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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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Definitely an notable game, and a delightfully fun activity. I've been playing for some time now, and it has certainly proved superior to both 3.5 and 4th edition. Plus, with over 500 pages, it is definitely a great deal! Most definitely worth the time and money!
A brilliant re-reading of the 3.5 rules, that made the game very exciting again for me and my players.
Meery xmas Paizo, you've earned yourself a customer and most important my respect for your dedication to the industry. Long live the new king!
I would just like to say that Pathfinder is everything that 4th Edition was supposed to be. It is very much a better an updated version of 3.5, but with just enough changes and advancements to keep it interesting. Good job people.
Fantastic product. An improved product and compatible with all the old 3.5 stuff. A must.
Monte Cook, those two words are everything u need to know; if Monte Cook put his name on an RPG book u buy it and thats all!!!
As soon as the pdf was avalble I got it. I was inpressed by it. A couple of weeks later I got the hard cover from a hobby store. I was taken aback by the size of it but the pages are in color and printed on high grade paper. Its actuly 2 books in one a GM guide and a player guide. So if you have ten bucks at least buy the pdf you won't be disapointed.
Man, its hard to rate things like this on a five star scale. The production value to this thing is gorgeous. It looks better than any 3.5 book did, its that good.
Most of the rules changes are logical and streamline the game without changing too much too drastically, and the overall effect is a similar degree of drift as the difference between 3.0 and 3.5.
That having been said, there are still a few places where some changes seemed to be less about making the game run smoothly and more about addressing vocal segments of the gaming community (spiked chains anyone).
Overall, this is a beautiful book, and most of the changes are welcome and logical. If you were willing to give 3.5 a try after 3.0, this is probably a more logical and more streamlined change than that changeover was.
Excellent work! I almost gave up on role-playing a couple of years ago with anything d20. The characters and stories were laborious and I felt like the NPCs were boring. Paizo was introduced to me by a friend and I am very thankful. The material has been consistently good, but this Core book takes the cake!! This book is the climax of the creative worth or Paizo. Paizo is the Chik-fil-e of role-play...they didn't create the RPG, just the RPG sandwich of greatness that we all like to sink our teeth into. Thanks, Paizo, for doing it again! Keep up the great work!
When I heard Paizo was revising 3.5 all I could think was "I know they'll do this right." and they didn't disappoint. I congratulate all of you on a fine product and keeping my tons of 3.5 books usable.
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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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