paizo.com Recent Reviews of Starfinder Adventure Path #16: The Blind City (Dawn of Flame 4 of 6)paizo.com Recent Reviews of Starfinder Adventure Path #16: The Blind City (Dawn of Flame 4 of 6)2023-10-03T20:46:29Z2023-10-03T20:46:29ZStarfinder Adventure Path #16: The Blind City (Dawn of Flame 4 of 6): Dark and Light and a Muddled Story (2 stars)Cellionhttps://paizo.com/products/btq01yjk?Starfinder-Adventure-Path-16-The-Blind-City2022-04-23T02:54:03Z<p><b>Starfinder Adventure Path #16: The Blind City (Dawn of Flame 4 of 6)</b></p><p>In The Blind City, the PCs have just returned from a mysterious and enigmatic intrastellar location with (likely) more questions than answers. They've also come back with a mysterious tablet inscribed with multi-dimensional living Aklo script. It's more than a little creepy. Over the course of the adventure they learn more about the tablet and journey to the prison of an ancient eldritch entity to... explore? loot it for all its worth? go there just because they can? </p>
<p>All told, this adventure has some really interesting concepts, but it suffers from two critical problems: one is that the story is confusing and rather odd in its motivations and conclusions, and two is that the contents are surprisingly rote and video-gamey in their structure. It also suffers from the problem most of the Dawn of Flame books have had - the larger plot of the AP is nowhere to be found, leaving this book to entertain and entice on its own merits.</p>
<p>Although there's some fun to be had here, personally, I found it very flawed. Despite my best efforts to present things as clearly and engagingly as I could, my players started dragging their feet. It just wasn't hooking them in the same way as other adventures. I'd skip this one in the future.</p>
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[Spoiler omitted]</p><p><b>Starfinder Adventure Path #16: The Blind City (Dawn of Flame 4 of 6)</b></p><p>In The Blind City, the PCs have just returned from a mysterious and enigmatic intrastellar location with (likely) more questions than answers. They've also come back with a mysterious tablet inscribed with multi-dimensional living Aklo script. It's more than a little creepy. Over the course of the adventure they learn more about the tablet and journey to the prison of an ancient eldritch entity to... explore? loot it for all its worth? go there just because they can? </p>
<p>All told, this adventure has some really interesting concepts, but it suffers from two critical problems: one is that the story is confusing and rather odd in its motivations and conclusions, and two is that the contents are surprisingly rote and video-gamey in their structure. It also suffers from the problem most of the Dawn of Flame books have had - the larger plot of the AP is nowhere to be found, leaving this book to entertain and entice on its own merits.</p>
<p>Although there's some fun to be had here, personally, I found it very flawed. Despite my best efforts to present things as clearly and engagingly as I could, my players started dragging their feet. It just wasn't hooking them in the same way as other adventures. I'd skip this one in the future.</p>
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[Spoiler omitted]</p>Cellion2022-04-23T02:54:03ZStarfinder Adventure Path #16: The Blind City (Dawn of Flame 4 of 6): This is Eshtayiv review (5 stars)CorvusMaskhttps://paizo.com/products/btq01yjk?Starfinder-Adventure-Path-16-The-Blind-City2019-09-02T06:51:03Z<p><b>Starfinder Adventure Path #16: The Blind City (Dawn of Flame 4 of 6)</b></p><p>So I succumbed under encouragement to review the single thing I liked most about this adventure :P But I will still attempt to summarize stuff I liked about adventure even though I don't know if its mechanically fun without playing it.</p>
<p>So I liked Otlo. And Ezorod itself is really cool dungeon, the whole "dark place without light where main enemy type is on fire and darkness is deadly" is cool :D I also liked that text took in account the super unlikely scenario that PCs somehow rescue two characters from their horrible fate.</p>
<p>I do have one thing about it that I'm kinda confused about [Spoiler omitted] I think its kinda the issue with Starfinder APs in general, because they have shorter page count, they don't have time to delve into motivations of characters too much, which in this AP would really have helped in certain books(like the final one). Starfinder APs do have cool NPCs with interesting motivations, but not enough pages to delve into depth of the character or what makes them tick.</p>
<p>So now onto the "main" review :P</p>
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<p>But yeah, they should bring Esthayiv back in future too :D </p>
<p>ALSO: We need Pyric Corruption. Please make it happen devs :D You know it'd be perfect thing for starfinder original Corruptions</p>
<p>...Anyway, Cults article is great. The ones that I remembered most without reading article again were Forgiven for being smug and Scales of the Conqueror for the whole "Our LE faith isn't aggressive and LE ENOUGH" aspect :D Still yeah, I hope to see more of all of these cults in future.</p>
<p>Strange Gear article is great, and thanks for mad geniuses behind Flushbuster and Harmonic Reassembler specifically :p Replenigel Megavitamin is also hilarious(its gummy skittermanders made by abadarcorp that was originally meant as soldier food, but once wars with vesk ended they started selling surplus by shaping it into candy :p It has side effect of if you eat it too much, your skin smells like it and is waxy) I'd really love to discuss all items in article, but that would take too long also probably too much information.</p>
<p>Bestiary is great, kinda already gushed about it in spoilers :p But magmins, magma oozes and dimensional shamblers out of the old creatures are cool of course. Well hot for two of them I guess.</p>
<p>Oh and Codex of the World with Astevint the "lantern planet" aka planet with petrified glowing trees :D That is obviously cool</p><p><b>Starfinder Adventure Path #16: The Blind City (Dawn of Flame 4 of 6)</b></p><p>So I succumbed under encouragement to review the single thing I liked most about this adventure :P But I will still attempt to summarize stuff I liked about adventure even though I don't know if its mechanically fun without playing it.</p>
<p>So I liked Otlo. And Ezorod itself is really cool dungeon, the whole "dark place without light where main enemy type is on fire and darkness is deadly" is cool :D I also liked that text took in account the super unlikely scenario that PCs somehow rescue two characters from their horrible fate.</p>
<p>I do have one thing about it that I'm kinda confused about [Spoiler omitted] I think its kinda the issue with Starfinder APs in general, because they have shorter page count, they don't have time to delve into motivations of characters too much, which in this AP would really have helped in certain books(like the final one). Starfinder APs do have cool NPCs with interesting motivations, but not enough pages to delve into depth of the character or what makes them tick.</p>
<p>So now onto the "main" review :P</p>
<p>[Spoiler omitted]</p>
<p>But yeah, they should bring Esthayiv back in future too :D </p>
<p>ALSO: We need Pyric Corruption. Please make it happen devs :D You know it'd be perfect thing for starfinder original Corruptions</p>
<p>...Anyway, Cults article is great. The ones that I remembered most without reading article again were Forgiven for being smug and Scales of the Conqueror for the whole "Our LE faith isn't aggressive and LE ENOUGH" aspect :D Still yeah, I hope to see more of all of these cults in future.</p>
<p>Strange Gear article is great, and thanks for mad geniuses behind Flushbuster and Harmonic Reassembler specifically :p Replenigel Megavitamin is also hilarious(its gummy skittermanders made by abadarcorp that was originally meant as soldier food, but once wars with vesk ended they started selling surplus by shaping it into candy :p It has side effect of if you eat it too much, your skin smells like it and is waxy) I'd really love to discuss all items in article, but that would take too long also probably too much information.</p>
<p>Bestiary is great, kinda already gushed about it in spoilers :p But magmins, magma oozes and dimensional shamblers out of the old creatures are cool of course. Well hot for two of them I guess.</p>
<p>Oh and Codex of the World with Astevint the "lantern planet" aka planet with petrified glowing trees :D That is obviously cool</p>CorvusMask2019-09-02T06:51:03Z