Pathfinder Society Scenario #2-24: Breaking the Storm: Parting Clouds

We played high tier (levels 10, 9, 8, 8, 8 and 8). All challenges felt well-designed; The encounters packed quite a punch, but felt fair. From the previous adventure(s) you have an idea of what you're going to be facing, and can prepare accordingly. The combats can run long if you don't prepare well though, so prior knowledge of the Season 2 metaplot helps a lot.
Absolutely a fun scenario that I can definitely recommend, though knowledge of the Season 2 metaplot helps a lot, and adds a lot to the enjoyment.

This was a very fun scenario, but I think my party comp removed a lot of the teeth that other groups might have experienced. We had 2 cloistered clerics, 2 cosmos oracles, a bard, and barbarian. Each were level 7 or 9, so we hit right at 18 CP.

We finished sub 3 hours with an awkward silence amongst the players. "Was that it?" I asked myself. All the combats were creative, encouraging unusual tactics or bringing unique enemies to the front. Then there's potential for a unique setpiece battle, but it just kinda...ends after you're already invested? I would have rather preferred playing it out without the timer. It might have worked better in the Sagamore for an interactive, when the big bad boss is defeated, and everyone cheers. It just hits different sitting at a computer, and not in a good way.

It's still quality content, but I wish it maybe lasted longer.

I played this low tier. extremely enjoyable scenario, quite glad it ended the season this way. challenging but fair. foes worth talking about as a character in the future. and it was great that each encounter led to an even better one.skill check was not too tedious, thank you for that.
I will greatly enjoy running it.

Context: I'm read this three times and GMed it once for a high-tier, 19 CP table.

The focused scenario aims to deliver an epic experience to wrap up the season, and from my side of the table at least, it seems to have succeeded. I especially appreciated that, despite the scope of the action, the focus was kept squarely on the PCs as the main heroes. Really all you could ask for in a season ender, except for the fact that the chronicle is, once again, barren. This is especially disappointing for the season ender. For this reason I just couldn't give this otherwise excellent scenario a full five stars.

The good:
* Editing is mostly solid; I only found a few typos, and one thing missing a spell attack modifier.
* Challenging combats which require solid tactics, but feel like they stop just short of too difficult at their hardest.

The bad:
* Some of the stats and DCs don't appear to have been properly adjusted for levels 9-10; this could be deliberate, but it seems unlikely.
* A few chunks of text about what the players are expected to do don't *quite* line up with the rest of the scenario. This isn't a big deal if you are familiar with the material, but it could be rough if you're trying to run this after a single read-through.

The ugly:
* Another chronicle devoid of interesting gear/boons. Come on, folks...give epic scenarios interesting chronicles!

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I was a player in this at full on high tier and it felt quite epic. We felt like high level adventurers doing high level things with lots of assistance from the lower level pathfinder agents. A very satisfactory conclusion to this seasons meta plot.

The combats were all interesting, the flavour was tasty, and the story was advanced in a way that made sense.

Very little roleplaying to be done, unfortunately. This is basically an all action scenario (with, of course, skill checks of various kinds being quite important). But the combats were all fun with opportunities for a wide variety of tactics and characters to shine.

My one objection is that this REALLY REALLY REALLY felt like it should have been an End of Season multi table special. I strongly suspect that it was originally intended as such but that Paizos plans got changed with the pandemic and various fallouts because of the pandemic. It was a heck of a lot more epic than many of the previous PF1 and PF2 season end/start multi player specials.