Whether they be vile villains, able allies, or anything in between, the characters of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game NPC Codex come alive on your tabletop with this box-busting collection of more than 300 character pawns, plus twenty 1" and five 2" round plastic bases for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG!
Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn contains a beautiful full-color image of a character from the NPC Codex, as well as common animal companions, and numerous never-before-illustrated characters. Each cardstock pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base, making it easy to use in play alongside traditional metal or plastic miniatures. With multiple pawns of the most useful characters allowing you to create every single encounter from the NPC Codex’s encounter groups appendix, the NPC Codex Box is the best way to ensure you’ve got the right characters to push your Pathfinder campaign to the next level!
In addition to being part of the Pathfinder Pawns Subscription, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game subscribers who preorder this boxed set will receive a free PDF edition of this product when the boxed edition ships. (Note that you will need to have an active Pawns or RPG subscription at the time the NPC Codex Box ships in order to receive the PDF for free.)
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Barbarians
1 Savage Mercenary (2)
2 Dwarven Rager (2)
3 Axe Warrior (4)
4 Dog Rider
5 Wild Lancer
I've talked to Andrew about the possibility of multiples of guards and such, and he'd like to make that happen, and in an optimal situation it certainly can happen, but the product isn't finished yet so we can't make any guarantees at this point.
Do the Runelords or Skull & Shackles pawns have any guards in them?
I'm safely assuming that Skull & Shackles does have pirates though! :-)
I am really happy with the pawns so far and in a lot of ways I like them better than actual minis. I look forward to this coming out so I have more options for use as actual PCs since I am mostly limited to what is in the starter box at present.
I love the pawns!
Let's see, I can pay 35 bucks for 4 boosters of Pathfinder Minis(getting between 4-8 minis) OR I can pay 35 bucks for 250+ pawns that accomplish the same thing...for a poor, broke guy like myself it's a hands down no-brainer where the better value lies.
I hope you guys keep making the pawns for a long time.
My only complaint is that i'm sick & ****ing tired of Wayne Reynolds and wish you guys would feature some different artists on your covers more often.
Let's see, I can pay 35 bucks for 4 boosters of Pathfinder Minis(getting between 4-8 minis) OR I can pay 35 bucks for 250+ pawns that accomplish the same thing...for a poor, broke guy like myself it's a hands down no-brainer where the better value lies.
I hope you guys keep making the pawns for a long time.
My only complaint is that i'm sick & ****ing tired of Wayne Reynolds and wish you guys would feature some different artists on your covers more often.
7 boosters of H&M would get you 7-14 minis for 35 dollars you are correct for the most part.
Or get the Pawns which are nice too and it is a good way for someone that can't afford the minis to get a decent set of things to represent creatures in the game.
In PFS I always give my GM's a set of pogs if I am able to.. as most do not have the minis to support a scenario. It is a cheap way to go about it :)
Will this fill out the holes left by the Beginner Box races and classes? As of now, there are no pawns for when I want to play a half-orc character, or a ninja.
I'm not asking for every race/class/sex combination to be covered as in the Beginner Box... it just would be nice to be able to approximate them all, though.
There may still be art appropriate for crossing class lines. Though it doesn't sound like there are going to be too many in the way of "classic ninja"-looking characters if that's what is being sought. Hopefully with NPC Codex 2...
Will this fill out the holes left by the Beginner Box races and classes? As of now, there are no pawns for when I want to play a half-orc character, or a ninja.
I'm not asking for every race/class/sex combination to be covered as in the Beginner Box... it just would be nice to be able to approximate them all, though.
I doubt you'll see a ninja pawn in this set as the NPC Codex this box is a companion to only features NPCs built using the classes and races from the Core Rulebook. Of course that doesn't mean that there won't be a piece of artwork in the NPC Codex that might be suitable for a ninja.
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The Rot Grub wrote:
Will this fill out the holes left by the Beginner Box races and classes? As of now, there are no pawns for when I want to play a half-orc character, or a ninja.
I'm not asking for every race/class/sex combination to be covered as in the Beginner Box... it just would be nice to be able to approximate them all, though.
As mentioned Earlier in the thread, this will cover out the full race/class/gender combination for the core classes only
Will this fill out the holes left by the Beginner Box races and classes? As of now, there are no pawns for when I want to play a half-orc character, or a ninja.
I'm not asking for every race/class/sex combination to be covered as in the Beginner Box... it just would be nice to be able to approximate them all, though.
This box will only cover the core rules book like the NPC Codex itself. So I doubt you will see a Ninja, Gunslinger or even a Samurai. This is just one of those things. They may eventually make a book to cover the APG, Ultimate Combat and Ultimate Magic books though :)
The Samurai and Ninja could be covered in a Jade Regent set. Okay, two posts mentioning it. I'm done asking :)
As for only using core classes, I'm cool with this, as I can easily use them as stand-ins for the APG+ classes, at least the ones i'm interested in.
I think another great resource has been the Pathfinder Tales blogged stories. Each one has new art. Even if I don't have time to read the story, I always scroll down to gawk at the usually impressive art piece. There's some great ones in there and would make great NPCs.
I'm curious to know how culturally diverse the NPCs will be. A fair chunk of my custom world is inspired by the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Will it all be European looking peoples and clothing? If so will there be future releases for "exotic" settings?
Hmm. I'm not sure exactly how they will be labeled, but "Human Fighter" wouldn't be the answer, because there will be several different human fighters. I'll ask Erik.
Hrm. I'm subscribed to Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, but I want to opt out of this one product (it's not a rules based book, and I use a very fine hex grid that covers most of my table, and have done so for years).
I'm glad everyone else is psyched though! This looks great if you use the standard scale stuffs.
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The plan is to use the names the characters have in the book. Not the specific name, but rather the general name (i.e. "lurking assassin," or what have you). Every character in the book has such a designator.
I feel a little vindicated. Because I whined louder than most for these. And our local joint can't keep any of them in stock.
So let's be honest. The pawns are doing well, aren't they Erik?
And I will tell you straight up. The Paizo artists own. I just.. That's the only way I can think of saying it. They own like Elmore owned in his heyday. That's how hard they own.
Today's NPC Codex Preview makes me ask: will there be pawns for the animal companions that are listed in the book? Or should we expect to just use animal pawns from other sources?
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Michael Gentry wrote:
Actually a more accurate phrasing of my question would be: will the NPC Pawn Box contain art that is not in the NPC Codex?
It might.
But just from a rough estimate, they have more than enough new art from the book to cover those 250. Almost every page of the book has a new piece of NPC art, so 270ish pages of NPCs (not including the iconics chapter, nor the front and back matter), over 3 chapters, with a loss of about 5 per chapter is 255ish art pieces in total.
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Now this is just curiosity, why is this set almost twice the cost of the unboxed sets? Is it the box and bases? Won't stop me buying it, but I am curious.
Like the NPC Codex and I'm looking forward to the release of the pawns. Would love to see a future release for pawns with ninjas, samurai, oracles, cavaliers, alchemists, witches, inquisitors, etc. PCs who are using one of these classes have a hard time finding suitable pawns.
I would really like to see some other colors of bases included for easily distinguishing key npcs on the battlemap. Including a handful of red stands to show aggressive npcs within a tavern filled with neutral npcs, for instance, or if the players use the pawns as pc tokens, then some green stands to single them out.
Obviously, this might be a bit too late to include with this box set, but maybe having another product that includes an assortment of stands would be great.
I don't know if you have the NPC Codex, but in that book, the Mounted Archer and Griffon Rider are, respectively, human and elven. I doubt that the Griffon Rider will appear with her mount, as she doesn't appear that way in the book's art. (The Mounted Archer doesn't have a picture at all, so I don't know about that.)
I was just flipping through my copy of the NPC Codex itself, and noted that there are a number of mounted NPCs (Dog Rider the 5th level barbarian, the aforementioned Griffon Rider, any number of paladins, etc.). However, I didn't see any mounted artwork in the book itself.
Will the pawns for those NPCs that are mounted show them as mounted, with size to match? Because that will make me a happy, happy person
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