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Pathfinder Adventure Path #194: Cult of the Cave Worm (Sky King’s Tomb 2 of 3)

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Pathfinder Adventure Path #194: Cult of the Cave Worm (Sky King’s Tomb 2 of 3)

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Finding a legendary tomb requires tracking an equally legendary cave worm said to dwell there. As the adventurers set out from Highhelm, they must brave the Darklands’ dangers, navigate a treacherous fey city, and recover the relic that retraces the cave worm’s path. Yet in doing so, they learn of nefarious rivals who also seek the tomb—rivals the adventurers might stop by infiltrating an unforgiving underground metropolis.

Cult of the Cave Worm is a Pathfinder adventure for four 5th-level characters, continuing the Sky King’s Tomb Adventure Path, a three-part monthly campaign in which a group of adventurers travel deep underground to discover a legendary dwarven king’s tomb, seek subterranean treasures, and heal millennia-old injustices—all while stopping an ambitious villain from weaponizing those same discoveries. This adventure also includes a study of cave worm ecology, a gazetteer of the underground dwarven city of Hagegraf, potent relics, and several monsters to threaten underground explorers.

Each monthly full-color softcover Pathfinder Adventure Path volume contains an in-depth adventure scenario, stats for several new monsters, and support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open Game License and work with both the Pathfinder RPG and the world’s oldest fantasy RPG.

Written by: Scott D. Young.

ISBN-13: 978-1-64078-534-2

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Fun. But my goodness that there is blockers.

4/5 —

This is my first adventure path that i DM.

It is in progress.

Spoiler:
My players have just finish part 1. There is a lot. I made them jump a few quest inside the city because i want to finish the adventure the fastest possible. One of my players didn't want to interact with evil feys and just wanted to find the worm. With the cult, they tried to help them summon zogotaturu! The book then to create blockers (you need to do x quest to achieve and subsystem when a simple skill check would be enough

Now, They need to go up. And i know they will ask why.

A Darkland's Wonderland

4/5 —

Our group has really enjoyed this AP so far, especially Cult of the Cave Worm. It's presented a lot of roleplay opportunities and a healthy amount of combat encounters mixed in. It feels like a spiraling romp through a Darkland's Wonderland with fun twists at every corner. My only qualms with the product are that there are a few inconsistencies that you'll have to tweak when presenting. As well as a few areas that may require extra prep or may require theater of the mind. We are running this on Foundry which does include bonus maps, which helps. The players are loving it and very excited to see where the next tunnel leads.




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Announced for August! Product image and description are not final and may be subject to change.
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Excited for another adventure from Scott D. Young!
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Duergar city!!
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Even more excited for this AP now :)
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After running Extinction Curse and seeing that cover art, I hope the whole book is not just Xul'Gaths :)
Fantus1984 wrote:
After running Extinction Curse and seeing that cover art, I hope the whole book is not just Xul'Gaths :)

I wouldn’t worry too much about a placeholder cover. They often have very little to do with the final AP - I remember one recently had a Hellknight despite none featuring in the book when it released.

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Final cover art is up.
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And now I'm wondering: is the cover character going to be a Drow, or are we going to get our first glimpse at the Ayindelar?
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Evan Tarlton wrote:
And now I'm wondering: is the cover character going to be a Drow, or are we going to get our first glimpse at the Ayindelar?

Based on the writeup in book 1, she seems to be a

Spoiler:
nymph!
Dark Archive
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Lampad I think? Maybe
Grankless wrote:
Evan Tarlton wrote:
And now I'm wondering: is the cover character going to be a Drow, or are we going to get our first glimpse at the Ayindelar?
Based on the writeup in book 1, she seems to be a ** spoiler omitted **

This guess seems to be correct, though I can't find the description of the front cover so as to be certain. The illustration on page 13 seems pretty clear though.

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Sounds like amazing creature additions!
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When can we expect a new refreshed age of omens book covering the Dark Lands, looks like most of the resources i see are for 1e. it would be great to see it get a remake.
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There will be a back matter section in book three of this AP. A full hardcover is not yet on the horizon and they can't talk about anything they haven't officially announced yet.
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GGSigmar wrote:
Sounds like amazing creature additions!

There are also

Spoiler:

two new cave worms in the ecology article! The Glacial Worm (Level 16, uncommon) and the Grey Worm (Level 11, rare)

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There are more map issues in this book, following the big mix-up in book 1:

1. The Darklands map in book 2 has Rolgrimmdur completely in the wrong location. It's supposed to be about 50 miles southwest of Highhelm. On the map it's about 20 miles NW, and somewhere the PCs go right past!

2. The City of the Snake Queen map has two areas marked H11, and none marked H9. The larger room should be H9, while the H11 on the stairs should be at the entry to the tunnel exit to the south.

3. Some of the location descriptions in the text are missing their map markers or 'event' notation. 'Crossroads' should be 'I. Crossroads', while 'All that Glitters' is presumably an Event that GMs can place anywhere, since it has no map marker (though I have a suspicion it's meant to be at F on the Darklands map, and the Ghoulish Gourmands are meant to be somewhere further along the way...).
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Huh. This has both review by Tan Ripper and Ripper Tan ^_^; Are those same person or not because wow huh? ._.;
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CorvusMask wrote:
Huh. This has both review by Tan Ripper and Ripper Tan ^_^; Are those same person or not because wow huh? ._.;

Well, it certainly seems to be the same person, just with different accounts:

* Rip Tanner's last review & forum interaction (e.g. favorites) was at the beginning of October 2023; after that, nothing.

* Tan Ripper's first review & forum interaction (e.g. favorites) is from October 5th 2023; the account doesn't seem to've existed while Rip Tanner's account was active.

The MO of the both accounts is very similar, too.

This is something perhaps only the forum monitor(s) can look into & verify.

So...

Carry on?

--C.

Note: There's a thread about this here.

Prepping to run my players through chapter 2 and noticed:

boss spoiler:
Voxnia casts blink and attacks the weakest looking PC, but blink is not listed in her spells
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