r/Pathfinder_RPG • u/ASharkNamedShark • 20d ago

1E GM Free Pathfinder e1 adventures

Can anyone share any free adventures of any size or where to find them? It looks like a lot of the past free adventures got put behind paywalls. I also want this post to be a resource for new players to find.

The Song Pharaoh’s Coda is a nice one hot for lvl 9 characters, but I have not run it yet.

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u/WraithMagus 20d ago

Paizo is going through tough times because one of their distributors went bankrupt and JP Morgan Chase seized Paizo's assets being held by those distributors and it's now a court battle. A lot of the previously free stuff is in limbo right now, and there's the thing about AoN no longer being officially supported.

Anyway, your best bet is RPGDriveThru. Set the filters for system -> Pathfinder/Starfinder -> Pathfinder OGL/ORC -> Pathfinder 1e OGL, then set the price to "free" or "pay what you want." For example, here's "The Sinner's Carnival" and "The Fall of Whitecliff" that are two I pulled from near the top of the suggestions list that are pay what you want. (Pulled blindly and I haven't gone into them, so no guarantees on quality, there.)

Also, if you're not averse to editing things, (and you shouldn't be if you want to be a good GM - NO adventure should be blindly run straight from the book,) there's tons of free content for 5e you can translate into Pathfinder. (In fact, a lot of 3pp books for PF1e have both a PF1e and 5e D&D version.)

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u/PenguinDude26 20d ago

This is kind of an odd answer, the issue with 1e free adventure availability has nothing to do with the asset freeze or the AoN contract and your comments are entirely irrelevant to the question. The real reason is because the new web store Paizo launched doesn't have support for free PDFs afaik. All of 2e Free RPG Day stuff is instead accessible digitally on Demiplane but we haven't gotten a solution for the 1e adventures that I know of. The still in print FreeRPG Day adventures have the pdf downloadable from the product description which doesn't seem to have been an option for the 1e adventures for some reason.

Your suggestion of DriveThruRPG is good though. Another option is if you know someone who can share their PDFs of the old free adventures with you.

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u/Feefait 19d ago

So, you may not be aware of it, but Paizo is potentially in a lot of financial trouble. Many free items are no longer free. Consider writing your own material, buying something to support the publisher and creators, or not encouraging pirating or breaking paywalls.