I am looking specifically for products to add traits, classes, feats, mosters and other mechanical aspects of the game. Most of our campaigns are created by the DM in a setting the DM creates, so I am not very interested in setting additions.
From what I can tell there are 6 major types of products.
The core books: core rule book, bestiary.
Adventure Paths: Mostly focuses on a campaign setting with some new monsters and mechanics.
Modules: Pre-built adventures with no additions to mechanics.
Chronicles: A variety of books containing anything from sole campaign settings to just about monsters.
Companion: This one seems to be the one I would want to get. These ones seem to be about new mechanics.
Fiction: Fiction, what else to say it there.
This is what I got from the descriptions. Do I have the right idea? Any recommendations and what products/type of product I would want. Again I am looking for classes/feats/skills/traits/monsters/variants and I don't need environmental settings.
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Assuming you've already got the Core rule book and Bestiary, it sounds like you want the Advanced Players Guide. There are 5 or 6 new monsters in each AP issue and PrCs can be found in both the Chronicles and Companion lines. However, they are both mostly world info.
There is a big list of traits that you can download for free on your "my Downloads' page.
Every Pathfinder Adventure Path volume has new monsters, and most of them have some sort of new rules elements like spells, prestige classes, magic items, feats, etc. It's kind of a grab bag if it's something other than new monsters, but we ALWAYS try to put at least 4 new monsters (and usually 6) into each AP volume.
Modules sometimes have new rules content, and often a new monster, but it's rarer.
The chronicles line is all about Golarion, and expands the campaign setting. Some of the books are almost all flavor, some are almost all rules, and some are a mix.
The companion line is geared specifically for players. It's usually about 50/50 world flavor and new rules. There are almost never new monsters or GM only things in here.
xJoe3x wrote: This is what I got from the descriptions. Do I have the right idea? Any recommendations and what products/type of product I would want. Again I am looking for classes/feats/skills/traits/monsters/variants and I don't need environmental settings. Right now there's not much, but the Paizo folks are hard at work writing some more PFRPG rule books (Advanced Player's Guide, a Gamemastery Guide, an equipment guide, another Bestiary [I think], etc.).
Jam412 wrote: Assuming you've already got the Core rule book and Bestiary, it sounds like you want the Advanced Players Guide. There are 5 or 6 new monsters in each AP issue and PrCs can be found in both the Chronicles and Companion lines. However, they are both mostly world info.
There is a big list of traits that you can download for free on your "my Downloads' page.
I am excitedly waiting for the AVG. :)
James Jacobs wrote: Every Pathfinder Adventure Path volume has new monsters, and most of them have some sort of new rules elements like spells, prestige classes, magic items, feats, etc. It's kind of a grab bag if it's something other than new monsters, but we ALWAYS try to put at least 4 new monsters (and usually 6) into each AP volume.
Modules sometimes have new rules content, and often a new monster, but it's rarer.
The chronicles line is all about Golarion, and expands the campaign setting. Some of the books are almost all flavor, some are almost all rules, and some are a mix.
The companion line is geared specifically for players. It's usually about 50/50 world flavor and new rules. There are almost never new monsters or GM only things in here.
Thanks for the clearer breakdown.
So I bought the Second Darkness and the Elves of Golarion companion products. I noticed something, some of the info did not match up. In second darkness there were references to move silently and in the EoG elves had this:
"Basic Elven Abilities
All elves possess a number of distinctive special traits and abilities. Those of the various elven subraces might possess further qualities.
• +2 Dexterity, –2 Constitution
• Medium size
• An elf ’s base land speed is 30 feet
• Immunity to sleep spells and effects, and a +2 racial saving throw bonus against enchantment spells or effects
• Low-light vision
• +2 racial bonus on Listen, Search, and Spot checks. An elf who merely passes within 5 feet of a secret or concealed door is entitled to a
Search check to notice it as if she were actively looking for it
• Weapon Proficiency: Elves are automatically proficient with the longsword, rapier, longbow, composite longbow, shortbow, and
composite shortbow"
That is a 3.5 elf, not a pathfinder elf. I bought it in the pathfinder section, not the 3.5 section. Are they all built for 3.5?
You'll notice that at the Pathfinder section of the Paizo store there little Pathfinder RPG and 3.5 sub-headings under the main categories of Pathfinder Adventure Paths, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Chronicles, and Pathfinder Companions. These indicate which products were produced before and after the release of the Pathfinder RPG. You can also look at release dates. Pretty much everything released prior to August 2009 is 3.5 and everything released after August 2009 is Pathfinder RPG.
Caedwyr wrote: You'll notice that at the Pathfinder section of the Paizo store there little Pathfinder RPG and 3.5 sub-headings under the main categories of Pathfinder Adventure Paths, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Chronicles, and Pathfinder Companions. These indicate which products were produced before and after the release of the Pathfinder RPG. You can also look at release dates. Pretty much everything released prior to August 2009 is 3.5 and everything released after August 2009 is Pathfinder RPG. I saw that for the others, there were no split for the companions. Thanks for the dates though.
xJoe3x wrote: Caedwyr wrote: You'll notice that at the Pathfinder section of the Paizo store there little Pathfinder RPG and 3.5 sub-headings under the main categories of Pathfinder Adventure Paths, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Chronicles, and Pathfinder Companions. These indicate which products were produced before and after the release of the Pathfinder RPG. You can also look at release dates. Pretty much everything released prior to August 2009 is 3.5 and everything released after August 2009 is Pathfinder RPG. I saw that for the others, there were no split for the companions. Thanks for the dates though. The ones designed for 3.5 OGL rules say (OGL) in parentheses, while the ones designed for the Pathfinder RPG say (PFRPG) in parentheses.
Vic Wertz wrote: xJoe3x wrote: Caedwyr wrote: You'll notice that at the Pathfinder section of the Paizo store there little Pathfinder RPG and 3.5 sub-headings under the main categories of Pathfinder Adventure Paths, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Chronicles, and Pathfinder Companions. These indicate which products were produced before and after the release of the Pathfinder RPG. You can also look at release dates. Pretty much everything released prior to August 2009 is 3.5 and everything released after August 2009 is Pathfinder RPG. I saw that for the others, there were no split for the companions. Thanks for the dates though. The ones designed for 3.5 OGL rules say (OGL) in parentheses, while the ones designed for the Pathfinder RPG say (PFRPG) in parentheses. Thanks
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