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Yesterday saw the first blog post in JBE's new series Enhancing Kingmaker. Check out Ogre Bounty Hunters today.

Full Eldritch Might at the Power of Your Fingertips

Looking for your next big bad? Does the evil overlord need a spellcaster advisor to carry out their bidding? How about a ready-made spellcaster to fight alongside the characters? The Book of Beasts: Arcanist Codex has the solutions you need, arming Game Masters of the First Edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game with the following:

The Pathfinder Book of Magic: Spell Codex Volume 2 is now available in print. Grab your copy today at DriveThruRPG.

If you haven't grabbed yourself Book of Magic: Spell Codex Volume 1 yet, order it at DriveThruRPG today. Naturally, you also get yourself PDF copies at the same links.

The Book of Magic: Spell Codex Volume 2 is coming soon. We are starting to talk about what is going on be inside. Check out Planned Assault at the JBE Blog.

Hey everyone,

It's that time of year again. DriveThruRPG has its annual Christmas in July sale. Everything JBE has for Pathfinder 1e is 15-25% off the regular price. Check it out now.

But the real big deal is our Christmas in July Bundle this year. It has everything through the end of last year for 67% off the regular price. Grab it now before this deal is gone.

The Book of Magic: Spell Codex Volume 1 is coming soon. Read about what is book is about and one of the spells in the book at the JBE Blog.

Like the title says. I'm curious what APs people are still playing or are prepping. Share.

Options for Every Hero

Every Pathfinder Second Edition Hero needs General Feats. Now the best ones are no longer limited to Level 1 options. Grab yourself these 10 new choices for your higher-level character today.

This supplement includes the following feats:

Danger and Death Awaits in the Forbidden Woods

Deep in the heart of the Forbidden Woods lies a group of monsters too terrifying for most to face. Animals of enormous size, creatures part spider and bear, terrifying crocodile beavers, and things much, much worse. Only the bravest heroes dare to stand up to these foul abominations of murderous intent and save the people from a fate far worse than death.

Monsters of the Forbidden Woods is an exciting new supplement of monsters in Jon Brazer Enterprises’ best-selling Book of Beasts series and is our first for the Pathfinder Second Edition Roleplaying Game. These monsters are designed to frighten characters and leave your players recounting their tales of heroism time and again. Inside this volume, you’ll find:

Now available at Paizo.com. Download today.

Alright, so I am starting to create Pathfinder 2e material on my blog. Check out the entire blog here.

JBE's Pathfinder 2e blog

The first in our posts dedicated to Pathfinder 2e is the Mushroom Guardian. Tell us what you think of this little monster.

Ok, I have to admit it. I just don't get Occult. Not the skill nor the spell list distinction. It feels artificial.

Arcane: gets it's power from mortals reshaping the world
Divine: gets it's power from deities
Primal: the magical force of nature

Occult I guess is supposed to be things that are magical. Like fey, no they're nature. Elemental? Nature as well. So I guess it is the power of WTF things of the world like not-beholders and not-mind-flayers, yes?

Someone please explain this to me.

The Christmas in July Sale is going on now at DriveThruRPG. You can grab just about all of our Pathfinder 1e titles for 15-25% off their regular price. Take the Book of Beasts: Character Codex Subscription. You get 80 NPCs right now and more as the series progresses. And right now you get it for 15% off the regular price.

If you don’t own a piece of gaming history—the Book of the River Nations—now is the time to grab it. The ever-popular Book of Heroic Races Compendium—as well as the Advanced Compendium—are both 25% off. Playing one of the newer classes with one of these races? Then you need Occult Intrigue in the Wilderness. Grab it while it is at such a great price. Do you own the first Free RPG Day adventure funded by a Kickstarter? Well, it is on sale now. Grab the Temple of Orcus today.

We have so, SO many Pathfinder titles that we can’t list them all here. But if you are still playing this game that we all love so much, look over our inventory in the Pathfinder 1e category, and treat yourself to so many highly-rated titles now.

For those of you that don't know, I am working on a Character Codex for Pathfinder. We've completed 3 of the 12 classes going into the book (Warpriests, Magii, and Witches), Slayers is heavily into the editing process, and Arcanists is being written now. One thing in the back of my mind is the Encounter Codex that Paizo talked about towards the end of their production of PF1. The book never materialized but I know there are some people that still want it.

So I was wondering if I were to work on such a book, what would people want to see if it? Tell us your thoughts.

It was ten years ago this month that JBE released the Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference for Kingdom Building to the world. This book who’s name is exceedingly too long introduced Pathfinder players to our books and the quality of work we put into our material. This book holds a very special place in our hearts as it was a huge success for us. It was designed for the Kingmaker adventure path because all of the special rules for that campaign were in the adventure paths, away from the eyes of the players who needed them to succeed. So we had the great idea of taking all those rules that were OGL, clarified them where they needed smoothing out, and republished them in a spoiler-free book designed for players. It sold in game stores on three continents and is one of our most popular PDF books of all time.

So for its 10th anniversary, we wanted to bring it to you at a special discount. For the rest of this month, you can download the Book of the River Nations Complete for $2.95 at DriveThruRPG, more than 50% off the regular price. This isn’t just a book of rules, but a piece of gaming history. Many game masters credited this book with making Kingmaker playable, proving that compatible publishers are not competition as WotC always believed but can instead exist symbiotically with the larger game company. Not only that, a few years later, Paizo released Ultimate Campaign which contained the kingdom building and mass combat rules found inside. Had it not been for the Book of the River Nation‘s success, Paizo might not have created that book. This book changed gaming history.

While you are there, grab yourself the Pathfinder adventure Deadly Delves: The Gilded Gauntlet. This adventure is enjoying its 4th anniversary. This 9th level adventure is received 5 stars and the seal of approval from Endzeitgeist. This 61-page adventure is available right now for $3.95, more than 40% off the regular price. Download this adventure today at DriveThruRPG.

Both of these sales only last until the end of May. So go over to DriveThruRPG today and download these and more of our Pathfinder 1e products.

Do you play Starfinder over Roll20? Grab yourself some beautiful maps for your space battles from JBE. See our whole collection at the Roll20 store.

Almost all of our Pathfinder 1e books are on sale right now at the Open Gaming Store. See all our products at OGS today and download while they are available at such a great price.

Hey 1e Pathfinder Peeps, we have an important question for you.

Which official Pathfinder 1e classes need more love?

We at JBE are hard a work on the Book of Beasts: Character Codex Subscription, but that is for GMs. We are looking at some support for players as well. We've done plenty with races, and now we're looking at more class support. We want to know if you are interested (and please tell us if you are not interested at all) and, if so, which classes. We're sticking with official Pathfinder classes, so no 3rd party classes and no classes like the Vampire Hunter.

Check out the State of the Enterprise 2020 and see how Pathfinder stacks up.

Let’s be honest: 2020 sucks. Make it suck a little less for you by grabbing for yourself one of JBE’s 2020 Black Friday Bundles, available all month long. That’s right, this month is Black Friday. I mean, it’s 2020, how can you tell which day of the week it is? Can you prove that today and yesterday and tomorrow aren’t Friday? Maybe the meaning of Friday was inside us all along?

Our Pathfinder 1e Bundle has a number of our awesome products for 80% off their regular price. This only lasts as long as this Friday is still Friday. Download today at DriveThruRPG.

I've heard many, MANY times lately to remove the feat tax. Which feats should be removed outright and which should simply no longer require some prereq feat?

My first thoughts:

Remove

• Point Blank Shot: +1 when within 30 ft, forgotten more often than remembered
  
• Precise Shot: eliminates -4 penalty when shooting in melee, instead just eliminate the penalty and the feat is not needed
  
• Combat Expertise: Nothing but a feat tax. I’ve never used it, but I have had to take it many times.
  

Your thoughts.

We're hard at work on the 1e Pathfinder Book of Beasts: Character Codex, but we're asking ourselves what else should we create for you. Help us with our long term planning and tell us: What Kinds of Products Do You Want For Your Game. Vote in our poll and tell us your answers by leaving a comment on that page or by replying here.

Jon Brazer Enterprises is continuing support for Pathfinder 1e. So if you are continuing to play Pathfinder 1e, check out our many, many Pathfinder titles on sale now at DriveThruRPG, the Open Gaming Store, and of course the JBE Shop. You'll find nearly all of our titles on sale up to 40% off during the GM's Day sale. These titles won't be on sale for long so grab the books you've been wanting for your game today.

Do you need adventures? We've got Deadly Delve adventures for you. Low level adventures like To Claw the Surface and Along Came a Spider. Mid level adventures like Reign of Ruin and The Guilded Gauntlet. High level adventures like Temple of Luminescence and Nine Lives for Petane.

Are you a player? We've got race details and unique class options for 20 different races beyond those in the core rulebook in the Book of Heroic Races Compendium and the Advanced Compendium. We've got spells, class options, and much more waiting for you to discover them all at DriveThruRPG, the Open Gaming Store, and the JBE Shop. Download now!

Not long ago, we mentioned that we are working on an NPC Codex-style book titled the Book of Beasts: Character Codex. That post has a poll where you can vote on some of the classes that will be covered inside. Read that post to find out more details about that upcoming book and subscription to help us produce the book.

The first in the subscription covers warpriests. Today, we are sharing with you one of the warpriests detailed in this book. Read all about it at the JBE Blog. The odd-numbered levels are a build that you would expect from the class.

Check out all of our 1e Pathfinder books at the JBE Shop, DriveThruRPG, Paizo, and the Open Gaming Store.

More than anything, I consider myself a monster designer. If I have a piece of artwork that just looks strange, I'll just start making monster stats for it for fun. Yes, I am weird like that.

So the other day, I started making a bunch of cyclopses. I'm up to about a half dozen. I wrote some details about how they had empires long before humans showed up, about how their language is the foundation for the ancient dwarven and giant languages. It's been quite a bit of fun.

It is also a good start for a Monster Codex-like book. It is pretty much in that style since I did write the vampire and kobold entries in that book. Sure this could just be a one shot, but I am enjoying this and am thinking of doing more.

So let me ask you: is this something you are interested in, and if so what other monsters would you like to see in such a book? I want your opinions.

Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas? Trying to figure out if you got more ugly sweaters or socks? Another “World’s Greatest” mug just not doing it for you this year? We at JBE understand and figure it is time you give yourself a little Christmas present. Whether you play Pathfinder 1e, D&D 5e, 13th Age, or 1e Mongoose Traveller, we have RPG PDFs just for you at 25% off their regular price at the JBE Shop.

Head over to the JBE Shop now to get all the races, class options, spells, magic items, adventures, monsters and more for your game. Any PDF that we have to download that is normally $2 or more, you can grab right now for 25% off. That is an awesome deal that you should not pass up.

This lasts only until the new year so grab these deals now. Head over the JBE Shop today.

All weekend long is the Thanksgiving Weekend (Black Weekend Sale) over at DriveThruRPG. JBE has all of our 1e Pathfinder products available at 33% off. Grab the Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Compendium for about $10 and Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes for under $6. Grab archetypes and adventures, spells and Shadowsfall, monsters and magic items, and much more at these great prices before they are gone.

Pathfinder Blowout Sale
DriveThruRPG feels that Pathfinder 1e's time is done. So if you are still playing PF1e, this is a great time for you to grab our great PFRPG titles while they are 40% off their regular price. You'll find racial options, class options, spells, adventures, monster books, and more. Many of our newest Pathfinder titles have 5 and 4 Star reviews from Endzeitgeist. These are real values for you to grab right now.

Grab All of JBE's Pathfinder Titles While It Is 40% Off.

Where to Start?
If you don't know where to start, let me make a few suggestions. For players, if you want awesome races that go beyond the basics of the core rulebook, I recommend checking out the Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Compendium. This book covers 12 races that received very little information in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide and other sources, giving them the attention they deserve. Not only is this a book of racial details, but it heavily features class options, spells and more that are themed to the race and plays well with its strengths. While you are at it, grab the Book of Heroic Races: Occult Intrigue in the Wilderness. This book adds more archetypes and class options for the races in the Advanced Compendium for the last three class books Paizo produced.

Are you a GM that deed some adventures? How about the 7th level adventure Deadly Delves: Reign of Ruin. This 5-Star rated adventure features a smart black dragon. Need something higher level? We have The Gilded Gauntlet at 9th level, The Chaosfire Incursion at 11th level, 9 Lives for Petane at 12th level, Temple of Luminescence at 15th level, and The Dragon's Dream at 16th level.

Continued Pathfinder 1e Support
As we've said before, Pathfinder 2e is not for us and we will be continuing 1e support. Follow all of our developments at the JBE Blog. We are sharing new Pathfinder archetypes, class options, monsters and more. We are here for you and your game.

Most recently, we shared with you the Luckstealer Sword archetype for the swashbuckler. Also be sure to check out the grave hulk, an orc skeletal champion, the Blurred Strike martial arts style. We have many other GM and Player options for you to check out at the JBE Blog. Check it out now.

Good day,

Order number 7965328 is still marked as pending. Is there something that I need to do to get it to no longer be pending and have it finalized and shipped/PDF added to my downloads?

Thanks,

Please cancel my Pathfinder Adventure Path subscription between #144 and #145 so in order 7965328 I only receives Midwives of Death and not Hellknight Hill.

Thank you.

The Not Going to PaizoCon 2019 Sale! is going on now at JonBrazer.com. All our Pathfinder PDFs over $2 are available for download at 60% off their regular price. Grab these deals while they're available at such a great price.

Now available at Paizo, This 16 page PDF details 8 new archetypes. Download now.

Jon Brazer Enterprises is thrilled to announce the return of Shadowsfall for 1e Pathfinder RPG. Read the full announcement at JonBrazer.com.

Quick Survey Question: Where do you purchase your pathfinder compatible books/PDFs? I'm not asking about Paizo's books but just Pathfinder compatible books and PDFs.

Obvious Answers:

The Martial Magic of Monks

Monks are the undisputed masters of of the mystical martial arts. Through discipline, determination, and years of practice, they can produce effects on par with the spells of mages. Within these pages are three new styles perfect for monks looking to rival the power of magic.

Inside the 7 pages of the Book of Feats: 3 Monk Styles, you will find:

• Blurred Strike Style: attack so fast that few can dodge your attacks
  
• Stone Mountain Style: harden your body to all but the most durable of weapons
  
• Strand of Fate Style: interact with someone’s life-threads in the tapestry of time

Download the Book of Feats: 3 Monk Styles today at the JBE Shop. This awesome book will be available soon at DriveThruRPG, Paizo, and the Open Gaming Store.

Now available at Paizo.com.

Last month, I mentioned that we will be continuing with 1e Pathfinder support. We love the game and will continue supporting it. I also said that we didn't have anything immediately available for publication. So I plan to fill the gap between now and when we publish something new for Pathfinder with regular blog posts. Starting today and at least once a week, we will be posting Pathfinder material over at blog.jonbrazer.com. And I will be posting links to new blog posts to this thread when we post a new one.

Today we are kicking things off with a new monster since I love designing monsters. Check out the ravager wolf now.

We had a company-wide meeting this morning to determine the direction of the company. Read the quick summary at blog.JonBrazer.com. I am sure some of you will find this really exciting.

2018 is about to come to a close and we thought we would take a few moments to look back and to look ahead to the year to come. Read about what happened with us in Pathfinder, Fifth Edition, Traveller, and 13th Age.

The holidays. Yes it is that time of year again where the Autumn colors come out, pumpkin spice turns to peppermint, and the spiders come indoors. Well, two out of three isn’t bad.

Here’s one more thing to brighten up your day: Jon Brazer Enterprises’ Pathfinder Black Week Sale. We have every last Pathfinder PDF we ever created at a whopping 75% off. That means that just about every PDF we have is under $2 and the few that aren’t are under $4. We have everything you could want: adventures, spells, races, vehicles, and much more.

This sale is going on now at JonBrazer.com, Paizo.com, and soon the Open Gaming Store. You don’t want to miss this sale. It is going on now and will end Tuesday, Nov 27th. So you have to hurry and grab what you want at these great deals. You won’t see a sale this good any time soon so order now.

Tell us if you are switching from Pathfinder 1e to 2e (or anticipate doing so). Curious publishers want to know (what to support).

Vote in our poll at JonBrazer.com

Available now at Paizo.com. Download this high-level adventure Fifth Edition adventure today.

It's that time of year again. GenCon is upon us and we are about to be flooded with announcements. Place your bets now. What fo you think Paizo is going to announce? Winner gets bragging rights.

Categories are:

Pathfinder RPG. This excludes books previously announced so the core lbook and Bestiary are out.

Adventure Path. Location. Theme. Changes to size of each issue. Changes to the number of adventures per AP. These and anything else you can think of are up for grabs.

Other Lines. Are stand alone modules making a comeback? Campaign Setting/Player Companion? New lines?

Accessories. Cards, flat maps, etc?

Licenses. Minis, comics, video games etc? Pathfinder Compatible license? Maybe something like a DM's Guild for Pathfinder?

Same categories go for starfinder.

Some Just Want to Watch the World Burn!
When the high priest of the sun goddess brings the planet and the sun closer together to spread his deity’s light to every corner of existence, the world begins to heat up dangerously. All attempts to breach the Temple of Luminescence and halt the magic powering this catastrophe have failed. The adventurers must perform a ritual known as the path of the sun and navigate the temple’s defenses to stop the high priest. But what appalling truths which led to this deadly incident will the adventurers uncover—and can they save the world before it burns?

Deadly Delves: Temple of Luminescence is an exciting deluxe adventure for 15th-level characters and includes in its 40 action-packed pages:

• 4 Fully-Statted New and Variant Monsters and NPCs—keep your players on their toes by having them face off against a very old solar dragon, a dwarven warpriest, an elven cleric, and a new type of demon
  
• 10 New Traps and a New Haunt
  
• 6 New Hazards to make the environment unique and interesting as the sun’s power scorches all within the temple
  
• A New Curse that prevents any kind of resistance to fire damage
  
• A New Ritual which lets the adventurers pass as one of the temple’s own
  
• A Beautiful Map with a GM’s version included in the adventure and a separate PDF that includes player-friendly versions of each map—perfect for play on your favorite VTT!
  
• 3 New Magic Items ideally suited to high-level characters
  
• Enough content to get your group of 15th-level PCs to 16th level, and approaching the level beyond

Download Deadly Delves: Temple of Luminescence for your Pathfinder game at the JBE Shop. You can also find this 15th-level adventure at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, Paizo, and the Open Gaming Store.

Now available at Paizo.com. Download this 15th-level adventure now.

Some just want to watch the world burn.

Every Wednesday, we post a monster at JonBrazer.com and many times that is a monster for 5e. This week, we are sharing a vampiric young blue dragon. Want to really scare your players? Pit them against one of these and they will know what fear really is.

I am reducing my personal collection of gaming books. What we currently have for sale in the Reduce My Collection part of the JBE Shop.

Right now we have all 6 issues of the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path with the Player's Guide and all 6 issues of the Legacy of Fire Throne Adventure Path with Pathfinder Chronicles: Dark Markets.

Stop by the JBE Shop and see everything that we have.

It’s that time of year again when we get to find out what is coming from Paizo for the upcoming year for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and me being in the other end if the country means I don’t get to go as often as I’d like. So you get the benefit of having our Not Going To PaizoCon Sale again this year.

This year it is better than ever. We are doing 75% off all of our PDFs at the JBE Shop, the Open Gaming Store, and soon to Paizo! That’s right! A crazy 75% off. We have a crazy surplus of PDFs and you get the amazing deal on them.

What about DriveThruRPG and RPGNow? We’ve got an amazing sale there as well. If you prefer your supplements in print you can grab all our Pathfinder print books there at 20% off.

These are deals that you Pathfinder fans cannot pass up. Grab these deals today before this sale ends.