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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook (OGL)
Paizo Publishing, LLC
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$49.99
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PDF:
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$9.99
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Enter a fantastic world of adventure!
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game puts you in the role of a brave adventurer fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil. Will you cut your way through monster-filled ruins and cities rife with political intrigue to emerge as a famous hero laden with fabulous treasure, or will you fall victim to treacherous traps and fiendish monsters in a forgotten dungeon? Your fate is yours to decide with this giant Core Rulebook that provides everything a player needs to set out on a life of adventure and excitement!
This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an open playtest involving more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium.
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook includes:
- All player and Game Master rules in a single volume
- Complete rules for fantastic player races like elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, and half-orcs
- Exciting new options for character classes like fighters, wizards, rogues, clerics, and more
- Streamlined and updated rules for feats and skills that increase options for your hero
- A simple combat system with easy rules for grapples, bull rushes, and other special attacks
- Spellcaster options for magic domains, familiars, bonded items, specialty schools, and more
- Hundreds of revised, new, and updated spells and magical treasures
- Quick-generation guidelines for nonplayer characters
- Expanded rules for curses, diseases, and poisons
- A completely overhauled experience system with options for slow, medium, and fast advancement
- ...and much, much more!
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is a 576-page full-color hardcover.
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ISBN 978-1-60125-150-3
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This is just a review of the PDF, nothing more. I have to say I am very disapointed. There are several problems with the PDF that should have been easy to correct before release.
1. Pages out of order. Page 548 comes after 552. I dont know if there are more like this but this is first one I found.
2. Messed up links. After you hit the cleric the rest of the PDF links for the character classes are messed up. Several classes link to cleric domain pages and to get to say the monk you have to click on the wizard link. Did no one take 5 minutes and click on all the links before release?
3. No good collapse. The Beta was great, all the character classes collapsed to a link named class, all the skills to a link named skills, etc, etc. In this release even when you do a maximum collapse you still have over 30 tabs to sort through. Not good.
Now the plus side is that Paizo can fix all of this in about an hour and put up a revised PDF that anyone can download. Here is to hoping they do this and they do it soon.
As many others have stated, Pathfinder RPG only got half the way most of us expected it would get. IMO it is only a small step towards D&D evolution. Although it does it in the correct path, and with retrocompatibility absolutely assured (actually I don't know why they even posted a conversion guide... I think for the most part you don't even have to convert the preexistent material, just be familiar to how the old spells/skills work in the new rules). The material presented comprises mostly the less controversial parts of the BETA playtest and pictures/images/drawings all correspond to previous game material published either in the AP line or in the GameMastery line, which I think is nice, but could have gone further. Given that the free Beta-playtest is 90% of what's being published and that images are re-used, you just wonder why the price raises to $49.99... In my case, I paid up because I'm really thankful to them for all they're doing in trying to keep the spirit of old-school D&D alive (in every line of their publishing company). The core does set up a nice cornerstone for the rest of the material to be published from now. Keep up the good stuff.
What can I say ? I have two bookshelves of 3rd edition material, seven Paizo adventure paths to run, and I want to roll with that.
And now, with the PFRPG, there will be ongoing support for the game of my choice. I don't have to ask new players to hunt down PHB on auction sites, I can just point them to the dirt-cheap PDF and have them up to date in no time. Splendid.
The changes are mostly sound, the new rules elegant, one would wish for a few more radical improvements but we must remember about the Backwards Compatibility with all the previous material.
It's a great update and a great way of keeping the 3ed torch burning. Oh and just for sheer cojones of the endeavor, Paizo deserves 5 stars.
I laughed. I cried. I jumped for joy when my copy arrived. This book looks great, as do the rules. A wonderful achievement, not only for Paizo, but for everyone who playtested the game during development.
It has been quite an ordeal to finally get the PDF as it has first been delayed a bit and then the servers got hammered so much that it was pretty much impossible to buy and finally download it. But now, in the morning over here in Germany, which is very late at night for Paizo, I managed to get through.
And after checking out the rules for my favorite races (Human, Elf, Half-Elf) and classes (Druid, Wizard) I noticed a great, promising improvement over Third Edition. So now I'm really happy I got it, supported Paizo by paying them, and it's all very exciting.
I haven't been looking forward to play a new RPG so much for almost a decade! Thanks, Paizo, and keep up the wonderful work!
While I wasn't able to keep my preorder of the core book, I still managed to snag a 1st edition copy from my FLGS. I have to say, the rules have met and even exceeded my expectations! Thank you to everyone at Paizo for making this game and involving the players in the development process. I look forward to seeing Pathfinder products for many years to come. You have my support and that of my gaming group :)
So after some searching (and a half hour train trip to Burton on Trent after the shops in Birmingham (UK) proved to be having supply difficulties) I tracked down an elusive first edition dead tree copy of the PFRPG Core Rulebook… And my initial impression is a mixture of excitement and frustration.
So many more ‘core rules’ options for many of the basic classes (EG feat trees for fighters, rage powers for barbarians, ki pools for monks) as compared to the game’s third edition D&D forerunners and further areas of rules cleaned up (EG combat maneuvers), but so much more which could have been done but which was not. The goal of ‘backwards compatability’ may have been responsible for the reining in of some of the changes which were aired during the public Beta playtest that I had personally found to be exciting.
However an improvement in my opinion in many areas of 3.5 D&D and the author and his design team show promise I believe – well worth watching for the future.
Four stars.
Quite a nice Book, its well written, and CLEARLY written, less ambiguous than previous editions of 3.x...Excellent art and a decent bargain for a Tome of its proportion, to those who wish to see the legacy of 3.x live on, this is the place to start
I have had my copy for less that 8 hours now, but I am VERY impressed. I am a GM (we need to come up for a new title for the PFRPG, lol) and this promises to keep me enthralled for a few days as I digest the subtle, and not so subtle, differences between this & my 3.5e material I have lying around. So far, there are plenty of goodies to get my players excited with. This is the direction 4e should have took. Not flaming 4e, just not satisfied with it as I am with this. Kudos to Paizo for giving me a system & a company that I can be excited about again.
A great Product
Reviewer:
Reddevil
Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 09:08 AM
My group and I have been calling this 3.7 We can't wait to get a copy of this as the BETA was great.
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This could solve the whole 3.5 vs 4.0 debacle! Please more information as soon as possible. Paizo, you seriously have just made my day!
Wayne
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420 pages!!??! WOW
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Awesome! Very, very excited! As its own system, I think I now have my 2009 and beyond RPG-of-choice. Thanks, Paizo!
PS
Any chance of getting autographed copies?
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*happy dances*
Thank you Paizo! You have made an old (style) gamer very happy today! I was dreading the possibility of me having to get out of fantasy roleplaying altogether once i ran out of the published material I had (have no real interest in learning a whole new system). You have just saved my game and ensured a very loyal customer for years to come. I look forward to the new system and have just placed an order for the new book!
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This is just too awesome. I saw the announcement after coming home from gaming last night and was thrilled. Even more excited this morning! I've preordered this and the beta hardcopy as well.
Good luck Paizo!
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