Doomsday Dawn
- This article covers the Pathfinder Playtest adventure compilation. For the actual-play livestream series of Paizo staff playing its contents, see Doomsday Dawn (livestream).
Doomsday Dawn, a Pathfinder Playtest adventure by Logan Bonner, Jason Bulmahn, James Jacobs, Amanda Hamon, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, and Mark Seifter, was released on August 2, 2018. Each of the 96-page super-adventure's seven multi-encounter scenarios is designed to test specific elements of the playtest rules and was the focus of a 2-week feedback cycle during the Pathfinder Playtest between August and November 2018. With adventures spanning all 20 levels and featuring most of the game's newest rules, Doomsday Dawn provides a thrilling tour of the new rules, and of the Pathfinder world itself!
“The Final Countdown!Mysterious ancient artifacts from sand-choked Osirion count down the years until a rare planetary conjunction that will align Pathfinder's world of Golarion with the hostile planet Aucturn, allowing the ravenous hordes of the Dominion of the Black to surge forth and harvest the brains of the Inner Sea, remaking the world in their terrible, alien image. Doomsday Dawn takes the heroes on a decade-long journey throughout Golarion as they attempt to understand and defeat the otherworldy menace and avoid utter catastrophe. This collection of seven multi-encounter scenarios is designed to introduce the Pathfinder Playtest rules in a guided, shared playtest experience coinciding with regular surveys and feedback from players like you!”
Contents
This introduction to the book provides both an overview and advice for running the adventure and participating in the Pathfinder Playtest and campaign-specific backgrounds for player characters.
Adventure overview
The Lost Star
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In Pale Mountain's Shadow
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Affair at Sombrefell Hall
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The Mirrored Moon
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The Heroes of Undarin
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Red Flags
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When the Stars Go Dark
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Recurring characters, concepts, & locations
The following characters, concepts, or locations can be found in this scenario, but also significantly appear in the publications listed below:
- Aeteperax (Doomsday Dawn)
- Ashen Man (Doomsday Dawn, Malevolence)
- Aucturn (Ancients' Anguish, Call of the Copper Gate, The Cosmic Captive, Doomsday Dawn, The Fanciful March of Urwal, Voice in the Void)
- Dark Tapestry (Beyond the Halflight Path, Call of the Copper Gate, Doomsday Dawn, Echoes of the Overwatched, Hall of the Flesh Eaters, Hrethnar's Throne, Malevolence, Oath of the Overwatched, Voice in the Void)
- Dominion of the Black (Doomsday Dawn, Malevolence)
- Esoteric Order of the Palatine Eye (The Darkest Abduction, Doomsday Dawn)
- Imivus (Doomsday Dawn)
- Kelmarane (Doomsday Dawn)
- Kelpie's Wrath (Doomsday Dawn)
- Night Heralds (Doomsday Dawn)
- Plumetown (Doomsday Dawn)
- Ramlock (Doomsday Dawn)
- Ramlock's Hallow (Doomsday Dawn)
- Rozenport (Doomsday Dawn, Phantom Phenomena)
- Undarin (Doomsday Dawn)
Map support
- Real-world articles
- Works by Jason Bulmahn
- Works by James Jacobs
- Works by Amanda Hamon
- Works by Stephen Radney-MacFarland
- Works by Mark Seifter
- Works by Logan Bonner
- Artwork by Cynthia F.G.
- Artwork by Lie Setiawan
- Artwork by Firat Solhan
- Artwork by Roberto Pitturru
- Artwork by Taylor Fischer
- Artwork by Rob Lazzaretti
- Artwork by Kiki Moch Rizky
- Artwork by Mikhail Palamarchuk
- Artwork by Federico Musetti
- Artwork by Jason Engle
- PFRPG 2E adventures
- Adventures
- 2018 adventures
- 1st level adventures
- Adventures in Magnimar
- Adventures in Varisia
- 4th level adventures
- Adventures in Katapesh
- 7th level adventures
- Adventures in Versex
- Adventures in Ustalav
- 9th level adventures
- Adventures in River Kingdoms
- 12th level adventures
- Adventures in Undarin
- Adventures in Worldwound
- 14th level adventures
- Adventures in Shackles
- 17th level adventures
- Adventures in Ramlock's Hallow
- Ramlock appearances
- Aeteperax appearances
- Ashen Man appearances
- Imivus appearances
- Pathfinder Playtest