Good starting adventure

[CRphoto]

Greetings,
I'm looking on advice for a great first adventure in Pathfinder.
Here's my group:
5 of us. 2 have extensive 1st & 2nd ed experience (I'm one, and also the GM). Long downtime (no 3rd), and then 4th ed for the last 1 1/2 years. The other three have only 4th ed experience. Going to Pathfinder to get more of an "immersive" feel, more role-play and less 4th ed wargame feel.
Any recommendations for a good "getting to know the game" first adventure?
Thanks in advance.

 

[SkredlitheOgre]

Personally, I used a d20 module called "Frozen Whispers" for my first Pathfinder adventure with the full group. The party goes into the woods to find a hunting lodge during the winter. The journey to the lodge can be an adventure unto itself. One of my players got ambushed by a hunter. Good times.

Anyway, they eventually get to the lodge and find blood and a couple of dead bodies...and one not-so-dead body. Ultimately, the group has to fight a wendigo, which was pretty sweet. Honestly, I had to buff the wendigo a bit (I made it a CR4 instead of 3, against a Fighter, Cleric, Bard and Rouge, all level 1. Wendigos just don't get a lot of hit points.) The Fiend Folio has a Wendigo template.

As I'm doing a sort of Warehouse 13-style game, the wendigo had been transformed into a wendigo by an amulet, instead of eating someone's flesh, and the group had to retrieve the amulet. More good times were had when one of the players picked up the amulet barehanded. I thought the rest of the group was going to end up having to kill him.

It's a nice little module with plenty of wiggle room for details, but it's not really Pathfinder specific, so it might not be what you want. I ran this one because it was an easy module and that was the first thing I ran for Pathfinder and I thought it worked well.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Hmmm, including the opening issues of Adventure Paths?

If so, then Curse of the Crimson Throne is very good for giving the feel of a city going on around the PCs. The Player's Guide for the campaign does a nice job of tying the PCs into the city as well.

There are people that they will learn to hate right off the bat.

The Auld Grump

 

[ruemere]

Pathfinder free adventures are your friends.

Link:
to all free products >>

If you'd like to try something challenging, here are three free adventures well worth considering:
PFRPG: Sagaworks Studio: Horror at Dagger Rock
PFRPG: Paizo Publishing: Master of the Fallen Fortress
3.5: Paizo Publishing: Hollow's Last Hope +pregenerated characters

Regards,
Ruemere

 

[overfiend_87]

Greetings,
I'm looking on advice for a great first adventure in Pathfinder.
Here's my group:
5 of us. 2 have extensive 1st & 2nd ed experience (I'm one, and also the GM). Long downtime (no 3rd), and then 4th ed for the last 1 1/2 years. The other three have only 4th ed experience. Going to Pathfinder to get more of an "immersive" feel, more role-play and less 4th ed wargame feel.
Any recommendations for a good "getting to know the game" first adventure?
Thanks in advance.

I suggest trying the APs. One of the newer ones like Serphant's Skull or Kingmaker as they will need the least conversion trouble with and the least mistakes, though be sure to have the DM real well, check on the paizo site where there are help threads for every paizo AP answering any questions he may have.

 

[NMC]

I'll second the recommendation for Horror at Dagger Rock. It's a fun adventure with a balance of investigation and dungeon crawling, and worked well for my starting party.

-Nate

 

[CRphoto]

Thanks everyone. Lots of great choices. Now the hard part is choosing!
After we run a few getting started sessions, I'm looking at running a campaign using the Freeport setting. My group would be into that gritty nautical setting.

 

[neofax]

I agree with the other two about Dagger Rock(also, it was just updated to fix some problems and clarify some things). However, I would also add Crypt of the Everflame. It is a great module to start off playing Pathfinder and is good to lead into other modules or into say Kingmaker(although, I would advise against DMing Kingmaker unless you have time to add personal flavor and make the different encounters mesh).

 

[Mojo_Rat]

dagger rock looks good. I have d0 d1 and d1.5 followed by d4 I think it is you have all of your bases covered for a while in a good adventure area. I haven't run them yet though and the reviews for d1.5 revenge of the kobolds king seem poor compared to the others but it over all seems to form a solid campaign basis.

thatvsaud dagger rock appears top notch

 

[CRphoto]

Thanks again Everyone. I also discovered the pafinder society one off adventures are available. This is perfect for one or two strter adventures where we can get familiar with the rules and try on different character builds to see what fits.