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ADVENTURE PATH PLUG-INS Cold Mountain By Jason Nelson with the Legendary Games Design Team MAKE YOUR GAME LEGENDARY! A mother’s love is stronger than death, but love and death walk hand in hand when mortals cross paths with the immortal fey. This adventure designed for 4th to 5th level characters offers the chance to earn additional experience within a Kingbreaker Adventure Path campaign as they explore the unforgiving lands of a savage frontier and find them not uninhabited. Can they find a way to peacefully coexist with clans of the lonely hills and the frightening powers of nature that threaten to rise up and devour barbarian village and new-founded kingdom alike. About Legendary Games Legendary Games is an all star team of WELCOME TO ADVENTURE PATH PLUG-INS! This product is a part of our line of support materials for extended Adventure Path-style campaign play for authors and designers, founded by Clark use with Paizo’s Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. When you see the “Adventure Path Plug-In” logo at the top Petersen of Necromancer Games, Inc. of a Legendary Games product, you can expect it is designed to fit directly with the themes of a particular Legendary Games uses a cooperative, team- Adventure Path campaign. The all-star team of designers here at Legendary Games is committed to bringing based approach to bring you, the Paizo fan, you—the busy GM or player—the absolute best third party support for your Pathfinder campaign. To deliver on that commitment, we’ve assembled the best of the best of current gaming authors, designers and layout the best expansion material for your game. experts so that you can feel comfortable that Legendary Games products will be the most creative, rules-legal We are gamers and storytellers first, and we and well-designed content you can find. Though Adventure Path Plug-Ins all share a theme with a specific believe that passion shows in our products. Adventure Path campaign, they are designed to be easily incorporated into your home game regardless of what campaign you may be running. So check us out, and Make Your Game Adventure Path campaigns contain amazing plots and stories written by the industry’s best authors. But Legendary! those adventures have space restrictions for print publication that often leave space either for alternatives for Visit us on Facebook and follow us on the busy GM or chances for the GM to personalize his or her game. In a sandbox campaign, disconnected once-per-day encounters and wandering monsters during hexploration can feel like a bit of a grind (or, Twitter @legendary_games. alternatively, too easy as characters can pour all their resources into every fight), and this adventure provides www.makeyourgamelegendary.com the opportunity for a more extensive adventure that fits in well alongside their exploration but gives a deeper and more immersive experience of the perils and possibilities of expanding into the savage frontier. At the same time, this adventure slips easily into the footprint of the early campaign as a natural evolution of what Credits the PCs are already doing and without drawing them away from any of the key themes of the campaign. Author: Jason Nelson HEY, WHAT’S WITH THE NAMES? Artist: Frank Hessefort You will see us use phrases such as “Kingbreaker Adventure Path” instead of the title of a very popular Design and Layout: Liz Courts sandbox-style kingdom-building Adventure Path. Or, you may see us use names such as the “Lost Lands,” the Cartography: Todd Gamble “Faerie Queen,” the “Horned God of Hunters,” the rival “Baron and Baroness of Hookmarsh” to the west, or Legendary Games Team Members: the “Broken Kingdom” to the north that grants PCs their charter to explore and rule instead of the proper names of specific characters or places from those adventures or gods from the world setting. While we can Clinton Boomer, Liz Courts, Crystal Frasier, create compatible products under the Open Game License, we still have to be respectful of certain content Matt Goodall, Jim Groves, Tim Hitchcock, Paizo owns. 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