Creative Director
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I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing...but its a bonus so good?
So, during what phase of the process would they miss the maps' discrepancy?
WotC said that there were no space considerations since it was an electronic format. Why the dearth of backstory then?
I don't work at WotC and I don't know their methods for building adventure paths, so any speculation about where something might have gone wrong there is just that, speculation.
I do feel that they would have been better advised to go with a brand new setting for Scales of War, though, since maintaining continuity with older stuff doesn't seem to be high on the list of things to do over there. ALSO: Setting it in an entirely new continuity (say, the sample location in the 4th edition DMG, which is VERY similar to Elsir Vale) would have gone a long way toward filling out their new world with adventures and stories.
Shrug.
And bonuses are ALWAYS good! At least, always good for the AGGRESSOR... :)
I glanced over the second adventure in the path just now. At first glance it looks significantly better to me than the first adventure. The first one felt like another keep on shadowfell, with a lot of more or less pointless hack and slash. This one seems to have more story, and just looks better overall. However, I haven't looked at it too closely. I'd still like to see an overview for the entire AP, and I think they are doing their readers a huge disservice by not providing one.
I glanced over the second adventure in the path just now. At first glance it looks significantly better to me than the first adventure. The first one felt like another keep on shadowfell, with a lot of more or less pointless hack and slash. This one seems to have more story, and just looks better overall. However, I haven't looked at it too closely. I'd still like to see an overview for the entire AP, and I think they are doing their readers a huge disservice by not providing one.
The second is a good deal better than the first. However, the lack of overview and character information is annoying. I think they are doing a character article soon, but it be nice before people start using the campaign. My group is going to try it as the off campaigns to our Crimson game. Where would you place Elsir Vale in Greyhawk? (some players like more background for their characters)
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I would also love to see an overview for this AP. When I ran the AoW AP, I tried to tie characters and events into later adventures, but until the overview came out, it was mostly conjecture.
As far as the talent at WOTC, remember that they have an A+ staff over there, but they're new at the AP thing. Look at all of the source books. Do those suck? So, if they can write stuff like that, surely they can handle an AP. We just need to give them a chance to get the gears going.
They do need to, IMO, move back to the 3.5 adventure layout. It was much clearer and more concise. There were times when I realized, "Holy crap! We totally missed that encounter." This was simply due to the fact that the writing is very vague in some places. Also, where is the artwork? 3.5 had so much eye-pleasing goodness. WHy is 4E so bland?
Anyways, I have extremely high hopes for this adventure path. I'm sure WOTC will deliver, once they get into the groove.
