So it appears that the new Beginner Box Secrets of the Unlit Star leads into Troubles in Grayce Adventure Anthology which then leads into Bastion of Blasphemies Adventure Path.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
If not, my questions are.
• Are these adventures all set in the same location so the GM doesn't have to hand wave how the PCs ended up half a continent away?
• Do the levels all follow each other unlike the first Beginner Box, Troubles in Otari and Abomination Vaults which took the PCs to 5th level even though AV started at 1st?
• Will a Players Guide for Bastion of Blasphemies come out in time for the players to make characters they can run in Secrets of the Unlit Star and Troubles in Grayce?
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Casual viewer here so take me with a grain of salt, but as I recall from Paizo Lives:
1) Yes, they are all set in Ustalav, you don't need to justify traveling more than a few counties.
2) As I recall, Troubles in Grayce doubles up on adventures per level progression, so you can either pick your favorites or take a slower progression.
3) SotUS and TiG come out in May and BoB in August per latest reports, so I wouldn't bet money on it. Given the obvious thematic similarities, if you got all the way through the former two without anything clashing against the gothic horror vibe, I wouldn't worry about Bastardhall's gothic horror vibe suddenly changing things.
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To be more specific on the levels, the Beginner Box is level 1, Troubles in Grayce is levels 2-4, and Bastion of Blasphemies is levels 5-13.
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Here's the scoop!
The three products all set their respective adventures in Ustalav, but each product is in a different part of Ustalav. There are links between them to help the GM explain how a group of PCs go from the new Beginner Box to Troubles in Grayce and then on to Bastion of Blasphemies.
The levels are: Beginner Box (1st level), Troubles in Grayce (2nd to 4th level, with 2 adventures for each level so the GM and players can pick and choose which 3 of the 6 they want to play—or play all of them on a slower XP progression for this section), Bastion of Blasphemies (5th to 13th level or potentially even to 14th level).
The Bastion of Blasphemies player's guide will come out in time to advice character builds for Bastion of Blasphemies, but I don't know that it will be there in time for the ones that come before. We'll try but that sounds difficult to pull off for lots of technical reasons. That said, at the very least, I think that it'd be important to include in the player's guide advice to the PCs and GM that says "As your players prepare for Bastion of Blasphemies, make sure to give the PCs time to retrain if they wish to select different options for their characters to align more closely with the suggestions in this player's guide!" (That said, Bastion of Blasphemies mostly assumes a pretty "baseline" group of characters, which if you start with the more streamlined and limited options in a Beginner Box will be fine.)
As always, thanks for the in depth response Mr Jacobs.