Summary or Story to Date?

[Fletch]

I made the mistake of passing on the inception of Savage Tide after some Adventure Path burnout from Shackled City and Age of Worms.

Now that I've missed several months, though, I'm regretting that call and have become keen on knowing what's going on. I've read that there was a summary of the Path in an earlier issue, but I don't have that either.

Is anyone willing and able to provide that summary here online or perhaps give a "story so far" type of update about what's happened in the Savage Tide story?

I'm especially interested in hearing about the key NPCs and how they might connect to the previous Paths.

Thanks for your help.

[ericthecleric]

The Savage Tide preview is in #138.
The first two adventures are based in Sasserine and its locales.
The third involves the voyage to the Isle of Dread; think Skull Island for D&D.
Parts 4 & 5 are based on the IoD (as are 6 & 7, and then moves away).

The magazines- #139 onwards- are well worth picking up, because this adventure path is the best yet. And if you've suffered burnout on large dungeons, the "dungeon crawls" in this one have been much smaller so far. There's also been a lot more roleplaying opportunities, and several (recurring) characters are more prominent than in previous APs. For example, Lavina- the party patron- appears in every adventure so far, although she doesn't appear in part 4.