With their memories once again intact, the adventurers continue their pursuit of Count Lowls. But first they must visit Cassomir, where they believe the wayward noble is meeting with an old associate, but find only danger in his absence. Next, they travel to Katheer, capital city of Qadira, to track down a blasphemous tome in a hidden library, only to discover Lowls has stolen the vile book. They then venture to the slave-trading city of Okeno to pick up the count's trail again and encounter the mysterious and alien entity that has been haunting their dreams. If they can't stop their crazed nemesis before his plans come to fruition, doom will come for all!
This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path continues the Strange Aeons Adventure Path and includes:
"The Whisper Out of Time," a Pathfinder adventure for 10th-level characters, by Richard Pett.
A gazetteer of the dangerous slaver city of Okeno, by Richard Pett.
A look into the inscrutable ways of the alien beings known as yithians, by Paris Crenshaw.
A diva has a fateful meeting in the Pathfinder's Journal, by Jason Scott Aiken.
A bestiary containing a new Great Old One and other loathsome monsters, by Ed Grabianowski, James Jacobs, Richard Pett, and Greg A. Vaughan.
ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-908-0
"The Whisper Out of Time" 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 (723 kb zip/PDF).
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The cities of Cassomir and Katheer are rather bland, at least for how they are presented in this book. You can make them bigger and greater with the additionally ressources, but that is not what I'm rating here.
The dungeon crawlers were nice, except for the boring infirmary. I really enjoyed the library, although the puzzle at the end was..... sad. Honestly, reading that, it would've been a better campaign if you deleted that part all together, it was a huge disappointment of a puzzle.
Otherwise I adored the RP potential in the slave city, but the dungeon was rather forgettable again. The thing that pushed it over the edge to 4 stars for me was the Yithian, I loved the little messages she kept sending, gave it a great vibe all around.
Part 1 (Cassomir) has a good mix between Cthulhu Mythos and Pathfinder atmosphere.
Part 2 (Katheer) is the part where the Mythos atmosphere is strongest.
The "Ecology of the Yithian" article is excellent!
The Bestiary section is good.
BAD:
The battle-maps are disappointing, they are very plain and unevokative and the last one is too big to fit even on a "Bigger Flip-Mat".
The Okeno gazetteer doesn´t offer enough information.
UGLY:
There is no clue where to place the "Old Infirmary" anywhere in Cassomir and the location of the "Blossoming Thorn" in Okeno is not given either.
You ABSOLUTELY need Pathfinder Chronicles: Cities of Golarion and Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Qadira, Jewel of the East, both excellent books, if your players decide to visit some other locations in Cassomir and Katheer and if you don´t want to pretend the encounter locations exist in thin air.
The CR of the opponents in part 3 are way below the group, there is not a single enemy that won´t be taken down in 1 round.
A level 12 party can take on the whole fortress at once and lose not a single PC.
I was really torn between giving 2 or 3 stars for this, i wish i could have given 2.5
The GM has to invest lots of extra time into this part to flesh out the three cities and to replace EVERY opponent in part 3 (lots of low CR creatures DON´T add up to a high CR challenge).
This adventure would have been better if it took place in only 2 cities.
So far we got:
-Ithaqua, the Wind-Walker by August Derleth in book 1,
-Mordiggian, the Charnel God by Clark Ashton Smith in book 2,
-Tsathoggua, Father of Night by Clark Ashton Smith in book 3.
Considering that H.P.L.´s works are public domain and can still be done later and that Mhar and Orgesh are Paizo creations, that still leaves:
-Atlach-Nacha, the Void Weaver by Clark Ashton Smith &
-Chaugnar Faugn, the Horror from the Hills by Frank Belknap Long
as most "urgent" adaptations from the article in AP# 109.
Book 5 will most likely contain Xhamen-Dor, the Inmost Blot.
Thursday the 24th of November is Thanksgiving in the States. As it is close to the weekend, it is possible that the Friday may be included as part of a long weekend, which is what I think Plausible Pseudonym was getting at.
However, I don't live in the States, so I'm not 100% on Friday being a no-work day (although I do know that the international schools are taking the day off...)
Correct. This is the updated and accurate text and image.
(To help in the future, you might notice that the product descriptions with the bullet points are typically the final descriptions and they match the back cover text of the book. Prior to that, the text is closer to the solicitation text sent out to book buyers and distributors. What I'm saying is that looking for the bullet points—at least when it comes to most of the book lines–will let you know if the description has been updated 9 times out of 10.)
Correct. This is the updated and accurate text and image.
(To help in the future, you might notice that the product descriptions with the bullet points are typically the final descriptions and they match the back cover text of the book. Prior to that, the text is closer to the solicitation text sent out to book buyers and distributors. What I'm saying is that looking for the bullet points—at least when it comes to most of the book lines–will let you know if the description has been updated 9 times out of 10.)
I did notice, though, that the cover image file seems smaller in size (dimensions) than is usually the case. I don't know if this is significant in any way, just wanted to mentioned it just in case. :)
24-48 hours usually. So if you got billed just like me, you will see your PDF once you get the shipping notice in your email. Hopefully Thursday, maybe Friday :) I am still excited :)
I'm still disappointed they didn't go with my submission The Whisper Out Of Tyme, a Victorian era cookbook.
That's right, and the flumph coming out... Hmmm, there could be some mileage in that cookbook idea of mine:)
Hmmmm, indeed. We saw what kind of foods delight you in Dance of the Damned. I'm not sure about that cookbook. ;)
"The Whisper Out Of Tyme contains a bounty of indescribable recipes, using unutterable ingredients from the most remote places in this world and others. I highly recommend it to every epicurean adventurer whose will is strong enough to follow the book's mind-shatteringly complicated instructions." — Reginald Tisdale, author of The Horror of Cooking
-Clockwork Vivisectionist (Construct, CR 10), a wind-up construct that walks around in search of living creatures to cut up after a dose of anesthesia.
-Hollow One (Construct, CR 10), an intelligent, lifelike construct made in the likeness of a specific person.
-Hooded Harbinger (Abberation, CR 12), a messenger sent directly from the big Yellow H himself. Nasty piece of work.
-Proto-Shoggoth (Ooze, CR 11): What you'd expect. There's also a bigger, CR 14 version that is created when two Proto-Shoggoths fuse.