It happens to every game master: you spend hours working out the perfect encounter, the players are baying for blood, swords are drawn – and then you realise that you don’t have any game values for the opponents at hand. Or maybe the players are doing something completely different than you expected, so you don’t have any encounters prepared.

Thanks to the Pathfinder NPC Compendium, such situations are now a thing of the past. In this volume, you’ll find hundreds of play value blocks for non-player characters of all levels that you can use right away, whether you’re a feeble poacher, majestic knight, or ancient spellcaster.

This book takes a lot of the work out of planning future adventures or setting up encounters on the fly, so you can focus on the game itself.

The Pathfinder NPC Compendium is an essential companion volume to the Pathfinder Core Rulebook and Pathfinder Monster Manual. This innovative tabletop game is based on more than 10 years of development and open playtesting involving over 50,000 players to create a modern roleplaying game and bring the world’s most popular fantasy rules into the next millennium.

The Pathfinder NPC Compendium contains:
– Play stats for over 300 characters, including at least one stats block for all levels of every base class included in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook.
– Tactical recommendations for each character to help you get the most out of abilities and equipment.
– A bunch of names to keep you focused. Lots of names and backgrounds to give characters personality, as well as ideas for combat and roleplaying situations.
– Play values for characters of weaker NPC classes to populate your world with commoners as well as members of specialised prestige classes.
– Play values for druid and ranger animal companions of levels 1 to 20.
– Several versions of the iconic Pathfinder characters from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, which are also suitable as pre-made player characters.
– Group encounters to put together spontaneous battles.

Warning!Not suitable for children under 36 months.