Whether you are a new Game Master or experienced storyteller, you can always find new ways to hone your craft. This 256-page Pathfinder Second Edition rulebook contains a wealth of new information, tools, and rules systems to add to your game. Inside you will find handy advice for building your own adventures, designing towns, and creating vibrant characters alongside rules systems for dramatic chases, thrilling tournaments, and deadly duels. This book also includes more 40 pages of sample nonplayer characters, from the simple town guard to the vile cultist, presented to make your job as GM that much easier! The Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide includes: • Rules, advice, and guidelines to build adventures, campaigns, and the denizens and treasures that lurk within, from settlements to nations to infinite planes! • Creative variant rules to customize the rules to make the game your own, including variant bonus, feat, and magic item progressions, characters gaining the power of multiple classes at once, and more! • All sorts of new and variant magic items including intelligent items, cursed items, artifacts, quirks you can add to items, and a brand new type of item called a relic that scales with your character! • A catalog of subsystems to handle unique situations, from thrilling chases to researching mysteries to vehicle combat to elaborate duels to sandbox-style “hexploration” and more! Plus, a universal victory point system to help you design your own subsystems! • More than 60 new NPCs to use in your game, designed for maximum usefulness to all Pathfinder campaigns!

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! Pathfinder Second Edition’s most popular campaign yet bursts from the pages of this massive hardcover compilation, containing all three adventures in the fan-favorite Abomination Vaults Adventure Path, a dungeon-delving campaign like no other, along with support articles, rules, monsters, and more!

Sometimes adventure takes you to the alien side of town. Next time your players are looking for a taste of off-world cuisine and culture while in the big city, they won't have to wait while you draw every doorway and room. Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Alien Quarter Expansion provides beautifully illustrated 6" x 6" map tiles that can be used to expand your city with a neighborhood fit for extraterrestrial habitation! Inside, you'll find 24 richly crafted, double-sided map tiles. This expansion set, along with Starfinder Flip-Tiles: City Starter Set, allows you to create futuristic urban locales with endless variety! So stop your sketching and start your flipping today! Suitable for experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles! These double-sided city tiles come in convenient packaging for easy storage.

The deepest caves and hidden passages of the notorious subterranean Darklands hold as many great treasures as they do formidable dangers, such as monster lairs, fungus-filled tunnels, treacherous underground rivers, and molten hot magma! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. The next time your players delve into the deepest chambers carved within the planet's crust, these maps have you covered. With Pathifnder Flip-Mat: Darklands Dangers Multi-Pack, you'll be ready the next time your players delve into the depths of the world! This set includes two flip mats, each measuring 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded. A Flip-Mat's coated surface can handle any dry erase, wet erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal!

Not all dungeons are dry havens of cobwebs and dust! Whenever your heroes decide to brave dangerously moist caverns, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Flooded Dungeon has you covered. Each side of this Flip-Mat features a different flooded dungeon. One side features a sunken complex in the middle of a swamp, while the other is an ancient structure flooded by a powerful spring. Don't waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Flooded Dungeon, you'll be ready next time your players want more than the same old dry dungeon. Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Flooded Dungeon measures 27 by 39 inches, which gives you 45% more gaming space than the standard Pathfinder Flip-Mat. On tabletops across the world, the Flip-Mat Revolution is changing the way players run their fantasy roleplaying games! Why take the time to sketch out ugly scenery on a smudgy plastic mat when dynamic encounters and easy cleanup is just a Flip away?

It's an emergency in space! Next time your players are ready to explore a space station's depths, they won't have to wait for you to surprise them with dangers in the next corridor or compartment. Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Space Station Emergency Expansion provides beautifully illustrated 6" x 6" map tiles that can be used to enhance your station with a variety of battle damage, hazards, emergency lighting, and locations to explore. Inside, you'll find 24 richly crafted, double-sided map tiles. This expansion set, along with Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Space Station Starter Set, allows you to create futuristic space habitats with endless variety! So stop your sketching and start your flipping today! Suitable for experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles! These double-sided space station tiles come in convenient packaging for easy storage.

More Monsters, More Mayhem! More than 300 menacing monsters and fearsome foes await within this compendium of creatures from the world of Pathfinder! From classic adversaries like giants, dragons, and the jabberwock to potential allies and servants suitable for summoners of every alignment, this must-have expansion to the Pathfinder Bestiary seethes with enemies to challenge characters of any level.

Don't ruin your next trip off world! Next time your players stumble upon some timeworn ruins on an unexplored planet, they won't have to wait while you draw every crumbling wall and collapsed structure. Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Alien Planet Ruins Expansion provides beautifully illustrated 6" x 6" map tiles that can be used to create the ruined remains of ancient alien civilizations, whether archaic and magical or more technologically advanced! Inside, you'll find 24 richly crafted, double-sided map tiles. This expansion set, along with Starfinder Flip-Tiles: Alien Planet Starter Set, allows you to create even more extraterrestrial environments for endless planetary encounters! So stop your sketching and start your flipping today! Suitable for experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles! These double-sided city tiles come in convenient packaging for easy storage.

With more than 350 classic and brand new monsters, this 320-page hardcover rulebook greatly expands on the foes found in the Pathfinder Bestiary. From classic creatures like serpentfolk and jabberwock, returning favorites like the primal dragons or the Sandpoint devil, to brand new menaces sure to test even the bravest of heroes, 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.) Pathfinder Bestiary 2 includes: * More than 350 monsters drawn from mythology, genre classics, and more than a decade of Pathfinder, with plenty of new monsters too! * Gorgeous full-color illustrations on nearly every page! * Detailed monster lists sorted by level, type, and rarity to help you find the right monster for any situation! * Universal monster rules to simplify special attacks, defenses, and qualities like grab, swallow whole, and regeneration. * Detailed lore sidebars offering additional information about even more of Pathfinder's most popular monstrous friends and foes!

Get ready for a barroom blitz! Pull up a stool at a high scale taproom on one side, or take your pick from a block of seedy taverns and feast halls on the other, making this durable accessory perfect for both danger and downtime in any tabletop fantasy campaign! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. Full of beautiful details, depicting two different city-based taverns, this double-sided map makes the perfect place to start your next adventure! The most-popular Pathfinder Flip-Mats in history return! These fan-favorite maps feature versatile adventure settings—city streets, forests, ships, taverns, and more—and now they're back for a repeat performance. Durable and lavishly detailed, these essential adventure set pieces are sure to bring excitement to your game table for years to come! A special coating on each Flip-Mat allows you to use wet erase, dry erase, AND permanent markers with ease! Removing permanent ink is easy—simply trace over any permanent mark with a dry erase marker, wait 10 seconds, then wipe off both marks with a dry cloth or paper towel. Each Flip-Mat measures 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded.

Crypts are a staple of monster-infested dungeons, be they haunted by undead or inhabited by living foes. Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Crypts Expansion provides beautifully illustrated 6-inch by 6-inch map tiles that can be used to expand your dungeons with a variety of crypts, burial chambers, and catacombs. Inside, you'll find 24 richly crafted, double-sided map tiles. This expansion set, along with Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Starter Set, allows you to create crypts quickly! Suitable for experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles! These double-sided dungeon tiles come in convenient packaging for easy storage. Add some peril to your wilderness!

Sooner or later, every group of adventurers ends up in a tavern! Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics provide ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master, chosen from the most useful and most popular releases in the Flip-Mat line. Whether the adventurers are just looking for a place to rest, heading somewhere to meet up with an ally or patron, looking for their next job, or about to get ambushed in the middle of town, the taverns included in this Multi-Pack have you covered with four different locations in all! Don't waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Tavern Multi-Pack, you'll be prepared next time your players are ready for a pub crawl!

"X" marks the spot for adventure on this mysterious pirate island-who knows what treasures (and dangers) lie in wait beyond its shores? This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. Whether the adventurers find themselves shipwrecked on a remote shoreline or have come to a strange isle to seek out its hidden treasures, this map has you covered! Don't waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Pirate Island, you'll be ready for the next time the PCs set sail! The most-popular Pathfinder Flip-Mats in history return! These fan-favorite maps feature versatile adventure settings-city streets, forests, ships, taverns, and more-and now they're back for a repeat performance. Durable and lavishly detailed, these essential adventure set pieces are sure to bring excitement to your game table for years to come! A special coating on each Flip-Mat allows you to use wet erase, dry erase, AND permanent markers with ease! Removing permanent ink is easy-simply trace over any permanent mark with a dry erase marker, wait 10 seconds, then wipe off both marks with a dry cloth or paper towel. Each Flip-Mat measures 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded.

What forgotten mysteries and deadly perils await in the depths of the jungle? No Game Master wants to put the action on pause to draw every overgrown ruin or tangle of tropical trees. Fortunately, you don't have to! Pathfinder Flip-Mats provide ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. Whether the heroes seek to explore an overgrown ruin, navigate a twisting pathway, discover a hidden waterfall, or seek shelter in a local village, these jungle scenes have you covered with four different combat maps in all! Don't waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Jungle Multi-Pack, you'll be ready next time your players head into the jungle! This set includes two flip mats, each measuring 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded. A Flip-Mat's coated surface can handle any dry erase, wet erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal!

Be they complex fortified settlements built ages ago by long-gone ancients or more recent creations still populated by a vibrant society, underground cities present an unusual and complex adventuring environment. This four-sided Flip-Mat collection provides four huge panels of underground city environments and providing a diverse set of subterranean urban battlefields suitable for any fantasy RPG campaign. This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. The next time your players delve into the deepest chambers carved within the planet's crust, these maps have you covered. With Pathifnder Flip-Mat: Darklands Dangers Multi-Pack, you'll be ready the next time your players delve into the depths of the world! This set includes two flip mats, each measuring 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded. A Flip-Mat's coated surface can handle any dry erase, wet erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal!

Whether it's a partially buried space ship that crash landed eons ago, or a strange landscape of eerie architecture not of this world, these alien ruins will surely fill your game with mystery and wonder. This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. The next time your players stumble across something out of this world, these maps have you covered. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Alien Ruins, you'll be ready the next time your players stumble upon the truly unexpected! A special coating on each Flip-Mat allows you to use wet erase, dry erase, AND permanent markers with ease! Removing permanent ink is easy-simply trace over any permanent mark with a dry erase marker, wait 10 seconds, then wipe off both marks with a dry cloth or paper towel. Each Flip-Mat measures 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded.

The evolution of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game begins here! This 416-page rulebook contains everything you need to create and advance your Pathfinder Playtest character from level 1 to 20, as well as hundreds of new and updated spells, magic items, feats, and Game Master rules necessary to run a complete Pathfinder Playtest campaign! Delve the deepest dungeons with a brand-new goblin alchemist hero, or convert your favorite existing characters to the new system! With gorgeous interior art from Pathfinder cover artist Wayne Reynolds and new rules concepts on nearly every page, the Pathfinder Playtest Rulebook is your gateway to the future of Pathfinder. The only thing missing is your playtest feedback! This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in cloth notebook. The perfect way to commemorate Pathfinder's new edition! (Note: The public playtest begins August 2 and runs through the end of 2018. Due to this limited time window, this book will NEVER be reprinted!)

Not all mines are filled with opportunities for wealth-some contain even greater opportunities for danger! The Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Deadly Mine Multi-Pack features two maps that combine to form a massive sprawling mine complex. This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. The next time your players are ready to explore a long-lost mine, this map has you covered! This set includes two flip mats, each measuring 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded. A Flip-Mat's coated surface can handle any dry erase, wet erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal!

Next time your players are ready to explore a towering castle or imposing fortress, they won't have to wait for you to draw every wall and door in the comlex. Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Fortress Starter Set provides beautifully illustrated 6" x 6" map tiles that can be used to construct a sprawling fortification full of places for defenders to make their last stand. Inside, you'll find 42 richly crafted, double-sided map tiles and six tabbed dividers to keep them organized. This starter set is only the first step! Flip-Tiles expansion sets allow you to expand your fortress both in size and with nearly endless variety! So stop your sketching and start your flipping today! Suitable for experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles! These double-sided dungeon tiles come in convenient packaging for easy storage.

One of Pathfinder’s most popular and exciting campaigns comes to 5e at last! When the mysterious Gauntlight, an eerie landlocked lighthouse, glows with baleful light, the people of Otari know something terrible is beginning. Evil stirs in the depths of the Abomination Vaults, a sprawling dungeon where a wicked sorcerer attempted to raise an army of monsters hundreds of years ago. The town's newest heroes must venture into a sprawling dungeon filled with beasts and traps to prevent a spiteful spellcaster from rising again! This complete compilation of the original Adventure Path campaign has been adapted to the newest version of the world’s oldest RPG. You’ve heard about the quality and depth of Pathfinder campaigns for years—now explore the Abomination Vaults yourself without having to learn a new game system!

Strange new realities await exploration—the Plane of Metal and the Plane of Wood! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. The next time your players step beyond the traditional elements to explore majestic and deadly new vistas of extra-planar adventure, these maps have you covered. The perfect companion to the new Pathfinder Rage of Elements rulebook, which details the new elemental planes in glorious and terrifying detail! With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Planes of Metal and Wood, you'll be ready the next time your players go beyond the Great Beyond! Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Planes of Metal and Wood measures 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded. A Flip-Mat's coated surface can handle any dry erase, wet erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal! On tabletops across the world, the Flip-Mat Revolution is changing the way players run their fantasy roleplaying games! Why take the time to sketch out ugly scenery on a smudgy plastic mat when dynamic encounters and easy cleanup is just a Flip away?

The biggest Flip-Mats in history just got bigger! Introducing Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Forest, a brand-new amazingly giant Flip-Mat bigger than any Paizo has produced before! Measuring a titanic 30" by 46" when unfolded, this exciting new map presents a sprawling section of forest on each side-one side dense and primeval, and the other cut through with a shaded road just perfect for ambushing player characters. Spread this woodland across your tabletop and watch your players' eyes pop out at the enormity of it all! Your player character's biggest problems just got even bigger! A special coating on each Flip-Mat allows you to use wet erase, dry erase, AND permanent markers with ease! Removing permanent ink is easy-simply trace over any permanent mark with a dry erase marker, wait 10 seconds, then wipe off both marks with a dry cloth or paper towel. Each Enormous Flip-Mat measures 30" x 46" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded. On tabletops across the world, the Flip-Mat Revolution is changing the way players run their fantasy roleplaying games! Why take the time to sketch out ugly scenery on a smudgy plastic mat when dynamic encounters and easy cleanup is just a Flip away?

Down on the boardwalk, there's more than just opportunities for bargains and entertainment, for it's here that your next urban adventure might begin! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. The next time your players head down to the local waterfront, these maps have you covered. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Boardwalk, you'll be ready the next time your players head to the waterfront! A special coating on each Flip-Mat allows you to use wet erase, dry erase, AND permanent markers with ease! Removing permanent ink is easy—simply trace over any permanent mark with a dry erase marker, wait 10 seconds, then wipe off both marks with a dry cloth or paper towel. Each Flip-Mat measures 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded.

Palaces of the divine Temples have the best treasures! Whether your heroes are protecting sacred relics or plundering them, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Temple has you covered. With an area that's 45% larger than normal Pathfinder Flip-Mats at their disposal, Game Masters can now dream even bigger! This massive gaming accessory provides two temples. One side features a gleaming temple to holy goodness, while the other is a twisted fane dedicated to the powers of evil. Whichever is needed, you'll have the tools to sanctify or defile! Don't waste your time drawing every font and reliquary. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Temple, you'll be ready the next time your players have to deal with the divine, be it beneficent or malign!

Starfinder's original campaign returns in a new six-adventure hardcover compilation! When a fragment of an ancient alien superweapon surfaces in the depths of hyperspace, its discovery sets off a race to find the extraterrestrial doomsday device. Hopping from planet to planet in the Pact Worlds and beyond, the heroes must contend with both the undead Corpse Fleet and the nihilistic Cult of the Devourer, each of which seeks to acquire the alien artifact for its own purposes. Can the heroes find and destroy the superweapon before their enemies seize control of it, or will the Pact Worlds' sun go dark and cold, a harbinger of dead suns across the galaxy? Starfinder's very first campaign explodes onto the pages of this massive hardcover compilation, containing all six adventures in the Dead Suns Adventure Path, a galaxy-spanning campaign that helped launch the Starfinder RPG, along with support articles, rules, monsters, and more!