What is Shackled City?

[Schiffer]

I've been reading about it a lot but it's not on the AP page? what am i missing?

[Drejk]

Shackled City was a series of linked adventures forming a campaign serialized in Dungeon Magazine, during the time when Paizo was publishing both Dragon and Dungeon Magazines under the license from the Wizards Of The Coast.

EDIT: Shackled City Adventure Path.

[Schiffer]

looks epic. thanks

[Joshua Goudreau]

It's the first Paizo AP and it's a lot of fun. It needs a lot of work to smooth out unlike the modern APs but it is a blast to play. They have learned a lot about APs in the last 7-8 years but that first one is pretty awesome.

[Olwen]

You can also find a compiled version of Shackled City for sale at a cheap price on this very website. It's for D&D 3.5, though.

[RuyanVe]

You can still play it though--just make sure PC are 15 point-buy.

It's also really good as resource for ingenious and unique villains and dungeons.

Ruyan.

[Olwen]

Oh, yes, it's still playable since Pathfinder is retro-compatible. I believe the hardcover was rewritten for a group of 6 PCs, though, so if you have the usual group of 4 PCs you might want to give them more than a 15-point buy. :)

[Coridan]

even with six players and using pathfinder rules, it can be a bit of a meatgrinder. It has its own subforum here on the boards with great fanmade additions and conversions for you to cherry pick! Moreso than any other AP.

[Uri Meca]

We played this. Good times, plus: you get to play a lvl 20 PC (or at least, we did. :D)

[Jeven]

Was there a reason why Shackled City was later released as a hardcover and the other two D&D AP's weren't?
The Savage Tide one sounded really cool.

[Jenner2057]

It was just a problem with timing. WotC didn't renew the Paizo license for Dungeon (since WotC was moving into 4e). So WotC had the rights to the material but they were focusing on a new edition. Thus the other 2 APs didn't get the hardcover treatment.

If Paizo had continued writing Dungeon (or WotC had continued to support 3e) then I'm sure we would have seen a compiled hardcover of both AoWAP and STAP. Shrug. Happens.

[James Jacobs]

Whether or not anyone (Paizo, WotC, whoever) does hardcover compilations of the Dungeon Adventure Paths was always Wizards of the Coast's decision to make in the end. They said yes to us when we proposed doing one to Shackled City, but despite our asking, never gave permission to do the same for Age of Worms. In hindsight, that's likely because they knew that they were pulling the license for the magazines back in-house and were aimed at 4th edition.