Pathfinder: ‘NPC Core’ Arrives – Bringing Friends, Foes, And Rivals To Lovers To Your Tabletop
The Pathfinder NPC Core book will enrich the way you handle NPCs in your game. Rules for relationships, new stat blocks, and more!
Pathfinder has a new big splat just out for wide release—the NPC Core. This book covers all things non-playable characters. Part bestiary, part rules expansion, it’s an in-depth resource for roleplay and combat. You’ll find new NPCs and new ways to use them.
This includes a numerical scale that tracks how much an NPC loves or hates your character. As well, there are rules for tracking the arc of a relationship. Whether it’s from rivals to lovers or friends to foes. Which should be handy for recurring NPCs that the players don’t immediately kill.
You’ll have to contrive your own scenarios for how—say, after a storm an NPC and their rival PC have to share a room with only one bed in it. Or whatever romantasy trope floats your boat these days. But that’s the fun of RPGs. That and watching the tragedy unfold as you watch friends turn into bitter enemies. And an NPC that was once “Bonded” becomes “Vindictive” and eventually the two former friends settle the score in a rooftop duel in the rain.
It’s always rain, for some reason.
Pathfinder NPC Core – Available Now at Your FLGS
This book is chock full of rules for deepening the presence of NPCs in your world. Whether you want some quick tables to generate up some NPCs, or if you’re looking for new stat blocks for enemies, allies, rivals, and whoever else, you’ll find a ton of new NPC stat blocks as well. And for Pathfinder 2E especially, you always need more. The ones in the Bestiary only whet the appetite.
“Devotees of the gods, cunning mercenaries, fun-loving performers, crafty engineers, devious villains and more all have roles in your game with the Pathfinder NPC Core! Over 250 stat blocks for NPCs let you drop all kinds of characters into your game, from servants and farmers to masters of magic and martial arts. The NPCs are crafted to be fun and easy to use, with sets of adjustments to quickly change their ancestry, level, and more. You’ll also find a trove of NPCs specific to non-human ancestries, like a dwarf general, goblin get-gang, and kobold egg guardian. Each section of NPCs is themed, and includes lore, custom rules, and random tables to spice up your gameplay. Never find yourself making up statistics on the fly again—you can find everything you need in the Pathfinder NPC Core!”
Sometimes it’s just Enemies to Enemies, though.
