Season of Ghosts is my favourite Paizo AP of all time so yeah! 100%! I'd love a nice hardcover version, especially if it was updated for the Remaster. Any other updates to fix issues (e.g. buffing some encounters, maybe a touch-up on Book 4) would be neat to see, but absolutely not required.
Just a thought I had, why does the "Maze of Mist, Rain of Blood" only happen *after* the first encounter? The adventure starts with some light mystery, but I could see an alternate version where the strange mist is there as soon as the PCs wake up to give it more of a "horror" feeling. And lore-wise, if it's Kugaptee's influence causing the mist, it feels weird that it just suddenly "activates" as the PCs head west. I even think some PCs could be misled by that Just curious if there was any reasoning for this. I could see arguments to both start the tension low & ratchet it up over the first hour, vs to just start the tension high. Anyway, we're gonna be playing this in about a month and I'm quite excited!
I love the flavour of this, it's giving Strange Aeons vibes, and depending on how "ancient forest with paranoid townsfolk" turns out, could even end up sorta like True Detective. Plus, 3-book APs are just infinitely more approachable for me than 6-book ones. Definitely the most excited I've been for an AP in a while.
Definitely interested in checking out Fall of Plaguestone. Will be a good way for me and my group to learn the system, I think.
As someone who ran Serpent's Skull, it's super cool to see that Sargava overthrew its colonial background. The colonial themes and racial tension in Eleder were... weird, and I'm excited to see where it goes from here. I would much prefer races native to the material plane to be morally ambiguous with cultural tendencies toward specific alignments being attributable to whatever deities their local populous chooses to follow. I feel inherent alignment to be a strictly outsider phenomenon.Seconded! Thirded. Rich Burlew did this in Order of the Stick 10+ years ago, and it makes for much better writing to have goblins and orcs who are evil because they were raised evil & because humans/elves have abused them, than because they just have... evil genetics or something. |
