Has anyone here ran the first book on an AP as a stand alone adventure?

[Yqatuba]

If so, which? I was thinking the first book of Serpent Skull (Souls For The Smuggler's Shiv) sounds like a good one (the players are stranded on an island and have to escape as well as catch the person responsible.)

[Joana]

I'm currently running Shadow in the Sky (the first book of Second Darkness) as a stand-alone. Having played Souls for Smugglers' Shiv, I agree that it would make an excellent stand-along adventure with the goal of getting off the island.

Book 2 of Second Darkness, Children of the Void, is also a great one-shot, with a similar plot of finding a way off of a haunted island, albeit at a higher level.

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[JackieLane]

While we didn't play it as a stand alone, I can confirm, having played it and really enjoyed it (more than the next levels of the AP, to be honest) that Souls for the Smuggler's Shiv makes an amazing stand alone adventure.

[Lanathar]

I am considering exactly the same as the OP just with a 2E conversion attempts. Whether the threats all translate quite the same is another matter

[PFRPGrognard]

I've run the first parts of Strange Aeons and Iron God's as one-shots.

Any AP would suffice, really. When you get to the end of the first adventure, instead of feeding hooks for the next part, you just stop.

[John Woodford]

Kingmaker works well for this--the frame would be that you're the survey team, sent in ahead of the settlers.

[Kyle L.]

I ended up running the first book of serpents skull as a stand alone. I had intended to run the whole thing, but it didn't happen at the time. The first book of that can be altered for the reason why the pcs end up washed up on an island after a shipwreck very easily. It also makes a great template to modify with your own flair. A lot of it deals with surviving and finding a way off this island. There are a few npcs as well. As presented there is a lot of gm upkeep, keeping track of attitudes, illness, weather etc. So consider altering this system it gets tedious after several in game days.

[Lord Fyre]

PFRPGrognard wrote:

I've run the first parts of Strange Aeons and Iron God's as one-shots.

Any AP would suffice, really. When you get to the end of the first adventure, instead of feeding hooks for the next part, you just stop.

Nah! You still want to write up an ending that ties things up.

[Aleix Duarri]

I started running the first book of strange aeons with the intention of making it a standalone adventure, so my idea was to get to a wider revelation at the end of the book, cut off information relevant to further develope....but in the end my players really really loved the story so we are running book two :) About the first book of serpent's skull is a solid standalone, did it as a player.

[Sunderstone]

Burnt Offerings (RotR #1).

I ran this several years ago as an accidental (?) one-shot. The group broke up after we completed it due to one person moving and another getting married and very busy.

It ties up great on it's own as a revenge plot by

You know who:

Nualia to destroy Sandpoint. Her and her accomplices are organizing the Goblins, while she attempts to free Malfeshnekor and use him as a weapon. You can skip the Catacombs of Wrath and use wandering encounters on the way to Thistletop to make up for the XP loss.

[Rangdos]

Extinction Curse changes in theme as it develops. Part 1, or Parts 1 and 2 on their own, are the Circus storyline. After that the plot shifts and the Circus is no longer the main plot element. You could run just the circus part and have a complete story without needing to address loose ends.

[Yqatuba]

I know this is kind of an old thread, but does anyone think the first book of the 2e AP Agents Of Edgewatch (Devil At The Dreaming Palace) would make a good stand alone?