Advanced Class Guide
Advanced Class Guide, a hardcover Pathfinder RPG rulebook featuring content by Dennis Baker, Ross Byers, Jesse Benner, Savannah Broadway, Jason Bulmahn, Jim Groves, Tim Hitchcock, Tracy Hurley, Jonathan H. Keith, Will McCardell, Dale C. McCoy, Jr., Tom Phillips, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Thomas M. Reid, Sean K Reynolds, F. Wesley Schneider, Tork Shaw, Owen K.C. Stephens, and Russ Taylor, was released August 6, 2014. Errata for a second printing was released on July 22, 2015.
A production error in the first printing resulted in the Pathfinder Adventure Path logo being printed on the cover instead of the Pathfinder RPG logo.1
A softcover Pocket Edition of the book was released on January 31, 2018.
“A New Breed of HeroAdventure like never before with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Advanced Class Guide! Explore new heights of heroism with 10 new base classes, each with 20 levels of amazing abilities. Incredible powers also await existing characters, with more than a hundred new archetypes and class options. Prepare characters for their most legendary adventure ever with massive selections of never-before-seen spells, magic items, and more!
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Advanced Class Guide is a must-have companion volume to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 15 years of system development and an open playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Advanced Class Guide includes:
- Ten new base classes—the magic-twisting arcanist, the ferocious bloodrager, the cunning investigator, the daring swashbuckler, the formidable warpriest, and others.
- Variant class abilities and thematic archetypes for all 29 base classes, such as the counterfeit mage and the mutagenic mauler.
- Nearly a hundred new feats for characters of all classes, including style feats, teamwork feats like Coordinated Shot, and more.
- Hundreds of new spells and magic items, such as feast on fear and skullcrusher gauntlets.
- An entire armory of amazing equipment, from vital new adventuring gear to deadly alchemical weapons.
- AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
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Contents
- Hybrid Classes
- Arcanist
- Bloodrager
- Bloodrager Bloodlines
- Bloodrager Spells
- Brawler
- Hunter
- Investigator
- Shaman
- Spirits
- Spirit Animal
- Shaman Spells
- Skald
- Slayer
- Swashbuckler
- Warpriest
- Blessings
- Racial Favored Glass Options
- Types of Feats
- Feat Descriptions
- Feat Table
- Spell Lists
- Spell Descriptions
- Adventuring Gear
- Alchemical Remedies
- Alchemical Tools
- Alchemical Weapons
- Magic Items
- Armor
- Weapons
- Rings
- Rods
- Staves
- Wondrous Items
- Class Design
- Archetype Design
- Prestige Class Design
Playtest
The Advanced Class Guide Playtest was released on November 14, 2013, as a free PDF download and was revised on December 9. The playtesting period ran through December 17, 2013.
References
- ↑ . A Tale of Two Covers. Paizo blog, 2014
- Real-world articles
- Works by Jason Bulmahn
- Works by Sean K Reynolds
- Works by F. Wesley Schneider
- Works by Owen K.C. Stephens
- Works by Tim Hitchcock
- Works by Russ Taylor
- Works by Jonathan H. Keith
- Works by Tork Shaw
- Works by Jesse Benner
- Works by Savannah Broadway
- Works by Jim Groves
- Works by Tom Phillips
- Works by Dale C. McCoy, Jr.
- Works by Stephen Radney-MacFarland
- Works by Ross Byers
- Works by Will McCardell
- Works by Thomas M. Reid
- Works by Tracy Hurley
- Artwork by Ben Wootten
- Artwork by Subroto Bhaumik
- Artwork by David Alvarez
- Artwork by Ramon Puasa Jr.
- Artwork by Kerem Beyit
- Artwork by Taylor Fischer
- Artwork by Allison Theus
- Artwork by Wayne Reynolds
- Artwork by Igor Grechanyi
- Artwork by Bryan Sola
- Artwork by Tim Kings-Lynne
- Artwork by Mikaël Léger
- Artwork by Christof Grobelski
- Artwork by Miroslav Petrov
- Artwork by Thomas Wievegg
- Artwork by Géraud Soulié
- Artwork by Diana Martinez
- 2015 sourcebooks
- PFRPG sourcebooks
- Pathfinder RPG
- Sourcebooks
- Works by Dennis Baker
- 2013 sourcebooks
- Playtest documents