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Pathfinder Remastered Player Core Reviewed

Dec 17, 2023

Title: Pathfinder Remastered Player Core

Authors: Logan Bonner, Jason Bulmahn, Lyz Liddell, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, and Mark Seifter with Alexander Augunas, Kate Baker, Carlos Cabrera, Calder CaDavid, James Case, Steven Hammond, Joan Hong, Vanessa Hoskins, James Jacobs, Erik Keith, Luis Loza, Patchen Mortimer, Dennis Muldoon, Mikhail Rekun, David N. Ross, Michael Sayre, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Mark Thompson, Clark Valentine, Andrew White, and Linda Zayas-Palmer

Artists: Biagio d’Alessandro, Hazem Ameen, Gislaine Avila, Francesca Baerald, Klaher Baklaher, Giorgio Baroni, Yanis Cardin, Sergio Cosmai, Michele Esposito, Cynthia F.G., Giorgio Falconi, Mirko Faloni, Taylor Fisher, Igor Grechanyi, Vlada Hladkova, Hai Hoang, Raf Kayupov, Roman Kierszenbaum, Katerina Kirillova, Ksenia Kozhevnikova, Pedro Kruger Garcia, Valeria Lutfullina, Damien Mammoliti, Stefano Moroni, Federico Musetti, Alexander Nanitchkov, Mirco Paganessi, Mary Jane Pajaron, Christoph Peters, Roberto Pitturru, Konstantin Porubov, Miguel Regodón Harkness, Wayne Reynolds, Kiki Moch Rizky, Riccardo Rullo, Gabriel Scavariello, Matheus Dorrow Schwartz, Bryan Sola, Firat Solhan, Matteo Spirito, Alex Stone, Matias Tapia, Brian Valeza, Sam Yang, and Denis Zhbankov

Year: 2023

Genre: Player facing volume for the remastered edition of the Pathfinder fantasy roleplaying game

Pages: 464 pages

MSRP: $59.99 in hardcover or $19.99 in PDF

I kick back to share a look at, and my thoughts about, the new Pathfinder Remastered Player Core. The book contains player facing content including character creation as well as all the rules needed to learn how to play the popular fantasy roleplaying game. The 464 page hardcover is available now as is the PDF.

Here’s the link to the Pathfinder 2E Legacy Humble Bundle I was talking about and it runs through December 28th, 2023.

Pathfinder Remastered Player Core Review

SUMMARY

Paizo Inc has done a wonderful job of stripping away all the remaining D&D SRD references within Pathfinder as well as making the game far, far easier for newcomers to jump aboard. The presentation of the Remaster is excellent! This is not a completely new edition though but more of a revamp, so many of the things which makes Pathfinder stand out from other fantasy RPGs remain while various aspects have been streamlined, clarified, or simply cleaned up. That's not to say the book is perfect because there are some items or game play mechanics which receive conflicting information in different areas of the book. Overall though, if you have any interest in fantasy roleplaying games and have been scared off (for whatever reason) from Pathfinder in the past, this is a perfect time to check out one of the absolute best roleplaying games on the market.

Jeff McAleer

Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media, Jeff tackles any and all sorts of games but has a special fondness for strategy, conflict sims, and roleplaying games. Plus, he's certainly never at a loss for an opinion...