Pathfinder: GM Core + Gamemastery Guide

This Package Includes:

Gamemastery Guide

Pathfinder GM Core

Pathfinder Second Edition is being remastered with new Core Rulebooks (Player Core, GM Core, Monster Core, and Player Core 2):

The original Second Edition Rulebooks and the new, Remastered Core Rulebooks are compatible to play together.
Purchasing this title gets you immediate access to the original Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide, plus a copy of the remastered GM Core. Enjoy a FREE upgrade to the new, remastered book, fully converted for the Virtual Tabletop.

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Pathfinder GM Core

Unleash your imagination, creating worlds and stories beyond measure with the new Pathfinder GM Core for Pathfinder Second Edition! This comprehensive 336-page hardcover rulebook gives Game Masters everything they need to craft thrilling tales of adventure, from a single-night’s dungeon delve to complex epics spanning years. Within these pages you’ll find clear guidelines for creating new hazards and monsters, tools to design challenging, balanced encounters, and rules for rewarding characters for the dastardly challenges you array before them! Pathfinder GM Core also contains a dragon’s hoard of magic items and treasure to entice and reward your players, from simple healing potions to magic weapons and armor and legendary artifacts, including dozens of brand-new items!

Pathfinder GM Core is the second core rulebook for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG! These rules are compatible with previous Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback. Along with the Player Core, Monster Core, and Player Core 2, these books provide a new foundation for the future of tabletop gaming!

Pathfinder GM Core includes:

The rules needed to run a game of Pathfinder, including guidelines for creating challenging encounters, determining success, and giving out rewards.
Advice aimed at making you an incredible Game Master, along with tools to ensure you and everyone else at your table has a safe and enjoyable experience.
Guidelines to help you create your own content, from campaigns and adventures to hazards and monsters.
Rules subsystems to help you handle a wide array of game situations, including rules for chases, duels, research, infiltration, and more!
A guide to the world of Lost Omens, with a look at several important regions, an examination of the peoples and cultures of the world, and a glimpse into what lies beyond the veil of the universe!
Fully integrated errata from the first 4 years of Pathfinder Second Edition, including improvements to staves and talismans and all-new apex magic items!
Published under the new Open RPG Creative (ORC) license, giving players and Game Masters even more freedom for making their own creations based on Pathfinder Second Edition.

Pathfinder Second Edition Gamemastery Guide

The Pathfinder Second Edition Gamemastery Guide has a wealth of new information, tools and rule systems to add to your games. Whether you are a new Game Master or an experienced storyteller, you’ll find great advice on how to build your own adventures, design towns and a wealth of other information to help make your job as a GM that much easier! The Roll20 compendium conversion gives you everything you need to create variant rules to customize your game and make it your own, including variant bonus, feat, and magic item progressions, characters gaining the power of multiple classes at once, and more!

Product Information

Roll20 Enhancements:

New information for GMs about gamemastery basics, building creatures, designing abilities, building hazards, afflictions, and more!
Item creation rules, downtime rules, exploration rules, new information about planes, and guidelines for worldbuilding. Example hazards and afflictions both familiar and new!
New variant rules including subsystems like victory points, influence, chases, reputation, duels, hexploration, and vehicles for Pathfinder Second Edition
83 new NPC stat blocks with in-app drag-and-drop
16 new and variant magic items including intelligent items, cursed items, artifacts, quirks you can add to items and more.
New feats and spells
System: Pathfinder Second Edition
Installation: 1 compendium
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Play with Less Prep!

In this Roll20 Package, you'll find everything from the book and more!

A Compendium containing:

Every page of the GM Core in cross-linked compendium pages, accessible in-app and in our Web Compendium!
Every piece of treasure and all other player options ready to drag and drop into your character sheets!

An Art Pack containing:

Hundreds of character art handouts and tokens in both Player and GM borders, found in your Art Library, ready to be used in any game!

Accessing your Content

Compendium: You can access all of the rules, items, and creatures from this product in the in-app compendium, as well as clicking on "Compendium" where "Buy Now" was located prior to purchasing.
Art Pack: You can access the Art Pack under the Premium Assets section of the Art Library in-app. These assets are only available for in-app use.

Which Character Sheet should I use?
All Pathfinder Second Edition content on Roll20 uses the Pathfinder Second Edition by Roll20 character sheet.

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