- Description
- Strange cryptids glimpsed in the night, gear to track them, and the powers you might gain by surviving an encounter with one
- Cults and esoteric belief, with apocryphal divine magic and the secret of becoming a living vessel for an eldritch being
- Temporal anomalies, with archetypes that skim along the surface of time and a new mystery for oracles unbound from causality
- A 224-page special edition hardcover
- A 224-page pocket edition softcover
- A 224-page PDF (includes single-file and file-per-chapter versions)
- Page Count:
- 224
From the fringes, the unknown beckons. Pathfinder Dark Archive contains secrets that any player or GM can use to reveal the paranormal lurking in their Pathfinder games! This spine-tinglingly secretive 224-page hardcover rulebook presents two new character classes perfect for delving into the unexplained: Unleash the untold power of your mind as the psychic or leverage supernatural secrets and mystic implements as the thaumaturge!
Beyond these new classes, eight secret case files each provide player options, GM tools, and lore into a different paranormal topic, including:
Each file concludes with a short adventure to immerse players in the paranormal, spanning across Golarion—play all eight to uncover the inexplicable phenomena of the Age of Lost Omens!
Written by: James Case, Mikhail Rekun, Mark Seifter, Rigby Bendele, Logan Bonner, Dan Cascone, Jessica Catalan, Banana Chan, Kay Hashimoto, Sen.H.H.S., Patrick Hurley, Joshua Kim, Avi Kool, Daniel Kwan, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Luis Loza, Ron Lundeen, Liane Merciel, Jacob W. Michaels, Andrew Mullen, Quinn Murphy, K. Tessa Newton, Patrick Renie, Michael Sayre, Shay Snow, Alex Speidel, Solomon St. John, Geoffrey Suthers, Ruvaid Virk, Jabari Weathers, and Isis Wozniakowska
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The following pages were distributed online after the release of Dark Archive for readers to decipher themselves. You can find them here:
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The Lost Pages were discovered to lead to the following file:
ISBN-13: 978-1-64078-443-7
The adventures contained within this rulebook, the "Dark Archive Case Files," are sanctioned for use in Pathfinder Society Organized Play. The rules for running these Adventures and Chronicle Sheets are available as a free download (923 KB PDF).
Other Resources: This product is also available on the following platforms:
Pathfinder Nexus on Demiplane
Roll20 Virtual Tabletop
Archives of Nethys
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