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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 7813307" data-attributes="member: 16586">Not core as in necessary, but core in the sense of being central to the experience of the game as they envision it. You can totally play a game with just the Core Rulebook and Bestiary, but the expectation is that most groups will graduate to the Gamemastery Guide and Advanced Player's Guide over time.The Gamemastery Guide is largely focused on more advanced GM techniques and designing material for your own game including monsters, magic items, more detailed adventures, and campaigns. It will cover magic items like artifacts, intelligent items, cursed items, and relics that are more appropriately handled by someone who already has some GM experience. It also goes into detail on how to hack the game including several variants that dramatically alter how the game is played. It will also have subsystems for things like dueling and chases with guidance on how to design subsystems for your game.The Advanced Player's Guide was where First Edition Pathfinder really became Pathfinder TM. It introduced classes like the Alchemist, Oracle, Witch, and Summoner that become part of what made the game different from Dungeons and Dragons. This time around we are getting classes like the Investigator, Swashbuckler, Oracle, and Witch that they plan to really stretch the design space of the new game with. There will be new ancestries including some heritages like the aasimar and dhampir that are meant to be grafted onto any other ancestry. It will also introduce archetypes beyond the multi-class archetypes found in the core rulebook that allow players to customize their characters in ways that stretch beyond the core competencies of their classes. This sort of material is best utilized by players who have some play time under their belt. It's also the sort of material Pathfinder veterans are waiting for.They are pretty much assuming most groups will eventually get this material because that is how it worked in First Edition. Pathfinder has always been a game that focused on deep rather than broad engagement.</blockquote>

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