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RPG SUPERSTAR 2014 GAME DESIGNER CONTEST OPENS December 10th

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Dec 112013

RPG SUPERSTAR 2014 GAME DESIGNER CONTEST OPENS TODAY

Paizo Publishing Launches Largest Open-Call for Amateur Game Designers

REDMOND, WA (December 10, 2013): Paizo Publishing, LLC, publisher of the world’s best-selling Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, as well as novels, game accessories, and board games, announces today the kick-off of the 2014 RPG Superstar game designer contest.

Going on its 7th year, RPG Superstar is Paizo’s annual competition to find the best and brightest unknown game designers, and give them the opportunity to have their work critiqued by industry veterans, game design rockstars, and the fan community.

Entries are reviewed and critiqued by industry veterans, game design rockstars, and the Pathfinder community. The RPG Superstar contest is hosted by Paizo Designer Sean K. Reynolds, This year’s panel includes:

Peter Adkison, Gaming Legend Rich Baker, Writer

Judy Bauer, Paizo Editor John Compton, Paizo Developer

Liz Courts, Paizo writer Adam Daigle, Paizo Developer

Crystal Frasier, Writer & Artist Lee Hammock, Goblinworks Designer

James Jacobs, Paizo Creative Director Rob Lazzaretti, Cartographer

Frank Mentzer, Gaming Legend Russ Morrissey, ENWorld

Patrick Renie, Paizo Developer Amber Scott, Writer

The winner of the competition will have their adventure published by Paizo as a Pathfinder Module, a full-color, 64-page, high-quality softcover book, compatible with not only the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (RPG), but also with any game published under the Open Gaming License (OGL). Also, three runners-up will win assignments to write Pathfinder Society scenarios, offering all four finalists professional writing contracts with Paizo Publishing, and an opportunity to begin their game design careers by working on the world’s best-selling roleplaying game.

In last year’s contest, more than half a million votes were cast by Pathfinder fans, resulting in winner Steven Helt, whose Pathfinder Module, Tears at Bitter Manor, is due out January 2014.

Round One is now open for design submissions of magical “Wondrous Items”, and the contest concludes in March 2014. Winners will be announced on April 1, 2014. For more information or to submit an entry, visit paizo.com/rpgsuperstar.

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is the world’s best-selling tabletop RPG, in which players take on the role of brave adventurers fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil. The Pathfinder RPG is currently translated into multiple languages, and the vibrant Pathfinder universe has been licensed for comic book series, graphic novels, miniatures, plush toys, apparel, and is being developed into a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game.

About Paizo Publishing

Paizo Publishing®, LLC is the 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 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.

Flip Through of Mythic Realms for Pathfinder

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Dec 082013

Matt takes a quick look at the Mythic Realms book for the Pathfinder RPG from Paizo. It is a small book wit a lot of background so Matt really tries to focus on giving a general overview without spoiling the contents. What he does focus on is the flow of the book and the excellent imagery presented by Paizo.

You can learn more about the Mythic series, Mythic Origin, Mythic Adventures, and Mythic Realms at Paizo

Paizo Announces Open Playtest for the Pathfinder ADV Class Guide

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Nov 192013

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.

Box Breaking 78 Pathfinder Bestiary 2 Pawns box

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Nov 122013

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.

Pathfinder Battles Miniatures: Skull & Shackles: Standard Booster In August

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Jul 242013

Pathfinder Battles Miniatures: Skull & Shackles: Standard Booster

$15.99 SRP

The friends, fiends, and foes of the Pathfinder Adventure Path: Skull & Shackles invade your gaming table with Pathfinder Battles: Skull & Shackles, the brand new Pathfinder Battles pre-painted miniatures set from Paizo Publishing and WizKids Games! This stunning set features 55 all-new pre-painted sculpts drawn from the gorgeous art in Paizo Publishing’s Pathfinder Adventure Path: Skull & Shackles.

Pathfinder Battles: Skull & Shackles Standard Boosters contain 1 Large figure and 3 Medium or Small figures.

Pathfinder Battles: Skull & Shackles Standard Bricks contain 8 Standard Boosters (32 figures total).

Pathfinder Battles: Skull & Shackles Standard Cases contain 4 Standard Bricks (32 Standard Boosters, 128 figures total).

Flip Through the Fey Revisited for Pathfinder

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Jul 132013

Matt takes you on a journey into the land of the Fey. Where he tries to talk about the Fey Revisited Campaign Setting for Pathfinder with out spoiling the Contents too much. this book covers Gremlins, Sprites, Rusalka, Murderous Redcaps, Norn and more. If you are a game master this is a video you might like to watch.

You can learn more about Pathfinder at Paizo.

PF Module: The Dragons Demand (PFRPG)

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Jul 032013

PF Module: The Dragons Demand (PFRPG)

$24.99 SRP

The village of Belhaim is nestled in rural Taldor, a minor stop on the road through the Verduran Forest between Maheto and Wispil. When an abandoned tower at the edge of the village collapses during a thunderstorm, a previously unsuspected infestation of kobolds comes to light. Unfortunately for Belhaim, the kobolds are in fact the least of their worries, for something sinister gathers power deep in the nearby expanse of Dragonfen, a swamp with a long history of draconic problems. It’s been many years since a dragon has last menaced Belhaim, but all good times must come to an end. Can the town’s newest adventurers fill the traditional role of dragonslayer and save Belhaim from the new master of the swamp?

Pathfinder Modules: The Dragon’s Demand is deluxe super-adventure for 1st-level characters, and kicks off a relaunch of Paizo’s popular Pathfinder Modules line, which now includes 64 action-packed pages of adventure and a beautiful two-sided full-color poster map with each quarterly release! Players can expect to reach 6th level by the time they complete this epic adventure-if they manage to survive!

Pathfinder Society Primer

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Jun 292013

$12.99 SRP

Whether drawn to ancient crypts in search of treasure, long-lost secrets, or the potential for fame, countless adventurers hope to someday join the illustrious Pathfinder Society, a loose organization of scholars, explorers, and thrill-seekers that searches the globe in search of wonders.

This player-focused guide to the organization provides both neophyte Pathfinders and seasoned veterans with the tools of the trade-the wealth of knowledge of past Pathfinders and access to the mysteries safeguarded in the vaults of the Grand Lodge of Absalom. It includes new equipment to aid you in high adventure and exploration, including new wayfinders and ioun stones, and both magical and mundane volumes of the legendary Pathfinder Chronicles.

Packed to the brim with new spells, feats, traits, vanities, and more, Pathfinder Player Compaion: Pathfinder Society Primer is a must-have for the more than 35,000 players in Paizo’s worldwide Pathfinder Society Organized Play campaign as well as Pathfinder RPG players looking to add the organization to their own home campaigns!

Pathfinder Battles Miniatures: White Dragon Evolution Boxed Set (3) In July

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Jun 142013

Pathfinder Battles Miniatures: White Dragon Evolution Boxed Set (3)

$39.99 SRP

Packed with icy menace, the White Dragon Evolution boxed set is the first Pathfinder Battles pre-painted miniatures offering from Paizo Publishing and WizKids Games to showcase that most feared of adversaries, dragons!

Flip Through The Pathfinder Inner Sea Bestiary

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Apr 252013

Hey all come and watch as Matt flips through the Inner Sea Bestiary, with out spoiling it.The Inner Sea Bestiary is for the Pathfinder role playing game, from Paizo Publishing.

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