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Our gaming group will finish up Carrion Crown later this month. We ran through Legacy of Fire before that. Both were great and I know everyone is looking forward to the next one. I could use some suggestions on which AP's or module strings/combo's you like. Either Paizo or third Party. Here are a few we cannot do: Rise of the Runelords - two players already did this one. Kingmaker - two players are currently running this one. So if you have either played. GMed, or just read a cool AP or long adventure, let me know. Some of my initial thoughts are:
Reign of Winter AP
Wrath of the Righteous AP (May have to wait to check out the Mythic rules)
The Dragon's Demand (followed by another module or two?)
Shattered Star AP
Way of the Wicked (Evil AP)
Slumbering Tsar (Monster adventure)
Other thoughts? Thanks in advance for your comments!
If two of your group have already played through Rise of the Runelords, and you don't have any intention of visiting it yourself as a group, I highly recomend Shattered Star. I've been running it, very muich enjoying it, a good balance of interesting dungeons and roleplaying opportunities and unique locations, with tidbits that the RotRL players will enjoy.
The AP does assume that RotRL, CotCT, and SD have all happened and been completed, so there are some minor spoilers regarding those adventures, but relatively it's plot is seperate and self-contained. I think the biggest 'Spoilers' related to CotCT personally, as the BBEG in that AP is technically accesible to PCs in the first module, where they should not outright know that she is the BBEG.
How about either Jade Regent or Reign of Winter?
I know the Asian themes throw people off Jade Regent a lot but it's a really good path (barring a dungeon slog in the fourth book that became kinda tedious). It does require some GM creativity in the Third book due to the Caravan rules needing to be revamped but overall my group had a lot of fun running through that one.
Reign of Winter has so far been pretty good as well can't speak to the whole path as we're currently in the middle of it so take it with a grain of salt.
Another Idea that I've had and I've kinda executed with my Runelords game is to do a Varisian module crawl incorporated into the AP (Murder's Mark, Godsmouth Heresy, Feast of Ravensmoor, The Harrowing, Academy of Secrets ) That would make a short but interesting run, or you could tie it into shattered star in some way and throw in Dawn of the Scarlet Sun as well. If your group is anything like mine, after I ran that series with Runelords they now avoid festivals like the plague.
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If you don't mind doing very simple conversions from 3.5, and don't mind a 3PP, I would HIGHLY recommend the War of the Burning Sky AP from EN Publishing. It's actually 12 different books, though they have a huge compilation book that had all 12 adventures in it, plus some bonus adventures and info. They released a player's guide and GM guide with it. It's not Golarian, its in its own world, and its still 3.5, but the story arc is amazing. Very, very, very epic in scope. It's probably the best save the world campaign I've ever run. We've played Kingmaker, Rise of the Runelords, Carrion Crown, and Legacy of Fire (only finished RotR). All were great campaigns that my players loved. But the one that holds the best memories for us is War of the Burning Sky. I think some of the same authors that writes some of Paizo's APs were authors for this AP as well, so that gives you an idea of the quality there.
urban camapign : few things beat "Curse of the Crimson Throne".
staying outside and explore path : If you can envision it being run in a "Pulp" style and can live with dungeon crawling, consider "Serpent's Skull". Otherwise , "Skull's and Shackles"..... the "Razor Coast" (Nicolas Logue's pirate style AP) works pretty well, too.
I hope we'll see a new urban campaign soon. I wonder why we haven't seen one since Council of Thieves.
I hope we'll see a new urban campaign soon. I wonder why we haven't seen one since Council of Thieves.
Harder to write( probably sandboxy in nature) and coordinate (between installments)? I hold some hopes that the earlier parts of the Mummy's Mask will be more urban in style.
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I hope we'll see a new urban campaign soon. I wonder why we haven't seen one since Council of Thieves.
I think Absalom was explored heavily in PFS, and Council of Thieves was kind of a flop...
A lot of us were suggesting a Kaer Maga AP, but I think part of it is having something 6 books (and therefore months long) set in one place can get claustrophobic.
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I hope we'll see a new urban campaign soon. I wonder why we haven't seen one since Council of Thieves.I think Absalom was explored heavily in PFS, and Council of Thieves was kind of a flop...
A lot of us were suggesting a Kaer Maga AP, but I think part of it is having something 6 books (and therefore months long) set in one place can get claustrophobic.
You only need one book away from the city. With CotCT two books was one too many. Shackled City never felt claustrophobic there there were three or so out of the twelve away from Cauldron
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Great suggestions, thank you! I have started a list of suggestions and some of the comments. I downloaded a few War of the Burning Sky documents and will check those out as well. I don't mind the theme behind Jade Regent but I am not sure what the players think yet. So far we have not played an Urban style AP so maybe Curse of the Crimson Throne would be good. Great suggestions! Keep them coming!
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Dave, Coridan brings up a great option: you should actually check out Shackled City. We have the compilation in the store in hardcover, and I've read nothing but good things about it. It has a lot of the kind of sub-systems you like to play around with, has some old-school monsters in it due to being a WotC backed product at the time (Beholders and Umber Hulks - you can use all those minis you've been hoarding for so long) and is in a setting that you likely haven't toyed with ever (urban contained within a dead volcano). It's right up your alley.