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Discover the untold potential of magic! Secrets of Magic, the newest hardcover rulebook for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game! Secrets of Magic brings the popular magus and summoner classes into Pathfinder Second Edition, unlocking heroes who combine magical might with martial prowess and offering command of a powerful magical companion creature. The lavishly illustrated, 256-page rulebook contains hundreds of new spells with potent offerings for all spellcasting character classes, magic items for any player character, and lore detailing the fundamental structure and theories of magic. A special section within the volume-the Book of Unlimited Magic-presents new methods of spellcasting, with elementalism, geomancy, shadow magic, rune magic, and even pervasive magic to give every place and creature in your game a magical spin! Written by Logan Bonner, Mark Seifter, and Amirali Attar Olyaee, Kate Baker, Minty Belmont, Logan Bonner, James Case, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, Katina Davis, Jesse Decker, Chris Eng, Eleanor Ferron, Leo Glass, Joan Hong, Vanessa Hoskins, Jason Keeley, Joshua Kim, Luis Loza, Ron Lundeen, Liane Merciel, David N. Ross, Ianara Natividad, Chesley Oxendine, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Shiv Ramdas, Mikhail Rekun, Simone D. Sallé, Michael Sayre, Mark Seifter, Sen H.H.S., Shay Snow, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Tan Shao Han, Calliope Lee Taylor, Mari Tokuda, Jason Tondro, Clark Valentine, Ruvaid Virk, Andrew White, Landon Winkler, Tonya Woldridge, and Isis Wozniakowska

South of a forbidding range of mountain peaks lies aland of boundless resources and untold opportunity. The Mwangi Expanse has beenhome to an untold diversity of cultures and peoples since time immemorial,hosting powerful, isolated city states that have often paid little attention totheir neighbors. Yet the turning tides of fortune have begun to usher in changesthat are rippling across the world. As a band of scholars from an ancientuniversity venture north to aid a disaster-torn Avistan. A revolution-forgednation seeks powerful allies against foreign aggression. An undead god, once asymbol of hope to his declining nation, now grows jealous enough to turn on hisself-proclaimed kin. Whether you are a diplomat seeking leverage from the mostdifficult of positions, a spy seeking the subtlest hint of danger from yoursurroundings, a guardian hoping to protect your home and people, or a warriorstriking back at tyrants both native and foreign, this guide to the MwangiExpanse offers you the ultimate resource to explore a realm of magic, monsters,and intrigue!Written by: Laura-Shay Adams,Mariam Ahmad, Jahmal Brown, Misha Bushyager, Alexandria Bustion, Duan Byrd, JohnCompton, Sarah Davis, Naomi Fritts, Sasha Laranoa Harving, Gabriel Hicks, TKJohnson, Michelle Jones, Joshua Kim, Travis Lionel, Ron Lundeen, StephanieLundeen, Hillary Moon Murphy, Lu Pellazar, Mikhail Rekun, Nate Wright, andJabari Weathers

With more than 300 classic and brand-new monsters, this 320-page beautifully illustrated hardcover rulebook completes the collection of creatures begun in the first two Pathfinder Bestiary volumes. From classic creatures like clockworks and tooth fairies, returning favorites like imperial dragons and mighty titans, to brand-new menaces found all over Golarion, this must-have tome of monsters designed to challenge characters of any level is an essential companion to your Pathfinder game! This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark. The perfect way to commemorate Pathfinder''s new edition! (Cover color and design subject to change.)

This guidebook dives into the myriad cultures and organizations readers can encounter or join in their journey, breathing life into both their character and the many allies and enemies they're bound to meet along the way.

With more than 300 classic and brand-new monsters,this 320-page beautifully illustrated hardcover rulebook completes thecollection of creatures begun in the first two Pathfinder Bestiary volumes. Fromclassic creatures like clockworks and tooth fairies, returning favorites likeimperial dragons and mighty titans, to brand-new menaces found all overGolarion, this must-have tome of monsters designed to challenge characters ofany level is an essential companion to your Pathfindergame!Pathfinder Bestiary 3includes:More than 300 monsters drawn frommythology and folklore, genre classics, and more than a decade of Pathfinder,with plenty of new monsters too!Gorgeousfull-color illustrations on nearly everypage!Comprehensive monster lists sorted bylevel, type, and rarity to help you find the right monster for anysituation!Universal monster rules to simplifyspecial attacks, defenses, and qualities like grab, swallow whole, andregeneration.Detailed lore sidebars offeringadditional information about even more of Pathfinder''s most popular friends andfoes!

Ready to go beyond the basics? Expand the limits of whatΓÇÖs possible with the Pathfinder Advanced PlayerΓÇÖs Guide! This 272-page Pathfinder Second Edition rulebook contains exciting new rules options for player characters, adding even more depth of choice to your Pathfinder game! Inside you will find brand new ancestries, heritages, and four new classes: the shrewd investigator, the mysterious oracle, the daring swashbuckler, and the hex-slinging witch! The must-have Advanced PlayerΓÇÖs Guide also includes exciting new options for all your favorite Core Rulebook classes and tons of new backgrounds, general feats, spells, items, and 40 flexible archetypes to customize your play experience even further!This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark. The perfect way to commemorate Pathfinder''s new edition! (Cover color and design subject to change.) The Pathfinder Advanced PlayerΓÇÖs Guide includes:ΓÇóFour new classes: the investigator, oracle, swashbuckler, and witch!ΓÇóFive new ancestries and five heritages for any ancestry: celestial aasimars, curious catfolk, hagspawned changelings, vampiric dhampirs, fate-touched duskwalkers, scaled kobolds, fierce orcs, fiendish tieflings, industrious ratfolk, and feathered tengu!ΓÇó40 new archetypes including multiclass archetypes for the four new classes, Pathfinder favorites like the cavalier, dragon disciple, shadowdancer, and vigilante, and brand-new archetypes like the familiar master and the shield-bearing iron wall!ΓÇóNew class options for all twelve classes from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook including champions of evil, genie and shadow sorcerers, zen archer monks, rogue masterminds, spellcasting rangers, and more!ΓÇóEven more exciting new rules, from rare and unique backgrounds to investigative skill feats, from spells and rituals like reincarnate and create demiplane to new items including special wands with unusual effects and exciting potions worthy of a witchΓÇÖs cauldron.

More Monsters, MoreMayhem!More than 300 menacing monsters andfearsome foes await within this compendium of creatures from the world ofPathfinder! From classic adversaries like giants, dragons, and the jabberwock topotential allies and servants suitable for summoners of every alignment, thismust-have expansion to the Pathfinder Bestiary seethes with enemies to challengecharacters of any level.

Test your convictions. In a land without fate and a world too often void of justice, it falls to the gods to make or break the people who call upon them for salvation -- or draw their ire. Swear yourself to the might of the gods and the power of their causes, or reject their offerings to live a life that's yours and yours alone! Lost Omens Gods & Magic offers details on major gods found in the Inner Sea region, including what forms their pleasure or wrath might take. It also presents rules for over a hundred other deities and philosophies so you can find the cause that best fits your convictions and take up weapons and magic in its service!

The fiercest surprises often come from the most familiar foes! Just as no single class description can define every fighter, rogue, or wizard, no single creature entry can truly cover every vicious champion, unholy priest, or savage sorcerer in a band of organized and intelligent monsters. With Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex, fleshed-out hordes are at your fingertips! This volume presents a trove of entries for 20 classic monster races, giving you new ways to use your favorite monsters in a variety of encounters and challenge levels.> Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex includes: - Pages upon pages of specialized entries for 20 classic monstrous races, from goblins and drow to kobolds and trolls. Face off against such formidable foes as gnoll packlords, ratfolk sages, and dinosaur-riding lizardfolk champions! - Detailed information on the ecologies and societies of these formidable creatures. - New feats, equipment, spells, and archetypes to help you customize all 20 monstrous races--and the adventurers who fight or trade with them. - A horrific new monster associated with each race--allies, thralls, and variants. - Sample encounters ready to challenge raw recruits and experienced adventurers alike. - ... and much, much more!

Hoping to find a way to fight back against the alien, insectoid Swarm, the heroes travel to a distant world already consumed by the deadly invaders. They soon discover they aren''t alone in their struggles when they meet a handful of resistance fighters on the ravaged planet. With the group''s help, the heroes strike against a massive Swarm creature that is draining the world''s resources dry and infiltrate an infested university to search for a dead professor''s research that could lead to mythical holy site to the insect goddess Hylax and the secret to defeating the Swarm once and for all!ΓÇ£HuskworldΓÇ¥ is a Starfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for four 5th-level characters. This adventure continues the Attack of the Swarm! Adventure Path, a six-part, monthly campaign in which the heroes fight back against a ruthless and nigh-unstoppable foe. This volume also includes a selection of relics from a devastated star system, a study of regions that have survived attacks by the Swarm, and a selection of new Swarm monsters and other alarming threats.Each monthly full-color softcover Starfinder Adventure Path volume contains a new installment of a series of interconnected science-fantasy quests that together create a fully developed plot of sweeping scale and epic challenges. Each 64-page volume of the Starfinder Adventure Path also contains in-depth articles that detail and expand the Starfinder campaign setting and provide new rules, a host of exciting new monsters and alien races, a new planet to explore and starship to pilot, and more!

"Inside this time-saving tome dwells a wide variety of foes ready to challenge characters of any level, from a corrupt royal court to a sinister cult. The villains in this book can fit into nearly any campaign. Also included are new rules, feats, spells, and magic items, to give these villains the edge against the players!" --

Go beyond goblins with an army of fantasy's most fearsome foes! Bestiary 2 presents hundreds of different creatures for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Within this collection of creatures you'll find undead dragons and mischievous gremlins, shrieking banshees and unstoppable titans, the infamous jabberwock, and so much more! Yet not all these monsters need to be foes, as new breeds of otherworldly guardians, living shadows, and vampires all might take up adventure's call. In addition, new rules for customizing and advancing monsters and an expanded glossary of creature abilities ensure that you'll be prepared to challenge your heroes wherever adventure takes them! The Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2 is the second indispensable volume of monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and serves as a companion to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook and Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an Open Playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium. The 320-page Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2 includes: - More than 300 different monsters - Creatures both new and familiar, drawing upon the best-known beasts of legend, literature, and Pathfinder RPG adventures - Challenges for any adventure and every level of play - Hosts of new templates and variants, including simple templates for on-the-fly creature customization - Numerous lists of monsters to aid in navigation, including lists by Challenge Rating, monster type, and habitat - New rules for creating and running high-level menaces - Expanded universal monster rules to simplify special attacks, defenses, and qualities - New familiars, animal companions, and other allies - ... and much, much more!

An adventurer's life can be difficult, but long journeys and heavy burdens are easier when you have company. This guide to the world of Pathfinder presents the people and organizations that can help--or hinder--heroes like you! The Lost Omens Character Guide features new heritages and feats for existing ancestries, as well as three brand-new ancestries for unusual heroes forging a place for themselves in an uncertain age. Join five of Golarion's most influential organizations, fight alongside the rank-and-file members provided in these pages, or clash against them in pursuit of your own passions and goals! This must-have 136-page guidebook for characters of all types introduces three new ancestries to Pathfinder Second Edition--the regimented and warlike hobgoblin, the plant-like leshy, and the inquisitive lizardfolk--provides 10 new heritages for the game's core ancestries, offers nearly 100 new ancestry feats, and presents 10 new archetypes to allow characters of any class to participate in the world's most notable organizations, from the adventurous Pathfinder Society to the rabble-rousing Firebrands to the magical masters of the Magaambya! This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.