By Pete Zupan, r/Pathfinder2e mod and host of Rise of the Rulelords podcast.

Paizo publishes more adventures, character options, and monsters for Pathfinder and Starfinder than many could play in a lifetime…

But is it enough?

There are more ideas about ways to experience Pathfinder than even Paizo can keep up with, and the PaizoVerse community has stepped up to fulfill those needs. Authors, including a growing number of Infinite Masters, are creating new classes, monsters, and adventures every day on Pathfinder Infinite. Plus, they’re empowered to expand on the Lost Omens setting in “what if-style,” non-canon ways. Third Party Kon wants to celebrate that.

With the success of events like Beginner Box Day, we saw the power of the community to rally around a game we love. Over 300 people and 60 GMs participated in the inaugural event, and since then, the r/Pathfinder2e subreddit has surpassed 55k members. The event couldn’t have succeeded without help from the community, nor could it prosper just on player zeal. Rather, the efforts of a dedicated group of content creators and publishers have helped bring the game to a wider audience, showing people how many other options are out there. As the PaizoVerse grows, so does the love of the game. More and more often, publishers are adding Pathfinder Second Edition as an option for their rulebooks and adventures, and platforms like Foundry VTT are joining in adding exclusive Pathfinder products like the deluxe Beginner Box module and Bestiary Tokens!

Third Party Kon is a celebration of the PaizoVerse in all its forms. What is the ‘PaizoVerse’? It’s the growing collection of actual plays, bloggers, youtubers, podcasters, artists, and publishers who have made the hobby of playing Paizo-made games into a community.

During the President's Day weekend:

1. We’ll be airing a 24-hour stream of interviews from the best creators in the PaizoVerse and live plays of third party adventures from shows you know and love.


2. Of course, no gaming convention would be complete without free game demos! During TPK, players and Game Masters will get to experience the breadth of community-created ancestries, classes, spells, weapons, monsters, settings, and adventures of third party content at no extra charge.

Of course, we can’t do this without the participation of the PaizoVerse! TPK is accepting pitches to join our stream until January 14th. The first round of demo materials will also be added starting January 21st, so make sure your product is among the first that players see! Send your stuff to pf2events.com/creators.

Be part of the first PaizoVerse-run celebration! Make sure to join us for TPK, February 17 to 20, 2023 at pf2events.com, and join the largest group of Pathfinders at reddit.com/r/pathfinder2e.

The Opulos Corporation is proud to invite you to the maiden voyage of its brand-new starliner, the Void Empress! This ultraluxe starliner features state-of-the-art accommodations and amenities for 7,280 passengers to enjoy a truly transcendent experience. Shop between the stars in the Commerce Plaza, enjoy twelve soaking pools designed to accommodate 80 different species, or eat at one of our 34 galaxy-class restaurants before taking in a show at one of our five theaters! A trip aboard the Void Empress is one you'll never forget!
–promotional material for the Void Empress, presented as Exhibit A12

"It was the third day of the voyage. M'wife and I had just finished breakfast and were headed back to our room. That's when… it happened. Suddenly, the ship went sideways, and everythin' went dark for a moment. When I came to, the power was out. That's when things started getting really weird."
–sworn testimony from passenger "Quick," presented as Exhibit B34

Hi folks! I'm Alex Speidel, Paizo's Organized Play Coordinator and now, apparently, a professional streaming GM. Today, I'm thrilled to announce our newest Starfinder actual play! Starfinder Drift Crisis is an eight-episode adventure in which four brave souls aboard the Void Empress experience the Drift Crash up close and personal. These heroes must work together to survive the first moments of the Drift Crisis and make it home alive. Along the way, they'll encounter mysterious creatures, haunting obstacles, and end up facing off against an influential foe

I was so excited to put this adventure together for you all, and I can't wait for you to see it. To whet your appetites, I wanted to share a couple of my goals with this liveplay.

First of all, I wanted to make sure this series was approachable to as many people as possible. There are some TTRPG fans who aren't fully immersed in the world of Starfinder, so I tried my hardest to ensure that you don't need to know anything about the Pact Worlds to enjoy the story. Also, the episodes are about an hour each, so you don't have to devote hours of your time or worry about falling too far behind. My hope is that everyone from my parents to diehard Starfinder fans will be able to watch the series and have an awesome time.

Second, I wanted to show off the tools GMs have available to them already. As a Paizo employee, I have access to some of the best artists and cartographers in the business, but I started as a Starfinder Society GM, frantically drawing maps with wet-erase markers on blank grids. As a result, aside from character artwork for our PCs, all the art you'll see is art you can use right now. Every map is a Paizo Flip-Mat, every NPC or enemy is pulled straight from an adventure or rulebook, and even the adventure pitch comes straight from the pages of Starfinder Drift Crisis. My goal here is to show GMs that you don't need a fancy setup or hours and hours of free time to create your own campaign. We've provided everything you need to tell a story with your friends already!

Before I go, I want to introduce you to our wonderful players! I'll let them introduce their characters in episode 1, so this is just a taste.

• ChelseaBytes (she/her | Twitter | Twitch) brought such a fantastic energy to the group from the very start of session 0. I could immediately tell that she was going to be a leader for the group, and she quickly took charge in and out of character. I loved her character concept from the start, and anybody who has worked customer service will immediately relate to her.
• James Rodehaver (he/him | Twitter) will be a familiar face to fans of Dragons & Things from the GM chair. As a player though, he brought something I never expected. If you're not absolutely ready to throw down for his character by the end of this adventure, I don't know what more I can do.
• London Carlisle (he/him | Twitter | Website) was the first person to send me his character concept, and I knew we had a winner already. I think every group needs an anchor to keep things centered, and his smooth-talking, fast-thinking character is just the mix this group needed.
• Michelle Nguyen Bradley (she/her | Twitter | Website) was the person I was most excited to play with, as I was most familiar with her work, and she knocked it out of the park. She took on the challenge of playing a brand-new class, and the absolute nonsense she got up to is unparalleled. I can't wait to be able to talk about the end of this campaign.

I hope you'll join us for this wild ride on a nightmare cruise ship! I'll be posting insights from the GM chair after the episodes, so be sure to follow me on the social media platform of your choice for behind-the-scenes gossip. See you in the stars!

Alex Speidel
Game Master, Starfinder Drift Crisis
Twitter | Mastodon

Starfinder Drift Crisis premieres January 17 at 6pm Pacific time and will run for eight, one-hour episodes. It will air on our Twitch and Youtube channels simultaneously, and be posted to our YouTube channel immediately afterwards.

Greetings, Pathfinders and Starfinders!

For over a year, we’ve watched Pathfinder Infinite evolve in both style and substance as more and more community creators have brought (and continue to bring!) their many talents to the worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder. From rulebooks and adventures to accessories and magic items, the rich fabric of Golarion and the Pact Worlds continues to spin out in wondrous new patterns.

Now, we’re thrilled to further enhance our community by bringing Pathfinder Infinite content officially to the Roll20 virtual tabletop. Come February, community creators will be able to convert or create content for play on Roll20 and sell that content via the Pathfinder Infinite site so that it unlocks for users on Roll20.

Every hero needs a place to adventure, along with the occasional upgrade to their gear. Just so, every content creator wants a place where their designs can come to life. Roll20 will soon be that place! Creators can begin designing new content on Roll20 now in anticipation of the February launch. And Pathfinder and Starfinder fans will soon have a whole new runway on which to showcase their unique creations via the virtual tabletop.

Our 20th Anniversary Year is coming to a close and we want to say: thank you and Happy Holidays!

Illustration by Kent Hamilton

From now through January 18, take 15% off a single order* on Pathfinder, Starfinder and Kobold Press print products at the Paizo Store using the code holiday23 at checkout.

It is not too late to treat yourself and the gamers in your life to our biggest releases of the year, including:

Starfinder Galactic Magic

Starfinder Drift Crisis Suite

Starfinder Drift Crisis Adventure Path

Starfinder Drift Hackers Adventure Path

Starfinder Interstellar Species

Pathfinder Book of the Dead

Pathfinder Dark Archive

Pathfinder Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Path

Pathfinder Outlaws of Alkenstar Adventure Path

Pathfinder Blood Lords Adventure Path

Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path Suite

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Travel Guide

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Impossible Lands

All our goblins, gnomes, halflings, fetchling wisps, ant gnolls, grippli, kobolds, leshies, ratfolk, kashrishi, poppets, shoonies and compact skeletons—and a galaxy of less than human-sized aliens—want to ensure you don't overlook our small releases, so you can make your perfect bundle!

Starfinder Adventures including Redshift Rally and To Defy the Dragon

Starfinder Accessories including Starfinder Spell Cards

Starfinder Society including Season 5: Year of Redemption's Rise

Pathfinder Adventures including Shadows at Sundown and Crown of the Kobold King

Pathfinder Accessories including the Deck of Endless NPCs

Pathfinder Society including Season 4: Year of Boundless Wonder

Board and Card Games including Pathfinder Goblin Firework Fight

Kobold Press, including Tome of Beasts 3, Vault of Magic, and other great 5E content

Don't forget to subscribe so that you don't miss a product in 2023!

Paizo will be closed Friday, December 23, Monday, December 26, and Monday, January 2. The warehouse will be closed the first week of January for inventory.

Once again, and we can't say it enough, thank you for playing Starfinder and Pathfinder! We wish you all safe travels, critical hits, and all the adventure that the holiday season brings!

Best wishes and happy gaming,
The Paizo Staff

*The holiday23 code stacks with Pathfinder Advantage. Discount stacks with Paizo Advantage, but not other discounts. Not valid on subscriptions, preorders, Foundry VTT products, or Non-Paizo downloads. Code ends at 11:59 p.m. Pacific on January 18.

Greetings from the future! As mentioned in our Introducing the Narrative Team blog, there have been some changes to Paizo’s teams, and perhaps none have seen more of a shake-up than the Starfinder Team!

With the restructure of the editorial department, you’ve already heard about changes to the Narrative Team under Linda Zayas-Palmer and will be hearing more about the Rules and Lore Team under Michael Sayre in the coming weeks. Today is your chance to learn about the Starfinder Team and some of the exciting changes we’ve got coming down our futuristic pipeline.

The Starfinder Team is responsible for everything Starfinder. That includes Starfinder Adventure Paths, Starfinder modules, Starfinder hardcovers, Starfinder the flamethrower… oh wait, ignore that last one! The team handles all aspects of Starfinder except for Starfinder Society, which remains under the Narrative Team due to its close connections to Pathfinder Society through Paizo’s Organized Play programs—though we keep in regular contact with our SFS developer for scheming purposes.

All right, let’s introduce the team!

Dustin Knight

Greetings Starfinders! I’m Dustin Knight, the newest developer for Starfinder! I’m taking the lead on the development of future Starfinder hardcover books. Working at Paizo is a dream come true, and I’m so excited to bring smiles to our fans around the world. I’m also elated to be able to work with the most creative and skilled artists, designers, developers, editors, and writers in the industry; my only regret is not contacting Paizo years sooner to ask for work (hint, hint). Being able to develop player-facing options is especially exciting for me given my experiences both writing new content and evaluating existing content for Organized Play—where I hope my additions to our awesome game will facilitate memorable stories for years to come.

You may have already met me lurking around various Starfinder & Pathfinder Discords, hanging with the crew on Know Direction: Beyond, and releasing my own line of Pathfinder Infinite products. When I’m not developing or writing new RPG books, I’m still finding time to play TCGs, experience the culinary cross-roads of the Seattle area, and enjoy every minute of my precious boyfriend’s incredible Starfinder campaign!

If you’re interested in working with us, please feel free to contact me at dustin.knight@paizo.com. Don’t be shy about including your availability, interests, and experiences, whether RPG related or otherwise, as it can greatly help us assign exciting content that plays to your strengths as an author! Feel free to chat me up on the Infinite Possibilities Discord.

Jenny Jarzabski

Hi, I’m Jenny Jarzabski, and I’m super hyped to keep bringing that extra sparkle to Starfinder’s Adventure Path line. I’ll be outlining and assigning Adventure Paths and modules, plus working with the rest of the team to dig deeper into Starfinder’s lore and shape the future of Starfinder as a game and brand!

My Paizo career began in Organized Play. There, I helmed the Starfinder Society’s Year of the Data Scourge before joining the Adventure Path team. Recently, I’ve stepped into my new role as Queen of Adventures—note that my actual title is Senior Developer—a role that encompasses my old job responsibilities with an added layer of creative influence and mentorship.

Besides my on-the-clock work, I’m a longtime Paizo freelancer, but adventures are my specialty. My latest published work is recently released Drift Crashers 2: Nightmare Scenario, but I have so many ‘Finder credits at this point that it’s hard to keep track. Before I became a freelance writer I worked as a teacher, bartender and certified sommelier, and event planner. I still enjoy talking about wine and, of course, tasting it! I love the outdoors, playing video games (Drakengard/NieR and Final Fantasy XIV are my favorites), watching anime, cosplay, performing, and music. I love mechs, magical girls, and tragic androids; you can expect more of this holy trinity (and many more fun surprises) in future Starfinder releases. I’m not into social media these days, but I’m active on Discord and my digital mailbox at jenny.jarzabski@paizo.com is always open! Forgive me for the Drift delay in responding.

Thurston Hillman

Hello! I’m Thurston Hillman, the managing creative director for the Starfinder Team. This is a bit of a unique title in our company as it combines the elements of manager and creative director to balance out the fact that Starfinder is a smaller team. My role comprises the usual logistical scheduling tasks as well as the oversight and guidance provided by a creative director. I work side-by-side with my co-workers and other departments to make sure that Starfinder is the best brand it can be, and to bring all the content that our fans want.

I’ve been GMing Starfinder campaigns off and on since the game came out, including some hosted on Paizo’s Twitch Channel. (Check for Pungeon Crawl!) Along with my obvious love of Starfinder, I’m a huge fan of Pathfinder, and I even GM a show as part of the Narrative Declaration team (https://www.narrativedeclaration.com) in our custom Rotgrind setting. I also run a home PF2 campaign set in the nation of Druma, for which I co-wrote the actual book back at the end of Pathfinder 1st Edition, and we’re now entering the fourth adventure in my homebrew Adventure Path that has the PCs battling against corrupt Prophets of Kalistrade and the forces of Abaddon. Yeah, that’s right, I’m using this space to TELL YOU ABOUT MY CAMPAIGN!! *insidious laughter follows*

I’ve been working with Paizo since Starfinder’s launch, where I was the Starfinder Society developer. I later helped the Pathfinder Society for a brief stint before moving into digital adventures and then back onto Starfinder in my current title. In all those roles, I’ve worked on too many products to name, and most recently I’m wrapping up work on the Scoured Stars Adventure Path, which is a dream-come-true project. Also, I tossed a never-before-seen Scoured Stars art piece into this blog, because I am ABUSING MY NEW AUTHORITY *more insidious laughter ensues*

On official channels, you can contact me at thurston.hillman@paizo.com. For the foreseeable future, I’m hands-on when it comes to outlining and assigning our current slate of projects, so while Dustin and Jenny are using their stable of freelancers and contacts, I’ll still be involved in the process for a bit. I’ll be primarily focused on supporting Adventure Paths and charting the vision for our hardback lines, but don’t be surprised if I have a special project or two that you one day hear about.

You can find me on pretty much all the socials as @OnCallGM, and I tend to answer when summoned on several Discord channels. Outside of TTRPGs, I have a stack of miniatures I need to get back to painting… so many miniatures…

Dustin Knight
Developer

Jenny Jarzabski
Senior Developer

Thurston Hillman
Managing Creative Director (Starfinder)

A Light in the Dark is set to release and welcome in the start of the 3-volume Drift Hackers Adventure Path for Starfinder. Drift Hackers is part of the ongoing Drift Crisis event, as well as an indirect sequel to the recently completed Drift Crashers Adventure Path. In this Adventure Path, a group of heroes works to undo the cause of the Drift Crisis and restore balance to the Starfinder setting. This blog reveals the free Starfinder Drift Hackers Players Guide, in which you’ll learn about all the different paths that can lead you right into the action!

Illustration by Ionnis Fiore

From corporate researchers to faithful pilgrims, this guide provides a variety of different party backgrounds to start your campaign off right. These backgrounds each provide a unique mechanical benefit, from new spell-like abilities to bonuses in combat that persist throughout the Adventure Path. Along with these backgrounds, there are also direct tie-ins for parties coming out of the Against the Aeon Throne and Drift Crashers Adventure Paths, as well as parties who’ve just completed the Liberation of Locus-1 adventure. Like the backgrounds, these tie-ins provide unique perks for your parties to reward their prior accomplishments.

New gear derived from the aftermath of the Drift Crash fills the rest of this free product. From new armor upgrades suitable for starship operations to new weapons devised from the mysterious outsiders known as spectra, the Players Guide has you covered!

Download the Drift Hacker's Players Guide Here

Type40 is very proud to announce our new partnership with Paizo! We absolutely love the rich and inspiring lore of Pathfinder and Starfinder and look forward to creating new and exciting ways to help you enjoy your games.

The Pathfinder and Starfinder tabletop roleplaying games allow you to immerse yourself in exciting adventures with your friends. You can travel across the fantastical lands of Golarion, discovering unknown adventures where you can unleash your hero in Pathfinder! If you’d like to venture further, you can journey across the galaxy aboard your starship, exploring an amazing science-fantasy universe full of aliens, magic, and adventure in Starfinder!

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Hey Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite fans! This month we’re looking at the top performers from October across both platforms, as well as a look at what’s new in November.

Octobers’s Top Performers

Titles are ranked by an average of units sold and revenue earned and are presented in alphabetical order. Congratulations to all the top performers!

Abomination Vaults GM’s Guide (P2)
The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is an extensive campaign in a sprawling megadungeon. Your players need the right tools to navigate its dangers, and you need the tools in this GM’s Guide to keep the action moving! Inside, you’ll find new mini adventures that connect to the dungeon, new wandering factions, a checklist of all the side quests the campaign offers, and full stat blocks for every single monster on every single level!

The Adventurer’s Handbook (P2)
The Adventurer’s Handbook is a collection of new and exciting abilities that every adventurer should get to know before the start of their next journey. It introduces 30 new general feats, including the outrageous hybrid skill feats: a new type of feat that requires and combines the functionality of two or more skills. With them, you can learn new combat tricks like calculated risk, evasive somersault, and unexpected maneuvers; master numerology with arithmancy, all in the numbers, and sacred geometry; or explore your more artistic side with powerful voice, enthralling artwork, and fashion master! Foundry VTT and Pathbuilder support also available.

Character Classes: Tarotmaster (P2)
Strange magics await within the tarot, waiting to be discovered. Including 3 focus arcana subclasses, card-casting capabilities, and many ways to manipulate your Major Arcana deck of spells, will you control fate, or will fate control you? Includes over 50 class feats and a multiclass dedication for those who wish to dabble only slightly in the tarot. Foundry VTT support also available.

Everything Shields (P2)
Take your shields to the next level! With the Everything Shields Pathfinder Second Edition supplement, you can create hundreds of customized shields and shield-focused characters. Do you want to play a swashbuckling, targe-wielding duelist whose shield can exude darkness on command when you get in a pinch? Or a mobile warrior who throws a mithral hoplon that returns after each attack? How about a witch who has etched a hex onto the face of their shield to make enemies falter when they attack? All of these options and many more are possible with Everything Shields.

Frontiers of Magic (P2)
Magic is an ever-expanding field of study. Wizards construct new spells, druids befriend newly observed species, occultists uncover secrets thought lost, and clerics receive novel blessings. This book explores these lesser-known facets with new player options for Pathfinder Second Edition. Some of these options are recent discoveries in Golarion, but others are new only to game mechanics. This 138-page supplement of player options includes two new classes (Mesmerist and Shifter), 34 archetypes, new class options and feats for most spellcasting classes, spell skill actions, and over 60 new spells (including consolation cantrips). Includes Foundry VTT support.

NPC Index: Spellcasters (P2)
Want to save yourself hours of session prep time for your Pathfinder Second Edition game? This is where NPC Index: Spellcasters shines. Here you’ll find more than 100 ready-made stat blocks for spellcasting NPCs of every level, from a lowly apprentice to the most awe-inspiring archdruid. Whether you’re planning out future adventures, converting First Edition adventures to Second Edition, or throwing together interesting magical encounters on the fly, this book does the hard work so you can play more! Foundry VTT support also available.

NPC Index: Warriors (P2)
Want to save yourself hours of session prep time for your Pathfinder Second Edition game? This is where NPC Index: Warriors shines. Here you’ll find more than 100 ready-made stat blocks for martial NPCs of every level, from a lowly squire to the most terrifying barbarian chieftain. Whether you’re planning out future adventures, converting First Edition adventures to Second Edition, or throwing together interesting martial encounters on the fly, this book does the hard work so you can play more! Foundry VTT support also available.

Oracles+ (P2)
From the authors of the bestselling Witches+, Oracles+ provides new mysteries, such as beast, fate, and song; new oracle feats, including trance, relic, and mystery cult feats; and suggested errata to help balance existing mysteries! It also includes the Awakened Oracle class archetype, in which your minor curse is always active, but you gain an additional boost when you are overwhelmed by your curse! Includes Foundry VTT and Pathbuilder support.

Psychics Gone Wild (P2)
In this primal expansion for everyone’s favorite occult powerhouse, expand your psychic options with new subconscious minds that allow you to draw on the power of your wisdom and empathic abilities, and new conscious minds that grant you powerful, nature-inspired abilities. The primordial conduit class archetype allows you to channel powerful energy using your body as a gateway, at risk to your own health! Push yourself to new limits with the unique primordial conduit subconscious mind and call on the awesome power of the elements with four new elemental-themed conscious minds, as well as four new archetype feats that expand your mastery over your chosen element.

Thaumaturge’s Wrath (P2)
From the bands that bind us together to the unfathomable artifacts of eldritch entities, within this tome you’ll find 10 thaumaturge implements to add to your game as well as a handful of feats to accompany them: Band, Coffin, Coin, Mask, Nail, Ossuary, Stake, Timepiece, Unfathomable, and Urn. Foundry VTT support also available.

Witches+ (P2)
Witches+ offers new lessons, feats, class updates, and patrons, including streets, time, and spirits! The book even has new final lessons and suggested errata that help balance existing patrons with adjustments to existing hexes! Includes Foundry VTT and Pathbuilder support.

New In November

November saw the release of two new Pathfinder and Starfinder hardcovers: Pathfinder Lost Omens Impossible Lands and Starfinder Interstellar Species. Infinite Masters were hard at work producing tie-in content, which you can find on the Infinite marketplace now. Among them are the Impossible Ancestries, Impossible Experiments, and Impossible Paths series supporting, you guessed it, Impossible Lands, and A Class of Species supporting Interstellar Species. Be sure to check out all the Infinite Masters releases here!

Mark Moreland
Director of Brand Strategy

Of course it happened while Kyyduh was alone and on their security shift. Of course.

While others were likely to gripe and moan, Kyyduh truly enjoyed their security shifts during cryosleep. Long trip through the Drift? Perfect time to read up on all sorts of interesting stuff around the galaxy. They were usually bored and twitchy for about two days of their shift, but after that they’d fall into an information hole on their datapad and bury themself into some new subject. Security shifts were dull and slow, so everyone found their own methods of entertainment, and Kyyduh’s was falling into research on a new, random topic each time. They were supposed to be more vigilant, given the Drift Crash and everything. Supposed to be keeping a close eye on the Drift monitors and the cameras that showed the engine rooms and storage. Supposed to.

Instead, Kyyduh had fallen into an information hole about the history of Eoxian bone lace. They’d found a whole article and several online video examinations theorizing on the history and origin of the craft and examining different techniques, and by the time they realized an alarm was blaring, they couldn’t have told anyone what day it was or what ship they were on. They swatted the button to reset the alarm, eyes flicking between the various monitors as they absentmindedly tucked their current weaving project (a tapestry of Meyel mid-battle dance) to the side of the console. Engines, fine. Storage, a little messy. Looks like some boxes were knocked over. Cryosleep—

Someone was in the cryosleep chamber. Kyyduh stood immediately, temper flaring at the thought of someone, something, some creature, interrupting their travels and preying on their buddies. And while they were sleeping no less!

As the doors slid open, a wave of nausea hit Kyyduh and they stumbled, grabbing onto a nearby container for support. They shook their head, feeling the plants that made up part of their body start to shift within their lungs and throat, allowing them to breathe more easily and fight off this sickness. They glanced up and spotted the intruder who, strangely surrounded by floating lights, was moving toward the life support systems.

“Hey! Not quite!” Kyyduh’s temper returned tenfold, and they jerked their arm, reforming it into a threatening cannon. “Turn around and hold still!” Their body vibrated softly as it readied an explosive shot, taking aim to hit the intruder and not any of the delicate support systems.

The intruder whipped around and Kyyduh caught a surprise burst of energy in the chest, knocking the air from their lungs, though the vines around their torso whipped together to form a bond that shielded them from most of the damage. With a roar they fired off a wild shot, missing the intruder but illuminating them enough to provide some more information. Strange hair, strange symbols— Oh by Meyel’s whiskers, a hesper? Here?

Illustration by Mirco Paganessi from Starfinder Interstellar Species.

They grit their teeth as the fey snarled at them, gathering energy around his body. Kyyduh took a few breaths, unable to fully calm down before another energy shot hit them in the chest, knocking them back against Raia’s chamber. The safety glass cracked beneath them, and Kyyduh saw red. They lunged for the hesper, shifting their arm into a claw just before they body-slammed into him, kicking him out of his float and onto the ground. The hesper struggled against Kyyduh’s weight, the denseness of his body working against him to keep him down. Kyyduh moved to hit him with their claw, but stopped when the reflection of their symbol of Meyel in the metal of a nearby chamber drew their eye to the expression on the hesper’s face. He wore a look of struggle and desperation, his cheeks thinner than they should be. Kyyduh forced themself to breathe, then gave the hesper a good shake.

“Calm down and tell me what you’re doing!” they demanded, dodging the hesper’s weak attempt to strike them once more. “Alright, enough with the hitting, come on!” They gave him another shake, slightly swatting at his face with their free hand. The swat seemed to startle the fey, at least enough that their radiation field dropped, letting Kyyduh breathe comfortably and sit up, dragging him with them. “Let’s start with the basics. What’s your name, bud?”

“Thakvine.” The hesper finally got out, calming down despite his repeated glances back at the life support systems. “Please, the Drift guided me here and I’m so hungry... Just a little bit of the power. Please. I need some. It’s been so long...”

Kyyduh gave him an inquisitive look, then a nod. “Don’t drain it dry. And you owe me.” They eased off, letting Thakvine stand and following him to the systems. Thakvine nodded in eager agreement, taking a moment as he pressed close to the machinery, absorbing the excess energy. After a moment, he looked back at Kyyduh, reaching out his hand and shifting it, making an exact copy of Kyyduh’s claw.

“You also change?” The fey asked, watching them.

“Yeah. Couple of years now. Not mutations, but plants and stuff. Doctors say I’m a natural at adaptation.” Kyyduh puffed their chest out, looking proud.

“Can you show me more? Like the gun, the cannon?” Thakvine, no longer gaunt looking, now wore a fascinated expression, moving closer to examine the moving plant life on Kyyduh’s body and armor.

The chitin on Kyyduh’s chest shifted, retracting, and they gave their claw a shake, reforming into its usual conical shape. “Sure.” They shrugged, giving Thakvine a smile. “But you’re a crew member now. Welcome to Sunrise Maiden. Your job is to help keep us focused during security shifts. Deal?” They held out their hand for a shake, laughing as Thakvine shook a single finger.

“Deal.” He agreed, before mimicking Kyyduh’s claw again.

Kyyduh laughed, wrapping an arm around Thakvine’s shoulders and glancing back as Raia’s chamber hissed open. “Hey! New crewmate!”

About the Author

Shay Snow is an agender Native American (Caddo and Swampy Cree) tabletop author and developer. They’ve contributed to Pathfinder, Starfinder, Backwater Southern Gothic, and Coyote & Crow. When they’re not playing or writing tabletop games, they can be found playing video games or talking about Indigenous issues on social media. They currently live on unceded Duwamish land with their Lakota spouse and two spoiled cats. You can find them on Twitter @spellsinsugar and keep up with their upcoming projects through their website, https://shayjay.carrd.co/.

About Iconic Encounters

Iconic Encounters is a series of web-based flash fiction set in the worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder. Each short story provides a glimpse into the life and personality of one of the games’ iconic characters, showing the myriad stories of adventure and excitement players can tell with the Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplaying games.

From adding flavor to the use of Hero Points to building new NPCs and new worlds to explore, Paizo has published many exciting Starfinder and Pathfinder accessories. Today through Black Fireday, Small Business Starday, and Cyber Moonday ACCESSORIZE YOUR GAME with the best the industry has to offer!

Even better, join in a raucous game-before-the-game that up to 4 can play while waiting on the rest of the party to arrive! Join fellow Licktoad goblins in raiding Sandpoint for fireworks in the quick-playing free-for-all of Pathfinder Goblin Firework Fight! Steal from the humans. Steal from your buddies. Impress the Chief!

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This sale stacks with other discounts, including the Paizo Advantage. Not valid on subscriptions, preorders, or non-Paizo products not specifically listed as on sale. Sale ends at 11:59 p.m. Pacific on Monday, November 28.

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Our next standalone Starfinder Adventure features dragons and mechs!

For some of you, that’s all we need say and you can order now or ask for it at your local retailer with happy giggles.

If you need to know more, here’s the back cover text.

Long ago, four tyrants conquered Genrovis with their starmetal mechs, until the adamantine dragon Ayleth freed the world. But she wasn’t the savior the planet needed. Centuries later, her rule is rife with corruption and cruelty. After a group of rebels runs afoul of Ayleth, they must unearth the legendary mechs of old— along with other secrets of the past— and use the ancient tech to defy the dragon!

‘To Defy the Dragon’ makes a perfect stand-alone adventure, or an ideal next step for players and GMs who’ve completed other Starfinder adventures. It includes:

• “To Defy the Dragon,” a complete adventure for 10th-level characters, leading them to 13th-level.
• All the details on Genrovis, a planet powered by magical wellsprings and concealing a secret history of battle and betrayal.
• An Adventure Toolbox featuring new mechs based on ancient Genrovian technology and the dangerous creatures born of the world’s wellsprings.

This product is part of the Starfinder Adventure Subscription.

Cover art by Mirco Paganessi.

As a final teaser, enjoy this poem inspired by Old English alliterative verse.

Legend of the Four Steel Tyrants

Friends and fellows, gather forth,
I tell of tyrants, sat on thrones of old.
Peace there was upon our world,
Blessed by wealth and wellspring.
Lit by beacons and crowned by city spires.
In generations long passed, the wellspring children of Genrovis prospered,
Bright futures borne by silicon and silver,
Weaving our new world with thought‐machines.

Then, four tyrants swept from the sky,
Jealous eyes fixed on jeweled Genrovis.
They tormented peaceful cities, toppled spires,
Brought annhilation through fierce
and fanged beasts.
The first Tyrant cracked a whip of wild fire,
Setting hallowed halls ablaze.
The second smothered wellspring songs,
Reigned silence, sealed the springs in soil.
The third Tyrant charmed the clock,
To pry the precious seconds from their rightful rounds.
And the fourth Tyrant, shadowshrouded,
Commanded creatures, crazed, to slaughter.
Four foul tyrants gulped greedily at wellsprings,
Razed and ruled o’er all our lands.
Wounded and woeful, the wellspring children wept.
Ayleth heard the wellspring children’s weeping.
Swiftly she of adamantine soared,
Starwinged, she surveyed sights below,
Saw claws and fangs swarm cities,
Saw spires shatter and wellsprings wither.
The people pleaded for compassion,
Asked Ayleth for her aid.
Ayleth vowed vengeance, vast
Armies fell before her might,
With wellspring children shielded by adamantine wings.
The starwinged one battled bravely,
Bore down on gearspun frames, Unleashed fury for our forlorn people.
Four tyrants fell. Favored Ayleth triumphed,
Freed wellspring children, rebuilt wonders,
Protected peace, woke wellsprings,
Then sealed four tyrant‐shells in soil and steel,
Never to unearth again.

Praise Ayleth, proud protector!
Keeper of the wellsprings,
Queen of Clouds,
Lady of the Adamantine Heart.
Her eternal eyes see all,
Her wings embrace us warmly,
Genrovis clasped in careful claws.

Is it true? Well, history is written by victors!

Become a Legend in To Defy the Dragon!

Flexibility is a must on Pulonis.

The first thing a kit learns after taking their first steps is to make sure to stretch and limber up before running and climbing. Pahtra households often start their mornings with family stretches before breakfast.

Kyyduh may have taken this tenet too far. Sometimes. Most of the time. When they’re not taking advantage of just how flexible their body can be. When they’re not embracing the plant life that is as much a part of them as their heart and their eyes.

They grew up surrounded by machines. Surrounded by military, by guns, by ships, by technology, all of it fueling a clash that Kyyduh hadn’t so much been born into as they’d inherited. Starlance was a good place for a pahtra family to live, and with no obvious rebel connections, Kyyduh and their siblings were fast-tracked into the Veskarium’s military academy. Their siblings took the trainings and positions offered to them, succeeding and achieving and making names for themselves. Kyyduh found that their mind couldn’t seem to keep up with the words being yelled at them, the words being scribbled and erased too quickly on the chalkboards, the words appearing in the too-thick books they were expected to read too fast. They could run and climb and lift, but they couldn’t focus long enough on their commanding officer to learn when to run and climb and lift.

Kyyduh left the academy at the end of their twentieth summer. With what little money they had left from their parents, they booked passage on a ship for as far as their credits would take them, and wound up on the outskirts of the Holy Lands. They did a lot of manual labor there, listening to other, smarter pahtras and vesk discussing things like the biology of the plants growing, the geologic implications of magnetism on flora, the effects of radiation on fauna. The scientists were genuinely nice, even the vesk ones (maybe especially the vesk ones), and they explained what they were talking about to Kyyduh in a way they could understand.

Illustration by Alexander Gorbunov

The camp was studying the restoration of the Holy Lands. It was funded by the Veskarium—but what isn’t, on Pulonis? Only about half their discoveries made it to Command 6, while the rest seemed to go to Hafrerren or just to random places around the Shriek. Kyyduh learned about plants, animals, rocks, and most importantly, they learned about Pulonis and other planets. They learned about storms and the Shriek, and they fell in love with the sound of winds screaming and rain pounding.

So when the camp needed someone to fly out in a terrible storm to retrieve some valuable equipment, Kyyduh was already on the ravine crawler, ready to go. One of the scientists, an older pahtra woman named Nayawsa who often fussed over them and made sure they remembered to eat, gave them a concerned look before placing a charm of Meyel around their neck and telling them to be safe. Kyyduh gave their famous confident grin and tore off into the rain.

The ride was longer than they expected. Despite their weatherproof gear, the rain got in between the layers and made everything cling to them. There weren’t any animals out in such a wild storm, but there were plenty of trees that couldn’t be seen until they were nearly nose-to-nose with them. Kyyduh found it easy to focus when they required all their attention to keep the craft balanced and not slam into something. They located the equipment, loaded it up, and headed back. The scientists burst into applause when they came crashing through the surrounding brush. Everyone celebrated later that evening and Kyyduh was surrounded by warmth, good drinks, and friends.

This became their new norm. During storms they collected equipment, checked on animal spots, gathered samples, and made sure that everything in the camp kept running. They found it easy to stay focused, and their mind finally stopped moving a million miles an hour long enough for them to make sense of things when they were riding through the forests in the rain. Kyyduh developed a knack for being able to tell how bad a storm was going to be as it was forming, picking up on cloud movement and wind speed. They could sense the humidity in the air before the instruments started going off, and they were included in morning meetings about setup and missions.

Things changed when Kyyduh took a trip through a bad lightning storm to the edge of the Shriek. Their attention flitted away when they sensed a hymothoa nearby and they jerked the controls, slamming into a huge tree they’d passed a thousand times. The world went dark. They awoke a few times to the feeling of plants surrounding them, of vines along their fur, of their friends examining them with concerned looks.

When they finally came to, Kyyduh was different. They could feel it. They opened more eyes than they remembered; they looked in the mirror and saw a clash of plant-like features across their body. Their leg was different now, but that was the least startling change. A motion of their hand and their whole arm shifted into a giant claw and then back again. They spent time with their friends learning about their forms, finding that they could adapt their new changes by interacting with new plants, changing their body and their new biotech augmentations on a whim to better fit all kinds of scenarios.

Flexibility. Adaptability. Change. Evolution.

They found that they could change their friends, too, and when the military showed up to shut down the illegal camp, well, Kyyduh used their abilities to help everyone get away before taking off into the forest to escape off-world. They kept the charm of Meyel, though, as a reminder of a time before the Veskarium colonized their world. Nayawsa insisted.

Kyyduh found new friends and companions. Today, they maintain their laidback attitude, their tendency to joke when things get tense. They still struggle to focus in situations where they’re not fully entranced by the subject, and their impulsivity is made worse when they evolve too much, too quickly. Their lack of a filter can cause them to tumble headfirst into tough situations, but their genuine good nature and willingness to protect others save them just as often as the thick, bark-like armor that appears on their body when they’re threatened. At day’s end, they know they’re surrounded by friends and they know they have a home world that will always be a part of them, body and soul.

Shay Snow
Developer

Starfinder Interstellar Species is almost here! Scroll down for a preview of what (and who!) you’ll encounter when you pick up a copy of this new Starfinder rulebook.

Cover Artist: Ignacio Bazán Lazcano

Tendril, wing, and scale

Starfinder isn’t just a game about hackers, telepathy, and laser pistols—it’s an intersection of the many delightfully unique aliens that you can play! Starfinder Interstellar Species presents an eclectic array of strange creatures, from extradimensional kobolds and tiny raxilite plant people to mighty dragonkin and crystalline, silicon-based urogs. Be prepared not only to uncover all-new cultures, histories, and character options, but also to learn that you don’t need a spine to pilot a starship! In this book, you’ll find:

• The new evolutionist character class, able to transform their body to overcome any challenge!
• An in-depth look at 25 fan-favorite playable species, all with exciting character options including feats, spells, and innovative gear.
• Tools for creating your own playable species, including their appearance, culture, and abilities!
• A vast gallery full of versatile NPCs like assassins, explorers, investigators, and star athletes—each ready to be included in any campaign.

First, did you miss the Starfinder Interstellar Species overview our favorite Tomb Juice™ merchant shared in July? Don’t worry, the "A Midsummner Night’s Market Meeting" blog has you covered if you want a refresher!

New Class Options

an excerpt from the chapter’s introduction

The Starfinder Core Rulebook presents a wide range of class abilities designed to fulfill classic roles, objectives, and tropes. And while subsequent books present an even broader array of exciting character options, these often draw on broad themes from technology and magic to exploration and adventure.

Starfinder Interstellar Species changes that approach by focusing on the diverse societies of the Pact Worlds and beyond, exploring how they’ve adapted familiar character classes to best fit their cultural, environmental, and physiological needs. Along with seven species’ innovative approaches to classic classes, the classes chapter also provides a new character class—the evolutionist—that allows your characters to adapt swiftly to any biome or social setting.

But you get to design, too. While creating your character, consider how your species and class concepts intersect. What cultural values shape the types of spellcasting favored by members of the species? Do cultural legends inspire adventurers to emulate ancient heroes or warn them against following in the footsteps of vilified predecessors? Is there a martial tradition that incorporates one of your species’ abilities? Does your species’ culture deemphasize a specific class’s core concepts, adapting them in unexpected ways?

In Chapter 2, you’ll have the opportunity to create your own playable species—perhaps as the GM, or even as a player (with your GM’s approval). As you do, consider how your species’ culture(s), values, surroundings, and resources might inspire you to create new character options that showcase a people’s heritage and history. As inspiration for your own creative process, consider how the class features presented in this chapter do the same.

Illustration by Tianxing Xu

Meet the Evolutionist

Conflict drives innovation, and in a strange and dangerous galaxy you’ve unlocked unparalleled means to adapt. By embracing mystic tradition, extensive augmentation, deliberate genetic mutation, or relying on other extraordinary means, you transform yourself into a powerful being better suited to achieving your goals. You might adopt characteristics of a ferocious chimera, an undead scion, a cybernetic paragon, or anything in between. Yet your evolution boasts a will of its own. Your abilities fight you for control in stressful situations, even while providing lethal instincts, an innate weapon, and spontaneous adaptations that help you outmaneuver, outwit, and outmatch your foes. No matter your niche, you are an adaptable combatant who forges your destiny in flesh, bone, or steel.

Illustration by Mirco Paganess

Species of Starfinder

This chapter delves into 25 of Starfinder’s most popular species—chosen in part by our fans in a public survey in 2021. Each article explores the physiology, home world, society, and innovations in unprecedented detail. This chapter also presents the long-awaited system for creating your own playable species in Starfinder, including guidelines for design, sample abilities, and questions to ask yourself throughout the creative process to inspire a fun, engaging, and believable new species.

Playable Species of Starfinder
The Starfinder Roleplaying Game has a staggering number of alien species for you to pick from when creating a character. This [five-page!] section provides a snippet of physical and cultural information for those that exist at the time of printing, to help you choose!

Custom Species Builder
The Starfinder Roleplaying Game provides more than 100 playable species to choose from, but it’s missing a particularly fascinating species: the one you’ve yet to create! This article gives you tools and tips for making your own contribution to the galaxy’s panoply of species (while ensuring it’s of an appropriate power level for most games). Of course, you’ll still want to collaborate with your GM and other players to make sure it’s a good fit for your game.

Illustration by Ivan Onokhin

NPC Gallery

Nonplayer characters are an essential part of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game, and having a wide suite of pre-built NPCs to choose from can be a boon to any gamemaster. This chapter presents 72 NPCs of varying themes and CR, complete with stat blocks and suggestions for incorporating them into your game. Populate cities and space stations with a variety of compelling NPCs, or flesh out a story for one and have them serve as the PCs’ primary antagonist—employ them as you wish!

Have fun exploring the galaxy, and thanks for playing Starfinder!

Order your copy of Starfinder Interstellar Species at your local retailer or the Paizo Store!

We've brought you three Humble Bundles this year in celebration of Paizo's 20th anniversary. So, we decided to try something new for our "grand finale" and designed a bundle that would be the perfect gift to give the other gamers in your life as the holiday season approaches.

As in the past, most of the products in this bundle are PDFs that you can redeem with codes on the Paizo Store, one code per tier. There are four tiers to this bundle, starting at $5 and ending with all the PDFs and a physical copy of the incredibly well-reviewed Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box for only $45. Additionally, you'll find the three-volume Starfinder Against the Aeon Throne and Pathfinder Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Paths. That's over $500 in Starfinder and Pathfinder goods. Plus, a portion of your purchase supports Carl Brandon Society, whose mission is to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the production of and audience for speculative fiction.

The $5 tier includes a code for ten PDFs worth about $100, including the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box, Starfinder Beginner Box, Pathfinder Adventure Path: Broken Tusk Moon (Quest for the Frozen Flame 1 of 3), Starfinder Adventure Path: The Reach of Empire (Against the Aeon Throne 1 of 3), Pathfinder One-Shot: Dinner at Lionlodge, Starfinder One-Shot: The Great Grav Train Robbery, Pathfinder Bounty: Witch's Winter Holiday, Starfinder Bounty: The Cantina Job, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Hamlet, and Starfinder Flip-Mat: Casino.

Starfinder Against the Aeon Throne Adventure Path Trailer

For $15, you'll also get the above tiers, plus a code for 15 PDFs worth $200, including the Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook (PDF), Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary (PDF), Starfinder Core Rulebook, Starfinder Alien Archive, Pathfinder Adventure Path: Lost Mammoth Valley (Quest for the Frozen Flame 2 of 3), Starfinder Adventure Path: Escape from the Prison Moon (Against the Aeon Throne 2 of 3), Pathfinder Adventure: Malevolence, Starfinder Adventure: The Liberation of Locus-1, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Malevolence, Pathfinder Society Scenario 4-01: Year of Boundless Wonder, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Arcane Library, Pathfinder Pawns: Traps & Treasures Pawn Collection, Starfinder Society Scenario 5-01: Year of Redemption's Rise, Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Starter Set, and Starfinder Flip-Mat: Forest Moon.

Pathfinder Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Path Trailer

In the third tier, for $25, you'll get codes for the above tiers, plus a code for PDFs of the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide, Starfinder Galaxy Exploration Handbook, Pathfinder Adventure Path: Burning Tundra (Quest for the Frozen Flame 3 of 3), Starfinder Adventure Path: The Rune Drive Gambit (Against the Aeon Throne 3 of 3), Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide NPC Pawn Collection, Against the Aeon Throne Pawn Collection, Pathfinder Society Scenario 2-19: Seven Secrets of Dacilane Academy, Pathfinder Society Scenario 4-02: Return to the Grave, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Forest Multi-Pack, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Ghost Towns, Starfinder Society Scenario 4-08: Precious Cargo, Starfinder Society Scenario 4-12: A Festive Operation, Pathfinder Map Pack: Starship Decks, Starfinder Flip-Mat: Undercity, Starfinder Flip-Mat: Ice World, and Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Space Station Docking Bay Expansion.

The final tier includes codes for the above tiers, plus a code for a physical copy of the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box for $45, plus shipping.

PDFs are associated with your account when redeemed. They are watermarked with the redeemer's email address when they are downloaded. So, you will likely want to give the codes themselves as a gift. You or they will decide where the physical Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box is shipped when the code is redeemed.

Humble Bundles offer great deals and support great causes. Purchasers get a say in how much of their donation goes to each participant at checkout.

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—The Paizo Team

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Hey Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite fans! This month we’re looking at the top performers from last month across both platforms. In August, we saw incredible growth on Infinite in no small part thanks to the generous bundle offered by Infinite publishers, and I’m happy to report that September was another strong month! The number of products being released for both Pathfinder and Starfinder continues to grow, and reviews for each month’s products are better than the last.

September’s Top Performers

Boosted Bestiary (P2)
Need a lower-level shoggoth? A higher-level flash beetle? Boosted Bestiary provides over 200 monsters from the Pathfinder Bestiary at expanded level ranges with updated stat blocks and abilities. Applying the elite and weak templates further fleshes out the entries to make it easy to fill out a wide variety of encounters using the same themes!

Eidolon Expansion (P2)
This book expands the Summoner class presented in Pathfinder Secrets of Magic with 13 new types of eidolons, 19 new feats for the Summoner class, and 11 new pieces of gear that you can invest for your eidolon, allowing you to customize your playstyle even further!

Everything Shields (P2)
Take your shields to the next level! With the Everything Shields Pathfinder Second Edition supplement, you can create hundreds of customized shields and shield-focused characters. Do you want to play a swashbuckling, targe-wielding duelist whose shield can exude darkness on command when you get in a pinch? Or a mobile warrior who throws a mithral hoplon that returns after each attack? How about a witch who has etched a hex onto the face of their shield to make enemies falter when they attack? All of these options and many more are possible with Everything Shields.

Inkfinder (P2)
Inkfinder includes over 100 magical tattoos of all levels and rarity, from the helpful Bodily Domovoi to twinned tattoos like Striking Partner. It also includes the tattoo artisan archetype, tattooed warrior archetype, and a new tattoo-maker alchemist research field!

NPC Index: Spellcasters (P2)
Want to save yourself hours of session prep time for your Pathfinder Second Edition game? This is where NPC Index: Spellcasters shines. Here you'll find more than 100 ready-made statblocks for spellcasting NPCs of every level, from a lowly apprentice to the most awe-inspiring archdruid. Whether you're planning out future adventures, converting First-Edition adventures to Second Edition or throwing together interesting magical encounters on the fly, this book does the hard work so you can play more!

NPC Index: Warriors (P2)
Want to save yourself hours of session prep time for your Pathfinder Second Edition game? This is where NPC Index: Warriors shines. Here you'll find more than 100 ready-made statblocks for martial NPCs of every level, from a lowly squire to the most terrifying barbarian chieftain. Whether you're planning out future adventures, converting First-Edition adventures to Second Edition or throwing together interesting martial encounters on the fly, this book does the hard work so you can play more!

Oracles+ (P2)
From the authors of the bestselling Witches+, Oracles+ provides new mysteries, such as beast, fate, and song; new oracle feats, including trance, relic, and mystery cult feats; and suggested errata to help balance existing mysteries! It also includes the Awakened Oracle class archetype, in which your minor curse is always active, but you gain an additional boost when you are overwhelmed by your curse! Foundry and Pathbuilder support coming soon!

Psychics Gone Wild (P2)
In this primal expansion for everyone's favorite occult powerhouse, expand your psychic options with new subconscious minds and conscious minds allowing you to draw on the power of your Wisdom and empathic abilities and grant you powerful, nature-inspired abilities. The primordial conduit class archetype allows you to channel powerful energy using your body as a gateway, at risk to your own health! Push yourself to new limits with the unique primordial conduit subconscious mind and call on the awesome power of the elements with four new elemental-themed conscious minds, as well as four new archetype feats that expand your mastery over your chosen element.

Smoke and Sail: a Pathfinder 2e Naval Warfare Sourcebook (P2)
The ultimate guide for your next nautical campaign, Smoke and Sail presents a comprehensive ruleset for easy and balanced ship-based combat encounters that gives your characters special crew actions they can use to make their time at sea that much more memorable!

Witches+ (P2)
Witches+ offers new lessons, feats, class updates, and patrons, including streets, time, and spirits! The book even has new final lessons and suggested errata that help balance existing patrons with adjustments to existing hexes!

Bestsellers Offer Foundry VTT Support

Of these top performers, three (NPC Index: Spellcasters, NPC Index: Warriors, and Smoke and Sail) also include a separate FoundryVTT module download to import the new rules into a campaign on the platform, which helped boost them into both the top earners and most popular categories for titles on Infinite. New publishers may consider doing the same for their products, as it’s an easy way to both increase revenue and marketing reach, as well as boost the content’s usability for customers.

Mark Moreland
Director of Brand Strategy

The world of Golarion is rich in history and culture, and over the years many artists have helped to define a unique look and feel for the world and its denizens. Now, Paizo brings you an opportunity to upgrade your game with a sale on many of the outstanding Pathfinder Battles miniatures from our partners at WizKids/NECA™, as well as our own Pathfinder and Starfinder Pawns sets. From Adventure Paths to quintessential monsters from the Inner Sea and beyond, this is an opportunity to upgrade your game at a great price, but only for a limited time. The sale ends November 4!

Miniatures

Unleash the hordes onto your gaming table with Pathfinder Battles! This exciting pre-painted miniatures line from Paizo and WizKids adds three-dimensional style to your Pathfinder adventures. Based on the imagery found in the world of Pathfinder, these beautiful figures are sure to enhance your collection and gaming experience.

All cases – 30% off
All bricks or single boosters, excluding Impossible Lands – 25% off
Individual premiums – 25%
All available Factory Sets – 25% off

Legendary Adventures

Collect all 44 figures from Pathfinder Battles: Legendary Adventures, including classic monsters and heroes from new concept art for the Pathfinder RPG!

Ruins of Lastwall

Pathfinder Battles: Ruins of Lastwall features 44 unique figure additions to the Pathfinder Battles line. From the devout Lastwall Paladin to the cunning Skeletal Samurai you will find no shortage of allies & enemies!

Kingmaker

Pathfinder Battles: Kingmaker is the a 46-figure set release in the award-winning Pathfinder Battles line of miniatures, and features friends and foes found in them First Edition Kingmaker Adventure Path. So of course, many of these will also be found in the Second Edition Kingmaker Adventure Path!

Jungle of Despair

From playful pixies, deadly serpentfolk, and the King of the Jungle himself, Pathfinder Battles: Jungle of Despair provides a legion of high-utility monsters and heroes suitable for any fantasy roleplaying campaign.

Lost Coast

The Lost Coast is the name given to the coastal land of southwestern Varisia stretching from the city of Magnimar to the Fogscar Mountains. It is a wild and desolate country full of lingering fogs, small woodlands of pine and nettles along a rocky coastline of ragged bluffs and crashing waves. Many an adventuring party has travelled to the Lost Coast seeking fame and riches, never to be heard from again...

Skull & Shackles

Hoist the black flag and set sail on deadly seas!
The scallywags, buccaneers, and beasts of the Pathfinder Adventure Path: Skull & Shackles campaign burst onto your game table in a blast of cannon fire and brimstone!

Shattered Star

From the ashes of Thassilon, an ancient power rises!

Rise of the Runelords

The friends, fiends, and foes of Pathfinder's Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path invade your gaming table with Rise of the Runelords!

Heroes & Monsters

Pathfinder RPG combat comes to life on your tabletop with Heroes & Monsters, the debut release in the new Pathfinder Battles prepainted miniatures line!

Pawns

Printed on sturdy cardstock, each double-sided pawn contains a beautiful full-color image of a formidable monster or alien. Each pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures and bringing your Starfinder and Pathfinder campaigns to life!

Get 25% off Pathfinder and Starfinder Pawns, excluding Kingmaker, Abomination Vaults, and Fist of the Ruby Phoenix.

Pathfinder Pawns

Pathfinder Bestiary Pawn Box

The ferocious foes of the Pathfinder Bestiary come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 375 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG!

Pathfinder Age of Ashes Pawn Collection

Enemies and allies from the Age of Ashes Adventure Path descend onto your tabletop with the Age of Ashes Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 pawns for use with Pathfinder Second Edition or any tabletop fantasy RPG!

Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide NPC Pawn Collection

The spotlight isn't always on heroes or monsters. Some encounters call for a whole cast of nonplayer characters, and the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide NPC Pawn Collection is the best way to bring the most useful and commonly encountered NPCs to your gaming table!

Pathfinder Bestiary 2 Pawn Collection

An army of monsters has arrived, and they're ready to invade your game! The Pathfinder Bestiary 2 Pawn Collection is the best way to present these monsters on your gaming table. This collection of creatures represents those found in Pathfinder Bestiary 2 and are perfect for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any fantasy RPG.

Pathfinder Extinction Curse Pawn Collection

Deadly foes and memorable monsters from the Extinction Curse Adventure Path are ready to captivate your players and menace your tabletop with the Extinction Curse Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG!

Pathfinder Agents of Edgewatch Pawn Collection

Enemies and allies from the Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path take their places on your tabletop with the Agents of Edgewatch Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 pawns for use with Pathfinder Second Edition or any tabletop fantasy RPG!

Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Pawn Collection

Complete the triple threat of monster pawns! The Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Pawn Collection collects the monsters found in Pathfinder Bestiary 3 and are perfect for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any fantasy RPG. This collection presents beautiful full-color images of a wide array of new nasties, including more than 300 monsters such as dragons, clockworks, demons, devils, hags, kami, ouroboros, sprites, titans, valkyries, and more!

Starfinder Pawns

Starfinder Core Rulebook Pawn Collection

Open the shuttle bay doors and bring your science fantasy adventures to life with this beautiful pawn collection, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop roleplaying game!

Starfinder Alien Archive Pawn Box

The extraterrestrial menaces of Starfinder Alien Archive come alive on your tabletop with this box-busting collection of more than 300 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pact Worlds Pawn Collection

The characters, villains, and starships of the Pact Worlds come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 200 creature and starship pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Dead Suns Pawn Collection

The characters, villains, and starships of the Dead Suns Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 creature and starship pawns, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG.

Starfinder Pawns: Against the Aeon Throne Pawn Collection

The characters, villains, and starships of the Against the Aeon Throne Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 creature and starship pawns, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG.

Starfinder Pawns: Alien Archive 2 Pawn Box

The interstellar perils of Starfinder Alien Archive 2 come alive on your tabletop with this box-busting collection of more than 300 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Signal of Screams Pawn Collection

The characters, villains, and starships of the Signal of Screams Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 creature and starship pawns, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG.

Starfinder Pawns: Tech Terrain Pawn Collection

Bring the fixtures and fittings of the future to your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 terrain pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Dawn of Flame Pawn Collection

The characters, villains, and starships of the Dawn of Flame Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 creature and starship pawns, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG.

Starfinder Pawns: Alien Archive 3 Pawn Collection

The galactic threats of Starfinder Alien Archive 3 come alive on your tabletop with this captivating collection of creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Attack of the Swarm! Pawn Collection

Key aliens and NPCs from the Attack of the Swarm! Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with the Attack of the Swarm! Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science-fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Near Space Pawn Collection

The characters and starships of Near Space and the Veskarium come alive on your tabletop with this collection of creature and starship pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: The Threefold Conspiracy Pawn Collection

Key aliens and NPCs from Starfinder's Threefold Conspiracy Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with The Threefold Conspiracy Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science-fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Starship Operations Manual Pawn Collection

Buckle up! A vast armada of starship pawns blast their way onto your tabletop in the latest Starfinder Pawns collection! The Starfinder Pawns: Starship Operations Manual Pawn Collection presents more than 100 stunning full-color images of starships, from agile interceptors to enormous dreadnoughts.

tarfinder Pawns: The Devastation Ark Pawn Collection

Key aliens and NPCs from The Devastation Ark Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with The Devastation Ark Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science-fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Alien Archive 4 Pawn Collection

The extraterrestrial life-forms of Starfinder Alien Archive 4 come alive on your tabletop with this impressive collection of creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Pawns: Fly Free or Die Pawn Collection

Key aliens and NPCs from the Fly Free or Die Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with the Fly Free or Die Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science-fantasy RPG!

Starfinder Tech Revolution Pawn Collection

The characters, vehicles, and mechs of the Starfinder Tech Revolution come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 pawns, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG!

Thank you for playing Starfinder and Pathfinder!

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For many years, Paizo has largely set PDF pricing as a percent of the full print MSRP. While this process worked well early on, the rise of digital goods and expressions has matured, and the exceptions made for certain categories to be priced higher or lower has somewhat scrambled the logic used to build those systems.

Effective October 26 for new releases and November 1 for all other PDFs (including jpegs for some maps and card products), Paizo will be changing prices in the following categories. You’ll probably find exceptions for some products as well, but this guide covers most cases.

Product Category	Current	New
Pathfinder rulebooks	$14.99	$19.99
Adventure Paths	$17.99	$19.99
Standalone Adventures	$15.99–$17.99	$19.99
Bounties	$2.99	$4.99
Quests	$2.99	$4.99
Lost Omens sourcebooks	$24.49+	$29.99
Lost Omens Absalom	$38.49	$29.99
Lost Omens Regional	$34.99	$29.99
Flip-Mats (all)	$8.99–$10.49	$9.99
Map Folios (all)	$13.99+	$9.99
Flip-Tiles	$13.99–$24.99	$9.99
Flip-Maps	$10.49+	$9.99
Pawns	$13.99–$17.99	$9.99
Player Companions	$7.99–$10.49	$9.99
Cards	$15.99	$9.99
Bestiary Battle Cards	$41.99	$19.99
Spell Cards	$17.49–$38.49	$14.99
Starfinder Battle Cards	$41.99	$19.99
Starfinder Spell Cards	$20.99–$24.99	$14.99
Starfinder rulebooks	$9.99	$19.99

Digital sales are an important component of Paizo’s revenue, and your PDF purchases allow Paizo to continue producing all the great Pathfinder and Starfinder releases. These price changes will also affect the pricing discounts you see through Paizo Connect (My Partner Authorizations in your account settings) for those purchases. Not all Paizo licensees use Paizo Connect to offer discounts, and those that do use it offer various levels of discounts, so adjustments may result depending on the type of service they provide.

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Starfinder's very first campaign explodes onto the pages of this massive hardcover compilation which contains all six adventures in the Dead Suns Adventure Path, a galaxy-spanning campaign that helped launch the Starfinder universe, along with support articles, rules, monsters, and more!

When a fragment of an ancient alien superweapon surfaces from the depths of hyperspace, its discovery sets off a race to find the extraterrestrial doomsday device. Hopping from planet to planet in the Pact Worlds and beyond, the heroes must contend with the undead Corpse Fleet and the nihilistic Cult of the Devourer, each of which seeks to acquire the alien artifact for its own purposes. Can the heroes find and destroy the superweapon before their enemies seize control of it, or will the Pact Worlds’ sun go dark and cold, a harbinger of dead suns across the galaxy? The Dead Suns Adventure Path is a complete campaign that takes starfaring heroes from 1st to 13th level.

Writers: John Compton, Amanda Hamon, Thurston Hillman, Jason Keeley, Robert G. McCreary, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, and Owen K.C. Stephens

Let’s take a closer look at the new cover art by artist David Alvarez.

The Alien Archive includes over 20 creatures by John Compton, Amanda Hamon, Jason Keeley, Robert G. McCreary, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, and Owen K.C. Stephens

Illustration by Kiki Moch Rizky from APPENDIX: ALIEN ARCHIVES, page 262.

Watch the original Starfinder: Dead Suns Trailer

Don’t forget the Starfinder Adventure Path: Dead Suns Special Edition. This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

The original volumes sold out long ago, but Starfinder’s original campaign returns in this brand-new collection. Dead Suns Adventure Path presents months of pulse-pounding Starfinder play in a gorgeous adventure/sourcebook hybrid, and it incorporates errata and minor improvements over the original edition, with beautiful full-color illustrations on nearly every page!

Order yours today!

August was another hot month for Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite! We saw over 40 new entries, including more Pathfinder Dark Archives expansions, monster creation tools, and some great Starfinder products hitting the charts. Read on to learn about the top performers on the site last month!

August’s Top Performers

Boosted Bestiary (P2)
Need a lower-level shoggoth? A higher-level flash beetle? Boosted Bestiary provides over 200 monsters from the Pathfinder Bestiary at expanded level ranges with updated stat blocks and abilities. Applying the elite and weak templates further fleshes out the entries to make it easy to fill out a wide variety of encounters using the same themes!

Class Features: Subconscious Minds (P2)
Luis Loza presents two new Wisdom-based psychic subconscious minds found only in Class Features: Subconscious Minds! Instinctive reliance psychics grow by trusting their natural powers and becoming self-assured, whereas calculated observance psychics can observe and react to the subtle cues of existence.

Dullahan of Golarion (P2)
Whether you’re rolling a new character or looking to bring some unlife to a PC who met a tragic end, the dullahan archetype and heritage give you the ability to play a vengeance-driven headless undead! This book also includes an in-depth look at dullahans in the Lost Omens setting, including a new deity, weapon, and variant rules for playing a xingtian or nukekubi.

Hagiographies of the Veskarium Volume 1 (SF)
This expansion to Starfinder Galactic Magic gives us portfolios for the ten Saints of Damoritosh, including new gameplay mechanics for Damoritosh faithful such as spells, class features, and new options for the Divine Blessing feat!

Inkfinder (P2)
Inkfinder includes over 100 magical tattoos of all levels and rarity, from the helpful Bodily Domovoi to twinned tattoos like Striking Partner. It also includes the tattoo artisan archetype, tattooed warrior archetype, and a new tattoo-maker alchemist research field!

Into the Void - A Starfinder Adventure (SF)Creations of the Purpose-Built corporation, our heroes become stranded when their ship crashes on a desolate planet in the Vast! This level-0 Starfinder adventure has the party gradually create their characters as the story progresses, ending at level 1. While the rules can be used for any campaign, the story is intended to serve as a prequel for the Starfinder Dead Suns Adventure Path.

Kitsune of Golarion (P2)
An in-depth look at kitsune heritages and cultures from across Golarion, including Arcadia, Avistan, Tian Xia, Casmaron, Garund, and even the Crown of the World, Kitsune of Golarion provides new rules for kitsune shapeshifting, heritages and ancestry feats for kitsune characters, new magic items, and two new archetypes: the shapeshifting Noh Mask Master and the spellcasting Kyubi Scion.

Oozefolk of Golarion (P2/SF/P1)
Submit to the ooze with the oozemorph versatile heritage and ozid ancestry! With over 100 amorphous ancestry feats, 16 blobby backgrounds, 14 wobbly weapons, and some slimy summoner options, Oozefolk of Golarion includes everything you need to embrace the ooze! This book also includes rules for Starfinder and Pathfinder First Edition.

Oracles+ (P2)
From the authors of the bestselling Witches+, Oracles+ provides new mysteries, such as beast, fate, and song; new oracle feats, including trance, relic, and mystery cult feats; and suggested errata to help balance existing mysteries! It also includes the Awakened Oracle class archetype, in which your minor curse is always active but you gain an additional boost when you are overwhelmed by your curse! Foundry and Pathbuilder support coming soon!

Smoke and Sail: a Pathfinder 2e Naval Warfare Sourcebook (P2)
The ultimate guide for your next nautical campaign, Smoke and Sail presents a comprehensive ruleset for easy and balanced ship-based combat encounters that gives your characters special crew actions they can use to make their time at sea that much more memorable!

Witches+ (P2)
Witches+ offers new lessons, feats, class updates, and patrons, including streets, time, and spirits! The book even has new final lessons and suggested errata that help balance existing patrons with adjustments to existing hexes!

Appendix PSI: A Bundle of Psychic Archivists

This bundle of Infinite Masters’ material includes products specifically tailored to complement material in Pathfinder Dark Archive, with a focus on the new psychic class! Check it out here!

Dustin Knight
Guest Contributor, Infinite Master

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been spotlighting our Infinite Masters! If you missed the last couple spotlights, you can check out last week’s here and our first spotlight here!

Get to know the newest Infinite Masters:

Sasha Laranoa Harving
Sasha Laranoa Harving (nov/nov), known to novs friends as Solatra, has been writing for tabletop roleplaying games since nov first rolled a d20, and has been doing novs best to take the RPG industry by storm.

Ceri Rowland
Ceri Rowland has been writing Pathfinder homebrew content since he first discovered 1e. His first campaign was written almost entirely from scratch, which seemed like a good idea at the time. Sometime later, he discovered 2e and fell in love with it, and later decided to take the plunge and start writing content for publication. His specialties are creature stat blocks and adventure modules, but he dabbles in a little bit of everything.

James Beck
Jewish LGBT writer and co-owner of Eldritch Osiris Games, James has worked with Deadly D8, written for Sinclair's Library, and has worked on several big projects.

Simon Hunter
A lifetime interest in TTRPG has become a reality for Simon as he creates and publishes adventures through Paizo and WotC IP. He couples this interest with a manic obsession for 3D printing and miniature painting, a love of coffee (both roasting and drinking), and a passion for astronomy. He really enjoys taking created worlds and adding in small additions that provide fun for players and game masters alike.

Jacky Leung
Jacky is an ENNIE Award-winning Chinese American TTRPG writer, editor, and designer. He is also the Creative Manager for Unbreakable Publishers, seeking to uplift Asian creators to tell their stories in their own voices. He has worked for Evil Hat Productions, MCDM, Baldman Games, and others. He is a big-time foodie, sampling cuisine whenever time permits or being lost in a food blogger's TikTok.

Adrian Kennelly
Adrian is a designer of supplements for a variety of systems at Azukail Games (http://azukailgames.com) and Community Content Programmes and collaborator with other publishers.

Jamie Trollope
Jamie has been running and playing in TTRPGs for 30 years. They've been an integral part of his life—a creative outlet, a way of learning about good, bad, storytelling, character development, teamwork and how to relate to each other. Jamie creates utilities for Pathfinder 2e that he hopes will save people time, like the NPC Index or Smoke & Sail: Naval Warfare. He values creativity, collaboration, inclusivity and this amazing game of make-believe we all love so much. Keep rolling 20's everyone!

Gremlin Brothers
The Gremlin Brothers—Darkwayne, Batfoot and Froghorn—aim to create top-notch adventure content to deepen the experience of playing online or in person. Their first campaign—END OF DAYS—begins in the River Kingdoms and takes players across .the continents! Check it out, starting with Volume #1: The Siege of Castle Savinoy.

Luis Loza
Luis Loza is Paizo’s Senior Developer working on the Pathfinder Lost Omens Line. He's done a lot of work over the years creating new rules, setting, and fiction content for Pathfinder First Edition, Pathfinder Second Edition, and Dungeons & Dragons. You can learn more about his work at luisloza.com.

Check out these amazing creators on Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite!

Last week we started our celebration of all things Infinite by introducing you to some of our Infinite Masters authors. This week we’re continuing the spotlight!

Infinite Masters is an invitation-only cadre of the most active and influential members of the Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite community, those whose work consistently sets the standard for quality and professionalism and who receive early access to official Paizo releases in order to support them with Infinite content as close to release date as possible.

Get to know the newest Infinite Masters:

Jessica Ross
Jess (they/them) is an editor, writer, podcaster, occasional streamer, and recovering procrastinator. They’ve worked on TTRPG titles like Journeys through the Radiant Citadel, Uncaged Volume I, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, and more, and they’ve also written for TTRPGs like Scarred Lands and Starfinder. Jess also podcasts and streams TTRPGs with the d20 Dames, a family-friendly actual play podcast; these episodes and updates can be found on d20dames.com. Jess sometimes writes short fiction, and their writing can be found in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Sunspot Literary Journal. Keep up with everything Jess gets up to on their website writejess.com and Twitter @writejessr.

Alexander Augunas
Alexander “Alex” Augunas is an ace/birom TTRPG author and publisher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who has produced fan-favorite products and supplements for the likes of Paizo, Radiant House, Raging Swan Press, Legendary Games, and others. He is the Know Direction Network’s “Everyman Gamer,” and currently acts as the Master of Ceremonies for the Network’s Starfinder podcast, Know Direction: Beyond. He owns and operates Everybody Games, a Third-Party Publisher, and is a self-proclaimed fox aficionado.

Dustin Knight
Dustin Knight has been playing and improving on RPGs since AD&D in 1999. After years of hosting games at conventions around the United States, he began writing with Everybody Games, Paizo, Rogue Genius Games, and on Pathfinder Infinite. He's the host of Infiknight Reviews, the Pathfinder Infinite twitch stream, and Know Direction: Beyond. His dream and goal is to collaborate with other creatives to make more people smile with fun and quality content!
Twitch link: http://twitch.infiknight.net
Infinite Possibilities Discord: www.infiknight.net

Dylan Wokeck
Dylan loves helping others as a children's librarian, but when he’s not at work, he tries to spend as much time as possible with his wife, whether that’s going for walks or playing games together. She loves to take Dylan on real-life adventures to different states and countries. Outside of that, Dylan has been playing Pathfinder since about 2015, and he still can't decide if monk or bard is his favorite class. Dylan thanks his wife for helping with the layout template for Google Docs and Dustin Knight for doing his review show to keep Dylan motivated enough to write more Pathfinder content.

Kevin Glusing
While having heard of them, Kevin didn't actually play any TTRPGs until college in 2002, but he's always been a world builder and problem solver. After being introduced to D&D 3e by some new friends, he took up the mantle of GM and never looked back. Almost 20 years later, he works with Hal Greenberg, Doug Herring, and Ken Shannon of Samurai Sheepdog (www.samuraisheepdog.com) as Lead RPG Designer with over 80 published credits to his name and over 120 overall in which he's had some significant part. Kevin also hosts a successful Patreon (www.patreon.com/namesgames) with 4 years of successful releases and requests.

Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson lives in the wildlands of Los Angeles. An eternal GM, he has played a wide variety of roleplaying games hailing back to the 1970s. As an amateur content creator, he has written materials for Paizo, Monte Cook Games, and Schwalb Entertainment, available on DriveThruRPG and Pathfinder Infinite. Tom is a theatrical director and acting teacher and works with the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. He is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. He is "staff" to a precocious and adorable smooth fox terrier named Abigail Pippington.

W. Brian Lane
W. Brian Lane is a physics educator by day and a Pathfinder GM and content creator by night. He first played Pathfinder in 2015 and has been running and creating adventures ever since. He has self-published a novel about his first multi-year campaign. Publishing Pathfinder content under Lion's Brain Media, he loves creating archetypes and writing multi-level adventures. His Inkfinder has been ranked copper on Pathfinder Infinite, and he has been a finalist in RPG SuperStar for two years. You can also find his physics and coding content at http://youtube.com/LetsCodePhysics.

Arkon
Arkon is a college student with just enough time to run and create for Pathfinder. When he finds some extra between the couch cushions, Arkon explores different interests, editions, and media to pull from for inspiration. Most of what he makes are player options, such as classes, archetypes, spells, subclasses, etc. But as a Forever GM, Arkon also finds himself making things he finds missing. Certified oracle main and unashamed homebrew setting enthusiast.
Arkon’s Infinite portfolio: https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/browse.php?author=Arkon

Calder William CaDavid
Calder CaDavid is an LA-based challenge producer and avid game master. Calder's writing credits include work for Paizo and Dungeon in the Box, in addition to his own content.

Shop the Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite Sale!

Through August 28th, 2022, thousands of Pathfinder and Starfinder titles are up to 40% off on the Infinite marketplaces and sister sites like DriveThruRPG, DriveThruComics, and DriveThruFiction.

Not sure where to start? Check out our Paizo picks spotlighted here.

Over the next two weeks, we’re celebrating all things Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite. The Infinite marketplaces, powered by DriveThruRPG, are your one-stop shop for licensed digital content from the Pathfinder and Starfinder communities, including adventures, classes, fiction, and more that takes places in the Lost Omens campaign setting.

Through August 28th, 2022, thousands of Pathfinder and Starfinder titles are up to 40% off on the Infinite marketplaces and sister sites like DriveThruRPG, DriveThruComics, and DriveThruFiction.

Not sure where to start? Check out our Paizo picks spotlighted here.

Showcasing the Infinite Masters

Anyone can publish licensed Pathfinder and Starfinder PDFs on the Infinite marketplaces. Sometimes we notice a community creator whose designs go above and beyond. These folks are invited to join the Infinite Masters elite creator program and create “DLC” for your favorite Paizo launches.

With Dark Archive’s launch, we just recruited a new class of Infinite Masters, and over the next couple of weeks, we’d like to introduce them, starting with:

Vanessa Hoskins
Vanessa Hoskins has worked on several Pathfinder and Starfinder products including rule books, OP adventures, and Adventure Paths. She is a board member and host of Know Direction, a cast member on Roll For Combat, Valorous, and KD's Adventurous podcasts. She is also the owner of Ninja Cat Games, a small indie video game studio. https://paizo.com/people/VanessaHoskins
http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/
https://rollforcombat.com/
https://valorousgames.com/
https://ninjacat.games/

Helen Savore
This Paper Ninja reads, writes, folds, and plays TTRPGs. It’s not surprising that her stories are filled with unexpected folds and twists that blend seamlessly with reality. In Pathfinder circles she is most well known for the Origami Folder archetype, and co-author of Vellum & Lace, all available here on Pathfinder Infinite. In addition to TTRPG writing, Helen Savore is the author of the Faerie Forge Chronicles. You can learn more about her works at helensavore.com, and find her published fiction on DriveThruFiction.

Tyler Beck
Tyler "Cartmanbeck" Beck is a scientist by training and a game designer by hopes and dreams. He has spent years helping organize the online arm of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game organized play community, and has several design credits on products for that line. He has now created a Starfinder-themed version of the game, as well as many new characters for PACG.

Jeremy Hochhalter
Powered by the magic of coffee, Jeremy publishes TTRPG content and freelances for companies such as Kobold Press, Onyx Path, and Wyvern Games! In addition, they stream actual plays and chats on their Twitch channel (whpublications). Check out their work at whpublications.com!

Kim Frandsen
Kim is a lifelong gamer, having picked up a game book at the age of 7 (thank you Fighting Fantasy), and he’s never looked back since. While his career path took him away from the wondrous realms that we create and onto the high seas, Kim returned many years later to games. His favorite character of all time is a dwarven, the one who brought him into RPGs, but he didn't get REALLY into it until his wife pushed him into taking part in RPG Superstar for Paizo in their final season. Finishing in Top 32 gave Kim the impetus to keep going. Since then, more than 100 different books and game materials have had Kim’s name in them, ranging from books to maps and to board games.

Derry Luttrell
Derry Luttrell is an animator hailing from the midlands of Ireland. They started running Pathfinder Adventure Paths with their friends in 2017, and have since completed a total of 6 (and counting!). A good portion of these APs were run for the award-winning Dice Will Roll show, the Queerest Pathfinder Podcast on the Planet, where they ask the Hard Questions like “how do you kiss a tengu?” They’re one half of the duo that makes up the Classes+ team alongside Tony Saunders (the half, they assert loudly, throws messy half-ideas at the wall before expectantly turning to the other half for approval). In their spare time, when they have it, they run a Homestuck fanserver and occasionally dabble in comic art.
Art Portfolio: https://derryluttrell.pb.studio/
Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/Derryzumi
TTRPG Twitter: https://twitter.com/dicewillroll

Tony Saunders
Tony is a writer and editor of Pathfinder Second Edition content, a moderator of https://reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e and https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2eCreations subreddits, and a long time tabletop gamer. He loves being forever GM and making adventures. He’s also a regular author for Legendary Games at www.makeyourgamelegendary.com.

Grady Wang
Grady Wang is an ENNIE-nominated writer and cofounder of The Gallant Goblin, a TTRPG review and publishing company. He is best known for being the project lead of Queerfinder, an in-world travel magazine for Pathfinder's Golarion setting. He is also a layout instructor for the Storytelling Collective's Write Your First Adventure program and a freelance writer for Paizo. Grady currently lives in Texas with his partner, Theo Thourson, and a variable number of cats. You can find his work at the following links:
TTRPG reviews: https://youtube.com/thegallantgoblin
Website: https://gallantgoblin.com/
Pathfinder Infinite: https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/browse.php?author=Grady%20Wang&affiliate_id=1398733

Theo Thourson
Theo Thourson is an ENNIE-nominated writer and cofounder of The Gallant Goblin, a TTRPG YouTube review channel and publishing company. He combines his love for gaming with his professional background as a school psychologist to advocate for mental health, safe schools, and LGBTQ+ rights. He has written I Am Your World, a 5e adventure about gaslighting, and Be All My Sins Remember'd for the Uncaged: Goddesses anthology about a neurodivergent god. He also loves all things cute and sweet, which is why he produced the Hero Plush line of cuddly stuffed animals based on TTRPG's less-represented playable options, including a rainbow set of kobold plushies. Theo currently lives in Texas with his partner, Grady Wang, and several wonderful cats. You can find his work at the following links:
TTRPG reviews: https://youtube.com/thegallantgoblin
Kobold Plushies: https://koboldplush.com/
Pathfinder Infinite: https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/browse.php?author=Theo%20Thourson&affiliate_id=1398733

Join us in celebrating all things Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite today!

July was a wild month for Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite! We saw over 40 new entries, including the first titles from our newest batch of Infinite Masters. But let’s start by looking at the top performers on the site last month!

July’s Top Performers

The following top performers are those titles that ranked highly on the lists of best-sellers, top earners, or both and are presented here in alphabetical order.

Abomination Vaults GMs Guide (P2)
An invaluable resource for any GM looking to run Abomination Vaults, this guide includes conveniently laid out stat blocks, new mini-adventures, and wandering factions!

Boosted Bestiary (P2)
Whether you want larger encounters or challenges for higher level characters, Boosted Bestiary gives you over 200 monsters by updating the level range of monsters from the Pathfinder Bestiary, adding both verisimilitude and depth to your next adventure or summoner.

Character Classes: Symbiote (P2)
The symbiote character class lets you customize your own disease and focuses on applying different conditions and types of persistent damage. A FoundryVTT module is also available as a standalone product or as a bundle.

Class Features: Subconscious Minds (P2)
Unlock your inner potential with two new Wisdom-based psychic subconscious minds found only in Class Features: Subconscious Minds! Calculated observance psychics notice subtle details around them to enhance their spellcasting, while instinctive reliance psychics learn to trust their natural powers.

Everything Shields (P2)
Everything Shields introduces new equipment, reactions, skill feats, and new archetypes: the shield-throwing Shield Maven and the magically-infused Mirror Warrior! In addition to the hundreds of new customized shield options, Everything Shields now includes a FoundryVTT module for automatically assembling shields!

Golarion Unseen: Bloodlines (P2)
Golarion Unseen: Bloodlines will absolutely inspire your next sorcerer or multiclass sorcerer with 17 bloodlines and 51 new focus spells! Pick from conceptual bloodlines, like as maestro and time, or creature-inspired bloodlines like kitsune and medusa! Now with FoundryVTT support!

NPC Index (Warriors) (P2)
With over 100 ready-made statblocks from levels 1 to 20, NPC Index: Warriors is a complete bestiary of martial enemies ready to unleash on your unsuspecting players! This exciting supplement includes an easy 3-step guide to create more NPCs and ancestry/heritage templates!

Oozefolk of Golarion (P2/SF/P1)
Learn to love the ooze with the oozemorph versatile heritage and ozid ancestry, complete with over 100 amorphous ancestry feats, 16 blobby backgrounds, 14 wobbly weapons, and some slimy summoner options! Oozefolk of Golarion features a Golarion gazetteer of the new goo and includes rules for Starfinder and Pathfinder 1st Edition!

Smoke and Sail: a Pathfinder 2e Naval Warfare Sourcebook (P2)
An invaluable sourcebook for your next nautical campaign, Smoke and Sail presents a comprehensive rule set for intuitive ship-based combat encounters, giving your party special crew actions during combat, as well as new skill feats, underwater hazards, ships, and more!

Witches+ (P2)
Now with full Foundry VTT support, Witches+ provides new patrons, class updates, lessons, and class feats, including new final lessons for 20th-level witches and feat support for everything from leylines to potions!

The Infinite Masters Case Files

This July the Infinite Masters, an invitation-only group of Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite creators whose work consistently sets the standard for quality and professionalism, have released six new supplements explicitly for Pathfinder Dark Archive. Thaumaturge players can expand their collections with Item Implements. Acid and time manipulating psychics can’t miss From the Arkive: AMP: A Musing on Psychics. To Study Egos in Golarion includes psychic options for various base classes. Nerves and Endings gives your psychics shocking new powers. Spell Tricksters of the Dark Archive gives every spell in Pathfinder Dark Archive new spell tricks. And Class Features: Subconscious Minds gives us two new Wisdom-based subconscious minds!

Gen Con 2022 Infinite Community Megabundle

Don’t miss the Gen Con 2022 Infinite Community Megabundle. This bundle includes 60 products valued at over $200 for only $24.99! You just have until the 16th to pick it up, so don’t delay!

Dustin “Infiknight” Knight
Guest Contributor, Infinite Master

With the release of Dark Archive, we welcome a new slate of community creators into the Infinite Masters program. Infinite Masters is an invitation-only cadre of the most active and influential members of the Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite community, whose work consistently sets the standard for quality and professionalism, and who receive early access to official Paizo releases in order to support them with Infinite content as close to release date as possible. Look for new releases to expand the reach of Dark Archive and add even more supernatural mysteries to your games from some of these Infinite Masters.

Find the Infinite Masters’ latest works, including new companion titles to Dark Archive, here.

• Adrian Kennelly
• Alexander Augunas
• Andrew White
• Arkon
• Calder William CaDavid
• Ceri Rowland
• Chris A. Jackson
• Derry Luttrell
• Dustin Knight
• Dylan Wokeck
• Grady Wang (The Gallant Goblin)
• Gremlin Brothers
• Helen Savore
• Jacky Leung
• Jamie Trollope
• James Beck
• Jen Vaughn
• Jeremy Hochhalter

• Jessica Catalan
• Jessica Ross
• Kevin Glusing
• Kim Frandsen
• Leo Glass
• Liane Merciel
• Logan Bonner
• Luis Loza
• Mike Kimmel
• Monica Valentinelli
• Owen K.C. Stephens
• Sasha Laranoa Harving
• Simon Hunter
• Theo Thourson (The Gallant Goblin)
• Tim Pratt
• Tom Robinson
• Tony Saunders
• Tyler Beck
• Vanessa Hoskins
• W. Brian Lane

Congratulations to all the new Infinite Masters. We look forward to your work!

It’s been a while since we last shone a spotlight on the Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite marketplaces—where community content creators can sell game supplements set in the Pathfinder and Starfinder settings—but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a lot going on there! We’re working closely with the staff at DriveThruRPG, who host both Infinite sites, to give more attention and publishing resources to community creators, especially members of the select Infinite Masters community (more on that below). First, let’s look at the top performers on the site last month!

June's Top Performers

Editor’s Note: Due to a miscommunication, this list originally featured only the top-performing titles from Infinite Masters. This has been corrected, and the following list reflects the top performing products in June from all Infinite publishers, listed in alphabetical order. Apologies for the confusion, and congratulations to all of June’s top community creators.

Abomination Vaults GMs Guide (P2)
In this book, GMs of the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path will find new mini-adventures that connect to the dungeon, new wandering factions, a checklist of all the side quest the campaign offers, and full stat blocks for every single monster on every single level of the megadungeon!

Boosted Bestiary (P2)
The Boosted Bestiary takes more than 60 creatures from the Second Edition Pathfinder Bestiary and updates them across multiple levels, giving you more than 200 new monsters. Menace your players with chimeras from level 2 to 20, drakes from level 0 to 14, shoggoths from level 6 to 21, and many more creatures at many more levels! Every creature has a description of its new role and gets level-appropriate powers.

Character Classes: Symbiote (P2)
Weaponizing disease and evolution, the symbiote literally grows the tools to guarantee their survival in any environment. (Standalone FoundryVTT module and PDF/module bundle also available.)

Curse of the Crimson Throne Second Edition Conversion Guide (P2)
This guide is an encounter-by-encounter conversion guide for GMs and is intended to be used as a supplement to the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path for Pathfinder first edition, which contains the story, NPC information, and adventure plot.

Everything Shields (P2)
With the Everything Shields Pathfinder Second Edition supplement, you can create hundreds of customized shields and shield-focused characters.

Kineticist: Power of the Elements (P2)
The kineticist, a fan-favorite class from Pathfinder first edition, updated for your Pathfinder Second Edition game!

Kitsune of Golarion (P2)
Kitsune of Golarion unlocks the full potential of the kitsune ancestry, detailing kitsune from every corner of the globe with new heritages and ancestry feats, magic items, two new archetypes, and more.

Kitsune of Golarion: Foxfire Adepts (P2)
Kitsune of Golarion: Foxfire Adepts is an expansion of the character flavor and options introduced in Kitsune of Golarion penned by one of its original authors, only this time focusing on the famed foxfire of this ancestral group.

Kitsune of Golarion: Starspinners (P2)
An archetype expansion for Kitsune of Golarion, starspinners enhance and fortify their star orb familiars in special shells, launching them across the battlefield like telekinetic cannonballs of doom!

Lost Omens Ancestries: Dragonkin (P2)
Lost Omens Ancestries: Dragonkin presents a new versatile heritage that allows characters to tap into their draconic potential to breathe fire, grow deadly claws, take flight with powerful wings, and more.

Queerfinder Issue 1: Bars of Absalom (P2)
The inaugural issue of the Queerfinder Society's travel magazine, a guide to Golarion from queer creators and allies focused on queer characters and stories!

Smoke and Sail: a Pathfinder 2e Naval Warfare Sourcebook (P2)
The ultimate guide to nautical adventure for Pathfinder Second Edition, Smoke and Sail presents full rules for running dynamic naval battles including ship movement, positioning, weapons, ranges and damage, templates for vessels of varying sizes and the NPC crews that sail them, nearly 100 new items of treasure, new skills and feats for your naval adventure, and much more!

The Witch Handbook (P2)
Expanding on the witch class presented in the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide, this book presents 24 class feats, 4 patron themes, 11 hex spells, and 7 lessons, sure to add versatility to any witch.

Witches+ (P2)
This love letter to the witch provides a dozen new patrons, class feats, lessons, and suggested changes to existing class features and options, including enhanced potion brewing and world-hopping witch huts.

Infinite Masters

The Infinite Masters is an invitation-only cadre of the most active and influential members of the Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite community, whose work consistently sets the standard for quality and professionalism, and who receive early access to official Paizo releases in order to support them with Infinite content as close to release date as possible. We’ve just invited a new slate of community publishers into the Infinite Masters program and look forward to introducing them soon.

In the meantime, check out this amazing fiction bundle from Infinite Masters Vanessa Hoskins and Helen Savore, celebrating the June release of the seventh chapter of their ongoing Vellum and Lace serial; former Starfinder Design Lead and Infinite Master Owen K.C. Stephens’ “missing” feats chapter from Starfinder Galactic Magic; and Solarians of the Inner Sea, bringing the Starfinder class to the world and rules set of Pathfinder Second Edition.

More Resources Coming Soon

As the Infinite programs continue to grow, we’ve heard a lot of feedback from creators looking for more resources, and we’re happy to oblige. In the coming weeks, we plan to release more art packs to help community publishers make content to support our major new releases, including Starfinder Drift Crisis and the Blood Lords Adventure Path. We’re also looking into adding AP-specific filters to the site so that GMs running a given campaign can quickly find community content geared specifically for them. It’s an exciting time to publish or shop on Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite, and the future is going to be even more so.

It’s time to announce some changes to the Paizo Advantage program, add a few new subscriptions, and say goodbye to a few others.

Paizo Advantage Changes

We’re simplifying the way that you obtain your Paizo Advantage discount. Any four of these qualifying subscriptions will now get you the Paizo Advantage! The qualifying subscriptions include:

• Pathfinder Rulebook (formerly Roleplaying Game)
• Pathfinder Rulebook Special Edition
• Pathfinder Lost Omens
• Pathfinder Lost Omens Special Edition
• Pathfinder Adventure Path
• Pathfinder Adventure (formerly Modules)
• Pathfinder Maps
• Pathfinder Accessories
• Starfinder Roleplaying Game
• Starfinder Adventure Path
• Stafinder Adventures
• Starfinder Maps
• Starfinder Accessories

*We previously posted in error that the Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society PDF line will now count as a subscription for purposes of qualifying for the Paizo Advantage.

Once you’ve been charged for your fourth subscription line, you’ll save 15% on all Paizo products purchased on paizo.com. For more details and the fine print, check out the Paizo Subscriptions page and the FAQ.

New Subscription - Starfinder Adventure

If you're looking for galactic adventure, the Starfinder Adventure line has you covered! Each 64-page Starfinder Adventure presents a short but challenging adventure designed for 2-4 session games within the world of the Starfinder campaign setting. A Starfinder Adventure can be run as a one-shot adventure or woven into any ongoing Starfinder campaign.

The first product in this subscription line releases on July 27, 2022. Redshift Rally is a complete Starfinder adventure for 7th-level characters written by Jessica Catalan. Inside, you’ll find details on the history of the Absalom Run and its current competitors, a pair of weird alien creatures, new spells and vehicle upgrades, and a new archetype perfect for players with a need for speed!

You can expect to see 2-3 Starfinder adventures released for this product line each year.

Subscribe to the Starfinder Adventure Subscription Now

New Subscription - Lost Omens Special Edition

With the Pathfinder Lost Omens Special Edition subscription, we'll ship you a deluxe edition of each new volume of the product line. Each special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Paizo releases Pathfinder Lost Omens Special Edition volumes quarterly, though you’ll see several monthly releases in 2022 and 2023 as we catch up with previous Lost Omens releases in the Special Edition format. The first Special Edition release this year will be Lost Omens World Guide on August 4th.

Subscribe to the Lost Omens Special Edition Subscription Now

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game

While the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game remains in print, we don’t have any additional products planned for the line so we’re removing that subscription option. You can still get both the Pathfinder Adventure Game Core Set and Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path expansion through paizo.com and your favorite local game store.

Pawns

We’re announcing the sunset of the pawn line for both Starfinder and Pathfinder. Paizo will keep the core pawns (Bestiaries for Pathfinder and Alien Archives for Starfinder) and the bases (Pathfinder Pawns: Base Assortment and Starfinder Pawns: Base Assortment) in stock for as long there’s enough demand, but they will no longer be part of a subscription. The Starfinder Accessories subscription continues as normal.

As always, thank you for supporting Paizo, and we look forward to gaming with you in 2022.

Good Gaming!

Jim Butler
President

The Drift has broken. Faster-than-light travel is unreliable. The galaxy is in chaos, and opportunists lurk in every star system. Starfinder needs heroes, and with the recent release of Starfinder Drift Crisis, your characters can be part of the action! But this book wouldn’t have happened without heroes of a different kind: the authors who joined our team to tackle a totally new kind of book, all the while with fire in their eyes, passion in their hearts, and in their brains 101 new ways for your PCs to rediscover that in space, nobody can hear you scream. Meet some of the great minds who helped bring you the Drift Crisis!

John Compton
Starfinder Senior Developer

Illustration by Miguel Regodón Harkness

Dennis Muldoon

Hi Starfinders! My name is Dennis Muldoon. In addition to being a freelance author, I'm also an avid Starfinder player, GM, and organized play Venture-Captain in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was very excited to contribute to this book, writing the Blazing Speeds adventure seed, as well as the ChiwaTech faction and volocoth devils. For more Drift Crisis-related content from me, check out the new Starfinder Society interactive special, SFS #4-99 A Time of Crisis.

Sen.H.H.S.

Hi all, Sen.H.H.S. here! You may have seen my name around some Pathfinder products such as Bestiary 3 and Secrets of Magic. I was also in Starfinder's Galactic Magic, and am delighted to be back to join the chaos that is Drift Crisis, where I wrote about the Drift before everything went sideways. You can follow me on Twitter @SenHHS to keep track of what I'm up to, though I think the disruption to the Drift has disrupted my tweets somewhat. So! You can look forward to more of my work in the upcoming [static] and [white noise] which is going to be released in [more static] hello is this thing on [all static and endless white noise]

Mikhail Rekun

Приветствую, уважаемые читатели! My name is Mikhail Sergeyevich Rekun, and I wrote the Pahtran Independence section as well as the Hymothoa.

In my day job, I’m a history teacher and historian, and as part of that I’ve spent a lot of years teaching decolonization and the end of the European imperial system to students. So when I wrote up the Pahtran bid for independence, the examples of decolonization were very much on my mind—especially the multi-cornered disaster that was the Congo Crisis, but to a lesser extent also Algeria and Vietnam. Decolonization is a big, messy, complicated subject—too big to treat seriously in either this post or the 2-page Pahtran Independence section, but I do hope that I’ve managed to capture at least a little of that messiness in a gameable format.

If you enjoyed reading about the Pahtran political crisis, I’m also the creative director of the Luminant Age project, a Weird Swashbuckler setting currently working on fulfilling our second Kickstarter. If you like the idea of your PC becoming a senator while fighting thousand-year-old glasswrought engines, please follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/LuminantA or check out our published products at https://luminant-age.itch.io!

Alison Cybe

I’m Alison Cybe, and I created the themes for Drift Crisis! It was a blast; themes are super fun elements which can do a lot to enhance your character. I know that when a player is starting out, they choose their theme based on which stat benefit they gain, but they also come with extra abilities as you level up. I like to surprise players with those; make each one quite unique to that theme! Each time I make one, I try to combine a selection of upgrades which are both fun and create a character unlike anything else!

Drift Crisis is a lore event. There’s a school of thinking in game development which teaches that heavy lore is something to be avoided; that it gatekeeps casual players from the game. I don’t believe that. Players love lore. A good, deep sense of history to the cosmos, with a large number of groups pursuing their own goals and agendas, it all creates the sense of a living and breathing world. Drift Crisis contains so much for players, outside of the options; it provides a means to look at the cosmos anew.

James Rodehaver

Hey everyone, I’m Jim, James, Evil Jimjam—it all means me. I had the honor of contributing to The Drift Crisis with the Trifold Legionnaire adventure seed. I was inspired to explore a conflict where the antagonist was so focused on a goal that they became a force of destruction. I wanted to highlight the theme that the impact of someone’s decisions, even without malicious intent, can put them on the wrong side of conflict. I also added Sovereign Trinity to the NPC rolodex. The story of some power-hungry figure with a messiah complex attempting to elevate themselves to godhood is a classic and the Drift Crisis felt like the perfect opportunity for someone to try that with Triune.

In addition to contributing to the Drift Crisis book, I am going to appear in the Drift Crisis actual play stream on Paizo’s official twitch channel. More details are coming soon, but I’m excited to play alongside some amazing pro streamers and one of Paizo’s own is going to be in the GM seat!

John Curtin

Hi Paizo, I’m John Curtin! You may know me from such internettings as Starfinder Facts on Twitter or Bearly Factual Productions on Patreon. While I’m normally full of the absurd and wacky on social media, in Drift Crisis I tackled the very serious topics of Near Space’s troubles in the Crisis, and maybe the most solemn subject of all: loot. While you’re enjoying the Treasure Tables in the back, be careful near the artifacts; some of them can get pretty nasty. Fun fact: The Leng Luminary was inspired by a lantern from my wedding to my partner! Hope you enjoy Drift Crisis as much as I plan to, and can't wait to talk more about what I have coming up in Interstellar Species!

Illustration by Laslo Ludrovan

Kendra Leigh Speedling

Hi, everyone! I'm Kendra Leigh Speedling, and I did the Cracks in the Cosmos adventure seeds/spells, the riftstalker (which got some extremely cool Princess-Mononoke-vibes art), Shaizera of Radiant, and everyone's favorite unethical highly acclaimed media mogul, Zo! I think the Drift Crisis provides a good opportunity for some cool, unusual adventures, and I had a lot of fun being a part of it (and throwing in First World shenanigans). If you end up playing Cracks in the Cosmos as a full campaign, I'd love to hear how it goes! You can find me (sporadically) on Twitter @KendraLS, and if you'd like to check out other things I've written, my credits are on my website at klspeedling.com.

Jessica Catalan

Hi, I’m Jessica Catalan! I’m the current Starfinder Society Developer and a freelance author who primarily writes for Pathfinder and Starfinder. I contributed a lot to Starfinder Drift Crisis, including the 'Drift in Crisis’ article, The Vast, factions (Eyeswide Agency, Hellknights, Tetrad), class options (mystic, technomancer, vanguard), stat blocks (gravity, vorclash, Drift Architects), and the Alluvion Fractures adventure seed. The Drift Crisis is an exciting event to be a part of and I look forward to seeing the adventures and content our community creates as a part of it!

Rigby Bendele

I contributed the Moored faction, the Chaos on Absalom Station adventure seed, the drift saboteur, and Aleksana Guryari's NPC write-up for this book. When writing the Moored, I spent a lot of time looking at the way we make meaning during a crisis. I pulled on time that I spent in activist communities when thinking about the Moored. When big moments of crisis happened, these groups would often get overwhelmed by well-meaning people finally motivated to join their local orgs. However, this also meant that orgs suddenly had to go supporting 20 people to hundreds. These moments of crisis seemed like they would be a good thing, but weathering the sudden change in resources truly taxed them.

If you want to hear more from me, you can find me on Twitter @rigbeesknees or check out my work in Galactic Magic and the upcoming Pathfinder Dark Archive releases.

John Godek III

Hi everyone! I’m an avid Starfinder player, 5 Nova GM, podcaster, and recent kidney transplant recipient. I teach entrepreneurship and marking as a professor for my day job. Prior to academia, I founded tech startups, and served on icebreakers and law enforcement cutters in the US Coast Guard. I was a federal law enforcement officer, and one of only 200 people in the world qualified to pilot polar class icebreakers. I visited both the Arctic, and Antarctica, transited the Northwest Passage, and circumnavigated North America. For Drift Crisis, my experience in federal law enforcement and as a sailor inspired my sections on the Stewards and Free Captains factions, as well as the starship infiltrating Azlanti Stellar Scout. My current work in academia aided me in drafting the Stabilization Protocol adventure seed where you track down Drift experts from across the galaxy.

I have three podcasts on the Know Direction Network: Intrepid Heroes – a Starfinder actual play with GM Ron Lundeen and Eleanor Ferron among the players, Presenting – interviews with game creators, and Digital Divination – a show with Starfinder Development Manager Jason Keeley. Recently I started a Youtube channel for the Presenting and Digital Divination podcasts: http://gamingdivination.com.

Andrew White

Hello! I'm Andrew White, Paizo's front-end engineering lead and a freelance author who has written for a whole mess of Pathfinder and Starfinder projects going back to the Advanced Player's Guide. Lately, I’ve also been working closely with the folks at Foundry VTT to convert Paizo’s adventure content for virtual tabletops. My contributions to Drift Crisis were a bunch of new class options for precogs, solarians, and witchwarpers, my favorite of which is the ability to deliberately enrage eldritch beings from beyond space and time in the hopes that they’ll eat your enemies before they eat you. Have fun with that one!

If you’d like to see more of my work, I also recently released the Danger Dossier on Starfinder Infinite, which addresses Starfinder’s only major flaw by adding froghemoths to it; I’m a contributing author to a bunch of exciting announced and unannounced upcoming Paizo projects, including one of the Drift Crisis Case Files, and I can occasionally be found retweeting stuff written by better writers at @plaguecontrol.

Kate Baker

Hi, I’m Kate Baker, frequent contributor to Starfinder and Pathfinder products, and I was delighted to get to work on Drift Crisis. This book is such a fun shakeup of the setting, and I know everyone who plays the game will find some great ideas for implementing this storyline. I particularly enjoyed getting to write the Swarm adventure seed.

You can follow me at @KateBakerGM on Twitter to find out more about what I’m up to!

Archon Studio is happy to announce the long-awaited 6th wave of Starfinder Masterclass Miniatures releases and the start of the Kickstarter fulfillment process. This brings the total number of Starfinder Masterclass Miniatures from the Kickstarter to 33, with 71 left to be produced.

This new set of miniatures is available now at the Archon Studio Store, at the Paizo Store, and will soon be at your friendly local game store. All models are manufactured in HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene Sheet), as multi-part models, ready to be assembled and painted as you see fit. Let us introduce you to our recent recruits.

As we mentioned at the start of the campaign, once we got to wave 6, we would begin to ship miniatures to backers. Details on shipping all 33 miniatures in Group 1 are below.

What Can I Expect in My Package?
Archon will deliver a set of 33 miniatures (as listed below) to every Kickstarter backer, regardless of what they purchased. If you purchased more than $400 worth of miniatures, you’ll receive two codes. If you purchased more than $800, you’ll receive three codes. This code distribution will be duplicated across Groups 2 and 3 until we’ve delivered all 104 Kickstarter miniatures to backers.

Each code grants 1 each of the following 33 miniatures:

• Anacite Laborer
• Android Mechanic and Mechanic’s Drone
• Android Xenoseeker
• Asteray
• Dwarf Soldier
• Elf Operative
• Epic Obazaya
• Ferani Nadaz
• Half-Elf Operative
• Half-Elf Steward
• Half-Orc Soldier
• Halfling Pilot
• Human Solarion
• Human Soldier
• Lashunta Envoy
• Necrovite
• Obazaya Vesk Soldier
• Ryphorian Skyfire Pilot
• Shirren Operative
• Shirren Scholar
• Skittermander
• Space Goblin War Band (Set of 6)
• Vesk Free Captain
• Vesk Mercenary
• Vesk Solarian
• Ysoki Gang Leader
• Ysoki Mystic

It does not include the 2 special edition releases from Archon Studio from the Starfinder line, which remain available for purchase through the Archon Studio Store:

• Luwazi Elsebo
• Zo!

Kickstarter Fulfillment Starts Now
Archon Studio is prepared to start fulfillment operations, but Ninja Division has informed Paizo that it does not have the money to fulfill their part of the obligation of shipping Group 1 miniatures to backers. Unfortunately, this will require additional shipping to be paid by each non-EU backer that was originally scheduled to receive their miniatures directly from Ninja Division.

North America and Rest of World: You will receive an email from Paizo containing a voucher code that must be redeemed on paizo.com to pay for shipping and provide your current shipping address. Archon will be fulfilling Group 1 at a cost of $13 per code received to these regions.

European Backers: A simple survey has been created for you to easily update your current postal address. Click here to fill out the survey.

What's Next?
Archon is already preparing the 7th wave of Starfinder Masterclass miniatures, and we will coordinate shipping Group 2 to backers as soon as Wave 12 is completed.

Thanks again for backing Starfinder Masterclass Miniatures. We know this process has taken longer than planned, and we thank you for your support as we work through the remaining waves of miniatures.

If you did not participate in the original Kickstarter, limited quantities of the miniatures will be available through paizo.com and archon-studio.com.

-Archon Studio and Paizo

Desna, Lady Luck, the Song of the Spheres and the Tender of Dreams, has aligned the stars to bring out-of-this-world Starfinder and Pathfinder joy to us all this month of PaizoCon 2022.

Starfinder Drift Crisis

COSMIC CATASTROPHE
Hyperspace is broken! In a catastrophic instant, commonplace faster-than-light travel, made possible by the Drift, fails. Travelers vanish midflight, communications scramble, and the Drift’s progenitor god Triune falls mysteriously silent. In the aftermath, empires cling to far-flung holdings, opportunists exploit the chaos, and everyone demands to know what triggered this crisis—and how it can be solved. With Starfinder Drift Crisis, you can dive right into this galaxy-spanning adventure and determine what happens next! Featuring:

• More than 100 new player options, from class options and themes to equipment, feats, and spells!
• Twenty detailed adventure seeds that provide a framework for playing a framework for playing through dozens of Drift Crisis stories, whether in encounters, adventures, or entire campaigns.
• Deep dives on the myriad effects of the Drift Crisis on factions, worlds, systems, and the galaxy at large.
• A toolbox with a vast store of information for running adventures in the Drift Crisis, from dozens of unique treasures and 20 new creatures to rich nonplayer character profiles and information on adapting Adventure Paths.

This product is part of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscription.

Starfinder Flip-Mat: Drift Crisis

A TRIP INTO TROUBLE!
The hyperspace plane of the Drift is malfunctioning, slowing interstellar trade and travel for all spacefaring citizens of the galaxy! This jumbo, double-sided Starfinder Flip-Mat features a hex grid map of a typical expanse of the Drift on one side, perfect for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game’s starship combat system. The other side is a standard 1-inch-square grid showing the interior of a technological structure—such as a Drift beacon, the satellites that help make Drift travel possible, or a high-tech temple to Triune, the tripartite deity who resides in the Drift. Starfinder Flip-Mats present ready-to-use science-fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Drift Crisis, you’ll be ready for this setting-changing catastrophe!

This product is part of the Starfinder Maps Subscription.

Starfinder Adventure Path #45: The Culling Shadow (Horizons of the Vast 6 of 6)

WHO’S THE BOSS?

An enemy armada invades! The heroes of New Horizon must launch their own forces to withstand the attack and eventually take the fight to the evil cult’s leader on the dark side of the moon. But to truly save their home, they must face the monster at the source of the deadly radiation, which threatens to kill every sentient creature in the system!

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume concludes the Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path and includes:

• “The Culling Shadow,” a Starfinder adventure for 11th-level characters, by Landon Winkler.
• Ways to continue your Horizons of the Vast campaign beyond the final fight, by Isis Wozniakowska.
• A toolbox featuring a description of the Negative Energy Plane, options for players to harness the power of that void, a collection of dangerous creatures, and a glimpse at a frozen, chalky world, by Ivis K. Flanagan, Jenny Jarzabski, Georg Mir, Andrew Mullen, Hilary Moon Murphy, Dave Nelson, Jess Nevins, Thea Seals, and Landon Winkler.
• Statistics and deck plans for an AbadarCorp long-haul freighter, by Landon Winkler

This product is part of the Starfinder Adventure Path Subscription.

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall

TAKE UP ARMS!
When the lich Tar-Baphon escaped from his prison, he destroyed the vigilant nation of Lastwall. Though its cities fell, the people of Lastwall didn’t falter! Knights of Lastwall takes a detailed look at the courageous knights who rose up to continue the fight against the undead hordes threatening the world. This book contains information on joining the knights, details on important members of the organization, new options for knightly characters, and details for playing a valiant, knightly campaign!

This product is part of the Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscription

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Pathfinder Book of the Dead Pocket Edition

THE DEAD ARE RISING!
This blasphemous tome brings the shambling menace of the undead to the forefront of your game. If you wish to stem the ghostly tide, you’ll find tools and skills to fight against the undead hordes. Or you can join the other side and turn your character into a ghost, ghoul, lich, mummy, skeleton, vampire, or zombie! You’ll also find new haunts, as well as information about the undead-plagued lands within the Lost Omens campaign setting, perfect for adding undead to your next adventure! A massive bestiary section full of undead creatures brings more threats for GMs and summonable creatures for players, including more versions of classic undead like vampires, skeletons, and zombies. This book also includes “March of the Dead,” a grim and dangerous adventure themed around an undead uprising!

Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults Hardcover

ENTER THE MEGADUNGEON!
Spiteful evil stirs beneath the mysterious lighthouse called Gauntlight. When the lighthouse emits an eerie glow, locals suspect that something sinister threatens the countryside. Brave heroes must explore the ruins around the lighthouse and delve into the dungeon levels beneath it. Hideous monsters, deadly traps, unexpected allies, vengeful ghosts, and more await the heroes who dare to enter the sprawling megadungeon called the Abomination Vaults! The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is a complete campaign taking heroes from 1st to 11th level.

Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults Special Edition Hardcover

Pathfinder Adventure: Shadows at Sundown

FEAR THE SETTING OF THE SUN!
It has been well over a decade since Queen Ileosa was defeated, but the city of Korvosa still fears the evil tyrant’s legacy. And so when ghosts of the sinister queen manifest on the streets after dark, the need for new heroes arises! Pathfinder Adventure: Shadows at Sundown is an adventure for 11th-level characters written by Landon Winkler. While a standalone story, it builds upon themes and plots from years of adventures set in the Varisian city of Korvosa, and includes new monsters and new challenges to test the mightiest heroes. Who will save the city of Korvosa from the dangers that hide in the Shadows at Sundown?

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Shadows at Sundown

FEAR THE NIGHT!
The Cathedral of Pharasma, goddess of death, has long stood watch over the city of Korvosa’s sprawling graveyard. This Flip-Mat details the cathedral itself, as well as the catacombs that exist below, suitable for use in play with Pathfinder Adventure: Shadows at Sundown or for any cathedral and attached catacomb found in your own campaign.

This product is part of the Pathfinder Maps Subscription.

Pathfinder Adventure Path #179: Cradle of Quartz (Outlaws of Alkenstar 2 of 3)

A TICKING TIME BOMB

Time is of the essence for a motley gang of outlaws if they’re to settle the score with the sinister rival who ruined them. Somewhere amid the weird and wild wastes of the Spellscar Desert lies an abandoned clockwork temple called the Cradle of Quartz. But while redemption and a fresh start might be nice perks, the outlaws seek something far more valuable among the Cradle’s time-warped halls: revenge.

The Outlaws of Alkenstar Adventure Path continues with “Cradle of Quartz,” a complete adventure for 4th- to 7th-level characters.

This product is part of the Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscription.

Pathfinder Deck of Endless NPCs

Creating a new character every time the players enter a shop or chat with a local on the street can be a real challenge, but the Deck of Endless NPCs makes it as simple as drawing four cards from the deck. These cards combine to form a unique NPC, each with their own role, motivation, personality trait, and secret agenda! With over 100 million different combinations, you are sure to get an interesting new character every time!

This product is part of the Pathfinder Accessories Subscription.

Pathfinder Alchemy Deck

THE LAB IS OPEN!
Who needs magic when you have science? A healing elixir, explosive bomb, or liberating solvent can make all the difference in a day filled with harrowing adventures. The Pathfinder Alchemy Deck contains cards detailing every alchemical item in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook and the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide, including bombs, elixirs, mutagens, poisons, and more! Each card features statistics, descriptions, and beautiful full- color illustrations. Keep each flask and vial at the ready!

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Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Campsites

WHO’S ON WATCH
Flip-Tiles: Campsites is a stand-alone expansion suitable for use with any Flip-Tiles set, with 24 full-color, double-sided, 6 × 6-inch tiles stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason Engle. Whether your group is exploring a remote wilderness, stuck inside a sprawling dungeon, or simply trying to avoid spending money at an inn in the city, these campsites will help you plan out your evening. Suitable for experienced Game Masters and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any GM’s arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles, and convenient packaging makes for easy storage. Why map out every single campsite by hand when Flip-Tiles can do it for you?

Highlights include:

• Forest Clearings
• Swampy Isles
• Hilltops and Lodges
• Deserts or Tundra
• Dungeons and Caves
• Urban Camps

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Plus, new Pathfinder and Starfinder Society Scenarios will release on Wednesday, June 1.

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Gear up and advance your squad on the path to science-fantasy bug-busting adventure with this collection of Starfinder roleplaying game rulebooks, adventures, and accessories! Whether you’re fighting the literal bugs of the insectile invaders known as the Swarm or digital glitches in Starfinder Society’s Year of the Data Scourge scenarios, this bundle is filled with the PDFs star explorers need to create heroes and set out on a bug-squashing mission in the legendary Starfinder tabletop RPG galaxy. Inside you will find the Core Rulebook, two Alien Archives, and ready-to-play adventures—along with the physical Starfinder Armory at the $35 or more tier. Best of all, you choose how much of your purchase supports World Central Kitchen.

DO YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE?

Today, we’ve launching the Starfinder Bug-Buster Bundle to support World Central Kitchen! The bundle’s highlights include PDFs of the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Starfinder Armory, Starfinder Alien Archive, all 6 volumes of Starfinder Adventure Path: Attack of the Swarm!—and at the highest tier, a physical copy of the Starfinder Armory!

• The $5 tier includes 11 PDFs of the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Starfinder Player Character Folio, Starfinder Alien Archive, Starfinder Adventure Path: Attack of the Swarm!: Fate of the Fifth (1 of 6), and more.
• For $10, you’ll get 23 PDFs, including Starfinder Alien Archive 2, Starfinder GM Screen, Starfinder Adventure Path: Attack of the Swarm! The Last Refuge (2 of 6), Huskworld (3 of 6), and more!
• At the $25 tier, you’ll get 37 PDFs, including Starfinder Armory, Starfinder Character Operations Manual, Starfinder Alien Archive 2, Starfinder Adventure: Junker's Delight, all 6 volumes of Starfinder Adventure Path: Attack of the Swarm, and more!

Finally, Humble Bundle is offering a $35 physical reward tier that includes all 37 of the PDF products from the lower tiers, plus a physical copy of the physical Starfinder Armory delivered right to your door! Fulfillment is handled by Paizo, and you’re responsible for shipping fees. We anticipate that domestic shipping will run in the $11-$17* range and that international shipping will be in the $30-$45* range.

Humble Bundles offer great deals and support great causes. Purchasers can decide how much of their donation goes to each participant in the bundle by expanding the “Adjust Donation” section on the right-hand side of the page, just below the Checkout button.

Thank you for supporting Paizo and World Central Kitchen!

The Paizo Team

World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a non-profit organization addressing food insecurity during and after natural disasters and humanitarian crises, while also operating long-term programs aimed at improving livelihoods by strengthening local food ecosystems. Founded in 2010 by Chef Jose Andres following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, WCK has since served more than 8 million meals to those affected by disasters.

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While Paizo gears up for PaizoCon the last weekend in May, our partners across the Atlantic are preparing for UK Games Expo, which runs the following weekend, June 3-5. The largest tabletop gaming convention in the United Kingdom, UK Games Expo is the perfect opportunity for European Paizo fans to get their game on!

Paizo won’t have any staff in attendance but have partnered with the convention to debut Pathfinder Dinky Dungeon, a lighthearted adventure in which players navigate a floor full of tiles and face off against everything from deadly traps and monsters to being cursed to wear a silly hat for the rest of the game. We were very excited to work with the folks behind the show to develop this family-friendly sorta-LARP and hope attendees have as much fun playing it as we did working on it. Be sure to post pictures of yourselves playing Pathfinder Dinky Dungeon and tag Paizo’s social media accounts, and we’ll make sure to amplify the most embarrassing best ones!

For those Pathfinder and Starfinder fans looking for something a bit more traditional, we’ll also have a large organized play presence at the show. Here’s more information from Regional Venture-Coordinator Ian Hawthorne of the Isles Region:

UK Games Expo has long held a place in the UK Pathfinder Society’s heart. From its humble beginnings in the Clarendon Suites back in 2007, we have seen it grow until now it occupies three exhibition halls and several function rooms at the National Exhibition Centre, as well as spilling over into the board game and RPG haven that is the nearby Hilton Hotel.

Yes, it’s a big event! It's also the perfect place to play Pathfinder and Starfinder. Terry Thambipillai, VC for the Midlands Region, has coordinated a wonderful mix of PFS1, PFS2, and Starfinder games available over eight different gaming slots. This gives you plenty of time to enjoy a game or three and still be able to watch seminars, play boardgames, or shop until you drop. We have a mixture of games suited both to invested and new players—UKGE is a great place to play for the first time in a relaxed, supportive, and fun environment!

All the details on how to buy tickets and find us can be found on the UK Games Expo website. Hope to see you there!

In the second title developed as part of a multi-game partnership between Gale Force Nine and Paizo, you attempt to commandeer a prototype Immortal-class starship filled with top-secret tech. Can you escape Skydock aboard the vessel, or will you be caught red-handed?

Starfinder: Pirates of Skydock places players in the roles of adventurers attempting to seize a secret vessel located on Verces. To steal the starship, players must risk it all to complete dangerous tasks before they raise suspicion. Rising to these challenges requires earning glory through heroic deeds, asking for help from your friends, and perhaps obtaining a little support from external patrons who may or may not want to remain anonymous. Adventurers can work together to accomplish their goals, but only the character who has earned the most glory at the end of the game proves they have what it takes to be captain.

During the game, adventurers scavenge for loot and mastermind cunning schemes to complete objectives—all while making sure the alarm doesn’t get raised. Should it trigger, the starship launches before the adventurers are ready to escape, stranding them aboard the vessel! By equipping gear found aboard the ship—such as stun gauntlets and auto injectors, players can upgrade their character and seize control of the ATech Immortal before it’s too late.

Starfinder: Pirates of Skydock is a standalone game for 2–4 players and will be available in August with an MSRP of $60. Visit https://www.gf9.com/ for more information.

Gale Force Nine (GF9) is known for producing games such as Firefly: The Game and Dune: A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy. GF9 has teamed up with Paizo to publish original board games based on the Pathfinder and Starfinder Roleplaying Games. Through this multiyear partnership, GF9 offers board-game players a chance to interact with the heroes, villains, locations, and monsters from the Age of Lost Omens, the Pact Worlds, and beyond in an all-new way! The first release of this collaboration, Pathfinder: Level 20, is available now.

Matt Vaughan
Studio Manager
Gale Force Nine
Twitter: @galeforcenine

Brace yourselves for the Drift Crash! In one catastrophic instant, the extraplanar realm fails, cutting off the universe’s access to commonplace faster-than-light travel. Travelers vanish midflight, communications scramble, and the Drift’s progenitor god Triune falls mysteriously silent. In the aftermath, empires cling to far-flung holdings, opportunists exploit the chaos, and everyone demands to know what triggered this crisis—and how it can be solved. With Starfinder Drift Crisis, you can dive right into this galaxy-spanning adventure and determine what happens next!

Internal preview art from Starfinder Drift Crisis by Laslo Ludrovan

• More than 100 new player options, from class options and themes to equipment, feats, and spells!
• Twenty detailed adventure seeds that provide a framework for playing dozens of Drift Crisis stories, whether in encounters, adventures, or entire campaigns.
• Deep dives on the myriad effects of the Drift Crisis on factions, worlds, systems, and the galaxy at large.
• A toolbox with a vast store of information for running adventures in the Drift Crisis, from dozens of unique treasures and 20 new creatures to rich nonplayer character profiles and information on adapting Adventure Paths.

Excerpt from the Introduction of Starfinder Drift Crisis, continued from the excerpt in the blog, “On the Next Paizo LIVE: Slayers and more!”

“INFORMATION FOR EVERYONE
Whether you’re eager to play in a Drift Crisis campaign, itching to run an adventure as the game master, seeking options for other campaigns, or just delighted by Starfinder lore, Drift Crisis offers a wealth of content well-suited for everybody.

“Chapter 1 is suitable for all readers, constructed in many ways like a traditional setting supplement with details about factions, regions, and thematic character options. This chapter introduces you to the Drift and how it works before exploring what the Drift Crisis entails—all presented as possibilities, not irrefutable facts. What exactly caused the Drift Crisis and what might resolve it can vary based on the campaign’s needs, so the information here can fuel character motivations, questions, and conspiracy theories.

“You likely already know about Starfinder’s campaign setting (such as through Chapter 12 of the Core Rulebook), and while much of that information remains relevant, most worlds now experience new difficulties. How does Drift disruption impact the Azlanti Star Empire, whose far-flung territories are connected only by faster-than-light starships? What comes of Akiton’s failing thasteron starship fuel industry once the predominant faster-than-light travel technology becomes less attractive? How does the Veskarium respond when extraplanar material bleeds into its core star system and envelops several planets, cutting those worlds off from the empire? Articles ahead have the answers while also posing just as many new questions and adventure hooks to inspire your group.

“Grand organizations familiar and new are also working on how to best resolve or exploit the Drift Crisis chaos. These could be key allies in your upcoming adventures, or they could be adversaries seeking an underhanded advantage at others’ expense. What do they want? And how might your characters get involved? With Drift technologies disrupted, how do starship manufacturers respond? How does the church of Triune respond when its deity isn’t answering prayers and the galaxy demands answers that Triunites should have? Why is this calamity simultaneously profitable and infuriating for the Free Captains?

“And of course, there’s loads of what every player enjoys: exciting new character options! While these new options all tie into the Drift, catastrophes, or extraplanar power in some way, they’re well-suited for any campaign, not just for those set during the Drift Crisis. Awaken your divinatory might with the new Drift Crisis precog anchor, or start channeling extraplanar influences with new solarian revelations. Bend space with new vanguard disciplines, or alter the planar properties of your own world with the witchwarper’s plunderer of worlds alternate class features. New themes provide four great origins for your character, and new gear ensures you’re properly equipped for whatever extradimensional challenges lie ahead. Want more character content? The last page of each adventure seed in Chapter 2 includes thematic new options for PCs; if your GM is using that adventure seed to craft a campaign, though, it might be reserved as special treasure, so check with your GM about these Chapter 2 options.

“The wonderful part about the Drift Crisis is that, because there’s no one storyline, the event caters well to a group running several campaigns simultaneously, with each story run by a different GM. Once you know which adventure hook from Chapter 2 one GM is using, you can enjoy reading the other 19 virtually spoiler-free. To help with navigating all the options, check out the player option index and general index on pages 187–188.”

Internal preview art from Starfinder Drift Crisis

For an interview with the Starfinder team, don’t miss the front-page Drift Crisis article on Polygon. Explore the Drift Crisis as it unfolds throughout the year at DriftCrisis.com.

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Today brings over a dozen new Starfinder and Pathfinder products to spark joy with your family and friends! You’ll find 4 Adventures Paths volumes, 4 standalone adventures of various sizes, and 4 game accessories to enliven play. And check out Pathfinder Goblin Firework Fight—our new party game that mixes goblins, pigs, pickles, and fireworks!

Party Game (Print Only)
Pathfinder Goblin Firework Fight
Goblin Firework Fight—Promo Card: Advanced Goblin (Fumbus)

Pathfinder Adventures Path Volumes (Print and Digital)
Pathfinder Adventure Path #174: Shadows of the Ancients (Strength of Thousands 6 of 6)
Pathfinder Adventure Path #177: Burning Tundra (Quest for the Frozen Flame 3 of 3)

Starfinder Adventures Path Volumes (Print and Digital)
Starfinder Adventure Path #43: Icebound (Horizons of the Vast 4 of 6)
Starfinder Adventure Path #44: Allies Against the Eye (Horizons of the Vast 5 of 6)

Starfinder Adventures (Digital Only)
Starfinder Bounty #2: Test Flight
Starfinder One-Shot #3: System Takedown

Pathfinder Society Scenarios (Digital Only)
Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-12: Fury's Toll

Starfinder Society Scenarios (Digital Only)
Starfinder Society Scenario #4-15: Feuding Faiths

Pathfinder Accessories (Print and Digital)
Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Shattered Dungeon

Starfinder Accessories (Print and Digital)
Starfinder Flip-Mat: Casino
Starfinder Flip-Mat: Water World
Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Space Station Corridors Expansion

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There you are, dearie. How’s my favorite customer in the world? Come sit here beneath the comfortable shade between the stalls of the Grand Bazaar. The sunlight is much too withering and revealing. Right here on this bench, sit, sit. Now, isn’t that better?

Ichor slinger from Pathfinder Book of the Dead by Carl Springer.

I’ve been looking for you everywhere. Honestly, these metropolises are just too big sometimes. City at the Center of the World? City at the Center of my Bunion more like!

But where was I? Oh, yes! I’ve been telling all my subscribers; new shipments came in! When? Oh, don’t get me started, shipping dates are so confusing… who needs ‘em, right dearie? Let’s just say they’re coming in the next two to three months… maybe four. But soon, dearie, very soon!

While we’re here, try my Tomb Juice™, it’s delicious! You‘ve no idea just how long it’s been in the family...

The important thing is that I have a few items to preview, just for you, my very best customer! Feast your eyes on what I have in store. You need never again have worry or care, for I will show you something marvelous and rare.

Internal art from Pathfinder Book of the Dead by Mirco Paganessi and Kiki Moch Rizky.

I’ve managed to exhume these beautiful works of art, chapter headers from the Pathfinder Book of the Dead, at no small expense let me tell you! Geb is jealous man and guards his secrets well. Simply sign up for the Pathfinder Rulebook subscription, and it’s all yours!

Look at this exquisite final cover of the Pathfinder Book of the Dead Special Edition Hardcover, dearie. You don’t find faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark just anywhere, do you? And a limited edition, too—perfect for the discerning collector like you! Sign up right here: Pathfinder Special Edition Rulebook.

Internal art from Pathfinder Lost Omens Knights of Lastwall by Ainur Salimova.

Well, I don’t like to name drop, but I happen to know the prolific scribe Luis Loza—he’s one of the authors of Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall. Well, he shared this sneak peak of the contents, and you don’t want to miss it. I also know his partner in cri— uh, I mean his Pathfinder Lost Omens coauthor Eleanor Ferron. Her schemes are everywhere in this book too, dearie. They both told me they’d love to see a renewing commitment from you, my best customer, specifically. They make it so easy, don’t they?

Internal art from Starfinder Drift Crisis by Laslo Ludrovan.

I know you have a taste for the latest thing. Well, you’re going to love this because it’s from the future! This image was labeled “After the Crash” from Starfinder Drift Crisis. We should put you down for a Starfinder Roleplaying Game subscription, too. That will be so drift!

What’s drift? Oh dearie, it is an adjective describing something fascinating and weird, likely never seen before or unique. I thought you knew. Moving on.

Cover art from Shadows of the Ancients by Setiawan Lee. Cover art from Burning Tundra by David Alvarez.

All these Adventures Path volumes… I’m afraid the port has made a tangled mess of the order. Pathfinder Adventure Path: Shadows of the Ancients (Strength of Thousands 6 of 6) is finally here after months of delay. But good things come to those wait, said the anadi to the sprite.

Cover art from Icebound and Allies Against the Eye by Rodrigo Gonzalez Toledo.

But wait, there’s yet more! Pathfinder Adventure Path: Burning Tundra (Quest for the Frozen Flame 3 of 3), Starfinder Adventure Path volumes Icebound (Horizons of the Vast 4 of 6), Allies Against the Eye (Horizons of the Vast 5 of 6), and The Culling Shadow (Horizons of the Vast 6 of 6) are all inbound. Meanwhile, Pathfinder Adventure Path #178: Punks in a Powderkeg (Outlaws of Alkenstar 1 of 3) and Cradle of Quartz (Outlaws of Alkenstar 2 of 3) are closer than you think!

So, let’s just sign you up for them all, shall we? That way you won’t miss a thing! Find them here: Starfinder Adventure Path, and here: Pathfinder Adventure Path. A simple and elegant transaction—a bargain, just like me, dearie.

Well, all this talk of shadows and culling has me famished. So, I won’t take any more of your time. Just… before I go… don’t forget the advantage of having multiple subscriptions. Here’s a handy list: Pathfinder Society, Starfinder Society, Pathfinder Accessories, Starfinder Accessories, Pathfinder Maps, and Starfinder Maps. Why not get them all? You deserve it, dearie.

What’s that? Something not on the list? More Tomb Juice? Ah, of course you can have some… You also want more subscriptions? Well, I’ve heard whispers of changes, dearie. Exciting new options. I’ll talk to my sources. Can’t make any promises, mind you, but I aim to please my best customer!

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From the new Starfinder Alien Archive 1 & 2 Battle Cards to the second volume of the Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Path, Lost Mammoth Valley, to Pathfinder One-Shot: Mark of the Mantis, here are new Starfinder and Pathfinder products to add to your favorite games at paizo.com and your local game store!

Pathfinder Adventure Path #176: Lost Mammoth Valley (Quest for the Frozen Flame 2 of 3)

A Land Lost to Time
With danger close behind, the Broken Tusks journey through the bountiful but treacherous Lost Mammoth Valley in search of the Primordial Flame. The Tusks’ scouts will need to solve the riddles of the ancient valley and recruit a motley league of followers, all while evading the watchful gaze of the vale’s villainous overlords and unraveling a legendary artifact’s mythical past. The Quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Path continues with “Lost Mammoth Valley,” a complete adventure for 4th- to 7th-level characters.

Pathfinder One-Shot #4: Mark of the Mantis

Pathfinder One-Shot: Mark of the Mantis is a short Pathfinder Second Edition adventure, designed to be played in a single session lasting 3 to 4 hours. However, with opportunities for roleplaying and plenty of combat, the adventure could easily make for two exciting evenings of play. Mark of the Mantis includes pregenerated characters (found in a separate downloadable PDF) with interwoven backstories that contextualize their relationships and further enrich the adventure itself. This adventure should be played with all four characters. If only three players are available, the GM should bring in the fourth character as an NPC. This adventure can be easily adjusted to suit any party of four themed around the Red Mantis assassin organization.

Sources: This adventure makes use of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook and Pathfinder Lost Omens World Guide. Non-Core Rulebook content is reprinted in this adventure for ease of reference.

Pathfinder Bounty #18: From Family Lost

A Pathfinder Bounty designed for Level 3.
When the Fifth Mendevian Crusade ended, the hamlet of Bulviss was one of many casualties on the Mendevian side of the border. Overrun by demons and their allies, the hamlet hasn’t been touched since a band of crusaders cleared out the demonic influence that lingered. Now, contracted by an interested party, a group of adventurers must head into the ruins of Bulviss to find a missing deed and any other surviving treasures. Have the demons truly been removed, or are there other, darker secrets waiting in the ruins?

Starfinder Alien Archive 1 & 2 Battle Cards

A BOX FULL OF ALIENS
Starfinder Alien Archive and Alien Archive 2 are excellent tools for planning exciting science fantasy adventures, but this box of 315 cards presents a new and exciting way for your extraterrestrial creatures to land on the table and join the fight. Each card features a beautiful, full-color image of a creature from Alien Archive or Alien Archive 2 on one side, while the other side provides that creature’s statistics for quick and easy reference. Show the players what alien menace their characters are facing while keeping the creature’s abilities at the ready, and watch your game come alive!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Basic

BUILD A BIGGER DUNGEON!
Be it a sprawling dungeon, a sinister castle, a haunted forest, a bustling cityscape, or any other locale where adventure and danger might lurk, with Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Basic, you’ll have more room than ever before to present your latest creation to your players! This sprawling map measures 30" × 46" unfolded and is the largest basic flip mat yet! Designed for experienced GMs and novices alike, and usable with both dry-erase and wet-erase markers, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master’s arsenal.

So grab your markers and get to creating your biggest dungeons yet, with Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Basic!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Keep

KEEP WATCH!
Whether you need to guard your domain against invasion or plan an attack against a ruthless lord, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing a remote keep. Fortunately, with Paizo’s Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics, you don’t have to! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set-pieces for the busy Game Master.

Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Fortress Chambers Expansion

Heart of the Castle!
Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Fortress Chambers Expansion Set is an addition to the Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Fortress Starter Set, with 24 full-color, 6 × 6-inch, double-sided tiles stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason Engle. With this set of tiles, you can craft a sprawling fortress interior in just a few minutes, be it for a new castle that your player characters have gained control of, or the established stronghold of a sinister villain. Suitable for experienced Game Masters and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any GM’s arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles, and convenient packaging makes for easy storage. Why map out an entire castle by hand when Flip-Tiles can do it for you?

The Fortress Chambers Expansion Set includes:

• Sprawling castle chambers
• Barracks and bedrooms
• Dining rooms and kitchens
• Fountains and statuary
• Guard posts
• Throne rooms

Learn more about these products and the people behind them on Paizo LIVE!

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As a publisher, Paizo has consistently led the way in producing games, adventures, campaigns, and accessories that bring your tabletop gaming experience to life. We take great pride in giving our players and Game Masters all the tools they need to maximize the experience.

Did you know that Paizo also supports play across virtual tabletops with that same commitment to excellence? From cooperative projects with license partner platforms like Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, Foundry VTT, d20Pro to digital assets that are easily usable with the VTT of your choice, Paizo provides tools to enhance play around tables both physical and virtual.

Our partnerships include tools from industry pros like Hero Lab (https://www.wolflair.com/) with support for both 1st and 2nd Edition Pathfinder. And our recently announced partnership with Demiplane to build an official digital toolset in Pathfinder Nexus (https://app.demiplane.com/nexus/pathfinder2e) continues to move forward with opportunities for early access.

Check out the marketplace on your preferred virtual tabletop, or our webstore at https://paizo.com/store/gaming/accessories/virtualTableTop for access to the best in adventures, maps, rules support, and more!

For more information on individual digital platforms, see the list below. However you choose to engage with our worlds, we thank you and look forward to telling epic stories together!

Tools:

• Pathfinder Nexus on Demiplane – pathfindernexus.com
• Herolab character creation and maintenance tools – wolflair.com

Browser Based VTTs:

• Roll20 – roll20.net
• Foundry Virtual Tabletop – foundryvtt.com
• Astral TableTop – astraltabletop.com

Installable Client VTTs:

• Fantasy Grounds – https://www.fantasygrounds.com/home/home.php
• d20Pro – d20pro.com

Paizo and Gale Force Nine have agreed on a multi-game partnership to publish original Pathfinder and Starfinder board games.

Gale Force Nine (GF9), known for producing games such as “Firefly: The Game” and “Dune: A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy”, have teamed up with Paizo to publish original board and card games drawing from the worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder. The multi-year partnership will see GF9 exploring the rich settings of Golarion, the Pact Worlds, and beyond to bring the heroes, villains, locations, and monsters from the roleplaying systems into several new boardgames.

Starting in Q2 2022, Gale Force Nine will release two board games and one card game over the first year of the partnership, with more following over the course of the relationship. The first three titles are:

• Pathfinder: Level 20 (Q2 2022)
• Starfinder: Pirates of Skydock (Q3 2022)
• Pathfinder: Tall Tales (Q4 2022)

“The worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder are fun, diverse, and full of character,” says John-Paul Brisigotti, CEO of GF9. “We are excited to explore them further and offer fans of these games an opportunity to interact with the worlds in a new way.”

We look forward to partnering with Gale Force Nine in bringing the Pathfinder and Starfinder worlds to life as board games,” says Paizo President, Jeff Alvarez.

Pathfinder: Level 20

The first game of this partnership, releasing in Q2 2022, is Pathfinder: Level 20, a game where players take on the role of kobolds in their warren, scampering away from a 19th-level fighter who only needs five XP to hit level 20.

Will you make the heroes scamper away in embarrassment, thus being crowned the kobold champion? Or will you be the last survivor among your friends, a victory in its own right!

Pathfinder: Level 20 is a game for 2–6 players and will be available in April with an MSRP of $30. Visit www.gf9games.com/pathfinder for more information.

Matt Vaughan
Studio Manager
Gale Force Nine
Twitter: @galeforcenine

Get ready to reboot your spell caches with Starfinder Galactic Magic! This exciting new supplement dives into the most magical parts of the science-fantasy Starfinder setting, with a new class, a wealth of class options, dozens of new spells, and articles on how magic and religion affect day-to-day living in the Pact Worlds and beyond. Of course, none of this would be possible without our talented authors! Let’s learn a little more about some of them and what they worked on for this book in their own words. And if you’re a new (or returning) fan of any of these authors, be sure to check out their other projects, websites, livestreams, and more!

Jason Keeley (he/him)
Starfinder Development Manager

Illustration by Arturo Gutierrez

James Jacobs (he/him)
Creative Director

I’ve had the good fortune to write a lot for Pathfinder and helped to invent a fair portion of its deities, but always in the context of the fantasy genre. The chance to revisit some of these elements in a different genre is exciting and liberating. after spending decades with deities like Desna and Sarenrae flitting around in my head as divinities first in my homebrew game and then more recently in Golarion. Alas, there was only so much room to talk about Desnan dream stations or to explore the implications of what worshiping the goddess of the sun might entail when you’re in outer space, but hopefully the entries in this book will help spark new ideas for how to use these deities in your game! And of course, on the opposite side of the “friendliness scale,” being able to lean into the science-fiction tropes of the classic pulps and explore how Nyarlathotep and the Elder Mythos functions in Starfinder was equally delightful. But the thing I’m most excited to see once this book’s out is all the amazing content created by all the other authors in this book!

Jessica Catalan (she/her)
Starfinder Society Developer

Hello! My name is Jessica Catalan and I’m the Starfinder Society Developer. I’m also a mother, gamer, blogger, and freelance author who primarily writes for Paizo’s Starfinder and Pathfinder RPGs. You can find a list of my currently announced writing credits on my Paizo profile (meloriel). Some recently released highlights include Secrets of Magic, Guns & Gears, Lost Omens Grand Bazaar, Galaxy Exploration Manual, and Tech Revolution.

For Galactic Magic, I wrote the mystic and witchwarper class options, twenty spells, and numerous deities, including Kadrical, Lamashtu, and all the ancestral deities. Galactic Magic also marks two big firsts for me. This is the first time I was hired to create entirely new deities of my own design (Dagosarn, Flux, Isvith, Jalvari, Meyel, Romgul, Uvonn, and the Vesk Saints). Galactic Magic is also the first time I was hired for freelance development work, making this my very first developer credit.

I’m beyond thrilled to have been a part of this book and I look forward to seeing it hit gaming tables! Enjoy!

Rigby Bendele (they/them or xe/xem)

I'm a sometimes-poet, sometimes-game designer doing my best to make engaging, inclusive tabletop games. In Galactic Magic, you'll find my work in the technomancer and Oras section. When I was writing the Oras section, I thought quite a bit about Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" and the way in which cyborgs offer a rejection of the separations between animal, human and machine. This should probably tell you that I'm a queer theory nerd (which is the crux of my academic background) and that I love thinking about alternative ways of being through TTRPGs. While Galactic Magic is my first hardcover with Paizo, you'll find my name on more books soon and can enjoy more of my Starfinder work with SFS #3-07: Strike at Zone 78 and SFS #4-04: Mission Not Found.

You can find me on Twitter @slothscout.

Kendra Leigh Speedling (she/her)

Hello, all! I’m Kendra Leigh Speedling, and I’ve been freelancing for Pathfinder and Starfinder for about six years. You might remember me from this year’s Starfinder GenCon special, #3-99: Perils of the Past. I’m delighted to have been a part of Galactic Magic, helping give the “fantasy” side of “science-fantasy” some love. I did several sections for the book, including the faith introduction, the Besmara and Weydan entries, the Parallel Truths, and the new operative class options. I’ve always been fond of exploring how magic and faith interact with a highly technologically advanced setting, so this assignment was a lot of fun. I particularly enjoyed crafting the operative options, which hopefully add a little magical flair to your operative of choice!

I’ve got a few more Pathfinder and Starfinder projects in the works currently, though most of them are still Forbidden Knowledge at this point. I can confirm, though, that I got my grabby hands involved in Pathfinder’s upcoming Book of the Dead! In my non-freelancing downtime, I can be found hanging out with a book or video game—usually Animal Crossing these days—or pretending I know how to bake. You can find a full list of my writing credits at klspeedling.com and I’m on Twitter as @KendraLS, where I sporadically post cat pictures.

Besmara: illustration by Guilherme Olivieri

Sen.H.H.S. (she/her)

Hello, readers! Sen.H.H.S. here. You might have seen my name before in some Pathfinder Second Edition products such as Bestiary 3, Secrets of Magic, and many others. (See my carrd for the full list: https://senhhs.carrd.co/#portfolio) With Galactic Magic, it looks like I've made the jump over to write even more magic in a different(?) universe. This book has been a long time coming, and I hope you'll get to experience the magic (pun intended) within its pages soon. You can always find out what I'm up to on my Twitter @SenHHS. If my calculations are correct, you might get to witness me tweeting about "trace analysis in Golarion" in the next little while, for every reason whatsoever.

Shay Snow (they/them)

Hi, I'm Shay Snow, I'm an editor at Paizo, and I wrote up a bunch of species-specific spells and the entry on Zon-Kuthon, surprising exactly... no one! As my mutuals on Twitter know I'm a pretty big Zon-Kuthon fan so I joyfully jumped when offered the chance to give the pain man a new write up for Galactic Magic. You may have seen me in a few Starfinder scenarios, Pathfinder’s Lost Omens Grand Bazaar and Tech Revolution and I have a few things coming out in Lost Omens Monsters of Myth. Additionally, you can find my name on a few Coyote & Crow projects!

When not writing, I’m usually discussing Native issues and rights over on my Twitter @SpellsInSugar, where you can also sometimes catch me talking about video games and horror media. You can keep up with my work, or even contact me for hire, through my website https://shayjay.carrd.co/!

Jessica Redekop (she/they/he)

Hi! I'm Jess, and I wrote about some fabulous outsider deities in Galactic Magic ! Even though it's a smaller section, I'm particularly proud of my work in this book. It gave me an opportunity to introduce a lot of cool content into Starfinder, and there are some lines scattered through the section that are quite personal to me. I won't spoil which gods are included, but if you're familiar with my past work for PF and SF, some of them are very "me." :) I hope you like Starfinder's new and returning outsider deities as much as I do!

For more of my content check out Valiant, an actual play Pathfinder podcast on the Know Direction network, where I play Xiadani the aasimar druid. You can also find me @tectonomancer on Twitter.

Mikhail Rekun (he/him)

дравствуйте, уважаемые читатели! My name is Mikhail Sergeyevich Rekun, and you may recognize me from previous Starfinder products such as the Galaxy Exploration Manual (where I wrote about Accord and created the Starship Toolbox) and Starfinder Adventure Path #31: Waking the Worldseed (where I wrote the Hibb article), along with plenty of Pathfinder stuff. In my more mundane life, I’m a Russian-American historian, educator, and author.

Galactic Magic was a bit of a weird project for me. John Compton contacted me and said ‘we need magical nanomachines and we need them as soon as humanly possible.’ Well, I’m never one to shirk from a challenge, and produced the magical options for the nanocyte in basically a weekend. I’m reasonably pleased with the results, especially the ability to make fancy nano-runes and sigils like a proper anime protagonist. (That was what John wanted, right?)

Nanites are also of some interest to me for other reasons, as when not writing for Paizo, I’m working on Ourichor: Fulcrum of the Luminant Age alongside the inimitable Andrew Mullen and Isabelle Thorne (follow us at https://twitter.com/LuminantA). I shan’t share too much in the way of details, but let’s just say that fans of microscopic shenanigans may find our upcoming release, Armaments of the Luminant Age, of some interest to them.

John Godek III (he/him)

Hi everyone! My name is John Godek and I am an avid Starfinder GM, player, freelance author, and podcaster. I had the opportunity to write several sections of Galactic Magic and I can’t wait for you to see them! I created two brand new soldier fighting styles—the spellbrawler and the archer—along with new weapons, gear boosts, fusions, and armor upgrades that synergize with these styles as well as offer cool options for other styles and classes. In addition, I formulated nearly three dozen new magic spells, including spells that provide basic utility, create different types of barriers, and are related to or originated in the Vast. Finally, I crafted three new legendary artifacts of tremendous power, each steeped in ancient lore. Other Paizo projects I have forthcoming include work on the Drift Crisis hardcover, backmatter in Starfinder Adventure Path #44, and my very first adventure—Starfinder Bounty #1: The Cantina Job!

You can find me playing with the Emerald City Lodge in Seattle, or you can listen to my podcasts on the Know Direction Network, including: Digital Divination with Ron Lundeen, Intrepid Heroes, a Stafinder actual play, and Presenting, a podcast where I interview game designers, developers, artists, and writers.

Worlanisi: Illustration by Addison Rankin

Nate Wright (he/him)

Evening, everyone. I’m Nate Wright, a blogger on the Know Direction Network and a freelancer who has contributed to multiple works from Paizo. Some of my favorites include the anadi ancestry from Lost Omens The Mwangi Expanse and the memetic zenith from Starfinder Adventure Path #24: The God-Host Ascends. The best part about writing for this book has been visualizing the awesome abilities I’ve always wished my character could have and getting the opportunity to share that vision with the rest of the community.

If you want to see my most recent work, you’re in need of a freelancer, or you just want to watch me share cool art I found, you can find me on @RoscMan on the cursed bird app.

Dennis Muldoon (he/him)

Hi folks! My name is Dennis Muldoon, and I've been freelancing for Paizo for a few years now. I've contributed to almost every line Paizo publishes, now, most recently SFS #4-10: The Way In, the Azlanti Space Age material in the toolbox of Starfinder Adventure Path #42: Whispers of the Eclipse, and the ssumzili and golgopo monsters in Pathfinder Adventure Path #171: Hurricane's Howl. For Galactic Magic, I wrote the experimental apparatus mechanic alternate class feature for all your magically inclined mechanic needs, along with magic-themed mechanic tricks for mechanics of all types. I'm also extremely excited to bring the Lucky Drunk himself into Starfinder with a section on Cayden Cailean! My full list of credits is on my Paizo profile, and you can find me on Twitter @dkmuldoon.

Kate Baker (she/her)

Hey, Starfinder fans! I’m Kate, and I’ve been writing for Starfinder and Pathfinder for about five years. I was delighted to get to write the sections on Hylax and Talavet for this book. Hylax is near and dear to my heart after writing one of the Attack of the Swarm volumes, and I even have a tattoo of the Crown of Hylax! Talavet speaks to me equally, with such a strong focus on the importance of stories, something I’ve never appreciated more than in the last year and a half. I hope you enjoy reading about their role in the galaxy, along with the many other deities featured in this book.

Follow me at @KateBakerGM on Twitter to hear more about what I’m working on, including some upcoming projects for Starfinder Infinite!

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Starfinder Galactic Magic

UNLEASH COSMIC POWER
Unravel the eldritch mysteries of the galaxy with Starfinder Galactic Magic! This book explores Starfinder’s magical possibilities, providing your characters fantastic abilities to overcome any challenge. Whether you master the secrets of arcane academies, steal spells with supernatural finesse, or draw power from the gods themselves, Galactic Magic redefines what you thought possible with:

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PRECOG
Through some cosmic event, you have come to understand the ebb and flow of time to a degree that only a select few can. You manipulate time dexterously—accelerating, slowing, or even reshaping chronologies to suit your needs. The skeins of time are yours to see, and you know how to apply enough pressure to adjust their threads ever so subtly. Your ability to understand the infinite possibilities of time also shaped you into someone capable of altering the material universe through powerful spellcasting, and you can harness temporal paradoxes to foresee the future—and dictate the present—in powerful ways.

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HYBRID ITEMS
Blends of magic and technology achieve results that neither alone could ever imagine, creating the likes of null-space storage, miniaturized vehicles, subwoofers able to inspire supernatural fear, artificial lifeforms that require virtually no sustenance, and more. These devices often resist strictly antimagical or anti-technological countermeasures.

MAGIC ITEMS
Traditional magic items translate mystical energies into a portable format that nearly anyone can use. Part of the appeal comes from unshakable nostalgia, yet far more often it’s magic items’ total disregard for scientific principles—their ability to translate their maker’s will into reality—that makes them so unique and valuable.

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Survival often means eking out maximum performance from an adventurer’s gear, and a magical upgrade provides an easy edge. These weapon fusions and armor upgrades concentrate eldritch energy into functional, long-lasting forms, and these latest models lend even the most technologically outfitted explorer an arcane advantage.

ARTIFACTS
Artifacts are exceedingly rare—often unique—items beyond the ability of any but the most accomplished artisans to create, and they’re almost as difficult to destroy. These legendary items combine tremendous power with the intrinsic lore that shapes their abilities. Adventurers might dedicate their entire lives to finding a specific artifact, and recovering an artifact might spur countless high-stakes exploits.

CHAPTER 3: SPELLS

Explore new spell lists and descriptions, variant spellcasting, and rituals!

Read Iconic Encounter: Pitstop Eclipse by Patrick Hurley, featuring the iconic witchwarper and technomancer, Zemir and Raia.

CHAPTER 4: FAITHS

FAITHS IN THE UNIVERSE
The galaxy’s faiths manifest in countless forms, from tiny cults to interplanetary religions with billions of followers. Although deities almost never intervene directly in mortal affairs, their influence is very present in lay worshippers and devoted priests alike. Faith is alive throughout the galaxy, whether used for good or ill.

CHAPTER 5: THE MAGICAL GALAXY

OVERVIEW
Magic can be measured, manipulated, and predicted, or else it never could’ve been integrated with technology. Even so, cultures perceive magic in wildly different ways, and a lot of magical phenomena remains associated with myth, antiquity, physical impossibilities, and secrets perhaps better left alone. In short, despite being integrated into everyday society, magic remains... magical

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The Hunt Begins!
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A Starfinder Bounty designed for Level 1.

A scam artist is prowling the bars around Drifter’s End, fleecing the Absalom Station tourists and starship crews out of hard-earned credits with a chunk of fake horacalcum and the chance to invest in their newly discovered starmetal vein. It’s up to the PCs to track down this fake miner and haul them back to pay their dues!

Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-08: Foundation’s Price

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-4.

Following their recent successes in aiding the government of Qadira with apprehending an errant genie-binder, the Pathfinder Society earned the right to establish a new lodge in the port city of Sedeq! With the construction of the site complete, the Society sent a group to formally begin operations from the new edifice.

They never arrived.

With city officials threatening to auction off the new building should the Pathfinder Society neglect to occupy it, the Society sends another group of Pathfinders to investigate the lodge. Finding the brand new structure in a state of alarming disrepair, the Pathfinders have little time to search for answers before a booming voice greets them. If they wish to occupy the lodge, they’ll have to complete three tasks...

“Foundation’s Price” is part of the ongoing story of the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It’s the first scenario in a two-part arc detailing the events befalling a Pathfinder Society lodge in the nation of Qadira. Other arcs explore other locations across the Inner Sea. While these arcs can be played in any order, it’s recommended that players experience the scenarios within each individual arc in order.

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A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 5-8.

The Pathfinder Society has had a tenuous relationship with the government of the ancient nation of Osirion ever since the Ruby Prince increased restrictions on the activities of foreign-based explorers. Venture-Captain Norden Balentiir has worked hard to restore the Society’s reputation in the nation, and to guide the Sandswept Hall, the Pathfinder lodge in Osirion’s capital, away from its dark past.

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A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-4.

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For the second time today, Ciravel found herself exceedingly grateful for seatbelts and stabilizers.

The first moment of gratitude was during Iseph's dizzying, looping, headlong dash toward Daimalko's surface—a flight where they showed both their skill at threading the space between the enormous meteoroids that surrounded the planet and their delight at making Ciravel shut her eyes despite herself. Ciravel ran and reran the possibilities in her mind, certain that this was the course that resulted in a safe arrival to a canyon on the planet's surface, and yet she still found herself clutching her armrests and putting just enough tension against the straps holding her in to make sure that they would, in fact, hold.

The second moment came thanks to the radiation drake who clamped its crystalline jaws around her hoverchair and shook its head back and forth as if in virulent disagreement with Ciravel's very existence—an action which, without the negation of the stabilizers, would be excruciating, since the surface of this portion of Daimalko unexpectedly lacked many things, including plant life, water, and, much to the chagrin of Ciravel's various joints, consistent gravity. Iseph had anchored themself to one of the rocks which floated above the planet's surface and was locked in combat with a second drake.

"You could have warned me—"

"—about the radiation? The drakes? The battlefield ruins? The asteroids? Did you—oof!—notice the radiation buffers that you were so reluctant to—ow!—pick up this morning? 'But I don't breathe!' Honestly—your head would fall off if I didn't remind you to bring a wrench! YOU could have warned me that you fly like a drunken moldstorm!"

"Can we discuss this when we're not—" Iseph ducked as their drake snapped its jaws shut, barely missing the android and a sending a soft crystalline ring echoing through the canyon, "—about to be turned into scrapyard bits?"

Ciravel closed her eyes and focused her power, channeling it through her extended hand. The possibilities for the drake's next action unfolded before her like cards laid out on a table. She knew what she had to do.

"Iseph, count to ten."

Wait for it…

"Ciravel, this hardly seems the ideal time for numerical calculation—"

Ciravel shifted her weight, angling her chair slightly as the drake clamped its jaws higher, sending the pistol in her side holster careening toward the rocky ruins below. One more good bite and it would have her.

…Wait…

"…Make that seven."

Illustration by Michele Giorgi from Starfinder Galactic Magic

The drake's jaws opened momentarily as it repositioned its bite once more. In the precise moment where the drake's gullet was perfectly aligned, Ciravel turned her thrusters on full-force—right down the drake's throat. Its spine glowed with the intense blue flame before it gasped in pain and tumbled to the ground, releasing Ciravel's chair. Moments later, a rocky thud echoed through the canyon.

Thank goodness for seat belts, Ciravel thought once again as her chair careened wildly until the thrusters reoriented it.

"Three…two…"

She could see the drake's spine begin to glow again as it readied another beam. She was too far away. She needed more time.

Ciravel blinked her eyes, holding the battlefield in stasis as she bolted toward Iseph.

"…one."

Iseph startled slightly at the voice that was suddenly right next to them. Ciravel grabbed the blaster pistol from Iseph's belt and winked. She lifted her chair up and away from Iseph, aiming the pistol directly at the drake, trying to catch its attention and spin it away from Iseph, exposing a heavily wounded flank to their blade. The drake turned, lifting its wing, preparing to follow Ciravel. This time, she looped time into a knot, immediately making the drake forget her presence and leaving it distracted long enough for Iseph to drive their searing blade directly into its wounded gut.

She knew it would cost her later—the exhaustion from this last effort would be brutal—but Ciravel dug deep and twisted time once more, calibrating the trajectory and moment that Iseph's blade entered the drake's thorax, ensuring that it hit every vital organ it could on the way in. The drake collapsed and tumbled to the ground below.

"My pistol?" Iseph outstretched their arm.

"Ah, the 'thanks for saving my circuits, Ciravel' must be a different time thread…" Ciravel maneuvered back toward the rock where Iseph had themselves anchored and winced slightly in pain as she handed back the weapon, stretching her neck. "I think maybe I'll drive home? But let's get our repairs done quickly…I'm sure the Recollectors aren't too far behind us, if they aren't already here."

"Ciravel, perhaps we have sailed the canal that was left."

"The left canal, Iseph. The saying is that you've sailed down the right canal when things go to plan, or the left canal when you cannot locate what you need. But yes, it certainly looks like we might have sailed quite far down the left canal, unfortunately."

---

She reached into one of the bags attached to the side of her hoverchair and pulled out a handle—which extended into a cane with a press of a button—and a tool kit, then released the safety belts attaching her to the chair. Activating the grav anchors on her boots and retracting the stabilizers, Ciravel stepped onto the hovering rock, and, leaning heavily on her cane, surveyed the damage to the chair. Not too bad, considering the jaws…

Iseph pulled a medical kit from a belt pouch and began doing their own repairs to patch up their wounds—a cut here, a re-soldered circuit there. As Ciravel tightened bolts and reattached anything that had come loose from her chair in the fight, something gnawed at the back of her mind, but she brushed it away. The Recollectors were on their trail and they hadn't found any real clues to the cause of The Awakening, the cataclysm that decimated life on Daimalko. No hint to whether it was a natural event or an apocalyptic weapon used in the bitter war that used to rage on the planet. All Ciravel knew was that when she last held a fragment of rock that originated here, a specimen back in the xenobiology lab in Sovyrian, she tasted time—the only way she could describe the strange way that she suddenly smelled salt and citrus and tasted spiced honey whenever she encountered items from far in the past—a strange sensory activation that tied to her only childhood memory. A memory from the Gap.

There hadn't been a whiff of anything other than sulfur and ozone since they arrived on Daimalko. But the way that rock had hummed in her ears…the song she had heard…what she'd heard…what didn't I hear?

"…Iseph, did you hear the impact of the second drake landing in the canyon?"

"An impact? No…I heard an echo of jaws clashing and ringing, your weapon falling, the flames of your chair, the pistol firing, the screams…everything echoed back. But I did not hear a second impact of a drake on the canyon floor."

In that moment, time unfolded for Ciravel as she registered three things. First: the air, which had reeked only of sulfur and centuries of decay, suddenly smelled of salt and citrus. The smell of Time, of the Gap. Second: the sudden darkness that fell when it had, only moments before, been glaringly bright. Night should have been nearly 30 hours away. And finally: the meaning of the absent sound of the drake's impact. Ciravel ran through the possibilities in a split second, and realization made her eyes go wide.

"Um…Iseph?"

"When I have finished repairing, Ciravel, I will assist you. It is already nightfall? We cannot waste our time tonight."

"Iseph…look up. We'll make some extra time."

The android glanced up from the wire they were reconnecting and then continued looking up, and up, and up the exoskeleton, watching in near-wonder as tendrils passed the drake corpse up…and up…and up…far higher than Ciravel's chair could reach on a day when it hadn't been rattled around in the jaws of a drake, past gargantuan claws and tusks.

As her own eyes met the four beady ones of the Kyokor, Ciravel tasted spiced honey.

She stared at the colossus, steadied herself back into her hoverchair, and activated the thrusters. She glided next to Iseph and looked over at them from beneath the creature's shadow, smiling.

"Well, what do you know? Perhaps we sailed the right canal after all."

About the Author

Jennifer Kretchmer is a Diana Jones Emerging Game Designer Award finalist, TV produce and performer, author (D&D's Candlekeep Mysteries, Haunted West), streamer, and disability consultant (Skybound Games: The Walking Dead, MCDM) who has been playing TTRPGs for more than 20 years. She appears on several actual play streams including Vampire: The Nightlife (Renegade) and Heroes of the Planes (Demiplane), where her character, Alyndra, is a playable champion in Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms. Jen is a Jasper's Game Day Ambassador and is the creator of the Accessibility in Gaming Resource Guide.

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About Iconic Encounters

Iconic Encounters is a series of web-based flash fiction set in the worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder. Each short story provides a glimpse into the life and personality of one of the games' iconic characters, showing the myriad stories of adventure and excitement players can tell with the Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplaying games.

They’d landed on a port moon to rehaul their ship before rendezvousing with the rest of the Pact World diplomatic team on a newly discovered world called Sigerro. A routine enough stop, but then, even in Near Space, the routine could quickly turn to excitement.

Zemir and Raia, part of the command team, were sent to find upgraded Drift drives for their ship. The thought was that Raia’s eye for tech would aid in finding the best equipment and Zemir’s tendency to bend chance might allow them to purchase it at a low price.

The technomancer and witchwarper debated the differences between their respective talents while perusing the port’s open-air markets.

“Our methods differ only in scope. You use your gifts to push technology,” said Zemir, tossing another faulty circuit board into a display case, “whereas I use mine to push reality.”

“Your scope may be wider,” said Raia, examining some drive schematics absently. “But my tech produces more reliable results.”

“Reliability is irrelevant. In the end, we seek the same thing—the new, impossible, the interesting. Is how we do it so important?”

“Some would say the ‘how’ is the most important part of all,” Raia answered, smiling. It was an old debate between friends, one they’d cheerfully had over drinks in many a space port.

“Perhaps you’re right,” said Zemir quietly. Raia recognized that faraway look. One day she’d learn the cause of Zemir’s periodic melancholy.

Before Zemir could say more, the market fell eerily silent. Everyone around them stared upward. Zemir and Raia joined them, and watched as the moon eclipsed the sun, and all went dark.

Soon after, the chittering squeaks and clicks began.

“I recognize those sounds,” said Raia. “Grioths.”

“What, this far in Near Space?” asked Zemir.

“They get closer every year,” said Raia sadly. She found grioths a fascinating formation of life. It’s too bad so many of them were in the monstrous grip of Nyarlathotep, for their voidglass technology and biology was quite interesting and could be put to great use in the Pact Worlds.

Her thoughts were interrupted by holes opening in the moon-eclipsed sky. From these shadowy portals descended a wave of winged terrors. The grioths’ silhouettes looked like thousands of bats with arms and legs—all of which held glittering weaponry.

The technomancer and the witchwarper watched the marketgoers flee. In silent agreement, both stood still amid the chaos, knowing they could hold off the grioths and allow these citizens to get to safety.

Several grioth raiders noticed the two holding their ground and broke off to attack them. Raia picked off one with a single blaster pulse while Zemir stared at another and muttered. Suddenly, the grioth’s wing seized and it plummeted to the ground. That left three more, who charged in a whirl of chittering squeaks and gleaming, deadly glass.

A fourth landed in front of Raia and swiped at her with its giant, clawed hand.

“No,” said Raia calmly, stepping back and raising her hands. She felt composed, as though in a simulation. She had spent the better part of the afternoon familiarizing herself with the tech around her, and now she simply had to put it to work, albeit for a new purpose.

As the grioth tried to grasp her again, she cast a spell with a word and a gesture. Behind her, the vast engine powering the veranda block rumbled and cracked. Suddenly, as though it were a puppet pulled by the technomancer’s strings, it unleashed from its casing and wrapped the grioth in an unbreakable embrace of steel and coiled wire.

Zemir watched his friend fight and wondered how best to aid her in the dance. He was no slouch with a blade, but with so many opponents, more help was needed.

What if, perhaps, another portal opened? One to a world filled with bright sunlight? Zemir pondered the possibilities and adjusted probabilities as though inputting calculations into the ultimately unknowable machine that was the universe. Calculations that, due to his training at the institute, he sometimes knew the outcomes for.

A bright portal to a sun-filled world opened, a world with—yes, perfect—a swarm of apari constituents, who poured from the portal, angry and hungry. The grioths shrieked at the light, some clutching their faces as its very photons pierced their psychic defenses. At Zemir’s direction, the apari swarm crashed against the grioths like a wave, instinctively trying to strike back against invaders who would darken a world.

Illustration by Mirco Paganessi from Starfinder Galactic Magic

“You will all perish for the glory of our dark master,” whispered one of grioth invaders with a harsh rasp. Before he could say more, he was overwhelmed by the swarm of apari.

He could have run—but he wouldn’t. Helping Raia made it worth it; knowing that, in some small way, Zemir had adjusted his account, paying back what he’d done wrong. He might never be able to atone for leaving his friends in that other reality, might never be able to get them back (though another part of him still wondered about this) but here, now, at least he and his friend Raia could save each other.

Together, weaving reality and technology with threads of magic, the technomancer and witchwarper beat back the remaining two grioth attackers, their martial prowess no match for the pair’s magical mastery.

“We have to get to the ship,” said Zemir once they had a moment to catch their breath. “I can open a gateway there, but I’ve expended a lot of power and can only take myself.”

“Go. I know you won’t leave me behind,” said Raia. For some reason, Zemir looked inexplicably sad at that.

“I will come back for you,” Zemir promised gravely. He stepped through the portal and was gone.

Raia waited, holding glowing sigils and technical weapons in the dark marketplace. From the chittering and squeaks, she knew another squad of grioths was inbound. With all the tech around her, Raia knew she could hold them off, but not indefinitely. She just hoped that Zemir would get back with the ship in time.

About The Author

Patrick Hurley has had fiction published in Galaxy’s Edge, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, Abyss & Apex, New Myths, Arcanist, Aurealis, Frozen Wavelets, The Overcast, and The Drabblecast. He is a 2017 graduate of the Taos Toolbox Writer's Workshop. In 2018, he was a finalist for the Baen Fantasy Award. Patrick lives in Seattle and is a member of SFWA and the Dreamcrashers. He still can’t quite believe he has the good fortune to also be an editor at Paizo.

About Iconic Encounters

Iconic Encounters is a series of web-based flash fiction set in the worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder. Each short story provides a glimpse into the life and personality of one of the games’ iconic characters, showing the myriad stories of adventure and excitement players can tell with the Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplaying games.

Ciravel’s first—and only—childhood memory is of tasting the stars. Peering through a window into the depths of space, innumerable galaxies stare back at her and glitter their welcome. She remembers that moment, possibilities and potential branching like fractals, infinite possibilities for infinite stars; and yet, six stars shine brightest of all. Someone hands her something sweet that tastes of honey and spices, and the world smells of citrus and the sea. Fragrance embraces her, the sweetness lingering upon her tongue—the past and the present dancing together in a shared instant.

But before and after… Nothing.

And then, in some time or none at all: heat, and the rain on Sovyrian’s canals.

Ciravel’s young adulthood was spent at the university, where she earned impeccably high marks studying xenobotany, while also attending martial arts and combat training. Time rarely seemed to be the issue for Ciravel “But how do you manage it all?” her classmates asked. Ciravel shrugged. “I plan well. I have to.”

And she did need to plan. Multitudes of worlds and peoples mean multitudes of different shapes, sizes, limb configurations, and body structures. For Ciravel, it meant a body which, since birth, has been particularly responsive to varying gravities, atmospheric pressures, and other planetary properties. Some days, and in some places, Ciravel has little-to-no pain and walking isn’t a problem. Other times or places, she manages exhaustion and pain. Like many others across the Pact Worlds and beyond, using a hoverchair, or a cane for shorter distances, helps Ciravel reduce fatigue and makes moving around less difficult and painful. She trained to fight while using her chair, harnessing the thrusters and momentum to dodge and attack, conserving energy, to use her cane to counterbalance and anchor herself. Ways to minimize a bad day amongst the good and maximize a good day amidst the bad. But never knowing what sort of day was ahead meant Ciravel had to learn early how to plan for each possibility. So, she’d examine each potential outcome and prepare for each iteration until it became instinctual.

After graduation, Ciravel’s academic success in xenobotany caught the Sovyrian leadership’s attention, and in time, she was trusted with occasional official journeys to Absalom Station. Each time she boarded a starship, it felt more like home than Sovyrian ever had. It was the end of one of these trips, heading back through the station towards her waiting ship, that she was stopped in her tracks by the smell of crisp citrus in the sea air.

It was a scent she had all but forgotten, and in an instant, she was back in the memory of a window and stars and spiced honey. And in that moment, existing in two times, simultaneously, she understood. She could bend this moment to her needs. She could stretch time—delay her departure long enough to find the source of the fragrance. It wouldn’t last long, and it’d be exhausting, but it would be enough.

Illustration by Remko Troost and Ignacio Bazán Lazcano.

She stretched time at the docks and compressed it nearby. Following the fragrance, or perhaps led by it, she found the source—a young woman with golden eyes and swirling tattoos that almost seemed to dance, carrying a bundle under her arm and walking quickly into a small temple with a shattered mirror on the door—the sign of the Gap Recollective. Ciravel peered in, and when the woman drew back the cloth of the bundle, it revealed a truly ancient warhammer engraved with glowing Dwarven runes. Ciravel tasted spiced honey on her tongue. The young woman looked at her. Smiled.

And Ciravel was suddenly back on the ship home.

Years went by, and Ciravel became the default representative for most off-planet xenobotany meetings. Her excursions were always on time, dodged inclement weather, and when her insular life among the elves caused a diplomatic faux pas, it was somehow forgotten by the next meeting. With the arrival of the Idari, Ciravel was invited as part of the elven delegation to the kasathan worldship. She observed adat and was awed to note that after death the kasatha, like she, exist in two aligned points in time. She befriended one of the adata, who wore a pin engraved with a circle and arrow containing a six-star constellation.

The six stars from her memory.

The adata explained it as the symbol of Ibra, The Inscrutable. Guardian of mysteries and miracles, of exploration and discovery and the cosmos. They spoke at length of Ibra and cosmic enigmas swirling like nebulas and questions, but eventually, Ciravel bid the adata farewell and boarded the ship to Castrovel.

Another young woman boards Ciravel’s ship. She smiles at Ciravel with golden eyes as an unfamiliar object peeks out from the bundle tucked under a tattoo-adorned arm.

Citrus and spiced honey and salt flood Ciravel’s senses. Time stops.

Ciravel tastes the stars a third time. And this time, she understands.

Her memory is of the Gap. And either this woman with the golden eyes or this strange object is a link to it.

Ciravel untangles the possibilities—the present and the future, selecting a strand, tracing it forward. She knows this woman, Prindra, will lead Ciravel to the Gap Recollective on Castrovel. That Ciravel will peer into the maelstrom of the Recollective’s esoteric secrets, and someone, or something, will peer back. That they will hunt her, thinking three moves and four dimensions ahead. Ciravel unknots another time-thread and finds people who can help her, who she will help, who will become trusted companions. Ciravel knows she will become Forlorn, but feels no despair, for she will bend time itself for the friends she will make, keeping them safe on new worlds as they explore the mysteries of the stars together. Invigorated, Ciravel takes these strands and twists them together, weaving them into a new, stronger thread. Possibility.

She peers out the window, smiling at galaxies glittering with infinite potential and adventure and possibility, for Ciravel has time.

Despite understanding and manipulating the mechanisms of time, Ciravel is by no means omniscient. She selects the best plan based on the information she has on a given topic, and even when she knows an outcome, she still gets nervous from time to time. She also recognizes that someone may have information that informs a different option than the one she has chosen, so, while she will defend her statements, Ciravel is willing to follow another’s suggested plan. Her humor tends to be dry and occasionally dark, but she is playful and loyal with people she trusts.

Ciravel’s insular upbringing can manifest both as ignorance, condescension, and elitism—she corrects inaccuracies, but lacks firsthand knowledge about much of the galaxy, its peoples, their worlds, and their cultures, not for want of curiosity, but simply from a lack of exposure—more than once, cultural ignorance has put Ciravel into a sticky situation. She can be impatient and often will finish others’ sentences, assuming she knows what they were going to say, and she’s usually right. When all is said and done, there is nothing that thrills Ciravel more than exploring the galaxy, putting together a puzzle, and staring out at the stars with her friends.

About The Author

Jennifer Kretchmer is a Diana Jones Emerging Game Designer Award finalist, TV produce and performer, author (D&D’s Candlekeep Mysteries, Haunted West), streamer, and disability consultant (Skybound Games: The Walking Dead, MCDM) who has been playing TTRPGs for more than 20 years. She appears on several actual play streams including Vampire: The Nightlife (Renegade) and Heroes of the Planes (Demiplane), where her character, Alyndra, is a playable champion in Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms. Jen is a Jasper’s Game Day Ambassador and is the creator of the Accessibility in Gaming Resource Guide.

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Leandra slapped the screaming alarm cube and rubbed her eyes before burying her head in the pillow again. Ugh, too early…

A few minutes later she groaned and rolled out of her bunk, stretching as she padded her way into the communal area.

"Oh, morning, Lea. I just drank the last of the instant. Sorry." Her overly chipper, and well caffeinated roommate held up the empty pot apologetically.

“Nok! How could you? You knew I was pulling a double today!” The scowl she leveled at the curvy ysoki would send most others hurrying out of her way, but Nok just grinned and stretched up to kiss her on the cheek.

“I'll pick up more on the way home tonight, promise!" She rushed out the door in a swirl of activity and perfume, leaving Leandra to put the coffee pot in the sink.

Thirty minutes and a disappointingly lukewarm shower later (thanks again, Nok) Leandra stood in line at the popular coffee cart just outside Ixomander’s Throne, the Azlanti-themed casino where she was currently late for her job. She hopped from foot to foot, willing the line to move faster before Mo-var, the meticulous android running the cart, closed for their mid-morning break. Suddenly, an enormous vesk came hurtling out of nowhere and plowed into her. She was knocked onto the ground, while the vesk continued running. A willowy shirren helped her back on her feet before bolting after the vesk, shouting “Sorry!” over their shoulder.

Leandra dusted off her dark green pants and turned to see Mo-var pulling down their cart’s shudder. Damned tourists! Don’t they know how hard it is to keep this faux Azlanti crap clean? She threw her hands up in despair, yelling, “Come on! I was in line and everything before those junk jockeys pushed me over!” Mo-var ignored her, and she went to give the cart a swift kick but stopped when a glint from the ground caught her eye. A misshapen piece of metal and plastic laid on the sidewalk, most likely dropped by the fleeing vesk.

Leandra picked it up and shouted in the direction the two had ran. “Just because we live near a junkyard doesn’t mean you can litter!” She grumbled to herself about inconsiderate off-worlders and inflexible androids, absent-mindedly slipped the piece of trash into her pocket, and stepped into the casino.

---

Leandra stretched she trudged out of the casino, her back aching after a grueling double shift on her feet serving drinks to increasingly inebriated gamblers. Spying Mo-var’s coffee cart—now open for the evening rush—and knowing that Nok probably forgot to get more instant, she started to wander over. Her way was blocked by a pair of local gang members (True Warriors by the look of them—bunch of lowlifes) diving out of the way of the wide swing of a doshko, wielded by the same vesk from earlier in the day. This time, a lashunta woman followed, her hands glowing with magic.

“Really?” Leandra said out loud, too tired to properly process how much danger she was currently in. Mo-var, however, seemed to understand, quickly closing their cart window. Leandra was startled into action when a stray bullet from one of the True Warriors’ pistols struck the casino wall just a few feet from her. She scurried home, locked the deadbolts, and enabled the security system even though she knew it didn’t work properly. Nok had promised to get it fixed months ago.

---

Nok stumbled in, giggling and slightly tipsy. The security system let out a pair of weak, unconvincing beeps and gave up, but it was loud enough to startle Leandra awake from where she’d dozed off on the couch.

“Someone had a good night.”

Nok plopped onto the couch next to her. “Hot date with Rush! Oh, so much fun. You should come out with us one of these days! She even has a cute brother...” She chuckled, draping herself over Leandra.

“No time. We’re short-staffed at work. Maybe next week.” She pushed her friend off her lap with a laugh. Nok was always trying to set her up on dates—when she wasn’t on the prowl for her own that is. She’d gone on more than a few disastrous outings at the younger girl’s urging but hadn't clicked with any of her suitors. “Tell you what, I’ll make us both something to eat. You need something in your stomach.” She ruffled the hair beneath Nok’s ear on her way to the kitchenette.

---

The next day, Leandra had another double. Midway through, her feet and back were already aching and her ears were sweltering in her fake helmet, but she kept a smile firmly plastered on her face as she bustled between tables and the bar. Needing a break from fending off the advances of the junk jockeys who had hit a prize and enduring the glowering looks from the locals determined to lose all their cash, she gestured to her manager that she was going to briefly step outside.

She ordered a cup of her usual from Mo-var to boost her flagging energy and had barely taken a sip when her arm was jostled from behind, sending the drink flying.

“Oh. Come. On!” She was nearly in tears as she turned to see the shirren from the previous day. A ysoki stood next to them, looking sheepish, and the vesk and lashunta were over by the casino entrance.

“YOU!” Leandra gasped. “You owe me at least 3 cups of coffee!” She poked the shirren in the chest, whose antennae twitched in confusion. “First, you knocked me out of line, then you started that brawl in the street, and now you made me spill this one because you can’t bother to watch where you’re going!”

The big vesk lumbered up to them. “Is there a problem?” she rumbled.

“Yeah! You and your buddies keep making me lose my coffee and I’m getting sick of it!” Leandra’s shouting was beginning to draw a few gawkers, but she didn't care. “And another thing! You can’t just leave trash wherever you want!” She retrieved the piece of metal and plastic from her pocket and flung it at the vesk’s chest. The vesk fumbled with it for a moment but didn’t drop it. Her eyes widened as she took a better look at the scrap.

“Quig,” the vesk said, turning to the ysoki. “This is the other half of the keycard.”

“You dropped it?!” the ysoki asked incredulously.

“Uh, I guess so.” The vesk looked uncomfortable. She looked back at Leandra. “Hey, sorry about all this. Let me make it up to you. After all, I think you just saved us a lot of trouble.” She ordered an extra-large from Mo-var, handing over enough credits to cover the price a few times over. The android filled up a sizable travel mug with a secured lid and placed it in the cart’s window. Leandra scooped up the coffee and chugged half of it as if she were afraid it would get away.

“Thank you,” Leandra said. “I have to get back to work now.” She turned on her heel to re-enter the casino, hearing the other four begin to chatter excitedly with each other.

Later, she had quite the story to tell her roommate. Nok suspected the four were treasure hunters looking for a big score out in the junk, and they must have crossed the True Warriors in the process. Both of them speculated wildly as to what their “keycard” unlocked well into the night.

---

The following evening, the four approached Leandra on the casino floor. “There she is!” the vesk bellowed with a grin on her face. “My favorite Aeon Guard! We’ve got something for you!” She dropped a credstick onto Leandra’s tray.

A little wary, Leandra picked up the credstick, peeked at the display, and nearly fainted at the amount printed there. She wrapped her arm around the vesk’s waist in gratitude.

“Should be enough to keep you in coffee for a while,” the ysoki smirked. “And when you’re done squeezing Obo to death, we’ll have a round of your most expensive booze. In fact, make ‘em doubles. We’re celebrating another successful mission!”

The group cheered.

Illustration by Rustan Curman from Junker's Delight

About The Author

Misha Bushyager is a longtime gamer and designer working on making sure the next generation of geeks sees themselves represented. She's one of the founders of New Agenda Publishing and a founding curator for More Seats at the Table, a newsletter highlighting gender marginalized designers. She worked on Orun, #Feminism, Fate of Cthulhu, Lovecraftesque, Misspent Youth: Sell Out With Me, Masks: Unbound, and the as-yet-unpublished LARP Nightingales. She's a panelist, writer, editor, and sensitivity editor for tabletop RPGs and LARPs. You can find her on Twitter as @BGGameworks or on her website, blackgirlgameworks.com.

About Tales From The Drift

The Tales from the Drift series of web-based flash fiction provides an exciting glimpse into the setting of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game. Written by members of the Starfinder development team and some of the most celebrated authors in tie-in gaming fiction, the Tales from the Drift series promises to explore the worlds, alien cultures, deities, history, and organizations of the Starfinder setting with engaging stories to inspire Game Masters and players alike.

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“Please, Dhareen, must we go through with this? A bit of rock climbing is hardly a challenge for the Castrovel Kid!” Dhareen imagined her mentee thrusting his chest out proudly, thumb pressed triumphantly above his heart as he blustered several feet below her. She smiled to herself and pushed her piston-puncher into the mountain’s side, activating the gadget with a press of her lowleft thumb.

Kuh-klank.

“Perhaps, but it is custom among the tribes for a Yavnii to administer a test to every hopeful Brekai wanting to undergo the Test of the Mountain, and I am afraid that not even I have the authority to make exceptions to shobhad tradition. Not even for the ‘Castrovel Kid.’”

“See, you say that, but I can hear your grin,” Vellero replied sullenly.

“I know not what you mean.” Dhareen grinned again.

Both gladiators fell silent as they climbed, Dhareen pausing her ascent long enough for Vellero to scale up alongside her.

Kuh-klank.

He had taken to her tutelage well. Ka’s cliffside was grueling even for an expert; twenty-two miles long and comprised of thin basalt overtop stronger metamorphic stone, careless climbers often plummeted to their deaths after relying on pistons pounded into brittle basalt. One of the many roles of a yavnii was to ensure their breknai did not succumb to such a fate. Vellero had learned Dhareen’s lessons well thus far, scaling around several patches of basalt she had left in his path as a test.

Kuh-klank.

Vellero’s concentration reminded Dhareen of when she first met the headstrong lashunta in the ring at Arl’s VitariTech Coliseum. They were competing in the Icons Grand Brawl, and he was favored to win. The young man was a crowd pleaser on a seven-match winning streak. He was good, but not good enough; Dhareen scrubbed the floor with her future friend’s face. Literally. Nevertheless, there had been a spark within Vellero, a spark that intrigued her. The second time she knocked him down—or perhaps the third—he clamored to his feet with a bruised antenna and a few chipped teeth, wiped fresh blood from his lip, and grinned.

“Why do you persist?” Dhareen had asked, scarcely winded. “You cannot win. You bring yourself only pain. Throw your towel; others have when facing me. There is no shame in surrendering to your better.”

“You’re right,” he’d replied. “But that wouldn’t be fair for the folks who came here to see me fight, and I don’t want to let a single person in this ring who believed that I could win down.” He raised his fists into a boxer’s stance, a pointless gesture against an opponent twice his size with twice as many fists. “When I go down, I want them to know I gave it my all!”

Kuh-klank.

“I don’t mean to sound indignant,” Vellero interrupted Dhareen’s thoughts. “I know that the Test of the Mountain is sacred to your people, and that it is an honor to be allowed to undergo it as an outsider.”

Dhareen raised an eyebrow. “But?”

“But,” Vellero took a breath. “Is the reason we’re doing this,” Vellero gestured out behind them, over red dunes and rolling clouds of dust. “Because you don’t think I can?”

“If I didn’t think you could pass the Test of the Mountain, I wouldn’t have begun the climb with you, nor permitted you to undertake it.” Dhareen’s voice was gentle but her statement absolute. “The mountain is sacred to my people. We do not tolerate bloodshed on Ka. To send one who is unprepared up the Mountain is as shameful as slaying one’s enemies at its base.”

Vellero’s expression softened slightly. “Thanks.”

“Do not speak of it. You don’t want your throat to dry from the ascent.”

Vellero blinked, then burst out laughing.

“I don’t understand what you find so funny about that. You’ll have twenty miles left when we’ve reached the end of our shared path.”

Vellero kept laughing for a minute, wiping tears from his eyes. “Thanks, Dhareen.”

“You’re—”

Kuh-KUN.

Dhareen reaches for a falling Vellero in this illustration by Victor Manuel Leza Moreno from Starfinder: Galaxy Exploration Manual.

Dhareen gave herself no time for thinking. Before the sound of shattering basalt reached her ears, before Ka itself folded like a withered tumblefern in a windstorm, she whipped around to where Vellero was climbing even as his cliffside shifted downward, a cascade of metamorphic stone tearing free from Ka and tumbling towards the ground below. Vellero screamed as he fell, but Dhareen plucked him from the air like a corpseheron snatching a leaping spookfish out from the Irkonian Sea. Dhareen didn’t speak Ysoki, but she had spent enough time around ratfolk gladiators at VitariTech to recognize the lashunta lambasting the situation with at least six of the fourteen different Ysoki swears that she knew.

“Hold on, Vellero!” Climbing down wasn’t an option; a rockslide was eminent, and the best place to be during a rockslide was above it. Vellero was much smaller than she and less experienced at climbing, he would only slow them down. She could climbe faster with all four of her muscled arms free, anyway. There was only one option remaining.

Hoisting the Castrovel Kid onto her shoulders like a mother giving a youngling a backride, she placed the much smaller lashunta onto her shoulders and started climbing as fast as she could, giving only the barest of warnings. “Hold tight!”

Though Dhareen could hear Vellero shouting, her intense focus and the earsplitting sounds of portions of the rock wall sloughing off afforded her no opportunity to comprehend him. She climbed as quick as her body would allow, muscles aching and flaring as she abandoned her piston-punch and climbed barehanded. She knew full-well that the smallest mistake would send both she and her friend to their doom.

Ten yards from the top.

Five.

She was going to make it.

She and Vellero were going to make it.

Then her world shook as shadow overtook her vision. A boulder dislodged from above, tumbling towards her, threatening to crack her skull and send Dhareen and her breknai tumbling miles to their death. She refused to close her eyes; she would greet the Lady of Graves with firsthand tales of how she died. She was not alone; at the peak of her vision, she saw a small lashunta arm, no bigger than that of a shobhad child’s, reach out as if to catch the boulder. Dhareen admired Vellero’s bravery one last time.

The boulder collided with Vellero, and for a moment it was like watching a diver plunge into a serene pool. Vellero’s hand, then his arm, and then both their bodies plunged into the boulder.

Was it just an illusion?

Fine dust covered Dhareen as the boulder passed through her. From within, she watched the metamorphic rock splinter and crack in flight, first into smaller boulders, then into stone and pebbles, and finally into dust. The boulder never touched them; it dissolved before it even struck the Castrovel Kid’s hand.

Dhareen was stunned at first. But with safety just a few yards above and Ka continuing to shake and splinter, the feeling passed quickly as she bellowed at her peculiar friend.

“That, Vellero! Keep doing that!”

About The Author

Alexander "Alex" Augunas (he/him) is an author and behavioral health worker living outside of Philadelphia. He has contributed to numerous gaming products published by Paizo, with several of his better-known contributions including the Starfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, Starfinder Character Operations Manual, and Pathfinder Lost Omens Legends. Alex is also a staff member of the Know Direction Network, where he serves as Master of Ceremonies for Know Direction: Beyond, and publisher of third-party publisher Everybody Games.

About Iconic Encounters

Iconic Encounters is a series of web-based flash fiction set in the worlds of Pathfinder and Starfinder. Each short story provides a glimpse into the life and personality of one of the games’ iconic characters, showing the myriad stories of adventure and excitement players can tell with the Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplaying games.

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Watch the live-play premiere of Starfinder One-Shot: The Great Grav-Train Robbery tonight at 6 PM Pacific at @OfficialPaizo on Twitch. See the cast announcement for bios!

Look, the plan couldn’t be simpler. Just rappel onto the roof of a speeding train filled with armed gangsters, somehow get inside, get the passcode that opens the cargo car off the chief of security without alerting their army of goons, locate and grab that crazy artifact everyone’s after, and then call your getaway pilot for an extraction before the train reaches its destination. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Starfinder One-Shot: The Great Grav-Train Robbery is written by Andrew White can be completed in a single 3- to 4-hour session. It includes four 6th-level pregenerated antiheroes whose stories and motivations tie into the plot of the adventure. (Pregenerated characters for this adventure are also available as a free download.) If players create their own characters, they can use the adventure background to customize their characters to the adventure. This adventure can be easily used on virtual tabletops, run off digital devices, or printed out and played at a table.

Who’s Playing Who?

Michelle Nguyen Bradley as The Muscle: Barat Oza

Species: ijtikri
Theme: mercenary
Class vanguard

Find her work at michellenguyenbradley.com and follow her on all socials at @iamchubbybunny.

Jim Rodehaver as The Face: Aramesh Maageri

Species: spathinae
Theme: grifter
Class: envoy

Find him on Twitter at @EvilJimjam.

Diana Restrepo as The Thief: LNA-464

Species: SRO
Theme: space pirate
Class: operative

Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @dianares3.

Jenny Jarzabski as The Hacker: Kevan Bokoloff

Species: uplifted bear
Theme: scholar
Class: technomancer

Following her on Twitter @spaceprincess_j and stop by twitch.tv/spaceprincessj.

Thurston Hillman as Game Master

You can find him on social media @oncallgm and over at twitch.tv/oncallgm.

Watch the live-play tonight at 6 PM Pacific!

Both new Adventure Path volumes this month allow you to face challenges on new worlds. We continue to release all the Pathfinder rulebooks as Pocket Editions, a popular new option. A new Pathfinder card deck is ready to help players remember to use those Hero Points. Homebrewers will find session inspiration in crypts, lava, jungles, and ghost towns with our new maps. You’ll find over eight new Pathfinder and Starfinder products at the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today.

Pathfinder Guns & Gears Pocket Edition

GEAR UP AND THROW DOWN!
When swords and spells just won’t be enough to win the day, it’s time to power up your game with clockwork gears, lightning coils, and black powder! Guns & Gears, the latest rulebook for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (Second Edition), brings the excitement of firearms and fantasy technology to your tabletop!

The pocket edition presents the same content in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

Don’t miss the Guns & Gears Authors blog!

See four gunslingers in action in the Pathfinder One-Shot: Head-Shot the Rot!

Starfinder Adventure Path #42: Whispers of the Eclipse (Horizons of the Vast 3 of 6)

NIGHT COURT
A neighboring charter reaches out for assistance when their leaders go missing. After tracking the team to a lush jungle valley inhabited by alien dinosaurs, the PCs discover the expedition was teleported to an ancient Azlanti lunar base. Can the PCs rescue their fellow explorers from the darkness that lurks there?

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume continues the Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path and includes:

• “Whispers of the Eclipse,” a Starfinder adventure for 5th-level characters by Kate Baker.
• A history of elven journeys to new planets by Jessica Catalan.
• A toolbox featuring equipment used by the early Azlanti Star Empire, a collection of creatures that could endanger unwary explorers, and a glimpse at a battered world of blue sands and a violent past, by Kate Baker, Jenny Jarzabski, Andrew Mullen, and Jim Seals.
• Statistics and deck plans for a surveying starship vital to the Azlanti Star Empire’s first forays into space by Dennis Muldoon.

Watch the Starfinder Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path Trailer!

Pathfinder Adventure Path #173: Doorway to the Red Star (Strength of Thousands 5 of 6)

SOAR ABOVE A PLANET OF ADVENTURE!
Armed with the knowledge that a long-vanished ally lies on the other side of a magical portal called the Doorway to the Red Star, the heroes must earn the trust of the portal’s guardians and then travel through it—to a planet of red sands and high adventure! Working to gain allies among scholarly brain creatures and suspicious ratfolk, the heroes infiltrate a massive airship and fight to free their ally from an insidious trap. The Strength of Thousands Adventure Path continues with “Doorway to the Red Star,” a complete adventure for 15th- to 17th-level characters.

Watch the Pathfinder Strength of Thousands Adventure Path Trailer!

Pathfinder Hero Point Deck

MORE THAN A REROLL
A well-timed Hero Point can turn the tide of battle, but with the Pathfinder Hero Point Deck, you can do more than just reroll a single check. Each one of these 52 cards lists a special effect that grants a boon, such as a sudden surge of speed or the ability to stave off death! Use the card as a traditional Hero Point or turn it in for the special effect!

Starfinder Flip-Mat: Lava World

WATCH YOUR STEP!
Whether your heroes are surveying a moon dotted with erupting volcanoes or fighting on unstable islands amid an active lava flow, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every volcanic rock outcropping and lava fountain. Fortunately, with Paizo’s latest Starfinder Flip-Mat, you don’t have to! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use science-fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. This double-sided map features a river of lava cascading down a cliff face on one side and a bubbling, lava-filled crater on the other.

Don’t waste time sketching when you could be playing. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Lava World, you’ll be ready the next time your players discover that the floor is lava!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Ghost Towns

WHERE DID EVERYONE GO?
A ruined hamlet where a sinkhole has swallowed the town square, or an abandoned village whose lone cathedral lies in ruins: such ghost towns forever beckon explorers to uncover their lost secrets. This Flip-Mat features two different ghost towns for your players to explore: a remote, abandoned village and a ruined town square.

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Ghost Towns measures 24” × 30” unfolded and 8” × 10” folded. The Flip-Mat’s coated surface can handle any dry-erase, wet-erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master’s arsenal!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Jungle Multi-Pack

IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!
What forgotten mysteries await in the jungle? Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Jungle Multi-Pack provides ready-to-use, captivating jungle scenes for the busy Game Master. As your heroes explore an overgrown ruin or hidden waterfall, or seek shelter in a village, these four different combat maps will have you covered! Don’t waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Jungle Multi-Pack, you’ll be ready next time your players head out into the jungle!

This set includes two flip mats, each measuring 24” X 30” unfolded and 8” X 10” folded. A Flip-Mat’s coated surface can handle any dry-erase, wet-erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal!

Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Crypts Expansion

AMONG THE DEAD!
What sinister undead dangers lurk deep within the twisting catacombs? The Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Crypts Expansion Set bolsters the Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Starter Set with 24 new, full-color 6 × 6-inch double-sided tiles, stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason Engle. Suitable for experienced Game Masters and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any GM’s arsenal. Wet-erase, dry-erase, and permanent markers erase from the tiles, and convenient packaging makes for easy storage. Why map out an entire underground crypt by hand when Flip-Tiles can do it for you? This set includes:

• Tomb halls
• Burial chambers
• Vast crypts
• Reliquaries
• Mysterious shrines
• Winding catacombs

In our digital-only line, train-heist themed Starfinder One-Shot #2: The Great Grav Train Robbery is available now!

Plus, new Pathfinder and Starfinder Society Scenarios and a Pathfinder Bounty release via Paizo.com on Friday, November 19

Pathfinder Bounty #16: Boom Town Betrayal

DESIGNED FOR LEVEL 1
A citizen is in search of heroes! His parents recently found themselves swindled by a nefarious noble from distant Taldor. Needing adventurers to come and assist, the man offers a hefty reward for any assistance that can be provided. Of course, not everything is as it appears on the mean streets of Absalom.

Written by: Logan Harper
Logan Harper (she/her) is a customer service representative at Paizo as well as a freelance contributor for Pathfinder and Starfinder who has written for projects including Book of the Dead and Horizon’s of the Vast. She is a film, commercial, and voiceover actress with two adorable pups and an Animal Crossing obsession. You can find her on twitter @itsloganharper where she mostly talks about upcoming projects, video games, comic books, and TV/movies.

Shop the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

Look, the plan couldn’t be simpler. Just rappel onto the roof of a speeding train filled with armed gangsters, somehow get inside, get the passcode that opens the cargo car off the chief of security without alerting their army of goons, locate and grab that artifact everyone’s after, and then call your getaway pilot for an extraction before the train reaches its destination. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Starfinder One-Shot: The Great Grav-Train Robbery, written by Andrew White, can be completed in a single 3- to 4-hour session and includes four 6th-level pregenerated antiheroes whose stories and motivations tie into the plot of the adventure. (Pregenerated characters for this adventure are also available as a free download.) If players create their own characters, they can use the adventure background to customize their characters to the adventure. This adventure can be easily used on virtual tabletops, run off digital devices, or printed out and played at a table.

Author: Andrew White
Andrew White (he/him) is the lead front-end developer on paizo.com and a Pathfinder and Starfinder freelance contributor who has written for projects including the Advanced Player's Guide, Bestiary 3, Secrets of Magic, Guns & Gears, Tech Revolution, Drift Crisis, and Book of the Dead. He also recently wrote a piece of web fiction about a bunch of goblins heroically burning down a village with assistance from a giant pig. He has a Twitter where he mostly just retweets his more eloquent colleagues at @plaguecontrol.

About the Pregenerated Characters

The boss recruited a ragtag band of miscreants for this job, all of them active players in Pan’s criminal underworld for some time. They consider themselves independent contractors and are already familiar with each other by reputation, if not by personal experience. While each has their own reasons for taking up a life of crime, they all share one thing in common: animosity toward the Ixo Syndicate, which means the opportunity to rob them is almost as tempting as the payday.

The Face: Aramesh Maageri

Species: spathinae
Theme: grifter
Class: envoy

The Muscle: Barat Oza

Species: ijtikri
Theme: mercenary
Class vanguard

The Hacker: Kevan Bokoloff

Species: uplifted bear
Theme: scholar
Class: technomancer

The Thief: LNA-464

Species: SRO
Theme: space pirate
Class: operative

Announcing the Liveplay Cast

Watch the live-play premiere on Wednesday, November 10 at 6 PM Pacific on @OfficialPaizo on Twitch!

Michelle Nguyen Bradley

Pathfinder Beginner Box: Troubles in Otari
Starfinder: Scoured Stars
Pathfinder One-Shot: Sundered Waves at Gen Con
Starfinder One-Shot: Band on the Run

Michelle Nguyen Bradley is a show host, voice actor, writer, and professional TTRPG player, and is passionate about fostering community and equality in the geek space. She's played characters like Hoa Sen on Critical Role’s "The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood," a butterfly alien on Paizo's "Starfinder: Scoured Stars" campaign, Betty on the official Rat Queen's RPG from Hyper RPG, a huntress wizard on "The Department of Mysteries" from Dragons and Things, and many more personas through her work on RPG shows. She's hosted geek content like Anime Expo Lite, "Manga Book Club" for Viz Media, and "Button Mash" on the Total Nerd Network. Michelle currently appears as a regular cast member for Paizo and Hunters Entertainment's weekly TTRPG shows on Twitch. Find her work at michellenguyenbradley.com and follow her on all socials at @iamchubbybunny.

Jim Rodehaver

Pathfinder Beginner Box: Troubles in Otari
Starfinder: Scoured Stars
Pathfinder One-Shot: Sundered Waves at Gen Con
Starfinder One-Shot: Band on the Run

Jim Rodehaver writes and plays TTRPGs, sometimes during live-streams on The Dragons and Things Network (twitch.tv/thedatnetwork). He’s written content for Starfinder and Dungeon Crate, as well as all the home-brewed adventures for his streamed games. Having GM'd over 200 live actual-play games of Pathfinder and the Starfinder Scoured Stars liveplay, Jim brings his experience to the Paizo community firsthand.

Diana Restrepo

Starfinder: Scoured Stars

Diana Restrepo is an actress, sword fighter, and TTRPG stream player. She has done many short films and web series along with her most recent award-winning series Carpool. She has been part of the DaT Network since the beginning of “Walking in Circles,” “Dragons and Stuff,” and “Dragons and Things.” Recently she was part of the new Pathfinder for Savage Worlds series, “Hollow’s Last Hope.” Currently, she joins the Norse Foundry channel on their show “Fenrir Rising.” When she’s not acting, she’s perfecting her sword fighting and motion capture skills. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @dianares3.

Jenny Jarzabski

Jenny Jarzabski is a Developer at Paizo. She’s also a prolific freelance writer creating adventures, rules, and setting content for Pathfinder, Starfinder, and more. Jenny is passionate about anime, games, mechs, and all things sci-fi. Growing up, she was the weird kid who made up stories and created her own imaginary world. She never grew out of it. When Jenny isn’t developing or writing adventures, she builds models, plays outdoors, and sometimes streams on Twitch. She appeared in Paizo’s “Pungeon Crawl: Worlds Beyond” and “Mind the Gap” as Z, an astrazoan operative and vidgame addict. Starting this week, she’s joining Thurston Hillman to play Modiphius Entertainment’s Dune TTRPG (hosted on twitch.tv/oncallgm) and plans to launch her own Starfinder live play in 2022. Rumors that Jenny is an alien life form are still unconfirmed. Find out for sure by following her on Twitter @spaceprincess_j and stopping by twitch.tv/spaceprincessj.

GM: Thurston Hillman

Thurston Hillman hails from the frozen hinterlands of Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he constantly churns out words and runs tabletop games. In addition to being Paizo's Digital Developer, he was active in the creation of the Starfinder Society Organized Play program and outlined its first two seasons (including the well-received Scoured Stars storyline). Thurston has written countless products for Paizo and other companies as a freelance writer. He is the Gamemaster for the popular "Warhams" TTRPG comedy show on Twitch. You can find him on social media @oncallgm and over at twitch.tv/oncallgm where he sometimes streams his RPG sessions and talks about game design and narrative in games. Also, he apologizes for any Organized Play scenarios he developed that killed your character (seriously, he means it!)

Download your copy then watch the live-play on twitch.tv/officialpaizo on November 10 at 6 PM Pacific!

Extra Life 2021, supporting the Children’s Hospital Network, runs on November 5th, and Paizo is supporting their fundraising efforts! This year, Paizo is a community partner, or super team, and we’re inviting our community to join us, whether as a team or as an individual. Check out our team page!

So far, we’ve joined with our Pathfinder and Starfinder Community Creators, including WafflesMapleSyrup, We Run the Stars, Nat20 Productions, and Pod Against the Machine for some live-plays, podcasts, and other streaming events, and we will be hosting as many as possible on Paizo’s Twitch channel. Look to social media for more schedule announcements.

Organized Play is also hosting a double points weekend for games running that weekend.

Extra Life Resources:

Download Extra Life Mobile App

Extra Life Discord Server

Extra Life Media Kit

How to set up Facebook Fundraiser on DonorDrive for Extra Life:

Use the Facebook Fundraiser feature to help increase their fundraising efforts!

• Those who use Facebook fundraisers are raising $300 more on average than those who are not.
• Pro Tip: Invite your Facebook friends to your fundraiser and post photos/updates on your fundraiser wall!
• Our Extra Life team is encouraging Extra Lifers in Discord and on social platforms. With your help, we can continue to reach a larger audience to use this wonderful feature to increase $$$ raised!
• Check out this how-to video for setting up a Facebook fundraiser that you can share with your gamers!

We invite anyone who wishes to join us to register on the Extra Life website, then join us on November 6th as we raise money for Children’s Network Hospitals!

Calling all Pathfinders, Starfinders, and everyone else—go to Team Paizo’s Super Team page for Extra Life!

EXTRA LIFE Game Day is Saturday Nov. 6!

Let’s play games so that children’s hospitals in the United States and Canada have the funding they need.

We’ve participated in Extra Life in the past, but this year we’re excited to have a Super Team to help rally the Paizo community under our banner. Join us as we play games to heal kids. We’ll have guests, laughs, and of course... games!

Since this is our first time throwing our d20s in the ring, we wanted to make a big splash. Please create an account and join up! With the full power of Team Paizo and our amazing community, we will make a difference for the kids and Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Buff up those dice, sharpen your pencils, and grab your Character Folio, because we’re about to start a marathon... FOR THE KIDS!

Create a Sub-Team
Start your own Paizo sub-team! All the funds your team raises count toward meeting our 2021 goal. Your team will raise funds for the hospital of your choice.

Join Team Paizo!
You don't need to create your own team if you don't want to. Just hit the button and join up with Team Paizo! Our funds will go to hospitals in North America that need them most.

Add Your Team to Our Super Team
Have a team already? Have trouble or questions? Please email community@paizo.com with your team name and captain. We will set you up!

Stay tuned for more participant details!

Go to paizo.me/ExtraLife to Join!

Free RPG Day works with top RPG publishers to create the can’t-miss RPG event of the year at hobby game stores around the world. Participating stores will have piles of exclusive new RPG adventures and other exciting new RPG-related items!

Don’t miss the new adventures we’ve made just for the event!

The Starfinder Four vs. the Hardlight Harlequin and Pathfinder: The Threshold of Knowledge

And don’t miss the Pathfinder: Threshold of Knowledge SoundPack from Syrinscape!

These print products will be available only in print at your FLGS on October 16. On November 19th, they will be for sale on paizo.com and downloadable as free PDFs. The SoundPack will be available for some time.

Find past Free RPG Day products here!

• Pathfinder
• Starfinder

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The Starfinder universe is vast and full of adventures just waiting to be discovered. Sometimes, captains of the grand ships that soar between the stars decide it’s time to move to a new vessel for the next phase of their journey. So it is with Jenny Jarzabski, who has been the stalwart captain of the Starfinder Society ship for the past year. She is moving fully on to the Starfinder team, where she will continue to produce excellent adventures in the form of standalone adventures and AP volumes.

But never fear; the Master of Stars is in good hands. Our new First Seeker, Jessica Catalan, has the creative vision and experience to chart a bold course for the Society’s future. Jessica has consistently proven herself as one of Paizo’s most talented, versatile, and dependable freelancers. It’s been a pleasure to work with her, and I’m delighted to bring her on to the Digital Adventures team.

Hello! My name is Jessica Catalan and I’m beyond thrilled to announce I’ll be taking over as Starfinder Society Developer!

Some of you may have heard of me, but for those who haven’t, let me introduce myself. I’m a Canadian, Métis freelance TTRPG author and a regular contributor to both the Pathfinder and Starfinder RPGs. I’ve been a freelance author for nearly three years, and in that time, I’ve contributed to over 30 Paizo products, including three AP volumes, five Starfinder Society Scenarios, and two Pathfinder Society Scenarios, one of which was this year’s Pathfinder Society Special: #3-99 Fate in the Future. I’ve also done freelance development work on the upcoming Starfinder Galactic Magic.

Some of my recent work includes Pathfinder’s Secrets of Magic, Guns & Gears, and Lost Omens Grand Bazaar, and Starfinder’s Galaxy Exploration Manual, Tech Revolution, and the Starfinder #39: The Gilded Cage. Some of my upcoming releases include Pathfinder’s Book of the Dead, Lost Omens Knights of Lastwall, Pathfinder #176: Lost Mammoth Valley, and Pathfinder #186: Ghost King’s Rage, and Starfinder’s Galactic Magic and Drift Crisis.

Before becoming a freelance author, I managed d20diaries, a personal blog discussing my family’s experiences in d20 gaming. While my blog has long since taken a backseat to freelancing, it still gets a periodic update when time allows. When I’m not playing or writing for my favorite TTRPGs, I’m spending time with my kids. I’m a sucker for a good book, board game, video game, or TCG.

Jenny has made a huge contribution to Starfinder and has been a shining light as leader of the Starfinder Society. She’s left me an impressive legacy to measure up to and, while I’m still settling into my new role, I look forward to bringing my best to the Society. I hope you’ll join me.

Jessica Catalan
Starfinder Society Developer

Stay tuned for details on what’s coming down the pike for October, including an adventure written by Jessica herself!

Linda Zayas-Palmer
Development Manager for Digital Adventures

This month’s releases are numerous and innovative! You’ll find over 14 new Pathfinder and Starfinder products, like rulebooks, setting books, adventures, pawns, minis, maps, and more, at the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

Pathfinder Guns & Gears

Gear Up and Throw Down!
When sword and spell aren’t enough to win the day, it’s time to power up your game with clockwork gears, lightning coils, and black powder! Unravel the secrets of clockworks with the new inventor class or blow away your opposition as a firearm-wielding gunslinger. In addition to new classes, this book holds a plethora of archetypes, backgrounds, vehicles, siege weapons, gadgets, and the new automaton ancestry, all ready to expand your game with options for battlefields large and small. Revolutionize your game with Pathfinder Guns & Gears!

Pathfinder Guns & Gears Special Edition

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Grand Bazaar

But Wait, There’s More!
A turn of the corner on a city street reveals a marketplace where almost anything can be found! Peruse the stalls of the Grand Bazaar as your characters examine both the mundane and the marvelous, seeking the perfect gear for their next harrowing adventure. Give an unfamiliar weapon a swing, try on a fashionista’s gown or a suit of armor, make friends with a chatty familiar or companion animal, pick up an assistive item that makes exploration accessible for every adventurer, settle down for a gourmet meal, or simply befriend the cast of vibrant characters that maintain the collection of shops presented in Pathfinder Lost Omens Grand Bazaar!

Starfinder Adventure: The Liberation of Locus-1

THE EDGE OF SPACE
Scientists, mystics, and corporate interests came together to found Locus-1, a research station and outpost far from the Pact Worlds. Now Sidakana, a ruthless vesk space pirate, has made the Locus system her personal playground, and the innocent people of Locus-1 have turned to the nearest military power—the Azlanti Star Empire—for help. When the cure proves worse than the disease, it’s up to a small group of bold newcomers to save the station and all its inhabitants from death or enslavement!

Designed to give player characters a home base in a remote region filled with adventure, “The Liberation of Locus-1” is the perfect next step for players and GMs who’ve completed Starfinder Adventure: Junker’s Delight. It includes:

• “The Liberation of Locus-1,” a complete adventure for 4th-level characters, leading them to 7th-level.
• All the details on Locus-1, a remote space station orbiting the Locus—a strange cosmic anomaly— as well as other planets in the Locus system, all with mysteries of their own.
• An Adventure Toolbox with new experimental weapons and equipment fueled by the Locus; new playable species who serve in the Azlanti Star Empire’s Alien Cohort; and the predatory mindshroud rays—horrifying symbiotes from the beyond.

Pathfinder Adventure: Night of the Gray Death

Don’t Lose Your Head!
Galt’s executioners, the masked Gray Gardeners, behead the guilty and innocent alike with their magical guillotines. Few have the courage to stand against them—so powerful heroes must infiltrate the Gray Gardeners and put an end to their reign of terror! Pathfinder Adventure: Night of the Gray Death is a deluxe Gothic horror adventure for 16th-level characters, written by Ron Lundeen. It exposes the secrets of the Gray Gardeners with new monsters, new magic items, and new challenges to test the mightiest heroes. Mysteries and intrigue abound during the Night of the Gray Death!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Night of the Gray Death

Bring horror and conspiracy to life on your tabletop with this double-sided full-color Flip-Mat featuring key encounter locations from the Pathfinder Second Edition adventure Night of the Gray Death on either side! One side depicts a crumbled vault, and the other side shows a ballroom suitable for an eerie masquerade, with alcoves and nooks for scheming or skullduggery! Don't waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Night of the Gray Death, adventure and intrigue await!

Starfinder Adventure Path #41: Serpents in the Cradle (Horizons of the Vast 2 of 6)

GROWING PAINS
Analyzing information found in the ruins of a laboratory in their charter leads the heroes deep underground to search for an ancient Cycle monastery. When they return to the surface, they find that a rogue group of settlers have established a town at the edge of the administrators’ charter. As the heroes learn more about these interlopers, things begin to go subtly wrong in their own settlement. Are the newcomers behind this sabotage? Will the heroes solve this problem through diplomacy or force?

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume continues the Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path and includes:

• “Serpents in the Cradle,” a Starfinder adventure for 3rd-level characters, by Hilary Moon Murphy.
• A detailed look at the shady organization known as the Aspis Consortium, by John Compton.
• A toolbox featuring relics of an ancient philosophy, a collection of creatures that could threaten a burgeoning charter, and a glimpse at a world with an ocean of liquid mercury, by Jenny Jarzabski, Andrew Mullen, Hilary Moon Murphy, Jess Nevins, Mikhail Rekun, and Jim Seals.
• Statistics and deck plans for a premier exploration and reconnaissance vessel designed especially for the Aspis Consortium, by Kendra Leigh Speedling.

Pathfinder Adventure Path: Hurricane's Howl (Strength of Thousands 3 of 6)

The Students Become the Teachers
Now graduates of the Magaambya academy of magic, the heroes join the ranks of its teachers! Sent with their first class to the edge of the Mwangi Expanse, the heroes unearth ancient ruins and strive to keep their expedition out of danger. When a student vanishes, the heroes uncover a nefarious plot to subjugate the rain-lashed Sodden Lands. They must liberate a town, stop an evil cult, and show their students how to stand as wardens of the world. The Strength of Thousands Adventure Path continues with “Hurricane’s Howl,” a complete adventure for 8th- to 11th-level characters.

Pathfinder Adventure Path #172: Secrets of the Temple-City (Strength of Thousands 4 of 6)

From the Necropolis to the Lost City
As trusted teachers at the Magaambya academy of magic, the heroes join a diplomatic delegation to an ancient city ruled by an undead god-king. There, the heroes unearth the secret location of a hidden city that needs the Magaambya’s knowledge and protection—but the god-king’s armies are on the march. If the heroes can’t thwart the army, it will plunder the lost city’s treasures and unleash an ancient evil! The Strength of Thousands Adventure Path continues with “Secrets of the Temple-City,” a complete adventure for 12th- to 14th-level characters.

Starfinder Tech Revolution Pawn Collection

The characters, vehicles, and mechs of the Starfinder Tech Revolution come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 pawns, designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG! The Starfinder Tech Revolution Pawn Collection presents beautiful full-color images of characters, vehicles, and mechs, perfect for representing your next character or deadly foe! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each double-sided pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base from the Starfinder Pawns Base Assortment, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures. The Starfinder Tech Revolution Pawn Collection is the best way to ensure you’ve got the perfect characters, vehicles, and mechs to bring your Starfinder campaign to life!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Thieves' Guild

Whether your players are plumbing the depths of a treasure vault or escaping through a sewer, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing sites for the complex maze of a thieves’ guild. Fortunately, with Paizo’s latest Pathfinder Flip-Mat, you don't have to! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set-pieces for the busy Game Master. Whether it's used for a full-on invasion of a thieves' guild's headquarters or tracking down a burglar, this double-sided map is the perfect place for larcenous adventure! Don't waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Thieves' Guild, you'll be ready next time your players dare to oppose the city's criminals!

Starfinder Flip-Mat: Space Colony

Whether the heroes are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a lost colony’s inhabitants or looking to put down their own roots on some distant planet, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every prefab building and power generator. Fortunately, with Paizo’s latest Starfinder Flip-Mat, you don’t have to! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use science-fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. This double-sided map features two newly established colonial settlements. Don’t waste time sketching when you could be playing. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Space Colony, you’ll be ready the next time your players want to settle a new world!

Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Fortress Walls & Towers Expansion

A fortress is only as strong as its walls and towers, and it's here that many battles for a castle's control are won or lost. Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Fortress Walls & Towers Expansion provides beautifully illustrated 6" by 6" map tiles that can be used to expand your fortress with a variety of defensive walls, stairways, watchtowers, and more. Inside, you'll find 24 richly crafted, double-sided map tiles. This expansion set, along with Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Fortress Starter Set, allows you to create fortress maps quickly! So stop your sketching and start your flipping today.

Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Alien Planet Ruins Expansion

Don't ruin your next trip off world! Next time your players stumble upon some timeworn ruins on an unexplored planet, they won't have to wait while you draw every crumbling wall and collapsed structure. Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Alien Planet Ruins Expansion provides beautifully illustrated 6" × 6" map tiles that can be used to create the ruined remains of ancient alien civilizations, whether archaic and magical or more technologically advanced! Inside, you'll find 24 richly crafted, double-sided map tiles. This expansion set, along with Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Alien Planet Starter Set, allows you to create even more extraterrestrial environments for endless planetary encounters! So stop your sketching and start your flipping today!

Pathfinder Battles—Bestiary Unleashed

Containing some of the most iconic monsters in Pathfinder, Bestiary Unleashed brings your game to life as you collect and encounter 47 new foes. Pathfinder Battles—Bestiary Unleashed: Treerazer is the latest premium release in the Pathfinder Battles series of prepainted plastic miniatures from WizKids and Paizo Inc. With its Gargantuan size, Treerazer stands over 7 inches tall with a wingspan to match.

Treerazer premium figure features detailed painting at an eye-catching size. Add Treerazer to your RPG game to give your players a Gargantuan challenge, or use the premium figure as an intimidating display for your home or retail location.

Look for even more digital-only products, like Bounties, One-Shots, and Society Scenarios, releasing on Wednesday, October 27!

Shop the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

Free RPG Day is right around the corner, and the Syrinscape team couldn’t be more excited. You probably already know that Paizo is offering up an amazing Pathfinder adventure called Threshold of Knowledge. But what you might not know is that Syrinscape will be along for the ride! As you and your fellow students work to figure out the mystery of your missing teacher, you’ll have the magic of Syrinscape to help set the scene.

We absolutely love the Magaambya setting and the Strength of Thousands Adventure Path. We’re working hard right now creating SoundPacks for each book in the series. In fact, Kindled Magic is out already, and the next one is on the way. Of course, we jumped at the opportunity to work on an extra SoundPack for this colorful magical institution. Since this is an adventure for Free RPG Day, it only made sense to offer up our immersive sounds and music for free as well. To take advantage of this special offer, all you have to do is log in or create a free account. Then, on Free RPG Day (October 16th), head to our Voucher page and enter the code: PaizoFreeRPGDay2021. Once you do, our Pathfinder: Threshold of Knowledge SoundPack will appear in your library for free!

If you’ve never used Syrinscape to add rich, immersive ambiences and music to your Pathfinder games, now is a great time to give it a try. Our app has been built with the GM in mind. Take your party from the depths of a dank sewer to a refreshing glade with a gentle breeze at the touch of a button. If you prefer to play your games remotely with a VTT, try the Syrinscape Online Player. You can add amazing sound and music to your online games regardless of the VTT or voice chat app you’re using. To learn more about the Online Player, check out our website. While you’re there, don’t forget to take a look at the full library of our Pathfinder and Starfinder SoundSets and SoundPacks.

Prepare for Free RPG Day: October 16, 2021

With the close of the Starfinder evolutionist playtest, we want to thank everyone who participated whether by filling out a survey or sharing thoughts on our forum or another venue.

We’re working on processing your input and (as appropriate for a class all about the power of change) making adjustments to help the evolutionist shine. Of note, we’re looking at the class complexity and its effectiveness in and out of combat, as well as some quality-of-life improvements (such as changing the name of its pool of points).

On top of that we’ll be very excited to share with you the product in which this new class will appear, so keep an eye out! For now, enjoy another glance at our iconic, illustrated by Kent Hamilton!

Thanks so much for your valuable feedback during this playtest and good luck on your adventures among the stars.

—The Starfinder Team

Roleplaying Game fans get ready!

Free RPG Day works with top RPG publishers to create the can’t-miss RPG event of the year at hobby game stores around the world. Participating stores will have piles of exclusive new RPG adventures and other exciting new RPG related items!

As the world begins the slow crawl out of COVID and back to something resembling normalcy, every store will probably be handling events differently. While some locations may have in-store gaming, others may not yet be there. Please check with your local retailer about how they may be featuring or distributing the Free RPG Day items.

Here are the new adventures we’ve made just for the event. They’re perfect for giving new players a taste Pathfinder and Starfinder!

The Starfinder Four vs. the Hardlight Harlequin

POWER UP!

Everyone across the galaxy enjoys the occasional diversion in a holographic amusement chamber, whether it’s relaxing on a sandy beach or taking part in an action-packed adventure on a war-torn battlefield from the safety of home. But what happens when the digital settings and inhabitants of these simulations come to life and threaten a group of innocent fun seekers?

Thanks to some inadvertently malicious code created by a proud game designer, such a calamitous event has occurred on a small moon hosting an entertainment expo! The building is slowly but surely being digitized while the game designer’s mind has been taken over by a comic-book villain. Only a group of newly recruited Starfinders can save the day!

Pathfinder: The Threshold of Knowledge

On the Brink of Greatness!

In The Threshold of Knowledge, players take on the role of one of five students from the prestigious Magaambya, the oldest school of magic in the Inner Sea region. When a teacher goes missing, it's up to these new heroes to step up and solve a wicked mystery that threatens the existence of the Magaambya itself!

Threshold of Knowledge is a short adventure for 1st-level characters that takes the heroes into the Magaambya and the nearby city of Nantambu. In addition, the five pregenerated characters provide a quick way to jump into the adventure right away in this exciting offering for Free RPG Day! Grab some dice and some friends and play the role of new heroes in training!

These products will only be available in print at your FLGS on October 16. Later, they will be for sale on paizo.com and downloadable and as free PDFs. Find past Free RPG Day products here!

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Hiya, Starfinders! I have something special for you this month. A while back, I was discussing real-world current events that caused shipping delays with some friends, and someone jokingly commented that it would make a great Starfinder Society scenario. I couldn’t get the thought out of my head, and as I let the idea percolate, it kept getting weirder and weirder. How weird is it? Well, let’s just say the Society might solve a shipping crisis in more than one way.

This month, a group of Starfinders traveling in deep space encounter a distress beacon from a stalled cargo freighter. Once they investigate, they learn that the ship belongs to Multifold Industries, and that there’s something more to this problem than meets the eye. The mission is simple in theory: board the ship, assess it for damage, make any onsite repairs possible, and contact Multifold. Not a bad way to earn some credits, right? Ah, if only things were ever that easy…

Starfinder Society #4-08: Precious Cargo is an adventure for levels 1–4. The amazing Diego Valdez was my partner in crime for this one. We had a blast crafting this idea together, and he did an excellent job writing it—so check it out!

Jenny Jarzabski
Starfinder Society Developer

Illustration by Nicolas Espinoza

Hello again, Pathfinders! We’ve got two exciting scenarios for you in September, one of which continues the ongoing story of the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries, and one of which is a standalone adventure taking place in the Mwangi Expanse!

Illustration by Samuel Jr

First, a group of Pathfinder agents travel to Almas, the capital of the free nation of Andoran, to present a legal defense of the Society’s claim to the Cathedral of Aroden. Losing one of their most significant lodges in Andoran would be a devastating blow to the Society, but when these agents arrive, they find that legal troubles are the least of their worries. A troubled ghost stalks the nearby streets and seems to be accusing the Pathfinder Society of heinous deeds! Can the agents learn the truth behind the ghost’s message and prevent the Society’s precarious position in Almas from crumbling?

Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-02: The East Hill Haunting is the first scenario in a two-part Year of Shattered Sanctuaries metaplot arc related to strange events befalling the Pathfinder Society’s lodge in Almas, Andoran. It is an adventure for levels 1–4, written by Nicole Heits.

Next up, we have an adventure that follows another group of Pathfinders to Anthusis, the capital of Vidrian. The Pathfinder Society has been working to return looted relics to communities in this recently liberated nation in the Mwangi Expanse. Recently, the Society seized an opportunistic relic hunter’s ship and discovered a magic bell that appeared to contain protective magic to ward against ravenous fey. Venture-Captain Finze Bellaugh has sent out an urgent call for Pathfinder agents to discover where the bell came from and return it to its rightful owners as quickly as possible. To learn the bell’s true purpose and history, the Pathfinder agents must journey deep into the Laughing Jungle—where hopefully, they’ll meet more friends than foes!

Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-03: Echoes of Desperation is a standalone adventure for levels 3–6, written by Mike Kimmel and Nate Wright.

Explore! Report! Cooperate! And would somebody please get me some sovereign glue to hold these sanctuaries together!

Mike Kimmel
Pathfinder Society Developer

Deepen your Pathfinder and Starfinder experiences with the new Starfinder Tech Revolution hardcover rulebook, Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Battle Cards, and Pathfinder Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Pawn Collection accessories at the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

Starfinder Tech Revolution

REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR GAME
Put the science back in science-fantasy with Starfinder Tech Revolution! This book expands on Starfinder’s cutting-edge technologies—which are often so sophisticated that they rival magic itself—providing your characters the tools to thrive in a futuristic setting. Whether you’re racing the streets in a custom vehicle, planning your next big digital heist, or arming your mech to fight dragons, Tech Revolution has what you need, including:

• The new nanocyte character class, whose body hosts an of robotic nanites that empower and defend you in battle!
• The new mech system: design your own titanic battle robots with customizable parts and armaments, then hop into the cockpit and square off against epic threats!
• New rules to enhance gameplay with customizable vehicles, demolitions, and dynamic hacking.
• New player character options, from technology-themed rules for every character class to technological relics, weapons, armor, augmentations, and more.
• A detailed dive into the Starfinder setting’s technological lore, from biotech and computers to media and music.

Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Battle Cards

Add legions of monstrous foes to your collection with this massive set of reference cards, featuring every creature from Pathfinder Bestiary 3—over 300 monsters! Each 4 x 6 card is printed on sturdy cardstock and features a beautiful, full color image of a Bestiary 3 monster on one side, while the other side provides that monster's statistics for quick and easy reference. With each encounter, show the players what their characters are facing while keeping the monster's abilities at the ready, and watch your games come alive!

Pathfinder Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Pawn Collection

Step into the arena and pit your players against ruthless rivals from the Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure Path! The Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Pawn Collection features more than 170 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG. Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn presents a beautiful full-color image of a monster or NPC from the Fists of the Ruby Phoenix campaign, including malevolent martial artists, charming challengers, and brutal beasts to meet, beat, and defeat in the grand arena!

Shop the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

Join Paizo Publisher and Chief Creative Officer Erik Mona for a peek at upcoming Paizo releases!

highlights include:

Pathfinder Rulebooks:
Guns & Gears, Book of the Dead, and now — Dark Archive!

Pathfinder Lost Omens:
The Grand Bazaar, Pathfinder Lost Omens: Absalom, City of Lost Omens Monsters of Myth, Knights of Lastwall, and now—Beadle & Grimm Pathfinder Lost Omens: Absalom, City of Lost Omens Special Edition!

Pathfinder Adventure Paths:
Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults Hardcover, Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults Special Edition Hardcover, Kingmaker Anniversary Edition, Quest for the Frozen Flame, Outlaws of Alkenstar, and now— Blood Lords Adventure Path!

Pathfinder Adventures:
Night of the Gray Death

Starfinder Rulebooks:
Tech Revolution, Galactic Magic, and now—Drift Crisis!

Starfinder Adventures:
The Liberation of Locus-1

New:
Pathfinder & Starfinder Infinite Licensing Program—Check out this blog more details!

Enjoy over 100 vivid art images. Don’t miss our staff seminars on Twitch for even more reveals. Happy Gen Con!

Today at Gen Con, we announced a new way for members of the Pathfinder and Starfinder communities to create content to expand the brands and make a lasting mark on the games we all love: Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite.

Beginning on October 13, 2021, content creators will be able to sell adventures, fiction, setting supplements, rules expansions, maps, art packs, and more using Paizo’s intellectual property. That means that you can, for the first time, write an RPG supplement set in the official Pathfinder or Starfinder settings that references our locations, organizations, characters, deities and more, and sell it to your fellow players and GMs.

Want to tell the story of Kyra and Merisiel’s adventures on what they’d hoped would be a restful honeymoon? Now you can!

What about that side quest adventure you’ve always wanted to share to support your favorite Pathfinder Adventure Path? Now’s the time!

How about that custom character class or alien species you made for your Starfinder campaign that you just know others are going to love? Yep, that too.

Our partners at OneBookShelf (DriveThruRPG, DriveThruCards, Astral Tabletop) will be hosting and managing the program, bringing years of experience running similar community content marketplaces for other tabletop properties to bear.

Check out the content creation guidelines, frequently asked questions, and the starter layout templates and art assets available to community creators at pathfinderinfinite.com and starfinderinfinite.com.

We’ll have more information to share in the coming weeks, but the real excitement won’t start until all of you can share your Pathfinder and Starfinder creations with the world in just under a month. I’m looking forward to seeing what incredible things you come up with!

Mark Moreland
Director of Brand Strategy

Never miss a product release again with subscriptions that suit your playstyle. From rulebooks, world guides, adventures and accessories to the latest miniatures, customize your subscription and unlock greater rewards, like discounts and free Organized Play content.

Today, we’re taking a closer look at Paizo Subscriptions, what you can subscribe to right now, and what’s coming next. We’ve already looked at the Pathfinder Rulebook and Special Edition Rulebook Ongoing Subscriptions, Starfinder Rulebook Ongoing Subscription and Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscription.

You can start your Starfinder Adventure Path Ongoing Subscription today with Starfinder Adventure Path #39: The Gilded Cage (Fly Free or Die 6 of 6)and Starfinder Adventure Path #40: Planetfall (Horizons of the Vast 1 of 6), which are both available now, or Starfinder Adventure Path #41: Serpents in the Cradle (Horizons of the Vast 2 of 6) and Starfinder Adventure Path #42: Whispers of the Eclipse (Horizons of the Vast 3 of 6) both coming in October.

Then, look forward to acquiring your compete collection of the Starfinder Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path with your ongoing subscription. Don’t forget to download the free Player’s Guide, available on the landing page!

In the Starfinder Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path, as part of a massive effort to explore and develop an uninhabited planet full of valuable resources, the heroes are placed in control of a settlement and must deal with challenges from both within and without. Far from home, can the heroes establish a thriving community and survive the uncharted system’s terrible secrets and mysteries?

But what comes after that, you ask? To find out, be sure to watch Erik Mona’s Gen Con Online Keynote next Thursday, September 16 at 3 p.m. Eastern on twitch.tv/officialpaizo. Follow up with the Telling Tales: Paizo Adventure Paths seminar on Saturday at 18th, also at 3.

Become a Subscriber Today!

When you become an ongoing subscriber to one of Paizo’s many product lines, you'll be sure to get the latest and greatest Pathfinder and Starfinder products shipped to you directly from the Paizo warehouse upon release. There’s a variety of subscriptions to choose from, with benefits ranging from free PDF copies, discounts, and more. As a bonus, when you sign up for any four or more qualifying physical Pathfinder or Starfinder subscriptions, you'll qualify to gain access to the Paizo Advantage, which grants you a 15% discount on most products available at paizo.com, and your choice of complimentary Pathfinder or Starfinder Society Scenarios. Sign up for six or more qualifying subscriptions, and you'll get both!

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The earth shook. To Iphra, the rumbling sounded like a passing heavy transport. She realized she wouldn’t maintain her footing. Iphra fired her jump jets. Being in the air stabilized her enough to avoid a nasty fall from the ridgetop she had been standing on.

The tremor passed.

“Sergeant Udrinnel, report. End.” It was Lieutenant Markalane from the shuttle a couple miles away, her voice calm but insistent.

“I’m fine. That was a good one, eh, lieutenant? End,” said Iphra.

“Affirmative, sergeant. Our engineer clocked it at a solid six on the imperial scale. Deploy your final booster and return to the shuttle. Aftershocks are anticipated. End.”

“Acknowledged. End,” said Iphra.

Her mind wandered. She ignored Markalane checking in with other scouts. Iphra thought of the engineer, Winya, a gosclaw. Long, supple, feline—a real pro. Winya’s briefing had warned of quakes on Grodrum, but this one was the first the survey team had experienced.

Iphra looked for the safest way to descend the ridge, glancing at the map on her visor’s head-up display. Her final deployment marker lay half a mile away in a valley to the east. The landscape was barren, but it wasn’t boring. Minerals and crystals on Grodrum—the reason the survey team came here—gave the planet a multihued aspect that could be breathtaking.

Equally stunning was the Locus, an eerie, starlike body that illuminated this system. The briefing had said it was magical, not a “real” star, whatever that meant. Iphra turned to face it. The Locus hung low in the sky, shedding its white light through the thin atmosphere. Grodrum’s long day was dwindling.

Iphra began her descent, using her jump jets to avoid treacherous gaps. About halfway down, the ground shuddered again. A crashing sound to Iphra’s right sent her heart into her throat and activated her instincts. She fired her jump jets and leapt. Part of the ridge slid away under her, and she descended onto moving rock. Iphra fired her jump jets again.

“Come on! Come on! Come on!”

The second leap threw her clear of the slide zone. Iphra took cover on the downhill side of a solid-looking outcropping and crouched, leaning against the rock. She closed her eyes and caught her breath. Then, as she opened her eyes again, she spotted it: a jagged, beautiful pinnacle of white crystal jutted from the valley below. It hadn’t been there before. Iphra looked at her deployment marker and saw that the crystal wasn’t too far from it. A little north.

“Sergeant Udrinnel?! Please respond! End!”

Iphra realized she must have missed a communication from the lieutenant.

“Udrinnel here. Uh, I’m good. A little landslide, but we’re good. Uh… and lieutenant, a mass of crystal erupted from the planet’s surface near my deployment marker. Sending you a visual. Any change in my orders? End.”

“Stand by. But keep safe, sergeant. End.”

Iphra descended toward the deployment marker as she waited. When she reached level ground, she turned and looked back up the ridge, standing in the shadow of the hills. The landslide had revealed a fissure in the rock, or the quake had cracked the slope.

“Sergeant, proceed as planned. I’ve been advised the booster you’re deploying will still allow us a detailed scan of that crystal from our location. The concern is the area near the crystal might be unstable. Get it done and return to the shuttle. Let’s call it a day. End.”

“Aye, lieutenant. End,” said Iphra.

Disappointment rose. It would’ve been nice to see that crystal up close. To touch it. That sort of thing makes being a scout one of the best jobs in the imperial military. But orders were orders. Besides, Iphra supposed she might have another chance, after scans verified the area’s stability and geological content. She turned, stood, and gazed. The crystal’s tip glistened in the waning light of the Locus.

“Contact, contact!” The voice of Sergeant Enosh, another scout, erupted over the comm. Assault rifle bursts were audible in the background.

Iphra recalled the mission brief. Orbital probes had shown Grodrum bore only simple surface life. Nothing should be here to shoot at. Still, Iphra unslung her rifle as Lieutenant Markalane’s voice broke in over the comm again.

Iphra heard only the start of that exchange. In her peripheral vision, something massive, amorphous, and multilimbed emerged from the shadow on the rocky slope to her left. It struck Iphra three times before she could react. She fell. The impact knocked the wind out of her. Pain along her flank suggested broken ribs. Environmental force fields kicked on, patching cracks in the armor on her left arm and side.

The creature loomed over her, blocking the sky. It slid its malleable arms around her. Numerous orbs that glowed with white light focused on her, burning with malevolence. Were they eyes? Was this thing sapient?

The thoughts came unbidden. Iphra raised her rifle, levering it into automatic mode by muscle memory more than intent. She pressed the trigger. Horrid shrieking drowned out the rifle’s reports.

The monster recoiled. Unhindered even if it was injured, it lifted Iphra with it and squeezed. Sergeant Iphra Udrinnel’s vision went white with searing pain, then collapsed to black.

---

“Look alive, squad! The L.T. will be here shortly.”

Markalane heard the baritone bark as she rounded the corner into the palace’s parade yard. She folded her hands behind her. Pausing, she took in the troopers before her. The dominus, her lord, had assigned her soldiers, the expendable kind, for the next stage of her assignment.

She frowned.

In the yard, tromlins formed two neat lines. Bloodseekers, theropadal bipeds, stood alongside quadrupedal ceratopsid hardshells. These dinosaur-like people formed the rank and file of the dominus’s Alien Cohort. A barrel-shaped figure in light military plate, the rank of sergeant marked on his gorget, paced before them. The sergeant’s head, pale-furred and ursine, looked too small in the armor.

Illustration by Yun Huai Huang from Starfinder Adventure: The Liberation of Locus-1.

Markalane recognized this gathol—Sergeant Narg. Underneath the armor, she knew, Narg’s body was massive, covered in the same pale fur and several stonelike plates. His people were among the few in the Cohort tough enough and willing to keep fractious tromlins in line.

Turning to continue inspecting the squad, Narg spotted Markalane. He paused. Then, in the same sharp baritone, he said, “Officer on the field! Attention!”

Every soldier snapped into a formal stance. Markalane strode around the squad in silence, glaring at each soldier in turn. None moved. None dared return her gaze.

“We’ve been assigned a special mission,” she finally said. “We’re taking a mining team to a new system to recover a unique mineral. You are to keep order during this operation. Good Azlanti scouts died to make this mission possible, troopers. Honor them, me, and yourselves by performing your duties well. I expect no less.”

“Yes, lieutenant!” replied every tromlin in unison.

“Sergeant Narg.”

“Aye, Lieutenant Markalane?”

“The selected troopers must be ready to fly by oh seven hundred. Mining droids, security equipment, and remaining gear must be secured aboard the shuttle and ready for inspection then as well. That’s on you, this squad, and the other field sergeants. Got it?”

“Understood, lieutenant.”

“Good. Get it done.”

About The Author

Chris S. Sims is an RPG industry veteran. Starting in 2001, he has worked with or for numerous companies from Paizo and Wizards to Monte Cook Games and Undead Labs. This piece is his first flash fiction. Chris is American but currently lives in Austria with his wife, two daughters, and two cats. He recently made an RPG called Draculola with those daughters. When he isn't doing freelance writing or editing, Chris avoids sleep by cooking, meditating, playing games, playing with his kids, or something else entertaining. You can find out more about Chris and how to contact him at chrisssims.com.

About Tales From The Drift

The Tales from the Drift series of web-based flash fiction provides an exciting glimpse into the setting of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game. Written by members of the Starfinder development team and some of the most celebrated authors in tie-in gaming fiction, the Tales from the Drift series promises to explore the worlds, alien cultures, deities, history, and organizations of the Starfinder setting with engaging stories to inspire Game Masters and players alike.

There are just a few weeks left in the open playtest period for Starfinder’s upcoming evolutionist class. If you haven't already downloaded the free playtest PDF and tried out the new class, you still have time! The playtest ends September 24th, and we need your feedback to make this class the best it can be.

We’re especially excited to share with you a concept sketch of the evolutionist iconic, by our own Kent Hamilton! Look for more information about this new character in the future.

Illustration by Kent Hamilton

If you haven’t yet, test out an evolutionist build in a home game or in Starfinder Organized Play, then share your thoughts via our survey or playtest forum.

We're already processing the feedback you've sent us so far and are discussing the ways we might improve the evolutionist class. Also, if you missed our update elsewhere, please note that the evolutionist loses all EP at the end of combat!

Thank you so much for your respectful and productive survey responses and forum conversations—these are invaluable sources of feedback, and we've been keeping a close eye on them. We’re especially interested in any thoughts you have about the complexity of the class.

For those who have already participated in the playtest, we thank you, and to those who plan to still send us feedback: we eagerly await your thoughts!

—The Starfinder Team

In every adventure, the heroes face adversity to win the day. Likewise, these thrilling new tools and tales have overcome obstacles to arrive at the Paizo Store and your favorite local game store today!

Pathfinder Secrets of Magic

Seize the Secrets!
Discover the untold potential of magic! Create a unique and powerful spellcaster using the new magus and summoner classes. Choose from over 200 new spells with options for all spellcasters, excavate new magic items, and dive into lore that explores the mysteries of magic in detail. Elementalism, geomancy, shadow magic, rune magic, and pervasive magic that alters the entire game world—it’s all here in Pathfinder Secrets of Magic!

Pathfinder Secrets of Magic Special Edition Hardcover

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Pathfinder Secrets of Magic Pocket Edition

The pocket edition presents the same contents in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

Pathfinder Adventure Path #170: Spoken on the Song Wind (Strength of Thousands 2 of 6)

Trouble in the Academy
The students have proved their mettle to their instructors at the Magaambya, who now trust them to handle academy business in the surrounding metropolis of Nantambu, the Song-Wind City. Nantambu now faces more than its usual dangers, including a vengeful alchemist, stealthy infiltrators, and a crime boss bent on expanding her influence. Can the students discover the secrets of a mysterious artifact, protect their fellow classmates, and still graduate? The Strength of Thousands Adventure Path continues with “Spoken on the Song Wind,” a complete adventure for 4th- to 7th-level characters.

Pathfinder Bounty #13: The Blackwood Abundance

A Pathfinder Bounty designed for 1st level.
A recent rescue mission led to the discovery of many ruined sites from an ancient civilization. Some of the ruins contain an abundance of strange mushrooms, and a curious explorer asks the PCs to help collect and identify them. This adventure ties in to events in Pathfinder Society Intro #2: United in Purpose, though it doesn’t assume the PCs are members of the Pathfinder Society.

Pathfinder Society Intro #1: The Second Confirmation

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-2.
A Pathfinder Society initiate goes missing on their Confirmation mission to become a fully-fledged field agent. With no update on the initiate’s whereabouts, the Society assembles a group of initiates into a rare group Confirmation in order to spearhead a rescue. It’s up to a new generation of heroes to save one of their own, and potentially make a few big discoveries along the way!

Pathfinder Society Intro #2: United in Purpose

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-2.
When a group of Pathfinder Society initiates recently completed their Confirmation and rescued a fellow Pathfinder, they also uncovered a host of ruins belonging to an ancient civilization. Now, the Society’s major factions have sent their foremost experts and leaders to begin coordinating a thorough investigation of the ruins. Strong and savvy field agents are needed to begin uncovering the secrets hidden within these ruins!

Pathfinder Society #3-01: Intro: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-4.
A recently inducted Pathfinder field agent makes a startling discovery as pleas for assistance flood the Society’s Grand Lodge from across the Inner Sea region. A group of Pathfinders come to assist in assessing the ongoing damage to the Society when a staunch ally requests their assistance. Stepping into a problem close to home, the agents quickly uncover a larger plot set to tear the Society apart, and it’s up to them to raise the alarm!

Pathfinder Society Intro: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries is the introduction to the ongoing story of the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It’s also the first scenario in a four-part arc detailing the events taking place in and around the Society's headquarters at the Grand Lodge in Absalom, the City of Lost Omens. Other arcs explore other locations across the Inner Sea region. While the arcs can be played in any order, it’s recommended that players experience the scenarios within each individual arc in order, and this scenario is a natural starting point for the Year 3 metaplot.

Starfinder Society Scenario #4-06: Combatant's Concerto: Prelude to Revolution

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 3-6.
When a violent insurrectionist group threatens an upcoming space gala in the Veskarium, a group of Starfinders find themselves caught in the crossfire. Innocent lives hang in the balance unless the PCs can discover who's behind the dangerous plot and stop them before it's too late.

Starfinder Society Scenario #4-07: A Haven for Scourged Machines

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 7-10.
The Starfinder Society has traced the hostile robots involved in the first Data Scourge attacks to a facility in the Vast. Now, it's up to veteran Starfinders to explore the facility that manufactured the machines to find answers—but it won't be easy. Danger lurks around every corner in this massive factory, and a few nasty surprises lie in wait for our intrepid heroes.

Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Alien Quarter Expansion

Sometimes adventure takes you to the alien side of town. Next time your players are looking for a taste of off-world cuisine and culture while in the big city, these Flip-Tiles have all you need to set them up for a thrilling encounter. Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Alien Quarter Expansion provides beautifully illustrated 6" × 6" map tiles that you can use to expand your city with a neighborhood fit for extraterrestrial habitation! Inside, you'll find 24 richly crafted, double-sided map tiles. This expansion set, along with Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Starter Set, lets you create futuristic urban locales with endless variety! So, stop your sketching and start your flipping today!

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