Pathfinder Adventure Path #127: Crownfall (War for the Crown 1 of 6)

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As Taldor's entire capital city gathers to celebrate, few realize that conspiracy and royal rivalries are about to shake the empire to its core! When a high-minded cabal of senators and nobles tries to steer the nation away from disaster, Emperor Stavian III orders a bloodbath in the senate halls, trapping neophyte spies inside layer upon layer of magical security. As tensions rise and the emperor falls, can the heroes escape the forgotten halls beneath the senate and save the heir to Taldor from an assassin's blade? And even then, can anyone prevent a civil war that will tear one of the Inner Sea's oldest nations apart at its rotting seams?

This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path launches the War for the Crown Adventure Path and includes:

  • "Crownfall," a Pathfinder adventure for 1st-level characters, by Thurston Hillman.
  • A gazetteer of Oppara, crown jewel of Taldor and center of Inner Sea culture, by Eleanor Ferron.
  • A closer look at some of the primary movers and shakers within the Taldan senate, who make for ideal allies, patrons, or rivals to politically minded players, by Thurston Hillman.
  • A collection of some of Taldor's most exotic and unusual threats, from the unsettlingly doll-like fantionette to the freewheeling onyvolan, by Thurston Hillman and Adrian Ng.

IBSN-13: 978-1-64078-015-6

"Crownfall" 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 (922 kb zip/PDF).

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just here to offset the guy 1- & 2-starring all the PF2E products

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Princess Highground

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Crystal Frasier unfortunately made such a caricature stand-in for her own opinions out of Eutropia Stavian that my group still refers to her as "Princess Highground". God bless the authors that tried to salvage this, but the developer kept trying to smother them.

There are also some odd anachronistic elements in the writing that jumped out at me. "Peace-bonding" weapons in the Senate. Service animals allowed....an editor probably should have caught these.


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A great mix of intrigue, role playing and combat, and scarily prescient. Tremendous job everyone!


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As a player I had a blast when my GM dropped us into the intrigue from this AP. Another great political scenario from paizo.


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It's not out yet.

Grand Lodge

john mclaughlin 11 wrote:
where is the player guide ?

It was mentioned prior that those responsible for it ended up getting sick. Delaying its release by a week. I believe that’s still the case. Maybe by the 28th?


I'm guessing no one has news on the player's guide?


Pathfinder Lost Omens, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

I am hoping that it is released after the update.

Paizo Employee Franchise Manager

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It certainly won't be released prior to the update.


Look people the moment SOMEONE knows where the player's guide is for this, I'm sure we'll be told. In the mean time, just hang loose. It might show up today. It might show up tomorrow. It might not show up until next week.

All I know is now I'm 100% sure I need to my Irrissen Winter Witch as an Envoy for Irrisen. :)


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Mark Moreland wrote:
It certainly won't be released prior to the update.

*Update Finishes*

How about now?


I don't think so Zerg.

Paizo Employee Managing Developer

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Hi! I'm the person who posted earlier talking about how the guide is delayed, so hey, why not an update. The War for the Crown Player's Guide is still in production. It will release as soon as we're ready for it to release, and not a minute sooner.

I know. That kinda sucks for some people, and I get that. We're doing what we can. Please don't for a minute think that we don't want to give you the best experience.


how about a base overview to tie us over


While I get not wanting to commit to a date until you're certain it'll be ready then, surely you have an estimate of the absolute latest it could possibly be... I imagine if we got that date and it were made clear that that isn't a hard and fast date, but rather the most conservative estimate possible, people might calm down with the pestering. Even if it isn't a specific date, but like a time frame, like "it'll definitely be done within the month of March" or "it'll most likely be done within the next fortnight," heck, even "expect it sometime before summer rolls around" would serve to manage expectations.

I'm not trying to add to the pressure and badgering, just offering a possible bandaid that might satisfy at least some of us for awhile.

Shadow Lodge

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psychie wrote:
While I get not wanting to commit to a date until you're certain it'll be ready then, surely you have an estimate of the absolute latest it could possibly be...

Any estimated date will just be used as ammunition against them if it is not met.

Paizo Employee Managing Developer

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^^This.

I've been around the block enough times to be cautious with my words. I do promise that me and my team are working as hard as is applicable to releasing this free product.


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Adam Daigle wrote:

^^This.

I've been around the block enough times to be cautious with my words. I do promise that me and my team are working as hard as is applicable to releasing this free product.

I think it is clearly safe to say that the Player's Guide will be released sometime between now and 2019.

Dark Archive

Has there ever been an AP which hadn't had a Players Guide on the street date of it's first installment?

I think it is great that we get a free product that helps to create characters (in advance) for an upcoming campaign.
It is obviously a lot of work checking all the possible character classes and archetypes which exist for compatibility with not one, but six adventure parts.
It is also a great tool to generate excitement and to check if the AP is something one likes.

The lack of a Starfinder Dead Suns players guide made me realize that we need one for every AP.

At the moment i am asking myself if it wouldn't be more practical to incorporate it into the first part of an AP, as a lot of the introductions already are half a guide.
What do you think?

Silver Crusade

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Marco Massoudi wrote:

Has there ever been an AP which hadn't had a Players Guide on the street date of it's first installment?

I think it is great that we get a free product that helps to create characters (in advance) for an upcoming campaign.
It is obviously a lot of work checking all the possible character classes and archetypes which exist for compatibility with not one, but six adventure parts.
It is also a great tool to generate excitement and to check if the AP is something one likes.

The lack of a Starfinder Dead Suns players guide made me realize that we need one for every AP.

At the moment i am asking myself if it wouldn't be more practical to incorporate it into the first part of an AP, as a lot of the introductions already are half a guide.
What do you think?

Losing 16 pages out of an AP, could mean losing at least a level's worth of adventure content.

Silver Crusade

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DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:
Marco Massoudi wrote:

Has there ever been an AP which hadn't had a Players Guide on the street date of it's first installment?

I think it is great that we get a free product that helps to create characters (in advance) for an upcoming campaign.
It is obviously a lot of work checking all the possible character classes and archetypes which exist for compatibility with not one, but six adventure parts.
It is also a great tool to generate excitement and to check if the AP is something one likes.

The lack of a Starfinder Dead Suns players guide made me realize that we need one for every AP.

At the moment i am asking myself if it wouldn't be more practical to incorporate it into the first part of an AP, as a lot of the introductions already are half a guide.
What do you think?

Losing 16 pages out of an AP, could mean losing at least a level's worth of adventure content.

Also, it would be much more difficult to disseminate to players that way. Free pdf ftw!

Silver Crusade

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Besides you have all of the future to run an AP. In the long run, nobody remembers if something is late, but they'll always remember if it's bad. Let Paizo take their time to make something worth using :)


DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:
Besides you have all of the future to run an AP. In the long run, nobody remembers if something is late, but they'll always remember if it's bad. Let Paizo take their time to make something worth using :)

A lot of people remember that Hell’s Vengeance’s guide was late.


DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:
Besides you have all of the future to run an AP. In the long run, nobody remembers if something is late, but they'll always remember if it's bad. Let Paizo take their time to make something worth using :)

Well, yes.

At the end of the day a quality product is what everyone wants.

However, as the missing player's guide is mentioned a couple times in the Adventure Background on how you link to the story via Campaign Traits through an NPC is the plot point instead of a location (like say, any of the APs starting in Sandpoint which draw you to that location with their respective Campaign Traits), the missing content is a little more important.
The Campaign Traits are almost always of a larger importance just in tone/theme (ignoring mechanical benefits) when they are linked to a key NPC, usually to the point that subtle nods to outright additional avenues of attack for certain plot points based on which campaign trait you have.

Adam Daigle wrote:
I've been around the block enough times to be cautious with my words. I do promise that me and my team are working as hard as is applicable to releasing this free product.

Question: If this was a product you guys were charging money for again, would this situation change? (Opened the door by putting emphasis on the price point you guys are charging for the missing content that the AP cites in Book 1 itself).

Not trying to poke the bear or anything, just curious.
If this is a time/resources vs return on investment, have you guys considered devoting say the front or back cover to campaign traits, or one of Paizo's own Adverts? Shouldn't need more than a page to devote to campaign traits unless they would suddenly become a lot more robust and important because they were published in a book the public pays money for

Silver Crusade

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Xenocrat wrote:
DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:
Besides you have all of the future to run an AP. In the long run, nobody remembers if something is late, but they'll always remember if it's bad. Let Paizo take their time to make something worth using :)
A lot of people remember that Hell’s Vengeance’s guide was late.

What difference does that make now though?

You can buy all 6 books of Hell's Vengeance and the quality Player's Guide right now, and run a Hell's Vengeance campaign no problem.

Silver Crusade

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ComputerSmurf wrote:
DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:
Besides you have all of the future to run an AP. In the long run, nobody remembers if something is late, but they'll always remember if it's bad. Let Paizo take their time to make something worth using :)

Well, yes.

At the end of the day a quality product is what everyone wants.

However, as the missing player's guide is mentioned a couple times in the Adventure Background on how you link to the story via Campaign Traits through an NPC is the plot point instead of a location (like say, any of the APs starting in Sandpoint which draw you to that location with their respective Campaign Traits), the missing content is a little more important.
The Campaign Traits are almost always of a larger importance just in tone/theme (ignoring mechanical benefits) when they are linked to a key NPC, usually to the point that subtle nods to outright additional avenues of attack for certain plot points based on which campaign trait you have.

Or you could wait another week to start the campaign, and play boardgames for a week instead? Or run a one-shot? Or literally do anything else if you feel that you can't run the adventure without the player's guide?

Like, what's the hurry?


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DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:
Xenocrat wrote:
DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:
Besides you have all of the future to run an AP. In the long run, nobody remembers if something is late, but they'll always remember if it's bad. Let Paizo take their time to make something worth using :)
A lot of people remember that Hell’s Vengeance’s guide was late.

What difference does that make now though?

You can buy all 6 books of Hell's Vengeance and the quality Player's Guide right now, and run a Hell's Vengeance campaign no problem.

It tells you there’s a history of not providing recent players guides on time with a high degree of certainty and you shouldn’t ever buy a first AP volume at release if your purchase decision depends on having a timely players guide. Cancel that preorder or delay your game plans.


DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:


Or you could wait another week to start the campaign, and play boardgames for a week instead? Or run a one-shot? Or literally do anything else if you feel that you can't run the adventure without the player's guide?
Like, what's the hurry?

Yes, I could go fly a kite, learn to play a new instrument, go play games by Paizo's competitors in TTRPGs, or any other activity. These are all options that I have available to my free time.

What I choose to fill my spare time with is not the issue at hand here

The issue at hand would be that we have a product, a product that money has changed hands over mind you, referring to another product.
Normally this in and of itself is not an issue, either the data is reprinted, available in the SRD, or the other product is available.
In this case the product is not available, leading to an incomplete product. (And let's not fool ourselves here, the Player's Guides are part of the Adventure Path. As mentioned before the Campaign Traits do offer potential avenues of attack in books one, and sometimes book two as well. Or can be keystones to the story as a whole, the most recent AP to do THAT would be Strange Aeons).

With this not being the first time the issue has happened (missing Player's Guides upon launch of book 1), being vocal about the issue shows Paizo that I (and it appears other users based on other posts in this thread) do wish for them to be released at the same time as the first book if at all possible and that not having the player's guide not available when book 1 refers back to it is no bueno.

Liberty's Edge

Primogeniture. You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Adventure Path Subscriber
ComputerSmurf wrote:
DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:


Or you could wait another week to start the campaign, and play boardgames for a week instead? Or run a one-shot? Or literally do anything else if you feel that you can't run the adventure without the player's guide?
Like, what's the hurry?

Yes, I could go fly a kite, learn to play a new instrument, go play games by Paizo's competitors in TTRPGs, or any other activity. These are all options that I have available to my free time.

What I choose to fill my spare time with is not the issue at hand here

The issue at hand would be that we have a product, a product that money has changed hands over mind you, referring to another product.
Normally this in and of itself is not an issue, either the data is reprinted, available in the SRD, or the other product is available.
In this case the product is not available, leading to an incomplete product. (And let's not fool ourselves here, the Player's Guides are part of the Adventure Path. As mentioned before the Campaign Traits do offer potential avenues of attack in books one, and sometimes book two as well. Or can be keystones to the story as a whole, the most recent AP to do THAT would be Strange Aeons).

With this not being the first time the issue has happened (missing Player's Guides upon launch of book 1), being vocal about the issue shows Paizo that I (and it appears other users based on other posts in this thread) do wish for them to be released at the same time as the first book if at all possible and that not having the player's guide not available when book 1 refers back to it is no bueno.

I'm still not following as to why you need to begin running an Adventure Path on release day?


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I am ok with waiting, not ecstatic but ok. the reason being best to bullet,

1.I don't usually run or play an AP until all 6 volumes are out.
2.I would rather see quality then expediency from the paizo products.
3.We are getting a free pdf, so while i can be spoiled and mope about not having it, I do not wish to be mean to paizo over it. so if they are having difficulties in getting it out i'd rather be supportive then persecute them over it.

In my opinion if it is delayed a couple of weeks past the release of the first volume there is no harm on my end.

Do you best Adam and the AP team. :)

Grand Lodge

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ComputerSmurf wrote:
With this not being the first time the issue has happened (missing Player's Guides upon launch of book 1), being vocal about the issue shows Paizo that I (and it appears other users based on other posts in this thread) do wish for them to be released at the same time as the first book if at all possible and that not having the player's guide not available when book 1 refers back to it is no bueno.

I'm pretty sure the team already feels the same way.


I originally was writing something really long winded and wishy washy to try to say what I want to say without coming across as being whiny or overly demanding (because it always annoys me when people post things like that on these forums), but my point got lost in it, so I am going to boil it down to some simple, if blunt questions, because if all else fails, go for the socratic method, right?

1. Are the campaign traits done?

2. If they are, CAN they be released informally through a blog post or in the subforum for discussing the AP, or something like that?

3. If the answer to 1 is yes and 2 is no, why not? Is it part of a company policy or something?

Again, not trying to be combative or demand-y, just trying to understand, because right now I guess I don't know enough about how this stuff works to properly estimate what I can reasonably expect in these regards, as this is the first time I've ever really seriously considered buying an AP, and also I have always been curious about how game design stuff works anyway.


All I can say is I too wait for more volumes to come out before I worry about whether or not I need a player's guide.


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Adam Daigle wrote:

^^This.

I've been around the block enough times to be cautious with my words. I do promise that me and my team are working as hard as is applicable to releasing this free product.

O_O

BWAHAHAHA!

THANKS! I just laugh-exploded my coffee all over my keyboard! aw... wow... thanks... I seriously needed the laugh here... been a long day. :)


psychie wrote:
1. Are the campaign traits done?

Have they been released? same diff... work you build and save a spot for a campaign trait, which is mandatory most time. You're welcome! :)

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