Paizo Unveils Gen Con 2024 Releases

Pathfinder Player 2, Curtain Call Adventure Path, and the Starfinder Second Edition Playtest are set to make the convention the biggest event of the year. When the doors open on August 1st, fans will find a whole slew of new releases waiting for them at Gen Con. Pathfinder Player Core 2 Pathfinder Player Core 2 will significantly expand on the options for players. This 320-page rulebook...

Pathfinder Player 2, Curtain Call Adventure Path, and the Starfinder Second Edition Playtest are set to make the convention the biggest event of the year.

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When the doors open on August 1st, fans will find a whole slew of new releases waiting for them at Gen Con.

Pathfinder Player Core 2​

Pathfinder Player Core 2 will significantly expand on the options for players. This 320-page rulebook remasters eight classes and includes more than 40 archetypes, expanded ancestries, and tons of feats, spells, and alchemical items. This is the fourth core rulebook for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG!

The Pathfinder Player Core 2 rulebook will be available in hardcover and Special Edition. A Wayne Reynolds sketch cover will be offered exclusively to hobby retailers for a 120-day exclusivity period, after which time it will also appear on paizo.com.

Curtain Call Adventure Path​

You've made a name for yourselves as heroes, and now you have been offered a unique opportunity to help produce an extravagant opera based on your adventures! Are you ready for the challenges that face those who step into the limelight? Even when there are powerful forces who might seek to stand in your way? The Curtain Call Adventure Path is a monthly three-part series of connected adventures that form a complete Pathfinder campaign for characters of 11st to 20th level.

Volume 1: Stage Fright sees rumors of an old enemy coming back. Confronting your old nemesis is only the beginning of what's next for your group, for a famous director has singled you out as the subject of her newest opera. How dangerous could it be, helping to produce an extravaganza based on your own heroic legacy? “Stage Fright” is a Pathfinder adventure for four 11th-level characters. This adventure begins the Curtain Call Adventure Path, a three-part monthly campaign.

Pathfinder Adventure: Prey for Death​

The infamous Red Mantis assassins are feared throughout the world for their ruthlessness and legacy—those they slay stay dead! Yet they are not without honor, so when a group of assassins sent on a dangerous mission are met with unexpected treachery, they must clear their own names while remaining true to their murderous calling, even as greater plots and shocking truths reveal themselves.

Prey for Death is a deluxe hardcover Pathfinder Second Edition adventure for 14th level characters, and gives players the chance to play members of the world's most notorious assassin's guild. The adventure also includes new items, lore, and character backgrounds, as well as a several powerful monsters ready to threaten high level characters! Prey for Death will be available in hardcover and Special Edition.

Starfinder Second Edition Playtest Rulebook​

The Starfinder Playtest Rulebook brings Starfinder into a new age of compatibility, as Starfinder switches to using the same rules engine that powers the popular Second Edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Inside this playtest for the new edition, you’ll find six new classes, 10 ancestries, new skills, new feats, futuristic equipment including augmentations and upgrades, new science-fantasy spells, and more!

“You can directly shape the future of Starfinder by participating in a fun and rigorous playtest using one of several playtest adventures released throughout the playest period, or by trying out the new rules in your own games. If you’ve ever wanted to fire a gatling gun into a horde of onrushing aliens while laughing menacingly, battle robots in a derelict starship as a solar knight, or hack computer systems with plants as a mystical xenodruid, then the Starfinder Playtest Rulebook has you covered!” said Starfinder Managing Creative Director Thurston Hillman.

This 264-page softcover playtest rulebook is packed with new content that lets you build a science-fantasy character from level 1 to 20. Create a character to participate in the Starfinder Playtest or see how this new content might work in your Pathfinder campaign. The future is yours to shape! (You’ll need a copy of Pathfinder Player Core and Pathfinder GM Core to use this product.)

Starfinder Second Edition Playtest Adventure: A Cosmic Birthday​

A nascent cosmic entity stirs deep within one of the Pact Worlds planets. To aid the god’s birth, its most devoted followers search the Ghost Levels of Absalom Station for a sufficient power source—a strange pocket dimension existing alongside the hub of the Pact Worlds. As the entity’s emergence sends ripples across space time, a group of heroes becomes trapped in the Ghost Levels! With dangerous creatures and ominous power surges threatening the station, the heroes must team up with the residents of Little Akiton to investigate these horrifying new foes, stop their meddling—and stay alive!

A Cosmic Birthday is a complete Starfinder Second Edition Playtest adventure for 1st-level characters, and features fan-favorite Starfinder creatures updated to Second Edition, all-new cosmic horrors, and a mix of classic dungeon crawling and narrative-rich sandbox adventures. This adventure is designed to introduce the Starfinder Second Edition Playtest rules, giving players like you a chance to shape the new edition through feedback surveys about your playtest experience! It also takes place during a pivotal moment in Starfinder history—even if you miss the playtest window, you won’t want to miss the adventure!” said Starfinder Sr. Developer Jenny Jarzabski.

Starfinder Flip-Mat: Second Edition Playtest Multi-Pack​

Playtest the new edition of Starfinder in style with this collection of two double-sided Flip-Mats featuring four key encounter areas from not one, but two Starfinder Playtest Adventures: A Cosmic Birthday and Empires Devoured! One Flip-Mat features a futuristic space station and a science-fantasy cityscape—both abandoned and ready for investigation! The other features a dense fungus jungle and a futuristic settlement bordering the jungle, for exciting sci-fi adventures on the borderlands!
 

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Dawn Dalton

Dawn Dalton

whimsychris123

Adventurer
I'm excited about the 2nd edition, but wow, is their playtest expensive! $48 for the softcover playtest rulebook and $25 for the first playtest adventure. And it's not a complete ruleset. You also need the Pathfinder Core books. I hope they'll release it online for free.
 

orial

Explorer
I'm excited about the 2nd edition, but wow, is their playtest expensive! $48 for the softcover playtest rulebook and $25 for the first playtest adventure. And it's not a complete ruleset. You also need the Pathfinder Core books. I hope they'll release it online for free.
Imagine if ”greedy” WOTC would pull this off….Youtube would explode with haters and protest
 



Imagine if ”greedy” WOTC would pull this off….Youtube would explode with haters and protest
Paizo gives their rules away for free. Like... all of them. Monsters, character options, etc. Pathbuilder, the character creator, is free with all the rules ((I think maybe a one time fee of about $5 for some extra features), while WOTC wants to charge you full price for each book in D&D beyond, which also has a monthly sub to unlock basic features. The comparison between what you get with the basic foundry PF2E module and D&D beyond is night and day.

Their playtest rules will also be free online, like they were last time. The print version is an extra keepsake for superfans who want it.

I don't hate WOTC, far from it, I run both PF2e and 5E, but one company definitely feels more microtransaction-y (or macro even) than the other with their digital offerings/services. D&D Beyond is terrible for anything other than an extremely expensive character generator.
 
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Siltoneous

Explorer
I love the non-standard premise of the announced "Curtain Call Adventure Path". It's a breath of fresh air, and we've not seen something like this since 2009's 'The Sixfold Trial' (part of Council of Thieves AP). Nice to see them branching out.

Plus, now that Paizo stated they are setting aside 1-20 AP's for at least 2 years, we might start seeing more variety. Personally I'm hoping for an decent Heist.
 



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