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I ran and played this.

If I could give half points this would get 4.5 stars.
Overall I liked this a lot.

This will run really long (up to 5 encounters).
Some of the encounters can be really hard.
Also some of the variant Mythic stuff was a bit unclear.

The mythic interaction and the too long run time make this just barely miss the 5 star.

I liked this one.

Overall this plays pretty straight forward, go from A to B and overcome the obstacles/encounters on the way.

What I really liked as a GM was that every map had proper marks for player and enemy starting positions and included information for potential environment effects and descriptions of major landmarks on the map.

This is also a very good scenario for a new GM that wants something not too complicated to run.

Overall an ok scenario with a lot of variations for replays.

Some of the rooms on map B are too small for a fight that can contain up to 6 PCs + companions fighting multiple enemies. Even with the clarifications and then the clarifications for the clarifications that was a problem.
Also the timeline of the ritual/curse was a bit confusing.

Great adventure.
A nice mix of skill challenges and combats.
A good story that also interacts nicely with the greater world.
Slight warning for potential GMs, there are a few combats that can be very hard, depending on your party you might want to adjust them.

I have played and GMed this scenario.

From a player perspective it is ok-ish, but not really great. As a season ender it is a bit disappointing that there is no real end to any metaplot here, but in a certain way that is a fitting end for the season 5 metaplot which outside of the Equal Exchange scenarios was very disjointed and basically went nowhere. But overall if your GM is plugging the holes (more to that in the GM part) this can be an enjoyable experience, nothing outstanding but I have played worse.
(3 stars for the player experience)

As a GM this is just a mess. Maps that don't fit the descriptions. Some maps are lacking markings while others have markings but no explanation what these are supposed to mean. Stat blocks for custom monsters are missing important information. We have multiple "environmental" effects that somehow are supposed to work as hazards except there are not written as hazards and their interaction with the PCs is lacking information. At the beginning you meet two NPCs but is unclear which one is which because the art and the description contradict each other. Somehow even the treasure bundle table in the Appendix contains a typo. Only run this if you are a completionist, or are willing to fill all the holes in it.
(1 stars for the GM experience and I would give it 0 stars if I could)

Overall 3 stars from the players side and 1 star from the GM side gives this a total of 2 stars and I am being nice here.

Overall I liked the adventure.

I played and GMed this.

A very combat heavy scenario. If you have an anti-undead character you will enjoy this.

Now for some minor nitpicks which prevent this from being a 5 star.
During the beginning you get introduced to some NPCs (from Knights of Lastwall) that don't matter at all for the scenario and I have honestly no idea why they are even mentioned. Also the combats feel repetitive at times (fighting the same enemies over and over again) and adding all the bonuses and penalties from the preparation part felt a bit too time-consuming to be fun.

Overall I think cutting one of the 4 combats and replacing it with a some more roleplaying/skill challenges would have been better as would be a bit more of variety in the opponents.

I played and GMed this.

Overall it is a nice scenario with some sandbox beginning and then a more or less standard dungeon crawl.

But from the GM side it felt more like an IKEA set of a scenario than a finished product. Just getting lists with "this is something that you can add together however you like" and then having to make something up is not what I normally expect from a society scenario.

Overall a nice adventure but I have one nitpick from the GM side.
Having to prepare complex hazards and encounters that then get avoided by skills is cool for the players but as a GM it feels like a lot of wasted time.

I played and GMed this.

When I played it I had one of the worst experience ever and I would give it 0 stars if I could.
As a GM it worked far better and I would have given it solid 3 stars, so overall that would be a 2 star rating.

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I played and GMed this one.

This scenario runs a bit on the short side (2-3 hours) which can be good if your group has limited time but I really feel like some more content in it would have been better. Overall there just isn't much in it.

The combats are far too easy and sadly there are not many extensive skill challenges either. There are at most 3 NPCs you can interact with for any roleplay so this is not much either. Overall it just feels that this could either have been cut down to a 2 hours quest by reducing the long descriptions of the area the players are traveling through or just add some more meat for a full blown scenario.

But now for my big complaint.
There are multiple instances of missing information in the scenario which I as a GM consider extreme annoying.
In the beginning the PCs get some gifts that they are supposed to use to make some friends, those gifts never get mentioned again and there is 0 information about what they do.
The final encounter is seriously lacking some information about where the party and the enemies are supposed to be on the map and the text description is contradicting and confusing.

Overall 3 star and that is generous.

I played and GMed this one.

Overall this was ok-ish. There was some nice roleplay with varying skill challenges in the first half of the scenario and then there are some combats.

Radaszam and Ehu Hadif get some nice moments to shine and Ehu especially gets some much needed characterization and can show some passion.

Outside of the now massively nerfed hazard (GMs check out the update) the combats are more on the easy side, maybe a bit too easy for my taste, but I understand that is considered an intro scenario and they wanted to err on the easy side.

But now for my big complaint, there are far too many NPCs in that scenario that players are supposed to interact with. Once you introduced the 6th NPC (and there are still more to come) expect a lot of confused players and constant questions about who they are. It would have been better to focus on like 4 and give them some deeper interaction instead of overwhelming the players with this flood. And while it is nice to see some recurring NPCs from earlier content it would help the GM massively to at least write the source in the scenario.

Also letting players make decisions that literally don't matter at all in already short scenario feels like filler.

So overall I cannot give more than 3 stars for this.

I played and GMed this one.
Overall this is a nice scenario, there are a lot of abilities to roleplay and different characters can shine.

BUT

This scenario runs far too long for a normal 4 hour slot. Running it took me over 5 hours and when I played it took us over 6 hours, in both cases that was with only 4 players.

The vehicle chase feels rather pointless and doesn't really add anything. Adding a subsystem in an already overcrowded scenario without any major payoff was a big enough mistake for me to retract 1 star.

Wow, that was the scenario that made me really consider quitting PF2.
The original setup is nice, but then the first encounter happens.

That was quite disappointing.

My main problem with the scenario are the skill challenges. Forcing everybody to roll on a very limited amount of skill against high DCs and then expecting 4 successes from a 6 player party is just bad. The DC is high enough that even just being trained means you have a more than 50% chance to fail, and being untrained means you are basically fishing for 20s. Apparently the author or the developer expect every PC to be expert in the 2 to 3 skills that get used over and over again. This isn‘t the first time they did this and I get sick an tired of this. You can‘t just use the average DC from the table and then epect more than half of the players to succeed.

Another critique is the first encounter. Letting the party fight 5 monsters with gaze attacks that can petrify them is just a joke. This just turns into „everybody rolls so often until you fail“. And of course the monsters start near enough to the party that PCs are affected in round 1 before they even could act.

The only good thing is the story and the setting, but this scenario really gets dragged down by the bad mechanics, that apparently weren‘t tested properly.

(GMed at high tier)
This is literally the best SFS scenario i have seen until now. The combats where challenging and interesting. There are not 1 but 2 different stories happening and both contain some twists to keep the players engaged. This is especially impressive considering that this a transitional scenario as far as the metaplot is concerned. I was contacted by players afterwards just to tell me how much they enjoyed it! I also need to praise the artist of the Izalguun, it is great when players meet an alien species for the first time and the first thing i hear is "this looks cool, i want to play that".
On a personal note i also like that it sets hooks for multiple sequels besides the main metaplot.

I have a few minor nitpicks from the GM's side. There are many bonuses to certain skill checks that are determined by stuff happening earlier and it was quite hard to keep track of everything. Some sort of handout where you could mark everything would have helped a lot. Also the sandbox part felt sort of bare, i was forced to add a lot of flavor.

All together this means 4 1/2 stars which in this case i can round to 5 stars.
Great work, i hope this sets the standard for future scenarios.