Whether you are a new Game Master or experienced storyteller, you can always find new ways to hone your craft. This comprehensive 640-page guide to the Pathfinder roleplaying game provides everything you need to set out on a world of limitless fantasy adventure! Choose from ancestries like elf, human, and goblin and classes like alchemist, fighter, and sorcerer to create a hero of your own design destined to become a legend! Based on more than 20 years of active development and playtest feedback from more than 125,000 gamers, the new Pathfinder rules are easy to learn and exciting to master! This indispensable volume contains all rules for players and Game Masters, and is your first step on a heroic new journey! The Pathfinder Core Rulebook includes: * More than 600 pages of game rules, advice, character options, treasure, and more for players and Game Masters! * Six heroic player character ancestries, including elf, dwarf, gnome, goblin, halfling, and human, with variant heritages for half-elf and half-orc! * More than 30 backgrounds like bartender, soldier, or apprentice to further immerse yourself in your hero's backstory! * Twelve character classes, including the alchemist, barbarian, bard, champion, cleric, druid, fighter, monk, ranger, rogue, sorcerer, and wizard! * Hundreds and hundreds of spells, class feats, and other exciting abilities to help you customize your character to become the hero YOU envision them to be! * Streamlined and revised rules to help ease new players into the game while providing the depth of character options and tactical interest that have defined Pathfinder from the beginning! * Detailed lore sidebars offering additional information about Pathfinder's most popular monstrous friends and foes! * Guidelines for providing appropriate monstrous treasures for any occasion. More than 400 of fantasy's fiercest foes burst from the pages of this enormous 360-page compendium of the most popular and commonly encountered creatures in the world of Pathfinder! From familiar enemies like orcs, dragons, and vampires to new horrors like the living-nightmare nilith and the three-headed mutoli, to suitable servants for summoners of every alignment, this must-have companion to the Pathfinder Core Rulebook is crawling with creatures perfect for your Pathfinder adventures! The Pathfinder Bestiary includes: * More than 400 monsters drawn from mythology, genre classics, and more than a decade of Pathfinder, with plenty of new monsters too! * Gorgeous full-color illustrations on nearly every page! * Detailed monster lists sorted by level, type, and rarity to help you find the right monster for any situation! * Universal monster rules to simplify special attacks, defenses, and qualities like grab, swallow whole, and regeneration. Detailed lore sidebars offering additional information about even more of Pathfinder's most popular friends and foes! Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Pocket Edition includes: - More than 300 monsters drawn from mythology and folklore, genre classics, and more than a decade of Pathfinder, with plenty of new monsters too! - Gorgeous full-color illustrations on nearly every page! - Comprehensive monster lists sorted by level, type, and rarity to help you find the right monster for any situation! - Universal monster rules to simplify special attacks, defenses, and qualities like grab, swallow whole, and regeneration. From classic creatures like clockworks and tooth fairies, returning favorites like imperial dragons and mighty titans, to brand-new menaces found all over Golarion, this must-have tome of monsters designed to challenge characters of any level is an essential companion to your Pathfinder game! The pocket edition presents the same contents in a smaller-sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.
With more than 300 classic and brand-new monsters, this 320-page beautifully illustrated softcover rulebook completes the collection of creatures begun in the first two Pathfinder Bestiary volumes.