Pathfinder Society Scenario #10-06: Treason's Chains

I picked this scenario up because I had to prep for a convention and the convention support had not come through by my 'must have by this date' prep deadline.

The trick I discovered prepping it was 'showing' the players what they had to do for the tasks at the front of the scenario with carefully designed sheets then coming up with a few alternative suggestions for the skills involved with said tasks at a brief glance, encouraging players to offer other reasonable suggestions. I had fun using the utility NPC to flesh that out. There was also a great opportunity to play up the frictions within the Society as part of an argument, which helped with immersion.

For the intel-gathering section of the scenario, my players 'followed the rails' a bit, and were actually going to dump a lot more resources on a given NPC than was necessary,

The overnight encounter made for a very interesting time as the players had planned carefully and turned what might have been a challenging encounter into a challenge for the GM, but there was much fun had. MUCH.

For the key NPC, the players were reasonably convinced that there was an NPC race 'crime family' in the city, and they had no desire to upset said 'crime family'.

They handled the climax of the scenario with subtlety and panache, exceptionally so given the skills of some of the PCs involved.

I then had a chance to play, and the play experience was a bit different for the first two acts, with a cautionary tale of windows and 'how do they work, even?'.

Scenario is fun, easy enough to adjust slightly to make even more fun, and runs quick even if folks doubledown on the rp.

Shouldn't be run 'cold', but with two weeks of prep time it was *bleepin' golden.

Lot of enemies. (4-5 with to level one.)

We have two combat encounter in the same time... and they were no problem. (I was afraid but...)

Easy comprehension.

But I could not be affected by the story.