Paizo News: Organized Play & Humble Bundle Partnership

With all of the news of ORC and OGL, interest in Pathfinder has surged, leading to reprints and waits for the physical books. If you don't mind PDFs, Paizo has partnered with Humble Bundle to create a huge deal to help you play Pathfinder while helping a great cause.

With all of the news of ORC and OGL, interest in Pathfinder has surged, leading to reprints and waits for the physical books. If you don't mind PDFs, Paizo has partnered with Humble Bundle to create a huge deal to help you play Pathfinder while helping a great cause.

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Paizo just announced that they are partnering with Humble Bundle to bring three tiers of goodies ranging from $5 to $25. One of the great things with Humble Bundle is a portion of the proceeds go to charity. This collaboration will see a portion of the proceeds going to Code for America, a group that works with community and government organizations to build digital resources to help effect societal changes.

Backing at the $5 tier gets you seven PDFs that are worth over $100: Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box, Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook, Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary, Pathfinder Character Sheet Pack, Pathfinder Player Character Pawn Collection, Pathfinder Lost Omens World Guide, and Pathfinder One-Shot #1: Sundered Waves.

The $15 tier will get you all of the previous PDFs as well as 11 more: Pathfinder Bestiary 2, Pathfinder Lost Omens Character Guide, Pathfinder Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, Pathfinder Adventure: Troubles in Otari, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Troubles in Otari, Pathfinder Society Intro #1: The Second Confirmation, Pathfinder Society Intro #2: United in Purpose, Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Ancient Dungeon, Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Swamp, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: City Sites Multipack (also in JPG), and Pathfinder Adventure: Little Trouble in Big Absalom.

Finally, the $25 tier give you all the PDFs from the previous tiers plus: Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults (both the PDF and Foundry VTT), Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic, Pathfinder: Gamemastery Guide, Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults Pawn Collection, Pathfinder: Gamemastery Guide Pawn Collection, Pathfinder Society Intro: Year of Boundless Wonder, Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Arcane Library, Pathfinder Pawns: Traps & Treasures Pawn Collection, and Pathfinder Adventure: A Fistful of Flowers.

If you were looking to get into Pathfinder or just rounding out your collection, now is the time to do it while supporting a great cause!

In addition to the exciting Humble Bundle news, there were also a few things to note in Organized Play. Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-09: Killer in the Golden Mask, Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-10: Arclord's Abode, Starfinder Society Scenario #5-14: Ghost Level Delve, and Starfinder Bounty #7: Voyage on the River Between will be available digitally on February 22.

In honor of the ORC License, orcs are now a freely available player ancestry in both Pathfinder and Starfinder Society. If you've previously purchased the boon in Pathfinder, you will get a free resurrection. In Starfinder Society, previously-created orcs may use their boon t gain a +2 to any one stat. If you made your character in January before the change, you may request a refund of your Achievement Points.

Changes have been made to dragonkin partner bonds. You may select another player's character to form your partner bond with. Just mark down their Organized Play number on your character sheet. If they are permanently slain, you can select a new partner. You may choose to not form a bond at character creation or select one later.

Starfinder Society 1-99: The Scoured Stars Invasion is now available to be played or GMed twice, once in each level range.

In sanctioning news, Fists of the Ruby Phoenix is now sanctioned with work being underway to sanction Treasure Vault. There are new boons to spend your Achievement Points on from the Age of Ashes Adventure Path, including some that haven't been printed in other rulebooks. The Beginner Box is now sanctioned fully in campaign mode, which means you can bring in any character the GM permits even if they aren't built using the Beginner Box rules.
 

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Dawn Dalton

Dawn Dalton

Jer

Legend
Supporter
same, already bought the last two bundles, but between the Bestiary 2 and the Abomination Vault there still was enough to get it
Yeah - it was realizing that I didn't have either of them along with some of the flip maps (which I can either print and use in person or extract the images from to throw up on roll20) and the charity part that pushed me over the top.
 

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Nylanfs

Adventurer
Also note that due to how Paizo and Smiteworks license agreements work if you sync the Smiteworks account and your Paizo account you would get the price of the PDF off the Fantasy Grounds DLC (or you would get the PDF in your Paizo account). So if you buy one of these bundles, and you activate the pdf in your paizo account, you can get some crazy good discounts on the FG DLC because of that. :)
 


Dire Bare

Legend
Also note that due to how Paizo and Smiteworks license agreements work if you sync the Smiteworks account and your Paizo account you would get the price of the PDF off the Fantasy Grounds DLC (or you would get the PDF in your Paizo account). So if you buy one of these bundles, and you activate the pdf in your paizo account, you can get some crazy good discounts on the FG DLC because of that. :)
Demiplane works the same way!
 

MNblockhead

A Title Much Cooler Than Anything on the Old Site
Okay, I don't know if I'll ever get around to reading much less playing PF, but this was the deal that finally convinced me to buy. At worst, I supported a good cause. But I expect to at least get some good ideas from some of the content. Also, given the Foundry content that it comes with, I could see actually giving running a PF2e game a whirl.
 





Siltoneous

Explorer
You'd think they rushed to get this into Humble Bundle with the whole WotC OGL mess. However the funny thing is that Eric Mona stated over on Reddit that the planning for this most recent Humble Bundle started three months ago.o_O

Like others, I've bought several of these bundles from Paizo before, but I'll still get this one. I figure for $25 (and some portion to charity), I'm getting $150 worth of stuff I don't have (like PDF's of hard bounds I already have). Sure that % could be more, but I still appreciate the continued effort.
 

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