What is

Pathfinder Society
Organized Play?
This year, Paizo Publishing announced continued support
for the 3.5 edition of the world’s most popular roleplaying
game with an update to 3.5 called the Pathfinder Roleplaying
Game (currently in Beta playtest) and with a new organized
play campaign called Pathfinder Society Organized Play.
Pathfinder Society is like a home game of your favorite
fantasy roleplaying game: it has a GM and players, dice
are rolled, characters created, monsters are vanquished,
treasure is tallied and accumulated—everyone gathers a few
times a month to play together.
Set in the popular Pathfinder Chronicles campaign
setting (home of the blockbuster monthly Pathfinder
Adventure Path series), Pathfinder Society Organized
Play follows the exploits of the setting’s most notorious the nations nearest to it. Five nations have infiltrated the
group of treasure hunters, vagabond scholars, and thrill- Pathfinder Society in hopes of using it as a cover to retrieve
seeking rogues: the Pathfinder Society. Characters made missives, steal objects, and eliminate those who stand in
for Pathfinder Society Organized Play are members of their way. Though only a minority of Pathfinders are secretly
this august society, with countless adventures in their faction members, in Pathfinder Society Organized Play every
future. player belongs to one of the five factions.
Forced to work together by the society and often at
odds because of their factions, these Pathfinders—the
Pathfinders of Pathfinder Society Organized Play—have a
truly monumental task ahead of them.
Pathfinder Society Organized Play brings Pathfinder
and 3.5 organized play fans to your store. With 28 scenarios
released annually (and a beginner series launching soon),
Pathfinder Society gives you ample opportunity to capture
your local OP and RPG fans and keep them coming back for a
quality RPG experience.
For additional information on Pathfinder Society
The Pathfinder Society is based in a teeming metropolis Organized Play, visit paizo.com/pathfindersociety, and
called Absalom. Known as the City at the Center of download the PDF guide book.
the World, Absalom is the largest city in the Pathfinder To get a Pathfinder Society Organized Play chapter
Chronicles campaign setting and is the economic and social started in your store, please contact Paizo’s Events Manager,
capital of the world. As an independent city state, Absalom Joshua J. Frost, at josh@paizo.com.
is desired by all the nations of the world, but most especially

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