Pathfinder Adventure Path #110: The Thrushmoor Terror (Strange Aeons 2 of 6) (PFRPG)

Every volume of Strange Aeons has a Great Old One in the bestiary, yes.

The Hastur article is the same length as standard for deity articles of late in Pathfinder: 6 pages.

Thank you for clarifying that Mister Jacobs! :)

Awesome, great olds ones for everyone.

I would love to fight Hildred Castaigne in this. Maybe as a CE cavalier, backed up by Mr. Wilde as a Witch or Wizard with a cat familiar.

James Jacobs has said the Great Old One in this volume is gonna be MOEDIGGIAN.

Mordiggian... but yes.

Although I'm sure anime fans would have had a good time with the other version. ^_^

Moediggian sounds like a character from this series.

I'm really surprised that the Hauster article is coming this early in the AP, but I am by no means displeased. I thought it would be like WofR, where Deskari was featured in the Bestiary and God article of the final issue.

Is that hag the Mambabarang/insect hag from philippine myths?

Nightterror,

I think that's a different hag than the one you mentioned.

Dabus,

Maybe so but remember, they're not fighting Hastur JUST yet.

The gazetteer for Thrushmoor sounds interesting.

Not big on Hastur or his cultist, so I am not as interested in that article.

Eh. I like Hastur. He's got all the great bards. :)

It's hard to compete with the article in the first volume.

City gazetteers rock my world, so the Thrushmoor gazetteer is much more interesting and useful to me than *the* article in the first installment.

Not that the article in Strange Aeons #1: In Search of Sanity wasn't good. It was bloody awesome. It's just that, being the kind of GM that I am, I get much more out of the type of articles featured in this installment of Strange Aeons than I do of articles such as the one that dominated the backmatter for the first installment.

Still like to know where in relation to Thrushmoor Briarstone is. I mean it must be a PRETTY small island to not show up on some maps...

You don't remember where it is, my, oh my, memory is such a tricky thing.

I know it exists, Kreiger. I just can't find it. It's like Themyscira or the Lost Island of Atlantis. I know it's there. I just can't find it. :p

It's most likely the big building on the middle island south of the Smokehouse.

I missed the Smokehouse....

It's on the map in the Strange Aeons players guide. :-)

Ah. I forgot about that! Thanks Captain!

Briarstone Isle is in the Danver River, so it's not visible on the Thrushmoor map as its further away. It is a pretty small island too. Pretty much holds the asylum and the grounds.

Adam,

So it's almost invisible from the air then huh? I mean like on a map.

Yep.

Got my copy today, very excited to read through it.

Got my copy today, very excited to read through it.

Could you spoil the creatures?

Thanks and have much fun reading it!

John Ryan 783 wrote:

Got my copy today, very excited to read through it.

Could you spoil the creatures?

How many pages are the Thrushmoor gazeteer and Hastur article?

Marco Massoudi wrote:

John Ryan 783 wrote:

Got my copy today, very excited to read through it.

Could you spoil the creatures?

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Marco Massoudi wrote:

How many pages are the Thrushmoor gazeteer and Hastur article?

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Thanks John, much appreciated!

Another question if you may: Is the BBE the Briarstone Witch?
And if she is (which seems to be the case), what is she?
A Witch or something else?

What are your initial thoughts on the things you have already read?
Is it as athmosperic as part #1?

Thanks again and greetings from Germany! :-)

Marco Massoudi wrote:

John Ryan 783 wrote:

Got my copy today, very excited to read through it.

Could you spoil the creatures?

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Marco Massoudi wrote:

How many pages are the Thrushmoor gazeteer and Hastur article?

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Awesome! I've wanted some of those creatures for awhile now. I can't wait to see what other creatures we get in future bestiarys.

Also...

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I don't even know what those are. They're not in the PRD?

Kalindlara wrote:

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I don't even know what those are. They're not in the PRD?

Nope.

That was totally my mistake.

To be honest, i also expected the witch to be in this one, still really good though, at first glance. :-)

Is it a mistake or just an awesome idea Mister Daigle? That's what you have to ask yourself.

Also thanks Kal for explanations! :D

Kind of neat to see a template from the Green Ronin update of Advanced Bestiary pop up in this book.

To be honest, i also expected the witch to be in this one, still really good though, at first glance. :-)

That cover image is more contextual than anything. The Briarstone Witch is a bit too tough for 4th-7th level characters to be able to deal with.

Is it a mistake or just an awesome idea Mister Daigle? That's what you have to ask yourself.

Also thanks Kal for explanations! :D

Nah, it's absolutely a mistake. When we use material from a source that's not in the PRD we reprint it in the adventure or whatever the piece may be. I should have included the racial abilities for the kuru NPCs in this adventure, but messed up and didn't. As Kal said (and linked) the information is out there, but that doesn't help a GM running this analog unless they happen to have Isles of the Shackles.

Oh well. I tried.

Just skimming, but I am liking the sandbox apprach to the town.

Also, star vanmps!

Buuurrnn insignificant escapees from the nuthouse. BUURRN!! Lurvs me some star vampires.

So what does the Hastur article reveal about him?

So what does the Hastur article reveal about him?

He likes the color yellow.

6 pages of nothing but the word "yellow". 'tis enough to drive readers mad, MAD I say!

cappadocius wrote:

Kalindlara wrote:

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I don't even know what those are. They're not in the PRD?

Nope.

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For those reading here, they are on the Archives of Nethys so at least you can find their stats somewhere.

Here

So what does the Hastur article reveal about him?

It's complicated. Basically, a solid effort at stitching together decades of work from multiple different authors, while trying to remain true to them all.

He has three aspects represented by the three cities around Lake Hali: Carcosa is his nihilism, Yhtill his decadence, and Alar his disorder. The article really cemented that the King in Yellow is one of his avatars, as opposed to the entirety of his being. This leads me to believe that the final adventure may have a different version of him statted in its Bestiary. Whatever lurks in Lake Hali, perhaps. There are hints that Carcosa (the parasitic city) is a "cocoon" of sorts, and he will eventually emerge as a true Elder God.

Priests are often bards, oracles, sorcerers, and (obviously) clerics. Cults like to pose as political or academic groups, and love infiltrating other religions - they get a particular kick out of weaseling their way into the cult of Razmir.

We get a 9th-level yellow sign spell that functions as a symbol that puts targets under the command of any worshiper of Hastur.

Priests are often bards, oracles, sorcerers, and (obviously) clerics. Cults like to pose as political or academic groups, and love infiltrating other religions - they get a particular kick out of weaseling their way into the cult of Razmir.

Hehehe.

I find the title misleading and am a little disappointed that we do not get to fight/mess around with the Briarstone Witch...
What is presented "instead" is cool, though, too.

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We get a 9th-level yellow sign spell that functions as a symbol that puts targets under the command of any worshiper of Hastur.

Hopefully this does not complicate things (later) where mechanisms refer to "spells having the word "symbol" in their name"...

Ruyan.

6 pages of nothing but the word "yellow". 'tis enough to drive readers mad, MAD I say!

Like this then?

Hopefully this does not complicate things (later) where mechanisms refer to "spells having the word "symbol" in their name"...

Although, once you're able to wield 9th level spells nothing in the world seems complicated, I'd say...

Ruyan.

Considering the spell's very first sentence is "This spell functions as per symbol of death," I don't think there's much room for confusion. And symbol of yellow just doesn't sound right, naming conventions be damned.