paizo.com Recent Blog Posts in Pathfinder Modulespaizo.com Recent Blog Posts in Pathfinder Modules2014-06-03T19:54:17Z2014-06-03T19:54:17ZMore Spooky Adventures!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lj84?More-Spooky-Adventures2016-10-27T23:00:00Z<blockquote>
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"We told Valeros that he was only allowed to take one full-size Snickers bar, but noooo…he just had to take two."<br />
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<p class="date">Monday, October 24, 2016</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Halloween approaches, and <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lj7q">as I mentioned earlier this week</a>, the Pathfinder Society team geared up to deliver some spooky adventures in this month's scenarios—both of which went live yesterday. Hopefully these provide you ample Halloween weekend material, but in case a pair of "fun sized" adventures isn't enough, we've also finished sanctioning <a href = "/products/btpy9nfu"><em>Pathfinder Module: Gallows of Madness</em></a>!</p>
<p>You can find the sanctioning documents download on the <a href = "/products/btpy9nfu">module's product page</a>. Explore, Report, and Get Lots of Treats!</p>
<p style = "clear: both;">John Compton<br />
<i>Pathfinder Society Lead Developer</i></p>
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"We told Valeros that he was only allowed to take one full-size Snickers bar, but noooo…he just had to take two."<br />
<i>Illustration by Ian Perks</i></div>
<h1 itemprop="headline">More Spooky Adventures!</h1>
<p class="date">Monday, October 24, 2016</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Halloween approaches, and <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lj7q">as I mentioned earlier this week</a>, the Pathfinder Society team geared up to deliver some spooky adventures in this month's scenarios—both of which went live yesterday. Hopefully these provide you ample Halloween weekend material, but in case a pair of "fun sized" adventures isn't enough, we've also finished sanctioning <a href = "/products/btpy9nfu"><em>Pathfinder Module: Gallows of Madness</em></a>!</p>
<p>You can find the sanctioning documents download on the <a href = "/products/btpy9nfu">module's product page</a>. Explore, Report, and Get Lots of Treats!</p>
<p style = "clear: both;">John Compton<br />
<i>Pathfinder Society Lead Developer</i></p>
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</blockquote><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/ianPerks">Ian Perks</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a></p>2016-10-27T23:00:00ZThe Tyranny of Unsanctioned Material Ends!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lj3i?The-Tyranny-of-Unsanctioned-Material-Ends2016-09-13T17:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">The Tyranny of Unsanctioned Material Ends!</h1>
<p class="date">Tuesday, September 13, 2016</p>
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<i>Illustration by Tomasz Chistowski</i><br />
They Said we were mad to sanction so much content!<br />Mad! Ah ha ha!</div>
<p itemprop="description">Perhaps that's not entirely accurate—we've been behind largely because we developed and delivered such an ambitious amount of other material over the past year—but it makes for one heck of a battle cry! This week tens of thousands of oppressed words have rallied around their champion, the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels Adventure Path</a>, which has led them to liberated glory with the help of the sympathetic guard captain <a href = "/products/btpy9j6u"><em>Pathfinder Module: Down the Blighted Path</em></a> and the eccentric noble scion <a href = "/products/btpy9grs"><em>Pathfinder Module: House on Hook Street</em></a>. Together they have founded a new nation on the grand continent of <a href = "/pathfindersociety">Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild</a>, united by the shared mission of delivering countless hours of content to players everywhere! Of course, you don't need to take my word for it when you can hear it directly from the four Pathfinder Tales heralds of the revolution, united under the banner of the Pathfinder Tales, Volume VIII sanctioning document!</p>
<p>Okay, that extended analogy got weird. Put plainly, we've finished the sanctioning documents for Hell's Rebels, <em>Down the Blighted Path</em>, <em>House on Hook Street</em>, and the latest four <a href = "/pathfinder/tales/novels">Pathfinder Tales novels</a> (<a href = "/products/btpy9e42"><em>Beyond the Pool of Stars</em></a>, <a href = "/products/btpy9e43"><em>Bloodbound</em></a>, <a href = "/products/btpy9e44"><em>Pirate's Prophecy</em></a>, and <a href = "/products/btpy9e45"><em>Hellknight</em></a>—all of them delightful reads). You'll see the modules' sanctioning documents appearing on their respective pages imminently. All of the sanctioning documents will also appear as part of the upcoming update to the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety/additionalResources">Additional Resources page</a>. We're still busily working on Adventure Paths and Modules both old and new, so more content is on the way!</p>
<p style = "clear: both;">John Compton<br />
<i>Pathfinder Society Lead Developer</i></p>
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<p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderTales">Pathfinder Tales</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/tomaszChistowski">Tomasz Chistowski</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">The Tyranny of Unsanctioned Material Ends!</h1>
<p class="date">Tuesday, September 13, 2016</p>
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<i>Illustration by Tomasz Chistowski</i><br />
They Said we were mad to sanction so much content!<br />Mad! Ah ha ha!</div>
<p itemprop="description">Perhaps that's not entirely accurate—we've been behind largely because we developed and delivered such an ambitious amount of other material over the past year—but it makes for one heck of a battle cry! This week tens of thousands of oppressed words have rallied around their champion, the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels Adventure Path</a>, which has led them to liberated glory with the help of the sympathetic guard captain <a href = "/products/btpy9j6u"><em>Pathfinder Module: Down the Blighted Path</em></a> and the eccentric noble scion <a href = "/products/btpy9grs"><em>Pathfinder Module: House on Hook Street</em></a>. Together they have founded a new nation on the grand continent of <a href = "/pathfindersociety">Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild</a>, united by the shared mission of delivering countless hours of content to players everywhere! Of course, you don't need to take my word for it when you can hear it directly from the four Pathfinder Tales heralds of the revolution, united under the banner of the Pathfinder Tales, Volume VIII sanctioning document!</p>
<p>Okay, that extended analogy got weird. Put plainly, we've finished the sanctioning documents for Hell's Rebels, <em>Down the Blighted Path</em>, <em>House on Hook Street</em>, and the latest four <a href = "/pathfinder/tales/novels">Pathfinder Tales novels</a> (<a href = "/products/btpy9e42"><em>Beyond the Pool of Stars</em></a>, <a href = "/products/btpy9e43"><em>Bloodbound</em></a>, <a href = "/products/btpy9e44"><em>Pirate's Prophecy</em></a>, and <a href = "/products/btpy9e45"><em>Hellknight</em></a>—all of them delightful reads). You'll see the modules' sanctioning documents appearing on their respective pages imminently. All of the sanctioning documents will also appear as part of the upcoming update to the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety/additionalResources">Additional Resources page</a>. We're still busily working on Adventure Paths and Modules both old and new, so more content is on the way!</p>
<p style = "clear: both;">John Compton<br />
<i>Pathfinder Society Lead Developer</i></p>
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<p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderTales">Pathfinder Tales</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/tomaszChistowski">Tomasz Chistowski</a></p>2016-09-13T17:00:00ZFeast On These Moduleshttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lj27?Feast-On-These-Modules2016-08-22T23:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<p class="date">Monday, August 22, 2016</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Ever since finishing the sanctioning documents for the <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lidu">Giantslayer and Iron Gods</a> Adventure Paths back in January, Linda and I have had our hands full preparing for PaizoCon and Gen Con. We're thrilled to have delivered <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lizf">a huge number of new scenarios</a>, and it's even more exciting to enter this comparably relaxed time of the year in which we can catch up on old business. You may have noticed Linda over the last week appearing in countless discussion threads to offer clarifications and then disappear in a cloud of ebullient nosoi psychopomps. I've been wrangling authors, outlining a bunch of new scenarios, and sending out new assignments; keep an eye out for new product pages soon (and see below for a list of upcoming scenarios, should you need information for planning upcoming conventions).</p>
<b>Upcoming Scenarios</b> <input type="button" value="Show" class="spoilerButton" onclick="toggleSpoiler(this)"><div class="spoiler-text">
<ul><li><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-04: Wardens of Sulfur Gulch (Tier 7-11)</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-05: Ungrounded but Unbroken (Tier 1-5)</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-06: Reaping What We Sow (Tier 1-5)</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-07: From the Tome of Righteous Repose (An experimental Tier 3-7)</em></li></ul>
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<p>Together, though, we're sanctioning a massive number of Modules and Adventure Paths. Today I'd like to share the first of many: <a href = "/products/btpy9grq"><em>Pathfinder Module: Feast of Dust</em></a> and <a href = "/products/btpy9jbf"><em>Pathfinder Module: Ire of the Storm</em></a>! You can find the sanctioning documents on their respective product pages.</p>
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<i>Illustrations by Tomasz Chistowski and Sally Gottschalk</i></div>
<p><em>Ire of the Storm</em> skipped ahead in line a bit largely because we want to prioritize sanctioning low-level material in the organized play campaign. Don't worry though, as we're busily looking ahead to <a href = "/products/btpy9grs"><em>The House on Hook Street</em></a>, <a href = "/products/btpy9j6u"><em>Down the Blighted Path</em></a>, and <a href = "/products/btpy9nfu"><em>Gallows of Madness</em></a>. We've also queued the Adventure Paths <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels</a>, <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/curseOfTheCrimsonThrone">Curse of the Crimson Throne</a>, and <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/strangeAeons">Strange Aeons</a> for attention, and after those, <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/serpentsSkull">Serpent's Skull</a>, <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/kingmaker">Kingmaker</a>, and <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/councilOfThieves">Council of Thieves</a> are all eagerly waiting their turns to provide hundreds of hours of additional content to the campaign. At this point, we haven't dug into <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsVengeance">Hell's Vengeance</a> deeply enough to know quite if or how it might fit into the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild</a>; if anything, it'll likely be one we sanction in "campaign mode" only. Finally, I have the pleasure of reading more <a href = "/pathfinder/tales/novels">Pathfinder Tales novels</a> and have nearly finished <a href = "/products/btpy9e45"><em>Hellknight</em></a>, meaning I'm almost done writing the Volume 8 sanctioning Chronicle sheet.</p>
<p>That covers a lot of what's currently missing, but it does leave out one noteworthy absence: the Pathfinder Society Open Call. You may have noticed that we have a new Pathfinder Society landing page and that much of our campaign information got rearranged just before Gen Con. I'm taking this as an opportunity to revise the Open Call guidelines and add in some more advice I've learned from looking over past entries. My projection is that it will still be a 2,000-word (or less) quest, so if you're in the middle of preparing your own submission based on past guidelines, it's fairly unlikely you'll need to make any significant changes. I do, however, advise not sending in new submissions during this short hiatus, as I'll be reading any submissions I've received since August 1, 2016 with these new guidelines in mind. Once the Open Call is all spruced up, expect to see a blog announcing that it's back in action.</p>
<p>John Compton<br />
<i>Pathfinder Society Lead Developer</i></p>
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<p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/sallyGottschalk">Sally Gottschalk</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/tomaszChistowski">Tomasz Chistowski</a></p><blockquote>
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<p class="date">Monday, August 22, 2016</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Ever since finishing the sanctioning documents for the <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lidu">Giantslayer and Iron Gods</a> Adventure Paths back in January, Linda and I have had our hands full preparing for PaizoCon and Gen Con. We're thrilled to have delivered <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lizf">a huge number of new scenarios</a>, and it's even more exciting to enter this comparably relaxed time of the year in which we can catch up on old business. You may have noticed Linda over the last week appearing in countless discussion threads to offer clarifications and then disappear in a cloud of ebullient nosoi psychopomps. I've been wrangling authors, outlining a bunch of new scenarios, and sending out new assignments; keep an eye out for new product pages soon (and see below for a list of upcoming scenarios, should you need information for planning upcoming conventions).</p>
<b>Upcoming Scenarios</b> <input type="button" value="Show" class="spoilerButton" onclick="toggleSpoiler(this)"><div class="spoiler-text">
<ul><li><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-04: Wardens of Sulfur Gulch (Tier 7-11)</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-05: Ungrounded but Unbroken (Tier 1-5)</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-06: Reaping What We Sow (Tier 1-5)</em></li>
<li><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-07: From the Tome of Righteous Repose (An experimental Tier 3-7)</em></li></ul>
</div></div>
<p>Together, though, we're sanctioning a massive number of Modules and Adventure Paths. Today I'd like to share the first of many: <a href = "/products/btpy9grq"><em>Pathfinder Module: Feast of Dust</em></a> and <a href = "/products/btpy9jbf"><em>Pathfinder Module: Ire of the Storm</em></a>! You can find the sanctioning documents on their respective product pages.</p>
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<i>Illustrations by Tomasz Chistowski and Sally Gottschalk</i></div>
<p><em>Ire of the Storm</em> skipped ahead in line a bit largely because we want to prioritize sanctioning low-level material in the organized play campaign. Don't worry though, as we're busily looking ahead to <a href = "/products/btpy9grs"><em>The House on Hook Street</em></a>, <a href = "/products/btpy9j6u"><em>Down the Blighted Path</em></a>, and <a href = "/products/btpy9nfu"><em>Gallows of Madness</em></a>. We've also queued the Adventure Paths <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels</a>, <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/curseOfTheCrimsonThrone">Curse of the Crimson Throne</a>, and <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/strangeAeons">Strange Aeons</a> for attention, and after those, <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/serpentsSkull">Serpent's Skull</a>, <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/kingmaker">Kingmaker</a>, and <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/councilOfThieves">Council of Thieves</a> are all eagerly waiting their turns to provide hundreds of hours of additional content to the campaign. At this point, we haven't dug into <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsVengeance">Hell's Vengeance</a> deeply enough to know quite if or how it might fit into the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild</a>; if anything, it'll likely be one we sanction in "campaign mode" only. Finally, I have the pleasure of reading more <a href = "/pathfinder/tales/novels">Pathfinder Tales novels</a> and have nearly finished <a href = "/products/btpy9e45"><em>Hellknight</em></a>, meaning I'm almost done writing the Volume 8 sanctioning Chronicle sheet.</p>
<p>That covers a lot of what's currently missing, but it does leave out one noteworthy absence: the Pathfinder Society Open Call. You may have noticed that we have a new Pathfinder Society landing page and that much of our campaign information got rearranged just before Gen Con. I'm taking this as an opportunity to revise the Open Call guidelines and add in some more advice I've learned from looking over past entries. My projection is that it will still be a 2,000-word (or less) quest, so if you're in the middle of preparing your own submission based on past guidelines, it's fairly unlikely you'll need to make any significant changes. I do, however, advise not sending in new submissions during this short hiatus, as I'll be reading any submissions I've received since August 1, 2016 with these new guidelines in mind. Once the Open Call is all spruced up, expect to see a blog announcing that it's back in action.</p>
<p>John Compton<br />
<i>Pathfinder Society Lead Developer</i></p>
</div>
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<p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/sallyGottschalk">Sally Gottschalk</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/tomaszChistowski">Tomasz Chistowski</a></p>2016-08-22T23:00:00ZExperience the Madness!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lizn?Experience-the-Madness2016-07-27T19:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<p class="date">Wednesday, July 27, 2016</p>
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<p>We're getting ever closer to the release of <a href = "/products/btpy9nfu"><em>Pathfinder Module: Gallows of Madness</em></a>, which means it's finally time to reveal some of the maddeningly enticing tidbits this book has to offer!</p>
<p itemprop="description">And there is a lot to be excited about. For starters, <em>Gallows of Madness</em> is one of the most versatile modules we've ever published. The module consists of three adventures for first- or second-level characters, and these adventures can be played as standalones, in any imaginable two-part arc, or all together, like a traditional module-length adventure. The beginning of the book includes detailed instructions for how to build a story that fits GMs' needs and interests, as well as tips to make the story feel as immersive as possible.</p>
<p>Beyond this, all three adventures were written with GMs' ease in mind; most of the content comes from the <a href = "/products/btpy88yj"><em>Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook</em></a> and <a href = "/products/btpy8auu"><em>Bestiary</em></a>, so it's perfect for beginning GMs and GMs who are running these adventures on the fly. That said, there are a few elements in the adventures that are brand new, both from a story and a rules perspective, ensuring that even veteran players and GMs will stay on their toes. Without providing too many spoilers in this direction, let's just say that the module's title is both figurative and very literal.</p>
<p>Wholly aside from the module's format, there's another thing that has us stoked; this module gives players and GMs the first detailed look at Saringallow. This large town in Isger has a dark history involving diabolist Chelish nobles; PCs who play these adventures will have nuanced conversations with the locals, including Mayor Sandra Trinelli, that can shed light on this tragic past.</p>
<p>The individual adventures take place either in Saringallow proper, in the wilderness surrounding the settlement, or in the abandoned Sarini Estate, but regardless, the PCs will have the chance to confront the settlement's past while grappling with new threats that could spell a whole new type of doom in the very near future.</p>
<p>To learn more, you'll have to pick up the book. For now, I'll simply leave you with this gorgeous half-page illustration of the old Sarini Estate.</p>
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<i>Illustration by Ian Perks</i></div>
<p>Seems perfectly peaceful, right? What could possibly go wrong?</p>
<p>Amanda Hamon Kunz<br />
<i>Developer</i></div>
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<p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/ianPerks">Ian Perks</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a></p><blockquote>
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<p class="date">Wednesday, July 27, 2016</p>
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<p>We're getting ever closer to the release of <a href = "/products/btpy9nfu"><em>Pathfinder Module: Gallows of Madness</em></a>, which means it's finally time to reveal some of the maddeningly enticing tidbits this book has to offer!</p>
<p itemprop="description">And there is a lot to be excited about. For starters, <em>Gallows of Madness</em> is one of the most versatile modules we've ever published. The module consists of three adventures for first- or second-level characters, and these adventures can be played as standalones, in any imaginable two-part arc, or all together, like a traditional module-length adventure. The beginning of the book includes detailed instructions for how to build a story that fits GMs' needs and interests, as well as tips to make the story feel as immersive as possible.</p>
<p>Beyond this, all three adventures were written with GMs' ease in mind; most of the content comes from the <a href = "/products/btpy88yj"><em>Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook</em></a> and <a href = "/products/btpy8auu"><em>Bestiary</em></a>, so it's perfect for beginning GMs and GMs who are running these adventures on the fly. That said, there are a few elements in the adventures that are brand new, both from a story and a rules perspective, ensuring that even veteran players and GMs will stay on their toes. Without providing too many spoilers in this direction, let's just say that the module's title is both figurative and very literal.</p>
<p>Wholly aside from the module's format, there's another thing that has us stoked; this module gives players and GMs the first detailed look at Saringallow. This large town in Isger has a dark history involving diabolist Chelish nobles; PCs who play these adventures will have nuanced conversations with the locals, including Mayor Sandra Trinelli, that can shed light on this tragic past.</p>
<p>The individual adventures take place either in Saringallow proper, in the wilderness surrounding the settlement, or in the abandoned Sarini Estate, but regardless, the PCs will have the chance to confront the settlement's past while grappling with new threats that could spell a whole new type of doom in the very near future.</p>
<p>To learn more, you'll have to pick up the book. For now, I'll simply leave you with this gorgeous half-page illustration of the old Sarini Estate.</p>
<div class="blurbCenter"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9552-Opener.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9552-Opener_500.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustration by Ian Perks</i></div>
<p>Seems perfectly peaceful, right? What could possibly go wrong?</p>
<p>Amanda Hamon Kunz<br />
<i>Developer</i></div>
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<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Ian Perks —>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/ianPerks">Ian Perks</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a></p>2016-07-27T19:00:00ZGoblins! Free to a Good Home! Or a Bad Home! Please Take Them Away!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lixc?Goblins-Free-to-a-Good-Home-Or-a-Bad-Home2016-07-06T19:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Goblins! Free to a Good Home! Or a Bad Home! Please Take Them Away!</h1>
<p class="date">Wednesday, July 6, 2016</p>
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<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20160706-Bisbee.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20160706-Bisbee_180.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustration by Andrew Hou</i></div>
<p itemprop="description">Everyone knows that the surest way to improve the quality of any tabletop game is to invite the wholesome goodness• of goblins into your home, and your heart••. For this year's Free RPG Day, Paizo did just that, by delivering the whimsical prequel to our <em>We Be Goblins</em> series of adventures: <a href = "/products/btpy9j4r"><em>We B4 Goblins</em></a>. This lighthearted coming-of-age tale takes your players back in time to adolescence of our iconic goblin heroes•••, where they can help these young adventurers reach adulthood by claiming their toads and joining in on their very first raid in a scenario ideal for introducing new players!</p>
<p>And now, <a href = "/products/btpy9j4r"><em>We B4 Goblins</em></a> is available to YOU free of charge on your paizo.com account!</p>
<p>As happens alarmingly often with these adorable••• little tykes, we have more goblins than can reasonably fit in the space provided! So for those of you who plan to run a table with five or six players, we have two brand new goblin characters for your PCs to test drive: the warchanter-in-training Bisbee, and the ever-lovable Smuz, who so obviously a goblin that you shouldn't even consider the possibility that he might not be. Because, I mean, come on.</p>
<p>These two little champions are ready to join Reta, Mogmurch, Chuffy, and Poog as they brave the world for the very first time! Visit your friendly local game store today, and print out these handy companions to join your own game today!</p>
<p style = "text-align: center;"><a href = "/include/WeBExtraGoblins.zip"><b>Download Bisbee and Smuz!</b></a>—193kb zip/PDF</p>
<p>Crystal Frasier<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
<p class = "tiny">•For certain, nonbinding values of wholesomeness and goodness.<br />
••Paizo Inc. assumes no responsibility for goblins applied to the heart.<br />
•••Heroism subject to change. Odds of winning 1 in 1s0,000.<br />
•••Adorableness not guaranteed. Consult your owner's manual.</p>
</div>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Free RPG Day, Free RPG Day 2016, Goblins, Andrew Hou, Community —>
</blockquote><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/andrewHou">Andrew Hou</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/community">Community</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/freeRPGDay">Free RPG Day</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/goblins">Goblins</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Goblins! Free to a Good Home! Or a Bad Home! Please Take Them Away!</h1>
<p class="date">Wednesday, July 6, 2016</p>
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<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20160706-Bisbee.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20160706-Bisbee_180.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustration by Andrew Hou</i></div>
<p itemprop="description">Everyone knows that the surest way to improve the quality of any tabletop game is to invite the wholesome goodness• of goblins into your home, and your heart••. For this year's Free RPG Day, Paizo did just that, by delivering the whimsical prequel to our <em>We Be Goblins</em> series of adventures: <a href = "/products/btpy9j4r"><em>We B4 Goblins</em></a>. This lighthearted coming-of-age tale takes your players back in time to adolescence of our iconic goblin heroes•••, where they can help these young adventurers reach adulthood by claiming their toads and joining in on their very first raid in a scenario ideal for introducing new players!</p>
<p>And now, <a href = "/products/btpy9j4r"><em>We B4 Goblins</em></a> is available to YOU free of charge on your paizo.com account!</p>
<p>As happens alarmingly often with these adorable••• little tykes, we have more goblins than can reasonably fit in the space provided! So for those of you who plan to run a table with five or six players, we have two brand new goblin characters for your PCs to test drive: the warchanter-in-training Bisbee, and the ever-lovable Smuz, who so obviously a goblin that you shouldn't even consider the possibility that he might not be. Because, I mean, come on.</p>
<p>These two little champions are ready to join Reta, Mogmurch, Chuffy, and Poog as they brave the world for the very first time! Visit your friendly local game store today, and print out these handy companions to join your own game today!</p>
<p style = "text-align: center;"><a href = "/include/WeBExtraGoblins.zip"><b>Download Bisbee and Smuz!</b></a>—193kb zip/PDF</p>
<p>Crystal Frasier<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
<p class = "tiny">•For certain, nonbinding values of wholesomeness and goodness.<br />
••Paizo Inc. assumes no responsibility for goblins applied to the heart.<br />
•••Heroism subject to change. Odds of winning 1 in 1s0,000.<br />
•••Adorableness not guaranteed. Consult your owner's manual.</p>
</div>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Free RPG Day, Free RPG Day 2016, Goblins, Andrew Hou, Community —>
</blockquote><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/andrewHou">Andrew Hou</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/community">Community</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/freeRPGDay">Free RPG Day</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/goblins">Goblins</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a></p>2016-07-06T19:00:00ZGoblins Invade Free RPG Day!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5livu?Goblins-Invade-Free-RPG-Day2016-06-18T15:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Goblins Invade Free RPG Day!</h1>
<p class="date">Saturday, June 18, 2016</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Goblins have returned for this momentous occasion—<a href = "http://freerpgday.com" target = "_blank">Free RPG Day</a> is here! Free RPG Day is a worldwide gaming event, aimed to bring new and exclusive adventures to local game stores to inspire new comers and long-time gamers alike. This year Paizo has contributed two new offerings for the event: <a href = "/products/btpy9j4r"><em>Pathfinder Module: We B4 Goblins!</em></a> by Crystal Fraiser and Tup the Terrible for the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>.</p>
<p>If you're running <em>We B4 Goblins!</em> at your local store, or if you've just picked it up and want to try it out, you can <a href = "/products/btpy9j4r">download the pregenerated goblin characters</a> for your players right now. This module is also sanctioned for play in the <a href = "/pathfindersociety">Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild</a>. If you're planning on playing at your local game store, there's a Free RPG Day exlusive boon for your Pathfinder Society character—you can learn more about that <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5livb">in last Monday's blog</a>.</p>
<div class="blurbCenter"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Chuffy.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Chuffy_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Mogmurch.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Mogmurch_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Poog.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Poog_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Reta.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Reta_180.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustrations by Kiki Moch Rizky</i></div>
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderACG/20160618-Tup.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderACG/20160618-Tup_180.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustration by Dmitry Burmak</i></div>
<p>Ready for a goblin marathon? <em>We B4 Goblins</em> is the fourth Pathfinder Module to feature our band of miscreant goblin adventurers: Chuffy Lickwound, Mogmurch, Poog of Zarongel, and Reta Bigbad. You can follow their other harrowing encounters with horses, dogs, and other large monsters in <a href = "/products/btpy8j5w"><em>We Be Goblins!</em></a>, <a href = "/products/btpy8xc3"><em>We Be Goblins Too!</em></a>, and <a href = "/products/btpy9c20"><em>We Be Goblins Free!</em></a></p>
<p>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Goblin fans can pick up Tup the Terrible at game stores today, too! Tup is a <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame/riseOfTheRunelords">Rise of the Runelords</a> ACG character with just as much of an affinity for fire as his RPG companions. You can add Tup into your game right away, too! We've put together his character sheet below that you can drop into your own game below. And if you've got a hankering for more goblins in your game, check out <a href = "/products/btpy96ie">Ranzak</a> and <a href = "/products/btpy9fpr">Ekkie</a>, or preorder a <a href = "/products/btpy9k5m"><em>Goblins Burn!</em></a> or <a href = "/products/btpy9jcw"><em>Goblins Fight!</em></a> Class Deck (due out this summer).</p>
<p style = "text-align: center;"><a href = "/include/20160618-Tup.zip"><b>Download Tup's Character Sheet</b></a> <span class = "tiny">(108kb zip/PDF)</span></p>
<p>Won't get a chance to head out to Free RPG Day? No worries! Starting on July 1, we'll have <a href = "/products/btpy9j4r"><em>We B4 Goblins!</em></a> available as a free PDF and a $5 print product while supplies last. Tup will not available for purchase until the first day of Gen Con 2016, however, but you'll be able to preorder his promo pack soon!</p>
<p>Get out, game, and enjoy Free RPG Day!</p>
<p>Chris Lambertz<br />
<i>Community & Digital Content Director</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Goblins, Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Modules, Free RPG Day, Caio Maciel Monterio, Kiki Moch Rizky, Dmitry Burmak —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/dmitryBurmak">Dmitry Burmak</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/freeRPGDay">Free RPG Day</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/goblins">Goblins</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/kikiMochRizky">Kiki Moch Rizky</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Goblins Invade Free RPG Day!</h1>
<p class="date">Saturday, June 18, 2016</p>
<div itemprop="articleBody">
<p itemprop="description">Goblins have returned for this momentous occasion—<a href = "http://freerpgday.com" target = "_blank">Free RPG Day</a> is here! Free RPG Day is a worldwide gaming event, aimed to bring new and exclusive adventures to local game stores to inspire new comers and long-time gamers alike. This year Paizo has contributed two new offerings for the event: <a href = "/products/btpy9j4r"><em>Pathfinder Module: We B4 Goblins!</em></a> by Crystal Fraiser and Tup the Terrible for the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>.</p>
<p>If you're running <em>We B4 Goblins!</em> at your local store, or if you've just picked it up and want to try it out, you can <a href = "/products/btpy9j4r">download the pregenerated goblin characters</a> for your players right now. This module is also sanctioned for play in the <a href = "/pathfindersociety">Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild</a>. If you're planning on playing at your local game store, there's a Free RPG Day exlusive boon for your Pathfinder Society character—you can learn more about that <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5livb">in last Monday's blog</a>.</p>
<div class="blurbCenter"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Chuffy.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Chuffy_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Mogmurch.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Mogmurch_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Poog.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Poog_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Reta.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-10-Reta_180.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustrations by Kiki Moch Rizky</i></div>
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderACG/20160618-Tup.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderACG/20160618-Tup_180.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustration by Dmitry Burmak</i></div>
<p>Ready for a goblin marathon? <em>We B4 Goblins</em> is the fourth Pathfinder Module to feature our band of miscreant goblin adventurers: Chuffy Lickwound, Mogmurch, Poog of Zarongel, and Reta Bigbad. You can follow their other harrowing encounters with horses, dogs, and other large monsters in <a href = "/products/btpy8j5w"><em>We Be Goblins!</em></a>, <a href = "/products/btpy8xc3"><em>We Be Goblins Too!</em></a>, and <a href = "/products/btpy9c20"><em>We Be Goblins Free!</em></a></p>
<p>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Goblin fans can pick up Tup the Terrible at game stores today, too! Tup is a <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame/riseOfTheRunelords">Rise of the Runelords</a> ACG character with just as much of an affinity for fire as his RPG companions. You can add Tup into your game right away, too! We've put together his character sheet below that you can drop into your own game below. And if you've got a hankering for more goblins in your game, check out <a href = "/products/btpy96ie">Ranzak</a> and <a href = "/products/btpy9fpr">Ekkie</a>, or preorder a <a href = "/products/btpy9k5m"><em>Goblins Burn!</em></a> or <a href = "/products/btpy9jcw"><em>Goblins Fight!</em></a> Class Deck (due out this summer).</p>
<p style = "text-align: center;"><a href = "/include/20160618-Tup.zip"><b>Download Tup's Character Sheet</b></a> <span class = "tiny">(108kb zip/PDF)</span></p>
<p>Won't get a chance to head out to Free RPG Day? No worries! Starting on July 1, we'll have <a href = "/products/btpy9j4r"><em>We B4 Goblins!</em></a> available as a free PDF and a $5 print product while supplies last. Tup will not available for purchase until the first day of Gen Con 2016, however, but you'll be able to preorder his promo pack soon!</p>
<p>Get out, game, and enjoy Free RPG Day!</p>
<p>Chris Lambertz<br />
<i>Community & Digital Content Director</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Goblins, Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Modules, Free RPG Day, Caio Maciel Monterio, Kiki Moch Rizky, Dmitry Burmak —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/dmitryBurmak">Dmitry Burmak</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/freeRPGDay">Free RPG Day</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/goblins">Goblins</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/kikiMochRizky">Kiki Moch Rizky</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a></p>2016-06-18T15:00:00ZWatch Fantasy Authors Play Pathfinder!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5liuw?Watch-Fantasy-Authors-Play-Pathfinder2016-06-09T19:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Watch Fantasy Authors Play Pathfinder!</h1>
<p class="date">Thursday, June 9, 2016</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Last year at Gen Con, I had the opportunity to run a bunch of award-winning fantasy authors through <a href = "/products/btpy8j5w"><em>We Be Goblins!</em></a> in front of a live audience. Now we've teamed up with our friends at Tor to put the whole game online, unabridged and uncensored, so you can watch Elizabeth Bear (<em>Karen Memory</em>), Scott Lynch (<em>The Lies of Locke Lamora</em>), Wesley Chu (<em>Time Salvager</em>), Max Gladstone (<em>Three Parts Dead</em>), and Django Wexler (<em>The Thousand Names</em>) run around as goblins, riding pigs and setting things on fire for the glory of the Licktoad Tribe! Plus, watch me frantically try to accommodate plot twist cards thrown in by notoriously sadistic Editor-in-Chief F. Wesley Schneider. It's a spider-riding, horse-chopping good time for all involved!</p>
<div class = "blurbCenter"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zpt4_GpXWwE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>James L. Sutter<br />
<i>Creative Director</i></p>
</div>
<!— tags: Goblins, Pathfinder Modules —>
</blockquote><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/goblins">Goblins</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a></p><blockquote>
<br />
<h1 itemprop="headline">Watch Fantasy Authors Play Pathfinder!</h1>
<p class="date">Thursday, June 9, 2016</p>
<div itemprop="articlebody">
<p itemprop="description">Last year at Gen Con, I had the opportunity to run a bunch of award-winning fantasy authors through <a href = "/products/btpy8j5w"><em>We Be Goblins!</em></a> in front of a live audience. Now we've teamed up with our friends at Tor to put the whole game online, unabridged and uncensored, so you can watch Elizabeth Bear (<em>Karen Memory</em>), Scott Lynch (<em>The Lies of Locke Lamora</em>), Wesley Chu (<em>Time Salvager</em>), Max Gladstone (<em>Three Parts Dead</em>), and Django Wexler (<em>The Thousand Names</em>) run around as goblins, riding pigs and setting things on fire for the glory of the Licktoad Tribe! Plus, watch me frantically try to accommodate plot twist cards thrown in by notoriously sadistic Editor-in-Chief F. Wesley Schneider. It's a spider-riding, horse-chopping good time for all involved!</p>
<div class = "blurbCenter"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zpt4_GpXWwE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>James L. Sutter<br />
<i>Creative Director</i></p>
</div>
<!— tags: Goblins, Pathfinder Modules —>
</blockquote><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/goblins">Goblins</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a></p>2016-06-09T19:00:00ZBlighted Beginnings—Writing is a Sensory Experiencehttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5liiq?Blighted-Beginnings-Writing-is-a-Sensory2016-02-19T20:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Blighted Beginnings—Writing is a Sensory Experience</h1>
<p class="date">Friday, February 19, 2016</p>
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<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy9j6u"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9550_180.jpeg"></a></div>
<p itemprop="description">Last year I competed in the Paizo's <a href = "/rpgsuperstar">RPG Superstar</a> contest, and earlier this week I saw my complete winning adventure. It was humbling to see my first design work become reality. Roleplaying games are an integral part of my daily and family life. I play Pathfinder at least once a week, sometimes with friends, my children, complete strangers—I love to game! I love the social aspects of gathering around a table to share in the group storytelling experience. We explore, we laugh, we fight, we are a party, and we are together. As gamers we experience things outside our everyday lives, see places that exist in our collective imaginations. We get to be "not ourselves."</p>
<p>Winning RPG Superstar introduced me to a new aspect of my favorite hobby. I created a space for gamers to explore Nar-Voth and discover new things about themselves (should gamers follow those threads). One of the most important parts of the design process was finding places to include roleplaying solutions in addition to combat solutions. Creating believable NPCs was both fun and challenging. My favorite characters to create were the three "big bad" encounters. The personalities and relationships between Zohir and her underlings were crucial to giving options to players for dealing with the encounters. For each NPC, I created files of real and fictional people and relationships, created musical soundtracks, and for a few, I had specific perfumes that I wore when I wrote their scenes to help me focus and round out NPCs that could have ended up moustache twirling villains. Even now when I wear some of them I'm put in the frame of mind of Zohir and Delbera. <i>(Editor's Note: Apparently Lady Delbera is Vétiver Fatal. We leave it up to you, dear readers, to convince Monica to share the rest!)</i></p>
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<div class = "blurbCenter"><a href = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9550-Zohir.jpg"><img src = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9550-Zohir_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9550-LadyDelbera.jpg"><img src = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9550-LadyDelbera_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9550-Utrat.jpg"><img src = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9550-Utrat_120.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustrations by Sally Gottschalk and Vicky Yarova</i></div>
<p>Thank you Paizo, Lisa Stevens, Crystal Frasier, Amanda Hamon Kunz, and RPG Superstar voters and judges! Without this supportive gaming community we would still be searching for like-minded friends to share our dreams. Thank you for sharing my dream of an axe wielding dwarven cleric. Thank you Andrew for believing in me and for your endless support. This module is for all of you!</p>
<p>Monica Marlowe<br />
<i>Contributing Author</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Darklands, Pathfinder Modules, RPG Superstar, Vicky Yarova, Sally Gottschalk —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/locations/darklands">Darklands</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/rPGSuperstar">RPG Superstar</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/sallyGottschalk">Sally Gottschalk</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/vickyYarova">Vicky Yarova</a></p><blockquote>
<br />
<h1 itemprop="headline">Blighted Beginnings—Writing is a Sensory Experience</h1>
<p class="date">Friday, February 19, 2016</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Last year I competed in the Paizo's <a href = "/rpgsuperstar">RPG Superstar</a> contest, and earlier this week I saw my complete winning adventure. It was humbling to see my first design work become reality. Roleplaying games are an integral part of my daily and family life. I play Pathfinder at least once a week, sometimes with friends, my children, complete strangers—I love to game! I love the social aspects of gathering around a table to share in the group storytelling experience. We explore, we laugh, we fight, we are a party, and we are together. As gamers we experience things outside our everyday lives, see places that exist in our collective imaginations. We get to be "not ourselves."</p>
<p>Winning RPG Superstar introduced me to a new aspect of my favorite hobby. I created a space for gamers to explore Nar-Voth and discover new things about themselves (should gamers follow those threads). One of the most important parts of the design process was finding places to include roleplaying solutions in addition to combat solutions. Creating believable NPCs was both fun and challenging. My favorite characters to create were the three "big bad" encounters. The personalities and relationships between Zohir and her underlings were crucial to giving options to players for dealing with the encounters. For each NPC, I created files of real and fictional people and relationships, created musical soundtracks, and for a few, I had specific perfumes that I wore when I wrote their scenes to help me focus and round out NPCs that could have ended up moustache twirling villains. Even now when I wear some of them I'm put in the frame of mind of Zohir and Delbera. <i>(Editor's Note: Apparently Lady Delbera is Vétiver Fatal. We leave it up to you, dear readers, to convince Monica to share the rest!)</i></p>
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<a href = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9550-Utrat.jpg"><img src = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9550-Utrat_120.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustrations by Sally Gottschalk and Vicky Yarova</i></div>
<p>Thank you Paizo, Lisa Stevens, Crystal Frasier, Amanda Hamon Kunz, and RPG Superstar voters and judges! Without this supportive gaming community we would still be searching for like-minded friends to share our dreams. Thank you for sharing my dream of an axe wielding dwarven cleric. Thank you Andrew for believing in me and for your endless support. This module is for all of you!</p>
<p>Monica Marlowe<br />
<i>Contributing Author</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Darklands, Pathfinder Modules, RPG Superstar, Vicky Yarova, Sally Gottschalk —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/locations/darklands">Darklands</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/rPGSuperstar">RPG Superstar</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/sallyGottschalk">Sally Gottschalk</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/vickyYarova">Vicky Yarova</a></p>2016-02-19T20:00:00ZHouse of Horrors!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5liat?House-of-Horrors2015-12-10T20:00:00Z<blockquote>
<br />
<h1 itemprop="headline">House of Horrors!</h1>
<p class="date">Thursday, December 10, 2015</p>
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<p>I recently got a chance to develop an adventure written by my good friend Brandon Hodge. It also turns out I got to develop an updated version of an adventure that Brandon ran for our group nearly 10 years ago.</p>
<p>Brandon has a solid background as a scholar of the esoteric and occult, and after he was brought on as a consultant for <a href = "/products/btpy9egu"><em>Pathfinder RPG Occult Adventures</em></a>, we knew that he'd be the best fit for an adventure that would tie in to that book. After running the idea past him, he immediately had an idea for the adventure pitch—one he knew well from years back. Since I've been friends with Brandon since high school and since I'd been a player in that adventure, it made me the best choice to develop it... and that adventure is <a href = "/products/btpy9grs"><em>Pathfinder Module: The House on Hook Street</em></a>.</p>
<p>Of course, the adventure has changed from when I was with my home group back in Texas, and I think it's even better. I'll let Brandon get a few words in about the history and process.</p>
<blockquote>
<p itemprop="description">I remember that I sent a really disturbing nursery rhyme to my players a few days before the first <em>House on Hook Street</em> sessions, and that it was sometime around 2007. A few weeks previously, our group had one of those typical post-game "the thrill-is-gone/I've-seen-it-all/memorized-the-bestiary/bought-the-tshirt" laments that we've all felt at some point, and I recall another player boldly challenged me for something truly fresh and surprising, but using existing materials. So, I picked up the gauntlet.</p>
<p>And that's how <em>The House on Hook Street</em> was born. The original adventure predated the Pathfinder RPG by a couple of years, but it was still set in Golarion, though in the recently debuted streets of Riddleport rather than Old Korvosa. Back then, my longtime pal Adam Daigle and I were just enthusiastic players in a couple of weekly games in Austin, and Daigle was just beginning to sniff around the industry, and trying to drag me along with him. With his encouragement, I wrote this new adventure in the <em>Dungeon Magazine</em> format with the intention that maybe—just maybe—I'd get it published.</p>
<p>And because the re-write shifted the original plot enough that it isn't spoiler material anymore, the mechanic I used to 'file off the serial numbers' of monsters involved a bloodthirsty thieves' guild using tainted potions, with transmogrifying results that let me use some of my favorite creatures in new and horrifying ways, keeping my players guessing at every turn even as I was peering menacingly from the other side of an open <em>Monster Manual</em>. It was part of the challenge, after all, and I just went wild: thieves who "overdosed" on tainted <i>elixirs of hiding</i> essentially used the stats for shadows but dragged their discarded corpses behind them, while tainted <i>potions of gaseous form</i> let other thieves exhale their souls as weird belker-things. Just don't ask me about the poor sap that overdosed on a tainted <i>potion of tongues</i>—it's way, way worse than you think, and, yes, the horrifying legacy of that encounter made its way into the final product. See if you can spot it!</p>
<p>My players went crazy trying to figure out what was happening, and I loved the results enough to keep the adventure in my back pocket. When <em>Occult Adventures</em> came along and Erik asked me to write an adventure using those materials, I knew I finally had the perfect tools to bring the greater story to life. And by shifting the setting to Korvosa, I got to revisit some of my favorite material from my friend Nick Logue and the <em>Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path</em>, and I think you'll appreciate the results!</p>
<p>I recently ran the rewritten adventure again as a playtest, with two members of that old group getting to revisit <em>The House on Hook Street</em>. Sadly, Daigle couldn't join us, and just had to deal with my constant updates and pictures of the action, some of which I've included here. I'm happy to say my players were blown away with the adventure's latest incarnation, and just as surprised with the twists and turns as their first time through. That, and there's about 50 hours of gameplay packed in between these covers, so I think you're getting your money's worth.</p>
<table class = "table-spacing-large tiny" align = "center" style = "width: 550px; text-align: center; font-style: italic;">
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<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-1.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-1_180.jpeg"></a><p>The occult has strange effects on some people—beware the streets of Old Korvosa!</p>
</td>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-2.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-2_180.jpeg"></a><p>Merisiel finds herself in a sticky situation.</p>
</td>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-3.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-3_180.jpeg"></a><p>Ezren drools at the prospect of plumbing the secrets of this occult library.</p>
</td>
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<tr>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-4.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-4_180.jpeg"></a><p>The Pathfinder Battles Locus Demon makes a great stand-in to bring the adventure's cover illustration to life.</p>
</td>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-5.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-5_180.jpeg"></a><p>What secrets lurk below?</p>
</td>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-6.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-6_180.jpeg"></a><p>It turns out that the cult has some nightmarish allies... but have we seen this guy somewhere before?</p>
</td>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-7.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-7_180.jpeg"></a><p>The inner sanctum of the house is awfully quiet... but why's Valeros so on-edge?</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>So, it'll be yours now. You'll get to revisit Old Korvosa and witness its transformation yourselves, and I know you'll have as much fun with it as we did. And how cool is it that after all of our years of friendship, that I get to work right alongside Daigle as my developer on an adventure he actually played in nearly a decade ago, before we even got into the biz? Pretty damned cool, if you ask me!</p>
<p>Brandon Hodge<br />
<i>Contributing Author</i></p>
</blockquote>
<p>One of the things I remember from that adventure long ago, aside from being creeped out by Brandon's description of his reskinned antagonists, was getting frustrated with getting to an enemy and just hacking through the floor. (I think something might have even been on fire.) One of the things that I'll remember about <i>this</i> adventure is getting to work on cool and creepy material from Brandon while he sent me the aforementioned "constant updates and pictures of the action." I swear I got at least one email or text per page of adventure during the process.</p>
<div class="blurbCenter"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9549-Introduction.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9549-Introduction_360.jpeg"></a>
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<a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9549-Occult.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9549-Occult_360.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustrations by Tomasz Chistowski</i></div>
<p>It was fun setting this in Korvosa, as it was a great way to show that occult elements are always lurking in the shadows, waiting for intrepid adventurers to peel back the layers and discover the esoteric bits hiding beneath. Pick up <a href = "/products/btpy9grs"><em>The House on Hook Street</em></a>, gather your friends for adventure, and let us know how it went!</p>
<p>Adam Daigle<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Brandon Hodge, Tomasz Chistowski —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/brandonHodge">Brandon Hodge</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/tomaszChistowski">Tomasz Chistowski</a></p><blockquote>
<br />
<h1 itemprop="headline">House of Horrors!</h1>
<p class="date">Thursday, December 10, 2015</p>
<div itemprop="articleBody">
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "/products/btpy9grs"><img src = "//static2.paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9549_180.jpeg"></a></div>
<p>I recently got a chance to develop an adventure written by my good friend Brandon Hodge. It also turns out I got to develop an updated version of an adventure that Brandon ran for our group nearly 10 years ago.</p>
<p>Brandon has a solid background as a scholar of the esoteric and occult, and after he was brought on as a consultant for <a href = "/products/btpy9egu"><em>Pathfinder RPG Occult Adventures</em></a>, we knew that he'd be the best fit for an adventure that would tie in to that book. After running the idea past him, he immediately had an idea for the adventure pitch—one he knew well from years back. Since I've been friends with Brandon since high school and since I'd been a player in that adventure, it made me the best choice to develop it... and that adventure is <a href = "/products/btpy9grs"><em>Pathfinder Module: The House on Hook Street</em></a>.</p>
<p>Of course, the adventure has changed from when I was with my home group back in Texas, and I think it's even better. I'll let Brandon get a few words in about the history and process.</p>
<blockquote>
<p itemprop="description">I remember that I sent a really disturbing nursery rhyme to my players a few days before the first <em>House on Hook Street</em> sessions, and that it was sometime around 2007. A few weeks previously, our group had one of those typical post-game "the thrill-is-gone/I've-seen-it-all/memorized-the-bestiary/bought-the-tshirt" laments that we've all felt at some point, and I recall another player boldly challenged me for something truly fresh and surprising, but using existing materials. So, I picked up the gauntlet.</p>
<p>And that's how <em>The House on Hook Street</em> was born. The original adventure predated the Pathfinder RPG by a couple of years, but it was still set in Golarion, though in the recently debuted streets of Riddleport rather than Old Korvosa. Back then, my longtime pal Adam Daigle and I were just enthusiastic players in a couple of weekly games in Austin, and Daigle was just beginning to sniff around the industry, and trying to drag me along with him. With his encouragement, I wrote this new adventure in the <em>Dungeon Magazine</em> format with the intention that maybe—just maybe—I'd get it published.</p>
<p>And because the re-write shifted the original plot enough that it isn't spoiler material anymore, the mechanic I used to 'file off the serial numbers' of monsters involved a bloodthirsty thieves' guild using tainted potions, with transmogrifying results that let me use some of my favorite creatures in new and horrifying ways, keeping my players guessing at every turn even as I was peering menacingly from the other side of an open <em>Monster Manual</em>. It was part of the challenge, after all, and I just went wild: thieves who "overdosed" on tainted <i>elixirs of hiding</i> essentially used the stats for shadows but dragged their discarded corpses behind them, while tainted <i>potions of gaseous form</i> let other thieves exhale their souls as weird belker-things. Just don't ask me about the poor sap that overdosed on a tainted <i>potion of tongues</i>—it's way, way worse than you think, and, yes, the horrifying legacy of that encounter made its way into the final product. See if you can spot it!</p>
<p>My players went crazy trying to figure out what was happening, and I loved the results enough to keep the adventure in my back pocket. When <em>Occult Adventures</em> came along and Erik asked me to write an adventure using those materials, I knew I finally had the perfect tools to bring the greater story to life. And by shifting the setting to Korvosa, I got to revisit some of my favorite material from my friend Nick Logue and the <em>Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path</em>, and I think you'll appreciate the results!</p>
<p>I recently ran the rewritten adventure again as a playtest, with two members of that old group getting to revisit <em>The House on Hook Street</em>. Sadly, Daigle couldn't join us, and just had to deal with my constant updates and pictures of the action, some of which I've included here. I'm happy to say my players were blown away with the adventure's latest incarnation, and just as surprised with the twists and turns as their first time through. That, and there's about 50 hours of gameplay packed in between these covers, so I think you're getting your money's worth.</p>
<table class = "table-spacing-large tiny" align = "center" style = "width: 550px; text-align: center; font-style: italic;">
<tr>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-1.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-1_180.jpeg"></a><p>The occult has strange effects on some people—beware the streets of Old Korvosa!</p>
</td>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-2.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-2_180.jpeg"></a><p>Merisiel finds herself in a sticky situation.</p>
</td>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-3.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-3_180.jpeg"></a><p>Ezren drools at the prospect of plumbing the secrets of this occult library.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class = "table-spacing-large tiny" align = "center" style = "width: 650px; text-align: center; font-style: italic;">
<tr>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-4.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-4_180.jpeg"></a><p>The Pathfinder Battles Locus Demon makes a great stand-in to bring the adventure's cover illustration to life.</p>
</td>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-5.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-5_180.jpeg"></a><p>What secrets lurk below?</p>
</td>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-6.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-6_180.jpeg"></a><p>It turns out that the cult has some nightmarish allies... but have we seen this guy somewhere before?</p>
</td>
<td><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-7.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/20151210-HoHS-7_180.jpeg"></a><p>The inner sanctum of the house is awfully quiet... but why's Valeros so on-edge?</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>So, it'll be yours now. You'll get to revisit Old Korvosa and witness its transformation yourselves, and I know you'll have as much fun with it as we did. And how cool is it that after all of our years of friendship, that I get to work right alongside Daigle as my developer on an adventure he actually played in nearly a decade ago, before we even got into the biz? Pretty damned cool, if you ask me!</p>
<p>Brandon Hodge<br />
<i>Contributing Author</i></p>
</blockquote>
<p>One of the things I remember from that adventure long ago, aside from being creeped out by Brandon's description of his reskinned antagonists, was getting frustrated with getting to an enemy and just hacking through the floor. (I think something might have even been on fire.) One of the things that I'll remember about <i>this</i> adventure is getting to work on cool and creepy material from Brandon while he sent me the aforementioned "constant updates and pictures of the action." I swear I got at least one email or text per page of adventure during the process.</p>
<div class="blurbCenter"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9549-Introduction.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9549-Introduction_360.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9549-Bridgefront.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9549-Bridgefront_360.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9549-Occult.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9549-Occult_360.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustrations by Tomasz Chistowski</i></div>
<p>It was fun setting this in Korvosa, as it was a great way to show that occult elements are always lurking in the shadows, waiting for intrepid adventurers to peel back the layers and discover the esoteric bits hiding beneath. Pick up <a href = "/products/btpy9grs"><em>The House on Hook Street</em></a>, gather your friends for adventure, and let us know how it went!</p>
<p>Adam Daigle<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Brandon Hodge, Tomasz Chistowski —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/brandonHodge">Brandon Hodge</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/tomaszChistowski">Tomasz Chistowski</a></p>2015-12-10T20:00:00ZJourney into the Merazhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5li86?Journey-into-the-Meraz2015-11-11T20:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Journey into the Meraz</h1>
<p class="date">Wednesday, November 11, 2015</p>
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<p itemprop="description">The sands of the Meraz Desert hide a long and storied history, one beset by ancient evils and warring factions. In <a href = "/products/btpy9grq"><em>Feast of Dust</em></a>, the PCs start off in the trade town of Dimayen as it is plagued with an ancient curse. Citizens find themselves ravenously hungry, but can't seem to keep any food down and eventually starve or wander out into the desert. As the PCs get involved, they work with factions in the town, before setting out into the remote Meraz to track down the source of the town's problems—a cult of Trelmarixian inhabiting the Sunbleached Tower!</p>
<p>Developing the look of a brand new cult we've never used before fell to our amazing Art Department and artists! Here are just a few examples:</p>
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<i>Illustrations by Tomasz Chistowski, Firat Solhan, and Rogier van de Beek</i></div>
<p>The wait is over! In addition to the adventure, this Pathfinder Module also features a gazeteer of Dimayen and three new monsters. Pick up <a href = "/products/btpy9grq"><em>Feast of Dust</em></a> and have the PCs square off against the, cultists, daemons, and more! Can your group stop the evil harbinger of famine before it's too late?</p>
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<a href = "//static2.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9548-Dimayen.jpg"><img src = "//static2.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9548-Dimayen_180.jpeg"></a>
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<i>Illustrations by Tomasz Chistowski and Ertaç Altınöz</i></div>
<p>Adam Daigle & Crystal Frasier<br />
<i>Developer, Assistant Developer</i></p>
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<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Ertaç Altınöz, Firat Solhan, Tomasz Chistowski, Rogier van de Beek —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/ertaAltNZ">Ertaç Altınöz</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/firatSolhan">Firat Solhan</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/rogierVanDeBeek">Rogier van de Beek</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/tomaszChistowski">Tomasz Chistowski</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Journey into the Meraz</h1>
<p class="date">Wednesday, November 11, 2015</p>
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<p itemprop="description">The sands of the Meraz Desert hide a long and storied history, one beset by ancient evils and warring factions. In <a href = "/products/btpy9grq"><em>Feast of Dust</em></a>, the PCs start off in the trade town of Dimayen as it is plagued with an ancient curse. Citizens find themselves ravenously hungry, but can't seem to keep any food down and eventually starve or wander out into the desert. As the PCs get involved, they work with factions in the town, before setting out into the remote Meraz to track down the source of the town's problems—a cult of Trelmarixian inhabiting the Sunbleached Tower!</p>
<p>Developing the look of a brand new cult we've never used before fell to our amazing Art Department and artists! Here are just a few examples:</p>
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<a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9548-TrelmarixianCultist.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9548-TrelmarixianCultist_180.jpeg"></a>
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<i>Illustrations by Tomasz Chistowski, Firat Solhan, and Rogier van de Beek</i></div>
<p>The wait is over! In addition to the adventure, this Pathfinder Module also features a gazeteer of Dimayen and three new monsters. Pick up <a href = "/products/btpy9grq"><em>Feast of Dust</em></a> and have the PCs square off against the, cultists, daemons, and more! Can your group stop the evil harbinger of famine before it's too late?</p>
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<i>Illustrations by Tomasz Chistowski and Ertaç Altınöz</i></div>
<p>Adam Daigle & Crystal Frasier<br />
<i>Developer, Assistant Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Ertaç Altınöz, Firat Solhan, Tomasz Chistowski, Rogier van de Beek —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/ertaAltNZ">Ertaç Altınöz</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/firatSolhan">Firat Solhan</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/rogierVanDeBeek">Rogier van de Beek</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/tomaszChistowski">Tomasz Chistowski</a></p>2015-11-11T20:00:00ZSalutations, Spring!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5li6i?Salutations-Spring2015-10-29T20:00:00Z<blockquote>
<h1 itemprop="headline">Salutations, Spring!</h1>
<p class="date">Thursday, October 29, 2015</p>
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<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9286-LegendarySpirit.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9286-LegendarySpirit_180.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Suzanne Helmigh<br />Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Realms</i></div>
<p itemprop="description">As "predicted" in our last product update blog, fall has arrived! In fact, as I'm typing this, I'm wearing my first oversized sweater of the season and looking at decidedly orange leaves against the grey and rain filled sky. This is certainly setting the mood for an excellent Halloween night this Saturday, and what better to set the scene than going over some the tricks and treats we've released and have to look forward to in the coming months?</p>
<p>We've reached the mid-way point of the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels Adventure Path</a> with the release of <a href = "/products/btpy9grk"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #99: Dance of the Damned</em></a>. How's your group dealing with the tenacity of resident tyrant, Barzillai Thrune? I hope they're ready, because they've got a lot of work to do to get ready for <a href = "/products/btpy9grm"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #100: A Song of Silver</em></a>. The next volume of the Hell's Rebels is a mega-sized volume, filled with articles that all fans of the Pathfinder Adventure Path line will want to have in their collection. We'll have more previews available as we get closer to AP #100's release in December.</p>
<p>Ever wondered what lies beyond the border Golarion's Inner Sea region? <a href = "/products/btpy9gro"><em>Distant Shores</em></a> takes you there! Or may you're a character that prefers to lay low or the company of the unseen world? This month we had a double Pathfinder Player Companion release with <a href = "/products/btpy9h7x"><em>Black Markets</em></a> and <a href = "/products/btpy9grw"><em>Occult Origins</em></a>.</p>
<p>The current <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a> Adventure Path, <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame/wrathOfTheRighteous"><em>Wrath of the Righteous</em></a> cames to a close with the release of the epic conclusion: <a href = ""><em>Adventure Deck 6: City of Locusts</em></a>. Fans of the Adventure Card Game will be excited to know we've also announced plans for the <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li5d">Season of the Runelords</a>, which begins in early 2016.</p>
<p>Do you need monsters and frights? This month we rummaged up some ideas for you to add in some creepy elements to your games in a series on the Paizo blog (<a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li4e">Part 1</a>, <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li5f">Part 2</a>, and <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li6a">Part 3</a>. We also launched a brand new feature in the <a href = "/prd">Pathfinder Reference Document</a> to sort Bestiary entries so you can <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li4k">find just the <i>perfect</i> set of teeth to drop into your campaign</a>, and rounded <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li2m">all the free resources</a> you can find on paizo.com to enhance your game or plan your next character.</p>
<p>Here's a complete look at what released in October:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9grk"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #99: Dance of the Damned</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyi"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Deck 6: City of Locusts</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gro"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Distant Shores</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h7x"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Black Markets</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9grw"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Occult Origins</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h0v"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game GM Screen—Alternate Cover 2</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9ghl"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Slum Quarter</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gsc"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Dungeon</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gsd"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Town Square</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gwx"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-09: The Blakros Connection</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gww"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-08: To Judge a Soul, Part 2: Karma Reclaimed</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h4t"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Guild Adventure 1-5: Herald's Vengeance</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gbp"><em>Pathfinder Legends—Mummy's Mask #2: Empty Graves</em></a></li></ul>
<p>Now, what is that book coming out in November? You know, the big one? The big awesome one that's filled with stat blocks? We've kicked off a <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li5o">community-based series of previews</a> (and a contest where you could win yourself a copy!) for the latest Pathfinder Roleplaying Game hardcover, <a href = "/products/btpy9g9x"><em>Bestiary 5</em></a>. This fifth volume of monsters for the Pathfinder RPG delivers a series of dark and weird creatures, whimsical allies, and so much more. Keep an eye on the <a href = "/paizo/blog">Paizo blog</a> and the <a href = "/bestiary5">Bestiary 5 Battle Royale</a> for more news!</p>
<div class = "blurbCenter"><a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9548-Opener.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9548-Opener_500.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Ertaç Altınöz (Pathfinder Module: Feast of Dust)</i></div>
<p>While we don't have an Adventure Path volume releasing in November, we do see the return of Pathfinder Modules with the latest stand-alone adventure <a href = "/products/btpy9grq"><em>Feast of Dust</em></a>. Get to the bottom of the deadly curse that's been driving the city of Dimayen mad and stop the Jackal Prince before the entire world falls victim to his whims!</p>
<p>Here's a complete look at what is releasing in November:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9g9x"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 5</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hdt"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Realms</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hdy"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Weapon Master's Handbook</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9grq"><em>Pathfinder Module: Feast of Dust</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gru"><em>Pathfinder Pawns: Summon Monster Pawn Collection</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9ghn"><em>Pathfinder Map Pack: Slum Quarter Alleys</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hgy"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-10: The Consortium Connection</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hgy"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-11: Ancient's Anguish</em></a></li></ul>
<h2>Spring 2016 Announcements</h2>
<p>In our <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lhzk">last roundup blog</a> we covered the announcement of our next Pathfinder Adventure Path, <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsVengeance"><em>Hell's Vengeance</em></a>, the next Pathfinder Comics series <a href = "/store/byCompany/d/dynamiteEntertainment/pathfinderComics/hollowMountain">Hollow Mountain</a>, and more. Let's take a look a bit further into the future into the next season of Pathfinder releases:</p>
<p>The March 2016 lineup includes:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9h32"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #104: Wrath of Thrune</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h30"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Faiths</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h2z"><em>Pathfinder Pawns: Hell's Rebels Adventure Path Pawn Collection</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h33"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Twisted Caverns</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gbx"><em>Pathfinder Legends—Mummy's Mask #6</em></a></li></ul>
<p>The April 2016 lineup includes:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9hj7"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Intrigue</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hj9"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #105: The Inferno Gate</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gdq"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Class Deck: Inquisitor</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hj8"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Heaven Unleashed</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hja"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Armor Master's Handbook</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hjc"><em>Pathfinder Module: Ire of the Storm</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e45"><em>Pathfinder Tales: Hellknight</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hjb"><em>Pathfinder Map Pack: Road System</em></a></li></ul>
<p>As always, the release dates are subject to change, but you can see the most up-to-date information on the <a href = "/paizo/about/schedule">Product Schedule page</a>, or on each individual product page.</p>
<p>See ya next month!</p>
<p>Chris Lambertz<br />
<i>Community & Digital Content Director</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Player Companion, Pathfinder Modules, Ertaç Altınöz, Suzanne Helmigh —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/ertaAltNZ">Ertaç Altınöz</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderCampaignSetting">Pathfinder Campaign Setting</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderPlayerCompanion">Pathfinder Player Companion</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderRoleplayingGame">Pathfinder Roleplaying Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/suzanneHelmigh">Suzanne Helmigh</a></p><blockquote>
<h1 itemprop="headline">Salutations, Spring!</h1>
<p class="date">Thursday, October 29, 2015</p>
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<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9286-LegendarySpirit.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9286-LegendarySpirit_180.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Suzanne Helmigh<br />Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Realms</i></div>
<p itemprop="description">As "predicted" in our last product update blog, fall has arrived! In fact, as I'm typing this, I'm wearing my first oversized sweater of the season and looking at decidedly orange leaves against the grey and rain filled sky. This is certainly setting the mood for an excellent Halloween night this Saturday, and what better to set the scene than going over some the tricks and treats we've released and have to look forward to in the coming months?</p>
<p>We've reached the mid-way point of the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels Adventure Path</a> with the release of <a href = "/products/btpy9grk"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #99: Dance of the Damned</em></a>. How's your group dealing with the tenacity of resident tyrant, Barzillai Thrune? I hope they're ready, because they've got a lot of work to do to get ready for <a href = "/products/btpy9grm"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #100: A Song of Silver</em></a>. The next volume of the Hell's Rebels is a mega-sized volume, filled with articles that all fans of the Pathfinder Adventure Path line will want to have in their collection. We'll have more previews available as we get closer to AP #100's release in December.</p>
<p>Ever wondered what lies beyond the border Golarion's Inner Sea region? <a href = "/products/btpy9gro"><em>Distant Shores</em></a> takes you there! Or may you're a character that prefers to lay low or the company of the unseen world? This month we had a double Pathfinder Player Companion release with <a href = "/products/btpy9h7x"><em>Black Markets</em></a> and <a href = "/products/btpy9grw"><em>Occult Origins</em></a>.</p>
<p>The current <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a> Adventure Path, <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame/wrathOfTheRighteous"><em>Wrath of the Righteous</em></a> cames to a close with the release of the epic conclusion: <a href = ""><em>Adventure Deck 6: City of Locusts</em></a>. Fans of the Adventure Card Game will be excited to know we've also announced plans for the <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li5d">Season of the Runelords</a>, which begins in early 2016.</p>
<p>Do you need monsters and frights? This month we rummaged up some ideas for you to add in some creepy elements to your games in a series on the Paizo blog (<a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li4e">Part 1</a>, <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li5f">Part 2</a>, and <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li6a">Part 3</a>. We also launched a brand new feature in the <a href = "/prd">Pathfinder Reference Document</a> to sort Bestiary entries so you can <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li4k">find just the <i>perfect</i> set of teeth to drop into your campaign</a>, and rounded <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li2m">all the free resources</a> you can find on paizo.com to enhance your game or plan your next character.</p>
<p>Here's a complete look at what released in October:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9grk"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #99: Dance of the Damned</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyi"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Deck 6: City of Locusts</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gro"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Distant Shores</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h7x"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Black Markets</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9grw"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Occult Origins</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h0v"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game GM Screen—Alternate Cover 2</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9ghl"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Slum Quarter</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gsc"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Dungeon</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gsd"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Town Square</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gwx"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-09: The Blakros Connection</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gww"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-08: To Judge a Soul, Part 2: Karma Reclaimed</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h4t"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Guild Adventure 1-5: Herald's Vengeance</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gbp"><em>Pathfinder Legends—Mummy's Mask #2: Empty Graves</em></a></li></ul>
<p>Now, what is that book coming out in November? You know, the big one? The big awesome one that's filled with stat blocks? We've kicked off a <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5li5o">community-based series of previews</a> (and a contest where you could win yourself a copy!) for the latest Pathfinder Roleplaying Game hardcover, <a href = "/products/btpy9g9x"><em>Bestiary 5</em></a>. This fifth volume of monsters for the Pathfinder RPG delivers a series of dark and weird creatures, whimsical allies, and so much more. Keep an eye on the <a href = "/paizo/blog">Paizo blog</a> and the <a href = "/bestiary5">Bestiary 5 Battle Royale</a> for more news!</p>
<div class = "blurbCenter"><a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9548-Opener.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9548-Opener_500.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Ertaç Altınöz (Pathfinder Module: Feast of Dust)</i></div>
<p>While we don't have an Adventure Path volume releasing in November, we do see the return of Pathfinder Modules with the latest stand-alone adventure <a href = "/products/btpy9grq"><em>Feast of Dust</em></a>. Get to the bottom of the deadly curse that's been driving the city of Dimayen mad and stop the Jackal Prince before the entire world falls victim to his whims!</p>
<p>Here's a complete look at what is releasing in November:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9g9x"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 5</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hdt"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Realms</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hdy"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Weapon Master's Handbook</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9grq"><em>Pathfinder Module: Feast of Dust</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gru"><em>Pathfinder Pawns: Summon Monster Pawn Collection</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9ghn"><em>Pathfinder Map Pack: Slum Quarter Alleys</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hgy"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-10: The Consortium Connection</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hgy"><em>Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-11: Ancient's Anguish</em></a></li></ul>
<h2>Spring 2016 Announcements</h2>
<p>In our <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lhzk">last roundup blog</a> we covered the announcement of our next Pathfinder Adventure Path, <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsVengeance"><em>Hell's Vengeance</em></a>, the next Pathfinder Comics series <a href = "/store/byCompany/d/dynamiteEntertainment/pathfinderComics/hollowMountain">Hollow Mountain</a>, and more. Let's take a look a bit further into the future into the next season of Pathfinder releases:</p>
<p>The March 2016 lineup includes:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9h32"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #104: Wrath of Thrune</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h30"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Faiths</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h2z"><em>Pathfinder Pawns: Hell's Rebels Adventure Path Pawn Collection</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9h33"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Twisted Caverns</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gbx"><em>Pathfinder Legends—Mummy's Mask #6</em></a></li></ul>
<p>The April 2016 lineup includes:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9hj7"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Intrigue</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hj9"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #105: The Inferno Gate</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gdq"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Class Deck: Inquisitor</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hj8"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Heaven Unleashed</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hja"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Armor Master's Handbook</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hjc"><em>Pathfinder Module: Ire of the Storm</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e45"><em>Pathfinder Tales: Hellknight</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9hjb"><em>Pathfinder Map Pack: Road System</em></a></li></ul>
<p>As always, the release dates are subject to change, but you can see the most up-to-date information on the <a href = "/paizo/about/schedule">Product Schedule page</a>, or on each individual product page.</p>
<p>See ya next month!</p>
<p>Chris Lambertz<br />
<i>Community & Digital Content Director</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Player Companion, Pathfinder Modules, Ertaç Altınöz, Suzanne Helmigh —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/ertaAltNZ">Ertaç Altınöz</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderCampaignSetting">Pathfinder Campaign Setting</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderPlayerCompanion">Pathfinder Player Companion</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderRoleplayingGame">Pathfinder Roleplaying Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/suzanneHelmigh">Suzanne Helmigh</a></p>2015-10-29T20:00:00ZSpooky Scary Pathfinder Gameshttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5li6a?Spooky-Scary-Pathfinder-Games2015-10-28T22:30:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Spooky Scary Pathfinder Games</h1>
<p class="date">Wednesday, October 28, 2015</p>
<div itemprop="articleBody">
<p itemprop="description">It's that time again, ghouls and boils! Howl-oween is almost here—the fearly celebration of everything creepy and scary, and on a Saturday no less! If you're lurking for a good time, it's the perfect excuse to run a creepy game for all your fiends! But what's that? You haven't made arrangements before now? What a ghastly mistake! Luckily, your friend Paizo grave-elopers have assembled a list of the top ten creepiest Pathfinder products you can pull out for a scary night of rolling bones. You can buy the physical product, or pick up the PDF on short notice and get your spooky books instantly, anywhere ghost to ghost!</p>
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<p><b>10. <a href = "/products/btpy94vv">Pathfinder Adventure Path: Empty Graves</a></b>: You say you want a zombie apocalypse in Pathfinder, with plenty of strange monsters being stirred into a tizzy over the undead uprising, and it all runs on a timer? <em>Empty Graves</em> is a level 4-6 urban sandbox that focuses on surviving the undead onslaught and eventually ending the necromancer stirring them up!</p>
<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy95zo"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9269_180.jpeg"></a></div>
<p><b>9. <a href = "/products/btpy9cri">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Tombs of Golarion</a></b>: if a pre-built adventure isn't your style, <em>Tombs of Golarion</em> offers 6 seeds and maps for dungeon crawls among the restless dead, covering everything from a murky Horse Lord cairn to a clockwork tomb.</p>
<p><b>8. <a href = "/products/btpy8mw2">Pathfinder Module: Feast of Ravenmoor</a></b>: If you want less dead and more lively threats, <em>Feast of Ravenmoor</em> is a 3rd-level adventure that pits your innocent travellers against an all-too-human cult in a sleepy little hamlet. Equal parts Sleepy Hollow and Children of the Corn, Ravenmoor is a small town getaway your adventurers won't be recommending to their friends.</p>
<p><b>7. <a href = "/products/btpy991t">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Undead Unleashed</a></b>: If your campaign can't afford a long diversion for a full module, the <em>Undead Unleashed</em> brings 15 rotting antagonists to meddle in your adventurers' affairs for a single encounter or an extended stay, ranging from CR 3 to 23!</p>
<p><b>6. <a href = "/products/btpy95zo">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Mysteries</a></b>: If you need to bring in a touch of the strange far more than you need a monster-of-the-week, <em>Occult Mysteries</em> is a toolbox that caters to every flavor of weird that hides in the corners of Golarion. From astrology to numerology to the secret societies and veiled masters who control the destiny of humankind, Occult Mysteries offers guidance in adding just enough of the weird to your game to keep your players uncomfortable.</p>
<p><b>5. <a href = "/products/btpy8j5u">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Rule of Fear</a></b>: Horror requires a certain sense of helplessness and hopelessness, and nowhere in Golarion do these elements flourish quite so well as Ustalav. Rule of Fear offers a detailed overview of a nation that exists to support its monsters, human and supernatural alike, and where mortal heroes are the ones who are hunted as beasts.</p>
<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/pathfinder/adventurePath/carrionCrown"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9043_180.jpeg"></a></div>
<p><b>4. <a href = "/products/btpy8baj">Pathfinder Module: Carrion Hill</a></b>: If insanity, lost lore, and buried secrets appeal to your players, they'll find a place to settle in somewhere in the winding, muddy streets of Carrion Hill. This adventure for 5th-level characters takes players from the halls of government to asylum cells to forgotten ruins all in search of secrets buried in the cursed city's founding.</p>
<p><b>3. <a href = "/products/btpy8l3g">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Undead Revisited</a></b>: To run a creepy-crawly effectively, you need to get inside its head and know how they tick. Ghosts don't simply leap out and yell "boo!" in our complicated modern world. Learn the tricks of the undead trade in <em>Undead Revisited</em>, and be prepared for any spooky game this Halloween, whether of our making or your own.</p>
<p><b>2. <a href = "/products/btpy8ban">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Classic Horrors Revisited</a></b>: Certainly monsters are scary, but why are they scary and how can you make them scarier? <em>Classic Horrors Revisited</em> looks at some of the most iconic monsters in pop culture, from mummies to flesh golems to werewolves and delves into why they exist and what makes them hunt commoners for sport! It provides plenty of inspiration whether you're running your own game or trying to make a pre-made adventure a little more terrifying.</p>
<p><b>1. <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/carrionCrown">Pathfinder Adventure Path: Carrion Crown</a></b>: The entire run of Carrion Crown delves into the most timeless horror monsters in the western world, and runs from 1st-level through 15th! Whether you want a haunted prison, Frankenstein's monster, or Lovecraftian horror, the six volumes of Carrion Crown cover your needs, and each volume comes packed with new horror-themed monsters and articles to kick up your poky game!</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Crystal Frasier<br />
<i>Assistant Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Halloween, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Campaign Setting —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/paizo/halloween">Halloween</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderCampaignSetting">Pathfinder Campaign Setting</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Spooky Scary Pathfinder Games</h1>
<p class="date">Wednesday, October 28, 2015</p>
<div itemprop="articleBody">
<p itemprop="description">It's that time again, ghouls and boils! Howl-oween is almost here—the fearly celebration of everything creepy and scary, and on a Saturday no less! If you're lurking for a good time, it's the perfect excuse to run a creepy game for all your fiends! But what's that? You haven't made arrangements before now? What a ghastly mistake! Luckily, your friend Paizo grave-elopers have assembled a list of the top ten creepiest Pathfinder products you can pull out for a scary night of rolling bones. You can buy the physical product, or pick up the PDF on short notice and get your spooky books instantly, anywhere ghost to ghost!</p>
<blockquote>
<p><b>10. <a href = "/products/btpy94vv">Pathfinder Adventure Path: Empty Graves</a></b>: You say you want a zombie apocalypse in Pathfinder, with plenty of strange monsters being stirred into a tizzy over the undead uprising, and it all runs on a timer? <em>Empty Graves</em> is a level 4-6 urban sandbox that focuses on surviving the undead onslaught and eventually ending the necromancer stirring them up!</p>
<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy95zo"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9269_180.jpeg"></a></div>
<p><b>9. <a href = "/products/btpy9cri">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Tombs of Golarion</a></b>: if a pre-built adventure isn't your style, <em>Tombs of Golarion</em> offers 6 seeds and maps for dungeon crawls among the restless dead, covering everything from a murky Horse Lord cairn to a clockwork tomb.</p>
<p><b>8. <a href = "/products/btpy8mw2">Pathfinder Module: Feast of Ravenmoor</a></b>: If you want less dead and more lively threats, <em>Feast of Ravenmoor</em> is a 3rd-level adventure that pits your innocent travellers against an all-too-human cult in a sleepy little hamlet. Equal parts Sleepy Hollow and Children of the Corn, Ravenmoor is a small town getaway your adventurers won't be recommending to their friends.</p>
<p><b>7. <a href = "/products/btpy991t">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Undead Unleashed</a></b>: If your campaign can't afford a long diversion for a full module, the <em>Undead Unleashed</em> brings 15 rotting antagonists to meddle in your adventurers' affairs for a single encounter or an extended stay, ranging from CR 3 to 23!</p>
<p><b>6. <a href = "/products/btpy95zo">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Mysteries</a></b>: If you need to bring in a touch of the strange far more than you need a monster-of-the-week, <em>Occult Mysteries</em> is a toolbox that caters to every flavor of weird that hides in the corners of Golarion. From astrology to numerology to the secret societies and veiled masters who control the destiny of humankind, Occult Mysteries offers guidance in adding just enough of the weird to your game to keep your players uncomfortable.</p>
<p><b>5. <a href = "/products/btpy8j5u">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Rule of Fear</a></b>: Horror requires a certain sense of helplessness and hopelessness, and nowhere in Golarion do these elements flourish quite so well as Ustalav. Rule of Fear offers a detailed overview of a nation that exists to support its monsters, human and supernatural alike, and where mortal heroes are the ones who are hunted as beasts.</p>
<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/pathfinder/adventurePath/carrionCrown"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9043_180.jpeg"></a></div>
<p><b>4. <a href = "/products/btpy8baj">Pathfinder Module: Carrion Hill</a></b>: If insanity, lost lore, and buried secrets appeal to your players, they'll find a place to settle in somewhere in the winding, muddy streets of Carrion Hill. This adventure for 5th-level characters takes players from the halls of government to asylum cells to forgotten ruins all in search of secrets buried in the cursed city's founding.</p>
<p><b>3. <a href = "/products/btpy8l3g">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Undead Revisited</a></b>: To run a creepy-crawly effectively, you need to get inside its head and know how they tick. Ghosts don't simply leap out and yell "boo!" in our complicated modern world. Learn the tricks of the undead trade in <em>Undead Revisited</em>, and be prepared for any spooky game this Halloween, whether of our making or your own.</p>
<p><b>2. <a href = "/products/btpy8ban">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Classic Horrors Revisited</a></b>: Certainly monsters are scary, but why are they scary and how can you make them scarier? <em>Classic Horrors Revisited</em> looks at some of the most iconic monsters in pop culture, from mummies to flesh golems to werewolves and delves into why they exist and what makes them hunt commoners for sport! It provides plenty of inspiration whether you're running your own game or trying to make a pre-made adventure a little more terrifying.</p>
<p><b>1. <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/carrionCrown">Pathfinder Adventure Path: Carrion Crown</a></b>: The entire run of Carrion Crown delves into the most timeless horror monsters in the western world, and runs from 1st-level through 15th! Whether you want a haunted prison, Frankenstein's monster, or Lovecraftian horror, the six volumes of Carrion Crown cover your needs, and each volume comes packed with new horror-themed monsters and articles to kick up your poky game!</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Crystal Frasier<br />
<i>Assistant Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Halloween, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Campaign Setting —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/paizo/halloween">Halloween</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderCampaignSetting">Pathfinder Campaign Setting</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a></p>2015-10-28T22:30:00ZThere's Adventure in the Air—September and Winter 2016 Releaseshttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lhzk?Theres-Adventure-in-the-Air-September-and2015-09-09T22:00:00Z<blockquote>
<h1 itemprop="headline">There's Adventure in the Air—September and Winter 2016 Releases</h1>
<p class="date">Wednesday, September 9, 2015</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Today the skies are shining overhead in Redmond, where in the Paizo office we've been recovering from a busy and exciting convention season. But we all know and feel the loom of pumpkin spice, sweaters, and clouds that's ahead from our respective desks. And if your group is anything like mine, the end of September marks the start of regular game nights. And what better to kick off this glorious season by revisiting the Pathfinder related releases headed your way?</p>
<div class = "blurbCenter"><a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9280-20150909.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9280-20150909_500.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Romanov Pavel</i></div>
<p>This month we're releasing our third Pathfinder Campaign Setting hardcover (under the Pathfinder RPG ruleset), <a href = "/products/btpy9g9v"><em>Inner Sea Races</em></a>. This 256-page volume delves into the history, culture, and powers of the the denizens of the Inner Sea, including in-depth coverage of the seven core races, and features of the uncommon races like goblins and tengu. You'll also find an array of new feats, spells, character traits and more to add flavor to your own character or home game. Our Project Manager, Jessica Price, <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lhxt">has just kicked off our series of previews</a> into the pages of <em>Inner Sea Races</em>, so look out for more information and art previews in the coming weeks!</p>
<div class="blurbCenter"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9097-WallpaperWide_500.jpeg"><br />
<a href = "http://static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9097-Wallpaper.jpg">Download Standard</a> | <a href = "http://static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9097-WallpaperWide.jpg">Download Widescreen</a> | <a href = "http://static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9097-WallpaperMobile.jpg">Download Mobile</a></div>
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9098-Lictor.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9098-Lictor_180.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Ekaterina Burmak</i></div>
<p>But what about the folks that just kicked off their own <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels</a> adventure? The second volume, <a href = "/products/btpy9gcx"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #98: Turn of the Torrent</em></a>, takes your rebel band of do-good "miscreants" through the paces as they gather allies and establish their might with the Silver Ravens. Evil is running through the streets of Kintargo, and I won't spoil it for you, but your group should <i>probably</i> get on that. For reasons. Your Hell's Rebels character might want to take some notes from this month's Player Companion, <a href = "/products/btpy9ghc"><em>Heroes of the Streets</em></a> for inspiration as well!</p>
<p>Maybe your group is more into throwing down some cards? The fifth installment of the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame/wrathOfTheRighteous"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Wrath of the Righteous</em></a> is coming out, and it's got demons. A <i>whole lot</i> of them. But what if you don't have a group? You might want to look into the <a href = "/pfsacg">Pathfinder Adventure Card Guild</a>, where you could bring our favorite monk, Sajan from the new <a href = "/products/btpy9dap"><em>Monk Class Deck</em></a>, to the table in fist-to-claw-claw-bite demon combat.</p>
<p>We also brought back the long-awaited <a href = "/products/btpy9fkg"><em>Pathfinder Combat Pad</em></a>! Now armed with more magnets, this latest printing helps keep tracking initiatives in your game just that much easier. And if this isn't the only reprint you've been holding out for, we're happy to announce the next two installments of our Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics line, <a href = "/products/btpy9e20"><em>City Streets</em></a> and <a href = "/products/btpy9e22"><em>Prison</em></a>, are now available.</p>
<p>Here's a complete look at what's releasing this September:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9gcx"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #98: Turn of the Torrent</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dao"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Deck 5: Herald of the Ivory Labyrinth</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dap"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Class Deck: Monk</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9g9v"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Races</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9ghc"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes of the Streets</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9fkg"><em>Pathfinder Combat Pad</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e20"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: City Streets</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e22"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Prison</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9etb"><em>Pathfinder Map Pack: Forest Dangers</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9etd"><em>Pathfinder Pawns: Giantslayer Adventure Path Pawn Collection</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gbn"><em>Pathfinder Legends–Mummy's Mask #1: The Half Dead City</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e42"><em>Pathfinder Tales: Beyond the Pool of Stars</em></a></li></ul>
<h2>November 2015 and Beyond!</h2>
<p>In addition to our announcements made in the <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lhq2">last roundup blog</a>, which included the announcement of Pathfinder Adventure Path #100, today we're adding the latest Pathfinder Comics series: <a href = "/store/byCompany/d/dynamiteEntertainment/pathfinderComics/hollowMountain Pathfinder—Hollow Mountain">Hollow Mountain</a>! The first volume is authored by our very own Executive Editor, James L. Sutter, where our heroes find themselves in a position where they just may have to try to get along with some the most notorious villains out there.</p>
<p>It might seem like 2016 is the very distant future, but not here! As we approach the new year, our <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels Adventure Path</a> concludes and the counter <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsVengeance">Hell's Vengeance Adventure Path</a> will begin. Fans and followers of <a href = "/rpgsuperstar">RPG Superstar</a> will also see the release of our 2015 winner Monica Marlowe's module <a href = "/products/btpy9d66"><em>Down the Blighted Path</em></a> in January as well (and I suggest you check out the hopeful module writers in the current competition going on now!).</p>
<p>The January 2016 lineup includes:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy98te"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #102: Breaking the Bones of Hell (Hell's Rebels 6 of 6)</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9fqi"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Class Deck: Alchemist</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9fqj"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Hell's Rebels Poster Map Folio</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9fqk"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Arcane Anthology</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9d66"><em>Pathfinder Module: Down the Blighted Path</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9fql"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Noble Estate</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e44"><em>Pathfinder Tales: Pirate's Prophecy</em></a></li></ul>
<p>The February 2016 lineup includes:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9gds"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #103: The Hellfire Compact (Hell's Vengeance 1 of 6)</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gdq"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Class Deck: Inquisitor</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gdr"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Darklands Revisited</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gdt"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Blood of Shadows</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gdu"><em>Pathfinder Map Pack: Urban Sites</em></a></li></ul>
<p>As always, the release dates are subject to change, but you can see the most up-to-date information on the <a href="https://paizo.com/paizo/about/schedule">Product Schedule page</a>, or on each individual product page.</p>
<p>Chris Lambertz<br />
<i>Community & Digital Content Director</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Romanov Pavel, Ekaterina Burmak, Shamans, Iconics, Shardra, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Pathfinder Player Companion, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, Pathfinder Comics, Licensed Products —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/ekaterinaBurmak">Ekaterina Burmak</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/iconics">Iconics</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/licensedProducts">Licensed Products</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAccessories">Pathfinder Accessories</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderCampaignSetting">Pathfinder Campaign Setting</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderComics">Pathfinder Comics</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderLicensedProducts">Pathfinder Licensed Products</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderMaps">Pathfinder Maps</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderPlayerCompanion">Pathfinder Player Companion</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/romanovPavel">Romanov Pavel</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/shamans">Shamans</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/shardra">Shardra</a></p><blockquote>
<h1 itemprop="headline">There's Adventure in the Air—September and Winter 2016 Releases</h1>
<p class="date">Wednesday, September 9, 2015</p>
<div itemprop="articlebody">
<p itemprop="description">Today the skies are shining overhead in Redmond, where in the Paizo office we've been recovering from a busy and exciting convention season. But we all know and feel the loom of pumpkin spice, sweaters, and clouds that's ahead from our respective desks. And if your group is anything like mine, the end of September marks the start of regular game nights. And what better to kick off this glorious season by revisiting the Pathfinder related releases headed your way?</p>
<div class = "blurbCenter"><a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9280-20150909.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9280-20150909_500.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Romanov Pavel</i></div>
<p>This month we're releasing our third Pathfinder Campaign Setting hardcover (under the Pathfinder RPG ruleset), <a href = "/products/btpy9g9v"><em>Inner Sea Races</em></a>. This 256-page volume delves into the history, culture, and powers of the the denizens of the Inner Sea, including in-depth coverage of the seven core races, and features of the uncommon races like goblins and tengu. You'll also find an array of new feats, spells, character traits and more to add flavor to your own character or home game. Our Project Manager, Jessica Price, <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lhxt">has just kicked off our series of previews</a> into the pages of <em>Inner Sea Races</em>, so look out for more information and art previews in the coming weeks!</p>
<div class="blurbCenter"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9097-WallpaperWide_500.jpeg"><br />
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<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9098-Lictor.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9098-Lictor_180.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Ekaterina Burmak</i></div>
<p>But what about the folks that just kicked off their own <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels</a> adventure? The second volume, <a href = "/products/btpy9gcx"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #98: Turn of the Torrent</em></a>, takes your rebel band of do-good "miscreants" through the paces as they gather allies and establish their might with the Silver Ravens. Evil is running through the streets of Kintargo, and I won't spoil it for you, but your group should <i>probably</i> get on that. For reasons. Your Hell's Rebels character might want to take some notes from this month's Player Companion, <a href = "/products/btpy9ghc"><em>Heroes of the Streets</em></a> for inspiration as well!</p>
<p>Maybe your group is more into throwing down some cards? The fifth installment of the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame/wrathOfTheRighteous"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Wrath of the Righteous</em></a> is coming out, and it's got demons. A <i>whole lot</i> of them. But what if you don't have a group? You might want to look into the <a href = "/pfsacg">Pathfinder Adventure Card Guild</a>, where you could bring our favorite monk, Sajan from the new <a href = "/products/btpy9dap"><em>Monk Class Deck</em></a>, to the table in fist-to-claw-claw-bite demon combat.</p>
<p>We also brought back the long-awaited <a href = "/products/btpy9fkg"><em>Pathfinder Combat Pad</em></a>! Now armed with more magnets, this latest printing helps keep tracking initiatives in your game just that much easier. And if this isn't the only reprint you've been holding out for, we're happy to announce the next two installments of our Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics line, <a href = "/products/btpy9e20"><em>City Streets</em></a> and <a href = "/products/btpy9e22"><em>Prison</em></a>, are now available.</p>
<p>Here's a complete look at what's releasing this September:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9gcx"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #98: Turn of the Torrent</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dao"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Deck 5: Herald of the Ivory Labyrinth</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dap"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Class Deck: Monk</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9g9v"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Races</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9ghc"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes of the Streets</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9fkg"><em>Pathfinder Combat Pad</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e20"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: City Streets</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e22"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Prison</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9etb"><em>Pathfinder Map Pack: Forest Dangers</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9etd"><em>Pathfinder Pawns: Giantslayer Adventure Path Pawn Collection</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gbn"><em>Pathfinder Legends–Mummy's Mask #1: The Half Dead City</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e42"><em>Pathfinder Tales: Beyond the Pool of Stars</em></a></li></ul>
<h2>November 2015 and Beyond!</h2>
<p>In addition to our announcements made in the <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lhq2">last roundup blog</a>, which included the announcement of Pathfinder Adventure Path #100, today we're adding the latest Pathfinder Comics series: <a href = "/store/byCompany/d/dynamiteEntertainment/pathfinderComics/hollowMountain Pathfinder—Hollow Mountain">Hollow Mountain</a>! The first volume is authored by our very own Executive Editor, James L. Sutter, where our heroes find themselves in a position where they just may have to try to get along with some the most notorious villains out there.</p>
<p>It might seem like 2016 is the very distant future, but not here! As we approach the new year, our <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels Adventure Path</a> concludes and the counter <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsVengeance">Hell's Vengeance Adventure Path</a> will begin. Fans and followers of <a href = "/rpgsuperstar">RPG Superstar</a> will also see the release of our 2015 winner Monica Marlowe's module <a href = "/products/btpy9d66"><em>Down the Blighted Path</em></a> in January as well (and I suggest you check out the hopeful module writers in the current competition going on now!).</p>
<p>The January 2016 lineup includes:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy98te"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #102: Breaking the Bones of Hell (Hell's Rebels 6 of 6)</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9fqi"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Class Deck: Alchemist</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9fqj"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Hell's Rebels Poster Map Folio</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9fqk"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Arcane Anthology</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9d66"><em>Pathfinder Module: Down the Blighted Path</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9fql"><em>Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Noble Estate</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e44"><em>Pathfinder Tales: Pirate's Prophecy</em></a></li></ul>
<p>The February 2016 lineup includes:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9gds"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #103: The Hellfire Compact (Hell's Vengeance 1 of 6)</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gdq"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Class Deck: Inquisitor</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gdr"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Darklands Revisited</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gdt"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Blood of Shadows</em></a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9gdu"><em>Pathfinder Map Pack: Urban Sites</em></a></li></ul>
<p>As always, the release dates are subject to change, but you can see the most up-to-date information on the <a href="https://paizo.com/paizo/about/schedule">Product Schedule page</a>, or on each individual product page.</p>
<p>Chris Lambertz<br />
<i>Community & Digital Content Director</i></p>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">I Demand More Dragons!</h1>
<p class="date">Sunday, July 5, 2015</p>
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<p itemprop="description">Pathfinder's beloved adventure <a href = "/products/btpy8yvy"><em>The Dragon's Demand</em></a> just got a whole lot better! After months of hard work and the contributions of a host of Syrinscape and Pathfinder fans, the long-awaited SoundPack for this well known adventure has arrived.</p>
<p>Packed full with delicious and slightly frightening goodies, <a href = "/products/btpy9f04">"The Dragon's Demand" SoundPack</a> includes a complete Kobold Lair, an awesomely gross "Mouther" monster, shrieking grioths, firebombing Flame Drakes, and an epically massive and quite angry Green Dragon with an eye-wateringly singeing acid breath weapon with which to terrorise your players.</p>
<p>
Check out the video demo of the awesome SoundPack!</p>
<iframe style = "width: 560px; height: 315px; display: block; margin: 0 auto;" src = "https://www.youtube.com/embed/9-E745w1XlA" frameborder = "0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Then grab all the sounds <a href = "/products/btpy9f04">here</a>, along with the rest of Syrinscape's products in the <a href = "/companies/syrinscape">Paizo store</a>!</p>
<p>What else is news?! Well, we are super excited to be able to announce that <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels</a> is the next Adventure Path to receive the Syrinscape treatment! Just imagine what sounds will be coming out of your speakers when you play this one—Cheliax here we come! Look out for the first chapter of Syrinscape's <em>Hell's Rebels</em> SoundPacks coming out simultaneously with the August release of "<a href = "/products/btpy98t9">In Hell's Bright Shadow</a>."</p>
<p>And finally watch out for Ben at <a href = "http://gencon.com" target = "_blank">GenCon</a>! Drop by the stand to pick up this year's free goodies and contribute your voice to the "GenCon Monster Raid" SoundSet or once again enjoy the epic accompaniment Syrinscape adds to the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society Specials</a>. And make sure you don't miss Ben as he GMs this year's <a href = "https://www.gencon.com/events/72585" target = "_blank">Live RPG Plus</a>, a truly interactive roleplaying experience where the audience determines the fate of our all-star cast, including such legends as <a href = "/companies/greenRoninPublishing">Chris Pramas</a>, Adrian Swartout, and Paizo's very own James Jacobs. This event is not to be missed—the last time we ran a Live RPG Plus we ended up with a Green/White/Fire/Ice Dragon held by the tail being used as a weapon by the slightly overenthusiastic Ranger, a ranger who determined all his actions using Rock-Paper-Scissors. <a href = "https://www.gencon.com/events/72585" target = "_blank">Get your tickets now</a>!</p>
<p>And remember listen out for the fantastic Pathfinder fans who gave their vocal talents to <a href = "/products/btpy9f04">"The Dragon's Demand" SoundPack</a> at both <a href = "/paizocon">PaizoCon</a> and UK Games Expo this year. You can find their names in lights under the product credits in the store. Syrinscape thanks you and praises you for your spectacularly and slightly disturbing contributions!</p>
<p>Benjamin Loomes (half-elf bard/paladin)<br />
<i>Creative Director<br />
Syrinscape</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Syrinscape, Licensed Products, Music, Pathfinder Modules —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/licensedProducts">Licensed Products</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/music">Music</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/syrinscape">Syrinscape</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">I Demand More Dragons!</h1>
<p class="date">Sunday, July 5, 2015</p>
<div itemprop="articleBody">
<p itemprop="description">Pathfinder's beloved adventure <a href = "/products/btpy8yvy"><em>The Dragon's Demand</em></a> just got a whole lot better! After months of hard work and the contributions of a host of Syrinscape and Pathfinder fans, the long-awaited SoundPack for this well known adventure has arrived.</p>
<p>Packed full with delicious and slightly frightening goodies, <a href = "/products/btpy9f04">"The Dragon's Demand" SoundPack</a> includes a complete Kobold Lair, an awesomely gross "Mouther" monster, shrieking grioths, firebombing Flame Drakes, and an epically massive and quite angry Green Dragon with an eye-wateringly singeing acid breath weapon with which to terrorise your players.</p>
<p>
Check out the video demo of the awesome SoundPack!</p>
<iframe style = "width: 560px; height: 315px; display: block; margin: 0 auto;" src = "https://www.youtube.com/embed/9-E745w1XlA" frameborder = "0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Then grab all the sounds <a href = "/products/btpy9f04">here</a>, along with the rest of Syrinscape's products in the <a href = "/companies/syrinscape">Paizo store</a>!</p>
<p>What else is news?! Well, we are super excited to be able to announce that <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels</a> is the next Adventure Path to receive the Syrinscape treatment! Just imagine what sounds will be coming out of your speakers when you play this one—Cheliax here we come! Look out for the first chapter of Syrinscape's <em>Hell's Rebels</em> SoundPacks coming out simultaneously with the August release of "<a href = "/products/btpy98t9">In Hell's Bright Shadow</a>."</p>
<p>And finally watch out for Ben at <a href = "http://gencon.com" target = "_blank">GenCon</a>! Drop by the stand to pick up this year's free goodies and contribute your voice to the "GenCon Monster Raid" SoundSet or once again enjoy the epic accompaniment Syrinscape adds to the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society Specials</a>. And make sure you don't miss Ben as he GMs this year's <a href = "https://www.gencon.com/events/72585" target = "_blank">Live RPG Plus</a>, a truly interactive roleplaying experience where the audience determines the fate of our all-star cast, including such legends as <a href = "/companies/greenRoninPublishing">Chris Pramas</a>, Adrian Swartout, and Paizo's very own James Jacobs. This event is not to be missed—the last time we ran a Live RPG Plus we ended up with a Green/White/Fire/Ice Dragon held by the tail being used as a weapon by the slightly overenthusiastic Ranger, a ranger who determined all his actions using Rock-Paper-Scissors. <a href = "https://www.gencon.com/events/72585" target = "_blank">Get your tickets now</a>!</p>
<p>And remember listen out for the fantastic Pathfinder fans who gave their vocal talents to <a href = "/products/btpy9f04">"The Dragon's Demand" SoundPack</a> at both <a href = "/paizocon">PaizoCon</a> and UK Games Expo this year. You can find their names in lights under the product credits in the store. Syrinscape thanks you and praises you for your spectacularly and slightly disturbing contributions!</p>
<p>Benjamin Loomes (half-elf bard/paladin)<br />
<i>Creative Director<br />
Syrinscape</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Syrinscape, Licensed Products, Music, Pathfinder Modules —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/licensedProducts">Licensed Products</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/music">Music</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/syrinscape">Syrinscape</a></p>2015-07-05T19:00:00ZIt's a Goblin Free-For-All!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lhmt?Its-a-Goblin-FreeForAll2015-06-20T19:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">It's a Goblin Free-For-All!</h1>
<p class="date">Saturday, June 20, 2015</p>
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<p><span itemprop="description"><a href = "http://freerpgday.com" target = "_blank">Free RPG Day</a> is here! Today game stores across the world are participating in this event, bringing new and exclusive adventures to their area, and inspiring new comers and long-time gamers to new roleplaying games. This year we're contributing two new products to Free RPG Day. The first is <a href = "/products/btpy9c20"><em>Pathfinder Module: We Be Goblins Free!</em></a>, a new adventure following the antics of select characters from the Birdcruncher goblin tribe. For Adventure Card Game fans, we've got a real tricksy treat in store: <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lh57">Ekkie the Goblin Cutpurse</a>.</p>
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-9-Reta.jpg"><img src = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-9-Reta_180.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Dave Allsop</i></div>
<p>If you're running <em>We Be Goblins Free!</em> at your local store, or if you've just picked it up and want to try it out, you can <a href = "/products/btpy9c20">download the pregenerated goblin characters</a> for your players right now. This module is also sanctioned for play in the <a href = "/pathfindersociety">Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild</a>.</p>
<p>Want to marathon some goblin fun? Why not add <a href = "/products/btpy8j5w"><em>We Be Goblins!</em></a> and <a href = "/products/btpy8xc3"><em>We Be Goblins Too!</em></a> to your gaming arsenal? These adventures all follow the same four goblin adventurers: Chuffy Lickwound, Mogmurch, Poog of Zarongel, and Reta Bigbad.</p>
<p>In addition to tables of the new Pathfinder Module, participating stores will also be running demos of the current Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Base Set, <a href = "/products/btpy9a46"><em>Wrath of the Righteous</em></a>, or the new introductory scenario <a href = "/products/btpy9eev"><em>Demonic Politics</em></a>. You can also download Ekkie as a free PDF and drop her into your game right now!</p>
<p style = "text-align: center;"><a href = "/include/20150620-Ekkie.zip"><b>Download Ekkie's Character Sheet</b></a> <span class = "tiny">(116kb zip/PDF)</span></p>
<p>If you'd like to jump in right away as Ekkie, we've worked up some suggested deck lists below. You'll want to pick the 12-card deck if you're playing the short demo, and the 15-card deck if you're playing a full-length scenario. Either way, should should have the Mythic Champion mythic path card.</p>
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<tr><td>Weapon</td><td>Heavy Pick</td><td>Weapon</td><td>Heavy Pick</td></tr>
<tr><td>Weapon</td><td>Javelin</td><td>Weapon</td><td>Javelin</td></tr>
<tr><td>Armor</td><td>Hide Armor</td><td>Weapon</td><td>Mace</td></tr>
<tr><td>Item</td><td>Blood Periapt</td><td>Armor</td><td>Hide Armor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Item</td><td>Caltrop Bead</td><td>Item</td><td>Blood Periapt</td></tr>
<tr><td>Item</td><td>Nectar of the Gods</td><td>Item</td><td>Caltrop Bead</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ally</td><td>Bat</td><td>Item</td><td>Nectar of the Gods</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ally</td><td>Frog</td><td>Item</td><td>Trapsmith Gloves</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ally</td><td>Vulture</td><td>Ally</td><td>Bat</td></tr>
<tr><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td><td>Ally</td><td>Frog</td></tr>
<tr><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td><td>Ally</td><td>Vulture</td></tr>
<tr><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td></tr>
<tr><td /><td /><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td></tr>
<tr><td /><td /><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td></tr>
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<p>If you want to start a <em>Wrath of the Righteous</em> campaign and play Ekkie, build her deck by using her Cards List above after the other characters have built their starting decks. Remember that you may only use cards that have the Basic trait.</p>
<p>Won't get a chance to head out to Free RPG Day? No worries! Starting on July 1, we'll have <a href = "/products/btpy9c20"><em>We Be Goblins Free!</em></a> available as a free PDF and a $5 print product while supplies last. While Ekkie will not abvailable for sale until the first day of Gen Con, you can pick up her <a href = "/products/btpy9dwx">character mat</a> starting July 1 from paizo.com! Pathfinder Adventure Card Game subscribers will receive Ekkie in their July shipments.</p>
<p>Get out, game, and enjoy Free RPG Day!</p>
<p>Chris Lambertz<br />
<i>Community & Digital Content Director</i></p>
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</blockquote>
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<i>Illustrations by Dave Allsop and Jaime Martinez.</i></div>
<h1 itemprop="headline">It's a Goblin Free-For-All!</h1>
<p class="date">Saturday, June 20, 2015</p>
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<p><span itemprop="description"><a href = "http://freerpgday.com" target = "_blank">Free RPG Day</a> is here! Today game stores across the world are participating in this event, bringing new and exclusive adventures to their area, and inspiring new comers and long-time gamers to new roleplaying games. This year we're contributing two new products to Free RPG Day. The first is <a href = "/products/btpy9c20"><em>Pathfinder Module: We Be Goblins Free!</em></a>, a new adventure following the antics of select characters from the Birdcruncher goblin tribe. For Adventure Card Game fans, we've got a real tricksy treat in store: <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lh57">Ekkie the Goblin Cutpurse</a>.</p>
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-9-Reta.jpg"><img src = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-9-Reta_180.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Dave Allsop</i></div>
<p>If you're running <em>We Be Goblins Free!</em> at your local store, or if you've just picked it up and want to try it out, you can <a href = "/products/btpy9c20">download the pregenerated goblin characters</a> for your players right now. This module is also sanctioned for play in the <a href = "/pathfindersociety">Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild</a>.</p>
<p>Want to marathon some goblin fun? Why not add <a href = "/products/btpy8j5w"><em>We Be Goblins!</em></a> and <a href = "/products/btpy8xc3"><em>We Be Goblins Too!</em></a> to your gaming arsenal? These adventures all follow the same four goblin adventurers: Chuffy Lickwound, Mogmurch, Poog of Zarongel, and Reta Bigbad.</p>
<p>In addition to tables of the new Pathfinder Module, participating stores will also be running demos of the current Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Base Set, <a href = "/products/btpy9a46"><em>Wrath of the Righteous</em></a>, or the new introductory scenario <a href = "/products/btpy9eev"><em>Demonic Politics</em></a>. You can also download Ekkie as a free PDF and drop her into your game right now!</p>
<p style = "text-align: center;"><a href = "/include/20150620-Ekkie.zip"><b>Download Ekkie's Character Sheet</b></a> <span class = "tiny">(116kb zip/PDF)</span></p>
<p>If you'd like to jump in right away as Ekkie, we've worked up some suggested deck lists below. You'll want to pick the 12-card deck if you're playing the short demo, and the 15-card deck if you're playing a full-length scenario. Either way, should should have the Mythic Champion mythic path card.</p>
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<tr><td>Weapon</td><td>Heavy Pick</td><td>Weapon</td><td>Heavy Pick</td></tr>
<tr><td>Weapon</td><td>Javelin</td><td>Weapon</td><td>Javelin</td></tr>
<tr><td>Armor</td><td>Hide Armor</td><td>Weapon</td><td>Mace</td></tr>
<tr><td>Item</td><td>Blood Periapt</td><td>Armor</td><td>Hide Armor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Item</td><td>Caltrop Bead</td><td>Item</td><td>Blood Periapt</td></tr>
<tr><td>Item</td><td>Nectar of the Gods</td><td>Item</td><td>Caltrop Bead</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ally</td><td>Bat</td><td>Item</td><td>Nectar of the Gods</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ally</td><td>Frog</td><td>Item</td><td>Trapsmith Gloves</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ally</td><td>Vulture</td><td>Ally</td><td>Bat</td></tr>
<tr><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td><td>Ally</td><td>Frog</td></tr>
<tr><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td><td>Ally</td><td>Vulture</td></tr>
<tr><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td></tr>
<tr><td /><td /><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td></tr>
<tr><td /><td /><td>Blessing</td><td>Blessing of Ascension</td></tr>
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<p>If you want to start a <em>Wrath of the Righteous</em> campaign and play Ekkie, build her deck by using her Cards List above after the other characters have built their starting decks. Remember that you may only use cards that have the Basic trait.</p>
<p>Won't get a chance to head out to Free RPG Day? No worries! Starting on July 1, we'll have <a href = "/products/btpy9c20"><em>We Be Goblins Free!</em></a> available as a free PDF and a $5 print product while supplies last. While Ekkie will not abvailable for sale until the first day of Gen Con, you can pick up her <a href = "/products/btpy9dwx">character mat</a> starting July 1 from paizo.com! Pathfinder Adventure Card Game subscribers will receive Ekkie in their July shipments.</p>
<p>Get out, game, and enjoy Free RPG Day!</p>
<p>Chris Lambertz<br />
<i>Community & Digital Content Director</i></p>
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</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Season of the Righteous, Wrath of the Righteous, Goblins, Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Modules, Free RPG Day, Dave Allsop, Jaime Martinez —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/daveAllsop">Dave Allsop</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/freeRPGDay">Free RPG Day</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/goblins">Goblins</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/jaimeMartinez">Jaime Martinez</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/seasonOfTheRighteous">Season of the Righteous</a></p>2015-06-20T19:00:00ZWe Be Pathfinders!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lhlt?We-Be-Pathfinders2015-06-15T19:30:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">We Be Pathfinders!</h1>
<p class="date">Monday, June 15, 2015</p>
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<i>Illustration by Dave Allsop</i></div>
<p itemprop = "description">This Saturday, June 20th, is <a href = "http://www.freerpgday.com" target = "_blank">Free RPG Day</a>! Participating hobby game retail locations and industry publishers will be giving away free adventures and other materials so that gamers can try new games and play exclusive content together. This year Paizo has contributed two special products. A few months ago, Tanis O'Connor introduced us to the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game's</a> special treat: the adventurous goblin <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lh57">Ekkie</a>. Of course, many of you familiar with <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a> have likely met the little warrior while dealing with a certain goblin guild. I have no doubt she'll get up to even crazier antics now that she's a playable character.</p>
<p>We're also debuting <a href = "/products/btpy9c20"><em>We Be Goblins Free!</em></a>, a new adventure featuring the Licktoad tribe's champions Reta, Mogmurch, Chuffy, and Poog. As in past years, the new Free RPG Day module is also sanctioned for the organized play campaign, and we're releasing the sanctioning document today so that GMs have a chance to read over it and print out Chronicle sheets. If you're planning to play the adventure first, I encourage you not to peek and spoil the surprise, so I'll answer some of your anticipated questions now.</p>
<p><b>How many Prestige Points does <em>We Be Goblins Free</em> grant?</b><br />
This module does have a secondary success condition of sorts, allowing someone to gain up to 2 Prestige Points for playing the adventure. Anyone playing this on Free RPG Day this Saturday automatically qualifies for the second point.</p>
<p><b>Is it bad if my goblin pregenerated character dies?</b><br />
As was the case when I sanctioned <a href = "/products/btpy8xc3"><em>We Be Goblins Too</em></a>, it's still important that a deceased goblin's horribly squishy death be resolved, but doing so happens at a heavily subsidized rate: 5 Prestige Points completely clears up even the worst fate that you might inflict on your pregenerated character during the module.</p>
<p><b>Does the Chronicle sheet have lots of cool boons?</b><br />
The Chronicle sheet has lots of cool boons, including one for Squealy Nord and owlbear enthusiasts.</p>
<p><b>Where can I download the sanctioning document?</b><br />
On the <a href = "/products/btpy9c20">product page</a> or the right-hand side of the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety/about/additionalResources">Additional Resources page</a>.</p>
<p>John Compton<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
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</blockquote>
<!— tags: Dave Allsop, Free RPG Day, Goblins, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Society, Community —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/community">Community</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/daveAllsop">Dave Allsop</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/freeRPGDay">Free RPG Day</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/goblins">Goblins</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">We Be Pathfinders!</h1>
<p class="date">Monday, June 15, 2015</p>
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<div class = "blurb360"><a href = "//static2.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-9-Chuffy.jpg"><img src = "//static2.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9500-9-Chuffy_360.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustration by Dave Allsop</i></div>
<p itemprop = "description">This Saturday, June 20th, is <a href = "http://www.freerpgday.com" target = "_blank">Free RPG Day</a>! Participating hobby game retail locations and industry publishers will be giving away free adventures and other materials so that gamers can try new games and play exclusive content together. This year Paizo has contributed two special products. A few months ago, Tanis O'Connor introduced us to the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game's</a> special treat: the adventurous goblin <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lh57">Ekkie</a>. Of course, many of you familiar with <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a> have likely met the little warrior while dealing with a certain goblin guild. I have no doubt she'll get up to even crazier antics now that she's a playable character.</p>
<p>We're also debuting <a href = "/products/btpy9c20"><em>We Be Goblins Free!</em></a>, a new adventure featuring the Licktoad tribe's champions Reta, Mogmurch, Chuffy, and Poog. As in past years, the new Free RPG Day module is also sanctioned for the organized play campaign, and we're releasing the sanctioning document today so that GMs have a chance to read over it and print out Chronicle sheets. If you're planning to play the adventure first, I encourage you not to peek and spoil the surprise, so I'll answer some of your anticipated questions now.</p>
<p><b>How many Prestige Points does <em>We Be Goblins Free</em> grant?</b><br />
This module does have a secondary success condition of sorts, allowing someone to gain up to 2 Prestige Points for playing the adventure. Anyone playing this on Free RPG Day this Saturday automatically qualifies for the second point.</p>
<p><b>Is it bad if my goblin pregenerated character dies?</b><br />
As was the case when I sanctioned <a href = "/products/btpy8xc3"><em>We Be Goblins Too</em></a>, it's still important that a deceased goblin's horribly squishy death be resolved, but doing so happens at a heavily subsidized rate: 5 Prestige Points completely clears up even the worst fate that you might inflict on your pregenerated character during the module.</p>
<p><b>Does the Chronicle sheet have lots of cool boons?</b><br />
The Chronicle sheet has lots of cool boons, including one for Squealy Nord and owlbear enthusiasts.</p>
<p><b>Where can I download the sanctioning document?</b><br />
On the <a href = "/products/btpy9c20">product page</a> or the right-hand side of the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety/about/additionalResources">Additional Resources page</a>.</p>
<p>John Compton<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Dave Allsop, Free RPG Day, Goblins, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Society, Community —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/community">Community</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/daveAllsop">Dave Allsop</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/freeRPGDay">Free RPG Day</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/goblins">Goblins</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a></p>2015-06-15T19:30:00ZPulling Back the Veil: Fall 2015 Releases!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lhfv?Pulling-Back-the-Veil-Fall-2015-Releases2015-05-11T19:00:00Z<blockquote>
<h1 itemprop="headline">Pulling Back the Veil: Fall 2015 Releases!</h1>
<p class="date">Monday, May 11, 2015</p>
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<p itemprop="description">One of my favorite parts of my job is getting to add upcoming products to the website. Often it's the first time that I'm hearing about the latest adventure, realm to explore, or new player options, and now we're going to round up all the announcements to make sure you don't miss out on the latest additions to Pathfinder, coming to you this summer and fall!</p>
<div class="blurbCenter"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9097-KintargoSkyline.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9097-KintargoSkyline_500.jpeg" /></a><br />Welcome to Kintargo—hope you survive your stay!<br /><i>Illustration by Shen Fei</i></div>
<p>This month is going to be a triple feature, as we're going to talk about not one month's releases, but three, starting with August.</p>
<h2 style = "clear: both;">August 2015: Hell's Rebels Adventure Path begins!</h2>
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<p>With Gen Con a wee bit earlier this year than normal, we won't be starting the Adventure Path at the show, which means that the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels Adventure Path</a> will begin in August, starting with <a href = "/products/btpy98t9">"In Hell's Bright Shadow"</a> by Crystal Frasier! With the city of Kintargo under martial law, what starts as a protest turns into a riot, and your hero is at the center of it!</p>
<p>Other August releases include:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9cu8">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Wrath of the Righteous, Deck #4: "The Midnight Isles"</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9cu9">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Class Deck: Paladin</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9cua">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Bestiary</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9cub">Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes of the Streets</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9ckd">Pathfinder Tales: Liar's Island</a> by Tim Pratt</li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dsa">Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Forest</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dsb">Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Swamp</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9cuc">Pathfinder Map Pack: Forest Dangers</a></li></ul>
<h2 style = "clear: both;">September 2015: Hail and Well Met, Traveler!</h2>
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<p>The feature of this month is one that we've all been waiting for—<a href = "/products/btpy9daq"><em>Inner Sea Races</em></a>! Filled with details on all of the races common to the Inner Sea, this also gives you juicy tidbits on rarer denizens like aasimar, tieflings, and ooh, do I spy a <b>[[REDACTED]]</b>?!</p>
<p>More September releases include:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9dao">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Wrath of the Righteous, Deck 5: "Herald of the Ivory Labyrinth"</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dap">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Class Deck: Monk</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy98ta">Pathfinder Adventure Path #98—Hell's Rebels, Part 2: "Turn of the Torrent"</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dar">Pathfinder Player Companion: Occult Origins</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9das">Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Slum Quarter</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dsc">Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: City Streets</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dsg">Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Prison</a></li></ul>
<h2 style = "clear: both;">October 2015: The Night is Dark, and Full of Terrors!</h2>
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<p>We like spooky things—turns out, they are a grand thing when writing adventures and designing campaigns, and what could be grander than returning to one of our earliest Varisian stomping grounds? As anybody who's visited Elm Street can attest, dreams can be a dangerous thing, and <a href = "/products/btpy9dym">"The House on Hook Street"</a> promises to make a pleasant afternoon nap into a nightmare in this Pathfinder Module for 6th level adventurers. Written by Brandon Hodge, one of our own key resources when <a href = "/products/btpy9a0h"><em>Occult Adventures</em></a> was first on the drawing board, would-be heroes attempting to survive this adventure may want to stock up on their elixir of choice to stay awake through the night!</p>
<p>Additional releases in October include:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyi">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Wrath of the Righteous, Deck 6: "City of Locusts"</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyj">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Class Deck: Druid</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy98tb">Pathfinder Adventure Path #99—Hell's Rebels, Part 3: "Dance of the Damned"</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyk">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Distant Shores Gazetteer</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyl">Pathfinder Player Companion: Black Markets</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e42">Pathfinder Tales: Beyond the Pool of Stars</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyn">Pathfinder Map Pack: Slum Quarter Alleys</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dxy">Pathfinder Pawns: Giantslayer Adventure Path</a></li></ul>
<p>As always, the release dates are subject to change, but you can see the most up-to-date information on the <a href = "/paizo/about/schedule">Product Schedule</a> page, or on each individual product page.</p>
<p>Is there any particular release you're excited for? Have a hankering for learning more about the denizens of the Inner Sea with the <a href = "/products/btpy9daq"><em>Inner Sea Races</em> hardcover</a>? Maybe want try to divine the details of <a href = "/products/btpy9dar"><em>Occult Origins</em></a>? Let us know in the discussion thread!</p>
<p>Liz Courts<br />
<i>Community Manager</i></p>
<p><b>PS:</b> With <a href = "/paizocon">PaizoCon</a> just around the corner and adventures to wrap up before then for our GMs, the Pathfinder Society team is busily developing and editing the May releases. The regular PFS blog will return next week! And if you're attending PaizoCon, be sure to attend the <a href = "/paizocon/v5748mkg0b4f3">Pathfinder Society Q&A</a> on Saturday, May 23 at 2:00 PM!</p>
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<!— tags: Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Modules, Hell's Rebels, Shen Fei, Pathfinder Accessories, Pathfinder Player Companion, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Pathfinder Tales —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAccessories">Pathfinder Accessories</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderCampaignSetting">Pathfinder Campaign Setting</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderPlayerCompanion">Pathfinder Player Companion</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderTales">Pathfinder Tales</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/shenFei">Shen Fei</a></p><blockquote>
<h1 itemprop="headline">Pulling Back the Veil: Fall 2015 Releases!</h1>
<p class="date">Monday, May 11, 2015</p>
<div itemprop="articlebody">
<p itemprop="description">One of my favorite parts of my job is getting to add upcoming products to the website. Often it's the first time that I'm hearing about the latest adventure, realm to explore, or new player options, and now we're going to round up all the announcements to make sure you don't miss out on the latest additions to Pathfinder, coming to you this summer and fall!</p>
<div class="blurbCenter"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9097-KintargoSkyline.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9097-KintargoSkyline_500.jpeg" /></a><br />Welcome to Kintargo—hope you survive your stay!<br /><i>Illustration by Shen Fei</i></div>
<p>This month is going to be a triple feature, as we're going to talk about not one month's releases, but three, starting with August.</p>
<h2 style = "clear: both;">August 2015: Hell's Rebels Adventure Path begins!</h2>
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "/products/btpy98t9"><img src = "//static2.paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9097_180.jpeg" /></a></div>
<p>With Gen Con a wee bit earlier this year than normal, we won't be starting the Adventure Path at the show, which means that the <a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels Adventure Path</a> will begin in August, starting with <a href = "/products/btpy98t9">"In Hell's Bright Shadow"</a> by Crystal Frasier! With the city of Kintargo under martial law, what starts as a protest turns into a riot, and your hero is at the center of it!</p>
<p>Other August releases include:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9cu8">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Wrath of the Righteous, Deck #4: "The Midnight Isles"</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9cu9">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Class Deck: Paladin</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9cua">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Bestiary</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9cub">Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes of the Streets</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9ckd">Pathfinder Tales: Liar's Island</a> by Tim Pratt</li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dsa">Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Forest</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dsb">Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Swamp</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9cuc">Pathfinder Map Pack: Forest Dangers</a></li></ul>
<h2 style = "clear: both;">September 2015: Hail and Well Met, Traveler!</h2>
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "/products/btpy9daq"><img src = "//static2.paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9280_180.jpeg" /></a></div>
<p>The feature of this month is one that we've all been waiting for—<a href = "/products/btpy9daq"><em>Inner Sea Races</em></a>! Filled with details on all of the races common to the Inner Sea, this also gives you juicy tidbits on rarer denizens like aasimar, tieflings, and ooh, do I spy a <b>[[REDACTED]]</b>?!</p>
<p>More September releases include:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9dao">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Wrath of the Righteous, Deck 5: "Herald of the Ivory Labyrinth"</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dap">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Class Deck: Monk</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy98ta">Pathfinder Adventure Path #98—Hell's Rebels, Part 2: "Turn of the Torrent"</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dar">Pathfinder Player Companion: Occult Origins</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9das">Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Slum Quarter</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dsc">Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: City Streets</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dsg">Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Prison</a></li></ul>
<h2 style = "clear: both;">October 2015: The Night is Dark, and Full of Terrors!</h2>
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<p>We like spooky things—turns out, they are a grand thing when writing adventures and designing campaigns, and what could be grander than returning to one of our earliest Varisian stomping grounds? As anybody who's visited Elm Street can attest, dreams can be a dangerous thing, and <a href = "/products/btpy9dym">"The House on Hook Street"</a> promises to make a pleasant afternoon nap into a nightmare in this Pathfinder Module for 6th level adventurers. Written by Brandon Hodge, one of our own key resources when <a href = "/products/btpy9a0h"><em>Occult Adventures</em></a> was first on the drawing board, would-be heroes attempting to survive this adventure may want to stock up on their elixir of choice to stay awake through the night!</p>
<p>Additional releases in October include:</p>
<ul><li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyi">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Wrath of the Righteous, Deck 6: "City of Locusts"</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyj">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Class Deck: Druid</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy98tb">Pathfinder Adventure Path #99—Hell's Rebels, Part 3: "Dance of the Damned"</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyk">Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Distant Shores Gazetteer</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyl">Pathfinder Player Companion: Black Markets</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9e42">Pathfinder Tales: Beyond the Pool of Stars</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dyn">Pathfinder Map Pack: Slum Quarter Alleys</a></li>
<li><a href = "/products/btpy9dxy">Pathfinder Pawns: Giantslayer Adventure Path</a></li></ul>
<p>As always, the release dates are subject to change, but you can see the most up-to-date information on the <a href = "/paizo/about/schedule">Product Schedule</a> page, or on each individual product page.</p>
<p>Is there any particular release you're excited for? Have a hankering for learning more about the denizens of the Inner Sea with the <a href = "/products/btpy9daq"><em>Inner Sea Races</em> hardcover</a>? Maybe want try to divine the details of <a href = "/products/btpy9dar"><em>Occult Origins</em></a>? Let us know in the discussion thread!</p>
<p>Liz Courts<br />
<i>Community Manager</i></p>
<p><b>PS:</b> With <a href = "/paizocon">PaizoCon</a> just around the corner and adventures to wrap up before then for our GMs, the Pathfinder Society team is busily developing and editing the May releases. The regular PFS blog will return next week! And if you're attending PaizoCon, be sure to attend the <a href = "/paizocon/v5748mkg0b4f3">Pathfinder Society Q&A</a> on Saturday, May 23 at 2:00 PM!</p>
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<!— tags: Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Modules, Hell's Rebels, Shen Fei, Pathfinder Accessories, Pathfinder Player Companion, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Pathfinder Tales —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/hellsRebels">Hell's Rebels</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAccessories">Pathfinder Accessories</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderCampaignSetting">Pathfinder Campaign Setting</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderPlayerCompanion">Pathfinder Player Companion</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderTales">Pathfinder Tales</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/shenFei">Shen Fei</a></p>2015-05-11T19:00:00Z2014 Art Reviewhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lgvc?2014-Art-Review2014-12-31T20:30:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">2014 Art Review</h1>
<p class="date">Wednesday, December 31, 2014</p>
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<p itemprop="description">As we close out 2014, I wanted to end on a high note and give you one last year-end blog. I went to our Managing Art Director Sarah Robinson and Senior Art Director Andrew Vallas to get some help rounding up some favorite illustrations from the past year. Seeing how great their selections were, I also asked various members of our editorial team to pick a few of their own favorites to add. So here are some of our best illustrations from 2014!</p>
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<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9546-Cover.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9546-Cover_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderPlayerCompanion/PZO9445-Cover.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderPlayerCompanion/PZO9445-Cover_180.jpeg"></a>
<p>Let's start off with some covers! The above are selections were made by Andrew, Sarah, and Developer John Compton.</p>
<p><a href = "/products/btpy9926"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex</em></a> Illustrated by Wayne Reynolds,
<a href = "/products/btpy99sa"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Lost Treasures</em></a> Illustrated by Igor Grechanyi,<br />
<a href = "/products/btpy99se"><em>Pathfinder Module: Plunder and Peril</em></a> Illustrated by Kiki Moch Rizky, and
<a href = "/products/btpy959n"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Alchemy Manual</em></a> Illustrated by Kerem Beyit</p></div>
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<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9080-Gods.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9080-Gods_180.jpeg"></a>
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<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9267-ShelynZonKuthon.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9267-ShelynZonKuthon_500.jpeg"></a>
<p>Monsters and gods are up next! The above selections were made by Andrew, Sarah, and Designer Stephen Radney-MacFarland</p>
<p><a href = "/products/btpy9926"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex</em></a> Illustrations by Subroto Bhaumik and Jason Rainville,
<a href = "/products/btpy94vv"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #80: Empty Graves</em></a> Illustration by Johan Grenier,<br />
<a href = "/products/btpy95zo"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Mysteries</em></a> Illustration by Ralph Horsley, and
<a href = "/products/btpy94wj"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Gods</em></a> Illustration by Yu Cheng Hong</p>
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<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9089-Zyphus.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9089-Zyphus_180.jpeg"></a>
<p>Brigh and Zyphus are two of the many Golarion deities featured this year. The above selections were made by Adam Daigle and myself.</p>
<p><a href = "/products/btpy97az"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #86: Lords of Rust</em></a> Illustration by Johan Grenier, and
<a href = "/products/btpy99si"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #89: Palace of Fallen Stars</em></a> Illustration by Matias Tapia</p>
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<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9084-Swordswoman.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9084-Swordswoman_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9267-PrinceInChains.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9267-PrinceInChains_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderTales/PZO8520-Maedora.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderTales/PZO8520-Maedora_180.jpeg"></a>
<p>And to round out this art blog, some portraits of deities, monsters and important characters of 2014!<br />The above selections were made by Andrew, Associate Editor Judy Bauer, Editor Ryan Macklin, Developer Rob McCreary, and Managing Editor James L. Sutter</p>
<p><a href = "/products/btpy9926"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex</em></a> Illustration by Tim Kings-Lynne,
<a href = "/products/btpy94vv"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #80: Empty Graves</em></a> Illustrations by Ekaterina Burmak,<br />
<a href = "/products/btpy97av"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #84: Pyramid of the Sky Pharaoh</em></a> Illustration by Johan Grenier,
<a href = "/products/btpy94wj"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Gods</em></a> Illustration by Maichol Quinto, and<br />
<a href = "/products/btpy94r3"><em>Pathfinder Tales: The Redemption Engine</em></a> Illustration by Eric Belisle</p>
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<p>What was your favorite piece of Pathfinder art from 2014?</p>
<p>Mark Moreland<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
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<!— tags: Wayne Reynolds, Igor Grechanyi, Kiki Moch Rizky, Kerem Beyit, Subroto Bhaumik, Jason Rainville, Johan Grenier, Ralph Horsley, Yu Cheng Hong, Matias Tapia, Tim Kings-Lynne, Ekaterina Burmak, Maichol Quinto, Eric Belisle, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Player Companion, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Tales —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/ekaterinaBurmak">Ekaterina Burmak</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/ericBelisle">Eric Belisle</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/igorGrechanyi">Igor Grechanyi</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/jasonRainville">Jason Rainville</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/johanGrenier">Johan Grenier</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/keremBeyit">Kerem Beyit</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/kikiMochRizky">Kiki Moch Rizky</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/maicholQuinto">Maichol Quinto</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/matiasTapia">Matias Tapia</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderCampaignSetting">Pathfinder Campaign Setting</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderPlayerCompanion">Pathfinder Player Companion</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderRoleplayingGame">Pathfinder Roleplaying Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderTales">Pathfinder Tales</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/ralphHorsley">Ralph Horsley</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/subrotoBhaumik">Subroto Bhaumik</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/timKingsLynne">Tim Kings-Lynne</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/wayneReynolds">Wayne Reynolds</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/yuChengHong">Yu Cheng Hong</a></p><blockquote>
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<p class="date">Wednesday, December 31, 2014</p>
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<p itemprop="description">As we close out 2014, I wanted to end on a high note and give you one last year-end blog. I went to our Managing Art Director Sarah Robinson and Senior Art Director Andrew Vallas to get some help rounding up some favorite illustrations from the past year. Seeing how great their selections were, I also asked various members of our editorial team to pick a few of their own favorites to add. So here are some of our best illustrations from 2014!</p>
<div class = "blurbCenter"><a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderRPG/PZO1130-Cover.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderRPG/PZO1130-Cover_180.jpeg"></a>
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<p>Let's start off with some covers! The above are selections were made by Andrew, Sarah, and Developer John Compton.</p>
<p><a href = "/products/btpy9926"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex</em></a> Illustrated by Wayne Reynolds,
<a href = "/products/btpy99sa"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Lost Treasures</em></a> Illustrated by Igor Grechanyi,<br />
<a href = "/products/btpy99se"><em>Pathfinder Module: Plunder and Peril</em></a> Illustrated by Kiki Moch Rizky, and
<a href = "/products/btpy959n"><em>Pathfinder Player Companion: Alchemy Manual</em></a> Illustrated by Kerem Beyit</p></div>
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<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9080-Gods.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9080-Gods_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9269-Dragons.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9269-Dragons_180.jpeg"></a><br /><br />
<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9267-ShelynZonKuthon.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9267-ShelynZonKuthon_500.jpeg"></a>
<p>Monsters and gods are up next! The above selections were made by Andrew, Sarah, and Designer Stephen Radney-MacFarland</p>
<p><a href = "/products/btpy9926"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex</em></a> Illustrations by Subroto Bhaumik and Jason Rainville,
<a href = "/products/btpy94vv"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #80: Empty Graves</em></a> Illustration by Johan Grenier,<br />
<a href = "/products/btpy95zo"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Mysteries</em></a> Illustration by Ralph Horsley, and
<a href = "/products/btpy94wj"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Gods</em></a> Illustration by Yu Cheng Hong</p>
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<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9086-Brigh.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9086-Brigh_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9089-Zyphus.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9089-Zyphus_180.jpeg"></a>
<p>Brigh and Zyphus are two of the many Golarion deities featured this year. The above selections were made by Adam Daigle and myself.</p>
<p><a href = "/products/btpy97az"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #86: Lords of Rust</em></a> Illustration by Johan Grenier, and
<a href = "/products/btpy99si"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #89: Palace of Fallen Stars</em></a> Illustration by Matias Tapia</p>
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<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9080-Ra.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9080-Ra_120.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9080-Sekhmet.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9080-Sekhmet_120.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9084-Swordswoman.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderAdventurePath/PZO9084-Swordswoman_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9267-PrinceInChains.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9267-PrinceInChains_180.jpeg"></a>
<a href = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderTales/PZO8520-Maedora.jpg"><img src = "//static1.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderTales/PZO8520-Maedora_180.jpeg"></a>
<p>And to round out this art blog, some portraits of deities, monsters and important characters of 2014!<br />The above selections were made by Andrew, Associate Editor Judy Bauer, Editor Ryan Macklin, Developer Rob McCreary, and Managing Editor James L. Sutter</p>
<p><a href = "/products/btpy9926"><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex</em></a> Illustration by Tim Kings-Lynne,
<a href = "/products/btpy94vv"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #80: Empty Graves</em></a> Illustrations by Ekaterina Burmak,<br />
<a href = "/products/btpy97av"><em>Pathfinder Adventure Path #84: Pyramid of the Sky Pharaoh</em></a> Illustration by Johan Grenier,
<a href = "/products/btpy94wj"><em>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Gods</em></a> Illustration by Maichol Quinto, and<br />
<a href = "/products/btpy94r3"><em>Pathfinder Tales: The Redemption Engine</em></a> Illustration by Eric Belisle</p>
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<p>What was your favorite piece of Pathfinder art from 2014?</p>
<p>Mark Moreland<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Wayne Reynolds, Igor Grechanyi, Kiki Moch Rizky, Kerem Beyit, Subroto Bhaumik, Jason Rainville, Johan Grenier, Ralph Horsley, Yu Cheng Hong, Matias Tapia, Tim Kings-Lynne, Ekaterina Burmak, Maichol Quinto, Eric Belisle, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Player Companion, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Tales —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/ekaterinaBurmak">Ekaterina Burmak</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/ericBelisle">Eric Belisle</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/igorGrechanyi">Igor Grechanyi</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/jasonRainville">Jason Rainville</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/johanGrenier">Johan Grenier</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/keremBeyit">Kerem Beyit</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/kikiMochRizky">Kiki Moch Rizky</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/maicholQuinto">Maichol Quinto</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/matiasTapia">Matias Tapia</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderCampaignSetting">Pathfinder Campaign Setting</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderPlayerCompanion">Pathfinder Player Companion</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderRoleplayingGame">Pathfinder Roleplaying Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderTales">Pathfinder Tales</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/ralphHorsley">Ralph Horsley</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/subrotoBhaumik">Subroto Bhaumik</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/timKingsLynne">Tim Kings-Lynne</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/wayneReynolds">Wayne Reynolds</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/yuChengHong">Yu Cheng Hong</a></p>2014-12-31T20:30:00ZPiracy on the Sanctioned Seas!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lgtz?Piracy-on-the-Sanctioned-Seas2014-12-15T21:30:00Z<blockquote>
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<p class="date">Monday, December 15, 2014</p>
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<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9546-Adventure.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9546-Adventure_180.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Mariusz Gandzel</i></div>
<p itemprop = "description">For many <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a> players, the end of the year is a time to reunite with friends and family—and get the old gaming group back together! If you haven't heard the news, there's a new Pathfinder Module at large: <a href = "/products/btpy99se"><em>Plunder & Peril</em></a>. Ready for some more tidings of good cheer? It's now sanctioned for <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society Organized Play</a>! You can download the Chronicle sheet from the <a href = "/products/btpy99se">product page</a> or <a href = "/pathfinderSociety/about/additionalResources">Additional Resources page.</a></p>
<p>This module is actually a set of three smaller adventures that can be played back-to-back to tell a bigger story, and there's a Chronicle sheet for each part of the module. If one of your characters is feeling particularly piratey, you can apply all three Chronicle sheets to her and earn a fourth sheet as a bonus! For even more swashbuckling action, combine this module's rewards with those for the<a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/skullAndShackles">Skull and Shackles Adventure Path</a> to create a true Pathfinding terror of the high seas (it's now possible to get a character from 1st- to 14th-level playing almost nothing but pirate-themed adventures)!</p>
<p>Is that still not enough ship-to-ship action for you? In conjunction with Tannis O'Connor, I have added a little something extra to the Chronicle sheets for those of you participating in the <a href = "/pfsacg">Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild's Season of the Shackles</a>.</p>
<p>Happy gaming!</p>
<p>John Compton<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
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<!— tags: Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Modules, Mariusz Gandzel —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/mariuszGandzel">Mariusz Gandzel</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Piracy on the Sanctioned Seas!</h1>
<p class="date">Monday, December 15, 2014</p>
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<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9546-Adventure.jpg"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9546-Adventure_180.jpeg"></a><br /><i>Illustration by Mariusz Gandzel</i></div>
<p itemprop = "description">For many <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a> players, the end of the year is a time to reunite with friends and family—and get the old gaming group back together! If you haven't heard the news, there's a new Pathfinder Module at large: <a href = "/products/btpy99se"><em>Plunder & Peril</em></a>. Ready for some more tidings of good cheer? It's now sanctioned for <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society Organized Play</a>! You can download the Chronicle sheet from the <a href = "/products/btpy99se">product page</a> or <a href = "/pathfinderSociety/about/additionalResources">Additional Resources page.</a></p>
<p>This module is actually a set of three smaller adventures that can be played back-to-back to tell a bigger story, and there's a Chronicle sheet for each part of the module. If one of your characters is feeling particularly piratey, you can apply all three Chronicle sheets to her and earn a fourth sheet as a bonus! For even more swashbuckling action, combine this module's rewards with those for the<a href = "/pathfinder/adventurePath/skullAndShackles">Skull and Shackles Adventure Path</a> to create a true Pathfinding terror of the high seas (it's now possible to get a character from 1st- to 14th-level playing almost nothing but pirate-themed adventures)!</p>
<p>Is that still not enough ship-to-ship action for you? In conjunction with Tannis O'Connor, I have added a little something extra to the Chronicle sheets for those of you participating in the <a href = "/pfsacg">Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild's Season of the Shackles</a>.</p>
<p>Happy gaming!</p>
<p>John Compton<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Modules, Mariusz Gandzel —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/mariuszGandzel">Mariusz Gandzel</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a></p>2014-12-15T21:30:00ZEnd the Year on a High[-Level] Note!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lgs6?End-the-Year-on-a-HighLevel-Note2014-12-08T23:01:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">End the Year on a High[-Level] Note!</h1>
<p class="date">Monday, December 8, 2014</p>
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<p>I could swear I've written this blog before, and I could swear it has started a different way each time.</p>
<p itemprop = "description">In fact, this blog has been about a year in the making, ever since I took a copy of Paizo's second 64-page model with me over Thanksgiving break to begin working on that adventure's sanctioning document. It's been through about four revisions since then, each one not quite turning out as I had envisioned before other priorities put an end to my edits.</p>
<p>Something changed with this last go-around. I put an end to saying, "No, this is too silly to be a boon" and began asking, "What needs to happen to make this a boon?" I began taking out some of the weird limitations and tweaked the language in the Seeker Arc Option section (yes, a seeker arc option!) to make it easier to schedule and play. I began experimenting with ways to let the player choose the rewards. I began to open up some stranger options, and I began to write something other than a number in the "GP Gained" box. In the end, the Chronicle sheets began to look like the Chronicle sheets should for a high-level module full of clockwork, mutants, and gunpowder: awesome.</p>
<p>Really there's only one thing left to begin: playing <a href = "/products/btpy92lr"><em>Pathfinder Module: Wardens of the Reborn Forge</em></a>, now sanctioned for the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society Organized Play</a> campaign. One important thing has come to an end: the long wait for this fine opportunity for high-level play. You can download the rules and Chronicle sheet on the <a href = "/products/btpy92lr">product page</a> or the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety/about/additionalResources">Additional Resources page</a>.</p>
<div class = "blurbCenter"><a href = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9543-Himnentep.jpg"><img src = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9543-Himnentep_180.jpeg"></a><br />Bwa ha ha! Sanctioned for Organized Play at long last!<br /><i>Illustration by Dieter Miller</i></div>
<p>Check by next week when I continue spreading the holiday cheer with some <a href = "/products/btpy99se">Treasure and Terror</a>... or was that <a href = "/products/btpy99se">Jewels and Jeopardy</a>?</p>
<p>Happy gaming!</p>
<p>John Compton<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Modules, Dieter Miller —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/dieterMiller">Dieter Miller</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">End the Year on a High[-Level] Note!</h1>
<p class="date">Monday, December 8, 2014</p>
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<div class = "blurb120"><a href = "/products/btpy92lr"><img src = "//static4.paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9543_120.jpeg"></a></div>
<p>I could swear I've written this blog before, and I could swear it has started a different way each time.</p>
<p itemprop = "description">In fact, this blog has been about a year in the making, ever since I took a copy of Paizo's second 64-page model with me over Thanksgiving break to begin working on that adventure's sanctioning document. It's been through about four revisions since then, each one not quite turning out as I had envisioned before other priorities put an end to my edits.</p>
<p>Something changed with this last go-around. I put an end to saying, "No, this is too silly to be a boon" and began asking, "What needs to happen to make this a boon?" I began taking out some of the weird limitations and tweaked the language in the Seeker Arc Option section (yes, a seeker arc option!) to make it easier to schedule and play. I began experimenting with ways to let the player choose the rewards. I began to open up some stranger options, and I began to write something other than a number in the "GP Gained" box. In the end, the Chronicle sheets began to look like the Chronicle sheets should for a high-level module full of clockwork, mutants, and gunpowder: awesome.</p>
<p>Really there's only one thing left to begin: playing <a href = "/products/btpy92lr"><em>Pathfinder Module: Wardens of the Reborn Forge</em></a>, now sanctioned for the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society Organized Play</a> campaign. One important thing has come to an end: the long wait for this fine opportunity for high-level play. You can download the rules and Chronicle sheet on the <a href = "/products/btpy92lr">product page</a> or the <a href = "/pathfinderSociety/about/additionalResources">Additional Resources page</a>.</p>
<div class = "blurbCenter"><a href = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9543-Himnentep.jpg"><img src = "//static3.paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9543-Himnentep_180.jpeg"></a><br />Bwa ha ha! Sanctioned for Organized Play at long last!<br /><i>Illustration by Dieter Miller</i></div>
<p>Check by next week when I continue spreading the holiday cheer with some <a href = "/products/btpy99se">Treasure and Terror</a>... or was that <a href = "/products/btpy99se">Jewels and Jeopardy</a>?</p>
<p>Happy gaming!</p>
<p>John Compton<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Society, Pathfinder Modules, Dieter Miller —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/dieterMiller">Dieter Miller</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderSociety">Pathfinder Society</a></p>2014-12-08T23:01:00ZHonor the Hold!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lgi6?Honor-the-Hold2014-09-18T19:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Honor the Hold!</h1>
<p class="date">Thursday, September 18, 2014</p>
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<i>Illustration by Caio Maciel Monteiro</i></div>
<p><span itemprop="description">The treacherous Hold of Belkzen is a savage place for outsiders as well as its own residents. We've said a lot about the region, but a lot of this information is scattered throughout different books and product lines. For those who are new to Belkzen or who just can't get enough of the orc nation, here's a brief breakdown of some of the most interesting aspects of this savage region as well as links to where you can find more information on these topics.</span></p>
<div class = "blurb120"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9268-OrcGladiator.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9268-OrcGladiator_120.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustration by Roberto Pitturru</i></div>
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<p><b>Beasts:</b> Orc rangers and beastmasters have "domesticated" many animals and monstrous beasts native to the valleys of the Tusk and Kodar Mountains, though in most cases this simply means caging wild animals until they're to be released on the field of battle. From dire wolves to <a href = "/products/btpy9926">the strange and tempestuous gorthek</a>, orc tribes rear a number of different monsters to serve as their mounts or hounds. Beyond these brutes, even fiercer beasts lurk in the hills around the Hold of Belkzen (including a number of all-new Belkzen animals detailed in the <a href = "/products/btpy96ps">forthcoming Giantslayer Adventure Path bestiaries</a>).</p>
<p><b>Half-Orcs:</b> The progeny of orcs and humans are treated somewhat paradoxically among the orcs of Belkzen. On one hand, orcs treat their half-blooded brethren as weak, and bully or abuse them to prove their inferiority. On the other hand, talented half-orcs (especially spellcasters) can achieve statuses among their tribe as seers or witch doctors. <a href = "/products/btpy8fvz">Many half-orcs consider themselves prisoners in their own homelands</a>, and wrestle with the inherent savagery that flows through their blood. Others flee the Hold as soon as they are able, becoming storied adventurers or even <a href = "/products/btpy93na/">founders of peaceful settlements that they can fearlessly call home</a>.</p>
<p><b>Atrocities:</b> The horrors of war are not solely restricted to the orc side of Belkzen's borders, and the human knights and soldiers who clash with these monsters sometimes inherit more of the orcs' savagery than any would care to admit. <a href = "/products/btpy8odc">Servants of Zon-Kuthon often go to the ravaged battlefields of Belkzen</a> to commemorate the unfathomable acts of savagery that transpired there, and rumors persist of orcs being held prisoner and <a href = "/products/btpy8yvg">brutally interrogated in such Lastwall border strongholds as Castle Everstand</a>.</p>
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<p>With a slew of orc-related products coming out this winter—including <a href = "/products/btpy96ps"><i>Pathfinder Adventure Path #91: Battle of Bloodmarch Hill</i></a> (written by yours truly), the much-anticipated <a href = "/products/btpy97lw"><i>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Belkzen, Hold of the Orc Hordes</i></a>, and <a href = "/products/btpy96yt"><i>Pathfinder Module: Daughters of Fury</i></a> (written by Viktoria Jaczko, winner of the 2014 <a href = "/rpgsuperstar">RPG Superstar contest</a>)—you can be sure we're going to be posting a lot of Belkzen banter on the blog in the coming months.</p>
<p>Patrick Renie<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Modules, Orcs, Roberto Pitturru, Caio Maciel Monteiro —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/caioMacielMonteiro">Caio Maciel Monteiro</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/orcs">Orcs</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderCampaignSetting">Pathfinder Campaign Setting</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/robertoPitturru">Roberto Pitturru</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Honor the Hold!</h1>
<p class="date">Thursday, September 18, 2014</p>
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<div class = "blurbCenter"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9276-Bloodplains.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9276-Bloodplains_360.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustration by Caio Maciel Monteiro</i></div>
<p><span itemprop="description">The treacherous Hold of Belkzen is a savage place for outsiders as well as its own residents. We've said a lot about the region, but a lot of this information is scattered throughout different books and product lines. For those who are new to Belkzen or who just can't get enough of the orc nation, here's a brief breakdown of some of the most interesting aspects of this savage region as well as links to where you can find more information on these topics.</span></p>
<div class = "blurb120"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9268-OrcGladiator.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderCampaignSetting/PZO9268-OrcGladiator_120.jpeg"></a><br />
<i>Illustration by Roberto Pitturru</i></div>
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<p><b>Beasts:</b> Orc rangers and beastmasters have "domesticated" many animals and monstrous beasts native to the valleys of the Tusk and Kodar Mountains, though in most cases this simply means caging wild animals until they're to be released on the field of battle. From dire wolves to <a href = "/products/btpy9926">the strange and tempestuous gorthek</a>, orc tribes rear a number of different monsters to serve as their mounts or hounds. Beyond these brutes, even fiercer beasts lurk in the hills around the Hold of Belkzen (including a number of all-new Belkzen animals detailed in the <a href = "/products/btpy96ps">forthcoming Giantslayer Adventure Path bestiaries</a>).</p>
<p><b>Half-Orcs:</b> The progeny of orcs and humans are treated somewhat paradoxically among the orcs of Belkzen. On one hand, orcs treat their half-blooded brethren as weak, and bully or abuse them to prove their inferiority. On the other hand, talented half-orcs (especially spellcasters) can achieve statuses among their tribe as seers or witch doctors. <a href = "/products/btpy8fvz">Many half-orcs consider themselves prisoners in their own homelands</a>, and wrestle with the inherent savagery that flows through their blood. Others flee the Hold as soon as they are able, becoming storied adventurers or even <a href = "/products/btpy93na/">founders of peaceful settlements that they can fearlessly call home</a>.</p>
<p><b>Atrocities:</b> The horrors of war are not solely restricted to the orc side of Belkzen's borders, and the human knights and soldiers who clash with these monsters sometimes inherit more of the orcs' savagery than any would care to admit. <a href = "/products/btpy8odc">Servants of Zon-Kuthon often go to the ravaged battlefields of Belkzen</a> to commemorate the unfathomable acts of savagery that transpired there, and rumors persist of orcs being held prisoner and <a href = "/products/btpy8yvg">brutally interrogated in such Lastwall border strongholds as Castle Everstand</a>.</p>
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<p>With a slew of orc-related products coming out this winter—including <a href = "/products/btpy96ps"><i>Pathfinder Adventure Path #91: Battle of Bloodmarch Hill</i></a> (written by yours truly), the much-anticipated <a href = "/products/btpy97lw"><i>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Belkzen, Hold of the Orc Hordes</i></a>, and <a href = "/products/btpy96yt"><i>Pathfinder Module: Daughters of Fury</i></a> (written by Viktoria Jaczko, winner of the 2014 <a href = "/rpgsuperstar">RPG Superstar contest</a>)—you can be sure we're going to be posting a lot of Belkzen banter on the blog in the coming months.</p>
<p>Patrick Renie<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Modules, Orcs, Roberto Pitturru, Caio Maciel Monteiro —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/caioMacielMonteiro">Caio Maciel Monteiro</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/orcs">Orcs</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderCampaignSetting">Pathfinder Campaign Setting</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/robertoPitturru">Roberto Pitturru</a></p>2014-09-18T19:00:00ZClockworks and the End of the Emerald Spire, with Rich Baker and James Jacobshttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lgaz?Clockworks-and-the-End-of-the-Emerald-Spire2014-07-19T17:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Clockworks and the End of the Emerald Spire, with Rich Baker and James Jacobs</h1>
<p class="date">Saturday, July 19, 2014</p>
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<div class = "blurb90"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Level616.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Level616_90.jpeg"></a><br />Cartography by Rob Lazzaretti</div>
<p><span itemprop="description">All good things must come to an end, and this week we look at the end (or at least, the lowest level) of the <a href = ""><i>Emerald Spire</i></a>. Of course, the end of a superdungeon is something a lot of players never get to see (as Erik Mona discussed a bit in <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lg8y">his teaser last week</a>), so we also thought we might expand this sneak peek to include two maps from the adventure.</span></p>
<p>When discussing the fact that every dungeon level had to fit on a Flip-Mat, Erik briefly mentioned that this requirement drove our authors to find creative ways to get the most out of the space available. One good example of this is The Clockwork Maze, which has sections likely to initially confuse the players and that are certain to force players to work harder than a typcial ten foot wide corridor. We don’t want to give away the whole secret of the level, but a glance at the map is a pretty big hint why the level has "clockwork" in its title.</p>
<p>Other levels use the available space on a Flip-Map in a more traditional way, but include multiple environments, hazards, and unusual geometry to increase the variety available in the dungeon experience. The final level of the dungeon, The Emeral Root, is a good example of this kind of creative map.</p>
<p>Of course even a great map isn’t very useful if you don’t have enounters to fill it with. To learn a little more about these levels and how they came to be, we we spoke to the CEO and Publisher of Sasquatch Game Studio LLC, Richard Baker, and our own Creative Director, James Jacobs.</p>
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<p><b>How do you define a "Superdungeon"? What is your favorite dungeon or superdungeon experience in your personal gaming history?</b></p>
<p><b>Rich</b> To me, a superdungeon is any adventure that you could reasonably base a whole campaign around. It will provide months and months of play, characters will level up a good 8 or 10 times in the course of the game, and the players are up against an epic threat or fighting their way through a truly amazing setting. I suppose I might further refine that by saying that a super-dungeon does that all in the context of a single sprawling underground maze (you can certainly have super-adventures that do the same thing but across multiple locales). So, it's a particular flavor of super-adventure, I guess.<br />
My personal favorites were Undermountain—really the gold standard of superdungeons, even if a lot of the map was left for the DM to populate—and more recently City of the Spider-Queen, which is probably more of a superadventure. When I was developing that adventure, we had James Wyatt (the adventure author) run it for us with a great group of players, and we had a blast.</p>
<p><b>James</b> I define a Superdungeon as a dungeon that you can run an entire campaign in. My favorite superdungeon is Greyhawk’s Maure Castle, which was featured several times in Dungeon magazine back in the day. On Golarion, though, my favorite superdungeon is Hollow Mountain, and I hope to some day get to personally design and develop that site into a significant adventure location. At which point I can see it supplanting Maure Castle as my favorite. Unless I do the same for the Crimson Citadel first, that is.</p>
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Klarkosh.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Klarkosh_180.jpeg"></a><br />Illustration by Jorge Fares</div>
<p><b>What is your level of the Emerald Spire Superdungeon called? What theme, if any, does the level have?</b></p>
<p><b>Rich</b> My level of Emerald Spire is the Clockwork Maze. This is the lair of the first major villain in the Spire, the Numerian wizard Klarkosh. As you might expect, it has a strong clockwork theme—the entire dungeon configuration can be altered by using control levers in different spots. In fact, the players will have to do just a little bit of puzzle-solving to figure out how to change the dungeon geometry to navigate through the level. The monsters are mostly constructs of different kinds, since Klarkosh was previously described as a master of making constructs.<br />
I also wrote the description of Fort Inevitable that begins the adventure, and did most of the coordination and direction for the whole project. I got to see each author's contribution as they came up with it!</p>
<p><b>James</b> My level of the Emerald Spire is the final one—the "Emerald Root." It’s theme is hard to divulge without revealing a lot of spoilers, since it contains the source and reason and history of the Emerald Spire itself, but it goes beyond that and reveals some key bits of information about the Darklands—particularly the vaults of Orv. In fact, the opportunity to explore some of the mysteries of these vaults is the primary reason I pounced on designing the lowest level of Emerald Spire in the first place.</p>
<p><b>What where the inspirations you drew on for your Emerald Spire level, and what are you hoping players get out of it?</b></p>
<p><b>Rich</b> My primary inspiration was really just delivering on what had already been said about the Spire. In the Thornkeep sourcebook we mentioned a few key facts about the Spire, so I took it upon myself to make sure the Emerald Spire superdungeon delivered on those teasers. For the villain, I admit I was thinking of Tharok, the half-robot leader of the Fatal Five, the arch-enemies of the Legion of Superheroes. Klarkosh is kind of a magical version of Tharok.</p>
<p><b>James</b> There’s a fair amount of Lovecraft inspiration in my level of Emerald Spire, both in the monster mix and in the story beyond what’s going on in that level, but that also ties in to some of the deep continuity of the history of Orv and the Darklands themselves. And by "Lovecraft" in this case, I’m not talking about Cthulhu and tentacle monsters, but about the idea that humanity was not the first to rise to power on this ball of dirt (Earth) or that ball of dirt (Golarion) hurtling blindly through the uncaring gulfs of space.</p>
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<p>We really appreciate our Creative Director and the Chief Sasquatch (Editorial Note, Rich told me to call him this) taking time out of their busy schedules to share some of the Emerald Spire with us!</p>
<p>Owen K.C. Stephens<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
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<p class="date">Saturday, July 19, 2014</p>
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<div class = "blurb90"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Level616.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Level616_90.jpeg"></a><br />Cartography by Rob Lazzaretti</div>
<p><span itemprop="description">All good things must come to an end, and this week we look at the end (or at least, the lowest level) of the <a href = ""><i>Emerald Spire</i></a>. Of course, the end of a superdungeon is something a lot of players never get to see (as Erik Mona discussed a bit in <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lg8y">his teaser last week</a>), so we also thought we might expand this sneak peek to include two maps from the adventure.</span></p>
<p>When discussing the fact that every dungeon level had to fit on a Flip-Mat, Erik briefly mentioned that this requirement drove our authors to find creative ways to get the most out of the space available. One good example of this is The Clockwork Maze, which has sections likely to initially confuse the players and that are certain to force players to work harder than a typcial ten foot wide corridor. We don’t want to give away the whole secret of the level, but a glance at the map is a pretty big hint why the level has "clockwork" in its title.</p>
<p>Other levels use the available space on a Flip-Map in a more traditional way, but include multiple environments, hazards, and unusual geometry to increase the variety available in the dungeon experience. The final level of the dungeon, The Emeral Root, is a good example of this kind of creative map.</p>
<p>Of course even a great map isn’t very useful if you don’t have enounters to fill it with. To learn a little more about these levels and how they came to be, we we spoke to the CEO and Publisher of Sasquatch Game Studio LLC, Richard Baker, and our own Creative Director, James Jacobs.</p>
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<p><b>How do you define a "Superdungeon"? What is your favorite dungeon or superdungeon experience in your personal gaming history?</b></p>
<p><b>Rich</b> To me, a superdungeon is any adventure that you could reasonably base a whole campaign around. It will provide months and months of play, characters will level up a good 8 or 10 times in the course of the game, and the players are up against an epic threat or fighting their way through a truly amazing setting. I suppose I might further refine that by saying that a super-dungeon does that all in the context of a single sprawling underground maze (you can certainly have super-adventures that do the same thing but across multiple locales). So, it's a particular flavor of super-adventure, I guess.<br />
My personal favorites were Undermountain—really the gold standard of superdungeons, even if a lot of the map was left for the DM to populate—and more recently City of the Spider-Queen, which is probably more of a superadventure. When I was developing that adventure, we had James Wyatt (the adventure author) run it for us with a great group of players, and we had a blast.</p>
<p><b>James</b> I define a Superdungeon as a dungeon that you can run an entire campaign in. My favorite superdungeon is Greyhawk’s Maure Castle, which was featured several times in Dungeon magazine back in the day. On Golarion, though, my favorite superdungeon is Hollow Mountain, and I hope to some day get to personally design and develop that site into a significant adventure location. At which point I can see it supplanting Maure Castle as my favorite. Unless I do the same for the Crimson Citadel first, that is.</p>
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Klarkosh.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Klarkosh_180.jpeg"></a><br />Illustration by Jorge Fares</div>
<p><b>What is your level of the Emerald Spire Superdungeon called? What theme, if any, does the level have?</b></p>
<p><b>Rich</b> My level of Emerald Spire is the Clockwork Maze. This is the lair of the first major villain in the Spire, the Numerian wizard Klarkosh. As you might expect, it has a strong clockwork theme—the entire dungeon configuration can be altered by using control levers in different spots. In fact, the players will have to do just a little bit of puzzle-solving to figure out how to change the dungeon geometry to navigate through the level. The monsters are mostly constructs of different kinds, since Klarkosh was previously described as a master of making constructs.<br />
I also wrote the description of Fort Inevitable that begins the adventure, and did most of the coordination and direction for the whole project. I got to see each author's contribution as they came up with it!</p>
<p><b>James</b> My level of the Emerald Spire is the final one—the "Emerald Root." It’s theme is hard to divulge without revealing a lot of spoilers, since it contains the source and reason and history of the Emerald Spire itself, but it goes beyond that and reveals some key bits of information about the Darklands—particularly the vaults of Orv. In fact, the opportunity to explore some of the mysteries of these vaults is the primary reason I pounced on designing the lowest level of Emerald Spire in the first place.</p>
<p><b>What where the inspirations you drew on for your Emerald Spire level, and what are you hoping players get out of it?</b></p>
<p><b>Rich</b> My primary inspiration was really just delivering on what had already been said about the Spire. In the Thornkeep sourcebook we mentioned a few key facts about the Spire, so I took it upon myself to make sure the Emerald Spire superdungeon delivered on those teasers. For the villain, I admit I was thinking of Tharok, the half-robot leader of the Fatal Five, the arch-enemies of the Legion of Superheroes. Klarkosh is kind of a magical version of Tharok.</p>
<p><b>James</b> There’s a fair amount of Lovecraft inspiration in my level of Emerald Spire, both in the monster mix and in the story beyond what’s going on in that level, but that also ties in to some of the deep continuity of the history of Orv and the Darklands themselves. And by "Lovecraft" in this case, I’m not talking about Cthulhu and tentacle monsters, but about the idea that humanity was not the first to rise to power on this ball of dirt (Earth) or that ball of dirt (Golarion) hurtling blindly through the uncaring gulfs of space.</p>
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<p>We really appreciate our Creative Director and the Chief Sasquatch (Editorial Note, Rich told me to call him this) taking time out of their busy schedules to share some of the Emerald Spire with us!</p>
<p>Owen K.C. Stephens<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
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<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Emerald Spire, Interviews, Jorge Fares, Rob Lazzaretti —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules/emeraldSpire">Emerald Spire</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/paizo/interviews">Interviews</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/jorgeFares">Jorge Fares</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/robLazzaretti">Rob Lazzaretti</a></p>2014-07-19T17:00:00ZSecrets of the Azlanti, With Erik Monahttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lg8y?Secrets-of-the-Azlanti-With-Erik-Mona2014-07-01T00:51:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Secrets of the Azlanti, With Erik Mona</h1>
<p class="date">Monday, June 30, 2014</p>
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<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-LadyEstrekan.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-LadyEstrekan_180.jpeg"></a><br />Illustration by Abrar Ajmal</div>
<p><span itemprop="description">Wrangling 16 authors to write 16 levels of a massive superdungeon is no small feat, but after getting the physical copy of <a href = "/products/btpy8yqx">The Emerald Spire Superdungeon</a> in our hands we can say that it was totally worth it.</span></p>
<p>There is enough high adventure and dungeon delving between these covers to keep a group of players entertained for a long time. Although this massive module can take a group of heroes from their meager beginnings as 1st-level adventurers all the way to the high end of 13th level, game masters can run one-night adventures with individual levels. Alternately, a GM could take four or five levels of the dungeon and cobble together a mini-campaign hitting on just a few of the levels that most interest them and their group.</p>
<p>Our own publisher, Erik Mona, designed Level 14, and his dungeon would make a great ending for one of these compacted campaigns. This level also serves as one of the most interconnected levels of the whole superdungeon. But don’t just listen to me—let’s let Erik speak for himself and share some of his experiences designing Level 14: The Throne of Azlant.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><b>How do you define a "Superdungeon"? What is your favorite dungeon or superdungeon experience in your personal gaming history?</b></p>
<p>A superdungeon is a multi-level collection of mini dungeons that combine to form a locale suitable for an entire campaign's worth of exploration. The best superdungeons allow for repeated forays in and out of the dungeon, and the majority of a character's growth and development (both in terms of story and game statistics) can occur without too much deviation from exploration of the singular, epic location—if that's what the players want.</p>
<div class = "blurb90"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Level14.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Level14_120.jpeg"></a><br />Cartography by Rob Lazzaretti</div>
<p>I've run several campaigns based around the classic Temple of Elemental Evil dungeon (how cool is it that the co-author of that adventure is one of my co-authors on this project?), with general success. The opening levels of that dungeon—particularly the moathouse section—are among my favorite dungeon levels in all of gaming. I had the opportunity to playtest Monte Cook's Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil with the author himself back in the early days of third edition, and I really loved the way Monte updated the adventure I'd run so many times before, so my affection for the adventure transcends three editions (I have not yet managed to run it in Pathfinder, alas). Each time I've run the classic version it's been completely different. One group decided to knock over the village of Hommlet's jewelry store and ended up outlaws. Another got completely wiped out on the third level of the dungeon. No group I've ever run through the temple has ever made it all the way through. Sure, a few of them died, but mostly people just ended up losing interest, or the campaign went on long enough that the real world intruded to make it impossible to game together. That's the problem with superdungeons—it's all too easy for them to get boring, or for them to become so ambitious that it's nearly impossible to play all the way through and experience all of the story the dungeon has to offer.</p>
<p>One of my favorite things about the Emerald Spire project is that the Flip-Mats are like a challenge to play every level. They also contained the authors somewhat, forcing us through the brutality of limited space and a tight word count to focus on the important stuff and not design anything too sprawling. The Emerald Spire, unlike many superdungeons, is designed to be completable. Alternatively, it works as a collection of 16 dungeons that can be used more or less independently, making this a very easy adventure to cannibalize.</p>
<p><b>What is your level of the Emerald Spire Superdungeon called? What theme, if any, does the level have?</b></p>
<p>My Emerald Spire dungeon is called the Throne of Azlant. It's the seat of the dungeon's Big Bad, the lich Nhur-Athemon. A lot of the foreshadowing in the dungeon, particularly on the handful of levels directly above mine, points to this ultimate nemesis, so my level pays off elements that the adventure has been building toward all along. Nhur-Athemon was "destroyed" by the Knights of the Ioun Star in the dying days of the Azlanti Empire, his unmortal corpse bound forever to his subterranean lair by mythic magic curses. Naturally, the player characters investigate and discover what an undead wizard tyrant gets up to when he has 10,000 years confined to quarters. Old Nhur-Athemon was exiled from Azlant after a failed attempt to claim the imperial throne, so you can be sure that whatever the lich's plan, it certainly doesn't lack for ambition.</p>
<p>My busy work schedule doesn't allow me to write as much as I'd like to, so over the last couple years I've tried to make my few small projects count by tying a lot of minor elements of subplot together throughout various sources. The Knights of the Ioun Star, Nhur-Athemon's ancient Azlanti enemies, also appeared in a short section I wrote for <a href = "/products/btpy95zo"><i>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Mysteries</i></a>. My Emerald Spire dungeon also connects (thematically and literally) to the dungeon level I wrote for the <a href = "/products/btpy8tb0"><i>Thornkeep</i></a> dungeon, the Sanctum of a Lost Age. That adventure dealt with Nhur-Athemon's apprentices, who have influence upon the Throne of Azlant as well. All of this material ties into my home campaign, Kings of Absalom, which involves a lot of ancient Azlanti secrets. I'll be running that campaign next weekend at PaizoCon, and I hope one day to write it up for publication. This adventure is a taste, and a peek at the grand picture.</p>
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Nhur.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Nhur_180.jpeg"></a><br />Illustration by Abrar Ajmal</div>
<p><b>What where the inspirations you drew on for your Emerald Spire level, and what are you hoping players get out of it?</b></p>
<p>My inspiration for this adventure comes more from my in-game play experience than from something I'm trying to emulate from fiction or the movies or whatever. I've run (and written) a lot of dungeon crawls in my time, and this one plays off of a few lessons I've learned along the way. There's one of my patented "oh, this fight is more difficult than I anticipated" encounters right near the beginning of the adventure, but beyond that I've done my best to avoid some of the pitfalls a big dungeon brings on both sides of the screen.</p>
<p>The Throne of Azlant is non-linear—there are multiple routes to the final chamber that leads deeper into the Emerald Spire dungeons (for the Spire's "Big Bad" is not the "Biggest Bad" on offer).</p>
<p>The dungeon level is more than just hack-and-slash. I included a few roleplaying encounters amongst all the carnage, a sure-fire way to get across more of the dungeon's backstory and to engage the interest of players who enjoy more than just rolling dice.</p>
<p>The adventure contains interesting elements of world lore and continuity. Though I don't explore the full history of Old Azlant or a major mystery like the origin of the god Aroden (you'll have to find a way to play Kings of Absalom for that!), it does reveal interesting new tidbits about the empire that fans of the Pathfinder world will likely appreciate.</p>
<p>It also contains the meanest trick I have ever played on a player character, a bind so nasty that I continue to giggle just thinking about it. I don't want to give away the secret on the blog post, but folks who read the adventure should find it pretty easy to understand what I'm talking about. Every time I've run the dungeon it's been utterly delightful to see whether the players fall into this trap and create a real conundrum for themselves. It's a glorious thing, if you are the type of GM who appreciates seeing his players squirm when they realize they've made a bad decision.</p>
<p>I'll be running one more shot at the Throne of Azlant at PaizoCon next week, which will make it the 13th time I've run the adventure. I started before last year's PaizoCon, and managed to run the Throne of Azlant about a half-dozen times at various conventions and events before I had to turn in my final manuscript. Unsurprisingly, repeated play produced lots of changes to improve the adventure, and I honestly believe it got better with each play-through. I've now run the Throne of Azlant more than any other Pathfinder adventure, which has earned it a special place in my heart. Each running has resulted in different conclusions and different routes through the dungeon, and it never seems to get old.</p>
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<p>Thanks to Erik for taking the time out of his schedule to share some of his insights on this monumental project. Keep your eyes on this blog next week for more exciting reveals.</p>
<p>Adam Daigle<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Emerald Spire, Interviews, Abrar Ajmal, Rob Lazzaretti —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/abrarAjmal">Abrar Ajmal</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules/emeraldSpire">Emerald Spire</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/paizo/interviews">Interviews</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/robLazzaretti">Rob Lazzaretti</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Secrets of the Azlanti, With Erik Mona</h1>
<p class="date">Monday, June 30, 2014</p>
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<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-LadyEstrekan.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-LadyEstrekan_180.jpeg"></a><br />Illustration by Abrar Ajmal</div>
<p><span itemprop="description">Wrangling 16 authors to write 16 levels of a massive superdungeon is no small feat, but after getting the physical copy of <a href = "/products/btpy8yqx">The Emerald Spire Superdungeon</a> in our hands we can say that it was totally worth it.</span></p>
<p>There is enough high adventure and dungeon delving between these covers to keep a group of players entertained for a long time. Although this massive module can take a group of heroes from their meager beginnings as 1st-level adventurers all the way to the high end of 13th level, game masters can run one-night adventures with individual levels. Alternately, a GM could take four or five levels of the dungeon and cobble together a mini-campaign hitting on just a few of the levels that most interest them and their group.</p>
<p>Our own publisher, Erik Mona, designed Level 14, and his dungeon would make a great ending for one of these compacted campaigns. This level also serves as one of the most interconnected levels of the whole superdungeon. But don’t just listen to me—let’s let Erik speak for himself and share some of his experiences designing Level 14: The Throne of Azlant.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><b>How do you define a "Superdungeon"? What is your favorite dungeon or superdungeon experience in your personal gaming history?</b></p>
<p>A superdungeon is a multi-level collection of mini dungeons that combine to form a locale suitable for an entire campaign's worth of exploration. The best superdungeons allow for repeated forays in and out of the dungeon, and the majority of a character's growth and development (both in terms of story and game statistics) can occur without too much deviation from exploration of the singular, epic location—if that's what the players want.</p>
<div class = "blurb90"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Level14.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Level14_120.jpeg"></a><br />Cartography by Rob Lazzaretti</div>
<p>I've run several campaigns based around the classic Temple of Elemental Evil dungeon (how cool is it that the co-author of that adventure is one of my co-authors on this project?), with general success. The opening levels of that dungeon—particularly the moathouse section—are among my favorite dungeon levels in all of gaming. I had the opportunity to playtest Monte Cook's Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil with the author himself back in the early days of third edition, and I really loved the way Monte updated the adventure I'd run so many times before, so my affection for the adventure transcends three editions (I have not yet managed to run it in Pathfinder, alas). Each time I've run the classic version it's been completely different. One group decided to knock over the village of Hommlet's jewelry store and ended up outlaws. Another got completely wiped out on the third level of the dungeon. No group I've ever run through the temple has ever made it all the way through. Sure, a few of them died, but mostly people just ended up losing interest, or the campaign went on long enough that the real world intruded to make it impossible to game together. That's the problem with superdungeons—it's all too easy for them to get boring, or for them to become so ambitious that it's nearly impossible to play all the way through and experience all of the story the dungeon has to offer.</p>
<p>One of my favorite things about the Emerald Spire project is that the Flip-Mats are like a challenge to play every level. They also contained the authors somewhat, forcing us through the brutality of limited space and a tight word count to focus on the important stuff and not design anything too sprawling. The Emerald Spire, unlike many superdungeons, is designed to be completable. Alternatively, it works as a collection of 16 dungeons that can be used more or less independently, making this a very easy adventure to cannibalize.</p>
<p><b>What is your level of the Emerald Spire Superdungeon called? What theme, if any, does the level have?</b></p>
<p>My Emerald Spire dungeon is called the Throne of Azlant. It's the seat of the dungeon's Big Bad, the lich Nhur-Athemon. A lot of the foreshadowing in the dungeon, particularly on the handful of levels directly above mine, points to this ultimate nemesis, so my level pays off elements that the adventure has been building toward all along. Nhur-Athemon was "destroyed" by the Knights of the Ioun Star in the dying days of the Azlanti Empire, his unmortal corpse bound forever to his subterranean lair by mythic magic curses. Naturally, the player characters investigate and discover what an undead wizard tyrant gets up to when he has 10,000 years confined to quarters. Old Nhur-Athemon was exiled from Azlant after a failed attempt to claim the imperial throne, so you can be sure that whatever the lich's plan, it certainly doesn't lack for ambition.</p>
<p>My busy work schedule doesn't allow me to write as much as I'd like to, so over the last couple years I've tried to make my few small projects count by tying a lot of minor elements of subplot together throughout various sources. The Knights of the Ioun Star, Nhur-Athemon's ancient Azlanti enemies, also appeared in a short section I wrote for <a href = "/products/btpy95zo"><i>Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Mysteries</i></a>. My Emerald Spire dungeon also connects (thematically and literally) to the dungeon level I wrote for the <a href = "/products/btpy8tb0"><i>Thornkeep</i></a> dungeon, the Sanctum of a Lost Age. That adventure dealt with Nhur-Athemon's apprentices, who have influence upon the Throne of Azlant as well. All of this material ties into my home campaign, Kings of Absalom, which involves a lot of ancient Azlanti secrets. I'll be running that campaign next weekend at PaizoCon, and I hope one day to write it up for publication. This adventure is a taste, and a peek at the grand picture.</p>
<div class = "blurb180"><a href = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Nhur.jpg"><img src = "/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Nhur_180.jpeg"></a><br />Illustration by Abrar Ajmal</div>
<p><b>What where the inspirations you drew on for your Emerald Spire level, and what are you hoping players get out of it?</b></p>
<p>My inspiration for this adventure comes more from my in-game play experience than from something I'm trying to emulate from fiction or the movies or whatever. I've run (and written) a lot of dungeon crawls in my time, and this one plays off of a few lessons I've learned along the way. There's one of my patented "oh, this fight is more difficult than I anticipated" encounters right near the beginning of the adventure, but beyond that I've done my best to avoid some of the pitfalls a big dungeon brings on both sides of the screen.</p>
<p>The Throne of Azlant is non-linear—there are multiple routes to the final chamber that leads deeper into the Emerald Spire dungeons (for the Spire's "Big Bad" is not the "Biggest Bad" on offer).</p>
<p>The dungeon level is more than just hack-and-slash. I included a few roleplaying encounters amongst all the carnage, a sure-fire way to get across more of the dungeon's backstory and to engage the interest of players who enjoy more than just rolling dice.</p>
<p>The adventure contains interesting elements of world lore and continuity. Though I don't explore the full history of Old Azlant or a major mystery like the origin of the god Aroden (you'll have to find a way to play Kings of Absalom for that!), it does reveal interesting new tidbits about the empire that fans of the Pathfinder world will likely appreciate.</p>
<p>It also contains the meanest trick I have ever played on a player character, a bind so nasty that I continue to giggle just thinking about it. I don't want to give away the secret on the blog post, but folks who read the adventure should find it pretty easy to understand what I'm talking about. Every time I've run the dungeon it's been utterly delightful to see whether the players fall into this trap and create a real conundrum for themselves. It's a glorious thing, if you are the type of GM who appreciates seeing his players squirm when they realize they've made a bad decision.</p>
<p>I'll be running one more shot at the Throne of Azlant at PaizoCon next week, which will make it the 13th time I've run the adventure. I started before last year's PaizoCon, and managed to run the Throne of Azlant about a half-dozen times at various conventions and events before I had to turn in my final manuscript. Unsurprisingly, repeated play produced lots of changes to improve the adventure, and I honestly believe it got better with each play-through. I've now run the Throne of Azlant more than any other Pathfinder adventure, which has earned it a special place in my heart. Each running has resulted in different conclusions and different routes through the dungeon, and it never seems to get old.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Thanks to Erik for taking the time out of his schedule to share some of his insights on this monumental project. Keep your eyes on this blog next week for more exciting reveals.</p>
<p>Adam Daigle<br />
<i>Developer</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Emerald Spire, Interviews, Abrar Ajmal, Rob Lazzaretti —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/abrarAjmal">Abrar Ajmal</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules/emeraldSpire">Emerald Spire</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/paizo/interviews">Interviews</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/robLazzaretti">Rob Lazzaretti</a></p>2014-07-01T00:51:00ZFree RPG Day is Here!https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lg86?Free-RPG-Day-is-Here2014-06-21T21:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Free RPG Day is Here!</h1>
<p class="date">Saturday, June 21, 2014</p>
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<p><span itemprop="description">Today is the day! Across the world, game stores are currently participating in <a href = "http://www.freerpgday.com/" target = "_blank">Free RPG Day</a>, and Paizo has two exciting products that are being released just for this event. This year we are releasing <a href = "/products/btpy959k"><i>Pathfinder Module: Risen from the Sands</i></a> and Ranzak the Goblin Raider for the <a href = "/acg">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a> as we get ready to release the <a href ="/products/btpy92zj"><i>Skull & Shackles Base Set</i></a>. You can learn more about these products and download the Pregen Characters for the module in our <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lg7x">blog from this past Thursday</a>. If you've already picked up Ranzak from your local game store, we have put together downloadable character sheets so you can drop him into your game right now!</span></p>
<p style = "text-align: center;"><a href = "/download/pathfinder/FreeRPGDay2014-Ranzak.zip"><b>Download Ranzak's Character Sheet</b></a> - (377 KB zip/PDF)</p>
<p>And if you haven't made it to Free RPG Day, don't worry! On July 1, <i>Risen from the Sands</i> will become available as a free PDF and a $5 print product while supplies last, exclusively at paizo.com—and at PaizoCon and Gen Con! Ranzak will also be for sale at PaizoCon and Gen Con, and on paizo.com (while supplies last) after Gen Con begins. Pathfinder ACG subscribers will also get Ranzak free with their August shipment, along with a few other promo cards.</p>
<p>We hope you're enjoying Free RPG Day, and look forward to sharing more about the Skull & Shackles Base Set as we get closer to release this year at Gen Con!</p>
<p>Chris Lambertz<br />
<i>Digital Products Assistant</i></p>
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<!— tags: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Skull & Shackles, Pathfinder Modules, Free RPG Day —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/freeRPGDay">Free RPG Day</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath/skullShackles">Skull & Shackles</a></p><blockquote>
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<p class="date">Saturday, June 21, 2014</p>
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<p><span itemprop="description">Today is the day! Across the world, game stores are currently participating in <a href = "http://www.freerpgday.com/" target = "_blank">Free RPG Day</a>, and Paizo has two exciting products that are being released just for this event. This year we are releasing <a href = "/products/btpy959k"><i>Pathfinder Module: Risen from the Sands</i></a> and Ranzak the Goblin Raider for the <a href = "/acg">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a> as we get ready to release the <a href ="/products/btpy92zj"><i>Skull & Shackles Base Set</i></a>. You can learn more about these products and download the Pregen Characters for the module in our <a href = "/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lg7x">blog from this past Thursday</a>. If you've already picked up Ranzak from your local game store, we have put together downloadable character sheets so you can drop him into your game right now!</span></p>
<p style = "text-align: center;"><a href = "/download/pathfinder/FreeRPGDay2014-Ranzak.zip"><b>Download Ranzak's Character Sheet</b></a> - (377 KB zip/PDF)</p>
<p>And if you haven't made it to Free RPG Day, don't worry! On July 1, <i>Risen from the Sands</i> will become available as a free PDF and a $5 print product while supplies last, exclusively at paizo.com—and at PaizoCon and Gen Con! Ranzak will also be for sale at PaizoCon and Gen Con, and on paizo.com (while supplies last) after Gen Con begins. Pathfinder ACG subscribers will also get Ranzak free with their August shipment, along with a few other promo cards.</p>
<p>We hope you're enjoying Free RPG Day, and look forward to sharing more about the Skull & Shackles Base Set as we get closer to release this year at Gen Con!</p>
<p>Chris Lambertz<br />
<i>Digital Products Assistant</i></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Skull & Shackles, Pathfinder Modules, Free RPG Day —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/freeRPGDay">Free RPG Day</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath/skullShackles">Skull & Shackles</a></p>2014-06-21T21:00:00ZChaos and Drowning in the Emerald Spire, with Sean K Reynolds and James L. Sutterhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lg7p?Chaos-and-Drowning-in-the-Emerald-Spire-with2014-06-21T17:00:00Z<blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Chaos and Drowning in the Emerald Spire, with Sean K Reynolds and James L. Sutter</h1>
<p class="date">Saturday, June 21, 2014</p>
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<p><span itemprop="description"><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8yqx"><i>The Emerald Spire Superdungeon</i></a> is the largest Pathfinder Module ever, which means there's a lot to keep track of for GMs and players braving its perils. Adventurers can end up on a number of different quests, talk to various recurring allies and foes, and acquire a trove of odd relics and treasures. Players without good notes might end up a bit lost somewhere between The Automaton Forge and The Pleasure Garden.</p>
<p>For groups that find visual aids helpful, many of these elements can be managed with the help of <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8xtr"><i>Pathfinder Campaign Cards: The Emerald Spire Superdungeon</i></a>. This set of 53 full-color campaign cards tracks 18 quests on which the PCs may find themselves, reveals the faces of 19 major NPCs, and unveils 16 mysterious items found in the depths of the Emerald Spire.</p>
<p>And what will PCs encounter over 16 levels of dungeoneering? For another sneak peek, this week we talk to some of the designers of the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8yqx"><i>Emerald Spire Superdungeon</i></a>. We talked to Sean K Reynolds (prolific game designer and developer, founder of Sean K Reynolds Games, and designer of level 5) and James L. Sutter (Managing Editor at Paizo and designer of level 15) about how they approached creating their dungeon levels, what they think a "superdungeon" is, and what inspired them when crafting their portion of the Emerald Spire.
<div class="blurbCenter"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Map3.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Map3_120.jpeg" border="0"></a></div>
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<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Senethar.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Senethar_180.jpeg" border="0"></a><br />Illustration by Firat Solhan</div>
<h2>How do you define a "Superdungeon"?</h2>
<p><b>Sean</b><br />
<p>I define it as "a dungeon that gets its powers from exposure to Earth's yellow sun," as opposed to "Spider-Dungeon," which got its powers from a radioactive spider; "Wonder-Dungeon," which got its powers as blessings from various Hellenic deities; "Invisible Dungeon," which got its powers from cosmic rays; or "Ant-Dungeon," which has a technological helmet that can communicate with bugs.</p>
<p><b>James</b><br />
<p>I think a superdungeon is an old-school dungeon romp that just keeps going—room upon room of traps, monsters, and loot! While I was always more of an urban adventures kid when it came to actual gameplay, I can still recall the way those old-school Gary Gygax dungeon maps captured my imagination. What was in those little gridded boxes, floating in the sea of black ink? It could be anything! There was a sense of possibility that pulled me in at a really visceral level (the same way I can remember how my first Magic cards smelled, or the feeling of my first BattleTech set). Whether I had a game or not, I spent countless summer hours with graph paper, drawing connected rooms without any idea what could be in them. (Even today, I still sometimes like drawing a rough draft of a dungeon map first, then letting that inspire its encounters.)</p>
<h2>What is your favorite dungeon or superdungeon experience in your personal gaming history?</h2>
<p><b>Sean</b><br />
Hands down, when Monte Cook ran <i>Labyrinth of Madness</i> for a bunch of TSR people as an all-nighter at his house in Lake Geneva, WI. It was brutal, but we played high-level characters who alternately romped through the challenges and got our butts kicked, and it was great fun.</p>
<p><b>James</b><br />
I never owned any superdungeons as a child, but of the ones I've encountered in the years since, I think my favorite is Maure Castle. I was unfamiliar with it until I started working at Paizo, and once I started editing for it, I was fascinated by all the clues and secrets—who was the mysterious "Y"? It had never occurred to me that a superdungeon could have overarching mysteries running through all of the levels. So when it came time to write Emerald Spire, I was excited to have tie-ins between my level and other folks' (most notably Wes Schneider's).</p>
<h2>What is your level of the Emerald Spire Superdungeon called? What theme, if any, does the level have?</h2>
<p><b>Sean</b><br />
It was called "The Water Level" in my turnover, because nobody told me we were supposed to come up with names for our levels. Hopefully they changed the name in development into something cooler, like "The Hydro Level."
<sub><i>(Developer Note: We actually went with the MUCH more evocative "The Drowned Level")</i></sub>
<p><b>James</b><br />
Mine is called "Order and Chaos." I'm not going to lie—going into the project, my goal was to be as self-indulgent as possible. Ever since <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8oda"><i>Death's Heretic</i></a>—and really since I wrote the bit of protean speech that shows up in the Chapter 6 opener of the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8ffn"><i>GameMastery Guide</i></a>—I've felt a particular bond with proteans and inevitables. They're just so delightfully alien! So in my level, I wanted to give people the chance to encounter both of them, in an environment that's almost as weird as the creatures themselves: partially mechanical and partially warped by chaos. And of course, since I find social encounters as interesting as combat (or more so), you have the opportunity to form an alliance with either side, though neither really have your best interests at heart...</p>
<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Kolyarut.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Kolyarut_180.jpeg" border="0"></a><br />Illustration by Damien Mammoliti</div>
<h2>What inspirations did you draw on for your Emerald Spire level, and what are you hoping players get out of it?</h2>
<p><b>Sean</b><br />
In the concept meeting for the book we realized we wanted a water level for characters at about level 4 or so. Much of the level is partially submerged or completely underwater, and navigating the water and the lack of air are common challenges. As a scientist by training, I tried to create a reasonable ecology in the level, with microportals to the Plane of Water keeping most of it fresh and providing suitable food for the inhabitants, and also setting up active currents in what otherwise would be still, stagnant dungeon water. I also like to mess with darkness in dungeons (as mentioned in intern Hank Woon's blogs about my <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy89a4"><i>Bastards of Erebus</i></a> playtest game), and using murky water (filled with silt and gross stuff) accomplishes the same thing as darkness. I'm hoping players will be challenged and annoyed by the water level, but will figure out ways for their characters to routinely overcome those obstacles—basically, to make the dungeon a learning experience for them.</p>
<p><b>James</b><br />
Really, that chapter opener from the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8ffn"><i>GameMastery Guide</i></a> is probably the single biggest inspiration for my level—I've always wanted to play through that particular scene, and despite the fact that this is a dungeon level, I hope that I've come close to capturing its feel. More than anything, though, I just want players to have fun, which for me always means seeing new (and weird!) creatures and landscapes. So in my level, every room is different, there are bizarre magical effects, and you rarely fight the same critter twice.</p>
<p>Oh, and there are robots. Because robots.</p>
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<p>We hope your appetite is whetted by this glimpse of the visions you may find in the lower reaches of The Emerald Spire! Next week we'll look at a few more Emerald Spire tie-in products GMs are sure to find useful, and maybe even preview some of the superdungeon maps!</p>
<p>Owen K.C. Stephens<br \>
<i>Developer, Pathfinder Modules</i></p>
<h2>Bonus Blog: Happy Free RPG Day!</h2>
<p>Free RPG Day is going on right now! Be sure to head out to <a href="http://www.freerpgday.com/">your participating local game store</a> and pick up this year’s Pathfinder offerings: Ranzak the Pirate Goblin—a new character for the <a href="https://paizo.com/pathfinder/adventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>—and <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy959k"><i>Pathfinder Module: Risen from the Sands</i></a>, a complete adventure previewing four new classes from the upcoming <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy95d1"><i>Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide</i></a>. You can <a href="https://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lg7x">get the full story on both of our Free RPG Day products right here</a>. Also, be sure to download your <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy959k">Risen from the Sands pregenerated characters</a> so you can start playing as soon as you hit the game store. Hope you have a blast with all your Free RPG Day adventures!</p>
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<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Emerald Spire, Interviews, Firat Solhan, Damien Mammoliti —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/damienMammoliti">Damien Mammoliti</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules/emeraldSpire">Emerald Spire</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/firatSolhan">Firat Solhan</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/paizo/interviews">Interviews</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a></p><blockquote>
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<h1 itemprop="headline">Chaos and Drowning in the Emerald Spire, with Sean K Reynolds and James L. Sutter</h1>
<p class="date">Saturday, June 21, 2014</p>
<div itemprop="articleBody">
<p><span itemprop="description"><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8yqx"><i>The Emerald Spire Superdungeon</i></a> is the largest Pathfinder Module ever, which means there's a lot to keep track of for GMs and players braving its perils. Adventurers can end up on a number of different quests, talk to various recurring allies and foes, and acquire a trove of odd relics and treasures. Players without good notes might end up a bit lost somewhere between The Automaton Forge and The Pleasure Garden.</p>
<p>For groups that find visual aids helpful, many of these elements can be managed with the help of <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8xtr"><i>Pathfinder Campaign Cards: The Emerald Spire Superdungeon</i></a>. This set of 53 full-color campaign cards tracks 18 quests on which the PCs may find themselves, reveals the faces of 19 major NPCs, and unveils 16 mysterious items found in the depths of the Emerald Spire.</p>
<p>And what will PCs encounter over 16 levels of dungeoneering? For another sneak peek, this week we talk to some of the designers of the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8yqx"><i>Emerald Spire Superdungeon</i></a>. We talked to Sean K Reynolds (prolific game designer and developer, founder of Sean K Reynolds Games, and designer of level 5) and James L. Sutter (Managing Editor at Paizo and designer of level 15) about how they approached creating their dungeon levels, what they think a "superdungeon" is, and what inspired them when crafting their portion of the Emerald Spire.
<div class="blurbCenter"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Map3.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Map3_120.jpeg" border="0"></a></div>
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<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Senethar.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Senethar_180.jpeg" border="0"></a><br />Illustration by Firat Solhan</div>
<h2>How do you define a "Superdungeon"?</h2>
<p><b>Sean</b><br />
<p>I define it as "a dungeon that gets its powers from exposure to Earth's yellow sun," as opposed to "Spider-Dungeon," which got its powers from a radioactive spider; "Wonder-Dungeon," which got its powers as blessings from various Hellenic deities; "Invisible Dungeon," which got its powers from cosmic rays; or "Ant-Dungeon," which has a technological helmet that can communicate with bugs.</p>
<p><b>James</b><br />
<p>I think a superdungeon is an old-school dungeon romp that just keeps going—room upon room of traps, monsters, and loot! While I was always more of an urban adventures kid when it came to actual gameplay, I can still recall the way those old-school Gary Gygax dungeon maps captured my imagination. What was in those little gridded boxes, floating in the sea of black ink? It could be anything! There was a sense of possibility that pulled me in at a really visceral level (the same way I can remember how my first Magic cards smelled, or the feeling of my first BattleTech set). Whether I had a game or not, I spent countless summer hours with graph paper, drawing connected rooms without any idea what could be in them. (Even today, I still sometimes like drawing a rough draft of a dungeon map first, then letting that inspire its encounters.)</p>
<h2>What is your favorite dungeon or superdungeon experience in your personal gaming history?</h2>
<p><b>Sean</b><br />
Hands down, when Monte Cook ran <i>Labyrinth of Madness</i> for a bunch of TSR people as an all-nighter at his house in Lake Geneva, WI. It was brutal, but we played high-level characters who alternately romped through the challenges and got our butts kicked, and it was great fun.</p>
<p><b>James</b><br />
I never owned any superdungeons as a child, but of the ones I've encountered in the years since, I think my favorite is Maure Castle. I was unfamiliar with it until I started working at Paizo, and once I started editing for it, I was fascinated by all the clues and secrets—who was the mysterious "Y"? It had never occurred to me that a superdungeon could have overarching mysteries running through all of the levels. So when it came time to write Emerald Spire, I was excited to have tie-ins between my level and other folks' (most notably Wes Schneider's).</p>
<h2>What is your level of the Emerald Spire Superdungeon called? What theme, if any, does the level have?</h2>
<p><b>Sean</b><br />
It was called "The Water Level" in my turnover, because nobody told me we were supposed to come up with names for our levels. Hopefully they changed the name in development into something cooler, like "The Hydro Level."
<sub><i>(Developer Note: We actually went with the MUCH more evocative "The Drowned Level")</i></sub>
<p><b>James</b><br />
Mine is called "Order and Chaos." I'm not going to lie—going into the project, my goal was to be as self-indulgent as possible. Ever since <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8oda"><i>Death's Heretic</i></a>—and really since I wrote the bit of protean speech that shows up in the Chapter 6 opener of the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8ffn"><i>GameMastery Guide</i></a>—I've felt a particular bond with proteans and inevitables. They're just so delightfully alien! So in my level, I wanted to give people the chance to encounter both of them, in an environment that's almost as weird as the creatures themselves: partially mechanical and partially warped by chaos. And of course, since I find social encounters as interesting as combat (or more so), you have the opportunity to form an alliance with either side, though neither really have your best interests at heart...</p>
<div class="blurb180"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Kolyarut.jpg"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderModules/PZO9545-Kolyarut_180.jpeg" border="0"></a><br />Illustration by Damien Mammoliti</div>
<h2>What inspirations did you draw on for your Emerald Spire level, and what are you hoping players get out of it?</h2>
<p><b>Sean</b><br />
In the concept meeting for the book we realized we wanted a water level for characters at about level 4 or so. Much of the level is partially submerged or completely underwater, and navigating the water and the lack of air are common challenges. As a scientist by training, I tried to create a reasonable ecology in the level, with microportals to the Plane of Water keeping most of it fresh and providing suitable food for the inhabitants, and also setting up active currents in what otherwise would be still, stagnant dungeon water. I also like to mess with darkness in dungeons (as mentioned in intern Hank Woon's blogs about my <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy89a4"><i>Bastards of Erebus</i></a> playtest game), and using murky water (filled with silt and gross stuff) accomplishes the same thing as darkness. I'm hoping players will be challenged and annoyed by the water level, but will figure out ways for their characters to routinely overcome those obstacles—basically, to make the dungeon a learning experience for them.</p>
<p><b>James</b><br />
Really, that chapter opener from the <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy8ffn"><i>GameMastery Guide</i></a> is probably the single biggest inspiration for my level—I've always wanted to play through that particular scene, and despite the fact that this is a dungeon level, I hope that I've come close to capturing its feel. More than anything, though, I just want players to have fun, which for me always means seeing new (and weird!) creatures and landscapes. So in my level, every room is different, there are bizarre magical effects, and you rarely fight the same critter twice.</p>
<p>Oh, and there are robots. Because robots.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>We hope your appetite is whetted by this glimpse of the visions you may find in the lower reaches of The Emerald Spire! Next week we'll look at a few more Emerald Spire tie-in products GMs are sure to find useful, and maybe even preview some of the superdungeon maps!</p>
<p>Owen K.C. Stephens<br \>
<i>Developer, Pathfinder Modules</i></p>
<h2>Bonus Blog: Happy Free RPG Day!</h2>
<p>Free RPG Day is going on right now! Be sure to head out to <a href="http://www.freerpgday.com/">your participating local game store</a> and pick up this year’s Pathfinder offerings: Ranzak the Pirate Goblin—a new character for the <a href="https://paizo.com/pathfinder/adventureCardGame">Pathfinder Adventure Card Game</a>—and <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy959k"><i>Pathfinder Module: Risen from the Sands</i></a>, a complete adventure previewing four new classes from the upcoming <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy95d1"><i>Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide</i></a>. You can <a href="https://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lg7x">get the full story on both of our Free RPG Day products right here</a>. Also, be sure to download your <a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy959k">Risen from the Sands pregenerated characters</a> so you can start playing as soon as you hit the game store. Hope you have a blast with all your Free RPG Day adventures!</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!— tags: Pathfinder Modules, Emerald Spire, Interviews, Firat Solhan, Damien Mammoliti —><p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/damienMammoliti">Damien Mammoliti</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules/emeraldSpire">Emerald Spire</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/firatSolhan">Firat Solhan</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/paizo/interviews">Interviews</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderModules">Pathfinder Modules</a></p>2014-06-21T17:00:00Z