The Pathfinder Trials

Pathfinder Society Scenario #2-11:
The Pathfinder Trials

PZOPFS0211E

(Adventure)

Author(s)

Sean McGowan

Publisher

Paizo Inc.

Price

PDF: $5.99

Released

January 27, 2021

Type

Pathfinder Society (2E) scenario

Binding

PDF

Rules set

PF2

Series

Pathfinder Society
Season 2 scenarios

Follows

In Burning Dawn

Precedes

Snakes in the Grass

Artwork from The Pathfinder Trials

The Pathfinder Trials, a Pathfinder Society repeatable scenario written by Sean McGowan for level 1, was released on January 27, 2021.

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Every year, the Pathfinder Society inducts new classes of recruits into their ranks. The three deans of the Society's schools, the Spells, Scrolls, and Swords, are responsible for ensuring that the new recruits have the basic skills and experience necessary to thrive in the field. PCs participating in this adventure will get to meet all three of the Society's deans and undergo their unique challenges, proving their worth and fitness to join the Pathfinder Society!

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Scenario overview

Level	1st
Location(s)	Absalom

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:

• Aram Zey (Abducted in Aether, The Blakros Connection, The Bloodcove Disguise, Captive in Crystal, The Confirmation, The Dog Pharaoh's Tomb, The Elven Entanglement, The Fabric of Reality, Grand Convocation 4712, The Hao Jin Cataclysm, The Hao Jin Hierophant, The Icebound Outpost, The Jester's Fraud, Pagoda of the Rat (scenario), The Pathfinder Trials, Portal of the Sacred Rune, Rescue at Azlant Ridge, The Sealed Gate, Serpent's Rise, Siege of Serpents, The Sky Key Solution, The Slave Master's Mirror, Slave Ships of Absalom, The Sundered Path, Tapestry's Toil, The Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment, Where Mammoths Dare Not Tread)
• Axis (Bid for Alabastrine, Fragments of Antiquity, Mistress of the Maze, The Pathfinder Trials, Tapestry's Trial)
• Creepers (Cavern of the Sundered Song, The Darkest Vengeance, From the Tome of Righteous Repose, The Pathfinder Trials, Year of Boundless Wonder (scenario))
• Four Pillars (In the Grandmaster's Name, The Pathfinder Trials)
• Grand Lodge (The Absalom Initiation, Assault on Absalom, Blood Under Absalom, Eye of the Crocodile King, First Taste of Eternity, Grand Convocation 4712, The Hao Jin Cataclysm, Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained, The Overflow Archives, The Pathfinder Trials, The Paths We Choose, Serpent's Rise, Shadows Fall on Absalom, Siege of Serpents, Who Speaks for the Ten, The Wounded Wisp, Year of the Shadow Lodge (scenario))
• Kreighton Shaine (Abducted in Aether, The Absalom Initiation, The Blakros Connection, Captive in Crystal, Cavern of the Sundered Song, The Confirmation, The God's Market Gamble, Grand Convocation 4712, The Immortal Conundrum, Legacy of the Stonelords, Origin of the Open Road, The Overflow Archives, The Pathfinder Trials, Ruins of Bonekeep Level 2: Maze of the Mind Slave, Ruins of Bonekeep Level 3: The Wakening Tomb, The Second Confirmation, Serpent's Rise, Siege of Serpents, Siege of the Diamond City, The Sky Key Solution, The Technic Siege, What The Helms Hide)
• Marcos Farabellus (Ageless Ambitions, All the Gods Beyond, Assault on Absalom, Assault on the Wound, The Confirmation, First Taste of Eternity, Let Bygones Be, The Midnight Mauler, The Pathfinder Trials, The Sealed Gate, The Second Confirmation, Serpent's Rise, Serpents Fall, Siege of Gallowspire, Siege of Serpents, Storming the Diamond Gate, The Swordlord's Challenge, Vengeance at Sundered Crag, Where Mammoths Dare Not Tread)
• Sorrina Westyr (Abducted in Aether, The Absalom Initiation, Captive in Crystal, The Cosmic Captive, Graves of Crystalmaw Pass, The Hao Jin Cataclysm, The Hao Jin Hierophant, The Pathfinder Trials, The Second Confirmation, Struck by Shadows, Tapestry's Trial, The Thorned Monarch, Ungrounded but Unbroken, Unleashing the Untouchable)

Map support

The following Pathfinder Flip-Mat or Pathfinder Map Pack products are used in this scenario:

• Wizard's Dungeon Flip-Mat
• Arena Flip-Mat
• Noble Estate Flip-Mat