Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

Pathfinder

Roleplaying Game
First edition logo
Pathfinder Core Rulebook 1st edition cover
Designers	Jason Bulmahn
Publishers	Paizo Publishing
Publication	August 2009
Years active	2009–present
Genres	Role-playing game
Systems	d20 system
Chance	Dice rolling
Website	paizo.com/pathfinderRPG

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) that was published in 2009 by Paizo Publishing. The first edition extends and modifies the System Reference Document (SRD) based on the revised 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) published by Wizards of the Coast under the Open Game License (OGL) and is intended to be backward-compatible with that edition.

A new version of the game, Pathfinder 2nd Edition, was released in August 2019. It continued to use the OGL and SRD, but significant revisions to the core rules made the new edition incompatible with content from either Pathfinder 1st Edition or any edition of D&D. Starting in 2023, the game instead uses the ORC license, though it remains backwards-compatible with the existing OGL-licensed Second Edition rules.

Pathfinder is supported by the official Pathfinder periodicals and various third-party content created to be compatible with the game.