Pathfinder GM Core Special Edition

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Unleash your imagination, creating worlds and stories beyond measure with the new Pathfinder GM Core for Pathfinder Second Edition! This comprehensive 336-page hardcover rulebook gives Game Masters everything they need to craft thrilling tales of adventure, from a single-night’s dungeon delve to complex epics spanning years. Within these pages you’ll find clear guidelines for creating new hazards and monsters, tools to design challenging, balanced encounters, and rules for rewarding characters for the dastardly challenges you array before them! Pathfinder GM Core also contains a dragon’s hoard of magic items and treasure to entice and reward your players, from simple healing potions to magic weapons and armor and legendary artifacts, including dozens of brand-new items!

Pathfinder GM Core is the second core rulebook for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG! These rules are compatible with previous Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback. Along with the Player Core, Monster Core, and Player Core 2, these books provide a new foundation for the future of tabletop gaming!

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Pathfinder GM Core includes:

  • The rules needed to run a game of Pathfinder, including guidelines for creating challenging encounters, determining success, and giving out rewards.
  • Advice aimed at making you an incredible Game Master, along with tools to ensure you and everyone else at your table has a safe and enjoyable experience.
  • Guidelines to help you create your own content, from campaigns and adventures to hazards and monsters.
  • Rules subsystems to help you handle a wide array of game situations, including rules for chases, duels, research, infiltration, and more!
  • A guide to the world of Lost Omens, with a look at several important regions, an examination of the peoples and cultures of the world, and a glimpse into what lies beyond the veil of the universe!
  • Fully integrated errata from the first 4 years of Pathfinder Second Edition, including improvements to staves and talismans and all-new apex magic items!
  • Published under the new Open RPG Creative (ORC) license, giving players and Game Masters even more freedom for making their own creations based on Pathfinder Second Edition.

ISBN-13: 978-1-64078-557-1

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Announced for November! Product image and description are NOT final and may be subject to change.


Will the special edition be in stores? I'd preorder direct but the shipping/duty cost for the hardcovers to canada is usually brutal


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I think you guys should change "GM Core" for "Game Master Core" or something similar. Putting an acronym on the cover looks really bad.

Grand Archive

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Erialyt wrote:
I think you guys should change "GM Core" for "Game Master Core" or something similar. Putting an acronym on the cover looks really bad.

It have been sent to the printer a couple months ago.


Erialyt wrote:
I think you guys should change "GM Core" for "Game Master Core" or something similar. Putting an acronym on the cover looks really bad.

I dunno, I really like the feel of "GM Core". It has a certain clean-cut quality to it that resembles how I feel about GMing PF2e :D


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Does anyone know ow who the silhouette is of?

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

Its Xanderghul, its a silhouette of the image on the main cover


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I really REALLY hope this isn't the final look, I love the look of the OG special editions, and even the remaster Monster Core looks like the OG special editions so I'm hoping it keeps the trend of these nice old-timey style books.

Silver Crusade

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This is the final look. The final look of Monster Core has not been updated because that book is still months away.


That's definitely a color choice.


Will this GM core special edition be available again and in stock?

Grand Archive

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Otacon29 wrote:
Will this GM core special edition be available again and in stock?

They sold out, and the special editions are never reprinted. So unless you find it in a physical store, nope.

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