RPG: War Never Changes – Unless You Use The New Rules In The Upcoming ‘Pathfinder Battlecry’
Pathfinder 2E eyes war and mass combat and other big sweeping events with the upcoming new Battlecry splatbook.
War comes to Golarion in a brand new splatbook. Well, war has always been a part of Golarion’s long and storied history, but there’s a new focus on it in the new book, Pathfinder Battlecry!. Battlecry is all about what happens when diplomacy fails, armies are massed (or mustered if they’re just little armies). And Battlecry is your book for everything from skirmishes to invasions to roiling conflicts that spill across multiple nations.
Pathfinder Battlecry! – Sometimes War Changes Because We Add New Rules
Pathfinder Battlecry! will be a new rulebook for Pathfinder 2E that delves into all things conflict, as long as they involve more than just a handful of combatants. Everything from minor dustups to full-on world-shaking wars gets touched on in the new book. But it’s not just “hey, here are the mass combat rules” that you get from this book.
Players will find two new classes to sink their teeth into. And there are new ancestries and spells and magic weapons and archetypes. There’s a ton of stuff for either side of the screen here. It’s a book that has guidance for every part of the conflict.
What will you find within the 224-page book? Quite a bit. Here’s a taste from the back of cover blurb:
This new rulebook for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game covers all aspects of war, including two bold new character classes! Help steer the flow of battle as a cunning commander, or protect your allies from harm as an indomitable guardian. You’ll also find archetypes that allow you to raise a small battalion of undead soldiers or wield a personal siege weapon, the new larger-than-life jotunborn ancestry, an armory of magic weapons, and rules for running combat alongside troops that you command to fill out your army’s ranks. Golarion’s generals need you, so heed the Battlecry!
The two new classes are the Commander and the Guardian. Commanders are what Warlord fans have been dreaming of. This is the class dedicated to giving your friends more actions and abilities to do cool things. They can also lead troops in new ways to accomplish heroic deeds on the battlefield.
Guardians, meanwhile, are the beefiest tanks out there. They get the most out of their armor and intercept attacks that would devastate someone else. It’s very much the idea you think of when you think of a classic MMO tank archetype.
Those are just two of the new options. There’s also Jotunborn and the advancing Pathfinder metaplot to bite into. You’ll want to keep an eye out for this one.
Pathfinder Battlecry! launches July 31!
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