Season of Ghosts
- This article covers the Pathfinder Adventure Path. For the moniker for summer in the village of Willowshore, see season of ghosts.
Season of Ghosts was the thirty-seventh Pathfinder Adventure Path and ran from October 2023 to January 2024. This was Paizo's first four-part adventure path.1
“CW: Spiders
Something strange is happening to your hometown of Willowshore! Nestled on the banks of a river winding through the legendary Specterwood in Tian Xia's haunted land of Shenmen, the people of Willowshore are no strangers to supernatural threat, but the danger that comes to town on the first day of summer is unlike anything you've ever seen before. Over the four seasons to come, you and your fellow home-grown heroes must face evil spirits, sinister fiends, and frightening curses, lest the town of Willowshore succumb to the Season of Ghosts!
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Warnings2
- Spiders (and other creepy crawlies, but mostly spiders)
- Body horror
- Substance abuse/alcohol
- Young adults in peril
- Claustrophobia/being buried alive
- Ghosts and death
Trailer
Releases
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The Summer That Never Was | Written by Sen H.H.S. | Released October 18, 2023 | |
| For level 1. Your hometown of Willowshore has always observed the final days of spring with a festival known as the Season of Ghosts—a celebration of life that honors and placates the region's many spirits. Yet this year something goes horribly wrong, and when you awake in the woods alone after a night of festivities, you find that your hometown is in dire need of heroes! | ||||
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Let the Leaves Fall | Written by Joan Hong, with additional articles by Tan Shao Han and Grady Wang | Released November 15, 2023 | |
| For level 4. The town of Willowshore is cursed! As fall begins, the town's newest heroes find themselves in the position of leading preparations for the lean times to come. Yet the curse itself must be investigated as well, and when it becomes apparent that the answers might lie in a ruined monastery, the heroes must find a way to pass beyond the eerie Wall of Ghosts that blocks the only path! | ||||
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No Breath to Cry | Written by Dan Cascone & Eleanor Ferron, with additional articles by Jeremy Blum, Dana Ebert, Joshua Kim, and Michelle Y. Kim | Released December 13, 2023 | |
| For level 7. With knowledge gained from a haunted monastery, the heroes of Willowshore are finally ready to take steps toward lifting the curse that's afflicted their hometown since the first day of summer, but now that winter has arrived, attempts to battle the supernatural forces that stand against them are complicated by the cruel realities of the year's most deadly season of all. | ||||
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To Bloom Below the Web | Written by Liane Merciel, with additional articles by Jeremy Blum, Joshua Kim, and Michelle Y. Kim | Released January 31, 2024 | |
| For level 10. The eerie curse that afflicted the town of Willowshore might have been defeated, but the dangers facing the rural settlement are far from over. As the first days of spring arrive, conflicts with bandits and political perils threaten the town even as a greater supernatural peril begins to prey upon its citizens. Can Willowshore's heroes save their hometown from its greatest threat to date? | ||||
Related publications
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Season of Ghosts Player's Guide | Written by James Jacobs | Released October 2, 2023 | |
| Inside the Season of Ghosts Player's Guide, you'll find player-friendly, spoiler-free information and tips to help you make an exciting new character perfect for the Season of Ghosts Adventure Path, which is set just over a hundred years in the past, not long after the onset of the Age of Lost Omens itself! | ||||
| Soundtrack song | ||||
| Season of Ghosts | Written by Michael Ghelfi Studios | Released January 24, 2023 | ||
References
- ↑ James Jacobs. (March 2, 2023). Tian Xia: Coming 2023–2024!, Paizo Blog.
- ↑ James Jacobs. (Oct 19, 2023). The Summer That Never Was, Product discussion.