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50 free Pathfinder Roleplaying Game trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Pathfinder began as a way to keep a much-loved rule set in print and grew into one of the best-selling tabletop role-playing games around, with two editions, years of monthly adventures and a setting deep enough to get lost in. This quiz covers the whole hobby around it: where the game came from and who made it, the rules every player character leans on, the classes and spellcasting traditions, the gods, nations and villains of the Inner Sea, and the creatures that fill its bestiaries. A few questions are pure table talk, the kind of odd fact a group swaps between encounters. It suits players building a first character, veterans who have run whole campaigns, and anyone curious about how the game works. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Pathfinder's first edition was designed to stay compatible with which release of Dungeons & Dragons?
Version 3.5
Version 3.5 was being retired by its own publisher, so Pathfinder kept it alive and fans nicknamed the new game 3.75.
Q 02The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game's official adventures and sourcebooks are set on which fantasy world?
Golarion
Golarion is the third of eleven planets circling its yellow sun, a blue world of vast oceans with a single moon.
Q 03Most actions in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game are resolved by rolling which die and adding modifiers?
A 20-sided die
A 20-sided die decides nearly everything a Pathfinder hero attempts, which is why the game's rules family is known as the d20 System.
Q 04Which small Pathfinder monsters hate dogs and horses and think writing steals words from their heads?
Goblins
Goblins ride wolves and giant rodents called goblin dogs instead, and their camps are raucous places of song and laughter.
Q 05Pathfinder Second Edition streamlined combat by giving each character how many actions on every turn?
Three
Three actions can go on anything from striking to moving, while more complicated manoeuvres simply use up two or all of them.
Q 06Which figure of Slavic folklore conquered Pathfinder's frozen land of Irrisen and crowned her own daughter queen?
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga returns every hundred years like clockwork to remove the reigning queen and put another of her daughters on the throne.
Q 07Which tentacled Lovecraft creation, the mightiest Great Old One, has monster statistics in Pathfinder's Bestiary 4?
Cthulhu
Cthulhu carries a challenge rating of 30 in Pathfinder, and the game styles the towering monster the Dreamer in the Deep.
Q 08Which Pathfinder god of ale, bravery and freedom is said to have become divine after a drunken dare?
Cayden Cailean
Cayden Cailean was a hard-drinking sellsword who attempted a fabled test of godhood on a friend's tipsy challenge, and somehow passed.
Q 09In Pathfinder lore, a crashed alien spaceship scattered strange technology and skymetal across which barren nation?
Numeria
Numeria's biggest wreck fragment, the Silver Mount, looms near the capital, Starfall, and its radiation still mutates nearby life.
Q 10Which archdevil, called the Prince of Darkness, is the only ruler of Hell worshipped as a full Pathfinder god?
Asmodeus
Asmodeus is the god of contracts and pride, and his faithful credit him with penning the contract of creation itself.
Q 11In Pathfinder, the player who narrates the adventure and controls every monster is officially called what?
Game Master
Game Master is the title Pathfinder uses, usually shortened to GM, and the role lends its name to the remastered GM Core rulebook.
Q 12Which Steve Jackson Games parody of role-playing got its own Pathfinder-themed edition in 2013?
Munchkin
Munchkin is a humorous take on role-playing, named after players who care only about building the most powerful character possible.
Q 13Which colossal, city-razing beast is known as the Armageddon Engine in Pathfinder's world?
Tarrasque
Tarrasque can bring itself back from the dead, so heroes can only hope to banish, trap or transport it to end a rampage.
Q 21Which Pathfinder god of humanity died mysteriously on the day of a prophesied return, beginning the Age of Lost Omens?
Aroden
Aroden had been expected to usher in an Age of Glory; instead his death threw the whole planet into decades of turmoil and confusion.
Q 22Which Pathfinder goddess of dreams, luck and travelers is pictured as an elven woman with butterfly wings?
Desna
Desna spent her earliest days building the heavens while her peers laboured over the world itself, trusting there would be plenty of time to explore its wonders later.
Q 23Which Pathfinder goddess, known as the Dawnflower, teaches that enemies of the faith should be redeemed if possible?
Sarenrae
Sarenrae is the goddess of the sun and healing, yet she expects her faithful to learn the scimitar for foes who refuse redemption.
Q 14Before Pathfinder, Paizo spent five years publishing Dragon and Dungeon magazines under contract to which company?
Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast chose not to renew the deal in 2007, so Paizo launched its Pathfinder adventure line as a replacement.
Q 15Which studio developed the 2018 computer role-playing game Pathfinder: Kingmaker after a Kickstarter campaign?
Owlcat Games
Owlcat Games built Kingmaker around ruling a kingdom of your own, layering realm management on top of classic party-based adventuring.
Q 16Which Pathfinder class captures magic in liquids, brewing extracts and mutagens and hurling homemade bombs?
Alchemist
Alchemist recipes are kept in a formula book, the class's answer to a spellbook, and its brewers are seen as being as unstable as their concoctions.
Q 17Which Pathfinder spellcaster receives spells from a mysterious patron who speaks through a familiar?
Witch
Witch patrons prefer to keep their distance, so many of their agents never learn who or what is granting them power.
Q 18Which Pathfinder class, introduced in Ultimate Combat, powers its signature deeds with a resource called grit?
Gunslinger
Gunslinger characters push their weapons to the limit and beyond, and firearms are crafted in only a few technological strongholds.
Q 19Which island metropolis, called the City at the Center of the World, is the largest city of Pathfinder's Inner Sea?
Absalom
Absalom sits on the Isle of Kortos, ringed by the wrecked siege engines of the many armies that failed to take it by force.
Q 20In Pathfinder lore, mortals such as Iomedae and Norgorber became gods by passing the test of which fallen gemstone?
The Starstone
The Starstone rests in a cathedral where anyone may attempt its test, yet only a handful of mortals are known to have emerged as gods.
Q 24Which Pathfinder goddess of birth, death and fate judges every soul that arrives in her Boneyard?
Pharasma
Pharasma sees each creature's fate from the moment it is born, but reserves her final judgement until the soul stands before her.
Q 25Which Pathfinder empire did House Thrune seize after signing a pact with the powers of Hell?
Cheliax
Cheliax made devil worship its state religion under the new rulers, who then moved the capital from Westcrown to Egorian.
Q 26Which Pathfinder god of destruction, called the Rough Beast, lies imprisoned deep within the world?
Rovagug
Rovagug stirs restlessly in his prison, the Dead Vault, and many blame those movements for the world's earthquakes and volcanoes.
Q 27Which coastal town in Varisia, known as the Light of the Lost Coast, is where Pathfinder's first Adventure Path opens?
Sandpoint
Sandpoint is known in-world for theatre and glass-blowing, and a ruined lighthouse from the ancient empire of Thassilon towers over its bluffs.
Q 28Which six-part campaign, opening with Burnt Offerings, launched the Pathfinder Adventure Path line in August 2007?
Rise of the Runelords
Rise of the Runelords won gold ENnie Awards for its opening adventure, and it ran on another game's rules because Pathfinder had none yet.
Q 29Pathfinder Second Edition sorts every spell into arcane, divine, primal and which fourth magical tradition?
Occult
Occult magic is the tradition most associated with bards, and its ties to the eldritch and the unknown make it the most misunderstood of the four.
Q 30Pathfinder Second Edition uses which word, instead of race, for a character's people such as elf, dwarf or gnome?
Ancestry
Ancestry is the broader word, because the setting treats race as a narrower term that covers only biological differences.