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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide (OGL)

Advanced Race Guide Preview: Letting the Cat out of the Bag—Catfolk Rogue Talents

Advanced Race Guide Preview: Letting the Cat out of the Bag Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Actually, we are letting the cat out of the book. Last week, after previewing the tengu section of the Advanced Race Guide, we asked you what you wanted to see next. We received many good suggestions, but it seems that many of you wanted to see the catfolk. ... These lithe and agile creatures make excellent monks, rangers, and especially rogues, but they also have a mysterious side, as they are sometimes able to...
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PFS-Sihedron

Introducing the Year of the Risen Rune

Introducing the Year of the Risen Rune Monday, April 30, 2012I took a break from the Gen Con push today to write this blog post, and my mind started to wander. I thought a bit about days gone by and how last year at this time we were under just as much pressure trying to get Ultimate Combat off to the presses in time. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Anyway, I also thought to myself, Self, what sort of blog were you writing this time last year? ... Aha! myself answered. I...
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GameMastery Item Cards: Skull & Shackles

Ultimate Equipment: What's Missing?

Ultimate Equipment: What's Missing? Tuesday, March 6, 2012Now that we’re wrapping up the last of the Advanced Race Guide, the design team is starting to work on Ultimate Equipment. This hardcover will cover all kinds of mundane and magical items for the Pathfinder RPG. As we have a little time before the text goes over to the editors, we’d like to give you one last chance to provide feedback for the book. Is there a kind of magic item that you’d like to see in this book? Is there an item...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3 (OGL)

Unflinching Evil—Tzitzimitl CR 19

Unflinching Evil Tuesday, December 6, 2011 When brainstorming a new hardcover bestiary, we have many goals. These books give us an opportunity to support new Adventure Paths and other products. A new 300-plus-page volume of monsters gives us a chance to delve deep into the world’s mythologies and find new and interesting creatures from stories around the world. We get to express our love for classic creatures, exploring the genre’s rich history and smoothing out some of its wackiness. But it...
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Wallpaper30

Planets in Peril!

... Illustration by Kieran Yanner. Widescreen version here. Planets in Peril! Thursday, September 8, 2011The latest release from Planet Stories, Robert Silverberg's The Planet Killer's: Three Novels of the Spaceways, is now blasting off from the Paizo warehouse. Kieran Yanner, who has illustrated all three of our Silverberg omnibuses with an eye-catching, nostalgic look, is in top retro-SF form once again in this new Planet Stories wallpaper! ... Christopher Carey ... Editor ...
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Pathfinder Adventure Path #47: Ashes at Dawn (Carrion Crown 5 of 6) (PFRPG)

Golarion Day: Psychopomps

Golarion Day: Psychopomps Thursday, April 21, 2011In Bestiary 2 we introduced a new race of neutral outsiders, the aeons. But we weren't satisfied with only one race of neutral outsiders—especially since aeons don't fit perfectly into the Boneyard, Golarion's true neutral Outer Plane. With the article on Pharasma in the second volume of Carrion Crown, we revealed a second race of neutral outsiders—ones that specifically serve Pharasma and dwell in the Boneyard itself. The...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic (OGL)

Ultimate Magic: Witches and Wizards—New Familiars

... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Ultimate Magic: Witches and Wizards Tuesday, April 19, 2011This week's theme is witches and wizards: two new familiars, two new patron themes, and two arcane discoveries. New Familiars The following are two of the many new familiars presented in Ultimate Magic. ... Fox    CR 1/4 ... XP 100 ... N Tiny animal ... Init +2; Senses low-light vision, scent; Perception +8 ... Defense ... AC 14, touch 14, flat-footed 12 (+2 Dex, +2 size) ... hp 5...
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A-Hunting We Will Go...

... Illustration by Kieran Yanner. Wallpaper design by Crystal Frasier. Widescreen version here. ... A-Hunting We Will Go... Wednesday, March 23, 2011I think we can all agree that Kieran Yanner is an amazing artist. And with this image, used as the cover for the latest Planet Stories volume, Hunt the Space-Witch! by Robert Silverberg, he's hit one out of the park. This cover screams pulp sci-fi and it proudly sits on my desktop as my wallpaper for this week. And now you too can adorn your...
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Hunt the Space-Witch! (Trade Paperback)

Hunt the Space-Witch!

... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Hunt the Space-Witch! Wednesday, March 16, 2011With Manly Wade Wellman's Battle in the Dawn: The Complete Hok the Mighty now shipping from the Paizo warehouse, I'm happy to announce we've just wrapped up production on our next volume in the Planet Stories library, Robert Silverberg's Hunt the Space-Witch! Seven Adventures in Time and Space. A collection of Silverberg's early science fiction, Hunt the Space-Witch! features seven novellas by one of the...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)

Hazardous Terrain

... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Hazardous Terrain Tuesday, March 8, 2011In last week's Design Tuesday blog, I delved into the importance of terrain to push your encounter design to the next level, and provided you with some design philosophy to ponder when designing your own terrain. This week, I'm back with some concrete examples. ... The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game assumes combatants are able to use their movement abilities with little or no hindrance. Sure, there are walls, doors,...
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SaveDoctorLucky-Wallpaper

You Tried to Kill Him, Now Try to Save Him!

... Illustrations by Vincent Dutrait and Kieran Yanner. Widescreen version here. ... You Tried to Kill Him, Now Try to Save Him! Friday, January 7, 2010A few years ago we released a little family board game of murder in the dark. Kill Doctor Lucky had you racing to see who can kill Doctor Lucky while nobody was looking. It was a great product and has provided hours of fun. A few weeks ago we released the sequel, Save Doctor Lucky. This time you're on a titanic cruise ship sailing across the...
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SulleyAndMike

Introducing Paizo's Newest Monsters

... Introducing Paizo's Newest Monsters Wednesday, November 17, 2010Last week we showed you a few pictures of the first few copies of Bestiary 2 to straggle into the office. But we've been remiss in introducing the Pathfinder community at large to the two newest monsters to grace Paizo HQ with their presence. They showed up here around the same time I started at the company, so it's easy to see why their arrival slipped under the radar. They serve as the official golem watch-monsters,...
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Oh Look, More Venture-Captains!

... Oh Look, More Venture-Captains! October 27, 2010A few weeks ago we announced 13 Regional Coordinators that we're calling Venture-Captains. Since then, Mark and I have been going through the entire Pathfinder Society program and starting the process of making sure Season 2 ends with a bang you'll all remember, making plans for Season 3 (which will be awesome, trust me), and going through all of the rules for the Society program itself. In between all of that, I've reviewed a number of...
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Sojan the Swordsman & Under the Warrior Star

Behold the Double Feature!

Behold the Double Feature! Wednesday, August 25, 2010Though we've put out a lot of awesome titles in the Planet Stories line in the past few years—not a few of them stellar classics in the genre—the debut of the first-ever Planet Stories Double Feature in a couple months has really got the editorial team here stoked. And for good reason—the book features two exciting sword and planet novellas by literary grand masters Michael Moorcock and Joe R. Lansdale! ... Illustration by...
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Template: A Novel of the Archonate (Trade Paperback)

Matthew Hughes's Template: A Novel of the Archonate

... Matthew Hughes's Template: A Novel of the Archonate Monday, July 19, 2010I'm happy to announce that Planet Stories' latest release, Template: A Novel of the Archonate by Matthew Hughes, has hit the Paizo warehouse and is now shipping to subscribers. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, Template is the most recently written novel that Planet Stories has published, and we're extremely proud to be offering it to readers in the States for the first time. It takes the best of that sense of...
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The Walrus & the Warwolf (Trade Paperback)

China Miéville on The Walrus & the Warwolf!—In Praise of Stupid Boys

China Miéville on The Walrus & the Warwolf! Monday, June 14, 2010Many of you already hip to the Planet Stories line likely already know about China Miéville's enthusiasm for Hugh Cook, the recently deceased New Zealand author whose capacity for bizarre and captivating fantasy worlds which staunchly refused to leave out any SF element (from magic to tech, dragons to pirates) was matched only by his ambition as an author (in which many thousands of published pages were considered just the tip...
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Template: A Novel of the Archonate (Trade Paperback)

Template Reviews

Template Reviews Wednesday, June 9, 2010We just received the beautiful advance copies of Matthew Hughes's Template: A Novel of the Archonate here at the office today, and that reminds me we haven't really featured the book on the blog except to show of the final cover a while back. ... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... At first glance, one might think the novel is a bit of a departure for the Planet Stories library—it's the most recently written book that we've published, by an author...
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Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats (Trade Paperback)

See Where It All Began!

See Where It All Began! Wednesday, May 19, 2010After almost two years of work, Before They Were Giants is finally away to the printer, and I couldn’t be more excited about it! ... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... If I haven’t already filled your ear about it on the messageboards, the story behind the book is as follows. Back in the early days of Planet Stories, I came to Erik with a proposal for an anthology: What if we could get 15 of the biggest living superstars in science fiction and...
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Template: A Novel of the Archonate (Trade Paperback)

Template Cover Unveiled!

Template Cover Unveiled! Wednesday, April 28, 2010 ... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... En garde! ... James L. Sutter Editor ...
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The Walrus & the Warwolf (Trade Paperback)

Also Pirates!

... Also Pirates! Wednesday, March 24, 2010Given that here at Planet Stories we recently wrapped up production on Hugh Cook's Brobdingnagian-sized 464-page sci-fantasy adventure The Walrus & the Warwolf, I figured it's about time to show off the book's awesomely monstrous cover art by Keiran Yanner, and also to share with you what the book's presenter, award-winning novelist and builder of fantastic worlds China Miéville, has to say about Hugh Cook in his introduction. So without further ado,...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: GameMastery Guide (OGL)

Tables; Roleplaying; Metal

... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Tables; Roleplaying; Metal Thursday, March 4, 2010 One of my first duties at Paizo was to create some random encounter tables for the GameMastery Guide. It took more than three workdays, and by the end of the process I was seeing tables in my sleep. It was a little bit like the first time you play Guitar Hero, and you look away from the screen and think the world is scrolling up for a couple seconds. Except with tables. But, I'm done with that, so that's...
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Steppe (Trade Paperback)

I Planet Stories

... I ♥ Planet Stories Monday, January 11, 2010It takes a delicate hand to do certain things in writing, especially in the realms of science fiction and fantasy. Aside from character development, plotting, dialogue, description, pacing, and theme, science fiction and fantasy must overcome the additional hurtle which is world building. As an aspiring writer, I can tell you that world building is tough. Never mind how easy the other guys here make it look. Never mind all the wonderful...
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Who Fears the Devil?—The Complete Silver John (Trade Paperback)

Who Fears the Devil?

... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Who Fears the Devil? Wednesday, December 16th, 2009When Erik first presented me with the manuscript for Who Fears the Devil? by Manly Wade Wellman, my first thought was likely the same as yours: ... Who the heck names their son Manly? ... Yet Mr. Wellman is from a different time and a different place, and it's precisely this distance which sets him most apart. For you see, unlike many of the classic pulp stories we've published in Planet Stories, Who...
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gobberCrys11

Sci-Fried: How to make Friends and Influence (fictional) People

... Illustration by Crystal Frasier ... Sci-Fried: How to make Friends and Influence (fictional) People Tuesday, December 1, 2009Cave raptors are sated; it's time to blog! ... There's a peculiar quality to the Florida swamps. ... Bear with me here, because this story does eventually come around to science fiction. ... More than a few feet down, the swamps and bogs of central and southern Florida are just acidic enough and just the right temperature to kill bacteria without destroying delicate...
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The Ship of Ishtar (Trade Paperback)

Set Sail with The Ship of Ishtar

... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Set Sail with The Ship of Ishtar Monday, November 2, 2009This week we released the newest Planet Stories book, The Ship of Ishtar, by A. Merritt. Not only is this my personal favorite of the 22 books we have released since the launch of Planet Stories about a year and a half ago, but it's also an interesting look at the Planet Stories process, and how in many ways we here in the office are learning just as much about the history of the most important...
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Pathfinder Chronicles: Seekers of Secrets—A Guide to the Pathfinder Society (PFRPG)

Seekers of Secrets—Skyreach and Ambrus

... Illustration by Craig J. Spearing ... Seekers of Secrets—Skyreach and Ambrus Wednesday, September 30, 2009 ... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Time for another preview of Pathfinder Chronicles: Seekers of Secrets! ... Skyreach: This five-towered fortress, visible from miles away over Abaslom's skyline, is the heart of the Pathfinder Society. Here the Decemvirate rules and make its rare pronouncements beneath the enchanted skylights of the Great Hall in the central tower, and both...
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Pathfinder Chronicles: Seekers of Secrets—A Guide to the Pathfinder Society (PFRPG)

At Long Last: Seekers of Secrets

... At Long Last: Seekers of Secrets Wednesday, September 2, 2009 ... Illustration by Craig J. Spearing ... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Pathfinder Chronicles: Seekers of Secrets was delayed a long time, probably because of several nasty curses brought on by too-curious chroniclers into forbidden lore. The book is finally out the door, which means it's time for some previews! This time it's an excerpt from one of the book's many biographies of notable Pathfinders and a hint about how...
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Pathfinder Chronicles: Book of the Damned—Volume 1: Princes of Darkness (PFRPG)

Book of the Damned: Moloch and Stygia

... Illustration by Frances Tsai ... Book of the Damned: Moloch and Stygia Tuesday, August 25, 2009Now that we're back from the adventures, misadventures, and unexpected romances of Gen Con, it's again time to talk about one of our upcoming books, Princes of Darkness, Book of the Damned Volume I. I'll just quote Master Schneider's text. ... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Moloch: All who burn join the armies of Moloch. A being of seething wrath, the Lord of the Sixth embodies both absolute...
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Pathfinder Chronicles: Book of the Damned—Volume 1: Princes of Darkness (PFRPG)

Princes of Darkness

... Illustration by Frances Tsai ... Princes of Darkness Monday, August 3, 2009 ... lllustration by Kieran Yanner ... Wes is a pretty creepy guy. He always wears black and red, never smiles, lights creepy candles at his desk, and his voice is a spine-chilling hiss.• What better person to write Book of the Damned, Vol. I, Princes of Darkness? This book is a seven-course feast of lore about Hell, devils, and Asmodeus. You get descriptions of all nine layers of Hell, each layer's archdevil ruler...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary (OGL)

Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary

... Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary Monday, July 20, 2009Work continues frantically as we put the final touches on the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. In anticipation of the light at the end of this beastly tunnel, here's a host of new divine creatures preparing to come to your PCs' aid in just a few short weeks! ... Art by Michael JaecksArt by Alex Schim ... Art by Andrew HouArt by Kieran Yanner F. Wesley Schneider ... Managing Editor ...
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary (OGL)

Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary

... Snagged from the Vault: Pathfinder RPG Bestiary Monday, June 29, 2009While the denizens of the Pit have been slavishly wrangling hundreds upon hundreds of beasts both fascinating and foul, we've managed to slip in and liberate a particularly interesting few. Now behold! We bring to you, our faithful readers, the terrible visages of four terrifying creatures, taken directly from the pages of the fabled Pathfinders' Bestiary that nears completion deep in the Vault of the Golem. Some of...
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