Pathfinder Adventure Path #157: Devil at the Dreaming Palace (Agents of Edgewatch 1 of 6)

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Are we there yet? Are we there yet? ARE WE THERE YET?!

This may be the most excited I've been about an adventure path since Strange Aeons, and I absolutely love these very specific concepts the two latest adventure paths have presented (detectives and circus members).

Woo! :D

Hold up while I queue up Law and Order music and sfx.

Love the name.

Love Sutter.

I’m in :3

Can't wait!!!!

Oh hey! I see this is announced! :D

Oh hey! I see this is announced! :D

I'm not crying, you're crying!

(excellent to see you back amongst the adventure path authors, sir!)

I didn't know that there was an upcoming City Watch based campaign, which is a dream campaign concept I've wanted to run for years. This is incredible.

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? ARE WE THERE YET?!

This may be the most excited I've been about an adventure path since Strange Aeons, and I absolutely love these very specific concepts the two latest adventure paths have presented (detectives and circus members).

would love to have Strange Aeons for PF2

Just to confirm that I have not been misled by unconfirmed rumors -- This is the adventure path where you can advance all the way from 1st to 20th level without ever leaving Absalom City, correct?

REALLY looking forward to this!

Just to confirm that I have not been misled by unconfirmed rumors -- This is the adventure path where you can advance all the way from 1st to 20th level without ever leaving Absalom City, correct?

That was the plan that was announced at Gencon (since the books aren't to the printer I expect that Paizo wouldn't be willing to say absolutely now in case there was some plot requirement that forced you out)

Many years ago, I proffered the idea of doing a CSI Absalom adventure path. Now, all these years later, I am thrilled to finally see this being done. It will be my first full-fledge PF2 adventure path and I can't wait!

Yay!

In the Precipice Quarter criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups: the Edgewatch, who investigate crime; and the Pharasmins, who bury the offenders.

These are their stories.

And I'm already planning to turn maps black and white so I can run this in noir style. Anybody know someone who does jazz on their lute for background music?

Lisa, I can't wait to see what you have come up with! And the first module is written by The Magnificently Scroundelous James "the Lip" Sutter. Fantastic! :)

Yes! I've been wanting something like this for a very long time.

My players and I were hooked when it was first announced and its getting closer!!!

Ha Ha, CAN'T WAIT!!

I do hope there is a quest or two that could take the party out of the city as an optional choice please :)

Tom

My players and I were hooked when it was first announced and its getting closer!!!

Ha Ha, CAN'T WAIT!!

I do hope there is a quest or two that could take the party out of the city as an optional choice please :)

Tom

Well, you can always go to Bosco.

TRDG wrote:

My players and I were hooked when it was first announced and its getting closer!!!

Ha Ha, CAN'T WAIT!!

I do hope there is a quest or two that could take the party out of the city as an optional choice please :)

Tom

Well, you can always go to Bosco.

I love that place.

So I just realized, where the heck THIS character art is from? Just like with Extinction Curse's part 6's placeholder art, I have no idea where the character art is from in this one either ._.;

He's from the Villain Codex, p.204. I have no idea about the other one.

Ah I see. Villain Codex is cool book, but I use it relatively rarely so I don't remember all the pictures that well :'D

The background art is also from the Villain Codex. It's the introduction piece for the Savage Marauders section on page 174.

We'll have dhampir releasing in time for this.
Homebrew werewolf-lite should be manageable.
Adopted dwarf is covered, and can be done at first level on a human.
Trolls… that'll be tricky.
Nobby Nobbs is definitely a unique homebrew ancestry.

(That is to say, I'm looking forward to Commander Vimes of the City Watch, The Adventure Path.)

We're going to have blackscaled vigilante investigator kobolds releasing in time for this!

Diligent police kobold by day, cowled caped-crusader kobold by night!

I can see the bat-signal on the walls of the Starstone Cathedral already...

;)

This will be my first GM module and making old school by way of the movie " Police Academy ". I mean using the soundtrack , including the Blue Oyster and using the characters . For fun, I will use movies and TV shows characters (Kojak , Police Squad , Colombo , Dirty Harry , Lethal Weapon , , Die Hard , etc ). I guess I shown my age with my references.

I am so looking forward to this Adventure path.

Hmm

I'm really excited for this. Just imagine the number of favours Lisa could call in. I suspect Sutter won't be the only fan-favourite involved.

You’d be correct.

We're going to have blackscaled vigilante investigator kobolds releasing in time for this!

Diligent police kobold by day, cowled caped-crusader kobold by night!

I can see the bat-signal on the walls of the Starstone Cathedral already...

;)

A cool concept, but I think I'd prefer my Kobold in this AP to be...

Copper.

;)

The ultimate heist can only mean one thing in Absalom : the Starstone itself.

I wonder if it will be easy to convert to Starfinder. I can run it twice then.........

Tribute to Devil in the White City by Eric Larson?

Is it terrible I want to try this out with an all Barbarian party?

Is it terrible I want to try this out with an all Barbarian party?

If you want my opinion: yes, it is.

City campaigns have a place for a maximum of one barbarian, in my experience.
Maybe two if one is an urban barbarian.

If you asked about an all-rogue or all-wizard Party, i'd say it's much more feasible.

Of course you can probably play this with an all-barbarian party, but the social parts and spellcasting will have to be adjusted and probably won't work as written.
You will also need lots of money for healing items. ;-)

Uchuujin wrote:

Is it terrible I want to try this out with an all Barbarian party?

If you want my opinion: yes, it is.

City campaigns have a place for a maximum of one barbarian, in my experience.
Maybe two if one is an urban barbarian.

If you asked about an all-rogue or all-wizard Party, i'd say it's much more feasible.

Of course you can probably play this with an all-barbarian party, but the social parts and spellcasting will have to be adjusted and probably won't work as written.
You will also need lots of money for healing items. ;-)

Multiclass dedications are a still a thing.

Uchuujin wrote:

Is it terrible I want to try this out with an all Barbarian party?

If you want my opinion: yes, it is.

City campaigns have a place for a maximum of one barbarian, in my experience.
Maybe two if one is an urban barbarian.

If you asked about an all-rogue or all-wizard Party, i'd say it's much more feasible.

Of course you can probably play this with an all-barbarian party, but the social parts and spellcasting will have to be adjusted and probably won't work as written.
You will also need lots of money for healing items. ;-)

There's nothing, literally nothing about the Barbarian class that mandates Barbs being savage, uncivilized brutes with no social skills. They can get Trained+ in social skills. They are not mandatorily illiterate. They can learn languages, take dancing classes and write poetry. The only thing that makes you think otherwise is your inability to see the class in any other way than foam-mouthed "thrug smash" simpletons. Which is one way to play a Barbarian, but far from the only one.

Healing in PF2 is easily handled without spellcasting. And one or two Barbs could pick casting dedications to handle other challenges related to magic.

Got excited and made some printable Edgewatch badges this morning. Enjoy!

Agents of Edgewatch Badges

Got excited and made some printable Edgewatch badges this morning. Enjoy!

Agents of Edgewatch Badges

Badges? Badges?! We don't need... Sorry, force of habit.

Uchuujin wrote:

Is it terrible I want to try this out with an all Barbarian party?

If you want my opinion: yes, it is.

City campaigns have a place for a maximum of one barbarian, in my experience.
Maybe two if one is an urban barbarian.

If you asked about an all-rogue or all-wizard Party, i'd say it's much more feasible.

Of course you can probably play this with an all-barbarian party, but the social parts and spellcasting will have to be adjusted and probably won't work as written.
You will also need lots of money for healing items. ;-)

I guess you haven't seen a city with a frat/soror party.

There's nothing, literally nothing about the Barbarian class that mandates Barbs being savage, uncivilized brutes with no social skills. They can get Trained+ in social skills. They are not mandatorily illiterate. They can learn languages, take dancing classes and write poetry. The only thing that makes you think otherwise is your inability to see the class in any other way than foam-mouthed "thrug smash" simpletons. Which is one way to play a Barbarian, but far from the only one.

Healing in PF2 is easily handled without spellcasting. And one or two Barbs could pick casting dedications to handle other challenges related to magic.

For most of our playtest campaign with Mark, Linda's barbarian was the only healer we had in the party across multiple levels of play. And I was playing a 12 Dex Monk without Mountain Stance :P

In another group we have an Intimidate-focused barbarian who knew she was going to be pumping Cha and grabbed Diplomacy and Deception as well; she's the party face and the lead in most social encounters, except for those situations where the monk happens to be the right fit because he has Society with Streetwise and Courtly Graces.

I guess you haven't seen a city with a frat/soror party.

We don't really have US style fraternities/sororities here in Germany. Most Germans are only familiar with them, if at all, via American movies or TV shows – depictions which may or may not be close to reality.

^Reality is bad enough.

I'm pretty sure wild college dorm room parties are only American thing? Over here at least they go to have those parties at night clubs instead :p

This could be very interesting

I'm pretty sure wild college dorm room parties are only American thing? Over here at least they go to have those parties at night clubs instead :p

American college students can't do that because we pretty much have a universal drinking age of 21, and bars and night clubs check everyone's IDs -- so usually the oldest seniors go out to buy kegs of beer and bring them back to the dorms.

We also did that at my college back around 1980, but even though the drinking age for beer and wine was only 18 back then, we were in a state where selling alcoholic drinks by the individual drink was illegal. The only advantage we had over the current day was that anyone but the youngest freshmen could buy the kegs.

Tribute to Devil in the White City by Eric Larson?

That is what I immediately thought of as well. ^_^