David Noonan

Robin D. Laws

James Jacobs

Chris Thomasson

Jesse Decker

A follow-up to the Dungeon Master's Guide, designed to aid Dungeon Masters and reduce game preparation time. TheDungeon Master's Guide IIbuilds upon existing materials in the Dungeon Master's Guide. It is specifically designed to facilitate play, especially when the Dungeon Master has a limited amount of preparation time. Chapters include discussion on running a game, designing adventures, building and using prestige classes, and creating campaign settings. Ready-made game elements include instant traps, pre-generated locations, treasures, and a fully realized and rendered town. JESSE DECKER is the development manager for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. whose recent roleplaying game design credits includeComplete Adventurer, Races of Stone, andUnearthed Arcana. DAVID NOONAN is an RPG designer/developer at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Recent credits include authoringComplete Divine and co-authoring Races of StoneandUnearthed Arcana. CHRIS THOMASSON previously served as Editor-in-Chief ofDungeon Magazine. His design credits includeFiend Folio andMonster Manual III, as well asBow and Bladefor Green Ronin Publishing. JAMES JACOBS is the associate editor ofDungeon Magazine and has published numerous articles inDragon Magazine. His most recent credits with Wizards of the Coast, Inc. include co-authoringThe Book of Aberrations,Races of Faerun, andFrostburn. ROBIN D. LAWS, game designer and novelist, is best known for the roleplaying gamesFeng Shui,Heroquest, andDying Earth, along with,Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering.

Dungeon Master's Guide II

Matt Forbeck

Sean K. Reynolds

Eric L. Boyd

For Forgotten Realms fans, this new book features extended descriptions of each of the character races of the Forgotten Realms( campaign setting. Maps.

Races of Faerûn

Frank Mentzer

Michael A. Stackpole

Wolfgang Baur

Ed Greenwood

Lisa Stephens

Jason Bulmahn

Keith Baker

Chris Pramas

Richard Baker

Erik Mona

Tim Hitchcock

Nicolas Logue

F. Wesley Schneider

James L. Sutter

Discover the ancient secrets of The Emerald Spire, a gigantic dungeon brimming with incredible danger and phenomenal mysteries! With 16 levels designed by a who's-who of gaming legends, including best-selling author Ed Greenwood, gaming icon Frank Mentzer, and Paizo's most prominent veterans, The Emerald Spire takes players on a deadly delve into the depths of this mysterious dungeon, its ancient levels each impaled by a mysterious green crystal. Starting at 1st level, novice adventures will rise from facing goblins and deadly traps to high-level battles with the clockwork soldiers of a lost empire and even a forgotten master of creation. Designed to be a complete dungeon-delving campaign, Pathfinder Module: The Emerald Spire Superdungeon features seven new monsters, a detailed description of the nearby settlement of Fort Inevitable, and the history of the Spire and the surrounding territory, which features prominently in the new Pathfinder Online massively multiplayer online game. A hardcover, 16-level, Pathfinder mega-dungeon designed for characters level 1-13.

The Emerald Spire Superdungeon

Pathfinder Module

Grab your katana, ready your best kung fu, and prepare to discover a whole new world of exciting adventure! The mysteries and wonders of the Dragon Empires are finally revealed! The continent of Tian Xia stretches from the polar ice in the north to well south of the equator -- a realm where honorable samurai, devious ninja, martial artistry, strange spirits, and imperial dragons rule. The Dragon Empires Gazetteer also presents five new player character races -- the birdlike tengus, reptilian nagaji, shapechanging foxlike kitsune, reincarnted spiritualists known as samsarans, and the shadowy masters of trickery called the wayang. An overview of life in the Dragon Empires offers a look at a new core pantheon (including more than a dozen brand-new deities), several new factions, and the challenges faced by a land recovering from the recent fall of a continental empire.

Dragon Empires Gazetteer

The world we know is but one reality. Countless others exist in the realms beyond. Dimensions carved from dreams. Worlds constructed from pure life energy. First drafts of our consciousness, and shadows of the same. Entire realities populated by angels and demons, ruled by deities and subject to physical laws mortals can barely comprehend. This is the Great Beyond, and within its reaches, the possibilities for grand adventure or devastating defeat are truly endless. This far-reaching hardcover rulebook explores Pathfinder RPG Planar Adventures explores the wondrous and horrifying regions that comprise the other dimensions and planes of reality that feature in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. 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 a new era.

Planar Adventures

Richard Pett

Greg A. Vaughan

Steve Greer

Pathfinder's classic first Adventure Path campaign now available in softcover! In the sleepy coastal town of Sandpoint, evil is brewing. An attack by crazed goblins reveals the shadows of a forgotten past returning to threaten the town--and perhaps all of Varisia. The Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path begins with this goblin raid and takes players on an epic journey through the land of Varisia as they track a cult of serial killers, fight backwoods ogres, stop an advancing army of stone giants, delve into ancient dungeons, and finally face off against a wizard-king in his ancient mountaintop city. This hardcover compilation updates the fan-favorite campaign to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game rules with revised and new content in more than 400 pages packed with mayhem, excitement, and adventure! Revised and updated 5 years after its original publication, this new edition expands the original campaign with new options and refined encounters throughout, incorporating years of community feedback!

Pathfinder Adventure Path: Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition Pocket Edition

Tito Leati

Evil schemes are afoot in Cauldron, a metropolis of merchants built into the caldera of a long-dormant volcano. Driven by the dreams of an insane demon prince, bizarre cultists known as the Cagewrights scheme from ancient tunnels beneath the volcano, stoking it once more to terrible life. To prevent their agenda, your band of adventurers must brave haunted jungle ruins, slay mighty dragons, and bind themselves to a layer of the infinite Abyss. Will their swords and spells be enough to save the Shackled City? From new DBD publisher Paizo Publishing!

Adventure Path

The Shackled City

Enter the megadungeon! When the mysterious Gauntlight, an eerie landlocked lighthouse, glows with baleful light, the people of Otari know something terrible is beginning. The town's newest heroes must venture into the ruins around the lighthouse--and delve the dungeon levels far beneath it--to discover the evil the Gauntlight heralds. Hideous monsters, deadly traps, and mysterious ghosts all await the heroes who dare to enter the sprawling megadungeon called the Abomination Vaults! "Ruins of Gauntlight" is a Pathfinder adventure for four 1st-level characters. This adventure begins the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path, a three-part, monthly campaign in which the heroes explore a sprawling megadungeon to stop an ancient evil from renewing her monstrous vengeance. This adventure also includes an extensive gazetteer of the town of Otari, the heroes' home base, as well as new monsters, new rules, and new artifacts--including the dread Gauntlight itself! Each monthly 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 the Pathfinder RPG and the world's oldest fantasy RPG.

Ruins of Gauntlight (Abomination Vaults 1 Of 3)

Pathfinder Adventure Path

Stephen S. Greer

The original Pathfinder Adventure Path returns in this complete hardcover edition celebrating five years of Pathfinder and 10 years of Paizo Publishing! Expanded and updated to the current Pathfinder RPG rules, this unprecedented collection brings together six classic Pathfinder adventures to create an entire campaign! The Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path begins with a goblin attack and takes players on an epic journey through the land of Varisia as they track a cult of serial killers, fight depraved backwoods ogres, stop an advancing army of stone giants, delve deep into ancient dungeons to reclaim weapons of unbelievable power, and finally go up against an all-powerful wizard-king in his ancient mountaintop city. In more than 400 action-packed pages, this special anniversary edition expands the original campaign with new encounters throughout, incorporating five years of community feedback. New monsters, detailed locations, and tons of new art make the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path the most beautiful and elaborate campaign ever published for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game!

Rise of the Runelords

George Strayton

A complete guide to playing D&D in the ice and snow. This 4-color supplement begins a new series of releases that focus on how the environment can affect D&D gameplay in every capacity. Frostburn contains rules on how to adapt to hazardous cold-weather conditions, such as navigating terrain with snow and ice and surviving in bitter cold or harsh weather. There are expanded rules for environmental hazards and manipulation of cold weather elements, as well as new spells, feats, magic items, and prestige classes. New monsters associated with icy realms are included, as well as variants on current monsters. There is enough adventure material included for months of gameplay.

Mastering the Perils of Ice and Snow

Frostburn

The exciting world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game comes alive in this giant 320-page full-color hardcover campaign setting! Fully revised to match the new Pathfinder RPG rules, this definitive volume contains expanded coverage of the 40+ nations in the world of Golarion's Inner Sea region, from ruin-strewn Varisia in the north to the sweltering jungles of the Mwangi Expanse in the south to crashed sky cities, savage frontier kingdoms, powerful city-states and everything in between. A broad overview of Golarion's gods and religions, new character abilities, magic items, and monsters flesh out the world for both players and Game Masters. A beautiful poster map reveals the lands of the Inner Sea in all their treacherous glory. The two-time ENnie Award-winning Pathfinder world provides classic adventuring style and cutting-edge game design perfectly suitable for any fantasy roleplaying game!

The Inner Sea

Jason Nelson

Rob McCreary

Jim Groves

Inner Sea Bestiary

Pathfinder Campaign Setting

Second Darkness #5

Pathfinder

Amanda Hamon

The heroes have reclaimed the city of Drezen and the lost sacred banner known as the Sword of Valor, and in doing so have established a significant foothold behind enemy lines. With the demon armies still concentrating their attacks to the south, the heroes must now set off into the heart of the Worldwound to seek out powerful new allies and strike a mortal blow against the Templars of the Ivory Labyrinth! Demon's Heresy is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 9th-level characters who have gained three mythic tiers. The adventure utilizes rules from Mythic Adventures to portray a campaign of truly epic potential. An exploration of the eerie powers of the beings known as the worms that walk and an examination of the druidic beliefs of the Green Faith round out this volume. A bestiary of several monsters (including the third of six demon lords that will be presented during the campaign!) and part three of Robin D. Laws's new Pathfinder Journal also await discovery in this new installment of Pathfinder Adventure Path.

Demon's Heresy

Wrath of the Righteous

Jonathan H. Keith

Todd Stewart

Tanith Tyrr

This rift is known as the Worldwound, and through it, the demon horde has infested an entire region. While the demon armies have been held in check by barbarians and crusaders alike, the region within that was once Sarkoris is now ruled by fiends. Worse, the Worldwound itself is slowly growing - if something isn't done to halt this blight, it and the demons it spawns may one day swallow all of Golarion! This Pathfinder sourcebook explores the demon-blighted land of the Worldwound (site of the new Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path) in great detail. Ruined cities (such as the shattered capital city of Iz, the frozen city of Dyinglight, and the river city of Undarin), key historical sites (like the Circle of the Hierophants - birthplace of the druidic sect known as the Green Faith), and more are presented, along with an exhaustive examination of the strange and otherworldly hazards of the region. The book also includes several adventure sites ready for exploration, along with a few locations like the holdout town of Gundrun, which can serve heroes as (relatively) safe harbor in a deadly land. Finally, an extensive bestiary presents more than a dozen new monsters and demons and enemy NPCs along with two new monster templates, ensuring your PCs will never lack for foes in this devastated realm.

The Worldwound

The Legacy of Fire Adventure Path begins in the desert nation of Katapesh, where the heroes must attempt to retake a conquered town from a pack of fearsome gnolls. From there, the trail leads to the fortress known as the House of the Beast, an ancient map-world created by one of the most powerful wizards in history, and even the legendary City of Brass on the Plane of Fire.

Howl of the Carrion King

Paizo Publishing

Give life to your NPCs with Shattered Star Face Cards! More than 50 key characters fill this gorgeously illustrated deck designed for use with the Shattered Star Adventure Path, but suitable for use in any fantasy roleplaying game. Each card includes the character's name, role in the Shattered Star Adventure Path, space to record key details, and artwork by Paizo's finest illustrators. These Face Cards bring the cast of the Adventure Path to your tabletop and allows your players to look into the face of the enemy!

Shattered Star Adventure Path

Kevin Kulp

"In their lightless sanctuary, an army of serpentfolk gathers to bring the world above to its knees. The skull of the dead god Ydersius has fallen into the hands of his worshipers once more, and fanged fanatics now commence the rites to resurrect their slain deity."--Back cover.

The City of Seven Spears

Rag-tag armies of mercenaries from the northern nation of Brevoy have turned their attention south to the region of the River Kingdoms called the "Stolen Land," and hope to reclaim control of these lands to expand their power. Yet the dangerous denizens of the Stolen Land will not give up their lairs quietly. The heroes are one of four groups sent south to explore these wilderness realms and establish colonies, yet the dense woodlands and rugged hills of this region are far from safe. Will the heroes be able to wrest control of the realm from the monstrous bandit known only as the Stag Lord? A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 1st-level characters, this volume of Pathfinder kicks off the highly anticipated Kingmaker Adventure Path, in which the heroes win and defend a small kingdom from threats foreign and domestic. This Pathinder volume also includes a gazetteer of Brevoy and extensive rules for exploring, taming, and holding wildlands in preparation for founding a new nation. The Pathfinder Bestiary section introduces five all-new monsters perfect for Kingmaker adventuring. Award-winning author and gaming icon Jeff Grubb (Forgotten Realms: Azure Bonds) brings a lighter side to Pathfinder with the first installment of a new fiction arc for the Pathfinder Journal.

Stolen Land

Steven Goldberg

Coleen Friel

When gay couples become parents, they face a host of questions and issues that their straight counterparts may never have to consider. How important is it for each partner to have a biological tie to their child? How will they become parents: will they pursue surrogacy, or will they adopt? Will both partners legally be able to adopt their child? Will they have to hide their relationship to speed up the adoption process? Will one partner be the primary breadwinner? And how will their lives change, now that the presence of a child has made their relationship visible to the rest of the world? In Gay Dads: Transitions to Adoptive Fatherhood, Abbie E. Goldberg examines the ways in which gay fathers approach and negotiate parenthood when they adopt. Drawing on empirical data from her in-depth interviews with 70 gay men, Goldberg analyzes how gay dads interact with competing ideals of fatherhood and masculinity, alternately pioneering and accommodating heteronormative “parenthood culture.” The first study of gay men's transitions to fatherhood, this work will appeal to a wide range of readers, from those in the social sciences to social work to legal studies, as well as to gay-adoptive parent families themselves.

James Jacobs

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