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<blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 8923960" data-attributes="member: 2303">I played Curse of the Crimson throne, and it's ok, but I feel Hell's Rebels does a similiar theme better. Crimson Throne has that bait-and-switchin parts 4 and 5 where a party of city adventurers are suddenly supposed to live out barbarian challenges. Quite odd. This kind of bait and switch was common in the early adventure paths, Savage Tide had several (one at the start leaving town, another going planar) but Jade Regent (also Paizo) takes the prize!I converted RoR to 5E to learn and try that system, and that may have colored my opinion as we didn't like 4E. Still, my analysis is that RoR is a series of linked horror films - from children of the corn to haunted house, to urban horror, to slasher flic and so on. There was a too much gore for my taste.On the history of adventure paths, I'd say the old G- D-Q series, literally the first series of adventures published, were a kind of adventure path. Even more so if you started with the (later published) slaver series. Lets just say that adventure &amp; campaign writing has improved since then. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starfox, post: 8923960, member: 2303"] I played Curse of the Crimson throne, and it's ok, but I feel Hell's Rebels does a similiar theme better. Crimson Throne has that bait-and-switchin parts 4 and 5 where a party of city adventurers are suddenly supposed to live out barbarian challenges. Quite odd. This kind of bait and switch was common in the early adventure paths, Savage Tide had several (one at the start leaving town, another going planar) but Jade Regent (also Paizo) takes the prize! I converted RoR to 5E to learn and try that system, and that may have colored my opinion as we didn't like 4E. Still, my analysis is that RoR is a series of linked horror films - from children of the corn to haunted house, to urban horror, to slasher flic and so on. There was a too much gore for my taste. On the history of adventure paths, I'd say the old G- D-Q series, literally the first series of adventures published, were a kind of adventure path. Even more so if you started with the (later published) slaver series. Lets just say that adventure & campaign writing has improved since then. :) [/QUOTE]

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