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Just as Wizards of the Coast was the big dog of D20 in 2000-2007, so is Paizo in the current era. Their product schedule is well known and anticipated among online fans. Their adventures, classes, and material have been discussed, analyzed, and extensively used among gamers.
But just like Wizards of the Coast in its time, they overshadow the 3rd Party Publishers due to the excessive glut of material on sale.
This thread is the winnowing process for these products, separating the wheat from the chaff. Post the products you think are good, why they're good, and what they offer.
This might not happen, but this is not the thread to hawk your wares. If you write/publish 3PP books, you can't promote your own stuff. Only other's people's stuff is allowed. Additionally, it must be for sale. Homebrew design and free stuff doesn't count, for you don't lose anything if you "get" the product.
Other than these rules, post away!
Format Template:
Name of Product: Self-Explanatory
Why It's Good: What it brings to the game.
Buy this if... What demographic of gamers will benefit the most from this work?
Link to a place where you can buy it. Drive-Thru RPG, Paizo.com, and D20pfsrd.com are the major online sellers of Pathfinder products.
Here I'll start off.
Cerulean Seas Campaign Setting and Undersea Sourcebook
Why It's Good: A unique and interesting all-aquatic campaign, does a thorough job of converting existing D&D tropes, equipment, and mechanics to a plausible-sounding undersea civilization (ink comes from "milked" squids, fire spells manifest as boiling geysers, etc), and has the best rules I've seen for 3 Dimensional Combat. Some of the best artwork out there for Pathfinder, pretty to look at.
Buy This If... You enjoy for a new D&D experience under the waves, and for good material for undersea adventures in more traditional campaign settings.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Paizo Link.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link.
Conflict PvP: Tactics & Teams Rulebook
Why It's Good: An extensive system for tournament-style player versus player matches, partially inspired by online MMOs. Incorporates various types of matches beyond just violent encounters, such as "capture the flag" retrievals, who can gather the most treasure in a time limit, and takes into account caster/noncaster disparity by offering options to help bridge the gap (terrain which launches a person into the air to melee a flying opponent, spells with long casting times are off-limits, etc).
Buy This If... You want to pit your character-building skills against your fellow players in an "arena" environment.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Paizo Link (Hardcover Only)
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link
The Ethermancer: An Eldritch Reboot
Why It's Good: The Warlock class updated to Pathfinder. With more versatility and based upon an "infinite space and cosmos" fluff text as opposed to a demonic/fey one. Powers cost Ether Points which recharge round by round, adding a more tactical dimension to the class.
Buy This If... You want a cool Warlock equivalent for Pathfinder.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link
Path of War Subscription
Why It's Good: Adopts the Tome of Battle system to Pathfinder, gives martial characters nice things and a diverse grab-bag of tricks, tastes great, less filling.
Buy This If... You're unhappy with martial characters and Linear Warriors in Pathfinder, want to spice up your martial NPCs or PC, you like buying from a company which views game balance as an important goal.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Paizo Link.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link.
Psionics Unleashed and Psionics Expanded
Why It's Good: Updates the 3.X Psionics system to Pathfinder, gives lots of love to the Soulknife, has some sexy new stuff so it's not just a straight reprint.
Buy This If... You love psionics
Drive-Thru RPG Link (Unleashed) Drive-Thru RPG Link (Expanded)
Paizo Link.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link.
SORD PF
Why It's Good: Is a clean, well-formatted and hyperlinked collection of common rules in the Pathfinder RPG to help speed up play.
Buy This If... You feel that combat rounds are taking too long in your games.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Tales of the Old Margreve
Why It's Good: Is set in a forest mini-setting inspired by Central/Eastern Europe folklore, a very atmospheric spooky forest setting where the woods themselves are conscious, a series of 10 adventures which do a good job of "reskinning" existing monsters in interesting ways and invoking a very "fairy tale" like atmosphere. Yes, I plan on reviewing it at some point.
Buy This If... You're a fan of folkloric settings, want a series of challenging adventures to take PCs from 1st to 10th level.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Paizo Link.
Tome of Horrors Complete-Pathfinder Edition
Why It's Good: A massive collection of classic monsters from the Old School Editions of Dungeons & Dragons (and more than a few new ones), converted to the Pathfinder Role-Playing Game.
Buy This If... You need to get one product which will set you for life for monsters.
Drive-Thru Link.
Paizo Link, special Print & PDF Bundle.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link.
Ultimate Psionics (supersedes Psionics Unleashed)
Why it's Good: Combines Dreamscarred Press' existing psionics material into one convenient book, plus some brand-new stuff! Also tips on reflavoring psionics to fit into the right campaigns (uses a rune magic example).
Buy This If... You want to buy $80 worth of books for the price of $20, love psionics.
Drive-Thru RPG Link
Paizo Link
D20 Pathfinder SRD
Way of the Wicked Adventure Path (consists of 6 separate adventures)
Why It's Good: An adventure path which handles the dilemma of evil PCs well, has a cool premise (PCs work for an Asmodean cult overthrowing a Lawful Good holy nation), and is open-ended in all the right parts and encourages stealthy and non-combative approaches to encounters with "story award" experience.
Buy This If... Your gaming group totally wants to play as the bad guys for once in a manner fun for both player and Dungeon Master.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Paizo Link.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link.
But just like Wizards of the Coast in its time, they overshadow the 3rd Party Publishers due to the excessive glut of material on sale.
This thread is the winnowing process for these products, separating the wheat from the chaff. Post the products you think are good, why they're good, and what they offer.
This might not happen, but this is not the thread to hawk your wares. If you write/publish 3PP books, you can't promote your own stuff. Only other's people's stuff is allowed. Additionally, it must be for sale. Homebrew design and free stuff doesn't count, for you don't lose anything if you "get" the product.
Other than these rules, post away!
Format Template:
Name of Product: Self-Explanatory
Why It's Good: What it brings to the game.
Buy this if... What demographic of gamers will benefit the most from this work?
Link to a place where you can buy it. Drive-Thru RPG, Paizo.com, and D20pfsrd.com are the major online sellers of Pathfinder products.
Here I'll start off.
Cerulean Seas Campaign Setting and Undersea Sourcebook
Why It's Good: A unique and interesting all-aquatic campaign, does a thorough job of converting existing D&D tropes, equipment, and mechanics to a plausible-sounding undersea civilization (ink comes from "milked" squids, fire spells manifest as boiling geysers, etc), and has the best rules I've seen for 3 Dimensional Combat. Some of the best artwork out there for Pathfinder, pretty to look at.
Buy This If... You enjoy for a new D&D experience under the waves, and for good material for undersea adventures in more traditional campaign settings.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Paizo Link.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link.
Conflict PvP: Tactics & Teams Rulebook
Why It's Good: An extensive system for tournament-style player versus player matches, partially inspired by online MMOs. Incorporates various types of matches beyond just violent encounters, such as "capture the flag" retrievals, who can gather the most treasure in a time limit, and takes into account caster/noncaster disparity by offering options to help bridge the gap (terrain which launches a person into the air to melee a flying opponent, spells with long casting times are off-limits, etc).
Buy This If... You want to pit your character-building skills against your fellow players in an "arena" environment.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Paizo Link (Hardcover Only)
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link
The Ethermancer: An Eldritch Reboot
Why It's Good: The Warlock class updated to Pathfinder. With more versatility and based upon an "infinite space and cosmos" fluff text as opposed to a demonic/fey one. Powers cost Ether Points which recharge round by round, adding a more tactical dimension to the class.
Buy This If... You want a cool Warlock equivalent for Pathfinder.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link
Path of War Subscription
Why It's Good: Adopts the Tome of Battle system to Pathfinder, gives martial characters nice things and a diverse grab-bag of tricks, tastes great, less filling.
Buy This If... You're unhappy with martial characters and Linear Warriors in Pathfinder, want to spice up your martial NPCs or PC, you like buying from a company which views game balance as an important goal.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Paizo Link.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link.
Psionics Unleashed and Psionics Expanded
Why It's Good: Updates the 3.X Psionics system to Pathfinder, gives lots of love to the Soulknife, has some sexy new stuff so it's not just a straight reprint.
Buy This If... You love psionics
Drive-Thru RPG Link (Unleashed) Drive-Thru RPG Link (Expanded)
Paizo Link.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link.
SORD PF
Why It's Good: Is a clean, well-formatted and hyperlinked collection of common rules in the Pathfinder RPG to help speed up play.
Buy This If... You feel that combat rounds are taking too long in your games.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Tales of the Old Margreve
Why It's Good: Is set in a forest mini-setting inspired by Central/Eastern Europe folklore, a very atmospheric spooky forest setting where the woods themselves are conscious, a series of 10 adventures which do a good job of "reskinning" existing monsters in interesting ways and invoking a very "fairy tale" like atmosphere. Yes, I plan on reviewing it at some point.
Buy This If... You're a fan of folkloric settings, want a series of challenging adventures to take PCs from 1st to 10th level.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Paizo Link.
Tome of Horrors Complete-Pathfinder Edition
Why It's Good: A massive collection of classic monsters from the Old School Editions of Dungeons & Dragons (and more than a few new ones), converted to the Pathfinder Role-Playing Game.
Buy This If... You need to get one product which will set you for life for monsters.
Drive-Thru Link.
Paizo Link, special Print & PDF Bundle.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link.
Ultimate Psionics (supersedes Psionics Unleashed)
Why it's Good: Combines Dreamscarred Press' existing psionics material into one convenient book, plus some brand-new stuff! Also tips on reflavoring psionics to fit into the right campaigns (uses a rune magic example).
Buy This If... You want to buy $80 worth of books for the price of $20, love psionics.
Drive-Thru RPG Link
Paizo Link
D20 Pathfinder SRD
Way of the Wicked Adventure Path (consists of 6 separate adventures)
Why It's Good: An adventure path which handles the dilemma of evil PCs well, has a cool premise (PCs work for an Asmodean cult overthrowing a Lawful Good holy nation), and is open-ended in all the right parts and encourages stealthy and non-combative approaches to encounters with "story award" experience.
Buy This If... Your gaming group totally wants to play as the bad guys for once in a manner fun for both player and Dungeon Master.
Drive-Thru RPG Link.
Paizo Link.
D20 Pathfinder SRD Link.
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