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Pathfinder Adventure Path #43: The Haunting of Harrowstone (Carrion Crown 1 of 6) (PFRPG)

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The first volume of the Carrion Crown Adventure Path is here!

It was only a matter of time before we set a Pathfinder Adventure Path in Ustalav. Managing Editor Wes Schneider staked his claim on Golarion's gothic milieu at the very outset of the Golarion campaign setting, and given that our second-ever Pathfinder adventure, "The Skinsaw Murders," played with the horror theme to high praise from GMs and players everywhere, I'm surprised it took three and a half years for Wes to assert his managerial control to usher in an entire horror-themed Ustalavic Adventure Path. But the wait is over! Our new Carrion Crown Adventure Path is a tour-de-force romp through the various counties of Ustalav, taking in a bunch of classic horror monsters along the way. We begin by getting ghostly in Pathfinder Adventure Path #43: Haunting of Harrowstone!

When Harrowstone Prison burned to the ground, prisoners, guards, and a host of vicious madmen met a terrifying end. In the years since, the nearby town of Ravengro has shunned the fire-scarred ruins, telling tales of unquiet spirits that wander abandoned cellblocks. But when a mysterious evil disturbs Harrowstone’s tenuous spiritual balance, a ghostly prison riot commences that threatens to consume the nearby village in madness and flames. Can the adventurers discover the secrets of Harrowstone and quell a rebellion of the dead? Or will they be the spirit-prison’s next inmates?

This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path also includes a tour of Ravengro, village of mystery and suspicion; expanded rules for creating and running horrific haunts; an ancient revenge is reborn in the Pathfinder’s Journal; and six new monsters to spookify your campaign!

And don't forget to grab yourself a copy of the FREE Carrion Crown Player's Guide PDF!

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First!

(At least I think I am).

Well... turns out I had to stop my high-level Monday night game (no longer have Monday evenings free, regularly) and Carrion Crown sounds and looks so AWESOME... I may try and revisit GM-ing 2 separate Pathfinder games (I'm currently GM-ing Kingmaker every Sunday).

I really liked the Player's Guide... but that thing will be a nightmare to print (pun intended) what with all the black background and the almost entire front cover in black. Ugh!

Dean

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

Now it just needs to hurry up and ship.

Liberty's Edge

Dark_Mistress wrote:
Now it just needs to hurry up and ship.

Yes - "pending" too long.

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Paizo Blog wrote:
... given that our second-ever Pathfinder adventure, "The Skinsaw Murders," played with the horror theme to high praise from GMs and players everywhere

Really? ... "to high praise from GMs and players everywhere"

This the adventure with the TPK Machine?

Spoiler:

Paizo Employee CEO

Lord Fyre wrote:
Paizo Blog wrote:
... given that our second-ever Pathfinder adventure, "The Skinsaw Murders," played with the horror theme to high praise from GMs and players everywhere

Really? ... "to high praise from GMs and players everywhere"

This the adventure with the TPK Machine? ** spoiler omitted **

Your spoiler may be a killing machine, but I think that is what made that adventure so cool. It felt like a real accomplishment to win.

But what I was mainly thinking about in the blog post was the whole haunted house aspect that the beginning of the adventure has.

-Lisa


Is the blog-title another Springsteen-reference?


Lisa Stevens wrote:

Your spoiler may be a killing machine, but I think that is what made that adventure so cool. It felt like a real accomplishment to win.

But what I was mainly thinking about in the blog post was the whole haunted house aspect that the beginning of the adventure has.

-Lisa

I loved the adventure. My players were having a blast too right up until:

Spoiler:
One of the player's character panicked while fighting the Scarecrow, who was blocking the doors, and ran up the stairs triggering the bell trap!

Which in turn alerted the aforementioned TPK machine, which was waiting for the PCs when their cleric used a spell to open the wall up so they could escape after the Scarecrow scored two crits killing both of the party tanks.

So Xanesha waited, invisible to kill the ragged survivors as they ran out.

Of course, this was after the Skinsaw Man managed to surprise one party member and sneak attacked him to death in one round, and killed another one, which is why the PCs even came to Magnimar in the first place.

Its sounds rough, but we all had a blast with it.

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Lisa Stevens wrote:
Lord Fyre wrote:
Paizo Blog wrote:
... given that our second-ever Pathfinder adventure, "The Skinsaw Murders," played with the horror theme to high praise from GMs and players everywhere

Really? ... "to high praise from GMs and players everywhere"

This the adventure with the TPK Machine? ** spoiler omitted **

Your spoiler may be a killing machine, but I think that is what made that adventure so cool. It felt like a real accomplishment to win.

As the GM for that adventure, I reserve the right to disagree. :(

Paizo Employee CEO

Kajehase wrote:
Is the blog-title another Springsteen-reference?

Yep. Vic has been on a bit of a Springsteen kick, adding in some obscure live tracks to our iPod recently, so on the way to work, I am always hearing at least one Springsteen song. So the Boss has been on the brain a lot lately, and when it comes to writing blog titles, I take my inspiration where I can get it.

"Wild Davie was a crazy cat..."

-Lisa

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Well at least if things look like a TPK in the making the Bard can always suggest: "BABY WE WERE BORN TO RUUUUUUUN!"

Paizo Employee CEO

Lord Fyre wrote:
As the GM for that adventure, I reserve the right to disagree.

Absolutely! I bet there are parts of adventures that I HATED running that you probably had a blast with. That is why we are all individuals, with our own strengths and weaknesses. Personally, I had an absolute blast with that encounter, even though I stressed about running it for weeks. It was nip and tuck and a night to remember in my gaming room. I know that other folks besides you would disagree with me, but that is cool. :)

-Lisa


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber
Lord Fyre wrote:
Paizo Blog wrote:
... given that our second-ever Pathfinder adventure, "The Skinsaw Murders," played with the horror theme to high praise from GMs and players everywhere

Really? ... "to high praise from GMs and players everywhere"

This the adventure with the TPK Machine? ** spoiler omitted **

Really =) I GMed, and it was a memorable session.

Liberty's Edge

Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

Yeah, I GM'd it, and one day I'll have a Hugo Solis picture to remember it by.... one day...


I GM'ed skinsaw murders not long ago (we're on Sins of the Saviours right now) and I'd be one of those who praise it. It is probably one of the most fun modules I've GMed so far in my career. Possibly only beaten by "Carrion Hill" also by Richard Pett.

I'm also playing in a slower going Curse of the Crimson Throne game, and I'm really looking forward to "Escape from Old Korvosa" which we're starting next session :)

Mr. Pett has found his way into my heart :D


This AP actually made me become a subscriber.
Can't wait for it to ship.

MSG

Dark Archive

Goatlord wrote:

This AP actually made me become a subscriber.

Can't wait for it to ship.

MSG

I can't wait for some one to run it. I am still running COTCT(just finished 4 of 6, Goat was the only reborn and passed the totem trial)

SOTD

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