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Explore new and uncharted depths of roleplaying with the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide! Empower your existing characters with expanded rules for all 11 Pathfinder Roleplaying Game core classes and seven core races, or build a new one from the ground up with one of six brand-new, 20-level base classes. Whether you're designing your own monstrous helpers as an enigmatic summoner, brewing up trouble with a grimy urban alchemist, or simply teaching an old rogue a new trick, this book has everything you need to make your heroes more heroic.

The Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide is a must-have companion volume to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an Open Playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium.

The 336-page Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide includes:

  • Six new base classes: the monster-hunting inquisitor, the explosive alchemist, the noble cavalier, the prophecy-haunted oracle, the monster-crafting summoner, and the hex-weaving witch
  • More than a hundred innovative new feats and combat abilities for characters of all classes, including Steal, Point-Blank Master, and Bouncing Spell
  • Variant class abilities, rules subsystems, and thematic archetypes for all 11 core classes, such as the antipaladin, the hungry ghost monk, and the urban ranger
  • Hundreds of new spells and magic items, from phantasmal revenge to the Storm King's Cloud Castle
  • A wealth of fantastic equipment, such as fireblast rods and fortune-tellers' cards
  • New prestige classes like the Master Chymist and the Battle Herald
  • ... and much, much more!

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great suppliment

5/5 —

This is a great suppliment to the core rule book and further expands the game.

Excellent addition to the Core game, almost a must have

5/5 —

An excellent book that goes above and beyond what you could have expected, and in a way is the book that solidified Paizo, to the horde of "that other games" exiles, as a true game maker in it's own right, able to create not just a great stand alone game that could make Gygax and Arneson smile in the afterlife, but also follow it up with equally great 'splat' books.

The race section set the tone for the later ARG(Advance Race Guide, another good book), by diversifying the races even more. In particular the optional favored class options were a solid addition. I'd say offhand 3 of every 5 characters I make use something out of just that section alone, it really lets you de-cookie cutter your character within their own race.

The new classes are generally well balanced, with a mix of power levels relative to the metagame, and thematically each brings something new to the game. The Oracle, Witch, and Inquisitor are personal favorites, and don't let the names throw you off... much like the core classes, they can be tweaked to fill different RP concepts. The Inquisitor in many ways could have been renamed Grizzled Detective for example, and I have a close friend playing it like that in a game I was in.

The Feats and Spells... I won't ruin them by revealing too much, but you will find something in there to use, it isn't just worthless filler, it is a remarkably well balanced range of useful additions without being so overpowered they obsolete old books and spells. I'd say 4 of every 5 characters I make, by level 8-10, are using at least one if not more of these feats.

Many of the new magic items creation rules are enchancement's that didn't appear in the Core rulebook because it was a follow on to a forerunner game, but Paizo has added in much of what players had always felt should have been there when the previous makers of this style of game did it (alignment focused armors, and acid damage on your weapon to match the fire, cold, and electricity in the core book, anyone?)

The artwork, if you liked the artwork in Core and the Bestiary, you're going to continue to love it here. Since art is a matter of individual taste, I'll just leave you with that.

If you order the Core book and don't own anything else, just get this at the same time, it's balanced so well I've never known a GM that didn't allow "Core+the APG", even when they wanted to play by just the most bare bones books and options. That's just a testament to the solid job Paizo did on this book, where it adds power, while keeping 'power creep' out and keeping balance in mind as well.

If there was a school of role playing game writing, this book would be required reading to show how it's done right. Bluntly, this book is a must have . If you're reading this, and you haven't purchased it, finances allowing do so now. You will NOT be disappointed, be you a GM or a player of any class.

I feel alive again!

5/5 —

This is the book I have been waiting for! All of a sudden, Pathfinder was a new and exciting thing again, not just another textbook! I was confused, trying to memorize traits, figure out Alchemist Discoveries, and trying to decide if I should take Dual-Minded or Ancestral Arms. If you have the Core Rulebook, buy this book.

Best of tthe extra books

4/5 —

The APG is by far THE best of the 4 core books. Hands down. Buy this book on just that. you won't be dissapointed.

Paizo streches its legs...but stubs a toe.

4/5 —

In my opinion the APG really represents Paizo making the game their own, which is a nice thing to see, but also means the material herein hasn't seen nearly the real-world play-testing of many of the rules elements in the Core Rulebook.

The good:
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* Art and layout -- In typical Paizo fashion, this is a beautiful book
* Traits
* Many of the spells are gems
* New metamagic feats really open up options
* Neat new non-magical equipment

The bad:
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* Many of the new base classes lack thematic identity. Witch and summoner cover the same ground as wizard or sorcerer, Cavalier is well covered by fighter with certain feats, etc.
* Lack of balance. *cough* summoner *cough*

I appreciate Paizo expanding the system past its OGL roots, but I would rather have seen of an emphasis on rules elements which didn't largely cover the same conceptual ground as the CRB (In the interest of full disclosure: I'm outspoken against what I consider rules bloat, but I'm trying to keep my personal bias out of my rating). (****-)

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Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

Just announced! (Officially, anyway—I know most of you already knew about it.)

The cover is just a mockup; the finished product will bear a brand-new piece by Wayne Reynolds.
Vic Wertz wrote:

Just announced! (Officially, anyway—I know most of you already knew about it.)

The cover is just a mockup; the finished product will bear a brand-new piece by Wayne Reynolds.

Thanks Vic!

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy

Oooooh, Product Announcements is starting!

cracks knuckles for a busy night of wiki updating

Bring it on!
Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer
yoda8myhead wrote:

Oooooh, Product Announcements is starting!

cracks knuckles for a busy night of wiki updating

Bring it on!

Back away from the computer! I might sneak up a few more if I get a chance, but I think they'll mostly go up Tuesday. Tomorrow, you'll find out why this one had to go up today...

Silver Crusade

nice!!

always look forward to new WAR Pathfinder artwork
Vic Wertz wrote:
yoda8myhead wrote:

Oooooh, Product Announcements is starting!

cracks knuckles for a busy night of wiki updating

Bring it on!

Back away from the computer! I might sneak up a few more if I get a chance, but I think they'll mostly go up Tuesday. Tomorrow, you'll find out why this one had to go up today...

Obviously that's because the playtest goes live tomorrow... right?

Please?
Pretty please?
Pretty with Moorluck's new kitten named Paizo please?
Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer
GentleGiant wrote:
Obviously that's because the playtest goes live tomorrow... right?

Magic 8 Ball says "Outlook not so good."

Vic Wertz wrote:
GentleGiant wrote:
Obviously that's because the playtest goes live tomorrow... right?
Magic 8 Ball says "Outlook not so good."

But I even had kitten pleases in there! Damn... oh well, there's always next week. :-p

Dark Archive
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

Very cool.

Now that it's officially announced do we know when the playtest is going to start?
Dark Archive

Will the playtest be conducted the same way as before with everything released in a pdf? Or will it just be a available via the forum only? Inquiring minds want to know. ;-)
Dark Archive
dm4hire wrote:
Will the playtest be conducted the same way as before with everything released in a pdf? Or will it just be a available via the forum only? Inquiring minds want to know. ;-)

I am currious as of this detail as well.

Personally i am hoping for a pdf. If not, no big deal. I have a firefox add-on that lets me save web-pages as pdfs...so.

Name this add-on!
Dark Archive
Vic Wertz wrote:
The cover is just a mockup; the finished product will bear a brand-new piece by Wayne Reynolds.

I want another poster! It should say, "3.5! Still Thriving!"

Paizo Employee CEO
dm4hire wrote:
Will the playtest be conducted the same way as before with everything released in a pdf? Or will it just be a available via the forum only? Inquiring minds want to know. ;-)

It will be a series of PDFs released over the course of a couple of months.

-Lisa
Dark Archive
Lisa Stevens wrote:

It will be a series of PDFs released over the course of a couple of months.

-Lisa

Woot! Let's get this party started!

Man, I cannot wait for this

Ooh, very excited!

By the way, I would've been satisfied even if you chose to use that cover art, though I have faith that Mr. Reynolds will bring us another awesome piece of artwork to slap on this book.

Don't contain the samurai class? What a disappointment...
Dalesh wrote:
Don't contain the samurai class? What a disappointment...

The idea of an asian themed book has been bandied about. Nothing in development but there is a significant chance an asian themed book will appear sometime in 2011.

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy
Dennis da Ogre wrote:
Dalesh wrote:
Don't contain the samurai class? What a disappointment...
The idea of an asian themed book has been bandied about. Nothing in development but there is a significant chance an asian themed book will appear sometime in 2011.

Well, it will most likely come out in conjunction with or shortly before Jade Regent, which I hope is in 2011.

(hopes they preview the Summoner class)
Dark Archive
Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber
Berselius wrote:
(hopes they preview the Summoner class)

All six classes will be going through open playtesting, so we should get the whole thing!

]All six classes will be going through open play testing, so we should get the whole thing![/QUOTE wrote:

Yay! ^_^

Anyone know what (if any) optional character creation/advancement rules may be included?
Paizo Employee Creative Director
Goblin Kings Codpiece wrote:
Anyone know what (if any) optional character creation/advancement rules may be included?

Nope!

As in, this section of the book has yet to be started. And may or may not be in the book anyway.
James Jacobs wrote:
Goblin Kings Codpiece wrote:
Anyone know what (if any) optional character creation/advancement rules may be included?

Nope!

As in, this section of the book has yet to be started. And may or may not be in the book anyway.

How about a heads up on what sections have been started?

Besides Classes, of course... :-P
Dark Archive

The Cover!
Paizo Employee Creative Director

The only part of the APG that we'll be publicly playtesting are the new base classes. As such, we're getting those done first; we won't be saying much about the rest of the book for some time to come.
Dark Archive
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber
James Jacobs wrote:
The only part of the APG that we'll be publicly playtesting are the new base classes. As such, we're getting those done first; we won't be saying much about the rest of the book for some time to come.

Tease... and August 2010? gah are you trying to kill us posting something like this, that far in advance.

Dark Archive

Well, they need to get out beta opinions and you can't really do that after you release the product :) so they need plenty of time to make changes/edits/addendum/funny faces/and long heated message board postings on name changes.
The Exchange RPG Superstar 2009 Top 4

Over the years I've seen the Noble core class (or some version of) done two or three times.These were all alright, but not great. I'm hoping for the Cavalier to fill in that place. A Cavalier/Rogue seems to be a great path for a swashbuckler.
I personal cannot wait for the summoner though. I want to create the mother of all Owlbears that chews up goblins and city guards alike.

Is there any word on the adventure path after "King Maker"? It is just that adventure path will come out around the same time as this book. The NPCs within that path will be a great place to show off what these new core classes can do.
TheTwitching King wrote:

Over the years I've seen the Noble core class (or some version of) done two or three times.These were all alright, but not great. I'm hoping for the Cavalier to fill in that place. A Cavalier/Rogue seems to be a great path for a swashbuckler.

I personal cannot wait for the summoner though. I want to create the mother of all Owlbears that chews up goblins and city guards alike.

I agree. They seem to be giving the cavalier a little swashbucklerness. Heavy skills, adept at high society.

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy
TheTwitching King wrote:
Is there any word on the adventure path after "Kingmaker"? It is just that adventure path will come out around the same time as this book. The NPCs within that path will be a great place to show off what these new core classes can do.

The 7th AP will be "Serpent's Skull" and will take the PCs from Sargava, through the Screaming Jungle, and into the heart of the Mwangi Expanse. It should also deal heavily with serpentfolk! Whee!

The Exchange RPG Superstar 2009 Top 4

Witch doctors with skrunken heads and serpentfolk summoners calling forth fanged-backed howler monkeys with snake necks! I can see the safari capped cavalier and her bristish-talking potion maker choppin through the jungle, out looking for rare plants and diamond bedded rivers. Yes that will do nicely.
Paizo Employee Creative Director
Draeke Raefel wrote:
Well, they need to get out beta opinions and you can't really do that after you release the product :) so they need plenty of time to make changes/edits/addendum/funny faces/and long heated message board postings on name changes.

Correct. Because as the schedule compresses and unanticipated things and delays pop up... that time is likely to get taken out of the time allotted for playtesting. So we HAVE to get that element done early.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Kingmaker's final adventure releases the month before the Advanced Player's Guide comes out, and thus won't have any of the new base classes in there at all.

There might be some showing up in Serpent's Skull. If it makes sense.
Wolfthulhu wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Goblin Kings Codpiece wrote:
Anyone know what (if any) optional character creation/advancement rules may be included?

Nope!

As in, this section of the book has yet to be started. And may or may not be in the book anyway.

How about a heads up on what sections have been started?

Besides Classes, of course... :-P

Uuh Hopefully not to much optional stuff. When things started getting in to the skills and powers stuff is when things stared loosing cohesion for me. new classes great! How people build characters drasticly different not so much.

Loving the Pathfinder way I just dont post much.

r
Paizo Employee Creative Director
Ignatz wrote:
Uuh Hopefully not to much optional stuff. When things started getting in to the skills and powers stuff is when things stared loosing cohesion for me. new classes great! How people build characters drasticly different not so much.

There'll be a fair amount of new stuff... but the point we're hoping to achieve here is to get it all done in this one single volume. We don't really have an interest in continually churning out APG after APG over and over. We're hoping to cover most of what we need and want to do with rules expansions for base classes in this one book, and then going forward have different themed rulebooks. (There might be an Asian book, for example, that talks about new options you can apply to existing classes to give them an Asian feel, but that's different in my opinion than a bunch of new options not tied to a specific type of campaign.)

Dalesh wrote:
Don't contain the samurai class? What a disappointment...

You can get your Samurai fix in 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming's Paths of Power, which will be released by the end of November, in print and PDF form. There's also a Witch class, as well as Gladiator, Voyageur, Captain (Mercenary Company Leader), Sycophant (hangers on at court), Courtesan, Envenomed, Crypt Stalker, Anti-Paladin, Elemental Wizard, and Child of Bast.

Any idea when we can expect to be able to download the 1st Playtest PDF for this wondrous product Paizo? ^_^
Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber
Lyingbastard wrote:
Dalesh wrote:
Don't contain the samurai class? What a disappointment...
You can get your Samurai fix in 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming's Paths of Power, which will be released by the end of November, in print and PDF form. There's also a Witch class, as well as Gladiator, Voyageur, Captain (Mercenary Company Leader), Sycophant (hangers on at court), Courtesan, Envenomed, Crypt Stalker, Anti-Paladin, Elemental Wizard, and Child of Bast.

Haha, sycophant class? Great :)

Zaister wrote:
Lyingbastard wrote:
Dalesh wrote:
Don't contain the samurai class? What a disappointment...
You can get your Samurai fix in 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming's Paths of Power, which will be released by the end of November, in print and PDF form. There's also a Witch class, as well as Gladiator, Voyageur, Captain (Mercenary Company Leader), Sycophant (hangers on at court), Courtesan, Envenomed, Crypt Stalker, Anti-Paladin, Elemental Wizard, and Child of Bast.
Haha, sycophant class? Great :)

They're an NPC class but there will be features that some players might enjoy taking a few levels for.

Vic Wertz wrote:
yoda8myhead wrote:

Oooooh, Product Announcements is starting!

cracks knuckles for a busy night of wiki updating

Bring it on!

Back away from the computer! I might sneak up a few more if I get a chance, but I think they'll mostly go up Tuesday. Tomorrow, you'll find out why this one had to go up today...

Did I miss something going up yesterday? Otherwise Tuesday has come and gone and no stuff... we want our stuff! :-p

Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber

I guess you did...
Zaister wrote:
I guess you did...

So I did... apparently I just didn't look very deep. That has now been corrected. Carry on. Nothing to see here.

Liberty's Edge
Vic Wertz wrote:

Just announced! (Officially, anyway—I know most of you already knew about it.)

The cover is just a mockup; the finished product will bear a brand-new piece by Wayne Reynolds.

So July 2010....wonder what awesome of awesome thing you guys got coming out then in August? You guys have set the bar VERY HIGH!!!!

You guys always have something for Gencon right?

Of course Gencon is like the first week of AUgust this year so maybe that is how it is falling. The end of July start of August.........hmmmmmm

Sean

Going to be a great summer though....See the second to last shuttle launch then go to Gencon...then read my new Pazio stuff.

So any news on the PDF, cause I am dying to playtest the summoner class.

I'm already eager to see the Inquisitor and Cavalier classes. This looks like it'll be great.
Paizo Employee Creative Director
gnomewizard wrote:
So any news on the PDF, cause I am dying to playtest the summoner class.

HOPEFULLY... we'll have an announcement about the Playtests for this book next week sometime on the blog.

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