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pages:36 pages with content:30
traits: regional:10
racial feats:11 (grippli 3, nagaji 4, vishkanya 4)
racial archtypes:5 (grippli 2, nagaji 1, vishkanya 2)
class archtypes:7 (alchemist 2, witch 1, rogue 2{rogue talents 5, slayer talents 2}, investigator 2{inventigator talents 3})
spells:8 (mostly arcane)
feats:4(enhancements to Brew Potion)
poisons:10
drugs:12
items(alchemical:1 & tinctures{t}:16, equip:6)
magic items:(wpn:1, wondrous:16)
potions(elixirs:13)

Engagement: Moderate to Low. Since this scenario engages on many fronts, different scenes will engage with different player types. That means you have to switch focus to different players with the first and last sections.

Plot Development: Good to contrived. Clear location based linear plotline. Players challenged on social and knowledge skills, a little sleuthing, and low skill sets given more combat. Players acquire prestige due to skill rolls and memory (pop quiz at the end).

Roleplaying: High or Low. Lots of places to roleplay/interact with personalities played by GM otherwise players slog through combats and get 0/1 prestige. Rude players get 0 prestige (remember, "don't be a jerk!").

Challenge: Low or High (lol, this scenario is contrary). If players are not social or knowledgeable they get COMBAT.

Complexity: High if you don't understand that this scenario is a fluffy introduction of a new deity with fangs for the disrespectful or unwise, otherwise is a weird philosophical scenario with some forced combats (Low complexity). Contrarian again. GM plays various personages and gets to engage players with Golarion backdrop and some Qadiran/Exchange values. It plays well to people that know the Golarion background or PFS scenario history.

Chronicle: Nice. 10% discount on an item, NOW. Downflower Sash is nice. Ultimate Equipment stuff. Wand of Lesser Restoration at high tier is very good.

Many reviews that target the characterization/philosophy of a demigod or deity should be ignored. That's a different topic. Players should realize it's a POWER and play along or get *thumped* by that power. duh... *make arm pull down motion* choo-choo!

Engagement: Moderate to High. Lots of unique NPCs to interact with and some want to talk to the players. There be social skills rolls all around.

Plot Development: Linear A-B-C-D-D'-C'. Bogging down may happen in early part D and rewards affected. Create 4-6 cross reference charts to simplify the run and switch charts every 5 min real time rather than roll each time, check Will save DCs. PCs have to switch roles at various times/scenes and know when to do so (fairly obvious).

Roleplaying: Moderate to High. Social skills play critical role and in PC rewards.

Challenge: Moderate to High. Fights aren't that tough. One could be really annoying and essentially out of tier (-1!). Double whammy penalizing spelluse is a sour don't get off the railroad note. Again... leaving artifacts laying about is not good in a home game setting.

Complexity: High. 4 different groups of NPCs. A section with moving random parts... GM needs to be forgiving in one encounter. Odd race & class choice for BBNG makes for an odd pre-Torchwood Dr Who companion (lol, torchwood). -1 for complexity but creativity kept it at 4*.

Chronicle: Good. One shot boons and some nice items(limit 4). Unlocks 1 okay item and effectively another from Ult Equip.

Engagement: Low to Moderate. Very difficult key skill checks and moderate skill checks throughout. Generally confusing and more difficult for the unskilled in the Arts.

Plot Development: Clear and clueless then unclear and clueless... lol... it starts easy enough then goes crazy... it's like a Lovecraft tale, A-B-C-P-WQXZ-A plotline. Never a good thing leaving artifact like items laying about in a home game. A similar item(s) underlies a faction...

Roleplaying: Low to Moderate. Depends on how much the GM engages the party in the first half. The second half can get very descriptive but low on interaction... depends on the GM.

Challenge: Moderate. Key skill rolls very difficult. Some distasteful tasks. Second half is harder for the non-educated <wink>.

Complexity: Moderate. It is very descriptive and relies on setting a mood and that's a hard sell in PFS. GMs have to ask for a lot of Skill Checks and saves... if they forget it can get naSTY!

Chronicle: average. What you want isn't on it.

Engagement: Moderate to High. Some cooperation and bluffing is required throughout the scenario. The last hard moral decision may take 30+min.

Plot Development: Clear travel/location based A-B-C plotline; A)Get there, B)Explore, C)Fight... Part B could have been fleshed out some more. Never a good thing leaving artifact like items laying about in a home game or as a backdrop. Combat NPC should have had more time to prepare (given that she is active behind the scenes in part A and her statue animates in part B) and should have left a guardian or at least an alarm.

Roleplaying: Moderate. Cooperation in part A and B, big discussion in part C. So really 2 sets of NPCs; A) make some skill checks, B) one is a talker and the other a combat.

Challenge: Moderate. PC choices play a critical role. In a total crawl you'd kill off all the NPCs and hit maximum difficulty.

Complexity: Moderate. GMs need to know how to run arcane and psychic casters.

Chronicle: Good but mainly focused on arcane casters/knowledge skills(if you can take 5min probably never fail another knowledge check), a bevy of wands. Other items always available in absalom.

Engagement: Moderate to High. NPCs fill in the blanks about most motives from part 1. This is a job with combats.

Plot Development: Good. Clear location based A-B-C-D plotline. Players given combat and a little sleuthing. Players can make choices which make things more difficult.

Roleplaying: Low. Most NPC interaction is combat or filling you in on motives from part 1.

Challenge: Moderate to High. PC choices play a critical role in how hard this is and really bad choices can make it go to very hard.

Complexity: Moderate. GMs need to know how to run arcane and psychic casters, monks with ki pools... It would have been nice if an NPC could choose an action but it just went round by round as described. Illumination rules aren't that hard.

Chronicle: Good. Lots of different things (occult, alchemist, ki pool, martials, divine, arcane) with a tian flair. Prayer beads at reduced cost, book, scrolls, wand from Ult Magic with limited charges.

Engagement: Moderate to Low. If the players do not have languages or social skills to engage the Tian NPCs, it's a errand job with some combats. Parts of the hidden backstory will be discovered but PCs cannot uncover the hidden agendas. It takes some cultural understanding and sleuthing to understand why NPCs make the decisions they do and sometimes it's impossible.

Plot Development: Good to contrived. Clear location based A-(B1-B2 | C) tree plotline. Players given diplomacy, combat, and a little sleuthing. Players are likely to only acquire 1 prestige due to failure in diplomacy or combat.

Roleplaying: High to Low. Lots of places to roleplay in one plot branch, the other you get to be (clueless) heroes. Again, culture is key here for roleplaying otherwise it slides to low.

Challenge: High in (3-4) to Very High (6-7). It is very important for the GM to follow the tactics in part C otherwise it can get too deadly.

Complexity: Due to multiple hidden agendas and cultural disconnects it can get complex for the GM and frustrating for the players.

Chronicle: Okay. Wands from Occult Adventures with limited charges.