The first time around it was goblins. This time, something a bit bigger. In Pathfinder #4—Rise of the Runelords Chapter 4: "Fortress of the Stone Giants", the intrepid heroes are faced with saving Sandpoint from a surprise invasion force of stone giants. When the players find out the force is but a prelude to something much larger, they take the fight to the stone giants themselves in their fortress, Jorgenfist. Will the players succeed in finding out who is behind the invasion before their home is crushed beneath the feet of giants?

In addition to the giant adventure by Wolfgang Baur, Pathfinder #4 has a Pathfinder's guide to stone giants, an in-depth article on the dragons of Golarion, the next installment of the Pathfinder's Journal, and seven new monsters to infest your campaign!

Pathfinder #4 is expected to hit our warehouse in the first week of December, so start your Pathfinder subscription now—Sandpoint needs you!

Everybody remembers the moment in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace when Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn are leaving the Naboo hangar, and the doors they are about to go through open to reveal the Sith Apprentice Darth Maul. As the three come face to face, Darth Maul activates his lightsaber and not one, but two blades appear. It was one of those moments that made my geek sense switch to overload and left me with goosebumps!

A short time later, while I was at Wizards of the Coast as the Star Wars Brand Manager, we decided to get into the metal miniatures business. To show Lucasfilm what we could do, we asked sculptor Chaz Elliott to create a miniature of an iconic character. With Episode I fresh in his mind, he gave us the Darth Maul promotional miniature. Presenting the villainous Sith in his classic double-bladed-lightsaber-wielding pose, this miniature was also used for promotional purposes in the summer of 2000.

Well, paizo.com has a small stash of these miniatures—believed to be the only ones left—and we're offering them to the general public for the first time ever, while supplies last. Whether you play Wizards' Star Wars RPG, or just like to paint cool miniatures, you're going to want to have this menacing Sith Lord in your minis collection!

Will it ever stop? While picking up some product from Green Ronin for their hugely successful sale, Chris Pramas found a stash of out-of-print products that he promptly agreed to add to the sale. So hurry and check out the crazy low prices on Armies of the Abyss, The Book of Fiends, Hell in Freeport, The Psychic's Handbook, Martial Arts Mayhem, and Todd Gamble's Cartographica! At these prices, and with these low quantities, I don't expect them to be around for long!

We've also decided to clear out some of our Paizo T-shirts in preparation for new designs coming in early 2008! Both the Kill Doctor Lucky: Monkey Hand T-Shirt and the Stonehenge T-Shirt are 50% off, while supplies last!

We also have a great deal on a few copies of the Dungeons & Dragons: Player's Handbook Hardcover Special Edition. This leather-bound book presents the 3.5 edition of the rules in a format that will last forever and look amazing on your tabletop! And at almost 47% off the cover price, this isn't a price that will stick around for long.

One of my favorite card games of the last ten years has to be Bang!, originally published in Italy by daVinci, and released in the US by Mayfair Games. A true spaghetti western, Bang! is a rough-and-tumble all-out duel in the Old West. Each player secretly takes the role of a bandit or a lawman, and each role has a unique victory condition. The fun is that you don't necessarily know who is who, so you might shoot your own deputy or a fellow bandit while you're trying to find out!

Arriving just in time for holiday shopping, Mayfair has released a deluxe version of Bang!, called Bang!: The Bullet! Housed in a cool bullet-shaped box, you get every Bang! card released to date. That's the third edition game deck with reworked cards and rules, as well as the Dodge City expansion and the sold-out High Noon and High Noon II: A Fistful of Cards expansions. There are also two new exclusive High Noon cards, three new characters, two blank cards to add your own ideas to the mix, and a sheriff badge to pin on that do-gooder—when you finally figure out who he is!

Bella Sara is an imaginative, joyful world of horses, where every girl is special. Bella Sara Cards let you fill your online stables with horses to care for and play with. And now, Bella Sara Plush Horses are here, with four different horses to choose from! Fiona, Bella, Nike, and Jewel each come packaged in a gift box with an exclusive certificate that activates an online version of the horse with special effects not available elsewhere. You also get an Ancient Lights card pack to add even more horses to your online stable! Bella Sara plush horses are sure to be a hit with young girls this gift-giving season.

And don't miss the Bella Sara Holiday Tin. Each tin includes one booster pack each of 1st Series, Northern Lights, and Ancient Lights, two packs of 2nd Series, and a foil card!

When we conceived GameMastery Module TC1: Into the Haunted Forest, we had the goal of making a a cool low-level adventure that would provide all kinds of tips and tricks for GMs to make their games even cooler! We even integrated a number of our GameMastery products into the adventure so that GMs can more easily make their game come alive! (Early next year, we'll be boxing up these accessories along with the module into a handy GameMastery Treasure Chest.)

A barroom brawl at a country inn causes the destruction of a priceless relic, and the heroes are responsible. To repay their debt, they must chase down a host of ancient artifacts that are lost in a haunted wood. While the heroes search for the items to clear their name, another group of scoundrels plots the party's downfall from the depths of the mysterious forest. Only one group will emerge victorious.

This adventure is a great way to start your own GameMastering career—or perhaps you know someone who would love the world of roleplaying games and could use this as a springboard to a lifetime of adventure! Whatever the case, Into the Haunted Forest is the adventure for you!

As the holiday spirit has enveloped those of us here at Paizo, we went into our warehouse to see what other goodies we could offer up at prices that even Santa couldn't say no to. And you know what we saw? Magazines. And lots of them.

Star Wars fans are going to want to take advantage of these crazy sale prices on all of our Star Wars Insider and Star Wars Gamer back issues. They're priced so low that even Han Solo himself would be willing to exchange a few credits for these babies! Covering both Wizards of the Coast and Paizo issues, there's enough info here to fill a holocron!

Fans of the classic Amazing Stories will be thrilled to know that back issues going back to the TSR days are also on sale. These magazines include tons of classic and lesser-known tales by masters of science fiction and fantasy. We have limited quantities of each, so order early to avoid disappointment!

Our short run of Undefeated, the magazine for games you can win, is also on sale. Filled with articles about trading card games, board games, and miniatures games, these ten issues are packed with strategies and insights into the world of competitive gaming.

Finally, some of our Dragon and Dungeon back issues of have a few more copies in stock than we like, so we've discounted them 50% through the end of the year. Fill out your collection!

And when you're done skimming the magazines, check out our other sale items!

As most of you know already, Paizo's GameMastery Item Cards have been a huge hit. Invented as a way to make magic items more tangible in your RPG game, and also as a great way to keep track of them, we've already released six sets, each with their own unique theme. And when the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path started in Pathfinder this past August, we thought it would be cool to bring some of the goodies to our Item Cards. The result is the GameMastery Item Cards: Rise of the Runelords Deck.

Loaded with cards from the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path, this 54-card set includes such items as Dog Slicers from "Burnt Offerings", Varisian Scarves from the Rise of the Runelords Player's Guide , and War Razors and Skinsaw masks from "The Skinsaw Murders." And there are plenty more cards from the entire six-volume arc of the Adventure Path, all the way up to Karzoug's book and robes from the climactic finale, "Spires of Xin-Shalast"!

Of course, if you aren't playing in the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path, these cool items can be used in any fantasy setting, just like the previously released decks.

So bring out the best in your Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path and get the GameMastery Item Cards: Rise of the Runelords Deck!

The woods around your party are dark. Even sunlight can barely find its way through the leafy canopy. Maybe it's just in your mind, but shadowy shapes seem to be moving at the edges of your vision as you follow the dirt path through the forest. Suddenly, a war cry issues from the throats of treacherous warriors as they break cover—the battle is on!

Our GameMastery Flip-Mats are a great resource for GMs looking for themed mats. The original Flip-Mat Forest sold out earlier this year, so we decided to revisit the woods—and the result is GameMastery Flip-Mat: Woodlands.

This Flip-Mat features an ancient druid shrine, a small pond, an ominous cave, and a hollow tree, all of which make for perfect adventure sites. The Flip side features an empty wilderness with a simple path running down the middle, perfect for a gnoll ambush!

Like all Flip-Mats, the 24" x 30" mat folds down to a convenient 8" x 10", and can handle dry erase, wet erase, and even permanent marker. If you haven't tried one yet, now's a great time!

Coulrophobia: An overwhelming fear of clowns.

E1: Carnival of Tears, the next release in Paizo's GameMastery Modules line is about to arrive. Ringmasters Tim Hitchcock and Nicolas Logue deliver a fantasy adventure for 5th-level characters that sends the PCs to a traveling show that isn't what it seems.

When Quinn's Carnival comes to Falcon's Hollow, everyone turns out for an afternoon of fun. But after sunset, the event's many lively attractions transform into something far more sinister, and only the PCs can stop the slaughter that could wipe the tiny logging town off of the map.

Not afraid of clowns? You will be.

The Paizo warehouses are getting a bit full, what with all the new GameMastery and Pathfinder products coming in every few weeks. So we decided to get in the holiday spirit and provide savings galore on a bunch of products.

First off, we have the Dungeons & Dragons: 3.5 Dungeon Master's Screen. This baby was originally shipped as part of Dragon #310, which sold out very quickly. We'll be selling it for a buck through the end of the year—a perfect chance to get one or two.

We've also added Legions of Hell to the Green Ronin sale! It has been out of print for a while, but we have some left over from an old Dragon promotion. For $2, you can't go wrong!

The Paizo warehouse is also packed full of Adiken miniatures, paints and paint brushes, now marked down 50%. If you love to paint miniatures, or perhaps are just getting started, here's a chance to get some high-quality products at a significant savings.

Paizo also has the complete line of Pendragon Fiction from Green Knight available for the low, low price of $1 per book! Adventure with King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, and the rest of the Round Table at huge savings!

Finally, we have a wide selection of World of Darkness comics and trade paperbacks from Moonstone Comics, all at a blood-curdling 50% off the cover price!

Check back over the next week and you'll find an ever-growing selection of products on sale for the holidays here at paizo.com!

But there is nothing tongue-in-cheek about the savings Green Ronin is passing on to everyone with this sale! They've marked tons of books down to $10 or even $5. There's even a healthy stack of books on sale for $2—heck, I've got dice that cost more than that! So here's a chance to fill up your shelves with some of Green Ronin's best titles for pennies on the dollar. Check out the list of sale titles!

While I'm talking about sales, paizo.com is happy to announce that we have created a new sale area of our website. Over the next week, I plan to add all kinds of sale items for the holiday season. So check back to the paizo.com blog throughout the next week to find out what other items will be on sale this year!

If you're a grognard like me, you probably recall Paul Jaquays' classic Judges' Guild adventure, Dark Tower. Published in early 1980, it was the first Judges' Guild module to use the then-new Advanced D&D rules. This adventure was officially sanctioned by TSR and became a classic amongst DMs back in the day. It was one of the first modules to supplement the adventure itself with new rules, monsters, artifacts, and the like. The adventure is a conflict between the forces of the good god Mitra and the evil god Set, and Jaquays spent 13 pages of the original 69-page book on stats and background for the Lions of Mitra and the Sons of Set, including their magic items and artifacts.

The folks over at Goodman Games have revived this classic with their latest release, JG3: Dark Tower. Newly updated to the 3.5 edition rules, this adventure will take you from the village of Mitra's Fist and into the four dungeon levels of the Dark Tower. Whether you're a first-timer or an old-timer, this is an adventure that you won't want to miss!

Goodman Games has also released the sequel to Dungeon Crawl Classics #29: The Adventure Begins. Dungeon Crawl Classics #48: The Adventure Continues is a compilation of all-new 4th-level adventures. These stand-alone modules will challenge your heroes with feral elves, undead fiddlers, evil fey, dreamscape nightmares, ghostly Neanderthals—and more!

Most of you know that we at Paizo are very interested in products that make GMs' lives easier—after all, that's the foundation of our entire GameMastery line! So when we saw the new Campaign Coins from King of the Castle Games, a cool new company from Down Under, we couldn't help but be enthusiastic about the product.

So much more immersive than conventional "pen & paper" recording of your hard-earned loot, Campaign Coins create more opportunities for creative roleplaying as you actually hand over cash at your local tavern, bribe a town guard to look the other way or pay passage to the next exotic port! Campaign Coins offer a high-quality, "real-feel" fantasy-game monetary system with actual metal coins representing the various metals and denominations commonly found in popular gaming systems. Each box contains 121 detailed coins depicting four metal types in 1, 10, 100, and 1000 denominations and 1 random 500 denomination collectable coin.

So bring to life the filthy lucre that your characters get with Campaign Coins!

It seems like months since I last did a comprehensive restock of D&D Miniatures singles. So I busted out a dozen cases or so, and a whole bunch of previously sold-out D&D Miniatures singles are now in stock again!

I also would like to point out that Wizards' final shipment of Angelfire Booster Packs has arrived. We have less than 24 boosters left, and once they're gone, they're gone! There are also a small number of Deathknell Booster Packs left in the pipeline. We aren't sure how long they'll last, so if you want to roll the dice and see if you get a Beholder, this might be your last chance!

Finally, we're getting down to the last couple of boxes of the Dragon Magazine Promo: Sorcerer on Black Dragon. We created this cool alternate paint mini to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Dragon, and it turned out to be the last promo we did for the magazine. These are now open for sale to everyone, so don't miss your chance to get a piece of Dragon Magazine history!

In 1923, Edwin Baird help to shepherd in the glory years of pulp fiction magazines with the launch of Weird Tales. This pulp magazine featured fantastic tales with a touch of horror, and launched the careers of many a fine author. The May 1934 issue featured "Queen of the Black Coast," one of Robert E. Howard's first Conan the Barbarian stories. Other luminaries published in Weird Tales include H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore, Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Snow, and Margaret St. Clair to name a few.

The first issue available via paizo.com, Weird Tales #346, features a remarkable story of Norse myths running drunk and amok through modern-day Wisconsin, courtesy of novelist Barth Anderson. Tanith Lee conjures up a vignette about a lonely woman who calls to the netherworld. Paul M. Berger visits Japan for the 100-percent-true story of his nightmarish experience sharing an apartment with giant hairy spiders that watched him while he slept. And it kicks things off with the indescribable "Bob Bodey's Body Parts," the very first published story by writer-to-keep-an-eye-on William Markly O'Neal.

If you love to keep your finger on the pulse of great new fiction, then check out the latest Weird Tales!

When it comes time to redesign a classic, you have to be careful. You have to retain the integrity of the original game. You want to maintain the look and feel that made it a classic. You don't want to alienate the customers who made the game what it is today.

With the Settlers of Catan—Revised Edition, Mayfair Games has done just that! New card art, new tiles, and a full-color rule book make Catan even more compelling. There's also a cool new interlocking frame that will help keep the game pieces in place. This revised edition also includes a game tray designed to hold the components for the Settlers of Catan 5–6 player Extension, which has also been updated to match the base set.

Mayfair has also revised the Cities and Knights and Seafarers expansions, as well as their respective extensions for 5 or 6 players, so have a peek at the entire Catan line!

Whether you're new to Settlers of Catan or just want to break in a new set, this newly updated edition is perfect for you!

Sabotage! The word evokes pictures of shadowy figures slipping undetected through your defenses and destroying something you don't want them to. Well, that's what the Infernal Contraption 2: Sabotage! Expansion brings to your gaming table!

Infernal Contraption 2: Sabotage! is an expansion to the Infernal Contraption base game from Privateer Press. It adds 48 new cards, including upgrades, power sources, consumables, and most importantly, 18 sabotage cards!

Sabotage cards bring a new twist to the game: They allow you to throw the proverbial monkey wrench into your opponent's machine, making it malfunction in disastrous ways—all to your advantage. Put a stop to your opponent's pesky card-stealing contraptions, or power down his upgrades with sabotage cards like the Exothermic Reactor, Power Spike, or the Gremlin Sphere. You can really unleash some mayhem with these cards—and really ratchet up your own fun!

Howdy, pardner! Ready to rope yourself a Jackalope and have a shootout with Wild Bill Hiccup? Then you might want to check out The Good, The Bad & The Munchkin, the latest expansion for Steve Jackson Games' wildly popular Munchkin game.

Become a Cowboy with a Twenty-Gallon Hat, or an Indian on a Catamount. Fight the Killer Jalapeno or a Barber Shop Quartet. Take The Annual Bath for an extra level. Or just pal around with your sidekick the Greenhorn, until you sacrifice him to distract a monster.

Those plains may seem wide open, but there's lots of monsters to kill, and lots of stuff to take. Get your copy today and keep those dogies rollin'!

To grognards like myself, the name "Desert of Desolation" conjures memories of the AD&D Desert of Desolation module penned by the incredible duo of Tracy and Laura Hickman. The adventure took place in an Egypt-like climate much like that found in Paizo's latest GameMastery Module, Entombed with the Pharaohs.

Well, Desert of Desolation, Wizards of the Coast's latest set for Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures, just arrived in our warehouse. Vic and I spent Friday evening opening up a few cases to launch our Desert of Desolation singles.

There are some great throwback minis that stir up memories of that classic module. Check out the Guardian Mummy, the Sphynx, the Rot Scarab Swarm, and the Demonweb Swarm. The classic Gelatenous Cube has finally been brought to translucent life, and some old classics like the Manticore Sniper, Shrieking Harpy, and the Umber Hulk Delver are back.

And for those interested in seeing what 4th edition is going to look like, take a look at the Feral Troll, the Spined Devil, and the Capricious Copper Dragon.

There is also a new mount mechanic, featured on minis like the Warhorse and the Thundertusk Boar, to name two.

So stock up on a bit of the old and the new!

The myths of Rome and Greece are rich with horses from the world's historical past. Bella Sara: Ancient Lights brings new horses such as Nike, Venus, Juno and Athena to your stable to join Bella, Jewel and Fiona! On top of that, there are extra-rare, "shiny" foil horse cards and rare energy cards!

You might also want to check out the Bella Sara Holiday Tin. This collectible tin box looks cool and is a great place to store your Bella Sara cards—plus you get one booster pack each of 1st Series, Northern Lights, and Ancient Lights, two packs of 2nd Series, and a foil card!