Feast On These Modules

Monday, August 22, 2016

Ever since finishing the sanctioning documents for the Giantslayer and Iron Gods Adventure Paths back in January, Linda and I have had our hands full preparing for PaizoCon and Gen Con. We're thrilled to have delivered a huge number of new scenarios, and it's even more exciting to enter this comparably relaxed time of the year in which we can catch up on old business. You may have noticed Linda over the last week appearing in countless discussion threads to offer clarifications and then disappear in a cloud of ebullient nosoi psychopomps. I've been wrangling authors, outlining a bunch of new scenarios, and sending out new assignments; keep an eye out for new product pages soon (and see below for a list of upcoming scenarios, should you need information for planning upcoming conventions).

Upcoming Scenarios

• Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-04: Wardens of Sulfur Gulch (Tier 7-11)
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-05: Ungrounded but Unbroken (Tier 1-5)
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-06: Reaping What We Sow (Tier 1-5)
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-07: From the Tome of Righteous Repose (An experimental Tier 3-7)

Together, though, we're sanctioning a massive number of Modules and Adventure Paths. Today I'd like to share the first of many: Pathfinder Module: Feast of Dust and Pathfinder Module: Ire of the Storm! You can find the sanctioning documents on their respective product pages.

Illustrations by Tomasz Chistowski and Sally Gottschalk

Ire of the Storm skipped ahead in line a bit largely because we want to prioritize sanctioning low-level material in the organized play campaign. Don't worry though, as we're busily looking ahead to The House on Hook Street, Down the Blighted Path, and Gallows of Madness. We've also queued the Adventure Paths Hell's Rebels, Curse of the Crimson Throne, and Strange Aeons for attention, and after those, Serpent's Skull, Kingmaker, and Council of Thieves are all eagerly waiting their turns to provide hundreds of hours of additional content to the campaign. At this point, we haven't dug into Hell's Vengeance deeply enough to know quite if or how it might fit into the Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild; if anything, it'll likely be one we sanction in "campaign mode" only. Finally, I have the pleasure of reading more Pathfinder Tales novels and have nearly finished Hellknight, meaning I'm almost done writing the Volume 8 sanctioning Chronicle sheet.

That covers a lot of what's currently missing, but it does leave out one noteworthy absence: the Pathfinder Society Open Call. You may have noticed that we have a new Pathfinder Society landing page and that much of our campaign information got rearranged just before Gen Con. I'm taking this as an opportunity to revise the Open Call guidelines and add in some more advice I've learned from looking over past entries. My projection is that it will still be a 2,000-word (or less) quest, so if you're in the middle of preparing your own submission based on past guidelines, it's fairly unlikely you'll need to make any significant changes. I do, however, advise not sending in new submissions during this short hiatus, as I'll be reading any submissions I've received since August 1, 2016 with these new guidelines in mind. Once the Open Call is all spruced up, expect to see a blog announcing that it's back in action.

John Compton
Pathfinder Society Lead Developer