Paizo Live Specials Reveal New Adventures, Rules, and Lore Updates

Paizo's official livestream series aired two dedicated special episodes on March 23, covering the breadth of what's coming for both Pathfinder and Starfinder in 2026. Split into an "Adventure Announcements" special and a "Rules & Lore Announcements" special, the back-to-back broadcasts packed a full product and lore update into a single sitting rather than spreading news across separate blog posts.

The Rules & Lore special brought together Maya Coleman, Logan Bonner as Pathfinder Lead, Dustin Knight as Starfinder Designer, and Luis Loza as Rules and Lore Director to walk through what the team has been building. That lineup alone signals this was a high-level broadcast: these are the people who sign off on rules direction and setting continuity across both game lines.

Paizo's rules and dev team laid out the full 2026 roadmap for Pathfinder and Starfinder across the specials, making it one of the more comprehensive single-stream announcements the company has done this year.

The timing is no accident. Paizo has been running an unusually packed release calendar through early 2026. Spring 2026 errata updates landed for Pathfinder Player Core, Pathfinder GM Core, Pathfinder Player Core 2, and Pathfinder Guns & Gears (Remastered), with a blog post walking through specific changes and clarifications in the weeks leading up to the live specials. The streams gave the rules team a chance to address that errata in conversation rather than leaving players to parse dense update docs on their own.

On the adventure side, the quarterly hardcover Adventure Path format Paizo shifted to this year gives the Adventure Announcements special real weight. Hellbreakers, a 1st- to 10th-level campaign built around the war between Andoran and Cheliax, and Hell's Destiny, its 11th- to 20th-level continuation, represent the early 2026 AP slate, and both titles were ripe for deeper discussion in a live format where the team can show off art and answer questions in real time.

Pathfinder 2e Senior Designer Jason Keeley and Designer Costin Wilken-Schelling have been at the center of the new Daredevil and Slayer class playtests, with the Daredevil described as a martial combatant with a physical presence on the field and the Slayer as monster-hunting focused, drawing inspiration from but not directly replicating the 1e version. Both classes represent content threads that the Rules & Lore special would naturally pick up.

The two-special format, grouping adventure news separately from rules and lore, is a smart structural choice. If you're a GM planning your next campaign, you can drop straight into the Adventure Announcements segment. If you're a player trying to understand what the Spring 2026 errata means for your thaumaturge build, the Rules & Lore special is where to start. Both specials are available in the Paizo Live playlist.