It's not just D&D doing Gen Con keynote presentations; Paizo Publishing also released a presentation which you can watch on YouTube at the bottom of ths article. Here are the highlights!
At Gen Con
Looking Ahead to 2027
At Gen Con
- 13 Omens made its public debut at Gen Con. It's a rule-lite horror game by Jason Bulmahn. We've talked about this game here before. There's a special preview edition of the rulebook you can get at Gen Con, along with an adventure and special dice. The main book comes out on Kickstarter on October 13th.
- Impossible Magic is also newly available. Four new Pathfinder classes, new archetypes and arcane schools, and hundreds of new spells and magic items.
- Bastion of Blasphemies is a hardcover horror-themed Pathfinder adventure path for character levels 5-15.
- For Starfinder, Absolom Station: Center of the Galaxy has just released. This is a hardcover overview of one of the most important locations in Starfinder. It comes with a poster map of the station.
- There's a new novel, Assault on Absolom Station, by Tim Pratt, a sequel to Era of the Eclipse.
- Pre-released at Gen Con in advance of it's actual September release, is Pathfinder Dice Gods, a new board game.
- Secrets of the Swarm for Starfinder is an adventure path in September for levels 6-10. Also includes 6 new ancestries.
- The Dead God's Hand is a 1-7 Pathfinder dungeon crawl by Erik Mona and is a campaign played at Paizo for years finally making it to publication. This comes out in September.
- Tech Core is the fourth Starfinder core book and contains rules for tactical starship combat, 2 new classes, 3 ancestries, feats, gear, etc. coming in October.
- Lost Omens: Cheliax Infernal Inheritance is in October, looking at Cheliax after the events of the Hellfire Crisis. There's also a poster map archive for it in November.
- Feybound comes out in November. It is about the Yestereve Revels, and is all about fey characters and campaigns, with new player options, ancestries, monsters, and more.
- Also in November is a high-level (level 11-20) adventure path called Vaultlines for characters with Darklands ancestries. The Darklands is kind-of Pathfinder's version of the Underdark.
- There's some kind of Lovecraftian horror adventure later in the year, linked to Paizo's 'Printables' line of miniatures.
Looking Ahead to 2027
- Previously announced Lost Omens: Unseen Worlds (January), Legacy of the Forge (February), Waking Tigers adventure path (March).
- The Starfinder 2nd Edition Beginner Box is in May. Four classes, 72-page player book, 88-page GM book and adventure set on a funeral starship. Plus dice, handouts, and pawns.
- Lost Omens: Saga Lands comes out in May. This is the area where Pathfinder started getting the hardcover treatment. In June is a poster map archive for it.
- Invaders from the Dark is a 1-10 Pathfinder adventure path in June set in Numeria. This is the "alien invasion of Golarion" and brings in Starfinder rules showcasing the compatibility between the two games, complete with a player's guide.
- Invasions Edge compilation for Starfinder Society in April and Chronicles of the Pathfinder Society adventure anthology in July.
- Sometimes around Gen Con 2027 is Starfinder Galactic Arsenals. Factions, corporations, equipment, spells, player options, monsters, starships.
- Pathfinder Tome of Dungeons, also at Gen Con next year is a dungeon-themed sourcebook. It has three sections: Delvers, Dungeons, and Denizens. The first is player options, the second is dungeon biomes and ideas (ice dungeon, puzzle dungeon, etc.), and denizens is monsters. Also two new character classes--the daredevil and the slayer, and new ancestries including an awakened ooze and a gargoyle.
