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It was one of the days when I wished that somebody else was Gamemastering our local group. I was on a Thursday evening. The coming Saturday I was supposed to meet with my friends for a friendly D&D evening. Only I did not have an adventure ready for them. My working schedule prevented me from designing myself. Searching through the word wide net for any ideas I stumbled across D0 Hollow's Last Hope. I liked the Cover but was skeptical about the story. After all, what can one expect from a free module offered by the company who's job normally is to sell such things. And it only consisted of 16 pages. Well, it was better then showing up with nothing, and 16 pages where quick to read.

Actually I had to read it twice, because I could not believe that what I held in my hands was that good, especially since it was a free of charge product.

Hollow's Last Hope is one of the best Adventure Mods that I have had the pleasure reading and running. I immediately ordered the follow up Mod D1 Crown of the Kobold King and D1.5Revenge of the Kobold King. My players loved it and hated me at the same time, because the story was full of surprises (having that little bas.... Merlokrep return as Zombie to further harass the PCs when they just enjoyed their new fame as the local Heroes, came as a big surprise to them.

Never since GW surprised the Gaming Community of WHFRP with their High Quality Campaigns have I experienced story line so well developed.

This is a must or any one who enjoys well made NPCs, great story lines and surprises for their Players. I highly recommend to read all 3 Mods (D0, D1, D1.5)and then playing them in sequence. They can be played as stand alone, or as go in betweens in a running campaign, but if you dont play them in sequence you and your players will miss a lot of the fun and surprises that work so well if they are in sequence.

Hollow's last Hope is the one that got me hooked on Paizo's Product Line, and I have not regretted it since.

Searching through the world wide web, one can stumble across hundreds (or at least a few dozens) of discussions.It seems that there are 2 major groups of people out there, those that are pro 4E, and those that are pro Pathfinder RPG (with a few who like both also). To me it seems that if pro 4E and pro PF would meet, they would go at each other with words and examples of "how bad", or how "un-D&D-Like" the others favorite is. I think that is to bad and really not necessary. 4E is a development from 3.5 up to something new, focusing on younger Gamers, whereas Pathfinder RPG focuses on 3.5 with taking out some bad spots and irritating rules, but staying in the 3.x kind of game, thus serving those that are not interested in 4E. Thus, with both games on the market, there is something to keep each happy.

For me, Pathfinder RPG is my System of choice. It is still the D&D that I know and have come to love for the last 30 Years. 4E is not to our liking, and thus, with a sad feeling, we kept playing 3.5, knowing that our era of playing pur favorite game will come to pass as soon as the last 3.5 Book/Module has left the shelves of our favorite store). WRONG

With Pathfinder the Skills have been streamlined, Feats have been worked over and playing one of the standard classes will be fun again. With the new Powers given to the standard classes, one does not have to change to a Prestige Class (prematurely)to enjoy their Character.

The Campaign Setting is High Quality and is deserving to be called Heir to the FR or even Greyhawk. Pathfinder RPG will be the Game for my friends and me, and we are happy that our Roleplaying Days with or favorite Game are not coming to an end. Be it called AD&D, D&D3.5 or Pathfinder RPG, our journey goes on. Thank you Paizo for hopefully 30 more years of gaming.