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This document is for players and Game Masters. You should be familiar with the

Beginner Box Hero’s Handbook

and

Game Master’s Guide.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NEW RULES TO KNOW

READING A

CORE RULEBOOK

SPELL

READING A

BESTIARY

MONSTER STAT BLOCK

PATHFINDER MODULES

CONVERTING ADVENTURES

6TH LEVEL AND BEYOND

REBOOTING YOUR CHARACTER

PATHFINDER PRODUCTS

PATHFINDER SOCIETY

AUTHOR •

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INTERIOR ARTISTS

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CREATIVE DIRECTOR

• James Jacobs

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

• F. Wesley Schneider

SENIOR EDITOR

• James L. Sutter

LEAD DESIGNER

• Jason Bulmahn

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• Judy Bauer, Logan Bonner,

Christopher Carey, and Sean K Reynolds

EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE

• Adam Daigle, Rob McCreary,

Mark Moreland, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, and Patrick Renie

SENIOR ART DIRECTOR

• Sarah E. Robinson

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

• Andrew Vallas

PRODUCTION SPECIALIST

• Crystal Frasier

PUBLISHER

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PAIZO CEO

• Lisa Stevens

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The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game rules can be found online as

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So you’ve been playing with the

Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box

and you want more—more spells,

more classes, more monsters, more magic items, more fun! You’re ready to take the next step in

learning the full version of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. You see that 576-page

Pathfinder RPG

Core Rulebook...

and you’re probably feeling a little intimidated. That’s okay!

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The

Core Rulebook

is a big book with a lot of rules and options,

but you don’t need to learn them all right away. This

Beginner

Box Transitions

document is here to help you make the change

from the

Beginner Box

to the

Core Rulebook.

It uses friendly

language—just like you’re used to seeing in the

Beginner Box—

to explain what you’ll find in the

Core Rulebook.

Just remember

that you can take your time when learning the full rules, and

you can add them to your game a piece at a time.

Remember when all the spells and class abilities seemed like a

lot to understand? Remember when an ogre was a hard monster

to run because it was Large and had Reach? With practice, you

figured out how to use those rules. They’re easy now, as easy as

making an attack roll. In the same way, you’ll soon be able to

handle the

Core Rulebook,

and this document will help you do it.

Here’s a quick rundown of the sections in the

Beginner Box

Transitions

document.

PATHFINDER MODULES

Paizo has many complete adventures for sale and publishes

more every year! This section describes seven low-level

adventures you can use with either the

Beginner Box

or the

Core Rulebook.

Once you’ve read up on some of the new rules, you may want

to try using a published adventure. This section takes the free

adventure

Master of the Fallen Fortress

and walks you through

it step by step, pointing out where it uses new rules from the

Core Rulebook

so you can keep, change, or drop them when

you run the adventure.

CONVERTING ADVENTURES

NEW RULES TO KNOW

This section gives an overview of important rules in the Core

Rulebook—big concepts that you’ll see into a lot. Just like the

Beginner Box

explains how to read dice, make attack rolls,

and choose spells, the

Core Rulebook

explains how to grapple

enemies, give your character more than one class, and use

special rules like “attacks of opportunity.” This section gives

you a short description of each of these rule ideas and the

page number in the

Core Rulebook

you can turn to if you want

to read more about that rule.

This section explains what to do when your 5th-level

Beginner

Box

character is ready to level up to 6th level using the

Core

Rulebook.

It points out all the changes like spells known,

attack bonus, and saving throws.

6TH LEVEL AND BEYOND

REBOOTING YOUR CHARACTER

If you’d like to convert a lower-level

Beginner Box

character

to the

Core Rulebook

rules without waiting for 6th level, this

section tells you how to modify your character so you can take

advantage of all the options in the

Core Rulebook.

PATHFINDER PRODUCTS

PATHFINDER SOCIETY

READING A BESTIARY STAT

BLOCK

The

Pathfinder RPG Bestiary

has more than 350 different

monsters for the full Pathfinder RPG. You can use these monsters

with the

Beginner Box,

but the monster stat blocks look a little

different than what you’re used to. Using the Ghoul page from

the

Bestiary,

this section shows where to find things on its stat

block, and explains what the new parts mean.

Paizo publishes many rulebooks and accessories for the

Pathfinder RPG. This section describes some of Paizo’s books,

maps, and miniatures you can add to your game.

Do you want to find other gamers in your area? Do you

want to join an ongoing campaign with players all over the

world? This section explains the Pathfinder Society Organized

Play program—Paizo’s network of gamers, short adventure

scenarios, and game convention events.

The

Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook

and

Pathfinder RPG Bestiary

use a lot more rules than the

Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box.

Many of these rules are simply more of the same things you’re already

familiar with—like feats, spells, and monsters—and you can easily add them to your campaign.

However, there are also new rules that change or enhance how things work in the

Beginner Box,

and you’ll need to make sure you understand them before adding them to your game. This section

summarizes those rules and tells you where you can find more information on how they work.

Remember, if you don’t like a rule, you don’t have to use it in your game!

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WHAT DO I NEED TO READ?

When learning to use the

Core Rulebook,

you don’t

have to read it cover to cover; you can take pieces

and add them to your campaign as you’re ready. For

example, one week you could read about the paladin

class in Chapter 3 and add that to your game, and

the next week you might read some of the feats in

Chapter 5 and add them to your game. Just like the

Beginner Box,

the

Core Rulebook

allows you to plug

in parts of the rules as you learn them. The easiest

chapters to add in small pieces are Races (Chapter 2),

Classes (Chapter 3), and Feats (Chapter 5).

With the

Core Rulebook,

when you do something reckless

in combat and let your guard down, nearby opponents can

take advantage of your moment of weakness and make a

free attack against you. That attack is called an

attack of

opportunity

(or AOO). If you like a more tactical game where

players can take risks to accomplish interesting things, you

may want to try adding attacks of opportunity to your game.

Generally, if there’s an action you could perform in the

Core

Rulebook

that would trigger an attack of opportunity from an

enemy, the

Beginner Box

rules won’t let you do that action

at all. For example, on page 61 of the

Hero’s Handbook,

the

Beginner Box

rules say you can’t cast a ranged spell

when you’re next to an enemy. If you’re using the attack

of opportunity rules, you

can

cast a ranged spell next to an

enemy, but the enemy gets an attack of opportunity on you!

Likewise, on page 56 of the

Hero’s Handbook,

the

Beginner

Box

says you can’t attack with a ranged weapon unless you’re

at least 10 feet from an enemy. If you’re using attacks of

opportunity, you

can

use a ranged weapon even if you’re only

5 feet away from an enemy, but the enemy gets an attack of

opportunity on you. It’s a risk... but sometimes you have to

take that chance in order to win a battle or save a friend. The

full rules for attacks of opportunity are on page 180 of the

Core Rulebook.

ATTACKS OF OPPORTUNITY

an opponent so she’s at a disadvantage. The

Core Rulebook

calls these kinds of special attacks

combat maneuvers

and

gives rules for how characters and monsters can perform

them. Performing a combat maneuver is similar to making

an attack roll, except instead of using your attack bonus,

you use a special bonus called a

Combat Maneuver Bonus

(CMB), and instead of rolling against your target’s Armor Class,

you’re rolling against a special defensive number called a

Combat Maneuver Defense

(CMD). If your d20 + CMB equals

or exceeds the target’s CMD, you succeed at the maneuver.

In addition to being able to disarm, grapple, and trip, you

can bull rush (push an enemy into another square), overrun

(move through an enemy’s square into a square past it), or

sunder (break an opponent’s weapon or held item). The full

rules for combat maneuvers (including how to figure out

your character’s CMB and CMD) start on page 198 of the

Core

Rulebook.

The

Core Rulebook

also includes feats that make

you better at performing combat maneuvers (see page 110).

DISARM, GRAPPLE, AND TRIP

The

Beginner Box

doesn’t let most creatures perform fancy

maneuvers like disarming an opponent’s weapon, grappling

a bandit so you can take him prisoner, or knocking down

BEGINNER BOX TRANSITIONS

In the

Beginner Box,

a character increases his attack bonus

based on his class and level. In the

Core Rulebook,

this

modifier to your attack roll is called the

base attack bonus

(BAB). Both characters and monsters have a base attack

bonus, even monsters in the

Beginner Box—the

base attack

bonus isn’t shown, but it’s built into the monster stat block in

its attacks. A character’s base attack bonus works basically the

same as an attack bonus in the

Beginner Box.

The full rules

for base attack bonuses are on page 11 of the

Core Rulebook.

BASE ATTACK BONUS

monster template

(or “template”) is a way to modify a

monster by changing its stat block. For example, if you had a

dungeon full of giant spiders, and wanted an encounter with

a very tough spider, you could add a template to the giant

spider stat block to make it deal more damage and increase

the difficulty class (DC) of its poison. Or, if you wanted to have

a herd of demon-tainted boars attacking a village, you could

add a template to the boar stat block to create a “hell boar”

with damage reduction (like a gargoyle has), fire resistance

(like a

resist energy

spell grants), and spell resistance (like a

serpentfolk has).

Some templates are called

simple templates

because they

only change a few things and you can make the change in

about a minute. Other monster templates are more complex,

greatly changing a monster from its original form—the

ghost, skeleton, werewolf, and zombie in the

Beginner Box

are actually humans transformed with complex monster

templates. Simple templates are on page 294 of the

Bestiary,

and complex templates are listed in the

Bestiary

under the

template’s name (ghost, half-dragon, skeleton, and so on).

MONSTER TEMPLATES

Hit Dice

(HD) are a rough measure of a creature’s power and

skill. Each PC has a number of Hit Dice equal to her level (a

2nd-level fighter has 2 HD, a 4th-level wizard has 4 HD, and

so on). Monsters also have Hit Dice; they’re just not shown in

the

Beginner Box

monster stat blocks because most of the

time you don’t need to know how many Hit Dice monsters

have. (Only a few spells and monster abilities grant different

effects depending on how many Hit Dice the target has.) If

you need to know how many Hit Dice a monster has, look up

the monster in the

Bestiary;

the monster’s Hit Dice are listed

on the same line as its hit points.

HIT DICE

With the

Core Rulebook

rules, every bonus you add to a roll

has a bonus type. For example, the

bless

spell gives you a

morale bonus

on attack rolls and the

divine favor

spell gives

you a

luck bonus

on attack rolls. This is important because

if you have more than one bonus of the same type, you only

use the highest bonus of that type. For example, if you had

a ring that gives you a +1 luck bonus on saving throws and a

cloak that gave you a +2 luck bonus on saving throws, the luck

bonus from the cloak is more powerful and is the only one that

counts. Two bonuses of the same type are called

overlapping

bonuses—the bigger bonus of that type is dominant. This

rule keeps players from reaching overly powerful bonuses by

adding together multiple weak items of the same type.

The

Beginner Box

incorporates this into the rules behind the

scenes, without telling you why it’s doing it. For example, you

can only wear one

ring of protection

at a time—that’s because

in the

Core Rulebook,

the ring gives you a +1 deflection bonus,

and wearing two +1 deflection bonus items just gives you

a +1 bonus, not a +2. Another example is the

mage armor

spell, which says if you’re wearing armor, you use either the

+4 bonus from the spell or the armor’s bonus, whichever is

greater—that’s because both the spell and the armor give

you an armor bonus, so you’d only get the armor bonus from

either the spell or the armor, whichever is greater.

If you have two different kinds of bonuses, however, they

still add together. This is called

stacking.

For example, if you

have a ring that gives you a +1 luck bonus to AC and an amulet

that gives you a +1 natural armor bonus to AC, these bonuses

stack since their bonuses are of different types—both of them

count, for a total of +2.

Very rarely, you’ll find a kind of bonus that stacks even with

bonuses of the same type. For example, dodge bonuses to AC

BONUS TYPES, OVERLAPPING,

AND STACKING

always stack. If you have a +1 dodge bonus from a feat and a

+1 dodge bonus from a racial ability, these bonuses stack and

both of them count toward your AC.

The

Core Rulebook

details several skills that aren’t in the

Beginner Box:

Appraise, Craft, Disguise, Escape Artist, Fly,

Handle Animal, Intimidate, Knowledge (engineering),

Knowledge (nobility), Knowledge (planes), Linguistics,

Perform, Profession, Sleight of Hand, Survival, and Use Magic

Device. The descriptions for these skills begin on page 87 of

the

Core Rulebook.

The

Core Rulebook

also details two shortcuts for using skills,

called taking 10 and taking 20.

Taking 10

lets you attempt an

easy skill check as if you had rolled a 10 on your d20—you’d

only want to do it for an easy task that you could succeed at

by rolling 10 or higher. Taking 10 is in the rules so you don’t

risk failing easy tasks. The rules for taking 10 are on page 86

of the

Core Rulebook.

Taking 20

is a little more complicated. If you are up against

a difficult DC, but have some time to make sure you get a

task done right, you can take an extra long time to perform

the task and attempt the skill check as if you had rolled a 20

on your d20. Normally players take 20 on Perception checks

(to search for a secret door or trap) and Disable Device checks

(to pick a lock). It’s easier and faster for the player to take 20

instead of rolling the d20 again and again until she succeeds.

The rules for taking 20 are on page 86 of the

Core Rulebook.

SKILLS, TAKING 10, AND

TAKING 20

paladins, and rangers). More information on arcane spell

failure is on page 150 of the

Core Rulebook.

There are feats

that make it easier for a wizard to cast spells while wearing

armor—see Arcane Armor Mastery, Arcane Armor Training,

and Still Spell in Chapter 5 of the

Core Rulebook.

Additionally, just as you can get masterwork weapons that

are better than normal weapons, you can get

masterwork

armor

that’s better than normal armor. Masterwork armor has

an armor check penalty 1 lower than normal, but it costs 150

gp more. All magic armor is automatically masterwork armor.

More information on masterwork armor is on page 153 of the

Core Rulebook.

Armor in the

Core Rulebook

is a little more complex than in

the

Beginner Box.

It includes three additional rules for those

wearing armor. The first is the

maximum Dex bonus.

All

armor restricts your movement, and if your DEX is higher than

the max Dex bonus of your armor, you don’t get to add all of

your DEX to your Armor Class. For example, full plate has a

max Dex bonus of +1, so even if your DEX is +4, you only get to

add +1 from your DEX to your AC. This means characters with

a high DEX usually wear light or medium armor so they can

take advantage of their DEX. The rules for max Dex bonus are

on page 149 of the

Core Rulebook,

and the armor table is on

page 151.

The second new rule is the

armor check penalty.

Armor

and shields interfere with STR- and DEX-based skills, giving

you a penalty on such skill checks equal to the armor check

penalty of the armor and shield. For example, chainmail has

an armor check penalty of –5, so you take a –5 penalty on

Acrobatics checks, Climb checks, and so on. The rules for

armor check penalties are on page 150 of the

Core Rulebook.

The third new rule is the

arcane spell failure chance.

You

know how wizards can’t wear armor in the

Beginner Box?

Well,

they can wear armor in the

Core Rulebook...

but each time a

wizard casts a spell while wearing armor, there’s a chance

the spell is ruined and has no effect. The arcane spell failure

chance does not affect divine spellcasters (clerics, druids,

MORE ARMOR RULES

Dwarves and elves are about the same size as a human, but ogres

are much bigger, and goblins are much smaller. The

Core Rulebook

has rules for creatures of all sizes, from a housefly to a house-

sized dragon or whale. Every creature has a

size category,

such

as Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, or Huge. A creature’s size category

determines its

size modifier,

which is added to the creature’s AC,

on attack rolls, and on some skill checks. For example, an ogre is

Large, and the size modifier for Large creatures is –1, so an ogre

has a –1 penalty on its attack rolls (because creatures smaller

than it are harder for it to hit) and a –1 penalty to its AC (because

it’s big and easier to hit). A goblin is Small, and the size modifier

for Small creatures is +1, so a goblin has a +1 bonus on its attack

rolls (because creatures bigger than it are easier for it to hit) and

a +1 bonus to its AC (because it’s small and harder to hit). These

size modifiers are already built into a monster’s stat block—even

the

Beginner Box

monster stat blocks you’ve been using—so you

don’t have to change anything! The size modifiers are listed on

page 179 of the

Core Rulebook.

Two new races in the

Core Rulebook—gnomes

and

halflings—are Small. This is an advantage for fighters and

rogues of these races, because it’s like getting a free +1 on

attack rolls and to AC! However, Small races usually have lower

Strength than Medium creatures—gnomes and halflings have

a racial Strength penalty.

CREATURE SIZES

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