Paizo, recent off a highly-anticipated refresh of Pathfinder’s 2nd version ruleset, introduced some large strikes for the sport’s ongoing narrative on Tuesday. The Warfare of Immortals meta-event will kill a god, span a number of rulebooks, and restart the writer’s line of hardcover novels. It would additionally introduce the primary two unique lessons constructed following the corporate’s formal departure from the legacy Dungeons & Dragons ruleset and the OGL.
On the middle of the brand new narrative arc will likely be Pathfinder War of Immortals, a 240-page hardcover rulebook anticipated in October that can introduce “mythic guidelines” for Pathfinder Second Version. These guidelines ought to operate equally to previous mythic-tier content material, which represented methods to make your high-level characters stand out with highly effective boons and skills. In accordance with a information launch, the e-book will even embrace two new character lessons — the animist and the exemplar — that are “the primary unique lessons constructed on the remastered basis of Pathfinder Participant Core.”
(Pathfinder Player Core and Pathfinder GM Core have been launched in November 2023. The workforce moved the sport off of Wizards of the Coast’s Open Sport License (also called the OGL), which had allowed the unique model of Pathfinder Second Version to make use of some legacy supplies from D&D, following Wizards’ makes an attempt to vary that settlement. Paizo now publishes its fantasy TTRPG beneath its personal license, known as the Open RPG Creative (ORC) License. You may learn extra about that transition in Polygon’s interview with writer Eric Mona.)
Subsequent, Pathfinder Lost Omens: Divine Mysteries is a setting e-book with a smattering of character choices — not in contrast to Pathfinder Misplaced Omens: Tian Xia World Information detailed right here at Polygon in March. As an alternative of a information to a whole area, nonetheless, this 320-page hardcover will embrace a remastered pantheon of deities. It would additionally characteristic new deities, corresponding to Aleph, god of darkness, and Nin, god of vampires. The $79.99 e-book is predicted in November.
A number of new adventures are included within the Warfare of Immortals arc. Pathfinder Adventure: Prey for Death is a standalone 128-page journey for high-level characters (degree 14 and above). Anticipate the larger-than-usual, hardcover format to make a splash when it’s launched at Gen Con on Aug. 1, 2024.
Two even bigger campaigns are additionally on the docket.
Pathfinder Journey Path: Curtain Name — Pathfinder’s fortieth since its launch in 2009 — will take characters from degree 11 all the way in which to twenty. The episodic launch will start at Gen Con with Pathfinder Adventure Path #204: Stage Fright and can conclude in September. Pathfinder Journey Path: Triumph of the Tusk, which has gamers combating alongside a band of orcs, will decide up in October with Pathfinder Adventure Path #207: The Resurrection Flood and proceed into December.
Each Journey Paths are included of their entirety as a part of the Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscription.
Lastly, a brand new novel titled Pathfinder: Godsrain, written by Liane Merciel, can be due out in November. Paizo stated in its information launch that the e-book will observe “4 iconic heroes — the wizard Ezren, the barbarian Amiri, the cleric Kyra, and her spouse, the rogue Merisiel — as they witness the calamity of the Godsrain and are confronted with the alternatives — and penalties — of mythic energy.”