Race for the Runecarved Key

Pathfinder Society Special: Race for the Runecarved Key

PZOPSS0400E

Book - Pathfinder Society scenario

Authors

Kyle Baird and Tim Hitchcock

Publisher

Paizo Inc.

Pages

46

Rule set

PFRPG

Series

Season 4 scenarios and Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild

Releases

PDF (Gen Con release)

Date

August 2012

Price

$3.99

PDF (Paizo Store)

Date

August 2013

Price

$3.99

Artwork from this book

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Race for the Runecarved Key, a Pathfinder Society Special by Kyle Baird and Tim Hitchcock, debuted in August 2012 at Gen Con Indy. The special was made available thereafter to regional conventions and game days and was released publicly in August 2013. At its Gen Con debut, the top-ranked tables in each subtier progressed to a second round of the adventure offered only that single time at Gen Con.

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An ancient Thassilonian artifact has been unearthed in Magnimar and is to be auctioned off by the city government. In order to maintain good relations with those in power in the City of Monuments, the Pathfinder Society must obtain the relic without simply stealing it, although employing any other means necessary. It falls to the PCs to infiltrate the auction, sabotage the other bidders' efforts, and call in favors from those in the Society's debt to ensure the Runecarved Key (and the secrets it unlocks) belongs to the Pathfinders when the adventure draws to a close.

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Scenario Overview

Level	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Location(s)	Varisia

Recurring characters, concepts, and locations

The following characters, concepts, or locations can be found in this scenario, but also significantly appear in the publications listed below:

• Aspis Consortium (Abducted in Aether, Ageless Ambitions, All the Gods Beyond, Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible, Assault on the Wound, Bid for Alabastrine, The Blakros Connection, Blood Under Absalom, The Bloodcove Blockade, The Bloodcove Disguise, The Bronze House Reprisal, By Way of Bloodcove, The Consortium Compact, Day of the Demon, Dead Man's Debt, The Deepmarket Deception, The Dog Pharaoh's Tomb, Encounter at the Drowning Stones, The Fabric of Reality, Fingerprints of the Fiend, First Taste of Eternity, Fury of the Fiend, The Ghenett Manor Gauntlet, The Ghol-Gan Heresy, The Golden Guardian, The Golemworks Incident, Grand Convocation 4712, The Green Market, The Icebound Outpost, The Infernal Inheritance, Kaava Quarry, King of the Storval Stairs, Lost Colony of Taldor, On Sharrowsmith's Trail, Pagoda of the Rat (scenario), Portal of the Sacred Rune, Race for the Runecarved Key, Race to Seeker's Folly, Rescue at Azlant Ridge, Rivalry's End, The Rules of the Swift, Sanctum of the Sages (scenario), Serpent's Rise, Serpents Fall, Serpents' Ire, Severing Ties, Shipyard Rats, Siege of Serpents, Signs in Senghor, Skeleton Moon... further results)
• Basaale Minvandu (Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Canayven Heidmarch (Cairn of Shadows, Fortress of the Nail, Heidmarch Heist, The Price of Friendship, Race for the Runecarved Key, The Secrets Stones Keep, Testament of Souls, The Veteran's Vault)
• Cathedral of Abadar (Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Coins (Absalom) (Boom Town Betrayal, Of Kirin and Kraken, The Paths We Choose, Race for the Runecarved Key, Slave Pits of Absalom, Slave Ships of Absalom, The Stranger Within, The Wounded Wisp)
• Council of Ushers (The Bronze House Reprisal, Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Elixia Makorios (Fortress of the Nail, Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Ernst Landis (Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Golemworks (The Bronze House Reprisal, The Golemworks Incident, Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Greenblood (The Confirmation, The Ghenett Manor Gauntlet, Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Haruka (Race for the Runecarved Key, The Refuge of Time, Words of the Ancients)
• Heidmarch Manor (The Golemworks Incident, Heidmarch Heist, Race for the Runecarved Key, Rise of the Goblin Guild)
• Hellknight (The Blakros Matrimony, The Burning of Greensteeples, Day of the Demon, The Devil-Wrought Disappearance, The Disappeared, Fallen Family, Broken Name, Fate of the Fiend, Fortress of the Nail, Fury of the Fiend, Grand Convocation 4712, The Hellknight's Feast, The Infernal Inheritance, Let Bygones Be, Lost Colony of Taldor, Orders from the Gate, Race for the Runecarved Key, The Veteran's Vault, What Prestige is Worth)
• Jorston Droaeb (Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Jyronn Imikar (Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Lissala (The Cultist's Kiss, Feast of Sigils (scenario), The Golemworks Incident, The Green Market, In Wrath's Shadow, Portal of the Sacred Rune, Race for the Runecarved Key, The Refuge of Time, Serpents' Ire, Severing Ties, The Waking Rune, Words of the Ancients)
• Magnimar (The Bronze House Reprisal, The Golemworks Incident, Heidmarch Heist, My Enemy's Enemy, Race for the Runecarved Key, Rise of the Goblin Guild)
• Maiveer Sloan (The Bronze House Reprisal, The Golemworks Incident, My Enemy's Enemy, Race for the Runecarved Key, Serpents' Ire)
• Miior Duvanti (Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Office of the Lord-Mayor (Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Order of the Nail (Fortress of the Nail, Race for the Runecarved Key, The Veteran's Vault)
• Runecarved Key (The Bronze House Reprisal, Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Rushlight Society (Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Sheila Heidmarch (Beyond the Halflight Path, The Bronze House Reprisal, The Burden of Envy, City of Secrets 1, City of Secrets 6, The Cultist's Kiss, The Cyphermage Dilemma, Feast of Sigils (scenario), The Golemworks Incident, Halls of Dwarven Lore, Heidmarch Heist, The Howling Dance, In Wrath's Shadow, Iolite Squad Alpha, King of the Storval Stairs, A Lie Told to Strangers, Murder on the Throaty Mermaid, My Enemy's Enemy, The Night March of Kalkamedes, Orders from the Gate, Pathfinder Origins 1, Pathfinder Origins 2, Pathfinder Origins 3, Pathfinder Origins 4, Pathfinder Origins 5, Pathfinder Origins 6, Portent's Peril, Race for the Runecarved Key, The Refuge of Time, Rise of the Goblin Guild, The Sanos Abduction, Severing Ties, Snakes in the Grass, Testament of Souls, Tower of the Ironwood Watch, The Waking Rune, Words of the Ancients, Wrath of the Fleshwarped Queen)
• Thassilon (The Bronze House Reprisal, The Cyphermage Dilemma, Feast of Sigils (scenario), Fortress of the Nail, The Golemworks Incident, In Wrath's Shadow, The Ironbound Schism, King of the Storval Stairs, The Night March of Kalkamedes, Portal of the Sacred Rune, Race for the Runecarved Key, The Refuge of Time, Rise of the Goblin Guild, Rivalry's End, Tower of the Ironwood Watch, The Waking Rune, Words of the Ancients, Wrath of the Fleshwarped Queen)
• Toth Bhreacher (Race for the Runecarved Key)
• Zimandi Kaddren (Race for the Runecarved Key)

Map support

The following Pathfinder Flip-Mat or Pathfinder Map Pack products are used in this scenario along with six custom maps:

• Cathedral Flip-Mat
• City Streets Flip-Mat
• Deep Forest Flip-Mat