Strength of Thousands

A magic school like no other! The oldest and most prestigious magic academy in the world is the Magaambya, an ancient institution founded by the greatest wizard the world has ever known. This wizard vanished long ago, but his sinister enemies plot against his school and those who attend it. Over their long academic career, the heroes rise from humble students to become teachers, and they ultimately hold the fate of the Magaambya magic academy in their hands. Graduates of the Magaambya are among the greatest wardens of the world, but if the heroes can't marshal the strength of thousands who have come before them, the venerable Magaambya might fall!

Campaign Overview

Campaign Description

Official Strength of Thousands Player's Guide

Length

Strength of Thousands is a 6-part Paizo adventure path which takes characters from level 1 to 20. As such, I expect it will run for approximately 18-24 months.

Number of players

I'm planning to run this campaign for five players. For anyone who's interested in playing: I'd encourage you to sign-up, and then if we have too many players, I'll ask for volunteers to sit out. As a last resort, I'll make the final selection by random draw if necessary.

Setting

This campaign takes places in the Mwangi Expanse, in Garund. The Expanse is pretty different from your traditional fantasy settings, mainly consisting of African-inspired city-states and tribes. I would definitely recommend taking a look at some background information on the setting before creating your character, but I understand that not everyone has the time to devour 30-pages of setting material (myself included!)

The best sources for information, in order of detail are:

• Player Core, page 33. A couple paragraphs, and some example characters.
• Core Rulebook, page 426. A one-pager with some information about the region (reproduced in GM Core p. 152)
• Lost Omens World Guide, pp 84-95. More details about the setting, specifically about the major city-states in the region.
• Lost Omens The Mwangi Expanse. The big one. 300-page setting book, with loads of details about the history, people, religions, geography, and places of the Expanse.

If you're looking for any of these books, touch base with me and I can lend you my copies. Or provide photocopies of the relevant bits, whatever.

Ruling & House Rules

We'll be using the Pathfinder Remaster rules for this campaign. If there's any question about which pre-remaster material is available, I'll be using the Pathfinder Society guidelines, see below. But feel free to ask if you have any questions.

Pathfinder Society and the Remaster

House Rules

• Persistent damage - Persistent damage ends automatically when combat ends.
• Being hit while dying - Any damage taken while you have the dying condition will not increase your dying value.
• Healing on a long rest - All HP are restored on a long (i.e. 8 hours) rest.
• If you cast Message, you can use it to demoralize opponents within Message's range, provided you are using language (no intimidating glare)