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PaizoCon 2025 Is Coming!

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Hail and well met, ‘Finders! We’re just under two months away from PaizoCon, and the excitement is rising here at the (virtual) office! Strap in—this blog is gonna take you on a tour of what to expect, how to buy tickets, and more!

PaizoCon is our annual celebration of all things Pathfinder, Starfinder, Paizo Games, and more! Join us May 23rd–26th for a plethora of games, panels, interactive discussions, and more!

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Pre-Sale Tickets On Sale Now!

Starting today, March 6th, pre-sale tickets are available for PaizoCon Online! Get your ticket before 11:59 P.M. Pacific on March 31st to take advantage of our pre-sale discount! Tickets purchased during this window will cost $20—the price goes up to $25 on April 1st (and that’s no joke)!


Why get a badge?

A PaizoCon badge allows you full access to sign up for all gaming events! This includes our Organized Play offerings, our interactive specials, community-lead games and even our staff-run offerings. No extra fee, one badge gets you as much gaming as you can handle across four days of PaizoCon!

Plus, badge holders get early access to art portfolio and writing portfolio review sign-ups, discounts and special products from Paizo and our licensed partners, access to interactive Discord channels to ask Paizo Staff questions, and more!


What’s Happening at PaizoCon?

Panels

PaizoCon has a full slate of panels to open the gates of Golarion and the Pact Worlds to our community! The complete schedule will be announced closer to the convention, but mark your calendars for 10 A.M. Pacific on Friday, May 23rd, when we kick off PaizoCon with the PaizoCon Keynote—our big presentation of all things fun and phenomenal coming for Pathfinder and Starfinder!

Panels run from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Pacific on Friday, May 23rd, Saturday, May 24th, and Sunday, May 25th.


Games!

We’re hosting a variety of virtual games at PaizoCon!

The full PaizoCon gaming schedule is as follows. All times are Pacific Daylight Time.

  • Block 1 Friday, May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
  • Block 2 Friday, May 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
  • Block 3 Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
  • Block 4 Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
  • Block 5 Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
  • Block 6 Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
  • Block 7 Sunday, May 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
  • Block 8 Sunday, May 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
  • Block 9 Sunday, May 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
  • Block 10 Sunday, May 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
  • Block 11 Monday, May 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
  • Block 12 Monday, May 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
  • Block 13 Monday, May 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM

Play-by-post games will begin after the convention concludes and finish no later than Tuesday, July 22.

In Block 4, we will be offering Pathfinder Society Special #3-99: Fate in the Future, and in Block 8 we will be offering Starfinder Society Special #3-99: Perils of the Past. Help reunite two adventurers stranded across time and space in our first crossover event between Pathfinder and Starfinder, using the rules for Pathfinder Second Edition and Starfinder First Edition!


Community Gaming!

We’re also now opening signups for Community Gaming! If you’re interested in running a game outside of Organized Play at PaizoCon Online, we’d love to have you join us. This can be anything: a homebrew Pathfinder or Starfinder adventure, something you’re working on for Infinite, even a non-Paizo roleplaying or board game! Just fill out the form below and we’ll be in touch about scheduling your game.

PaizoCon Online Community Gaming Submissions


PaizoCon@

PaizoCon@ is our initiative to offer an in-person experience during PaizoCon Online around the world. This year we’ve nearly tripled our in-person PaizoCon offerings, which means even more of our players and GMs will be able to experience PaizoCon at their local game stores or conventions!

All PaizoCon@ locations will be running Pathfinder and Starfinder Society games during the weekend, including exclusive runs of our May releases. Highlights include the finale of Starfinder Society Year 7, as well as participation in our interactive specials.

A full list of our locations and conventions is in this blog, or visit this Google Map of the locations. We’d love to see you in-person this year!


Portfolio Reviews

We’re excited to bring back both art and writing portfolio reviews as part of this year’s PaizoCon! Get thoughtful and detailed feedback from Paizo’s art and writing teams, plus a chance to put your work in front of the teams actively seeking freelancers!

Ticket holders get early access to booking portfolio review appointments—get yours today! Signups will open to all attendees (ticketed or non-ticketed) on a first come, first serve basis closer to PaizoCon weekend.

The art and writing reviews are separate, so you are welcome to sign up for both, but please only sign up for one review per subject.

Review Guidelines

  • Reviews will be done over Discord; please remember what time you signed up and join the Discord chat at your time as to not intrude on someone else’s review.
  • Please only choose one slot per review subject; we have a limited number of times and want to give as many people a chance as possible.
  • Please link to your portfolio so we have a chance to review your work beforehand.
  • No AI-generated work.

Appointment reminder emails will be sent out before PaizoCon, so keep an eye on your inbox. We can’t wait to see your work!


And So Much More!

Join us in the Paizo Events Discord for AMAs with Paizo staff, game demos, interactive Discord activities like trivia and Jackbox Games, and exclusive giveaways of Paizo and licensed partner products!

Get Your Tickets for PaizoCon Now!

We’re looking forward to seeing you all May 23rd–26th for PaizoCon 2025, whether you’re participating online or joining us at one of our partner PaizoCon@ locations!

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Grand Archive
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HUZZAH!
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This all is super neat! I'll have to keep an eye out for when the portfolio review stuff opens up, though I'm curious about what kind of writing is generally the best to show for those. Statblocks? City/nation write-ups? Short stories?

Regardless, the hype is real
Paizo Employee Community & Social Media Specialist
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I can't wait to see everyone there!
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Yay! Super excited for PaizoCon again this year, so glad that y’all have made such a GREAT way for folks who can’t go to cons in person due to medical concerns to still be able to gather with the community. Looking forward to it!
Paizo Employee Community & Social Media Specialist
Jason L. wrote:
Yay! Super excited for PaizoCon again this year, so glad that y’all have made such a GREAT way for folks who can’t go to cons in person due to medical concerns to still be able to gather with the community. Looking forward to it!

We hope you enjoy it! Stay tuned for the panel list!

To check I'm reading this right, outside the USA the in-person events are one in Brisbane and one in Manchester and that's it? Online it is then, Brisbane is 2000km away and everywhere else at least 10000
Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber
Paizo stated, wrote:
"We’re just under two months away from PaizoCon, and the excitement is rising here at the (virtual) office!"

Are we, though? Today is March 6th, isn't it? Still, I am very excited for this! I can't wait! But I will, since I must.

Paizo Employee Marketing & Media Specialist
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mortalheraldnyx wrote:

This all is super neat! I'll have to keep an eye out for when the portfolio review stuff opens up, though I'm curious about what kind of writing is generally the best to show for those. Statblocks? City/nation write-ups? Short stories?

Regardless, the hype is real

The submission form will allow you to pick what kind of sample your writing is - narrative/fiction, rules, lore, etc. The main qualifiers are that the sample be 1000 words or less and that it isn't written using generative AI.

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Rue Dickey wrote:
mortalheraldnyx wrote:

This all is super neat! I'll have to keep an eye out for when the portfolio review stuff opens up, though I'm curious about what kind of writing is generally the best to show for those. Statblocks? City/nation write-ups? Short stories?

Regardless, the hype is real

The submission form will allow you to pick what kind of sample your writing is - narrative/fiction, rules, lore, etc. The main qualifiers are that the sample be 1000 words or less and that it isn't written using generative AI.

Thank you! That's helpful to know.

Radiant Oath
Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

Once we've bought & customized our tickets, will we get a notification when it's time to sign up for stuff?

This is my first time participating in PaizoCon Online. I went to a @FLGS event last year and had a great time!
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I apologize for not knowing this, but how do I sign up to run pathfinder 2e society games?
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Boomzilla73 wrote:
I apologize for not knowing this, but how do I sign up to run pathfinder 2e society games?

GM applications & information are available in this blog.

Paizo Employee Community & Social Media Specialist
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kojoidrissa wrote:

Once we've bought & customized our tickets, will we get a notification when it's time to sign up for stuff?

This is my first time participating in PaizoCon Online. I went to a @FLGS event last year and had a great time!

You can keep up with signup information in our Events Discord Server! Hopefully that helps!

Radiant Oath
Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
Maya Coleman wrote:
kojoidrissa wrote:

Once we've bought & customized our tickets, will we get a notification when it's time to sign up for stuff?

This is my first time participating in PaizoCon Online. I went to a @FLGS event last year and had a great time!

You can keep up with signup information in our Events Discord Server! Hopefully that helps!

It DID Maya, thanks! I've added the sign-up date to my calendar! I'm READY!!

Paizo Employee Community & Social Media Specialist
kojoidrissa wrote:
It DID Maya, thanks! I've added the sign-up date to my calendar! I'm READY!!

You're very welcome! We'll see you there!

Dark Archive
Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

Question: signing up to gm probably doesn't count as ticket holding right?

Two, should I have portfolio ready and nicely polished by time signups for portfolio reviews are up?
Paizo Employee Community & Social Media Specialist
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CorvusMask wrote:

Question: signing up to gm probably doesn't count as ticket holding right?

Two, should I have portfolio ready and nicely polished by time signups for portfolio reviews are up?

Hey, CorvusMask! Sorry it took me a minute to reply to this! For your first question, yes, if you sign up to GM and do actually end up with two confirmed volunteer spots, this counts as ticket holding. GMs have to run at least 2 blocks for us to get a badge.

For your second question, yes please! Our art directors will be looking at the portfolios before the reviews, so assume that they will be looked at any time between sign up and review day!
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