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Man, this guy is only an “uncommon”. By far one of the coolest guys in the set. The pose, the cape, his crossbow. Man is he cool.

This mini is one of the few low points in a great set.
It’s my opinion that you should never be thouroughly underwhelmed by a “large” mini.

This mini is dwarfed by its base and just does not have any “wow” factor at all.

It leaves me wondering why it was evenincluded. Maybe if that had scaled up its size by 50-100% it could have been passable.

This book provides exactly what is says it does. With plenty of material to justify the price. I look forward to sprinkling many of these spells throughout adventures.

I think of these spells like spice, adding little tastes of flavor to a campaign.

My only disappointment was that I dislike one of the spells. But hey, that's less than 1% right? Five stars.

Wow, Paizo really hit it out of the park with this one. The book offers powerful (but not overly so) options for many different types of characters. What makes these options stand out is the flavor they provide.

Two quick examples:

Possessed Hand is a feat that adds a bonus to hit and damage with one handed weapons, light weapons and unarmed strikes. It also has a variety of other small effects. What makes it amazing is the flavor behind it. "You’ve made a peaceful and permanent bargain with a ghost, spirit, or outsider. It possesses your hand, guiding
and aiding you in exchange for help in return." What makes it even better is that there is a feat tree that builds off of this.

Haunted Spells are a group of spells that function as haunts (what a concept). I cannot wait to use a few of these in game. The flavor is overflowing. I really hope these get made PFS legal.

I don't remember the last time I was this happy with a product. A definite buy for those who like this type of flavor and options.

Plenty of options for the creative player. Every pregen has a backstory woven into the plot. End boss is amazing. Could not ask for more.

I had the opportunity to run four tables of this at GenCon.

First couple of runs were 3.5 to 4 hours, by my third run of it I had the run time down to two and a half hours. This is not a scenario to do cold. There is just too much going on. If you have a well prepared GM this should easily fit into a four hour time slot. If the GM has only casually prepared be prepared for a long scenario. I definitely like the flavor of the scenario and it has fun concepts. The first half could have been shortened a task or two in order to leave more time for the "fun" part.

I had the fortune of playing this scenario with my local venture captain as GM. At the onset of the scenario the players are given a long list of goals to try to accomplish while on their own in Bloodcove. How to go about completing these goals is up to them. Our table relished our deception of the Aspis and our subtle sabotage.
There are two reasons why I did not give this scenario 5 stars. The skill checks did not always seem to match what we where doing. Making intimidate or disguise checks to pretend to be adventures doesn't always make sense. Perhaps the DM could have more leeway in determining what type of skill check should be required with set DCs based on how plausible the deception is. The DCs could be based on the bluff DC chart. I.E. If the PCs are attempting something far-fetched it would have a DC 10 higher then something pretty believable. The other reason for not getting that last star was the end fight. I LOVE difficult fights. But I can see fairly common situations where there will be PC deaths before they can react, with no real recourse.

I have played and DM'd this adventure.

In the end we are left with a good story that many parties unfortunately will not be able to enjoy due to some overly tough monsters. If this had a warning like Bonekeep it would have more stars.

Let me start off by saying this could be a great scenario if you bring your group of favorite Liberty's Edge/Silver Crusade or similar minded PCs. Leave your Hellknight and his type of friends at home.