Enter the Stolen Lands, a wilderness claimed by nobles, bandits, and beasts alike. Into this territory the fractious country of Brevoy sends its emissaries, tasking them with subduing the lawless folk and deadly creatures that have made it a realm of savagery and shame. Beyond the last rugged frontier stretches the home of voracious monsters, capricious fey, wily natives, and bandits who bow to the rule of a merciless lord none dare defy. Can the PCs survive the Stolen Lands, bring their dangers to heel, and lay the foundations of a new kingdom? Or will they just be one more fateful band, lost forever to the ravenous wilds?
This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path launches the Kingmaker Adventure Path, and includes:
“Stolen Land,” a Pathfinder RPG adventure for 1st-level characters, by Tim Hitchcock.
A gazetteer of Brevoy, a country of ancient grudges and noble rivalries, by Steve Kenson.
New rules for turning exploration into a different kind of adventure, by James Jacobs.
A new misadventure for disgraced noble scion Ollix Kaddar in the Pathfinder’s Journal, by James L. Sutter.
Five new monsters, by Ed Greenwood, David Hill, Steven Kenson, Rob Manning, and F. Wesley Schneider.
Pathfinder Adventure Path is Paizo Publishing's monthly 96-page, perfect-bound, full-color softcover book printed on high-quality paper. It contains an in-depth Adventure Path scenario, stats for about a half-dozen new monsters, and several support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open Game License and work with both the Pathfinder RPG and the standard 3.5 fantasy RPG rules set.
ISBN–13: 978-1-60125-229-6
"Stolen Land" is sanctioned for use in Pathfinder Society Organized Play. The rules for running this Adventure Path and Chronicle sheet are available as a free download (606 kb zip/PDF).
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I ran this adventure mostly as-is for a group of 5 players (4 veterans and 1 new player). We used the medium experience track. It took about 24 hours of play, not including leveling, over 6 4-hour sessions. They really enjoyed it. The only complaint was that the XP gain was slow. The encounter locations are loaded with intriguing details and creative connections between them. The terrain for the battles is varied and tactically complex. Almost every encounter has tips for how it could be handled in an unconventional way, but there's plenty of fights if that's what the group is in the mood for. It was a blast to GM.
Why only 4 stars? The adventure relies a little too heavily on random encounters to fill out its experience count, and some of the most plot-relevant and interesting details are difficult to convey to the players, especially the BBEG's origin story.
The back material is a basic explanation of hex exploration (which is basically a reminder of how long it takes to travel, plus an xp award), and a gazetteer on Brevoy. The latter is a good place to start for anyone who wants to take the AP in a political direction. The fiction is entertaining and the monsters are solid and useful. The carbuncle is so entertaining, I wish I had remembered to include it when it was CR appropriate.
If your players are self-starters with a drive to investigate and you want an AP that you and your players can develop into your own story, this is a great AP for you.
This is the AP Ive been waiting for. I played in it once before and HATED. It. What a difference a new gaming group makes! This game finally gives PC's the chance to not only rule a kingdom but build it from the ground up! My group had endless fun building our kingdom and protecting it from various villians.
Kingmaker's sandbox approach was very new and innovative, and made for a very different experience. I love that my players had to pause and think, "If I waste him with my crossbow, how will he pay taxes?" Read my full review: Stolen Land
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
I ordered both the first and second adventure PDFs just so that I could get access to the interactive map documents, like those that appear in my Paizo adventure path subscription orders. I wanted to print them for our game today, but lo and behold, NO MAPS! I also own the PDF of the map folio, but that doesn't have the combat maps in it either.
What gives?
I tried both copying and exporting them right out of the adventure path PDF and into Photoshop, but they are much too low rez to be usable (possessing enough dpi to print at a only a couple of inches), and the square grid isn't even square on some of them!
