The Shadow Gambit
The City of Strangers, Part I: The Shadow Gambit, a Pathfinder Society scenario for tier 1–7 written by Joshua J. Frost, was released in June 2010.
“The Pathfinder Society sends you to Kaer Maga, the City of Strangers, where you are ordered to find a local Pathfinder associate who sent a strange letter to Venture-Captain Drandle Dreng in Absalom. When the local associate turns up dead and you find evidence linking his death to a mysterious organization called The Shadow Lodge, it's up to you to track them down and solve the man's murder.
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Scenario overview
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This is the first scenario of The City of Strangers campaign arc:
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:
- Ardoc family (Beyond the Halflight Path, The Shadow Gambit, The Stranger Within, The Twofold Demise)
- Commerce League (Red Harvest, The Shadow Gambit, The Stranger Within, The Twofold Demise)
- Dakar (Red Harvest, The Shadow Gambit, The Stranger Within, The Twofold Demise)
- 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)
- Duskwardens (Beyond the Halflight Path, The Shadow Gambit, The Twofold Demise)
- Egorian (The Burning of Greensteeples, The Dalsine Affair, Day of the Demon, The Devil-Wrought Disappearance, Fury of the Fiend, The God's Market Gamble, The Hydra's Fang Incident, The Locked Lodge, No Plunder, No Pay, The Shadow Gambit, The Watcher of Ages, Year of Shattered Sanctuaries (scenario))
- Fasch (The Shadow Gambit, The Twofold Demise)
- Halflight Path (The Shadow Gambit)
- Jorda Dollobart (The Shadow Gambit, The Twofold Demise)
- Kaer Maga (Beyond the Halflight Path, A Bitter Bargain, The Bronze House Reprisal, Feast of Sigils (scenario), Iolite Squad Alpha, A Lie Told to Strangers, Lost and Forgotten, The Price of Friendship, The Refuge of Time, The Shadow Gambit, The Stranger Within, The Twofold Demise)
- Miss Feathers (Feast of Sigils (scenario), The Shadow Gambit, The Stranger Within, The Twofold Demise)
- Risen Guard (Beacon Below, The Shadow Gambit)
- Roold (The Shadow Gambit, The Twofold Demise)
- Sard Coalbrath (The Shadow Gambit, The Twofold Demise)
- Sothis (Beacon Below, A Bitter Bargain, The Dragon Who Stole Evoking Day, The Faithless Dead, Fingerprints of the Fiend, In Service to Lore, The Prisoner of Skull Hill, The Rebel's Ransom, The Sandstone Secret, The Sandstorm Prophecy, The Secluded Siege, Secrets of the Endless Sky, The Shadow Gambit, Terror at Whistledown, Test of Tar Kuata, The Third Riddle, The Tomb Between Worlds, The Trouble with Secrets, The Twofold Demise, The Watcher of Ages, Wrath of the Accursed, Year of Shattered Sanctuaries (scenario))
Map support
The following Pathfinder Flip-Mat or Pathfinder Map Pack products are used in this scenario:
- Real-world articles
- Works by Joshua J. Frost
- Artwork by Eric Belisle
- Artwork by Vincent Dutrait
- Artwork by Kieran Yanner
- Artwork by Jared Blando
- Artwork by Corey Macourek
- Artwork by Christophe Swal
- 2010 adventures
- Adventures
- PFRPG adventures
- Pathfinder Society scenarios
- Season 1 scenarios
- 1st level adventures
- 2nd level adventures
- 3rd level adventures
- 4th level adventures
- 5th level adventures
- 6th level adventures
- 7th level adventures
- Tier 1-7 scenarios
- Adventures in Kaer Maga
- Pathfinder Society scenarios set in Kaer Maga
- Adventures in Varisia
- Pathfinder Society scenarios set in Varisia
- The City of Strangers adventures