Pathfinder Society Scenario #2-01: Citadel of Corruption

Announced for August!

Woohoo! New cover looks nice!

This, along with 2-02, is supposed to be released at GenCon, correct? Why the available date of 8/26 then?

This, along with 2-02, is supposed to be released at GenCon, correct? Why the available date of 8/26 then?

I believe 8/26 is the date they're available for purchase by the general public, after having been initially exclusive to GMs running at the convention. Same reason 2-00 won't be available for purchase until August 4, 2021, but with a much smaller exclusivity window.

So this is in a "folder" named "Year of Corruption's Reach." Meanwhile, the cover art says "Year of Corruption's Grasp." Just curious: Which one is correct? I'm guessing Grasp -- not only because it is art rather than text, but also because it's better -- but confirmation would be appreciated.

OK, if this is the "Year of Corruption's Grasp" are we going to see Tee Shirts anytime soon?

Thanks.

The current version of this file has got an error on the Chronicle Sheet.
The sector "Boons" on the Chronicle Sheet states information from the Special King of Thorns. This should be removed.

So, we're running this online Friday night. I scheduled it that way because I was told it could be run anytime after the 26th and that it would drop then. Any chance I can get some clue as to what actual tiles are being used so I can at least get them uploaded to Roll 20? Any other clues so I can start the prep work?

Thanks!

Also, is this going to be the new regular release schedule? Meaning the last Friday of the month instead of the last Thursday. This means our venue no longer gets first crack. If a new scenario drops on Thursday, I have time to prep it before running it Friday evening (EST). If it's not going to drop until sometime Friday while I'm at work, it becomes very difficult to impossible to run it that night. Just my pair of coppers.

Robert, this post may be of interest to you: https://paizo.com/threads/rzs435j7?August-2020-Society-Scenario-Releases-De lay#2

And no, the release schedule isn't changing.

Robert, this post may be of interest to you: https://paizo.com/threads/rzs435j7?August-2020-Society-Scenario-Releases-De lay#2

And no, the release schedule isn't changing.

Ok, so I get the COVID thing, but how does something that has been done for a month get delayed? :P

Ok, my wife got her copy, so I'm starting prep. But should this text be where it is in this scenario?

[spoiler=Congratulations on completing King in Thorns!]

Ok, my wife got her copy, so I'm starting prep. But should this text be where it is in this scenario?

No, it should say the correct scenario name, but otherwise the rest of the text is correct.

Why are the DCs on the scenario so ridiculous!

Why are the DCs on the scenario so ridiculous!

When I played during GenCon it didn’t feel that hard? We actually succeeded at almost all of them... I’ll need to take a look, maybe we got lucky?

does the pdf come with separate VTT friendly maps?

Zezashetan wrote:

Why are the DCs on the scenario so ridiculous!

When I played during GenCon it didn’t feel that hard? We actually succeeded at almost all of them... I’ll need to take a look, maybe we got lucky?

You got lucky, the DCs are about 3-4 higher than they should be for those levels. It looks entirely like it was written to show off investigators.

does the pdf come with separate VTT friendly maps?

Not even close.

How is it at all reasonable with the pandemic pushing the majority of games to VTT that these new scenarios are still not providing VTT friendly maps in the PDFs? This goes beyond being unfriendly, because it's all dungeon tiles, but there's no unmarked single image of the full map, so to do it properly you have to copy all the tiles individually and then line and orient everything by hand. This makes what should be a five minute task into a half hour of drudgework.

The map file was likely made before the recent decision and focus to make the maps be VTT friendly was put into place.

Now getting to play this scenario, it seems the DCs are too high, and getting players to roll against a time limit is just designed to punish players, especially as critical failures happen far too often with the high DC, and just remove research points. Overall, I really liked the story, but absolutely despise how difficult the DCs were made.

The map file was likely made before the recent decision and focus to make the maps be VTT friendly was put into place.

This framing....

They already have the electronic files. I can add a page to a pdf in <30 seconds.

It doesn't have anything to do with the pandemic. But if it did... the pandemic Started shutting down society ~6 months ago. And the product release was delayed by a month. It's a decision.

The following seem like possible contributing reasons to me:
Paizo is busy, they produce a lot of adventures on a very tight schedule. There is no meaningful competition (there is extremely high product lock-in and loyalty of the customer base). They have some very expensive map products that they sell separately.

But it doesn't have anything to do with the pandemic.

It's not the end of the world. But it is a decision.

*checks off "I totally know all there is about this operation at this profession that isn't mine and can do it lighting quick" on the bingo card*

As for no meaningful competition, LMAO, sure. But go on with the entitlements and assumptions and conspiracy theories.

I agree the map files should be more easily imported into VTT. I'm sure Paizo is listening and it looks like the later society PDFs do have map files that are able to be imported easily.

Help.. Does anyone know if there is an Errata for the Chronicle Sheet?? For some reason it states under Boons..
"Congratulations on completing King in Thorns!...."
There are also no items listed..

Help.. Does anyone know if there is an Errata for the Chronicle Sheet?? For some reason it states under Boons..

"Congratulations on completing King in Thorns!...."
There are also no items listed..

Since the second season, all boons have been moved online in the ACP system. After the GM registers your game, you get access to the scenario boon for free, IF the scenario has a boon.

This has been the most lack luster game i've played to date, would strongly not suggest playing it, a lack of basic understanding of game rules as a level 1-2 has DC's that are nearly impossible to make. Creating a senario that literally asks if we are new society members only to throw large dc numbers at us is not a fun experience. Disliked the use of map-tiles on all the combat maps, only map i liked was the over-view of the main map area.

2/10.

This has been the most lack luster game i've played to date, would strongly not suggest playing it, a lack of basic understanding of game rules as a level 1-2 has DC's that are nearly impossible to make. Creating a senario that literally asks if we are new society members only to throw large dc numbers at us is not a fun experience. Disliked the use of map-tiles on all the combat maps, only map i liked was the over-view of the main map area.

2/10.

Ran this this past weekend.

Fully agree concerning the DC numbers. Not only are they too high for a 1-4 adventure, there is also no adjustment between low and high tier. However, even without the adjustment, the DC's are too high even for the high tier.

Concerning the maps, I am going to chalk that up to this being an early season 2 adventure. For the hand-out version of the map, I just went with that for most of the adventure, except for the one fight that occurs within that area, and for that I just used another map that was similar.

GM's: It isn't listed, but this scenario has tiles from the first Dungeon Tiles expansion.