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Paizo’s Adventure Card Game is Game of the Year

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Jan 162014

PATHFINDER ADVENTURE CARD GAME 2013’S GAME OF THE YEAR

The Best of 2013 Year-End Lists Are In, and the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game is a Universal Hit

REDMOND, WA (January 9, 2014): Paizo Inc., creators of the world’s best-selling Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, is pleased to announce today that the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, which debuted in August 2013, topped or charted on many Best of 2013 lists among top-tier gaming media outlets.

“#1 game of 2013.” – Dice Tower listeners and co-host Eric Summerer

“In a year dominated by excellent cooperative games, the Pathfinder card game set itself apart…If you’ve got a gaming group that loves playing story-driven RPGs, but no one to gamemaster your group, the Pathfinder card game is a perfect choice.” – Game Informer, Top 10 Tabletop Games of 2013

Dangerous Covenants for Star Wars Edge of the Empire from FFG

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Dec 222013

SW: Edge of the Empire: Dangerous Covenants Sourcebook

$29.95 SRP

Dangerous Covenants, a supplement for the Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Roleplaying Game, features new content for the Hired Gun career. Hired Guns will find all-new specializations, talents, and signature abilities, while all players will benefit from new character, vehicle, and equipment options. Dangerous Covenants also provides tools for making stronger and more diversified characters. Meanwhile, GMs gain tools to help them add meaningful combat encounters to their campaigns. Always shoot first with Dangerous Covenants!

Pathfinder Tales Dagger of Trust coming soon

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Dec 142013

PathFfinder Tales: The Dagger of Trust (Novel)

$9.99 SRP

Gideon Gull leads a double life: one as a talented young bard at the Rhapsodic College, and the other as a student of the Shadow School, where Taldor’s infamous Lion Blades are trained to be master spies. When a magical fog starts turning ordinary people into murderous mobs along the border between Taldor and Andoran, it’s up to Gideon and a crew of his fellow performers to solve the mystery. But can a handful of entertainers really stop a brewing war?

From author Chris Willrich comes a new adventure of intrigue, espionage, and arcane mystery, set in the world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

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.

Pathfinder Module: Tears at Bitter Manor this January

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Dec 092013

Pathfinder Module: Tears at Bitter Manor

$24.99 SRP

A retired cadre of lifelong adventurers meets every year to embark on their latest “one last adventure.” As the aged travelers prepare for their annual reunion, one of them disappears amid signs of foul play. Concerned for their missing friend, the retired adventurers ask the player characters to locate and retrieve him before their anniversary celebration becomes a mournful wake. The challenges before them will test every bit of their mettle as they uncover a deadly secret and fight to rid Cassomir of an insidious evil.

“Tears at Bitter Manor” is an adventure of for 5th-level characters, written for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and compatible with the 3.5 edition of the world’s oldest RPG. In the course of their investigation they’ll solve the mystery of a missing alchemist, encounter a horrifying conspiracy, and unravel the heartbreaking truth behind the abandoned estate known as Bitter Manor.

Pathfinder Modules are 64-page, high-quality, full-color, adventures using the Open Game License to work with both the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and the standard 3.5 fantasy RPG rules set. This Pathfinder Module includes new monsters, treasure, and additional notes on the city of Cassomir that can be used as part of the adventure or in any other game!

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 to release Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Skull & Shackles

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Nov 202013

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.

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.

Thunderstone Advance: Numenera

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Oct 012013

Thunderstone Advance: Numenera

$59.99 SRP

Doom was driven out of Tala. Defeated a second time, Doom sought out another world to conquer and a new method of doing so. It found the Ninth World, Numenera. Home to heroes and monsters unlike any seen before, Numenera plays host to Doom’s attempt to seize control by taking the form of a virus, infecting those now known as Doomladen. These creatures can be human, beasts, or monsters, but all recognize one another and their common master. Can the heroes survive when potentially anyone or anything could be a servant of Doom?

Thunderstone Advance: Numenera takes the adventure of Thunderstone to the world of Monte Cook’s Numenera. This set features creatures and heroes from the Numenera role-playing game, and expands your Thunderstone set with many new and exciting cards and abilities.

Players: 2-5

Ages 14+

Play Time: 1 hour

Contents:

600 new cards

Thunderstone tokens

Draw String Bag

Rulebook

Card Dividers

Legend of the Five Rings: Naishou Province (RPG)

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Aug 272013

Legend of the Five Rings: Naishou Province (RPG)

$19.99 SRP

“May you live in the most interesting of times.”-Old Akodo curse

In a forgotten corner of the Empire of Rokugan lies the small Naishou province. Unremarkable in virtually every way for as long as anyone can remember, the provincial governor of Naishou died under mysterious circumstances some time ago, and since then, things in the province have gotten interesting. Intrigue and treachery have become the order of the day, and even the most honorable of samurai find themselves placed in impossible positions, both by the plots of enemies hidden in the shadows as well as by the machinations of their own allies.

Secrets of the Empire: Naishou Province provides both Game Masters and players with new tools to enjoy the world of Rokugan with a level of detail that has never been attempted before. One entire province of the Empire has been completely detailed, although room has been left for individual groups to fill in the blanks with their own ideas and creations.

In this book you will find:

A map of the Naishou Province, taken from the records of the Imperial Cartographers of the Emperor!
All the information on Toshi no Naishou, the provincial capital and the center of its most intense and unforgiving intrigue!
The Lion Elite Spearmen School, a time-honored tradition of warfare previously only seen in other incarnations of the Legend of the Five Rings brand!

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