By Joe Blomquist
This encounter is a prequel for the Mechageddon! Adventure Path that represents the player characters’ (PCs’) ongoing training after enlisting in the New Valor Defense Force. Run this encounter after completing Simulation 1: Valko Derby, after the PCs have leveled up and created their own mechs (or upgraded the mechs from Simulation 1 to tier 2).

THE LAST STAND OF KARNATH! — CR 6

After catching Firefight’s notice playing Valko Derby, the PCs were invited to step out of the valkopods and become the real huzkars by joining the New Valor Defense Force. NVDF training is comprehensive for all recruits, regardless of prior vocation, to prepare them for military duties and potential challenges from combat training and mech repair to physical fitness and aircraft piloting. All potentially dangerous training occurs in simulated environments utilizing some of the galaxy’s best virtual reality technology. As a result, NVDF training pods are a familiar sight to every NVDF recruit, even if they aren’t offered many chances to train in the simulated valko cockpits. But with the placement exam schedule communicated well in advance, the prevailing mood is a flux of excitement and anxiety as everyone hopes for the chance to prove themselves. Read or paraphrase the following to set the scene.

Commander “Raptor” Wano’s voice issues a disembodied message as his training assistant, Lieutenant Bastian-5, helps the recruits into individual cockpits in the training center’s testing chamber. “Recruits! Today is your placement exam. Do well and you might find yourself in the 3rd battlegroup as the 13th, 14th, or even 15th Valko squadron under my command! Thanks to an agreement with Storyteller Productions, today’s exam will feature colossi from the popular Kaiju Riot holovid series. As you know Lt. Bastian-5 is a huge fan of those movies—time to make them proud. Today you get to be the heroes!”

Art by Guilherme Olivieri

Culture or Profession (Charisma-based) (Recall Knowledge)

The Kaiju Riot! series of films is well-known on Daimalko and has small cult followings all over the galaxy. NVDF recruits have likely seen one or more of the films and that film knowledge could help them in the upcoming simulation. For more benefits of watching these films, see Trivial Knowledge, below.

10+: The Kaiju Riot! series follows the often-terrible exploits of a lone colossus, Gadrakor. In early films, Gadrakor brutally destroyed several Daimalkan settlements. Critics applaud these early films for teaching the benefits of environmentalism through cinematic media. Eventually, Gadrakor became a hero, defending Daimalko against unspeakable horrors.

15+: Pop star Jollys Vass got her start with the hit Don’t Fall, a ballad written from the perspective of two damai lovers who were separated during Gadrakor’s rampage in Kaiju Riot! 1. In that film, Gadrakor’s characteristics were based on questionable information about an illusive colossus called a drakogor. In the years since, groundbreaking field research about real drakogors has provided new material for the sequels.

20+: In Kaiju Riot! 3: The Doom from Beyond, Gadrakor teams up with a nearly invulnerable mechanical version of himself from the previous film, Mechagadrakor, to face a demonic version of himself, the space emperor colossus King Gadrakor.

25+: Gadrakor and his iterations have all the same abilities as a real drakogor: they can absorb energy attacks to power their breath weapons, which deal sonic damage, and have a hardened mantle that adds to their natural armor. Encourage the PCs to swap out their simulated mechs’ weapons to avoid giving the enemy an advantage.

The Mission

The PCs’ simulated mechs begin in the center of Karnath, an ancient Daimalkan city lost to colossi attacks long ago. The simulation completes almost instantly, finalizing the holographic details of a breezy spring afternoon with streets empty except for the PCs. A Daimalkan orb rests in a hollow built into the bronze statue the PCs’ mechs are positioned around. Four wide streets wind in all four cardinal directions leading away from the monument. Tall office buildings and empty residences line each block except for the planetary transit landing pad northwest of the PCs.

When the PCs are ready to begin, Commander Wano’s voice gives the final orders before the simulation begins. “The Gadrakors have only one goal: Destroy the orb. To pass this exam, you only have to stop them. Defeat all your enemies and protect the orb. Good luck, recruits.”

PCs and Mechs: This encounter is designed for four level 2 PCs. As part of their ongoing training at the NVDF Academy, the PCs have been learning the ins and outs of various mech configurations to better prepare them to their assignments as huzkars in the new modular Apex valkos, or as support crew for others who are assigned that role. As a result, players should create Tier 2 mechs for their PCs using the rules in Starfinder Tech Revolution.

Map: This simulation uses the monument side of Starfinder Flip-Mat: Metropolis. The PC’s mechs begin the encounter huddled in the middle of the map around the monument. 1 square represents 10 feet of terrain.

Trivial Knowledge: Watching the Kaiju Riot! film series has given the PCs prior knowledge of their opponents’ capabilities. The PCs can attempt the normal Recall Knowledge checks to identify their foes’ abilities prior to the beginning of the encounter. They may attempt these checks using Culture or an appropriate Profession skill instead, using the same DCs.

Creatures: The three holographic colossi the PCs face are inspired by the popular holovid, Kaiju Riot 3: The Doom from Beyond. The three kaiju begin the encounter near the edges of the map and have a single goal in mind: destroy the orb at the center of the monument the PCs are protecting. The colossi act well as a team, contrary to their adversarial roles in Kaiju Riot 3. King Gadrakor relies on its roar and fearsome presence to throw the PCs off, while Gadrakor tries to draw them away from the monument or take them out with its breath weapon. Mechagadrakor is the key to their strategy. If nobody attacks Mechagadrakor, it moves adjacent to the monument and spends the next two turns attacking the orb. The other two eventually attempt the same tactic until the PCs target them with attacks. All three colossi fight until they are destroyed.

Gadrakor — CR 3
Unique Variant Drakogor
XP 800
N Huge magical beast (colossus)
Init +1; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, sense the masses; Perception +8
Aura frightful presence (80 ft., DC 12, shaken 1d4 rounds)

DEFENSE HP 40
EAC 14; KAC 16
Fort +7; Ref +7; Will +4
Defensive Abilities Resistances electricity 5, fire 5

OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft.
Melee bite +12 (1d6+7 P; critical burn 1d10) or claw +12 (1d6+7 S; critical bleed 1d6) or tail slap +12 (1d8+7 B; critical knockdown)
Ranged particle laser blast +9 (1d4-3 F; critical burn 2d6; range 60ft.)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Offensive Abilities breath weapon (60-ft. cone, 4d6 E&F, Reflex DC 12 half, usable every 1d4 rounds), living battery, roar (DC 12)

STATISTICS
Str +4; Dex +1; Con +2; Int +0; Wis +0; Cha +0
Skills Acrobatics +8, Athletics +13, Intimidate +8

SPECIAL ABILITIES
Living Battery (Ex) Drakogors recharge their breath weapons by consuming energy attacks. When a drakogor takes at least 10 damage from any weapon that targets its EAC, as a standard action on their next turn they redirect the energy into a breath weapon dealing the same type of damage as the attack.

Roar (Su) Gadrakor’s roar creates unsettling vibration. Gadrakor roars as a standard action. Creatures within 100 feet must succeed at a DC 12 Fortitude save or become sickened for 1d4 rounds. Creatures who are shaken from Gadrakor’s frightful presence are panicked for 1 round (no save). Once a creature has been exposed to Gadrakor’s roar, it cannot be affected by any other drakogor’s roar for 24 hours. This is an emotion, fear, mind-affecting, and sense-dependent effect. Other drakogors are immune.

Mechagadrakor — CR 3
Unique Variant Drakogor
XP 800
NE Huge construct (colossus)
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +8

DEFENSE — HP 40
EAC 15; KAC 17
Fort +3; Ref +3; Will +0
Defensive Abilities hardened mantle; Immunities construct immunities

OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft.
Melee bite +12 (1d4+7 P; critical burn 1d10) or claw +12 (1d4+7 S; critical bleed 1d6)
Ranged particle laser blast +9 (1d8+5 F; critical burn 2d6; range 60 ft.)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Offensive Abilities breath weapon (60-ft. cone, 4d6 So, Reflex DC 12 half, usable every 1d4 rounds), living battery

STATISTICS
Str +4; Dex +1; Con –; Int +1; Wis +0; Cha +0
Skills Acrobatics +8, Athletics +13, Intimidate +8
Other Abilities unliving

SPECIAL ABILITIES
Living Battery (Ex) Drakogors recharge their breath weapons by consuming energy attacks. When a drakogor takes at least 10 damage from any weapon that targets its EAC, as a standard action on their next turn they redirect the energy into a breath weapon dealing the same type of damage as the attack.

Hardened Mantle (Ex) Mechagadrakor has a +4 racial bonus on saving throws against critical hit effects. In addition, it reduces the damage it takes from a critical hit by 3 to a minimum of 1 unless reduced by other means.

King Gadrakor” Art by Sophie Medvedeva

King Gadrakor — CR 3
Unique Variant Drakogor
XP 800
LE Huge magical beast (colossus)
Init +0; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, sense the masses; Perception +8
Aura frightful presence (80 ft., DC 14, shaken 1d4 rounds)

DEFENSE HP 40
EAC 14; KAC 16
Fort +7; Ref +7; Will +4
Defensive Abilities ferocity; Resistances fire 10

OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft.
Melee bite +12 (1d6+7 P plus grab) or claw +12 (1d6+7 S plus grab) or tail slap +12 (1d10+7 B; critical knockdown)
Ranged particle laser blast +9 (1d4 F; critical burn 2d6; range 60ft.)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Offensive Abilities breath weapon (60-ft. cone, 4d6 A, Reflex DC 12 half, usable every 1d4 rounds), roar (DC 14)

STATISTICS
Str +4; Dex +1; Con +2; Int +0; Wis +0; Cha +0
Skills Acrobatics +8, Athletics +13, Intimidate +8

SPECIAL ABILITIES
Deadly Grasp (Ex) When King Gadrakor succeeds at a combat maneuver to maintain a grapple, it can make a tail slap attack as a move action.

Roar (Su) King Gadrakor’s roar creates unsettling vibration. King Gadrakor roars as a standard action. Creatures within 100 feet must succeed at a DC 14 Fortitude save or become sickened for 1d4 rounds. Creatures who are shaken from King Gadrakor’s frightful presence are panicked for 1 round (no save). Once a creature has been exposed to King Gadrakor’s roar, it cannot be affected by any other drakogor’s roar for 24 hours. This is an emotion, fear, mind-affecting, and sense-dependent effect. Other drakogors are immune.

Development: The orb has 100 Hit Points. If it takes enough damage to reduce it to 0 or below, the orb is destroyed and the simulation ends in failure. If the PCs manage to defeat their foes, the simulation ends in victory the moment the last Gadrakor falls and the opening chords to Jollys Vass’ triumphant Don’t Fallstart to play.

CONCLUSION

If the PCs successfully protect the orb, when the simulation ends they are formally offered spots in the NVDF’s 3^rd Battlegroup as huzkar recruits. The next step in their training will be piloting brand new Apex mechs! If the simulation ends in failure, the PCs can enter remedial training before attempting the placement exam again, or accept positions in Valko Support, Infantry, Tank command groups, or even as Skywatch air support pilots. At this point, the group is ready to level up once more and begin their Mechageddon! campaign.

Map by Damien Mammoliti

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This encounter serves as a prequel to the Mechageddon! Adventure Path, framed as the player characters (PCs) trying out an arcade game that doubles as a recruitment tool for the elite Daimalkan mech corps known as the New Valor Defense Force. Run this encounter during downtime when the PCs are exploring a space station or city. The PCs might be invited to play through a Valko Derby simulation at an arcade, a recruitment center, a festival, or a resort on Daimalko or anywhere in the galaxy—whatever makes the most sense for your campaign.

Valko Derby — CR (varies)

Valkopods—more often called mech pods in the Pact Worlds—are specialty game consoles found at high-end arcades, military recruitment centers, trade shows, and in the homes of some affluent collectors. The 6-foot half-globe pods are constructed of durable plastics with transparent aluminum and structural steel frames. The pods are programmed to simulate the experience of being in the cockpit of a mech, starship, or other war vehicle. Hyper-realistic terrain and foes generated by the simulation provide a challenge for the operator, and the simulation provides a score based on the operator’s reactions and maneuvers.

Valkpods aren’t just for fun. A form of this technology is used for military training in the Pact Worlds, Veskarium, and on Daimalko, where the tech was initially tested. Networking connections allow many pods to sync simulations for large-scale experiences while the simulated feeds are broadcast to viewing terminals, betting houses, and infosphere sites. Read or paraphrase the following to set the scene.

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Holos blast a hypercolored message above a row of globular arcade cabinets, each large enough for a person of any conceivable anatomy to fit comfortably inside. “Mech pods—Play Now!” The signs repeating flash is accompanied by booming music and the roar of simulated laser cannons. A humanoid pilot dressed in a red and white suit stands outside the massive cabinets. A crowd of excited people bustle around her. “Hey there! Ever ride in a mech before?” She calls. “Now’s your chance. Our sponsor, Apex, installed this set of networked valkopods—you call them mech pods in the Pact Worlds. Apex engineers programmed a special simulation just for today: A demolition derby! Want to play?”

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Art by Denis Medri

Resa "Firefight" Prosst (LN female ifrit) is a decorated pilot. After acing her training, she was promoted quickly to squad leadership and earned a role as DCVG (Deputy Commander Valko Group) of the 3rd Battlegroup of the New Valor Defense Force, a military sworn to protect the city of New Valor from rampaging colossi. She’s not just here for public relations—she’s tasked with recruiting high-scoring players to join up with the NVDF.

On Daimalko, huzkars (the local name for mech pilots) are minor celebrities as well as military personnel. Most Daimalkans regard mech pilots as heroes since many are injured or even perish defending cities from colossi, terrifying monsters that move through populated settlements like unstoppable forces of nature. Without mechs, Daimalko would be unlivable; in fact, the entire planet was decimated by the colossi’s first emergence many years ago. Rebuilding has only been possible because of organizations like the NVDF.

Derby Rules

Once the derby program loads, the PCs find themselves virtually piloting humanoid-shaped Daimalkan mechs within a massive digital stadium divided into zones by glowing markings. Each team begins the match in the goal zone that matches their team’s colors. The PCs are blue and begin in the southern zone. Enemy players’ mechs are red and begin in the northern zone.

As soon as the starting siren sounds, the teams can move around the map and engage their foes. Roll initiative to determine the order in which players and enemies act. Teams score points in two ways. If a mech makes it to the opposing goal, the pilot scores 2 points for their team. If a pilot scores a final blow on an enemy mech (destroying it), they score 4 points for their team. If a mech is destroyed, it cannot score points even if it is already inside the enemy goal, and that player (PC or enemy) is out of the battle for the remainder of the match. During the match, a glowing holographic display above the simulated stadium displays each team’s current score. Once all mechs on one team have been defeated or six rounds have passed, the match ends. The entire field glows in the winning team’s colors as a victory celebration and final scores are displayed.

The Map: This simulation uses the digital side of Starfinder Flip-Mat: Stadium. One square on the map represents 10 feet to accommodate the Huge combatants. The programmed terrain simulates a massive sports arena. Once the match begins, the tiered bleachers are filled with a simulated audience. Any mech that moves into (or is forced into) spaces outside the play area and into the crowd suffers an automatic system failure based on the chart found in Starfinder Tech Revolution page 114. Enemy mechs forced into the crowd are staggered until they return to the play area.

The glowing circle in the middle of the arena temporarily boosts a mech’s movement speed. Whenever a mech begins its turn inside the circle, the mech’s base speed increases by 10 feet.

PCs and Mechs: This encounter is designed for four 1st-level characters. The mech pods are programmed to use simulated representations of dozens of different mechs, but for this program, all players use the same type of mech: the duello class valko. For the duration of the simulation, the PCs’ mechs have blue glowing stripes to differentiate them from their opponents, which are red. If you’d prefer to adapt the simulation for different mech models, the PCs can instead build tier 1 mechs using the rules in Tech Revolution.

The basic duello class mech is detailed below.

Duello Class Valko — Tier 1

Huge skirmisher
Operators 1; PP 1 (2/turn, max 6)
Speed 60 ft.
Senses blindsense (vibration) 30 ft., darkvision 120 ft., low-light vision

DEFENSE
HP 19; SP 5; Hardness 0
EAC 19; KAC 20
Fort +3; Ref +4
Immunities construct immunities

OFFENSE
Base Attack Bonus +8
Melee scythe (upper limb—1d6+5 S)
Ranged laser rifle (frame—1d6+1 F; critical burn), missile battery (frame—1d4+1 F&P)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft. (20 ft. with scythe)
Strength +4

Creatures: The simulation always pits teams against their each other in even numbers. So, for each PC, one opposing duello mech appears with red glowing stripes inside the opposing goal. The enemy mechs are piloted by other players in their own valkopods networked together with the PC’s valkopods.

As soon as the sirens denote the start of the derby, the two duello opponents on the outside edges of the opposing team run up the sides of the arena. They intend to get to the blue goal as fast as possible and lend fire support to their allies from there. The remaining enemy mechs choose individual targets, focusing on PCs who lead the charge across the arena. They use up as much ammo as possible from a distance before switching to scythes for melee combat. All enemy mechs fight until destroyed.

Red Team Duello Mech — CR 1

XP 400
N Huge construct
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +5
DEFENSE HP 20

EAC 12; KAC 14
Fort +1; Ref +1; Will -1
Immunities construct immunities

OFFENSE
Speed 60 ft.
Melee scythe +9 (1d6+5 S)
Ranged laser rifle +6 (1d6+1 F; critical burn 1d4) or missile launcher +6 (1d4+1 F&P)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft. (20 ft. with scythe)

STATISTICS
Str +4; Dex +2; Con -; Int +1; Wis +0; Cha +0
Skills Athletics +10, Piloting +5
Languages Common
Other Abilities unliving

Development: If either team moves all surviving mechs into the opposing goal zone, the simulation ends and that team wins. If either team defeats every enemy mech, they win by default. If both teams end the derby with an equal number of combatants in the opposing goal, the simulation resets, allowing all players to return and try again.

When the match ends, the PCs exit their valkopods and notice a crowd watching a holovid of their match. Firefight’s eyes are intent on the screen as she takes notes on a datapad. She gets the PCs’ attention as soon as she notices them.

GREETINGS HUZKAR! YOU HAVE BEEN RECRUITED BY THE NEW VALOR DEFENSE FORCE

Firefight takes note of players who show enthusiasm and skill during the simulated battles. She sees the PCs’ potential and eagerly tries to recruit them. If the PCs beat their opponents, she plays to their egos, praising them and saying that “New Valor needs your help,” or “all of Daimalko is in danger!” If they lost the match, she asks if they’d like another shot at winning, but “for real this time.” She answers the PCs’ questions about her organization, explaining that they’re a military corps who defend the city of New Valor from colossi attacks. They’re based on the distant planet Daimalko (unless the PCs begin this encounter on Daimalko, they’ll need to take a shuttle there for further training). If the PCs are interested in joining, she sets up an appointment for them at a nearby recruiting office where they can fill out formal applications and complete their physical assessment.

VALKO DERBY COMPETITIVE PLAY

If players are interested in using the Valko Derby rules for PVP matches, replace the NPC mechs with even teams of players. If there’s an odd number of players, include an NPC to fill the empty slot.

Map: Firefight specifically programmed this Valko Derby to reference her love of the sport kaijuball, but any map can be holographically recreated for a battle. Throwing in cover and level-appropriate hazards or traps isn’t just an option, it’s encouraged!

Mechs: The duello class valkos are perfect mechs for low-level PCs, but if your players want to customize their own, build mechs appropriate to the average level of the PCs using the rules in Tech Revolution. Both sides should build their mechs with the same amount of Mech Points in their pool and should limit movement to ground based for a fair challenge.

Map by Damien Mammoliti

The Mechageddon! Adventure Path tells the story of the New Valor Defense Force, a group of brave mech pilots who battle massive monsters to defend their city on the wasteland planet, Daimalko. The players take on the role of new recruits looking to join up and become heroes. As the player characters (PCs) complete missions defending New Valor, their reputation grows. They become local heroes, then galactic celebrities! Eventually, they gain permission to take on exciting offworld missions from wealthy sponsors. But while the heroes are enjoying the perks of fame, an ancient doomsday clock ticks down to disaster back home… unless they can stop it!

RAPTOR

Commander Vadien “Raptor” Wano (LN male damai soldier) acts as commanding officer for the PCs and Tempest Squadron during their training and throughout their careers as huzkars—the Daimalkan name for a mech pilot or operator. Raptor is a seasoned huzkar, having piloted his mech against colossi and on mercenary missions in local systems. He was one of the first pilots selected for the launch of the program that became the New Valor Defense Force. Raptor is one of eight huzkars who fought every skirmish in the Month of Fire campaign and survived.

THE ENEMY

Daimalko has been under attack by colossi—the Daimalkan name for kaiju, or giant monsters—for generations since the Awakening devastated the planet. Colossi come in a variety of forms, some more vicious and destructive than others. Recently, there seem to be more frequent attacks; something is causing aggressive behaviors to increase across species of colossi. Perhaps finding the cause will give your heroes an upper hand in the battle to save Daimalko?

THE TECH

But Raptor doesn’t expect you to fight alone! Throughout this campaign, you level up two characters: your hero and your mech—known on Daimalko as a valko! Eventually, you might add a starship form to that list. Most encounters inMechageddon! are designed for mechs, but there are plenty of opportunities to show off your pilot’s abilities, too.

Everyone begins with a basic mech, choosing one of the lynkor models provided by the NVDF or a fully custom version if you prefer. Check out the Mechageddon! Player’s Guide for more information about creating a hero, choosing a mech, and picking a callsign and squad name!

Starfinder: Mechageddon! is a high-octane epic telling the story of our heroes (and their mechs!) as they battle monsters and help rebuild a broken world. This hardbound adventure path takes PCs from 3^rd to 18^th level with bonus content—side jobs, adventure seeds, and more—to customize and extend your story.

Get Starfinder: Mechageddon! in PDF, standard hardcover edition, or faux leatherette bound Special Edition. Starfinder: Mechageddon! is also part of the Starfinder Adventure Path Subscription. Mechgeddon! features the mech combat rules introduced in Starfinder Tech Revolution, available in hardcover or PDF.

Hiya, Starfinders! It’s Jenny Jarzabski, Starfinder Senior Developer and Sparkly Space Princess. It’s no secret that Mechageddon! was my dream project, but I’m not the only one who feels that way. A group of amazing authors teamed up to make this project a reality, much like the squad of mech pilots you’ll be playing in your Mechageddon! campaign. What we created together is special not just because of its epic story, unforgettable characters, gorgeous art, high CR encounters, and new rules content; it’s special because the whole team is so passionate about Mechageddon! and poured their hearts and souls into its creation.

This passion was evident in the extracurricular hangouts, playtests, and planning meetings the authors scheduled with and without me. To prepare for the writing phase, the writing team got together for a few movie nights. We watched a lot of epic anime and cheesy 80s movies, bonding over our shared passion for mecha media. It was important to us to highlight certain tropes and themes, and our time together created synergy between the adventures and backmatter articles. But don’t worry, Mechageddon!isn’t all anime sparkles and action movie schlock. (Not 100%, anyway.) The authors each brought their own perspectives to the project, pulling inspiration from their lived experiences, favorite media, and more.

On the surface, a tabletop campaign like Mechageddon! is a fun way to pass the time playing a game with your friends. But for many of us, it’s also a way to escape our problems and worries for a few hours. The magic of tabletop storytelling is that it can be a way to explore our dreams, desires, and fears in a safe setting, or a way to play out scenarios that imagine better worlds or tell cautionary tales of timelines gone wrong. In that respect, Mechageddon! can be whatever you want it to be, but here’s what it means to us.

Art by Miguel Regodón Harkness

Joseph Blomquist (he/him)
Adventure 1 Author

I was ten years old, the ideal age for mecha indoctrination, when Robotech hit American shores. Sure, I’d already enjoyed Americanized anime in Battle of the Planets, Voltron, and Tranzor Z, but Robotech was different. For the first time, there was character-driven, dramatic storytelling in an animated show about alien attacks and giant robot combat, and halfway through the first season, my favorite character died! This was a big change for cartoons in the states, and I was sold—hook, line, and sinker.

From there, my media interests changed. I immersed myself in the anime that were the basis of Robotech: Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, Genesis Climber Mospeada, and most importantly, Super Dimension Fortress Macross. My interests grew to encompass the Fang of the Sun Dougram and Gundam. While my friends identified with their heroes from He-man, GI Joe, and Thundercats, my tastes involved giant robots piloted by the types of heroes that propaganda movies could be made about. And don’t even get me started on kaiju!

My interest in games followed suit with a love of BattleTech, Mekton, and Heavy Gear taking up a great deal of my playtime. So, when my D20-based RPG of choice began building towards mecha stories, I knew I wanted to be a part of it. But I was lucky; I’d already written for Starfinder, and I had been running games for Paizo Organized Play since the beginning—I was a known quantity. Regardless, when Jenny asked if I would be interested in contributing to the project, there was nothing that could have kept me away.

Mechageddon! is one of the most fun projects I could ever have hoped to be a part of. For “research,” I watched a lot of movies, like Pacific Rim and Robot Jox, in addition to diving deep into some of the anime I’d missed over the years—especially the later Macross stuff (oh, how I missed you, Macross). There was a timely renewed interest in BattleTech, Heavy Gear got a new edition, and I had the opportunity to seed some of the tropes and brilliance of the shows I loved into my writing.

Mechageddon! is a love letter to the anime, films, and media that came before it. The adventure is full of dramatic moments and enough giant robot combat to whet any appetite. It’s an adventure where the people you meet matter and where encounters are harrowing and full of meaning, dropping hints and plot points for the future. It’s like no Adventure Path you’ve seen before. For my part, I worked alongside two of the best authors in the Paizosphere, and the three of us even met outside of our shared server to put together something of a story bible to inform our tale that could seed dozens more adventures! I envy you, fearless reader, for the journey you will get to experience and the stories you will tell.

Until that day, New Valor stands!

Oh, and I can be found rarely ever writing on my blog, or on social media under the name DoctorMono.

Dennis Muldoon (he/him)
Adventure 2 Author

Mechaggedon! Oh, what a joy! Over the last few years, I’ve written for nearly every line Paizo publishes, but this is without a doubt the biggest, most challenging, and most exciting project I’ve ever worked on. I love how Starfinder allows us to tell so many different types of stories, and the mech rules are one of my favorite tools in the GM toolbox. My own love for mechs dates to my childhood watching Transformers, Voltron, and of course, that seminal classic, Robot Jox.

For Mechaggedon!, I wrote the middle volume, the space where the plucky heroes get to catch their breath after the initial rush, take stock of their new careers as mech pilots and heroes of New Valor, and find their place in the wider universe. What could go wrong? This volume presents the players with choices to make, opportunities to build relationships and earn allies, and space to truly make their mechs their own. I’m particularly proud of the variety of missions presented in this volume, as they draw inspiration from sources ranging from space operas to westerns to real-world corporate labor politics, before ultimately tying together to lead to something bigger. I can’t wait for you all to play it!

Rigby Bendele (they/them)
Adventure 3 Author

I wish I could sit down and tell you every little detail I included in my volume of Mechageddon! However, since I wrote the final book, that mean sharing major spoilers for the plot. Since I can't do that, I'd instead talk about my inspirations!

Devilman is one of the most influential works of art I've ever experienced. It is also deeply weird and even unenjoyable at points, with a complex lore and timeline that honestly hurts my head to think about too much. For my adventure, I drew much on what I found meaningful about Devilman, from its corruption narratives, to the feelings of apocalypse it conveys, to downright weird demon designs. Mechageddon! (at least my section) is also deeply informed by my experience as a queer person, my relationship to religion, and the strange ways that religion might function in a world where you could meet many of the gods. My volume is in part about trying to fight an apocalypse you don't want to be in, but also about what it means to want love from a god who will never love you back. In that way, it's also about work, and about how many people believe that a job you love can never love you back.

Mech stories are also tied into stories about bodies. I finished writing Mechageddon! the day before I underwent gender-affirming surgery. In my section, there's many kinds of bodies and relationships to them: kaiju bodies, bodies that have changed (positive), bodies that have changed (negative), big robot bodies, and more. You also may be thinking, "Wow, Rigby, that's doing a lot!" Well, yes—but this adventure is also a deep dive into the mech genre and will be hopefully played across hundreds of hours with your friends. Many of these things end up naturally intertwined. The demands on the body are often the demands of capitalism, or the demands of patriarchy, or the interpolation of white supremacy into our own desires.

Okay, okay, that's the big philosophy. It's also about punching demons while being in a mech suit, the relationship you have with other pilots, and saving the world! The point is this: it’s going to be fun,it's going to be big, and it's going to be a story you'll remember!

Kate Baker (she/her)
Contributing Author

Hello! I’m Kate Baker, and I can’t wait for you to experience Mechageddon! I couldn’t resist contributing to an Adventure Path that lets the PCs run around in giant mechs. What could be better? I enjoyed watching Pacific Rim, Robot Jox, and even the dubious Robot Wars (on MST3k) to get inspiration. I worked on backmatter, creating both a mech that you’ll encounter and a Side Job you can go do for some extra cash. Just don’t forget to bring your mechs! You can follow more about what I’m up to on BlueSky at @katebakerGM. 

Anthony Dollinger (he/him)
Contributing Author

Mechs are rad.Anyone who’s known me for any amount of time knows that I am a mecha fan, so taking part in Mechageddon! was an opportunity I immediately jumped at. I can distinctly remember walking into a bookstore in New Orleans in 1995, seeing this cool mech book on the shelf, and realizing that MechWarrior was more than just a one-off of the distant past. Many years later, a resurgent Macross’ newest series helped to remind me that everyone loves giant robots no matter what flavor they come in. They have a magic to them that can be used to tell unique stories and lift spirits. In that way, Mechageddon! was something of a dream come true to work on, especially as I was able to design new mechs and had the opportunity to bring the city of New Valor to life. I hope that what we’ve put together can lift your spirits, wherever you are, and help you to remember love as you strive to defend New Valor.

Mikko Kallio (he/him)
Contributing Author

Hey there! I'm Mikko, a cloud architect by day and a game designer when the stars come out. My journey as a Paizo freelancer began in 2014, and since then, I've left my creative mark on around 50 fantastic products. For Mechageddon!, I wrote a Side Job in which you and your trusty mechs venture to a planet of dinosaurs. Get ready for high-speed thrills, breathtaking views of wind-kissed hills, steamy jungles, and fiery volcanoes, plus a hearty dose of head-banging riffs courtesy of Abysshead—the undisputed overlords of the Pact Worlds music scene. Hope you have a blast playing it!

My fascination with mechs and towering robots goes way back. My earliest influences came from shows like Power Rangers and Transformers, and who could forget that iconic moment when Ellen Ripley hops into a power loader and takes on a xenomorph queen? Legendary stuff. A newer fascination of mine is Scythe, a world that seamlessly weaves diesel-punk mechs into a reimagined 1920s setting.

Let me wrap up with a story. Flashback to 2017, when Paizo presented me with an intriguing challenge: writing an interactive special named Assault on Absalom for the Pathfinder Society. One of the missions in that adventure involved unearthing an ancient weapon, and my imagination was on fire. What if this weapon took the form of a gargantuan construct? What if the players could pilot it, controlling distinct limbs and weapons? And so, Gulgamodh emerged—a sentinel that dutifully guarded Absalom and perhaps inspired the seeds of future mech wonders.

Chris Wasko (he/him)
Contributing Author

I had a ton of fun writing an alien, a mech, and a Side Job for Mechageddon! The first came easily after I found a video of a starfish walking along the beach. The creature's form was so familiar and yet so alien, so I thought of how I'd stat it if I turned it upside down and made it mech-sized. Considering its environment reminded me of the long history of otyughs as both violent monsters and a source of curious social encounters, a perfect fit for my armored junkyard behemoth. The latter two took some time, and ultimately became homages to my online Roll20 campaigns that withered as life got complicated.

My Mummy's Mask campaign fell off right after Book 5, when the PCs encountered the flying pyramids of ancient Osirion. Not having those mythical structures as some form of airborne vehicle in the Starfinder setting's distant future struck me as a ripe design space, especially for a book about mechs. Meanwhile, my Fly Free or Die campaign wound down in the middle of my own installment, Crash and Burn. The party was composed of eight people with variable schedules that usually led to split sessions of four PCs each, so I would write concurrent homebrew adventures alongside the published content so the two groups could swap stories offline. One of those original adventures involved an ecological mission to Osoro to study the irokirois, one of my favorite Alien Archive creatures, which I adapted into what appears in Mechageddon! I hope you enjoy our work!

Nick Wasko (he/him) and K. Fox (they/them)
Contributing Authors

Nick and Fox have been writing together since Nick Wasko won Paizo's RPG Superstar Season 9 contest. Nick inspired Fox's interest in Pathfinder and Starfinder, and together they enjoyed creating new mechs for this Adventure Path. Nick and Fox drew upon their backgrounds in health care for the idea of the Hecatomb, which draws upon the operator's life force to function. High-level characters have plenty of health, so sacrificing hit points to power a mech made a better thematic and mechanical fit for a high-risk, high-reward playstyle among low-level players.

Meanwhile, the Terrotodile started out as a thought experiment for mechs designed for purposes other than combat. Its original intent was to protect laborers mining for resources, but like so many inventions meant for the betterment of society, it was repurposed for battle. Nick and Fox enjoyed this opportunity to explore a departure from the high-powered war machines often seen in this genre. Since they’ve recently struggled to make time for tabletop gaming, they are especially excited for the opportunity to contribute to this project. You can find more of Nick's work with Paizo here, or his academic writing here. For more of Fox's innovations outside of tabletop gaming, check out their adaptive clothing designs.

(Jenny’s Note: DO IT! The fits are super cute AND MOST OF THEM HAVE POCKETS!!!!)

Diego Valdez (he/him)
Contributing Author

I’ve always enjoyed robots and mechs. I’ve been a huge Transformers fan since I was small, and I regularly build Gundam models (as well as watch the shows), so creating a mech was an opportunity I was excited for. I wanted to make something a little more unique, different from a robot with a theme. One of the best toy lines on the market, in my opinion, are the Diaclone Reboot figures. They’re super modular, so it’s easy to swap parts and make your own creations. I really like that, so I wondered: What if I could do that for a Starfinder mech? With that, the Mobile Disunion was born. Just like the Diaclone Reboot figures, the Mobile Disunion can be customized by players and their characters. Swap out the legs, the arms, the head—whatever you want! Like with a Transformer, you can even change the configurations in combat. I hope everyone enjoys playing with the Mobile Disunion as much as I enjoyed creating it (and playing with some of my toys while I did)!

Jenny Jarzabski (she/her/xe/xem)
Narrative Lead and Contributing Author

Mechageddon! is a love letter to one of my favorite things in all the universe: mechs. But you knew that. Now listen up, because I’m about to tell you a secret! I wasn’t really into mechs growing up. I know, I know; it’s SACRILEGE! But listen, the mecha media in the United States at that time targeted a more masc audience, and I was more of a princesses and ponies type of kid. If Sailor Moon had summoned a sparkly mech and fired its moon tiara magic laser, I would’ve been all in, but alas, that wasn’t on offer at the time. It wasn’t until much later in life that I discovered the joy of mechs that transform and power up to catchy music using the power of friendship.

One day a friend showed me a video clip from what would become my favorite mecha anime, Macross Delta. In the video, a group of magical girls team up with military mech pilots to defend a city from an alien attack, and they do it by singing. I desperately wanted more context for this video, so I dove into the show headfirst. Fast-forward to now: I’ve become a Macrosssuperfan, a player of MechWarrior, a builder of model kits, and an all-around mecha enjoyer. 

What really draws me to mechs, though? First and foremost, mecha as a concept is inherently both badass and ridiculous, and there’s as many wonderfully absurd gems out there as there are epic, grimdark treatises on the realities of war and the nature of humanity. But I’ve identified some themes most mecha media shares, regardless of where they fall on the spectrum from military drama to super sentai. I’m inspired by these themes of friendship, loyalty, courage, and hope in the face of doom. And who among us wouldn’t hop into a gigantic robot and help their friends save the world if they had the chance?

Now’s your chance!

I should clarify that we’re not actually saving the world, but that we are going to save a planet in a TTRPG adventure. And for the record, while saving the real world isn’t part of this campaign, I encourage you to do your best at that, too.

From all of us on the writing team, we truly hope you enjoy the book we made for you! Use it well.

Happy Mechsgiving! Welcome to Mechageddon!, a hardcover Adventure Path for Starfinder First Edition featuring mech combat rules from Tech Revolution. In this Adventure Path, a group of new recruits suit up to protect their city from vicious kaiju called colossi. This blog features the free Mechageddon! Players Guide, in which you’ll learn more about creating your hero and building your own custom mech!

Art by Miguel Regodón Harkness

Download the Mechageddon! Players Guide Here

Hyped about your hero? Looking for a team? Join us on discord at https://discord.gg/wWFGWtfm87 to connect!

Hail and well met, Pathfinders and Starfinders! This month’s new releases bring the Pathfinder Remaster Project to your pocket (edition) and pit the Starfinder Society in a race against doomsday!

Join us this Friday, March 1^st at 4 P.M. Pacific for Paizo LIVE. This month’s topics include Starfinder Mechageddon!, the Wardens of Wildwood AP, and an update on conventions and events!

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Pathfinder Player Core Pocket Edition

FORGE YOUR LEGEND!

A world of adventure awaits, but it needs you to be the hero of the story! Take on the role of a daring adventurer with Pathfinder Player Core. This tome contains everything you need to create a player character and outfit them with mighty weapons and powerful spells, and it provides all the tools necessary to survive in a world filled with deadly monsters, nefarious villains, and fabulous treasures! The first page of your amazing adventure starts here.

The pocket edition presents the same contents as the standard edition in softcover and a smaller size for a lower price and better portability.

Pathfinder GM Core Pocket Edition

TELL YOUR STORY!

Creating a compelling tale takes more than just heroes—it requires a complex cast of allies, adversaries, and villains! As the Game Master, your job is to narrate the story, working with the players to imagine an epic adventure. PathfinderGM Core is here to help you with every facet of the game and includes guidelines on story structure, tips on creating thrilling combat, and amazing treasure to reward your heroes for saving the day! This book has everything you need to become a legendary Game Master.

The pocket edition presents the same contents as the standard edition in softcover and a smaller size for a lower price and better portability.

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Temples Multi-Pack

SAY YOUR PRAYERS!

In a world steeped in divine magic, temples serve as centers for the power of the gods. Whether your heroes are in search of a holy place to defend or a profane temple to defeat, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Temples Multi-Packhas you covered. This trove of temples features a tranquil sanctuary of healing, a rugged seaside temple devoted to a violent god, a temple of undeath nestled in a dilapidated graveyard, and a diabolical temple where the stage has been set for the arrival of hellish terrors.

This set includes two flip-mats, each measuring 24" × 30" unfolded, and 8" × 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!

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-13: Beginning of the End

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

Time is running short as the nefarious Order of Dawning Fate turns their experimental doomsday weapon upon a defenseless metropolis in the Vast! With millions of lives in danger, it’s up to the Starfinder Society to navigate the streets of the crumbling city, locate and destroy the doomsday weapon, and save the city from destruction! Yet fate is not on the Society’s side as Kebzec, a founder of the Order of Dawning Fate, oversees the weapon’s deployment and defenses. Will the Starfinders emerge victorious, or will they meet their end at the hands of the Order of Dawning Fate?

Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-11: Equal Exchanges—The Hidden Current

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 7th- through 10th-level characters.

A mysterious abandoned laboratory is discovered in the Arcadian Ocean, with clear signs of occult experimentation having occurred within it at some point. The Waterfall, strangely fascinated by this new find, sends a group of Pathfinders to investigate and gather whatever research they can find inside, while also ensuring that the building poses no further threats. Deep inside, a soul and forgotten memories await, hungry to be found and revealed to the light. The research and artifacts inside seem like they'll lead to answers about the enigmatic Waterfall, though this information may turn out to be unwanted.

Starfinder Society Scenario #6-14: The Missing

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

For months, citizens of the kasathan colony ship, Idari, have vanished without a trace, disappearing from the idyllic Sea of Grass for a fate unknown. As the number of missing increases, all eyes turn to the nearby Red Corridors, a subterranean neighborhood home to anarchists, malcontents, criminals, and other kasathas looking to flout the deeply ingrained traditions of modern kasathan society. Representatives from the Red Corridors vehemently deny any involvement in the abductions, but rising tensions and the desperation of those who have lost are primed to spark violence. With citizens of both the Sea of Grass and the Red Corridors distrustful of the ruling Doyenate and refusing to cooperate with ship security, the captain of the Idari calls for help from an old friend: Ehu Hadif, current First Seeker of the Starfinder Society.

Pathfinder Society Quest (Series 2) #17: Escorting a Mirage

A Pathfinder Society Quest designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters, playable in 2-3 hours.

A down-on-his luck Aspis Agent, relegated to Thuvia where Aspis operations have all but ceased, has found an unexpected opportunity for revenge. Zarta Dralneen is making a purchase in Merab, and what her purpose could be is the talk of the town. The vengeful Aspis twists these rumors toward talk of the sun orchid elixir, and while no one of any competence or understanding would ever fall for such a flimsy rumor, Merab has more than its share of desperate fools. As the PCs transport Zarta's mundane purchases back to port, these desperate fools strike, making a simple escort into a fight for survival.

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

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

• Join us Friday, Feb 2^nd at 4 P.M. Pacific for PaizoLIVE—featuring Starfinder Society, Elemental Stones, and Seven Dooms for Sandpoint!
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Starfinder Scoured Stars Adventure Path

A WAKING GOD!

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

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

Pathfinder: Elemental Stones

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

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

Pathfinder Adventure Path #199: To Bloom Below the Web

NEW LIFE AND FRESH DEATH

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

Starfinder Flip-Mat: Data Center

PROTECT YOUR DATA!

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

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

Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Arcane Dungeon

MAGICAL ESCAPES!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Starfinder Society Bounty #11: The Aucturn Dilemma

A Starfinder Bounty designed for 4th-level characters.

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

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

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

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The Scoured Stars Adventure Path tells the story of the Starfinder Society, a group of galactic explorers dealing with the aftermath of a catastrophic mission that lost 80% of the organization’s personnel and resources. The players take on the role of new agents working to uncover the mystery behind the disaster and eventually mount a rescue mission for the trapped survivors. In the end, it’s up to the player characters (PCs), now the Society’s most experienced agents, to defeat a threat accidentally unleashed by the Society and prevent their newfound foes from gaining the power of a slumbering god. All in a day’s work for your average Starfinder!

Illustration by Mirco Paganessi

FIRST SEEKER JADNURA

Jadnura began his Starfinder agent career as a solitary explorer. A kasatha who wanted to share his knowledge with the wider galaxy, Jadnura always went about his missions on his own and rarely interacted with fellow Society members. As his expeditions became more and more dangerous, Jadnura eventually came to rely on his fellow Starfinders and developed a genuine love of the organization that allowed him to explore his passion for archaeology and exploration.

Illustration by Michele Giorgi

Over a career spanning nearly two decades, Jadnura excelled at two things: his solarian training, and his ability to fill the Starfinder Chronicles broadcasts. Anyone reading the Chronicles over the last decade had likely seen Jadnura’s name countless times as the leader of an expedition or a wise voice adding opinion or additional fact to a specific chronicle. Throughout the Society, Jadnura was a respected leader and was often nominated for a position in the Forum.

Everything changed when Jadnura undertook his mission to the moon of Kukanou-2b. On that mission, Jadnura uncovered the mentrasi Tear, though he didn’t yet realize the full implications of the relic’s discovery. Returning to the Lorespire with the Tear, Jadnura dedicated himself to uncovering its mysteries. Though he barely scratched the surface of its true powers, Jadnura discovered a strong connection to the mysterious region of space known as the Scoured Stars. Dreams and waking visions drew Jadnura’s attention to the region, and as the current First Seeker stepped down, Jadnura took his first grasp at leadership by nominating himself as a successor.

The Society’s membership overwhelmingly supported Jadnura, and many saw the quest to the previously forbidden Scoured Stars as the start of a new chapter in the Society’s history. They weren’t wrong.

THE MISSION

Jadnura assembled an overwhelming force to travel to the Scoured Stars. Every major starship and group of agents was prepared to descend on the abandoned worlds of the trinary star system to catalogue data and uncover the truth of the mysterious Tear relic. Jadnura himself took charge of the mission, leaving behind only what assets were already committed to other missions, or those too unsuited to travel (such as the Wayfinders’ flagship, the Master of Stars).

Upon entering the Scoured Stars, Jadnura began to coordinate missions across the three systems. However, in the expedition’s opening hours, the Tear relic started to act in a strange manner. Soon all sorts of horrors, from fiends to robotic defenders to enraged fauna, began to assail the Society’s expedition. Before Jadnura could call for a general retreat into the Drift, all communication stopped. Later expeditions would find the Scoured Stars inaccessible, the system entirely covered in a shield of aurum energy that prevented any means of entry. The Society lost most of its agents and resources in a handful of hours

Illustration by Kevin Sardinha

AFTERMATH

The chaos that followed the Scoured Stars incident almost tore the surviving Society membership apart. The few members of the Forum who hadn’t taken part in the mission openly debated how to handle the situation. Debates turned to bickering and then into outright hostility as members of the Society proclaimed their vision for the future as the only right way forward. Much time was spent on infighting or trying in vain to breach the Scoured Stars, instead of stabilizing the fractured Society.

With creditors and outside forces poised to take the venerable institution of the Starfinder Society down for good, one agent stepped forward. Luwazi Elsebo was an experienced Starfinder who had been on a long-range mission near the Azlanti Star Empire’s space at the time of the Scoured Stars incident. She ended her mission early and returned to the Lorespire Complex when the news reached her. When she saw the squabbling members who fought for power, she stepped away and focused on keeping the Society intact.

Illustration by Mirco Paganessi

Calling in favors from across the Pact Worlds, Luwazi managed to keep the Society financially solvent while also sponsoring new missions to restore faith in the fractured organization. She went on to stabilize each of the Society’s internal factions, which had each suffered greatly from the recent losses. Finally, she engineered the use of mercenaries to act as temporary agents, directly leading to the formation of the Acquisitives faction.

For her efforts, the remainder of the Society rallied around Luwazi and nominated her as First Seeker. However, Guidance refuses to acknowledge the appointment until the matter of the Scoured Stars incident can be truly resolved.

Starfinder: Scoured Stars collects 12 adventures from the first season of Starfinder Society, telling the story of the Starfinder Society as it rebuilds from a great tragedy. This hardbound adventure path takes PCs from 1^st to 15^th level with over 70 hours of playtime.

Get Starfinder: Scoured Stars in PDF, standard hardcover edition or faux leatherette bound Special Edition. Starfinder: Scoured Stars is also part of the Starfinder Adventure Path Subscription.

Blast into space, January 31^st 2024!

Rebels, nobles, prisoners, detectives, artists, carnies and an entire deck of NPCs await you in Paizo’s newest releases for your gaming table!

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First, in case you missed it, enjoy our new trailer for the Pathfinder Treasure Vaults rulebook, featuring the kobold Purepurin!

Rebels with a cause! The Firebrands are some of the more infamous adventurers across the Inner Sea, filled with braggarts and rebels alike! Pathfinder Lost Omens: Firebrands  and Pathfinder Lost Omens: Firebrands Special Edition  take an in-depth look at the various members of the organization that strives to fight injustice and look good while doing it. It features information on how to join the Firebrands, details on important members of the group, new options for Firebrand characters, and advice for playing campaigns focusing on rebellion or achieving fame!

A Dream is Never Just a Dream! In Pathfinder Adventure Path #189: Dreamers of the Nameless Spires (Gatewalkers 3 of 3) , the gatewalkers’ quest for answers reaches its exciting conclusion when the player characters reunite with [redacted], but the occasion turns sour when they discover sinister [redacted]. The final leg of the party’s quest to unravel their memory gaps and fulfill [redacted] takes them to [redacted], where [redcted] evils await. The Gatewalkers Adventure Path concludes in “Dreamers of the Nameless Spires,” a complete adventure for 8th- to 10th-level characters.

In Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-11: Prisoners of the Electric Castle , after following the signal from a magical key to a remote estate in Ustalav, the Pathfinder Society made contact with a truly unusual being as well as the mysterious Ardis Scholars. Yet the scholars are now in dire straits--thanks to the machinations of a long-time foe of the Society, most of their members have been imprisoned in a flying castle tucked away in the Shadow Plane! It's up to a group of veteran Pathfinder agents to mount a daring rescue. But those agents must tread carefully, or the bizarre castle, infused with nightmares and otherworldly technology, will become their eternal prison.

A FINE ESTATE!
Elegant treasures and political secrets lie within noble estates, making them excellent targets to rob or defend. Regardless of the inclination, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every courtyard or banquet hall. Depicting the ground floor and roof of a noble estate, this beautifully detailed double-sided map, Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Noble Estate , sets the perfect scene for escapades among the elite!

THE EYES ARE ON THE CASE!
Absalom Station: home of the Starstone and bustling heart of the Pact Worlds. Since the Drift Crash, it’s also become a haven for refugees, as well as a lost and found for everything from valuables to loved ones. People would do just about anything to get their lost treasures back. That’s where the Eyeswide Agency comes in. Drift Crisis Case Files tells three stories of intrigue, having the player characters take on the roles of detectives working with the Eyeswide Agency. In this book, you’ll find:

• Three adventures (designed for characters of 3rd–4th, 7th–8th, and 10th–11th levels) intended to be run as a series, plus advice for using these adventures as part of a longer campaign.
• A codex of nonplayer character contacts to add intrigue to your campaign, many of whom the investigators can call on for favors to help close a case.
• New rules and options for characters who want to play psychics, including two new archetypes: psychic detective (sometimes called “headscanners”) and psychic charlatan.

In Starfinder Society Scenario #5-15: Beta Test  a famed demoscene artist and vidgame designer extends an invitation to a team of prestigious Starfinders to beta test his latest full-immersion virtual reality game at a trendy local arcade. Dive into the vibrant virtual world of Tortoiseshell Cove and play as colorful squox intent on nurturing the perfect farm! But when the lines between simulation and reality become blurred, real lives are put on the line.

STEP RIGHT UP! HURRY, HURRY, HURRY, HURRY!
Come test your skills at one of the many carnival games or experience the thrills of a looping hovercoaster moving at full speed! Visit one of the many concession stands to enjoy snack foods from across the galaxy! It’s all here and eagerly awaiting a group of adventurers enjoying a well-earned vacation or investigating a mystery lurking beneath the park’s cheerful facade. This double-sided map features a small carnival midway on one side, and a small section of a much larger (and cleaner) theme park on the other. Starfinder Flip-Mats present ready-to-use science fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Amusement Park, you’ll be ready for the next time your players want to unwind!

Creating a new NPC every time the player characters enter a shop or chat with a local on the street can be a real challenge, but the Starfinder 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!

April’s new game gear will include Pathfinder Lost Omens: Grand Bazaar Special Edition, Pathfinder Adventure Path #190: The Choosing (Stolen Fate 1 of 3), and Starfinder Adventure Path #51: Into the Dataverse (Drift Hackers 3 of 3), so subscribe today!

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Huzzah, it’s New Starfinder and Pathfinder Day! The Pathfinder Treasure Vault rulebook is at the top of our marquee in hardcover, Special Edition and Pocket Editions.

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Venture Into The Vault!
Pathfinder Treasure Vault reveals the glittering hoard of a terrifying dragon, as presented by the creature's plucky kobold assistant. This 224-page hardcover rulebook presents a catalog of new gear from nearly every category of equipment and magic item available in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game while introducing entirely new categories of items. Give your character the perfect tool for the job with signature weapons, customizable relics, and wondrous items to fit your every need while preparing for any eventuality with potions, elixirs, wands, and more!
—Pathfinder Treasure Vault back cover text

Pathfinder Treasure Vault is part of the Pathfinder Rulebook subscription, and Pathfinder Treasure Vault Special Edition is part of the Pathfinder Special Edition Rulebook subscription. The Pathfinder Treasure Vault Pocket Edition is a non-subscription offer.

The Gatewalkers Adventure Path continues with Pathfinder Adventure Path #188: They Watched the Stars (Gatewalkers 2 of 3), part of the Pathfinder Adventure Path subscription. Get started with the free Player’s Guide PDF! Also available for Foundry VTTs!

After they walked through that glowing gateway, nothing was ever the same. A band of characters become paranormal investigators in order to figure out the cause of a global amnesic episode. Their quest takes them to lands near, far, and outside reality altogether. Along the way, the characters meet fellow "gatewalkers," defeat alien monsters, and explore strange realms also touched by the so-called Missing Moment. And when it comes time to learn the grim truth of what happened to them on that fated summer night, what then?

The Starfinder Drift Hackers Adventure Path is the exciting conclusion of the Drift Crisis in which faster-than-light travel breaks down, and the galaxy is thrown into chaos. Go from 7th to 13th level as you travel into the dataverse to save the Pact Worlds!

None of you are strangers to adversity. You’re all veterans of adventure to some degree—not yet legendary heroes of myth whose names are whispered throughout the galaxy, but far from novices taking their first few steps into a wider world. However, like the rest of the galaxy, none of you has dealt with such a wide-reaching catastrophe as the Drift Crisis. Several months have passed since the Drift Crash began the upheaval, and speculation has run rampant on infospheres throughout the Pact Worlds and Veskarium about its causes and remedies. Will answers ever emerge? Can the Drift be restored to what it once was? Or are these throttled Drift travel times and constant interruptions in communications and shipping the new normal for every sapient being that relies on this form of faster-than-light travel?

—From the free Starfinder Drift Hackers Player’s Guide PDF

Starfinder Adventure Path #50: Clockwork Demons (Drift Hackers 2 of 3) part of the Starfinder Adventure Pathsubscription.

The Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse Special Edition is part of the Pathfinder Lost Omens Special Edition subscription. It’s a gorgeous addition to your bookshelf and another way to enhance your Strength of Thousands Adventure Path experience.

The Pathfinder Society subscription’s most recent offerings are Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-09: Killer in the Golden Mask and Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-10: Arclord's Abode, both in PDF only!

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-14: Ghost Level Delve is part of the Starfinder Society subscription.

This month we have two other non-subscription offers—Starfinder Bounty #7: Voyage on the River Betweenand Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Winter Forest.

Read the February 2023 Organized Play Scenario Previews blog for the exciting details of the new adventures, including a Bounty that gives you a one to two hour taste of Starfinder, even if you don’t yet play in the Starfinder Society. They are available to play for free at participating local game stores!

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Explore our Paizo Subscriptions and see what we’re releasing up to 9 months away. Like crowdfunding campaigns, by committing in advance, subscriptions help us estimate print runs, so we offer you a complimentary PDF. Ownership of a digital product lets you use our Paizo Connect system to sync with our digital partners—who can then also offer a discount on their products and services. If you’re interested in multiple subscriptions, you can save more with our Paizo Advantage offering.

The next hot batch of new releases will occur on March 29, 2023 and include Pathfinder Lost Omens: Firebrands, Starfinder Adventure: Drift Crisis Case Files, Starfinder Deck of Endless NPCs and the climactic Pathfinder Adventure Path #189: Dreamers of the Nameless Spires (Gatewalkers 3 of 3)!

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We know you will love what we got you—a fearsome foe or two, maybe even a troop or swarm, in every encounter. Happy Holidays!

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Starfinder Adventure Path #49: A Light in the Dark (Drift Hackers 1 of 3)

Author: Jessica Catalan
Cover Artist: Rodrigo Gonzalez Toledo

GLOOM AND DOOM
As the Drift Crisis continues, the heroes arrive at the Drift city of Alluvion only to find it dangerously unstable, both physically and politically. By agreeing to aid a desperate android priest of Casandalee, the heroes can help heal these divides. To do so, they must venture into a cursed part of the city where technology fails in order to restore light and power to the area.

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume begins the Drift Hackers Adventure Path and includes:

• “A Light in the Dark,” a Starfinder adventure for 7th-level characters, by Jessica Catalan.
• A player’s guide for this Adventure Path, with advice on making characters perfect for bringing an end to the Drift Crisis, by Joseph Blomquist.
• A toolbox featuring a look at Alluvion during the Drift Crisis, a treatise on cybernetic enhancements that includes new augmentations and feats for those who use them, a collection of interesting creatures, and a travelling satellite that helps androids live again, by Joseph Blomquist, Jessica Catalan, Alison Cybe, Andrew Geels, and Shan Wolf.
• Statistics and deck plans for a reliable exploratory starship, by Jessica Catalan.

Stay up to date, get a complimentary PDF, and help qualify for the Paizo Advantage discount with the Starfinder Adventure Path Subscription.

Learn more in the free Drift Hackers Player’s Guide.

Learn more about the Drift Crisis in which faster-than-light travel breaks down and the galaxy is thrown into chaos.

Starfinder Bounty #6: Songbird Rescue

A Starfinder Bounty designed for 1st-level characters written by Nicole Heits. Art by Alecksander Ribeiro.

Among the hand-built altars to forgotten and dead deities that cover the surface of the airless moon of Yashu-Indiri, a servant of a murderous god turns shrines into deathtraps and harnesses fell magic to drag down passing starships. When these engineered accidents cause a priestess of Shelyn—vanished goddess of art, love, and beauty—to go missing on a trip to Yashu-Indiri, a team of heroes is sent to locate and rescue her. If these heroes aren’t careful, they’ll be the next lives claimed in this grim harvest.

Starfinder Bounties are a limited run of short, entry-level, PDF-only adventures designed to get you playing Starfinder quickly. They are easily dropped into existing campaigns. While the content is sanctioned for use in the Starfinder Society Organized Play program, you don’t have to be in the program to enjoy them!

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-12: Envar's Expeditions

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters written by Kendra Leigh Speedling. Art by Luiz Lanzarin.

Take a tour of Near Space on the trail of Envar Tamm, star of the extreme travel v-log series Envar’s Expeditions. Ordered to save Envar and bring him home to his mother, the Starfinders track Envar’s digital data tags to exciting, over-the-top travel destinations to find and assist the thrill-seeking influencer. Survive a colossi-safari on Daimalko, outrace a storm on Gaskar III, mingle with the local brenneri on picturesque Varturan, and more! This is one vacation you’ll never forget!

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Pathfinder Society Guide Special Edition

THE NAME OF THE GAME!
Founded over 400 years ago, the Pathfinder Society has witnessed—and influenced—some of the most pivotal events for the Inner Sea region and beyond. Throughout it all, Pathfinder agents have held to their iconic adventuring creed: Explore, Report, Cooperate!
The Pathfinder Society Guide throws open the gates on one of the biggest adventuring associations on the world of Golarion. Ally with these intrepid scholars, oppose them with the help of their many foes, or join them to seek the heights of fame and glory within the pages of the Pathfinder Chronicles!

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

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Also available at Pathfinder Nexus.

Pathfinder Adventure Path #186: Ghost King’s Rage (Blood Lords 6 of 6)

Author: Jessica Catalan
Cover Artist: Natasha Nanook

RAGE AGAINST SHADOW
The newest Blood Lords have discovered who’s behind the conspiracy that threatens the nation. The ghost king Geb wants this traitor destroyed. The player characters must venture to the Boneyard to discover the location of the traitor’s realm, a place of shadowy horror and mind-bending reality! The Blood Lords Adventure Path concludes with “Ghost King’s Rage,” a complete adventure for 18th- to 20th-level characters.

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Learn more in the Blood Lords Player’s Guide.

Also available at Pathfinder Nexus and Foundry VTT.

Pathfinder Abomination Vaults Battle Cards

Delve Deep!
What untold horrors await in the sprawling megadungeon of the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path? This box contains 200 cards detailing every creepy aberration, sneaky hunter, and subterranean horror. Each card features a beautiful, full-color image on one side and that creature’s statistics on the other for quick and easy reference. Show your heroes what they’re facing while keeping the stats you need close at hand!

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Pathfinder Bounty #21: Against the Unliving

A Pathfinder Bounty designed for 3rd-level characters written by Sen H.H.S. Art by Sebastian Rodriguez.

The squire of a long-dead knight asks for the help of heroes in investigating the site of their master’s death. A bleak island awaits the heroes, now inhabited by the dead and undead alike. It’s up to the PCs to retrieve mementos of lost knights and lay to rest any lingering spirits on the island.

Pathfinder Bounties are a limited run of short, entry-level, PDF-only adventures designed to get you playing Pathfinder quickly. They are easily dropped into existing campaigns. While the content sanctioned for use in the Pathfinder Society Organized Play program, you don’t have to be in the program to enjoy them!

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-07: A Most Wondrous Exchange!

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 5th- through 8th-level characters written by Kendra Leigh Speedling. Art by Wassim Adkhal.

It's time for a trip to the Grand Bazaar of Absalom! This thriving market hosts wondrous shops of all sorts, whose proprietors are experts in a variety of wares. Having recently acquired a vast number of strange magic items, the Pathfinder Society needs groups of agents to visit the Grand Bazaar and exchange favors with these interesting shopkeepers in order to better understand some of the treasures that have fallen into the Society's hands. Thankfully, the Society's new ally, Biglock, has a good idea of where to start!

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Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Swamp Ruins

LOST IN THE SWAMP!
Testaments to both the stubbornness of architects and the power of nature, swampland ruins fall quickly but linger long. Be they abandoned and slowly sinking villages or remote, deteriorating fortresses in the wetlands, the ruins featured on this Flip-Mat no longer serve as castles or citadels. Now, only monsters dwell within! Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Swamp Ruins measures 24" × 30" unfolded, and 8" × 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!

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Paizo Product Schedule

January products release on Wednesday, the 25th. The highlights include Pathfinder Adventure Path #187: The Seventh Arch (Gatewalkers 1 of 3), Pathfinder Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide Special Edition, Pathfinder Adventure Path: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix and Battle Cards. Don’t miss them, subscribe today!

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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

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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

Our Starfinder releases include a hardcover rulebook filled with new types of alien species, an adventure where players can pilot starmetal mechs to oppose a dragon, and a map of a bustling city. Pathfinder players can now purchase an extensive hardcover that dramatically expands the Age of Lost Omens setting, a penultimate Adventure Path volume, and several accessories—including new WizKids minis!

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Starfinder Roleplaying Game

Starfinder Interstellar Species

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 to uncover all-new cultures, histories, and character options—but also 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 how to craft 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.

Read the preview blog.

Note: This product is part of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscription.

Starfinder Adventure: To Defy the Dragon

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!

Starfinder Adventure: 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.

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Starfinder Flip-Mat: Metropolis

Bright Lights, Big City
Nothing beats the hustle and bustle of a high-tech metropolis: citizens rushing to their destinations, hover vehicles locked in traffic jams, and vehicles of mass transit rumbling high above or far below the streets. Not to mention the undercurrent of adventure lurking in every alley, shopfront, or rooftop. This double-sided Starfinder Flip-Mat features the streets and skyscrapers of a cutting-edge city center on one side, and a wide-open traffic circle around a modern sculpture garden— perfect for a vehicle or mech combat—on the other. Starfinder Flip-Mats present ready-to-use science fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Metropolis, you’ll be ready the next time your players hit the town!

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Impossible Lands

Embrace the Unnatural
A war between two undying wizards once raged here for over a thousand years. Though peace has since reigned for millennia, the ghosts of wartime atrocities still haunt every corner of the lands they touched. People go about their day-to-day lives in a land that defies logic, praying the specters of history won’t rise again to plunge them back into chaos and carnage. Explore a world where cities are built on foundations of genies and wishes, where undead legions clash against titanic war engines forged from flesh. Travel a region where magic still writhes and roils from the wounds inflicted upon it—from the cavern depths where all spells lie dead to the scarred desert where the slightest arcane spark can erupt into a maelstrom. Can your heroes make their mark on a land ruled by the cruel egos of so many others, in the heart of the Impossible Lands?

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Impossible Lands Special Edition

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Pathfinder Adventure Path #185: A Taste of Ashes (Blood Lords 5 of 6)

Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
The newest Blood Lords follow a poisonous conspiracy to the bone-walled metropolis of Yled, just as the city is girding for war against the nation’s greatest enemy. From spectral theater performances to Yled’s secret defense installations, the Blood Lords must foil a plot to reduce the dead to ashes. The Blood Lords Adventure Path continues in “A Taste of Ashes,” a complete adventure for 15th- to 17th-level characters.

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Pathfinder Relics Deck

Magic That Grows With You!
Few things draw the attention of a hero more than a mysterious magic item, especially one that grows in power with them, becoming a legend in its own right! This deck allows you to plan out the powers of your relic and serves as a handy reminder of what mighty feats it can accomplish! The Pathfinder Relics Deck contains 84 relic power cards and 24 relic seeds, each featuring ideas for a powerful magic item!

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Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Deadly Mines Multi-Pack

Don’t Dig Too Deep!
Wondrous treasures can be found beneath Golarion’s surface. Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Deadly Mines Multi-Pack provides ready-to-use maps of four dangerous mines for the busy Game Master. Your heroes can explore a partially flooded surface mine, an abandoned shaft infested with fungus, winding tunnels leading to ancient ruins, or a sunken site of evil magic! Don’t waste time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Deadly Mines Multi-Pack, you’ll be ready the next time your players venture below!

This set includes two flip mats, each measuring 24" × 30" unfolded and 8" × 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!

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Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Monster Lairs

Beware: Monsters!
Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Monster Lairs Expansion Set is an addition to the Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Villain Lairs Starter Set, with 24 full- color 6 × 6-inch double-sided tiles stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason Engle. Not all foes are interested in plotting grand schemes or building complicated fortresses—sometimes, the worst foe is simply a monster. But even the most awful of monsters need somewhere to live! 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 monster’s den by hand when Flip-Tiles can do it for you? The Monster Lairs Expansion Set includes:

• Icy shore
• Soggy isles
• Underground caves
• Lava lairs
• Sky-high nests
• Dungeon dens

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Paizo Product Schedule

Our November physical street date is today, November 16. November digital subscriptions will authorize on November 28 and fulfill on November 30. The December physical subscriptions will authorize on November 28, start shipping November 30, and street date December 14. Our December digital subscriptions will authorize on December 12 and fulfill on December 14. December product highlights include: Starfinder Adventure Path #49: A Light in the Dark (Drift Hackers 1 of 3), Pathfinder Adventure Path #186: Ghost King’s Rage (Blood Lords 6 of 6), Pathfinder Lost Omens: Pathfinder Society Guide Special Edition, and Pathfinder Abomination Vaults Battle Cards!

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The Pathfinder Kingmaker Suite

Back in 2019, mere months after the launch of Pathfinder Second Edition, we also ran a crowdfunding campaign to update and expand the Kingmaker Adventure Path. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the Stolen Lands are once again yours to explore, with 13 different products using the Pathfinder First Edition, Second Edition, or the 5E rules systems.

The Kingmaker Adventure Path presents a full-length campaign that chronicles the rise of a new nation—a kingdom built and ruled by your player characters! Face off against bands of bloodthirsty bandits, deadly and dangerous monsters, and mysterious menaces from other realities as you fight to claim the Stolen Lands as your own. Will you rule with justice and mercy, or will you become the very monsters you fought to oppose? In the Kingmaker Adventure Path, the destiny of the world’s newest nation is yours to decide!

Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path

WHO RULES THE STOLEN LANDS?
The Stolen Lands have long been the domain of bandits and monsters, but no longer! Your party has been granted a charter to explore these wilds, defeat its dangers, and build a brand new nation. Yet not everyone will welcome you as new neighbors, and powerful supernatural forces have their own plans for the region. Can you defeat your kingdom’s enemies and become one of the greatest new nations in the world?

This hardcover edition of Kingmaker contains:

• All six chapters of the original Kingmaker Adventure Path, expanded and updated for use with Pathfinder Second Edition.
• Hundreds of pages of new content that expands the campaign to cover the full range of levels from 1 to 20.
• Extensive rules for building and running kingdoms, settlements, and armies, along with narrative-based rules for quickly resolving mass combat.

Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path Special Edition

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Pathfinder Kingmaker Companion Guide

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...
The heroes of the Stolen Lands need all the help they can get! The Pathfinder Kingmaker Companion Guide presents several fully detailed NPC companions ready to provide all sorts of assistance, as well as several new adventures set in the Stolen Lands. Expanded rules for camping in the wilds and enduring a wide range of hazardous weather events make the Kingmaker Companion Guide an indispensable addition to your Kingmaker campaign.

Pathfinder Kingmaker Companion Guide Special Edition

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Pathfinder Kingmaker Bestiary (PFRPG)

HERE THERE BE MONSTERS!
From feral beasts to supernatural spirits from the realm of fey, the Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path forces heroes to test their might against hundreds of foes—be they bandit lords, evil kings, or demigods. The Kingmaker Bestiary (First Edition) presents rules for many monsters and villains, along with traps, hazards, and potential allies compatible with any Pathfinder First Edition game. Challenge your heroes while playing through Kingmaker or a campaign of your own design!

Pathfinder Kingmaker Bestiary (5E)

HERE THERE BE MONSTERS!
From feral beasts to supernatural spirits from the realm of fey, the Kingmaker Adventure Path forces heroes to test their might against hundreds of foes—be they bandit lords, evil kings, or demigods. This book presents rules for many monsters and villains, along with traps, hazards, and potential allies compatible with any 5E game. Challenge your heroes while playing through the Kingmaker Adventure Path or a campaign of your own design!

Pathfinder Kingmaker Kingdom Management Screen

GUARD YOUR DOMAIN!
Keep the essential rules for kingdoms and armies on hand—and protect your notes and die rolls from players’ eyes—with the Kingmaker Kingdom Management Screen! This beautiful four-panel, portrait-style screen features the sprawling map of the Stolen Lands on the players’ side, while the GM’s side presents key information from the Kingmaker Adventure Path’s rules for Kingdom turns and warfare encounters.

The Kingmaker Kingdom Management Screen gives you the tools you need to keep Kingdom turns and warfare battles moving: a list of Kingdom skills, important notes on Kingdom and Army level advancement, turn orders, Kingdom events, army conditions, and more. Constructed with high-grade hardcover book stock, this durable screen is perfect for travel, convention play, and regular use.

Pathfinder Kingmaker Kingdom Management Tracker

BUILD YOUR KINGDOM!
The Stolen Lands are a vast wilderness, long held by bandits and monsters. Until today! Now, a new band of heroes explores this wilderness frontier. What sort of nation will they build? Who will they ally with? What fate lies in store for the world’s newest kingdom?

With the Kingmaker Kingdom Management Tracker, you’ll have a living document that tracks the growth of your kingdom from its first day to the height of its glory! This sturdy folder’s 16 kingdom-defining pages include plenty of room to track your kingdom’s statistics, along with its settlements and armies. So venture out into the Stolen Lands and build yourselves a kingdom that’s the envy of the world!

Pathfinder Kingmaker Poster Map Folio

YOUR KINGDOM AWAITS!
During the Kingmaker Adventure Path your player characters can build and rule an entire kingdom! From exploring and mapping unknown regions to leading dangerous expeditions into the depths of an ancient wilderness, the Kingmaker Poster Map Folio provides the maps your players need to leave their legacy!

Within this map folio, you’ll find six huge four-panel poster maps essential to the Kingmaker Adventure Path: the mysterious village of Varnhold, the oppressed city of Pitax, and four linked maps that present the infamous Stolen Lands in their entirety.

Even if you aren’t running or playing the Kingmaker Adventure Path, the maps inside can serve as new wilderness regions, villages, or cities for any RPG campaign.

Your kingdom awaits!

Pathfinder Kingmaker Pawn Box

THREATS TO THE KINGDOM
The monsters are coming! The Kingmaker Pawn Box is here to help you keep your players busy with the wide range of allies and enemies they’re destined to encounter during your Kingmaker campaign. This jam-packed collection contains hundreds of monsters pulled from both the Kingmaker Adventure Path and Kingmaker Companion Guide, perfect for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any fantasy RPG. Pawns include lumbering giants, sinister fey, carnivorous plants, wild beasts, deadly bandits, traitorous brigands, helpful companions, and more. Printed on sturdy cardstock, these pawns slot into a size-appropriate plastic base from the Pathfinder Pawns Base Assortment, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures. The Kingmaker Pawn Box is the best way to ensure you’ve got the perfect monster on hand for every Pathfinder Roleplaying Game encounter!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Kingmaker Adventure Path Campsite Multi-Pack

PITCH YOUR TENTS!
Whether it’s a semi-permanent encampment, a fortified wilderness hideout, or simply a place to set up tents, every wilderness explorer eventually needs a campsite. This Flip-Mat Multi-Pack features three different campsites for your players to explore: a simple clearing in the woods, a hidden forest hideout, and a sprawling goblin encampment.

Each Flip-Mat in the Kingmaker Adventure Path Campsite Multi-Pack measures 24" × 30" unfolded and 8" × 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-Mat: Kingmaker Adventure Path Noble Manor Multi-Pack

RULE YOUR KINGDOM!
Be it an aristocrat’s manor or a sovereign’s throne hall, all nobles and rulers need places to live and hold court. This Flip-Mat Multi-Pack features two wings of a sprawling mansion fit for nobility as well as two versions of a throne room: rustic wood and elegant stone.

Each Flip-Mat in the Kingmaker Adventure Path Noble Manor Multi-Pack measures 24" × 30" unfolded and 8" × 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-Mat: Kingmaker Adventure Path River Kingdoms Ruins Multi-Pack

LEGACIES LEFT BEHIND!
Mysterious ruins lie hidden within far-off reaches in the wilderness, ancient remnants of long-lost civilizations. This Flip-Mat Multi-Pack features four ruined locations: an overgrown keep, a decrepit river crossing, a dilapidated swamp settlement, and a forgotten shrine.

Each Flip-Mat in the Kingmaker Adventure Path River Kingdom Ruins Multi-Pack measures 24" × 30" unfolded and 8" × 10" folded. A Flip-Mat’s coated surface can handle any dry-erase, wet-erase, or permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master’s arsenal!

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Legends Special Edition

The heroes of the Age of Lost Omens forge their path through an uncertain world, but that world has been shaped by many others who came before or who now stand beside them!

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

Pathfinder Adventure: Crown of the Kobold King

RETURN OF THE (KOBOLD) KING!
One of the first Pathfinder adventures returns in an expanded format! The town of Falcon's Hollow is in peril as Kobold King Merlokrep, first of his name, is ready to expand his domain! A classic adventure awaits, ready to bring a new brand of heroes from 1st to 6th level.

Pathfinder Adventure: Crown of the Kobold King Special Edition

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Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Crown of the Kobold King

FEAR THE KOBOLD KING!
Trouble brews in the hinterlands of the lumber town of Falcon’s Hollow! This Flip-Mat details a ruined monastery and a local cemetery—sites that both play key roles in the machinations of the sinister and cruel Kobold King. These sites are suitable for use in play with Pathfinder Adventure: Crown of the Kobold King or for any ruined monastery or rural cemetery found in your own campaign.

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Crown of the Kobold King measures 24" × 30" unfolded, and 8" × 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 Adventure Path #184: The Ghouls Hunger (Blood Lords 4 of 6)

THE BLOODY BURDEN OF ARISTOCRACY
Formally inducted as Blood Lords, the characters find the danger accompanying such a prestigious promotion to be just as great as the reward. To thwart a poisonous plot, the characters must fend off power-hungry peers, escort the priest-king of a ghoul nation, and quell a cannibalistic cult. The Blood Lords Adventure Path continues with “The Ghouls Hunger,” a complete adventure for 11th- to 14th-level characters.

Pathfinder Adventure Path #184: The Ghouls Hunger is also available on Foundry VTT, learn more here!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Pirate Island

“X” MARKS THE SPOT!
Wonders (and dangers!) await you on these shores! Whether the adventurers find themselves shipwrecked on a remote shoreline or have come seeking hidden treasure, this map has you covered! Don’t waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Pirate Island, you’ll be ready the next time the PCs set sail!

Pathfinder Book of the Dead Battle Cards

UNLOCK THE GRIM CRYPT!
Book of the Dead adds a massive number of undead creatures to use as adversaries and for summon spells in your game, and these 120 cards make the dead rise even the easier! Each card features a beautiful, full-color image of a Book of the Dead creature on one side, while the other provides that creature’s statistics for quick and easy reference. Make the monsters come alive with this beautiful accessory and always have the stats on hand!

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Starfinder Adventure Path: Dead Suns

A THREAT TO ALL LIFE
When a fragment of an ancient alien superweapon surfaces in 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 both 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.

Starfinder Adventure Path: Dead Suns Special Edition

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Starfinder Adventure Path #48: Masters of Time and Space (Drift Crashers 3 of 3)

FIND YOUR WAY HOME
Somewhere inside the Tesseract—a colossal four-dimensional structure hidden in the Drift—lies the secret to preventing galactic catastrophe! But the heroes aren’t the only ones prowling the never-ending corridors and bizarre architecture of this ancient, ruined megastructure, as their nemesis, the erinyes Malacanta, is hot on their heels!

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume concludes the Drift Crashers Adventure Path and includes:

• “Masters of Time and Space,” a Starfinder adventure for 5th-level characters, by Ron Lundeen.
• Ways for you to continue your Drift Crashers campaign well beyond the final fight, by Joshua Hennington and Jason Keeley.
• A toolbox featuring a collection of space anomalies, weird spells and curious biotech augmentations, a collection of beings from other planes, and a world whose atmosphere will alter your perceptions, by Tineke Bolleman, Jessica Catalan, John Curtin, Sasha Laranoa Harving, Ron Lundeen, Quinn Murphy, Shay Snow, Sara Thompson, and Isabelle Thorne.
• Statistics and deck plans for a warship constructed in the very forges of Hell, by Ron Lundeen.

Starfinder Bounty #5: Echoes of Woe

A Starfinder Bounty designed for 1st-level characters.

A century ago, tragedy claimed the lives of the patients and staff at a rural Castrovelian hospital. Now, thanks to a profitable land deal, investors from the nearby city of Qabarat have given the town a means to demolish the dilapidated building and build a brand new laboratory in its place. All that remains is to enter the hospital and clear it for demolition. There’s just one catch: the hospital is haunted, and no one in town dares enter… It’s up to a team of outside troubleshooters to brave the hospital’s haunted halls and clear the site for demolition! Will our heroes survive their brush with the past? Or will they be the hospital’s latest victims?

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Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-05: The Arclord Who Never Was

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

A skull with glowing eyes was among the many objects which recently turned up in the Pathfinder Society’s vaults, and none of the other objects are quite so talkative as this one! In fact, the skull isn’t an object at all, but a person. The Society isn’t sure who, or what, they are, and the skull seems to have lost their memories. Nonetheless, the skull requests—no, insists—that the Society return them to their former glory at once!

Grand Archivist Zarta Dralneen has determined that the skull is from Quantium, the magic-filled capital of Nex. She dispatches a group of Pathfinders to conduct a simple research mission and guide the skull around the city, hoping to jar the skull’s memories and learn the truth.

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-09: Counterfeit History

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

When an archaeological expedition co-managed by the Starfinder Society and Cahadusar University is imperiled by the Firewings gang, the Society wastes no time dispatching a pair of formidable Starfinders to save the day. When an internal inquiry reveals these Starfinders are cunning criminals, a fresh team of agents is sent to the Marixah Republic to bring these malfeasants to justice, put an end to their schemes, and salvage the archaeological expedition!

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-10: Shadow of the Vault Lord

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 9th- through 12th-level characters.

A group of elite Starfinders is called to Salvation’s End to convince the residents of Vault-23A to evacuate the false moon. But the citizens of this utopia feel no fear and claim to have successfully fought off the forces of the mysterious Vault Lord—a tyrant who seeks to seize Salvation’s End as his kingdom. As the Vault Lord’s plans for conquest enter the next phase, the Starfinders are stranded behind enemy lines and must overcome a gauntlet of traps, trained soldiers, and the Vault Lord’s sadistic lieutenant to escape with their lives!

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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.

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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!

This month’s new releases include abundant new lore, new adventures of varying lengths, new rules sprinkled throughout, established content that has been repackaged in more convenient or collectable formats, and a new set of Flip-Tiles can be used for a wide variety of tabletop RPGs!

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Pathfinder Lost Omens: Travel Guide

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YOUR JOURNEY BEGINS!
Don’t let the best of Golarion pass you by! This handy book presents the highlights of the Inner Sea region to help any and all curious travelers plan where to go and what to see. Gain local insights related to the most extravagant festivals, the greatest hits of a storied theater scene, and the delicacies of fine restaurants. Discover notable athletes featured in upcoming sports competitions or the latest trends in fashion essential for dazzling onlookers at balls. Explore the vast, rich variety the Inner Sea has to offer!

Also available on Hero Lab and Pathfinder Nexus.

Don’t miss yesterday’s blog “A Taste of Thuvia!”

Starfinder Armory Pocket Edition

GEAR UP!
It’s a dangerous universe out there, and often the difference between survival and being the next meal for an angry ksarik is having the right equipment. From guns and augmentations to high-tech and magical devices for every imaginable situation, Starfinder Armory is your guide to everything you need, whether you’re a frontline fighter, stealthy spy, or scholarly spellcaster. Inside this book you’ll find the following:

Scores of new weapons, filling out the options for weapons of every category, level, and type as well as rules to customize your weapons through weapon accessories, weapon fusions, and different weapon manufacturers.

New suits of armor, including light, heavy, and powered armor for nearly every level and numerous armor upgrades.

A wide range of new equipment-themed player options, including class features for every class! Dozens of new pieces of technological, magic, and hybrid items, as well as numerous personal items, new augmentations from cybernetics to magitech and necrografts, and more!

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

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Character Guide Special Edition

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ALLIES AND ANCESTRIES
An adventurer’s life can be difficult, but long journeys and heavy burdens are easier when you have company. This guide to the world of Pathfinder presents the people and organizations that can help—or hinder—heroes like you!

The Pathfinder Lost Omens Character Guide features new heritages and feats for existing ancestries, as well as three brand-new ancestries for unusual heroes forging a place for themselves in an uncertain age. Join five of Golarion’s most influential organizations, fight alongside the rank-and-file members provided in these pages, or clash against them in pursuit of your own passions and goals!

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

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Starfinder Adventure Path #47: Nightmare Scenario (Drift Crashers 2 of 3)

ONLY A BAD DREAM?

Desna, goddess of dreams, chooses the crew of the Primoratato help save victims of the Drift Crash. Soon they’re rescuing a solarian cosmonastery from a black hole and locating a family of explorers lost along the River of Souls. Though Desna might welcome them to Cynosure, her personal home inside a star, the crew quickly discovers their enemies have followed them and now threaten the deity’s very realm!

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume continues the Drift Crashers Adventure Path and includes:

• “Nightmare Scenario,” a Starfinder adventure for 3rd-level characters, by Jenny Jarzabski.
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  A look at the Church of Desna—the goddess of dreams, luck, and the stars—including options for characters who worship her, by Jenny Jarzabski and Isabelle Thorne.

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  A toolbox featuring a tour of Cynosure—the gossamer realm of Desna—a handful of strange and delightful creatures, and a pleasure world under threat, by Joseph Blomquist, Sasha Laranoa Harving, Jenny Jarzabski, and Quinn Murphy.

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  Statistics and deck plans for Curiosity, a scientific vessel refitted and crewed by the inquisitive Wise family, by Jenny Jarzabski.[end spoiler tag]

Pathfinder Adventure Path #182: Graveclaw (Blood Lords 2 of 6)

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TOIL AND TROUBLE

The troubleshooters must seek out the hag coven pulling the strings of a poisonous plot. From shadowed forests to undersea communities, between rusted-out factories and university lecture halls, the characters must investigate trails of misery and fear—or end up stewing in a hag’s cauldron!

The Blood Lords Adventure Path continues with “Graveclaw,” a complete adventure for 4th- to 7th-level characters.

Also available on Foundry VTT and Pathfinder Nexus.

Pathfinder Bounty #20: Burden in Bloodcove

Designed for 3rd-level characters.

A member of the Aspis Consortium is tasked with inspecting all incoming shipments to the port of Bloodcove. The job is too much for one person and she calls in skilled adventurers to assist with the inspections. Of course, not all is as it seems, and...

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the Consortium’s many enemies have snuck dangers into several of the incoming shipments. It’s up to the hired help to figure out what’s good for transport and what needs a more ‘thorough’ inspection

Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Villain Lairs Set

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WELCOME TO MY LAIR!
You can’t be a proper villain without a memorable lair to populate with monstrous minions and devious traps! Next time your players confront their latest nemesis, you won’t have to draw out a villain’s entire den. Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Villain Lairs Starter Set provides beautifully illustrated 6" × 6" map tiles that can be used to construct all manner of sinister strongholds. Inside, you’ll find 42 richly crafted double-sided map tiles and six tabbed dividers to keep them organized. This starter set is only the first step; Flip-Tiles expansion sets allow you to expand your lairs in size and scope with nearly endless variety. So, stop your sketching and start your flipping today! The Villain Lairs Starter Set includes:

• Wilderness forts
• Underground retreats
• Sinister towers
• Remote ruins
• Dungeon dens
• Hidden waterways

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Pathfinder Society Intro: Year of Boundless Wonder

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

Wonder abounds! The Pathfinder Society's vaults have suddenly recieved a huge treasure trove of precious items from around the world and beyond. Much remains mysterious about these objects, from their origins to the reason the trove's original owner was so desperate to be rid of it. A group of novice agents has the opportunity to explore the troves' wonders for themselves, but not all is as it seems. After being drawn into an otherworldly realm, they must use their wits and fight to escape with their lives!

Intro: Year of Boundless Wonder is the introduction to the plot of the Year of Boundless Wonder. This scenario presents treasures, characters, and themes that will feature in Year 4's metaplot, and so it is is a natural starting point for players looking to jump into the action.

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-02: Return to the Grave

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Following the desolation of Lastwall at the hands of the Whispering Tyrant, untold horrors wander the woods and roads of the region now known as the Gravelands. Many small refugee settlements are scattered throughout the area, their citizens either helplessly trapped behind enemy lines, or stubbornly hoping they won’t be noticed by Tar-Baphon’s undead armies.
One such settlement became a new home for a Pathfinder agent—a dedicated member of the Radiant Oath faction—who had been traveling in Lastwall when the nation fell. The agent decided to help those in need rather than flee the Gravelands, and they’ve managed to keep the settlement protected... so far.

Now with the settlement burgeoning with refugees and the Whispering Tyrant’s forces drawing near, the agent has made a desperate attempt to reach a Pathfinder lodge in Ustalav. They barely made it out alive—and now they’re asking for agents to return to the Gravelands and aid their stranded friends!

Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-03: Linnorm’s Legacy

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

King Estrid of the Ironbound Islands has put out a call for Pathfinders to explore the Island of the Ancestors, but first the Society must earn her approval. Gorm Greathammer, a prince, warrior, and leader of the Grand Archive faction, has traveled to Halgrim to meet with King Estrid—and her crag linnorm companion, Boiltongue—and forge a new alliance for the Society. Talks have been going well, but the arrival of Boiltongue’s children in the city has thrown everything into chaos! Gorm senses the negotiations are about to collapse and sends for a team of Pathfinders to help keep an eye on Boiltongue’s children while he wraps up talks with King Estrid. Babysitting five rambunctious linnorm siblings is about as easy as it sounds (which is to say, not at all), and the Pathfinders are about to have their hands full!

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-06: Tarnished Legacy: Historia’s Holdout

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

For months the Starfinder Society has sifted through the wreckage of Histora-Prime’s life, working to put an end to any of Historia-Prime’s remaining schemes and make reparations for his many crimes....

...spoilers

When Celita discovers record of a hidden complex on Absalom Station owned by Historia-Prime, she and Ixthia dispatch a team of Starfinders to investigate the complex, uncover its purpose, and shut the site down for good. What lies within Historia-Prime’s final holdout?

Can any good come from the tarnished legacy Historia-Prime has left behind?

This is the first scenario in the two-part Tarnished Legacy story arc. The second scenario is Starfinder Society Scenario #5-08: Tarnished Legacy: Star Sugar Superstar!!!

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-07: Planar Bloom

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

Unstable planar matter ejected from the Drift has collided with Akiton’s wastes, causing regional destruction and rapid biological mutations. Yet from this collision sprouts opportunity, as the planar collision terraforms Great Gwaz into a lush, jungle paradise. At the request of famed Akitonian Starfinder Avor Stelek, a team of Starfinders is dispatched to investigate the so called “planar bloom.” Can the Starfinders stop the planar bloom’s spread? More importantly: should they?

This scenario is one of four stand-alone Starfinder Society Scenarios directly tied to the Drift Crisis a galaxy-wide catastrophe detailed in Starfinder Drift Crisis. While basic knowledge of the Drift Crisis enriches the experience of this adventure, it isn’t required. The Starfinder Society Drift Crisis Scenarios include: Starfinder Society Scenario Special #4-99: A Time of Crisis, Starfinder Society Scenario #5-04: Fragment of the 4th, Starfinder Society Scenario #5-07: Planar Bloom, and Starfinder Society Scenario #5-14.

Pathfinder Society Special #3-99: Fate in the Future

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 8th-level characters (subtiers 1-4 & 5-8).

The Pathfinder Society dispatches its best agents when it receives word from the Woodsedge Lodge of a mysterious anomaly in the magical pathway known as the Maze of the Open Road...

...spoiler

Traveling through the maze, the agents find themselves a world away from home. Only by learning the source of the anomaly can the Pathfinder Society hope to regain full use of one of its most important tools for transportation. However, a secret that spans an unfathomable amount of time rests at the heart of the dangerous expedition.

This is an interactive special that leads directly into the events of Starfinder Society Special #3-99: Perils of the Past.

Starfinder Society Special #3-99: Perils of the Past

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 8th-level characters (subtiers 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, & 7-8).

Delve deep into frozen ruins on the planet Akiton as part of a major Starfinder Society expedition to chart the area and investigate its temporal anomalies. Encounter strange creatures, powerful artifacts, and help two time-lost companions reunite! Content in this interactive special ties in to Pathfinder Society Special #3-99: Fate in the Future.

Pathfinder Adventure Card Society #7-99: The Protean’s Prank

A surge of chaotic magic sweeps up a group of travelers, who find themselves catapulted into a variety of different adventures, with themes and locales that pay homage to the last few years of Pathfinder Adventure Card Society stories. They must uncover the cause of this disruption and stop it at its source.

This Pathfinder Adventure Card Society special adventure requires the Core Set and the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path.

See August 2022 Organized Play Scenario Previews for more detail!

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Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Dungeon

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SEEK THE DUNGEON’S SECRETS!
The biggest Flip-Mats in history just got bigger! This enormous map presents a sprawling dungeon complex on each side—one side a tangled dungeon with rooms filled with strange sources of magic, and the other a two-tiered dungeon bisected by a vast chasm that drops away into a river of lava.

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Dungeon measures 30" × 46" unfolded, and 8" × 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!

Starfinder Adventure Path #46: The Perfect Storm (Drift Crashers 1 of 3)

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THE DRIFT IS BROKEN
Galactic disaster strikes just as the crew of the Marata comes under attack by pirates in the midst of a solar storm, and the survivors find themselves hurtling through time, space, and the planes! Soon, they're being chased by infernal legions, fleeing the first layer of Hell to parallel dimensions and the distant future. All they want is to get home—but first, they'll have to survive!

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume begins the Drift Crashers Adventure Path and includes:

• “The Perfect Storm,” a Starfinder adventure for 1st-level characters, by Jessica Redekop.
• A player's guide for this Adventure Path, with advice on making characters perfect for the Drift Crash and the Drift Crisis that follows, by Joshua Hennington.
• A toolbox featuring planar character options, diabolical fiends, and other creatures, by Joseph Blomquist, Sasha Laranoa Harving, Quinn Murphy, Jessica Redekop, and Isabelle Thorne.
• Statistics and deck plans for the Primorata, a unique vessel created when two starships merged into one, housing an artifact called the Signal Chaos Engine, by Jessica Redekop.

Starfinder Alien Archive 3 & 4 Battle Cards

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ALIEN DANGER IN THE CARDS!
Starfinder Alien Archive 3 and Alien Archive 4 are excellent tools for planning science fantasy adventures, but this box of over 300 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 3 or Alien Archive 4 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 face while keeping the creature’s abilities at the ready, and watch your game come alive!

Starfinder Spell Cards Supplemental

Part of the Starfinder Accessories subscription.

Just like the galaxy, the magic of Starfinder is infinite! Starfinder Spell Cards Supplemental is the must-have accessory for those spellcasting science-fantasy heroes whose knowledge has no bounds. More than 200 spell reference cards, covering a multitude of unique spells found in Starfinder’s hardcovers and Adventure Path volumes, give players instant access to key game details at a glance!

Pathfinder Adventure Path #180: The Smoking Gun (Outlaws of Alkenstar 3 of 3)

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A BULLET IS BEST
Vengeance-seeking vigilantes must infiltrate Alkenstar’s upper crust, master a potent combination of eldritch magic and clockwork engineering, and wield the awesome power of black powder to stop their archenemy’s plot to upend the city. In this action-packed finale, the party members face their greatest challenges yet. Can they clear their names and settle their gunmetal grudges? Or will the forces of evil draw first? The Outlaws of Alkenstar Adventure Path concludes with “The Smoking Gun,” a complete adventure for 8th- to 10th-level characters.

Starfinder Alien Archive Pocket Edition

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Strange aliens both friendly and fearsome fill this tome of creatures designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! From the gravity- manipulating frujais and planet-killing novaspawn to space goblins and security robots, the creatures in this codex will challenge adventurers no matter what strange worlds they’re exploring. What’s more, player rules for a host of creatures let players not just fight aliens, but be them! Inside this book, you’ll find the following:

• Over 80 bizarre life-forms both classic and new, from the reptilian ikeshtis and energy-bodied hallajins to robotic anacites and supernatural entities from beyond the realms of mortals.
• Over 20 races with full player rules, letting you play everything from a winged dragonkin to a hyperevolved floating brain.
• New alien technology to help give your character an edge, including weapons, armor, magic items, and more.
• A robust NPC-creation system to let Game Masters build any aliens or creatures they can imagine.
• New rules for magical monster summoning, quick templates to modify creatures on the fly, and more!

Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-16: Escape from Oppara

Part of the Pathfinder Society subscription.

The plan starts like this: first, try to flee the city… but make sure they see you doing it! Escape from Oppara is part of the ongoing Taldor metaplot arc in the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It is the second and final scenario in the arc, which began with Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-11: No Time for Treason. While playing the previous scenario enhances the narrative of this two-part story arc, it is not required.

Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-17: Dreams of a Dustbound Isle

Part of the Pathfinder Society subscription.

Pathfinders stationed at the Grand Lodge have been experiencing strange shared dreams. The dreams reveal a mysterious island surrounded by dust and shadows. In the dreams, someone is trapped. They’re calling for help. And someone—or something—doesn’t want them to leave.

Dreams of a Dustbound Isle is part of the ongoing Absalom metaplot arc in the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It is the third of four scenarios in the arc, which began with Pathfinder Society Intro: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries and Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-06: Struck by Shadows. The arc will conclude with Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-19: Mean Streets of Shadow Absalom (Levels 7–10; July 2022). While playing the scenarios in order enhances the narrative of this four-part story arc, it is not required.

Starfinder Society Scenario #5-04: Fragment of the 4th

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In the aftermath of the Drift Crash, the Starfinder Society dispatches their flagship, Master of Stars, to trawl the distant corners of Pact Worlds space for signs of stranded people, derelict starships, and dangerous planar matter ejected from the Drift. When a starship familiar to the Society, the Triunite vessel the Chronicler, is discovered immobile and powerless, Fitch sends a team of Starfinders to investigate. But this routine rescue mission will lead them far beyond the corridors of the Chronicler, to an annexed Drift beacon and the metaphorical doorstep of the mysterious "4th."

This scenario is one of four stand-alone Starfinder Society Scenarios directly tied to the Drift Crisis, a galaxy-wide catastrophe detailed in Starfinder Drift Crisis. While basic knowledge of the Drift Crisis enriches the experience of this adventure, it is not required. The Starfinder Society Drift Crisis Scenarios include: Starfinder Society Scenario Special #4-99: A Time of Crisis, Starfinder Society Scenario #5-04: Fragment of the 4th, Starfinder Society Scenario #5-07: Planar Bloom, and Starfinder Society Scenario #5-14.

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Please join us for our 2-hour live Twitch show talking about all things Pathfinder and Starfinder, featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests, on Friday, June 24, 2022, from 4–6 p.m. Pacific. This show falls on the heels of PaizoCon and before Gen Con, so we will dive into the Starfinder Drift Crashers Adventure Path, Pathfinder Dark Archive, the Pathfinder Blood Lords Adventure Path, and the new Pathfinder Society Year of Boundless Wonder. The scheduled guests are Mike Kimmel, Jason Keeley and James Case. Since all of these were showcased at PaizoCon, we will continue those conversions and make time for more Q&A with Twitch Chat.

Let’s get ready by exploring the Starfinder Drift Crashers Players Guide!

The Perfect Storm is coming to launch the 3-volume Drift Crashers Adventure Path. Drift Crashers is part of the Drift Crisis, an event taking place across the entire Starfinder game line, in which faster-than-light travel breaks down and the galaxy is thrown into chaos! Inside the free Starfinder Drift Crashers Players Guide, you will find information about the Marata, your new home away from home—and your only one for a while.

Before your group starts to make characters, work together to choose communal backgrounds based on being prominent members of the crew, like pleasure cruisers, reunited family, scientific researchers, or traveling entertainers.

Then flesh out the crew. As you make your character, create and name a prominent NPC aboard the Marata with whom your character has a personal connection (hereafter referred to as a Key NPC). The Players Guide suggests from which you can select. Your bond with them can take any form you and your GM agree on: close pals, partners, friendly rivals, and so on. No matter what, you can depend on them. Key NPCs are also excellent opportunities for backup characters if a PC suffers an unfortunate fate.

Now, focus on the ship. Each player can choose a custom modification to the Marata. They each provide different benefits and bonuses. Examples include a chapel, exercise stations, a manufacturer-grade crafting station, and a portable virtual entertainment system!

Select the gear you might have brought with you on the trip, specialized gear you might want to craft to weather the storms ahead, and a new creature companion you might attract along the way. Consider armor upgrades like a Medical Analysis Kit, a companion like the rift remora, or a weapon like the destroyer shillelagh!

Don’t miss the new PLANAR TRAVELER theme!

Whether you are or aren’t a native of the Material Plane, it certainly holds little sway over you. Why go to the vidgame arcade when you could sample the endless delights of Elysium? Why settle your disputes at the local courthouse when you could get the opinion of the perfect arbiters of Axis? Why simply kill your enemies when you could annihilate their souls with the help of Abaddon? Regardless of your tendencies, focus (or lack of focus) on particular planes, or motivation for traveling, your knowledge of realities beyond your own is unmatched.

Be sure to read wisdom and guidance about the journey ahead. You aren’t experienced, battle-hardened warriors—at least, you aren’t yet. Don’t be afraid to be afraid!

Download the Starfinder Drift Crashers Players Guide for free today!

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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!

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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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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

This product is part of the Pathfinder Maps Subscription.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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 September 2021 product release date is scheduled for the 22nd, less than a month away. So, lets preview what the Fall equinox will bring to Paizo.com and your favorite local game store! Beware some light adventure spoilers.

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 army of robotic nanites that empower and defend you in battle!

Iconic nanocyte illustration by Michele Giorgi

• 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!

Mechs on pages 110-111

• New rules to enhance gameplay with customizable vehicles, demolitions, and dynamic hacking.

Vehicle art on pages 74-75

• 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.

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!

Station scene on page 12

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 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.

Cover scene by Setiawan Lee

Starfinder Adventure Path: 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?

Adventure opener on page 2

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.

Those are the biggest Pathfinder and Starfinder titles available in just a few weeks, but you won’t want to miss the new accessories to make your games complete: Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Battle Cards, Pathfinder Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Pawn Collection, Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Thieves' Guild, Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Fortress Walls & Towers Expansion, or the Starfinder Flip-Mat: Space Colony.

Join us for episode 5 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific tonight. Paizo LIVE is our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and guests talking about all things Pathfinder and Starfinder. You can watch past episodes on YouTube.

Scheduled guests include:

• Development Manager Linda Zayas-Palmer to discuss Starfinder and Pathfinder Society Achievement Point boons.
• Developer Thurston Hillman to discuss upcoming digital products.
• Development Manager Ron Lundeen to discuss Pathfinder Adventure Path #169: Kindled Magic and Starfinder Adventure Path #40: Planetfall.
• Pathfinder Lead Designer Logan Bonner to discuss Secrets of Magic.
• Starfinder Senior Developer John Compton to discuss Tech Revolution.
• Alexandria Bustion, co-author of Pathfinder Adventure Path #169: Kindled Magic.
• Misha Bushyager, co-author of Starfinder Adventure: Junker’s Delight.

We’ll take your questions before and during the show, so ask them here, and we’ll pick our favorites. Then we’ll see you tonight for Paizo LIVE at twitch.tv/officialpaizo!

Adventures Ahead!

Aaron Shanks,
Marketing and Media Manager

Paizo LIVE is our almost-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about all things Pathfinder and Starfinder. Join us for episode 5 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific next Friday, August 13. Catch past episodes on YouTube.

Scheduled guests include:

• Organized Play Managing Developer Linda Zayas-Palmer to discuss Starfinder and Pathfinder Society Achievement Point boons.
• Development Manager Ron Lundeen to discuss Pathfinder Adventure Path #169: Kindled Magic and Starfinder Adventure Path #40: Planetfall.
• Pathfinder Lead Designer Logan Bonner to discuss Secrets of Magic.
• Starfinder Senior Developer John Compton and Editor K. Tessa Newton to discuss Tech Revolution.
• Alexandria Bustion, co-author of Kindled Magic.
• Misha Bushyager, co-author of Starfinder Adventure: Junker’s Delight.

We’ll take your questions before and during the show, so ask them here, and we’ll pick our favorites. Then we’ll see you on Friday, August 13, for Paizo LIVE at twitch.tv/officialpaizo!

Adventures Ahead!

Aaron Shanks,
Marketing and Media Manager

That morning, several survey teams landed on the planet—which scientists back in the Pact Worlds had named Weydana-4—and began taking samples of the soil, the plants, and just about everything they could get their hands on. Long-distance scans had revealed that the planet had a breathable atmosphere, normal weather patterns, and an abundance of flora and fauna, but the corporate sponsors wanted everything double-checked firsthand and in advance of the hundreds of settlers that would soon be arriving.

But Lixette de Courtois was born and raised on Absalom Station, and though she spent years studying newly discovered planets like this one from afar, this was her first time setting foot on one. And she didn’t want to spend it scrounging through the dirt. When Zheffori, a biologist from Castrovel, shouted in excitement after finding a pile of hardened droppings from some unknown animal, Lixette muttered an excuse of “getting a better vantage point,” put her datapad on a crate, and climbed the nearby rise.

Her boots swished through the tall grass as she stepped out from the shade of several blue-leafed trees. The sun warmed her face as she fixed her gaze on the cloud-topped mountain range in the distance. Somewhere, a bird chirped. She took a deep breath of clean, sweet-smelling air and smiled.

“I could get used to this,” she mused. The bird continued to sing, but Lixette couldn’t really say whether or not it did so in response to her.

Lixette began to stroll along the top of the ridge until she caught the scent of something sweet. She stopped where the ground to her left became a sheer cliff. Approximately 150 feet below, an array of brightly colored flowers sprouted from a sprawling bush. Thick vines clung to the cliff face and reached all the way to the top, and vibrant blooms adorned these vines, providing the source of the fragrance. She squatted down to pluck one of the flowers, eager to bring it right under her nostrils for a good, long sniff.

Suddenly, the vine shot up and wrapped around her wrist.

Lixette let out a surprised shout. Again, the bird tweeted. Lixette was starting to think it was mocking her.

She pulled against the vine, but it held strong. Much stronger than it had any right to be. As it pulled her arm downward, Lixette lost her balance and fell to her knees at the edge of the cliff. A dislodged pebble tumbled into the empty space and soon landed quietly in the bush below, which prompted some kind of reaction from the plant; its leaves and branches parted—like an opening mouth, Lixette thought—to reveal a collection of jagged rocks. Even from a distance, Lixette could see them stained with blood. The sun glinted off something white nestled within the stones: the bones of several small creatures.

Lixette couldn’t help but be a little impressed at millennia of evolution that would produce such a unique feeding method. “Oh, you devious…,” she muttered while struggling against the vine trying to yank her over the edge. Its pull was insistent, and if she had been much smaller, Lixette would have already been dashed against the rocks below, her blood seeping into the soil to water this carnivorous plant’s roots.

Looking down, she saw another vine slithering its way toward her. If she didn’t free herself soon, her size wouldn’t save her. Lixette cried out for help, hoping someone from the survey team was near enough to hear her, but there was no immediate response. Even the bird had fallen silent. Traitor, Lixette thought.

The vine had now dragged her hand below the top of the cliff, and Lixette strained to keep her balance. She regretted not bringing anything to defend herself, but the bigwigs that sent her didn’t expect her to be traipsing off on her own. She had flaunted the protocols, and she would pay for it with her life. Lixette started to desperately pat down her jumpsuit with her free hand, hoping beyond hope that she had something—anything—that could save her.

She almost missed it at first: a thin cylinder of plastic. It was the stylus she had been using to enter observations on her datapad earlier. She must have absentmindedly slipped it into her left-hand pocket earlier. With a triumphant cry, Lixette pulled the stylus out and plunged it deep into the vine. The plant reflexively spasmed slightly, just enough to loosen its grip on her wrist. She pulled herself away from the edge of the cliff, muddying the backside of her jumpsuit in the process. The vine flopped onto the ground, the stylus still jutting out like a strange, plastic thorn, before it slid down and out of sight.

Lixette stood up and started to wipe the dirt off her legs but then thought better of it. She brushed a lock of sweaty hair off her forehead and suddenly let out a choked whimper of relief. The bird began to chirp again, as if nature was releasing its held breath. In a forgiving mood, Lixette smiled in the general direction of the birdsong.

As she walked back down the rise to the rest of her team, Lixette realized she had never felt more alive. Perhaps it was just the adrenaline of a near-death experience, but she had a spring in her step and a new purpose dawning in her mind.

Upon her return, Zheffori said, “Lix, where’d you go? Are you ok? You look a little… flushed.”

“Never better!” she replied.

“Okay then. Well, we’re all heading back to the shuttle, so get your last looks in for today.”

Lixette smiled, knowing that once they got back in orbit, she’d be requesting a seat on one of those colony ships. “This place hasn’t seen the last of me.”

About The Author

Jason Keeley is a Development Manager at Paizo, supervising the Starfinder development team and working primarily on the Starfinder Adventure Path line. His work has appeared in all sorts of products, from adventures to supplements to short stories written for Paizo and many other RPG companies. You can find him (and pictures of his dog) on Twitter at @herzwesten, and also listen for him on Know Direction’s Adventurous podcast series!

About Horizons of the Vast

Horizons of the Vast, a six-chapter Starfinder Adventure Path campaign, tells an epic tale of space exploration, allowing gamers everywhere to settle a mysterious planet and forge a civilization in their harsh new home. 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?

The first volume of the Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path, “Planetfall,” is out now, but whenever your group plans on jumping into this campaign, you’ll want to make sure you’re prepared for whatever the planet of New Harmony throws at you! And there’s no better resource for that than the Galaxy Exploration Manual.

With hexploration rules used to survey the land (and which are summarized in the adventure) and deep dives on individual biomes, the Galaxy Exploration Manual is a treasure trove of information for Game Masters about to run Horizons of the Vast. For example, GMs can find advice and tables galore that will aid them in creating engaging NPCs and settlements that will help the PCs’ new home come to life. And if the characters decide to go exploring beyond the boundaries of their charter, there are plenty of random threat tables to keep them busy!

But the Galaxy Exploration Manual isn’t only for GMs! Players about to take on the monumental task of exploring a new world and maintaining a thriving settlement there will find plenty of exciting tidbits in this book. In addition to a wealth of options for every class (as discussed in this previous blog), there are also dozens of items that will help burgeoning explorers tame and survive just about any wilderness. Here’s one example:

Energel Food Pellet

Energel food pellets are easy-to-swallow meals in pill form, capable of staving off starvation, though they lack the appropriate nutrient profile needed for long-term sustenance. You can substitute one pack of food pellets for a day’s food. If you’re already starving when you consume energel food pellets, you automatically succeed at your Constitution check to avoid nonlethal damage that day, but the effects of starvation resume the following day. You cannot benefit from consuming more than two packs of energel food pellets per week.

New Harmony is in a system in the Vast and, as such, regular supply runs from the Pact Worlds will be few and far between. A canny survivalist will want to have some energel food pellets on hand in case they end up stranded far from the nearest settlement after running out of rations. Sure, they don’t replace regular meals, but staving off starvation for a day or two could give a character the time to hunt down a wild beast or determine which alien berries are safe to consume.

So, as you’re packing to begin your new life on New Harmony, don’t forget your Galaxy Exploration Manual. It could mean the difference between life and death!

“Welcome to Project: Horizon! As part of this onboarding seminar, we’ll be exploring some of the challenges you should expect to face when administrating your first charter, discussing the backgrounds that made you ideal choices for this undertaking, and reviewing some of the unique skills you might bring to the table or develop during your time in the Weydana system. We look forward to both your individual and collective contributions to Project: Horizon!”

Download the Player’s Guide for the Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path.

Inside you will find answers to the questions, “What is Project: Horizon” and “Why us?” There are tips on how to prepare to be far from home where it can take several days, possibly weeks, for messages to reach your patron and for responses to arrive in turn. Find guidance on how to fill your roles as administrators, overseers, and managers of a slice of New Harmony, with all the responsibilities those roles entail. You can also find character options like The People’s Champion feat which enables you to draw confidence and dedication from the sheer number of people who depend on you. Or the new beastblood theme, described below.

You have a powerful affinity with the beasts of the wild. Perhaps you descend from—or were infected by—a lycanthrope or similar creature, were subjected to the rituals of a beastly fiend, or performed ancestral trials to pledge yourself to a beast spirit. Whatever the source, you fight and hunt like a wild thing, and you know the natural sides of most worlds like you were born upon them.

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?

If you missed the PaizoCon keynote, you also missed a grand tour of upcoming Pathfinder and Starfinder releases as told by Publisher Erik Mona! In the video below, you’ll find details on:

Starfinder Hardcover Releases
Galaxy Exploration Manual
Tech Revolution

Starfinder Adventures
Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path
Junker's Delight, The Liberation of Locus-1, and Starfinder One-Shot: Band on the Run standalone adventures

Pathfinder Hardcover Releases
Secrets of Magic
Guns & Gears
Book of the Dead
Lost Omens The Mwangi Expanse
Lost Omens Grand Bazaar
Lost Omens Absalom, City of Lost Omens

Pathfinder Adventures
Fists of the Ruby Phoenix, Strength of Thousands, Quest for the Frozen Flame, and Kingmaker Adventure Paths
Malevolence, Night of the Gray Death, and Pathfinder One-Shot: Dinner at Lionlodge standalone adventures.

Pathfinder Board Games
Goblin Fireworks Fight
Pathfinder Arena

Don’t miss these upcoming releases by becoming a subscriber today or by preordering at your favorite local game store.

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New Releases

Grab the newest hardcover releases like the Pathfinder Bestiary 3, Pathfinder Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide, and Starfinder Alien Archive 4.

Start a new adventure campaign with the Starfinder Adventure Path: We’re No Heroes (Fly Free or Die 1 of 6), Pathfinder Adventure Path: Ruins of Gauntlight (Abomination Vaults 1 of 3) or Pathfinder Adventure Path #145: Hellknight Hill (Age of Ashes 1 of 6)!

Beginner Bundles

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Starfinder Accessories offer an abundance of Cards, Maps, and Pawns as well!

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Join us for Episode 3 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific next Friday, April 23. Paizo LIVE is our monthly two-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about all things Pathfinder and Starfinder. Paizo LIVE is also archived on YouTube.

Scheduled guests include:

• Avi Kool, Senior Editor
• James Jacobs, Creative Director
• Jason Tondro, Developer
• Jessica Catalan, Freelance Author
• Luis Loza, Developer
• Tonya Woldridge, Organized Play Manager

Scheduled topics include The Starfinder Fly Free or Die Adventure Path, The Pathfinder Adventure: Malevolence, The Pathfinder Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure Path, and more!

We will take your questions before the show and answer a few on the show. The categories are Pathfinder Adventures, Lost Omens World Guides, Starfinder Adventures, Paizo Organized Play, and PaizoCon. Ask your questions here or comment on our social media posts and we’ll pick our favorites.

I’ll see you at Paizo LIVE!

Adventures Ahead!

Aaron Shanks,
Marketing and Media Manager

March’s new releases rolled to April 7 but are worth the wait; they include Bestiary 3 with over 300 creatures, an unwelcome turn of events in Crash and Burn, and a relic left behind by one of the Outer Gods in Eyes of Empty Death!

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Bestiary 3 in Hardcover, Special Edition, and Pocket Edition

Triple Threat!
Over 300 captivating creatures and fantastic foes pack the pages of this compendium of creatures from the world of Pathfinder! With classic creatures like clockworks and flumphs, returning favorites like imperial dragons and mighty titans, and brand-new menaces from all over Golarion, this must-have tome of monsters is an essential companion to your Pathfinder game!

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Pathfinder Bounty #8: The Tireless Path

A repeatable Pathfinder Bounty designed for Level 1. A caravan is set to depart from the small town of Grayce, but it needs some capable guards. It's up to the PCs to step in and ensure the caravan, and its passengers, reach their destination.

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Fly Free or Die Adventure Path

A crew of scoundrels, rogues, and misfits finds it hard to survive in a galaxy where everyone has a price. Targeted by a crime boss and his army of enforcers, preyed upon by faceless mega-corporations, and hounded by rivals, the crew of the Free Trader Oliphaunt line up the big score that will at last make them rich beyond their wildest dreams. But when their many enemies join forces and the crew loses it all, they find out there's two things in the galaxy that can't be bought: freedom... and revenge.

"Crash and Burn" is a Starfinder adventure for four 9th-level characters. This adventure continues the Fly Free or Die Adventure Path, a six-part monthly campaign in which players take on the role of a merchant crew with an experimental starship, trying to get rich, escape interplanetary assassins, and outwit their rivals. This volume also includes a series of "Side Jobs"—short mini-adventures the GM can insert into the campaign at any time—as well as a collection of new and dangerous aliens and details on the corporations that dominate the galaxy.

Crash & Burn (Fly Free or Die 5 of 6)

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Abomination Vaults Adventure Path

Enter the megadungeon! Evil stirs in the depths of the Abomination Vaults, a sprawling dungeon where the evil sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex attempted to raise an army of monsters hundreds of years ago. Brave heroes must venture into a dungeon full of beasts and traps to prevent a spiteful villain from rising again. The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is a three-part, monthly series of connected adventures that comprise a complete Pathfinder campaign.

“Eyes of Empty Death” is a Pathfinder adventure for four 8th-level characters. This adventure concludes the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path, a three-part monthly campaign in which the heroes explore a sprawling megadungeon to stop an ancient evil from renewing her monstrous vengeance. This adventure also includes an expanded look at ghosts in Golarion, an examination of the Outer God Nhimbaloth, and powerful new rules and monsters!

Eyes of Empty Death (Abomination Vaults 3 of 3)

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Starfinder Flip-Mat: Solar Temple

Whether the heroes are mastering the secrets of supernovas and black holes under the tutelage of a master solarian or defending mystics in the glare of a once-in-a-lifetime solar flare eruption, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every meditation room and training courtyard. 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 an ancient solarian hermitage on one side and a futuristic cloister in space on the other. Don't waste time sketching when you could be playing. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Solar Temple, you'll be ready the next time your players seek enlightenment among the stars!

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Pathfinder Magic Armaments Deck

A hero collects treasure at every step of their journey, and no treasure is more prized than mighty magic weapons and incredible enchanted armor. The Pathfinder Magic Armaments Deck contains 110 cards detailing every magic armor, weapon, and shield in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, along with runes and special materials. Each card features statistics, descriptions, and beautiful full-color illustrations. Whether you're a GM building a cache of loot for the heroes to find, or a player taking the next steps of a hero's journey, the Magic Armaments Deck keeps your fantastic gear at your fingertips!

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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! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn presents a beautiful full-color image of a monster or NPC from the Agents of Edgewatch campaign, including city guards, monstrous criminals, aberrant horrors, and many other friends and foes!

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Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Wilderness Perils Expansion

There are regions in the wild where the environment itself is hostile. Flip-Tiles: Wilderness Perils Expansion is the newest expansion to the Flip-Tiles: Wilderness Starter Set. With 24 full-color 6 x 6-inch double-sided tiles, each stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason A. Engle, you can peer into chasms and sinkholes, scramble over treacherous terrain or through churning surf, deal with dangerous patches of quicksand or boggy swamps, or face a roaring out of control wildfire. All perfect for the next time the heroes traipse too deeply into the uncharted wild!

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Lastly, don’t miss the recently released Organized Play Scenarios!

Adventures Ahead,

Aaron Shanks
Marketing and Media Manager

This month’s new releases include an experimental starship, more megadundeon, five new playable races for Starfinder, and a hardcover book of ancestries for Pathfinder!

Pathfinder Lost Omens

The world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game comes alive in the Pathfinder Lost Omens series! From the crumbling civilizations to bustling merchant kingdoms, the Pathfinder Lost Omens line details the world of Golarion, the official backdrop for the Pathfinder adventures and fantasy roleplaying supplements. With topics ranging from in-depth looks at the pantheons of Golarion, guidebooks on its nations, and supplements for Pathfinder adventurers, the Pathfinder Lost Omens line is the perfect enhancement and companion to your Pathfinder campaign.

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide

Remember who you are! The Age of Lost Omens is filled with people of all types, including more than just those of common ancestries. Lost Omens Ancestry Guide places the spotlight on the uncommon and rare ancestries of the Inner Sea (like geniekin, androids, kitsune, sprites, and more!), providing information on their cultures and place in the world. The book also expands on the rules options for these ancestries and versatile heritages. Finally, Lost Omens Ancestry Guide also features new ancestries and versatile heritages including some that are brand new, as well as old favorites from throughout Golarion!

Pathfinder Rulebooks

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game puts you in the role of a brave adventurer, fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil! The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game line of products gives you the tools to enhance your own campaign—including hardcover rulebooks, monster and stat block volumes, and rules-focused supplements and accessories.

Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Pocket Edition

(8 x 6.5 inch softcover)

Beyond the Basics!
Expand the limits of what's possible with the Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide ! This 272-page Pathfinder Second Edition rulebook contains exciting new rules options for player characters, adding even more depth of choice to your Pathfinder game! Inside you will find brand new ancestries, heritages, and four new classes: the shrewd investigator, the mysterious oracle, the daring swashbuckler, and the hex-slinging witch! The must-have Advanced Player's Guide also includes exciting new options for all your favorite Core Rulebook classes and tons of new backgrounds, general feats, spells, items, and 40 flexible archetypes to customize your play experience even further!

Starfinder Adventure Path

Whether you’re looking for space opera, intrigue, horror, or bug-killing adventures in the stars, Starfinder Adventure Paths can launch you into science-fantasy adventures that will build a lifetime of memories. Each 64-page volume comes with all of the aliens, NPCs, and lore you’ll need to run the game.

Fly Free or Die Adventure Path

A crew of scoundrels, rogues, and misfits finds it hard to survive in a galaxy where everyone has a price. Targeted by a crime boss and his army of enforcers, preyed upon by faceless mega-corporations, and hounded by rivals, the crew of the Free Trader Oliphaunt line up the big score that will at last make them rich beyond their wildest dreams. But when their many enemies join forces and the crew loses it all, they find out there's two things in the galaxy that can't be bought: freedom... and revenge.

The White Glove Affair (Fly Free or Die 4 of 6)

"The White Glove Affair" is a Starfinder adventure for four 7th-level characters. This adventure continues the Fly Free or Die Adventure Path, a six-part monthly campaign in which players take on the role of a merchant crew with an experimental starship, trying to get rich, escape interplanetary assassins, and outwit their rivals. This volume also includes a series of "Side Jobs"—short mini-adventures the GM can insert into the campaign at any time—and shines a spotlight on the Prophecies of Kalistrade, including the golden commerce barges that carry their treasure off to Fortune's Heart, a secret auction house in the Drift.

Pathfinder Adventure Path

Make every game session epic with a series of adventures designed to take your characters from levels 1-20. Released monthly, each 96-page adventure provides Game Masters with the story, NPCs, monsters, magic, and more that they need to make sure every encounter is memorable.

Abomination Vaults Adventure Path

Enter the megadungeon! Evil stirs in the depths of the Abomination Vaults, a sprawling dungeon where the evil sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex attempted to raise an army of monsters hundreds of years ago. Brave heroes must venture into a dungeon full of beasts and traps to prevent a spiteful villain from rising again. The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is a three-part, monthly series of connected adventures that comprise a complete Pathfinder campaign.

Hands of the Devil (Abomination Vaults 2 of 3)

"Hands of the Devil" is a Pathfinder adventure for four 5th-level characters. This adventure continues the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path, a three-part, monthly campaign in which the heroes explore a sprawling megadungeon to stop an ancient evil from renewing her monstrous vengeance. This adventure also includes a close look at the wicked will-o'-wisps, an examination of Golarion's fleshcrafters, and new rules and monsters!

Starfinder Accessories

Looking to take your Starfinder game out of this world? Check out dice, pins, plush, and more that add that extra bit of flair to each game session.

Starfinder Alien Character Deck

Put the diverse species of the galaxy at your fingertips with Starfinder Alien Character Cards! Whether you're a player who wants an easy reminder of your character's racial traits or a Game Master looking to quickly populate a cantina on a distant world with strange science-fantasy aliens, this deck of 55 double-sided cards features beautiful, full-color art and PC-focused rules references for more than 50 playable species, including five new species never before seen in Starfinder. Additional cards present fun and imaginative hooks to help you create characters that everyone is sure to remember for many sessions to come!

Starfinder 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! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn presents a beautiful full-color image of an alien, NPC, or starship from The Devastation Ark campaign, including ancient alien threats, enraged outsiders, and dozens of unique creatures.

Pathfinder Maps

Enhance your campaign with beautifully illustrated and detailed pre-made maps! Pathfinder Maps give you a variety of full color, miniature scale play surfaces that can withstand use and virtually any kind of marker. Releases in the Pathfinder Maps subscription include Flip-Mats (double-sided 24" x 30" gaming mats) and Bigger Flip-Mats (double-sided 27" x 39" gaming mats), as well as Flip-Tiles (themed 6" x 6" map tiles you can rearrange to fit your encounter).

Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Red Light District

Whether your party is looking for contacts in the criminal underworld or fleeing from an angry thieves' guild, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every darkened alley and ramshackle storefront. Fortunately, with Paizo's latest Pathfinder Flip-Mat, you don't have to! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. This double-sided map is the perfect place for urban adventures and even matches up with Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Pub Crawl, providing a setting for any encounter needing a seedy atmosphere!

Starfinder Maps

Enhance your science-fantasy experience with beautifully illustrated and detailed pre-made maps! Starfinder Flip-Mats give you a variety of full-color, miniature-scale play surfaces that can withstand use and virtually any kind of marker. Why worry about missing the latest and greatest Starfinder map?

Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Alien Planet Starter Set

Stage the scene for epic science-fantasy adventures with the Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Alien Planet Starter Set! This boxed collection of 42 durable, double-sided full-color 6 x 6-inch map tiles can be used to construct never-ending extraterrestrial jungles and deserts full of strange hazards and bizarre fauna, providing tons of options for planetary encounters. These exciting new tiles bring countless combinations to your game table!

Pathfinder Bounties

Pathfinder Bounties are one hour, one-shot PDF adventures created by the Paizo Organized Play team for everyone to enjoy. While the content is sanctioned for use in the Pathfinder Society (second edition) Organized Play program it can also be dropped into any Lost Omens or homebrew campaign. They are perfect for players and streamers to want to step into Pathfinder!

Pathfinder Bounty #7: Cleanup Duty

A time-displaced alchemist hires the PCs to clear out his former master's abode, which has become infested with oozes over the intervening millennia.

Lastly, don’t miss the Organized Play Scenarios also released today

Adventures Ahead,

Aaron Shanks,
Paizo Marketing and Media Manager

This month sees the near-completion of the set of Pathfinder rulebooks in popular Pocket Edition. Adventures hooks include favors for a friend, packages to deliver. and dangerous dungeons to delve!

Pathfinder Rulebooks

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game puts you in the role of a brave adventurer, fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil! The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game line of products gives you the tools to enhance your own campaign—including hardcover rulebooks, monster and stat block volumes, and rules-focused supplements and accessories.

Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide Pocket Edition

(8 x 6.5 inch softcover)

Make Your Game Your Own!
As the Game Master of a Pathfinder campaign, you’re the architect of your players’ adventures—a rewarding but sometimes challenging responsibility. With this book, your job just got a whole lot easier! Whether you’re building your own monsters and adventures, looking for new subsystems to play out cinematic chases or tense infiltrations, or simply want to speed up your game with scores of NPCs ready for action, the Gamemastery Guide has you covered!

Pathfinder Bestiary 2 Pocket Edition

(8 x 6.5 inch softcover)

More Monsters, More Mayhem!
More than 300 menacing monsters and fearsome foes await within this compendium of creatures from the world of Pathfinder! From classic adversaries like giants, dragons, and the jabberwock to potential allies and servants suitable for summoners of every alignment, this must-have expansion to the Pathfinder Bestiary seethes with enemies to challenge characters of any level.

Starfinder Adventure Path

Whether you’re looking for space opera, intrigue, horror, or bug-killing adventures in the stars, Starfinder Adventure Paths can launch you into science-fantasy adventures that will build a lifetime of memories. Each 64-page volume comes with all of the aliens, NPCs, and lore you’ll need to run the game.

Fly Free or Die Adventure Path

A crew of scoundrels, rogues, and misfits finds it hard to survive in a galaxy where everyone has a price. Targeted by a crime boss and his army of enforcers, preyed upon by faceless mega-corporations, and hounded by rivals, the crew of the Free Trader Oliphaunt line up the big score that will at last make them rich beyond their wildest dreams. But when their many enemies join forces and the crew loses it all, they find out there's two things in the galaxy that can't be bought: freedom... and revenge.

Professional Courtesy (Fly Free or Die 3 of 6)

In Over Your Head
Time is money out in the Vast, and when someone asks for a favor, usually you go along only for the payout. But Tarika, who has helped you make a living out here in the depths of space, needs a favor—her daughter has gone missing on a remote water world, and she needs you to find her. There’s no money in it, but maybe this time you can make an exception. Let’s hope you don’t regret it!

Pathfinder Adventure Path

Make every game session epic with a series of adventures designed to take your characters from levels 1-20. Released monthly, each 96-page adventure provides Game Masters with the story, NPCs, monsters, magic, and more that they need to make sure every encounter is memorable.

Abomination Vaults Adventure Path

Enter the megadungeon! Evil stirs in the depths of the Abomination Vaults, a sprawling dungeon where the evil sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex attempted to raise an army of monsters hundreds of years ago. Brave heroes must venture into a dungeon full of beasts and traps to prevent a spiteful villain from rising again. The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is a three-part, monthly series of connected adventures that comprise a complete Pathfinder campaign.

Ruins of Gauntlight (Abomination Vaults 1 of 3)

Enter the megadungeon!
When the mysterious lighthouse called Gauntlight glows with baleful light, the people of Otari know it’s an ominous prelude to sinister events. The town’s newest heroes must explore the ruins around the lighthouse and delve down into the dungeon levels beneath it. Hideous monsters, deadly traps, and vengeful ghosts all await the heroes who dare to enter the sprawling megadungeon called the Abomination Vaults! The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path begins with “Ruins of Gauntlight,” a complete adventure for 1st- to 4th-level characters.

Starfinder Accessories

Looking to take your Starfinder game out of this world? Check out dice, pins, plush, and more that add that extra bit of flair to each game session.

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. Printed on sturdy cardstock, each double-sided pawn slots into a 1-inch plastic base from the Starfinder Pawns Base Assortment, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures.

Pathfinder Accessories

From maps and dice to miniatures and pawns, Game Masters and players alike will find must-have essentials to augment their gaming experience.

Pathfinder Spell Cards: Advanced Player's Guide

Expand the array of magic at your fingertips with Pathfinder Spell Cards: Advanced Player's Guide! This must-have accessory for spellcasting characters contains more than 150 spell reference cards, containing the spells from every tradition and all focus spells from the Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide in one place, giving you immediate access to key game details without flipping pages.

Starfinder Maps

Enhance your science-fantasy experience with beautifully illustrated and detailed pre-made maps! Starfinder Flip-Mats give you a variety of full-color, miniature-scale play surfaces that can withstand use and virtually any kind of marker. Why worry about missing the latest and greatest Starfinder map?

Starfinder Flip-Mat: Planetary Atmosphere

Whether the heroes are landing their starship to explore a newly discovered world or dogfighting in the skies in individual starfighters, Paizo's latest Starfinder Flip-Mat has you covered. This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use science-fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. Featuring a hex grid for Starfinder's unique starship combat system, this extra-large, double-sided map comes with two different backgrounds—the thick clouds of a gas giant and a high-altitude view of a terrestrial world's topography—to let you craft epic atmospheric starship battles and fire your players' imaginations.

Pathfinder Maps

Enhance your campaign with beautifully illustrated and detailed pre-made maps! Pathfinder Maps give you a variety of full color, miniature scale play surfaces that can withstand use and virtually any kind of marker. Releases in the Pathfinder Maps subscription include Flip-Mats (double-sided 24" x 30" gaming mats) and Bigger Flip-Mats (double-sided 27" x 39" gaming mats), as well as Flip-Tiles (themed 6" x 6" map tiles you can rearrange to fit your encounter).

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: City Sites Multi-Pack

Whether your players are just arriving in town, heading out for some shopping, carousing at a local tavern, or fighting for their lives in the back alleys, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: City Sites Multi-Pack has you covered. This set's four sides each feature a different city location where mayhem and trouble is likely to break out. Whether you need a bustling marketplace, a popular tavern, a twisting tangle of alleys in the worst part of town, or a busy urban waterfront, you'll find a suitable map in this pack.

Pathfinder Bounties

Pathfinder Bounties are one hour, one-shot PDF adventures created by the Paizo Organized Play team for everyone to enjoy. While the content is sanctioned for use in the Pathfinder Society (second edition) Organized Play program it can also be dropped into any Lost Omens or homebrew campaign. They are perfect for players and streamers to want to step into Pathfinder!

Pathfinder Bounty #6: The Road from Otari

Hired to deliver packages from the small fishing village of Otari to the metropolis of Absalom, the PCs encounter halfling traders who have suffered a strange attack and confront a subterranean creature that’s surfaced to hunt.

Lastly, don’t miss the Organized Play Scenarios also released today

Aaron Shanks,
Paizo Marketing and Media Manager

A crew of scoundrels, rogues, and misfits finds it hard to survive in a galaxy where everyone has a price. Targeted by a crime boss and his army of enforcers, preyed upon by faceless mega-corporations, and hounded by rivals, the crew of the Free Trader Oliphaunt line up the big score that will at last make them rich beyond their wildest dreams. But when their many enemies join forces and the crew loses it all, they find out there are two things in the galaxy that can't be bought: freedom... and revenge. The Fly Free or Die Adventure Path has launched with Starfinder Adventure Path #34: We’re No Heroes!

Don’t miss these related resources!

The Fly Free or Die: Opportunity Cost blog offers free flash fiction by Jason Tondro.

The Welcome To Fly Free or Die blog, also by Jason Tondro, offers an introduction to the Adventure Path and a free player’s guide, “Working for a Living,” as a separate PDF. You can download it for free right here.

Go beyond the basic lore presented in the Starfinder Core Rulebook with Starfinder Pact Worlds. Then learn more about the Veskarium, where some of your jobs will take place, in Starfinder Near Space.

Download free character and starship sheets for your campaign. You can also purchase the character folio as a digital download.

Hero Lab Online revolutionizes character creation, allowing you to create characters in minutes and take them with you everywhere you go.

Syrinscape is an app usable in both tabletop and online play that brings beautiful, immersive sound effects and music to your Starfinder game.

What audio inspirations will you be listening to while playing The Fly Free or Die Adventure Path?

Adventures Ahead,

Aaron Shanks
Marketing and Media Manager

Fly Free or Die is the newest Adventure Path for the Starfinder RPG. It’s a story about working class heroes. They’re not trying to save the galaxy, they’re just trying to pay the bills. But their former employer has hired assassins to take them out, and a crime boss has sent an army of bounty hunters after them, and things just go from bad to worse. Your heroes in Fly Free or Die are quickly going to figure out there’s only two things in the galaxy that aren’t for sale: integrity and revenge.

This Adventure Path starts with 1st level characters and goes all the way to 13th level; the first two volumes are already available, and the rest are on their way. In addition to the story itself, with all the detailed encounters and amazing art you expect from Paizo, you’ll also find a complete system for the economic aspects of starship operation—how to find, buy, load, transport, and sell cargo, and you can use the profits from your business to improve your starship or expand your operations. In addition, the Adventure Path introduces Side Jobs—short 2-page adventures that a GM can use to fill a game session or accommodate players when they decide to go off script (which they usually do).

The first volume, “We’re No Heroes,” includes a 10-page player’s guide, “Working for a Living,” and we’re very glad to make this player’s guide available to you as a separate PDF you can download for free right here. “Working for a Living” was written by Chris Sims (lead developer on the Dawn of Flame Adventure Path), and it includes custom backgrounds that tie your characters to NPCs and plots in Fly Free or Die, as well as new gear and two new themes: the Vaster grew up on the fringes of the galaxy, and the Prole is a blue collar professional who works well with others. This article also goes into detail on EJ Corp (it’s pronounced “edge”), the faceless and cruel mega corporation that employs your characters at the beginning of the AP.

Don’t worry, you’re not going to be working for EJ Corp long. This is a story about freedom—about going where you want to go and doing what you want to do, answering to no one and being your own boss. But the trouble with being your own boss is, you’re on your own, and there’s no one around to catch you when you fall. Your player characters are going to have to stick together if they expect to survive living on the edge. The trips out here are long and cold. So take a deep breath, and I hope you live to enjoy yourselves.

Jason Tondro
Lead Developer, Fly Free or Die

While 2020 has certainly had its challenges for everyone, the holidays are a time for celebration and reflection. We’ve produced a year’s worth of products that we’re proud of, and we hope you’ve enjoyed playing our games as much as we’ve enjoyed making them!

To thank all of our wonderful fans for supporting us through another year, we are once again offering our holiday discount code for an additional 10% off of one order on paizo.com. Use the code “holiday21” during checkout, and the discount will be applied before shipping and taxes. This code is valid for one use per customer, so make sure to stock up on everything you need before using it!

Now is the time to get discounts on some of the most popular Pathfinder products we’ve released in 2020! You can get your hands on the new Pathfinder Beginner Box – the perfect tool to introduce new players to Pathfinder Second Edition, or learn how to GM. Explore new rules, creatures, and character options with the Gamemastery Guide, Bestiary 2, or the Advanced Player’s Guide. You can surround yourself in the rich setting of Pathfinder with the Lost Omens line, including Gods & Magic, Legends, and Pathfinder Society Guide. Of course you can always dive into one of the two thrilling Adventure Paths that released this year – Extinction Curse and Agents of Edgewatch. If you’ve already got all the books you need, why not browse through Pathfinder Accessories for helpful items like the Bestiary Pawn Box, the Advanced Player’s Guide Character Sheet Pack, or the Weapons & Armor Deck.

Starfinder has had an excellent year as well, and now you can use the discount code to save on some of the enticing offerings of the year. Go forth and discover the vast reaches of space with new rules from Near Space, outfit and operate your spacecraft with Starship Operations Manual, and encounter or play as all sorts of new alien species with Alien Archive 4. Uncover haunting mysteries and devious plots in the The Threefold Conspiracy Adventure Path, save the galaxy from the destruction of an ancient warship in The Devastation Ark, or start your journey as a band of misfits seeking freedom and revenge in Fly Free or Die. If you’re looking for accessories, this year also saw the release of the popular Deck of Many Worlds, the Starship Combat Reference Cards, and the Near Space Pawn Collection.

Never fear, our discount code isn’t just for new things! You can use it to stock up on just about everything on our website, including Pathfinder First Edition, the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Pathfinder Dice, Starfinder Dice, and even the adorably helpful Skittermander Gamer Pouch. Feel free to browse around our newly-revamped store landing page, and start filling your cart today!

The discount code is not valid on subscriptions, preorders, backorders, non-Paizo downloads, or gift certificates, but it does stack with other discounts including the Paizo Advantage. This one-time offer ends at 11:59PM Pacific Time on January 17th.

Here it is, our last product launch day of 2020. We’ve got adventures that run the spectrum—from beginners expanding beyond their hometown to a crew of scoundrels, rogues, and misfits doin’ a little bounty huntin’ and rustlin’ to high-level heroes who must save the City at the Center of the World!

But first, new rulebooks!

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Pathfinder Core Rulebook Pocket Edition

6.5 x 8.5-inch softcover, based on the second printing of the hardcover.

COVER ARTIST: Wayne Reynolds

This comprehensive 640-page guide to the Pathfinder roleplaying game provides everything you need to set out on a world of limitless fantasy adventure!

The Pathfinder Core Rulebook includes:

• More than 600 pages of game rules, advice, character options, treasure, and more for players and Game Masters!
• Six heroic player character ancestries, including elf, dwarf, gnome, goblin, halfling, and human, with variant heritages for half-elf and half-orc!
• More than 30 backgrounds like bartender, soldier, or apprentice to further immerse yourself in your hero's backstory!
• Twelve character classes, including the alchemist, barbarian, bard, champion, cleric, druid, fighter, monk, ranger, rogue, sorcerer, and wizard!
• Hundreds and hundreds of spells, class feats, and other exciting abilities to help you customize your character to become the hero YOU envision them to be!
• Streamlined and revised rules to help ease new players into the game while providing the depth of character options and tactical interest that have defined Pathfinder from the beginning!

The Pathfinder Core Rulebook Pocket Edition is the starting point for a great new collection of compact softcovers of the entire Rulebooks line!

Starfinder Alien Archive 4

COVER ARTIST: Remko Troost

ALIENS AMONG US
Aliens are everywhere in the universe of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game, their intent ranging from peaceful to pernicious. From robot dragons to crystal-infused humanoids and polyphonic gels to sun-skimming beetles, the creatures in this codex will challenge adventurers no matter what strange worlds they’re exploring. What’s more, player rules for a variety of species let players not just fight aliens but be them! Inside this book, you’ll find the following:

• Nearly 100 uncanny life-forms both classic and new, from the batlike grioth and horrifying brain collector to the vengeful endling and dreaded plasmalisk.
• A dozen races with full player rules, letting you play everything from a fungus-uplifted animal to a humanoid made of magical coral.
• New alien technology to help give your character an edge, including armor, weapons, magic items, and more.
• New rules for grafting the strange physical traits of other species onto your own character, creating a staggering array of customization options!

The Alien Archive 4 bundles well with the Alien Archive, Alien Archive 2, and Alien Archive 3 of course. Look for more details in an upcoming blog!

Pathfinder Bestiary Pocket Edition

6.5 x 8.5-inch softcover

COVER ARTIST: Wayne Reynolds

Unleash the Beasts
Over 400 of fantasy’s fiercest foes burst from the pages of this enormous compendium of the most popular and commonly encountered creatures in the world of Pathfinder! From familiar enemies like orcs, dragons, and vampires to new horrors like the nightmarish nilith and the three-headed mukradi, to suitable servants for summoners of every alignment, this must-have companion to the Pathfinder Core Rulebook is crawling with creatures to challenge characters of any level.

Note: The Pathfinder Bestiary Pocket Edition is not included in the Pathfinder Rulebooks Subscription.

The Pathfinder Bestiary Pocket Edition is the second volume in a collection of compact softcover editions of the entire Rulebook line that will expand in 2021!

Starfinder Fly Free or Die Adventure Path: Merchants of the Void (2 of 6)

COVER ARTIST: Tomasz Chistowski

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DRIFT
You've stolen an experimental starship, and you've got the heat to match. Time to find work somewhere else while you wait for the Pact Worlds to cool down. So it's off the Veskarium, for a little bounty hunting, some stormrunning, and rustling a herd of wild carnivores. But you're about to stumble upon a secret that's way bigger than just another paycheck, and the Veskarium will kill to keep it quiet...

This volume of Starfinder Adventure Path continues the Fly Free or Die Adventure Path and includes:

• "Merchants of the Void," a Starfinder adventure for 3rd-level characters, by Leo Glass.
• A pair of side jobs—short adventures that can be played in a single session—featuring misleadingly labeled cargo and homesick undead, by Owen K.C. Stephens.
• A catalog of player options for those who like to play dirty, by Isabelle Thorne.
• An archive of new creatures, including the starship-sized shard divers of Vesk-5 and the insidious holofangs of Gaskar III, by Leo Glass, Lyz Liddell, and Ron Lundeen.
• Statistics and deck plans for the Oliphaunt, an experimental starship equipped with a one-of-a-kind null-space cargo hold, by Leo Glass.

Merchants of the Void pairs well with Starfinder Near Space, which details the galactic region that contains the Veskarium. Look for the Fly Free or Die video trailer later this month!

Pathfinder Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path: Ruins of the Radiant Siege (6 of 6)

COVER ARTIST: Setiawan Lee

Battle for Absalom
Just as the Edgewatch agents discover the identity of the final member of the Twilight Four, their investigation reaches a fever pitch. The Radiant Festival’s stolen giant excavator, Graveraker, makes its grand reappearance by stampeding across the fairgrounds and threatening everything in its path. Meanwhile, the agents must locate the key to taking down the newly ascended evil primarch in the ruins of an ancient siege castle. The Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path concludes with “Ruins of the Radiant Siege,” a complete adventure for 18th- to 20th-level characters.

CONTENT WARNING
While Ruins of the Radiant Siege contains typical Pathfinder action and adventure, it also presents scenarios that fall into the realm of horror. This includes body horror, gore, slavery, and torture, as well as depictions of fear of the other that draw from a history of ableism (see the sidebar on page 63 for more information). Before you begin, understand that player consent (including that of the Game Master) is vital to a safe and fun play experience for everyone. You should talk with your players before beginning the adventure and modify descriptions or scenarios as appropriate.

Groups who to run the Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path may want to add books from the World of Lost Omens line to enhance their enjoyment of the setting!

Starfinder Starship Combat Reference Cards

Put the rules of starship combat for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game at your fingertips!

Whether you're a Game Master who needs a convenient reference for running starship encounters, a player who wants summaries of the crew actions your character can take, or a newcomer trying to learn the ins and outs of starship combat, this 110-card deck features concise guides to the essential concepts of starship combat from the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Starfinder Character Operations Manual, and Starfinder Starship Operations Manual on handy double-sided cards. Stop flipping back and forth through rulebooks—grab the cards you need and keep your starship combats running smoothly!

Don’t forget, these are now sold in PDFs and JPGs making them easy to share with your players on a virtual tabletop!

Groups the enjoy the Starfinder Starship Combat Reference Cards will love the Starfinder Rules Reference Cards Deck.

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Pathfinder Adventure: Troubles in Otari

COVER ARTIST: Igor Grechanyi

Onward to adventure!
This exciting adventure anthology expands the realm beyond the hometown introduced in the Pathfinder Beginner Box and brings thrilling new dangers to the heroes' doorstep! Designed for use with the rules in the Pathfinder Beginner Box and the perfect bridge to the exciting options of the full Pathfinder Core Rulebook, these adventures take your heroes to 4th level and beyond as they venture further into the nearby wilderness and face fearsome foes lurking all too close to home!

The anthology's three adventures introduce a number of play styles, including clearing out an abandoned fish camp, a sandbox romp to get to the bottom of sabotage, and a classic puzzle-filled dungeon crawl.

Troubles in Otari is a deluxe adventure for 4th-level characters written by Jason Keeley, Lyz Liddell, and Ron Lundeen.

Note: The rules found in the Pathfinder Beginner Box aren’t that different from those in the Core Rulebook, so some GMs might want to run Troubles in Otari using the full rules. They can and the adventure includes a guide.

Don’t miss the Troubles in Otari, a Beginner Box Adventure liveplay show on Twitch, YouTube, and podcast. The Pathfinder Adventure: Troubles in Otari can be combined with the…

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Troubles in Otari

Bring the exciting adventures of the Troubles in Otari Pathfinder Adventure anthology to life on your tabletop with this double-sided full-color Flip-Mat featuring key encounter locations from the Pathfinder Second Edition adventure, Troubles in Otari, on either side! One side depicts a mostly abandoned fish camp and the other side shows a sinister and monster-filled dungeon, both prominent locations in the adventure!

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Troubles in Otari measures 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!

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Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Hazards Expansion

No city is truly safe!
Next time your players are enjoying the safety and security of urban life, you'll be ready to surprise them with unsuspected threats just around the corner. Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Hazards Expansion Set provides beautifully illustrated 6" × 6" map tiles that can transform your city into a perilous landscape of fires, floods, and orbital bombardments! Inside, you'll find 24 richly crafted, double-sided map tiles. This expansion set, along with Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Starter Set, allows you to create futuristic urban environments with endless variety! So stop your sketching and start your flipping today!

Suitable for experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles! These double-sided city tiles come in convenient packaging for easy storage.

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Pathfinder Player Character Pawn Collection

Show off your character with the Player Character Pawn Collection, featuring more than 200 pawns for use with Pathfinder Second Edition or any tabletop fantasy RPG! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn presents a beautiful full-color image to represent a wide variety of player characters! Each cardstock pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base from any of the Bestiary Box collections or the Pathfinder Pawns Base Assortment, making the pawns easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures.

There's one pawn for every combination of ancestry and class from the Core Rulebook. This product also supports the Advanced Player's Guide, with a selection of pawns for every new ancestry in that book, a pawn for each archetype, as well as a pawn for every combination of Core Rulebook ancestry and Advanced Player's Guide class. You'll also find a selection of pawns for the ancestries in Lost Omens Character Guide, as well as multiple familiars and animal companions!

Don’t miss the list of 285 pawns!

Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Wilderness Starter Set

What do you do when the heroes get lost in the woods or decide to head off-road to seek adventures? With the Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Wilderness Starter Set, we've got you covered! This set features 42 full-color 6 x 6-inch map tiles, with all manner of wilderness tangles and terrains to explore, both sides stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason A. Engle. These exciting new tiles put an endless wildland at your fingertips!

Suitable for experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game Master’s arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles! These double-sided wilderness tiles come in convenient packaging for easy storage. Explore the wilderness to your heart's content!

These tiles are incredibly versatile and work with other Pathfinder Flip-Tiles sets, like the Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Forest Starter Set and Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Haunted Woodlands Expansion, to create larger play areas than a Flip-Mat ever could!

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Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Slum Quarter

Whether your party's tracking a gang of notorious thieves or hiding out from the law themselves, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every cluttered alley and squalid flophouse. Fortunately, with Paizo's latest Pathfinder Flip-Mat, you don't have to! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. Full of beautiful details, including a battered gatehouse, dozens of hovels, and mazelike backstreets, this double-sided map makes the perfect setting for forays into any city's seamier side!

Don't waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Slum Quarter, you'll be prepared next time your players head to the wrong side of town!

A special coating on each Flip-Mat allows you to use wet erase, dry erase, AND permanent markers with ease! Removing permanent ink is easy—simply trace over any permanent mark with a dry erase marker, wait 10 seconds, then wipe off both marks with a dry cloth or paper towel. Each Flip-Mat measures 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded.

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Wow. That’s a lot. I’m proud of my coworkers for finishing 2020 strong, despite working under challenging circumstances. Don’t forget that all these products are available digitally, so we can play safe until we can share a table again.

Adventures Ahead,

Aaron Shanks
Marketing and Media Manager

Looking to fill out your Pathfinder Adventure Path collection or add some new tools to your VTT gaming, Paizo has you covered. Come and celebrate Black Friday at paizo.com with 25% off your favorite digital products! It runs now until midnight Pacific time on Monday, November 30, save 25% on all Paizo digital products. The sale is not valid on products from licensed or compatible publishers, subscriptions, or e-tickets.

I’ve picked some highlights for beginners and veterans alike!

Take the first step into an amazing world of fantasy adventure with the Pathfinder Beginner Box or science fantasy with the Starfinder Beginner Box.

Complete your Pathfinder Second Edition “core four” rulebook bundle with the Pathfinder Core Rulebook (second printing), Pathfinder Bestiary, Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide,, and Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide.

Begin to explore the world of the Pathfinder with the hit Lost Omens World Guide! Deeping your knowledge of lore with our newest releases: Lost Omens: Legends and Pathfinder Lost Omens: Pathfinder Society Guide.

We have adventures of every length. Looking to save on a one-shot adventure? Check out the scenarios available through the Pathfinder Society, Starfinder Society, and Pathfinder Adventure Card Society. Check out our standalone adventures, like Pathfinder Adventure: The Slithering, for several sessions of Pathfinder play. For epic adventures that take you up to level 20, add Pathfinder Adventure Paths to your digital library, including volumes one through our newest, the Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path. Want a more science-fantasy theme? Shoot for the stars with Starfinder Adventure Paths, including the first volume of the Fly Free or Die Adventure Path, We’re No Heroes.

Your galactic journeys through science-fantasy begin with the Starfinder Core Rulebook (new printing). Expand your galaxy with our newest rules-and-setting books: Starfinder Near Space, and the Starfinder Starship Operations Manual.

Hundreds of more game titles, from classic Pathfinder rulebooks to maps and pawns are available so there’s something here for virtually everyone! What’s your favorite Pathfinder or Starfinder product of 2020? Let us know in the comments below.

Adventures Ahead,

Aaron Shanks
Marketing and Media Manager

This month starts a new chapter with the launch of the Pathfinder Beginner Box and we are excited to share it with you! In fact it will require a blog of its own so for now let me share the details of the newest Pathfinder and Starfinder RPG loot coming your way in November!

Available Now!

Pathfinder Rulebooks

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game puts you in the role of a brave adventurer, fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil! The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game line of products gives you the tools to enhance your own campaign—including hardcover rulebooks, monster and stat block volumes, and rules-focused supplements and accessories.

Pathfinder Beginner Box

Become a Hero!

Leave the ordinary behind and take your first step into a world of amazing fantasy adventure with the Pathfinder Beginner Box! This box contains everything you need to learn how to play the Pathfinder roleplaying game, including rules to create your own fantasy hero and tools to tell your own incredible stories.

On a personal note, I hope that veterans will enjoy using it to introduce Pathfinder to new players, that curious players from other RPGs will get a taste of the abundance of accessories we offer, and that people who have never played an RPG will find it easy to dive into alongside their friends!

Starfinder Adventure Path

Whether you’re looking for space opera, intrigue, horror, or bug-killing adventures in the stars, Starfinder Adventure Paths can launch you into science-fantasy adventures that will build a lifetime of memories. Each 64-page volume comes with all of the aliens, NPCs, and lore you’ll need to run the game.

Fly Free or Die Adventure Path

A crew of scoundrels, rogues, and misfits finds it hard to survive in a galaxy where everyone has a price. Targeted by a crime boss and his army of enforcers, preyed upon by faceless mega-corporations, and hounded by rivals, the crew of the Free Trader Oliphaunt line up the big score that will at last make them rich beyond their wildest dreams. But when their many enemies join forces and the crew loses it all, they find out there's two things in the galaxy that can't be bought: freedom... and revenge.

We’re No Heroes (Fly Free or Die 1 of 6)

Work Hard, Play Hard

Life isn’t easy on the edge—not while working for EJ Corp, anyway. The Company keeps you too poor to quit, desperate for your next bonus. So when a series of jobs go bad, you know who they’re gonna blame: you. It’s time to kick loose from the Company, with a little help from a drow crime boss. If his crazy plan works, you just might be calling your own shots from here on out.

We are working on the new Adventure Path trailer video and plan to show it off in early December. We are considering a rebellious Western music acoustic soundtrack to suit the genre. Shiny.

Pathfinder Adventure Path

Make every game session epic with a series of adventures designed to take your characters from levels 1-20. Released monthly, each 96-page adventure provides Game Masters with the story, NPCs, monsters, magic, and more that they need to make sure every encounter is memorable.

Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path

Amid the hustle and bustle of the world-famous centennial Radiant Festival, the guards of the so-called Edgewatch precinct must take down Absalom's sickest serial killers, brashest bank robbers, and cruelest criminal masterminds in order to ensure the festival's success and the safety of Absalom’s citizens. After a string of seemingly unrelated crimes is revealed as part of a much larger criminal plot, the members of one select squad find themselves at the center of things and must put their badges on the line to prevent the city from falling into chaos. By the end of this six-part monthly Adventure Path, there's just one group that can lay down the law and save Absalom: the Agents of Edgewatch

Belly of the Black Whale (Agents of Edgewatch 5 of 6)

Prison Breakers

The Edgewatch agents have been disgraced and the primarch thrown behind bars! In this, their darkest of hours, the heroes must delve into Absalom’s criminal underbelly in order to reach the light. After earning the favor of one of Absalom’s most notorious crime lords, they infiltrate the Black Whale, Absalom’s infamous floating prison, to rescue the primarch and clear their names. The Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path continues with “Belly of the Black Whale,” a complete adventure for 15th- to 18th-level characters.

Starfinder Accessories

Looking to take your Starfinder game out of this world? Check out dice, pins, plush, and more that add that extra bit of flair to each game session.

Starfinder Flip-Mat: Transport Hub

Whether the heroes are trying to flag down a robo-taxi for a night on the town or hopping a grav-train to the next city over, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every ticket kiosk and waiting room bench. 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 grav-train platform on one side and a waiting room and robo-taxi stand on the other. Don't waste time sketching when you could be playing. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Transport Hub, you'll be ready the next time your players need a ticket out of town!

Pathfinder Accessories

From maps and dice to miniatures and pawns, Game Masters and players alike will find must-have essentials to augment their gaming experience.

Pathfinder Bestiary 2 Battle Cards

Expand your encounters with this massive collection of 450 reference cards, featuring every monster from Pathfinder Bestiary 2! Each 4 x 6 card is printed on sturdy cardstock and features a beautiful, full‑color image of a Bestiary 2 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!

Coming November 25!

Pathfinder Bounties

Pathfinder Bounties are one hour, one-shot PDF adventures created by the Paizo Organized Play for everyone to enjoy. While the content is sanctioned for use in the Pathfinder Society (second edition) organized play program it can also be dropped into any Lost Omens or homebrew campaign. They are perfect for players and streamers to want to step into Pathfinder!

Pathfinder Bounty #4: Cat's Cradle

On a recent trip across the trade routes of the Golden Road, a merchant was robbed and her beloved family heirloom—a puzzle box—stolen. The PCs will have to keep their wits about as they head into the desert to unravel the riddle of what happened and recover the missing antique.

Of course there are two Starfinder Society and Pathfinder Society Scenarios coming soon, but I’ll leave them to the Paizo Organized Play team to showcase later this week.

Adventures Ahead,

Aaron Shanks
Marketing and Media Manager

Eline Reisora knew an opportunity when she saw one. That’s how she’d gotten out of a grimy orphanage on Absalom Station and adopted by a rich family; it was why she’d busted her ass to graduate at the top of her class, and it was why she’d rejected a cushy position at her father’s bank for an EJ Corp middle-management gig. But after all her hard work and careful planning, here she was on Sovall’s Folly, a good-for-next-to-nothing jungle planet in the Vast. Officially her assignment was supervising medical research into the weird flora and fauna that made up this world’s biosphere; EJ Corp hoped to find a promising cure or medicinal that would rationalize the high cost of investing in this planet in the first place. Unofficially, she babysat scientists and occasionally accompanied a patrol, just to stretch her legs. And that’s how she’d gotten into her current situation.

A dart as long as her forearm hissed out of the jungle, burying itself in the tree Eline was hiding behind. One of her escorts was already a corpse flat on the ground, a similar dart rising from his neck like a flagpole. Another member of her security team had fled when the ambush occurred. The last of Eline’s employees fired wildly into the brush, filling the leaves and the darkness with laser bursts. Eline gripped her arc pistol with both hands but didn’t waste a shot. She waited for an opportunity.

There. As her man paused to reload, Eline saw a glimpse of orange through the trees. It was one of the locals, the indigenous population of Sovall’s Folly. They called themselves blicanders, but EJ Corp personnel just called them bleeks. As the bleek rose up from a crouch to spit a three-foot needle, Eline spun around the tree and took the shot. Both projectiles hit their mark: lightning struck the bleek in the center of its body and it collapsed, limbs convulsing, and Eline’s employee staggered backward, the long dart having pierced both his armor and his heart. But Eline was alive, and that’s what mattered.

Slowly she stepped towards the bleek corpse. It was huge, with a long proboscis, a quiver of darts slung over its hulking body, and a simple amulet around its neck. Its skin was decorated with symbols drawn in a golden dye. They didn’t usually travel alone. This one must have heard Eline and her soldiers coming and seized the chance to spring a trap. She wanted a memento, a trophy. Crouching down, she lifted the amulet from around the bleek’s neck and slid it off the creature’s long, flexible head.

Noise. More of them. Drawn by weapons fire, probably. Quickly, she dropped the amulet over her head and started to run. Bleeks moved fast, they had good hearing, and they knew the jungle. She didn’t like her chances. Sure enough, she soon heard them in the brush behind her. Faster, girl, faster. But as she opened up her stride to sprint, her right foot caught a root and she fell, tumbling into a ravine. Pain lanced through her leg as she tried to catch herself, but it was a long slide. Out of the darkness she saw the ravine floor, a bright gray stone. She was going to hit. This was it. Time to die on a good-for-next-to-nothing jungle world in the Vast.

But she didn’t. She didn’t die. She didn’t even hit the stone. One instant she was falling toward the ravine floor, then there was a freezing cold blackness, and an instant later she plunged into cool water. Her panic changed from fear of having her skull crushed to fear of drowning, but with a kick she found air. Everything was dark. Where was she? What had happened? Why wasn’t she dead?

There was a metallic taste on her lips. Blood? No, it was in the water. Her personal comm was still at her waist; finding it, she turned on the light and looked around.

She floated in a subterranean lake. Above her was a silvery dome—the floor of the ravine. Somehow she had slipped through it, fallen twelve feet, and landed in the lake.

“That,” she muttered to herself, “makes no sense at all.”

Eline glided to the edge of the lake and found her footing. In the light from her comm she could see the same gray stone everywhere. But there were also markings: pictographs and the images of animals native to this planet, drawn with the same golden dye Eline had seen on the dead bleek.

Illustration by Wero Gallo.

This must be a religious site for them, she realized. Sensing opportunity, she took a closer look. As she knelt down before a large stone, the amulet around her neck clinked against it and she realized it wasn’t stone at all. That silvery appearance wasn’t just moisture and a trick of the light. It was metal. The amulet, too. Eline had a chemalyzer; the scientists were always asking her to take samples when she left the compound, in case she found something that might be useful. For an instant she was afraid it might have been damaged in the fall but no, there it was, on her belt. Still working. It took only a moment for the device to return its verdict.

Inubrix. Ghost iron. A starmetal used in everything from miniaturization to null-space chambers. And the entire cavern was made of the stuff. From the top of the dome to the bottom of the lake.

She checked the amulet. Yes, that was inubrix too.

That must have been how she got in. The bleeks must use the amulets to pass through the walls of the cavern, she thought. And who knew how far the vein went? It could stretch for miles.

Eline sensed opportunity.

EJ Corp had bought the rights to exploit Sovall’s Folly for a pittance. They’d dumped a ton of credits into biomedical research, hoping for a lucky find. But inubrix wasn’t a gamble. The company knew how to mine it, refine it, market and sell it. At scale. And if she did it right, she’d get a percentage.

As Eline stood, scanning her light around the inside of the cavern, she looked again at the markings blicanders had left behind. In golden paint they had drawn their villages, their families, their way of life. Children gathered in a circle around singing elders. Hunters clad in sacred garb herded animals or stalked huge carnivores. They explored, they traded, they made art; they lived their lives, the same as anyone in the galaxy. And there, on one wall, was the arrival of Evgeniya-Jaimisson Corporation, aka EJ Corp, aka the Company, with its Negotiator warships and its fortress-sized research factories.

Blicandrines weren’t savages in the way of progress. They weren’t bleeks. They were people Eline just didn’t understand. And this cavern—and maybe many more just like it—was important to them, to their way of life. EJ Corp would strip mine it into a pit a mile deep. That wouldn’t just be wrong, it would be evil.

But it was opportunity. As Eline looked around, she saw through the art left behind on the walls, seeing only the inubrix lying beneath. “I mean,” she whispered, “just look at all this money.”

She made the call.

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A few days later, from her stateroom aboard a Company Negotiator, Eline heard the first of the explosions as mining charges blew open the nearest inubrix cavern. EJ Corp engineers had already arrived, along with the soldiers necessary to protect everyone from blicandrine guerrillas. Eline knew their way of life was over. That was on her.

But her promotion to Vice President had arrived. She was being asked—not instructed, but asked—to return to corporate headquarters in the Veskarium, where she’d select a new project to manage. And her percentage was locked in. Every ton of inubrix carried off Sovall’s Folly would put credits in her account.

There was another far-off explosion as the Negotiator lifted off. She closed her eyes and acknowledged regret. Instead of preserving the culture of another species, she was destroying it, exploiting it.

But this, she’d decided, was the cost of opportunity.

About the Author

Jason Tondro develops Starfinder Adventure Paths. A former college professor, he taught literature, writing, film, and comics & graphic novels before joining Paizo as an editor in March 2018. He is the author of the Arthur Lives! RPG; look for him on Twitter @doctorcomics. He lives in Seattle with his two dogs.

About Fly Free or Die

In the Fly Free or Die Adventure Path, a crew of scoundrels, rogues, and misfits finds it hard to survive in a galaxy where everyone has a price. Targeted by a crime boss and his army of enforcers, preyed upon by faceless mega-corporations, and hounded by rivals, the crew of the Free Trader Oliphaunt line up the big score that will at last make them rich beyond their wildest dreams. But when their many enemies join forces and the crew loses it all, they find out there's two things in the galaxy that can't be bought: freedom... and revenge. The Fly Free or Die Adventure Path launches next month in Starfinder Adventure Path #34: We’re No Heroes!

Halloween may be hampered by this year, but we will help keep your imagination alive with a plethora of tricks and treats, including adventures that have you holed up in an abandoned guildhall as you wait out a torrential storm, decisions that could affect the future of the galaxy, and a guide to lifelong discovery, friendship, and adventure!

Coming October 14!

Pathfinder Lost Omens

The Age of Lost Omens is the world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, extensively detailed in world guides that bring the setting to life with new character options, lore, maps, and more.

Pathfinder Society Guide

The Name of the Game!
Founded over 400 years ago, the Pathfinder Society has witnessed—and involved itself in—some of the most pivotal events for the Inner Sea region and beyond. Throughout it all, Pathfinder agents have held to their iconic adventuring creed: Explore, Report, Cooperate! The Pathfinder Society Guide throws open the gates on one of the biggest adventuring associations on the world of Golarion. Ally with these intrepid scholars, oppose them with the help of their many foes, or join them to seek the heights of fame and glory within the pages of the Pathfinder Chronicles!

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Starfinder Adventure Path

Whether you’re looking for space opera, intrigue, horror, or bug-killing adventures in the stars, Starfinder Adventure Paths can launch you into science-fantasy adventures that will build a lifetime of memories. Each 64-page volume comes with all of the aliens, NPCs, and lore you’ll need to run the game.

Dominion’s End(The Devastation Ark 3 of 3)

All Must Fall
Upon gaining access to the hostile starship known as Ark Prime, the heroes find themselves immersed in propaganda designed to show the might and superiority of the ancient empire that launched the vessel eons ago. Only once they break free of the brainwashing can they fight past robots, holographic constructs, and alien supersoldiers awoken from stasis to confront Ark Prime’s evil AI. In the end, the heroes must decide what to do with hundreds of other sleeping citizens of a formerly dangerous civilization. Their decision could affect the future of the galaxy!

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume concludes The Devastation Ark Adventure Path and includes:

• “Dominion’s End,” a Starfinder adventure for 18th-level characters, by Ron Lundeen.
• A catalog of technomagical relics from the ancient sivv civilization, by Larry Wilhelm.
• An archive of high-level alien creatures, including a powerful, transcendent kasatha and a gargantuan deep-sea nightmare, by Sasha Laranoa Harving, Patchen Mortimer, and Ron Lundeen.
• Statistics and deck plans for a massive robot-crewed carrier designed to collect data, by Ryan Gilmore, and a glimpse at a world enclosed by an impenetrable force shield, by Robert G. McCreary

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Pathfinder Adventure Path

Make every game session epic with a series of adventures designed to take your characters from levels 1-20. Released monthly, each 96-page adventure provides Game Masters with the story, NPCs, monsters, magic, and more that they need to make sure every encounter is memorable.

Assault on Hunting Lodge Seven (Agents of Edgewatch 4 of 6)

Unlucky Number Seven
Arresting the third member of the nefarious Twilight Four seemed too easy—until it wasn’t. With the so-called Infector in chains, the Edgewatch agents find themselves and their suspect holed up in an abandoned guildhall as they wait out a torrential storm. To ensure their suspect is held to account for his crimes, the agents must defend Hunting Lodge Seven against mysterious assassins and assailants from both within and without. The Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path continues with “Assault on Hunting Lodge Seven,” a complete adventure for 12th- to 15th-level characters.

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Pathfinder Accessories

From maps and dice to miniatures and pawns, Game Masters and players alike will find must-have essentials to augment their gaming experience.

Pathfinder NPC Battle Cards

Keep all the friends, foes, and bystanders presented in the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide close at hand with this handy collection of 110 reference cards featuring every NPC from that book along with the adjustments to customize them to a variety of ancestries. Each 4 x 6 card is printed on sturdy cardstock and features a beautiful, full‑color image of a Gamemastery Guide character on one side, while the other side provides that character's statistics for quick and easy reference. With each encounter, show the players who their characters are facing while keeping the NPC's abilities at the ready, and watch your games come alive!

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Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen

Accelerate your Game!
Keep the essential rules on hand—and protect your notes and die rolls from players’ eyes—with the Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen! This beautiful four-panel, landscape-style screen features stunning artwork from Wayne Reynolds on the players’ side, while the GM’s side presents key information from the Core Rulebook, Bestiary, and Gamemastery Guide to speed up play.

The Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen gives you the tools you need to keep the game fast and fun: conditions, death and dying rules, tables for setting DCs, baseline numbers and adjustments for creatures and hazards, Victory Point guidelines, and more. Constructed of ultra-high-grade hardcover book stock, this durable screen is perfect for travel, convention play, and repeated regular use.

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Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen (Portrait—Paizo.com Exclusive)

Accelerate your Game!
Keep the essential rules on hand—and protect your notes and die rolls from players’ eyes—with the Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen! This beautiful four-panel, portrait-style screen features stunning artwork from Wayne Reynolds on the players’ side, while the GM’s side presents key information from the Core Rulebook, Bestiary, and Gamemastery Guide to speed up play.

The Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen gives you the tools you need to keep the game fast and fun: conditions, death and dying rules, tables for setting DCs, baseline numbers and adjustments for creatures and hazards, Victory Point guidelines, and more. Constructed of ultra-high-grade hardcover book stock, this durable screen is perfect for travel, convention play, and repeated regular use

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Starfinder Accessories

Looking to take your Starfinder game out of this world? Check out dice, pins, plush, and more that add that extra bit of flair to each game session.

Starfinder Pawns: The Threefold Conspiracy Pawn Collection

The characters, villains, and starships of The Threefold Conspiracy 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. 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. Starfinder The Threefold Conspiracy Pawn Collection depicts the enemies and allies from all six adventures of The Threefold Conspiracy Adventure Path.

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Pathfinder Maps

Enhance your campaign with beautifully illustrated and detailed pre-made maps! Pathfinder Maps give you a variety of full color, miniature-scale play surfaces that can withstand use and virtually any kind of marker. Releases in the Pathfinder Maps subscription include Flip-Mats (double-sided 24" x 30" gaming mats) and Bigger Flip-Mats (double-sided 27" x 39" gaming mats), as well as Flip-Tiles (themed 6" x 6" map tiles you can rearrange to fit your encounter).

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Pirate Ship

The only thing worse than a pirate ship on your tail on the high seas is an EVEN BIGGER pirate ship! Whether your heroes decide to board the enemy vessel or purchase a sprawling ship of their own, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Pirate Ship has you covered. Each side of this Flip-Mat features views of an enormous sailing ship and its decks. Don't waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Pirate Ship, you'll be ready next time your players decide not to turn tail and run and meet those pirates head-on!

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Starfinder Maps

Enhance your science-fantasy experience with beautifully illustrated and detailed pre-made maps! Starfinder Flip-Mats give you a variety of full-color, miniature-scale play surfaces that can withstand use and virtually any kind of marker. Why worry about missing the latest and greatest Starfinder map? Subscribe today and have the newest map delivered to your door.

Are you a busy Game Master looking for an adventure you can run your players through in a single session? Pathfinder Society scenarios and quests are the perfect fit for an evening’s worth of adventure.

Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Starter Set

Stage the scene for epic science fantasy battles with the Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Starter Set! This boxed collection of 42 durable, double-sided full-color 6 x 6-inch map tiles provides tons of options for futuristic urban encounters, from foot chases through narrow alleys to searching for suspects in cramped cubicle apartments! These exciting new tiles bring countless combinations to your game table!

Suitable for experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles! These double-sided space station tiles come in convenient packaging for easy storage.

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Coming October 28!

Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society is a worldwide fantasy roleplaying campaign using the Pathfinder Second Edition ruleset. Take on the role of an agent of the Pathfinder Society, a legendary league of explorers, archaeologists, and adventurers dedicated to discovering and chronicling the greatest mysteries and wonders of an ancient world.

Shadows and Scarecrows

A Pathfinder Bounty designed for Level 1.
In the shadow-darkened alleys and fields of Nidal, a scarecrow lurks the night,taking people from yards and common areas before disappearing without a trace. A bounty has been posted on this nefarious fiend, but things may be even murkier than the heroes expect in this land of perpetual twilight.
Written by: Jacob W. Michaels

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Balancing the Scales

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-4.
The Sewer Dragons reach out to the Pathfinder Society, concerned about a missing contact. The Pathfinders discover that this is no mere meet and greet, however, as strange events and a mysterious cult become tangled together in a web of mystery.
Written by: Jessica Catalan

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The Crashing Wave

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 3-6.
On an island off the coast of Jalmeray, the Pathfinders are called to action! The Society's friends at the Monastery of Unbreaking Waves are faced with a horde of sea devils seeking to level their recently-rebuilt temple and claim it for themselves. The Pathfinders arrive just as the invasion reaches a crescendo and must fight for their lives if they hope to protect themselves and their allies!
Written by: Dustin Knight

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Starfinder Society

The Starfinder Society Roleplaying Guild is a worldwide science fantasy campaign that puts you in the role of an agent of the Starfinder Society. The Society is a group of explorers who travel out into the galaxy in search of lost knowledge and technologies, bringing what they learn back with them to share with the people of the Pact Worlds.

Are you a busy Game Master looking for an adventure you can run your players through in a single session? Starfinder Society scenarios are the perfect fit for an evening’s worth of adventure.

Frozen Ambitions: Freeing the Herd

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-4.
A retired Starfinder reaches out to the Society in search of assistance when the local fauna of a moon in Near Space begins to act erratically. The Society dispatches the PCs to investigate and contact the retired Starfinder and their companions. Soon enough it becomes clear that something insidious is at work nearby, and it's up to the PCs to step in and stop it.

Content in Frozen Ambitions is an ongoing series of adventures set in the Year of Exploration's Edge. These lower-level adventures are the perfect starting point for any new Starfinder character, and can be integrated into almost any ongoing campaign with little extra effort. While it is encouraged to begin with this adventure, the adventures in the Frozen Ambitions series can be played in any order.
Written by: Diego Valdez

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Live Adventure Extreme!

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 5-8.
The Starfinder Society has contracts with numerous organizations, but none are perhaps as well known as the Society's ongoing association with undead media mogul known as Zo!. It's that time when the Society must fulfill its end of the contract, this time by dispatching a team of skilled agents to perform impressive combat feats for a new spin-off show: Live Adventure Extreme!
Written by: Scott D. Young

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Pathfinder Adventure Card Society

Pathfinder Adventure Card Society is a worldwide organized play program for the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. Join a community of active card game players and enjoy hundreds of new scenarios, with new rules written by the team behind the card game.

Warrens Above, Warrens Below

An investigation into the source of rising undead quickly turns into chaos, with violent mercenaries guarding seemingly quiet resting places and a rampaging zombie-drawn carriage. If you survive, you'll have the chance to earn the trust of the stalwart guards who patrol the city's depths and search beneath the streets for answers.

This Pathfinder Adventure Card Society scenario bundle contains an adventure introduction, four scenarios, and proxy cards. These scenarios require the Core Set and the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path.

The scenarios included are:

• Mortuary Mischief
• A Day at the Races
• Unconventional Allies
• What Lies Beneath the City

Mechanical Design By Keith Richmond. Story by Calliope Taylor.

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Tell us about your gaming plans for the month ahead!

Adventures Ahead!

Aaron Shanks
Marketing and Media Manager

The Devastation Ark AP is the first adventure Paizo has produced for Starfinder aimed at characters beyond 12th level. High-level play can be challenging for a GM in any system, and Starfinder is no different, but Starfinder also poses some specific concerns.

Require Abilities, Don't Block Them

High level characters have access to story-breaking abilities. They can safely perform reconnaissance with arcane eye or infiltrate a base with perfect shape-changing disguises. They can read the minds of their enemies or cast dominate person. They can banish powerful outsiders to their home planes and even teleport to another planet. And, of course, they can come back from the dead.

It’s tempting to design adventures that prevent the PCs from using these abilities, inserting walls of force that block teleportation, for example, or zones of antimagic to prevent divination spells. After all, that makes the adventure much easier to write and more like the adventures we usually read and play through—but that’s exactly why we shouldn’t do it. High level play should feel special. Your players have worked their way up through a dozen levels, over months or even years of play, in order to get access to these special abilities—let them use them!

Instead, write the adventure so that the PCs must use these abilities to succeed. To give just one obvious example, the PCs might need to reach a computer located in a room that is inaccessible to ordinary people. It’s buried 100 feet down in solid rock, with no doors, no windows, no access at all. But a group of PCs with clairvoyance and teleport can get there, and now you have an adventure where only high level characters can succeed, which is exactly what your players want.

Be Ready To Improvise

As characters progress in level, they gain access to more and more abilities; it soon becomes impossible for the GM to keep track of these abilities or anticipate them. So don’t try! When the PCs are high level, you can create a problem without knowing for certain how the PCs will solve it—just trust that they’ll come up with something and be open-minded when they do. For example, let’s go back to that room surrounded by solid rock. What if the PCs don’t have teleport? Well, they’ve got plenty of other abilities, and the credits to spare. There’s probably a way they can tunnel through the rock, go incorporeal, or otherwise get into this “impossible” room. You don’t have to worry about how they’ll get in; let them figure it out, and then reward them when they do.

Skill DCS

As characters advance in Starfinder, their skill bonuses improve, but operatives get better at skills than every other class. Inevitably you’ll reach a point where a skill DC that is challenging for an operative—one in which the player has to roll a 15 or better to succeed—is impossible for everyone else. Even if your player characters include an operative, keep an eye on these skill DCs and set them at a number your player characters can reasonably hit. Be generous with aid another attempts, so that even when the other characters can’t hit the DC themselves, they can at least contribute to the operative’s check.

There’s a lot more that could be said about high level adventures for Starfinder, but the tips here should get you started making and running solid stories for your players, in the Devastation Ark Adventure Path and beyond!

Jake Tondro
Developer

This month features Pathfinder premium figures, an undercover infiltration Pathfinder adventure, a fast-approaching threat from beyond the stars in Starfinder, and exciting accessory support!

Pathfinder Battles Premium Figures from WizKids

Each Pathfinder Battles Premium Painted Figure comes with a highly detailed figure that is beautifully pre-painted to complement the unique details of the miniatures.

Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figure - Elf Fighter Male

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Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figure - Half-Elf Ranger Male

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Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figure - Half-Orc Barbarian Male

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Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figure - Human Cleric Male

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Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figure - Human Rogue Female

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Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figure - Human Rogue Male

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Pathfinder Adventure Path #159: All or Nothing (Agents of Edgewatch 3 of 6)

When the Chips Are Down...
The Edgewatch agents resolve a bloody gang war in the Docks then go undercover to infiltrate the Floating Gala—a grandiose gathering of some of the Inner Sea’s most famous power brokers—at the Lucky Nimbus Casino. To get at the contraband held in the casino’s vault, the heroes will need to summon all the wit and guile they can muster. But with the mysterious Twilight Four pulling strings behind the scenes, nothing is quite as it seems! The Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path continues with “All or Nothing,” a complete adventure for 9th- to 12th-level characters.

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Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Character Sheet Pack

Advance your character with the Advanced Player's Guide Character Sheet Pack! Track your hero's statistics and accomplishments with these full-color character sheets designed to include exactly what your character needs! This product comes in a sturdy folder to store character sheets, with reference information such as game actions, a summary of crucial conditions, and death and dying rules. Inside are 16 sheets for characters and campaign tracking. These include specialized character sheets for each of the four classes from the Advanced Player's Guide, with class features and special actions already filled in! Plus you'll find sheets for the evil champions and for oracle spells and curses from that book. Furthermore, there are three standard blank sheets suitable for characters of any class, an alternate sheet with a simplified design, and expanded sheets to track character inventory, campaign notes, adventure logs, NPCs, spells, animal companions, and alchemy books.

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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! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn presents a beautiful full-color image of a monster or NPC from the Extinction Curse campaign, including subterranean horrors, dangerous dinosaurs, evil clowns, and even a few potential friends and allies. The Extinction Curse Pawn Collection, together with the creatures from the Pathfinder Pawns: Bestiary Box, provides pawns for many Extinction Curse encounters. Each cardstock pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base from the Pathfinder Pawns Base Assortment, making the pawns easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures. The Extinction Curse Pawn Collection brings to life the enemies and allies from all six adventures of the Extinction Curse Adventure Path!

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Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classic: Falls & Rapids

Whether your party is at the mercy of deadly rapids or is headed toward a plummet over a crushing waterfall, no Game Master wants to slow the action down by drawing every river bend and jagged rock. Fortunately, 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 the heroes are in flight or pursuit, this double-sided combat map features rapids, rocky bends, misty falls, and ambush spots aplenty! Don't waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Falls & Rapids, you'll be ready next time your players find themselves up the river without a paddle!

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Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Darklands Fire Caves Expansion

There's an entire sprawling world of adventure below your feet! Flip-Tiles: Darklands Fire Caves Expansion is the newest expansion to Flip-Tiles: Darklands Starter Set. With 24 full-color 6 x 6-inch double-sided tiles, each stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason A. Engle, you can navigate twisting tunnels, brave bubbling rivers of magma, or explore the lava tubes twisting below a volcanic mountain range. All perfect for the next time the heroes wander too deeply into the depths!

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Starfinder Adventure Path #32: The Starstone Blockade (The Devastation Ark 2 of 3)

Heart of Stone
The heroes travel to Absalom Station to warn the Pact Worlds government of a fast-approaching threat from beyond the stars! But before they can fully prepare, the titanic spacecraft arrives and shuts down the fabled Starstone Reactor—Absalom Station’s source of power—plunging the entire station into darkness and chaos. The heroes must find a way to bring the power back online while aiding panicked citizens and dealing with Azlanti spies, angry outsiders, and confused spirits. Can they save the heart of the Pact Worlds and take the fight to the strange alien vessel?

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume continues The Devastation Ark Adventure Path and includes:

• “The Starstone Blockade,” a Starfinder adventure for 16th-level characters, by Eleanor Ferron.
• An exploration of the church of Eloritu, the mysterious god of history, secrets, and magic, and the church’s many devotees, including options for players, by Mara Lynn Butler.
• An archive of high-level alien creatures, including an embodiment of portals between planes and a noxious ooze, by Eleanor Ferron, Jim Groves, and Dennis Muldoon.
• Statistics and deck plans for a defensive warship, by Ryan Gilmore, and a glimpse at a volcanic planet encircled by a stellar engineered ring, by Robert G. McCreary.

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Starfinder Flip-Mat: Giant Starship

Whether the heroes are passengers (or captives!) on a vessel crewed by giant aliens or want more elbow room for their larger companions on their personal starship, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every passageway and porthole. 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, oversized map features two areas of a starship designed for Large creatures. Don't waste time sketching when you could be playing. With Starfinder Flip-Mat: Giant Starship, you'll be ready the next time your players want to upsize their ride!

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New Pathfinder and Starfinder Society Scenario PDFs will be available on September 30.

Adventures Ahead!

Aaron Shanks
Marketing and Media Manager

The discovery of a series of millennia-old ruins sets off a chain of events that puts an ancient titanic spacecraft on course to the Pact Worlds. When the vessel—which belongs to an evil, warmongering civilization long thought dead—begins destroying all other ships in its path and attacking important resources to increase its power, the heroes must rescue millions of lives from destruction and find a way to stop the ship and all aboard it. Will the heroes be triumphant? Or will the alien species take the Pact Worlds as its new home and conquer the galaxy?

Start saving the galaxy now in Waking the Worldseed!

The tunnel ran smooth and deep, a gullet boring down into frozen ground, beckoning explorers into its belly. Ariad-N5 planned to accept its invitation. Nifri joined Ariad at the edge of the chasm.

“This is it,” the kasatha said, cross-referencing the coordinates displayed on his datapad. Together they peered down at the decrepit ramp that curled nautilus-like within the tunnel.

“I’m ready to get out of this cold,” Talla grumbled. The quorlu trudged through the deep snow, her movements slowed by the thermal suit she wore to protect her sensitive skin from the frigid temperatures. This was a first; in all their years working together, Ariad had never heard her complain.

“Construction’s delayed until we survey the ruins, so AbadarCorp wants us in and out.” Talla explained.

“What’s our timeline?” Ariad asked. “We need a few weeks to—”

“The corp gave us 12 hours,” Talla snapped. Ariad and Nifri exchanged concerned looks, but their leader appeared unphased by the impossible deadline. She studied the ramp and shook her head decisively. “Looks unstable. We’ll rappel down.” Nifri helped her create an anchor using two ice screws connected by a sling, then ran a cable line through it. The three explorers clipped in with practiced technique. Nifri rappelled down first, the crunch of boots against ice echoing through his open comm channel. Then, he looped his cable through a belay device to assist Talla, leaving the android alone in a swirl of snow at the edge of the ruins.

“Your turn,” Nifri said finally. “I’m on belay.”

“On rappel.” Ariad gripped their cable and kicked off from the ledge. They watched the sky shrink as they walked down the side of the tunnel in a controlled descent. Suddenly, their toe caught a patch of ice, and they plunged downward. Ariad grabbed for the nearby ramp, but it crumbled in their grip. The cable snapped taut as Nifri caught them, and a chunk of debris plummeted toward their teammates below.

“Rock!” Ariad shouted. Nifri sidestepped and the rubble shattered harmlessly on the ground beside him.

“Close one, thanks!” He yelled.

When the android reached the end of the cable, a dim halo of light was all that remained of the world above. Their eyes roamed over the alien architecture surrounding them. The walls were mottled red and purple like the exposed intestines of a great beast. Brown, scabby patches festered in places, but there was no scent of decay. Metallic panels embedded into the fleshy walls reinforced the structure, and a glowing blue pillar towered at the center of the cavernous chamber. The wall rippled as a constellation of arcane symbols flashed across its surface.

“Did you see that?” Ariad whispered. Talla gasped as the same symbols wriggled into view across the room.

“Fascinating,” she breathed. “There’s magic all around us.” Nifri, transfixed by the blue pillar, ignored them.

“Old wards, perhaps, or maybe this peculiar building material is magical,” Ariad observed, peering at the wall where the symbols had appeared. They avoided touching the nonmetal parts during their examination; the spongy reddish substance made their dermis crawl.

“Let’s move on,” Talla directed, and motioned toward an aperture on the far side of the room. Before she stepped through it a deep, percussive boom reverberated through the ruins. A shape charged out of the shadows, and Talla instinctively reached for the pistol holstered at her belt. She relaxed when she recognized Nifri, all four of his arms flailing as he sprinted toward them.

“It…shocked…me,” he panted, skidding to a halt.

“What shocked you?” Ariad asked. They peered into the kasatha’s eyes, examining him for pupil dilation and other signs of trauma. Then they noticed his bare hands. “What happened to your safety gloves?”

“I took them off before I touched the pillar,” Nifri admitted. “I know it’s against protocol, but I wanted to gauge its temperature.”

“You should have used a thermal scanner,” Ariad scolded.

“Enough,” Talla pronounced calmly. “Once, I got so enthusiastic about an excavation that my team leader had to pry me off a trapped statue.” She chuckled at the memory. “Not my finest hour. Are you hurt?”

“Only my pride,” Nifri said sheepishly. Talla smiled at him.

“Remember your training, and stick with safety protocols from now on,” Talla commanded. With the incident dismissed, they emerged into a hallway studded with valve-like openings that hinted at a vast network of chambers within the ruins. As they passed the abandoned rooms, Nifri’s flashlight illuminated the silhouettes of machinery somehow both antiquated and advanced, now immortalized in disrepair.

“If you’d purchased those retinal reflectors I recommended, you wouldn’t need that.” Ariad nodded to Nifri’s flashlight.

“I’m saving my credits for a tropical vacation. I got more than enough hands, so don’t worry, Ensie.” Nifri retorted, but his voice lacked its usual confidence. Ariad often struggled to read others’ emotions, but they had no problem interpreting their colleagues’ behavior. Nifri’s shallow breathing and Talla’s frantic heartbeat betrayed their fear. Ariad noted the prickle of adrenaline in their own system. They knew the source of these symptoms—the hideous decaying walls, unidentified magic crawling through the air, the ruins’ reaction when Nifri touched the pillar—this was not a routine survey.

Talla’s authoritative voice broke the silence. “Let’s split up to cover more ground. Nifri, the gloves stay on this time, please.”

“You got it, boss.,” Nifri nodded and disappeared around a bend. Determined to master their own unease, Ariad followed Talla’s directions without comment. They chose a room close to the entrance that housed rows of gyroscope-like contraptions. Strangely, each device contained a seat designed to accommodate a small creature. Ariad had only completed a cursory inspection of the machines when their comm unit crackled to life.

“Ari, come take a look at this.” Talla sounded calm, but she must have found something interesting. Talla stood in front of a hexagonal column they hadn’t noticed before. Unfamiliar pictograms studded its seamless obsidian metal surface, forming an incomprehensible cipher.

The xenoarchaeologists examine the strange ruin in this illustration by Pixoloid Studios.

“At least this text is stationary.” Ariad said. They scanned the symbols, cross-referencing their own internal database of language and magical code. Unfortunately, their cybernetically- enhanced eidetic memory proved no match for the strange writing. Talla waved a chemalyzer along the length of the pillar. The device beeped and Talla’s eyestalks craned eagerly toward the readout. The knitted thermal cap she wore to protect her delicate organs bobbed comically as she shook her head in confusion.

“Strange, these isotope levels look…pre-Gap?” Talla gave the device a solid tap to ensure it was working properly. “Yeah, probably pre-Gap.” Talla sighed, clearly frustrated. With hundreds of successful excavations under her belt, she was team leader for good reason, and not used to being thwarted like this. “This writing isn’t in any language I’m familiar with.”

“I don’t recognize it either,” Ariad confessed.

“Too bad. I was hoping you could translate,” Talla said in a muffled voice as she rummaged through her pack.

“Where’s Nifri?” Ariad asked. Concern for their absent colleague suddenly gripped them. Nifri was a competent, though inexperienced, professional. His earlier judgment lapse was uncharacteristic, but what if he ran into more trouble?

As if on cue, Nifri’s voice exploded from Talla’s comm unit. “Boss, I don’t think we’re in a tomb. This room has cryo-storage and an operating theater. I found some partial specimens that look like—no, that can’t be.” Nifri’s voice trailed off, distracted by his latest discovery.

“Roger, Nifri,” Talla responded. “Ari and I are finishing up here. Take samples while you wait for us.” Ariad wondered how she could sound confident when they weren’t any closer to unraveling the mystery of the ruins.

“We need an icebreaker,” she declared, and produced a glob of iridescent putty from her pack. She attached it to the pillar the way a child might stash a piece of gum beneath a desk for safekeeping. It rolled slowly over the object, seeking concealed edges and mechanisms invisible to the naked eye. Talla grinned when it settled and revealed the outline of a control panel.

“What is that?” Ariad wondered. They gasped when the panel popped out from the pillar as though activated by their voice. At this angle, they realized it housed a keypad labeled with unfamiliar pictograms.

“Let’s find out,” Talla flashed them a mischievous grin. She reached toward the keypad, then jumped back as the panel immediately retracted. A loud whirring sound filled the room and the column’s six faces began to rotate. The object lowered, spinning, into the floor as its exterior surfaces unfurled, revealing a central core of blue plasma. A hologram depicting an unknown species materialized in the glow. The plasma flickered and warped, forming distorted images that hinted at the creature’s anatomy. It stood atop four overlapping tentacles, its segmented neck arching forward from the far side of its body like a striking serpent. Three sets of clawed arms protruded from its ribbed belly. Its only discernable facial features were two pairs of mismatched eyes that blazed with inscrutable intent. Its mandibles twitched in synchronization with its vestigial front arms as it vocalized. A roar of growls and glottal stops that Ariad’s linguistic processors registered as noise filled the corridor. Suddenly, an arc of electricity shot out from the panel.

“Watch out!” Ariad screamed, shoving Talla out of the way. The bolt surged and struck the floor where she had just been standing. Residual static pulsed through the android’s synthetic skin as they stared at the charred spot left behind.

“Thank you,” Talla gasped. “I thought—” A howling klaxon from the ruined complex’s core interrupted her. This warning needed no translation, and the two researchers fled toward the entrance. A magnified voice boomed overhead as they ran, speaking the holographic creature’s dissonant language. A series of crashes chased them down the hall as shutters lowered over doorways they’d planned to investigate. A metal slab slammed down in front of them, blocking the exit.

“Over here!” Nifri called from behind them. He stepped into the hallway and waved his team toward an accessible room. Ariad and Talla sprinted through the doorway seconds before it sealed itself shut.

“I think we’re safe in here,” Nifri said. Ariad wasn’t so sure. Their refuge was a control room crowded with dusty consoles and machinery. A hundred orange eyes blinked awake as the ancient equipment rumbled and whined, booting up for the first time in millennia.

“I can’t find a signal in here.” Talla paced while frantically typing into her comm unit, but her companions’ attention snapped back to the room’s central console. A holoprojection of a planet floated above it. A beacon at the center of the topographical map radiated veins reaching across its mountains and valleys. The two watched in horror as the tendrils elongated and writhed out from the beacon, infesting the planet’s surface. Ariad recognized the planet. It was Jedarat.

“What have we done?” Nifri gasped.

“I have a signal!” Talla exclaimed. “Talla to HQ. We’re trapped. Do you copy?” Only a burst of static answered her.

“Keep trying,” Ariad urged. There were hundreds of workers on Jedarat’s surface. Ariad’s team was trapped, but they had to warn the others.

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Eisyfina Nott stood in the chalet’s doorway. Outside, a shroud of snow concealed the world, obscuring a picturesque view of the alpine landscape. The storm had appeared out of nowhere, right when all the terraforming equipment in the valley went haywire.

Eisyfina’s datapad pinged with an incoming message, a video file from the xenoarchaeology team contracted to explore Jedarat’s ruins. She watched silently, transfixed by the video’s disturbing contents. She shut it off with a decisive tap of her finger, but the message’s final words echoed in her mind: we woke it up.

“This is Nott requesting immediate support to New Horizons headquarters.” She barked into her earpiece. “We need help. Now.”

About the Author

Jenny Jarzabski is a freelance writer, sommelier, and nature enthusiast. She writes adventures and rules for Pathfinder and Starfinder, in addition to some weird fiction of her own. She is just as likely to be found on the trails or at the climbing wall as delving the word mines or gamemastering at a convention. You can follow Jenny’s real life adventures on Twitter at @jenjski.

About Devastation Ark

In the Devastation Ark Adventure Path, the discovery of a series of millennia-old ruins sets off a chain of events that puts an ancient titanic spacecraft on course to the Pact Worlds. Will the heroes be triumph in stopping the dreadnaught? Or will the alien species take the Pact Worlds as its new home and conquer the galaxy? This three-part Starfinder campaign is designed to take player characters from level 13 to 20 and can serve as a sequel to any previous Starfinder Adventure Path.

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We had some amazing new releases last month; are you ready for more? This month features a dire wake-up call, a zealot’s grand plot, and a bounty on the creature known locally as "the Whitefange Wyrm"!

Starfinder: Shoot For the Stars!

Starfinder Adventure Path #31: Waking the Worldseed (Devastation Ark 1 of 3)

A DIRE WAKE-UP CALL
When the heroes rescue a xenoarcheological team from weather gone haywire on a distant, frozen world, they unearth more than they bargained for as an ancient ruin rises from the ground and kicks off a series of events that could change the face of the galaxy forever. The tower contains secrets of a warlike civilization thought long dead and is strangely connected to a small moon in the Pact Worlds. The heroes must explore a previously unknown facility under the moon’s surface that threatens to overheat and destroy all life there! They then learn the moon is signaling a gigantic alien craft, drawing it toward the system with lethal intent!

This Starfinder Adventure Path volume begins The Devastation Ark Adventure Path and includes:

• “Waking the Worldseed,” a Starfinder adventure for 13th-level characters, by Jenny Jarzabski.
• A gazetteer of Hibb, one of the many shepherd moons orbiting the gas giant of Liavara and home to the wheeled bantrids, by Mikhail Rekun.
• An archive of high-level alien creatures, including a haunted hovercar and a burrowing moon worm, by Joshua Hennington, Jenny Jarzabski, and Crystal Malarsky.
• Statistics and deck plans for a luxury cruise liner, by Ryan Gilmore, and a glimpse at a mysterious ruin- covered world with a corrosive atmosphere, by Robert G. McCreary.

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Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Space Station Emergency Expansion

It's an emergency in space! Next time your players are ready to explore a space station's depths, they won't have to wait for you to surprise them with dangers in the next corridor or compartment. Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Space Station Emergency Expansion provides beautifully illustrated 6" × 6" map tiles that can be used to enhance your station with a variety of battle damage, hazards, emergency lighting, and locations to explore. Inside, you'll find 24 richly crafted, double-sided map tiles. This expansion set, along with Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Space Station Starter Set, allows you to create futuristic space habitats with endless variety! So stop your sketching and start your flipping today!!

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Pathfinder: Unleash Your Hero!

Pathfinder Adventure Path #158: Sixty Feet Under (Agents of Edgewatch 2 of 6)

Bury Them Deep
After stopping a perilous bank robbery, the Edgewatch agents follow the money to uncover the source of the street-level corruption. Within a long-lost corner of Absalom’s subterranean Catacombs, they find a cabal of murderous worshippers of the so-called Skinsaw Man. The agents will need to dig deeper than ever to take down the cult’s leader—a bloodthirsty butcher known as the Skinner—and get to the bottom of the zealots’ grand plot. The Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path continues with “Sixty Feet Under,” a complete adventure for 4th- to 9th-level characters.

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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.

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Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Haunted Dungeons Multi-Pack

Whenever your players make the choice to ignore the warnings and delve deep into a sinister complex or ghost-infested ruin, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Haunted Dungeons Multi-Pack has you covered. This set's four sides each feature a different spooky dungeon to explore. Whether you are looking for a vampire's lair, a ghost-infested ruin, or any sort of ghoulish complex, these four dungeons are sure to inspire! Don't waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Haunted Dungeons Multi-Pack, you'll be ready the next time your players spend a frightful night in a scary dungeon.

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Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society: Year of Corruption’s Reach has just begun! Now, with the Society rebuilt and refocused on their principles of exploration and discovery, the Pathfinders are set to embark on a new mission: creating a new Pathfinder lodge in Iobaria and delving into the ancient secrets that have lain dormant on the Inner Sea’s northeastern border for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years.

This season we’ve rolled out some innovations to scenario format. We’ve swapped out our traditional Pathfinder Society Quest short scenario format for a new approach we’re calling Pathfinder Bounties. These 1-hour adventures answer the question “What does a Pathfinder do when the Society doesn’t have a job for them?” Unlike our quests and scenarios, bounties don’t assume that the players are members of the Pathfinder Society, and the adventures presented therein might be anything from a dragon hunt on the Crown of the World to saving a Druman farmer’s prized alpaca herds from predacious chupacabras. Bounties are designed to provide exciting entry points for any adventurer looking to start their career, and they are repeatable, making them a perfect introduction to Pathfinder Second Edition.

Pathfinder Society Bounty #1: The Whitefang Wyrm

A Pathfinder Society Bounty designed for level 1.
In the frigid region known as the Crown of the World, people from diverse cultures and backgrounds must all band together to survive the long nights of winter and deadly thaws of spring. The way of life of these hardy frontier folk is now threatened by a serpentine creature that slips in during the dead of night and empties their nets of fish and their smoking racks of fresh meat. Unable and unwilling to let this theft stand, the people of the tiny northern town of Aaminiut have placed a bounty on the creature known locally as "the Whitefange Wyrm".
Written by: Michael Sayre.

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Pathfinder Society Scenario #2-01: Citadel of Corruption

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1–4.
A new year dawns for the Pathfinder Society. For the past several years, Pathfinders have explored the edges of the Iobarian wilderness, making new allies and discovering hints at a long-forgotten past. Now, the Decemvirate has decided that it is time for the Pathfinders to do what Pathfinders do best: explore, report, and cooperate! In an ancient cyclopean ruin, the Society seeks to stake their claim with both a new lodge and, hopefully, new insights into Iobaria's remote history. Some secrets are best left buried, however. Will the PCs make a name for themselves as modern day explorers, or will the evil lurking at the heart of the Iobarian dig site consume their hopes and dreams?
Written by Scott D. Young.

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Pathfinder Society Scenario #2-02: Mountain of Sea and Sky

A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 3-6
Venture-Captain Amari Li has called for assistance in establishing new Pathfinder lodges throughout Tian Xia! The mountainous island of Kayajima, in northwestern Minkai, would be an ideal site, as it sits atop a convergence of powerful—though long-dormant—ley lines that could offer valuable protection for a future lodge. Rather than lay claim to the island by force, the Pathfinders must treat with the island's animals and spirits, securing their blessing for a ritual to restore the island's magic and establish the newest Pathfinder lodge.
Written by Adrian Ng.

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Starfinder Society

Starfinder Society’s Year of Exploration’s Edge is well underway! Year of Exploration’s Edge is the perfect opportunity to start enjoying Starfinder Society, or even to pick up as bonus content for your already ongoing Starfinder campaigns when you need that fun “planet of the week” diversion. While we’re not as focused on a major overarching metaplot, there are three unique multi-part stories that PCs of all level ranges can still enjoy and should scratch that ongoing story arc itch.

Starfinder Society Scenario #3-05: The Hivemarket Heist

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-4.
A group of the giant four-armed shobhads from the red world of Akiton approaches the Starfinder Society to help retrieve relics stolen from one of their holy sites. Things aren't as they seem, as the thieves wait to sell their objects in Akiton's infamous Hivemarket, where they enjoy the protection of the mysterious incorporeal beings known as khulans. It's up to the PCs to step in and investigate the missing relics without gaining any unwanted attention from the khulans.
Written by: Jim Groves.

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Starfinder Society Scenario #3-06: Rise of the Vault Lord

A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 7-10.
During a routine investigation on the false moon of Salvation's End, the PCs encounter an emissary from the vault's mysterious guiding intelligence. Directed to stop an ongoing invasion of another vault, the PCs find themselves caught in the middle of a conflict that could determine the fate of the false moon. Only through the PCs' actions can the machinations of the mysterious Vault Lord be halted.
Written by: Matt Duval.

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Pathfinder Adventure Card Society

Pathfinder Adventure Card Society’s new season, Year of Reborn Strife, is here! The first half of the new season runs from August to December, with a new storybook releasing every month. The season’s early action takes the PCs to a swarming ancient metropolis filled with mysteries and intrigue. Kaer Maga, City of Strangers, is a haven for outcasts, misfits, rebels, and wayfarers from across the dangerous land of Varisia. Anyone is welcome on its shrouded streets, so long as they don’t ask too many questions or interfere with the freedom of their neighbors.

But a new threat rises to upset this delicate balance!

Pathfinder Adventure Card Society #7-1: Attack of the Twice-Born

All are welcome in Kaer Maga, the City of Strangers, where master smiths with construct bodyguards, troll augurs, and merchants with zombie servants walk the shadowed streets. When some of these undead servants break free and turn violent, the city's premier purveyor of mindless undead turns to the Pathfinder Society for help in uncovering the cause and putting an end to the zombie attacks.

Adventures Ahead!

Aaron Shanks
Marketing and Media Manager

From the vast reaches of space comes an unusual sight: the first volume of the Devastation Ark Adventure Path for Starfinder, “Waking the Worldseed” by Jenny Jarzabski. This adventure is for 13th-level PCs, marking it as our first official foray into higher-level adventure content! But what is the Devastation Ark and what does it want with the Pact Worlds? Does it spell doom for the system? Or will a group of courageous heroes stop the return of an ancient, warmongering civilization?

Don’t worry, I’m here to give you (some of) the answers. While the spoilers presented here are mild, if you want these adventures to complete surprise you, you might want to skip some of the more revealing plot-related questions.

How many volumes are in this Adventure Path? The Devastation Ark is a 3-part AP.

What are the other titles and who has written those adventures? The second volume of the Devastation Ark is “The Starstone Blockade” by Eleanor Ferron, and the third is “Dominion’s End” by Ron Lundeen.

What levels do these adventures cover? “Waking the Worldseed” will take characters to 16th level, “The Starstone Blockade” will get PCs to 18th level, and before the finale of “Dominion’s End,” the heroes will be 20th level!

How did you plan to fit in all that adventure content? Well, each adventure of the Devastation Ark will be approximately 8 pages longer than normal for Starfinder Adventure Path volumes. To do this, we had to cut one of each volume’s articles, but each volume still contains a new world to explore, a new starship, and a bunch of new high-CR aliens!

Who is this ancient evil? And how are they returning? Those who have played through the Dead Suns Adventure Path might recognize the builders of the Devastation Ark. Millennia ago, the sivv and the kishalee empires were locked in a bloody war that lasted for centuries. The sivvs crafted a deadly superweapon—the Stellar Degenerator—to end their hated foes, but when kishalee spies eventually captured the device, the sivvs eventually lost the war. However, one sivv commandant had little faith in the Stellar Degenerator project and headed a project that would allow a collection of sivvs to escape destruction by going into stasis aboard a massive colony ship. That vessel, dubbed Ark Prime, launched into a kind of “quantum hyperspace” and has spent countless ages waiting for the right time to emerge and rebuild the Sivv Dominion!

Will there be any tie-ins to other Adventure Paths? Yes! The Devastation Ark is designed to be played by any group who has completed any of our other 6-part Adventure Paths (or Signal of Screams), with advice for the GM to help bring those PCs into the plot.

The first volume mentions a gazetteer of the moon of Hibb. What do the bantrids have to do with this plot? Our little wheeled aliens (as seen in the art below) have a mysterious past, having only recently awoken from their own stasis with no memory of their history. Without giving too much away, bantrids were a servitor species of the Sivv Dominion, and the moon of Hibb might involve more than meets the eye.

Can you preview some of the other content? “Waking the Worldseed” features a daemon who represents large-scale death by corporate malfeasance, an azata who roots out corruption in business and politics, and a ghostly vehicle called a “death cruiser” (yes, that’s an updated Pathfinder creature!). “The Starstone Blockade” features an article about the Church of Eloritu, one of the more mysterious deities, as well as a few more powerful outsiders. “Dominion’s End” features a collection of sivv relics and stats for the toughest sivv soldiers and mages.

Illustration by Franklin Chan

We’ll have more about this AP as it gets closer to the release date. I hope that in August, you’ll grab your parallax laser pistols and join the fight to stop the Devastation Ark!

Jason Keeley
Developer

Do you see a theme in the dire titles of this month’s new releases? Clearly, heroes are needed at such a time as this. We present our new releases now available at your favorite local game store, online retailer, and here at paizo.com. You won’t be bored!

Unleash Your Hero with Pathfinder Second Edition!

The Apocalypse Prophet

The Apocalypse Prophet is a Pathfinder adventure written by Lyz Liddell for four 18th-level characters. This adventure concludes the Extinction Curse Adventure Path, a six-part, monthly campaign in which the heroes lead a traveling circus as they unravel a plot to eradicate all life from the islands of the Inner Sea. This volume also includes a gazetteer of the forbidding Kortos Mountains, an examination of relics left by the dead god Aroden, new monsters, and new rules.

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Pathfinder Spell Cards: Arcane

Magic explodes from your fingertips when you hold Pathfinder Spell Cards in hand! This must-have accessory for arcane spellcasters contains more than 200 spell reference cards, covering every arcane spell in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, giving players immediate access to key game details without the need to slow down play to flip through a giant book.

Pathfinder Spell Cards: Divine

Call down the glory of the gods with Pathfinder Spell Cards! This must-have accessory for divine spellcasters contains more than 150 spell reference cards, covering every divine spell in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, giving players immediate access to key game details without the need to slow down play to flip through a giant book.

Pathfinder Spell Cards: Focus

Get the most out of your inner magical power with Pathfinder Spell Cards! This must-have accessory for focus spellcasters contains more than 150 spell reference cards, covering every focus spell in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, giving players immediate access to key game details without the need to slow down play to flip through a giant book.

Pathfinder Spell Cards: Occult

Your hero knows the mysterious secrets of the multiverse, so how come you're always flipping through the rulebook when it comes time to cast a spell? This invaluable set of Pathfinder Spell Cards contains more than 200 spell reference cards for every occult spell in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, giving you just as much mastery over the secrets of Pathfinder's magic as your player character!

Pathfinder Spell Cards: Primal

Unleash the fury of the natural world with Pathfinder Spell Cards! This must-have accessory for primal spellcasters contains more than 175 spell reference cards, covering every primal spell in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, giving players immediate access to key game details without the need to slow down play to flip through a giant book.

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Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Cathedral

Smile in pride as your players mumble desperate prayers to gods benevolent or malign while they fight for their lives upon Flip-Mat Classics: Cathedral! This gorgeous double-sided battle-scale map features the same temple on each side, one dedicated to good and the other to evil!.

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Doom of Cassomir

Doom stalks the streets of Cassomir! The people of Admiral's Fen have long been doughty pioneers and sailors, but time and tribulations both natural and economic have worn down their spirits. Amid this widespread gloom and general depression, dark forces have begun pulling strings to begin a societal collapse that could take the entire city under. Venture-Captain Hestia Themis calls on her allies in the Pathfinder Society to try and help her unravel the twisting skeins of manipulation and deceit before Cassomir's final doom is assured.

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The Star-Crossed Court

On an idyllic island of the western coast of Garund, the PCs arrive at the iruxi city of Ekkeshikaar. Seeking to establish new trade relations between the lizardfolk of Ekkeshikaar and the people of Vidrian, the Pathfinder Society must navigate a delicate political landscape while thwarting the efforts of nefarious forces who seek to stop the proposed alliance by any means necessary.

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Shoot for the Stars with Starfinder!

The Cradle Infestation

The Cradle Infestation is a Starfinder Roleplaying Game adventure written by Vanessa Hoskins for four 9th-level characters. This adventure continues the Threefold Conspiracy Adventure Path, a six-part, monthly campaign in which the players unravel the machinations of insidious aliens who have infiltrated galactic society. This volume also includes an examination of the biology and society of the floating barathus, a catalog of biotech gear, and a selection of new and mystifying monsters.

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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! The Starfinder Near Space Pawn Collection presents beautiful full-color images of characters, alien creatures, and starships inspired by the Starfinder Near Space hardcover, perfect for representing your next character or deadly extraterrestrial foes! 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 Near Space Pawn Collection is the best way to ensure you've got the perfect characters and starships to bring your Starfinder campaign to life!

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Space Station Starter Set

Stage the scene for epic science fantasy battles with the Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Space Station Starter Set! This boxed collection of 42 durable, double-sided full-color 6 x 6-inch map tiles provides tons of options for space station encounters, from corridor blaster battles to medical bay drama to chaos in the crew quarters! These exciting new tiles bring countless combinations to your game table!

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Crash Down

While undertaking a routine surveillance mission to an uncharted world in the Vast, a freak accident occurs that causes the PCs' starship to crash on a nearby planetoid. Caught without another ship for assistance, it's up to the heroes to survive for several weeks as another Starfinder starship can be dispatched to rescue them. Can the PCs survive before succumbing to the dangers of an unexplored alien planet?

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The Subterranean Safari

Seeking to ingratiate themselves with the Veskarium, the Starfinder Society sends a team of agents along with an influential vesk Brigadier on a hunt into the subterranean caverns of Vesk-3. As the Veskarium officer seeks to discover "the big one" of the planet's dangerous stridermander population, the PCs must protect their charge while also uncovering hidden truths about a skittermander group that dwelt in the same caves they now search.

Starfinder Society has just started a new season. Pathfinder Society and Pathfinder Adventure Card Society start new seasons in August. Now is a great time to get started with Paizo Organized Play!

See what is exciting products are coming soon, and what you may have missed, at the Paizo Product Schedule. By becoming an ongoing subscriber, you'll be sure to get the latest and greatest Pathfinder and Starfinder products shipped to you directly from the Paizo warehouse upon release.

Adventures Ahead!

Aaron Shanks
Marketing and Media Manager