Pathfinder
And the New House of Stone
| Pathfinder
- SRD Rules |
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SOS |
House
of Stone |
HOS Campaign Home |
| When Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition came
out, I took a good look at it and decided it was not the
system for me. About that time Pathfinder came out. It was
a an alternate version of the 3.5 rules which corrected
some game system issues and included a lot of new ideas
for character options. A couple of players expressed
interest in it, so I took a look and decided it would
work. It did work, but as the characters advanced in
levels, it became to time consuming at the table and much
harder to design adventures for it. Here is a PDF of the Pathfinder PRD that has all the rules but not all the descriptive info in the books. |
To prevent collisions with the stuff in the 3.5 era, I created a new area of the planet and set it in a different time. It was after the 3.5 adventures but before the apocalypse. I cheated and used published cities so I could concentrate on writing the House of Stone dungeon. I used Ptolus for the good city and the City State of the World Emperor for the evil city. I took the idea for the dungeon from an old Judges Guild module named Tiegel Manor. In the end I'd had enough keeping track of so many characters (10-12 at that time). Given the cruncy nature of Pathfinder, this made my head explode and sparked an unusual number of character rule arguments. | I wrote a new haunted house dungeon from
scratch. It turned out to be almost the entire campaign!
It was huge and infested with all kinds of undead, demons
and devils. It included out buildings, a graveyard, a
stable and a nearby town that hired the party to "clean
out" the building. It ran for about 5 years and took the party from 3 level to 15th. THE HOUSE  |
Ground Floor Room - Map Upper Floors Room - Map Dungeon Description - Map - Area Out Building Description Graveyard Description Building Map Legend The Orbs Norman_Castle Permanency Items House of Stone Monsters Intro to th House of Stone Dungeon House of Stone History House of Stone Environs The House as a Monster Stats Town of Rock Haven Endgame |
