Paizo Pathfinder RPG Second Edition: NPC Core Pawn Box

Every Face in the Crowd, Ready for the Table

A Pathfinder Second Edition campaign lives or dies on the characters who populate its world — the grizzled city guard who looks the other way, the scheming court mage with ambitions she keeps hidden, the bandit lieutenant who might just be reasoned with. The NPC Core Pawn Box from Paizo puts hundreds of those characters in your hands, illustrated and ready to stand on the battlemat the moment they step into your story.

What's Inside the Box

This pawn collection is built around the full breadth of non-player characters a Game Master reaches for across any campaign. Soldiers and spellcasters, criminals and courtiers, allies and villains — the major archetypes of Pathfinder's NPC roster are here in force. Whether you're running a tense throne room negotiation, a dungeon crawl guarded by cultists, or a street-level chase through a merchant quarter, you'll find the right face to put on the table.

The box also includes large-format troop pawns — a standout feature for GMs who run mass combat encounters or city-scale skirmishes. Military units, town guard formations, and other multi-character groups are represented on oversized pawns with illustrations that capture the scale of the threat. It's a practical solution to a problem every GM has hit: how do you represent a squad of soldiers without running out of identical tokens?

Who This Is For

This is a Game Master's tool, full stop. Players won't find character options here — this box is for the person building the world and populating it with people worth fighting, fearing, and occasionally trusting. It's an essential pickup for any PF2e GM who wants to move beyond improvised tokens or faceless proxies and give every encounter a visual identity. Pathfinder Second Edition is the current supported edition from Paizo — if you're running a First Edition campaign, check that the pawn designations align with your NPC compendium before purchasing. For GMs running NPC Core-based encounters, this box is the physical companion your table deserves.

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