The Pathfinder Player Core presents a new entry point to Pathfinder Second Edition, with everything a player needs to learn how to play the game! Choose from eight ancestries, eight complete character classes, and hundreds of feats and spells to make unique characters ready for deadly adventures in a world beset by magic and evil! This 464-page hardcover tome is the definitive rules resource for all Pathfinder Second Edition players!

Pathfinder Player Core is the first core rulebook for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG! These rules are compatible with previous Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback. Along with the GM Core, Monster Core, and Player Core 2, these books provide a new foundation for the future of tabletop gaming!

This sketch cover edition features a beautiful image of the original pencil sketch of the Pathfinder Player Core cover by superstar artist Wayne Reynolds, and is offered exclusively to Paizo’s hobby retail partners for the first 120 days of release.

Pathfinder Player Core includes:

• Easier to Learn! We’ve taken feedback from the Beginner Box and the Core Rulebook and made this new entry into the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game easier to navigate and get right into the fun.
• Complete character creation rules, walking you through building a character by selecting your Ancestry, Background, and Class, with a focus on the bard, cleric, druid, fighter, ranger, rogue, witch, and wizard! Core ancestry options include human, dwarf, elf, gnome, goblin, halfling, leshy, and orc!
• A mountain of options allowing you to customize your character including versatile heritages, like the changeling and nephilim, skills and feats, and hundreds of spells (including dozens of new ones), ensuring that the character you build represents your hero not just in story, but in rules as well!
• Everything you need to know to start playing, from advice on how to explore the world to tips on surviving deadly combats with terrifying foes.
• A primer on the world of Lost Omens so that your character can be a part of an exciting and diverse world!
• Rules and tools to advance your character through play, taking them from a fresh-faced adventurer ready to take on the world to a veteran hero, wielding powerful magic that can reshape reality!
• Fully integrated errata from the first 4 years of Pathfinder Second Edition, including revisions to the witch, expanded options for every character class, streamlined spells, new equipment, and more!
• This is the first Pathfinder product published under the new Open RPG Creative (ORC) license, giving players and Game Masters even more freedom for making their own creations based on Pathfinder Second Edition.

Sales Points

• Gorgeous Wayne Reynolds sketch cover is a hobby retail exclusive for 120 days following release, and will NEVER be offered to bookstores or online retailers other than paizo.com.
• Pathfinder Player Core is the definitive “main” rulebook for Pathfinder Second Edition players, effectively replacing the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. All players need a copy of this book.
• Streamlined and optimized based on a half-decade of player feedback. While the Pathfinder Second Edition rule system remains the same, the presentation in this volume has been completely revised and updated to speed up learning the game and play at the table.
• Extensive marketing support throughout 2023 and 2024.
• Compatible with the Open RPG Creative (ORC) License.

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