Showing 6 blog posts from May 2014
Behind the Emerald Spire, with Lisa Stevens and Wolfgang Baur
The Emerald Spire Superdungeon is the largest Pathfinder Modules product ever produced, a record that's unlikely to be taken from it anytime soon. With its release in just a few short weeks, we want to make sure it gets the attention and celebration it deserves. At 160 pages, with 16 levels (by 16 different authors), eight brand-new monsters, enough material to take players from 1st to 13th level and several major mysteries, there's a LOT of Emerald Spire features to highlight!
Meet the Iconics: Jirelle
Introducing the first of the Advanced Class Guide's new iconic characters, Jirelle the swashbuckler. While the complete rules for making your own swashbuckler characters debut in the Advanced Class Guide this August, Jirelle herself features in the our upcoming Free RPG Day adventure, Pathfinder Module: Risen from the Sands, available at participating game stores Saturday June 21st.
Harrow: Past, Present, and Future
For years the Harrow has been the domain of home games, literature, and lore, but due to a combination of the soft time limits inherent in organized play, the range of ways in which someone might cheat with a deck-based mechanic, and a wealth of other considerations that predate my work at Paizo, most Harrow-based options were never allowed. When Mike and I heard that Pathfinder Player Companion: The Harrow Handbook was on the product schedule, we started pondering how we might share as much of this book as possible with the campaign. We bounced ideas off a lot of folks, and in the end we decided to make legal nearly everything in the book as well as several previously banned Harrow character options such as the harrower prestige class from Pathfinder Campaign Setting: The Inner Sea World Guide and the oft-requested Deadly Dealer feat from Pathfinder Player Companion: Varisia, Birthplace of Legends. Expect an update to the Additional Resources page that includes these additions.
Advanced Class Guide Previews
We are just about 10 weeks away from the release of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Advanced Class Guide. Coincidentally this mighty tome also features 10 new classes to add to your Pathfinder game. So, in anticipation of its release, we are going to be showcasing one class from the book each week until the book hits store shelves and the gamers line up at our Gen Con booth to snag a copy. Look for these previews every Tuesday.
Pathfinder Battles Preview: Leapin' Lizards!
The next set of Pathfinder Battles prepainted plastic miniatures, The Lost Coast, revisits the land of Varisia, the setting of several Pathfinder Adventure Paths and other sourcebooks. As we've show in previous previews, this gives us the opportunity to fill in a few gaps from previous sets like Rise of the Runelords and Shattered Star, but tidying up old set lists and satisfying my OCD and completionism is not the main goal of the set.
A Secret Commentary
In case you missed yesterday's exciting announcement, the latest Pathfinder comic story arc, City of Secrets, launched yesterday to a comics shop invasion! We're still receiving isolated reports from far-flung Pathfidner agents that a few limited-edition Retailer Exclusive issues are still available among the brick and mortar retailers, but even if they aren't you can still secure your own copy of the Paizo.com exclusive cover variant and not miss a moment.