Whether they be vile villains, able allies, or anything in between, the characters of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game NPC Codex come alive on your tabletop with this box-busting collection of more than 300 character pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn contains a beautiful full-color image of a character from the NPC Codex, as well as common animal companions, and numerous never-before-illustrated characters. Each cardstock pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base, making it easy to use in play alongside traditional metal or plastic miniatures. With multiple pawns of the most useful characters allowing you to create every single encounter from the NPC Codex’s encounter groups appendix, the NPC Codex Box is the best way to ensure you’ve got the right characters to push your Pathfinder campaign to the next level!
In addition to being part of the Pathfinder Pawns Subscription, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game subscribers who preorder this boxed set will receive a free PDF edition of this product when the boxed edition ships. (Note that you will need to have an active Pawns or RPG subscription at the time the NPC Codex Box ships in order to receive the PDF for free.)
Cover Art by Wayne Reynolds.
ISBN 978-1-60125-472-6
Contains 20 one-inch bases for Small/Medium characters and 5 two-inch bases for Large characters, plus these pawns:
Barbarians
1 Savage Mercenary (2)
2 Dwarven Rager (2)
3 Axe Warrior (4)
4 Dog Rider
5 Wild Lancer
I received mine this evening, and boy do my players and I love it. They descended on it and immediately picked out new pawns that fit their characters.
On top of that it huge, at least to me it is, and gives me a pretty good assortment of NPCs to throw at my players :)). It was well worth the money!
So much more cost-effective than minis that it ain’t even funny
You’ll never need any minis for the guards, townsfolk, soldiers or about any humanoid that features in your campaign’s combat if you got this box. There’s more than enough variety to have all enemies well represented with similar-looking folks and half of them have repeats helpfully coded by tag color.
I’d give it a 4.5 rating as my only complaints are minor: it should include a couple of large bases to go with the large pawns, and I think it would be more useful if it had included a handful more horses and other animals that are likely to be involved in combat.
Is Paizo likely to keep shipping these with bases? Because, after buying the Beginner Box, Bestiary Box, and this, that's a lot of bases. If you keep adding them in (Bestiary II box, I'm looking at you), I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them all.
Is Paizo likely to keep shipping these with bases? Because, after buying the Beginner Box, Bestiary Box, and this, that's a lot of bases. If you keep adding them in (Bestiary II box, I'm looking at you), I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them all.
I was just flipping through my copy of the NPC Codex itself, and noted that there are a number of mounted NPCs (Dog Rider the 5th level barbarian, the aforementioned Griffon Rider, any number of paladins, etc.). However, I didn't see any mounted artwork in the book itself.
Will the pawns for those NPCs that are mounted show them as mounted, with size to match? Because that will make me a happy, happy person
Having a mounted and unmounted version would be ideal though :)
Is Paizo likely to keep shipping these with bases? Because, after buying the Beginner Box, Bestiary Box, and this, that's a lot of bases. If you keep adding them in (Bestiary II box, I'm looking at you), I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them all.
Forty 1" bases would be better. One needs his inns and royal weddings populated. There's is nothing like characters pushing through a crowd with an actual crowd.
I just received my two Bestiary Boxes(next session is tomorrow) along with the NPC Codex. And at this point, I can't wait to get my hands on (at least) one of these.
And then the addiction can move on to Bestiary 2 and 3, and NPC Codex 2. And "Colossal and Gargantuan Box"(hint hint paizo)...
Looks like this may be delayed again, since no longer in the product release post! ): Have been so looking forward to seeing this come out! Maybe, they could do some of them in plastic and add them into a set or do one just for this?
There's some display weirdness going on with this. It's currently scheduled for the May subscription shipment.
Edit: Fixed the display weirdness—for now. You should see that the PDF will be available on May 22nd.
I own two sets of Beastiary 1 and I have more bases than I'll ever need. Truly. As for May release, YAY!!!! Super happy for that. Now if Beastiary 2 could come out before Gencon!
Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber
Ninja in the Rye wrote:
Yeah, pretty frustrating, I've been delaying the start of a big campaign since January so we could have these Pawns.
I want to give you my money! Hurry!
On another note, does anyone have an idea what the shipping (in the Continental US) is likely to cost on this set?
The best way to get a shipping estimate is to put it into your side cart and start the checkout process. You'll see a pretty accurate estimate of the shipping to your address.
Ben, read through the last three pages. It's not just you. We've been waiting a long time for this one. To my memory, it's the most delayed product Paizo's ever put out. Printing issues happen, but it'll make the release so much sweeter when it's finally here!
On amazon, it is saying it won't be released till January 2014. Is this correct?
Hi, John. I noticed that too. Its highly unlikely. Amazon's machine is likely bugging out or simply playing it safe. I'm guessing a mid-July delivery through them.
On amazon, it is saying it won't be released till January 2014. Is this correct?
Hi, John. I noticed that too. Its highly unlikely. Amazon's machine is likely bugging out or simply playing it safe. I'm guessing a mid-July delivery through them.
Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber
Radiarch wrote:
Brutal Ben wrote:
Is it me, or is this running 8 months late?
Ben, read through the last three pages. It's not just you. We've been waiting a long time for this one. To my memory, it's the most delayed product Paizo's ever put out. Printing issues happen, but it'll make the release so much sweeter when it's finally here!
Visions of war is going to be 16 months late, nearly2 years since it was announced...
Paizo doesn't release the pdf to products for sale until they can start shipping the actual printed product, so if it says that the pdf can be bought from June 26, that's when you can purchase the physical product.
(Does the pdf include pictures of the bases too?) ;)
so, I am assuming this box only comes with medium bases? If so do we know how many?
The product description does not out-and-out say it includes bases. If this is the case and you never picked up a Bestiary Box, just add a pack of 20 medium bases to your sidecart and you should be set to unleash all four Cutthroat Lawyers on your unsuspecting PC's!
