Welcome to the Pathfinder Society, Paizo's organized play campaign!

Season 0 launches at Gen Con this August. Registered Pathfinder Society members will need a paizo.com account, and their GMs can turn in monthly play reports from home, in-store, and convention events right here on this page. When you register your character, you'll be required to choose one of five factions (detailed via the Paizo Blog in the coming months) and your monthly exploits in the Pathfinder Society will earn your faction prestige—prestige that affects the in-game world and helps the Paizo design staff shape the flavor of the Inner Sea region of Golarion.

Season 0 represents our playtest year—a year in which our participants and the Alpha and Beta playtesters of the Pathfinder RPG help shape the system we'll move forward with in August 2009 with the launch of Season 1 and the Pathfinder RPG. Registration begins this August.

There is no cost to join the Pathfinder Society, though the multiple monthly Pathfinder Society Scenarios will be available for download as PDFs for a small fee at paizo.com. Local game stores are encouraged to join the Pathfinder Society as a Society-Approved Store and Paizo will offer those stores free PDFs of the scenarios every month to be run in-store (details and participation guidelines coming soon). Beginning in September 2008, there will also be a free monthly Pathfinder Society newsletter emailed to all members to keep them up-to-date on faction prestige and the inner workings of the Pathfinder Society organized play system.

Pathfinder Society members can progress to 12th level over the span of a full season; characters reaching 12th level will be retired from play but still usable in events specifically designed for members above 12th level. This system allows members to play characters from a variety of factions over the years and helps keep the game fresh and inviting for new members as well.

The Pathfinder Society will launch using the 3.5 edition rules and will convert to the Pathfinder RPG rules in August 2009. For additional information on the Pathfinder RPG and the Alpha and Beta releases, visit paizo.com/pathfinderRPG.

Keep an eye on this page and the Paizo Blog as we unveil the five factions and additional information on the Pathfinder Society.

Here's a sneak peak at the first four Pathfinder Society Scenarios debuting at Gen Con 2008:

Pathfinder Society Scenario #1: The Silent Tide

When strange reports of misty undead spread through Absalom, you and your fellow Pathfinders are dispatched to the half-drowned district of Puddles. Notoriously rough, the drooling addicts, flesh panderers, and quick-handed knifers of Puddles are the least of your worries. The night's tide brings with it an ancient armada of some long-forgotten war and you are the only thing between their mist-shrouded ghost fleet and Absalom's utter oblivion.

Pathfinder Society Scenario #2: The Hydra's Fang Incident

After an Andoren village is razed by the Hydra's Fang, a renegade Chelish slaver-ship, outrage threatens the stability of both nations. You and your fellow Pathfinders are sent to capture the Fang before the Inner Sea is pitched into political frenzy. You're not alone: the Fang is hunted by Chelish dragoons and the deadly children of the Entropic Kraken. If someone else seizes the Fang before you, nothing can stop the war on the horizon.

Pathfinder Society Scenario #3: Murder on the Silken Caravan

Volunteers are needed to escort the body of a deceased venture captain across the parched Qadiran desert to Katheer. The Silken Caravan offers passage, hauling exotic treasures across the perilous sea of sands. You'll brave bandits, spies, and unwelcome mourners hell-bent on paying respects to your dead companion. Worse still, the caravan's mistress, a satin-swathed Qadiran princess, has designs of her own on you and your cargo.

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4: The Frozen Fingers of Midnight

Skelg the Ripper, envoy from the Land of the Linnorm Kings, lies wasting in his villa on the outskirts of Absalom. A frigid curse followed Skelg from his northern homeland and grips his bearish heart in its frosty embrace. As the bizarre freezing ailment begins to spread among Absalom's summer populace the Society dispatches you and your fellow Pathfinders to uncover the secrets of the freezing curse before Absalom falls to its icy grip.

Welcome to the Pathfinder Society!