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I ran this for a group of six players, all pretty experienced, and everyone agreed that this is a super scenario.

It is rather different from other scenarios, in that the GM chooses which encounters the PCs will face and where they will face them. Coupled with three locations and four storylines, you would have to play this adventure very many times before it became stale.

I can see how this could be a very tough scenario, so it is worth either encouraging your players to come loaded for dire bear, or to make sure that the encounters you set aren't going to destroy them if they're newer players.

The scenario requires more prep by the GM than a usual scenario, but it does walk you through the process; there is a step-by-step example at the end that I found particularly useful. The prep is definitely worthwhile, and will, I think, help with prepping for home games.

There is some opportunity for role-playing at the beginning, but once my PCs entered the location and encountered the [redacted by Drendle Dreng], they were very much on the back foot, and seemed to think every shadow hid something awful.

My players and I were particularly impressed with the way the story was worked into the scenario. I don't want to give anything away, but there are lots of little elements that really allow the PCs to either discover or figure out the backstory.

I'm sure it's a lot of work, but I'd love to see more scenarios like this (once I've played through all the options)

I ran this recently for a group of six, all third level except one fourth level wizard; while a couple of players were pretty experienced, the rest were fairly new to both RPGs in general and Pathfinder in particular.

I will start this with the disclaimer that I love all things Osirion, so I was always going to enjoy the setting.

Everyone at the table really enjoyed it. They felt that it was reasonably challenging, with a few players at negative HPs and a couple of close shaves, but without being OTT. The cleric was out of channels, the wizard down to one second-level spell and consumables on the low side all round by the end.

The traps and one of the monsters kept everyone on edge from the start; it really did feel like somewhere that had been abandoned and that they were the first people to step foot inside for a long time.

On that note, the map is fantastic. It works really well all round. It looked very impressive laid out on the table. Part of that was its size - it had to be, for a pyramid - but also it felt real, as if this could be what you'd find inside a pyramid in Egypt.

Ideally, there'd have been a bit more roleplay but that's pretty difficult inside a recently re-discovered pyramid. The two ladies made for an interesting, ahem, conversation, though. The flavour of the pyramid more than made up for that, though.

I can't comment on how it would work for Free RPG day, never having been involved with it, but we certainly had a good time with it and I expect to run it again.

I played this at the recent 3XP Con and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a hard scenario, no doubt, and there's been lots of discussion about that, so I'll leave that to the end.

There is a brief set-up in Absalom but the main briefing effectively takes place in Kyonin – given that it's called 'the Elven Entanglement', I hope that's not too spoilerific. A macguffin mission quickly becomes something rather more interesting, and the adventure is afoot. The section in Kyonin gives opportunity for some role-play, but the main opportunity for that is later on.

We didn't have time for the optional encounter.

It it an unusual scenario, not just because of the setting and storyline but because it throws unusual critters at you in unusual ways. I'd like to see more like this from Ryan – maybe not quite as hard – because, above all, it was memorable.

I ran this yesterday and players and I greatly enjoyed it. We played the lower tier with five players.

People should be under no illusion that this is a challenging scenario - after all, it is the end of the Shadow Lodge.

Some of the encounters do have the potential to do real damage to PCs that lack caution; that having been said, I don't think it's over the top. The twist at the end is well written and genuinely surprising. There is also an excellent opportunity for roleplay at the beginning.

While a fellow reviewer, Sieylianna, clearly didn't have as much fun as me, I have to disagree with some of the specifics. My party did have time for healing - ample time, in fact; there isn't an opportunity to relearn spells but that's hardly uncommon.

I'm becoming something of a fan of Run Lundeen's work. The Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment is still, I think, my favourite scenario to date, but I had a lot of fun with Severing Ties, too.

I'd give this the full five stars.

Much as I can believe what people say about this having been produced at short notice and so on, I think people are being a bit harsh on the module.

It suffers by comparison to Shades of Ice 1 & 2 (which are really strong scenarios) and, perhaps understandably, people expected a knockout in part 3, possibly featuring a relative of the final battle from part two.

That having been said, it actually stands up pretty well on its own. Not great, but solid; the final encounter is potentially a lot of fun - one good hit from the particular weapon the BBEG has suddenly makes the PCs a lot more wary of closing in. The 'trap' is pretty original and the big RP piece is a lot of fun. The combats along the way are pretty straightforward and are going to be dealt with easily enough in most cases, but that's no bad thing as it does give time for the RP.

I ran this mod, directly after Shades of Ice 1 and 2, at CrispyCon for a group of 1st and 2nd level characters, one of whom hadn't played PFS before.

I ran this a couple of days ago and both and I and my players really enjoyed it.

It's not quite the Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment - still my favourite PFS scenario and by the same author - but it has some great combats that have real danger without being impossible and some fantastic roleplaying opportunities for GM and characters alike. I thought the premise of the adventure worked really well and, all in all, I think it's a great deal of fun to play.

I would perhaps suggest that you wouldn't want to run this with a party that were all at first level, or with inexperienced players.

I've played and GM'd this module and it is first-rate - very much roleplay rather than rollplay for most of the module. It played out differently, with the combats against the BBEG happening in different places with different sidekicks and different tactics, and I understand from my group that they've had other variations. My only advice to GMs is that you really need to prepare this module carefully, but it's well worth doing.

The map of the temple is one of the best I've seen - really liked it.

Having picked up the Advanced Feats for Oracle and Witch, I was pretty certain I'd end up buying all the advanced feats, so I bought this. I'm glad I did; it's a really interesting, useful product.

Obviously, the main part of the book is the feat listing, along with commentary. I've found them to be well thought through and that they really help add flavour to a character and to a party. Having everything together like this also makes it easier to take a feat from one AF and use it for a different class.

The builds are, to my mind, almost as useful as the feats. I'm pretty new to Pathfinder and seeing how a pro puts together a character as it advances has given me more than a few new ideas about where I want to take my characters.

All in all, I think this is a really good product and at a really very reasonable price.

My only suggestion is that it'd be nice if a version were available that included the "Might of the Magus" advanced feats.

I very much agree with the sentiments expressed by the four reviewers above. When I saw the inquisitor class, I knew that it was going to be good - I just couldn't figure out exactly how it was going to be good. Inquisitor's Edge does a great job of filling out the class by giving you a better idea of where the character is coming from and giving some really nice ideas for your own builds. I'm glad I bought this and I've used a lot of it in my characters.