An Adventure Path is a series of interlinked adventures (campaign) for tabletop role-playing games which can be played in succession and lead characters to advance from lower to higher levels, through a particular path of events.

While campaigns exist for many role-playing game systems, the specific term Adventure Path discussed here applies to published adventures for the Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder fantasy roleplaying games. Adventure Paths in opposition to normal campaigns usually have an own setting and rule set apart from the basic rules and settings.

Origin and Dungeon magazine

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Though the term was originally applied to the series of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition modules beginning with The Sunless Citadel, it later came to refer to several lengthy series, each consisting of 11 or 12 installments, published sequentially in Dungeon magazine.

Typically set in the Greyhawk campaign setting, the Dungeon adventure paths are:

After Dungeon became an online magazine for subscribers, one adventure path for 4th edition was published.

Paizo

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With the transference of Dragon and Dungeon back to Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, which had been producing the magazines under contract to WotC, continued the Adventure Path concept in their new monthly publication, Pathfinder. Paizo began publishing Pathfinder Adventure Path as a monthly publication in 2007. Starting with Council of Thieves in 2009, Paizo's modules began supporting their Pathfinder Roleplaying Game in addition to D&D.[1][2]

Pathfinder Adventure Paths and the publication date of their first chapter:

Originally published for the d20 System rule set under the Open Game License:

Originally published for Pathfinder First Edition rule set:

Originally published for Starfinder Roleplaying Game:

Originally published for Pathfinder Second Edition rule set:

References

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  1. ^ "Pathfinder Adventure Path #25: The Bastards of Erebus (Council of Thieves 1 of 6) (PFRPG)". paizo.com. Retrieved 2019-06-22.
  2. ^ "paizo.com - Store / Pathfinder / Adventures / Adventure Path". paizo.com.