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PaizoCon lived up to its calling as a “celebration of all things Paizo” with new product reveals for Pathfinder, Starfinder, a board game crowdfunding announcement, and more.
Over Memorial Day Weekend, Paizo held their annual PaizoCon celebrations with four days of gaming, panels, and actual play. The convention is largely held on Twitch and Discord, but this year Paizo partnered with KublaCon and a handful of friendly local game stores around the world to host complementary in-person events. Throughout the weekend, Paizo gave a deeper look at some upcoming products and announced new games and products coming late 2024 into 2025.
Starfinder Second Edition
Announced at Gen Con 2023, this edition update will bring Starfinder into mechanical compatibility with Pathfinder Second Edition. The playtest period for Starfinder Second Edition opens this Gen Con with the release of the Starfinder Playtest Rulebook, which contains rules content for six classes, ten ancestries, versatile heritages, tech, weapons, spells, and more!
In order to encourage playtesting at a variety of levels, Paizo is also releasing adventure modules and Starfinder Society Playtest Scenarios to accompany the playtest. The first module, A Cosmic Birthday, and the first two Playtest Scenarios, Shards of the Glass Planet and It Came From the Vast!, release at Gen Con 2024. Empires Devoured, the second standalone adventure, and two more Playtest Scenarios will release this fall.
Pathfinder Rulebooks
The Pathfinder Design Team took their segment of the Keynote to look ahead to this year’s rulebook releases—including Pathfinder Player Core 2 and Pathfinder War of Immortals. Player Core 2 is the fourth and final book in Paizo’s remastered Core Rulebook series, incorporating years of errata and development feedback, as well as removing legacy content tied to the OGL. In Player Core 2, players will find remastered updates to eight core classes, ancestries and versatile heritages, as well as archetypes for all sixteen core classes.
As part of a panel focused on the Pathfinder Remaster Project, Logan Bonner also announced NPC Core, a rulebook full of nonplayable character stat blocks and information to add flavor to your games. NPC Core will release Spring 2025.
They also took some time to talk about Pathfinder War of Immortals, the new meta event striking Golarian, which was announced in April. We covered that announcement here.
Pathfinder Quest
As part of a special announcement segment toward the end of Paizo’s Keynote, Director of Game Design Jason Bulmahn and Lead Game Designer, Paizo Games Joe Pasini stole the virtual mic to announce a new project from Paizo Games—Pathfinder Quest!
Pathfinder Quest is a collaborative dungeon crawler board game for 1-4 players, coming to BackerKit this fall. The game features a series of adventures that can be played in approximately 2-hour sessions, creating a full campaign that takes place in one of Pathfinder’s historic settings. The actions you take in these adventures determine where your characters are taken next, leaving ample opportunity for replayability.
A Special Announcement
As part of the opening festivities, Paizo welcomed the cast and crew of The Gamers to exclusively reveal the trailer for their newest project: The Gamers: Dorkness Falls. This finale to The Gamers’ Saga, catching up with the heroes—and their players, who have been trapped in the world of the game for ten years!
The Gamers: Dorkness Falls will be crowdfunding via Kickstarter from May 28th thru June 29th. Fans of Pathfinder, Starfinder, and Paizo Games can look forward to further announcements at Gen Con 2024.
