This adventure presents an interesting story that brings underwater environments to life in a way that doesn't make the environment a binary barrier. Good combat, some social investigating, vibrant NPCs, and even some neat scenario unique mechanics.
I did take one star off because the scenario feels very *on rails*. PCs are moved (smoothly, I will admit) from one scene to the next, with very little opportunity or inspiration to interact with the story outside of what they're prompted to do.
I do want to close with reiterating that this scenario does present a vivid, lively underwater world. The ambience is 5 star!
I've played the wriggling majority of PFS 1E, many APS, and a good chunk of 2E content. The team at Paizo have, for the most part learned a great deal over the last 10 years of content.
I have to ask: How did this get ok'd? I genuinely want to know who thought this product was good enough to release. I'm going to keep this spoiler free and reserve my critiques to the bones of the scenario.
I would first like to offer the following bit of advice based on my expectations as a consumer and PFS player: PFS scenarios should be targeted at 4 hours for a fulfilling session. As such, any minigame that takes more than one hour of table time needs to be shelved. Period. The 'minigame' in this scenario borders the castle maintenance minigame of one of the 2E adventure path products in scope. Our table of 4 veteran table top players spent 2 and a half hours doing nothing but adjudicating dice rolls. The 'minigame' took so much of our session time we actively did not get to engage in roleplay.
Lodge of the Living God does not achieve anything it promises, and I would encourage anybody who has the choice to play an evergreen, or a different scenario altogether if given the chance.
I want to close by reiterating to Paizo's editors, directly:
If a scenario (4 hour time slot) minigame takes up more than an hour's table time: SCRAP IT.
