A Pathfinder compatible adventure for beginner players and game masters, 4 PCs of levels 1-2
Prepare to be schooled!
Exallizar Preparatory Academy is a place that, for generations, has trained the best and brightest heroes in the land. All of the students are the children of famous heroes, and as one of the fortunate attendees, it is your job to uphold the legacy of excellence attached to your family name.
As a student in Exallizar, you will be put through the paces like never before. This first year will see you and three strangers attempting the Gauntlet—a mysterious crucible that will put all of your studies to the test!
Also included in "A Learning Time:"
The first look at an exciting new miniature campaign setting specifically intended for the basic version of Pathfinder
Four new iconic pre-generated PCs for quick and immersive play
A classic monster never before seen in the basic version of Pathfinder
A grading system to let you know how well you’ve done at the end of the adventure
The first chapter of a series of seasonally thematic modules that can be run to completion in 3-6 hours
HERO LAB files available for all encounters within the adventure as well as the BASIC Iconics, all playable as PCs!
VTT (Virtual Tabletop) files now included with all Adventureaweek.com adventure modules! Play it now on Roll20.net!
Author: Kevin Mickelson.
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It took me a long time to find a family friendly adventure path. The Basic series has met that need. The first installment is well written and easy for DM’s to run smoothly and efficiently. I would rate the content as a PG rating and ran this module with my small children. That being said it is still fun for adults and my wife enjoyed playing through it with the kids.
This quest comes with premade characters but we chose to make our own. If you do make your own party make sure you have a healer and a thief otherwise you are not going to receive a very high grade based of the in mission grading criteria.
SPOILER ALERT!!!! The hardest part of this dungeon was an Ogre. I thought this was a little overpowering for a group of 4 level 1 characters and is the reason why I gave this module 4 out 5 stars. A few lucky hits and that ogre can destroy the party. He gets a +8 and does 2d6+9 damage, yikes! Granted I had beginning players that used less than perfect strategy but this is who the module was supposed to be for. Other than this one encounter everything else was leveled almost perfectly. However there is a riddle to figure out involving a light puzzle that no players I know would every figure out. The way around this is by the players using trial and error to figure out the combination. I thought it would have been better is there was a trap involved that went off for every wrong combination. There is like 24 possible combinations for this puzzle so it defiantly would have helped encourage pcs to make educated guess instead of switching lenses until they locked into place.
Over all this is a good introduction to role playing for younger audiences and the most kid friendly adventure I have found that is still fun for adults!
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