paizo.com Recent Reviews of Pathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6)paizo.com Recent Reviews of Pathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6)2023-12-28T12:43:39Z2023-12-28T12:43:39ZPathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6) (5 stars)UlfenTraderhttps://paizo.com/products/btq023en?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-155-Lord-of-the-Black-Sands2023-12-28T12:43:07Z...UlfenTrader2023-12-28T12:43:07ZPathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6): Feels disjointed (2 stars)P.B.https://paizo.com/products/btq023en?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-155-Lord-of-the-Black-Sands2023-03-05T18:45:54Z<p><b>Pathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6)</b></p><p>After brilliant book 4 this was underwhelming.</p>
<p>Chapter 1 starts strong but falls flat if your party doesn't care about urdefhans.</p>
<p>Chapter 2 is a bunch of random encounters followed by tower crawl.</p>
<p>Chapter 3 was promising but the city is really not explored in much detail. "Do random stuff to get reputation" gets old quickly and feels like a chore. Once you get enough rep it's another tower crawl.</p>
<p>Even though it seems nonlinear, the book is actually quite railroaded.</p><p><b>Pathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6)</b></p><p>After brilliant book 4 this was underwhelming.</p>
<p>Chapter 1 starts strong but falls flat if your party doesn't care about urdefhans.</p>
<p>Chapter 2 is a bunch of random encounters followed by tower crawl.</p>
<p>Chapter 3 was promising but the city is really not explored in much detail. "Do random stuff to get reputation" gets old quickly and feels like a chore. Once you get enough rep it's another tower crawl.</p>
<p>Even though it seems nonlinear, the book is actually quite railroaded.</p>P.B.2023-03-05T18:45:54ZPathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6) (4 stars)elisaellihttps://paizo.com/products/btq023en?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-155-Lord-of-the-Black-Sands2023-02-17T16:40:15Z...elisaelli2023-02-17T16:40:15ZPathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6): Wonderfully written book (5 stars)Morrowshttps://paizo.com/products/btq023en?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-155-Lord-of-the-Black-Sands2021-06-18T19:18:52Z<p><b>Pathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6)</b></p><p>I really enjoy the writing in this. It seems to be able to bring both the suspense of being in a strange new land, and the wonder of new beings, new areas, new environments. It manages to introduce us to the denizens of the black desert and their culture very well.</p>
<p>In addition it doesn't skimp on making it clear how extremely dangerous the Darklands or the black desert is, particularly with a certain creature in the book.</p><p><b>Pathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6)</b></p><p>I really enjoy the writing in this. It seems to be able to bring both the suspense of being in a strange new land, and the wonder of new beings, new areas, new environments. It manages to introduce us to the denizens of the black desert and their culture very well.</p>
<p>In addition it doesn't skimp on making it clear how extremely dangerous the Darklands or the black desert is, particularly with a certain creature in the book.</p>Morrows2021-06-18T19:18:52ZPathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6): Okay this book is amazing :O (5 stars)CorvusMaskhttps://paizo.com/products/btq023en?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-155-Lord-of-the-Black-Sands2020-05-28T05:37:27Z<p><b>Pathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6)</b></p><p>So okay let's get this out of the way: Yeah the circus performers you can recruit while in darklands are awesome, but thats not what makes this book awesome.</p>
<p>What makes this book awesome is that it turns "PCs meet couple of daemonic death cult blood thirsty warriors" and "City of undead and their slaves" from how Second Darkness would have portrayed it(aka "Drows kill humans on sight unless they are literally wearing drow skin") to social encounters and manage to do it convincingly without railroading and forcing players to engage them socially unless they want to :O</p>
<p>This adventure also shows potential of NPC articles in AP volumes: From adventure itself I had taken the uderfhan war leader as just being pragmatic, but his backstory and dive into his motivations show that while he is still viscous cruel bastard, he actually has lot of character depth besides being evil or "generic uderfhan leader".</p>
<p>I also like that book takes account lot of alternate choices, like "What if players kill the impossibly hard boss?", "What if PCs free this prisoner?" or "What if players want to leave the orb in the darklands?"</p>
<p>On bonus, the cult article has LG Tanagaar worshipping assassin ghoul cult ;D That was fun and weird surprise</p>
<p>Oh and one more sidenote: I'm glad that Shraen article lists levels of drow rulers in city since especially in this context its good to know their relative powers(especially to pcs ;D) :D</p><p><b>Pathfinder Adventure Path #155: Lord of the Black Sands (Extinction Curse 5 of 6)</b></p><p>So okay let's get this out of the way: Yeah the circus performers you can recruit while in darklands are awesome, but thats not what makes this book awesome.</p>
<p>What makes this book awesome is that it turns "PCs meet couple of daemonic death cult blood thirsty warriors" and "City of undead and their slaves" from how Second Darkness would have portrayed it(aka "Drows kill humans on sight unless they are literally wearing drow skin") to social encounters and manage to do it convincingly without railroading and forcing players to engage them socially unless they want to :O</p>
<p>This adventure also shows potential of NPC articles in AP volumes: From adventure itself I had taken the uderfhan war leader as just being pragmatic, but his backstory and dive into his motivations show that while he is still viscous cruel bastard, he actually has lot of character depth besides being evil or "generic uderfhan leader".</p>
<p>I also like that book takes account lot of alternate choices, like "What if players kill the impossibly hard boss?", "What if PCs free this prisoner?" or "What if players want to leave the orb in the darklands?"</p>
<p>On bonus, the cult article has LG Tanagaar worshipping assassin ghoul cult ;D That was fun and weird surprise</p>
<p>Oh and one more sidenote: I'm glad that Shraen article lists levels of drow rulers in city since especially in this context its good to know their relative powers(especially to pcs ;D) :D</p>CorvusMask2020-05-28T05:37:27Z