By Thunder and Fang!

Monday, November 7, 2016

Illustration by Roberto Pitturru

The Serpent's Skull and Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Paths—both of them based around their respectively infamous sets of fangs, to say nothing of one's use of a famous Shoanti fighting style—are now sanctioned for the Pathfinder Society Organized Play program. You can find the rules for running these Adventure Paths as well as Chronicle sheets on the Additional Resources page and on their respective product pages.

The more that Linda and I work on these sanctioning projects, the more interesting we can make the experience. You'll find some handy guidelines for running the sanctioned parts of the adventure volumes and retaining more of the story in each of these sanctioning documents. We're also pretty pleased with the boons in both of these, which allow PCs to ally with clashing factions, redeem cruel villains, affect one or more of your other Pathfinder Society characters, and even dissolve one of the underlying assumptions of the campaign in a way that lets the character still enjoy in the organized play experience. Curse of the Crimson Throne is also an excellent reason to acquire a Harrow Deck, which features in one or more of the boons on each volume's Chronicle sheet.

Have you already started one of these Adventure Paths in your home group? Awesome! Much like we did with Giantslayer and Iron Gods, we're allowing some retroactive credit. If you are still in the middle of playing one of these Adventure Paths but have not yet concluded it, you can receive retroactive credit for all of that Adventure Path's earlier volumes the next time you earn a Chronicle sheet for that campaign. To answer a question that arose in the Hell's Rebels sanctioning blog, yes, this allowance also extends to Hell's Rebels.

There's more sanctioned adventures on the way, though not for a few more weeks. Other adventures like Kingmaker, Council of Thieves, Strange Aeons, and Seers of the Drowned City are still on our schedule.

John Compton
Pathfinder Society Lead Developer