It Pays to Read

Monday, March 21, 2016

Behold! New sanctioned material!

While co-managing an organized play campaign that touches upon nearly everything that Paizo publishes in one way or another, Linda and I spend a lot of our off-time reading, catching up on the latest publications, and thinking about how to incorporate them in the Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild. Today, we bring you more sanctioned content for your enjoyment both at and away from the gaming table!

One of my favorite projects is sanctioning the Pathfinder Tales novels, which continue to impress me with the authors' insight into our shared campaign setting, fun characters, and subtle incorporation of game mechanics into the narratives. This latest round of reading began with Michael A. Stackpole's The Crusader Road, a story of frontier survival in the River Kingdoms, and concluded with Tim Pratt's Liar's Island, a tale of mischief, humor, and opportunistic heroism in Jalmeray. If you're a fan of the Darklands—especially if you enjoyed the recently released Pathfinder Player Companion: Blood of Shadows and Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Darklands Revisited—you'll love Forge of Ashes by Paizo's own Josh Vogt, who shows us how cool an oread can be and how delightfully bizarre the Darklands' residents are. Check out both Pathfinder Tales, Volume VI and Pathfinder Tales, Volume VII for all eight of the newest sanctioned novels.

On a related note, remember that Audible now produces audiobook versions of the Pathfinder Tales novels, letting you experience the stories wherever you go. Our partnership with TOR also means that these novels are available in ebook form through a variety of online retailers. In light of the new digital formats available, showing a GM the audiobook or ebook file on your phone, laptop, or even printed out screenshot now qualifies for activating any of the Pathfinder Tales boons.

But that's not all! Linda has also composed the sanctioning document for Pathfinder Module: Daughters of Fury, opening up new adventure content for character levels 2-6. As with many of our sanctioned 64-page modules, this adventure is broken into three chapters, each with its own Chronicle sheet. Play the whole adventure with the same character to qualify for a bonus Chronicle sheet at the end, helping to either boost your PC's Prestige Point total or gain additional experience points and wealth.

You can download all of the sanctioning document files from their respective product pages. These documents will be added to the Additional Resources page next week, along with the rest of the monthly update.

We're busily looking ahead to other sanctioned content in the Module, Adventure Path, and Tales lines, so don't worry if you don't see the next publication's Chronicle sheets here; they're in the pipeline. We'll see you next week for a preview of March's new scenarios.

John Compton
Pathfinder Society Lead Developer