Book of the Dead

Book of the Dead
PZO2110
(Book)
Author(s)	Jason Bulmahn, Jessica Catalan, et al.
Publisher	Paizo Inc.
Price	Print: $49.99 Pocket Edition: #24.99 PDF: $19.99
Released	Print & PDF: April 27, 2022 Pocket Edition: May 25, 2022
Type	Core
Binding	Hardcover, Pocket Edition, and PDF
Pages	224 pages
isbn	ISBN 978-1-64078-401-7
Rules set	Pathfinder Second Edition
Series	Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
Follows	Guns & Gears
Precedes	Dark Archive
Artwork from Book of the Dead

This article is about the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game rulebook. For the in-world book, see Aleh Almaktoum.

Book of the Dead, a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Second Edition core rulebook by Jason Bulmahn, Brian Bauman, Tineke Bolleman, Logan Bonner, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, Chris Eng, Logan Harper, Michelle Jones, Jason Keeley, Luis Loza, Ron Lundeen, Liane Merciel, Patchen Mortimer, Quinn Murphy, Jessica Redekop, Mikhail Rekun, Solomon St. John, Michael Sayre, Sen.H.H.S., Kendra Leigh Speedling, Jason Tondro, and Andrew White, was released on April 27, 2022, with the Pocket Edition expected to follow on May 25, 2022.

This book marks a departure in how Paizo make bestiary-style content: there are no plans to make more numbered Bestiary books after Bestiary 3, but, instead, Paizo will make more thematically focused books like Book of the Dead.

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The Dead are Rising!This blasphemous tome brings the shambling menace of the undead to the forefront of your game. If you wish to stem the ghostly tide, you’ll find tools and skills to fight against the undead hordes. Or you can join the other side and turn your character into a ghost, ghoul, lich, mummy, skeleton, vampire, or zombie! You’ll also find new haunts, as well as information about the undead-plagued lands within the Lost Omens campaign setting, perfect for adding undead to your next adventure! A massive bestiary section full of undead creatures brings more threats for GMs and summonable creatures for players, including more versions of classic undead like vampires, skeletons, and zombies. This book also includes "March of the Dead," a grim and dangerous adventure themed around an undead uprising!

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Contents

Preface (5)

Prayers for the Living (6)

• The Mysteries of Unlife
• Tools and Symbols of the Dead
• Hunters of the Dead
• Backgrounds
• Slayer's Catalog
• Folk Remedies
• Exorcist Archetype
• Hallowed Necromancer Archetype
• Soul Warden Archetype
• Undead Slayer Archetype

Hymns for the Dead (30)

• Necromancy
• Reanimator Archetype
• Undead Allies
• Undead Master Archetype
• Deities of Undeath
• Playing Undead
• Ghost Archetype
• Ghoul Archetype
• Lich Archetype
• Mummy Archetype
• Skeleton Ancestry
• Vampire Archetype
• Zombie Archetype
• Ghost Stories
• Haunts

The Grim Crypt (70)

• Undead Adjustments
• Beheaded
• Bhuta
• Bone Croupier
• Cadaverous Rake
• Child of Urgathoa
• Combusted
• Corpseroot
• Darvakka
• Death Coach
• Deathless Acolyte
• Ecorche
• Excorion
• Fiddling Bones
• Fluxwraith
• Gallowdead
• Gashadokuro
• Geist
• Gholdako
• Ghost
• Ghoul
• Ghul
• Grappling Spirit
• Graveknight
• Herexen
• Hollow Serpent
• Ichor Slinger
• Iruxi Ossature
• Last Guard
• Lich
• Little Man in the Woods
• Llorona
• Mortic
• Mummy
• Obrousian
• Onryo
• Pale Sovereign
• Polong
• Raw Nerve
• Revenant
• Risen Pet
• Shredskin
• Siabrae
• Skeleton
• Sluagh
• Tormented
• Unrisen
• Vampire
• Verdorite
• Wight
• Zombie

Lands of the Dead (174)

• Geb
• The Gravelands
• Mzali
• Nemret Noktoria
• Ordellia
• Osirion
• The Path to Valenhall
• Shenmen
• Ustalav

March of the Dead (190)

• Background
• Part 1: A Dead Town
• Part 2: Surviving the Night
• Part 3: The Warrens
• Conclusion

Appendix (212)

• Ability Glossary
• Creatures by Level
• Glossary & Index

Adventure Overview

March of the Dead

Level	3rd
Location(s)	Fiorna's Faith Hold of Belkzen

March of the Dead is a grim and dangerous 22-page adventure that starts in the town of Trunau and is themed around an undead uprising in a small village not far outside the Gravelands.