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D&D General Could you recommend - third party - long adventures (or adventure paths) for D&D or Pathfinder?

Maenalis

Villager
Could you recommend - third party - long adventures (or adventure paths) for D&D or Pathfinder?

The only three I am aware of are Ptolus, Chains of Asmodeus and Empire of the Ghouls.

My group loves game of thrones style roleplay (intrigue at high court), but anything that is centered around humanoids (humans, elves, hobgoblins etc.) in a civilised society is to their taste.
 

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mrswing

Explorer
Rise of the Drow from AAW Games. Could become GoT style if the GM does a LOT of work in that direction. Basically it's the Drow attacking a winter solstice mass, stealing a very important McGuffin and the PCs chasing them to get it back - and then discover in the Underdark that the Drow are launching a big war. If you get to the main Drow city there are several families that could be interacted with.
I didn't finish this campaign, though, because the first part is structured quite clearly (you could say railroading a bit but not really, it has a strong structure that allows for a lot of DM changes but goals are always very clear). Then the second part becomes an Underdark Sandbox, with lots of unrelated encounter areas (and opportunities to add some of AAW's short adventures). This is where we finally ran out of steam after playing for about a year. It's just too freeform and the Drow threat is too piecemeal to keep working as a major story engine. Third part is the Drow city and the prerequisite storming of the enemy Citadel.
Though the book has an enormous amount of material, I found myself missing info about the Drow warfare and how it progressed, how the PCs could interact with it... Yes, a DM can invent all of them by themselves but it's a enormous amount of work and frankly, my preference is to play largely within what the writer(s) imagined and adapt things from there.
Also, there's a huge bestiary but it includes creatures from SRD and from Kobold Games, as well as new creations. So it is very handy to have all this info - but some Kobold Press creatures aren't detailed in the book. So you will need the Tome of Beasts and the Creature Compendium.
 

Maenalis

Villager
Thank you for the replies! :D
Do you just want 5e and Pathfinder 2e or any version of D&D or pathfinder?
Anything welcome, even other systems (like Warhammer Fantasy RPG, OSR etc.).
Blight looks interesting. Bard's Gate looks even more interesting, I might have to look for more info (reviews, previews, reddit, google search etc.).
Rise of the Drow ... Drow city there are several families that could be interacted with...
We kinda did that already with "The Sinister Spire".
And we haven't played it yet (and I haven't read it yet), but I think the Pathfinder 1e Second Darkness could do that too.

Anyone read or played the Pathfinder 1e War for the Crown? I forgot about it, now that I looked up the name of Second Darkness I saw it on the list.
 

GreyLord

Legend
As you noted, War for the Crown is a pretty good match up of what you are looking for.

Kingmaker, if Gamemastered the right way...MIGHT fit in with the entire GoT thing.

Council of Theives might work as well.

(all the above are Pathfinder 1e APs).
 



Maenalis

Villager
We have War of the Burning Sky and ZEITGEIST: The Gears of Revolution.
Could you link to a review? Pretty please.

...Kingmaker, if Gamemastered the right way...MIGHT fit in with the entire GoT thing. ...
Yeah, we are neck deep in Kingmaker and all my players want to do, is to visit Brevoy and find out what happened to House Rogarvia and plot and plan against the other houses...
I have to remind them constantly, that until they manage to get a noble title, they can't participate in the schemings.
(And that we agreed to play a hexcrawl and not a GoT game.)
 

Morrus

Well, that was fun
Staff member
Could you link to a review? Pretty please.
Not offhand. I'm on my phone and away from home. But if you head over to DTRPG you'll find tons of reviews there, or stick the AP names into Google--I'm pretty sure each of them has reviews on their respective websites. :)
 

Voadam

Legend
Bard's Gate looks even more interesting, I might have to look for more info (reviews, previews, reddit, google search etc.).
Bard's Gate is a fun huge city sourcebook (5e, Pathfinder 1e, 3.0 versions) and comes with a bunch of adventures in it, but they are not really connected or long, it is a not an adventure path or mega adventure.
 

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