Pathfinder 1E Best Paizo adventure path

[jeffh]

I know, a thread meant to be on this topic just started a couple days ago, but well... read it and see (vigorously towels self off).

And, that one didn't have a poll.

This might be the first of a series, or the only poll of this sort I ever do, depending partly on the reception it gets. Basically, just tell us all what your favorite Paizo AP is out of those currently available in a reasonable amount of their entirety!

"Favorite" means, well, whatever "favorite" means to you, but criteria should include how much you think a typical group would enjoy it. Generally I'd prefer if votes came from people familiar with at least 3-4 of these, but obviously I can't enforce that. And there might be special cases - if you've only played in one and it was the best D&D experience you've ever had, even with much the same DM and group, go ahead and vote for that one. Use your best judgment.

Feel free to explain and defend your choice, or discuss those of others, in the thread. Heck, that's likely to be more interesting than the poll itself!

And, thanks in advance for any useful feedback that comes of this!

 

[Dark Mistress]

I was tempted to go Carrion Crown but it is not all out yet and it could screw things up at the end. So i didn't vote for it. The truth is it would be a lot easier to vote for the worst AP, since most of them are good.

I would be curious if there was a multiple choice poll on what was the top 5, just to see which ones got the most votes.

 

[delericho]

Best is "Kingmaker", followed by "Curse of the Crimson Throne" and "Serpent's Skull".

The weakest are "Second Darkness" and "Savage Tide". I've also been surprisingly unimpressed by "Carrion Crown". But they haven't actually had any Path that I would describe as bad. Their standard has been extremely high throughout.

 

[paradox42]

The thread in question (once you decipher the typos that started the jokes) specifically asks which AP shows off Pathfinder, so to be fair, I don't think the first five APs should count- they were written for 3.5E, which is a slightly different game.

That said, I myself am most familiar with those APs, so I won't be voting in this- I just felt the need to make that comment. Carry on!

 

[jeffh]

I was tempted to go Carrion Crown but it is not all out yet and it could screw things up at the end. So i didn't vote for it. The truth is it would be a lot easier to vote for the worst AP, since most of them are good.

I would be curious if there was a multiple choice poll on what was the top 5, just to see which ones got the most votes.

If this one seems popular, I might do more detailed polls on individual paths as a followup. One on the weakest might also be an idea - I'll bet the results would not just be a simple mirror image of these ones!

I also considered making this one multiple-choice, but as far as I know I can't limit the number of responses in that case - so, no way to say "you can only vote for, at most, five" and have it stick. Not a huge problem, but somewhat of one.

 

[jeffh]

The thread in question (once you decipher the typos that started the jokes) specifically asks which AP shows off Pathfinder, so to be fair, I don't think the first five APs should count- they were written for 3.5E, which is a slightly different game.

That said, I myself am most familiar with those APs, so I won't be voting in this- I just felt the need to make that comment. Carry on!

I'm just asking for your favorite regardless of which system it was originally written for.

 

[DumbPaladin]

My favorite adventure bath is the photo El Mahdi uploaded of Xena and Gabrielle where ...

*re-reads topic*

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I have yet to play any of the Paizo adventure PATHS, so I cannot vote yet. But Kingmaker sounds fun.

 

[jeffh]

Hmmm... surprised this poll and topic aren't more popular. Guess there's not much point in doing the further polls alluded to above.

Still, there's some recognizable trends in the responses - Kingmaker doing very well, definitely #1 (not unexpected), and the vocal support for Rise of the Runelords and Age of Worms at the time of their release also seems to translate into continued popularity a few years later. There's some backing for Legacy of Fire which is good to see - I don't know that one but it's probably the one I'm most interested in that I'm not already familiar with - but with numbers of votes that small, anything beyond the top two or three is in the range where it could just be noise.

 

[Volaran]

To be honest, the poll probably isn't that popular because a new 'Recommend me an adventure path' or 'what is your favourite adventure path' thread comes along every week or two. That means that even if it wasn't in poll form, the subject has been pretty extensively discussed by board regulars.

 

[tylermalan]

I wonder if maybe some of the other APs aren't being voted on because a lot of people haven't played them, myself included. I mean, that's how it tends to work, right? If one AP is very commonly touted as the "best" (Kingmaker) and you can't play two at one time, you're going to just pick the best one. Who knows how long it takes to complete one full AP, but playing a second is probably not too common, I would guess.

Anyway, how much conversion work would Age of Worms need to be played in Pathfinder?