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Coming up on the final session of this book... anyone else underwhelmed by the climax? I want to spice it up, but the map is kinda blah, and there's no like, SWARM of The Swarm, threatening to kill everyone.

Or like... a mission for the Clade Company to seize some key location, like a space port or a fortress or I dunno.

Basically looking for inspiration for this final part of the book.

I had the same feeling and this is how I fixed it. The combat with the PCs isn't changed. They still fight 2 eschutides and a Mindreaper until theres only 1 left, then the Thresher Prince comes down (who is BRUTAL, btw). At the end, it was the Mindreaper and the Thresher Prince versus the PCs and I had the Mindreaper use mystic heal on the Thresher Prince a couple of times.

The problem here isn't that the PCs should be fighting a swarm of enemies, its that it's not obvious how much Clade Company is doing to assist. I added about 6-8 Dredger Troops around the outside edge of the map and had a bunch of Clade Company NPCs go and hold them off. At the end of every round I would describe how their battle was going while the PCs fought off the high level threats in the middle of the outpost. I was considering rolling a d20 to determine how the Clade Company fighters were doing against the troops, but decided it wasnt necessary because just having all those mass tokens surrounding the PCs added enough tension to the scene. It also allows for some dynamic change to the combat if your PCs are somehow rolling over their targets with ease - components of the troop or a whole troop could break through into the PC's high priority fight.

Hi everyone. My group just finished the last book of the Signal of Screams AP using FoundryVTT and we had a blast. My group of 4 players started with Against the Aeon Throne and used approximately the same characters for Signal of Screams.

When I first started GM'ing this AP, I checked these forums and found a couple of useful tips that helped make the game better for my players and I. As we worked through the game's 3 books, I started writing down things that I though worked well and things that didn't (at least not for my group). I wanted to make an effort to contribute our experiences to the collective of GM's that might play this adventure in the future in the hopes that maybe my notes might give you ideas on how to run Signal of Screams your own way.

Here's a link to those notes in case my thoughts across GM'ing this game help someone else in the future: A GM's Guide to Signal of Screams

Clearly this is going to be filled with spoilers, so read at your own risk!

The notes I made got longer than I expected so I put them in a google doc to make it easier to search for someone looking for advice in a specific part of the AP. I don't expect anyone to read it from beginning to end and used the table of contents to give folks a way to jump to whatever part of the AP you're currently on and look at those notes.

Lastly, thanks to my four players for joining me on this journey - Beni the Ysoki Envoy, Riley the Android Technomancer, NUM01 the Android Solider, and Himall the Lashunta Solarian. It took us a year playing about once a week for 2-3 hours to get through these 3 books and it was an interesting ride from beginning to end!