Few things are more challenging for a Game Master than creating an encounter on the fly, but one of those more-difficult tasks is making an impromptu encounter set in a crowded city street packed with all manner of details you have to draw on the map before the players start to lose interest. Luckily, Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Red Light District is available now, so you’ll never again need to sketch out winding alleys, interior locations of ill repute, or a canal of questionable cleanliness. While this map is by no means necessary to run the following encounter (designed by Vanessa Hoskins), they certainly go well together!

Last week we revealed the five new-to-Starfinder species making their debut in Starfinder Alien Character Cards, which are available now: gnoll, grippli, kitsune, kobold, and samsaran. While that blog provided the creature subtype grafts GMs need to make NPCs of these new species, sometimes you just need one now. If you find yourself in that situation, feel free to use Vizaix here to gnoll-ify your game tonight!

We here at Paizo like to keep you up to date on our upcoming releases. Our most recent big release is Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, a book focused on expanding existing ancestries as well as providing you with brand new ancestries and versatile heritages to inspire all manner of adventurer. Let’s take a look at what’s inside.

Paizo is pleased to announce that a new liveplay adventure will air at the Gen Con Spring Showcase on Saturday, March 6th at 5 p.m. Pacific at twitch.tv/gencontv. And to make it even better, the original cast of Troubles in Otari is returning for this special Gen Con event!

Gloriously geeky talk is in the air! Join us for the premiere episode of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific on Friday, February 26. Paizo LIVE is our new monthly two-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about all things Pathfinder and Starfinder. Of course, Paizo Live will also be archived on YouTube for easy viewing.

Hey everyone! Michael Sayre here, ready to discuss the Pathfinder Guns & Gears playtest that just wrapped up! We’ve had some time to go over the survey results and contextualize all of the amazing posts, videos, and playtest reports you all shared during the course of the playtest. Now that we’ve had a chance to go over that data ourselves and make some decisions, we’re here to talk to you a bit about the direction we’d like to take. Keep in mind, while we’re going to talk about some broad points here, there are likely to be dozens of little changes throughout both classes—covering everything from adding more feats and class options to minor tweaks in the way existing abilities or options function. Just because we don’t mention something here doesn’t mean it won’t get some kind of love and attention during development. We’re just hitting the highlight reel! Also, feel free to stick around to the end of the blog to check out a preview of one of the cool new options that’ll be included in the final release of Guns & Gears!