Digging Deep, Branching Out

Kaer Maga is just itching for more development, I don't want to see Tian Xia forgotten now that the Ruby Pheonix arc has played out- too many things there not to keep working on, finally I also add Vudra as really needing some work (or Jalmarey if nothing else).

Oh, and I want more ties in with the Dark Tapestry... since it's close to Christmas, I suppose I can ask Santa for that, right?

I want to visit:

• A Gnome city... with interesting Fey and First World stuff.
  
• A city or land where one of the new 'legal' or 'semi-legal' races is the dominant species... (Tengu, Catfolk, Aasimar, Grippli, Ratfolk...)
  
• More of Trollheim and the Nordic stuff in the Land of the Linnorm Kings.
  
• The Islands off the cost of Varisia.
  
• More Egyptian feeling stuff from Osirion... tombs... the Osirion Faction has to have some missions to defend these against raiders... that has to be interesting... a bit of necromancy in a different light.
  
• Kyonin - In depth Elven backstory/history/archaeology would be cool.
  
• Nex, Ged, and the Mana Wastes would be cool to explore.
  

I'd like to see some new adventures in Numeria, Nex, Alkenstar, The Mana Wastes, and Thuvia.

Hermea! Its one of the places on golarion that you can't describe as "Fantasy ______"

I'd love to see expeditions into Mwangi, exploring the ruins of the Shory civilization. (Did I get that right?)

Also: I have to admit, I am quite fond of Absalom/Kortos scenarios. There's something to be said for the regular near-home scenario, especially if characters have any roots there (e.g. vanities).

I'll repeat on what I said on FB.

Numeria!!! It's Expedition to the Barrier Peaks meets Gamma World!!

My second is Lands of the Linnorm Kings.

Galt!! Long live the Revolution!

Geb, Alkenstar, Mana Wastes, Nex.

In that order.

This is all.

Ill name a couple:

Mediogalti Island. THe Black pearl of the tropics needs some love!

Sodden Lands. You have Yamasa to play with here as well as the nearby Eye and the Ghol Gan. Plus more gms having to learn how weather conditions affect gameplay!

Galt: Put the fear of Final no coming back from a toenail death into the player/characters. In the age of 'Im back!' after selling off my favors, to encounter a device which could literally end a character would be awesome.

Pit of Gormuz in the Windswept Wastes. A long way out of where Pathfinders normally are. Having to deal with Spawn of Rovagug!

The Five King Mountains. Kyonin briefly got a look in this season, why not the Five Rings.. and the nominal heart of the the Dwarven race. Plenty of intrigue there and .. beards.

In the world guide there is a brief mention of other worlds in the same solar system as Golarion. Let's John Carter it up and go there!

Nex, Geb, and Vudra top my list.

Shadow absalom!

This actually touches one of the main criticisms I've had of the more recent Pathfinder scenarios - the constant emphasis on overarching season-spanning plot.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's not a bad thing, and I don't have a problem with it continuing.

But, it seems that it's encouraging us to play scenarios in a certain order, and, with the changes to faction missions, with certain characters, moving us away from PFS being 'bring any character, to any table' towards 'you CAN bring any character, but it's best if you bring THAT one': and all-in-all making it harder to find a scenario to play.

The early season 0 - 2 scenarios had less of an emphasis on location, timing or faction, which is something that's been deemphasised recently.

I miss the scenario where you're deployed to a far-off land with various idiosyncrasies, to do a short mission, and something that your faction leader had requested, and then return and report.

Season 2 managed to do this while (in some scenarios) also providing an overbearing nemesis, as the Shadow Lodge was everywhere.

Season 3 moved away from this, towards an emphasis on a far-off nation. Season 4 moved further, with even less non-story missions.

From what I've seen in Season 5, it's still very structured: "Get supplies to Nerosyan".

The challenges we face now are providing context to new players when we run older scenarios.

I imagine that writing scenarios to fit in with the storyline is one of the things that has been consuming development efforts, and constraining both existing and new scenario writers.

Why not open it up, commission more scenarios with less story constraints, and publish one additional, non-storyline-related, scenario each month?

Sarusan,Eox, and Arcadia. In no particular order.

I would love one set in Gogpodda the Gnomish floating nation in the steaming sea. Just sounds like fun. Though Eox would be interesting, just due to the harsh environment.

For any pfs scenario in a world as diverse as golarion, the question should be asked "could this adventure be anywhere else with 15 minutes of serial number filing" and the answer should be no.

I'm a big fan of Galt, definitely. I'd like to see something in Hermea or Sargava. I also would like to see some of the other continents on the globe.

Numeria

Alkenstar

Darklands

Any place with dinosaurs. Lots of dinosaurs.

Somewhere with pyramids and mummies and curses

I think Hermea is ripe for a Pathfinder expedition. That's got to be on the short list of places the Decemvirate hasn't managed to extend its reach into yet and is one of the few areas of Golarion that feels unique to Golarion. I'd also like to see more of the Mordant Spire after reading what was detailed in Mythic Realms and Elves of Golarion, more of Sovyrian, more Numeria (I think I'm going to get my wish on that front), and more of the Mana Wastes (though I couldn't care less about Alkenstar itself). In about that order.

Any place with dinosaurs. Lots of dinosaurs.

This, ladies and gentlemen. This a thousand times!

Akiton! Following in John Carter's shoes (or rather some human from Golarian)...

I think the Numeria and Alkenstar suggestions would really fill in a void. Being outclassed in technology might be an interesting change of pace for the artifact-rich Society.

I'd love to see more of the darklands too, and I think Shadow Absalom would make for a brilliant scenario. So close to the Grand Lodge, and yet so far.

Garund: Osirion and The Mwangi Expanse in particular!

Lets bring that original Indiana Jones/ archaeology flavor back to the Pathfinder Society.

Galt!

This. A thousand times this.

Osirion, Ustalav, the Shackles, the Linnorm Kingdoms, and Arcadia. In no particular order.

I wouldn't mind seeing some more scenarios set in Ustalav, to be honest.

Nar-Voth, into the Darklands!

I am quite fond of Land of the Linnorm Kings
But I would also like to see more scenarios in Numeria, Ustalav and Sargava

I'd love to see more of Galt, Ustalav and Taldor (in that order).

Nidal is really intriguing, so that would definitely be worth a scenario, I'd also love to see a trip into the Darklands. My other wish would be a trip to the First World, lots of potential points of entry in Varisia, Lands of the Linnorm Kings, etc.

All of Garund needs more love if you ask me, but if I had to break it down, I'd say:

Alkenstar
The Shackles
Sargava
Mwangi Expanse

in that order.

Hermea, and golarion low orbit. There has to be some cool science stuff left over from space elves #Lirgen

Fighting ancient aberrations in a failing orbit skymetal processing facility.

Hao Jin tapestry. Right now, we have a single adventure in there that's something other than "Aack! We have an Aspis invasion." There's a lot of really great potential in there, and nobody else at Paizo is writing stories set in the demiplane.

(Honestly, I'd be hopping-up-and-down excited to see an 8-page supplement on the place: who else is in there, how do the heavens work? Who keeps the peace?)

I had a couple ideas, but I realized I basically wanted PFS to touch on locations from APs. We've had plenty of Varisia (which I love - don't stop!), but Rostland, Katapesh, and maybe even Westcrown are calling out for a visit.

Hermea Hermea Hermea

Alkenstar and Numeria would be great.

Deeper into the Blackros Museum.

I'm not going to vote for anything (almost all of the suggestions have been good ones). I'm going to vote AGAINST Alkentar/Mana Wastes.

I don't want the headache of spending half an hour basically making a new character sheet with no magic on it (I've put off playing Lost at Bitter End for this very reason).

Alikenstar, Numeria, Osirion.

Going to Nex would be pretty awesome too, epecially Quantium itself. Maybe an exploration of the dungeons beneath the Bandeshar?

My favs:
* Ustalav
* The First World
* The Realm of the Mammoth Lords (esp. Icestair)
* Cyclopean ruins in the Shackles or mainland Mwangi

I've put off playing Lost at Bitter End for this very reason.

Play a fighter, I played this at Paizocon 12 and it went smooth barely affected my PC.

Arcadia, Nex, and Lands of the Linnorm Kings would be interesting places to play in.

Numeria or sargava

Yes.

Huge fan of both.

That said, I'd like Sargava to keep its "backwater" feeling so maybe a mini-arc in Sargava tied to a Shackles meta arc.

I would love to revisit some of the places we only caught glimpses of in early seasons.

Hao Jin tapestry - I'm with Chris, with all the hype that went into getting the tapestry the only thing the PFS is using it for now is as an express highway

Mordant Spire - Did having to suffer through Sephriel's insanely circuitous ploy pay off?

Mwangi Expanse - there has to be more undiscovered dungeons beneath "Azlant Ridge".

Jalmeray - While I agree "Assult on the ..." wasn't the greatest of title IMO it was a fun scenarios and I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel.

The Blakros Museum - Let’s get back to where it all started (for me anyway)

the shackles is a great idea. can I write my first PFS scenario set there?

I want more recurring characters like Grandmaster Torch and the Prince of Augustana. Those two are some of my favorite NPCs

Mike

In no particular order:

Continents: Arcadia (Valenhall, Elesomare, Canorus, and Anchor's End), Azlanti ruins and the Sun Temple Colony, Casmaron (Vudra, Iobaria), Southern Garund (Dehrukani, Nurvatchta), Crown of the World

Areas: Darklands, The Mordant Spire, Field of Maidens, Mana Wastes, Mediogalti Island

Cities: Kaer Maga (just because it's awesome)

Inner Sea Countries: Isger, Nidal, Thuvia, Geb, Isle of Jalmarey, Hermea, Alkenstar, Numeria, Druma

Michael Eshleman wrote:

I've put off playing Lost at Bitter End for this very reason.

Play a fighter, I played this at Paizocon 12 and it went smooth barely affected my PC.

Magic weapons, armor, stat-boost items, ioun stones, cloaks of resistance, and sundry other magic items make recalculating a martial character's sheet just as much of a pain (if not more so) than a caster.

A couple of sleeper ideas I had overnight:

Taldor. So few good scenarios are set in Taldor that really deal with it specifically. I'm really looking forward to Lion in the Library, as I think it will change that, but it's just a shame that practically every Taldor scenario released to date has sent people to *northern* Taldor rather than Oppara and treated the setting as practically any other wilderness setting.

Cheliax. The Society is technically not allowed access right now, but there's been rumbling about that changing. It could be interesting, dealing with wary Hellknights and trying to keep track of all the laws.

Arctic wilderness adventures!