Every detail of Paizo Free RPG Day adventure The Scourge of Sheerleaf

Paizo released The Scourge of Sheerleaf as the publisher’s Free RPG Day 2025 Pathfinder 2E offering, a short adventure for four 10th-level characters by Shay Snow. The cover spells out the pitch: "A Pathfinder adventure for 10th-level characters by Shay Snow." PathfinderWiki lists the release date as June 21, 2025, and Paizo’s product page hosts a free 50 MB PDF and a separate Pregenerated Character Supplement.

The adventure drops players into the quiet village of Sheerleaf, where "the rolling hills and herds of sheep have caught the eye of a vicious dragon who demands their subservience." Paizo’s store copy and the PDF snippet make the stakes clear: the dragon takes hostages and the village is helpless to fight back, sending "dragonblood heroes on a mission to defeat a powerful dragon and save the village he’s been tormenting." Community reporting on Reddit adds that the dragon has kidnapped the mayor’s family, providing an immediate rescue hook for pickup play.

Maps and encounter materials in the PDF are specific and ready for tactical play. The internal headings show "ZIKRITRAX’S LAIR" printed alongside map scale markings of "1 SQUARE = 5 FEET," indicating Paizo included grid keyed lair maps for the climactic encounter. The PDF’s table of contents places pregenerated characters at the back, with a snippet reading "Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Pregenerated Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8," which matches the product’s aim at quick pickup sessions.

Paizo designed the adventure specifically for four dragonblood characters and packaged four pregenerated characters to speed play. The store text states, "The four pregenerated characters provide all the information needed to jump right into this Free RPG Day adventure; all you need are your dice and your friends!" Community observers on Reddit highlighted the pregens for their variety - a dragonblood Leshy that "looks like a dragon fruit," a dragon-scaled character swooping in from above as shown on the cover art, and a dragonblood elf who uses a combat wheelchair. The cover art shows three heroic figures facing a stone-armored dragon, including an antlered humanoid in a wheelchair casting magic alongside a plant creature.

Mechanically the PDF lists its references explicitly: "The Scourge of Sheerleaf is a Pathfinder Adventure designed for four 10th-level characters and uses the rules from the Pathfinder Player Core, Pathfinder GM Core, Pathfinder Monster Core, Pathfinder Rage of Elements, Pathfinder Secrets of Magic, and Pathfinder Lost Omens Grand Bazaar." The PDF also notes that "All rules referenced in this adventure are available in the free online Pathfinder Reference Document" and that the adventure "can easily be adapted for use with any world."

PathfinderWiki records that this product is sanctioned for Society play, and the PDF carries a full copyright block reading "Pathfinder Adventure: The Scourge of Sheerleaf © 2025 Paizo Inc., Author: Shay Snow," along with Reserved Material language. For GMs looking for a high-level one-shot, Paizo’s Free RPG Day product page supplies the 50 MB PDF and pregenerated character supplement to run a mapped, rules-referenced session for four 10th-level dragonblood heroes.