This comprehensive 640-page guide to the Pathfinder roleplaying game provides everything you need to set out on a world of limitless fantasy adventure! Choose from ancestries like elf, human, and goblin and classes like alchemist, fighter, and sorcerer to create a hero of your own design destined to become a legend! Based on more than 20 years of active development and playtest feedback from more than 125,000 gamers, the new Pathfinder rules are easy to learn and exciting to master! This indispensable volume contains all rules for players and Game Masters, and is your first step on a heroic new journey!
The Pathfinder Core Rulebook includes: More than 600 pages of game rules, advice, character options, treasure, and more for players and Game Masters! Six heroic player character ancestries, including elf, dwarf, gnome, goblin, halfling, and human, with variant heritages for half-elf and half-orc! More than 30 backgrounds like bartender, soldier, or apprentice to further immerse yourself in your hero's backstory! Twelve character classes, including the alchemist, barbarian, bard, champion, cleric, druid, fighter, monk, ranger, rogue, sorcerer, and wizard! Hundreds and hundreds of spells, class feats, and other exciting abilities to help you customize your character to become the hero YOU envision them to be! Streamlined and revised rules to help ease new players into the game while providing the depth of character options and tactical interest that have defined Pathfinder from the beginning!
More than 400 of fantasy's fiercest foes burst from the pages of this enormous 360-page compendium of the most popular and commonly encountered creatures in the world of Pathfinder! From familiar enemies like orcs, dragons, and vampires to new horrors like the living-nightmare nilith and the three-headed mutoli, to suitable servants for summoners of every alignment, this must-have companion to the Pathfinder Core Rulebook is crawling with creatures perfect for your Pathfinder adventures!
The Pathfinder Bestiary includes: More than 400 monsters drawn from mythology, genre classics, and more than a decade of Pathfinder, with plenty of new monsters too! Gorgeous full-color illustrations on nearly every page! Detailed monster lists sorted by level, type, and rarity to help you find the right monster for any situation! Universal monster rules to simplify special attacks, defenses, and qualities like grab, swallow whole, and regeneration. Guidelines for providing appropriate monstrous treasures for any occasion. Detailed lore sidebars offering additional information about Pathfinder's most popular monstrous friends and foes!
Whether you are a new Game Master or experienced storyteller, you can always find new ways to hone your craft. This 256-page Pathfinder Second Edition rulebook contains a wealth of new information, tools, and rules systems to add to your game. Inside you will find handy advice for building your own adventures, designing towns, and creating vibrant characters alongside rules systems for dramatic chases, thrilling tournaments, and deadly duels. This book also includes more 40 pages of sample nonplayer characters, from the simple town guard to the vile cultist, presented to make your job as GM that much easier!
The Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide includes: Rules, advice, and guidelines to build adventures, campaigns, and the denizens and treasures that lurk within, from settlements to nations to infinite planes! Creative variant rules to customize the rules to make the game your own, including variant bonus, feat, and magic item progressions, characters gaining the power of multiple classes at once, and more! All sorts of new and variant magic items including intelligent items, cursed items, artifacts, quirks you can add to items, and a brand new type of item called a relic that scales with your character! A catalog of subsystems to handle unique situations, from thrilling chases to researching mysteries to vehicle combat to elaborate duels to sandbox-style ""hexploration"" and more! Plus, a universal victory point system to help you design your own subsystems! More than 60 new NPCs to use in your game, designed for maximum usefulness to all Pathfinder campaigns!
With more than 350 classic and brand new monsters, this 320-page hardcover rulebook greatly expands on the foes found in the Pathfinder Bestiary. From classic creatures like serpentfolk and jabberwock, returning favorites like the primal dragons or the Sandpoint devil, to brand new menaces sure to test even the bravest of heroes, this must-have tome of monsters designed to challenge characters of any level is an essential companion to your Pathfinder game!
Pathfinder Bestiary 2 includes: More than 350 monsters drawn from mythology, genre classics, and more than a decade of Pathfinder, with plenty of new monsters too! Gorgeous full-color illustrations on nearly every page! Detailed monster lists sorted by level, type, and rarity to help you find the right monster for any situation! Universal monster rules to simplify special attacks, defenses, and qualities like grab, swallow whole, and regeneration. Detailed lore sidebars offering additional information about even more of Pathfinder's most popular monstrous friends and foes!
Product Specifications
- The essential rulebook reference for the new Pathfinder Second Edition roleplaying game! All player and Game Master rules included in a single volume!
- The cornerstone rulebook of the new Pathfinder RPG offers players a new way to get in on the ground floor and retailers a new ""evergreen"" title tied into all subsequent Pathfinder Second Edition releases.
- New streamlined presentation designed to be friendly to new players.
- Supported with monthly adventure and accessory releases.
- Extensive marketing support throughout 2019 and beyond.
- The essential companion to the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, and one of the most important volumes in the Pathfinder rules ecosystem.
- Invaluable resource for running published Pathfinder adventures-or creating your own!
- Contains creatures suitable for all levels of play.
- Supported by the Pathfinder Bestiary Pawn Box accessory (November 2019), which contains sturdy cardboard standee pawns for nearly every creature in the Pathfinder Bestiary!
- A crucial reference for Pathfinder Game Masters - the logical second purchase after the Core Rulebook and Bestiary.
- Every Pathfinder game requires a Game Master, and this volume is designed specifically to give GMs tips and tricks to keep their campaigns running strong!
- New streamlined presentation designed to be friendly to new players.
- Continues to round out the monstrous universe of Pathfinder Second Edition with a must-have collection of fan-favorite foes of fantasy gaming!
- New streamlined presentation designed to be friendly to new players.
- Extensive marketing support throughout 2020.
- Length : 17 cm
- Width : 2 cm
- Height : 22 cm
