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NPC GUIDE

A Pathfinder Chronicles Supplement

This Pathfinder Chronicles book works best with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook

and the Pathfinder Bestiary . Although it is suitable for play in any fantasy world, it is optimized

for the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting.

Table of Contents

Introduction

NamedNPCs

GenericNPCs

PaizoStaffNPCs

Credits

Authors : Jason Bulmahn, Christopher Carey, Crystal

Frasier, Jesse Heinig, James Jacobs, Jonathan H. Keith, Hal

Maclean, Rob McCreary, Erik Mona, Tim Nightengale, Jeff

Quick, Sean K Reynolds, F. Wesley Schneider, Amber Scott,

James L. Sutter, John Wick, and Hank Woon

Cover Artist : Dave Rapoza

Interior Artists : Christopher Ocampo and Kyushik Shin

Publisher : Erik Mona

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Managing Editor : F. Wesley Schneider

Editing and Development : Judy Bauer, Christopher Carey,

Rob McCreary, Sean K Reynolds, and James L. Sutter

Editorial Assistance : Jason Bulmahn

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PATHFINDER CHRONICLES: NPC GUIDE

DEATH BY STAT BLOCKS

Creating character and monster stat blocks is the most time-consuming

and error-prone part of being a Game Master. A complex or high-level

creature’s stat block can take an hour or more to build. Stat blocks use a lot

of math and refer to rules all thoughout the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

Core Rulebook, and sometimes other books as well. Anything that you

can do to save time on stat blocks means more time you can use to make a

campaign cool, fun, and exciting. That’s where this book comes in.

This book contains more than 90 complete stat blocks for Golarion

characters. Some are unique characters—potential contacts or long-term

villains, each with his own backstory and motivations. Others are

“generic” sorts of characters, the nameless rank-and-file NPCs that populate

a castle, random encounter, evil temple, or monstrous horde.

INTRODUCTION

G o l a r i o n F e a t s

Some of these characters use feats from the Pathf inder

Chronicles Campaign Setting , which was written for the

3.5 rules over a year before the launch of the Pathf inder

Roleplaying Game. While in many cases these feats can be

used as is without any conversion, some of them are obsolete

because of new material presented in the Pathf inder RPG.

If an NPC in this book refers to a feat from the Pathf inder

Chronicles Campaign Setting , the NPC’s stat block includes

a short summary of the effects of the feat as it affects that

character; however, it does not address any aspects of

the feat that do not apply to the character (such as extra

benef its at a higher level or a spellcasting class the character

doesn’t have). This means you don’t need the Pathf inder

Chronicles Campaign Setting to use these feats, but to fully

understand the context of the feat you may want to read

about it in that book.

of alluring Charisma +2 is worth 4,000 gp, which amounts to

17,000 gp altogether, leaving 500 gp to buy a few potions.

The characters in Chapter 3 are PCs rather than NPCs; you

can use them as is if you need an emergency PC.

Chapter 1

This chapter has 30 named NPCs of levels 4 to 10, with one NPC

per page, each accompanied by a history and illustration.

Each NPC write-up also includes a Boon —some benef it

that the character can provide PCs if they shift her attitude

to helpful (see the Diplomacy skill on pages 93–94 of the

Pathfinder RPG Core Ruleboo k). A few of these boons are or grant

unusual abilities; these help give the NPCs a special twist and

let them contribute to the campaign in a unique way. Note that

the NPCs probably react to the PCs as individuals rather than

as a unif ied group; it is entirely possible for an NPC to feel

helpful toward one PC and indifferent or even hostile toward

another, and in such cases it is very unlikely that the NPC

offers her boon to PCs she’s not feeling helpful toward.

The NPCs in this chapter are arranged alphabetically by

their region of origin. Note that while the NPCs are all linked

to their respective homelands, they are designed to be mobile

and have reasons to travel to other places. Therefore, you

should have little trouble introducing them in almost any

part of the Inner Sea region, even if the PCs never venture to

the NPC’s place of origin. Of course, you can always “f ile off

the serial number” and adapt any of these NPCs for another

region or purpose.

Emergency PCs

Sometimes you need a PC in a hurry—a friend drops by from

out of town and wants to play for one session, a player brings

a girlfriend or boyfriend who wants to try gaming, or a PC

dies and the player needs a temporary PC for the rest of the

night while the party completes the adventure. Time is short,

and time spent creating a character at the table—especially

for someone who’s never played before and doesn’t know

what sort of decisions to make—is time you’re not actually

playing.

In a pinch, you can use any of the NPCs in Chapter 1 as

PCs. All of the characters in Chapter 1 are built with the heroic

ability score array (15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8), which is the same as

if they were built with the Purchase method of generating

ability scores using the 15-point standard fantasy allotment

(see Generating Ability Scores on page 15 of the Pathfinder RPG

Core Rulebook ), so they’re suitable for use as PCs without any

changes to the ability scores or class abilities.

However, NPCs have far less gear than PCs of the same

character level—the value of NPC gear corresponds to the

Heroic level on Table 14–9 in the Core Rulebook (page 454),

whereas Table 12–4 (page 399) indicates how much wealth

PCs have to spend on gear. When using one of these NPCs

as a PC, add gear to make up the difference between the two

values. In most cases, adding expensive standard items like

a ring of protection , cloak of resistance , or belt of giant strength (or

other ability score-boosting item) or adding enhancement

bonuses to armor or weapons is the fastest and easiest way

to close this gap. For example, Jona Clay (see page 4) is a 7th-

level NPC with approximately 6,000 gp worth of gear; if he

were a PC, he should have about 23,500 gp worth of gear—a

difference of 17,500 gp. Improving his +1 studded leather to

+2 studded leather is worth 3,000 gp, increasing his ring of

protection +1 to a ring of protection +2 is worth 6,000 gp, adding

a c l o a k o f re s i s t an c e + 2 i s wor t h 4 , 0 0 0 g p, a nd add i n g a headband

Chapter 2

This chapter includes over 50 complete stat blocks for “generic”

NPCs from all over the Inner Sea region. It does not include

names or signif icant background information, as these NPCs

are intended to f ill parts for which their role in a combat or

minor place in a story arc is less important. For example, if

you’re running an adventure in Absalom and you need some

bruisers for an encounter in the city’s Puddles district, use a

few Puddles thugs (see page 34); their names and reasons for

being in the Puddles aren’t important—they’re there to be a

suitable combat challenge for the PCs.

Note that this chapter’s focus is Golarion-specif ic NPCs; if

you want generic blacksmiths, guards, merchants, and so on,

see the Pathfinder RPG GameMastery Guide .

Chapter 3

Paizo editor-in-chief James Jacobs runs a Pathf inder game

set in and around the town of Sandpoint. This chapter has

stat blocks for the original Sandpoint campaign PCs played

by members of the Paizo staff. Though they live and quest

in Sandpoint, there’s no reason you couldn’t use them as a

traveling adventure band in some other part of the world. Like

the named NPCs in Chapter 1, each of these characters has a

Boon for PCs who shift his attitude to helpful.

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