Starfinder Society Scenario #2-18: Forbidden Tides

I played this at an author run table and I might adjust my review later after I run it up or down. It was a solid adventure that ties into the overall themes and plot of Season 2 and gives a decent setting.

I enjoy the overall themes of this high level adventure. I do wonder about the pacing of the combats and the amount of background the adventure needs to fit into the tail end to bring the party up to speed. It might be a bit overwhelming the way the information is partitioned.

I look forward to running it myself sometime soon.

I have now played this in an author-run table and run it for myself.

The adventure has a bit too many callbacks to itself. There is a lot of really deep detail regarding the NPCs which is hard to work in. As a GM it can be had to incorporate all these details, but I found that I appreciated them being there.

I think the meta-plot connections felt weak and tacked on - especially since the supposed qualities of the basalt aren't at all present in the other scenario where this is hinted at.

Still the overall character of the morlamaw and their tragic character flaw of being too cultish by nature was a hysterical evolution of their previous appearance and it was pretty satisfying to get to pound on them.

In general, mechanically this scenario had a number of pretty fun fights but storywise it felt like it suffered from having to too intensely serve two masters. On the one hand, you have the story of the morlamaw that deserved to be told and on the other you have the seasons metaplot which I am supposing needed to be told and the result is a scenario that probably would have been better as two different scenarios.

Still as is its a pretty good scenario its just that I think with a better scenario leading into that final fight this could have been a legendary scenario instead of just a good one.