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I've got a weekend session coming up for 8 players (yipes) and can't decide which adventure to run. I quite fancy running the Spire and Yuan-Ti adventures after Forgotten King, but the reviews of the first scenario aren't the best.
Still, with 8 players running a dungeon is better than 8 simultaneous conversations in an urban investigation!
I haven't bought Slaughtergarde yet but have heard good things.
Anyone got some tips?
I have them both. I like them both. I prefer "Barrow of the Forgotten King", especially given that it leads into two really strong sequels.
I hope that is of some help.
I have all the adventures you mentioned. Slaughtergarde is more of a mini campaign setting complete with several towns and other hooks in addition to some decent dungeons. A great deal to work with and expand after you exhaust the provided dungeons-the excellent Hook Mountain Massacre, and Bloodsworn Vale could be easily integrated along with Gallery of Evil for a city adv. That being said Barrow of the Forgotten King is very good as is the next adventure, the Sinister Spire. Fortress of the Yuan ti left me flat. My big issue with it is that its a 7th level PCs-save-the-world and they didn't really know it type to scenario. It would be far better if were scaled to higher level PCs. There's definitely a continuity issue when different authors work on a series.
I have both, but I've yet to run BotFK, while I have run SGoS twice. I don't recall specifics, but the times I read BotFK nothing really stood out for me as something really great that I wanted to run immediately. SGoS, on the other hand, had a couple of really good encounters that I was eager to use. I also really liked all of the background information that came with it. The organizations and self-containded valley made it really easy to pick up and run an in-depth campaign. It really packed a lot into one module. Be careful though, there are a few encounters, especially in the last dungeon, that are potential TPK's.