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Complete "boob plate" is a liability, a potentially fatal one.

And yet, muscled breastplates were popular in Greece for quite some time, and their primary weapon was a piercing one.

This evidence suggests to me that the liability of "sculpted" body armor has been overestimated by modern sensibilities.

Got my copy from the FLG&CS, and while I'm very impressed with the Paizo parts, and I love most of the alternate cover choices, the art style of the comic itself is hard to look at. Characters aren't consistently drawn from frame to frame, everything is "grotesque" styled (by that I mean facial proportions are off), etc. We've seen dozens of stylistic renderings of the Iconics, from near-realistic to manga-ish, and I'm disappointed that a look so radically different from previous work (not to mention the comic cover and character bios in the back) was chosen by the artist for this comic.

That being said, the story is chock-full of flavor and has me wanting more. And Seoni's disgusted look is pretty fantastic. You'll know the look I mean when you see it. The Sandpoint intro stuff is good, though mostly stuff experienced players have seen before, and I really like the idea of including an encounter map and scenario in the issue; a practice I hope continues, especially if they ramp up the CR to match the issue number or something.

So I'm grudgingly looking forward to future issues.

Interesting. I ran the adventure with the pregen characters and only one experienced player, who had played 2E D&D some time ago, so knew "the drill" if not the details. Having an experienced player along, even if they're not very experienced, really helped.

In our case, if anything it was a little too easy. But we had all four characters present, and scored some lucky rolls at key points of the adventure. In fairness, the final encounter dropped one character and would have dropped a second one had Desna not smiled upon her, so to speak.