GIANTSLAYER Adventure Path Is Nearly Here!

The Iron Gods AP (87.5%) is drawing to a close, and Giantslayer is just around the corner with Battle of Bloodmarch Hill. Paizo's Rob McCreary shares some information about the upcoming storyline which "features an almost bewildering variety of Brobdingnagian foes for your PCs to battle and slay, from old favorites like hill giants, stone giants, frost giants, fire giants, cloud giants, and storm giants, to less common colossi like cave giants, marsh giants, slag giants, and ash giants, not to mention cyclopes, ettins, ogres, trolls, and more. We've even got a couple of all new giants—the mongrel giant and the tomb giant—making appearances in Giantslayer, so be sure to take a look at the bestiaries for this AP."

The Iron Gods AP (87.5%) is drawing to a close, and Giantslayer is just around the corner with Battle of Bloodmarch Hill. Paizo's Rob McCreary shares some information about the upcoming storyline which "features an almost bewildering variety of Brobdingnagian foes for your PCs to battle and slay, from old favorites like hill giants, stone giants, frost giants, fire giants, cloud giants, and storm giants, to less common colossi like cave giants, marsh giants, slag giants, and ash giants, not to mention cyclopes, ettins, ogres, trolls, and more. We've even got a couple of all new giants—the mongrel giant and the tomb giant—making appearances in Giantslayer, so be sure to take a look at the bestiaries for this AP."

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"Deep in the Mindspin Mountains, a storm giant warlord known as the Storm Tyrant has seized control of a cloud castle and an Orb of Dragonkind, and is gathering an army of giants from across western Avistan—first to bring the orc hordes of Belkzen under his banner, then to conquer the neighboring realms. Heroes defending the human town of Trunau from an orc raid discover that the attack is just a precursor to the Storm Tyrant’s larger plans. Working their way through an abandoned border fort, an ancient giant temple, the tomb of an undead frost giant, and an elite fire giant training facility beneath a dormant volcano, the heroes eventually take the fight to the Storm Tyrant himself inside his flying fortress. Can the giant army be defeated before it can conquer the human lands of the Inner Sea, or will all of Avistan bow down in fealty to the Storm Tyrant?"

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Henry

Autoexreginated
Trunau is a rather interesting town - basically every child gets a suicide knife for their Sweet Sixteen Party. :) in a masterful stroke of marketing, they call it a "hope knife" (I suppose because they hope to never need it).
 

Starfox

Hero
Also, the premise of saving the lands of the Inner Sea seems kind of small scale - how about saving the world of Golarion itself?

I think that Pazio stays well away from saving the world scenarios. At least overtly. In Second Darkness you save the world secretly, and failure in other adventure paths like Rise of the Runelords could have very large-scale consequences which are also lagely secret. Saving the world devalues the rest of the setting - there are only so many times you can save the entire world, and if the people know their world was saved by those heroes up north, the current hero-groups struggle to save the southlands is kind of devalued.
 

NewJeffCT

First Post
I think that Pazio stays well away from saving the world scenarios. At least overtly. In Second Darkness you save the world secretly, and failure in other adventure paths like Rise of the Runelords could have very large-scale consequences which are also lagely secret. Saving the world devalues the rest of the setting - there are only so many times you can save the entire world, and if the people know their world was saved by those heroes up north, the current hero-groups struggle to save the southlands is kind of devalued.

I get what you are saying, but I think with Reign of Winter, the antagonist was going to cause a world-wide winter if she was successful. The Wrath of the Righteous AP was one where failure meant the world would be swarmed by hordes of demons. Saving a few kingdoms seems kind of small scale after that.
 

Starfox

Hero
Yes, you may save world in Pazio APs, but not in a very overt way. Only you and a few people close to you know how close to global disaster you really were.
 

TRDG

Explorer
Hoping to have this in hand by next week, any other comments by those who have it, or someone who has perhaps started GMing or playing in it so far?

Thanks

Tom :)
 

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