Thanks for the review, Aaron. I may be running both parts at an upcoming con and want to make sure the mods are "balanced" towards Cheliax...I MEAN, for PLAYER FUN. That's right.... ^_^

Thanks for the review, Aaron. I may be running both parts at an upcoming con and want to make sure the mods are "balanced" towards Cheliax...I MEAN, for PLAYER FUN. That's right.... ^_^

Joe, this one was fun. I had a great time GMing this at GenCon, Though I did have one TPK, it was mostly due to bad luck on the PC side, Though there is one section that can be bad if the GM rolls well.

This product is a pdf? I saw the printed version at Gencon with the nice maps for inn and ship. Where can I purchase that?

This product is a pdf? I saw the printed version at Gencon with the nice maps for inn and ship. Where can I purchase that?

It is PDF only, If you saw the Adventure printed it was done by the GM, The maps though are a seperate product by Paizo that they make called Flip-Mats, They used 2 of them for this Scenerio.

The 2 used where

GameMastery Flip-Mat: Ship
GameMastery Flip-Mat: Waterfront Tavern

It is PDF only, If you saw the Adventure printed it was done by the GM, The maps though are a seperate product by Paizo that they make called Flip-Mats, They used 2 of them for this Scenerio.

Thank you for the information, Dragnmoon.

Dragnmoon wrote:

It is PDF only, If you saw the Adventure printed it was done by the GM, The maps though are a seperate product by Paizo that they make called Flip-Mats, They used 2 of them for this Scenerio.

Thank you for the information, Dragnmoon.

You know I've been playing these for a while, and I just figured out there was no print versions last week so don't feel bad. Of course I've only been buying pdfs for the last year and just started to buy print again... but still.

joela wrote:

Thanks for the review, Aaron. I may be running both parts at an upcoming con and want to make sure the mods are "balanced" towards Cheliax...I MEAN, for PLAYER FUN. That's right.... ^_^

Joe, this one was fun. I had a great time GMing this at GenCon, Though I did have one TPK, it was mostly due to bad luck on the PC side, Though there is one section that can be bad if the GM rolls well.

Dragnmoon, ran it and liked it. Reminds me of chapters of a good fantasy novel. However, there's that one encounter CR 3(?) at the shipyard with a certain someone that had the PCs scrambling. I agree; it may be a bit too tough especially with the new class abilities. (I just heard from one gamer it resulted in TPK. Ugh.)

I had a great time with this one as well. The storyline is simple, yet fun and it had plenty of opportunities to add role playing scenarios. Unfortunately my NPCs were suffering from terrible rolls and the CR 3 encounter fell flat on its face.

I had a great time with this one as well. The storyline is simple, yet fun and it had plenty of opportunities to add role playing scenarios.

An adjacent table was playing Part I as well. Heard later that one PC had his stunningly beautiful half-orc sorceress(?) use seduction in Act II to snare two of the guards to split up, go on separate parts of the setting, jump up and down, strip, and close their eyes in...anticipation. What they didn't anticipate, though, was the gang up from the other PCs ^_^. (Coup de grace, that is!)

alleynbard wrote:

I had a great time with this one as well. The storyline is simple, yet fun and it had plenty of opportunities to add role playing scenarios.

An adjacent table was playing Part I as well. Heard later that one PC had his stunningly beautiful half-orc sorceress(?) use seduction in Act II to snare two of the guards to split up, go on separate parts of the setting, jump up and down, strip, and close their eyes in...anticipation. What they didn't anticipate, though, was the gang up from the other PCs ^_^. (Coup de grace, that is!)

That is brilliant! I love some of things clever players can come up with. Good stuff.

joela wrote:

alleynbard wrote:

I had a great time with this one as well. The storyline is simple, yet fun and it had plenty of opportunities to add role playing scenarios.

An adjacent table was playing Part I as well. Heard later that one PC had his stunningly beautiful half-orc sorceress(?) use seduction in Act II to snare two of the guards to split up, go on separate parts of the setting, jump up and down, strip, and close their eyes in...anticipation. What they didn't anticipate, though, was the gang up from the other PCs ^_^. (Coup de grace, that is!)

That is brilliant! I love some of things clever players can come up with. Good stuff.

Ditto. Killing stuff's easy, while using rping and clever ideas: priceless ^_^

We have updated the PDF of Pathfinder Society Scenario #29: The Devil We Know—Part I: Shipyard Rats. We've corrected the stat block for the cleric in all Tiers of Act 3. Luscilia now has the correct DC for channel negative energy, and now possesses the correct feat to control her minion.

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I just played through this mod, and I had a lot of fun with it. The Cheliax missions I especially had a good time with. One of them had to be done secretly, and it was actually a bit of a challenge to achieve it. The combat was also challenging, at least on the low tier. We never had anyone in danger of dying, but that was largely due to Cause Fear and Hold Person, which were the MVP spells of the night.

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I was reviewing this module for an upcoming session, when I realized

I recently played this module. The premise was sound but the DM was not as prepared as he could have been. In fact he seemed to be missing stats for several of encounters. It was difficult to finish in the four hour time slot allotted to it. I'm hoping the DM is more prepared for the 2nd part.