Age of Ashes

The mysterious fires burning atop an abandoned Hellknight citadel are but the first of many discoveries waiting to be uncovered.

This adventure path has it all. Before I read it, I expected it to be a simple, maybe boring story designed to ease new GM’s into Pathfinder 2e. Instead, I found that it has an amazing depth of experience. It has dungeon crawls, hexploration, infiltration, water battles, aerial battles, chances to influence important NPCs and acquire allies both public and secret. It has role-playing, debates, investigation and straight-up desperate battles for the fate of the world. What else could you possibly want?

Highlights:

• A great variety of locations and enemies. Almost a “world tour” of the Inner Sea region. Not really, but it has that flavor.
• A great variety of game styles, including exploration, base-building, role-playing, dungeon crawls, urban adventure and more.
• A great balance of combat, exploration and role-playing.

Drawbacks:

• New players are going to struggle with certain very tough fights in the first two volumes. My very experienced players certainly did. Remind them that PF2e is a game of teamwork. Lots of individual effort isn’t as effective as setting each other up for success.