Pathfinder:Occult Adventures

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**Sinful Hero**

Paizo wrote:"Paizo has just announced a special Halloween-spirited preview of next summer's major hardcover release, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Occult Adventures. A huge playtest preview of the book's six new classes is now live on paizo.com to kick off a month-long open playtest process that allows Pathfinder RPG players to share their experiences with the Paizo staff. Playtester feedback will be incorporated into the final book, which is slated for release in July, 2015.

Occult Adventures will feature six new classes for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, and an entirely new system for psychic magic. The 256-page hardcover book will have details on occult concepts, such as séances, aura-reading, and occult rituals, as well as tons of new spells, magic items drawn from occult legends, and ways to add psychic and occult elements to existing Pathfinder classes. The new 20-level base classes included in Occult Adventures are the reality-warping kineticist, the spirit-infused medium, the manipulative mesmerist, the relic-wielding occultist, the mind-master psychic, and the phantom-bonded spiritualist.

Participants in the playtest can download and review the six new classes, use them in their games, or otherwise test the power, balance, and overall clarity of the new classes. Via the paizo.com mesageboards, playtesters will directly communicate with the design team and other players, helping to polish and refine the classes, while also taking part in surveys and brainstorms to help make Occult Adventures a fantastic new part of the Pathfinder RPG.

The playtest is open to all via a free download. To participate, visit http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/occultAdventuresPlaytest for more information!"

Sounds fairly interesting. Especially the Occultist(to me at least).

**reds8n**

will certainly have a look

**Nevelon**

There has always been a vocal group asking for psionic rules. Looks like Paizo finally figured out something they were happy enough with to kick out the door. I’ll take a look, may actually purchase a copy when it comes out if it seems worth it.

I skimmed the playtest doc. Looks like the 3.5 warlock is back in the form of the kineticist. Some interesting tricks in there with the other classes, but nothing really called out to me. Might float someone else’s boat though. Just a lot of re-skinned bard/sorcerers with some flavorful abilities.

**Manchu**

Has anyone managed to get ahold of this yet?

**Sinful Hero**

The book won't be released until next year-or are you talking about the playtest?

**Nevelon**

To get a copy of the playtest, you just need to have an account over at paizo, log in, add the (free) playest PDF to your cart, and download it. I used to be active in the forums over there, so had an account. I think it’s just a simple thing to set up. They do watermark your PDFs with your account name, so I’m not going to post my copy on the web at large. But getting one of your own is just a handful of clicks.

**Manchu**

The issue was, Paizo's site was down earlier.

**reds8n**

I Dl'ed it -- yell if you're still stuck

**Manchu**

Cheers, red -- I got ahold of it yesterday.

I have lost the skill set of making heads or tails of d20 classes at a glance, however.

**Nevelon**

Manchu wrote:
Cheers, red -- I got ahold of it yesterday.

I have lost the skill set of making heads or tails of d20 classes at a glance, however.

It doesn’t help that all the simple classes have already been made, so anything new is some wacky hybrid mash-up. While you can look at the base core classes and sum them up in one line/glance, the newer ones just can’t be described simply. It’s not that you lost the skill, but a glance is no longer enough to decipher the abilities, features and mechanics in the new books.

Either that, or I’ve lost it as well. I’ll blame the books.

**Manchu**

Pathfinder is deep, deep into the splat phase they decried back in 2008; they just do it with base rather than prestige classes.

**Nevelon**

Manchu wrote:
Pathfinder is deep, deep into the splat phase they decried back in 2008; they just do it with base rather than prestige classes.

Yup. I hate to admit it, but that’s the case. Although I prefer the base class to the prestige. When your character is defined by the prestige class, you spend the first 5-8 levels pretending to play the character you want, while you meet the pre-reqs. At least with base class splat you are playing the character you want out of the gate.

**Manchu**

Yes, that's a good point.

It also gets to why I prefer simpler games, where my PC is defined more by what I do during play than a pre-defined class.