The Paths We Choose

Pathfinder Society Special #5-99: The Paths We Choose

PZOPSS0599

Book - Pathfinder Society scenario

Author

Tim Hitchcock

Publisher

Paizo Inc.

Pages

41

Rule set

PFRPG

Series

Season 6 scenarios and Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild

Follows

Vengeance at Sundered Crag

Precedes

Legacy of the Stonelords

Releases

PDF

Date

August 2014

Price

$3.99

Artwork from this book

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The Paths We Choose, a Pathfinder Society Special written by Tim Hitchcock for tier 3-7, was released at Gen Con 2014 in August 2014. It marks the first scenario of the Year of the Sky Key and the final scenario for the Andoran, Cheliax, Osirion, Qadira, Sczarni, and Taldor factions.

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The failure of Mendev's wardstones set in motion not only a new crusade but also catalyzed a change in the Pathfinder Society's various factions. As the Pathfinders prepare to march on the Sky Citadel Jormurdun, members of the various factions scramble to consolidate their gains and neutralize their enemies.

"The Paths We Choose" is a special event designed to highlight the changes in each faction over the course of Season 5, Year of the Demon, and the adventure is different for each group depending on which factions are represented at the table. Content in "The Paths We Choose" also contributes directly to the ongoing storylines of the Andoran, Cheliax, Osirion, Qadira, Sczarni, and Taldor factions. This adventure kicks off Season 6, Year of the Sky Key and is for character levels 3-7.

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Scenario overview

Level	3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
Location(s)	Absalom Grand Lodge Foreign Quarter Docks (Absalom) Wise Quarter
Faction(s)	Andoran Cheliax Osirion Qadira Sczarni Taldor

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:

• Aaqir al'Hakam (The Absalom Initiation, Assault on Absalom, Bid for Alabastrine, A Bitter Bargain, The Blakros Matrimony, The Cindersworn Pact, The Fabric of Reality, The Ghol-Gan Heresy, The Goblinblood Dead, Grand Convocation 4712, The Immortal Conundrum, The Merchant's Wake, On Hostile Waters, The Paths We Choose, Port Godless, Signs in Senghor, The Stranger Within, The Sundered Path, To Delve the Dungeon Deep, The Veteran's Vault)
• Absalom (The Absalom Initiation, Assault on Absalom, Blood Under Absalom, The Broken Scales, Delirium's Tangle (scenario), The Disappeared, Echoes of the Overwatched, The God's Market Gamble, The Golden Serpent, Hall of Drunken Heroes, The Immortal Conundrum, In Service to Lore, The Infernal Vault, King Xeros of Old Azlant, The Paths We Choose, School of Spirits, Serpent's Rise, The Seven Secrets of Dacilane Academy, Sewer Dragons of Absalom, Shadows Fall on Absalom, Skeleton Moon, Slave Ships of Absalom, Sniper in the Deep, Song of the Sea Witch, A Vision of Betrayal, The Wounded Wisp, Year of Immortal Influence (scenario))
• Alvalda Margruel (The Paths We Choose)
• Ambrus Valsin (Balancing the Scales, Bandits of Immenwood, Betrayal in the Bones, The Blakros Matrimony, Call of the Copper Gate, The Consortium Compact, The Daughters' Due, Day of the Demon, Debt to the Quah, The Disappeared, Fragments of Antiquity, From the Tome of Righteous Repose, The Frostfur Captives, Fury of the Final Blade, The Glass River Rescue, The Golden Guardian, The Golden Serpent, Grand Convocation 4712, The Hellknight's Feast, In Service to Lore, In the Grandmaster's Name, The Paths We Choose, Poisonous Council, Ruins of Bonekeep Level 1: The Silent Grave, The Segang Expedition, Serpents Fall, The Shores of Heaven, Siege of Serpents, The Slave Master's Mirror, Slave Ships of Absalom, Trial by Machine, Trouble in Tamran, The Waking Rune, What Prestige is Worth, You Only Die Twice)
• Amenopheus (Beacon Below, A Bitter Bargain, Grand Convocation 4712, The Immortal Conundrum, The Paths We Choose, Refugees of the Weary Sky, Salvation of the Sages, Sanctum of the Sages (scenario), The Unseen Inclusion, Web of Corruption)
• Augustyn Naran (A Case of Missing Persons, Fury of the Final Blade, The Hellknight's Feast, The Paths We Choose)
• Avid Arnsen (The Consortium Compact, The Paths We Choose)
• Black Whale (The Paths We Choose)
• 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)
• Colson Maldris (Black Waters, Captives of Toil, A Case of Missing Persons, Fury of the Final Blade, Grand Convocation 4712, The Hellknight's Feast, The Paths We Choose, School of Spirits, The Stolen Heir, To Delve the Dungeon Deep)
• Darchana Madinani (The Hellknight's Feast, The Paths We Choose, The Slave Master's Mirror, Slave Ships of Absalom)
• Diobel (Bandits of Immenwood, The Confirmation, The Consortium Compact, Hands of the Muted God, The Hydra's Fang Incident, The Kortos Envoy, The Paths We Choose, Shadows Fall on Absalom)
• Docks (Absalom) (Blood Under Absalom, The Frozen Fingers of Midnight, In Service to Lore, The Paths We Choose, Slave Ships of Absalom, Sniper in the Deep)
• Drandle Dreng (Among the Dead, Balancing the Scales, Black Waters, The Broken Scales, The Daughters' Due, Delirium's Tangle (scenario), Echoes of the Overwatched, Excising Ruination, The Fanciful March of Urwal, Flooded King's Court, Fury of the Fiend, The Goblinblood Dead, Grand Convocation 4712, The Infernal Vault, Parting Clouds, The Paths We Choose, The Penumbral Accords, School of Spirits, Sewer Dragons of Absalom, The Shadow Gambit, Shadows Fall on Absalom, The Silver Mount Collection, Stay of Execution, True Dragons of Absalom, The Twofold Demise, A Vision of Betrayal, The Wounded Wisp, Written in Blood)
• Dremdhet Salhar (The Hellknight's Feast, In Service to Lore, The Paths We Choose, Slave Pits of Absalom)
• Flotsam Graveyard (The Absalom Initiation, Assault on Absalom, King Xeros of Old Azlant, The Paths We Choose, Sniper in the Deep)
• Foreign Quarter (Balancing the Scales, In Service to Lore, The Paths We Choose, The Seven Secrets of Dacilane Academy, Siege of Serpents, Slave Ships of Absalom, The Wounded Wisp, Year of the Shadow Lodge (scenario))
• Gael family (The Paths We Choose, The Stranger Within, Trouble in Tamran, Way of the Kirin (scenario))
• Galfrey (The Paths We Choose, Siege of the Diamond City, The Swordlord's Challenge, The Wardstone Patrol, Weapon in the Rift)
• Gloriana Morilla (The Absalom Initiation, Ageless Ambitions, Assault on Absalom, Assault on the Wound, Birthright Betrayed, The Blakros Matrimony, Escape from Oppara, Grand Convocation 4712, A Gilded Test, The Hellknight's Feast, Honor's Echo, The Horn of Aroden, The Immortal Conundrum, The Jarlsblood Witch Saga, Library of the Lion, The Lion's Justice, No Time for Treason, Pagoda of the Rat (scenario), The Paths We Choose, Slave Ships of Absalom, The Sun Orchid Scheme, The Sundered Path, A Vision of Betrayal, Year of Shattered Sanctuaries (scenario))
• 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 Winter Queen's Dollhouse, The Wounded Wisp, Year of the Shadow Lodge (scenario))
• Guaril Karela (A Bitter Bargain, The Bloodcove Blockade, The Burden of Envy, The Cindersworn Pact, Cleansed with Fire, The Goblinblood Dead, The Golden Serpent, The Golemworks Incident, Grand Convocation 4712, Halls of Dwarven Lore, In Service to Lore, King of the Storval Stairs, Pagoda of the Rat (scenario), The Paths We Choose, Rivalry's End, Severing Ties, Storming the Diamond Gate, The Stranger Within, Trouble in Tamran, The Wardstone Patrol, Way of the Kirin (scenario), You Have What You Hold)
• Halmont Warrith (A Case of Missing Persons, Fury of the Final Blade, The Paths We Choose)
• Jeweled Sages (Ancients' Anguish, Beacon Below, A Bitter Bargain, The Paths We Choose, Race to Seeker's Folly, Salvation of the Sages, Sanctum of the Sages (scenario), Test of Tar Kuata, The Unseen Inclusion)
• Kortos Consortium (The Consortium Compact, The Hydra's Fang Incident, The Paths We Choose, Troubles in Otari)
• Mendevian Crusades (The Hellknight's Feast, Library of the Lion, The Paths We Choose, Scars of the Third Crusade, Siege of the Diamond City, The Wardstone Patrol, Weapon in the Rift)
• Misery Row (The Paths We Choose, Slave Pits of Absalom, Slave Ships of Absalom)
• Ollysta Zadrian (Assault on Absalom, Assault on the Wound, Grand Convocation 4712, In Service to Lore, The Paths We Choose, Reaver's Roar, The Refuge of Time, The Shores of Heaven, Siege of Gallowspire, Song of the Sea Witch, Thralls of the Shattered God, Way of the Kirin (scenario), Weapon in the Rift)
• Precipice Quarter (The Absalom Initiation, Black Waters, Echoes of the Overwatched, The Paths We Choose, School of Spirits)
• Tahonikepsu (Ancients' Anguish, Beacon Below, A Bitter Bargain, The Darkest Abduction, The Glass River Rescue, The Ironbound Schism, The Paths We Choose, Port Godless, Race to Seeker's Folly, Salvation of the Sages, Sanctum of the Sages (scenario), Test of Tar Kuata)
• Tancred Desimire (Assault on the Wound, The Blakros Matrimony, Day of the Demon, The Disappeared, Fortress of the Nail, The Hellknight's Feast, The Paths We Choose, Ruins of Bonekeep Level 1: The Silent Grave, Ruins of Bonekeep Level 2: Maze of the Mind Slave, Scars of the Third Crusade, Siege of the Diamond City, The Slave Master's Mirror, Slave Ships of Absalom, The Traitor's Lodge, Vengeance at Sundered Crag)
• Vaelia Wintermark (The Hellknight's Feast, The Paths We Choose)
• Wise Quarter (Balancing the Scales, The Blakros Deception, In Service to Lore, The Paths We Choose, The Penumbral Accords, The Silver Mount Collection, Voice in the Void, The Wounded Wisp, Year of Shattered Sanctuaries (scenario))
• Zarta Dralneen (The Absalom Initiation, Assault on Absalom, Bandits of Immenwood, The Blakros Matrimony, Call of the Copper Gate, Captive in Crystal, The Disappeared, Escorting a Mirage, Fate of the Fiend, Fortress of the Nail, Grand Convocation 4712, The Immortal Conundrum, The Infernal Inheritance, Orders from the Gate, The Overflow Archives, The Paths We Choose, What Prestige is Worth, Year of Boundless Wonder (scenario))

Map support

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

• Crypts Map Pack
• Pirate Ship Flip-Mat
• Pub Crawl Flip-Mat
• Thieves' Guild Flip-Mat
• Warehouse Flip-Mat

Note: The Pub Crawl and Thieves' Guild Flip-Mats are incorrectly identified in the scenario as Map Packs. The map on page 36 is from the Crypts Map Pack, but is incorrectly labeled as Waterfront.