The Genius Guide to Favored Class Options

In the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, every time characters take a level in a favored class, they gain a bonus. Under the core rules, that bonus is either +1 skill point or +1 hit point. However, The Advanced Player's Guide introduced a new set of racial favored class options. These are benefits that members of specific races can get when they gain a level in a class that is listed ...   [click here for more]

The Genius Guide to Hellfire Magic

Hellfire – the stuff of legends and nightmares. Classically associated with the wrath of the gods and the acrid scent of brimstone, hellfire is also one of the background elements of hell and the torments that await there. Hellfire represents a common element of many fantasy stories and classic mythologies, but has very little presence within the Pathfinder...   [click here for more]

The Genius Guide to Horrific Haunts

Haunts, first introduced in the GameMastery Guide, are a fascinating option for GMs to keep in their toolboxes. Mechanically they are very similar to traps, but in flavor they are more similar to undead. Haunts allow a GM to add significant spookiness to an area, and give that atmosphere important in-game effects. It’s one thing to tell players the walls of an old c...   [click here for more]

The Genius Guide to Loot 4 Less 9: Bell, Book, & Candle

Welcome to the ninth book in the Loot 4 Less line, in which we deal exclusively with items that have a cost to consumer of 2,500 gp or less. And to increase the level of difficulty in terms of providing you with low-cost items, we also don't deal in one-shot (or even two- or three-shot) magic items. Here in Volume IX: Bell, Book, & Candle, we're looking at a narrow...   [click here for more]

The Genius Guide to More Horrifically Overpowered Feats

When the first book of Horrifically Overpowered feats was released on April 1st, 2012, we expected to hear a lot of cries of “What were you thinking?!” Instead we mostly heard “When will you release more?!”

The obvious answers should have been either “Never!” or “Not until we can sneak them in on April 1st, 2013!&...   [click here for more]

The Genius Guide to Relics of the Godlings

Mythology is full of heroes who carried one or two amazing items throughout their adventuring careers. Sometimes the acquisition of the item marked the hero as special from the beginning (such as King Arthur pulling the sword from the stone), and in other cases the items were gained as part of an early adventure (Hercules killed the Nemean lion as the first of his T...   [click here for more]

The Genius Guide to the Death Knight

The death knight is a champion of the grave, serving to spread the power of death throughout the lands of the living. Most death knights are the chosen warriors of gods of undeath and decay, evil psychopaths who desire nothing more than to see the “mistake” of life replaced by the glorious, unchanging “blessing” of undeath. Though unquestiona...   [click here for more]

The Genius Guide to the Hellion

The hellion is a master of dark energies, especially afflictions and hexes, who draws his power from deals cut with one or more supernatural patrons. In many ways the hellion is a more martial version of the witch, sharing the witch’s power to draw on hexes and spells but with significantly more options (and inclination) to damage foes directly. What hellions give up in te...   [click here for more]

The Genius Guide to the Riven Mage

The Genius Guide to the Riven Mage presents a new base class, one that masters a form of magic similar to spells, but considerably simpler and more primal. Known by various cultures as jinx, marvels, will-work, and invocations, most riven mages from more advanced cultures call their mystic powers “rivenspells,” meaning these powers use the s...   [click here for more]

The Genius Guide to the Talented Rogue

Rogues are the iconic masters of stealth and subterfuge, with access to both a number of powerful set class features (primarily relating to traps, evasion, and sneak attacks) and a flexible set of customizable talents. While this gives them a wide range of options, it can also lead to characters with specific sneak, criminal, or adventurer concepts having abilities they don&rsqu...   [click here for more]

The Genius Guide to Wind and Wing Racial Options

The Genius Guide to Races of Wind and Wing added three new playable races to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game rules: the aellar, kestrel, and silfide. Because of space limitations, time restrictions, and playtesting needs, that PDF did not include alternative racial powers or alternative favored class options, such as are presented for the core races in the Advanced Player's Gui...   [click here for more]

Ultimate Options: Bardic Masterpieces

Masterpieces are special performances for bards that represent the abilities of a grand master in a given bardic talent, and were first introduced in Ultimate Magic. Generally taken in place of a feat or spell known, masterpieces serve two useful functions for bard players. First, they give bards some flavor that makes them different than just “banjoplaying sorcerers with ...   [click here for more]

Ultimate Options: New Arcane Discoveries

Wizards are portrayed, both in descriptive materials within the game rules, and in most fantasy fiction, as scholars and learned masters of mystic powers who have access to lore and magic tricks second to none. However, in most campaigns there is nothing a wizard can do that a sorcerer cannot. The wizard does gain considerable versatility, in the form of an unlimited number of spells known, but...   [click here for more]

Ultimate Options: Power of the Ninja

The very archetype of the mystic spy or assassin: A shadowy figure as much a master of the dark arts as an outlaw. From the Hashsh'shin to the Sicarii, the black-clad assassin clans of Japanese lore to the fanciful depictions of Wuxia films, the ninja is an icon of fantasy and pop culture-ironic, for a creature that lives by secrecy and a mastery of deception and disguise.

Ultimat...   [click here for more]

[3.5/OGL] The Shaman

Shamans are passionate followers of a path that often lies at an oblique angle to the pursuits of other people. While the pursuit of wealth, knowledge, and creature comforts is what drives most people, shamans have an insight into a world where the ambition is to help others, and in doing so, to progress towards a personal state of heightened spiritual awareness. This class book, useable in any...   [click here for more]

[4e] The Forgotten Tomb of Felgar the Goblin King

Before the westward migration and the trail of ten-thousand tears, before the plague of fire, before even the Giants' war against the Southern Gods, there lived a warrior unlike any seen before or since. Felgar—King of the Goblins!

He did not cower before the pink-skinned humans. He did not flee from the hammers of the dwarves. H...   [click here for more]

[PFRPG] Advanced Options: Additional Oracle Curses

Heroes and heroines in fantasy fiction have a long struggled under the chilling influence of curses, powerful forces beyond their control whose effects they could never escape. From classic fairytales like Beauty and the Beast to modern fantasy stories like Ladyhawke, the tasks arrayed before the heroes, and their bravery at confronting them, are brought into sharp focus by the heroes' own know...   [click here for more]

[PFRPG] Advanced Options: Cavaliers' Orders

The Advanced Player's Guide introduced six new base classes. One of these new classes is the cavalier: the mounted knight whose power comes as much from the conviction of his ideals, the oaths that he swears, and the challenges that he makes as it does from sheer force of arms. The cavalier class also introduces the concept of cavalier orders-the cavalier chooses one order from among the...   [click here for more]

[PFRPG] Adventurer's Atlas: Outpost Qether

Adventurer's Atlas: Outpost Qether is a generic location set on the borders of any two nations with a tense relationship. The outpost is home to all sorts: traders, criminals, farmers, and military men. It's a place where hope is fading fast now that distant rulers have decided that the fifty-year-old installation has outlived its usefulness. Unless someone finds a good reason for...   [click here for more]

[PFRPG] Codex Draconis: Green Menace of the Woodlands

Welcome to the third Codex Draconis, the line of products that gives you what you need to drop dragons into your games with a minimum of effort and a maximum of options. Here, in the third volume of our line, we present options and alternatives for a dozen green dragons, covering every age category of the jade rulers of sylvan spaces. Each age category also has three pregenerated treasur...   [click here for more]

[PFRPG] Loot 4 Less Vol. 1: Armor and Weapons

Welcome to the first book in the Loot 4 Less line, where we deal exclusively in items with a cost-to-consumer of 2,500 gp or less. That's right: no epic artifacts, rods of eleventy parts or even typical moderate magic items here. This is a forum for the cheapest of the cheap, and that's it. And just to up the level of difficulty, we also don't deal in one-shot (or even two- or three-sh...   [click here for more]

[PFRPG] Mythic Menagerie: Engines of Destruction

Welcome to Engines of Destruction, the third in our line of Mythic Menagerie monster books. Each volume in this line presents a small set of monsters tied to a single theme, but spread over a range of CRs. For Engines of Destruction, that theme is unusual constructs. Rather than presenting a gaggle of yet more golems made out of stone or metal materials, author Sam H...   [click here for more]

[PFRPG] Mythic Menagerie: Oceans of Blood

Welcome to Oceans of Blood, the sixth in our line of monster books called Mythic Menagerie. Each volume in this line presents a small set of monsters tied to a single theme, but spread over a range of CRs. For Oceans of Blood, the theme is threats of the sea, with an emphasis on monsters that bite, tear, and rend. Author Sam Hing has created aquatic adversaries ranging from...   [click here for more]

[PFRPG] Mythic Menagerie: The Kingdom of Graves

Welcome to the Kingdom of Graves, the second in our line of Mythic Menagerie monster books for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Each volume in this line presents a small set of monsters tied to a single theme, but spread over a range of CRs. For the Kingdom of Graves, that theme is undead with a place at court. Rather than a random colle...   [click here for more]

[PFRPG] One Night Stand: The Warren of the Death Spider

Like all One Night Stand adventures, Warren of the Death Spider contains everything you'll need for an evening of fun using the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

You've never seen anything like it! The whole forest-every tree and every rock-completely covered in spider webs! They even wove them from tree to tree, so you can't see the sun or the sky. It's the damnedest thing I've ever seen...   [click here for more]