In a tweet signed “Department of Expectation Management”, Paizo has said there are no plans for any more Pathfinder or Starfinder one-shot adventures.
One-shot adventures are those intended to be quick, perhaps one evening of play, context light dramas. In contrast, campaigns are a series of scenarios linked with an overarching narrative.
Paizo’s current Pathfinder one-shots include Sundered Waves, Dinner at Lionlodge, Head Shot the Rot and Mark of the Mantis. The Starfinder range is Band on the Run, The Great Grav Train Robbery, System Takedown and Before the Storm.
The publisher points out that you can still one-shot your Pathfinder and Starfinder nights and that any Pathfinder Society or Starfinder Society Scenario can still be played with Bounties taking on a few hours.
The one-shots that Paizo had been dabbling in and now have discontinued were an experiment in generic virtual tabletop play. As Paizo has stronger ties with the VTT platforms, they’ve more content and better processes for getting their main adventure content into those libraries. As a result, the need for specialised standalone content reduces.
Crucially, there’s also a growing community content offering for the games and from sites like Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite, where GMs can find and buy one-shots. However, at the time of writing, there are only 10 matches for ‘one-shot’ on Pathfinder Infinite.
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