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September 2025 Organized Play Monthly Update

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Digital Adventure Releases

The following adventures will be released on September 24, 2025, and may be run at events beginning on that date.


Pathfinder Society

Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-03: A Foot in the Door*

Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-04: Sulfuric Negotiations*

Starfinder Society

Starfinder Society Scenario #1-05: Sloughscar Summit*

Starfinder Society Scenario #1-06: Magic in the Mist*

*part of a subscription


Pathfinder Society News

As we announced last month, some changes are coming to Pathfinder Society Scenarios.

Beginning in January of 2026, we will release two Pathfinder Society scenarios per month. These scenarios will be 2–3 hours in length with one band of levels, such as levels 1–2 or 3–4. Each scenario will still award 4 XP, 10 Treasure Bundles, and 4 Reputation with a faction. We will also no longer use Challenge Points; scenarios will instead be presented with a baseline encounter and adjustments to make the encounter easier or harder based on the table. We’ll also be releasing the final Pathfinder Quest in December. You can learn more about these changes, as well as the transition into hardcover Adventure Paths, in this blog!

In sanctioning news, two new adventures have been sanctioned! The Myth-Speaker Adventure Path is now available to play for Pathfinder Society credit, as well as the new Pathfinder Game Night: Dawn of the Frogs. You can find sanctioning documents for these adventures on their product pages.


Starfinder Society News

Starfinder Society’s launch month saw hundreds of tables run worldwide for thousands of players! We hope you’ve all enjoyed our launch scenarios and are eagerly looking forward to the upcoming Invasion’s Edge storyline. I promise you, the Starfinder team has some great things in store for this year.

Over the past month we’ve made some changes and clarifications to the Starfinder Society Character Options page, as well as the Guide to Organized Play, to smooth out some of the wrinkles we encountered at Gen Con and in the weeks following. This will be an ongoing process, but we appreciate your patience as we work to answer your questions and sort out any missing pieces. If you think something on either of these pages is wrong or could be clearer, please don’t hesitate to let us know!

This month Starfinder GM Core released; while it has been reviewed and “sanctioned,” in practice this is largely a GM-focused book. As such, the minimal player options in this book, such as vehicles, are not available for purchase or use by default. We’ll be sure to mine this book for subsystems and mechanics to use in upcoming adventures!


GM Recognition

GM Ranks

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

This month we had five GMs reach their fifth rank!

5th Glyph (PFS2): Matt Duval, Alexandre Menard, Allan C Ong (UncleFroggy), Loren Schmidt

5th Nova(SFS1): James Hargrave

If you believe you’ve completed your 5th rank but haven’t been announced yet, please email me at organizedplay(at)paizo(dot)com.


Conventions

Applications are now open for volunteer GMs at PAX Unplugged 2025! We’re seeking RPG GMs for both Pathfinder and Starfinder Society (second edition), as well as folks willing to demo our board games like Pathfinder Quest and Monster Match! GMs who join us for 12 hours (4 slots) get a free badge for the show, and those who do even more can earn free Paizo products. Learn more and get the volunteer link in the blog post.

On top of PAX Unplugged, there are tons of fall conventions near you! Find one on our Convention calendar. Paizo staff will be attending Hurricon in Orlando, GalaxyCon in St. Louis, and GameholeCon in Madison this fall, so if you’re in the area, come out and join us!

Until next time— Explore! Report! Cooperate! And good luck in the Great Absalom Relay!

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

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4/5 **** RPG Superstar 2013 Top 4
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Woo! Got there!
Congratulations everyone!
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Pathfinder Starfinder Accessories, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Society Subscriber

> "As such, the minimal player options in [Starfinder GM Core], such as vehicles, are not available for purchase or use by default."

Aww, there goes my dream of a Society soldier auto-firing off a hoverboard mid-combat :'(

But seriously, thanks for the clarification, and best of luck working on Starfinder Tech Core and other SF projects :D
Horizon Hunters 1/5 ***** Venture-Agent, Francia—Online

thank you
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Congratulations and thank you, Fivers!
Dataphiles 5/55/55/5 Venture-Agent, Netherlands
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Made it just before SF2 (technically)!

Congrats to the other 5 Glyph GMs!! I'm keeping space locked down for ya!
Wayfinders 4/5 5/55/55/55/5 ***** Contributor
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5th Glyph (PFS2): Matt Duval, Alexandre Menard, Allan C Ong (UncleFroggy), Loren Schmidt

5th Nova(SFS1): James Hargrave

Oh my gosh, I am so excited for all of you!
Liberty's Edge 2/5 5/5
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Here I was hoping that they would reverse course and announce that Starfinder APs would in fact be sanctioned for OP like Pathfinder has and continues to get sanctioned APs.

I am disappointed.
Scarab Sages 4/5 5/55/55/5 **** Venture-Captain, Australia—NSW—Greater West
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Congratulations to all the new 5 Glyph and Nova GMs. We applaud your work.
2/5 5/5 ***** Venture-Agent, Washington—Seattle

Thanks everyone for all the well wishes, and thank you to anyone who ever sat at one of my tables! It was special finishing the fifth glyph at Gencon.

-Loren
Wayfinders 4/5 5/55/55/55/5 ***** Contributor
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Noven wrote:

Here I was hoping that they would reverse course and announce that Starfinder APs would in fact be sanctioned for OP like Pathfinder has and continues to get sanctioned APs.

I am disappointed.

Me too, honestly. I'm going to keep asking for this, and if those of you reading this feel the same way, join the plea for more sanctioned Starfinder Content!

Hmm
Dark Archive 4/5 5/55/5

Congrats to all the GMs! For those interested in Gamehole Con we still have a good chunk of space across not only Pathfinder 2e, but also Pathfinder 1e and Starfinder 1e. And if you act now there are still a couple of Starfinder 2e games that haven't sold out https://www.gameholecon.com/
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Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Any news on Orc Boon for Starfinder?
Scarab Sages 3/5 5/55/55/5 ***** Venture-Captain, Nebraska—Bellevue
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On the convention list, you forgot to mention that Shay Snow will be at NukeCon in Council Bluffs Iowa the first weekend in October.
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Thanks everyone!
Advocates 3/5 5/55/5 Venture-Lieutenant, Conventions—PaizoCon
DemiurgeMCK wrote:

> "As such, the minimal player options in [Starfinder GM Core], such as vehicles, are not available for purchase or use by default."

Aww, there goes my dream of a Society soldier auto-firing off a hoverboard mid-combat :'(

But seriously, thanks for the clarification, and best of luck working on Starfinder Tech Core and other SF projects :D

Sounds like a home game shenanigan to me :D

Bonus points to GMs who'd let you spend an action to do a kickflip.
Silver Crusade 5/5 5/55/5 **** Venture-Captain, Germany—Bavaria
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Congratulations James, it was a pleasure to do your evaulation ^^
Liberty's Edge 4/5 5/55/55/5 ****
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Continued the lack of love for the Omaha Lodge by not including Shay joining us at Nuke-con in early October. We are a small con so I guess that is the reason.

Come join us in any case!
Dataphiles
Deceitfulelf wrote:
Any news on Orc Boon for Starfinder?

Haven't heard anything myself. I presume we will eventually get a Orc Ancestry and Dromaar Heritage in a Starfinder book since, while similar, they aren't likely to be exactly the same as the Pathfinder options. Mostly using Android, which is current available in both Pathfinder and Starfinder 2e, as a frame of reference.

Wayfinders 4/5 5/55/55/55/5 ***** Contributor
Syvis wrote:
Deceitfulelf wrote:
Any news on Orc Boon for Starfinder?
Haven't heard anything myself. I presume we will eventually get a Orc Ancestry and Dromaar Heritage in a Starfinder book since, while similar, they aren't likely to be exactly the same as the Pathfinder options. Mostly using Android, which is current available in both Pathfinder and Starfinder 2e, as a frame of reference.

I also haven't heard anything on this - which is why I feel free to speculate on the matter with all of you!

My suspicion is that Syvis is correct and that they will be doing different things with Orcs. It will be interesting to see what happens here.

Hmm
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Pathfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
DemiurgeMCK wrote:

> "As such, the minimal player options in [Starfinder GM Core], such as vehicles, are not available for purchase or use by default."

Aww, there goes my dream of a Society soldier auto-firing off a hoverboard mid-combat :'(

Yes, I had a lot of hopes for that hoverboard myself.

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