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A strange sickness afflicts the frontier settlement of Holver's Ferry, threatening to overwhelm its citizens with an alien madness. Already the town has nearly torn itself apart, and the local sheriff is missing. Brave the wilderness and aid the hapless villagers, but in unraveling this murderous mystery beware lest your heroes fall prey to The Assimilation Strain!
Pick you favorite season of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Guild and play some scenarios. Choose from any of the base sets - Rise of the Runelords, Skull and Shackles, Wrath of the Righteous, and Mummy's Mask.
Try out the new Core Set for the Adventure Card Game in these exciting new kobold-themed scenarios.
Pathfinder Society Academy is a place for younger gamers to learn how to play Pathfinder and for our younger GMs to hone their skills under the tutelage of experienced GMs. Completing all three modules results in a second level character compatible with the Pathfinder Society Organized Play program. All Pathfinder Society Academy tables are family friendly and the GMs are chosen for their experience working with youth. Please note all children 12 and under need a parent/guardian to stay with them. Youth 13-15 need a parent in the ballroom. Youth 16-18 need to have a way to contact their onsite parent.
After years of training, one final test remains to become full Pathfinder agents: Their Confirmation. Explore a hidden cave, uncover a secret history, and experience what it means to be a Pathfinder.
A retired hero has learned of a legendary palace that might protect relics of a fallen empire. The PCs must travel around Tian Xia in search of clues to uncover the palace and its treasures.
Newly declassified reports reveal that a broken noble family wielded a supernatural force potent enough to ward off Cheliax’s rulers. The PCs uncover the family’s history and seek this secret weapon.
The shards of the relic the Shattered Shield of Arnisant are safely enshrined. Why did one appear in an auction in a land where religion is banned?
Pathfinders visit an ancient Tian site to learn the local culture, only to find extraplanar perils and a new religion trying to bury the past.
Sarkorian refugees are trapped by a forest fire. Can Pathfinders tame the flames, as well as rising tensions among the locals, before tragedy strikes?
The trail of the legendary sorcerer Hao Jin leads to a sequestered library, home to the Scalebreaker kobolds and a mighty spirit they dare not anger.
A careless Pathfinder raided an “ancient ruin” that was actually a Shoanti sacred site. Emissaries must now repair the social and physical damage.
On Axis, the plane of absolute law, the Pathfinders at last find Hao Jin, the creator of the Hao Jin Tapestry demiplane. Can they secure her aid?
Uncover some of the buried secrets of the Pathfinder Society’s original masked leaders in this series of four 1-hour adventures.
Sevenfinger’s tomb in the Gloomspires can’t contain the ancient pirate, who has seized power from a realm of nightmares. Can the Pathfinders stop him?
The Blakros family hires Pathfinders to chase thieves into the Shadow Plane and uncover the plots of the sinister Onyx Alliance.
In Kalsgard, an Ulfen city on the verge of a war of succession, a rash of mysterious deaths has struck the gnome population. Can you find the cause?
The PCs race against time to explore and evacuate a massive cavern before a mountain of rock from another plane appears and crushes everything within.
Pathfinder agents unravel the corrupt operations of a disgraced former venture-captain and rescue Pathfinders who fell prey to his greed.
This group of four quests takes place across the Pact Worlds. Battle enemy starships in the Diaspora, and travel to worlds of fantasy, nightclubs, and robots!
The Starfinder Society travels to a seemingly abandoned moon in search of information on an alien civilization’s history.
The heroes must cater to the needs of visiting alien dignitary in order to maintain good relations or risk a historic agreement falling apart.
Sent on a daring mission, the PCs must break into a secure data bank. Can they retrieve the information before automated systems delete it?
Travelling into the territory of the Starfinder Society’s newest foe, the PCs learn about their enemy while surviving on an unforgiving world.
When a Starfinder leader finds an interstellar treasure map that follows a historic legend’s footsteps, the race to find the destination is on!
After finding a complex inside an asteroid belonging to their fallen kin, the Pact Worlds dwarves call on the Starfinder Society to investigate.
Travelling to a militarized civilization, the PCs must comport themselves to convince their hosts to provide the Society with vital technology.
When a Society faction leader uncovers a conspiracy against the Society, the PCs stand alongside them in opposition to an insidious threat.
An alien adversary invades a new ally’s space and the PCs must join the rest of the Society in joining the conflict to stop a galactic threat.
HoneyCon, 2019. You and your associates are preparing to undertake the greatest heist the world has ever seen. Two things -- One: You have a complex plan that requires precise timing. Two: You are a GODDAMN BEAR.
You awake in a crumbling stone prison in the sunken city of Hyrantam. Where are the guards? Who are your strange cellmates? And why does your body ache like you've been asleep for a hundred years? Nevermind—the only thing that matters is that you escape with your life. But it soon dawns on you that even that isn't possible. You're already dead.
This one-session adventure assumes some knowledge of the Pathfinder Playtest rules and basic familiarity with undead monsters.
Draft and play monsters in a bracketed deathmatch. Bring your lucky dice, because there will be a lot of green blood on this black rock.
Pathfinder Second Edition is almost here. Come play the most current version of the Pathfinder and help hunt the mysterious Blackfang, current scourge of Sandpoint. Do you have what it takes to stop this elusive murder of livestock before kills again?
Students trapped by warped magic must use creativity and ingenuity along with a healthy dose of puns and wordplay to find the cause and escape.
History records the Perplexity as being the creation of mad genius, a complex intended to prepare Society field agents against future threats. Once per year, the starmetal doors to the Perplexity admit entrants to test themselves against the mysterious challenges within. Unique chronicle sheets are available to Starfinder Society characters that participate. Starfinder Society Legal Character (Tier 5–8; Pregens receive no credit).
A crisp fall day hunting in the woods and fields surrounding Highcoombe House is interrupted as two men with antiquated accents confront the investigators before firing muskets and disappearing while gun smoke obscures them. And this is only the first of many strange events to occur over the weekend. Can the guests of the hunting lodge solve this mystery, or are they the ones being hunted? Pregens provided. (Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition, 6 players per table, 4 hours long; beginners welcome!)
Don't worry, the skittermanders are help to help! Come play the inaugural Starfinder Free RPG Day adventure, "Skitter Shot," with Paizo Managing Developer Amanda Hamon. Six-armed mayhem and space shenanigans shall ensue!
An eerie chime rings at dusk, causing those who hear it to become...different. All except you! Play as a dryad, a faerie dragon, a fungus leshy, a pixie, a unicorn, or a living tree as you investigate the mystery. Run in Pathfinder Second Edition by one of the game's creators!
The brave goblin heroes of the Licktoad Tribe must venture into a fearsome swamp to obtain fireworks for their tribe! This adventure is family- and beginner-friendly.
Whether this is your first PaizoCon or you've been attending since the beginning, come learn what you can expect throughout the show. Want to know what events you absolutely can't miss or thhe best places to get lunch? Wondering who the folks wearing blue shirts are? Get the most of your PaizoCon experiance with this helpful primer!
Experianced in-house Paizo Game Masters reveal their best game-mastering secrets and help you troubleshot your adventuring campaigns.
Something happened to the bridge leading to Teganshire, and the workers sent to fix it got eaten. The PCs are sent to investigate, and either they’re the next meal or come back as heroes—but there is more afoot than a simple hungry monster.
When a mysterious disaster leaves an orbiting agricultural space station silent and dark, the halted flow of food threatens nearby colonies with starvation, rioting, and desertion. Investigating PCs find themselves trapped aboard the hellscape that is Abattoir 8. Forget heroism… can you race through the pandemonium and escape in one piece?
Join Paizo's Director of Game Design Jason Bulmahn as he takes The Glass Cannon Network crew along with Paizo Publisher Erik Mona through an epic three part adventure taking place over three days using Pathfinder Second Edition Rules!
Experience the Starfinder Beginner Box and hunt down a monstrous killer in the abandoned Ghost Levels of Absalom Station.
The Order of the Palatine Eye acquired journals from an ancient mage called Tular Seft—journals essential for preventing the end of the world! But the researcher decoding them has disappeared, and you've been tasked with finding and recovering both the researcher and the books from whoever may have taken them. This adventure uses the final Second Edition rules, and was made especially for PaizoCon.
In this Planescape adventure, a Justiciar and their Mercykiller allies hunt a dangerous Sigilian serial killer known as the Ouroboros Killer, in order to bring them to justice. Suitable for players with moderate experience with Pathfinder and any level of familiarity with Planescape.
Paizo's sages of Golarion reveal the mysteries behind the Pathfinder campaign setting, from conspiracies you never knew existed to the real story behind that one thing you always wanted to know. Bring your most burning setting questions and discover secrets you never knew you didn't know.
Discover the secrets and techniques to designing a dungeon that will engage and excite players. The panelists will provide their own extensive experience in dungeon design, troubleshoot questions from the attendees, and workshop a thrilling dungeon with attendee input.
There are many stages between someone having an idea for an RPG product, and a physical book or play aid being in someone's hands. Ever wondered how the size of a book is determined? Who outlines it, and when? How does editing and layout work? Art orders? Printing? Come get the 101 on the process of making an RPG book, and bring your questions!
Game Master Lyz Liddell and a group of all-star players, including Guests of Honor Liane Merciel and Wayne Renyolds, actual play streamer extrodinaire BB Wolfe, and Paizo developer Luis Loza, will play through an exciting two hour Pathfinder Second Edition adventure. See if you can catch new rules and watch the evolution of Pathfinder in action!
You are a small group of survivors in the world of Apocalypse the Risen who live in The Mill. Strange things have been happening as of recent and the colony has to look to you to figure them out. 2nd level
Since 1874, Cosmo's Tournament of Railroads has been America’s greatest and most cruelly unfair railroad of a Pathfinder game. A game which brings together the traditions of the unplanned and plotless story, with the arbitrary whims of a power mad GM who just wants to punish players for existing. Do NOT play in this game.
The palace of Dresteros is haunted by a restless spirit, and people have been mysteriously disappearing at night in the days leading up to fashion week. All the clues lead to the demiplane dungeon known as the Wat Rum Tapestry. Can you brave the terrors within to solve the mystery, put the ghost to rest, and save the fashion event of the season? An adventure based on dungeon rooms drawn by past Paizocon attendees on battle grid square skirts!
Learn a cooperative role-playing light adventure card game based on the popular Gothic Campaign Compendium by Legendary Games with game design by Mythica Gaming. This diceless game changes based on the use of Fate cards and skill level to determine success or failure.
Great Ork Gods! An anarchic game of chaotic works and the gods that hate them! Get ready to smite your friends, burn buildings, and smash stuff for fun!
Continuing our tradition from past PaizoCons, this will be the first adventure of a three-adventure series of Pathfinder Adventure Card Game homebrew scenarios. Players will take on the role of one of the Sewer Dragons of Absalom, but this time the Pathfinder Society has sent their kobold conscripts into the sands of the Osiriani desert. This will use the Mummy's Mask base set and custom, pregenerated Tier 1 characters.
The continuation of an ongoing adventure that began in 2014 and has been run at seven conventions! Six teams of pregenerated heroes have managed to clear many early levels of the Emerald Spire! You pick up where they left off, trying to clear as much of the Emerald Star Spire Superdungeon as you can and passing on your progress to the teams that come after you. Maybe this will be easier with swoop hammers and lasers…
A remote sawmill has been taken over by mites, who have taken to worshipping the mill machinery. Can you overcome the clever traps and other defenses laid by these tiny fey and free the workers they’ve taken hostage before they’re sent down the mill’s chute as sacrifices?
The Cairnlands, a desolate wasteland dotted with abandoned siege towers, surrounds the city of Absalom. One of these ruins, known as Bonekeep, delves deep underground. Teams of up to 4 characters venture into the ruins to uncover the secrets. Teams should plan on playing all levels of Bonekeep.
Come play the introductory adventure from the Swords of the Serpentine core book! Someone is stealing corpses, which wouldn't much of a problem if they weren't manufacturing them in the process. Come uncover tragic vengeance, unexpected betrayal, and—if you do it right—prevent the hideous death of thousands. Welcome to Eversink. This event has background music and sound effects.
Whether you’re designing a palace, market, or space station, keep your setting descriptions fresh and fantastical! Panelists and attendees will collaborate to create memorable details for audience-suggested environs.
Ask the coordinators and creatives behind Starfinder Society all your organized play questions–from slotting boons to what’s coming up next!
Do you have burning questions about the Pathfinder RPG rule system or the world of Golarion that only a Game Designer or Franchise Manager could answer? Sure ... we all do! Take this opportunity to ask Mark or Mark your questions and receive answers that may or not be what you're looking for!
This game is a replacement game for attendees that signed up for Warlock's Tunnel when it was incorrectly marked as a children's event. It will involve magic and fun.
Update from Chris: Students at a school for aspiring mages wake to find an ancient villain has taken their headmistress and left the school in the grip of a premature winter. To set things straight, the students must travel a magical path through a realm of living fables and use magic to find their teacher and defeat her captor. Along the way, the students might find that their magic comes from more than their wands and spells. This roleplaying game uses a simple custom system that's easy to learn at the table, quick, and fun, putting as few limits on imagination as possible. Players can make up their own characters or select from pregenerated ones.
Kick in the door and loot the room in Munchkin: Pathfinder with Paizo Developer Patrick Renie!
Taking a stolen enemy starship into the heart of a hostile alien empire, the PCs must pave the way for a decisive strike against the jinsul menace.
The Warlock’s Tunnel is an original adventure set in a fictional world of wizardry and magic exist alongside, but hidden to normal humans. The year is 1987, and trouble is brewing at a magical academy for young wizards. A beloved prefect has gone missing under mysterious circumstances and no one seems concerned. A small band of second-year students have decided to take action... and find themselves on a dangerous journey that takes them deep into the long-lost, medieval foundations of the academy, and up against a forgotten nemesis of the famed school. This event is intended for younger convention attendees to enjoy, parents & guardians are welcome to sign up for the event if their child(ren) are also signing up.
Spring of 1969, Pacific NW – An investigator of paranormal mysteries receives an urgent letter pleading for help, sending a team of teen detectives and their lovable great dane on an adventure that will push them to their very limits. This is an original scenario where players take on the roles of five sleuths who travel around the country in their multi-colored van. Call of Cthulhu is a horror RPG where players work together to untangle mysteries, try to stay alive and keep hold of their sanity. Generally PG-13 content, catered to the table to ensure everyone feels welcome
Paizo’s founding CEO Lisa Stevens has seen it all, from the birth of White Wolf to her days as “employee #1” at Wizards of the Coast. She has been Star Wars Fan Club president, helped manage the transition of D&D from TSR to WotC, and guided Paizo from the start. Join Lisa for anecdotes from her history in gaming, followed by a Q&A.
Paizo staff talk about the importance of diversity and inclusion in gaming, and talk about the various things we can all do to make sure we foster diversity in writing, art, at our gaming tables, and more.
Join Paizo’s award winning art and graphic design staff and Guest of Honor Wayne Reynolds for a discussion of the illustrations, maps, and other visual elements that bring Pathfinder to life, as well as a preview of what's to come.
Whether you’re interested in creating your own immersive world or curious how the rich details of a world like Golarion are developed, join Guest of Honor Liane Merciel, Paizo Creative Director James Jacobs, and Paizo Developer Linda Zayas-Palmer to learn a variety of ways you can use elements big and small to paint a vivid and convincing fictional world.
You're a member of a marvelous superhero team assembled to avenge Earth, but you don't know that. When you awaken in a world full of magic and evil, you must discover your true identity, unlock your hidden potential, and restore the world to the Earth you know and love.
Author run of PFS #10-12 "Breath of the Dragonskull"
Draft and play a variety of alien creatures in a bracketed Starfinder deathmatch. There will be a lot of green blood on this black rock—now in space!
The young goblin whelps of the Licktoad Tribe must prove their worth to be declared adults, and then become wedding smashers! This adventure is family- and beginner-friendly.
The Pathfinder Design Team takes a look back at what we learned and what changes were specifically made from the playtest.
Join veteran puzzle masters for tips on using puzzles to spice up your games and tricks for getting to the bottom of various types of puzzles.
Join Game Master Thurston Hillman and a group of bold and brave RPG all-stars as they role-play an adventurous Starfinder story for you to enjoy. Audience participation may even determine the fate of the story, but will you choose to help the players or the GM?
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