Adventure Path for 3.5E?

[Roman]

I enjoyed DMing and my players enjoyed playing the original adventure path series (from Sunless Citadel to Bastion of Broken Souls) that WotC put out. It is my understanding that these adventures were popular and that sales were good. So I am wondering, why did WotC not use the opportunity of 3.5E to publish a new adventure path series? It could even be couched in the same manner as the original one (meant to illustrate new 3.5E mechanics and allow play at the full range of levels from 1-20... blah, blah, blah). I know I would have bought it! I think many other people would too. Is there still a chance they may do such a thing?

 

[krichaiushii]

There is a 3.5 adventure path of sorts scattered throughout various issues of Dungeon magazine. It starts in issue #97 with the adventure Life's Bazaar, and continues sporadically over the months.

I haven't played it, so can't provide much more than the knowledge that it exists.

 

[Altalazar]

Is there a list, somewhere, of which adventures are on that path? Or is it rather obvious when you look at the magazines? I have all of those but I haven't read them and I'm too lazy to go look right now.

 

[Alzrius]

The Dungeon Adventure Path, collectively called The Shackled City, is still ongoing, and takes place over the following adventures/issues:

"Life's Bazaar" - Issue #97 (3E) (also has a web enhancement)
"Flood Season" - Issue #98 (3E) (also has a web enhancement)
"Zenith Trajectory" - Issue #102 (3.5E)
"The Demonskar Legacy" - Issue #104 (3.5E)
"Test of the Smoking Eye" - Issue #107 (3.5E) (here is the missing sidebar on scaling the adventure)
"Secrets of the Soul Pillars" - Issue #109 (3.5E)

The next part will be "Lords of Oblivion" in issue #111. It will (obviously) be 3.5E, since everything past (and including) Dungeon #100 has been. (Although, to be fair, both "Life's Bazaar" and "Flood Season" had certain parts of the rules converted to 3.5E...just not completely; many WotC products that came out just before 3.5E was released had similar "meshed" mechanics present.)

 

[jeffh]

Is there a list, somewhere, of which adventures are on that path? Or is it rather obvious when you look at the magazines? I have all of those but I haven't read them and I'm too lazy to go look right now.

It's fairly obvious from the magazines (each one with one of those adventures in it mentions it on the cover, and they have a slightly different logo in the top left corner of the first page than other adventures), but since I was just looking at them here's a list of the issues and adventure titles to date anyway. I believe two more are planned, with the next one to be called "Lords of Oblivion"

97 (Life's Bazaar)
98 (Flood Season)
102 (Zenith Trajectory)
104 (The Demonskar Legacy)
107 (Test of the Smoking Eye)
109 (The Soul Pillars)

 

[jeffh]

Sorry, my first attempt to post the above didn't appear to work.

I'll take this opportunity to mention that, while issues 97 and 98 were otherwise 3.0, all the Adventure Path adventures are 3.5 - that is a large part of the point of them. Many of the first 3.5 tidbits to be discussed here and elsewhere came from "Life's Bazaar" and to a lesser extent "Flood Season".

 

[Alzrius]

I believe two more are planned, with the next one to be called "Lords of Oblivion"

I thought I heard somewhere that The Shackled City Adventure Path would run for ten adventures, not eight.

 

[teitan]

Why hasn't any other company picked up on the idea of the Adventure Path? I mean we do have series of modules like Rappan Athuk and Witchfire, but I mean a truly epic series of adventures like the first Adventure Path and SHackled City? 32 pages, saddle stitched and ready to go! I would be all over this like a fat kid on a twinkie man.

Jason

 

[MerricB]

I thought I heard somewhere that The Shackled City Adventure Path would run for ten adventures, not eight.

You're right: it will.

And after it's finished, the wacky folks at Dungeon will start another Adventure Path.

Cheers!

 

[Alzrius]

And after it's finished, the wacky folks at Dungeon will start another Adventure Path.

They definitively said they will? Last I heard, they were just talking about it, along with the idea of making it set on a specific world (Greyhawk, if I recall what Erik Mona said correctly).