paizo.com Recent Posts in Legendary Planet: Mind Tyrants of the Merciless Moons (PFRPG) PDF Discussionpaizo.com Recent Posts in Legendary Planet: Mind Tyrants of the Merciless Moons (PFRPG) PDF Discussion2020-03-17T15:59:01Z2020-03-17T15:59:01ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Legendary Planet: Mind Tyrants of the Merciless Moons (PFRPG) PDFEndzeitgeisthttps://paizo.com/products/btpy9x9p/discuss?Legendary-Planet-Mind-Tyrants-of-the-Merciless-Moons#62020-03-18T12:28:43Z2020-03-18T12:28:43Z<p>Conclusion of my review, with special thanks to David Knott 242 for noticing that it got cut off!</p>
<p>Conclusion:
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Editing and formatting are neither on a formal, nor on a rules-language level as tight as usual for legendary games; on a formal level, the misplaced paragraphs, several instances of formatting snafus, missing blank spaces and the like generate an impression of a module that was somewhat rushed. On a rules-language level, we have some issues as well, particularly pertaining the new items and regarding some consistency. As noted before, the module comes with an extensive art and map folio, which is awesome. Artworks and maps are full color, with some old and new pieces used together. The cartography is full color is nice, but the lack of missing player-friendly maps, which usually are included in these modules, is another strike against the adventure.</p>
<p>High-level adventures are HARD to design. Extremely hard. The sheer amount of options and power the PCs have at their beck and call is brutal; plus, you need a pretty hardcore array of adversaries to challenge them. On this latter technical level, the module operates surprisingly well in play; moreover, the module provides troubleshooting advice in several instances, and uses scale, with armies clashing and PCs taking down legendary foes to drive how just how powerful they are. While pretty combat focused, the module does have social scenes and spices up things in various instances. That being said, the module, consciously or unconsciously, also presents a couple of places that operate like regular dungeons. Considering the capabilities of PCs to skip ahead and the absence of global effects that limit these, there’s a pretty good chance that the PCs will go through the dungeons, not as dictated by their structure, but by how they can wreck them. This makes sense for most of the dungeons herein, but not for the last one, which imho should have had some sort of contingency defensive tricks versus teleportation etc. – particularly since earlier non-dungeon sections did account for such abilities. </p>
<p>This is one of the things that plenty of Paizo modules also do, granted, but it is one of the aspects that render running these high-level modules somewhat problematic for many, many groups. Whether you consider this to be an issue or not depends on your playstyle, but for me, Depths of Desperation, with its more pronounced focus on boss encounters, politics and the like worked somewhat better. In short: Technically, regarding challenges posed in combat, I’d consider this to be a success; regarding the surrounding components to set these scenes up, expect to do some work. That being said, regarding flavor, switching of themes and consistency of the sword-and-planet tone, this is a fantastic module, with particularly the juxtaposition of the final two adventure areas driving perfectly home what the genre is all about. Tim Hitchcock delivers in spades here, and gets the epic scales of the module very well.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the whole adventure feels uncharacteristically rushed in the formal criteria, with quite a few guffaws on a formal and rules-level that have to cost this some of its thunder.</p>
<p>In spite of my criticism regarding dungeons and high-level PCs, it is how well this executes its theme which renders it one of my favorite modules in the AP regarding its overall settings and challenges; it really •gets• the genre. Indeed, had this been polished slightly more, it’d have been Top Ten candidate material. It breathes sword and planet fantasy. And frankly, it’s only due to the strength of the module’s overall themes, of its fearlessness to go all out, that I can justify not punishing this further for its shortcomings. Mind Tyrants of the Merciless Moons is an impressive, well-executed beast, but one that deserved better; I hope it’ll get another pass to clean up its hiccups. As provided, I can’t rate this higher than 3.5 stars. I’ll round up, though, as the module simply does not deserve being relegated to the realms of being considered mid-tier. It is a flawed, rough gem.</p>
<p>Endzeitgeist out.</p>Conclusion of my review, with special thanks to David Knott 242 for noticing that it got cut off!
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are neither on a formal, nor on a rules-language level as tight as usual for legendary games; on a formal level, the misplaced paragraphs, several instances of formatting snafus, missing blank spaces and the like generate an impression of a module that was somewhat rushed. On a rules-language level, we have some issues as well, particularly pertaining the new...Endzeitgeist2020-03-18T12:28:43ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Legendary Planet: Mind Tyrants of the Merciless Moons (PFRPG) PDFDavid knott 242https://paizo.com/products/btpy9x9p/discuss?Legendary-Planet-Mind-Tyrants-of-the-Merciless-Moons#52020-03-18T12:28:40Z2020-03-17T18:49:32Z<p>Your review got cut off before it finished.</p>Your review got cut off before it finished.David knott 2422020-03-17T18:49:32ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Legendary Planet: Mind Tyrants of the Merciless Moons (PFRPG) PDFEndzeitgeisthttps://paizo.com/products/btpy9x9p/discuss?Legendary-Planet-Mind-Tyrants-of-the-Merciless-Moons#42020-03-17T15:59:27Z2020-03-17T15:59:27Z<p>Reviewed first on endzeitgeist.com, then submitted to all the usual places.</p>Reviewed first on endzeitgeist.com, then submitted to all the usual places.Endzeitgeist2020-03-17T15:59:27ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Legendary Planet: Mind Tyrants of the Merciless Moons (PFRPG) PDFJason Nelson (Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4, Legendary Games)https://paizo.com/products/btpy9x9p/discuss?Legendary-Planet-Mind-Tyrants-of-the-Merciless-Moons#32017-11-21T23:09:33Z2017-11-21T23:09:33Z<p>Huzzah indeed! Now I need to get back to work on my chapter!</p>Huzzah indeed! Now I need to get back to work on my chapter!Jason Nelson (Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4, Legendary Games)2017-11-21T23:09:33ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Legendary Planet: Mind Tyrants of the Merciless Moons (PFRPG) PDFRichard Pett (Contributor)https://paizo.com/products/btpy9x9p/discuss?Legendary-Planet-Mind-Tyrants-of-the-Merciless-Moons#22017-11-21T07:29:11Z2017-11-21T07:29:11Z<p>Huzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!</p>
<p>Hitchcock is awesome!</p>Huzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
Hitchcock is awesome!Richard Pett (Contributor)2017-11-21T07:29:11ZForums: Product Discussion: Legendary Planet: Mind Tyrants of the Merciless Moons (PFRPG) PDFJason Nelson (Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4, Legendary Games)https://paizo.com/products/btpy9x9p/discuss?Legendary-Planet-Mind-Tyrants-of-the-Merciless-Moons#12017-11-21T00:15:30Z2017-11-21T00:15:30Z<p>Let the Mind Tyrants REIGN in the latest lethal Legendary adventure from Tim Hitchcock!</p>Let the Mind Tyrants REIGN in the latest lethal Legendary adventure from Tim Hitchcock!Jason Nelson (Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4, Legendary Games)2017-11-21T00:15:30Z