John Compton

The Pathfinder Society is a globe-trotting organization of adventurers, scholars, and warriors all dedicated to exploration, collecting lost knowledge and treasure, and sharing it with the world. Lost Omens: Pathfinder Society Guide Special Edition details everything players and GMs need to know about the Pathfinder Society, from the basics of membership, to the Society's various factions, to the various lodges littered throughout the Inner Sea region. This book is the go-to source for the history and lore of the Pathfinder Society and features new rules content including new equipment, wayfinders, and support for Pathfinder-related archetypes! A useful book in its own right, this helpful volume is a must-have for participants in Paizo's massive Pathfinder Society worldwide organized play campaign, and a great way to get involved in the international campaign! This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Outer space is full of alien species both benign and malevolent. Starfinder Alien Archive 2 presents a host of new creatures designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! From the laser-breathing tashtaris and starship-eating stellar protozoans to dust mantas and undead bone troopers, the creatures in this codex will challenge adventurers no matter where in the galaxy they may travel. What's more, player rules for a variety of species let players not just fight aliens, but be them! Inside this book, you'll find the following: • Over 100 bizarre life-forms both classic and new, from the voracious akatas and silicon-based quorlus to radioactive pluprex demons and void-dwelling vermin. • More than a dozen races with full player rules, letting you play everything from an uplifted bear to a sentient slug. • New alien technology to help give your character an edge, including armor, weapons, magic items, and spells. • New rules for magical polymorphing, environmental template grafts to modify creatures to fit any world on the fly, and more! The pocket edition presents the same contents in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

It's a dangerous universe out there, and often the difference between survival and being the next meal for an angry ksarik is having the right equipment. From guns to augmentations to high-tech and magical devices for every imaginable situation, Starfinder Armory is your guide to everything you need, whether you are a frontline fighter, stealthy spy, or scholarly spellcaster. Inside Starfinder Armory, you'll find the following: • Scores of new weapons, filling out the options for weapons of every category, level, and type and rules to customize your weapons through weapon accessories, weapon fusions, and different weapon manufacturers. • New suits of armor, including light, heavy, and powered armor for nearly every level and numerous armor upgrades. • A wide range of new equipment-themed player options, including class features for every class! • Dozens of new pieces of technological, magic, and hybrid items, as well as numerous personal items, new augmentations from cybernetics to magitech and necrografts, and more! The pocket edition presents the same contents as the original hardcover edition in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

Despite how far heroes travel or how many times they save the day, there are always new monsters lurking just around the corner. Pathfinder Monster Core 2 is a 376-page hardcover bursting with brand-new creatures as well as updated Pathfinder classics waiting to find a place at your table. The lavishly illustrated tome also includes guidelines for reading monster entries and adjusting existing monsters to tailor-fit your story! This book is a must-have for Game Masters ready to bring new and exciting challenges to their games! Pathfinder Monster Core 2 makes use of the updated rules for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG! These rules are compatible with previous Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback. Pathfinder Monster Core 2 includes: • Over 300 individual monster writeups, including common foes, like dangerous animals and mighty elementals, to deadly creatures that can threaten even the most hardened heroes, such as the unsettling swarm striders and the devastating obcisidaemon! • Eight brand-new dragons to challenge your players, including the powerful cinder dragon, the terrifying despair dragon, the steadfast requiem dragon, the clever rune dragon, and more! • Classic monsters drawn from mythology, like the coatl and the garuda, as well as creatures drawn from the legends of Pathfinder’s Lost Omens setting, including favorites like the majestic dweomercat and the unstoppable Spawn of Rovagug! • Simple templates that allow you to customize a monster, making it more or less powerful with just a few simple adjustments. • Guidelines for reading and using monster statistics, ensuring you get the most out of a creature both in and out of combat. • Lists of creatures sorted by both type and level, making it easy to find the monster you need when you need it. • Fully integrated errata from the first 5 years of Pathfinder Second Edition, including new balance adjustments to ensure that every creature presents a thrilling level-appropriate challenge! • Hundreds of beautiful full-color creature illustrations! • Published under the new Open RPG Creative (ORC) license, giving players and Game Masters even more freedom for making their own creations based on Pathfinder Second Edition.

Despite how far heroes travel or how many times they save the day, there are always new monsters lurking just around the corner. Pathfinder Monster Core 2 Special Edition is a 376-page hardcover bursting with brand-new creatures as well as updated Pathfinder classics waiting to find a place at your table. The lavishly illustrated tome also includes guidelines for reading monster entries and adjusting existing monsters to tailor-fit your story! This book is a must-have for Game Masters ready to bring new and exciting challenges to their games! Pathfinder Monster Core 2 Special Edition makes use of the updated rules for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG! These rules are compatible with previous Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback. Pathfinder Monster Core 2 Special Edition includes: • Over 300 individual monster writeups, including common foes, like dangerous animals and mighty elementals, to deadly creatures that can threaten even the most hardened heroes, such as the unsettling swarm striders and the devastating obcisidaemon! • Eight brand-new dragons to challenge your players, including the powerful cinder dragon, the terrifying despair dragon, the steadfast requiem dragon, the clever rune dragon, and more! • Classic monsters drawn from mythology, like the coatl and the garuda, as well as creatures drawn from the legends of Pathfinder’s Lost Omens setting, including favorites like the majestic dweomercat and the unstoppable Spawn of Rovagug! • Simple templates that allow you to customize a monster, making it more or less powerful with just a few simple adjustments. • Guidelines for reading and using monster statistics, ensuring you get the most out of a creature both in and out of combat. • Lists of creatures sorted by both type and level, making it easy to find the monster you need when you need it. • Fully integrated errata from the first 5 years of Pathfinder Second Edition, including new balance adjustments to ensure that every creature presents a thrilling level-appropriate challenge! • Hundreds of beautiful full-color creature illustrations! This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Blast off into Starfinder Second Edition with a star chart of the galaxy and a thrilling tour of adventuring locations across the vastness of interstellar space! The Starfinder Galaxy Guide is a primer designed for new and experienced players that explores popular types of science fantasy campaigns—galactic exploration, horror, war-torn space opera, and more—giving GMs and players tools for playing out those types of stories in their Starfinder game. The Galaxy Guide also introduces several powerful galactic factions as potential friends or foes, including AbadarCorp’s holy corporate empire, the infernal orders of the Hellknights, and the world-preserving Xenowardens. Each major faction includes a new archetype players can use to create a character with ties to that faction. The galactic tour ends with a database of playable alien ancestries including a telepathic mega-brain with an atrophied body (contemplative), a friendly shapeshifter with a secretly bizarre true form (astrazoan), and more! The pocket edition presents the same contents as the standard edition in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability. The Starfinder Galaxy Guide Pocket Edition includes: • A double-sided map featuring the Starfinder galaxy and the Pact Worlds system. • Six new playable alien ancestries: astrazoan, contemplative, dragonkin, kalo, sarcesian, and vlaka. • Six new archetypes related to powerful galactic factions. • Exciting new lore introducing new gods, current events, and important hotspots in the Starfinder setting!

Blast off into Starfinder Second Edition with a star chart of the galaxy and a thrilling tour of adventuring locations across the vastness of interstellar space! The Starfinder Galaxy Guide is a primer designed for new and experienced players that explores popular types of science fantasy campaigns—galactic exploration, horror, war-torn space opera, and more—giving GMs and players tools for playing out those types of stories in their Starfinder game. The Galaxy Guide also introduces several powerful galactic factions as potential friends or foes, including AbadarCorp’s holy corporate empire, the infernal orders of the Hellknights, and the world-preserving Xenowardens. Each major faction includes a new archetype players can use to create a character with ties to that faction. The galactic tour ends with a database of playable alien ancestries including a telepathic mega-brain with an atrophied body (contemplative), a friendly shapeshifter with a secretly bizarre true form (astrazoan), and more! The Starfinder Galaxy Guide includes: • A double-sided map featuring the Starfinder galaxy and the Pact Worlds system. • Six new playable alien ancestries: astrazoan, contemplative, dragonkin, kalo, sarcesian, and vlaka. • Six new archetypes related to powerful galactic factions. • Exciting new lore introducing new gods, current events, and important hotspots in the Starfinder setting!

Blast off into Starfinder Second Edition with a star chart of the galaxy and a thrilling tour of adventuring locations across the vastness of interstellar space! The Starfinder Galaxy Guide is a primer designed for new and experienced players that explores popular types of science fantasy campaigns—galactic exploration, horror, war-torn space opera, and more—giving GMs and players tools for playing out those types of stories in their Starfinder game. The Galaxy Guide also introduces several powerful galactic factions as potential friends or foes, including AbadarCorp’s holy corporate empire, the infernal orders of the Hellknights, and the world-preserving Xenowardens. Each major faction includes a new archetype players can use to create a character with ties to that faction. The galactic tour ends with a database of playable alien ancestries including a telepathic mega-brain with an atrophied body (contemplative), a friendly shapeshifter with a secretly bizarre true form (astrazoan), and more! This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark. The Starfinder Galaxy Guide Special Edition includes: • A double-sided map featuring the Starfinder galaxy and the Pact Worlds system. • Six new playable alien ancestries: astrazoan, contemplative, dragonkin, kalo, sarcesian, and vlaka. • Six new archetypes related to powerful galactic factions. • Exciting new lore introducing new gods, current events, and important hotspots in the Starfinder setting!

For nearly 5,000 years, the great city of Absalom has stood at the center of the Inner Sea region's culture, commerce, and prophecy. Now, after the death of its founder-god Aroden, the disappearance of its lord mayor, and new attacks from some of its greatest foes, Absalom stands at the crossroads of a new and uncertain destiny! This lore-packed 400-page guide presents a fascinating locale suitable for years of Pathfinder adventures! A huge poster map of the city, more than 250 locations, and more than 400 interconnected NPCs set the scene in unprecedented detail, beckoning your characters to walk upon streets paved with centuries of history. Follow in the footsteps of generations of questing heroes to chart a new path for the City at the Center of the World! This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Creating an impromptu, original character every time the heroes meet a contact on a crowded space station or chat with a local on an alien planet can be a challenge, but the Starfinder Deck of Endless NPCs makes it as simple as drawing four cards from the deck. These cards combine to form a unique NPC, each with their own role, motivation, personality trait, and secret agenda! With over 100 million different combinations, you are sure to get an interesting new character to add to your story every time! The Starfinder Deck of Endless NPCs contains the following: • 104 NPC cards, plus 6 rules cards explaining how to use the deck. The front of each card has a portrait of the NPC, featuring characters from dozens of species. • The back of each card explains the character's role, goal, traits, and secret agenda, along with symbols to help determine some of the specific details. • Includes species from across all Alien Archives, sourcebooks like the Pact Worlds, Starfinder Adventure Paths, and more!

Bring an array of aliens—both weird and familiar—to your science fantasy adventures with Interstellar Species, the newest rulebook for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! This gorgeously illustrated reference provides deep dives on 25 playable Starfinder species, each with thematic player options usable by any character, plus new options for 7 Starfinder character classes. There's also a system for easily creating your own playable species, and a catalog of around 100 thematic nonplayer characters ready to slot into any adventure! A new class, the evolutionist, allows you to transform yourself over time into an eldritch being, mechanized construct, sepulchral undead, or riot of biological potential, each with unique abilities—and drawbacks, should you allow your transformation to grow out of control.

Starfinder’s original campaign returns in a new hardcover six-adventure compilation! When a fragment of an ancient alien superweapon surfaces in the depths of hyperspace, its discovery sets off a race to find the extraterrestrial doomsday device. Hopping from planet to planet in the Pact Worlds and beyond, the heroes must contend with both the undead Corpse Fleet and the nihilistic Cult of the Devourer, each of which seeks to acquire the alien artifact for its own purposes. Can the heroes find and destroy the superweapon before their enemies seize control of it, or will the Pact Worlds' sun go dark and cold, a harbinger of dead suns across the galaxy? Starfinder’s very first campaign explodes onto the pages of this massive hardcover compilation, containing all six adventures in the Dead Suns Adventure Path, a galaxy-spanning campaign that helped launch the Starfinder RPG, along with support articles, rules, monsters, and more! This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Starfinder’s original campaign returns in a new six-adventure hardcover compilation! When a fragment of an ancient alien superweapon surfaces in the depths of hyperspace, its discovery sets off a race to find the extraterrestrial doomsday device. Hopping from planet to planet in the Pact Worlds and beyond, the heroes must contend with both the undead Corpse Fleet and the nihilistic Cult of the Devourer, each of which seeks to acquire the alien artifact for its own purposes. Can the heroes find and destroy the superweapon before their enemies seize control of it, or will the Pact Worlds' sun go dark and cold, a harbinger of dead suns across the galaxy? Starfinder’s very first campaign explodes onto the pages of this massive hardcover compilation, containing all six adventures in the Dead Suns Adventure Path, a galaxy-spanning campaign that helped launch the Starfinder RPG, along with support articles, rules, monsters, and more!

Strange aliens both friendly and fearsome fill this tome of creatures designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! From the gravity-manipulating frujais and planet-killing novaspawn to space goblins and security robots, the creatures in this codex will challenge adventurers no matter what strange worlds they're exploring. What's more, player rules for a host of creatures let players not just fight aliens, but be them! Inside Starfinder Alien Archive, you'll find the following: • Over 80 bizarre life-forms both classic and new, from the reptilian ikeshtis and energy-bodied hallajins to robotic anacites and supernatural entities from beyond the realms of mortals. • Over 20 races with full player rules, letting you play everything from a winged dragonkin to a hyperevolved floating brain. • New alien technology to help give your character an edge, including weapons, armor, magic items, and more. • A robust NPC-creation system to let Game Masters build any aliens or creatures they can imagine. • New rules for magical monster summoning, quick templates to modify creatures on the fly, and more! The pocket edition presents the same contents in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

For nearly 5000 years, the great city of Absalom has stood at the center of the Inner Sea’s culture, commerce, and prophecy. Now, with the death of the city’s founder-god Aroden, the disappearance of the city’s lord mayor, and newly launched attacks from some of its greatest foes, Absalom stands at the gateway to a new and uncertain destiny! This lore-packed 296-page hardcover guide to the locations, denizens, and adventures of Pathfinder’s most famous city is the largest Pathfinder city sourcebook to date, presenting a fascinating locale suitable for years of adventure! A huge 8-panel poster map of the city sets the scene in unprecedented detail, allowing your heroes to walk upon streets paved with centuries of history, following the steps of generations of questing heroes to chart a new path for the City at the Center of the World!

No quest is complete without wondrous treasures motivating heroes to adventure. Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Lost Treasures presents nearly 50 rare treasures with unique game statistics, backgrounds, adventures they might inspire, and advice on incorporating them into ongoing Pathfinder RPG campaigns. To further aid Game Masters, Lost Treasures presents a dozen iconic treasure hoards, as well as new curses and deadly treasure chests to guard these wondrous treasures forever.

john compton is a poet who marches to the beat of his own drum. Seeing compton's work, I am left with so much hope about poetry's future. - MICHAEL CHANG, poet and author of Toy Soldiers john compton's house as a cemetery is a raw and unfiltered look at grief, queerness, and the emotional aftermath of living through trauma. compton writes with urgency and purpose, making this collection feel less like a book and more like a necessary act of survival. - EMANUEL XAVIER, poet and author of Still, We Are Sacred The way this poet faces death so beautifully will inspire every reader to dive inside and cherish the life outside the spine of this dark yet masterwork of mortality, expertly resurrected. - ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA, poet & author of La Belle Ajar, We Are the Ones Possessed, and La Lengua Inside Me john compton leads us "on a tour / identifying every dead thing." On display is the grotesque, the sensual, and the transformative. - Paul Hlava Ceballos, poet and author of banana ] john compton continues to sing his solitary song with the voice of a pure poet. He is a poet of rare talent whose work cuts the cloth of everyday language into a magic carpet of longing, lust, and love. His work transcends his life and thus triumphs over the stark realities of a world on fire and the constraints of his everyday life. - JIM DUNN, poet and author of Angry Bull's Cadence A poet can tell you things you know but don't quite articulate: A poet can also surprise the way something ordinary can be seen anew: A poet can make us feel that a line of verse is not unlike a Chagall painting-next time you are in your house, remember that a house "sits, skeleton bare to the elements." Most importantly, sometime the poets tell us like it is. And that is the truth. -ILYA KAMINSKY, poet and author of Deaf Republic john compton's house as a cemetery is a tapestry of eclectic free verse as it escorts readers into the pulse of death's kaleidoscope. Each poem is a window into a different point of view, many poems from a speaker who teaches us something new to see about rebirth, belonging, about demise, enlisting strong diction that's both wise and gripping. -K. R. MORRISON, poet, educator, and author of Cauldrons

Having realized their divine power, the PCs must confront the mythic threat awakening beneath Iblydos itself. To do so, they must rescue a legendary blade capable of dealing the killing blow, seek allies within a city of monsters, and rile a mountain-sized beast to uncover one of the archipelago’s greatest secrets—and decide the islands’ future. “Titanbane” is a Pathfinder Adventure for four 7th-level characters. This adventure concludes the Myth-Speaker Adventure Path, a three-part monthly campaign in which the player characters assume the role of regional hero-gods and have the opportunity to restore the tradition of myth-speaking to a realm inspired by Ancient Greece. This volume also includes a gazetteer of the lands surrounding Iblydos; two articles for continuing your mythic PCs’ story and abilities; and a toolbox of new items, spells, and creatures from the mythic isles of Iblydos.

The city-states of Iblydos rule an archipelago steeped in mythic power, legendary beasts, and ancient history. Yet the region suffers; the myth-speaking rites that elevate great heroes into mortal demigods are failing, with few of the hero-gods surviving to guide their people and grant magic. All of this changes when a god's death awakens a forgotten source of mythic potential, transforming the player characters into the first new hero-gods in recent memory. But what is this mythic power, and will it revitalize Iblydos or doom it entirely? The port of Bailax hosts lavish funeral games for a recently deceased hero, inviting visitors and locals alike to compete for prizes and glory. However, an ominous meteor crashes nearby and interrupts the festivities. What the adventurers find there won't just transform them into mythic hero-gods, but also will incite Bailax to violent revelry and arson. Can the new hero-gods stop the city from self-destruction? “The Acropolis Pyre” is a Pathfinder Adventure for four 1st-level characters. This adventure begins the Myth-Speaker Adventure Path, a three-part monthly campaign in which the player characters assume the role of regional hero-gods and have the opportunity to restore the tradition of myth-speaking to a realm inspired by Ancient Greece. This volume also includes a look at existing hero-gods of Iblydos, a gazetteer of the city of Bailax, a phoenix-blessed city of pyres, and a toolbox of new gear, spells, feats, and creatures from the mythic isles of Iblydos, from the mischievous torcheater to the magnificent pyrefowl.