What this first guy said. I know it's not a super additive post, but I strongly feel like this would increase the value of the APs by lots!
Captain Marsh wrote:
I love the Adventure Path series and generally like the slow, evolutionary tweaks that have happened over time since the first ROTRL series.
Yes, a few AP's have sputtered and stuttered, but all have been interesting, worthy efforts that captured the imagination of at least some gamer groups.
One element, though, that seems worthy of a major overhaul -- to my eye -- is the fiction that takes up a chunk of each installment.
I love reading fantasy. I even occasionally enjoy short fantastic fiction.
But there's something about the style and the episodic nature of the Pathfinder Journal that just doesn't work for me.
This is no disrespect to the authors. I often recognize some good, solid writing.
And I get the idea that fiction is a way to flesh out the atmosphere of Golarion.
But I just don't ever find myself engaging the stories or the characters in ways that get me to the end.
I wonder if other regular purchasers and players agree that this is real estate that could be better used in other ways?
One MUCH more useful element for my gaming table would be a series of pages devoted to 1" grid maps usable for key battles in each AP installment.
If Paizo printed 3-5 pages of miniature-scaled maps per episode, I'd be over the moon as a DM...and that also seems like an element that would be fairly easy to produce.
-Capt Marsh
