Final Thoughts (Light Spoilers?)


Mummy's Mask

Scarab Sages

As my group winds down book 6 and prepares to assault the personal complex of Hakotep, I thought it would be good to reflect on our journey.

This was the first paizo AP any of my group have played in from 1 to finish. We've been in parts of others, and played Carrion Crown halfway through before moving onto a different campaign, but the last 14 months we managed to persevere and finish this thing. The group started out with a rogue, a ranger, an oracle, a barbarian, and a monk. Some early attrition saw the barbarian and rogue leave. The Monk had a change of heart and became an improvised weapon fighter. We were joined by an alchemist of many hands. As book 2 wore on, the alchemists player left, and the Ranger became and Investigator (and also became a kobold after getting reincarnated). Down to 3 players, GMPC Ranger joined. That party sustained all the way until the end (with 1 more race change to lizardfolk for the again reincarnated investigator). We had two actual deaths, a number of emergency uses of breath of life, and thanked the oracle daily for the Death Ward spell brushing off banshee wails and fingers of death.

My group really enjoyed the story, and I commend the authors for an AP well done. I still contend it is one of the most enjoyable and fun APs that Paizo has published, and its low forum presence comes from the wedge between MYTHIC! and OMGLAZORZ! Our journey through Western Osirion has been one of our more memorable campaigns to date, and set the standard for insane things a party without a strong arcane presence can do (HINT: It involves much wanton destruction). We were glad to have an AP that caters perfectly to the greed and personal interests that our Neutral Preference players have. And although my party has ruined local economies before, never had it been at 4th level!

Some of our Favorite Moments:
The confusion on the party's faces when the False Sarcophagus Trap triggered and chaos ensued.
The Death of the Ranger's Cat Ted at the hands of a Mummy at an Auction.
The very R rated 1st reincarnation of Drew by a witch and her cauldron / chamberpot.
Muminofrah's inappropriateness, and the uncomfortable fact that the kobold (her favored) came up to waist height on her Nude Slaves.
The gross utter lack of an urgent timeframe before book 5. It will have taken the group well over 1 golarion year to finish the campaign after their frequent pauses for crafting. I'm pretty sure it'll be 3-4 months between the end of last night's assault on the air crypt, and the start of next week's delve into Hakotep's Sanctum.
The 'redshirts' in books 3 and 4 who uselessly stood against the party on their way to Jamirah // the FP.
Not killing the FP, but stupefying her, cutting her hands off, cutting her tongue out, sticking a ring of sustenance and a necklace of adaptation and tossing her into a bag of holding, and using the statue machine in book 5 to turn her into a statue.
1 rounding so many things that should not have been 1 rounded, but they totally rolled last in initiative.
Shaq-bot! Slam! Double Slam! (The bronze sentinel)

Some of our Least Favorites:
So... much... hexploration...
Those 8th level clerics who work the library across the river who could have ended the zombie plague in a day.
The DC25 Know History checks about Hakotep and his Close Allies in Book 6 versus the DC9001 Know History checks about Hakotep existing in Book 3.
Shaq-bot's horrible damage and viability past book 4.
Having to GM Fiat major story implications because the only assumption is that the FP is killed in book 4.

Final Score: 8/10 would play again.

Scarab Sages

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We finished the AP tonight with style, as the group got a special guest boss fight to replace Hakotep since he was indisposed.* A star spawn of Cthulhu! Once I get the game's epilogue written up, I'll link it for you all to enjoy.

*:
Complicated wranglings and consequences from not killing the Forgotten Pharaoh, but taking her prisoner instead, negating Hakotep's rise and what not.

Scarab Sages

Here's a link to our epilogue:

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