| Titanium Dragon |
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I just completed this adventure yesterday as a player. It's quite good overall, and frankly, a better introduction to Pathfinder 2E than the Beginner's Box.
The module does a number of things quite cleverly:
* It has a NPC healer who helps you out for a couple encounters at the very beginning, giving you "training wheels" that also feel like a natural part of the world and precondition you towards remembering that NPCs have agency, too.
* It has a variety of different (if mostly pretty simple) enemies you fight over the course of the module.
* It presents the players with a small mystery that they get to solve via RP after getting a few combat encounters under their belt, and which has multiple ways of solving it that lead to the next part of the adventure so the players can't really get stuck.
* There are actual stakes - the players aren't just doing it just because, there's a reason why they need to help out and go and continue into these dangerous situations, and it makes sense from an IC perspective that they would do so.
* The combat encounters aren't overly difficult but aren't overly simplistic.
* It teaches players about weaknesses, gives them the tools to exploit them, and rewards them for exploiting them.
* There are RP encounters throughout the module, not just in one place - each section of the game has an opportunity where you can do some roleplaying, and not just going into every encounter with bloody intentions in mind can allow you to avoid fights and get help and allies
* The NPCs who are helpful often have a good, very sensible reason why they are supplying you with stuff rather than joining in to help you fight, so you don't feel like they are just shoving it on the PCs for no reason or leaving the fighting to the PCs for no reason.
* You can disrupt the bad guys' plans in ways that go beyond just killing things that, if the players are paying attention, will allow them to make their life significantly easier.
* The little town in the module is just big enough to be interesting without being so big that you'll get lost in it and derail the adventure.
I liked it a lot! It was a fun thing and it worked very well, and had a bit of charm to it.