews</h3>
<p>After the success of last year’s Friday portfolio reviews, the Art team has added an extra day onto their review schedule! Portfolio reviews will remain free on a first-come, first-served sign up basis, but this year we’re giving ticket purchasers the chance to sign up early.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in having your writing samples reviewed, we’re also offering writing reviews on Friday and Saturday this year as well!<br /><br /></p>
<p>Stay tuned for more information and registration in the coming weeks!</p>
<h3>Livestreams</h3>
<p>Get ready for a weekend full of fantastic livestream programming including seminars, interviews, liveplays, and the annual weekend opening keynote on the <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/officialpaizo">Official Paizo Twitch channel</a>!</p>
<p>Stay tuned for the full stream and activity schedule coming soon!</p>
<h3>Friends of Paizo:</h3>
<p>We’ll once again be joined by multiple friends of Paizo in the Discord this year! Chat with, ask questions of, and learn more about the amazing work of teams like BKOM Studios, Foundry VTT, Roll20, and more!</p>
<p>Last year’s convention was entirely online, but this year we’re introducing <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sih9">PaizoCon@!</a> Our new pilot program allows you to experience PaizoCon in person with your fellow Pathfinders and Starfinders at participating local game stores! Check back <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sih9">on this blog</a> to learn more.</p>
<p>We look forward to seeing you all online this year! Stay tuned for more updates and announcements about PaizoCon 2024!</p>
<br>
<center><h3><strong><a href="https://tabletop.events/conventions/paizocon-online-2024">Get your tickets for PaizoCon Online 2024 today!</a></strong></h3></center>
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</article> <p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/conventions">Conventions</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/organizedPlay">Organized Play</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/paizo">Paizo</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/conventions/paizocon">PaizoCon</a></p>2024-03-22T17:30:00ZMarch Digital Adventure Previewshttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sijb?March-Digital-Adventure-Previews2024-03-21T21:00:00Z<article>
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<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 21, 2024</p>
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<p>Hello, Starfinders!</p>
<p itemprop="description">Venture-Captain Naiaj is recruiting experienced agents for a highly classified mission. While details are scarce, whispered rumors circulating through the Lorespire Complex claim this is an undercover rescue mission slated to occur in the Azlanti Star Empire. Sounds dangerous!</p>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exa?Starfinder-Society-Scenario-615-Extraction-from-Azlanti-Space"><em>Starfinder Society Scenario #6-15: Extraction from Azlanti Space</em></a> is an adventure for 11th- through 14th-level characters written by Quinn Murphy.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/54057e1d-a32e-45f5-ba54-6cf569774236/PZOSFS0615_MOHAUL_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/54057e1d-a32e-45f5-ba54-6cf569774236/PZOSFS0615_MOHAUL_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="A meek looking screedeep smiles nervously."></a>
<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/a6bd7d7f-b8af-4736-bd42-efa0617e456f/AlanaEledin_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/a6bd7d7f-b8af-4736-bd42-efa0617e456f/AlanaEledin_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="A determined damai woman examines a holographic interface on her wrist."></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Left to right, illustrations by Nicolas Espinoza and Lucas Fernando</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, on the gas giant Liavara, a team of desperate fortune seekers have stolen a derelict mining platform and descended deep into the planet’s depths, to the limit of the structure, on the hunt for valuable gases. Reactivating the maneuvering systems on the old rig sent out an alert and now a Confluence Agent has assembled a team of deep pressure specialists to retrieve the mining rig and learn what sent it plunging into the clouds.</p>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exb?Starfinder-Bounty-12-Under-Pressure"><em>Starfinder Bounty #12: Under Pressure</em></a> is a short adventure for 4th-level characters written by Simone D. Sallé.</p>
<p>Take care, Starfinders!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Jessica Catalan<br />
<em>Starfinder Society Developer</em><br /></p>
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<p>Greetings once again, Pathfinders!</p>
<p>This month we’re diving deep into the Maze of the Open Road with two scenarios set inside that bizarre extraplanar transport hub. Between the return of two elemental planes and the efforts to stabilize the maze’s magic by setting new exits and entrances, it seems like some uninvited guests have made it in.</p>
<p>First off, someone is sending agents astray. Landmarks and signposts are being moved around, fog is leading people off course, and other similar happenings are causing agents to exit at entirely wrong locations. While no one has been hurt, Venture-Captain Sigvard Tornkvist is at her wits end with these endless mix-ups. It’ll be up to you to find out what’s behind these odd pranks and put a stop to them. But who knows what could be behind all of this? I do have it on good authority that, if you play your cards right, you might end up in a dance-off.</p>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex8/discuss?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-512-Mischief-in-the-Maze#1"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-12: Mischief in the Maze</em></a> is an adventure for 1st- through 4th-level characters written by Mikko Kallio. What’s more, since you can never have enough mischief, it’s repeatable.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/f337be45-9800-44c1-99ae-3929d758b626/PZOPFS0512_NARVENSSTATUE_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/f337be45-9800-44c1-99ae-3929d758b626/PZOPFS0512_NARVENSSTATUE_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="An immense stone statue of a bearded druid king has a garland of freshly picked red flowers sitting atop its head"></a>
<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/5d9c921e-3e09-456b-9f25-fd5176454d04/PZOPFS0513_GEDUN_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/5d9c921e-3e09-456b-9f25-fd5176454d04/PZOPFS0513_GEDUN_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Gedun walks by confidently with a swing in their step and a bag on their back."></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Both illustrations by Bruno Cesar</p>
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<p>Meanwhile on the other end of the Maze of the Open Road, Gregaro Voth sends agents out to deliver an important letter to Ambrus Valsin, only for those lovable thieves Gedun and Yeyacha from this year’s intro to pop up and accidentally break the planar keys holding the Maze in place! It’s up to you and your party to retune the keys and help anyone else who might have gotten caught up in the elemental chaos. Let’s hope that whatever Gedun and Yeyacha stole this time isn’t something super valuable to someone super powerful…</p>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex9?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-513-Thick-as-Thieves"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-13: Thick as Thieves</em></a> is an adventure for 5th- through 8th-level characters written by Caryn DiMarco.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Josh Foster<br />
<em>Pathfinder Society Developer</em><br /></p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Shay Snow<br />
<em>Pathfinder Society Developer</em><br /></p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">March Digital Adventure Previews</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 21, 2024</p>
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<p>Hello, Starfinders!</p>
<p itemprop="description">Venture-Captain Naiaj is recruiting experienced agents for a highly classified mission. While details are scarce, whispered rumors circulating through the Lorespire Complex claim this is an undercover rescue mission slated to occur in the Azlanti Star Empire. Sounds dangerous!</p>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exa?Starfinder-Society-Scenario-615-Extraction-from-Azlanti-Space"><em>Starfinder Society Scenario #6-15: Extraction from Azlanti Space</em></a> is an adventure for 11th- through 14th-level characters written by Quinn Murphy.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/54057e1d-a32e-45f5-ba54-6cf569774236/PZOSFS0615_MOHAUL_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/54057e1d-a32e-45f5-ba54-6cf569774236/PZOSFS0615_MOHAUL_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="A meek looking screedeep smiles nervously."></a>
<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/a6bd7d7f-b8af-4736-bd42-efa0617e456f/AlanaEledin_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/a6bd7d7f-b8af-4736-bd42-efa0617e456f/AlanaEledin_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="A determined damai woman examines a holographic interface on her wrist."></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Left to right, illustrations by Nicolas Espinoza and Lucas Fernando</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, on the gas giant Liavara, a team of desperate fortune seekers have stolen a derelict mining platform and descended deep into the planet’s depths, to the limit of the structure, on the hunt for valuable gases. Reactivating the maneuvering systems on the old rig sent out an alert and now a Confluence Agent has assembled a team of deep pressure specialists to retrieve the mining rig and learn what sent it plunging into the clouds.</p>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exb?Starfinder-Bounty-12-Under-Pressure"><em>Starfinder Bounty #12: Under Pressure</em></a> is a short adventure for 4th-level characters written by Simone D. Sallé.</p>
<p>Take care, Starfinders!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Jessica Catalan<br />
<em>Starfinder Society Developer</em><br /></p>
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<p>Greetings once again, Pathfinders!</p>
<p>This month we’re diving deep into the Maze of the Open Road with two scenarios set inside that bizarre extraplanar transport hub. Between the return of two elemental planes and the efforts to stabilize the maze’s magic by setting new exits and entrances, it seems like some uninvited guests have made it in.</p>
<p>First off, someone is sending agents astray. Landmarks and signposts are being moved around, fog is leading people off course, and other similar happenings are causing agents to exit at entirely wrong locations. While no one has been hurt, Venture-Captain Sigvard Tornkvist is at her wits end with these endless mix-ups. It’ll be up to you to find out what’s behind these odd pranks and put a stop to them. But who knows what could be behind all of this? I do have it on good authority that, if you play your cards right, you might end up in a dance-off.</p>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex8/discuss?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-512-Mischief-in-the-Maze#1"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-12: Mischief in the Maze</em></a> is an adventure for 1st- through 4th-level characters written by Mikko Kallio. What’s more, since you can never have enough mischief, it’s repeatable.</p>
<div class="blurbCenter">
<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/f337be45-9800-44c1-99ae-3929d758b626/PZOPFS0512_NARVENSSTATUE_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/f337be45-9800-44c1-99ae-3929d758b626/PZOPFS0512_NARVENSSTATUE_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="An immense stone statue of a bearded druid king has a garland of freshly picked red flowers sitting atop its head"></a>
<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/5d9c921e-3e09-456b-9f25-fd5176454d04/PZOPFS0513_GEDUN_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/5d9c921e-3e09-456b-9f25-fd5176454d04/PZOPFS0513_GEDUN_1600x2000.png" width="45%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Gedun walks by confidently with a swing in their step and a bag on their back."></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Both illustrations by Bruno Cesar</p>
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<p>Meanwhile on the other end of the Maze of the Open Road, Gregaro Voth sends agents out to deliver an important letter to Ambrus Valsin, only for those lovable thieves Gedun and Yeyacha from this year’s intro to pop up and accidentally break the planar keys holding the Maze in place! It’s up to you and your party to retune the keys and help anyone else who might have gotten caught up in the elemental chaos. Let’s hope that whatever Gedun and Yeyacha stole this time isn’t something super valuable to someone super powerful…</p>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex9?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-513-Thick-as-Thieves"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-13: Thick as Thieves</em></a> is an adventure for 5th- through 8th-level characters written by Caryn DiMarco.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Josh Foster<br />
<em>Pathfinder Society Developer</em><br /></p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Shay Snow<br />
<em>Pathfinder Society Developer</em><br /></p>
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</article> <p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/organizedPlay">Organized Play</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety/pathfinderSocietyScenarios">Pathfinder Society Scenarios</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/starfinderSociety">Starfinder Society</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/starfinderSocietyScenarios">Starfinder Society Scenarios</a></p>2024-03-21T21:00:00ZPathfinder Second Edition Guns of Alkenstar Humble Bundlehttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sijc?Pathfinder-Second-Edition-Guns-of-Alkenstar2024-03-21T18:00:00Z<article>
<h1 itemprop="headline">Pathfinder Second Edition Guns of Alkenstar Humble Bundle</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 21, 2024</p>
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<div class="blurbCenter" style="display:none;"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/Blog/PF2E_Alkenstar_2024Bundle_Preview.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/Blog/PF2E_Alkenstar_2024Bundle_Preview_500.jpeg"></a></div>
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<p itemprop="description">We’ve partnered with our friends at Humble Bundle to celebrate one of Pathfinder’s most unique and iconic settings: the steampunk kingdom of Alkenstar! With the Guns of Alkenstar bundle, you can pick up all the books you need to explore this technological wonderland and support a great cause! Whether you’re playing in person or online with the Foundry VTT virtual tabletop, the Outlaws of Alkenstar Adventure Path awaits. What’s more, this bundle features a hardcover copy of <em>Pathfinder Guns & Gears</em> at the highest tier. It’s an opportunity you can’t afford to miss.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/89eb8627-ca29-4a27-a189-d66625ae1eb1/PF2E_GunsAlkenstarBundlePaizo_bundle_logo_product.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/89eb8627-ca29-4a27-a189-d66625ae1eb1/PF2E_GunsAlkenstarBundlePaizo_bundle_logo_product.png" width="80%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Pathfinder Second Edition : Guns of Alkenstar Humble Bundle"></a>
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<h2>What is a Humble Bundle?</h2>
<p>Bundles are limited-time collections of games, books, software, and more. Simply pay what you want and choose where your money goes, whether that be to the publisher, to Humble itself, or even to charity. Most bundles come in tiers starting at only $1—but the more you give, the more you get in exchange!</p>
<p>When you make your purchase on Humble Bundle, you’ll receive a series of digital codes to redeem on the Paizo Store, one for each tier of unlocked products, plus at the $30 level, three additional codes to redeem on Foundry VTT.</p>
<p>There are four tiers to this bundle, starting at $5 and going up to a $40 tier. It features the Outlaws of Alkenstar Adventure Path in both PDF and as Foundry VTT modules, <em>Pathfinder Guns & Gears</em> in both PDF and physical hardcover, and the <em>Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands</em> world guide and more!</p>
<p>A portion of your purchase goes to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), whose mission is to prevent and cure breast cancer by funding the most promising medical research worldwide. It’s a great cause at any time, but especially during Women’s History Month.</p>
<p>Our first Bundle tier starts at $5 and includes a code for four PDFs worth $45, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://paizo.com/pathfinder/beginnerbox"><em>Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box</em></a></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #178:</em><em>Punks in a Powder Keg</em> (Outlaws of Alkenstar 1 of 3)</li>
<li><em>Outlaws of Alkenstar Player’s Guide</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder One-Shot #3: Head Shot the Rot</em></li>
</ul>
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PpOV0VuM3hg?si=fFt4vWuJWAbvTzXw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>For $15, you'll get the PDFs in the first tier, plus a code for 5 more files worth $120, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #179:</em><em>Cradle of Quartz</em> (Outlaws of Alkenstar 2 of 3)</li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Lost Omens World Guide</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Lost Omens Character Guide</em></li>
</ul>
<p>In the third tier, for $30, you'll get codes for the previous tiers, plus a code for additional 5 PDF files and 3 individual Foundry VTT codes, worth another $150, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #180: The Smoking Gun</em> (Outlaws of Alkenstar 3 of 3)</li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Guns & Gears</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Second Edition Advanced Player’s Guide</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Second Edition Gamemastery Guide</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #178:</em><em>Punks in a Powder Keg</em> (Foundry VTT module)</li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #179:</em><em>Cradle of Quartz</em> (Foundry VTT module)</li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #180:</em><em>The Smoking Gun</em> (Foundry VTT module).</li>
</ul>
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<p>Finally, at the $40 tier, we’ll provide you a code for a physical copy of the <em>Pathfinder Guns & Gears </em>hardcover—a $49.99 value—in addition to the digital products from all lower tiers. You’ll be responsible for shipping and handling, which you’ll pay at the time of checkout on the Paizo Store. We only have a limited number of this book available through this Humble Bundle, so don’t wait!</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Thank you for playing Pathfinder!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">—The Paizo Team</p>
<center><h2><a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/books/pathfinder-second-edition-guns-alkenstar-bundle-paizo-books">Support the Pathfinder Second Edition Guns of Alkenstar Bundle!</a></h2></center>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Pathfinder Second Edition Guns of Alkenstar Humble Bundle</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 21, 2024</p>
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<div class="blurbCenter" style="display:none;"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/Blog/PF2E_Alkenstar_2024Bundle_Preview.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/Blog/PF2E_Alkenstar_2024Bundle_Preview_500.jpeg"></a></div>
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<p itemprop="description">We’ve partnered with our friends at Humble Bundle to celebrate one of Pathfinder’s most unique and iconic settings: the steampunk kingdom of Alkenstar! With the Guns of Alkenstar bundle, you can pick up all the books you need to explore this technological wonderland and support a great cause! Whether you’re playing in person or online with the Foundry VTT virtual tabletop, the Outlaws of Alkenstar Adventure Path awaits. What’s more, this bundle features a hardcover copy of <em>Pathfinder Guns & Gears</em> at the highest tier. It’s an opportunity you can’t afford to miss.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/89eb8627-ca29-4a27-a189-d66625ae1eb1/PF2E_GunsAlkenstarBundlePaizo_bundle_logo_product.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/89eb8627-ca29-4a27-a189-d66625ae1eb1/PF2E_GunsAlkenstarBundlePaizo_bundle_logo_product.png" width="80%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Pathfinder Second Edition : Guns of Alkenstar Humble Bundle"></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;"></p>
</div>
<br>
<h2>What is a Humble Bundle?</h2>
<p>Bundles are limited-time collections of games, books, software, and more. Simply pay what you want and choose where your money goes, whether that be to the publisher, to Humble itself, or even to charity. Most bundles come in tiers starting at only $1—but the more you give, the more you get in exchange!</p>
<p>When you make your purchase on Humble Bundle, you’ll receive a series of digital codes to redeem on the Paizo Store, one for each tier of unlocked products, plus at the $30 level, three additional codes to redeem on Foundry VTT.</p>
<p>There are four tiers to this bundle, starting at $5 and going up to a $40 tier. It features the Outlaws of Alkenstar Adventure Path in both PDF and as Foundry VTT modules, <em>Pathfinder Guns & Gears</em> in both PDF and physical hardcover, and the <em>Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands</em> world guide and more!</p>
<p>A portion of your purchase goes to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), whose mission is to prevent and cure breast cancer by funding the most promising medical research worldwide. It’s a great cause at any time, but especially during Women’s History Month.</p>
<p>Our first Bundle tier starts at $5 and includes a code for four PDFs worth $45, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://paizo.com/pathfinder/beginnerbox"><em>Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box</em></a></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #178:</em><em>Punks in a Powder Keg</em> (Outlaws of Alkenstar 1 of 3)</li>
<li><em>Outlaws of Alkenstar Player’s Guide</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder One-Shot #3: Head Shot the Rot</em></li>
</ul>
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PpOV0VuM3hg?si=fFt4vWuJWAbvTzXw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
<br>
<p>For $15, you'll get the PDFs in the first tier, plus a code for 5 more files worth $120, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #179:</em><em>Cradle of Quartz</em> (Outlaws of Alkenstar 2 of 3)</li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Lost Omens World Guide</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Lost Omens Character Guide</em></li>
</ul>
<p>In the third tier, for $30, you'll get codes for the previous tiers, plus a code for additional 5 PDF files and 3 individual Foundry VTT codes, worth another $150, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #180: The Smoking Gun</em> (Outlaws of Alkenstar 3 of 3)</li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Guns & Gears</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Second Edition Advanced Player’s Guide</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Second Edition Gamemastery Guide</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #178:</em><em>Punks in a Powder Keg</em> (Foundry VTT module)</li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #179:</em><em>Cradle of Quartz</em> (Foundry VTT module)</li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #180:</em><em>The Smoking Gun</em> (Foundry VTT module).</li>
</ul>
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<p>Finally, at the $40 tier, we’ll provide you a code for a physical copy of the <em>Pathfinder Guns & Gears </em>hardcover—a $49.99 value—in addition to the digital products from all lower tiers. You’ll be responsible for shipping and handling, which you’ll pay at the time of checkout on the Paizo Store. We only have a limited number of this book available through this Humble Bundle, so don’t wait!</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Thank you for playing Pathfinder!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">—The Paizo Team</p>
<center><h2><a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/books/pathfinder-second-edition-guns-alkenstar-bundle-paizo-books">Support the Pathfinder Second Edition Guns of Alkenstar Bundle!</a></h2></center>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">The <em>Godsrain Prophecies</em> Part Seven</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 20, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description"><em>Something that I have been mulling over for some time (but have yet to mention in these annotations) is the naming of the</em> Godsrain Prophecies. <em>By the time I first heard of them, they had already been given that title, but nothing I have read so far has given me any indication as to how or why. Personally, I would never presume to name a collection of this potential impact and importance without a very clear reason, lest I end up in a repeat of the Fatal Four disaster. (To think that one scribe’s decision to include a bit of wordplay in their recounting of a minor historical prophecy would lead to not one but two assassinations is truly beyond the pale!) Issues like this are the reason that Lorminos insisted I read</em> Notorious Names and Narrative Novelties: Navigating the Nuance of Nomenclature <em>early on in my studies (a book that could easily have been 150 pages instead of over 700, in my personal opinion). While I must make reading these prophecies a priority, I will also endeavor to track down the origin of the word Godsrain. For one thing, it is possible there was a mistaken transcription somewhere along the line. Perhaps they should instead be known as the God’s Reign Prophecies, alluding to the end of a specific god’s reign? It is something to at least consider.</em></p>
<p><em>–Yivali, Apprentice Researcher for the Lady of Graves</em></p>
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<h2>The “Death” of Zon-Kuthon</h2>
<p>Shelyn has tried countless times to touch the heart of Zon-Kuthon, but in the end her music is what dooms the Midnight Lord. He’s long ignored his sister’s tears, no matter how they stream or pool, collecting any that he can and using them as salt to rub into followers’ wounds. Her pleading declarations he considers almost background noise, a counterpoint that makes the pain that echoes through the Netherworld sound that much more divine. But when she finds the beauty in the way his Kuthites scream and whimper, weaves together suffering into a string of rousing chords, builds melodies from dripping blood and rhythms from a clanging chain? Only she could find the art in all the suffering he wields, a dulcet murmuring that calls out from an orchestra of pain. <em>Dou-bral, brother, I love you still. Dou-bral, come back to me.</em> </p>
<p>With newfound strength, Dou-bral returns, soul breaking through its cage of bones and kicking out the usurper who’d lived beneath his skin. But even free he’s trapped inside a body built for cruelty, his face a mask of agony that tells a brutal story—scars and cries and sharpened blades, blood and tears and pain. The anguish he has known and caused, the torment Zon-Kuthon embraced—how can he reconcile himself with all he now remembers? He tries to flee back to his cell, to turn back into what he was, but Zon-Kuthon is memory now and only he remains. </p>
<p>Dou-bral can feel divinity like sparks beneath his fingertips, but with all that he’s done and been, he cannot now reward himself and let himself play god. He takes the power in his hands (so good now at destroying things) and rips it from his very being, leaving something more than man but less than deity. He stumbles from the Netherworld, his ears ringing with tortured screams (most of which are not his own), and makes his way to Pangolais, as if Zon-Kuthon’s capital will help him understand the things his other self has done. And when Shelyn walks next to him, her arm outstretched in kindness, the glaive she’d taken from him offered up with open hands, he turns his back and walks away, her music souring in his ears, reminding him of every chain he used to break their father. </p>
<p>Art and beauty pay a price for all that Shelyn’s sacrificed—the nightmares that disturbed her rest as she crafted a song of pain, the knowledge that Dou-bral is back but still wrapped up in suffering, the loss she feels from victory that’s nothing like she’d hoped. In theaters and galleries, on stage and page and instrument, creative minds start struggling—the colors dim, the music fades, the movements don’t flow smoothly—and lovers’ disillusions grow as nothing feels the way it was, until the disappointment drives some life-long pairs apart, an echo of a sadness that she cannot seem to shake.</p>
<p>Dou-bral’s other flesh and blood, the spirit-wolf turned Prince in Chains, roams the grounds of Xovaikain, trying to fill the absence that his son has left behind. But for all his vicious howling, what is left of Thron is not a god, and soon two new contenders come with plans to claim the Netherworld—Asmodeus who wants to bring new pain to the unworthy, adding a few new items to the tools he has for torment, and Iomedae, who seeks to free the souls still left within the realm, turning their search for pain into a sacrifice for glory. Neither willing to back down, they fortify positions, preparing for a battle that will change the Netherworld. </p>
<p>Far from the squabbling of the gods, Dou-bral travels through Nidal, hoping that he will find some path to redemption. Instead, he watches Cheliax, no longer held by ancient pact to stay within its borderlines, begin to take Nidalese lands, while members of the Umbral Court each claim to be Zon-Kuthon’s heir and stab each other in the back to claim his legacy.</p>
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<p><em> I will be completely honest here: Zon-Kuthon terrifies me! Always has. And yet this prophecy wasn’t scary at all. At least not to me. My Lady, I know, fears little, but I have been feeling the whole set of emotions during these annotations—terrified one minute and smiling the next. I truly thought I would be shivering after reading this, but I think I feel more sad than anything. Miss Shelyn trying so hard to free her brother and achieving her goal, only for him to reciprocate no love? It almost reminds me of my role in collecting these prophecies. I have wanted to be a part of something big to show my Lady how I can be of help to her for some time, and yet that means collecting a group of so-called prophecies that could be devastating in the wrong hands. It is odd to think of the gods having the same types of problems that the rest of us sometimes do. We revere them, and yet, especially as I read these prophecies, they seem more… mortal somehow? Or not. I hope that doesn’t sound too disrespectful. Best to leave this line of thought behind and move on to the next prophecy.</em></p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px">About the Author</p>
<p>Erin Roberts has been thrilled to be able to contribute a few small threads to the fabric of Golarion in the pages of books like <em>Lost Omens Firebrands</em>, <em>Lost Omens Highhelm</em>, and <em>Lost Omens Travel Guide</em>. In addition to her work for Paizo, she freelances across the TTRPG world (and was selected as a Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program Winner in 2023), has had fiction published in magazines including <em>Asimov’s</em>, <em>Clarkesworld</em>, and <em>The Dark</em>, and talks about writing every week on the <em>Writing Excuses</em> podcast. Catch up with her latest at <strong>linktr.ee/erinroberts</strong>.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">The <em>Godsrain Prophecies</em> Part Seven</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 20, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description"><em>Something that I have been mulling over for some time (but have yet to mention in these annotations) is the naming of the</em> Godsrain Prophecies. <em>By the time I first heard of them, they had already been given that title, but nothing I have read so far has given me any indication as to how or why. Personally, I would never presume to name a collection of this potential impact and importance without a very clear reason, lest I end up in a repeat of the Fatal Four disaster. (To think that one scribe’s decision to include a bit of wordplay in their recounting of a minor historical prophecy would lead to not one but two assassinations is truly beyond the pale!) Issues like this are the reason that Lorminos insisted I read</em> Notorious Names and Narrative Novelties: Navigating the Nuance of Nomenclature <em>early on in my studies (a book that could easily have been 150 pages instead of over 700, in my personal opinion). While I must make reading these prophecies a priority, I will also endeavor to track down the origin of the word Godsrain. For one thing, it is possible there was a mistaken transcription somewhere along the line. Perhaps they should instead be known as the God’s Reign Prophecies, alluding to the end of a specific god’s reign? It is something to at least consider.</em></p>
<p><em>–Yivali, Apprentice Researcher for the Lady of Graves</em></p>
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<h2>The “Death” of Zon-Kuthon</h2>
<p>Shelyn has tried countless times to touch the heart of Zon-Kuthon, but in the end her music is what dooms the Midnight Lord. He’s long ignored his sister’s tears, no matter how they stream or pool, collecting any that he can and using them as salt to rub into followers’ wounds. Her pleading declarations he considers almost background noise, a counterpoint that makes the pain that echoes through the Netherworld sound that much more divine. But when she finds the beauty in the way his Kuthites scream and whimper, weaves together suffering into a string of rousing chords, builds melodies from dripping blood and rhythms from a clanging chain? Only she could find the art in all the suffering he wields, a dulcet murmuring that calls out from an orchestra of pain. <em>Dou-bral, brother, I love you still. Dou-bral, come back to me.</em> </p>
<p>With newfound strength, Dou-bral returns, soul breaking through its cage of bones and kicking out the usurper who’d lived beneath his skin. But even free he’s trapped inside a body built for cruelty, his face a mask of agony that tells a brutal story—scars and cries and sharpened blades, blood and tears and pain. The anguish he has known and caused, the torment Zon-Kuthon embraced—how can he reconcile himself with all he now remembers? He tries to flee back to his cell, to turn back into what he was, but Zon-Kuthon is memory now and only he remains. </p>
<p>Dou-bral can feel divinity like sparks beneath his fingertips, but with all that he’s done and been, he cannot now reward himself and let himself play god. He takes the power in his hands (so good now at destroying things) and rips it from his very being, leaving something more than man but less than deity. He stumbles from the Netherworld, his ears ringing with tortured screams (most of which are not his own), and makes his way to Pangolais, as if Zon-Kuthon’s capital will help him understand the things his other self has done. And when Shelyn walks next to him, her arm outstretched in kindness, the glaive she’d taken from him offered up with open hands, he turns his back and walks away, her music souring in his ears, reminding him of every chain he used to break their father. </p>
<p>Art and beauty pay a price for all that Shelyn’s sacrificed—the nightmares that disturbed her rest as she crafted a song of pain, the knowledge that Dou-bral is back but still wrapped up in suffering, the loss she feels from victory that’s nothing like she’d hoped. In theaters and galleries, on stage and page and instrument, creative minds start struggling—the colors dim, the music fades, the movements don’t flow smoothly—and lovers’ disillusions grow as nothing feels the way it was, until the disappointment drives some life-long pairs apart, an echo of a sadness that she cannot seem to shake.</p>
<p>Dou-bral’s other flesh and blood, the spirit-wolf turned Prince in Chains, roams the grounds of Xovaikain, trying to fill the absence that his son has left behind. But for all his vicious howling, what is left of Thron is not a god, and soon two new contenders come with plans to claim the Netherworld—Asmodeus who wants to bring new pain to the unworthy, adding a few new items to the tools he has for torment, and Iomedae, who seeks to free the souls still left within the realm, turning their search for pain into a sacrifice for glory. Neither willing to back down, they fortify positions, preparing for a battle that will change the Netherworld. </p>
<p>Far from the squabbling of the gods, Dou-bral travels through Nidal, hoping that he will find some path to redemption. Instead, he watches Cheliax, no longer held by ancient pact to stay within its borderlines, begin to take Nidalese lands, while members of the Umbral Court each claim to be Zon-Kuthon’s heir and stab each other in the back to claim his legacy.</p>
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<p><em> I will be completely honest here: Zon-Kuthon terrifies me! Always has. And yet this prophecy wasn’t scary at all. At least not to me. My Lady, I know, fears little, but I have been feeling the whole set of emotions during these annotations—terrified one minute and smiling the next. I truly thought I would be shivering after reading this, but I think I feel more sad than anything. Miss Shelyn trying so hard to free her brother and achieving her goal, only for him to reciprocate no love? It almost reminds me of my role in collecting these prophecies. I have wanted to be a part of something big to show my Lady how I can be of help to her for some time, and yet that means collecting a group of so-called prophecies that could be devastating in the wrong hands. It is odd to think of the gods having the same types of problems that the rest of us sometimes do. We revere them, and yet, especially as I read these prophecies, they seem more… mortal somehow? Or not. I hope that doesn’t sound too disrespectful. Best to leave this line of thought behind and move on to the next prophecy.</em></p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px">About the Author</p>
<p>Erin Roberts has been thrilled to be able to contribute a few small threads to the fabric of Golarion in the pages of books like <em>Lost Omens Firebrands</em>, <em>Lost Omens Highhelm</em>, and <em>Lost Omens Travel Guide</em>. In addition to her work for Paizo, she freelances across the TTRPG world (and was selected as a Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program Winner in 2023), has had fiction published in magazines including <em>Asimov’s</em>, <em>Clarkesworld</em>, and <em>The Dark</em>, and talks about writing every week on the <em>Writing Excuses</em> podcast. Catch up with her latest at <strong>linktr.ee/erinroberts</strong>.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Zoetrope Logs, Part Two: Water in the Storm</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Tuesday, March 19, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">After a lovely day and night spent in the river canyons, it was time for our next adventure. “What do you think?” I asked Lythea the next morning, spreading the rough map of the coastline that we’d pieced together out on the table in the galley. “The cartography of this region is incomplete, but my notes suggest that several migratory species congregate in and below the cliffs along the shoreline, somewhere—” I gestured diffidently with a claw. “—near here?”</p>
<p>She laughed at my hopeful expression, the water gently sloshing in the supramarine chair she affectionately called her “Little Sea” as she leaned forward and scrutinized my attempts at map-making, tracing the jagged lines with her finger. “We’ll aim for here,” Lythea said, her tone decisive, “and then work our way up the coast if we need to. No need to worry, Baranthet.”</p>
<p>“There’s occasionally some need,” I protested as Grefu approached, his finned arms delicately balancing several platters. “Here, let’s clear some space.”</p>
<p>Our stoic cook grunted his thanks as we swept the papers away and helped him unload the eclectic breakfast he’d prepared. We left the menu up to him, but he always seemed to find a way to accommodate everyone’s favorites (today’s breakfast included multi-seed scones for me and seaweed wraps for Lythea, among other delicacies). The others joined us shortly thereafter: Dr. Pom emerging from her cabin and blinking in the bright sun; Telero and Chari putting away their spyglass and sketchbook, respectively, as they returned from vantage points at the prow; Ten scuttling down from the central mast to arrive before the others and take first pick of the bounty. Grefu’s eyes twinkled as the young surki loaded their plate with one of everything and tucked in, their mandibles moving with wordless delight.</p>
<p>Lythea and I continued to discuss our plans as the others settled in. “With fair winds, it should only take a few hours, but... I’m not sure the weather will hold,” she said, evaluating the horizon with a critical eye.</p>
<p>Grefu politely refrained from smoking his coral pipe during mealtimes, but he was never without it, and now he gestured toward the clouds with it in hand. “She’s right. Storm’s movin’ in.”</p>
<p>This succinct observation complete, he stood and began clearing plates as I looked anxiously at Lythea. “The winds will guide us either way. There’s no cause for concern,” she reiterated with a smile.</p>
<p>Several hours later, I certainly felt there was a cause or two as I clung to the controls on the exterior deck, rain stinging my face. I much would have preferred, dear reader, to pilot the ship from the safety of the main bridge, the <em>Zoetrope's</em> sturdy panes shielding us from the elements, but some curious property of the storm had rendered our instruments erratic and unreliable, leaving us no choice but to conduct an open-air reading. Lythea watched the clouds and the sea below us with unflappable focus, fiercely calling directions over the thunder snatching at her words. But our navigator’s faith in our trusty ship and crew was not misplaced, and—trembling a bit from the effort, but still upright—I managed to set us down precisely where she wanted us with only minimal mishaps.</p>
<p>As I unclipped my safety line and sagged against the helm to catch my breath, Ten scampered by on their way to the engine room, looking as though they’d just had the time of their life despite an obvious abrasion on their arm. Grefu soon joined us, his coral pipe clenched in his mouth, and passed over a thermos of giant swordfish soup. I let the spicy aroma soothe my frayed nerves and permitted myself a moment to reminisce about the thunderstorms I watched in my youth with my pet protoceratops, Lin, my grandmother’s stew simmering away as she told us of the wardens.</p>
<p>Grefu’s gruff voice broke my reverie. “Nice flyin’, you two.”</p>
<p>I toasted him with the thermos. “Excellent cooking. Soup during a storm, imagine!”</p>
<p>He nodded, silently accepting the compliment, but his eyes were on Lythea, who’d accepted a thermos of her own but was staring off at the water.</p>
<p>“Lot of memories in storms,” he said, his voice gentle. “Lot of stories. This recipe was born in one, you know.”</p>
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<p>Grefu leaned against the control panel, adjusting the satchel of herbs and salts that was always at his hip. His gaze as faraway as Lythea’s, he ventured, “Several generations back, my community was in a great famine. The matriarch of our clan had led us well for many years, but she was old and tired, and so we were looking for new leadership—normally a celebrated transition, but a grim one this time.</p>
<p>“My great-grandmother knew one good hunt could see us through. No one had ever dared to face the legendary swordfish lurking in the depths, beyond the coral walls of our home. Still, she was hopeful it could feed us for many seasons if she could only catch and prepare it properly.”</p>
<p>I was lucky the thermos was keeping my soup warm, because I had completely forgotten about it, so enraptured was I in Grefu’s story! Lythea, too, seemed to be hanging on every word.</p>
<p>Grefu blinked in that slow, measured way of his and continued. “She organized a group of our finest eel riders, even recruiting some from a nearby community, and set off into the dark. I imagine it must have been a terrific battle. But they returned, bearing the great beast—and she prepared and served it for her ascension feast, when the village unequivocally nominated her as our matriarch’s successor.”</p>
<p>“She sounds like an inspiring woman,” Lythea said, a small but genuine smile brightening her face. “Do you miss your family, Grefu?”</p>
<p>He considered this a moment. “It’s natural to do so, when you leave a close-knit community,” he said finally. “And I do. But they’re with me still, when I make a family recipe or repair the same nets their hands worked before mine.”</p>
<p>“Have either of you considered writing down some of your family’s stories?” I asked, ever the librarian.</p>
<p>“I sing of mine,” Lythea said, shaking her head. “That’s what keeps them close, for me.”</p>
<p>Grefu seemed to agree. “That’s more your wheelhouse, Baranthet—or Charikleia’s. Though I’ve thought about putting together a recipe collection, maybe.”</p>
<p>“A cookbook!” I was delighted. “Oh, you must—I’ve never eaten so well in my life as I have on this voyage.”</p>
<p>He huffed in amusement. “We’ll see. Maybe our navigator here can help me find a few of the rarer ingredients I’ve been missin’.”</p>
<p>Lythea’s lyrical laugh filled the bridge as she clinked her thermos to ours. “I’m always up for a dive!”</p>
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<p>Baranthet Zamendi cultivated his love of the natural world at a young age, enamored with his grandmother’s awe-inspiring tales of the legendary Wardens of the Wild. He briefly attended Almas University before returning home to rebuild Droon’s public library, eventually becoming its head archivist. His upcoming book on the crew of the <em>Zoetrope</em> and their search for the wardens is his first, but he’s already planning his next adventure.</p>
<p><b>Support for Mr. Zamendi by</b><br />
Simone D. Sallé is a senior editor at Paizo and has written for numerous Pathfinder and Starfinder books, including more of Baranthet’s tale in <em>Pathfinder Howl of the Wild</em>, the primal treatise and witch journals in <em>Pathfinder Secrets of Magic</em>, and <em>Starfinder Bounty #12: Under Pressure</em>. When she’s not extolling the virtues of the en dash, she enjoys playing as many narrative games as her schedule allows and wandering the woods with her Disreputable Dog.</p>
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<p>Hello again, explorers! Today, we take a look at some of the aquatic content coming in <em> Howl of the Wild</em>: the athamaru ancestry and the merfolk ancestry! First are athamarus, Grefu’s amphibious people, who sculpt coral, communicate (and defend themselves) via scent, and practice eel rearing. Athamaru eel riders are a fearsome force, and your character can saddle up and lead the charge with abilities like Riptide Mount! </p>
<p><u><h3>RIPTIDE MOUNT [one-action] — FEAT 5</h3></u></p>
<p><b>Athamaru</b><br />
<b><u>Requirements</b> You are underwater and adjacent to a creature that is at least one size larger than you, has a swim Speed, and is willing to be your mount.</u><br></p>
<p>After working with aquatic beasts of burden for years, you have learned how to easily mount and dismount them. You Mount the creature and Command an Animal to issue it an order of your choice.</p>
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<p>As a merfolk, Lythea has quite the voice. Merfolk are one of the most magical ancestries coming in <em>Howl of the Wild</em>, with abilities like manipulating water, cursing sailors, or turning their tears to pearls. But a merfolk’s most famous ability is their enchanting song—quite literally with the Siren Song feat!</p>
<h3><u>SIREN SONG [three-actions] — FEAT 9</u></h3>
<p><b>Auditory, Mental, Merfolk, Primal</b><br />
<b>Frequency</b> once per day<br />
<p><u><b>Prerequisites</b> expert in Performance</u><br />
You can beguile and bewitch with your song. All creatures in a 60-foot emanation must attempt a Will save against your Performance DC. On subsequent rounds, you can Sustain the song, causing each creature in the area currently affected by your song to attempt another Will save. Typically, creatures that have traveled with you for a significant time, such as your fellow party members, are immune to your Siren Song.</p>
<p><b>Critical Success</b> The target is unaffected and becomes immune to your Siren Song for 24 hours.<br />
<b>Success</b> The target is fascinated with you until the end of your next turn.<br />
<b>Failure</b> As success, and the target is stupefied 1 for as long as it’s fascinated.<br />
<b>Critical Failure</b> As success, and the target is stupefied 2 for as long as it’s fascinated.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/8155a4a7-e2bf-4622-addd-3e47c2a0e53a/PZO2114_Grefu_FullBody_1600x2000.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/8155a4a7-e2bf-4622-addd-3e47c2a0e53a/PZO2114_Grefu_FullBody_1600x2000.png" width="40%" style="padding: 10px;" alt=" A full body portrait of the athamaru cook, Grefu"></a>
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<p>We’ll continue passing on any reports from the crew that come our way, so keep an eye on the horizon for the next log from the adventures from the good ship <em>Zoetrope</em>.</p>
<p>But that, explorers, is a story for another day.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Zoetrope Logs, Part Two: Water in the Storm</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Tuesday, March 19, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">After a lovely day and night spent in the river canyons, it was time for our next adventure. “What do you think?” I asked Lythea the next morning, spreading the rough map of the coastline that we’d pieced together out on the table in the galley. “The cartography of this region is incomplete, but my notes suggest that several migratory species congregate in and below the cliffs along the shoreline, somewhere—” I gestured diffidently with a claw. “—near here?”</p>
<p>She laughed at my hopeful expression, the water gently sloshing in the supramarine chair she affectionately called her “Little Sea” as she leaned forward and scrutinized my attempts at map-making, tracing the jagged lines with her finger. “We’ll aim for here,” Lythea said, her tone decisive, “and then work our way up the coast if we need to. No need to worry, Baranthet.”</p>
<p>“There’s occasionally some need,” I protested as Grefu approached, his finned arms delicately balancing several platters. “Here, let’s clear some space.”</p>
<p>Our stoic cook grunted his thanks as we swept the papers away and helped him unload the eclectic breakfast he’d prepared. We left the menu up to him, but he always seemed to find a way to accommodate everyone’s favorites (today’s breakfast included multi-seed scones for me and seaweed wraps for Lythea, among other delicacies). The others joined us shortly thereafter: Dr. Pom emerging from her cabin and blinking in the bright sun; Telero and Chari putting away their spyglass and sketchbook, respectively, as they returned from vantage points at the prow; Ten scuttling down from the central mast to arrive before the others and take first pick of the bounty. Grefu’s eyes twinkled as the young surki loaded their plate with one of everything and tucked in, their mandibles moving with wordless delight.</p>
<p>Lythea and I continued to discuss our plans as the others settled in. “With fair winds, it should only take a few hours, but... I’m not sure the weather will hold,” she said, evaluating the horizon with a critical eye.</p>
<p>Grefu politely refrained from smoking his coral pipe during mealtimes, but he was never without it, and now he gestured toward the clouds with it in hand. “She’s right. Storm’s movin’ in.”</p>
<p>This succinct observation complete, he stood and began clearing plates as I looked anxiously at Lythea. “The winds will guide us either way. There’s no cause for concern,” she reiterated with a smile.</p>
<p>Several hours later, I certainly felt there was a cause or two as I clung to the controls on the exterior deck, rain stinging my face. I much would have preferred, dear reader, to pilot the ship from the safety of the main bridge, the <em>Zoetrope's</em> sturdy panes shielding us from the elements, but some curious property of the storm had rendered our instruments erratic and unreliable, leaving us no choice but to conduct an open-air reading. Lythea watched the clouds and the sea below us with unflappable focus, fiercely calling directions over the thunder snatching at her words. But our navigator’s faith in our trusty ship and crew was not misplaced, and—trembling a bit from the effort, but still upright—I managed to set us down precisely where she wanted us with only minimal mishaps.</p>
<p>As I unclipped my safety line and sagged against the helm to catch my breath, Ten scampered by on their way to the engine room, looking as though they’d just had the time of their life despite an obvious abrasion on their arm. Grefu soon joined us, his coral pipe clenched in his mouth, and passed over a thermos of giant swordfish soup. I let the spicy aroma soothe my frayed nerves and permitted myself a moment to reminisce about the thunderstorms I watched in my youth with my pet protoceratops, Lin, my grandmother’s stew simmering away as she told us of the wardens.</p>
<p>Grefu’s gruff voice broke my reverie. “Nice flyin’, you two.”</p>
<p>I toasted him with the thermos. “Excellent cooking. Soup during a storm, imagine!”</p>
<p>He nodded, silently accepting the compliment, but his eyes were on Lythea, who’d accepted a thermos of her own but was staring off at the water.</p>
<p>“Lot of memories in storms,” he said, his voice gentle. “Lot of stories. This recipe was born in one, you know.”</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/9554809a-65a9-4a52-b265-fa3906f9ac11/PZO2114_Grefu_Photograph.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/9554809a-65a9-4a52-b265-fa3906f9ac11/PZO2114_Grefu_Photograph.png" width="40%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="A light writer photograph plate of Grefu the athamaru "></a>
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<p>Grefu leaned against the control panel, adjusting the satchel of herbs and salts that was always at his hip. His gaze as faraway as Lythea’s, he ventured, “Several generations back, my community was in a great famine. The matriarch of our clan had led us well for many years, but she was old and tired, and so we were looking for new leadership—normally a celebrated transition, but a grim one this time.</p>
<p>“My great-grandmother knew one good hunt could see us through. No one had ever dared to face the legendary swordfish lurking in the depths, beyond the coral walls of our home. Still, she was hopeful it could feed us for many seasons if she could only catch and prepare it properly.”</p>
<p>I was lucky the thermos was keeping my soup warm, because I had completely forgotten about it, so enraptured was I in Grefu’s story! Lythea, too, seemed to be hanging on every word.</p>
<p>Grefu blinked in that slow, measured way of his and continued. “She organized a group of our finest eel riders, even recruiting some from a nearby community, and set off into the dark. I imagine it must have been a terrific battle. But they returned, bearing the great beast—and she prepared and served it for her ascension feast, when the village unequivocally nominated her as our matriarch’s successor.”</p>
<p>“She sounds like an inspiring woman,” Lythea said, a small but genuine smile brightening her face. “Do you miss your family, Grefu?”</p>
<p>He considered this a moment. “It’s natural to do so, when you leave a close-knit community,” he said finally. “And I do. But they’re with me still, when I make a family recipe or repair the same nets their hands worked before mine.”</p>
<p>“Have either of you considered writing down some of your family’s stories?” I asked, ever the librarian.</p>
<p>“I sing of mine,” Lythea said, shaking her head. “That’s what keeps them close, for me.”</p>
<p>Grefu seemed to agree. “That’s more your wheelhouse, Baranthet—or Charikleia’s. Though I’ve thought about putting together a recipe collection, maybe.”</p>
<p>“A cookbook!” I was delighted. “Oh, you must—I’ve never eaten so well in my life as I have on this voyage.”</p>
<p>He huffed in amusement. “We’ll see. Maybe our navigator here can help me find a few of the rarer ingredients I’ve been missin’.”</p>
<p>Lythea’s lyrical laugh filled the bridge as she clinked her thermos to ours. “I’m always up for a dive!”</p>
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<p>Baranthet Zamendi cultivated his love of the natural world at a young age, enamored with his grandmother’s awe-inspiring tales of the legendary Wardens of the Wild. He briefly attended Almas University before returning home to rebuild Droon’s public library, eventually becoming its head archivist. His upcoming book on the crew of the <em>Zoetrope</em> and their search for the wardens is his first, but he’s already planning his next adventure.</p>
<p><b>Support for Mr. Zamendi by</b><br />
Simone D. Sallé is a senior editor at Paizo and has written for numerous Pathfinder and Starfinder books, including more of Baranthet’s tale in <em>Pathfinder Howl of the Wild</em>, the primal treatise and witch journals in <em>Pathfinder Secrets of Magic</em>, and <em>Starfinder Bounty #12: Under Pressure</em>. When she’s not extolling the virtues of the en dash, she enjoys playing as many narrative games as her schedule allows and wandering the woods with her Disreputable Dog.</p>
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<p>Hello again, explorers! Today, we take a look at some of the aquatic content coming in <em> Howl of the Wild</em>: the athamaru ancestry and the merfolk ancestry! First are athamarus, Grefu’s amphibious people, who sculpt coral, communicate (and defend themselves) via scent, and practice eel rearing. Athamaru eel riders are a fearsome force, and your character can saddle up and lead the charge with abilities like Riptide Mount! </p>
<p><u><h3>RIPTIDE MOUNT [one-action] — FEAT 5</h3></u></p>
<p><b>Athamaru</b><br />
<b><u>Requirements</b> You are underwater and adjacent to a creature that is at least one size larger than you, has a swim Speed, and is willing to be your mount.</u><br></p>
<p>After working with aquatic beasts of burden for years, you have learned how to easily mount and dismount them. You Mount the creature and Command an Animal to issue it an order of your choice.</p>
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<p>As a merfolk, Lythea has quite the voice. Merfolk are one of the most magical ancestries coming in <em>Howl of the Wild</em>, with abilities like manipulating water, cursing sailors, or turning their tears to pearls. But a merfolk’s most famous ability is their enchanting song—quite literally with the Siren Song feat!</p>
<h3><u>SIREN SONG [three-actions] — FEAT 9</u></h3>
<p><b>Auditory, Mental, Merfolk, Primal</b><br />
<b>Frequency</b> once per day<br />
<p><u><b>Prerequisites</b> expert in Performance</u><br />
You can beguile and bewitch with your song. All creatures in a 60-foot emanation must attempt a Will save against your Performance DC. On subsequent rounds, you can Sustain the song, causing each creature in the area currently affected by your song to attempt another Will save. Typically, creatures that have traveled with you for a significant time, such as your fellow party members, are immune to your Siren Song.</p>
<p><b>Critical Success</b> The target is unaffected and becomes immune to your Siren Song for 24 hours.<br />
<b>Success</b> The target is fascinated with you until the end of your next turn.<br />
<b>Failure</b> As success, and the target is stupefied 1 for as long as it’s fascinated.<br />
<b>Critical Failure</b> As success, and the target is stupefied 2 for as long as it’s fascinated.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 13px;">The athamaru ancestry is embodied by the ship’s cook, Grefu, and the merfolk ancestry by its navigator, Lythea! Art by Gunship Revolution.</p>
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<p>We’ll continue passing on any reports from the crew that come our way, so keep an eye on the horizon for the next log from the adventures from the good ship <em>Zoetrope</em>.</p>
<p>But that, explorers, is a story for another day.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Celebrating Women in TTRPGs for Women’s Month!</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Monday, March 16, 2024</p>
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<p>March is Women’s History Month here in the United States, and all of us here at Paizo want to take time to uplift and appreciate some of the women who bring our games to your tables!</p>
<p>It’d be silly not to mention that our CEO and Founder, Lisa Stevens, is a prominent woman in the TTRPG community and has been a cornerstone of Paizo since the beginning. You can enjoy some of her stories about her time working in games by checking out <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/paizo/auntieLisasStoryHour">Auntie Lisa’s Story Hour</a>!</p>
<p>Now, to showcase and give space to some more of the phenomenal women who make Paizo’s worlds better and brighter! As the theme of this year’s Women’s History Month is “Advocating for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”, we’re also celebrating the work these people do in those regards!</p>
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<h3>Caryn DiMarco, she/they</h3>
<p>You may have seen my name on PFS scenarios or in Lost Omens Highhelm—or on some soon-to-be-released products! I am so proud of this achievement, but when I'm not writing for Pathfinder, I obviously do play a lot of Pathfinder. This includes Pathfinder Society (forever GMs unite) and one question that's always on my mind is how to make sure every player feels welcome at our games. </p>
<p><br />I've been at a lot of tables where I'm the only member of a certain group, and that's never a fun situation to be in. But often it's the only way to get more people to show up. I want to thank everyone who's signed up for a table or showed up to GM despite being a minority in their community; it's always a risk, but it's work that makes this community more welcoming for the rest of us. If this doesn't apply to you, I hope you walk up to each table with the goal of getting to know all the players and doing your part to create a safe and welcoming environment for them. </p>
<p><br />Pathfinder is a game for everyone, but it takes everyone's effort to make that true. </p>
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<h3>Solatra Lilac Harvinkai, credited as Sasha Laranoa Harving (nov/nov and dune/dune)</h3>
<p>To advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of women is a difficult topic to broach. I am, personally, as a tall butch nonbinary lesbian who underwent estrogenizing hormone treatments for several years, and who has felt like a boy and a girl and a woman and am none now... am not often advocated for in the inclusion of.</p>
<p>I feel like when people aim to include women, they want to say that anyone who considers themself a woman is welcome. Often, I’ve seen them explicitly turn away trans women who are not able to safely come out for having some facial hair, or implicitly for not speaking the same language as the majority at the function by not having interpreters, or for being disabled by being in a venue with three steps up.</p>
<p>This is me saying to include them. Include everyone affected by misogyny. Fight the venue to get a ramp put in. Yell when they don’t want to spend money for an interpreter. If you have any form of privilege, weaponize it for those without.</p>
<p>We do not win alone. And there will come a day when our voices demand more attention than their silence.</p>
<br>
<h3>Sara Jeffers (she/they)</h3>
<p>Sara Jeffers (she/they) is an Indigenous Two Spirit game designer and graphic designer who utilizes traditional Salish art and storytelling structures to help de-colonize game design and add to the growing representation of First Nations and Indigenous North Americans in the industry. They also professionally GM a number of systems and games, focusing on combining horror with wholesome. When not writing or playing TTRPGs, Sara can be found hanging out with the coolest kids on the planet (theirs) and watching Bluey. </p>
<p>Their previous published work includes Starfinder Bounty #10 and several solo TTRPGs available on <a href="http://itch.io/">itch.io</a>. She is currently writing a full level 1-20 campaign for Pathfinder Second Edition and starting production on a murder mystery Actual Play set in the world of Thedas. Her most recent graphic and motion design work can be seen on an upcoming Thirsty Sword Lesbians Actual Play on Enchanting Sorcery Productions on Twitch and YouTube.</p>
<p>In the future, Sara wants to be part of the movement in the TTRPG industry that leads towards something more exciting and less problematic than 4X play.</p>
<br>
<h3>Lynne M. Meyer (she/they)</h3>
<p>Hello! I’m Lynne, one of Paizo’s editors. I’m a queer femme and an advocate for inclusive games. For over a decade, I worked in higher education as an interfaith and DEI educator—a role that included developing and implementing training programs for students and staff, and directly supporting students of all genders and sexual orientations.</p>
<p>This background now informs what I do in the gaming industry.</p>
<p>I'd been a player for many years, but it was a 2018 call for contributors to what would become <em>Uncaged Anthology</em> that inspired me to start writing for TTRPGs. An anthology of one-shots, each centered on a feminist reimagining of a traditionally female mythological archetype and its origins? I had to do it! I battled my fear and pitched an adventure. Almost everyone on the team was of a marginalized gender, and the support we gave (and still give) each other was life changing. For most of us, it was the first time we’d experienced anything like that.</p>
<p>I then helped edit all the subsequent <em>Uncaged</em> books. That work led to more projects, and more opportunities to grow my skills. Eventually, that led me to Paizo!</p>
<p>Find me on Bluesky (@lynnemeyer.bsky.social) and Twitter (@Lynne_M_Meyer).</p>
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<h3>Elizabeth V Nold (she/her)</h3>
<p>Hello! My name is Betsy (she/her) and I am a player, GM, and freelance writer of TTRPGs. I most recently got to work on [redacted], but, in the meantime, you can check out my work on the <em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-05: Inheritor's Rite</em> or <em>Pathfinder Bounty 7: Cleanup Duty</em>. I have also written for the Shadowrun system and contributed to the <em>Attitude</em> sourcebook.</p>
<p> I began my TTRPG adventure when my friend bought an AD&D book for $1.00 at a yard sale. I did not realize until years later how rare my all-girl group was at the time. In my 30+ years playing, GMing, and writing for games, I have seen women go from being a minority to being a common sight. Gaming has given me many opportunities. I have learned that I can write. Through GMing, volunteering as a Venture Officer, and helping to organize Paizo Organized Play Games Conventions (come say hi at Origins), I have learned to be confident in my abilities and how to convey that confidence.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the strong women and allies who have come before that made this possible for me. I hope that I can help keep the progress moving forward.</p>
<br>
<h3>Jessica Redekop (she/they/he)</h3>
<p>Hello! My name is Jessica Redekop (she/they/he), and I was one of two women with a cover credit on <em>Pathfinder Rage of Elements</em>. Women play games and belong in the gaming industry.</p>
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<p>This month and every month, we appreciate the contributions women make to our games here at Paizo—and across the games industry! </p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">In Solidarity,<br />
Rue Dickey (they/he/xe)<br />
<em>Marketing & Media Specialist</em><br /></p>
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<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Monday, March 16, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Hail and well met, Pathfinders and Starfinders!</p>
<p>March is Women’s History Month here in the United States, and all of us here at Paizo want to take time to uplift and appreciate some of the women who bring our games to your tables!</p>
<p>It’d be silly not to mention that our CEO and Founder, Lisa Stevens, is a prominent woman in the TTRPG community and has been a cornerstone of Paizo since the beginning. You can enjoy some of her stories about her time working in games by checking out <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/paizo/auntieLisasStoryHour">Auntie Lisa’s Story Hour</a>!</p>
<p>Now, to showcase and give space to some more of the phenomenal women who make Paizo’s worlds better and brighter! As the theme of this year’s Women’s History Month is “Advocating for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”, we’re also celebrating the work these people do in those regards!</p>
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<h3>Caryn DiMarco, she/they</h3>
<p>You may have seen my name on PFS scenarios or in Lost Omens Highhelm—or on some soon-to-be-released products! I am so proud of this achievement, but when I'm not writing for Pathfinder, I obviously do play a lot of Pathfinder. This includes Pathfinder Society (forever GMs unite) and one question that's always on my mind is how to make sure every player feels welcome at our games. </p>
<p><br />I've been at a lot of tables where I'm the only member of a certain group, and that's never a fun situation to be in. But often it's the only way to get more people to show up. I want to thank everyone who's signed up for a table or showed up to GM despite being a minority in their community; it's always a risk, but it's work that makes this community more welcoming for the rest of us. If this doesn't apply to you, I hope you walk up to each table with the goal of getting to know all the players and doing your part to create a safe and welcoming environment for them. </p>
<p><br />Pathfinder is a game for everyone, but it takes everyone's effort to make that true. </p>
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<h3>Solatra Lilac Harvinkai, credited as Sasha Laranoa Harving (nov/nov and dune/dune)</h3>
<p>To advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of women is a difficult topic to broach. I am, personally, as a tall butch nonbinary lesbian who underwent estrogenizing hormone treatments for several years, and who has felt like a boy and a girl and a woman and am none now... am not often advocated for in the inclusion of.</p>
<p>I feel like when people aim to include women, they want to say that anyone who considers themself a woman is welcome. Often, I’ve seen them explicitly turn away trans women who are not able to safely come out for having some facial hair, or implicitly for not speaking the same language as the majority at the function by not having interpreters, or for being disabled by being in a venue with three steps up.</p>
<p>This is me saying to include them. Include everyone affected by misogyny. Fight the venue to get a ramp put in. Yell when they don’t want to spend money for an interpreter. If you have any form of privilege, weaponize it for those without.</p>
<p>We do not win alone. And there will come a day when our voices demand more attention than their silence.</p>
<br>
<h3>Sara Jeffers (she/they)</h3>
<p>Sara Jeffers (she/they) is an Indigenous Two Spirit game designer and graphic designer who utilizes traditional Salish art and storytelling structures to help de-colonize game design and add to the growing representation of First Nations and Indigenous North Americans in the industry. They also professionally GM a number of systems and games, focusing on combining horror with wholesome. When not writing or playing TTRPGs, Sara can be found hanging out with the coolest kids on the planet (theirs) and watching Bluey. </p>
<p>Their previous published work includes Starfinder Bounty #10 and several solo TTRPGs available on <a href="http://itch.io/">itch.io</a>. She is currently writing a full level 1-20 campaign for Pathfinder Second Edition and starting production on a murder mystery Actual Play set in the world of Thedas. Her most recent graphic and motion design work can be seen on an upcoming Thirsty Sword Lesbians Actual Play on Enchanting Sorcery Productions on Twitch and YouTube.</p>
<p>In the future, Sara wants to be part of the movement in the TTRPG industry that leads towards something more exciting and less problematic than 4X play.</p>
<br>
<h3>Lynne M. Meyer (she/they)</h3>
<p>Hello! I’m Lynne, one of Paizo’s editors. I’m a queer femme and an advocate for inclusive games. For over a decade, I worked in higher education as an interfaith and DEI educator—a role that included developing and implementing training programs for students and staff, and directly supporting students of all genders and sexual orientations.</p>
<p>This background now informs what I do in the gaming industry.</p>
<p>I'd been a player for many years, but it was a 2018 call for contributors to what would become <em>Uncaged Anthology</em> that inspired me to start writing for TTRPGs. An anthology of one-shots, each centered on a feminist reimagining of a traditionally female mythological archetype and its origins? I had to do it! I battled my fear and pitched an adventure. Almost everyone on the team was of a marginalized gender, and the support we gave (and still give) each other was life changing. For most of us, it was the first time we’d experienced anything like that.</p>
<p>I then helped edit all the subsequent <em>Uncaged</em> books. That work led to more projects, and more opportunities to grow my skills. Eventually, that led me to Paizo!</p>
<p>Find me on Bluesky (@lynnemeyer.bsky.social) and Twitter (@Lynne_M_Meyer).</p>
<br>
<h3>Elizabeth V Nold (she/her)</h3>
<p>Hello! My name is Betsy (she/her) and I am a player, GM, and freelance writer of TTRPGs. I most recently got to work on [redacted], but, in the meantime, you can check out my work on the <em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-05: Inheritor's Rite</em> or <em>Pathfinder Bounty 7: Cleanup Duty</em>. I have also written for the Shadowrun system and contributed to the <em>Attitude</em> sourcebook.</p>
<p> I began my TTRPG adventure when my friend bought an AD&D book for $1.00 at a yard sale. I did not realize until years later how rare my all-girl group was at the time. In my 30+ years playing, GMing, and writing for games, I have seen women go from being a minority to being a common sight. Gaming has given me many opportunities. I have learned that I can write. Through GMing, volunteering as a Venture Officer, and helping to organize Paizo Organized Play Games Conventions (come say hi at Origins), I have learned to be confident in my abilities and how to convey that confidence.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the strong women and allies who have come before that made this possible for me. I hope that I can help keep the progress moving forward.</p>
<br>
<h3>Jessica Redekop (she/they/he)</h3>
<p>Hello! My name is Jessica Redekop (she/they/he), and I was one of two women with a cover credit on <em>Pathfinder Rage of Elements</em>. Women play games and belong in the gaming industry.</p>
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<p>This month and every month, we appreciate the contributions women make to our games here at Paizo—and across the games industry! </p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">In Solidarity,<br />
Rue Dickey (they/he/xe)<br />
<em>Marketing & Media Specialist</em><br /></p>
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</article>2024-03-18T17:30:00ZBe Not Afraid (of These Dragons)!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sij4?Be-Not-Afraid2024-03-15T17:30:00Z<article>
<h1 itemprop="headline">Be Not Afraid (of These Dragons)!</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Friday, March 15, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Greetings! Luis Loza, here! We’re just about done with our draconic tour of <em>Pathfinder Monster Core</em>. Last time, we took a look at the <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6siio?Mess-With-the-Dragon-Get-the-Horns">horned dragon</a>, a remastered take on the green dragon of yore. This time around, we’re taking a peek at a brand-new design by checking out the empyreal dragon. Let’s have a look!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/cdd1e557-4cf4-41c8-8a3f-783853222fcb/DivineEmyprealDragonDesign_3000x1090.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/cdd1e557-4cf4-41c8-8a3f-783853222fcb/DivineEmyprealDragonDesign_3000x1090.png" width="90%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Concept art for the empyreal dragon. This dragon has a powerful body covered in elegant scales, a head with multiple horns, and a golden halo resting above its head."></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Divine Empyreal Dragon Design by Kent Hamilton</p>
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<p>Around May of last year, we shared a preview for the <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sial?Remaster-Previews-Dragons-Most-Diabolical">diabolic dragon</a> (the first dragon preview blog!). We are only just now getting around to their divine counterparts, the empyreal dragons. These dragons are connected to the plane of Heaven. They’re majestic beings with large, powerful frames and golden scales. Unsurprisingly, their divine nature grants them a breath that unleashes spirit damage with holy sanctification.</p>
<p>Their most noticeable feature is the golden halo that rests above their heads. This halo radiates an inspiring aura that grants allies benefits to saving throws and skills checks. Depending on the power of the empyreal dragon, the dragon can make use of additional abilities that originate from this halo. Some empyreal dragons can create a healing pulse that restores other creatures within the aura’s area. Others use their divine power to push creatures away. Particularly powerful empyreal dragons can even impose a mental burden on creatures in the area, causing them to become slowed. Thankfully, an empyreal dragon chooses who is or isn’t affected by these abilities so they can strategically help allies and hinder foes. The dragon can also deploy the halo, directing it to a nearby area and causing the aura to move with it. This allows an empyreal dragon to help or hinder from afar while focusing on a separate part of the battlefield.</p>
<p>All of these abilities complement empyreal dragons’ benevolent natures. They are compassionate beings who go out of their way to protect others. They even make their lairs particularly accessible, knowing that nearby innocents might someday make use of the treasures within. It’s not unlikely for an empyreal dragon’s lair to contain a multitude of magical armaments so that nearby innocents can stumble upon them in times of need.</p>
<p>That’s our look at the empyreal dragon! We’re just about finished with our look at the dragons from <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ej4?Pathfinder-Monster-Core"><em>Monster Core</em></a>, which releases in just a few weeks. We have one last dragon to preview for everyone. As has been foretold, we will take a look at the omen dragon in our final blog. See you then!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Luis Loza<br />
<em>Creative Director, Rules & Lore</em><br /></p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Be Not Afraid (of These Dragons)!</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Friday, March 15, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Greetings! Luis Loza, here! We’re just about done with our draconic tour of <em>Pathfinder Monster Core</em>. Last time, we took a look at the <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6siio?Mess-With-the-Dragon-Get-the-Horns">horned dragon</a>, a remastered take on the green dragon of yore. This time around, we’re taking a peek at a brand-new design by checking out the empyreal dragon. Let’s have a look!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/cdd1e557-4cf4-41c8-8a3f-783853222fcb/DivineEmyprealDragonDesign_3000x1090.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/cdd1e557-4cf4-41c8-8a3f-783853222fcb/DivineEmyprealDragonDesign_3000x1090.png" width="90%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Concept art for the empyreal dragon. This dragon has a powerful body covered in elegant scales, a head with multiple horns, and a golden halo resting above its head."></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Divine Empyreal Dragon Design by Kent Hamilton</p>
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<p>Around May of last year, we shared a preview for the <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sial?Remaster-Previews-Dragons-Most-Diabolical">diabolic dragon</a> (the first dragon preview blog!). We are only just now getting around to their divine counterparts, the empyreal dragons. These dragons are connected to the plane of Heaven. They’re majestic beings with large, powerful frames and golden scales. Unsurprisingly, their divine nature grants them a breath that unleashes spirit damage with holy sanctification.</p>
<p>Their most noticeable feature is the golden halo that rests above their heads. This halo radiates an inspiring aura that grants allies benefits to saving throws and skills checks. Depending on the power of the empyreal dragon, the dragon can make use of additional abilities that originate from this halo. Some empyreal dragons can create a healing pulse that restores other creatures within the aura’s area. Others use their divine power to push creatures away. Particularly powerful empyreal dragons can even impose a mental burden on creatures in the area, causing them to become slowed. Thankfully, an empyreal dragon chooses who is or isn’t affected by these abilities so they can strategically help allies and hinder foes. The dragon can also deploy the halo, directing it to a nearby area and causing the aura to move with it. This allows an empyreal dragon to help or hinder from afar while focusing on a separate part of the battlefield.</p>
<p>All of these abilities complement empyreal dragons’ benevolent natures. They are compassionate beings who go out of their way to protect others. They even make their lairs particularly accessible, knowing that nearby innocents might someday make use of the treasures within. It’s not unlikely for an empyreal dragon’s lair to contain a multitude of magical armaments so that nearby innocents can stumble upon them in times of need.</p>
<p>That’s our look at the empyreal dragon! We’re just about finished with our look at the dragons from <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ej4?Pathfinder-Monster-Core"><em>Monster Core</em></a>, which releases in just a few weeks. We have one last dragon to preview for everyone. As has been foretold, we will take a look at the omen dragon in our final blog. See you then!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Luis Loza<br />
<em>Creative Director, Rules & Lore</em><br /></p>
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</article> <p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinder">Pathfinder</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderRemaster">Pathfinder Remaster</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderRoleplayingGame">Pathfinder Roleplaying Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSecondEdition">Pathfinder Second Edition</a></p>2024-03-15T17:30:00ZPathfinder Encounter: Massacre on the Hillhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6siiz?Pathfinder-Encounter-Massacre-on-the-Hill2024-03-14T19:00:00Z<article>
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<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 14, 2024</p>
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<p>We continue our look at the creatures filling the pages of <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex5?Pathfinder-Monster-Core"><em>Pathfinder Monster Core</em></a> with this chilling encounter from Adam Daigle, featuring a first look at the remastered ghoul and <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ev3?Pathfinder-FlipMat-Showtime-MultiPack"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Showtime Multi-Pack</em></a>.</p>
<h2>Massacre on the Hill — Severe 3</h2>
<p itemprop="description">This encounter takes place in the small town of Navendale at the base of the Aspodell Mountains in Andoran not far from the Cheliax border. Your PCs could be passing through town or restocking and relaxing between adventures. Navendale is small, but it gets a fair number of travelers. One of the draws is the Red Rose Refuge, a popular lodge perched high on a rocky peak overlooking the town. The Refuge, as the locals call it, is known for having musicians play nearly every night, and tonight the famed Brastlewark Trio are performing.</p>
<p>The PCs are in the town square below when a stableboy comes running down the steep road to the Refuge shouting for any attention he can gather. He heads straight for the PCs and says, “Hey! You! You gotta help! It’s real bad up there!” If he’s calmed and asked what’s going on, he continues, “I was working in the stables brushing the horses when all of a sudden they got spooked, and then a real bad stink rose up. I nearly urped; smelled like when you stumble across a dead goat out on the mountainside. Then I heard all the yelling and screaming. A couple people stumbled out into the snow all bloody. You gotta get up there and do something!”</p>
<p>The PCs can run up the steep road and get to the Refuge in about two minutes. When the PCs arrive, the first thing they encounter is a stench of death carried on the cold spring wind. The Refuge’s door hangs open and the sounds of gruff voices, sobbing cries, and violence spill from the doorway. Inside, tables sit askew, and chairs are sprawled out on the floor amid broken pottery mugs and shattered glass. Over a dozen bodies lie slumped and bloody on the floor.</p>
<p><strong>Map:</strong> This map showcases a portion of the upcoming <em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Showtime Multi-Pack</em>, out next month on Paizo.com or your local hobby store!</p>
<p><strong>Creatures:</strong> Forced from their warrens, this group of ghouls has been wandering the countryside to find a new home. They’ve also grown hungry, and instead of hunting in town, they decided to target the remote Red Rose Refuge. They slinked out of the woods, passing by the stables before entering the Refuge.</p>
<p>They immediately attacked anyone they could reach, killing a dozen staff and patrons before cornering the frightened gnome singers on the stage. Three of the ghouls have the performers restrained while they whisper into their ears using Ghoul Whispers, while the other three are feeding on their fresh kills so they can use Grave Knowledge to help them find new warrens under an old boneyard. As the PCs enter the room, all six turn their attention to the door and bare their teeth.</p>
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<h3>Ghoul Stalkers (6) — Creature 1</h3>
<p><strong>Medium, Ghoul, Undead, Unholy</strong></p>
<p><strong>Perception</strong> +7; darkvision<br />
<strong>Languages</strong> Common, Necril<br /><strong>Skills</strong> Acrobatics +7, Athletics +8, Stealth +7, Survival +5</p>
<p><strong>Str</strong> +1, <strong>Dex</strong> +4, <strong>Con</strong> +1, <strong>Int</strong> +1, <strong>Wis</strong> +2, <strong>Cha</strong> +2<br />
<strong>AC</strong> 17; <strong>Fort</strong> +4, <strong>Ref</strong> +9, <strong>Will</strong> +5<br /><strong>HP</strong> 16, void healing; <strong>Immunities</strong> bleed, death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious</p>
<p><strong>Stench</strong> (aura, olfactory) 10 feet; A creature entering the aura or starting its turn in the area must succeed at a DC 14 Fortitude save or become sickened 1 (plus slowed 1 as long as it’s sickened on a critical failure). A creature that succeeds at its save or recovers from being sickened is temporarily immune to all stench auras for 1 minute.</p>
<p><strong>Speed</strong> 25 feet, burrow 5 feet</p>
<p><strong>Melee</strong> [one-action] jaws +9 (finesse), <strong>Damage</strong> 1d8+1 piercing</p>
<p><strong>Melee</strong> [one-action] claw +9 (agile, finesse), <strong>Damage</strong> 1d6+1 slashing plus Grab)</p>
<p><strong>Consume</strong><strong>Flesh</strong> [one-action] (manipulate); <strong>Requirements</strong> The ghoul is adjacent to the corpse of a creature that died within the last hour; Effect The ghoul devours a chunk of the corpse and regains 1d6 Hit Points. It can regain Hit Points from any given corpse only once.</p>
<p><strong>Forbidden</strong><strong>Cravings</strong> (curse) <strong>Saving</strong><strong>Throw</strong> Will, using the high spell DC for the ghoul’s level (GM Core 121); <strong>Stage 1</strong> carrier with no ill effects (1 day); <strong>Stage 2</strong> 2d6 void damage and the target is sickened 1 until it consumes raw meat (1 day); <strong>Stage 3</strong> as stage 2; <strong>Stage 4</strong> as stage 2 unless the target has consumed raw meat in the past 24 hours, then it takes 4d6 void damage and is sickened 2 until it consumes raw meat; <strong>Stage 5</strong> if the creature has eaten raw meat in the past 24 hours, it dies and rises as a ghoul, if not, it returns to stage 4</p>
<p><strong>Ghoul</strong><strong>Whispers</strong> [one-action] (auditory, linguistic, occult) <strong>Requirement</strong> A grabbed, paralyzed, restrained, or unconscious creature is within the ghoul’s reach; <strong>Effect</strong> The ghoul whispers dark thoughts and vile cravings into the creature’s ears. The creature must save (DC 17) against the forbidden cravings curse.</p>
<p><strong>Grave</strong><strong>Knowledge</strong> (occult) <strong>Frequency</strong> once per hour; <strong>Effect</strong> The ghoul calls upon knowledge it retains from one creature it has consumed in the past 7 days. The ghoul attempts a skill check using a skill in which the consumed creature was trained (if it’s unclear whether the creature was trained, the GM decides). The ghoul is treated as trained and uses a +7 skill modifier. This takes the same amount of actions or time as usual for the check.</p>
<p>The ghoul can instead automatically learn something specific known by a creature it consumed in the last 7 days, like the location of a hidden treasure or the name of a loved one. The ghoul can do this only once for a given creature, no matter how much of its flesh the ghoul consumed.</p>
<p><strong>Swift</strong><strong>Leap</strong> [one-action] (move) The ghoul jumps up to half its Speed. This movement doesn’t trigger reactions.</p>
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<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 14, 2024</p>
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<p>We continue our look at the creatures filling the pages of <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex5?Pathfinder-Monster-Core"><em>Pathfinder Monster Core</em></a> with this chilling encounter from Adam Daigle, featuring a first look at the remastered ghoul and <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ev3?Pathfinder-FlipMat-Showtime-MultiPack"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Showtime Multi-Pack</em></a>.</p>
<h2>Massacre on the Hill — Severe 3</h2>
<p itemprop="description">This encounter takes place in the small town of Navendale at the base of the Aspodell Mountains in Andoran not far from the Cheliax border. Your PCs could be passing through town or restocking and relaxing between adventures. Navendale is small, but it gets a fair number of travelers. One of the draws is the Red Rose Refuge, a popular lodge perched high on a rocky peak overlooking the town. The Refuge, as the locals call it, is known for having musicians play nearly every night, and tonight the famed Brastlewark Trio are performing.</p>
<p>The PCs are in the town square below when a stableboy comes running down the steep road to the Refuge shouting for any attention he can gather. He heads straight for the PCs and says, “Hey! You! You gotta help! It’s real bad up there!” If he’s calmed and asked what’s going on, he continues, “I was working in the stables brushing the horses when all of a sudden they got spooked, and then a real bad stink rose up. I nearly urped; smelled like when you stumble across a dead goat out on the mountainside. Then I heard all the yelling and screaming. A couple people stumbled out into the snow all bloody. You gotta get up there and do something!”</p>
<p>The PCs can run up the steep road and get to the Refuge in about two minutes. When the PCs arrive, the first thing they encounter is a stench of death carried on the cold spring wind. The Refuge’s door hangs open and the sounds of gruff voices, sobbing cries, and violence spill from the doorway. Inside, tables sit askew, and chairs are sprawled out on the floor amid broken pottery mugs and shattered glass. Over a dozen bodies lie slumped and bloody on the floor.</p>
<p><strong>Map:</strong> This map showcases a portion of the upcoming <em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Showtime Multi-Pack</em>, out next month on Paizo.com or your local hobby store!</p>
<p><strong>Creatures:</strong> Forced from their warrens, this group of ghouls has been wandering the countryside to find a new home. They’ve also grown hungry, and instead of hunting in town, they decided to target the remote Red Rose Refuge. They slinked out of the woods, passing by the stables before entering the Refuge.</p>
<p>They immediately attacked anyone they could reach, killing a dozen staff and patrons before cornering the frightened gnome singers on the stage. Three of the ghouls have the performers restrained while they whisper into their ears using Ghoul Whispers, while the other three are feeding on their fresh kills so they can use Grave Knowledge to help them find new warrens under an old boneyard. As the PCs enter the room, all six turn their attention to the door and bare their teeth.</p>
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<p><strong>Medium, Ghoul, Undead, Unholy</strong></p>
<p><strong>Perception</strong> +7; darkvision<br />
<strong>Languages</strong> Common, Necril<br /><strong>Skills</strong> Acrobatics +7, Athletics +8, Stealth +7, Survival +5</p>
<p><strong>Str</strong> +1, <strong>Dex</strong> +4, <strong>Con</strong> +1, <strong>Int</strong> +1, <strong>Wis</strong> +2, <strong>Cha</strong> +2<br />
<strong>AC</strong> 17; <strong>Fort</strong> +4, <strong>Ref</strong> +9, <strong>Will</strong> +5<br /><strong>HP</strong> 16, void healing; <strong>Immunities</strong> bleed, death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious</p>
<p><strong>Stench</strong> (aura, olfactory) 10 feet; A creature entering the aura or starting its turn in the area must succeed at a DC 14 Fortitude save or become sickened 1 (plus slowed 1 as long as it’s sickened on a critical failure). A creature that succeeds at its save or recovers from being sickened is temporarily immune to all stench auras for 1 minute.</p>
<p><strong>Speed</strong> 25 feet, burrow 5 feet</p>
<p><strong>Melee</strong> [one-action] jaws +9 (finesse), <strong>Damage</strong> 1d8+1 piercing</p>
<p><strong>Melee</strong> [one-action] claw +9 (agile, finesse), <strong>Damage</strong> 1d6+1 slashing plus Grab)</p>
<p><strong>Consume</strong><strong>Flesh</strong> [one-action] (manipulate); <strong>Requirements</strong> The ghoul is adjacent to the corpse of a creature that died within the last hour; Effect The ghoul devours a chunk of the corpse and regains 1d6 Hit Points. It can regain Hit Points from any given corpse only once.</p>
<p><strong>Forbidden</strong><strong>Cravings</strong> (curse) <strong>Saving</strong><strong>Throw</strong> Will, using the high spell DC for the ghoul’s level (GM Core 121); <strong>Stage 1</strong> carrier with no ill effects (1 day); <strong>Stage 2</strong> 2d6 void damage and the target is sickened 1 until it consumes raw meat (1 day); <strong>Stage 3</strong> as stage 2; <strong>Stage 4</strong> as stage 2 unless the target has consumed raw meat in the past 24 hours, then it takes 4d6 void damage and is sickened 2 until it consumes raw meat; <strong>Stage 5</strong> if the creature has eaten raw meat in the past 24 hours, it dies and rises as a ghoul, if not, it returns to stage 4</p>
<p><strong>Ghoul</strong><strong>Whispers</strong> [one-action] (auditory, linguistic, occult) <strong>Requirement</strong> A grabbed, paralyzed, restrained, or unconscious creature is within the ghoul’s reach; <strong>Effect</strong> The ghoul whispers dark thoughts and vile cravings into the creature’s ears. The creature must save (DC 17) against the forbidden cravings curse.</p>
<p><strong>Grave</strong><strong>Knowledge</strong> (occult) <strong>Frequency</strong> once per hour; <strong>Effect</strong> The ghoul calls upon knowledge it retains from one creature it has consumed in the past 7 days. The ghoul attempts a skill check using a skill in which the consumed creature was trained (if it’s unclear whether the creature was trained, the GM decides). The ghoul is treated as trained and uses a +7 skill modifier. This takes the same amount of actions or time as usual for the check.</p>
<p>The ghoul can instead automatically learn something specific known by a creature it consumed in the last 7 days, like the location of a hidden treasure or the name of a loved one. The ghoul can do this only once for a given creature, no matter how much of its flesh the ghoul consumed.</p>
<p><strong>Swift</strong><strong>Leap</strong> [one-action] (move) The ghoul jumps up to half its Speed. This movement doesn’t trigger reactions.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Field Test #4: Team Up with an Envoy!</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 13, 2023</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Welcome to the <strong><a href="https://downloads.paizo.com/Starfinder_FieldTest_4.pdf">fourth Starfinder Second Edition Field Test</a></strong>!</p>
<p>As the Starfinder team prepares for the launch of the <a href="https://paizo.com/starfinderplaytest">Starfinder Second Edition Playtest</a> later this summer, we’re releasing small snapshots of our work in progress. So far, we’ve previewed the soldier class, a couple of ancestries, and the mystic. Be sure to check out those Field Tests if you haven’t already! We appreciate all the discussion and hype around the Field Tests, which energizes and motivates our creative processes even more than coffee does (if you can believe it).</p>
<p><br />Speaking of motivation, Field Test #4 previews Starfinder’s “team player” and “party leader” class, the envoy! Inside, you’ll find our thoughts on the envoy’s role and capabilities, and an alpha version of the first 5 levels of the class, just like our earlier class previews. While you may have seen the envoy in action during the Starfinder team’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6g2MYVUCw">livestream playtest</a> in October, or perhaps you were lucky enough to play a demo at a recent convention, this is your chance to see the actual draft of the class!</p>
<p>Oh, and did I mention new art? I’m sure you’ve met our iconic envoy, Navasi!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/227678b6-33a8-43e0-85e1-6f98c61c936d/Starfinderv2Iconic_Navasi_1500x2100.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/227678b6-33a8-43e0-85e1-6f98c61c936d/Starfinderv2Iconic_Navasi_1500x2100.png" width="450px" style="padding: 10px;" alt="The updated concept art for iconic envoy, Navasi"></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">llustration by Kent Hamilton<br /> The Iconic envoy, Navasi, is ready for the field test!</p>
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<p>So, what’s the envoy all about? They’re a Charisma-based class, and the Starfinder team generally thinks of envoys as “support” characters, though they’re quite likely to play a leadership role, whether as a mover and shaker in your campaign, as a “party leader” or “face” for the rest of the player characters, or all the above! For envoys in Second Edition, we’re trying a brand new mechanic in the form of “envoy directives.” These abilities—some of which you get automatically, and others which you can select as envoy feats—give some direction to the envoy’s allies and grant the envoy and their allies a small benefit for following through on the orders. Directives have a variety of uses, from singling out targets with “Get ‘Em!” to hustling the team into a better tactical position with “Get in There!” Envoys can also “lead by example,” following their own directive to grant everyone an additional bonus for the round. Combined with numerous other feats that grant envoys combat options (like doling out temporary Hit Points, buffs, and debuffs), the ability to wield awesome sci-fi weapons, and several unique reactions, envoys have a satisfying and flexible action economy. Every team will be happy to have an envoy along, and your ability to build an envoy character to fit a variety of party roles means your envoy will always have a team to call their own!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/4aaed07e-3cc0-49b2-b210-52a1dd115bc2/PZO24002_Sunny_Service_2100x1400.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/4aaed07e-3cc0-49b2-b210-52a1dd115bc2/PZO24002_Sunny_Service_2100x1400.png" width="90%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Iconic Envoy, Navasi wearing an apron and holding two full plates of food"></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Illustration by Alexey Chernik <br /> Navasi lends a helping hand at a diner.</p>
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<p>Envoys must be ready for anything, from performing community service to battling whatever horrifying creatures Thurston decides to throw at the rest of the team during internal playtests! So far, we think envoys are a blast to play. They almost always have time to get into a good position on the battlefield while consistently dishing out damage, granting benefits to their allies, and tackling unexpected situations with their variety of skills and adaptive skill feats. Sometimes a single turn for an envoy has a major impact on a fight, such as by repositioning the entire team after a nasty ambush. We’d love your feedback on how envoys play at your table, especially in different team compositions—or with multiple envoys in the same party!</p>
<p>So, what’re you waiting for? Get in there and read that field test! Finally, if you’re hoping to catch more snippets of the playtest, stay tuned for announcements about future playtest livestreams. We’ve still got more to show you between now and the playtest release at GenCon!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">— The Starfinder Team</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">-Thurston Hillman, Managing Creative Director (Starfinder)<br />
-Jenny Jarzabski, Senior Developer<br />
-Dustin Knight, Developer<br />
-Jessica Catalan, Starfinder Society Developer<br />
-Mike Kimmel, Developer</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Field Test #4: Team Up with an Envoy!</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 13, 2023</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Welcome to the <strong><a href="https://downloads.paizo.com/Starfinder_FieldTest_4.pdf">fourth Starfinder Second Edition Field Test</a></strong>!</p>
<p>As the Starfinder team prepares for the launch of the <a href="https://paizo.com/starfinderplaytest">Starfinder Second Edition Playtest</a> later this summer, we’re releasing small snapshots of our work in progress. So far, we’ve previewed the soldier class, a couple of ancestries, and the mystic. Be sure to check out those Field Tests if you haven’t already! We appreciate all the discussion and hype around the Field Tests, which energizes and motivates our creative processes even more than coffee does (if you can believe it).</p>
<p><br />Speaking of motivation, Field Test #4 previews Starfinder’s “team player” and “party leader” class, the envoy! Inside, you’ll find our thoughts on the envoy’s role and capabilities, and an alpha version of the first 5 levels of the class, just like our earlier class previews. While you may have seen the envoy in action during the Starfinder team’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6g2MYVUCw">livestream playtest</a> in October, or perhaps you were lucky enough to play a demo at a recent convention, this is your chance to see the actual draft of the class!</p>
<p>Oh, and did I mention new art? I’m sure you’ve met our iconic envoy, Navasi!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/227678b6-33a8-43e0-85e1-6f98c61c936d/Starfinderv2Iconic_Navasi_1500x2100.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/227678b6-33a8-43e0-85e1-6f98c61c936d/Starfinderv2Iconic_Navasi_1500x2100.png" width="450px" style="padding: 10px;" alt="The updated concept art for iconic envoy, Navasi"></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">llustration by Kent Hamilton<br /> The Iconic envoy, Navasi, is ready for the field test!</p>
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<p>So, what’s the envoy all about? They’re a Charisma-based class, and the Starfinder team generally thinks of envoys as “support” characters, though they’re quite likely to play a leadership role, whether as a mover and shaker in your campaign, as a “party leader” or “face” for the rest of the player characters, or all the above! For envoys in Second Edition, we’re trying a brand new mechanic in the form of “envoy directives.” These abilities—some of which you get automatically, and others which you can select as envoy feats—give some direction to the envoy’s allies and grant the envoy and their allies a small benefit for following through on the orders. Directives have a variety of uses, from singling out targets with “Get ‘Em!” to hustling the team into a better tactical position with “Get in There!” Envoys can also “lead by example,” following their own directive to grant everyone an additional bonus for the round. Combined with numerous other feats that grant envoys combat options (like doling out temporary Hit Points, buffs, and debuffs), the ability to wield awesome sci-fi weapons, and several unique reactions, envoys have a satisfying and flexible action economy. Every team will be happy to have an envoy along, and your ability to build an envoy character to fit a variety of party roles means your envoy will always have a team to call their own!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/4aaed07e-3cc0-49b2-b210-52a1dd115bc2/PZO24002_Sunny_Service_2100x1400.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/4aaed07e-3cc0-49b2-b210-52a1dd115bc2/PZO24002_Sunny_Service_2100x1400.png" width="90%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Iconic Envoy, Navasi wearing an apron and holding two full plates of food"></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Illustration by Alexey Chernik <br /> Navasi lends a helping hand at a diner.</p>
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<p>Envoys must be ready for anything, from performing community service to battling whatever horrifying creatures Thurston decides to throw at the rest of the team during internal playtests! So far, we think envoys are a blast to play. They almost always have time to get into a good position on the battlefield while consistently dishing out damage, granting benefits to their allies, and tackling unexpected situations with their variety of skills and adaptive skill feats. Sometimes a single turn for an envoy has a major impact on a fight, such as by repositioning the entire team after a nasty ambush. We’d love your feedback on how envoys play at your table, especially in different team compositions—or with multiple envoys in the same party!</p>
<p>So, what’re you waiting for? Get in there and read that field test! Finally, if you’re hoping to catch more snippets of the playtest, stay tuned for announcements about future playtest livestreams. We’ve still got more to show you between now and the playtest release at GenCon!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">— The Starfinder Team</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">-Thurston Hillman, Managing Creative Director (Starfinder)<br />
-Jenny Jarzabski, Senior Developer<br />
-Dustin Knight, Developer<br />
-Jessica Catalan, Starfinder Society Developer<br />
-Mike Kimmel, Developer</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">The <em>Godsrain Prophecies</em> Part Six</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 13, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description"><em>As I continue reading through the Godsrain “prophecies,” I have begun to develop a troubling new theory about their origin. I will admit up front that this idea may seem more in line with one of those </em>Another Absalom<em> tales of spies and skullduggery than a scholarly review (though I have always believed that those tales should be studied for their ability to keep the reader’s attention, something we researchers often do not do as successfully as we would like!), but I’ve noticed that several of the prophecies seem to strike at the core of what many think about the divine. This is not to say that gods cannot die, or falter, or fail in some way, but the more I read these documents, the more I can imagine negative outcomes that I might once have dismissed as distant possibilities. What if this is deliberate?</em></p>
<p><em>Perhaps the author of these works is no prophet at all, but someone who seeks to weaken what we understand of divinity. I am not certain who or what would seek that as an outcome, but any entity that benefits from faltering faith is one that cannot have the best interests of Golarion at heart. Still, if I am being candid, the thought of some mysterious villain appeals to me more than it probably should. Perhaps I simply wish to find a reason for these prophecies outside of any potential truth I might find in their pages. Or perhaps I have stumbled onto a workable theory. I will note the thought, but only as one of many I might bring to my Lady. False comfort can too often be found within visions of conspiracy.</em></p>
<p><em>–Yivali, Apprentice Researcher for the Lady of Graves</em></p>
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<p>Mind. Matter. Spirit. Life. Four essences. Four building blocks. Four cornerstones whose intersections shape the way that magic works. And in that four, two pairs that are too different to be joined together. Matter never blends with Spirit; Mind and Life remain apart. Nethys knows the truth of this, but never quite believes it fully. (Is he not the proof that there is power in duality?)</p>
<p>As the centuries progress, he keeps returning to this quandary, tells himself that he alone can meld the two opposing pairs. He can be the font of knowledge. He can give the world new magic. He can take the contradictions, put them through a transformation. He can start two new traditions. Mind and Body. Heart and Soul.</p>
<p>Does he succeed? Perhaps he does. Perhaps he stands awash with pride, his fingers trembling at the feeling, ready to share something of the magic he has wrought. But if he feels triumphant, it is only for a moment—a breath of jubilation as he soaks himself in magic, followed by a cry of horror as his body falls apart. Nethys, by sheer will and power, holds himself together briefly, fractures crawling down his arms, breaking him to pieces like a chunk of splintered glass. He remains alive just long enough to see the power of his folly, spreading from his fingers to the very building blocks of magic, tearing them asunder as his body turns to ash.</p>
<p>In an instant, magic changes—bends and rips and stretches thin, settling like a shredded cloth pulled tight across the world. Where it is torn, all magic ceases. Long-held items lose their power. Spells are nothing more than words. Spellcasters within these hollows lose all tether to their magic, even if they only cross the boundary in the aftermath. Some regain their skills with time, but others never quite recover, every magic word they utter turned to dust between their lips. Some don’t even make it that far, dying when the magic ends, falling from the skies above, losing shields that keep them safe, gulping down a healing potion turned to flavored water.</p>
<p>At first, the new uncertainty inspires mass devotion, but there is little solace from the other gods. Pharasma asks for a report. Irori swears to make it right. Their followers still cannot cast a single spell within the hollows. And those who lose the taste for magic, prayers dying in their mouth? They do not seem to gain a thing from all their dedication.</p>
<p>For those who never cared for magic, hollows are a place of refuge, leveling the playing field in favor of the fist and sword. Many flock who follow Nethys, loyal to his knowledge still, believing this to be some test that leads them to a new reward.</p>
<p>Many on Golarion relocate from their hollowed homes, fearing what it means to lose the magic in their lives. But travel is no easy thing, not even with the scout and map and herbal kits (now free of magical augmentations) that have become requirements for any trip outside. Rumors abound of hidden dangers scattered through the Great Beyond: places where the magic varies, strong one day and weak the next, turning one night’s cantrip to the morning’s deadly strike; villages consumed by all the magic stolen from the world, drowning in a power they have no way to unmake.</p>
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<p><em>Magic has never been among my preferred subjects to study, but I now wish I’d learned more of it! It would help me to properly evaluate what, if anything, within this prophecy is truly feasible. Could one death (even the death of a god) create this level of chaos within such a fundamental part of life? This prophecy seems to indicate that magic is forever changed by Nethys’s actions, but even a disaster of the magnitude described seems unlikely to change fundamental principles of magic (a statement I would be much more convinced of were I sure that I fully understood them). While I doubt that this prophecy would come true, I am now curious if there are any projects that Nethys has undertaken that might lead to his attempting something on this scale. Perhaps I judged too quickly, and these are less dastardly plot than desperate warning? I need more information to be sure.</em></p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px">About the Author</p>
<p>Erin Roberts has been thrilled to be able to contribute a few small threads to the fabric of Golarion in the pages of books like <em>Lost Omens Firebrands</em>, <em>Lost Omens Highhelm</em>, and <em>Lost Omens Travel Guide</em>. In addition to her work for Paizo, she freelances across the TTRPG world (and was selected as a Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program Winner in 2023), has had fiction published in magazines including <em>Asimov’s</em>, <em>Clarkesworld</em>, and <em>The Dark</em>, and talks about writing every week on the <em>Writing Excuses</em> podcast. Catch up with her latest at <strong>linktr.ee/erinroberts</strong>.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">The <em>Godsrain Prophecies</em> Part Six</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 13, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description"><em>As I continue reading through the Godsrain “prophecies,” I have begun to develop a troubling new theory about their origin. I will admit up front that this idea may seem more in line with one of those </em>Another Absalom<em> tales of spies and skullduggery than a scholarly review (though I have always believed that those tales should be studied for their ability to keep the reader’s attention, something we researchers often do not do as successfully as we would like!), but I’ve noticed that several of the prophecies seem to strike at the core of what many think about the divine. This is not to say that gods cannot die, or falter, or fail in some way, but the more I read these documents, the more I can imagine negative outcomes that I might once have dismissed as distant possibilities. What if this is deliberate?</em></p>
<p><em>Perhaps the author of these works is no prophet at all, but someone who seeks to weaken what we understand of divinity. I am not certain who or what would seek that as an outcome, but any entity that benefits from faltering faith is one that cannot have the best interests of Golarion at heart. Still, if I am being candid, the thought of some mysterious villain appeals to me more than it probably should. Perhaps I simply wish to find a reason for these prophecies outside of any potential truth I might find in their pages. Or perhaps I have stumbled onto a workable theory. I will note the thought, but only as one of many I might bring to my Lady. False comfort can too often be found within visions of conspiracy.</em></p>
<p><em>–Yivali, Apprentice Researcher for the Lady of Graves</em></p>
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<p>Mind. Matter. Spirit. Life. Four essences. Four building blocks. Four cornerstones whose intersections shape the way that magic works. And in that four, two pairs that are too different to be joined together. Matter never blends with Spirit; Mind and Life remain apart. Nethys knows the truth of this, but never quite believes it fully. (Is he not the proof that there is power in duality?)</p>
<p>As the centuries progress, he keeps returning to this quandary, tells himself that he alone can meld the two opposing pairs. He can be the font of knowledge. He can give the world new magic. He can take the contradictions, put them through a transformation. He can start two new traditions. Mind and Body. Heart and Soul.</p>
<p>Does he succeed? Perhaps he does. Perhaps he stands awash with pride, his fingers trembling at the feeling, ready to share something of the magic he has wrought. But if he feels triumphant, it is only for a moment—a breath of jubilation as he soaks himself in magic, followed by a cry of horror as his body falls apart. Nethys, by sheer will and power, holds himself together briefly, fractures crawling down his arms, breaking him to pieces like a chunk of splintered glass. He remains alive just long enough to see the power of his folly, spreading from his fingers to the very building blocks of magic, tearing them asunder as his body turns to ash.</p>
<p>In an instant, magic changes—bends and rips and stretches thin, settling like a shredded cloth pulled tight across the world. Where it is torn, all magic ceases. Long-held items lose their power. Spells are nothing more than words. Spellcasters within these hollows lose all tether to their magic, even if they only cross the boundary in the aftermath. Some regain their skills with time, but others never quite recover, every magic word they utter turned to dust between their lips. Some don’t even make it that far, dying when the magic ends, falling from the skies above, losing shields that keep them safe, gulping down a healing potion turned to flavored water.</p>
<p>At first, the new uncertainty inspires mass devotion, but there is little solace from the other gods. Pharasma asks for a report. Irori swears to make it right. Their followers still cannot cast a single spell within the hollows. And those who lose the taste for magic, prayers dying in their mouth? They do not seem to gain a thing from all their dedication.</p>
<p>For those who never cared for magic, hollows are a place of refuge, leveling the playing field in favor of the fist and sword. Many flock who follow Nethys, loyal to his knowledge still, believing this to be some test that leads them to a new reward.</p>
<p>Many on Golarion relocate from their hollowed homes, fearing what it means to lose the magic in their lives. But travel is no easy thing, not even with the scout and map and herbal kits (now free of magical augmentations) that have become requirements for any trip outside. Rumors abound of hidden dangers scattered through the Great Beyond: places where the magic varies, strong one day and weak the next, turning one night’s cantrip to the morning’s deadly strike; villages consumed by all the magic stolen from the world, drowning in a power they have no way to unmake.</p>
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<p><em>Magic has never been among my preferred subjects to study, but I now wish I’d learned more of it! It would help me to properly evaluate what, if anything, within this prophecy is truly feasible. Could one death (even the death of a god) create this level of chaos within such a fundamental part of life? This prophecy seems to indicate that magic is forever changed by Nethys’s actions, but even a disaster of the magnitude described seems unlikely to change fundamental principles of magic (a statement I would be much more convinced of were I sure that I fully understood them). While I doubt that this prophecy would come true, I am now curious if there are any projects that Nethys has undertaken that might lead to his attempting something on this scale. Perhaps I judged too quickly, and these are less dastardly plot than desperate warning? I need more information to be sure.</em></p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px">About the Author</p>
<p>Erin Roberts has been thrilled to be able to contribute a few small threads to the fabric of Golarion in the pages of books like <em>Lost Omens Firebrands</em>, <em>Lost Omens Highhelm</em>, and <em>Lost Omens Travel Guide</em>. In addition to her work for Paizo, she freelances across the TTRPG world (and was selected as a Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program Winner in 2023), has had fiction published in magazines including <em>Asimov’s</em>, <em>Clarkesworld</em>, and <em>The Dark</em>, and talks about writing every week on the <em>Writing Excuses</em> podcast. Catch up with her latest at <strong>linktr.ee/erinroberts</strong>.</p>
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</article> <p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/theGodsrainProphecies">The Godsrain Prophecies</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinder">Pathfinder</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderRemaster">Pathfinder Remaster</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderRoleplayingGame">Pathfinder Roleplaying Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderTales/webFiction">Web Fiction</a></p>2024-03-13T18:30:00ZTian Xia Days: Dreams of Youthhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6siiw?Tian-Xia-Days-Dreams-of-Youth2024-03-12T17:30:00Z<article>
<h1 itemprop="headline">Tian Xia Days: Dreams of Youth</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Tuesday, March 12, 2024</p>
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<p>“His stomach’s open!”</p>
<p>“Pin him down, pin him down!”</p>
<p>The basher arcade was filled with battle cries and frenzied advice from spectators as servers smoothly weaved between groups with cheap drinks for their patrons. Students from all over the city crowded every corner, cheering and booing each game’s combatants. Soo-jin took a long sip of tea, wincing at the strong aftertaste as onlookers shouted at the small figures projected in the middle of their table.</p>
<p>“Get him!” one of the boys from Sage Plum Academy cried as an alley basher kicked her opponent in the head. “To the right, to the right!”</p>
<p>The tiny figures clashed again, fists flying as their players maneuvered them to victory. Nga’s eyes were locked onto the projections as she rolled her fighter into a defensive position, raising his arms to shield his chest. Her opponent grinned, his hands deftly moving levers while his fighter pressed in with punches and kicks.</p>
<p>Soo-jin watched the brawl with gritted teeth, waggling her fingers nervously. One boy’s eyes met hers and he pointed a finger at the <em>SPELLS ARE CHEATING </em>sign; irritated, Soo-jin raised her hands and pointedly showed they were free of magic auras before setting them on the table.</p>
<p>The opposing fighter grabbed Nga’s by the waist. Soo-jin’s nails now clacked against the table in a nervous drum beneath the frenzied shouts for a finishing blow. With a smirk, Nga flipped a lever, and her fighter’s elbow smashed downward, his leg swooping up into a powerful kick. There was a shout—a blare of music—and Soo-jin jumped so fast her chair fell over.</p>
<p>Nga beamed triumphantly as the Sage Plum boy groaned, his friends laughing and sighing at his loss. Nga’s tiny fighter raised his fist, roaring silently in victory, and illusory fireworks exploded across the table to illuminate expressions of both dismay and glee around the table.</p>
<p>“Pay up, all!” Soo-jin laughed. Groans echoed above the victory music, followed by the clink of coins falling into her purse as she collected her friend’s winnings. Another round was suggested and a new challenger was already settling into the open seat, cracking their knuckles dramatically as the battle music started back up. Soo-jin cast a quick cantrip over the purse, checking the total, before nodding a quick farewell to the other students and following Nga toward the exit.</p>
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<p>The heavy scent of cheap tea and fried snacks gave way to the aroma of hot buns and saucy chicken. The sun was bright outside the basher arcade, the shouts of stall vendors replacing the cheers of students. Tired laborers grumbled about the lack of progress on the Surepath highway while young children ran past, yelling about spotting a sundaflora in the gardens. A girl from Soo-jin’s cram school waved politely from a shop known for its buns; Soo-jin awkwardly waved back, trying and failing to remember anything except that the girl had a duck as a familiar.</p>
<p>Nga and Soo-jin walked leisurely to their usual kopi-tiam, greeting Uncle Moon as the smell of coffee wafted toward them. Uncle Moon shouted a greeting back, merrily flipping hot taiyaki from a pan into a wax paper bag. Momo slept peacefully on the counter, purring with one small paw curled protectively over a copper piece.</p>
<p>“May I take your order?” a short tengu server asked as they sat down.</p>
<p>“Two taiyaki, one Xa Hoi coffee, and—” Soo-jin looked over the menu, and something newly added distracted her from her usual order “—one sparkle tea, please.” The server nodded and shuffled off, stopping to check on another customer. Soo-jin added the day’s total to a column in her notebook. “We’re so close, Nga. Just a few more silver pieces and we’re set!”</p>
<p>“I’m getting paid for tutoring on Moonday, so you can add that to our current amount.” Nga accepted the arriving tray from the server and took a leisurely sip of coffee. “You know, if <em>you </em>would take up tutoring—”</p>
<p>“I would rather let Mogaru eat me.” Soo-jin looked out the window. It hadn’t been that long since the giant monster’s attack, but she could scarcely see the water for all the bamboo scaffolding that had sprouted up in the aftermath. The city would be back, bigger than ever, in no time.</p>
<p>“Come on! Everyone wants a Willow Branch student to teach their kids, you’d make enough money for a concert ticket after a week.”</p>
<p>“You’re just as good as any twig,” Soo-jin scoffed, biting into her taiyaki and regretting it immediately as piping hot red bean paste scalded her mouth. She gasped, huffing desperately to try and cool down. Momo opened a judgmental eye from the counter. “You should try to test into another school.”</p>
<p>“As much as my parents would love for me to become a ‘twig,’ I’d rather be the best where I am than become average at a fancy academy.” Nga took a smug sip. “Unlike you, I’m in the top ten in my class.”</p>
<p>“Well, Miss Top Ten, keep up the good work and we’ll get our concert tickets in no time.”</p>
<p>Soo-jin’s eyes swept past Nga’s head to the wall of advertisements behind her, lingering on a poster announcing the upcoming Shining Crystal Muses concert in celebration of Harmonious Spring. Vivid ink paintings of the four Muses reached out to a prism floating above them, enchanted pigments creating tiny flecks of rainbow light that danced across the poster. Even in an ink portrait, Haru’s handsome face stood out, smiling coyly.</p>
<p>Goka had everything—peoples and food and buildings and magic from everywhere on the continent—but the one thing it had that Soo-jin cared about more than all of that was the Shining Crystal Muses. In only two weeks, she was going to meet Haru in person. It was a shame the concert hall wasn’t in its full splendor, as the authorities had foolishly deemed it lower priority for reconstruction.</p>
<p><em>What if that kaiju comes back? </em>Soo-jin’s mother had fretted, but if Mogaru inconvenienced the city at the most important moment of her life, Soo-jin would personally put the kaiju down and no one could stop her. She smiled back at the poster, sipping her sparkle tea as worries of exams slipped out of her mind, and she focused on what really mattered: supporting her favorite band.</p>
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<p>Michelle Y. Kim (she/her) is a TTRPG writer and developer with a love for folklore and horror. You can find her at <a href="https://twitter.com/_missmyk_">https://twitter.com/_missmyk_</a> or <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/missmyk.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/missmyk.bsky.social</a>.</p>
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<p>To bring this and other Tian Xia stories to life in your Pathfinder game, check out the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex6?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Tian-Xia-World-Guide">Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia World Guide</a> (releasing in April) and the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02etu?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Tian-Xia-Character-Guide">Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia Character Guide</a> (releasing in August), both available for preorder now. Customers who Customers who <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy80ie?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Subscription">subscribe to the Lost Omens product line</a> will receive both books and a complimentary PDF of each upon their respective release!</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Tian Xia Days: Dreams of Youth</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Tuesday, March 12, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">“To the left!”</p>
<p>“His stomach’s open!”</p>
<p>“Pin him down, pin him down!”</p>
<p>The basher arcade was filled with battle cries and frenzied advice from spectators as servers smoothly weaved between groups with cheap drinks for their patrons. Students from all over the city crowded every corner, cheering and booing each game’s combatants. Soo-jin took a long sip of tea, wincing at the strong aftertaste as onlookers shouted at the small figures projected in the middle of their table.</p>
<p>“Get him!” one of the boys from Sage Plum Academy cried as an alley basher kicked her opponent in the head. “To the right, to the right!”</p>
<p>The tiny figures clashed again, fists flying as their players maneuvered them to victory. Nga’s eyes were locked onto the projections as she rolled her fighter into a defensive position, raising his arms to shield his chest. Her opponent grinned, his hands deftly moving levers while his fighter pressed in with punches and kicks.</p>
<p>Soo-jin watched the brawl with gritted teeth, waggling her fingers nervously. One boy’s eyes met hers and he pointed a finger at the <em>SPELLS ARE CHEATING </em>sign; irritated, Soo-jin raised her hands and pointedly showed they were free of magic auras before setting them on the table.</p>
<p>The opposing fighter grabbed Nga’s by the waist. Soo-jin’s nails now clacked against the table in a nervous drum beneath the frenzied shouts for a finishing blow. With a smirk, Nga flipped a lever, and her fighter’s elbow smashed downward, his leg swooping up into a powerful kick. There was a shout—a blare of music—and Soo-jin jumped so fast her chair fell over.</p>
<p>Nga beamed triumphantly as the Sage Plum boy groaned, his friends laughing and sighing at his loss. Nga’s tiny fighter raised his fist, roaring silently in victory, and illusory fireworks exploded across the table to illuminate expressions of both dismay and glee around the table.</p>
<p>“Pay up, all!” Soo-jin laughed. Groans echoed above the victory music, followed by the clink of coins falling into her purse as she collected her friend’s winnings. Another round was suggested and a new challenger was already settling into the open seat, cracking their knuckles dramatically as the battle music started back up. Soo-jin cast a quick cantrip over the purse, checking the total, before nodding a quick farewell to the other students and following Nga toward the exit.</p>
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<p>The heavy scent of cheap tea and fried snacks gave way to the aroma of hot buns and saucy chicken. The sun was bright outside the basher arcade, the shouts of stall vendors replacing the cheers of students. Tired laborers grumbled about the lack of progress on the Surepath highway while young children ran past, yelling about spotting a sundaflora in the gardens. A girl from Soo-jin’s cram school waved politely from a shop known for its buns; Soo-jin awkwardly waved back, trying and failing to remember anything except that the girl had a duck as a familiar.</p>
<p>Nga and Soo-jin walked leisurely to their usual kopi-tiam, greeting Uncle Moon as the smell of coffee wafted toward them. Uncle Moon shouted a greeting back, merrily flipping hot taiyaki from a pan into a wax paper bag. Momo slept peacefully on the counter, purring with one small paw curled protectively over a copper piece.</p>
<p>“May I take your order?” a short tengu server asked as they sat down.</p>
<p>“Two taiyaki, one Xa Hoi coffee, and—” Soo-jin looked over the menu, and something newly added distracted her from her usual order “—one sparkle tea, please.” The server nodded and shuffled off, stopping to check on another customer. Soo-jin added the day’s total to a column in her notebook. “We’re so close, Nga. Just a few more silver pieces and we’re set!”</p>
<p>“I’m getting paid for tutoring on Moonday, so you can add that to our current amount.” Nga accepted the arriving tray from the server and took a leisurely sip of coffee. “You know, if <em>you </em>would take up tutoring—”</p>
<p>“I would rather let Mogaru eat me.” Soo-jin looked out the window. It hadn’t been that long since the giant monster’s attack, but she could scarcely see the water for all the bamboo scaffolding that had sprouted up in the aftermath. The city would be back, bigger than ever, in no time.</p>
<p>“Come on! Everyone wants a Willow Branch student to teach their kids, you’d make enough money for a concert ticket after a week.”</p>
<p>“You’re just as good as any twig,” Soo-jin scoffed, biting into her taiyaki and regretting it immediately as piping hot red bean paste scalded her mouth. She gasped, huffing desperately to try and cool down. Momo opened a judgmental eye from the counter. “You should try to test into another school.”</p>
<p>“As much as my parents would love for me to become a ‘twig,’ I’d rather be the best where I am than become average at a fancy academy.” Nga took a smug sip. “Unlike you, I’m in the top ten in my class.”</p>
<p>“Well, Miss Top Ten, keep up the good work and we’ll get our concert tickets in no time.”</p>
<p>Soo-jin’s eyes swept past Nga’s head to the wall of advertisements behind her, lingering on a poster announcing the upcoming Shining Crystal Muses concert in celebration of Harmonious Spring. Vivid ink paintings of the four Muses reached out to a prism floating above them, enchanted pigments creating tiny flecks of rainbow light that danced across the poster. Even in an ink portrait, Haru’s handsome face stood out, smiling coyly.</p>
<p>Goka had everything—peoples and food and buildings and magic from everywhere on the continent—but the one thing it had that Soo-jin cared about more than all of that was the Shining Crystal Muses. In only two weeks, she was going to meet Haru in person. It was a shame the concert hall wasn’t in its full splendor, as the authorities had foolishly deemed it lower priority for reconstruction.</p>
<p><em>What if that kaiju comes back? </em>Soo-jin’s mother had fretted, but if Mogaru inconvenienced the city at the most important moment of her life, Soo-jin would personally put the kaiju down and no one could stop her. She smiled back at the poster, sipping her sparkle tea as worries of exams slipped out of her mind, and she focused on what really mattered: supporting her favorite band.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px">About the Author</p>
<p>Michelle Y. Kim (she/her) is a TTRPG writer and developer with a love for folklore and horror. You can find her at <a href="https://twitter.com/_missmyk_">https://twitter.com/_missmyk_</a> or <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/missmyk.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/missmyk.bsky.social</a>.</p>
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<p>To bring this and other Tian Xia stories to life in your Pathfinder game, check out the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex6?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Tian-Xia-World-Guide">Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia World Guide</a> (releasing in April) and the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02etu?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Tian-Xia-Character-Guide">Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia Character Guide</a> (releasing in August), both available for preorder now. Customers who Customers who <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy80ie?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Subscription">subscribe to the Lost Omens product line</a> will receive both books and a complimentary PDF of each upon their respective release!</p>
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</article> <p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinder">Pathfinder</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderRoleplayingGame">Pathfinder Roleplaying Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/locations/tianXia">Tian Xia</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderTales/webFiction">Web Fiction</a></p>2024-03-12T17:30:00ZIntroducing the Seven Dooms for Sandpoint Player’s Guidehttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6siiv?Introducing-the-Seven-Dooms-for-Sandpoint2024-03-08T18:00:00Z<article>
<h1 itemprop="headline">Introducing the Seven Dooms for Sandpoint Player’s Guide</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Friday, March 8, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Sandpoint is in trouble again—are you the heroes to step in to save the day?</p>
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<p>Varisia’s Lost Coast has seen more than its fair share of danger over the past few decades, and the town of Sandpoint, known also as the “Light of the Lost Coast,” has been at the epicenter of much of that danger. Goblin invasions, attacks from giants and dragons, deadly fires, murderous rampages, and natural disasters have tested the limits of those who dwell here, and many have wondered why the Lost Coast, and Sandpoint in particular, has had such a run of bad luck recently.</p>
<p>There is a reason. And now, nearly two decades after Runelord Karzoug rose from his slumber to threaten the realm, those reasons are coming to a boil. A new band of heroes must step up to save the town from a sinister conspiracy that would bring doom seven times over to Sandpoint.</p>
<p><em>Seven Dooms for Sandpoint</em> is a very special adventure: it marks the 200th volume of the Pathfinder Adventure Paths by returning to the town where it all began! Serving as a sequel to <em>Burnt Offerings</em>, the first adventure in Rise of the Runelords, <em>Seven Dooms for Sandpoint</em> is a fully self-contained campaign in a single 200-page volume that brings your characters from 4th to 12th level. Along the way, you’ll discover the true nature of the supernatural forces that have loomed in the background of all that has occurred in this small coastal town.</p>
<p>Inside the <em>Seven Dooms for Sandpoint Player’s Guide</em>, you’ll find player-friendly, spoiler-free information and tips to help you make an exciting new character perfect for the Seven Dooms for Sandpoint Adventure Path.</p>
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<p>This player’s guide contains:</p>
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<li>Character suggestions, including recommendations for ancestries, classes, faiths, languages, skills, feats, archetypes, and gear well suited for this Adventure Path.</li>
<li>Advice for how to tie your Seven Dooms for Sandpoint campaign to previous adventures, be they recent releases like <em>Rusthenge</em>, or old classics like <em>Burnt Offerings</em>.</li>
<li>Eight new backgrounds to contextualize your character’s history in Sandpoint.</li>
<li>A gazetteer of the town of Sandpoint that provides new information on influential factions in the town (from established groups like the Sandpoint Cathedral and the Town Watch to newcomers such as the Runewatchers or the Scarnetti Consortium), details on living in Sandpoint (including tips on earning income, earning reputation with the town’s seven most influential factions, or securing downtime support from individual NPCs and locations), and a gazetteer of 50 of the town’s most important locations.</li>
<li>An interactive narrative that you and the other players can read through as a group to help generate a brand new “adventuring history” for your first three levels of experience, if you prefer to build brand new 4th-level characters to play this Adventure Path rather than bring in established characters from a previous adventure.</li>
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<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">James Jacobs<br />
<em>Narrative Creative Director</em><br /></p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Introducing the Seven Dooms for Sandpoint Player’s Guide</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Friday, March 8, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Sandpoint is in trouble again—are you the heroes to step in to save the day?</p>
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<p>Varisia’s Lost Coast has seen more than its fair share of danger over the past few decades, and the town of Sandpoint, known also as the “Light of the Lost Coast,” has been at the epicenter of much of that danger. Goblin invasions, attacks from giants and dragons, deadly fires, murderous rampages, and natural disasters have tested the limits of those who dwell here, and many have wondered why the Lost Coast, and Sandpoint in particular, has had such a run of bad luck recently.</p>
<p>There is a reason. And now, nearly two decades after Runelord Karzoug rose from his slumber to threaten the realm, those reasons are coming to a boil. A new band of heroes must step up to save the town from a sinister conspiracy that would bring doom seven times over to Sandpoint.</p>
<p><em>Seven Dooms for Sandpoint</em> is a very special adventure: it marks the 200th volume of the Pathfinder Adventure Paths by returning to the town where it all began! Serving as a sequel to <em>Burnt Offerings</em>, the first adventure in Rise of the Runelords, <em>Seven Dooms for Sandpoint</em> is a fully self-contained campaign in a single 200-page volume that brings your characters from 4th to 12th level. Along the way, you’ll discover the true nature of the supernatural forces that have loomed in the background of all that has occurred in this small coastal town.</p>
<p>Inside the <em>Seven Dooms for Sandpoint Player’s Guide</em>, you’ll find player-friendly, spoiler-free information and tips to help you make an exciting new character perfect for the Seven Dooms for Sandpoint Adventure Path.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/6d7c0039-5149-46ce-9e4a-47c37ec7da7d/SevenDoomsforSandpoint_PlayersGuide_Cover.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/6d7c0039-5149-46ce-9e4a-47c37ec7da7d/SevenDoomsforSandpoint_PlayersGuide_Cover.png" width="400px" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Pathfinder Second Edition Seven Dooms of Sandpoint for Player's Guide"></a>
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<p>This player’s guide contains:</p>
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<li>Character suggestions, including recommendations for ancestries, classes, faiths, languages, skills, feats, archetypes, and gear well suited for this Adventure Path.</li>
<li>Advice for how to tie your Seven Dooms for Sandpoint campaign to previous adventures, be they recent releases like <em>Rusthenge</em>, or old classics like <em>Burnt Offerings</em>.</li>
<li>Eight new backgrounds to contextualize your character’s history in Sandpoint.</li>
<li>A gazetteer of the town of Sandpoint that provides new information on influential factions in the town (from established groups like the Sandpoint Cathedral and the Town Watch to newcomers such as the Runewatchers or the Scarnetti Consortium), details on living in Sandpoint (including tips on earning income, earning reputation with the town’s seven most influential factions, or securing downtime support from individual NPCs and locations), and a gazetteer of 50 of the town’s most important locations.</li>
<li>An interactive narrative that you and the other players can read through as a group to help generate a brand new “adventuring history” for your first three levels of experience, if you prefer to build brand new 4th-level characters to play this Adventure Path rather than bring in established characters from a previous adventure.</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">James Jacobs<br />
<em>Narrative Creative Director</em><br /></p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Seal Away the Whispering Tyrant in Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em></h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 7, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">The Whispering Tyrant awaits… <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/"><strong><em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em></strong></a> has officially launched into Steam Early Access! Developed by BKOM Studios in partnership with Paizo, this roguelite bullet hell survivor game allows you to experience the renowned world of Golarion through a whole new lens. Arm-in-arm with a trusted ally, delve into Gallowspire and confront the legendary villain Tar-Baphon!</p>
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<p>As it exits Early Access, <em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors </em>introduces a host of highly requested features from the community, as well as UI improvements, overall gameplay balancing, and Steam Deck compatibility. Players may now brave the depths of Gallowspire with a friend in both local co-op and Steam Remote Play. Escape incoming damage in a blink of an eye with the all-new dash mechanic, and gain run-deciding buffs with a strategic sip from the potion belt. With the addition of dedicated chapters, faster character progression, hyper mode, and new Pathfinder collectible cards with official artworks that provide permanent upgrades, every attempt towards sealing away the disgraced lich-emperor brings great reward.</p>
<p>Within the depths of Gallowspire lies the disgraced mythic lich Tar-Baphon, one of Pathfinder’s most ancient and powerful villains. While sealed away beneath his ancient seat of power, he has been deftly plotting his grand return. As the magic that contains him begins to fail, three fearless heroes will rise to the occasion, tasked with venturing into Gallowspire's depths to defeat Tar-Baphon and repair the wards that seal him away.</p>
<p>Step into the role as one of three daring heroes and battle through the horrors of Gallowspire. The Fighter, Wizard, or Rogue all come with their own strengths and talents that will aid them in their efforts against Tar-Baphon. Choose an ally to fight alongside you as you slay hordes of Tar-Baphon’s undead minions, collect and upgrade your arsenal of spells and weapons, and extinguish Gallowspire’s callous bosses. There will be many failures throughout your journey, but aided by an ancient medallion, the heroes can escape death and grow stronger with each attempt.</p>
<p>Prepare to face Gallowspire's hordes for as long as it takes…<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/"><em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em></a> launches on April 4th. Brave heroes can buy <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/"><em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em></a><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/"> on </a><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/">Steam</a> in Early Access today, or try the demo, as they await the Whispering Tyrant’s return. Wishlist and follow the game on Steam to get notified of the launch. Keep up to date with all the information by joining the<a href="https://discord.com/invite/9MZwjRKetk"> official Discord server</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gallowspiresurvivorsgame/">Facebook page </a>and following <a href="https://twitter.com/BkomStudios">BKOM Studios on X</a>.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/aa32354b-dcff-4a49-bee8-3506042251bf/BKOMGallowspireRelease24_02.jpg"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/aa32354b-dcff-4a49-bee8-3506042251bf/BKOMGallowspireRelease24_02.jpg" width="90%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Screenshot of Gallowspire Survivors game play"></a>
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<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Choose your class: Fighter, Wizard, or Rogue<strong>—</strong>each featuring unique talents, powers, and playstyles.</li>
<li>Invite a friend to take over one of your heroes, to act as your companion. Even if you are playing solo, your companion always follows you into battle. Your companions will be as powerful as you have grown them to be!</li>
<li>Run the gauntlet of Gallowspire! Delve into battle and overcome all four sections and their bosses to mark a successful run.</li>
<li>Multiple Gameplay mechanics: dash, potion belt, aiming, unique feats for each character, and much more.</li>
<li>Defeat enemies and collect their essence to obtain and upgrade your powers during the run.</li>
<li>Earn experience to level up your heroes, and spend talent points to permanently enhance and customize their powers based on Pathfinder 2nd edition mechanics.</li>
<li>Collect cards showcasing official Pathfinder art to unlock permanent upgrades for all your heroes.</li>
<li>Complete quests, engage in challenging boss fights, and battle the Whispering Tyrant himself.</li>
<li>Customize your challenge level across 5 tiers of difficulty. The quest to contain Tar-Baphon is endless!</li>
</ul>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Seal Away the Whispering Tyrant in Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em></h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 7, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">The Whispering Tyrant awaits… <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/"><strong><em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em></strong></a> has officially launched into Steam Early Access! Developed by BKOM Studios in partnership with Paizo, this roguelite bullet hell survivor game allows you to experience the renowned world of Golarion through a whole new lens. Arm-in-arm with a trusted ally, delve into Gallowspire and confront the legendary villain Tar-Baphon!</p>
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<p>As it exits Early Access, <em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors </em>introduces a host of highly requested features from the community, as well as UI improvements, overall gameplay balancing, and Steam Deck compatibility. Players may now brave the depths of Gallowspire with a friend in both local co-op and Steam Remote Play. Escape incoming damage in a blink of an eye with the all-new dash mechanic, and gain run-deciding buffs with a strategic sip from the potion belt. With the addition of dedicated chapters, faster character progression, hyper mode, and new Pathfinder collectible cards with official artworks that provide permanent upgrades, every attempt towards sealing away the disgraced lich-emperor brings great reward.</p>
<p>Within the depths of Gallowspire lies the disgraced mythic lich Tar-Baphon, one of Pathfinder’s most ancient and powerful villains. While sealed away beneath his ancient seat of power, he has been deftly plotting his grand return. As the magic that contains him begins to fail, three fearless heroes will rise to the occasion, tasked with venturing into Gallowspire's depths to defeat Tar-Baphon and repair the wards that seal him away.</p>
<p>Step into the role as one of three daring heroes and battle through the horrors of Gallowspire. The Fighter, Wizard, or Rogue all come with their own strengths and talents that will aid them in their efforts against Tar-Baphon. Choose an ally to fight alongside you as you slay hordes of Tar-Baphon’s undead minions, collect and upgrade your arsenal of spells and weapons, and extinguish Gallowspire’s callous bosses. There will be many failures throughout your journey, but aided by an ancient medallion, the heroes can escape death and grow stronger with each attempt.</p>
<p>Prepare to face Gallowspire's hordes for as long as it takes…<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/"><em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em></a> launches on April 4th. Brave heroes can buy <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/"><em>Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors</em></a><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/"> on </a><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388460/Pathfinder_Gallowspire_Survivors/">Steam</a> in Early Access today, or try the demo, as they await the Whispering Tyrant’s return. Wishlist and follow the game on Steam to get notified of the launch. Keep up to date with all the information by joining the<a href="https://discord.com/invite/9MZwjRKetk"> official Discord server</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gallowspiresurvivorsgame/">Facebook page </a>and following <a href="https://twitter.com/BkomStudios">BKOM Studios on X</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Choose your class: Fighter, Wizard, or Rogue<strong>—</strong>each featuring unique talents, powers, and playstyles.</li>
<li>Invite a friend to take over one of your heroes, to act as your companion. Even if you are playing solo, your companion always follows you into battle. Your companions will be as powerful as you have grown them to be!</li>
<li>Run the gauntlet of Gallowspire! Delve into battle and overcome all four sections and their bosses to mark a successful run.</li>
<li>Multiple Gameplay mechanics: dash, potion belt, aiming, unique feats for each character, and much more.</li>
<li>Defeat enemies and collect their essence to obtain and upgrade your powers during the run.</li>
<li>Earn experience to level up your heroes, and spend talent points to permanently enhance and customize their powers based on Pathfinder 2nd edition mechanics.</li>
<li>Collect cards showcasing official Pathfinder art to unlock permanent upgrades for all your heroes.</li>
<li>Complete quests, engage in challenging boss fights, and battle the Whispering Tyrant himself.</li>
<li>Customize your challenge level across 5 tiers of difficulty. The quest to contain Tar-Baphon is endless!</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">March 2024 Organized Play Monthly Update</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 7, 2024</p>
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<h2>Digital Adventure Releases</h2>
<p itemprop="description">These adventures will be available on March 27, 2024.</p>
<h3>Pathfinder Society</h3>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex8"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-12: Mischief in the Maze</em></a>•<br />
<a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex9?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-513-Thick-as-Thieves"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-13: Thick as Thieves</em></a>•</p>
<h3>Starfinder Society</h3>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exa"><em>Starfinder Society Scenario #6-15: Extraction from Azlanti Space</em></a>•<br /><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exb"><em>Starfinder Bounty #12: Under Pressure</em></a></p>
<p>•part of a subscription</p>
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<h2>Guide Updates</h2>
<p>Version 5.10 of the <a href="https://lorespire.paizo.com/tiki-index.php?page=Pathfinder-Society-(Second-Edition)-Guide-to-Organized-Play">Guide to Organized Play: Pathfinder Society</a> has been published! This version contains some important updates, including removing <em>axiomatic</em> and <em>anarchic</em> runes, which must be returned for a full refund as they no longer function with the removal of alignment; and making some remaster-related changes to Spellcasting Services and PCs with Disabilities.</p>
<p>A full changelog is available <a href="https://lorespire.paizo.com/tiki-index.php?page=pfs2guide._.Changelog#Version_5">here</a>. Please let us know if there are any further questions or concerns!</p>
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<h2>FAQ Updates</h2>
<p>To go along with the Guide, we’ve added a couple new FAQ answers to the <a href="https://paizo.com/pathfindersociety/faq">Pathfinder Society FAQ page</a>! Specifically, there is now suggested guidance on running Influence encounters in PFS, as well as clarity on how to get items made from special materials.</p>
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<h2>Sanctioning Updates</h2>
<p>February might be our quietest release month in recent memory, with just a single flip-mat on top of our OP scenarios! But of course, that’s all due to next month’s <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02et8"><em>Seven Dooms for Sandpoint</em></a>, a double-length AP taking you back to where it all began. As such, the sanctioning machine is kicking up again!</p>
<p>We expect <em>Seven Dooms</em> to be sanctioned for PFS play upon release, and players will get access to a pretty cool item for completing the adventure! No spoilers, yet. We’ll also be sanctioning the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ej4"><em>Pathfinder Monster Core</em></a> but, other than summoning creatures, there aren’t very many player-facing options in this book.</p>
<p>In April, we expect to drop sanctioning for the <em><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex6?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Tian-Xia-World-Guide">Tian Xia World Guide</a></em>, and then in May we’ll turn our attention to <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ew4/discuss?Pathfinder-Howl-of-the-Wild"><em>Howl of the Wild</em></a> as well as our final Starfinder First Edition release, <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ewi/discuss?Starfinder-Mechageddon-Adventure-Path"><em>Mechageddon!</em></a> Lots of new content on the horizon for you all, hope you’re excited!</p>
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<h2>GM Recognition</h2>
<h3>GM Ranks</h3>
<p>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!</p>
<p>This month, we had two GMs earn their 5th rank!</p>
<p><strong>5th Glyph (PFS2)</strong>: Zackery Kuehn and Jess Miller-Camp</p>
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<p>That’s all from me this month, folks! Until next time - Explore! Report! Cooperate! And get ready for convention season!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Alex Speidel<br />
<em>Organized Play Coordinator</em><br /></p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">March 2024 Organized Play Monthly Update</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, March 7, 2024</p>
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<a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/Blog/051520_PaizoOP.png"><img width=250 src="https://paizo.com/image/content/Blog/051520_PaizoOP.png" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px; padding left: 10px;" alt=""></a><p style="font-size: 13px;"></p>
<h2>Digital Adventure Releases</h2>
<p itemprop="description">These adventures will be available on March 27, 2024.</p>
<h3>Pathfinder Society</h3>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex8"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-12: Mischief in the Maze</em></a>•<br />
<a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex9?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-513-Thick-as-Thieves"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-13: Thick as Thieves</em></a>•</p>
<h3>Starfinder Society</h3>
<p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exa"><em>Starfinder Society Scenario #6-15: Extraction from Azlanti Space</em></a>•<br /><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02exb"><em>Starfinder Bounty #12: Under Pressure</em></a></p>
<p>•part of a subscription</p>
<br>
<h2>Guide Updates</h2>
<p>Version 5.10 of the <a href="https://lorespire.paizo.com/tiki-index.php?page=Pathfinder-Society-(Second-Edition)-Guide-to-Organized-Play">Guide to Organized Play: Pathfinder Society</a> has been published! This version contains some important updates, including removing <em>axiomatic</em> and <em>anarchic</em> runes, which must be returned for a full refund as they no longer function with the removal of alignment; and making some remaster-related changes to Spellcasting Services and PCs with Disabilities.</p>
<p>A full changelog is available <a href="https://lorespire.paizo.com/tiki-index.php?page=pfs2guide._.Changelog#Version_5">here</a>. Please let us know if there are any further questions or concerns!</p>
<br>
<h2>FAQ Updates</h2>
<p>To go along with the Guide, we’ve added a couple new FAQ answers to the <a href="https://paizo.com/pathfindersociety/faq">Pathfinder Society FAQ page</a>! Specifically, there is now suggested guidance on running Influence encounters in PFS, as well as clarity on how to get items made from special materials.</p>
<br>
<h2>Sanctioning Updates</h2>
<p>February might be our quietest release month in recent memory, with just a single flip-mat on top of our OP scenarios! But of course, that’s all due to next month’s <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02et8"><em>Seven Dooms for Sandpoint</em></a>, a double-length AP taking you back to where it all began. As such, the sanctioning machine is kicking up again!</p>
<p>We expect <em>Seven Dooms</em> to be sanctioned for PFS play upon release, and players will get access to a pretty cool item for completing the adventure! No spoilers, yet. We’ll also be sanctioning the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ej4"><em>Pathfinder Monster Core</em></a> but, other than summoning creatures, there aren’t very many player-facing options in this book.</p>
<p>In April, we expect to drop sanctioning for the <em><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex6?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Tian-Xia-World-Guide">Tian Xia World Guide</a></em>, and then in May we’ll turn our attention to <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ew4/discuss?Pathfinder-Howl-of-the-Wild"><em>Howl of the Wild</em></a> as well as our final Starfinder First Edition release, <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ewi/discuss?Starfinder-Mechageddon-Adventure-Path"><em>Mechageddon!</em></a> Lots of new content on the horizon for you all, hope you’re excited!</p>
<br>
<h2>GM Recognition</h2>
<h3>GM Ranks</h3>
<p>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!</p>
<p>This month, we had two GMs earn their 5th rank!</p>
<p><strong>5th Glyph (PFS2)</strong>: Zackery Kuehn and Jess Miller-Camp</p>
<br>
<p>That’s all from me this month, folks! Until next time - Explore! Report! Cooperate! And get ready for convention season!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Alex Speidel<br />
<em>Organized Play Coordinator</em><br /></p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">The <em>Godsrain Prophecies</em> Part Five</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 6, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description"><em>One interesting line of thought that I have yet to formally consider goes beyond the question of whether these “prophecies” should be considered equally as a whole to whether the whole of each of them should be equally considered. If, for example, I dismiss the effects of a particular god’s supposed death, does this mean that I am dismissing their prophesied death altogether? Does every part of a prophecy have to come true for it to be considered prophetic? If the vast majority proves true, what is wrong could be an error of translation, interpretation, or prophetic understanding. On the other hand, if most of a prophecy is false, what is accurate is likely a lucky guess. The Windsong Corollaries never reach this sort of sentence-level consideration (a gap that I might perhaps publish a small paper in when my Lady does not need me, so long as I keep things strictly theoretical). I expect a reading of</em> Beyond Aroden: Failed Foretelling in the Age of Prophecy <em>is in short order to establish a bit of a baseline, but it will be up to my Lady (with my assistance, I hope!) to determine what level of possibility and accuracy any of these must have to be fully considered a work of prophecy.</em></p>
<p><em>–Yivali, Apprentice Researcher for the Lady of Graves</em></p>
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<h2>The Death of Erastil</h2>
<p>Erastil runs. Gallops really. Hoof over hoof, his antlers gleaming, bounding over shallow stream and whirling under tree branch, his body flying forward in a streak of joyous motion. He cannot always be the stag, but there are times he needs to run and feel the wind across his legs, familiar as the dawn but as new as any sunrise. He runs until he’s just past tired and ready for a drink of water, shaking leaves from antlers in a spray of autumn colors and transforming back into the form his followers are used to—horned head and wiry body of an age-old master hunter.</p>
<p>But he is not the only age-old creature resting in this wood. <em>Something </em>emerges, slowly, from a refuge it has tired of, assorted sharp and fleshy parts dragging its pouch of hunger up from somewhere down below. Even Erastil’s well-trained eyes do not quite see it slowly crawling, clawing onto haunch and belly, drawing closer to the god and waiting for the perfect moment. Not until the instant that it rises up to strike.</p>
<p>Erastil runs. Scrambles really. Step after step, bow at the ready, preparing even as he flees, trampling through a clutch of bushes, plunging through the river’s cold, trying to stay ahead until he whirls around to face what hunts him, show it that he’s unafraid. But there are things that even Old Deadeye has no defense against. And when that something catches him, its jaw wide and devouring, it turns what once was hunting god to nothing more than helpless prey, only stopping its ravaging to marvel at the flavor. There’s something here it’s never savored, in between the crunch and squelch—divinely filling in a way that it has never known before and now can never be without. Once it has consumed its meal and all that’s left is bits of bone, it scents the air and twists its body, reveling in the aftertaste of something past mortality, and lurches through the undergrowth to find another morsel.</p>
<p>Followers of Erastil who felt his blessings fade track his remaining footprints to the place he fought and fell. (There’s luck in that, or Jaidi’s hand, steady despite a widow’s grief, putting firm hands against their backs until they find whatever place his hint of dust remains.) A hunt is called, a holy ride, in honor of the fallen god, to track and take whatever beast has left their altars bare. But all they find across their path are other grieving worshippers whose gods (most small in name and reach, their purpose only known by handfuls) now are merely carcasses, devoured by some wretched beast that no one ever glimpses. The Hunters offer shelter and a purpose to these wanderers, and some find comfort in the endless chase across the Great Beyond, even as they never seem to find the subject of their search. Whatever killed Erastil, whatever hunts the other gods, is always hidden from their view, is always one quick turn away, is always adding to the trail of carnage just ahead.</p>
<p>The gods take notice of the beast, each readying their own defense. Some draw together, forming pacts and promising to shield each other—the radiance of the Dawnflower reaches the realm of the Midnight Lord, Norgorber and Iomedae draw swords with Cayden Cailean, the half-abandoned Summerlands fill up with frightened deities—but others use the moment as the perfect time to strike. Gorum turns on the cowardly and sharpens blades against their backs, Asmodeus carves clauses into those he has a contract with, Calistria builds safety from the ashes of revenge. Pantheons rise and fall and splinter in the shadow of the beast, endlessly repositioning even when it has gone to ground, its hunger sated only briefly every new time that it feeds.</p>
<p>Among the mortals, fear takes root as one god or another falls, and those who live are sometimes absent, too caught up in safety to give followers their strength. Some flourish in these absences that gods might once have kept in check, selling hope or cruelty as counters to divinity, creating order from the chaos any way they can. And when the gods grow used to fear and venture back into the world (beast still lurking in the corners, drooling at the prey), some find their temples turned to rubble, dusty from years of disuse, or built over to some new purpose they can barely recognize, and must now find a new path in a half-godless Golarion, even as something in the shadows starts to hunt</p>
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<p><em>Much as I found it distasteful to read about, I wish this supposed prophecy had gone into greater detail about this “beast” with what I suppose is a taste for divine flesh (a prospect I can barely conceive of, let alone comment on!). While I did attempt to use my rudimentary artistic talents to create some sort of sketch, even my best guess at the appearance of this beast has fallen quite short, as it matches nothing I am currently aware of. Either my skills are not up to the task, the prophecy has purposefully been vague, or this beast has never been seen before. If the latter, this is yet another reason to doubt this prophecy in particular. Anything this powerful would surely be noted in someone’s annals. Beyond that, though, the breakdown of the gods noted here seems very unlikely. In both my studies and experiences of the gods, I have found them to be quite devoted to those who worship them (each in their own way, of course), even when to their own detriment. No matter how horrible the threat, I do not believe mortals would be abandoned in this way, nor that they would abandon their gods in return. Or, at least, I do not wish to believe it. Best, I think, to move on to some new, and hopefully less troubling, prophecy.</em></p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px">About the Author</p>
<p>Erin Roberts has been thrilled to be able to contribute a few small threads to the fabric of Golarion in the pages of books like <em>Lost Omens Firebrands</em>, <em>Lost Omens Highhelm</em>, and <em>Lost Omens Travel Guide</em>. In addition to her work for Paizo, she freelances across the TTRPG world (and was selected as a Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program Winner in 2023), has had fiction published in magazines including <em>Asimov’s</em>, <em>Clarkesworld</em>, and <em>The Dark</em>, and talks about writing every week on the <em>Writing Excuses</em> podcast. Catch up with her latest at <strong>linktr.ee/erinroberts</strong>.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">The <em>Godsrain Prophecies</em> Part Five</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, March 6, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description"><em>One interesting line of thought that I have yet to formally consider goes beyond the question of whether these “prophecies” should be considered equally as a whole to whether the whole of each of them should be equally considered. If, for example, I dismiss the effects of a particular god’s supposed death, does this mean that I am dismissing their prophesied death altogether? Does every part of a prophecy have to come true for it to be considered prophetic? If the vast majority proves true, what is wrong could be an error of translation, interpretation, or prophetic understanding. On the other hand, if most of a prophecy is false, what is accurate is likely a lucky guess. The Windsong Corollaries never reach this sort of sentence-level consideration (a gap that I might perhaps publish a small paper in when my Lady does not need me, so long as I keep things strictly theoretical). I expect a reading of</em> Beyond Aroden: Failed Foretelling in the Age of Prophecy <em>is in short order to establish a bit of a baseline, but it will be up to my Lady (with my assistance, I hope!) to determine what level of possibility and accuracy any of these must have to be fully considered a work of prophecy.</em></p>
<p><em>–Yivali, Apprentice Researcher for the Lady of Graves</em></p>
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<h2>The Death of Erastil</h2>
<p>Erastil runs. Gallops really. Hoof over hoof, his antlers gleaming, bounding over shallow stream and whirling under tree branch, his body flying forward in a streak of joyous motion. He cannot always be the stag, but there are times he needs to run and feel the wind across his legs, familiar as the dawn but as new as any sunrise. He runs until he’s just past tired and ready for a drink of water, shaking leaves from antlers in a spray of autumn colors and transforming back into the form his followers are used to—horned head and wiry body of an age-old master hunter.</p>
<p>But he is not the only age-old creature resting in this wood. <em>Something </em>emerges, slowly, from a refuge it has tired of, assorted sharp and fleshy parts dragging its pouch of hunger up from somewhere down below. Even Erastil’s well-trained eyes do not quite see it slowly crawling, clawing onto haunch and belly, drawing closer to the god and waiting for the perfect moment. Not until the instant that it rises up to strike.</p>
<p>Erastil runs. Scrambles really. Step after step, bow at the ready, preparing even as he flees, trampling through a clutch of bushes, plunging through the river’s cold, trying to stay ahead until he whirls around to face what hunts him, show it that he’s unafraid. But there are things that even Old Deadeye has no defense against. And when that something catches him, its jaw wide and devouring, it turns what once was hunting god to nothing more than helpless prey, only stopping its ravaging to marvel at the flavor. There’s something here it’s never savored, in between the crunch and squelch—divinely filling in a way that it has never known before and now can never be without. Once it has consumed its meal and all that’s left is bits of bone, it scents the air and twists its body, reveling in the aftertaste of something past mortality, and lurches through the undergrowth to find another morsel.</p>
<p>Followers of Erastil who felt his blessings fade track his remaining footprints to the place he fought and fell. (There’s luck in that, or Jaidi’s hand, steady despite a widow’s grief, putting firm hands against their backs until they find whatever place his hint of dust remains.) A hunt is called, a holy ride, in honor of the fallen god, to track and take whatever beast has left their altars bare. But all they find across their path are other grieving worshippers whose gods (most small in name and reach, their purpose only known by handfuls) now are merely carcasses, devoured by some wretched beast that no one ever glimpses. The Hunters offer shelter and a purpose to these wanderers, and some find comfort in the endless chase across the Great Beyond, even as they never seem to find the subject of their search. Whatever killed Erastil, whatever hunts the other gods, is always hidden from their view, is always one quick turn away, is always adding to the trail of carnage just ahead.</p>
<p>The gods take notice of the beast, each readying their own defense. Some draw together, forming pacts and promising to shield each other—the radiance of the Dawnflower reaches the realm of the Midnight Lord, Norgorber and Iomedae draw swords with Cayden Cailean, the half-abandoned Summerlands fill up with frightened deities—but others use the moment as the perfect time to strike. Gorum turns on the cowardly and sharpens blades against their backs, Asmodeus carves clauses into those he has a contract with, Calistria builds safety from the ashes of revenge. Pantheons rise and fall and splinter in the shadow of the beast, endlessly repositioning even when it has gone to ground, its hunger sated only briefly every new time that it feeds.</p>
<p>Among the mortals, fear takes root as one god or another falls, and those who live are sometimes absent, too caught up in safety to give followers their strength. Some flourish in these absences that gods might once have kept in check, selling hope or cruelty as counters to divinity, creating order from the chaos any way they can. And when the gods grow used to fear and venture back into the world (beast still lurking in the corners, drooling at the prey), some find their temples turned to rubble, dusty from years of disuse, or built over to some new purpose they can barely recognize, and must now find a new path in a half-godless Golarion, even as something in the shadows starts to hunt</p>
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<p><em>Much as I found it distasteful to read about, I wish this supposed prophecy had gone into greater detail about this “beast” with what I suppose is a taste for divine flesh (a prospect I can barely conceive of, let alone comment on!). While I did attempt to use my rudimentary artistic talents to create some sort of sketch, even my best guess at the appearance of this beast has fallen quite short, as it matches nothing I am currently aware of. Either my skills are not up to the task, the prophecy has purposefully been vague, or this beast has never been seen before. If the latter, this is yet another reason to doubt this prophecy in particular. Anything this powerful would surely be noted in someone’s annals. Beyond that, though, the breakdown of the gods noted here seems very unlikely. In both my studies and experiences of the gods, I have found them to be quite devoted to those who worship them (each in their own way, of course), even when to their own detriment. No matter how horrible the threat, I do not believe mortals would be abandoned in this way, nor that they would abandon their gods in return. Or, at least, I do not wish to believe it. Best, I think, to move on to some new, and hopefully less troubling, prophecy.</em></p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px">About the Author</p>
<p>Erin Roberts has been thrilled to be able to contribute a few small threads to the fabric of Golarion in the pages of books like <em>Lost Omens Firebrands</em>, <em>Lost Omens Highhelm</em>, and <em>Lost Omens Travel Guide</em>. In addition to her work for Paizo, she freelances across the TTRPG world (and was selected as a Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program Winner in 2023), has had fiction published in magazines including <em>Asimov’s</em>, <em>Clarkesworld</em>, and <em>The Dark</em>, and talks about writing every week on the <em>Writing Excuses</em> podcast. Catch up with her latest at <strong>linktr.ee/erinroberts</strong>.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Zoetrope Logs, Part One: Hooves on Stone</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Tuesday, March 5, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">To truly immerse oneself in the natural world, one must view it up close! Though our ultimate goal was to find the Wardens of the Wild, we couldn’t neglect the incredible opportunities for study we found over the course of our investigations, and we made frequent stops to survey the wilds on foot (or on fin or wheel, in Lythea’s case). I hesitate to call them “side expeditions,” for they were valuable in their own right; Chari’s notes and sketches filled several folios we’re still disseminating now that we’ve returned—ah, but I outpace myself.</p>
<p>In any case, these excursions were where our scout, Telero, and our scribe, Charikleia, really had a chance to shine. One day, early in our voyage together, we were flying along a river that gradually carved the land into a breathtaking gorge, its cascading tributaries branching like the roots of a great tree in the rocky canyons spread out below us.</p>
<p>“Professor!” called Telero from the starboard rail, his voice ringing bright and eager as always. “This could be the perfect place to look for more sage aconite!”</p>
<p>(I feel I must pause to note, dear reader, lest it cause confusion: I am not, in fact, a professor in any official capacity! A lifelong scholar, certainly, and a dedicated librarian and archivist, but circumstances led me away from my university studies long before I advanced to any sort of teaching career. Nonetheless, I’ve been “the professor” to Telero since our first day aboard the <em>Zoetrope</em>, and I must say I find the epithet endearing, despite its inaccuracy.)</p>
<p>Telero grew up among talented herbalists and knew botany was a special interest of both mine and the doctor’s; we also knew that where interesting flora grew, interesting fauna was sure to follow. Who could say what new discovery might lead us to the wardens? I set us down on the rocky riverbank—my landings were getting smoother with practice—and called our small crew together to prepare for the journey.</p>
<p>We quickly decided that, due to the branching nature of the canyons, a group survey wasn’t the most efficient course of action. “Let me go, Professor,” said Telero, eying the lodestone in his staff and tying off a bearing. “I spotted a waterfall a few miles in when we flew over. I can find it and then come back for everyone else!”</p>
<p>I could tell asking him to wait for someone who hiked at my speed—that is to say, glacial—would be futile. “A wonderful idea, Telero,” I said, smiling at his irrepressible enthusiasm. “But it did look like there were several possible routes. Why don’t you take Charikleia with you?” The two had already bonded over similarities in their childhoods, and the young nomad hung on the more seasoned adventurer’s every word when she shared tales of her exploits before our voyage. I also suspected Chari’s measured and experienced approach would be a good balance to Telero’s hastier decisions on the trail.</p>
<p>My friend and fellow scholar nodded, already tucking her sketchbook into her bag. “I <em>am</em> quite familiar with mazes,” Chari teased, “and I’d love to sketch the falls—”</p>
<p>“Last one there’s an egg full of broodpiercers!” Telero’s hooves thundered down the gangplank as he charged off into the gorge, no longer able to contain his zest for adventure.</p>
<p>“Careful to boil those first!” Grefu warned after him. Chari laughed and waved to the rest of us as the two set off, the clatter of their hooves echoing off the mossy basalt walls of the gorge long after they faded from view.</p>
<p>Dr. Pom and I had barely finished our second leisurely cups of tea when Telero came galloping back. My concern over his haste and Chari’s absence was quickly allayed by the exuberance on his face. “Professor, everyone, we found it! You’ve got to see this!”</p>
<p>Our intrepid scout deftly guided us through the canyon, at times splashing through the river itself as the mossy rock walls closed in around us, only a line of blue sky visible far above. “How did you find it so quickly, Telero?” I asked, marveling at his surety as the canyon widened and the river diverged. He led us down the left-claw path, stopping often so those of us on two legs could keep up.</p>
<p>“It’s easy,” said our young guide, his eyes earnest. “You just have to listen to the river and watch the wind.”</p>
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<p>I’m afraid this surprisingly poetic insight has not yet improved my own sense of direction, but perhaps it will resonate with you, dear reader. If nothing else, the boy’s words remind us of the importance of being alert and appreciative of the world around us.</p>
<p>The roar of the falls drowned out further conversation as we rounded a final bend and came to a large canyon pool, fed from the endless water cascading over the cliff ahead. Telero beamed as we silently took in the thunderous serenade, the mist covering our awed faces.</p>
<p>It was nearly a full minute before I realized, with a shock, that Chari was sitting on a nearby rock, pencil in hand as she sketched the scene in front of us for our logs. She looked up and smiled as I took a seat next to her. Grefu and Dr. Pom began unpacking our picnic lunch while Lythea, Telero, and Ten charged into the pool, their laughter barely audible as they dove into the spray.</p>
<p>Chari passed me several sketches. “Signs of stony bat spit, similar to those of other gorgon subspecies detailed in the Kirisiel report, but I thought I’d document the flora first and wait for you to investigate.”</p>
<p>I paged through her neat drawings, all precisely labeled in her steady hand. “These are wonderful, Charikleia. How lucky we are to have you along. How was the trek?”</p>
<p>She laughed. “Telero’s a natural. He’d be right at home in the training mazes back home. I’d love to see him race my siblings sometime.”</p>
<p>Though I can’t fathom how he could have heard us over the waterfall, Telero bounded forward from the pool, narrowly avoiding soaking Chari’s sketchbook. “Chari could have found it first!” he protested, shaking water from his hair. “But she had to stop to draw everything.”</p>
<p>I traded a smile with my fellow researcher as she restacked her notes and moved them away from the pool. “I’m glad you’re both so thorough in your own ways,” I said. “The smallest detail could be the clue that leads us to the wardens.” I sighed, equal parts grateful and wistful, the sun warm on my scales. “Now, if only I were as organized as you are, Charikleia. I don’t suppose you know where I placed volume three of <em>The Thrilling Tales of Spiridendra</em>, do you?”</p>
<p>“You’re the librarian, Baranthet, not me,” she joked, standing and offering me her hand. “Care to join us by the falls? I think I saw some likely nesting spots in the rocks behind the water.”</p>
<p>Telero leapt forward. “I saw that too! C’mon, Professor!”</p>
<p>I accepted Chari’s hand with a smile as she helped me to my feet. “Lead the way!”</p>
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<p><b>About the Author</b><br />
Baranthet Zamendi cultivated his love of the natural world at a young age, enamored with his grandmother’s awe-inspiring tales of the legendary Wardens of the Wild. He briefly attended Almas University before returning home to rebuild Droon’s public library, eventually becoming its head archivist. His upcoming book on the crew of the <em>Zoetrope</em> and their search for the wardens is his first, but he’s already planning his next adventure.</p>
<p><b>Support for Mr. Zamendi by</b><br />
Simone D. Sallé is a senior editor at Paizo and has written for numerous Pathfinder and Starfinder books, including more of Baranthet’s tale in<em>Pathfinder Howl of the Wild</em>, the primal treatise and witch journals in <em>Pathfinder Secrets of Magic</em>, and <em>Starfinder Bounty #12: Under Pressure</em>. When she’s not extolling the virtues of the en dash, she enjoys playing as many narrative games as her schedule allows and wandering the woods with her Disreputable Dog.</p>
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<p>Hi everyone—James here! As we get closer to Howl of the Wild’s May release date, we thought we’d share with you some logs of the wildlife expedition of the airship Zoetrope and its crew of naturalists as they seek the mythical Wardens of the Wild, which Simone has diligently sourced. As you may know, Howl of the Wild presents <a href=" https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sibw&page=1?Meet-the-Crew-of-the-Zoetrope "> six new playable ancestries </a>, each of whom is represented by a different member of the airship’s crew—alongside Baranthet, the expedition’s iruxi leader.</p>
<p>Since we got a look at Charikleia and Telero today, this seems like a good time to show off feats for the centaur and minotaur ancestries coming in the final book! Centaurs can be pretty competitive, and young Telero’s no exception:</p>
<p><u><h3>FIERCE COMPETITOR [one-action] — FEAT 9</u></h3><p>
<p><b>Centaur, Mental</b><br />
<u><b>Frequency</b> once per day</u><br />
You challenge a single ally to a physical competition. This competition must involve accomplishing a specific goal for a specific use of the Acrobatics or Athletics skill, such as Climbing to the top of a wall, Tripping a specific foe, or Long Jumping across a chasm. You and your selected ally gain a +2 circumstance bonus to the associated skill check for 1 minute or until one of you wins the challenge, whichever is first. If you win this competition, you gain a +2 status bonus to Intimidation checks for 1 hour.</p>
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<p>You wouldn’t really expect someone as soft-spoken as Chari to be scary, but it turns out minotaurs are frighteningly good at disappearing into mazes and other cover. </p>
<p><u><h3>ALARMING DISAPPEARANCE — FEAT 5</u></h3></p>
<p><b>Minotaur</b><br />
<u><b>Prerequisites</b> expert in Stealth</u><br />
Your ability to move unseen is startling for one your size, causing panic among your enemies. When you successfully Hide when previously observed, creatures you are hidden from become frightened 1. They are then temporarily immune to Alarming Disappearance for 1 hour.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/96062f7c-938b-424a-808b-48bc8d5bdc25/PZO2114_Charikleia_FullBody_1500x2100.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/96062f7c-938b-424a-808b-48bc8d5bdc25/PZO2114_Charikleia_FullBody_1500x2100.png" width="40%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="A full body illustration of the Charikleia, a minotaur scribe"></a>
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<p style="font-size: 13px;">The minotaur ancestry is embodied by the ship’s scribe, Charikleia, and the centaur ancestry by its scout, Telero! Art by Gunship Revolution.
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<p>We’ll be checking back in with Baranthet and the crew over the next few weeks, so look forward to getting to meet the rest of our intrepid naturalists in greater detail in the future!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">James Case<br />
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Zoetrope Logs, Part One: Hooves on Stone</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Tuesday, March 5, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">To truly immerse oneself in the natural world, one must view it up close! Though our ultimate goal was to find the Wardens of the Wild, we couldn’t neglect the incredible opportunities for study we found over the course of our investigations, and we made frequent stops to survey the wilds on foot (or on fin or wheel, in Lythea’s case). I hesitate to call them “side expeditions,” for they were valuable in their own right; Chari’s notes and sketches filled several folios we’re still disseminating now that we’ve returned—ah, but I outpace myself.</p>
<p>In any case, these excursions were where our scout, Telero, and our scribe, Charikleia, really had a chance to shine. One day, early in our voyage together, we were flying along a river that gradually carved the land into a breathtaking gorge, its cascading tributaries branching like the roots of a great tree in the rocky canyons spread out below us.</p>
<p>“Professor!” called Telero from the starboard rail, his voice ringing bright and eager as always. “This could be the perfect place to look for more sage aconite!”</p>
<p>(I feel I must pause to note, dear reader, lest it cause confusion: I am not, in fact, a professor in any official capacity! A lifelong scholar, certainly, and a dedicated librarian and archivist, but circumstances led me away from my university studies long before I advanced to any sort of teaching career. Nonetheless, I’ve been “the professor” to Telero since our first day aboard the <em>Zoetrope</em>, and I must say I find the epithet endearing, despite its inaccuracy.)</p>
<p>Telero grew up among talented herbalists and knew botany was a special interest of both mine and the doctor’s; we also knew that where interesting flora grew, interesting fauna was sure to follow. Who could say what new discovery might lead us to the wardens? I set us down on the rocky riverbank—my landings were getting smoother with practice—and called our small crew together to prepare for the journey.</p>
<p>We quickly decided that, due to the branching nature of the canyons, a group survey wasn’t the most efficient course of action. “Let me go, Professor,” said Telero, eying the lodestone in his staff and tying off a bearing. “I spotted a waterfall a few miles in when we flew over. I can find it and then come back for everyone else!”</p>
<p>I could tell asking him to wait for someone who hiked at my speed—that is to say, glacial—would be futile. “A wonderful idea, Telero,” I said, smiling at his irrepressible enthusiasm. “But it did look like there were several possible routes. Why don’t you take Charikleia with you?” The two had already bonded over similarities in their childhoods, and the young nomad hung on the more seasoned adventurer’s every word when she shared tales of her exploits before our voyage. I also suspected Chari’s measured and experienced approach would be a good balance to Telero’s hastier decisions on the trail.</p>
<p>My friend and fellow scholar nodded, already tucking her sketchbook into her bag. “I <em>am</em> quite familiar with mazes,” Chari teased, “and I’d love to sketch the falls—”</p>
<p>“Last one there’s an egg full of broodpiercers!” Telero’s hooves thundered down the gangplank as he charged off into the gorge, no longer able to contain his zest for adventure.</p>
<p>“Careful to boil those first!” Grefu warned after him. Chari laughed and waved to the rest of us as the two set off, the clatter of their hooves echoing off the mossy basalt walls of the gorge long after they faded from view.</p>
<p>Dr. Pom and I had barely finished our second leisurely cups of tea when Telero came galloping back. My concern over his haste and Chari’s absence was quickly allayed by the exuberance on his face. “Professor, everyone, we found it! You’ve got to see this!”</p>
<p>Our intrepid scout deftly guided us through the canyon, at times splashing through the river itself as the mossy rock walls closed in around us, only a line of blue sky visible far above. “How did you find it so quickly, Telero?” I asked, marveling at his surety as the canyon widened and the river diverged. He led us down the left-claw path, stopping often so those of us on two legs could keep up.</p>
<p>“It’s easy,” said our young guide, his eyes earnest. “You just have to listen to the river and watch the wind.”</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/a1ed6a7b-71b8-4073-9d86-633204ffc1f9/PZO2114_Charikleia_Photograph.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/a1ed6a7b-71b8-4073-9d86-633204ffc1f9/PZO2114_Charikleia_Photograph.png" width="40%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="A light writer photograph plate of Charikleia the minotaur "></a>
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<p style="font-size: 13px;">Light writer plates of Charikleia and Telero, from official Zoetrope expedition logs. Art by Gunship Revolution.</p>
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<p>I’m afraid this surprisingly poetic insight has not yet improved my own sense of direction, but perhaps it will resonate with you, dear reader. If nothing else, the boy’s words remind us of the importance of being alert and appreciative of the world around us.</p>
<p>The roar of the falls drowned out further conversation as we rounded a final bend and came to a large canyon pool, fed from the endless water cascading over the cliff ahead. Telero beamed as we silently took in the thunderous serenade, the mist covering our awed faces.</p>
<p>It was nearly a full minute before I realized, with a shock, that Chari was sitting on a nearby rock, pencil in hand as she sketched the scene in front of us for our logs. She looked up and smiled as I took a seat next to her. Grefu and Dr. Pom began unpacking our picnic lunch while Lythea, Telero, and Ten charged into the pool, their laughter barely audible as they dove into the spray.</p>
<p>Chari passed me several sketches. “Signs of stony bat spit, similar to those of other gorgon subspecies detailed in the Kirisiel report, but I thought I’d document the flora first and wait for you to investigate.”</p>
<p>I paged through her neat drawings, all precisely labeled in her steady hand. “These are wonderful, Charikleia. How lucky we are to have you along. How was the trek?”</p>
<p>She laughed. “Telero’s a natural. He’d be right at home in the training mazes back home. I’d love to see him race my siblings sometime.”</p>
<p>Though I can’t fathom how he could have heard us over the waterfall, Telero bounded forward from the pool, narrowly avoiding soaking Chari’s sketchbook. “Chari could have found it first!” he protested, shaking water from his hair. “But she had to stop to draw everything.”</p>
<p>I traded a smile with my fellow researcher as she restacked her notes and moved them away from the pool. “I’m glad you’re both so thorough in your own ways,” I said. “The smallest detail could be the clue that leads us to the wardens.” I sighed, equal parts grateful and wistful, the sun warm on my scales. “Now, if only I were as organized as you are, Charikleia. I don’t suppose you know where I placed volume three of <em>The Thrilling Tales of Spiridendra</em>, do you?”</p>
<p>“You’re the librarian, Baranthet, not me,” she joked, standing and offering me her hand. “Care to join us by the falls? I think I saw some likely nesting spots in the rocks behind the water.”</p>
<p>Telero leapt forward. “I saw that too! C’mon, Professor!”</p>
<p>I accepted Chari’s hand with a smile as she helped me to my feet. “Lead the way!”</p>
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<p><b>About the Author</b><br />
Baranthet Zamendi cultivated his love of the natural world at a young age, enamored with his grandmother’s awe-inspiring tales of the legendary Wardens of the Wild. He briefly attended Almas University before returning home to rebuild Droon’s public library, eventually becoming its head archivist. His upcoming book on the crew of the <em>Zoetrope</em> and their search for the wardens is his first, but he’s already planning his next adventure.</p>
<p><b>Support for Mr. Zamendi by</b><br />
Simone D. Sallé is a senior editor at Paizo and has written for numerous Pathfinder and Starfinder books, including more of Baranthet’s tale in<em>Pathfinder Howl of the Wild</em>, the primal treatise and witch journals in <em>Pathfinder Secrets of Magic</em>, and <em>Starfinder Bounty #12: Under Pressure</em>. When she’s not extolling the virtues of the en dash, she enjoys playing as many narrative games as her schedule allows and wandering the woods with her Disreputable Dog.</p>
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<p>Hi everyone—James here! As we get closer to Howl of the Wild’s May release date, we thought we’d share with you some logs of the wildlife expedition of the airship Zoetrope and its crew of naturalists as they seek the mythical Wardens of the Wild, which Simone has diligently sourced. As you may know, Howl of the Wild presents <a href=" https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sibw&page=1?Meet-the-Crew-of-the-Zoetrope "> six new playable ancestries </a>, each of whom is represented by a different member of the airship’s crew—alongside Baranthet, the expedition’s iruxi leader.</p>
<p>Since we got a look at Charikleia and Telero today, this seems like a good time to show off feats for the centaur and minotaur ancestries coming in the final book! Centaurs can be pretty competitive, and young Telero’s no exception:</p>
<p><u><h3>FIERCE COMPETITOR [one-action] — FEAT 9</u></h3><p>
<p><b>Centaur, Mental</b><br />
<u><b>Frequency</b> once per day</u><br />
You challenge a single ally to a physical competition. This competition must involve accomplishing a specific goal for a specific use of the Acrobatics or Athletics skill, such as Climbing to the top of a wall, Tripping a specific foe, or Long Jumping across a chasm. You and your selected ally gain a +2 circumstance bonus to the associated skill check for 1 minute or until one of you wins the challenge, whichever is first. If you win this competition, you gain a +2 status bonus to Intimidation checks for 1 hour.</p>
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<p>You wouldn’t really expect someone as soft-spoken as Chari to be scary, but it turns out minotaurs are frighteningly good at disappearing into mazes and other cover. </p>
<p><u><h3>ALARMING DISAPPEARANCE — FEAT 5</u></h3></p>
<p><b>Minotaur</b><br />
<u><b>Prerequisites</b> expert in Stealth</u><br />
Your ability to move unseen is startling for one your size, causing panic among your enemies. When you successfully Hide when previously observed, creatures you are hidden from become frightened 1. They are then temporarily immune to Alarming Disappearance for 1 hour.</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/96062f7c-938b-424a-808b-48bc8d5bdc25/PZO2114_Charikleia_FullBody_1500x2100.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/96062f7c-938b-424a-808b-48bc8d5bdc25/PZO2114_Charikleia_FullBody_1500x2100.png" width="40%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="A full body illustration of the Charikleia, a minotaur scribe"></a>
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<p style="font-size: 13px;">The minotaur ancestry is embodied by the ship’s scribe, Charikleia, and the centaur ancestry by its scout, Telero! Art by Gunship Revolution.
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<p>We’ll be checking back in with Baranthet and the crew over the next few weeks, so look forward to getting to meet the rest of our intrepid naturalists in greater detail in the future!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">James Case<br />
<em>Senior Designer</em><br /></p>
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<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Friday, March 1, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Hola! It’s me, Luis Loza! I’ve been taking you through a grand tour of all our new dragons, such as our look at the <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sii7?Dragons-Worth-a-Fortune">fortune dragon</a> last time. This time things are a little different. You’ll see what I mean once I start to tell you about the horned dragon. Let’s have a look!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/eba5aac9-bc02-4c44-9405-353837c81a0d/PrimalHornedDragonDesign_9075x3300.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/eba5aac9-bc02-4c44-9405-353837c81a0d/PrimalHornedDragonDesign_9075x3300.png" width="90%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Concept art for the horned dragon. This dragon has a powerful body covered in naturalistic plating reminiscent of leaves, as well as two prominent horns atop its snout"></a>
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<p>One of the challenges with the update to the Second Edition remastered rules was having to leave a lot of old favorites behind. In addition to classic spells, notable magic items, and other memorable mechanics, we also had to leave behind some monsters. Unfortunately, in some cases, a variety of reasons makes leaving behind strigiform-ursine hybrids or cuboid gels the best option for us. There are other cases where a bit of cleaning up and a makeover leads to something we can still use in the new remastered environment. That’s the approach we took with the horned dragon—a dragon who you might previously remember for its focus on the color green.</p>
<p>Horned dragons are our second primal dragon offering in <em>Monster Core</em>. Like other primal dragons, horned dragons are powerful and more bestial than other dragons. This manifests most notably in the form of their massive, paired horns. In addition to simply striking others with their horns, a horned dragon charges their prey and impales these unfortunate victims on the horn. Once impaled, the prey is stuck and goes wherever the dragon goes until the prey manages to escape impalement.</p>
<p>Beyond that, the horned dragon should feel relatively familiar. Their personalities are relatively the same, their other abilities such as their poison breath and twisting tail reaction are still around, and they still generally live in forested regions and swamps. When updating monsters for the remaster, we wanted to make these changes as unintrusive as possible and allow updated monsters to generally fill the same role they had prior to their update.</p>
<p>We also took these opportunities to update monsters in interesting ways where we could, thus the shift from the dragon’s color to their horn and the addition of their impaling charge. The change in focus allows us to make the dragon more of our own and even opens them for future possibilities. While the horned dragon in <em>Monster Core</em> is green and lives in forests, there’s a decent chance you could see a blue horned dragon that lives in a lake or a tan horned dragon that lives in a desert sometime in the future!</p>
<p>That’s our look at the horned dragon! Make sure to keep an eye out for this dragon and lots of other new dragons when <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ej4?Pathfinder-Monster-Core"><em>Monster Core</em></a> releases in March. Stay tuned for more draconic previews in the coming weeks. Next time, we’ll take a look at the majestic empyreal dragons. See you then!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Luis Loza<br />
<em>Creative Director, Rules & Lore</em><br /></p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Mess With the Dragon, Get the Horns!</h1>
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<p itemprop="description">Hola! It’s me, Luis Loza! I’ve been taking you through a grand tour of all our new dragons, such as our look at the <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sii7?Dragons-Worth-a-Fortune">fortune dragon</a> last time. This time things are a little different. You’ll see what I mean once I start to tell you about the horned dragon. Let’s have a look!</p>
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<a href="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/eba5aac9-bc02-4c44-9405-353837c81a0d/PrimalHornedDragonDesign_9075x3300.png"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/a7d62ac8-7f03-00ef-f1f0-83fb8bf332e2/eba5aac9-bc02-4c44-9405-353837c81a0d/PrimalHornedDragonDesign_9075x3300.png" width="90%" style="padding: 10px;" alt="Concept art for the horned dragon. This dragon has a powerful body covered in naturalistic plating reminiscent of leaves, as well as two prominent horns atop its snout"></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;">Illustration by Kent Hamilton</p>
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<p>One of the challenges with the update to the Second Edition remastered rules was having to leave a lot of old favorites behind. In addition to classic spells, notable magic items, and other memorable mechanics, we also had to leave behind some monsters. Unfortunately, in some cases, a variety of reasons makes leaving behind strigiform-ursine hybrids or cuboid gels the best option for us. There are other cases where a bit of cleaning up and a makeover leads to something we can still use in the new remastered environment. That’s the approach we took with the horned dragon—a dragon who you might previously remember for its focus on the color green.</p>
<p>Horned dragons are our second primal dragon offering in <em>Monster Core</em>. Like other primal dragons, horned dragons are powerful and more bestial than other dragons. This manifests most notably in the form of their massive, paired horns. In addition to simply striking others with their horns, a horned dragon charges their prey and impales these unfortunate victims on the horn. Once impaled, the prey is stuck and goes wherever the dragon goes until the prey manages to escape impalement.</p>
<p>Beyond that, the horned dragon should feel relatively familiar. Their personalities are relatively the same, their other abilities such as their poison breath and twisting tail reaction are still around, and they still generally live in forested regions and swamps. When updating monsters for the remaster, we wanted to make these changes as unintrusive as possible and allow updated monsters to generally fill the same role they had prior to their update.</p>
<p>We also took these opportunities to update monsters in interesting ways where we could, thus the shift from the dragon’s color to their horn and the addition of their impaling charge. The change in focus allows us to make the dragon more of our own and even opens them for future possibilities. While the horned dragon in <em>Monster Core</em> is green and lives in forests, there’s a decent chance you could see a blue horned dragon that lives in a lake or a tan horned dragon that lives in a desert sometime in the future!</p>
<p>That’s our look at the horned dragon! Make sure to keep an eye out for this dragon and lots of other new dragons when <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ej4?Pathfinder-Monster-Core"><em>Monster Core</em></a> releases in March. Stay tuned for more draconic previews in the coming weeks. Next time, we’ll take a look at the majestic empyreal dragons. See you then!</p>
<p style="margin-left: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px;">Luis Loza<br />
<em>Creative Director, Rules & Lore</em><br /></p>
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<p>Join us this Friday, March 1<sup>st</sup> at 4 P.M. Pacific for Paizo LIVE. This month’s topics include <em>Starfinder Mechageddon!</em>, the Wardens of Wildwood AP, and an update on conventions and events!</p>
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<p>The pocket edition presents the same contents as the standard edition in softcover and a smaller size for a lower price and better portability.</p>
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<p>The pocket edition presents the same contents as the standard edition in softcover and a smaller size for a lower price and better portability.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex4?Pathfinder-FlipMat-Temples-MultiPack">Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Temples Multi-Pack</a></h3>
<p><strong>SAY YOUR PRAYERS! </strong></p>
<p>In a world steeped in divine magic, temples serve as centers for the power of the gods. Whether your heroes are in search of a holy place to defend or a profane temple to defeat, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Temples Multi-Packhas you covered. This trove of temples features a tranquil sanctuary of healing, a rugged seaside temple devoted to a violent god, a temple of undeath nestled in a dilapidated graveyard, and a diabolical temple where the stage has been set for the arrival of hellish terrors.</p>
<p>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!</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02eum?Starfinder-Society-Scenario-613-Beginning-of-the-End">Starfinder Society Scenario #6-13: Beginning of the End</a></h3>
<p>A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 5th- through 8th-level characters.</p>
<p>Time is running short as the nefarious Order of Dawning Fate turns their experimental doomsday weapon upon a defenseless metropolis in the Vast! With millions of lives in danger, it’s up to the Starfinder Society to navigate the streets of the crumbling city, locate and destroy the doomsday weapon, and save the city from destruction! Yet fate is not on the Society’s side as Kebzec, a founder of the Order of Dawning Fate, oversees the weapon’s deployment and defenses. Will the Starfinders emerge victorious, or will they meet their end at the hands of the Order of Dawning Fate?</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02euo?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-511-Equal-Exchanges-The-Hidden-Current">Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-11: Equal Exchanges—The Hidden Current</a></h3>
<p>A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 7th- through 10th-level characters.</p>
<p>A mysterious abandoned laboratory is discovered in the Arcadian Ocean, with clear signs of occult experimentation having occurred within it at some point. The Waterfall, strangely fascinated by this new find, sends a group of Pathfinders to investigate and gather whatever research they can find inside, while also ensuring that the building poses no further threats. Deep inside, a soul and forgotten memories await, hungry to be found and revealed to the light. The research and artifacts inside seem like they'll lead to answers about the enigmatic Waterfall, though this information may turn out to be unwanted.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02eun?Starfinder-Society-Scenario-614-The-Missing">Starfinder Society Scenario #6-14: The Missing</a></h3>
<p>A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters.</p>
<p>For months, citizens of the kasathan colony ship, <em>Idari</em>, have vanished without a trace, disappearing from the idyllic Sea of Grass for a fate unknown. As the number of missing increases, all eyes turn to the nearby Red Corridors, a subterranean neighborhood home to anarchists, malcontents, criminals, and other kasathas looking to flout the deeply ingrained traditions of modern kasathan society. Representatives from the Red Corridors vehemently deny any involvement in the abductions, but rising tensions and the desperation of those who have lost are primed to spark violence. With citizens of both the Sea of Grass and the Red Corridors distrustful of the ruling Doyenate and refusing to cooperate with ship security, the captain of the <em>Idari</em> calls for help from an old friend: Ehu Hadif, current First Seeker of the Starfinder Society.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02eup?Pathfinder-Quest-17-Escorting-a-Mirage">Pathfinder Society Quest (Series 2) #17: Escorting a Mirage</a></h3>
<p>A Pathfinder Society Quest designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters, playable in 2-3 hours.</p>
<p>A down-on-his luck Aspis Agent, relegated to Thuvia where Aspis operations have all but ceased, has found an unexpected opportunity for revenge. Zarta Dralneen is making a purchase in Merab, and what her purpose could be is the talk of the town. The vengeful Aspis twists these rumors toward talk of the sun orchid elixir, and while no one of any competence or understanding would ever fall for such a flimsy rumor, Merab has more than its share of desperate fools. As the PCs transport Zarta's mundane purchases back to port, these desperate fools strike, making a simple escort into a fight for survival.</p>
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<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Thursday, February 29, 2024</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Hail and well met, Pathfinders and Starfinders! This month’s new releases bring the Pathfinder Remaster Project to your pocket (edition) and pit the Starfinder Society in a race against doomsday!</p>
<p>Join us this Friday, March 1<sup>st</sup> at 4 P.M. Pacific for Paizo LIVE. This month’s topics include <em>Starfinder Mechageddon!</em>, the Wardens of Wildwood AP, and an update on conventions and events!</p>
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<p><strong>FORGE YOUR LEGEND!</strong></p>
<p>A world of adventure awaits, but it needs you to be the hero of the story! Take on the role of a daring adventurer with <em>Pathfinder Player Core</em>. This tome contains everything you need to create a player character and outfit them with mighty weapons and powerful spells, and it provides all the tools necessary to survive in a world filled with deadly monsters, nefarious villains, and fabulous treasures! The first page of your amazing adventure starts here.</p>
<p>The pocket edition presents the same contents as the standard edition in softcover and a smaller size for a lower price and better portability.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02elm?Pathfinder-Player-Core-Pocket-Edition">Pathfinder GM Core Pocket Edition</a></h3>
<p><strong>TELL YOUR STORY! </strong></p>
<p>Creating a compelling tale takes more than just heroes—it requires a complex cast of allies, adversaries, and villains! As the Game Master, your job is to narrate the story, working with the players to imagine an epic adventure. <em>Pathfinder</em><em>GM Core </em>is here to help you with every facet of the game and includes guidelines on story structure, tips on creating thrilling combat, and amazing treasure to reward your heroes for saving the day! This book has everything you need to become a legendary Game Master.</p>
<p>The pocket edition presents the same contents as the standard edition in softcover and a smaller size for a lower price and better portability.</p>
<br>
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<a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex4?Pathfinder-FlipMat-Temples-MultiPack"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO11011-FM.jpg" width="400" style="padding-right: 10px; padding left: 10px;" alt="Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Temples Multi-Pack"></a>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex4?Pathfinder-FlipMat-Temples-MultiPack">Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Temples Multi-Pack</a></h3>
<p><strong>SAY YOUR PRAYERS! </strong></p>
<p>In a world steeped in divine magic, temples serve as centers for the power of the gods. Whether your heroes are in search of a holy place to defend or a profane temple to defeat, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Temples Multi-Packhas you covered. This trove of temples features a tranquil sanctuary of healing, a rugged seaside temple devoted to a violent god, a temple of undeath nestled in a dilapidated graveyard, and a diabolical temple where the stage has been set for the arrival of hellish terrors.</p>
<p>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!</p>
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<a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02eum?Starfinder-Society-Scenario-613-Beginning-of-the-End"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZOSFS0613E.jpg" width="400" style="padding-right: 10px; padding left: 10px;" alt="Starfinder Society Scenario #6-13: Beginning of the End"></a>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02eum?Starfinder-Society-Scenario-613-Beginning-of-the-End">Starfinder Society Scenario #6-13: Beginning of the End</a></h3>
<p>A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 5th- through 8th-level characters.</p>
<p>Time is running short as the nefarious Order of Dawning Fate turns their experimental doomsday weapon upon a defenseless metropolis in the Vast! With millions of lives in danger, it’s up to the Starfinder Society to navigate the streets of the crumbling city, locate and destroy the doomsday weapon, and save the city from destruction! Yet fate is not on the Society’s side as Kebzec, a founder of the Order of Dawning Fate, oversees the weapon’s deployment and defenses. Will the Starfinders emerge victorious, or will they meet their end at the hands of the Order of Dawning Fate?</p>
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<a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02euo?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-511-Equal-Exchanges-The-Hidden-Current"><img src="https://cdn.paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZOP/PZOPFS0511E.jpg" width="400" style="padding-right: 10px; padding left: 10px;" alt="Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-11: Equal Exchanges—The Hidden Current"></a>
<p style="font-size: 13px;"> </p></div>
<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02euo?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-511-Equal-Exchanges-The-Hidden-Current">Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-11: Equal Exchanges—The Hidden Current</a></h3>
<p>A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 7th- through 10th-level characters.</p>
<p>A mysterious abandoned laboratory is discovered in the Arcadian Ocean, with clear signs of occult experimentation having occurred within it at some point. The Waterfall, strangely fascinated by this new find, sends a group of Pathfinders to investigate and gather whatever research they can find inside, while also ensuring that the building poses no further threats. Deep inside, a soul and forgotten memories await, hungry to be found and revealed to the light. The research and artifacts inside seem like they'll lead to answers about the enigmatic Waterfall, though this information may turn out to be unwanted.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 13px;"> </p></div>
<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02eun?Starfinder-Society-Scenario-614-The-Missing">Starfinder Society Scenario #6-14: The Missing</a></h3>
<p>A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters.</p>
<p>For months, citizens of the kasathan colony ship, <em>Idari</em>, have vanished without a trace, disappearing from the idyllic Sea of Grass for a fate unknown. As the number of missing increases, all eyes turn to the nearby Red Corridors, a subterranean neighborhood home to anarchists, malcontents, criminals, and other kasathas looking to flout the deeply ingrained traditions of modern kasathan society. Representatives from the Red Corridors vehemently deny any involvement in the abductions, but rising tensions and the desperation of those who have lost are primed to spark violence. With citizens of both the Sea of Grass and the Red Corridors distrustful of the ruling Doyenate and refusing to cooperate with ship security, the captain of the <em>Idari</em> calls for help from an old friend: Ehu Hadif, current First Seeker of the Starfinder Society.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02eup?Pathfinder-Quest-17-Escorting-a-Mirage">Pathfinder Society Quest (Series 2) #17: Escorting a Mirage</a></h3>
<p>A Pathfinder Society Quest designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters, playable in 2-3 hours.</p>
<p>A down-on-his luck Aspis Agent, relegated to Thuvia where Aspis operations have all but ceased, has found an unexpected opportunity for revenge. Zarta Dralneen is making a purchase in Merab, and what her purpose could be is the talk of the town. The vengeful Aspis twists these rumors toward talk of the sun orchid elixir, and while no one of any competence or understanding would ever fall for such a flimsy rumor, Merab has more than its share of desperate fools. As the PCs transport Zarta's mundane purchases back to port, these desperate fools strike, making a simple escort into a fight for survival.</p>
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<h3>From Our Partners:</h3>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Pathfinder Encounter: Eye for an Eye</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, February 28, 2024</p>
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<p>Continuing our series of encounters to challenge your players, featuring creatures debuting in the forthcoming <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex5?Pathfinder-Monster-Core"><em>Pathfinder Monster Core</em></a>, Bill Fischer takes us to the dank grotto lair of a remastered sea hag, as depicted in <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex4?Pathfinder-FlipMat-Temples-MultiPack"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Temples Multi-Pack</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<h2>Eye for an Eye — Moderate 1</h2>
<p itemprop="description">Captain Blazo Orane’s career as a notorious pirate captain was cut short when a freak storm capsized his ship not far from the city of Riddleport. As stubborn as he was cutthroat, Blazo went down with the ship but awakened several hours later to find himself in the cave of a sea hag named Cyclona. The hag had spared Blazo’s life, but in return, she demanded the captain’s eye. Blazo balked, of course—like any good pirate, he only had one eye left to spare. Unfortunately, his captor was in no mood for mercy. Cyclona plucked Blazo’s remaining eye from its socket, leaving the now-blind man to bleed out while she transformed her grisly reward into a <em>hag eye</em>.</p>
<p>Miraculously, Captain Blazo managed to free himself from his shackles—striking Cyclona with his cold-iron scimitar in the struggle—and stumbled his way back to Riddleport. Now, still weakened from his ordeal, Blazo hires the PCs to retrieve his stolen eye. If the PCs express doubts Blazo will regain his sight even if his eye is recovered, the pirate seems unconcerned. “If I can’t have my eye,” he grumbles, “I’ll settle for revenge.” Blazo lends the PCs the only thing of value he has left, his cold-iron scimitar, with the promise they can keep the weapon if they return with his eye or proof that Cyclona is dead.</p>
<p><strong>Map:</strong> This map showcases one of the maps included in <em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Temples Multi-Pack</em>, out this month on Paizo.com or at your local hobby store!</p>
<p><strong>Approaching the Cave:</strong> Cyclona’s cave is a half-day’s walk from Riddleport. If Blazo’s understandably vague directions aren’t enough for the PCs, most anyone in the city can direct them to the place.</p>
<p>The remnants of an ancient sea wall stretch to Cyclona’s cave like a trail of stepping stones. Slick with algae, the wall is uneven ground. Once during the crossing, each PC must make a successful DC 13 Acrobatics check to Balance or fall into the surf. Any PC who fails this check alerts Cyclona to the party’s arrival, granting her a +2 circumstance bonus to initiative. Alternatively, the PCs can approach the hag’s cave along the weed-choked shore to the south. This approach doesn’t require skill checks, but the ground is difficult terrain, and the party’s noisy arrival automatically alerts Cyclona.</p>
<p><strong>Creatures:</strong> When the PCs arrive, Cyclona lurks in the northern alcove, admiring an amulet set with a blue gemstone: Captain Blazo’s eye transformed into a <em>hag eye</em>. Loath to surrender her new treasure, Cyclona lunges at intruders, opening with her Dread Gaze before slashing with her claws. The hag remembers all too well the bite of Blazo’s scimitar, granting the PC holding the weapon a +1 circumstance bonus to Demoralize the hag. If reduced to 15 Hit Points or fewer, Cyclona dives into the sea, dropping the <em>hag eye </em>in her panic.</p>
<p><strong>Treasure: </strong>The PCs might not recognize Captain Blazo’s eye in its current state, but anyone who interacts with the amulet feels its wet, sticky surface, allowing the character to attempt to disbelieve the illusion (DC 19). Like all <em>hag eyes</em>, the amulet produces no direct benefit for the wearer (and doesn’t restore Blazo’s sight if given to him), but it allows Cyclona to peer through the eye using the Seek action. Any damage dealt to the eye destroys it. If this happens while Cyclona is looking through it, the hag is blinded for 1 hour.</p>
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<h3>Sea Hag — Creature 3</h3>
<p><strong>Medium, Amphibious, Hag, Humanoid<br /></strong>
<strong>Perception</strong> +10; darkvision<br />
<strong>Languages</strong> Aklo, Common, Fey, Jotun, Thalassic<br />
<strong>Skills</strong> Acrobatics +8, Athletics +11, Deception +10, Occultism +8, Stealth +8<br />
<strong>Str</strong> +4, <strong>Dex</strong> +3, <strong>Con</strong> +4, <strong>Int</strong> +1, <strong>Wis</strong> +3, <strong>Cha</strong> +3</p>
<p><strong>Coven </strong>A sea hag adds <em>humanoid form</em>, <em>mariner’s curse</em>, and <em>water walk </em>to their coven’s spells. Their spell DC when leading a coven is 20.</p>
<p><strong>AC</strong> 19; <strong>Fort</strong> +11, <strong>Ref</strong> +8, <strong>Will</strong> +10; +1 status to all saves vs. magic<br /><strong>HP</strong> 45; <strong>Immunities</strong> polymorph; <strong>Weaknesses </strong>cold iron 3<br /><strong>Speed</strong> 25 feet, swim 35 feet</p>
<p><strong>Melee</strong> [one-action] claw +12 (agile, magical), <strong>Damage</strong> 1d10+4 slashing</p>
<p><strong>Dread Gaze</strong> [two-actions] (curse, emotion, fear, mental, occult) The hag gazes upon a creature, afflicting it with a gnawing sense of impending doom, with a result depending on its Will save (DC 20). The target doesn’t need to be able to see the sea hag.</p>
<p><strong>Critical Success </strong>The creature is unaffected.<br />
<strong>Success </strong>The creature is frightened 1.<br />
<strong>Failure </strong>The creature is frightened 1 and is slowed 1 for 1 round. If the target was dying, it remains unconscious for 1 day. At the end of the day, it must attempt a Fortitude save against the same DC; if it fails, it dies.<br />
<strong>Critical Failure </strong>As failure, but the creature is frightened 2 and slowed 1 for 1 minute.</p>
<p><strong>Sea Hag’s Bargain</strong> (concentrate, exploration, occult, polymorph) The sea hag can make a bargain with a willing creature who must be of sound mind. The creature gives away a special or cherished quality—such as its courage, its beauty, or its voice. In exchange, the sea hag spends 1 minute polymorphing the creature into a form the target desires.</p>
<p>This functions as Change Shape. It might be a total transformation or just changing one or more aspects of the target’s body, and it can’t make the creature more than one size smaller or larger. The creature changes its Speeds as appropriate for the new form. It doesn’t change the attack and damage bonuses with its Strikes, but it might change the damage type the Strikes deal. This has an unlimited duration, and as long as it’s transformed, the creature is sickened 2 and can’t reduce its sickened condition below 2. The creature can slowly and carefully eat and drink despite being sickened. The only way to restore the lost quality used as payment is to defeat the sea hag or make another bargain for its return. Ending the bargain in this way also removes the transformation.</p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Pathfinder Encounter: Eye for an Eye</h1>
<p class="date" style="margin-bottom:1rem !important;">Wednesday, February 28, 2024</p>
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<p>Continuing our series of encounters to challenge your players, featuring creatures debuting in the forthcoming <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex5?Pathfinder-Monster-Core"><em>Pathfinder Monster Core</em></a>, Bill Fischer takes us to the dank grotto lair of a remastered sea hag, as depicted in <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btq02ex4?Pathfinder-FlipMat-Temples-MultiPack"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Temples Multi-Pack</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<h2>Eye for an Eye — Moderate 1</h2>
<p itemprop="description">Captain Blazo Orane’s career as a notorious pirate captain was cut short when a freak storm capsized his ship not far from the city of Riddleport. As stubborn as he was cutthroat, Blazo went down with the ship but awakened several hours later to find himself in the cave of a sea hag named Cyclona. The hag had spared Blazo’s life, but in return, she demanded the captain’s eye. Blazo balked, of course—like any good pirate, he only had one eye left to spare. Unfortunately, his captor was in no mood for mercy. Cyclona plucked Blazo’s remaining eye from its socket, leaving the now-blind man to bleed out while she transformed her grisly reward into a <em>hag eye</em>.</p>
<p>Miraculously, Captain Blazo managed to free himself from his shackles—striking Cyclona with his cold-iron scimitar in the struggle—and stumbled his way back to Riddleport. Now, still weakened from his ordeal, Blazo hires the PCs to retrieve his stolen eye. If the PCs express doubts Blazo will regain his sight even if his eye is recovered, the pirate seems unconcerned. “If I can’t have my eye,” he grumbles, “I’ll settle for revenge.” Blazo lends the PCs the only thing of value he has left, his cold-iron scimitar, with the promise they can keep the weapon if they return with his eye or proof that Cyclona is dead.</p>
<p><strong>Map:</strong> This map showcases one of the maps included in <em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Temples Multi-Pack</em>, out this month on Paizo.com or at your local hobby store!</p>
<p><strong>Approaching the Cave:</strong> Cyclona’s cave is a half-day’s walk from Riddleport. If Blazo’s understandably vague directions aren’t enough for the PCs, most anyone in the city can direct them to the place.</p>
<p>The remnants of an ancient sea wall stretch to Cyclona’s cave like a trail of stepping stones. Slick with algae, the wall is uneven ground. Once during the crossing, each PC must make a successful DC 13 Acrobatics check to Balance or fall into the surf. Any PC who fails this check alerts Cyclona to the party’s arrival, granting her a +2 circumstance bonus to initiative. Alternatively, the PCs can approach the hag’s cave along the weed-choked shore to the south. This approach doesn’t require skill checks, but the ground is difficult terrain, and the party’s noisy arrival automatically alerts Cyclona.</p>
<p><strong>Creatures:</strong> When the PCs arrive, Cyclona lurks in the northern alcove, admiring an amulet set with a blue gemstone: Captain Blazo’s eye transformed into a <em>hag eye</em>. Loath to surrender her new treasure, Cyclona lunges at intruders, opening with her Dread Gaze before slashing with her claws. The hag remembers all too well the bite of Blazo’s scimitar, granting the PC holding the weapon a +1 circumstance bonus to Demoralize the hag. If reduced to 15 Hit Points or fewer, Cyclona dives into the sea, dropping the <em>hag eye </em>in her panic.</p>
<p><strong>Treasure: </strong>The PCs might not recognize Captain Blazo’s eye in its current state, but anyone who interacts with the amulet feels its wet, sticky surface, allowing the character to attempt to disbelieve the illusion (DC 19). Like all <em>hag eyes</em>, the amulet produces no direct benefit for the wearer (and doesn’t restore Blazo’s sight if given to him), but it allows Cyclona to peer through the eye using the Seek action. Any damage dealt to the eye destroys it. If this happens while Cyclona is looking through it, the hag is blinded for 1 hour.</p>
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<h3>Sea Hag — Creature 3</h3>
<p><strong>Medium, Amphibious, Hag, Humanoid<br /></strong>
<strong>Perception</strong> +10; darkvision<br />
<strong>Languages</strong> Aklo, Common, Fey, Jotun, Thalassic<br />
<strong>Skills</strong> Acrobatics +8, Athletics +11, Deception +10, Occultism +8, Stealth +8<br />
<strong>Str</strong> +4, <strong>Dex</strong> +3, <strong>Con</strong> +4, <strong>Int</strong> +1, <strong>Wis</strong> +3, <strong>Cha</strong> +3</p>
<p><strong>Coven </strong>A sea hag adds <em>humanoid form</em>, <em>mariner’s curse</em>, and <em>water walk </em>to their coven’s spells. Their spell DC when leading a coven is 20.</p>
<p><strong>AC</strong> 19; <strong>Fort</strong> +11, <strong>Ref</strong> +8, <strong>Will</strong> +10; +1 status to all saves vs. magic<br /><strong>HP</strong> 45; <strong>Immunities</strong> polymorph; <strong>Weaknesses </strong>cold iron 3<br /><strong>Speed</strong> 25 feet, swim 35 feet</p>
<p><strong>Melee</strong> [one-action] claw +12 (agile, magical), <strong>Damage</strong> 1d10+4 slashing</p>
<p><strong>Dread Gaze</strong> [two-actions] (curse, emotion, fear, mental, occult) The hag gazes upon a creature, afflicting it with a gnawing sense of impending doom, with a result depending on its Will save (DC 20). The target doesn’t need to be able to see the sea hag.</p>
<p><strong>Critical Success </strong>The creature is unaffected.<br />
<strong>Success </strong>The creature is frightened 1.<br />
<strong>Failure </strong>The creature is frightened 1 and is slowed 1 for 1 round. If the target was dying, it remains unconscious for 1 day. At the end of the day, it must attempt a Fortitude save against the same DC; if it fails, it dies.<br />
<strong>Critical Failure </strong>As failure, but the creature is frightened 2 and slowed 1 for 1 minute.</p>
<p><strong>Sea Hag’s Bargain</strong> (concentrate, exploration, occult, polymorph) The sea hag can make a bargain with a willing creature who must be of sound mind. The creature gives away a special or cherished quality—such as its courage, its beauty, or its voice. In exchange, the sea hag spends 1 minute polymorphing the creature into a form the target desires.</p>
<p>This functions as Change Shape. It might be a total transformation or just changing one or more aspects of the target’s body, and it can’t make the creature more than one size smaller or larger. The creature changes its Speeds as appropriate for the new form. It doesn’t change the attack and damage bonuses with its Strikes, but it might change the damage type the Strikes deal. This has an unlimited duration, and as long as it’s transformed, the creature is sickened 2 and can’t reduce its sickened condition below 2. The creature can slowly and carefully eat and drink despite being sickened. The only way to restore the lost quality used as payment is to defeat the sea hag or make another bargain for its return. Ending the bargain in this way also removes the transformation.</p>
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