Pathfinder Core Pawn Box Game Review

Although it's rare for me to play tabletop roleplaying games in person anymore due to the geographical restrictions of my player group, there are occasions that I'm able to dust off the physical components and play a game in the flesh. When that happens, I bring out all the goodies—hardcover books, dry erase maps, and cardboard pawns. Paizo makes the latter easy by producing pawn collections for their core line of products, including the Monster Core Pawn Box and the NPC Core Pawn Box. Let's see how they stack up.

Pathfinder Monster Core Pawn Box Overview

The Pathfinder Monster Core Pawn Box contains all of the monsters from its namesake, the Pathfinder Monster Core book. In total, there are more than 450 pawns ready for play. All you have to do is punch them out of the cardboard sprue and secure them in the appropriately sized plastic base and you're off to the races.

Of the 450 pawns, there are some duplicates, primarily with the smaller creatures or creatures of lower levels. While the purpose of this is to help facilitate low-level encounters—which are the most frequent, considering parties over level 10 in Pathfinder Second Edition is a fractional subset of total parties played—however I don't feel like the pawn box supports that well enough. There has to…

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