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For nearly 5,000 years, the great city of Absalom has stood at the center of the Inner Sea's culture, commerce, and prophecy. Now, with the death of the city's founder-god Aroden, the disappearance of the city's lord mayor, and newly launched attacks from some of its greatest foes, Absalom stands at the gateway to a new and uncertain destiny! This lore-packed 296-page hardcover guide to the locations, denizens, and adventures of Pathfinder's most famous city is the largest Pathfinder city sourcebook to date, presenting a fascinating locale suitable for years of adventure! A thorough appendix details the linking history, plots, and secrets of hundreds of individuals and organizations within the city, giving Game Masters the tools to weave complex narratives in a thriving urban environment. A huge 8-panel poster map of the city sets the scene in unprecedented detail, allowing your heroes to walk upon streets paved with centuries of history, following the steps of generations of questing heroes to chart a new path for the City at the Center of the World!Featuring the contributions of Allie Bustion, John Compton, Jeremy Corff, Katina Davis, Vanessa Hoskins, James Jacobs, Virginia Jordan, Erik Mona, Matt Morris, Liane Merciel, Dave Nelson, Samantha Phelan, Jessica Redekop, Mikhail Rekun, Brian Richmond, David N. Ross, Simone D. Sallé, Shahreena Shahrani, Abigail Slater, Chris Spivey, Diego Valdez, and Skylar-James Wall.

In a catastrophic instant, travel through the faster-than-light Drift realm failed, with travelers vanishing in mid-flight, communications scrambling, and the Drift’s progenitor god Triune falling mysteriously silent. In the aftermath, empires cling to far-flung holdings, opportunists exploit the chaos, and everyone demands to know what triggered this Drift Crisis and how they can solve it. The Drift Crisis hardcover rulebook and setting guide details this massive galaxy-wide event, introducing a vast array of new conflicts, opportunities, and stories. Equip your characters with the latest technologies and techniques for surviving the upheaval, with new gear and character options. Discover the influential factions that are restoring order, profiting on the wreckage, or perpetuating the pandemonium. And experience the Drift Crisis with 20 detailed adventure seeds that range from survival to saving the galaxy!

Bring an array of aliens—both weird and familiar—to your science fantasy adventures with Interstellar Species, the newest rulebook for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game!This gorgeously illustrated reference provides deep dives on 25 playable Starfinder species, each with thematic player options usable by any character, plus new options for 7 Starfinder character classes. There's also a system for easily creating your own playable species, and a catalog of around 100 thematic nonplayer characters ready to slot into any adventure! A new class, the evolutionist, allows you to transform yourself over time into an eldritch being, mechanized construct, sepulchral undead, or riot of biological potential, each with unique abilities—and drawbacks, should you allow your transformation to grow out of control.

In the wake of the upheaval to interstellar travel caused by the galaxy-wide Drift Crisis, countless new worlds await exploration by eager and opportunistic starfarers. Ports of Call, the latest hardcover resource for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game, presents 10 highly detailed spaceports and settlements across all of space, from Drifter’s End on Absalom Station to the rebuilt megacity of Izadamar in the Scoured Stars to the to the wonders of the theme-park planet of Golarion World! Other featured locales include a collection of warships called the Bastion that protects against the insectile hordes of the alien Swarm or the starship port of Skydock on Verces. Each location provides area maps, regional overviews and customs, local character options like equipment and spells, copious adventure hooks, and more, offering a huge selection of interesting sites for stopovers or long-term stays.Along with all this, Ports of Call also features: • An overview and poster-sized map of the Starfinder galaxy. • New rules for easier and faster hyperspace travel along Drift Lanes, a new phenomenon coming out of the Drift Crisis.• Four new player character species, including giants, sentient oozelike selamids, the gaseous thyrs, and the reptilian xulgaths of Lost Golarion. • Expanded downtime rules, new starship options, a cargo subsystem, new NPCs, a score of new side job adventures, and much more!

Under surprising new leadership, the Wildwood Lodge begins a campaign of violence. Shocked, the PCs and their allies form a new lodge in exile to oppose this new regime. As they recruit new friends to their cause, the PCs must deny the Wildwood Lodge a powerful relic created by the renegade druid Ghorus, all while investigating the strange, primal magic the Wildwood Lodge has uncovered. If the PCs are to prevail, they will need to track down one of the Verduran Forest's most dangerous inhabitants and convince her to aid their cause—or ensure she cannot aid their enemy.Severed at the Root is a wilderness-themed Pathfinder Second Editiion adventure for four 8th-level characters. The adventure continues the Wardens of Wildwood Adventure Path, a three-part campaign in which a group of adventurers navigate a tricky balance between idyllic wilderness, a hungry nation, and primal forces beyond the natural world. This volume also includes a look at manifestations of the Plane of Wood, an ecology of the godlike green men, several new magical items, and new monstrous threats! Each full-color softcover Pathfinder Adventure Path volume contains an in-depth adventure scenario, stats for several new monsters, and support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open RPG Creative License and work with the remastered Pathfinder Second Edition and compatible roleplaying games.

Blast off into Starfinder Second Edition with a star chart of the galaxy and a thrilling tour of adventuring locations across the vastness of interstellar space! The Starfinder Galaxy Guide is a 176-page primer designed for new and experienced players that explores popular types of science fantasy campaigns—galactic exploration, horror, war-torn space opera, and more—giving GMs and players tools for playing out those types of stories in their Starfinder game. The Galaxy Guide also introduces several powerful galactic factions as potential friends or foes, including AbadarCorp’s holy corporate empire, the infernal orders of the Hellknights, and the world-preserving Xenowardens. Each major faction includes a new archetype players can use to create a character with ties to that faction. The galactic tour ends with a database of playable alien ancestries including a telepathic mega-brain with an atrophied body (contemplative), a friendly shapeshifter with a secretly bizarre true form (astrazoan), and more!The Starfinder Galaxy Guide includes:A double-sided map featuring the Starfinder galaxy and the Pact Worlds system.Six new playable alien ancestries: astrazoan, contemplative, dragonkin, kalo, sarcesian, and vlaka.Six new archetypes related to powerful galactic factions.Exciting new lore introducing new gods, current events, and important hotspots in the Starfinder setting! Written by: Kate Baker, Rigby Bendele, Joseph Blomquist, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, Anthony Dollinger, Alexi Greer, Sen H.H.S., Thurston Hillman, Jenny Jarzabski, Mike Kimmel, Dustin Knight, Dennis Muldoon, Quinn Murphy, Emily Parks, Letterio Mammoliti, and Kendra Leigh Speedling.

Blast off into Starfinder Second Edition with a star chart of the galaxy and a thrilling tour of adventuring locations across the vastness of interstellar space! The Starfinder Galaxy Guide is a 176-page primer designed for new and experienced players that explores popular types of science fantasy campaigns—galactic exploration, horror, war-torn space opera, and more—giving GMs and players tools for playing out those types of stories in their Starfinder game. The Galaxy Guide also introduces several powerful galactic factions as potential friends or foes, including AbadarCorp’s holy corporate empire, the infernal orders of the Hellknights, and the world-preserving Xenowardens. Each major faction includes a new archetype players can use to create a character with ties to that faction. The galactic tour ends with a database of playable alien ancestries including a telepathic mega-brain with an atrophied body (contemplative), a friendly shapeshifter with a secretly bizarre true form (astrazoan), and more!This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.The Starfinder Galaxy Guide includes:A double-sided map featuring the Starfinder galaxy and the Pact Worlds system.Six new playable alien ancestries: astrazoan, contemplative, dragonkin, kalo, sarcesian, and vlaka.Six new archetypes related to powerful galactic factions.Exciting new lore introducing new gods, current events, and important hotspots in the Starfinder setting! Written by: Kate Baker, Rigby Bendele, Joseph Blomquist, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, Anthony Dollinger, Alexi Greer, Sen H.H.S., Thurston Hillman, Jenny Jarzabski, Mike Kimmel, Dustin Knight, Dennis Muldoon, Quinn Murphy, Emily Parks, Letterio Mammoliti, and Kendra Leigh Speedling.

The city-states of Iblydos rule an archipelago steeped in mythic power, legendary beasts, and ancient history. Yet the region suffers; the myth-speaking rites that elevate great heroes into mortal demigods are failing, with few of the hero-gods surviving to guide their people and grant magic. All of this changes when a god's death awakens a forgotten source of mythic potential, transforming the player characters into the first new hero-gods in recent memory. But what is this mythic power, and will it revitalize Iblydos or doom it entirely? The port of Bailax hosts lavish funeral games for a recently deceased hero, inviting visitors and locals alike to compete for prizes and glory. However, an ominous meteor crashes nearby and interrupts the festivities. What the adventurers find there won't just transform them into mythic hero-gods, but also will incite Bailax to violent revelry and arson. Can the new hero-gods stop the city from self-destruction?The Acropolis Pyre is a Pathfinder Second Edition adventure for four 1st-level characters. This adventure begins the Myth-Speaker Adventure Path, a three-part campaign in which the player characters assume the role of regional hero-gods and have the opportunity to restore the tradition of myth-speaking to a realm inspired by Ancient Greece. This volume also includes a look at existing hero-gods of Iblydos, a gazetteer of the city of Bailax, a phoenix-blessed city of pyres, and a toolbox of new gear, spells, feats, and creatures from the mythic isles of Iblydos, from the mischievous torcheater to the magnificent pyrefowl.Each full-color softcover Pathfinder Adventure Path volume contains an in-depth adventure scenario, stats for several new monsters, and support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open RPG Creative License and work with the remastered Pathfinder Second Edition and compatible roleplaying games.

Having realized their divine power, the PCs must confront the mythic threat awakening beneath Iblydos itself. To do so, they must rescue a legendary blade capable of dealing the killing blow, seek allies within a city of monsters, and rile a mountain-sized beast to uncover one of the archipelago's greatest secrets—and decide the islands' future.Titanbane is a Pathfinder Second Edition adventure for four 7th-level characters. This adventure concludes the Myth-Speaker Adventure Path, a three-part campaign in which the player characters assume the role of regional hero-gods and have the opportunity to restore the tradition of myth-speaking to a realm inspired by Ancient Greece. This volume also includes a gazetteer of the lands surrounding Iblydos; two articles for continuing your mythic PCs' story and abilities; and a toolbox of new items, spells, and creatures from the mythic isles of Iblydos.Each full-color softcover Pathfinder Adventure Path volume contains an in-depth adventure scenario, stats for several new monsters, and support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open RPG Creative License and work with the remastered Pathfinder Second Edition and compatible roleplaying games.

Despite how far heroes travel or how many times they save the day, there are always new monsters lurking just around the corner. Pathfinder Monster Core 2 is a 278-page sourcebook bursting with brand-new creatures as well as updated Pathfinder classics waiting to find a place at your table. The lavishly illustrated tome also includes guidelines for reading monster entries and adjusting existing monsters to tailor-fit your story! This book is a must-have for Game Masters ready to bring new and exciting challenges to their games!Pathfinder Monster Core 2 makes use of the updated rules for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG! These rules are compatible with previous Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback.Pathfinder Monster Core 2 includes:Over 300 individual monster writeups, including common foes, like dangerous animals and mighty elementals, to deadly creatures that can threaten even the most hardened heroes, such as the unsettling swarm striders and the devastating obcisidaemon!Eight brand-new dragons to challenge your players, including the powerful cinder dragon, the terrifying despair dragon, the steadfast requiem dragon, the clever rune dragon, and more!Classic monsters drawn from mythology, like the coatl and the garuda, as well as creatures drawn from the legends of Pathfinder's Lost Omens setting, including favorites like the majestic dweomercat and the unstoppable Spawn of Rovagug!Simple templates that allow you to customize a monster, making it more or less powerful with just a few simple adjustments.Guidelines for reading and using monster statistics, ensuring you get the most out of a creature both in and out of combat.Lists of creatures sorted by both type and level, making it easy to find the monster you need when you need it.Fully integrated errata from the first 5 years of Pathfinder Second Edition, including new balance adjustments to ensure that every creature presents a thrilling level-appropriate challenge!Hundreds of beautiful full-color creature illustrations!Published under the new Open RPG Creative (ORC) license, giving players and Game Masters even more freedom for making their own creations based on Pathfinder Second Edition.Featuring the contributions of Alexander Augunas, Jesse Benner, Joshua Birdsong, Logan Bonner, Jason Bulmahn, James Case, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, Paris Crenshaw, Adam Daigle, Katina Davis, Jesse Decker, Darrin Drader, Felix Dritz, Brian Duckwitz, Robert N. Emerson, Scott Fernandez, Eleanor Ferron, Hexe Fey, Benjamin Fields, Keith Garret, Scott Gladstein, Leo Glass, Matthew Goodall, Alice Grizzle, T.H. Gulliver, Sen H.H.S., Steve Hammond, Tim Hitchcock, Joan Hong, Vanessa Hoskins, James Jacobs, Brian R. James, Michelle Jones, TJ Kahn, Mikko Kallio, Jason Keeley, Joshua Kim, Avi Kool, John Laffan, Lyz Liddell, Luis Loza, Colm Lundberg, Ron Lundeen, Mahpiya, Philippe-Antoine Menard, Jacob W. Michaels, Patchen Mortimer, Dennis Muldoon, Andrew Mullen, Quinn Murphy, Dave Nelson, Jason Nelson, K. Tessa Newton, Tim Nightengale, Samantha Phelan, Randy Price, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, BJ Recio, Jessica Redekop, Mikhail Rekun, Patrick Renie, Alex Riggs, David N. Ross, Simone D. Sallé, Michael Sayre, David Schwartz, Mark Seifter, Chris Sims, Rodney Sloan, Shay Snow, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Amber Stewart, Jeffrey Swank, Tan Shao Han, Russ Taylor, William Thompson, Jason Tondro, Clark Valentine, Ruvaid Virk, Andrew White, Landon Winkler, and Linda Zayas-Palmer.

Despite how far heroes travel or how many times they save the day, there are always new monsters lurking just around the corner. Pathfinder Monster Core 2 is a 278-page sourcebook bursting with brand-new creatures as well as updated Pathfinder classics waiting to find a place at your table. The lavishly illustrated tome also includes guidelines for reading monster entries and adjusting existing monsters to tailor-fit your story! This book is a must-have for Game Masters ready to bring new and exciting challenges to their games!Pathfinder Monster Core 2 makes use of the updated rules for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG! These rules are compatible with previous Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback.Pathfinder Monster Core 2 includes:Over 300 individual monster writeups, including common foes, like dangerous animals and mighty elementals, to deadly creatures that can threaten even the most hardened heroes, such as the unsettling swarm striders and the devastating obcisidaemon!Eight brand-new dragons to challenge your players, including the powerful cinder dragon, the terrifying despair dragon, the steadfast requiem dragon, the clever rune dragon, and more!Classic monsters drawn from mythology, like the coatl and the garuda, as well as creatures drawn from the legends of Pathfinder's Lost Omens setting, including favorites like the majestic dweomercat and the unstoppable Spawn of Rovagug!Simple templates that allow you to customize a monster, making it more or less powerful with just a few simple adjustments.Guidelines for reading and using monster statistics, ensuring you get the most out of a creature both in and out of combat.Lists of creatures sorted by both type and level, making it easy to find the monster you need when you need it.Fully integrated errata from the first 5 years of Pathfinder Second Edition, including new balance adjustments to ensure that every creature presents a thrilling level-appropriate challenge!Hundreds of beautiful full-color creature illustrations!Published under the new Open RPG Creative (ORC) license, giving players and Game Masters even more freedom for making their own creations based on Pathfinder Second Edition.This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.Featuring the contributions of Alexander Augunas, Jesse Benner, Joshua Birdsong, Logan Bonner, Jason Bulmahn, James Case, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, Paris Crenshaw, Adam Daigle, Katina Davis, Jesse Decker, Darrin Drader, Felix Dritz, Brian Duckwitz, Robert N. Emerson, Scott Fernandez, Eleanor Ferron, Hexe Fey, Benjamin Fields, Keith Garret, Scott Gladstein, Leo Glass, Matthew Goodall, Alice Grizzle, T.H. Gulliver, Sen H.H.S., Steve Hammond, Tim Hitchcock, Joan Hong, Vanessa Hoskins, James Jacobs, Brian R. James, Michelle Jones, TJ Kahn, Mikko Kallio, Jason Keeley, Joshua Kim, Avi Kool, John Laffan, Lyz Liddell, Luis Loza, Colm Lundberg, Ron Lundeen, Mahpiya, Philippe-Antoine Menard, Jacob W. Michaels, Patchen Mortimer, Dennis Muldoon, Andrew Mullen, Quinn Murphy, Dave Nelson, Jason Nelson, K. Tessa Newton, Tim Nightengale, Samantha Phelan, Randy Price, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, BJ Recio, Jessica Redekop, Mikhail Rekun, Patrick Renie, Alex Riggs, David N. Ross, Simone D. Sallé, Michael Sayre, David Schwartz, Mark Seifter, Chris Sims, Rodney Sloan, Shay Snow, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Amber Stewart, Jeffrey Swank, Tan Shao Han, Russ Taylor, William Thompson, Jason Tondro, Clark Valentine, Ruvaid Virk, Andrew White, Landon Winkler, and Linda Zayas-Palmer.

The elemental forces of air, earth, fire, and water are among the most powerful in the multiverse, forming the basis of the material world and giving spellcasters and creatures capable of wielding them immeasurable influence. Now players and Game Masters can harness these powers for themselves by exploring the elemental planes—entire realms of existence dedicated to the four elements—in Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Planes of Power. Each of the four elemental planes is fully detailed like never before, with advice on adventuring in their harsh environs, new spells and character options, location gazetteers, and a thorough examination of a major settlement that offers a welcoming landing site for travelers from other planes (such as explorers in the Pathfinder Society Organized Play campaign).

The Scarlet Triad’s Last Stand! The heroes have clashed many times with the Scarlet Triad, and have defeated several lower-tier leaders within the slaver organization, but now the time is right to confront the evil slavers in their fortress! Yet the Scarlet Triad has the support of Katapesh, one of the largest cities in the land. Before the heroes can finish off the Triad, they must first find a way to ruin their reputation and erode the protection afforded by Katapesh's powerful Pactmasters. But what astonishing secret regarding the Scarlet Triad's true ruler awaits discovery beneath an ancient Red Pyramid? Against the Scarlet Triad is a Pathfinder Second Edition adventure for 15th-level characters. This adventure continues the Age of Ashes Adventure Path, a six-part campaign in which a group of adventurers uncovers and fights against a global draconic plot. This adventure also includes an investigation of the magical elf gates that connect portals all over Golarion, an exploration of the mysterious rulers of the vast city of Katapesh, a wealth of new options for player characters to discover, and over half a dozen new monsters! Each full-color softcover Pathfinder Adventure Path volume contains an in-depth adventure scenario, stats for several new monsters, and support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open Game License and work with both Pathfinder Second Edition and the world's oldest fantasy RPG.

Invited to a prestigious storytelling festival in Highhelm, the greatest dwarven city, a clan's eclectic guests explore every corner of the metropolis to build their own legends. Yet when these budding celebrities find a relic linked to one of dwarvenkind's greatest heroes, they're drawn into a mysterious ancient urban intrigue that kicks off a deadly treasure hunt.Mantle of Gold is a Pathfinder Second Edition adventure for four 1st-level characters. This adventure begins the Sky King's Tomb Adventure Path, a three-part campaign in which a group of adventurers travel deep underground to discover a legendary dwarven king's tomb, seek subterranean treasures, and heal millennia-old injustices—all while stopping an ambitious villain from weaponizing those same discoveries. This adventure also includes a detailed look at lost dwarven treasures, tricks for adventuring in the dark, potent relics, and several monsters to threaten underground explorers.Each full-color softcover Pathfinder Adventure Path volume contains an in-depth adventure scenario, stats for several new monsters, and support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open Game License and work with both Pathfinder Second Edition and the world's oldest fantasy RPG.