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Here We Come A’Slithering!

Monday, July 20, 2020

A rapier-wielding catfolk and a spellcasting lizardfolk struggle to fend off the attacks of a group of vicious slime creatures that have the pair surrounded.

Illustration by David Astruga

This month we’re proud to release our newest stand-alone adventure for Pathfinder Second Edition: The Slithering!

In in the cosmopolitan trading city of Kibwe, at the edge of the Mwangi Expanse, innocent people struck by the terrible curse known as the slithering are melting into malevolent oozes. The heroes are at the epicenter of this slimy curse and might be the only ones capable of recovering the ancient magic needed to break it. Tracking the course of the curse through Kibwe’s bustling markets and shrines, they must untangle its origin and discover the role the nefarious Aspis Consortium plays in the unfolding conspiracy. The mysteries the heroes uncover might usher in a new era of plenty and prosperity for Kibwe—if they can survive the curse to experience it!

The Slithering, written by our own Ron Lundeen, is designed for 5th-level non-human characters. Yeah, you read that right. Did we not mention that the curse only affects humans? That’s a very dangerous detail to overlook when preparing to start this adventure. Can you imagine what would happen if your entire party consisted of all humans? Talk about a total party kill!

But don’t worry, brave Pathfinder! We have you covered. Even if you’re set to start playing right now, you don’t need to go back to square one in designing a non-human PC to play. We’ve got a free web supplement providing four ready-to-go PCs for just such an event.


A female catfolk with pale blonde fur wears leather armor over a white tunic and a green, ankle-length skirt slit up the side to allow her to run. She holds a rapier in a defensive stance. A male lizardfolk with blue-green skin wears a long loincloth of yellow fabric, a necklace with several wood and bone charms on it, and a bulging satchel on a long strap over one shoulder. He holds a wooden club in one hand and casts a glittering orange spell with the other. This middle-aged female orc wears a blue and yellow woven dress with open sleeves that extends nearly down to her sturdy leather boots. A wide leather belt around her eaist holds several pouches and two scabbarded shortswords. Her long, dark hair is pulled back into a headwrap of vibrant yellow and blue. She cradles her chin with one hand, as though deep in thought. This male, red-scaled kobold wears and orange robe that covers his feet (and is dirty at the hem). He has a gnarled walking thick that looks like it was pulled right off a tree, upon which he leans heavily. A black-furred gerbil sits on his shoulder.

Illustration by David Astruga

Inside The Slithering Pregens document, you’ll find Melvok, a kobold witch; Oraka, an orc investigator; Savshin Starwatcher, a lizardfolk oracle; and Zathri, a catfolk swashbuckler. Why yes, now that you mention it, we did take this opportunity to give you a sneak peek at not only four new ancestries set to come out in the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide at the end of the month, but also the four classes making their Pathfinder Second Edition debut in the same book! So whether or not you’re planning on playing, running, or completely ignoring The Slithering (I don’t recommend that last one, by the way), you won’t want to miss out on this free PDF download.

The Slithering and Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide are available everywhere on July 30!

Mark Moreland
Director of Brand Strategy

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Liberty's Edge

I feel that I see Human PCs a bit more in PF2, but really in PF1, I think most PFS PCs I worked with were not humans. And our own parties in Rise, Jade Regent and Kingmaker had max 1 human. In Rise, it was my character and it was required by the GM so that he could have us play a nice 3pp module in addition to the AP.

So, IME, having a variety of ancestries in parties has always been there. And often very far from the CRB ones.
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Now is this a tacit admission that the oozemorph archetype was cursed?
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I realized today that I got a pdf with my preorder and have been reading over the first chapter. I am really loving the way this is playing out. And must say, please get your microphones out of my home! :P Or hire me already... XD

However, I have come to a slight foul up in editing. Page 12 (pdf page 14) you have “a 6th-level antitoxin” at the end of the Poison section. I have searched both the archives and this adventure and have not found “antitoxin”. Am I mistaken in understanding that needs to be “antidote”?

Edit: Just came across “Pathfinder Bestiary 6” on page 15.

Thank you for your time.
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Yup, the reference to an antitoxin is actually talking about an antidote.

The reference on page 15 is to the Pathfinder Bestiary, page 6 (where the elite adjustment is located) and page 61 (where the centipede swarm is located).
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Namir_Riptide wrote:

Edit: Just came across “Pathfinder Bestiary 6” on page 15.

Thank you for your time.

This is a common mistake due to formatting weirdness. If you look really close, the 6 isn't in italics. It's a page number. If it was referring to the book it'd be "bestiary 6 124" for example. The weak/elite templates are on page 6.

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Fumarole wrote:
Eyeball Tsunami wrote:
having player's die of the curse could be dramatically fun and interesting for the adventure, but might get old after a while...
If your players die during your games you're doing something horribly wrong.

Not quite, I have a new player group that just finished Plaguestone and only 1 of them is human. He's basically recreating his champion with another race and letting his first character die in the first encounter.

Of course the others don't know this so their faces are going to be pricless. :-)
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Pathfinder LO Special Edition, Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, PF Special Edition Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Superscriber

You have players who aren't human?! :-)
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Ed Reppert wrote:
You have players who aren't human?! :-)

Depending on when and where you ask, I'll sometimes answer suggesting that I am not.

Fellow human.
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The link to the pregens ought to be included on the product page IMO.

Any idea if or when this'll be on Roll 20 or Fantasy grounds?
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Decimus Drake wrote:
Any idea if or when this'll be on Roll 20 or Fantasy grounds?

It appears to be already on Roll 20: https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/module/7416/the-slithering Not sure about Fantasy Grounds.

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

Not on Fantasy Grounds yet, although their release pace has been really picking up lately so I imagine it won't be too long.
Dark Archive

I love that orc investigator's outfit. Nicely detailed.

And that's my inane comment for the day. :)
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