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SPOILERS GALORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, just got through the Misgivings... and all I can say is holy smoke is that brutal!
A house as a phylactery! Brilliant! It has to be the most deadly locale I have seen in years. Richard Pett, you deserve an award.
Truth be told I would love to see it as a movie!
Hauntings!!!!!!!! those are going to kill a lot of PCs... fail the save or throw yourself out the window into the serf and rocks 300 feet below! That alone will take out a handful of PCs.
The creepiest module I have read in ages. Just the hauntings alone are worth the price. The Skinsaw Man himself is brilliant. And dude what can I say about a Lich-house! Pett is a sick-o and I love it!
For James and Paizo... ok ok I am sick and tired of you guys cranking up the bar on quality. Burnt Offerings was great and you follow up with the superb! You guys had better be careful or one of these days you're going to release something that is merely good. You keep building up my expectations of what to expect from you guys then you blow away those expectations. Enough already. I just can't take anymore. Where is my mediocre quality I have come to love and expect for d20 products?????
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For James and Paizo... ok ok I am sick and tired of you guys cranking up the bar on quality. Burnt Offerings was great and you follow up with the superb! You guys had better be careful or one of these days you're going to release something that is merely good. You keep building up my expectations of what to expect from you guys then you blow away those expectations. Enough already. I just can't take anymore. Where is my mediocre quality I have come to love and expect for d20 products?????
No worries—Logue is next up!
Erm... that is, to continue the high quality, not to bring you the mediocrity.
For James and Paizo... ok ok I am sick and tired of you guys cranking up the bar on quality. Burnt Offerings was great and you follow up with the superb! You guys had better be careful or one of these days you're going to release something that is merely good. You keep building up my expectations of what to expect from you guys then you blow away those expectations. Enough already. I just can't take anymore. Where is my mediocre quality I have come to love and expect for d20 products?????No worries—Logue is next up!
Erm... that is, to continue the high quality, not to bring you the mediocrity.
Oh, I am VERY sure you meant Logue is the King of Mediocrity. After all, look at his work. Meh!
(~Grins~ Just kidding Nick! Just Kidding!)
Can we not mention the talentless dimwit on a skinsaw thread please.
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Although I might not be able to run this adventure in a long time, it was still well worth the money I put down for it. It definitely ranks as one of the best horror adventures I read. Logue would be hard pressed to match this one methinks.
As I mentioned in another thread, I plan on running just the Foxglove Manor section for a Halloween one-shot in a couple weeks. Really great stuff!
Yeah I've been reading it myself and am totally loving it. I'm a big Ravenloft fan, and was noticed most of this adventure would be perfect for that setting as well.
This is just..painful. To read all the glowing posts about this fabul..fablou..great adventure. (Snarl) And not to have mine yet. GRRRR. Red feals the terrible heat of envy, its been many moons since I've held or read a good horror adventure.
Although I might not be able to run this adventure in a long time, it was still well worth the money I put down for it. It definitely ranks as one of the best horror adventures I read. Logue would be hard pressed to match this one methinks.
I believe the phrase is 'aw shucks'
Where are you Logue?
I really want to run this and I'll need a few weeks to fit it into my Greyhawk campaign.
When will the pdf be available?
Im just starting to read the "Misgivings" This adventure is so good we play alot of Ravenloft so this will be right up my PCs alley
Wow . . . I just have to say . . I just finished my first session of the Skinsaw Murders. The first session I've run with my wife as a player.
I'm trying to get her into gaming, and after she watched the second session of Burnt Offerings as I was running for a buddy, she told me she actually wanted to try out DnD. (been married five years and she's never had any interest before).
Now, due to time constraints and work, I didn't get a chance to pre-read pathfinder 2 before starting in on the session (we actually ended just before the fight with Nualia). So, I was running it pretty much straight from the book.
So, after my buddy gave her a brief synopsis of what she'd missed in the first half of Burnt Offerings, and talking about this noble buddy in Magnimar that she needed to go visit, I have Hemlock deliver the news of the sawmill murders. When I explained how the note was signed, without missing a beat my wife's response was "It's Barrel-Boy?!?!" (being the name my friend used to describe Foxglove, as he hid behind a barrel from the goblins during the raid.)
So then as the night continues, they immediately assume that there is a werewolf doing the killing, but now have changed their mind to a vampire after meeting Grayst Sevilla and my wife pointed out . . . "The murderer smells of rotting flesh, calls himself His Lordship, is trying to convince Ed's character to love him [Lust option], has an insane messenger/servant in an asylum, and one of the dead bodies is named Harker! Whoever wrote this needs to stop watching Bram Stoker's Dracula and get out more!"
After her comment, all I could do was look at Mr. Pett's name and smile. She's agreed to keep gaming for at least one more session . . . so hopefully I can pre-read the rest of the book before our next game.
So, Bravo Richard . . . I'm glad you're helping me bring my wife into the life of a gamer. She loves Dracula and you're making the hard sell of "this weird thing I do" so much easier for her to enjoy.
Bravo to you as well William for getting your wife to try gaming - sounds like she's really enjoying it.
Foxglove was great fun to play about with, and I hope that DMs enjoy adding slants on his exploits and plots that aren't in the book.
Hopefully your wife will stay with gaming so that she can take part in Escape to Old Korvosa which is on my PC right now, along with the words 'Reign of Terror'...I think she may like it:)
Rich
I just finished the Misgivings section tonight, and I'm eager, EAGER, to get this campaign going. Sadly it'll be a few more months, but I smile thinking about it.
The hauntings are brilliant! Definitely something I'm going to be putting in my long postponed Ravenloft campaign.
The tie-ins to the last adventure with the NPC's (Foxglove, Vinder's daughter Kathrine et al.) are really going to help give an organic feel to the adventure.
Sweet job Mr. Pett, and the rest of you folks here at Paizo! I'm uber-excited for the rest of this AP.
The Skinsaw Murders made me want to drop my Styes campaign for Pathfinder, going from vintage Pett to contemporary Pett! And how's this for timing: right before I alter a Logue adventure to fit the setting! The timing for this little feud is getting ridiculous.
My wife also first suspected werewolves and then vampires. She's very close to connecting the dots. From the haunt at the stairs she's wondering how minor ghouls can make a ghast, and that's so far the biggest loop.
I'm giddy with all of the clues and twists. She's so close to the truth, and I'm having a great time being dreadful. Of course the tables will turn next AP, and my own detective skills will face the wheel.
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I'm looking forwards to springing on my players something minor,
The Goblin ghouls. Just got done with the goblin raid last night and they were all both worried and lauhging. Everyone would chuckle at the 'Stupid little freaks' comment.
The ghouls should really freak them out.
I got Skinsaw Murders yesterday, which lit up an otherwise s+%@ty day (spent about an hour in traffic getting home, which really isn't that far). I put it away for a few hours, but picked it up to read some of it before turning in for the night. I ended up reading all the way through Part 2, and it was getting seriously late.
This is awesome! If I ever was in doubt as to what my next campaign will be, I'm not anymore. The detailed murder scenes are just so vivid and evocative, and the Sihedron rune will most surely pique the characters' interest. The Haunts were all brilliantly done. I can only hope I'm able to translate the horrifying scenes to a tabletop fantasy RPG.
The adventure can easily be played as a stand alone module or converted to other systems such as Call of Cthulhu or a modern day campaign. Oh, this would have made a sweet CoC module.
I'm thinking that Paizo is trying to create adventures that are as appealing to fans of AP's as to non-fans.
Great work Rich!