Giantslayer Pawn collection


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Hi,

Me and some friends started the adventure path Giantslayers some weeks ago. We're using mainly PDFs but since we're having fun I wanted something tangible and decided to purchase the Giantslayer Pawn Collection. It arrived a couple of days ago but when I opened up the package I find that what I ordered weren't so much pawns as cardboard-cut-outs-with-which-one-could-potentially-make pawns - but for now I've purchased something I can't properly use.
I'm mildly upset to find out that the bases have to be bought seperately - which is going to amount to twice the shipping costs to the Netherlands, too. Moreover, the standard set on offer is one of 17 bases, but no specifications on whether these will sufice for my campaign - I don't yet know if I'll ever need 3 huge bases, or 10+ small ones in a combat. Additionally, I suppose I'll have to keep taking "pawns" in and out of the bases. Will they be damaged or can I switch and swap easily without marring the cardboard?
I'm looking for answers to these queries so I can make an informed decision about my next purchase.
Thank you,


You can get around this with a couple small L-shaped pieces of cardboard and a paper clip if you really need something immediately. Put the pawn between the two pieces and use the paper clip to hold it in place. I used to do this with some older board games that were missing bases for similar cardboard playing pieces. Yeah, it's a little bit of work and probably not what you want ultimately, but unfortunately, I think Paizo expects players to have purchased one or more pawn boxes that come with a set of bases or to buy the bases separately.


Since I'm a casual/beginning player I don't have stores of pawnbases lying around and when I purchase my first "pawn collection" I expect to receive actual pawns.
I still need to know whether a single pawn-base-set will suffice for my campaign or whether I'll need multiple sets, in which case I'd consider returning the whole lot.

Scarab Sages

Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber; Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

The bases come with pawns that are in boxes.
If you get a Bestiary pawn set it will come with bases.
Almost all of the pawns for Adventure Paths are just them (Rise of the Runelords being an exception as it was in a box).

Customer Service Representative

Hello Vincent,

Charles is correct. The Pawn Boxes include bases, but the smaller pawn sets are just the pawns and do not include bases.

However Rise of the Runelords is not a Pawn Box it is a smaller set.

Scarab Sages

Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber; Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

Sorry, I mis-remembered.


Diego Valdez wrote:

Hello Vincent,

Charles is correct. The Pawn Boxes include bases, but the smaller pawn sets are just the pawns and do not include bases.

However Rise of the Runelords is not a Pawn Box it is a smaller set.

(SPOILER ALERT!)

I was considering getting a base set, but I'm prepping my third session at the moment and neither Daktani, the nor Freedom Town Assassins nor the Gelatinous Cube are in the set. I'm both frustrated and dissappointed right now.

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