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Blue Star Breakout
This is a pf2e excursion, module length. I hope to run a fast passed game that will level the PCs up quickly with lots of choices and combat. Although you will start with minimal equipment (warm clothes, tattoo that provides protection from cold weather, a pick or shovel, one week food rations, water) please pick out appropriate 4th level equipment including consumables and assume your character will receive these soon.
Four to five 4th level PCs are held at the Blue Star Volcano, captives of the local Winter Witch. A giant steam geyser that regularly spits out valuable blue tinted ice diamonds, the volcano is mined for diamonds including fallout collection in the surrounding area. The complex nature of the volcano and the need for specialized workers has made the Blue Star Volcano a destination for valuable and/or skilled captives. You are enslaved at BSV. That means you are valuable enough to be sent here where death tolls are low compared to other slave assignments. You might be a captured noble lady or a princess from Tian Xia; a court jester gnome or frost fey here on temporary punishment for a crude ill-timed joke; an android that was found frozen in ice with no memory; perhaps you are good at mining or cooking, do well outside in searching for holes in the snow that could result in an ice diamond? all these could be reasons you have found yourself captured here for at least 7 months.
Overseer Greymuzzle is a witchwaurg priestess of winter. She took over as your taskmaster six months ago. The bejeweled wolf ruled with a light fist at first, leaving you captives alone in your dormitory for days, even allowing supervised visits to the many hot water pools after a good harvest. That all changed when her mate showed a month ago. Brizzlebite is a massive, cruel witchwaurg with filthy matted fur and a permanent snarl. He reveals in your misery, threatening you regularly.
Character Creation
I've got two players already in the game. One a Tanuki (Steadfast) Bard and the other a Skeleton (Compact) Monk. I will be accepting 2 or 3 additional players. Please submit no more than a single application. There is no preferred template as long as what you submit is clear and readable its fine. Remember, we highly support copying templates here so if you like one feel free to copy it and use it for your character application! If you wish to use Pathbuilder or another generator for your character mechanics that is acceptable as well just make sure you include the link in your application. Remastered preferred.
Starting Level: 4th
Ancestries: I'd like to see the following ancestries. Although others are acceptable they are less likely to be accepted:
- Androids
- Kitsune
- Kobolds
- Gnomes
- Leshy(pine)
- catfolk
- elf
Classes: Preferred class choices although others are acceptable but less likely to be selected:
- Oracles
- Druids
- Monk
- Sorceresses
- Rangers
Choices least likely to be picked are:
- Humans
- Clerics
- Champions
- Rogues
Character Creation Optional Rules
- Free Archetype - yes.
- Automatic Bonus Progression - no
- Stamina Rules - not to start (dependent on what party wants to do and the party build)
- Ancestry Paragon - yes
- Gradual Ability Boosts - your choice
The amount of story you give your character is up to you but please copy any description / backstory / motivations / connections to your sheet for reference.
Example Starting Setup
Your overseer, a priestess witchwaurg named Greymuzzle, shadowed by her massive enforcer Brizzlebite, approach you quickly. Burdened with heavy packs, the wolves don't even stop before Greymuzzle blurts out, "White Dragons have invaded the fortress! The vile creatures that will kill all given a chance. We must secure the vaults, preventing the wyrms from accessing them if they haven't already. Those who survive will flee with Brizzlebite and I down the escape tunnels." Approaching the group of indentured servants might appear desperate but your taskmaster knows how capable you all are and how afraid most are of her oversized mate.
Looking to your fellow prisoners- you all have but seconds to respond before you are risking a snapping jaw full or freezing breath.
Do you fight the two overseers, taking some vengeance for your incarceration, or do you accept their orders, hoping to stem what could become a veritable disaster for the area, and follow them deeper into the volcano? Skill checks may influence PC choices at this point. What do you know of the vaults? The surrounding geography? White dragons and their habits?
What do you do?
- Pathfinder 2e
- closes October 17
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Zeitgeist: The Gears of Revolution (PF2E)
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Steam and soot darken the skies above the city of Flint, and winds sweeping across its majestic harbor blow the choking products of industrial forges into the fey rainforests that dot its knife-toothed mountains. Since the earliest ages when the people of Risur founded this city, they feared the capricious beings that hid in those fog-shrouded peaks, but now as the march of progress and the demands of national defense turn Flint into a garden for artifice and technology, the old faiths and rituals that kept the lurkers of the woods at bay are being abandoned.
The Unseen Court, the Great Hunt, and the many spirits of the land long ago conquered by Risur’s kings no longer receive tribute, but they cannot enter these new cities of steam and steel to demand their tithe. The impoverished workers who huddle in factory slums fear monsters of a different breed, shadowy children of this new urban labyrinth. Even their modern religions have no defenses against these fiends.
Times are turning. The skyseers – Risurs folk prophets since their homeland’s birth – witness omens in the starry wheels of heaven, and they warn that a new age is nigh. But what they cannot foresee, hidden beyond the steam and soot of the night sky, is the face of this coming era, the spirit of the age. The zeitgeist.
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Campaign Trailer
Campaign Primer
A Step Away from Classic Fantasy
In the Zeitgeist adventure path, your characters serve in the Royal Homeland Constabulary of the nation of Risur, protecting the country and its citizens from foreign threats lurking within its borders. During missions of espionage and assassination, your duty will be to root out hostile spies and pursue international conspiracies. As you learn more of your homeland’s own secrets, however, your loyalties may be tested, may even be turned, and you may find that it is you whose hand controls the gears of the turning age.
Humans and the Great Nations
Humans rule three of the five great nations of the continent Lanjyr. Their ascendance in the past two thousand years toppled a mighty eladrin empire and has provoked belief in doomsday millennialism among many dwarves. The campaign begins in Risur, and every PC should have a strong loyalty to the nation, even if the character does not hail from there.
Eladrin, Devas, and the Great Malice
Long ago elves known as the eladrin built an empire of magical wonders. Then five hundred years ago the death of the eladrin goddess Srasama caused nearly every eladrin woman to perish. Those few who survived were often claimed as trophies by human conquerors, though a handful of free matriarchs head their own family lines in the ruins of the old empire.
Mortals present at the death of the eladrin goddess have continually reincarnated in the following centuries as devas, as if a sliver of Srasama’s divine spark has granted them a semblance of immortality.
Tieflings, Technology, and Dead Magic
When the eladrin goddess died, an entire other nation became a dead magic zone, and some in that land were marked by a curse, turning them into tieflings. In the centuries since, however, the tieflings have come to rule that nation, and in the last few decades they have begun a revolution of industry and mighty science almost as powerful as the magic they lack.
Dwarves, Doomsday, and Nihilism
The major dwarven nation is bleakly resigned to an imminent doomsday, when ancient horrors will claw free from glaciers and engulf the world in a frigid death. Adherence to duty is so ingrained in their culture, however, that the dwarves continue to toil in their forges even as they prepare for the world’s end.
Savages, Primitives, and Peace
Freed from the yoke of toppled dragon tyrants, the youngest of the great nations formed from an alliance of several monstrous races which now live in an uneasy peace as their rulers seek to force the disparate peoples into the modern age.
Piety and the Planes
The heavens possess an undeniable hold on the world’s religions, its people, and its very structure. In Risur, skyseers believe that the movements of the night stars foretell the future and direct the fate of the world. More enlightened scholars study distant planes of elemental and temporal power to understand how the flow of their energies affects the fundamental nature of reality. The eladrin people have begun to withdraw into the Dreaming, and the bishops of the high church of the Clergy invoke condemned spirits from the Bleak Gate to frighten sinners into worship.
The Astral Plane, the Elemental Planes, and the Far Realm exist only as postulations, and there are countless other theories on the nature of reality. No one in this world has ever traveled to these planes, and even travel between the known worlds of the night sky is brief, with summoned beings never remaining more than a few minutes.
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Welcome
Hello and well met. I am ChaosCowboy, and I have a very fond connection to this campaign. For little under three years, I ran a 4th edition version of this campaign on roll20 and got about two thirds of the way through it before life split the group asunder and I fell in love with Pathfinder 2nd Edition.
There is a conversion of the first eight adventures (out of 13) online, and serves as the basis for this campaign. Given rate of play by post games, it will be some time, and quite a feat should we outpace what material is already available and by that time I can convert the rest as necessary.
There are a number of documents related to this campaign, as well as some additional character options and setting considerations, all of which can be found in the threads within this forum. If you are curious about this game, I highly encourage you to download the ZEITGEIST Adventure Path Extended Player's Guide (Pathfinder RPG) for 1st Edition, and any additional setting or mechanical details related to the conversion to 2nd Edition will be found within the theads of this forum.
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- Pathfinder 2e
- closes October 25
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TheChaosCowboy
Four to five 4th level PCs are held at the Blue Star Volcano, captives of the local Winter Witch. A giant steam geyser that regularly spits out valuable blue tinted ice diamonds, the volcano is mined for diamonds including fallout collection in the surrounding area. The complex nature of the volcano and the need for specialized workers has made the Blue Star Volcano a destination for valuable and/or skilled captives. You are enslaved at BSV. That means you are valuable enough to be sent here where death tolls are low compared to other slave assignments. You might be a captured noble lady or a princess from Tian Xia; a court jester gnome or frost fey here on temporary punishment for a crude ill-timed joke; an android that was found frozen in ice with no memory; perhaps you are good at mining or cooking, do well outside in searching for holes in the snow that could result in an ice diamond? all these could be reasons you have found yourself captured here for at least 7 months.
Character Creation Optional Rules
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