Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

From the Norns of Norse myth to Hansel and Gretel’s tormentor—from Baba Yaga in her flying mortar to the Blair Witch—the hideous (and hideously dangerous) crone features prominently in folklore and legend. Powerful, ugly, and able to band together to increase their power, hags are an iconic—but often underutilized—foe.

Mythic Menagerie: Covens of Chaos provide an assortment of new hags from CR 3 to CR 15, along with insight into the motivations of these terrible creatures, expanded powers for hag covens, and a range of items, feats, and spells used by hags individually and as covens. Send your players into the wilderness at their peril!

Each volume in the Mythic Menagerie series presents a small set of monsters tied to a single theme, but spread over a range of CRs.

• Pathfinder and OGL compatible
• 23 pages
• $4.99
• Designed by Sam Hing
• November 2011
• Available at the Paizo store, DriveThru RPG, and RPGNow

Drawn from the Might of the Heavens Themselves

From the heroes of Greek myth to the annals of fantasy fiction, the god-touched have fired our imagination. Where The Genius Guide to the Godling introduced this archetype to gaming, and The Genius Guide to Mystic Godlings expanded it,The Genius Guide to the Godling Ascendant now builds further upon the popular character type. This meaty title expands the classes even further, with rules for using godling abilities to create exemplar monsters, new ways for characters with non-godling classes to represent scions of immortal power, and new divine traits, ascendancies, scion talents, and feats for the four godling classes. All of that, along with new ways to introduce the concept of godlings into your campaign.

The Genius Guide series of products introduces new possibilities to your Pathfinder or OGL campaign and gives everyone at the table a chance to expand the horizons of the game and create adventures that are truly fantastic.

• Pathfinder and OGL compatible
• 32 pages
• $7.99
• Designed by Owen K.C. Stephens
• November 2011
• Available at the Paizo store, DriveThru RPG, and RPGNow

1 idea, 1 page, 1 dollar

Sidekicks and secondary characters are a staple not just of fantasy, but of virtually every fictional genre—but does the Leadership feat really enable the sort of secondary characters your group needs? #1 with a Bullet Point: 2 Options for the Leadership Feat gives you two new ways to benefit from Leadership, eschewing the unbalancing cohort and annoying legion of low-level followers in favor of characters that add real mechanical and flavor benefits to the game. If you haven’t checked out our #1 with a Bullet Point items yet, why not give this one a try? Seriously, what do you have to lose? (Just a dollar!)

Each title in the #1 with a Bullet Point series brings you a short, sharp batch of mechanics on a single, focused topic. The concept is simple: Strip away the fluff and the extras to bring you one idea, in one page, for one dollar. #1 with a Bullet Point products are usually released in addition to SGG’s normal weekly product.

• Pathfinder and OGL compatible
• 3 pages
• $0.99
• Designed by Owen K.C. Stephens
• Novembe4 2011
• Available at the Paizo store, DriveThru RPG, and RPGNow

The most fearsome creature in fantasy is now a little easier on the GM

Masters of glacial wastelands and rime-covered peaks, white dragons are capricious, cunning, and undeniably treacherous. From the smallest kobold tribe to the mighty frost giant Jarls, white dragons command obedience and tribute from all in their demesne. No other dragon better uses its environment to its advantage.

Like all dragons, though, the white dragon is as fearsome to the GM as it is to the heroes, requiring substantial preparation to bring into the game, especially given its broad range of age categories, CRs, and options—unless, of course, the GM hasCodex Draconis: White Terrors of the North.

The Codex Draconis series of products gives you stat blocks, options, and alternatives to add dragons across all age categories and CRs to your game with a minimum of fuss and effort.

• Pathfinder and OGL compatible
• 27 pages
• $5.99
• Designed by Doug Daulton, in conjunction with d20pfsrd.com
• November 2011
• Available at the Paizo store, DriveThru RPG, and RPGNow

Ultimate Options: New Arcane Discoveries

“I liked the majority of the new discoveries and I like Academician a lot as a archetype.”

“Owen K.C. Stephens does it again—this pdf is a prime example of crunch-mastery, adding a vast array of excellent options for wizards that make the class more distinctive… This pdf is a prime example of excellent mastery of the rules married to cool ideas”

Ultimate Options: Grit and Gunslingers

“[These feats] are reasonable, fun, logical, and things I would love to incorporate into my character as the campaign develops. Kudos to Grit and Gunslingers!”

The Genius Guide to Races of Fire and Fury

“If you are interested in incorporating some exotic races tied to fire in your campaign, Races of Fire and Fury will provide some inspiration options and ideas.”

Mythic Menagerie: Demonic Harlots

“Author Sam Hing has done it—this is the very best installment of Mythic Menageries to date—plenty of content and signature abilities, cool supplemental material, neat prose, no gripes.”

#1 With a Bullet Point: 13 Witches Hexes

“That’s just a sampling, but it’s a good representative of what’s here: nothing that completely alters the class or its hex power, but instead adds a dash of versatility.”

“I would like to see more of… well pretty much all the hexes.”

Genius Guide to Crystal Magic

“Finally, here we have some prime examples that cool spells need not be combat-centric: From the option to establish and communicate via a crystalline council, to turning objects into crystal (glass-steel, anyone?) to two very cool divinations to probe the destination of a target creature, the spells are intriguing.”

Genius Guide to Exalted Domains of War and Ruin

“Author Marc Radle has done a terrific job that enhances our enjoyment of the cleric class. Simple, concise, and yet iconic abilities are granted, making the users of exalted domains feel much more in touch with their focus.”

Genius Guide to Exalted Domains of Light and Lore

“A splendid job with this part of the exalted domain trilogy . . . the abilities all felt balanced and appropriate for the domains, and make the selection of an exalted domain hard for all the right reasons—after all, you can only take one of them and there are a lot cool ones herein!”

Genius Guide to Divine Archetypes

“I did not expect to like the archetype-book, to be honest, and only bought it out of a completionist’s neurosis and oh boy, am I glad that I did!”

Adventurer’s Handbook

“Over all I would recommend this book for great content and fun playable classes.”

Sorcerer’s Options: Beyond Bloodlines

“This is a refreshingly different look at the sorcerer class, and ought to provide a few ideas for anyone looking to run a sorcerer who is that little bit different.”

Mythic Menagerie: Kith of the Harpy Queen

“This installment of the Mythic Menagerie line is literally all killer, no filler—each creature had something going for it and the additional items and spells are top quality.”

A colorful class that puts the magic back into magic

Traditional wizards find magic in books, sorcerers in blood, and bards in music. The most powerful magical creatures of the Material Plane—dragons—find magic in color. Like dragons, the mosaic mage eschews traditional schools of magic, drawing instead on associations of color. This gives them unique access to combinations of abilities—such as the evocation of fire alongside healing abilities—that are often the envy of other spellcasting classes.

The mosaic mage gives you a spellcaster whose relationship with, and access to, magic gives it a unique flavor and very different style of play—and The Genius Guide to the Mosaic Mage gives you everything you need to integrate this colorful class into your campaign. Put a bit of magic back into your magic!

• Pathfinder and OGL compatible
• 13 pages
• $3.99
• Designed by Ryan Costello, Jr.
• October 2011
• Available at the Paizo store, DriveThru RPG, and RPGNow

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Seen your share of elves and dwarves and orcs?

The breath of dragons. A tool of the gods. The instrument of demonic fury and everlasting torture of the sinful. Fire is the most awe-inspiring element, and it has been a source of fear and fascination since the dawn of its discovery. The Genius Guide to Races of Fire and Fury presents a trio of new fantasy races suitable for use as player characters or NPCs. These races share a common trait of having an association with heat or flame.

Each of the new races comes from a culture with its own unique perspective on life and their place in the world—a set of cultural norms GMs and players can use to understand how the group would fit into a campaign and build characters that fit within (or purposely stretch themselves beyond) those expectations.

Like any good rules expansion, The Genius Guide to Races of Fire and Fury introduces new possibilities to your Pathfinder campaign and gives everyone at the table a chance to expand the horizons of the game and create adventures that are truly fantastic.

• Pathfinder and OGL compatible
• 15 pages
• $4.99
• Designed by Patrick Stutzman
• October 2011
• Available at the Paizo store, DriveThru RPG, and RPGNow

The very archetype of the mystic spy or assassin: A shadowy figure as much a master of the dark arts as an outlaw. From the Hashsh’shin to the Sicarii, the black-clad assassin clans of Japanese lore to the fanciful depictions of Wuxia films, the ninja is an icon of fantasy and pop culture—ironic, for a creature that lives by secrecy and a mastery of deception and disguise.

Ultimate Options: Power of the Ninja presents 50 new tricks and master tricks for the ninja, along with 8 new ninja-related feats and four variant ninja classes. With this broad set of new resources you can expand the role of ninja-style assassins in your campaign, or leave behind the Asian-themed trappings to integrate the stealthy, deceptive mystic spy concept in a manner that best suits your campaign setting.

The Ultimate Options series of short products focuses on topics introduced in the Ultimate Magic book for Pathfinder, expanding options for players using that book.

• Pathfinder and OGL compatible
• 20 pages
• $5.99
• Designed by Owen K.C. Stephens
• October 2011
• Available at the Paizo store, DriveThru RPG, and RPGNow

In case you need a little help taking him on, you might consider enlisting Dungeon A Day’s 20th-level NPC Elicia Stormraven, human paladin. She’s also been drafted into the d20 Pathfinder SRD; you can find her here.