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Delve into Gauntlight Keep on D&D Beyond!

Tuesday, Sept 9, 2025


Pathfinder Abomination Vaults fifth edition on D and D Beyond promotional banner: The background art is of a bearded sorrowful man standing in the foreground with a demon, a large worm, and a ghostly woman in the background behind him. At the top of the banner is the Yellow Abomination Vaults Text logo. The bottom left of the banner is the Pathfinder Second Edition text logo, and the bottom right of the banner is the D and D beyond text logo


Pathfinder Abomination Vaults (5E 2024) on D&D Beyond!

One of our most popular and exciting campaigns comes to Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition!

When the mysterious Gauntlight, an eerie landlocked lighthouse, glows with baleful light, the people of Otari know something terrible is beginning. Evil stirs in the depths of the Abomination Vaults, a sprawling dungeon where a wicked sorcerer attempted to raise an army of monsters hundreds of years ago. The town's newest heroes must venture into a sprawling dungeon filled with beasts and traps to prevent a spiteful spellcaster from rising again!

As announced at Gen Con 2025, we’ve partnered with D&D Beyond to bring Abomination Vaults to Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition (2024). When you buy this Adventure Path on D&D Beyond, you unlock access to the entire megadungeon—including new spells, magic items, over 90 creatures, and 13 interactive maps!


A banner with three columns of images and text. The first column is a ghostly woman screaming angrily, under her image is text that says: Ghastly Gauntlight, The very dungeon of Gauntlight Keep itself, holds great magic power, adding new dangers and the potential for greatness. The second column is of a dusty blue book with white scribbles on the cover and loose papers shoved between the pages, under the book reads: Mysterious Magic Items. 16 new magic items to liberate from Belcorra's keep. The third column is an image of a large worm-like creature with dozens of short insect legs and two tails, each holding a sharp weapon. Under the creature says, Haunting Horrors, over 90 monsters through 10 levels of megadungeon!


With Maps, the integrated D&D Beyond virtual tabletop, transitioning to free for all users on September 16th, now is a great time to get Abomination Vaults on D&D Beyond! Run your campaign with minimal prep, easy-to-access stat blocks and read-aloud text, and the ruins of Gauntlight at your fingertips!

Bring your Fifth Edition party into the megadungeon of Gauntlight Keep today!

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I had such a wonderful time running some of Abomination Vaults for these folks! It's a very smooth transition to D&D Beyond.
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That's good to hear.

...Provided that WotC and Hasbro understand that Abomination Vaults belongs to Paizo and not THEM!!!
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It does something strange to my brain to think of folk playing DnD using Golarion as the setting, given how baked into PF2 Golarion is. How many people are playing DnD using Golarion as their campaign setting? I know you can just move Otari and AV into your own (or a published) campaign setting, but I’d still be interested to know if people are playing in Golarion using DnD (or Savage Worlds)…
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OceanshieldwolPF 2.5 wrote:
It does something strange to my brain to think of folk playing DnD using Golarion as the setting, given how baked into PF2 Golarion is. How many people are playing DnD using Golarion as their campaign setting? I know you can just move Otari and AV into your own (or a published) campaign setting, but I’d still be interested to know if people are playing in Golarion using DnD (or Savage Worlds)…

I can’t speak for 5E but as a long time player of Savage Worlds (and therefore active on various forums etc for the game) I can confirm that there are definitely lots of people playing in Golarion using Savage Worlds. I am one of them, though currently I play mostly PF2e (with a little PF1e and a sprinkling of other systems for good measure!).

I suspect the numbers using SWPF are far fewer than PF2e (as you might expect) but I have no data to evidence this. I do know over 2800 people backed the Savage Worlds Pathfinder Kickstarter, and I know I see the SWPF books in many FLGS here in the UK, so it seems to be in quite wide distribution.
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5E? Really?
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OceanshieldwolPF 2.5 wrote:
It does something strange to my brain to think of folk playing DnD using Golarion as the setting, given how baked into PF2 Golarion is. How many people are playing DnD using Golarion as their campaign setting? I know you can just move Otari and AV into your own (or a published) campaign setting, but I’d still be interested to know if people are playing in Golarion using DnD (or Savage Worlds)…

I just finished running a Kingmaker game using the 5E conversion Paizo put out for the anniversary edition. I loved it, and the book really sold me on Golarion as a setting and inspired me to switch to Pathfinder 2E for the next campaign.

I also ran a (heavily abridged) 5E conversion of Crimson Throne set in Golarion, and I've seen some threads on these forums with other people running 5E conversions of APs. So at the very least, there's some audience for this kind of thing.
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I just finished running a Kingmaker game using the 5E conversion Paizo put out for the anniversary edition. I loved it, and the book really sold me on Golarion as a setting and inspired me to switch to Pathfinder 2E for the next campaign.

This is wonderful to hear. This is the exact reason we have provided support for both Kingmaker and Abomination Vaults for 5E players. Glad to hear you liked the world enough to give the full game a try.

Any news if this is coming to Foundry vtt?
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