No More Pathfinder Softcovers

Unfortunately, after looking at Pathfinder sales for the past several months, we have decided to discontinue ordering any new release softcover Pathfinder books for the rack. They just aren't selling. We just ran a report on Pathfinder sales since the beginning of the year and found that hardback books, character folios, DM Screens, flip mats and combat pads accounted for all sales of regularly priced Pathfinder products.

 Soft cover books, with a couple of exceptions, only sold when we put them on clearance, which is not why we buy products. We will gladly bring in any books that you might want but will only stock in new hardbacks and specific flipmats from the company. There is just too much product coming out and not enough sells.

November Paizo Releases

Coming in November!

PZO1133 Pathfinder Player Companion: Bestiary 5 (Hardcover) $44.99 SRP SDI Terrors of the Mind! Face off against creatures that threaten your body and soul! Inside Bestiary 5 lurk hundreds of new monsters ready for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. You’ll find the death-dealing grim reaper, menacing deep ones, and the ground-shaking wood colossus. Alongside such terrors, there are also allies to be found, such as the whimsical leshi, the inscrutable esoteric dragons, and the powerful aerial servant! Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 5 is the fifth indispensable volume of monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and serves as a companion to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook and Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an Open Playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium. 320 pages, Hardcover	PZO6811 Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Barbarian Class Deck $19.99 SRP SDI Channel your Fury! Barbarians wield massive weapons and their own rage to create a potent and deadly combatant. The Barbarian Class Deck accessory for the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game allows players to bring these unpredictable warriors to any Base Set, including the demon-infested Wrath of the Righteous campaign! The 109-card Barbarian Class Deck contains three new characters - including a new version of the iconic barbarian Amiri and both new and recognizable allies, weapons, armor, and other boons to support your barbarian through an entire Adventure Path. This deck can also be used in the popular Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild organized play campaign.
PZO9463 Pathfinder Player Companion: Weapon Master’s Handbook $14.99 SRP SDI Being proficient with a weapon is a good start, but you can become a true artist of combat with the secrets of the Pathfinder Player Companion: Weapon Master’s Handbook! Within the volume’s pages are the benefits of studying at the great schools of war, details on fighting techniques honed over centuries of gladiatorial combat, and rules for learning several divine fighting techniques. Also featuring new feats, magic items, archetypes, and expanded options for the stamina and combat trick rules first presented in Pathfinder RPG: Pathfinder Unchained, this player-friendly volume contains everything you need to become a master with any conceivable weapon!	PZO90100 Pathfinder Adventure Path: A Song of Silver (Hell’s Rebels 4 of 6) $29.99 SRP SDI The 100th volume of the Pathfinder Adventure Path! The time has come to take back the Silver City of Kintargo! Too long has the diabolic Lord-Mayor Barzillai Thrune inflicted upon his citizens cruelties and increasingly oppressive laws. In “A Song of Silver,” the heroes of the beleaguered city finally strike back, and as their rebellion mobilizes in the city streets to stand against the corrupt government’s minions, the heroes themselves must strike at the sources. Rescuing old heroes from forgotten prison cells, reclaiming control of historic and key locations, and the performance of an ancient song that was used years ago to protect the city from Hell’s agents are but the preamble for the decisive battle, an assault on the enormous Temple of Asmodeus! “A Song of Silver” is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 10th-level characters. The adventure continues the Hell’s Rebels Adventure Path, an urban- and political-themed campaign that focuses on a rebellion against one of the Pathfinder Campaign Setting’s most infamous nations - devil-haunted Cheliax. In celebration of the Adventure Path’s one-hundredth volume, this special oversized installment also features several new monsters, revelations about the dead god of humanity - Aroden, a brand new Pathfinder Journal, a poster map depicting a key battlefield in the adventure, and a huge retrospective of the prior 16 Adventure Paths wherein additional never-before-statted NPCs for each are presented in full detail, both to expand the options of previous Adventure Paths or to provide new friends and foes for Hell’s Rebels and all the Adventure Paths to come!
PZO9286 Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Realms $22.99 SRP SDI The world of Golarion is full of ancient secrets, hidden lore, and untapped psychic powers. Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Realms helps Game Masters explore occult themes in their games, providing inspiration, new rules, and detailed locations to bring an occult campaign of any level to life. New occult powers designed to complement the new classes presented in Pathfinder RPG Occult Adventures help members of psychic classes customize their characters through story-based accomplishments, and new rituals tied to the organizations, history, and gods of the Inner Sea region allow non-psychics to create powerful occult effects. More than a dozen locations rife with occult adventure potential are detailed within, including sites in Hermea, Jalmeray, Numeria, and Razmiran, as well as sites on other planets and planes of existence. No occult-themed campaign in the Pathfinder campaign setting is complete without Occult Realms!	PZO1017 Pathfinder Pawns: Summon Monster Pawn Collection $24.99 SRP SDI Summon legions of extraplanar creatures to your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy roleplaying game! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn contains a beautiful full-color image of a monster from the summon monster spell lists in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. Each cardstock pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base from the Pathfinder Pawns Bestiary Box, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures. With multiple pawns for commonly summoned creatures, the Summon Monster Pawn Collection is the best way to ensure you’ve got the perfect monsters to conjure for every Pathfinder Roleplaying Game encounter!
PZO9549 Pathfinder Module: The House on Hook Street $24.99 SRP SDI Dreams turn deadly in Old Korvosa! Nightmare-spawned horrors begin stalking the district’s shiver addicts, sparking a manhunt to bring those responsible to justice. What role does the strange cult known as the Brotherhood of the Spider play in the mysterious deaths, and why has the veil between the dreaming and waking worlds worn so thin? To solve these mysteries and others, the heroes must walk the unseen paths of Bridgefront’s occult underworld, and even enter the Dimension of Dreams itself to unravel the web of intrigue around the cult’s dangerous machinations. But what happens when the heroes’ own dreams turn against them, and can they uncover dark esoteric secrets too terrible to know before it is too late? Designed for use with Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures, “The House on Hook Street” is packed with terrifying thrills! Designed for 6th-level characters!	PZO30068 Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Winter Forest $14.99 SRP SDI When the heroes encounter frost giants in the depths of a frozen forest, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every single tree, rock, and snow bank. Fortunately, with Paizo Publishing’s latest Pathfinder Flip-Mat, you don’t have to! This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. This double-sided map is perfect to use when the heroes need to set up a cold camp or have just wandered into the haunt of some frost-bitten undead. Don’t waste your time sketching when you could be playing. With Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Winter Forest, you’ll be ready next time your players venture into the frigid wilderness.

August Pazio

August 16^th Street Date!

PZO3025 Item Cards: Shattered Star $ 10.99 SRP SDI The power of the ages is yours to claim with this treasury of mystical items. Among these riches wait all the rarest relics and most mysterious magic items of the Shattered Star Adventure Path. This 54-card set of beautifully illustrated, full-color item cards allows you to track the riches you recover in vibrant detail. GameMastery Item Cards allow heroes to keep track of their equipment in style. Each full-color card features a beautiful portrait of an item on one side with blank space on the back to keep notes. GameMastery Item Cards are compatible with any fantasy roleplaying game.	PZO4039 Map Pack: Rooftops $ 12.99 SRP SDI GameMastery Map Pack: Rooftops contains 18 full-color 5 x 8-inch map tiles, stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason A. Engle, that combine to form a variety of rooftop configurations fit for harrowing chases, cunning infiltrations, and high-story action! For use with all tabletop roleplaying and miniatures games and 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!
PZO9061 PFA: ShS1: Shards of Sin $ 19.99 SRP SDI The Shattered Star Adventure Path begins with a thrilling new adventure from fan-favorite author Greg A. Vaughan! In Varisia’s bustling frontier city of Magnimar, the Pathfinder Society’s newest lodge recruits a team of rookie Pathfinders to track down rogue agent Natalya Vancaskerkin—who also happens to be one of the Varisian criminals known as the Sczarni. Yet when these heroes track down the missing woman, they find far more than a Pathfinder on the run, becoming embroiled in a swiftly expanding hunt for a fragmented artifact from the ancient empire of Thassilon—a quest that will take them to some of the most dangerous corners of Varisia. This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path launches the Shattered Star Adventure Path and includes: -“Shards of Sin,” a Pathfinder RPG adventure for 1st-level characters, by Greg A. Vaughan. -An exploration of the ancient Sihedron artifact and its ties to powerful Thassilonian magic, as well as details on the mysterious skymetals that fall to Golarion, by James Jacobs. -Forays into the even seedier underbelly of Riddleport in the Pathfinder’s Journal, by Bill Ward. -Five new monsters, by Benjamin Bruck, Craig Campbell, Adam Daigle, Amanda Hamon, and James Wilbur.	PZO1001 PFRPG: Bestiary Box $ 34.99 SRP SDI The brutal beasts of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary come alive on your tabletop with this box-busting collection of more than 300 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn contains a beautiful full-color image of a nasty monster from the core Pathfinder RPG monster reference. Each cardstock pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures. With multiple pawns for commonly encountered creatures and more than 250 distinct creature images, the Bestiary Box is the best way to ensure you've got the right creatures to push your Pathfinder campaign to the next level!
PZO1003 PFRPG: Rise o/t Runelords AP Pawn Collection $ 19.99 SRP SDI Key monsters and NPCs from the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn contains a beautiful full-color image of a monster or NPC from the Rise of the Runelords campaign, including goblins, dragons, giants, ogres and dozens of unique NPCs that are also suitable to represent player characters. Each cardstock pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base from the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary Box, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures. With multiple pawns for commonly encountered creatures and tons of distinct creature images, the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path Pawn Collection brings the friends and foes of Pathfinder’s original campaign alive like never before!	PZO1123 PFRPG: Ultimate Equipment $ 44.99 SRP SDI Choose your weapon and stride boldly into battle with Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Equipment! Within this handy, all-in-one reference, you’ll find 400 jam-packed pages of magic items and adventuring gear, from simple camping equipment and weapons up to the most earth-shaking artifacts. Included as well are handy rules references, convenient price lists, and extensive random treasure generation tables, all organized to help you find what you need, when you need it. With this vast catalog of tools and treasures, the days of boring dragon hoards are over, and your hero will never be caught unprepared again. Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Equipment is a must-have companion volume to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook. This imaginative tabletop game builds on more than 10 years of system development and open playtests featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium. Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Equipment includes: -Thousands of items both magical and mundane, including the best weapons, armors, magic items, and gear from the Pathfinder RPG hardcover line and select other Pathfinder sources, as well as hundreds of never-before-seen items. -Tons of special materials and magical abilities to help you create exactly the magic item you’ve been looking for. -A wealth of specific magic items, organized by type to ensure your character is always wearing as much magic as possible. -An innovative new treasure generation system, designed to help GMs roll up exactly what they need, every time. -New alchemical weapons, tools, and poisons. -Kits to help your character get the most out of her skills or profession, plus new mounts, animal companions, and retainers. -Descriptions of every item, plus hundreds of full-color illustrations to aid in window-shopping. AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
PZO8510 PF Tales: Blood of the City (novel) $ 9.99 SRP SDI, SOO Luma is a cobblestone druid, a canny fighter and spellcaster who can read the chaos of Magnimar’s city streets like a scholar reads books. Together, she and her siblings in the powerful Derexhi family form one of the most infamous and effective mercenary companies in the city, solving problems for the city’s wealthy elite. Yet despite being the oldest child, Luma gets little respect—perhaps due to her half-elven heritage. When a job gone wrong lands Luma in the fearsome prison called the Hells, it’s only the start of Luma’s problems. For a new web of bloody power politics is growing in Magnimar, and it may be that those Luma trusts most have become her deadliest enemies... From visionary game designer and author Robin D. Laws comes a new urban fantasy adventure of murder, betrayal, and political intrigue set in the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. 400-page mass market paperback	PZO9060 PFAP: S&S6: From Hell's Heart $ 19.99 SRP SDI With an enemy fleet intent on conquering the Shackles looming on the horizon, the adventurers must build their own fleet of pirates and buccaneers to defend against the invaders, culminating in an epic naval battle in the middle of the Eye of Abendego. Will the adventurers defeat the invading navy and save the Shackles? Or will the independence of the Free Captains be eradicated forever? A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 13th-level characters, this volume concludes the Skull & Shackles Adventure Path. This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path also presents a host of options for GMs looking to continue their Skull & Shackles campaign, along with details on the deadliest sea monsters said to lurk beneath the waves. New monsters from the depths of the sea and exotic islands also fill the Pathfinder Bestiary, while Robin D. Laws (author of the Pathfinder Tales novel The Worldwound Gambit) concludes his tale of pirates and lost treasures in the Pathfinder’s Journal.
PZO9249 PFCS: Paths of Prestige $ 19.99 SRP SDI This indispensable 64-page book presents thirty new prestige classes for use in your Pathfinder RPG campaign! Each ten-level prestige classes is tied to a different organization or theme found in the Inner Sea region of Golarion, featuring long-awaited explorations of the Aldori Swordlords, Hellknight Signifers, Paladins of Irori, and the infamous Gray Gardeners! Looking for a way to ride a mastodon into combat? Take some levels in the Mammoth Rider prestige class! Eager to harness the mysteries of ancient wizardy? Delve into the secrets of the Arclords of Nex! Looking for some respect and power for your gunslinger? Join the ranks of Alkenstar's Shield Marshals! These and many more prestige classes await discovery in the pages of Paths of Prestige! By Jason Bulmahn, Benjamin Bruck, Matt Goodall, Jason Nelson	PZO9425 PFPC: Varisia, Birthplace of Legends $ 10.99 SRP SDI Never has a land needed heroes more than Varisia. There, at the edge of civilization, barbarians clash with dark armored invaders, foul creatures lurk within the hearts of titanic monuments, and daring explorers unearth the secrets of a forgotten age of wizard-tyrants. This definitive guide equips players with all they need to face Varisia's dangers and mysteries, as well as dozens of new options for playing characters native to this wild region—perhaps as a mystical thundercaller of the Shoanti barbarians, a daring bravo leading a caravan of Varisian wanderers, or an obsessed magic-user steeped in the lore of the sinister Thassilonian empire. New options for character backgrounds and campaign traits allow players to integrate their characters into any of the Adventure Paths set in Varisia—such as the Rise of the Runelords or Shattered Star Adventure Path—like never before. Varisia needs heroes, be one of them with the all-new format Pathfinder Player Companion: Varisia, Birthplace of Legends! Written by F. Wesley Schneider Each monthly 32-page Pathfinder Player Companion contains several player-focused articles exploring the volume’s theme as well as short articles with innovative new rules for all types of characters, as well as traits to better anchor the player to the campaign.
PZO9537 PF Module: The Moonscar $ 13.99 SRP SDI An interplanetary adventure for 16th-level characters. To astronomers and stargazers, the unusual pale patch on the moon is known as the Moonscar. Many theories abound as to the nature of this strange feature, yet the truth is a terrifying legacy from the ancient past. When a renowned archeologist disappears while investigating a strange mountaintop ruin, the adventurers must follow the abductee through a mysterious portal into a land of lunar madness and demonic nightmare—for what scars Golarion's moon is a blight from the depths of the Abyss itself! This adventure builds upon elements first introduced in Distant Worlds and the Book of the Damned II: Lords of Chaos, and features challenges that will test the mettle of a group of four 16th-level Pathfinder characters—such as those who might have finished a Pathfinder Adventure Path and seek a new story to challenge their powers!

A Plethoria of Pathfider

There’s a plethoria of Pathfinder from Pazio to peruse at this point.  Arriving in on the same shipment, the new Deep Forest Flip Mat, Magnimar, City of Monuments, Pathfinder Player Character Folios, and, probably of most interest, the Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition.  I really had no great expectations for this last one. Though we had a few inquiries, we had no pre-orders until we made the announcement that our shipment was on the way (Sigh).  Typically, Pathfinder modules sell poorly here, due to their limited use and Pazio’s pushing them as PDFs before they release to the brick and mortar market.  However, Rise of the Runelords has proved a pleasant surprise.  Much like with the 1^st edition AD&D books, we quickly sold out of our original order but got a restock in for the weekend.  So far, we have sold half the total ordered, far better than our order of Descent 2^nd Edition, all of which are still sitting on the shelves.

Promotional Posters and Why They Get Hung

We receive lots of promotional material:  change mats, book marks, penny cups, temporary tattoos, flyers, postcards.  However, the most common item that publishers send us is posters.  The store just received two from different publishers, one that probably won’t get hung  since it doesn’t do a very good job serving as a silent salesman for the product, and one that went up on the wall almost as soon as we pulled it out of the shipment.

The store has limited wall space for promotional materials as we would rather use most of the available space for either displaying products running events, so the artwork on a poster either has to really catch the eye, fit into a section of the store that doesn’t accommodate other store functions or do a superior job of selling the product advertised.

One of the two posters we received came from Pazio and promoted the recently released Ultimate Magic book for Pathfinder.  It features the Pathfinder logo at the top of the poster, accompanied by the Ultimate Magic logo itself and a shot of the book cover.  Pazio filled the rest of the poster (its’ about a 2’ x3 ‘one) with an enlarged reproduction of the cover and the tagline “Annihilate your enemies.”

The problem with this poster, and why it’s not going up on the wall,  is that it serves only as reminder or institutional advertising.  It offers no call to action, no selling points, no real reason for a customer not already familiar with the Pathfinder line to pick up this book and look at it.  Granted, a non-Pathfinder player won’t shell out their hard earned dollars for a copy of Ultimate Magic.  However, putting information on the sheet about the book such as contents, which classes it helps, number and type of spells, etc.  would have helped a potential customer decide if they wanted to spend the money on Ultimate Magic.  As the poster reads now, what info does the customer receive?   “Annihilate your enemies.”  While a worthy thought, it doesn’t give much help to the customer in deciding whether to shell out the $40 for the book or not.

Meanwhile, we also received a poster for Chaostle from Chivalry Games, a thing of beauty and a joy forever.  Well, I’m exaggerating a bit, OK a lot but still, this poster presents the info I want to see on a poster.  Chivalry Games has shown off and demoed prototypes of Chasotle at conventions and trade shows for a number of years now and has finally gotten the game to market.  The poster shows the box and product name at the top, has a description of the game in the center and actually shows a photo of the game, with an enlargement of a playing piece, at the bottom. We were on the fence about ordering Chaostle but the poster cinched the deal as it can serve as a silent salesman for the game. We have the poster hanging in one of the game rooms so, as our customers play other boardgames, they get to stare at the poster promoting Chaostle, with information on it that answers most questions they might have about the game.