Menagerie of Mayhem!

The fiercest surprises often come from the most familiar foes! Just as no single class description can define every fighter, rogue, or wizard, no single creature entry can truly cover every vicious champion, unholy priest, or savage sorcerer in a band of organized and intelligent monsters.

With Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex, fleshed-out hordes are at your fingertips! This volume presents a trove of entries for 20 classic monster races, giving you new ways to use your favorite monsters in a variety of encounters and challenge levels.

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex is an indispensable companion to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook and Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 15 years of system development and an Open Playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into a new era.

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex includes:

Pages upon pages of specialized entries for 20 classic monstrous races, from goblins and drow to kobolds and trolls. Face off against such formidable foes as gnoll packlords, ratfolk sages, and dinosaur-riding lizardfolk champions!
Detailed information on the ecologies and societies of these formidable creatures.
New feats, equipment, spells, and archetypes to help you customize all 20 monstrous races—and the adventurers who fight or trade with them.
A horrific new monster associated with each race—allies, thralls, and variants.
Sample encounters ready to challenge raw recruits and experienced adventurers alike.
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!

ext month Paizo will begin shipping the Monster Codex to customers. This latest hardcover rulebook for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game features more than 200 stat blocks for 20 of the Pathfinder RPG's most commonly encountered foes.
Planning to use orcs in an upcoming adventure? Don't bother spending valuable prep time designing orc thugs, leaders, and witch doctors. Just flip to the orc chapter and load your dungeons with ready-to-go denizens designed for easy insertion into any Pathfinder campaign!
The early print copies of the Monster Codex arrived in our offices just over a month ago, and I've practically had to keep a lock on my office door to prevent the rest of the Paizo staff from pilfering our few copies to use in their own home campaigns.
Simply put, the Monster Codex is one of the most flat-out useful rulebooks we've ever published. I've already used three of the chapters in my own games, and Lead Designer Jason Bulmahn (my Monday night GM) has made ample use of the kobold and drow sections, adding significant flavor to his game with almost zero additional preparation.
The Monster Codex includes in-depth chapters on the following races:
Boggards
Bugbears
Drow
Duergar
Fire Giants
Frost Giants
Ghouls
Gnolls
Goblins
Hobgoblins
Kobolds
Lizardfolk
Ogres
Orcs
Ratfolk
Sahuagin
Serpentfolk
Troglodytes
Trolls
Vampires
In addition to about a dozen fully-detailed stat blocks per monster type, each section also includes cultural details, alternative race traits, favored class options, feats, new spells, and magic items tailored for each creature type, adding appropriate tactical and reward options for campaigns that feature them.

This CR 11 drow alchemist has a bunch of poisons your player characters will die for.
Illustration by Alexandre Chaudret
Beware the ghoul huntsmaster, a CR 7 ranger and his corpse cat companion!
Illustration by Wayne England
Bow down before the might of the CR 14 serpentfolk high priest!
Illustration by Florian Stitz
I LOVE THIS BOOK, and I'm confident you will, too.
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex is estimated to start shipping to subscribers October 6th, and releases in retail stores on October 22nd. Make sure you order yours beforehand from paizo.com or let your local retailer know you need one to ensure that you get your copy right away!
Thank you for your continued support of the Pathfinder RPG. May your dice always roll 20s!
Erik Mona
Publisher, Paizo Inc.
PS: Customers with a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ongoing Subscription receive a FREE PDF of the Monster Codex when their book ships!

New Pathfinder Roleplaying Game hardcover released!
The latest Pathfinder Roleplaying Game hardcover has arrived, and this one will fill your head with inhuman thoughts!
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Monster Codex is here, and this book will give your PCs a challenge like never before! An intelligent foe is a dangerous one, and within this tome, a game master will have the opportunity to use a PC's most powerful tool against them—class levels. Over 250 pages of material cover the twenty most common humanoid (well, mostly humanoid) foes that an adventuring party is likely to face: boggard, bugbears, drow, duergar, fire giants, frost giants, ghouls, gnolls, goblins, hobgoblins, kobolds, lizardfolk, ogres, orcs, ratfolk, sahuagin, serpentfolk, troglodytes, trolls, and vampires!
Each monster gets a detailed overview of their society and how they function, but there's plenty more! New rules like racial traits, favored class options, archetypes like the bugbear fearmonger for the antipaladin, feats such as a drow's Angelbane Strike, spells like a boggard's aura of cannibalism and a goblin's bouncy body, or magic items such as a duergar's headband of vermin control! Every monster gets several new ready-to-use statblocks, from the common (boggard brutes, drow scouts) to the uncommon (fire giant magmablade, ghoul monarch, gnoll bouda), more new creatures like the abrakarn viper, frightful haunter, and mutant goblin, and quick encounter groups like a gnoll hunting party and kobold miners! Finally, Monster Codex's new simple class templates make adjusting encounters on the fly even easier, and giving your PCs more than they bargained for when they encounter a ghoul rogue or serpentfolk monk!
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