Pathfinder 1E Player’s Companion: Melee Tactics Toolbox

Look Your Enemies in the Eye!

Get up close and personal withMelee Tactics Toolbox! The new tips, tricks, and tactics in this volume enable yourPathfinder Roleplaying Gamecharacter to perform a huge variety of daring deeds in hand-to-hand combat, whether youre dashing around a foe to flank it by yourself or inspiring allies to hold the line on a castle wall.

Melee Tactics Toolboxis a player-focused manual that makes the most of in-your-face abilities, spells, and weapons, in addition to providing a plethora of new rules options to make you even more formidable in combat. EachPathfinder Player Companionincludes new options and tools for every Pathfinder RPG player. Inside this book, youll find:

• Tips on how best to fight in melee, including suggestions for rules options that can give you an edge, as well as general tactics available to all characters.
• Dozens of new kinds of magic armor and melee weapons, weapon special abilities, and wondrous items to hinder your foes or protect you from close-combat attackers.
• Thirty new feats to bolster your staying power in close combat, including combat, style, and teamwork feats.
• An illustrated guide comparing more than 20 different styles of swords, including the falchion, katana, and urumi.
• Tons of new spells, equipment, weapons, class archetypes, and character options, including a new bardic masterpiece.

ThisPathfinder Player Companionis intended for use with thePathfinder Roleplaying Gameand the Pathfinder campaign setting, but can easily be incorporated into any fantasy world.

Written by Paris Crenshaw, Ron Lundeen, and David Schwartz.
Cover Art by Milivoj Ceran.

Each monthly 32-page Pathfinder Player Companion contains several player-focused articles exploring the volumes theme as well as short articles with innovative new rules for all types of characters, as well as traits to better anchor the player to the campaign.