In this Flip Through Matt takes a look at the Pathfinder Society Primer. He spends about twice as much time as he normally would because the book was a little different than expected. The primer is a broad overview of the Pathfinder Society (PFS). If you think it is just a promotion to play in Paizo’s organized play you might want to watch this video.
We hope that this has made your decision on become a pathfinder a well advised one.
PAIZO ANNOUNCES PATHFINDER ADVENTURE CARD GAME: SKULL & SHACKLES
Follow-Up to the Acclaimed New Card Game Slated for August 2014 Release
New Cover Art by Daryl Mandryk Debuted
REDMOND, WA (November 18, 2013): Paizo Publishing, LLC, leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, novels, game accessories and board games, announces today Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles will be the follow-up to 2013’s wildly popular Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords. The game goes into private playtest in December, and is scheduled for release at Gen Con Indy, August 2014.
The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles Base Set is based on and features the characters, locations, monsters, and villains from the pirate-themed Pathfinder RPG Adventure Path: Skull & Shackles, and offers seven character classes – including four all-new ones (Magus, Oracle, Gunslinger, and Swashbuckler) for players to choose from. The game will come packaged in a 13″ x 14″ box, featuring brand-new cover art from artist Daryl Mandryk, as well as dice, nearly 500 illustrated cards, and everything one to four players need to create characters and begin their adventures. The Skull & Shackles Character Add-On Deck expands the maximum number of players to six, and adds four more character classes, including three all-new ones (Alchemist, Warpriest, Witch). Players can expand their game play with monthly Skull & Shackles Adventure Decks containing 110 cards featuring new scenarios, villains, loot, weapons, items, and more.
Subscribers to the PACG receive 20% off the MSRP ($59.99 for the base set, $19.99 for the Character Add-On Deck and monthly Adventure Decks), as well as discounts on UltraPro PACG playmats and accessories.
The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game (PACG), created by Mike Selinker and Lone Shark Games, translates the world’s best-selling Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (RPG) into an entirely new breed of card game, where players adventure, battle monsters and villains, and acquire new feats, items, weapons, and allies – all without a Game Master. The first game, PACG: Rise of the Runelords, made its debut at Gen Con Indy 2013, where it sold out in the first four hours, and has been receiving rave reviews from players, press, and the hobby game industry. Here’s what some partners have had to say:
“One of the most intriguing tabletop releases of the year!” – Game Informer
“The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game is something we rarely find in the business – something truly NEW. It has attracted card players, role players, and lapsed gamers with its accessibility and with the epic storyline Paizo so excels at creating. Gamers are already looking forward to other key Paizo adventure paths coming into the format.”
– Mike Webb, Vice President of Marketing & Data Services/Alliance Distribution
“The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game has been a tremendous seller for us. It helps bridge the gap between two markets: card games and roleplaying games.”
– Kuo-yu Liang, VP Sales & Marketing/Diamond Book Distributors
For more information, visit paizo.com/pacg.
The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game is based on the world’s best-selling Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, which was built on more than 10 years of system development and the largest open playtest in the history of tabletop gaming to create an unparalleled fantasy roleplaying experience. Players need only the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook to play, but Paizo Publishing produces a wide range of books and accessories to enhance your Pathfinder experience, from hardcover rules compendiums to complete campaigns to packets of beautiful full-color maps. For more information, visit paizo.com.
About Lone Shark Games
Lone Shark Games is a design studio in Seattle headed by designer Mike Selinker. They are responsible for the design of the games Lords of Vegas, Unspeakable Words, Pirates of the Spanish Main, and Harrow and the Titanic Games board game line for Paizo. Their game books include The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design, Dealer’s Choice, Puzzlecraft, and the upcoming puzzle novel The Maze of Games.
About Paizo Publishing
Paizo Publishing®, LLC is a leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, accessories, board games, and novels. Paizo’s Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game, the result of the largest open playtest in the history of tabletop gaming, is currently the best-selling tabletop roleplaying game in hobby stores. Pathfinder Adventure Path is the most popular and best-selling monthly product in the tabletop RPG industry. Paizo.com is the leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world. In the ten years since its founding, Paizo Publishing has received more than 50 major awards and has grown to become one of the most influential companies in the hobby games industry.
Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea NPC Codex
$19.99 SRP
Deadly foes and able allies are at your disposal in Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea NPC Codex. Within you’ll find dozens of ready-to-use statblocks and descriptions detailing members of some of the Inner Sea region’s best-known factions, ideal for use however you desire. From merciless Hellknights to noble Eagle Knights, lethal Red Mantis assassins to magic-mastering Arclords, these versatile NPCs work perfectly as villains, rivals, henchmen, or allies. Have the characters you need when you need them with Inner Sea NPC Codex!
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2013 Prepare to return to the fan-favorite Icewind Dale region of the Forgotten Realms in the newest D&D Encounters season beginning today! Legacy of the Crystal Shard is the second adventure of the Sundering, a major year-long event that will reshape and define the future of the Forgotten Realms. There is even a brand new video trailer that’s been shaped by thousands of players results from the last season of D&D Encounters.
· Tell the Tale, Live the Adventure – Created by New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore (The Companions, The Sundering, Book I) along with Wizards of the Coast authors and designers James Wyatt and Jeff Ludwig, Legacy of the Crystal Shard pits players against an evil that was once defeated but has risen again to threaten the Ten Towns. The people of Icewind Dale have long stood against the perils of the North, and the events that shook the region a hundred years ago are now distant memories. But what was defeated was not destroyed, and as evil forces converge, adventurers will assist the people of Ten Towns face their greatest trial yet! This D&D Encounters season begins today and runs through February 12
· Start Playing and Enter Your Results – Following participation at weekly in-store events, gamers are encouraged to use the newest digital tool from Wizards of the Coast, the Sundering Adventurer’s Chronicle, to report the outcomes of their play experiences, connect with other players, and participate in activities designed to enhance the Sundering experience.
· Adventure Anywhere, Anytime! – Adventurers can also now play the latest D&D Encounters adventures from anywhere in the world – at the same time as the in-store program! Legacy of the Crystal Shard includes a 32-page adventure book containing the major plots and encounters in the North, along with a 64-pages describing Icewind Dale and its inhabitants. The set is packaged with a four-panel, deluxe DM screen with maps and information and is currently available for a suggested retail price of $34.95.
Let me know if you would like high-res images of the Legacy of the Crystal Shard adventure book cover for your news article. In the meantime, for more information on The Sundering, the Encounters in-store play program, or to find a participating hobby store near you, visit DungeonsandDragons.com.
The Sundering video
PAIZO PUBLISHING OPENS WORLDWIDE PLAYTEST FOR PATHFINDER RPG: ADVANCED CLASS GUIDE
Developer of the World’s Best-Selling RPG Calls on Players Worldwide to Help Shape the Game’s New Rulebook
REDMOND, WA (November 19, 2013): Paizo Publishing, LLC, publisher of the world’s best-selling Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, today launches a worldwide open playtest for the forthcoming Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide hardcover rulebook.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Class Guide introduces ten new classes to the Pathfinder RPG, each offering new opportunities and abilities, and supported with a wealth of new rules, archetypes, feats, spells and magic items. The new classes include arcanist, bloodrager, brawler, hunter, investigator, shaman, skald, slaver, swashbuckler, and warpriest.
“Nothing gets Pathfinder players excited like new classes,” said Paizo Publisher Erik Mona, “but since the rules for class design touch almost every aspect of the Pathfinder rules system, it’s more important than ever that we put them through their paces with a rigorous playtest. I can’t wait to see how Pathfinder players respond to what our designers have come up with, but more importantly, I can’t wait to see how player comments and feedback make them even better!”
Participants in the playtest will be able to download and review all ten new classes, use them in their games, or pit them against monsters and other foes to test the power, balance, and overall clarity of the new classes. Via the paizo.com messageboards, playtesters can directly communicate with the Pathfinder RPG design team and other players, helping to polish and refine the classes, while also taking part in surveys and brainstorms to help make the Advanced Class Guide a seamless addition to the Pathfinder RPG.
The playtest is now open to all via a free download from paizo.com, and will end on December 20, 2013. Pathfinder RPG: Advanced Class Guide is slated for an August 2014 release.
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game launched 5 years ago after 10 years of system development and the largest open playtest in the history of tabletop gaming, with more than 50,000 playtesters contributing the success of what has grown into the best-selling RPG in the world. For more information, please visit paizo.com.
About Paizo Publishing
Paizo Publishing®, LLC is a leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, accessories, board games, and novels. Paizo’s Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game is the world’s best-selling tabletop roleplaying game. Paizo.com is the leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world. In the eleven years since its founding, Paizo Publishing has received more than 50 major awards and has grown to become one of the most influential companies in the hobby games industry.
PF Cards: Wardens of the Reborn Forge
$10.99 SRP
Get the most out of Wardens of the Reborn Forge, the deluxe Pathfinder Module from Paizo Publishing! With a selection of Item Cards to help players track important treasure and Face Cards to aid in the depiction of NPCs, the new Campaign Deck format also introduces Quest Cards, summaries of key adventure goals that keep players on track to getting the most out of their adventuring experience.
With beautiful illustrations on every card and direct tie-ins to the Wardens of the Reborn Forge Pathfinder Module, this useful 54-card deck puts the greatest innovations of both sorcery and steel at your fingertips.
Legacy: Testament of Duke de Crecy
$50.40 SRP
It is 1729 in pre-revolution France, a time when the aristocracy has all the power and the means to rule the country. As a wealthy, well-educated aristocrat, you have travelled the world and had the fortune to enjoy your life to the fullest but you see that history is about to change course and you know that in order to stay strong, your family must prepare well. You need to find new allies. You must absorb smaller families and use their potency to strengthen your kin. You have to arrange wise marriages, nurture strong connections at court, obtain titles, build mansions, and find the right spouses for your daughters and sons.
Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy enables you to build a powerful dynasty in 18th century France as you step into the shoes of a French noble and compete for lasting honor. Over three generations, you, a resourceful patriarch or matriarch, will attempt to create a lasting legacy by establishing a house with ties to many different wealthy and powerful families from France and abroad (Spain, Italy, Russia and other countries).
This card game offers endless possibilities. Each time you build a family, you write a unique story, bringing to life the diverse relationships between parents and their children, between cousins, uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces. Whether you are looking for the best husband for your only daughter or a suitable wife for one of your two sons, whether you are looking to add new blood to your family by marrying into foreign nobility – you will be working to make your family rise in status through prestige and wealth, new skills and abilities. In Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy, known previously as Nobles of Paris and winner of Ducosim Spelontwerp in 2009, you will find 75 spouse cards with unique traits, more than twenty secret missions, nine titles, and nine “contribution to the family” cards. This all culminates in a highly thematic card game that will satisfy players who enjoy exploring many different paths to victory.
Ages 12+
1-4 players
60 minute play time
The Dark Valley: The East Front Campaign, 1941-45
$59.00 SRP
Although the game is a semi-monster, and covers the entirety of the conflict from the launch of Barbarossa to the end of the war, the game system emphasizes playability rather than rules overhead, allowing the players to concentrate on strategy choices rather than rules minutiae.
The core of the game system is a “chit-pull” activation system. Each turn a variety of action chits are drawn, in a random order, from the Action Chit Pool, and it is this that determines the exact flow of operations on that turn. If a German “Move/Combat” chit is drawn, the German player decides to move or fight (but not both), with all Axis units. If a German PZ HQ chit is drawn, units in command range of that HQ can move and conduct combat (with greater flexibility for armored units). If the Soviet Stavka chit is drawn, units may be deployed from Stavka Reserve to attempt to stem the Axis onslaught. If the Soviet Counterattack chit is drawn, Stalin insists that the attacks are made upon the fascist invaders, possibly to the detriment of the overall defense. When the Logistics chit is drawn, supply status is checked for all units.
Contains:
Rule Booklet
Scenario Booklet
3.5 Counter Sheet
Two Full Color Maps
Four Player Aid Cards
Two Six-sided Dice
In this Box Breaking Matt takes a good look at the pawns from the Bestiary 2 box set. If you are looking to expand your hoard this might just e the way to add to your collection.
Thanks for watching. I look forward to using many of these monster to give my children’s player characters nightmares. Check back next week and get a look at the Pathfinder Society Primer.
We had a chance to speak with Gary Triplett about his novel and art. Gary has taken a unique approach to fleshing out his dark elves.
Thanks Gary, You can learn more about his five part novel at aerferalen.com.
