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 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.)
ISBN 978-1-60125-472-6
Barbarians
1 Savage Mercenary (2)
2 Dwarven Rager (2)
3 Axe Warrior (4)
4 Dog Rider
5 Wild Lancer
Have the bases changed? They look square here, but circular in the Beginner Box and Bestiary Box. I am not sure about the 2 announced Adventure Path Pawn sets.
Wow. Just wow. I have been wanting these to happen for so long. My only problem with these pawn sets is they are making me hate my current games for their lack of them.
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YES, YES,!!!(: Was wondering if perhaps the NPC's from the Rival Guide were going to be a part of this. I for one would LOVE to have them done in either plastic or cardboard!
Is there an RSS feed or very basic blog where every new official Pathfinder release is shown? I kind of stumbled onto this entry last night and would be very interested in one place for all new product announcements. The store blog nor the paizo blog provide this. Am I missing something?
I understanding making something new will require more work, but I guess all I am asking for is a single place so I can discover any new content announced in the Pathfinder RPG, Adventure Paths, or Gamemastery - basically all my subs. The Upcoming and NEW RSS feeds under Pathfinder RPG appear to be broken.
Have the bases changed? They look square here, but circular in the Beginner Box and Bestiary Box. I am not sure about the 2 announced Adventure Path Pawn sets.
Yeah, you're right ... the bases are square in the photo. I hope that was an oversight - I prefer the round bases over square. Plus, switching base shapes after some of the pawn have been released would be pretty odd ...
I'm hoping the square bases are just for the picture (although, that would be kind of odd as well, since you'd think they would have had lots of round bases floating around to use)
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Casey Weston wrote:
Have the bases changed? They look square here, but circular in the Beginner Box and Bestiary Box. I am not sure about the 2 announced Adventure Path Pawn sets.
Have the bases changed? They look square here, but circular in the Beginner Box and Bestiary Box. I am not sure about the 2 announced Adventure Path Pawn sets.
The image here is a mockup; the actual bases will be round, just like the others.
I understanding making something new will require more work, but I guess all I am asking for is a single place so I can discover any new content announced in the Pathfinder RPG, Adventure Paths, or Gamemastery - basically all my subs. The Upcoming and NEW RSS feeds under Pathfinder RPG appear to be broken.
I've found the bug that broke these feeds. Next time we update the site, they'll work properly.
So if evenly spread that's about 36 pawns per PC race? Again assuming an even distribution that's enough to cover 18 classes per race with a male/female option for each. So pretty much every race/class/gender combo would be covered. 7 (races) x18 (classes) x2 (genders) = 252? That'd be nifty. :)
Hmm, tempted to buy this... Already spending way too much on the minis line to subscribe to this one, but 250 npc tokens would be pretty great... I did notice however...
The Product Description wrote:
The NPC Coded Box is not part of any subscription, but 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 RPG subscription at the time the NPC Codex Box ships in order to receive the PDF for free.)
ISBN 978-1-60125-472-6
Note: This product is part of the Pathfinder Pawns Subscription.
Might want to sort that out :p I'm guessing the free PDF for RPG subscribers is no longer applicable now?
EDIT: nevermind, found your answer. Still might want to clarify that contradiction quoted above.
I'm hoping this has multiples of common humans, such as guards, bandits, thugs, etc. I know that lots of these NPCs will be able to stand in for that, but it is easier to differentiate leaders from regulars if the regulars are all uniform.
If a "pawn for each race/class/gender combination" approach is taken, that would take 154 pawns to cover all of those basic possibilities. That would eat into more than half of the total distinct pawns presented in this box.
Crossover appeal between pawns eats into that of course. I remember seeing examples in the Beginner's Box pawns that had me thinking they'd be great for other classes. With all the various NPCs getting art in this, hopefully there should be some appropriate art folks would like to use for each combo.
I swear, these pawns are the quickest way to have a great "minis" collection.
They are!
While they might not stand out the way a plastic or metal mini would, at least you'll have enough money left over to bribe your players with delectable sandwiches instead of having to share your last package of ramen noodles. :-)
Though to be fair, I did shove quite a bit of money into the reaper bones Kickstarter. I think the pawns are a good backup for full figured minis, and they can definitely stand on their own too (with the proper bases.)
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Narl wrote:
I'm hoping this has multiples of common humans, such as guards, bandits, thugs, etc. I know that lots of these NPCs will be able to stand in for that, but it is easier to differentiate leaders from regulars if the regulars are all uniform.
I'm afraid you're probably going to be disappointed - the vast majority of this will be the 220 pawns for the class/level combos - the NPC Codex is going to be a book with a level 1 Barbarian, a level 2 Barbarian.... a level 19 Wizard, a level 20 Wizard etc. Adding in the 11 iconics, we've used 233 of the 250 pawns already
I'm afraid you're probably going to be disappointed - the vast majority of this will be the 220 pawns for the class/level combos - the NPC Codex is going to be a book with a level 1 Barbarian, a level 2 Barbarian.... a level 19 Wizard, a level 20 Wizard etc. Adding in the 11 iconics, we've used 233 of the 250 pawns already
Actually, in the book, most of the low-level PC-class characters are two to a page (like the wolf/dire wolf entry in the Bestiary), and it's still only one illo per page, so it works out to about 14 or 16 illos per PC class (spellcasters take up more room and switch to a one-per-page format sooner than non-spellcasters do), which means not as many of the illos are "eaten up" by PC classes.
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.
Vic Wertz
Chief Technical Officer
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Casey Weston
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