Road to Destiny (PFRPG)

Now available!

Woo! Congrats to Jim and Pedro on their Legendary debut!

This hefty adventure clocks in at 24,000 words, about as long as the adventure portion of an AP module and longer than the adventures in the old Gamemastery line. It includes seven sections, two appendices, numerous sidebars, adjusted rules for caravan combat, advice for running the adventure with and without the caravan rules... the list goes on and on!

Just for a fun preview, here are the chapter titles:

Part 1: Goblins on the Road
Part 2: University Town
Part 3: Wolvington
Part 4: Shortcut Through Gnarlwood
Part 5: Safe Haven
Part 6: Caravan Crisis
Part 7: The Fate of the White Wolf

Check this one out!

Pedro did some awesome maps y'all! Not only is the adventure great, but you get a map for every situation that could lead to combat.

Plus Jason got some talented genius layout person to make it all look good!

Liz could kill me with her delicious cookie!? O_o

Ok, I'm game!

D'aww. ^_^

Just purchased it, I'll be reading it over the week and will have a review up by next Friday. Super excited to see the content that Jim has crafted here, if it's anything like the great travel encounters he did for Reign of Winter in book 2 then I have a lot to be excited about!

Thank you Robert!

I hope you enjoy it and look forward to your review!

It was a pleasure working with Jason and Jim to create the maps (and in case people don't know, Jim has got some good mapping skills of his own).

Jim came up with some really nice encounters, and I'm sure our fellow gamers will enjoy running and playing this Adventure Path Plug-in!

I'll be picking this up later, it looks like great work. I can't say enough good things about how much richer these plu-ins have made the JR adventure path. My only complaint is that YOU"RE DOING THESE BACKWARDS ha ha ha - my group finished book one long ago :)
The garden around the house of withered blossoms would have made a great setting for another plug-in, richard pett put some content on the forest of spirits thread I'm going to use, but it would have been great to see it done as a plug-in, there was a significant bit cut out.
Haven't looked into book 5 and 6 in detail yet, but if there's plug-ins coming for them, you've got a sale...!

That would have made more sense, it's true, but sometimes things get done when they get done. Hopefully you'll find a good use for it in the early stages of whatever your next campaign might be!

Jason's correct, for this to have a greater impact it should have been out about last September or October. That was my fault.

However, good people of the Internet!

Jade Regent isn't going away. Most likely its on your shelf right now. Its a great Adventure Path, many of you own it haven't gotten around to running it yet. Maybe you have heard of some issues—well, if there are any, we found them and beat the crud out of them.

There's never a bad time to start a new Adventure Path for your group. Adventure Paths are a wonderful renewable source of entertainment. They don't go out of style.

Legendary games now offers everything you need to make for a very rich and detailed Jade Regent campaign.

Jason's correct, for this to have a greater impact it should have been out about last September or October. That was my fault.

However, good people of the Internet!

Jade Regent isn't going away. Most likely its on your shelf right now. Its a great Adventure Path, many of you own it haven't gotten around to running it yet. Maybe you have heard of some issues—well, if there are any, we found them and beat the crud out of them.

There's never a bad time to start a new Adventure Path for your group. Adventure Paths are a wonderful renewable source of entertainment. They don't go out of style.

Legendary games now offers everything you need to make for a very rich and detailed Jade Regent campaign.

What he said. :)

Alas for word counts, I loved the garden but had to part from it.
Rich

I agree, it looks to be very interesting, that's why I recommended it for a plug-in. With what you posted I'll make do without, but a map of the garden would have been good. We'll manage!

Jason, anything in the works for book 5 or 6?

I misread the opening sentence. Will Legendary Games do any adventures featuring Death Bears?

I misread the opening sentence. Will Legendary Games do any adventures featuring Death Bears?

We have no plans to do so at this time, but if Jason can confirm your proof of purchase, I will write you a web extra encounter featuring a dreaded death bear.

I am both joking and serious. ;D

I misread the opening sentence. Will Legendary Games do any adventures featuring Death Bears?

Ha! That totally reminds me of an old church choir story. We were doing a piece called "Festal Piece on St. Anne," and the melody line had the words:

Time, like an every-rolling stream
bears all our cares away.
They fly, forgotten as a dream
dies at the open of day.

Nice, pretty, poetic.

But the bass part was a long sustained note of the first part of each phrase, which meant our part was:

Tiiiiiiiiiiime...
beeeeaarrrrrs...
(and then we jumped up an octave)
THEY FLY!!!!!

The first time we went through it I about busted out laughing and said out loud: "Bears, they FLY?"

Good times. :)

I agree, it looks to be very interesting, that's why I recommended it for a plug-in. With what you posted I'll make do without, but a map of the garden would have been good. We'll manage!

Jason, anything in the works for book 5 or 6?

That depends. Mr. Pett should check his PM. :)

Reviewed first on Endzeitgeist.com, then submitted to Nerdtrek and GMS magazine and posted here, on OBS and d20pfsrd.com's shop. Cheers!

Thank you EZG!

For some time now I wondered about Road to Destiny a the community has been quite quiet about it. I truly appreciate the feedback and it is so positive is a genuine delight!

Thank you again. I will make sure Jason sees the remark about the player friendly maps.

You're welcome! It's a very good module in my opinion that complements Jade Regent well. I did my best to nitpick the hell out of it and still didn't find much to complain about - quite a feat! ;)

Well we certainly enjoy making your job difficult (at finding problems) and easy (at finding things you love to read) at the same time!

Review originally posted in the Open Gaming Monthly magazine, thought I might add it here as well.

Review originally posted in the Open Gaming Monthly magazine, thought I might add it here as well.

Thank you so much! You are very kind! I take your critique seriously, though for the moment I'm not sure how to address the XP addition, and still add additional encounters. Your feedback is not unheard though.

Makes me wonder if we could introduce an alternate reward system where their efforts lead towards a tangible reward? Like instead of extra XP they power up a special item or gain an extra special feat? Something unique that doesn't tip the sales too much. I'll think about that.

Neil Spicer and have put together a similar product that is coming out soon: Road to War!

It is similar in design and premise, thought perhaps a little more modular. I hope people check it out!

Makes me wonder if we could introduce an alternate reward system where their efforts lead towards a tangible reward? Like instead of extra XP they power up a special item or gain an extra special feat? Something unique that doesn't tip the sales too much. I'll think about that.

Now this idea has my interest peaked, as I as a GM have always liked the idea of rewarding my player's characters with something outside of simply experience. The idea of them having to work for an item or feat that will not be gaining them another block of XP could leave them more appreciating that reward. Am intrigued.

A fine addition to any Jade Regent campaign, I added my own review simply as someone who used the module. I'm probably being a bit tougher than the previous reviewers, but I suspect the good folks want to hear honest reviews and feedback. Looking forward to using more of your excellent products.

Nice review, Scadgrad! The more opinions, especially, if they're well-presented, the better. :)

Thanks for the feedback! I emailed Pedro Coelho, the mapper for this product, to see if he can export unkeyed versions of the maps. If so, we'll add them to the product package for download.

Can we have unkeyed maps for all LG-modules? That would be SO AWESOME...

The Gothic Campaign Compendium includes unkeyed maps for The Murmuring Fountain, The Fiddler's Lament, and Feasting at Lanterngeist.

The Far East and Kingdom-Building Compendiums are in layout now, and each should have unkeyed maps in the appendices.

So the answer is: YES! :)

You have just made my day (or rather, post-midnight) Jason - one of the scant few gripes I could muster against your modules is about to disappear - how awesome is that? Or rather, how legendary? ;)

I should also point out that our latest adventure, Road to War: The Equinox Crown, already has its maps duplicated in unkeyed format. Just sayin'... we've been listening to customer feedback loud and clear. :)

I think Jason won't mind me telling you guys that the unkeyed maps for Road to Destiny are in his mailbox and will be soon available to the public. :)

Thanks to Pedro, the un-keyed maps have been uploaded! If you purchased your copy here at Paizo.com, you will be able to download those unkeyed maps in JPEG format as soon as the files are reviewed by the Paizo folks. I'll also be uploading them to DrivethruRPG for those who bought the adventure there!

Excellent work gentlemen.

Excellent review, thank you! Sorry I missed it until now. I don't mind a few good points for improvement. I'm glad we could improve the maps for you!

And yes, we did adjust Road to War specifically on that issue.

Looks good. Added it to my wishlist so do not forget bout it wheni can once ain afford to buy more product.

Got news of an updated version with the accompanying comment "Major revision and update of adventure".

What changed ?

This will soon see use in my group as we shall start JR in the coming weeks. I am getting real excited about this (and the forthcoming Imperial Relationships too) ;-)

It was thoroughly edited and there were a number of small errors, statblock snafus, and a couple logic hiccups that were fixed. Not huge story changes but a good number of minor adjustments with development and editing love from someone who was not the author. You might spot some changes with a side-by-side reading but I think most people would be challenged to pick them out with just a cold reading the new manuscript.

I think that's fair, but Al and Jason might have another perspective.

Its tough to self-edit and self-develop, and thanks to Al Riggs, this baby got some fine tuning and attention. Road to Destiny has been now raised to the higher level of professional production that Legendary Games strives for in all their products.

If someone has not purchased it yet and are looking at a certain Far Eastern AP, its a good time to pick it up!

Thank you, Jim (and all those who contributed). The level was already very good, so even better is icing on the cake.

All of LG adventure plug-ins for this AP are great. And this one does indeed fill an essential role IMO. I will reread it (new version) and see if I have any question left ;-)

...and this is why I like legendary games. still care enough about their product to edit it and make corrections a year after release. thanks guys!

Glad you guys are enjoying. We figured we were revising the book anyway to make it compatible with that OTHER RPG, so why not clean up the Pathfinder version at the same time. The original version was fine, but why not make it LEGENDARY?

Bit of thread necromancy here :)

I'm just now using Road to Destiny, and absolutely loving it. There's a reason I keep getting the LG stuff: it's phenomenal, and incredibly useful.

Can I make one suggestion, just on formatting? I've noticed a couple of stat blocks are split by a one-page tactical map. Because these are PDFs, it means more button-clicking or scrolling to get from the "top" of the stat block to the "bottom". Perhaps if the ordinary text was split, and the stat-blocks kept together? Or all the maps at the tail-end of the book instead of in the middle?

Not trying to be negative,'cos I love this stuff - it's just a minor annoyance I thought I'd mention.

Cheers, and keep up the awesome work, guys. :)

Thanks for the feedback. We'll keep it in mind as we've got a couple of adventures very close to release for our Metal Gods AP Plug-Ins line!

Is there any information on the "Egyptian Theme AP" plug-ins? :)

I originally bought this fantastic plug-in as part of the incredible "30 for 40 Mega-Bundle". I'm currently running the Jade Regent AP, so this is an excellent fit for Book 1 of that AP.

However, the Mega-Bundle contains only the full colour version of "Road to Destiny". Is there any way to get the "stripped-down printer-friendly version" without making a separate purchase?