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Pathfinder Adventure: Troubles in Otari
Onward to adventure! This exciting adventure anthology expands the realm beyond the hometown introduced in the Pathfinder Beginner Box and brings thrilling new dangers to the heroes' doorstep! Designed for use with the rules in the Pathfinder Beginner Box and the perfect bridge to the exciting options of the full Pathfinder Core Rulebook, these adventures take your heroes to 4th level and beyond as they venture further into the nearby wilderness and face fearsome foes lurking all too close to home!
The anthology's three adventures introduce a number of play styles, including clearing out an abandoned fish camp, a sandbox romp to get to the bottom of sabotage, and a classic puzzle-filled dungeon crawl.
Troubles in Otari is a deluxe adventure for 4th-level characters written by Jason Keeley, Lyz Liddell, and Ron Lundeen.
The anthology's three adventures introduce a number of play styles, including clearing out an abandoned fish camp, a sandbox romp to get to the bottom of sabotage, and a classic puzzle-filled dungeon crawl.
Troubles in Otari is a deluxe adventure for 4th-level characters written by Jason Keeley, Lyz Liddell, and Ron Lundeen.
68 pages, Paperback
Published January 12, 2021
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January 23, 2022
A great continuation from the Pathfinder 2E Beginner’s Box, Troubles in Otari has three chapters. The first is a fairly standard trek through a monster-ridden fishery, the second is a sandbox romp in a couple different locations around Otari designed to teach beginning GMs what it’s like to give players the freedom to explore, and the third is a dungeon crawl against a big jackal boss. Only complaints is that the sandbox section has a logical conclusion (a fight against a bunch of villainous dwarves in a ruin) that it doesn’t entirely expound upon, and the chapter 3 dungeon crawl railroads players into fighting a bunch of intelligent monsters, including a troll who can speak Common and for all intents and purposes would serve as a better NPC than just a random enemy. I switched things up a bit in my own game and made the troll and her ogre soul sister assist the party during the final fight, and now my campaign is turning into the equivalent of a harem anime with both of the monster ladies lusting after one of the players. Can’t complain, really!
January 11, 2026
A great continuation to the Beginners Box and prequel to the Abomination Vaults. In fact, I really want to run Abomination Vaults after reading and preparing this Adventure Path.
December 10, 2025
As with most 2nd Edition Pathfinder material, Troubles in Otari suffers from 3 maladies - it's bland, basic, and politically-correct.
"Troubles" consists of a series of only loosely-connected adventures building upon the adventure introduced in the Beginner's Box. The adventures seem to serve merely as a vehicle to introduce 2e players to the strategies and tactics available in 2e battles and exploration, as role-playing and downtime opportunities are noticeably absent.
The plots of the adventures are hum-drum, the way information is introduced to the players is ham-handed, and the entire tone and tenor of these adventures screams Disney-esque SAFE SPACE! It's clear that nothing controversial (to the far left) or outside a narrow band of "acceptable" content (to the far left) is allowed, and thus, everything regresses to the mean - a bland mush of mundane content that's entirely forgettable.
Of course, the usual bizarre Paizo gender activism is also present, acting as nothing so much as a distraction (-1 star). For instance the warlord in the first adventure is female. Because, you know...all those female warlords, obviously. There's also a gender-confused ghost. You know...because everyone's been clamoring for deep dives into the gender identity of ghosts.
Interior art is notably poor for the most part. Maps are solid.
Pet peeve - at times it seems like every other sentence ends in an exclamation! Everything is so exciting!
The only possible way I can recommend this adventure is if you are new to both role-playing and Pathfinder 2e and consider yourself a radical far-leftist, as much of Paizo's staff is. For the other 90%+ of humanity, pass on this one.
"Troubles" consists of a series of only loosely-connected adventures building upon the adventure introduced in the Beginner's Box. The adventures seem to serve merely as a vehicle to introduce 2e players to the strategies and tactics available in 2e battles and exploration, as role-playing and downtime opportunities are noticeably absent.
The plots of the adventures are hum-drum, the way information is introduced to the players is ham-handed, and the entire tone and tenor of these adventures screams Disney-esque SAFE SPACE! It's clear that nothing controversial (to the far left) or outside a narrow band of "acceptable" content (to the far left) is allowed, and thus, everything regresses to the mean - a bland mush of mundane content that's entirely forgettable.
Of course, the usual bizarre Paizo gender activism is also present, acting as nothing so much as a distraction (-1 star). For instance the warlord in the first adventure is female. Because, you know...all those female warlords, obviously. There's also a gender-confused ghost. You know...because everyone's been clamoring for deep dives into the gender identity of ghosts.
Interior art is notably poor for the most part. Maps are solid.
Pet peeve - at times it seems like every other sentence ends in an exclamation! Everything is so exciting!
The only possible way I can recommend this adventure is if you are new to both role-playing and Pathfinder 2e and consider yourself a radical far-leftist, as much of Paizo's staff is. For the other 90%+ of humanity, pass on this one.
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