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By your command, Kyle!

I had a five-player table with an APL of 2, so we were at Tier 1-2 without adjustment.
There was a brand-new sorceress, a bard, a fighter, a fighter/wizard on the path to becoming an eldritch knight and a summoner (and, of course, his eidolon).

The straight fighter was the one who dished out 13 damage only to see none go through , although he did perk up when he rolled a crit next round. The sorceress only had magic missile (but did knock down a damaged dog with 2 force damage). The star performer damage-wise was the eidolon, with S/B claws bypassing the DR.

The combat (and stony defense in particular) certainly made them think. "Hmm, so it hasn't moved since its skin went stony... maybe it's immobile?"
"So it went normal, attacked, then stoned up again... maybe it can't attack in that form..."

There were some experienced people at the table who almost know the Bestiaries backwards, so good job keeping them guessing!

The dogs didn't do well on initiative, so one was almost down before he had a chance to stone up (eidolon claw, with the magic missile finishing the job), and then the other was surrounded by party members who were hacking away. The aforementioned crit softened him up, and he went down promptly when he ran out of stony defense. So in the end, the combat still only took 2 or 3 rounds.

That's probably far more detail than necessary.
In closing, thank you for writing this scenario. The Disappeared was one of my favourites, and Library of the Lion is right there along with it!

Granted, but it was a frustrating couple of rounds for my table (especially as they didn't know how long it would go on for).

Once stony defense ran out the dog got creamed, so I'm not saying the encounter is broken. It was just the most noticeable low point in an otherwise thoroughly enjoyable day.

Just ran this for the first time (second time ever GMing PFS), and my players had a blast. Went to the main library as the first room and promptly swept it clean, gaining all 3 Taldan Ciphers in one fell swoop. One PC then spent an hour poring over the message, trying every permutation possible - except applying the rule in reverse. In the post-game wrap up he realised his error, but took it in good humour (although he would have really liked the Codebreaker boon).
In fact, no-one got any boons - each missed out by the narrowest of narrow margins. Still, full gold and PP, and everyone had a good time.

Almost did it without a combat, but they ignored the positioning data on the portrait legends and released the foo dogs. And they were just removing their illusion cards when Tobias came back to tell them to pack up. Skin of their shiny white teeth!

Gotta say, the foo dog encounter was less than stellar. 8 hardness and DR 5 means people were doing 13 damage with nothing to show for it. Having both those qualities on a single creature means that 1-2s are in a fair amount of trouble, since no-one will have an adamantine mace handy. When savvy players crunch the numbers and find they can only contribute on a crit, it deflates the enjoyment of the combat somewhat.

All in all though, they had a great time, and I did to. There's far more here than your typical hack-and-slash.

Hey, just ran Library of the Lion with extensive help from the Shared Prep Drive (which is AWESOME!), and found a couple of issues.
Not sure how to correct them, but hopeful that someone more tech-savvy can make it happen.

1. In the card deck, the encoded example message on Taldan Cipher 1 is missing a letter. The final word reads "OTRES", when it should be "OTRSES". This throws the whole sequence out and you just get gibberish instead of the intended meaning "SOLDIER".

2. In the Deception points document, point A. b. says to reduce by 1 point if the illusion cards are not removed. That should be reduce *to* 1 point (therefore losing 2).

Gotta say, the rest of the material up for this scenario is pure gold. Many thanks to everyone who contributed!