Pathfinder 2E Pathfinder To Get New Core Rulebooks Soon

It's not just D&D that's getting a 'revised' set of core books--Pathfinder is also getting 'remastered' books! The core rulebooks are being replaced by a new set of books, with new names, but like D&D it is being reiterated that this is not a new edition--"With the exception of a few minor variations in terminology and a slightly different mix of monsters, spells, and magic items, the rules remain largely unchanged."

The existing Pathfinder Core Rulebook, Gamemastery Guide, Bestiary, and Advanced Player’s Guide are being replaced with Pathfinder Player Core, Pathfinder GM Core, Pathfinder Monster Core, and Pathfinder Player Core 2.

These books appear to focus on re-organization and consolidation of existing material rather than substantive changes. They also represent Paizo's move away from the Open Gaming License and towards the new Open RPG Creative (ORC) license. Paizo says "This transition will result in a few minor modifications to the Pathfinder Second Edition system, notably the removal of alignment and a small number of nostalgic creatures, spells, and magic items exclusive to the OGL. These elements remain a part of the corpus of Pathfinder Second Edition rules for those who still want them, and are fully compatible with the new remastered rules, but will not appear in future Pathfinder releases."

Pathfinder 2E - Paizo Reveals Wayne Reynolds' Pathfinder Remastered Cover Sketches

While the final colour pieces won't arrive for a few weeks, Paizo's Erik Mona revealed the cover sketches of the upcoming Pathfinder Remastered core rulebooks while at the GAMA industry trade show yesterday. In an unsual move, you will actually be able to buy special 'sketch' editions of the...

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[Retreater]

It does seem appropriate to use quarter-decimals when discussing Pathfinder...

IIRC, in their official marketing at the release of Pathfinder 1e, Paizo referred to it as "3.75."

 

[payn]

IIRC, in their official marketing at the release of Pathfinder 1e, Paizo referred to it as "3.75."

PF 2.1 now with less OGL!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I could but I have bought nothing of Pathfinder 2 because I don't like to await a lot of time to be translated this or that sourcebook. Please, my best wishes for Paizo but my days of compulsive collector ended.

 

[Retreater]

PF 2.1 now with less OGL!

PF 2.09 - we are required to use at least 2 decimal points.

 

[Superchunk77]

Doesn't affect me using Foundry so I'm fine with it. However, I didn't get the core books in time during the OGL disaster when they sold out, so I'm thinking these news ones might be a nice purchase for myself this Christmas

 

[Nylanfs]

... so four years in, we get PF2.5. Okay, then.

More like 2.1 I'd say.

 

[JThursby]

I could but I have bought nothing of Pathfinder 2 because I don't like to await a lot of time to be translated this or that sourcebook. Please, my best wishes for Paizo but my days of compulsive collector ended.

That's understandable. The rules will all be online for free anyways, and they've already said they're letting Rulebook subscribers opt out of these books which I'll probably do. The rules changes look 99% for the better, but I would rather not spend another 120-200 on what is basically a double sized rules errata.

 

[payn]

That's understandable. The rules will all be online for free anyways, and they've already said they're letting Rulebook subscribers opt out of these books which I'll probably do. The rules changes look 99% for the better, but I would rather not spend another 120-200 on what is basically a double sized rules errata.

I think folks are making a mountain out of a mole hill. The website is free, PDFs are cheap. The whole "need books for my table" is a dying way of playing the game. Even 5E is heading strongly into digital and VTT.

 

[JThursby]

I think folks are making a mountain out of a mole hill.

The reaction isn't unearned, honestly. Asking to re-buy things being met with skepticism is a healthy response. I like PF2e a lot, but I wouldn't fanboy for it so hard that I would buy literally everything despite little added value.

That being said, I don't think it's a blatant money grab. They can't just re-print the CRB and other books under the ORC because they are already OGL tied, so something like this had to happen one way or another for Paizo to make good on their promise to move to ORC. The solution they came up with is less than ideal (the names of the books in particular are kind of lame) but not a catastrophe.

 

[Weiley31]

Gnoll is apparently getting a name change and Assimar along with Tiefling are being folded together into Nephillim.