Battlegrounds wrote:The small village of Bog Bottom has a problem—locals have been going missing near an old, abandoned mill in the surrounding swamp known as Dunmire. But what awaits discovery in this ruin is far more sinister than a few wayward villagers—Bog Bottom is going to need a new band of heroes if it hopes to survive the upcoming Dawn of the Frogs!
Paizo wrote:Gather your friends for the perfect taste of the Pathfinder RPG with this deluxe boxed set adventure designed specifically for brand new players!
Pathfinder Game Night: Dawn of the Frogs presents three short adventures for 1st-level characters set in the swamp of Dunmire, and everything you need to play is included in this box! With its four pre-generated player characters, poster maps presenting all combat locations, a sheet of pawns representing the PCs and enemies, dice, and of course a 32-page adventure book, with Dawn of the Frogs, you'll have everything you need to play on your next three game nights!
Written by: Jason Bulmahn
The cool thing about this collection of three adventures is that it comes in a boxed set. Boxed sets by TSR were all the rage back in the '90s and no company has done them better since. But with the acquisition of the company by Wizards of the Coast in the 2000s, boxed sets died and RPGs moved entirely to books, presumably for cost-cutting. Now, after a quarter of a century, Paizo seems to be dipping its toes back into boxed sets, though today it doesn't make a lot of difference since the cool people are playing everything on VTTs anyway. Still, the boxed sets encourage the developers to make bigger, better maps, since the maps will now be printed in giant posters instead of tiny book pages. So I see this as a good development.
Of course this is a Season 2 collection, but still, it details a village north of Absalom, on the Isle of Kortos, so if any Master of Heroes players plan to send some heroes that way, they'll now have an additional village to explore with cool maps, NPCs, etc.
In fact, we can play these adventures immediately in August because they're all 1st-level and I doubt they have any implications for the metaplot. So nothing would break if I convert them to PF1 and run them now. However, we already have tons of stuff to play in Season 1, so why take Season 2 materials away from it? It's just not worth the extra effort and it would impoverish Season 2. Plus there just MAY be some very indirect connection to perhaps a Season 2 PFS Scenario or any other PF2 sourcebook or supplement, so why risk meddling with it?
Now you might ask, what happens if a player goes there in MoH and decides to start playing 4X and build the town up and drain the swamp or whatever? What then, when Season 2 comes along?
Then I simply take the adventure and transpose it anywhere else in the Inner Sea region where there's a swamp. Plenty of places like that. The players would never know if I hadn't said so here. But I am saying so to show you how Master of Heroes works.
So look for a detailed village north of Absalom to be added to Battlegrounds in August.
All that said: https://paizo.com/products/btq0bszx/dis ... e-Frogs#14
Feros wrote:I take it Bog Bottom is a new village near Dunmire? I don't see it on any maps of Kortos, just Pier's End and Willowside.
James Jacobs, Creative Director wrote:It's a new village, yes.
So this might be a new village just retconned in to sell this beginner anthology—in which case we can use it straightaway with no need for a retcon since we haven't unlocked the area yet so we don't know what's there—or it might be a village founded later in Season 1 or Season 2, in which case if you head there now it won't be there yet.
I'll ask James about it, so I know how to prepare, but for the players, just head over there if you want and if you don't see the village you'll know it's in the future.
Some early comments from the thread you shouldn't visit:
Calcryx666 wrote:Valeros looks far too happy to be attacking frogs.
Scrip wrote:That's the scariest Ezren I've ever seen!!
P.S. 32 pages is twice the size of a 16-page PFS Scenario. This can be ran through in a long session, say about 8-10 hours.
P.P.S. The writer is Jason Bulmahn. He's the rules guy at Paizo. One of the three top creative people along with James Jacobs (adventures guy), and Erik Mona (worldbuilder). It's gonna be good. As good at any rate as a 1st-level anthology can be.
