Paizo are crossing the Atlantic for UK Games Expo. Publisher Erik Mona and lead designer Jason Bulmahn will personally host three-hour demo sessions of Paizo's new horror RPG 13 Omens at the NEC across the 29-31 May weekend, marking the public's first proper hands-on with the game.
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Start organising for free13 Omens, announced earlier this month, is a sharp departure for the studio behind Pathfinder. It's rules-lite, designed for single-evening play, and built around a shared communal dice bag where omen dice gradually pile up. Each one rolled into the bag tightens the screws, ratcheting up tension as the session approaches its climax. Mona has described it as a "modern supernatural" setting: your world, but reflected darkly enough that the things going bump in the night actually bite.
Both Mona and Bulmahn at the same demo table is significant. Bulmahn co-designed the original Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and is the lead architect on 13 Omens, while Mona has been Paizo's creative force for nearly two decades. Getting either one running a demo at a convention is rare. Both at once, in the UK, is a signal that Paizo is taking British horror gamers seriously.
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Find events near youIf you're heading to UKGE, the Paizo booth is the obvious first stop on Friday morning. Sessions will fill quickly given the three-hour runtime, so aim for the booth as soon as the doors open and ask staff how they're allocating slots.
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