Hail, Pathfinders!
Our friends at BKOM Studios are hard at work bringing Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults, the first ever co-op hack-and-slash ARPG set in the Pathfinder universe, to life. In this special look behind the scenes, their team shares how they’re transforming one of Pathfinder’s most iconic Adventure Paths into an interactive dungeon crawl.

Hail, Pathfinders!
Today we’re catching up with our friends at BKOM Studios while they develop a Hack and Slash adaptation of Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults. Talking to their Creative Director Wyatt and Art Director Jonathan, we learned more about what it takes to translate a game from tabletop to video game. And in this case, it was all through the lens of strange and mysterious inhabitants of the Darklands: caligni.

As we approach the anniversary of our total party kill at the bottom of the Abomination Vaults, it’s time to make public what we sometimes call “Session Plus One.” While we’d love to sit around and chat after the final die roll is made, the end of a marathon is usually a frenzy: players are leaving for long rides or flights home, there is the cleanup after days of Pathfinder, a scramble to capture any material we can, and then finally much-needed sleep. The Abomination Arsenal ended with a 22-hour session, which compounded everything just mentioned. Typically, after things settle down, we get together (remotely if necessary) and chat about everything from our favorite moments of the project to the rooms we wish we had explored. Everyone brings questions for our GM about all the things we missed along the way, feedback about the project, and especially the “what if” scenarios that we just have to know the answer to. Suffice it to say, Adam is all about reflection, and weighs it evenly with the prep sessions before a launch.

One of our most popular and exciting campaigns comes to Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition!

Hey Paizo family!
We at BKOM have some thrilling news about Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults, and it’s all thanks to your incredible support! Let’s dive into the latest updates, starting with a stunning character revamp and a sneak peek at some fresh gameplay images.

Just north of the coastal lumber town of Otari lie the swampy reaches of Fogfen, a mire nestled in the depths of a seaside forest that would have had a notorious reputation for being the dangerous haunt of monsters even without the presence of the looming tower known as Gauntlight. At first glance simply a lighthouse, the tower stands amid a ruined fortress, its heights looking out over the tree line at the coastline and town to the south. To those passing by, its position in a landlocked swamp is curious, even nonsensical, but its light’s sinister use is not for the guiding of ships through troubled waters.