Pathfinder’s ‘Curtain Call Player Guide’ is about More Than a Night at the Opera
Pathfinder’s new adventure path, Curtain Call, wants to go all Ember Island Players on your group with a night at the opera.
Curtain Call, when it comes out in August, which is distressingly close right now, will be Pathfinder’s 40th Adventure Path. That’s a pretty cool achievement all on its own. But the subject matter takes this to the next level. Because what better way to celebrate the long history of amazing adventure paths than with an adventure path about celebrating your characters’ legacy?
And the best way to do that is with an opera. Of course, RPGs and Opera have a storied history, going back to Final Fantasy 6, which blew minds and won hearts when the party took a detour so that the renegade military general could fill in for a missing opera diva and everyone could fight a giant octopus named Ultros.
Now Opera rears its powerful head once more in Curtain Call. And while the adventure path won’t be out for a while yet, the Player’s Guide for this adventure path is available right now. This means you can figure out what YOUR character will bring for their big opera debut.
Pathfinder Adventure Path: Curtain Call Player’s Guide
The Player’s Guide is a spoiler-free companion for the upcoming adventure path. It’s chock full of things you can use to tie your characters (which should be 11th level) to the adventure, including new rules for creating a “persona” as well as new backgrounds. But most importantly, it gets you ready to siiiing.
The city of Kintargo has a long tradition of art, even when it chafed under the oppressive rule of House Thrune. Now that its nation of Ravounel has seceded from infernal Cheliax, though, the time is nigh for the artists and performers of Kintargo to step up to the grand stage that is the Inner Sea region. While politicians maneuver complex plots and merchants work to secure new trade, it falls to a band of famous heroes fresh off a legendary adventure to bring what might be the Next Big Thing to the stage.
In the Curtain Call Adventure Path, your characters are asked by a famous director to aid in translating your adventures into an opera—a production that could well bring even greater fame and fortune to your group, but only if it’s done exactly right. Of course, there’s more afoot in the town of Kintargo than what’s coming soon on stage, and as the production swings into high gear, unexpected and dangerous complications are sure to make themselves known. Fear of performing on the stage will soon be the least of your worries!
Here’s a look at what you’ll find inside:
- Character suggestions, including recommendations for ancestries, classes, languages, skills, and feats well suited for this Adventure Path.
- Eight new Persona traits your PCs can take to indicate how the public regards you—do they see you as a struggling underdog, a relentless flirt, a troublemaking scoundrel, or something else? Your character’s Persona trait doesn’t have to match your character’s actual personality or role in the party, but it does give you a handy narrative hook to explore during play—and perhaps, once in a while, could even grant you unexpected opportunities as the Adventure Path unfolds!
- Eight new backgrounds tailor-made to contextualize your character’s larger-than-life theatrical role, building upon the eight Persona traits and providing advice for how (and why) your character might want to see themselves portrayed on the stage.
- A gazetteer of the city of Kintargo, including an exhaustive list of the dozens of NPCs your group might encounter during the campaign.
- A step-by-step guide for your group to develop a legacy worthy of transformation into an opera, in the event that you’re creating brand-new characters and not bringing in heroes from an already completed campaign.
