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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5196961" data-attributes="member: 20741">I think that's fair. The entire name "Pathfinder" was settled upon by Paizo to evoke and key off of their Adventure Paths published in Dungeon.Later, the world setting created to support those APs took the same name. And later still, the RPG they released also used the name. So... yeah... the terminology might confuse, depending upon whose post you are reading or recalling.Well, I can see your point of view. I never like Shackled City much, and while I did enjoy Age of Worms, the format of that AP led to a very significant, nay, relentless amount of combat by reason of the whole intention of taking a character from first to 20th.But Paizo has done a LOT of these APs now. They did three in Dungeon, and are on their sixth AP currently under the Pathfinder brand (4 as OGL products, with two more statted under the PFRPG rules). The seventh is set to premiere at Gencon.Paizo has vastly more experience at this than anybody else, and with that experience they have improved and refined their AP concept with each successive interation. Since the Dungeon APs, they have since backed off of the 1st through 20th level concept. Their APs now go to about 13th level only (in the main).  The structure has also become more free-form in parts. Indeed, the current AP, Kingmaker, is designed more as a great sandbox with some external events and story influence, an far less as a tightly controlled railroad to Awesome Town.My point: perhaps your impressions were formed concerning certain aspects of an AP that you dont like - without taking into account that the product lines have changed greatly as a result over the past six+ years since SCAP was first published?Perhaps that was because your "first post" didn't say that and was less declaratory -- and more seemingly inquisitive on the surface  -- than the above statement you have just made lead me to believe?</blockquote>

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