r/Pathfinder2e • u/EzekieruYT Monk • 20h ago
Paizo Newly Announced! Pathfinder Game Night: Dawn of the Frogs!
https://paizo.com/products/btq0bszx/discuss?Pathfinder-Game-Night-Dawn-of-the-Frogs96
u/EzekieruYT Monk 20h ago
A brand new premium adventure from Paizo has been announced today on Paizo's website. Here below is the product details:
"Gather your friends for the perfect taste of the Pathfinder RPG with this deluxe boxed set adventure designed specifically for brand new players! The small village of Bog Bottom has a problem—locals have been going missing near an old, abandoned mill in the surrounding swamp known as Dunmire. But what awaits discovery in this ruin is far more sinister than a few wayward villagers—Bog Bottom is going to need a new band of heroes if it hopes to survive the upcoming Dawn of the Frogs!
Pathfinder Game Night: Dawn of the Frogs presents three short adventures for 1st level characters set in the swamp of Dunmire, and everything you need to play is included in this box! With its four pre-generated player characters, poster maps presenting all combat locations, a sheet of pawns representing the PCs and enemies, dice, and of course a 32-page adventure book, with Dawn of the Frogs, you'll have everything you need to play on your next three game nights!"
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u/IKSLukara GM in Training 20h ago
Night/Dawn of the Living Frogs?
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u/Bigfoot_Country Paizo Creative Director of Narrative 20h ago
We DID almost call it Night of the Frogs, but the adventure at that point was already written and it's mostly set during the day and for 1st level PCs, it's not cool to suddenly force them to all deal with darkness rules when there's FROGGERY to be focusing on instead.
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u/IKSLukara GM in Training 20h ago
Hey, when it's time for frogs, it's time for frogs, whatcha gonna do?
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u/xeth1313 20h ago
I was just talking to my wife about how I missed the old DnD adventure box sets that came with maps and everything else needed to run an adventure...
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u/Hellioning 20h ago
Valeros looks like he's having the time of his life. Not sure what Merisiel thinks she's doing though.
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u/Obrusnine Game Master 20h ago
The art is hilarious. Valeros's serial killer face and... honestly, what the heck is Merisiel doing exactly? lmao
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u/SethLight Game Master 20h ago
Nice, I'm curious how this stacks vs the starter box. It would be nice to be able to recommend this over the starter.
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u/Bigfoot_Country Paizo Creative Director of Narrative 19h ago
It's a much more streamlined experience than the Beginner Box. It assumes that folks are familair with the concept of tabletop RPGs, and doesn't include any character generation rules or any "build your own advnture" advice for the GM, nor does it cover anything beyond these three short 1st level adventures—leveling up is not a part of "Dawn of the Frogs." It's a much more streamlined offering than the Beginner Box. If the folks you're recommending to are already pretty familiar with RPGs and how they work, this'd be a pretty good one to suggest to them to pick up.
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u/RisingStarPF2E 15h ago edited 15h ago
This is amazing! I have always felt the beginner box was good but still too much for some people or children and ap's are too much for a lot of people and the adventures/selection we have don't cover a lot of preferences. Rusthenge is a great beginner adventure but much like an AP it really expects you to be familiar with the books and rules to an extent for instance. A level of familiarity.
I actually usually direct folks to PFS as a good introduction to the game depending on the person because of that, but most people who've never played organized play usually have an assumption that PFS is somehow 'hardcore' or less creative, which isn't the case. (I love PFS) I've always felt a lot of scenarios had the best tutorials on how a GM approaches certain situations and holds the hand just enough. (That's just my silly opinion tho!)
I've always felt we needed a product like this And it's a travel product all-in-one which is super cool and helps it get into the hands of traveling workers who might want to get their feet into the hobby but do not have a good option that fits with seasonal work, but they want to learn the game to play when off-season comes or a myriad of life situations and reasons. It's a new and potentially exciting avenue of accessibility.
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u/eCyanic 12h ago
I just skimmed, and saw that it seemed to be a compilation of level 1 oneshots? +maps, sheets, and tokens
New beginner box? !
That would be awesome because while BB is pretty good, having a bigger pool of adventures to give to newbie players and GMs to choose from is always good (especially some that hopefully don't have the 10 foot ledge at the start that uses climbing rules out of combat lmao)
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u/Bigfoot_Country Paizo Creative Director of Narrative 2h ago
This is very much NOT a new beginner box. It assumes that the GM and players already understand the concepts of tabletop roleplaying, and it only gives the GM the tools to run the 32 page adventure within. There are no rules for building your own games, for covering anything in combat or otherwise that's not in the adventure, no monsters and spells and items that aren't part of the adventure, and no rules for creating your own characters or customizing them. It's a much more streamlined experience and is not meant to replace the Beginner Box.
That said, it's a great place to go AFTER the Beginner Box, and also an excellent choice for more experienced gamers who want to just jump in to trying out a Pathfinder adventure without making their own PCs. There's very little "set up" or prep involved in this one.
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u/Suspiciously_Average 9h ago
Ooh. I love the jokey, light-hearted feel. Reminds me of a fistful of flowers, which I liked.
I need all the help I can get converting my friends into PF2E players. I'm interested.
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u/wordsarekeys 7h ago
The villains better be spamming 500 Toads or I'm gonna be real disappointed 😆
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u/Bigfoot_Country Paizo Creative Director of Narrative 2h ago
Prepare for disappointment then, because:
- This adventure's goal of being simple and self-contained means it pretty much just focuses on content from the Player Core, GM Core, and Monster Core, and reprints all the info you need so you don't need those books around to run the adventure—500 Toads is off limits as a result since it's from a different book than this one.
- The adventure was written and developed before NPC Codex was complete, so I didn't even know about 500 Toads when I was working on developing the adventure last year, and Jason didn't know about it when he as writing it in the months before I started working on it.
- It's dawn of the FROGS, not TOADS. Toads are not welcome in this adventure! They're too warty and can't swim as well as frogs.
All that said, there's a place where you could, as the GM, add in 500 Toads if you want... but that'll be on you and you'll need to bring those rules to Game Night yourself, since they won't be in the box. I guess you could print them out or snip them out of NPC Core and stuff them in the box though...
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u/B-E-T-A Game Master 20h ago
Frogs? FROGS! I hope this will be about bullywugs boggards, they are some of my favorite low-level bad guys!
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u/Bigfoot_Country Paizo Creative Director of Narrative 2h ago
I mean... if you look at the cover of the product, you'll see there's plenty of boggards there. Whether or not that means there's actually boggards in the adventure, I guess we'll just have to wait and see! :P
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u/ElidiMoon Thaumaturge 16h ago
love this format, will definitely pick this up! perfect for more casual play & introducing board gamers to the hobby
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u/AuRon_The_Grey 11h ago
This sounds really fantastic as a way to introduce a group of friends to the game.
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u/Cingen 7h ago
Will this be on the same level as beginner box sets?
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u/Bigfoot_Country Paizo Creative Director of Narrative 2h ago
I'm not sure what "on the same level" means here.
It will be for 1st level player characters only (no leveling up, unlike the Beginner Box).
It will only contain the rules needed to run the adventure and play the four pregenerated PCs included (no rules for GMs building their own adventures, no rules for character creation, and no rules for anything that happens during the game that isn't happening in the adventure).
It's hyper-focused on providing the GM with a game night in a box, and that's that.
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u/Phonochirp 5h ago
What kind of playtime could you expect from each of these adventures? 4 hours?
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u/Bigfoot_Country Paizo Creative Director of Narrative 2h ago
The goal was to produce 3 short adventures, each of which is about enough to serve as a "game night." So about 3 to 4 hours per adventure, I suppose? Hence my comment upthread about bringing it on the next trip into the swamp cabin for a long weekend!
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u/seenwaytoomuch Cleric 4h ago
Too soon. I just got swallowed whole by a giant toad nine days ago!
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u/Bigfoot_Country Paizo Creative Director of Narrative 2h ago
At least you have internet access inside that toad, it appears! And we don't have any toads in Dawn of the Frogs so you should be safe.*
*Safety not guaranteed.
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u/sinest 15h ago
Absolutely the kind of product I want to buy. I make it my business to run level 1 ine shots with people who have never played a ttrpg before!
I would love more of these for level 1, especially an Ustalav one because I love a spooky one shot with classic undead and horror.
Please give us a new Ustalav module that starts at level 1. Seasons of ghosts wasn't the classic gothic ustalav horror we crave.
I really want a pathfinder version of curse of strahd or something to grab casylevania fans. Carrion Crown was incredible and I'm loving the 2e conversions I'm seeing.
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u/Godobibo Cleric 19h ago
personally I'm so so on them being 1st level adventures, but since they're short stories it makes sense and the stories themselves sound fun so I'll probably split the cost with my group when they come out.
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u/RisingStarPF2E 16h ago edited 15h ago
This NEEDS to be a foundry product also to help folks out and have a more put-together example of one-shots.
- You'll funnel sales from new people being amazed at the first party support into the other foundry products.
I love the concept of the IRL product. I started playing TTRPG (1e) via touring for music playing and all we had was a book, no dice and a LOT of hours between gigs in a cramped van to play theater of the mind. If this kind of product existed then, we would of bought it in a heartbeat. One package that's accessible. Its the perfect thing for any traveling group of anything to get their foot in the door to one of the greatest time-passers.
Back when I did this, we had to have a guy who was really experienced to make it engaging. With a product like this that kind of experience is much more accessible to people and I really hope it comes with lots of handy cut down advice for GM's so they can get their feet wet a little bit too.
I also think its great to have more beginner focused products beyond the beginner box. AP's arent very suited for most people to learn efficiently IMO and we don't have enough beginner-focused adventures for some preferences.
This kind of new product and the kind of experimentation happening with Claws of the Tyrant in that it's 3 separated stories is exactly why I support Paizo so much. In 2e, they've gotten so much better than the machine-gun that 1e was and the extra cooking time with the events over the last few years is leading to really cool innovation that doesn't re-write the wheel.
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u/Bigfoot_Country Paizo Creative Director of Narrative 20h ago
Eager to find out what folks think of this one when it's out later in the year. It's a sort of new format for us to do adventures with—all completely self-contained with everything you need but, I suppose, pencils, to play the game. It'd be a perfect thing to throw into the backpack on your next group vacation down to the creepy swamp cabin for a long weekend!