The initial release will be as a single-player or pass-and-play game, with online multiplayer functionality to be added in the coming months. The first content available for free download is a tutorial and an adventurer, Perils of the Lost Coast, with additional adventure decks available for purchase, and more to be added on an ongoing basis.
Adapting the card game to online platforms has produced “a deeply strategic roleplaying-inspired cooperative experience while streamlining the setup of the tabletop game,” the announcement said.
“Obsidian has a history of working with deep, richly-textured fantasy worlds, from Star Wars to Fallout,” Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart said of the new game. “We’re thrilled to play in Paizo’s sandbox and adapt it for both the fan of the tabletop game and a brand new audience of digital gamers. It’s fitting that we will start with the first Pathfinder adventure ever written, the classic and well-loved Rise of the Runelords.”
This is the first of multiple planned games based on Pathfinder IP by Obsidian (see “Mona on the RPG Market”).
