Advanced Player's Guide (Second Edition)

This article covers the Pathfinder Second Edition Advanced Player's Guide. For the Pathfinder First Edition equivalent, see Advanced Player's Guide (First Edition).

The Advanced Player's Guide, a Pathfinder Second Edition core rulebook by Logan Bonner, Lyz Liddell, and Mark Seifter, with additional writing by Amirali Attar Olyaee, Alexander Augunas, Kate Baker, Brian Bauman, Carlos Cabrera, James Case, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, Paris Crenshaw, Jesse Decker, Fabby Garza Marroquín, Steven Hammond, Sasha Laranoa Harving, Joan Hong, Nicolas Hornyak, Vanessa Hoskins, James Jacobs, Erik Keith, Luis Loza, Ron Lundeen, Patchen Mortimer, Dennis Muldoon, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Jessica Redekop, Mikhail Rekun, Alex Riggs, David N. Ross, Michael Sayre, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Jason Tondro, Clark Valentine, and Andrew White, was released on July 30, 2020. Mark Seifter was the book's design lead.

The book's 2nd printing and errata were released in April 2022.

The Advanced Player's Guide was succeeded as Pathfinder Second Edition's core expansion in August 2024 by the book Player Core 2 as part of the Pathfinder Remaster project.

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Ready to go beyond the basics? Expand the limits of what's possible with the Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide! This 272-page Pathfinder Second Edition rulebook contains exciting new rules options for player characters, adding even more depth of choice to your Pathfinder game! Inside you will find brand new ancestries, heritages, and four new classes: the shrewd investigator, the mysterious oracle, the daring swashbuckler, and the hex-slinging witch! The must-have Advanced Player's Guide also includes exciting new options for all your favorite Core Rulebook classes and tons of new backgrounds, general feats, spells, items, and 40 flexible archetypes to customize your play experience even further!
The Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide includes:

Four new classes: the investigator, oracle, swashbuckler, and witch!

Five new ancestries and five heritages for any ancestry: celestial aasimars, curious catfolk, hagspawned changelings, vampiric dhampirs, fate-touched duskwalkers, scaled kobolds, fierce orcs, fiendish tieflings, industrious ratfolk, and feathered tengu!

40 new archetypes including multiclass archetypes for the four new classes, Pathfinder favorites like the cavalier, dragon disciple, shadowdancer, and vigilante, and brand-new archetypes like the familiar master and the shield-bearing iron wall!

New class options for all twelve classes from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook including champions of evil, genie and shadow sorcerers, zen archer monks, rogue masterminds, spellcasting rangers, and more!

Even more exciting new rules, from rare and unique backgrounds to investigative skill feats, from spells and rituals like reincarnate and create demiplane to new items including special wands with unusual effects and exciting potions worthy of a witch's cauldron.

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Investigator
Oracle
Swashbuckler
Acrobat
Archeologist
Archer
Assassin
Bastion
Beastmaster
Blessed One
Bounty Hunter
Cavalier
Celebrity
Dandy
Dragon Disciple
Dual-Weapon Warrior
Duelist
Eldritch Archer
Familiar Master
Gladiator
Herbalist
Horizon Walker
Linguist
Loremaster
Marshal
Martial Artist
Mauler
Medic
Pirate
Poisoner
Ritualist
Scout
Scroll Trickster
Scrounger
Sentinel
Shadowdancer
Snarecrafter
Talisman Dabbler
Vigilante
Viking
Weapon Improviser

4: Feats

p. 200

Feat Tables
General and Skill Feats

5: Spells

p. 210

Spell Lists
Spell Descriptions
Focus Spells
Rituals

6: Items

p. 246

Weapons and Adventuring Gear
Treasure Table
Alchemical Items
Snares
Magic Items

Glossary & Index

p. 266

Playtest

Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide Class Playtest, a Pathfinder Second Edition playtest document by Logan Bonner, Lyz Liddell, and Mark Seifter, was released on November 6, 2019, and expired on December 2, 2019.

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Welcome to the Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide playtest! In the document below, you'll find four new classes set to be introduced in the Advanced Player's Guide in July 2020, but before we can add them to the game, we need your help to ensure they are the best they can be! To do that, we need you to create characters using these classes and give them a try. We're hoping that each of these new characters offers you a style of play that's enjoyable, effective, and distinct from the currently available classes, allowing you to tell even richer stories with diverse experiences in all modes of play.

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