Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-07: Echoes of the Overwatched (PFRPG) PDF

Mix with investigation and combats. However, the first half can be confusing without GM's guidance, my PCs just don't know where to go at first. Some roleplays but useless... get all the same plots everywhere. I'd like Godmarket or Third Crusade much better.

The combats can be tough, and the statue is quite deadly. But I'd prefer more investigations, not just kill monsters like the Fallen Fortress.

Not bad at all, but not as good as expected. Lack a real storyline.

I played this scenario last night on the low tier. Truth be told, I'm still a bit on the fence about the whole ordeal. Let me start with saying that it is always interesting to venture to a certain museum where we all know something always goes wrong. This time is no different and you as player will soon learn of an interesting plot involving a portal and an evil returning called 'the Devourer of Reason'. So far, that's solid enough for a scenario and allows your imagination to run rampant.

But then disappointment struck, at least for me. Due to it being low-tier, every single creature, except for the BBEG and one other encounter, was in lack of a better description a baby version of something else. I'm not going to lie, but that makes me feel like this scenario was originally written for tier 4-5 only. Since a different tier was needed to make it an official scenario, the writer just took the easy way out and used younger versions of the creatures instead of finding a suitable alternative. It just doesn't sit right with me. Where are the mommy and daddy? Why are they not protecting their offspring? The answer is 'because this is not high tier' and that just ruins the immersion a bit.

At the same time, you're required to find certain components to progress through the building. You have to place them into some mosaic and the parts are made out of different metals. That's basically all there's to know about that puzzle and the trinkets involved. I'm going to be honest and say that's just too little information for a GM or player to work with.

When I play a scenario, I want descriptions of what I look at, how things fit together into a single thing, what it then looks like and what it could mean. Having it only be 'it fits into the relief of the mosaic' is simply not enough and honestly quite lacking. A similar comment could be made for statues: what do they look like? What do they depict? It's information like that brings a scenario to the next level in terms of experience. Sadly, it's missing in this scenario.

Like I said, I'm on the fence about this scenario. The plot has potential and the locations too, but it lacks the means of immersion. A good GM can easily fix that, but it's a little disheartening to know it's not already in the scenario itself. Furthermore I'm a bit disappointed in the creatures on the low-tier, though I'm sure that situation is better on the high-tier. In the end, I can't really say this scenario was memorable for me. It's not something I'd like to play again or would like to run for others. It's not bad, don't get me wrong, but it's not good either. It's just somewhere in the middle of the pack.

Very well put together. My players enjoyed this immensely.

GMed this for the higher tier and we had a real blast with this one.

The scenario is simple. A pathfinder working for the Blakros museum has gone a bit wiggy and disappeared. Find him and whatever ancient horror he may have unleashed and stop it.

The combats were tough but fair (a rare combination in PFS) and we all had a fun even when characters were taking heavy hits. Thumbs up to the author for a good choice of encounters.

There are just two small things that stop me giving this five stars. Firstly, although it fitted nicely into a four hour time slot had there been just a little more investigation it would have been spot on. Lastly, if you have an animal companion that doesn't fly, you lose your companion. Otherwise really good scenario.

We played this last evening with a party of 6 in the low tier.

The briefing was interesting, with us being kept waiting before we finally got it, then a sense of urgency was impressed on us. So we're like, if it's so urgent, why make us wait?

The museum was a lot of fun, the rest of the party used a grappling hook and rope to swing across a broken walkway, however my hunter didn't trust it to hold her so give it a good tug before swinging, which resulted in me tearing down part of the roof the grappling hook was lodged in creating an extra mess down in the exhibits. For some strange reason the witch had learned an obscure language so we could decipher the text we found up there.

Gathering the information on the streets we needed resulted in an almost arrest warrant for the fighter for intimidating an addict, and the rogue being told her fortune which made her near paranoid (because someone around her was not who they appeared to be).

The fights were fairly hilarious and ended quick because of action economy

The only reason I'm not giving 5 stars is because this adventure is very unfriendly for classes with animal companions of a non-flying variety.