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Challenging, Evocative Module

Menelaus — Mar 22, 2012, 01:42 PM

I played through this module as a player, in the 1-3 tier. My party was Cleric of Erastil 1/Ranger 1, Paladin 2, Druid 2, and Rogue 1.
This module is great- the setting is really evocative. I could picture things very well. The encounters seemed to tie together very well. Even though it's basically a dungeon crawl, there's even a chance for an RP encounter built in, and it's fairly convincing. Extra RP fun can be had if you play a Cleric of a good god or a Paladin; the Pally and I had lots of fun defiling the evil temple as we went.

The scenario is also pretty challenging, maybe too challenging for a party of 1st level PCs. An early NPC could potentially knock-out then coup-de-grace an entire low-level party, and I remember one instance where the PCs are threatened with 6d6 damage. Even with two healers, some of the fights were a little close.

I'd say this was probably one of the funnest scenarios I've been a part of.

Hit and miss...

Menelaus — Oct 16, 2011, 08:45 PM

I played this module at the 1-2 subtier. This module has (or had?) a good rep, but I didn't particularly like or dislike it.

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I really liked the potential of the first encounter. Unfortunately my party all made their saves. I also liked the two encounters in the smaller exhibit rooms (one with a variety of undead, another is a fake out). The scenario mission and faction missions do a good job of making sure the party explores the whole museum, even though they could walk straight to the BBEG. The atmosphere of the museum can be played up to make this a pretty decent spooky-suspense style module. My biggest complaint with this module is that at 1-2, it was a cakewalk for my party. I don't think they felt threatened even once. The final encounter was particularly anticlimatic (they finished it it two rounds with ease). The consensus seems to be that this is a really fast scenario, but my players took 5 hours to finish.

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Challenging, Evocative Module

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