Paizo spotlights VTT-ready Starfinder anthology, Pathfinder Beginner Box support

Paizo’s May release wave gave tables a clear path from buying to playing: a free Roll20 VTT Companion for Starfinder Adventure: Tales from the Vast was set to arrive within the week, while Pathfinder players got new follow-up material built for the Beginner Box and for organized play.

Tales from the Vast is a four-adventure Starfinder Second Edition anthology that can be run as a full level 1-to-9 campaign or split into one-shots. Paizo broke out the four chapters as Expedition to the Drowned Planet for levels 1-3, The Moonside-250 Terror for levels 3-5, Paradise Shutdown for levels 5-7, and Sihedron Showdown for levels 7-9. Demiplane said the Roll20 companion unlocks with the adventure and includes the text, art, token packs, maps, map pins, and other table-ready assets, which makes the box set easier to put on a virtual table without extra prep work.

The Pathfinder side of the release cycle stayed just as practical. Troubles in Grayce is a six-adventure anthology for characters of levels 2-4, set in Ustalav, the fog-shrouded nation of horrors. Paizo framed it as a follow-up to the Pathfinder Beginner Box: Secrets of the Unlit Star, with light-horror scenarios built around cryptid hunting, a sinister scientist’s abandoned home, a hidden hag’s deadly plot, and a murderous vampire. That gives groups a direct next step after the beginner material, instead of forcing a leap into a much larger campaign.

Secrets of the Unlit Star is built to make that handoff easier. The Beginner Box includes a 72-page Hero’s Handbook, an 88-page Game Master’s Guide, four premade characters, four blank character sheets, over 100 paperboard pawns, reference cards, and dice. Its adventure, Temple of the Unlit Star, is sanctioned for Pathfinder Society Organized Play, giving local lodges and online tables a ready-made entry point that works both as a teaching tool and as a legal play option.

The bigger story is how tightly Paizo and Demiplane are tying books, digital access, and virtual-table support together. Their Roll20 integration already moved from pulling Starfinder character sheets from Demiplane into Roll20 during the Alpha Release to allowing all Demiplane character sheets in the Beta Release, and Cross-Platform Sync lets supported titles be bought once and accessed on both platforms at no extra cost. Paizo’s organized play update also said several digital adventures were scheduled for May 6 and could be run at events beginning that day, turning the release into a coordinated play window rather than a simple store drop.