Pyramid Review
D1: Crown of the Kobold King
Designed by Nicolas Logue
Developed & edited by Jason Bulmahn, Mike McArtor, & Jeremy Walker
Art, cartography, & graphic design by Matt Cavotta, Eric Deschamps, Vincent Dutrait, Wayne Reynolds, Christopher West, & James Davis
32-page full-color softcover; $12.99
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W1: Conquest of Bloodsworn Vale
Designed by Jason Bulmahn
Developed & edited by Jason Bulmahn, Mike McArtor, & Jeremy Walker
Art, cartography, & graphic design by Warren Mahy, Vincent Dutrait, Drew Pocza, Christophe Swal, Christopher West, & James Davis
32-page full-color softcover; $12.99
Shortly before launching their new Pathfinder line of products, Paizo Publishing warmed the engine with a couple of small adventure modules. D1: Crown of the Kobold King (for four 2nd-level characters) and W1: Conquest of Bloodsworn Vale (for four 6th-level PCs) are small but potentially formidable stories to get players back into the swing of things:
In Crown of the Kobold King, the party is asked by villagers to retrieve their missing children. Some are convinced the former mistress of the town orphanage extends her reach even beyond the deadly fire that killed her and destroyed her facility, but all anyone wants is to find and stop the force that takes their offspring.
[SPOILER ALERT!]
There are, in fact, outcast kobolds working in the darkness beneath the dwarven monastery, and the children have been scattered throughout. They were taken to appease a prophecy that . . .
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Article publication date: October 12, 2007
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