Ed Greenwood's “Lost Coins and Flying Bones”: Many years ago a group of merchant traders met a very sticky end. Rumor have circulated for decades about the wealth and magic held within the traders' storage cellars below the city. You have learned the location of the only entrance to those cellars. What does it contain? Goods, wealth, magic? Will you live long enough to find out? An adventure for a 5th to 6th level party.
Monte Cook's “Temple of the Half-Born”: Asked for help by a strange old man, you travel underneath a massive cemetery to investigate and root out the evil that lurks below. Delve deep into the temple to meet demons, hybrid ghouls, cadaverous projects gone wrong, and the mastermind behind it all. This is an adventure for 7th or 8th level characters.
Steven Schend's “Keep Away From the Borderlands!”: It has been two nights since Corith's Watch, a holy night that occurs only once every 120 years. The full moon glowed blue and strange things happened. People have disappeared. Blue fires rage across the wilderness. Some people have not been heard from since that night, including the guards at the local watch post. You have been hired to investigate what happened at the keep! A first level adventure.
Brian Cortijo's “Arena of Souls”: You've been abducted! Fight your way through the arena and find a way to escape. Beware! You start out weaponless and imprisoned. The tiefling priest warden is more than he seems; he is providing entertainment for perverse locals and the arena has an even more sinister purpose. Time for a jailbreak! An adventure for 3rd or 4th level characters.
All Stars take on the Mega Dungeon is a collection of four adventures by Ed Greenwood, Monte Cook, Steven Schend, and Brian Cortijo with stunning artwork by Joel Biske and Dan Houser. This adventure is compatible with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and Gaming Paper Adventures: Mega-Dungeon 1.
I am excited to announce that Monte Cook (one of the contributors to this collection of adventures) was interviewed by MTV! Yep, that MTV. Monte is hanging out with the cool kids. Well, he mentioned All Stars Take on the Mega Dungeon! Thanks Monte and congratulations.
Does this adventure pack require the Mega Dungeon product? And is Monte's adventure, by chance, set in Ptolus? (It sounds like it's set beneath the city's necropolis.)
Does this adventure pack require the Mega Dungeon product? And is Monte's adventure, by chance, set in Ptolus? (It sounds like it's set beneath the city's necropolis.)
It does not require the Map Pack. Although I recommend it for added coolness, of course.
Does this adventure pack require the Mega Dungeon product? And is Monte's adventure, by chance, set in Ptolus? (It sounds like it's set beneath the city's necropolis.)
It does not require the Map Pack. Although I recommend it for added coolness, of course.
I was a little disappointed by this, I have to admit. Not by the product per se, I'm sure it's very good, but from the initial announcement and title I thought it was different writers tackling the same dungeon, ie, making it a megadungeon product. At that point it was going to be a must buy for me, but actually it's only 'the megadungeon' because it utilizes the Megadungeon map pack, which I found a little misleading. I was expecting something even more epic than the superb Citadel of Pain, not an unconnected series of short adventures.
Nice review, D_M! This one is also on my list of things to review. :)
Yeah this was one of those I wanted to like it more cause it was well written but it had a couple of issues IMHO.
@theneofish yes this is not a mega dungeon but a collection of 4 mini dungeons that use the mega dungeon maps. I also thought the same thing when I got it. I that it was a 4 level mega dungeon with each level done by someone different. I honestly think i like the way they did it better, but I can see how people would get the wrong impression since I did.
Nice review, D_M! This one is also on my list of things to review. :)
Yeah this was one of those I wanted to like it more cause it was well written but it had a couple of issues IMHO.
@theneofish yes this is not a mega dungeon but a collection of 4 mini dungeons that use the mega dungeon maps. I also thought the same thing when I got it. I that it was a 4 level mega dungeon with each level done by someone different. I honestly think i like the way they did it better, but I can see how people would get the wrong impression since I did.
And, you know, that's fair enough. There's probably as many - if not more - folks interested in seeing how the authors respond to the freedom of coming up with something completely fresh each time, rather than being limited to one big structure. I would still have preferred something at least interlinked though... I've got a lot of short adventures.
Ah well, perhaps next time. In the meantime, I've still got Citadel of Pain to finish reading.
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Liz Courts wrote:
Steve Geddes wrote:
Is this available or not? When I try and order it it says unavailable and I'm worried I'm going to end up with the PDF.
It currently says the print/PDF bundle is available, so you should be able to order it. Try again please!
It's still doing weird things for me. At the 'Confirm Order Stage' I see the following (it's just cut and paste, so the formatting is a little weird..):
Quote:
Digital Purchases
• All Stars take on the Mega Dungeon (PFRPG) Print/PDF Bundle
Gaming Paper
The PDF will be added to your downloads immediately upon purchase. 1 @ $14.99 $12.74
Shipments
Shipment # 1
Should ship from our warehouse within 2 to 6 business days. • All Stars take on the Mega Dungeon (PFRPG) Print Edition
Gaming Paper
Unavailable 1
I often struggle in understanding the store messages - but this seems to suggest I'll get the digital content but that the physical product is unavailable.
The print product was doing some wonky things on the backend of things here, and everything should be good to go, and older orders should ship out as expected. Steve, if you have any further issues placing an order for this, please let me know!
Paizo Superscriber, Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber, Pathfinder Comics Deluxe Subscriber
Liz Courts wrote:
The print product was doing some wonky things on the backend of things here, and everything should be good to go, and older orders should ship out as expected. Steve, if you have any further issues placing an order for this, please let me know!
No worries Liz, thanks. I'll go ahead with the order.
This may be the wrong place to ask, but is Ed Greenwood an experienced PFRPG player/GM? Or did he come up with the idea and get someone else to translate it into PFRPG terms?
I can't tell you if he is an experienced Pathfinder Role Player or Gm. I can tell you he is an experienced Pathfinder Role Playing Game adventure designer. He did the entire adventure himself. It required very very little work to get it ready for the All Stars Book. He is a GREAT guy.
I can't tell you if he is an experienced Pathfinder Role Player or Gm. I can tell you he is an experienced Pathfinder Role Playing Game adventure designer. He did the entire adventure himself. It required very very little work to get it ready for the All Stars Book. He is a GREAT guy.
Cool! For some reason, I thought that all the real old-time D&D writers were still mulling over whether to allow Unearthed Arcana in their home campaigns and didn't have time for anything more recent. ;-)
I plan on running Ed Greenwood's adventure for my party of 6 5th level characters (who are on the cusp of 6th level). Although I will probably tone down the final encounter a bit ... while I don't mind killing characters I think the CR 14 enemy will be too deadly if I play him to his capabilities. I figure reducing him a couple of levels and adjusting gear appropriately should do it.
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