Shackled City Adventure Path - moving it to Golarion

[NerdyOgre254]

I'm going to be running the Shackled City Adventure Path, which started in Dungeon Magazine #97, way back in '03. Problem is, I'm not particularly huge on PF Geology/Geography and I was hoping for help.

Cauldron, the city of the Adventure Path, is located in the upper interior rim of a dormant volcano. It's also somewhat near a jungle, apparently.

Anyone know of a suitable place for it to be?

[Douglas Muir 406]

I don't have the Golarion map in front of me, but there are probably a number of locations that would fit. Anywhere there's a jungle (or warm temperate or subtropical forests. I don't think it has to be a jungle) and mountains. IMS (it's been a while since I read this) the volcano is supposed to be extinct... in fact, that's a plot point.

BTW, while I liked that AP, the first module is basically a huge damn dungeon crawl. If your players are cool with that, great. If not, go through that module with a big red marker and cut out a bunch of rooms -- there are only a couple of plot points that need to be hit, and you can figure out ways to do that without having your PCs march around an 85-room dungeon. You can give them some random encounters later to make up the xp.

Doug M.

[NerdyOgre254]

Wow, I only counted up to 57 rooms, which is still very much overkill.

I think what I might do, given my party's tendency to invest in their communities, is leave a few (20-25) rooms caved in and say that they could probably be repaired.

[FDPiech]

I'm starting my work in prepping SC for use in Pathfinder for my group.

I settled on putting it in the mountains of Sargava the lost colony.

[Son of the Veterinarian]

The River Kingdoms seem like a decent fit, though you'll have to turn the jungle into a forest or swamp.

Beyond that? If you want to keep the jungle, inland on one of the larger islands of the Shackles might work, or on the mainland somewhere between The Shackles and Sargava.

[Duiker]

Put it in the giant dormant volcano in the Shackles. I think it's called the Smoker.

[Eryx_UK]

When I ran it in Golarion I put it in the mountains north of the Mwangi Expanse with trade routes to the nations north of the mountain chain.