Starfinder Society Scenario #2-20: Shades of Spite

It is what you expect of a high level rouge mod. Curse, Ambush, Puzzles, deadly traps. If you are a theif you will love it. Other classes not so much. You got some really nice and strong combat situations so you can go full out. Yet it is pretty brutal against casters so be prepared to have a lot of your abilities shut down unless you specialize in the shadow plane.

If you LARP or do escape rooms you will really enjoy certain aspects of the mod. Its got a lot of charm.

I mean this meta-plot has taken an ice age to go anywhere. Every scenario has seen Datch up to some dastardly thing or another and this was our first chance to dig into why or find out what was going on and we got basically nothing. The "big reveal" is something we already know more or less.

That aside this scenario does have a lot of really cool content - the assassin's proving ground is great conceptually and the execution was competent and awesome. But it did nothing to develop a meta-plot that I had much grander hopes for at one point.

Paizo.com ate the last review, so to keep this one brief, it was okay, but that one condition that is inflicted early made it quite annoying and after the fact cost 5 fame to remove. There is a longer version of this, and my opinion might change if I ever GM this one it, but the scenario really wants to have a particular kind of player character. I did not bring that kind of character.

Without that condition and some other things, this would be an average scenario, but my opinion is somewhat colored by how I experienced this.

Some of my problems with this one are Starfinder core systems, but yeah, it is not a bad scenario if the premise appeal to you. Updated my review to 3 stars, while I stand behind my complaints, it does have significant redeeming features.

I absolutely love the idea of "grandmas" grandkids running people through a playground of death to see if they're worthy. The juxtaposition of the two is truly frightening: it's like hearing a childrens nursery rhyme in a horror movie, you know its going to get bad...

You really see and interact with the flavor of grandma rat and her family here through the mechanics in a way that few adventures manage to capture. All too often the flavor fades to the background or winds up as a footnote on the DMs screen...nope. The characters are going to be fully immersed one way or another.