Hail and well met, Pathfinders and Starfinders! This month’s new releases revitalize the Starfinder Society, finish the mystery of Willowshore, and give you an elementally exciting board game to pass the time while you wait for that player to show up!

We’ve got a couple of exciting streams coming up in February on twitch.tv/officialpaizo, and wanted to keep you posted on those:

• Join us Friday, Feb 2^nd at 4 P.M. Pacific for PaizoLIVE—featuring Starfinder Society, Elemental Stones, and Seven Dooms for Sandpoint!
• Drop in Friday, Feb 9^th at 4 P.M. Pacific for a special Lunar New Year stream, showcasing some of the amazing designers of the Lost Omens Tian Xia World Guide.
• Bring your (romantic) rivals for a Valentine’s Day Elemental Stones stream—Wednesday, February 14^that 11:30 A.M. Pacific.

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Starfinder Scoured Stars Adventure Path

A WAKING GOD!

With most of the Starfinder Society’s agents trapped by an impenetrable force field in a distant star system, it’s up to a new generation of heroes to step forward and uncover the mystery within the Scoured Stars. Facing the merciless Jinsul Hierocracy while rebuilding an interplanetary adventuring guild and dealing with the emerging threat of a slumbering deity—it’s all in a day’s work for a Starfinder!

The Starfinder Scoured Stars Adventure Path is also available as a faux-leather, debossed Special Edition, with an in-bound ribbon bookmark.

Pathfinder: Elemental Stones

Take on the role of an elemental sovereign, shaping the very nature of reality in this fast-moving board game! 
2 to 4 players take turns to draft and play colorful (and colorblind-friendly) hexagonal tiles to match specific patterns and meet their own secret objective. With several dozen pattern cards, variable objectives, and a game state that's constantly in flux, you'll never play the same way twice. Simple setup, easy-to-learn rules, and a short play time of around 30 minutes means there's always time for one more game…

Watch Lead Designer Joe Pasini lead Alex, Katina, and Josh through a game of Elemental Stones!

Pathfinder Adventure Path #199: To Bloom Below the Web

NEW LIFE AND FRESH DEATH

The eerie curse that afflicted the town of Willowshore might have been defeated, but the dangers facing the rural settlement are far from over. As the first days of spring arrive, conflicts with bandits and political perils threaten the town even as a greater supernatural peril begins to prey upon its citizens. Can Willowshore’s heroes save their hometown from its greatest threat to date? The Season of Ghosts Adventure Path comes to a shocking conclusion with “To Bloom Below the Web,” a complete adventure for 10th- to 12th-level characters.

Starfinder Flip-Mat: Data Center

PROTECT YOUR DATA!

Whether it’s digital information stored on computer servers or ancient magical relics
that hold the hidden language of the cosmos, someone out there always needs to store
their data somewhere safe and secure. This double-sided map presents two such places! One side features a futuristic data center with a back room full of servers, large open foyer perfect for a long-range gunfight, and countless vents and access points. The other side depicts a more mystical repository containing ancient relics, lost tomes, strange bio-vats, and even

a portal to dimensions unknown! Starfinder Flip-Mats present ready-to-use science-fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Data Center, you’ll be ready for the next encounter!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Arcane Dungeon

MAGICAL ESCAPES!

Now your players can explore an archmage’s vaults, delve through magical dimensions, or solve fiendish arcane traps! Whether used as a complete dungeon or piecemeal puzzle, Pathfinder Flip‐Mat Classics: Arcane Dungeon is the perfect place for all manner of magical confrontations and conundrums!

Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-09: Equal Exchanges – Skymetal Hoard

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 5th- through 8th-level characters.

 As part of the secret agreement between the underworld dragon Valashinaz and the Waterfall, a group of Pathfinders is sent to a small island off of Minata to gather a collection of skymetals from an abandoned temple to Valashinaz. The island should be uninhabited, but the Pathfinders quickly discover that someone has made it their home. The Pathfinders need to dodge these new inhabitants and avoid Valashinaz's beloved pet squishies while collecting the treasure. Those akatas have one rough bite...

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-12: Yesteryear’s Hope

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters.

The insectile ghibranis of Elytrio live divided, with husk ghibranis living in the harsh desert wastelands and membrane ghibranis living a pampered life in automated cities. Inspired by positive relations with the Starfinder Society, two ghibranis are spearheading a social movement aimed at bridging this cultural divide—with limited success. Undeterred, the ghibranis Dystane and Klarima are planning a joint cultural event intended to mend bridges, forge friendships, and foster understanding between their people. Who better to help them than the Starfinder Society? It’s time to put on the grandest celebration Elytrio’s seen since the Gap!

Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-10: The Crocodile’s Smile

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters.

After ensuring that Fasiel ibn Sazadin saw Qadiran justice for his crimes, the Pathfinder Society received a mysterious letter from his benefactor detailing that she now sees the Society as a formidable opponent. After receiving this, Venture-Captain Safa spent some time traveling and researching across Qadira and Nex, only to find that the benefactor resides in Jalmeray and is a rakshasa with fine tastes. In order to find out more information about her, Safa and Rashmivati are sending a small crew of Pathfinders to attend a local auction in order to do some reconnaissance. However, while attending the formal event, the Pathfinders notice that one of the guests might have some sticky fingers!

Starfinder Society Bounty #11: The Aucturn Dilemma

A Starfinder Bounty designed for 4th-level characters.

The adventurers are hired by the mysterious Clearbright Institute of Discovery to investigate and secure a wing of their testing facility on Aucturn, where the staff has mysteriously stopped all communications with the corporation. Aucturn is a strange world full of dangers and occult secrets, ruled by cultists of eldritch gods and wrapped in a toxic atmosphere.

The mission takes the adventurers to a corporate testing facility in the wilderness, just outside of the mobile fortress Grindhold, itself a strange place for newcomers. To complete their job, the heroes explore the facility, facing dangers and unexpected discoveries around every corner.

Browse all of our Foundry VTT products here, including the new volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path #199: To Bloom Below the Web (Season of Ghosts 4 of 4). And don’t forget about our Organized Play Scenario Season Passes, which give Organized Play scenarios the same deluxe treatment as our adventure paths!

Our latest standalone adventure, Pathfinder Adventure: Rusthenge, is now available on FoundryVTT.

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Welcome back to another exciting collection of Pathfinder Infinite & Starfinder Infinite Top Performers!

What is Infinite?

Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite is a program that allows you to create content (adventures and locations; monsters; character classes, archetypes, and backgrounds; fiction; etc.) based on Paizo’s intellectual property (IP), including Pathfinder’s Lost Omens campaign setting, and to make some money while you’re at it. Your work might even be recognized by the community and earn you an invitation into the Infinite Masters elite creator program.

For more info on Pathfinder Infinite, Starfinder Infinite, and how to get started, check out the FAQs!

December’s Top Performers

Titles are ranked by an average of units sold and revenue earned and presented in alphabetical order. Asterisks indicate titles that have been on a best-seller list previously. Because they’ve consistently topped the list, and due to the number of their titles that typically take up spots, “Team+” and “Team Index” have asked to be removed from the calculations for ongoing top performers lists. This will allow newer publishers or book series to get more attention. Thanks, all!

Pathfinder Infinite Top Performers

Apocryphal Archetypes: The Magus and Sorcerer

This expansion on the magus and sorcerer classes includes a whole host of new content! Turn the pages on a new class archetype for the magus that focuses on inherited power—the eldritch scion. Or build a sorcerer from one of eight new bloodlines—two for each tradition of magic. This expansion also has new feats for each class, and Foundry VTT support!

Eldritch Expansions—Rainbow of Elements

A kineticist expansion from Eldritch Osiris Games. With 8 new elements, you can become a master of the elemental energies of aether, awareness, light, shadow, spirit, time, vitality and void! In addition, you can find expansions for the elements of air, earth, fire, metal, water, and wood as well as composite elements and expansions to the monk class and houses of perfection!

Player Core 1 Expanded*

Has inspiration struck, but Pathfinder Player Core doesn't have a subclass to fit? Whether you are looking for a cleric spy, a swaggering rogue, or a druid with a will of steel, you will find myriad options within, made by 4 Infinite Masters and specially tuned for the Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster! Feats, subclasses, focus spells, and more for the classes of Pathfinder Player Core.

Shattered Omens of Golarion*

The reality of Golarion is coming undone after the loss of one of its greatest deities, and it's up to heroes like you to hold it together. Shattered Omens of Golarion is a collection of over 2 years of work consolidated into one tome. Inside, you'll find over 185 pages of Remastered player options, including new ancestry and class feats, backgrounds, heritages, spells, and magic items. 

The Traveler’s Guide to the Darklands*

Golarion is a fantastical place, full of wonder and the unknown. In The Traveler’s Guide to the Darklands, join Alphonse Lord Tabbington in an exploration of the Darklands, a place of untold beauty amid fearsome dangers.

From the pen of an all-star crew of Pathfinder designers, players and GMs alike will find options to bolster their adventures to the darkness below.

Starfinder Infinite Top Performers

Enhanced Mechanic

Experience the new enhanced mechanic—revised for balanced and easier play. This expansion includes several new and revised mechanic tricks, drone chassis, and drone mods.

Fright Finder: The Radiating Abyss*

A research facility named DMEI-4 has gone dark. This derelict space station contains room after room of nightmares, the unfortunate aftermath of research without morals. If you need to put the fear of the gods into your players, or just want to show them what horrors magic and science can truly create, then introduce them to The Radiating Abyss.

Monstercology Galacica: Autumn Aliens*

The Monstercology Galatica is an attempt to catalog and describe all of the many and varied creatures that we share the galaxy with. We understand that with millions of stars and billions of worlds—plus those that visit the galaxy from other planes—this is a nearly impossible endeavor. But if we do not try it, then we can never succeed. This is but one small excerpt of the greater Monstercology Galatica, focusing on creatures most often seen during the later parts of the year.

Space Cowboy’s Arsenal*

A certain type of adventurer resides in the vast frontiers of space—wayfarers and drifters, hunters whose next meal rides on their cunning, their aim, and the price on their bounty's head. They carve out their existence beyond the fringes of civilization; the easy life is as alien to them as another man's gun, and just as fickle. They prefer the unpredictable and uncharted, far from prying eyes and folks what ask too many questions. Never tied to one place, these vagabonds stay strange and savvy, doing what they can to keep alive. When the galaxy needs a job done, they call for the rough and tumble space cowboy.

Starfinder Infinite: Mech Threat Manual*

Towering mechs, ancient elementals, territorial kaiju and many more mech-scale threats can be found in Starfinder Infinite: Mech Threat Manual! Inside, you’ll find a spread of the latest mech creations of the Outer Sphere, deadly carnivorous mechform mimics, oozes that can slip inside a mech to throttle the operator or take over the machine entirely, and more. This book provides a variety of themed threats for use in mech combat at all levels of play, and all mechs within were made in accordance with the recommended alternative rules for creating NPC mechs from Starfinder Tech Revolution. 

New & Exciting from Infinite Masters!

 Want to see what’s been cooking in the Infinite Masters’ alchemy lab? Here’s a selection of new products from some of our Infinite Masters—and some pieces that have caught their eyes!

• Born of Impossibility—Volume 2: Crystevolved – A versatile heritage and thirty-two ancestry feats.
• Starfinder Planet Sheet – A reference sheet for keeping track of visited planets.
• Heroes of Omen: The Vanguard – A conversion of the Starfinder class of the same name for Pathfinder First Edition.
• Witches+ (Remaster Update) – A remaster-compatible update for Witches+. If you already own this supplement, get the update for free!

Hello Starfinders!

We’re kicking off the year with a return to fan-favorite planet Elytrio to visit some old friends—the endearing ghibranis Klarima and Dystane. Join this dynamic duo as they spearhead a social movement aimed at bridging the cultural divide between their people. The next step in their plan? They’re hosting a massive community festival—and you’re invited! It’s time to mend bridges, forge friendships, foster understanding, and—let’s face it—probably hit some stuff! Travel to Elytrio to help some friends put on the grandest celebration Elytrio’s seen since the Gap!

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-12: Yesteryear’s Hope is a repeatable adventure for 3rd- through 6th-level characters written by Hilary Moon Murphy! Check out the art below to get a sneak peek at some of the friendly ghibrani you’ll meet in this delightful adventure.

Yesteryear’s Hope is dedicated to the memory of Jack Brown, a passionate and much beloved member of our Organized Play community who passed away in 2023. It’s our honor to bring one of Jack’s memorable characters into this adventure as one of the three special guests that you can show around the festival. Much thanks to Hilary Moon Murphy, to Thurston Hillman, and especially to Jack’s family for letting us introduce Jack’s character Lucius to the world.

Take care everybody. Thanks for making our community one I’m proud to be a part of.

Jessica Catalan
Starfinder Society Developer

Both illustrations by Tom Ventre

We’ve also got another Starfinder Bounty for all of you

Aucturn isn’t usually a great place to set up shop, but some corporations see the complete lack of regulations as a plus. When things go wrong, though, it’s up to “independent contractors” to deal with the issues. That’s you. Things have gone wrong, and Agent Bright, a representative of the Clearbright Institute of Discovery, a corporate conglomerate shrouded in mystery, contacts the PCs with an offer. It’ll be up to you to see if various deeds done on Aucturn ever see the light of day. This will likely be the first time on Aucturn for most of you, but I wouldn’t recommend taking in the sights.

Starfinder Bounty #11: The Aucturn Dilemma is an adventure for 4th-level characters written by Basil Wright.

Hope those corporate intrigue lovers amongst you enjoy it!

Josh Foster
Pathfinder Society Developer

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Illustration by Marko Horvatin

Hello, Pathfinders and welcome to the new year!

This month is a double feature of scenarios, so buckle up!

First, the Pathfinder Society is paying Valashinaz a favor by traveling to an old temple that used to be a place of worship for her, but has since been abandoned after a terrible tempest! The Pathfinders will need to travel to her temple and collect the large collection of skymetals that were left as offerings long ago, while making sure that they don’t anger the spirits that still linger on the island. The Pathfinders have been warned that there may be akatas on the island, but since there aren’t any inhabitants, they should all be hibernating, right?

...right?

Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-09: Equal Exchanges – Skymetal Hoard is an adventure for 5th- through 8th-level characters written by Ianara Natividad.

Both illustrations by Benton Dinsmore

During those misadventures, the Pathfinder Society will also be sending a group of junior agents to attend and poke around a high-society auction in Niswan, in the hopes of collecting more information about the mysterious Benefactor that appeared at the end of the last year. It should be a night of elbow-rubbing, delicious pink chai, and gawking at fancy baubles; however, it wouldn’t be a party with Pathfinders if nothing went wrong! It seems that the auction may be attended by some partygoers that have no plans to pay for their treasures!

Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-10: Crocodile’s Smile is an adventure for 1st- through 4th-level characters written by Ruvaid Virk.

Shay Snow
Pathfinder Society Developer

Logan Bonner here. Your Pathfinder Lead Designer is on the run from creatures ghastly and ravenous. That can only mean that Pathfinder Monster Core is drawing nearer! On March 27, prepare to get raided by everything from aeons to zombies! This is the third of the core books for the Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project. It compiles monsters from the Bestiary series along with some choice cuts from other books and some brand-new creatures.

Left to right: a Vordine Devil illustrated by Gunship Revolution, Smaranava Naga illustrated by Ivan Koritarev, redcap illustrated by Gunship Revolution, caldera oni illustrated by Gunship Revolution, and sedacthy marauder illustrated by Sammy Khalid

Design Goals

Overall, monsters were working well statistically and thematically, so there weren’t any changes to the basics of how monsters work. Instead, we focused on making the book gorgeous, expansive, and full of great monsters! We had several big goals for Monster Core.

Match the Remaster Rules: We adjusted monster rules that needed to match new terminology or rules. For instance, changing “negative healing” to “void healing,” using “Reactive Strike,” and swapping out spells that were in Core Rulebook, but not Player Core.

Collect the Greatest Hits: The most classic monsters mingle with new creations! This book is focused on creatures that you can use over and over in all sorts of games. Most creatures came over from the first Bestiary, with some updates. But we also graduated some monsters that appeared in Bestiary 2 and Bestiary 3 to the main monster book, including serpentfolk, herexens, marsh and shadow giants, phantoms, scarecrows, and more! Monster Core also brings several Pathfinder First Edition monsters into Second Edition, including bogwids and the sargassum heap (formerly sargassum fiend).

Replace Some OGL Monsters: We cut several creatures that we were using from the OGL as we move to the ORC license and a set of creatures more specific to Pathfinder and Golarion. Where possible, we put in creatures that fill a similar role in adventure-building. For example, the sargassum heap mentioned above replaces another lurking 6th-level plant creature! We’ve also created exciting new devils, dragons, and other new threats in classic categories.

Match the Mythology: For a great many creatures that originated in folklore, their abilities and look were based on sources like pulp novels and TV shows. Eleanor Ferron spearheaded an effort to take creatures like rakshasa, oni, dragon turtles, and coatls closer to their source material. Making them more authentic while ensuring they still match Golarion’s lore was a massive undertaking!

Pack it Full!: Lastly, we wanted to include as many monsters as we could reasonably fit. Variety makes for memorable campaigns, adventures, and encounters, so getting more monsters in the book was great. The book is longer than the first Bestiary, but beyond that, we fit more stat blocks into several sections—dinosaurs have the same number of pages, but 10 creatures instead of seven.

There were also some changes that weren’t primary goals. Low-level monsters had high AC too often, and Michael Sayre did a pass to make the low-level experience more even. There wasn’t a level –1 plant or fungus for summon plant or fungus, so Landon Winkler made the sprigjack, a weaker twigjack.

Wrap Battle

On streams and other previews, we’ve talked quite a bit about hags, devils, and other monsters that had pretty big revisions. Let’s take a moment to go over an example of a smaller change. Mummies, beyond being classic horror monsters, make for great undead to include in musty tombs and dungeons. But the Bestiary version was primarily based on causing despair and imposing a rotting curse. They can be pretty static, so we were looking for something new to put into our basic mummies to make them more interesting, much like we reassessed them when creating new mummies for Book of the Dead.

Since the mummy guardian and mummy pharaoh were originally created with sophisticated chemical processes, we landed on an alchemical theme. You can see the special actions the mummy guardian can now use in combat, and how they reinforce the creature’s theme in a unique way!

Illustrated by Jorge Fares

Mummy Guardian — Creature 6

Medium, Mummy, Undead, Unholy
Perception +16; darkvision
Languages Necril, plus any one language they knew while alive
Skills Athletics +15, Stealth +11
Str +4, Dex +0, Con +2, Int –2, Wis +4, Cha +2
AC 23; Fort +14, Ref +10, Will +16

HP 125, void healing (page 360); Immunities bleed, death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious; Weaknesses alchemical 5 (see alchemical weakness), fire 5

Alchemical Weakness The guardian’s weakness to alchemical items not only applies to damage from alchemical items, but the guardian also takes 5 damage when splashed with non-damaging alchemical items or dosed with alchemical poisons, even if they’re immune to their other effects.

Blighted Consumption [reaction] (curse, divine, poison) Trigger A creature within 30 feet eats or drinks (including an alchemical item or potion); Effect The food or drink burns like the caustic substances fed to the mummy before its death. If the creature fails a DC 24 Fortitude save, they become sickened 2 after they finish the consumption and can’t reduce their sickened condition while within 30 feet of any mummy.

Speed 20 feet

Melee [one-action] fist +16 (agile), Damage 2d10+7 bludgeoning plus Choking Pain

Choking Pain [one-action] (divine, illusion, mental, void) Requirements The mummy’s last action was a successful fist Strike; EffectThe mummy shares the pain of its dying moments with the target of that Strike. That creature takes 3d8 void damage with a DC 24 basic Will save. If the creature critically fails the saving throw, it can’t speak for 1 round, including to Cast a Spell.

More Monsters!

If you’d like some extra looks into what we’re cooking up for this book, check these out!

• Blogs on the new dragons debuting in Monster Core: diabolic dragon, mirage dragon, adamantine dragon.
• Watch the Paizo LIVE stream in which Eleanor Ferron and I talk more about the book.

Illustration by Mylene Bertrand

The final adventure of the Season of Ghosts Adventure Path, To Bloom Below the Web, arrives with hints of spring and hope in the new year! Of course, as I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, this Adventure Path is filled with more surprises and plot twists than most, and this final adventure is one that’s especially tricky to talk about without spoiling those developments. Folks have been great about helping to keep the campaign’s twists secret as well, and though I expect that we’ll talk more openly about the narrative stunts and risks we pulled with this Adventure Path sometime in the future, that time isn’t quite here yet.

Of course, we wouldn’t have been able to pull this off at all without having such an amazing group of authors working on the adventures and their support articles. So instead of dancing around spoilers and trying to figure out what to say about this final adventure without revealing too much, let’s hear from two of the authors for this book!

(A final note about the art I’m featuring in this blog post—none of it is technically from the adventure itself, but from support articles, so there shouldn’t be anything in these images that will particularly spoil things for anyone who’s eager to discover Season of Ghosts’ surprises as players!)

James Jacobs
Pathfinder Narrative Creative Director

Illustration by Riley Spalding

Jeremy Blum

I'm Jeremy Blum and my articles in Season of Ghosts volumes 3 and 4 will be my first published Paizo projects! For volume 3, I got the chance to flesh out nindorus based on James Jacobs' initial notes, and detailing the intricacies of a delicious new fiend variant was a blast. As for volume 4, let's just say that I was able to write up character options inspired by aspects of Buddhism. I look forward to seeing how players use them!

Aside from Season of Ghosts, I've penned portions of the upcoming Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian XiaWorld Guide and Tian Xia Character Guideas well as Pathfinder Howl of the Wild. I've also designed Pathfinder conversions for the Korean-themed Undying Corruption setting by Nine Heavens Press, contributed lore to the Chinese-inspired Banner Clans faction in Three Sails Studios’ miniatures wargame Margrave: The Marcher Lords, and most recently worked on several Renegade Games Studios projects that are still under wraps. Check out my portfolio and feel free to follow me (I use the name Pixel Grotto on Twitter and Bluesky) to share stories of how nindorus have made your life miserable.

Liane Merciel

I was both super excited and nervous to be asked to contribute to this Adventure Path.

Like a lot of you, I have been a Forever GM for a... well, forever, basically. I think the last time I got to be a PC was, uh, 2006 maybe? No, wait, I did get to play Fumbus for 20 glorious minutes at PaizoCon 2019. So yeah, that’s the last time I was a player in a tabletop campaign.

Possibly because of this (vengeful? Me? Never!), my home campaigns are skewed heavily toward horror in all its many and glorious forms. If my players aren’t white-knuckling it and/or grossed out at least once per story arc, I believe that I have failed.

Trying to pull off a horror game as a published adventure, though, was a totally different kind of challenge. My GM’ing style is reactive: I see how the players respond to NPC X or Encounter Y and tailor the interaction accordingly. Writing an adventure for players I’ve never met, at tables I’ll never see, using a set of rules that was in flux at the time, was probably more terrifying than anything I’ve ever inflicted on my PCs.

But I look forward to putting them through the game later, just to make sure.

Illustration by Riley Spalding

One final note: If you’re the kind of person who enjoys a good Adventure Path trailer (that is, a person of culture and taste), you may have taken special notice of the music underscoring the visuals of our latest Season of Ghosts trailer. Those haunting melodies were composed by Filip Melvan of Michael Ghelfi Studios, with whom we’re excited to announce we’ve entered into an official partnership! Beginning with Season of Ghosts, Michael and his team of award-winning composers will be composing all-new original soundtracks uniquely tailored to accompany selected past and future Pathfinder Adventure Paths!

We’ll have plenty more to say in the weeks to come, but for the time being, we’ll leave it at this: players who like to incorporate music into their games can expect a lot of exciting auditory surprises in store!

Actually, you know what? That’s not fair. We can’t just tell you about this amazing music and not give you a sample to whet your appetite. Here’s the title track from the upcoming “Season of Ghosts” album right now, suitable for all your ghost-thwarting, village-protecting, below-the-web-blooming needs!

Check Out The Season Of Ghosts Adventure Path

Here’s a look behind the scenes at our PAX Unplugged demo!

Hiya, it’s me Jenny Jarzabski (Senior Developer) reporting in from the field! I got to spread some Veskmas cheer by running the playtest demo at Pax Unplugged, and I’m here to tell you all about it! This playtest is an encounter designed to test out some of the basic rules of Starfinder Second Edition. Reading on might spoil the demo’s content, so for those of you planning to attend Owlcon (in February) or Norwescon (in March) where some Starfinder team members might be running this demo, you’ve been warned!

Here’s Jenny GMing for one of many amazing demo tables at PAXU!

PAXU Demo
Map: Starfinder Flip-Mat: Mining Operation
Character Level: 3rd

The goal of this demo was to test out what we’ve been working on internally with a wider pool of players and see some early reactions from the community. I won’t be going into extreme detail about everything we tested in the demo, especially since some of those rules may have changed after we implemented feedback and prepared the Playtest Rulebook for the printer over the past two weeks! If you want the full experience, you’ll have to find me or one of my teammates at an upcoming convention or wait for the next batch of demos we’ll no doubt be cooking up for GenCon!

Players chose from the following premade characters:

• Envoy
• Mystic
• Operative
• Solarian

The Fight
The players approached from the north of a seemingly abandoned mining site strewn with cranes, vehicles, crates, and other large objects providing that sweet, sweet cover. A massive pit in the center of the map created an obstacle for characters favoring melee combat styles. But these lucky gamers were playing a game that favors ranged combat (YEEHAW!) so they all had a ranged damage option in the form of guns! Pew pew pew! Even so, some attacks and abilities perform better in closer quarters. The solarian’s playstyle focuses on getting close to enemies and hitting them with powerful attacks from their solar weapons, and some of the mystic’s spells don’t work from too far away—so not everyone thought it was a good idea to camp out at the edge of the map behind the safety of cover. (Just the operative. Always. So tacticool.)

As the players investigated the mine, a trio of pirates popped out from behind cover and fired the first shots of the battle. These pirates were packing guns of their own—machine guns! This meant they could shoot from a distance or get close and unleash a rain of bullets on multiple targets with automatic fire. The pirates’ tactics were to shoot once from a distance, then move in and switch to spraying auto-fire to pew pew as many of their enemies as possible.

Tactics and Playtesting
Changing the pirates’ tactics changed the encounter. I experimented with some different tactics and eventually settled into a routine of two pirates following their normal tactics, while a third perched behind a toolchest (cover) on top of the crane. Sometimes, it was like running two battles in one: a sniper fight between crane guy and the operative, and the chaos of machine gun space pirates versus everyone else. Other times, the players disrupted this setup—they gravity welled crane guy off his perch, attacked him with his own shadow, and more! Poor crane guy!

The point is, different groups always used different tactics. Patterns emerged, of course. Generally, the operative hung back and kept in cover while sniping, while the mystic slung spells and pew pew’d from a medium distance. Sometimes the mystic even got into melee and used their painglaive to share their emotions with the enemy on a more personal level. The solarian usually charged into battle, either going after the sniper (RIP crane guy) and using abilities to try to drag him off his perch or intercepting the gunners on their way toward the party. The envoy had a lot of choices between shooting and giving directives like Get in There! to boost everyone’s speed, or Kiss It Better to “heal” someone with temporary HP. No two groups I GM’d for used exactly the same combination of actions. Considering each premade character only contained a snapshot of the rules we’ll be playtesting later this year, you should expect a lot of fun choices when you build your first playtest characters.

A Note About Pregens
he StarFriends (as we members of the Starfinder team call ourselves) each designed one of the premade characters available for the demo. Dustin created the mystic, Jessica whipped up an envoy, Mike crafted a solarian, and Jenny built an operative. Thursty designed the encounter, so we gave the boss a pass this time!

Here’s Jenny CRITTING that amazing demo table! Oh no!

Bonus Encounter
If the players ROFLstomped the pirates, say with a string of crits, the demo had a second encounter loaded in the chamber so the demo wouldn’t run disappointingly short. A fourth pirate gunner and his hacked robot ally emerged from a building and attacked the party right after they defeated the pirates. The robot advanced and went pew pew pew with its laser rifle while the pirate crept up behind it, using her hacked tank-bot as mobile cover until she reached spray-and-pray range. The robot might power down at half HP or use its healing nanites to keep fighting longer, depending on the group. Only a handful of groups played the bonus encounter, including the Cosmic Critters. More about that in a minute.

A Veskmas Miracle
Playing games with nufriends in the community is always a great time. Thanks to all you gamers at PAX: Unplugged who wandered over to the Paizo tables to try Starfinder 2. Thank you to the GMs who volunteered their time to run demo tables—y’all are some space badasses!

Speaking of space badasses, in addition to the public playtests, I had the honor of playing the demo with the wonderful casts of Atomless, Cosmic Crit, and No Quest for the Wicked. They really kept me on my toes with their rolls and roleplay. You can listen to the Cosmic Critmas demo here; my sessions with Atomless and No Quest are coming soon!

But I Want More!
Do you want more teasers about the playtest rules? Are you looking for spoilers before release? Interested in more detailed notes about our internal playtesting? Stay tuned to this space for more news from the StarFriends SOON™!

Jenny Jarzabski
Senior Developer (Starfinder)

Hey everyone, Luis Loza here! A while back, I shared some previews for the diabolic dragon and mirage dragon, two of the new dragons premiering in Monster Core in March. I figured that I’ve kept the public waiting long enough for more dragon previews, so let’s take a look at another fun dragon!

Illustration by Kent Hamilton

Speaking of Monster Core, you might have seen the big dragon on the cover. This is an adamantine dragon, one of the new primal dragons in the book. Primal dragons draw on the magical energies of the natural world. These dragons tend to be the most bestial among dragons. As a result, they tend to be bulkier with more animalistic features like horns and spines. Some primal dragons even grow natural features on their bodies, like small plants.

The adamantine dragon—one of the skymetal dragons—got its name due to the adamantine that covers its body. The magic that flows through them draws adamantine to their bodies like a magnet, though some of these dragons naturally grow adamantine on their body, slowly replacing their hard scales with the skymetal as they age. Regardless of how the adamantine clings to their bodies, these dragons are tough. They’re so tough that they have a strong resistance against physical attacks. The claws and jaws of an adamantine dragon also allow them to burrow through dirt or even solid stone, sometimes emerging from beneath the ground to ambush their prey.

Adamantine dragons tend to use their shovel-like mouths to scoop up chunks of earth, consuming whatever rocks and unfortunate creatures are swept up in their bites. Instead of a typical dragon breath, adamantine dragons belch up all of these rocks, unleashing a veritable avalanche from within their bodies. While adamantine dragons typically don’t have the ability to cast spells, they make up for it with their hardy bodies and powerful blows.

So, that’s a little bit on the adamantine dragon! Don’t forget to check out this dragon and all of its draconic friends when Monster Core releases in March. Stay tuned for more draconic previews in the coming weeks. Next time, we’ll take a look at the mysterious and cunning conspirator dragon. See you then!

Luis Loza
Creative Director, Rules & Lore

Hello, Pathfinders and Starfinders! 2024 is going to be an incredibly exciting year for Paizo. This year, we’re releasing major Pathfinder rulebooks, including Howl of the Wild, the Lost Omens Tian Xia World Guide, and Player Core 2, as well as launching the playtest for Starfinder’s new edition!

We’d like to invite you to be part of the excitement by volunteering as an Organized Play GM! Our volunteer GMs are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, and the most helpful skittermanders in the galaxy. Last year, our volunteers ran over 1,000 games online and in person, and we’re looking to exceed that in 2024!

If you love our games so much that you want to introduce new players to them, and if you’re ready to GM on the biggest stages we can offer, then we want you to join the team! Even if you’ve never run Pathfinder or Starfinder Society before, our support team will make sure that you have everything you need to run your best games ever.

New this year, all GMs who run games at Premier or Premier Plus events will receive a $15 paizo.com voucher per block, which can also be spent in the Paizo booth at Gen Con in Indianapolis. Those who volunteer for more blocks may receive badges to the show, PDF or print products, or hotel rooms based on their commitment.

At this time, we’re accepting GMs for PaizoCon Online and Gen Con Indianapolis; information about Gen Con Online will come once Gen Con provides more information about the event. We’ve also included information from our friends at Origins; while Paizo won’t have an official presence there, we’re recognizing them as a Premier event, which means additional rewards for GMs and players. Who knows, maybe you’ll even see some Paizo staff at the event!

PaizoCon Online 2024

PaizoCon Online 2024 will take place online from May 24-27, 2024. It will have a physical component in the form of our PaizoCon@ program; see last week’s blog for more details. New content at this show includes the launch of Starfinder Society Year 7 (the final year for Starfinder first edition), the new Starfinder Society interactive special, and new Pathfinder Society scenarios.

Please note that this year we will be scheduling all PaizoCon Online events on Tabletop.Events. As such, GMs will need to create a free account prior to completing the volunteer form.

We are currently seeking volunteers for the following roles:

• Game Master: Run tables of Organized Play Scenarios, Bounties, and Quests.
• Headquarters (HQ): Answer player and GM questions, seat players, handle conflicts and disputes, and report games after completion.

Please read this important information before applying:

• Volunteer applications will be reviewed and accepted or rejected by the PaizoCon Organizing Committee. Filling this form out does not guarantee acceptance; you will receive an email with further information from the PaizoCon committee.
• PaizoCon Online schedules will be assigned by the committee. You will be asked for your preference of system and level, but you will not necessarily be able to choose the specific scenario(s) you run. There is a free-form field at the end of the form to enter specific requests, though there’s no guarantee they will be honored.
• Reward information is listed in the table below. GMs who do not qualify for a badge will still need to purchase one if they wish to play games.
• Applications will be processed on a rolling basis, beginning no later than March 1. The earlier you get your application in, the more likely it is you’ll get the scenarios you want. Please be patient while we put the final details of the convention together internally before we send out GM emails!
• Adventure authors interested in running tables of scenarios they have written should fill out this form and then follow up by emailing paizoorgplayhq@gmail.com. Anybody interested in running games outside of the Organized Play offerings (such as Infinite content, homebrew content, or games from other publishers) will be able to propose events once tickets go on sale. Stay tuned for future information!
• Any questions about the GM signup process should be sent to the committee at paizoorgplayhq@gmail.com.

Rewards Table

Blocks	PDF Product	Player Badge	Early Sign-Up Access	In-Game Reward	Voucher
6+ blocks	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
5 blocks		✓	✓	✓	✓
4 blocks		✓	✓	✓	✓
3 blocks		✓	✓	✓	✓
2 blocks			✓	✓	✓
1 block				✓	✓

*Definitions for rewards:

• PDF Product: A PDF of any Paizo product valued at $29.99 or less.
• Player Badge: A badge for the duration of the event. GMs must have a badge before registering to play games.
• Early Sign-Up Access: One week before signups open, GMs may sign up for one game per block they are running.
• In-game reward: A reward for characters based on the current Organized Play program GM reward programs. Pathfinder Society (First Edition) is paper boons, and Pathfinder Society (Second Edition)/Starfinder Society (First Edition) is Achievement Point rewards at the Premier Plus (2.0x) level.
• Voucher: Earn one voucher for $15 that is spendable on paizo.com for every block run.

Important Dates

Please note that these dates are tentative and subject to change.

• April 10 (Wed): Early player signups begin for GMs.
• April 17 (Wed): Player signups begin for all badge holders.
• May 24-27: PaizoCon Online!

PaizoCon Online 2024 Volunteer Application

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Gen Con Indy 2024

Gen Con Indianapolis will take place in Indianapolis, Indiana from August 1-4, 2024. While we intend to participate in Gen Con Online, this application is only for the in-person show. New content at this show includes the launch of Pathfinder Society Year 6, the new Pathfinder Society Special, and the second run of the Starfinder Society interactive special. It will also feature the launch of the Starfinder Second Edition Playtest!

We are currently seeking volunteers for the following roles:

• Game Master: Run tables of Organized Play Scenarios, Bounties, and Quests.
• Headquarters (HQ): Answer player and GM questions, seat players, handle conflicts and disputes, and report games after completion.
• Demo GM: Run quick demos for new players, giving them a short Pathfinder/Starfinder experience before quickly turning the table over for the next group. Our Demo GMs may receive an Exhibitor badge in compensation for the fast and furious nature of the position, subject to availability.
• Board Game Demo GM: Run demo tables for Goblin Firework Fight and Elemental Stones. Applicants should have strong board game knowledge (both our games and general board games) and preferably have related demo experience.
• Academy GM: Run games for young children (under 18) and their families, and provide a safe, welcoming environment for our youngest gamers. This position requires proof of a completed background check (employment in education, public service, or something similar may be accepted as verification that you have completed a background check).

Please read this important information before applying:

• Volunteer applications will be reviewed and accepted or rejected by the Gen Con Organizing Committee. Filling this form out does not guarantee acceptance; you will receive an email with further information from the Gen Con committee.
• Gen Con Indy schedules will be assigned by the committee. You will be asked for your preference of system and level, but you will not necessarily be able to choose the specific scenario(s) you run. The committee’s intention is to assign people to run the same scenario multiple times during the weekend, to minimize the amount of preparation required. There is a free-form field at the end of the form to enter specific requests, though there’s no guarantee they will be honored.
• Reward information is listed in the table below. GMs who don’t qualify for a badge will still need to purchase one.
• Volunteers will be accepted on a rolling basis, and schedules should be assigned within two weeks of your application. Once your schedule is assigned and you confirm, you are considered committed to attending the event.
• Adventure authors interested in running tables of scenarios they have written should fill out the volunteer form and then follow up by emailing genconleads@gmail.com. Please note that we have a limited number of tables and that the schedule is fairly locked-in at this stage, but we’ll do our best to get you slotted into your scenario if it’s on the schedule.
• Any questions about the GM signup process should be sent to the committee at genconleads@gmail.com.

Rewards Table

Blocks	Housing	Product	Dice Bag*	Player Badge	Volunteer Attire	In-Game Reward	Voucher
7+ blocks	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
6 blocks		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
5 blocks			✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
4 blocks			✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
3 blocks				✓	✓	✓	✓
2 blocks					✓	✓	✓
1 block					✓	✓	✓

*Definitions for rewards:

• Housing: GMs will be housed at two volunteers per room. More volunteers (up to four) may be added to one room if all volunteers agree. More information is available on the application form.
• Product: A physical copy of a Paizo product, chosen from a list of recent releases prior to the convention.
• Dice Bag: A custom handmade dice bag with Pathfinder or Starfinder logo. Available to volunteers for 4 or more blocks who also commit to remaining masked while volunteering.
• Player Badge: A badge for the duration of the event. GMs must have a Player badge before registering to play games. Demo GMs may receive an Exhibitor badge if our allotment allows for it.
• Volunteer Attire: One shirt per day of volunteering (unless you received shirts in the previous year).
• In-game reward: A reward for characters based on the current Organized Play program GM reward programs. Pathfinder Society (First Edition)/Pathfinder Adventure Card Society is paper boons, and Pathfinder Society (Second Edition)/Starfinder Society (First Edition) is Achievement Point rewards at the Premier Plus (2.0x) level.
• Voucher: Earn one voucher for $15 that is spendable on paizo.com or at the Paizo booth for every block run.

Important Dates

Note that these dates are from Gen Con directly; other dates specifically relevant to us may be added.

• February 11: Indy badge registration begins.
• TBA: Indy housing portal opens.
• TBA (May): Indy event catalog goes live.
• May 19: Indy event registration begins.
• August 1-4: Gen Con Indy!

Gen Con Indy 2024 Volunteer Application

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Origins 2024

Ohio Org Play will again be sponsoring Pathfinder and Starfinder Society at Origins Game Fair from June 19-23, 2024, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.

For those who have not been to Origins in the past, the convention runs from mid-day Wednesday to mid-day Sunday, for a total of 12 event slots. We set our scenario-length slots up as 5 hours of gaming, with 1 hour meal breaks between sessions to give our GMs plenty of time to eat and re-energize. More about Origins can be found here: https://www.originsgamefair.com/

We are currently seeking volunteers for the following roles:

• Game Master: Run tables of Organized Play Scenarios, Bounties, and Quests.
• Headquarters (HQ): Answer player and GM questions, seat players, handle conflicts and disputes, and report games after completion.

Volunteer applications will be reviewed by the organizing committee. Filling the volunteer form out does not guarantee acceptance. As this is a large con with many moving parts, GM schedules will be assigned by the committee and sent out in order of volunteering. Volunteer early to lock in your preferences! Once your schedule is assigned and you confirm, you are considered committed to attending the event.

We value each of our volunteers who help to make this event happen. As a reward, we have Ohio Org Play shirts, water bottles, badges, accommodations for you or your vehicle, and bonus Achievement Points to send your way. But wait! This year, there’s more! Paizo has generously stepped in to provide voucher rewards to our GM volunteers this year, as well as free product for those who volunteer for more slots. Here’s a grid to keep track of everything:

Origins Rewards Table

Blocks	Ohio Org Play Water Bottle	¼ Hotel or Parking Pass	Paizo Product	Origins Badge	Ohio Org Play T-Shirt	Paizo Vouchers	In-Game Reward
10	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
9	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
8		X	X	X	X	X	X
7		X	X	X	X	X	X
6			X	X	X	X	X
5				X	X	X	X
4				X	X	X	X
3					X	X	X
2					X	X	X
1						X	X

Reward Details:

• Origins Badge: A weekend badge for the event. All attendees and GMs must have a badge. Those volunteering for 4 or more slots will receive a free badge. All others must purchase a badge on their own. Most Origins events are included in the base badge price.
• In-game reward: A reward for characters based on the current Organized Play program GM reward programs. Pathfinder Society (First Edition)/Pathfinder Adventure Card Society is paper boons, and Pathfinder Society (Second Edition)/Starfinder Society (First Edition) is Achievement Point rewards with a 1.75 multiplier.
• Vouchers: Earn one voucher for $15 that is spendable on paizo.com for each GM slot completed.
• T-Shirt: All volunteers for 2 or more slots will receive 1 Ohio Org Play 2024 t-shirt to wear on Saturday.
• PDF Product: A PDF of any Paizo product valued at $29.99 or less.
• Hotel/Parking: Volunteers for 7 or more slots will have the option of shared hotel space or a free parking pass. Hotel space is Wednesday night to Sunday Morning. We will work with volunteers who select this option to arrange rooming assignments.
• Water Bottle: Volunteers for 9 or more slots will also receive a Custom Ohio Org Play reusable water bottle to keep you hydrated all weekend long.

Important Dates

• Volunteer ASAP to lock in your scenario/slot preferences!
• April 13: Event registration opens.
• June 19-23: Origins Game Fair!

Please contact OhioOrgPlay@gmail.com with any questions.

Origins 2024 Volunteer Application

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Premier Conventions Planning Server

Anybody interested in volunteering at PaizoCon Online or Gen Con should join the Premier Conventions planning server by clicking the image below. Follow the instructions in #welcome to get access to the relevant channels. All important information will be conveyed on this server as well as via email, so please join the server!

Thank you all so much for volunteering! These events can’t happen without our volunteer GMs and organizers, and we’re so lucky to have you all. We’re looking forward to another fantastic year of conventions!

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

David Peever, Adrian FireclawDrake, and Jocelyn Hamilton
PaizoCon Online Committee

Heather Vigil, Kevin Baumann, Rebecca Fehn, and Joe Mathos
Gen Con Indy Committee

Janice Piette
Venture Captain–Ohio

One might think that the elements strive for balance, to find harmony in all things, with each being represented in equal measure. But that is not the truth of things. In reality, the elements are in a constant struggle for dominance, each according to their own secretive plan. Only from our perspective do things seem balanced, but the fight rages on for all eternity.

Elemental Stones is an abstract tile-placement and pattern-matching game for 2 to 4 players, in which you take on the role of powerful elemental sovereigns by placing and transforming tiles of five elements (fire, water, earth, wood, and metal)—with air as a sixth, wildcard element—in a constant struggle for dominance. Today we want to give you a peek into how the game came to be and what you can expect find inside the box.

Designed by me (Joe Pasini) along with Jason Bulmahn, Elemental Stones is the first release in the Paizo Games line, which will consist of tabletop games designed, developed, and published by Paizo. We’re excited to bring you all-new game expressions that, while inspired by and connected to the rich worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder, explore the opportunities presented by modern games, separate from pen-and-paper roleplaying games.

Elemental Stones began life as an inkling of a game inspired by the Rage of Elements hardcover book, which dives deep into the system of elements in Pathfinder (including two newly supported elements, metal and wood). We knew we wanted a simple-to-learn, highly replayable game that would involve the elemental cycle, placing satisfying objects on a board, and competing for elemental dominance, in the form of—what else—victory points. Early prototypes of a dotted grid with constellation-like patterns grew into a more robust hex-shaped grid and tokens with a relatively simple ruleset. With just a few tweaks along the way, this design allows for nuanced strategy and tactics each time you play.

Of course, as with any idea making its way from concept to concrete creation, there were some growing pains. Various card types were added, patterns shifted and changed, scoring metrics were constantly in flux, and the component list was rather fluid throughout early playtests. For example, we realized players would end up with extra stones at the end of most games and, as a result, would have less meaningful choices when choosing stones in later rounds. We eventually hit upon the idea of awarding points for having majorities in each type of stone as a way to solve two problems with one solution (if only there were a stone-related idiom for that… oh well). Everything about the game went through similar iterations, from the several other ways you can score points all the way to the production side, where we worked diligently with our manufacturer to create tiles that are just the right weight, size, and feel. In the end, we created a game that is quick and easy to play with up to four players in about 30-40 minutes, making it a perfect warm-up to your Pathfinder game night—or you can play multiple rounds for a whole evening of fun.

We’ve had a great time demoing the game at conventions and online, and can’t wait to hear your stories of elemental struggle around the table! You can preorder the game here and check out an explanation of the rules (from one of our streams). And keep an eye out for more news about upcoming Paizo Games, we cannot wait to show you what we have coming up next!

Joe Pasini
Lead Designer of Paizo Games

Greetings Pathfinders! We are Natural Pengu and we are working on bringing the world of Pathfinder into our mobile Virtual Tabletop (VTT). We are excited to announce:

• All Pathfinder Player Core classes, ancestries, and heritages are now available in our Player Core Toolkit!
• Early Access for the Natural Pengu Mobile VTT will be available on Monday!

Great for Players and Game Masters on the Go

Designed for the modern player and Game Master, our Mobile Pathfinder VTT is a great solution for those seeking the thrill of Pathfinder on the go. When you’re playing with our Mobile VTT, you can play anywhere, anytime.

Computers and laptops have always been the main devices to play, while mobiles and tablets have been companion devices.

We are turning that concept on its head. A mobile phone is all you need to play. 

The Player Core Toolkit - The Entry Phase

Our Player Core Toolkit is the entry phase of our VTT. It contains character creation, character sheets, dice rolling with automatic modifiers, and integrated rules accessible on the fly.

The Character Creator now contains all classes, ancestries, and heritages available in Pathfinder Player Core with assisted level-up on the way.

You can access some rule snippets without owning Paizo’s Player Core. More in-depth rules are accessible for free if you have purchased the Player Core PDF from Paizo*, or you can purchase the Player Core PDF with integration to our platform from us at Natural Pengu for $19.99.

The Next Phase - Mobile VTT Coming On Monday!

But that's not all. We're not just offering a character sheet – we are a full-fledged Virtual Tabletop. Maps, tokens, Game Master tools, and everything you need to create an immersive campaign are on the way with a basic early access version opening on Monday. We are committed to providing a comprehensive Mobile VTT experience that caters to every aspect of your Pathfinder adventure. With these coming functionalities, you can play with a complete VTT, all easily used through a web browser on your phone.

Early Access: Shape the Future with Us

Even though all classes have been tested, our VTT remains in the beta phase with many bugs to be found. You can choose a free plan, or a $1 plan, and get Early access to all of the Player Core Toolkit features.

By choosing our $2 plan you will also get Early access to the Natural Pengu Mobile VTT, when it becomes available on Monday.

These are limited time offers and prices may increase with time as the platform evolves. So get these low prices while you can! With your support we can keep developing the Natural Pengu Mobile VTT into something truly great.

Click the link below to join Early Access and join the adventure today!

Join Early Access

Or sign up to our e-mail list to be notified once Early Access opens for the full Natural Pengu Mobile VTT on Monday!

Subscribe To Our Email List!

*Unfortunately, we cannot connect owners of the physical core books to our in-depth rules—a PDF version is required to gain access for the $0 price point.

Illustration by Lucas Villalva Machado

Hi everyone, and a belated Happy New Year!

I wanted to take a moment to talk about something new we’ll be doing to help parents and educators who play our adventures with their kiddos. While we aim to hit a “PG-13” level of maturity for our standard adventures, there are plenty out there that are perfectly suited for those young adventurers out there, and we know it’s hard for someone to know which ones qualify without reading the adventures themselves or asking others in the community. In upcoming quests, we’ll be creating an image for the cover and product page that indicates the quest is suitable for All Ages, as well as tagging the adventure with that label.

Illustration by Vlad Hladkova

While working on quests, we realized that their 2-hour length was a good sweet spot for younger attention spans, and so we decided to start using this new label on qualifying quests. What that means to us is that the adventure in question should be suitable for younger players without turning off veterans. It should avoid themes of horror or violent imagery, encourage creative solutions, and also employ nonviolent resolutions wherever possible. If there’s a fight, it shouldn’t be against something too scary or too human. The goal here is that if you’ve got a younger child, student, or sibling who can do the addition required to play the game, you can pull out one of these adventures and feel confident that they’ll have as much fun as you will.

Happy gaming to all our players, no matter how old!

Josh Foster
Pathfinder Society Developer

Header avatar art by Brian Patterson

Roll20 is dropping in with an update on the redesign of their Pathfinder Second Edition character sheet. The devs are diligently wrapping up the last pieces of work for our community preview release. We expect you’ll see the new sheet very soon—sometime this month! This is just a preview release, so you won’t see all features of the existing sheet available on release. Because of that, the current sheet isn’t going anywhere; the last thing we want to do is disrupt your ongoing games!

We hope you’ll try the new sheet out, though, and make note of all the things you wish the current sheet could do while comparing it to the new sheet. There will be a feedback form, easily accessed within the community preview sheet, where you can submit your thoughts directly to the team. They plan to adjust their roadmap frequently to ensure you’re getting the features you want the most!

In case you haven’t seen the original blog post, this initial community preview of the sheet will include a couple of exciting improvements over the existing sheet:

• Improved automation: modifications are propagated more intelligently and completely throughout the sheet
• Overhauled conditions: conditions will better apply modifiers to all affected stats and calculations (this will apply to default conditions first and later be applied more broadly through our upcoming releases)
• Better bonus and penalty calculations: modifier types (e.g. Status, Circumstance, Item) will correctly apply throughout the sheet

Until then, we hope everyone has a nice holiday season and a happy new year!
The Roll20 Team

Greetings, Paizoverse! I’m very excited to announce the locations for this year’s PaizoCon@ program! This pilot program will allow you to experience PaizoCon in person with your fellow Pathfinders and Starfinders while supporting your local game stores.

All PaizoCon@ locations will be running Pathfinder and Starfinder Society games during the weekend, including exclusive runs of our May releases. Highlights include the launch of Starfinder Society Year 7, as well as the new Starfinder Society special and an exclusive rerun of Pathfinder Society Special #2-00: The King in Thorns. If you’re interested in volunteering to run games at your local store, please reach out to the listed contacts!

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PaizoCon@ KublaCon

Location: Burlingame, CA
Website: https://kublacon.com/
Contact: John and Wendy-Ann Francis, sfbayareaVC@gmail.com

Our exclusive convention partner this year is KublaCon in Burlingame, California! KublaCon has one of the largest Paizo Organized Play presences in the country, and we’re enhancing it with all that PaizoCon has to offer. Join them to watch our streamed panels in the viewing space, as well as participate in the specials and Organized Play scenarios!

PaizoCon@ FLGS Locations

Head out to one of our pilot stores and join in on the PaizoCon excitement! If you’re more of a visual learner, here’s a map of the locations!

PaizoCon@ Cardboard Corner Cafe

Location: Overland Park, KS
Website: https://cardboardcornerkc.com/
Contact: Darrel Curry
Signup form:

PaizoCon@ Dragon’s Lair Austin

Location: Austin, TX
Website: https://www.dlair.net/austin/
Contact: Milan Badzic
Signup form: https://forms.gle/9BcDzKyQRtg42YVEA

PaizoCon@ Fanboy3

Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Website: https://www.fanboy3.co.uk/
Contact: Ian Hawthorne, Islesregionpaizo@gmail.com

PaizoCon@ Fox Den Board Game Cafe

[Logo Coming Soon]

Location: Burnsville, MN
Website: https://www.foxdenbgc.com/
Contact: Bret Indrelee, old.codger.coa@gmail.com

PaizoCon@ Game Kastle

Location: College Park, MD
Website: https://gamekastle.com/pages/college-park-md
Contact: Nicholas Ruchlewicz, novaorganizedplay@gmail.com

PaizoCon@ Gaming Etc

Location: Acton, MA
Website: https://www.gamingetc.com/
Contact: Adam Yakaboski, madcapmachinations@gmail.com

PaizoCon@ Mighty Meeple

Location: Concord, NC
Website: https://www.mightymeeple.com/
Contact: Doug Edwards & Peter Ramon
Signup form: https://forms.gle/iDFD4g49wWCNXfqD6

PaizoCon@ Mox Boarding House

Location: Bellevue, WA
Website: https://www.moxboardinghouse.com/bellevue/
Contact: Aaron Sadler, velisruna@gmail.com or @Velisruna on Discord

PaizoCon@ The Collective

Location: Orlando, FL
Website: https://www.thecollectivecomics.com/
Contact: Greg Ferguson, @greg_f_mco on Discord

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

OPC Musings

Happy 2024, everybody! I don’t know about you all, but I’m still writing 2023 on my checks. Or I would be, if we wrote checks still.

We’ve got a great year coming up for you all! The Pathfinder Remaster continues to roll out, the Starfinder 2 playtest will launch, and we’ve got several great conventions spinning up. Not a lot has happened since our last blog (and not to give too much away, but I’m actually writing this four days after the December update went live), so let’s focus on what’s coming soon!

Digital Adventure Releases

These adventures will be available on January 31, 2024.

Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-09: Equal Exchanges – Skymetal Hoard*
Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-10: The Crocodile's Smile*

Starfinder Society

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-12: Yesteryear's Hope*
Starfinder Bounty #11: The Aucturn Dilemma

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Premier Plus Convention Recruitment

Are you interested in joining the legion of Paizo volunteers to help us put on some of the best conventions around? Then tune into the blog on January 18, when we’ll be posting recruitment for PaizoCon Online and Gen Con Indy GM volunteers! Our volunteers run Pathfinder and Starfinder Society games for hundreds of players, and we’d love to have you join us. Whether it’s your first time GMing or you’re a seasoned veteran, our team will welcome you and give you everything you need to give the players a fantastic experience.

This year, I’m pleased to announce that GM rewards for each slot will be increased to a $15 voucher. That means for every slot you run, you get $15 to spend on our webstore or in our booth at Gen Con on anything you like!

Pathfinder Remaster & Guide to Organized Play Updates

At the end of December, we published some updates to the Pathfinder Society Character Options page and the Remaster Guidelines page. The primary change here was to re-allow certain spellhearts we previously banned, with some clarifications about how to handle them after the Remaster’s removal of spell schools. It’s heartening to see that we’re getting fewer and fewer questions about rules clarifications, that means things are being answered in a timely manner! Please don’t hesitate to let us know about any outstanding issues.

The Guide to Organized Play has also been updated! Primarily, this change is to bring text in line with the remaster: changing “flat-footed” to “off-guard,” “spell level” to “spell rank,” and so on. We’ve also added citations referencing both the Player Core and the Core Rulebook where appropriate.

Sanctioning

After a quiet December, the sanctioning machine roars back to life! This month, expect to see the release of sanctioning documents for the Starfinder Scoured Stars Adventure Path, which I’m extremely excited about, as well as the Pathfinder Season of Ghosts Adventure Path. Additionally, the Starfinder Society Character Options page will be updated with sanctioning for the material found in the Angels of the Drift comic series.

In March, we’ll be dropping sanctioning for Seven Dooms for Sandpoint, as well as the new Pathfinder Monster Core.

GM Ranks

Whether stars, novas, or glyphs, achieving a 5 ranking in any program involves a substantial amount of time. To achieve the 5th milestone, a GM must run 150 games, of which at least 50 must be unique scenarios and 10 special scenarios, as well as run between one and three games for venture-captains (program dependent). A conservative estimate of the time needed to reach the 5th milestone is 650 hours!

This month, we had two GMs earn their 5th rank!

5th Glyph (PFS2): Landon Hatfield, Eric Parker

Happy new year, everybody! Until next time - Explore! Report! Cooperate! And get ready for convention signups!

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

Happy New Year! Welcome to the exciting reveal of our third Starfinder Second Edition Field Test.

It’s a new year and a new Field Test release! The Field Tests include early, behind-the-scenes previews of rules the Starfinder development team is playtesting internally in preparation for the Starfinder Playtest Rulebook release later this year. Our latest offering includes a preview of two ancestries appearing in the Playtest Rulebook, as chosen by community vote. We’re excited to announce the winners of that vote and the ancestries we’ll be featuring in today’s Field Test: the android and vesk!

Ancestries are the updated version of what were known as species (also called races in older products) in Starfinder First Edition. Ancestries are an important part of Starfinder’s “cantina feel,” a term referring to the sci-fi trope of a spaceport bar packed with all kinds of aliens. In this context, it means players get to create and play as alien characters, and every planet or space station in the setting is teeming with weird and wonderful sapient lifeforms that player characters might interact with. Our goal is to keep the cantina open, so to speak, while we update existing Starfinder ancestries to be compatible with the new edition. 

Starfinder ancestries might look familiar to those of you who play Pathfinder Second Edition. Starfinder First Edition players might notice the new ancestries are a bit of a departure from what you’re used to, but don’t panic! In Starfinder Second Edition, each ancestry entry includes more content than the small sidebar allotted to them in Starfinder First Edition.

In existing Starfinder books, you’ll often see a species boiled down to a list of statistics with a handful of abilities. Presenting species this way allowed the Starfinder team to introduce many playable options right away, but there was little players could do to define their character’s progression—via their species—beyond the initial selection. In some specific cases, a species was so numerically superior that they were the obvious “best” choices (we’re looking at you, SROs!). This was fantastic for certain players but didn’t always reward players interested in exploring different options. In the new edition of Starfinder, we want to create deeper meaning and context for ancestries that you’re going to play or feature in your campaigns. This means including more space for narrative lore related to each ancestry and information on how it fits into the setting, as well as progression-based selections to help further customize a character of that ancestry.

In addition to a set of starting adjustments and abilities, ancestries in Second Edition get access to ancestry feats. A character gains an ancestry feat at 1st level and then another at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th-level. Ancestry feats explore different paths within each ancestry and grant more powerful abilities as a character progresses—allowing you to customize your character beyond what was possible in Starfinder First Edition. The team’s been experimenting with some interesting new options, like expanding lashunta psychic powers or introducing a type of shirren that grows wings!

Illustration by Sophie Mendev

Today’s Field Test focuses on the constructed androids and the reptilian vesk. Androids and vesk are both staple ancestries in Starfinder, but each represents a very different part of the design spectrum. Androids already exist in Pathfinder Second Edition (see Pathfinder Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide), so the Starfinder team updated the ancestry to be compatible with the “ancient androids” who once walked lost Golarion while creating new options to represent the changes in culture and technology that separate the Starfinder setting from its distant past.

Meanwhile, vesk is an ancestry that’s never appeared in Pathfinder Second Edition, giving us a blank canvas to work with. Our intent was to keep the spirit of the First Edition vesk while exploring new build types, from movement-based shenanigans to different forms of natural melee attacks, and more.

The team is excited to see what you think of our initial foray into ancestry design for the new edition. We also strongly suggest you read the foreword in this document, which may reveal some important news related to what ancestries you can expect to see in the Starfinder Playtest Rulebook releasing this summer!

Stay tuned for our upcoming Paizo Live! where members of the Starfinder team will further discuss the Field Test, as well as give more hints about what we have planned for the new edition of Starfinder.

— The Starfinder Team

-Thurston Hillman, Managing Creative Director (Starfinder)
-Jenny Jarzabski, Senior Developer
-Dustin Knight, Developer
-Jessica Catalan, Starfinder Society Developer
-Mike Kimmel, Developer