Pathfinder Society Scenario #7–02: Six Seconds to Midnight (PFRPG) PDF

First of all, all the plots in the story are falling apart. The strange alchemy town, the unexplained reagents, the peculiar invasion of the elves, and the non-existent NPCs are all not organized in a good storyline.

Second, the encounter design of 3-4 sublevels is not reasonable, and two encounters are enough to wipe out the PC easily.

Finally, the puzzle seems uninteresting, especially since PCs need to attempt different teleportation. Luckily our group solved the puzzle very quickly, otherwise, it will spend another half hour. We have to spend 5 and half hours to end this torture though.

Unhidden Malice

One of the very great misfortunes of Paizo and role-playing games is that such scenarios can exist, be sold, and still be played.

I am Japanese. I'm sorry if I'm not getting my point across.
I played this scenario on Pathfinder Society play.

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What to expect from paizo.
Ms. Liz Courts writes great settings, so focus on that and don't write another scenario until the moment Golarion is doomed.

If you want to run this scenario, please make sure to know that players got stressful experience because of this scenario, not your personality.

I spend good time with this scenario, because of I got good GM and PLs, and nothing good coming from this scenario.

I have to say this scenario is overrating. (2.5 star as of this writing)

Literally nothing in this story makes any sense whatsoever, starting with the production description which feels like it's missing a half.
The description mentions "A strange confluence of circumstances" that has caused the disappearance of researches. This has nothing to do with the scenario, and the missing researches aren't mentioned after this, and the party isn't there to look for them.
"Pathfinder Society experiments call for a rare reagent found only in that area" Except that what is about to happen has NEVER happened before. EVER. Yet somehow we know that there will be just the thing that we need. For no reason whatsoever.
"Can the PCs reach the secluded settlement in time to witness this extraordinary event" What event? The description doesn't mention any event. This is a bit confusing. It'll come clear during the scenario, but as you are reading the description, it makes no sense.

From there on onwards, it's just downhill, and there is no internal logic in anything. There's a famous village that makes the world's best alchemical items, yet for some reason you need guides to get there. Except that the guides are useless and can't survive the trip without PC's aid. The guides also give you their valuable THINGS for... Saving those things? The guides are fine with the antagonists of the story actively trying to murder them. The players are punished for trying to take care of traps, instead of just walking straight into them (since there's a week of travel time, PC's will heal whatever damage they've taken, except that if they spend an hour dealing with the traps, they'll be an hour late when they arrive. Because of course you can't make up for the lost hour WITHIN A WEEK OF TRAVEL. To a Town where half of the population is JUST FINE with the fact that some times, they wake up and a couple of days/weeks/years/decades has passed on the other side of the town.

And that's just the start. The rest of the scenario, including the horribly designed puzzle that makes no In Game Logical Sense (even though you can figure out the answer, the why and How of the puzzle is just... pointless).

Don't play this. Just don't. It has so many pointless plotholes and inconsistencies that it's better to avoid it, not to mention that the combats are frustratingly easy and pointless (Whee, I'm dealing 1d4 damage with +3 to hit (penalty for not having precise shot has been factored in) AT TIER 6-7!!!) apart from the one that is one bad roll away from a TPK.

It feels like this scenario was written so that some special character somewhere could have a cool hound and time-control powers, and then they were just jammed in there, no matter how poorly they fit or made sense.

I was trying to find out if the author had made other scenarios in addition to this one, to see if the others suffer from the same problems. There aren't any. I'm not exactly surprised.

Primarily a puzzle adventure in the exotic location of the fey lands in the River Kingdom. The role play opportunities are solid but the combat is fun. I felt like I should have skipped the first floor combat to allow for more time. The characters were right out of the source book but seemed like something that could have been played down by me.
The only criticism I have is I wish they scenario would have had a better explanation about the unstuck side of the town readily available for the GM and the key seemed to be missing a vital part. Otherwise the whole table including myself enjoyed the scenario.