Trying to write a scenario submission but need help.


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Ack! I need info for my submission to be made! Anyone have any answers on the following:

There is an elven nation in the Pathfinder world right? If so, what is located on it's western part? Is there any bodies of freshwater? If there are freshwater rivers or even lakes? Could a town be put next to one of them? Would the elves be somewhat stringent on members of other races being there? What is the environment like in this part of the elven kingdom? If a human grew up in the western part of this Elven Kingdom, what Pathfinder language (aside from Common and Elven) would he be speaking most?

Do portals exist in this setting? If so, would it be unreasonable for a portal to exist in an old elven ruin which would take you from the western part of the elven nation into a unknown part of the Mwangi Expanse?

What human Mwangi tribe in the Mwangi Expanse would be keen on worshiping a giant ape as a avatar of their god and even offer human sacrifices to it? What Pathfinder language (aside from Common) would they most speak?

Please let me know kay? ^_^

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy

There is a very thorough gazetteer of Kyonin, the elven land about which you inquire, in Pathfinder #16: A Memory of Darkness. It might not answer all your questions, but it's the most thorough writeup the place has gotten. There's also information in Elves of Golarion, the Gazetteer and the Campaign Setting.

Portals do exist, and yes, it was the elves who used them (mostly to escape Golarion before Earthfall) but most are inactive now. Where they are and where they go hasn't been revealed yet.

I don't know whether the information you seek about the Mwangi tribes has been detailed yet either, but there is a Demon Lord who takes the shape of a gorilla who lives in the ruins of the jungle there. Perhaps that would work.

In any case, it sounds like a thorough read of the Campaign Setting hardcover will answer a lot of the questions you have for which there are existing answers.

If I might ask, what open call are you submitting for at the moment? All scenarios for Season 0 have been accounted for, and the open call for Season 1 scenarios has not yet gone out. In any case, the types of broad questions you're asking and the general scope of what it sounds like you want to do looks like it's way beyond what the scenarios are meant to encompass. I know Josh gave feedback to many submissions suggesting that the scenarios shouldn't be used to define new parts of the world nor establish world-changing canon, like where a gate goes. Just a few things to consider for whatever you're working on.

Liberty's Edge

yoda8myhead is right...

It looks to me that you want to answer the last Open call, but you did not read the words of Josh with too much care. He give there very precise indications for the open call purpose. And there is a link to a very useful not-to-do in submissions. To get a right ideea, I advise you to search and read all the entries related to Open calls posted by Josh in the Paizo blog.

Anyway, you should know that for the rest of this year the open calls are closed. And, from what I understund from some Paizo officials posts, they don`t accept submissions for modules. Is their world and they must keep control of what happen in it...


The open call is currently closed and won't reopen until September.

Judging by the large number of new submitters who submitted scenarios nowhere near the guidelines (or even on Golarion for that matter) I'm guessing some misinformation went out somewhere about this.


My apologies. I assumed the open call was still in effect.

If I may ask, what can be submitted to Paizo about the world of Pathfinder?

I'm trying really hard to make a adventure that would take a party from the western parts of Kyonin to the Mwangi Expanse and back again.

I even had some cool artwork made to submit with it. Problem is I don't know if it's submittable material (2nd problem is of course I don't have all the info I need to make it playable).

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy

At this point, the only open submissions Paizo is taking are for PFS scenarios, generally two month, but there won't be any more of them until September when the PRPG rules are out. If you check the Paizo Blog every weekday, updates to when open calls are starting/ending are posted there. As well as other cool stuff.

It sounds like you want to submit an adventure path or even a series of modules and Paizo isn't accepting any of those. Your chances of publishing them outside of Paizo are also slim to none, as they have said that they will license the game system but not the world to 3pps. My best suggestion would be to make a kick-ass adventure for your home group or separate the adventure you have in your head from Golarion and submit it to a 3pp or self-pblish it with PRPG compatibility (after August, of course).


If it helps, there is a wealth of information regarding the Elven homeland of Kyonin in the book 'A Memory of Darkness' in the adventure path 'Second Darkness' (number 17). Check out pp. 48-55.

Jon Brazer Enterprises

Berselius wrote:
I'm trying really hard to make a adventure that would take a party from the western parts of Kyonin to the Mwangi Expanse and back again.

You're not submitting what they're asking for:

Open Call Blog Entry wrote:
The scenarios are one-shot, 4-hour adventures—epic story arcs, world-shattering events, wars, mass famine, etc. don't have a place in them.

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Oh, you could run an adventure going from Kyonin to Mwangi and back in four hours. It's just that most of the trip would be really unremarkable.

ACT 1

Interlude: your guide reveals himself to be an elven prince and gives you his signet ring in case you ever need to call him, before departing into the ancient forests to the west. 12 days pass. In Cheliax ...

ACT 2

Interlude: you escape from the hags and refit the loping lizards as your new mounts. Another 15 days pass. Aboard the ship departing for Absalom...

ACT 3 ...

--+--+--

More seriously, Berselius, good luck with this project. It sounds like you're ambitious and ready to do whatever hard work is necessary to see a project through, and those are the kinds of skills that make good adventure writers.

My advice: wait around a couple of months, for the Season One open calls to come out, take aim at one that you think you can blow away, and write the best damned proposal for a 4-hour scenario that Josh has ever seen. Good luck.


That's actually what I had planned, a quick 4 hour adventure. It would go something like this:

Act 1

Players arrive a city in the west of the elven kingdom after being summoned. All races (of good alignment) are welcome in this city (the city is managed by a male Aasimar and his adventuring companions and they pledge their loyalty to the Elven Queen). The Aasimar approaches the adventures claiming his wife (a elven princess) has been captured by the Winter Counsel (to be used as black mail) and taken to the ruins of an ancient forest city. Promises of payment and reward and made and Aasimar (as a NPC) leaves with the party backing him for the ruins. Some conflict with the Winter Counsel in the City and along the road.

ACT 2

Players arrive at the ruins of an ancient forest temple. They make their way in, fighting monsters and members of the winter counsel and discover the Winter Counsel never intended to return the elven princess. She was brought through a two-way portal to the Mwangi Expanse and now the PC's and the aasimar must follow.

ACT 3

Players arrive in the Mwangi Expanse and fight their way to a native village. They discover the princess was taken to a sacrificial alter to be sacrificed to a giant ape (which the natives worship as a god). After conflict and fighting the main villain (a hag of the winter counsel) the PC's now have to make their way through the expanse to reach the princess in time.

ACT 4

The Players arrive at the sacrificial altar after fights with jungle monsters and some of the natives and find the princess on the verge of being eaten by the giant ape. The PC's have to rescue her then escort both the princess and the Aasimar back to the portal and then return to the city in the west of the elven kingdom.

The Exchange RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16

Berselius wrote:

That's actually what I had planned, a quick 4 hour adventure. It would go something like this:

....

Given the portals, that sounds perfectly reasonable. One of the published PFS scenarios makes use of a similar device.


While I would consider the proposal fairly, I probably wouldn't accept a scenario that jumps around the world. Too much of a disconnect for a 4-hour event.

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