Paizo Wraps the Best Four Days in Gaming with New Obsidian Partnership, Ten ENnie Awards, New Pathfinder Product Launches, and Massive-Scale Player Events
As Gen Con 2014 comes to a close, Paizo Inc., publisher of the world's best selling Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, is thrilled to re-cap key news and events from the show that made this year's Gen Con the best for Paizo and Pathfinder fans alike.
The week's festivities kicked off with the joint announcement with Obsidian Entertainment, developer of Fallout: New Vegas, South Park: the Stick of Truth, and the Kickstarter phenomenon Pillars of Eternity, that Paizo and Obsidian have entered into a long-term licensing partnership to produce electronic games based on the popular Pathfinder Roleplaying Game property. Gen Con attendees got a chance to preview the first product in development, a tablet game based on the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords.
Paizo won ten prestigious ENnie Awards, including:
Best Publisher
Best Art, Interior—Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Gods
Best Art, Cover—Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Mythic Adventures
Best Cartography—Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Wrath of the Righteous Poster Map Folio
Best Free Product—Pathfinder Module: We Be Goblins, Too!
Best Miniatures Product—Pathfinder Battles: Wrath of the Righteous (Gold & Silver)
Best Monster, Adversary—Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 4
Best RPG-Related Product—Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords Base Set
Best Supplement—Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign
Four key new products from the Pathfinder universe were released at Gen Con, including:
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide introduces 10 new classes to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, including arcanist, bloodrager, brawler, hunter, investigator, shaman, skald, slayer, swashbuckler, and warpriest. Each class in this new hardcover book is fully supported with a wealth of new rules, from archetypes and feats to spells and magic items.
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles is the follow-up to last year's smash Gen Con release, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords Base Set, and starts a new adventure in the realm of the Shackles. Based on improved rules from the Rise of the Runelords Base Set, Skull & Shackles introduces four new character classes (gunslinger, magus, oracle, and swashbuckler), and puts the player in the role of pirate ship captain for adventures on the high seas.
The wildly popular Pathfinder Adventure Path line launched a new 6-month campaign at Gen Con,Iron Gods. Iron Gods explores one of the most mysterious and unique realms in the Inner Sea region—a land where savage barbarians and stranger super-science, technological marvels like robots, crashed spaceships, and high-tech weaponry, rub shoulders with monsters, sinister cultists, and magical artifacts.
Pathfinder Society, the massively multiplayer offline roleplaying game played in the world's largest RPG organized play campaign, hosted a slew of events during Gen Con for nearly 10,000 Pathfinder RPG players.
"This was my 20th consecutive Gen Con," says Paizo Publisher Erik Mona, "and they just keep getting better and better. The RPG business is stronger than ever, with huge released from multiple publishers. It was fantastic getting to meet and throw dice with the Pathfinder faithful, who remain the most loyal and dedicated players in the world!"
In the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, players take on the role of brave adventurers fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil. The Pathfinder RPG is currently translated into multiple languages, and the vibrant Pathfinder universe has been licensed for comic book series, graphic novels, miniatures, plush toys, apparel, and is being developed into a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game.
About Paizo Inc.
Paizo Inc. is publisher of the world's best-selling Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, the wildly popular Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, as well as Pathfinder Tales novels, board games, and gaming accessories. Paizo.com is the leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world. In the twelve years since its founding, Paizo Publishing has received more than 50 major awards and has grown to become one of the most influential companies in the hobby games industry.
