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First of all I loved this adventure and so did my players, but having finished it there were a few things I wished I could have changed in the story, and a few things I did. Hope this helps someone.
Book 1 - I made Nualia into a victim, possessed by the demon in the stone head. My players eventually took her down and she became the cohort of a player who was playing her younger sister. I pushed hellknights alot in this adventure as some badguys and had Madam Niska actually be a dragon turtle who watched over the local shoanti. The town was up in arms when the Hellknights wanted to search her house for a shoanti rebel in the region and they nearly had a riot.
Book 2 - My favorite book, I loved the intrigue, I did alot more with the docks district and the scarzani thugs, had some player's arrested when they started messing with the operation. Didn't change much other than I had the chief put out a citywide APB against the "murderous band of adventurers" when they got to close to the truth. Had them get set up in an abandoned mansion with a loose tiger from the zoo and some dead townguard bodies.
Book 3 - I liked this, but my players didn't. They hated being away from Sandpoint and they did nothing with the fort. Several mentioned they would have rather had me mix in something or bring it to Sandpoint in some way. They loved the npcs and all hide wives, husbands, kids, and great friends there. If I could have, I would have placed this significantly closer to town.
Book 4 - Yet again away from town, yes some NPCs were involved, but they were largely kept away from the players. The saving grace was the library, we did alot with that. During the attack on the town I had more giants and had the red dragon godzilla fight with Niska, I let her die off here and the players were ready for revenge. They really didn't want the town burning to the ground.
Book 5 - Major Change. The stone heads could easily have been put somewhere out in the woods near town and the stones in the church could easily have been the portal to the runeforge. I know its a little exotic to move it away, but my players were begging to go back to Sandpoint at this point. I really wish something significant would have been done with them.
Book 6 - By this time my players were so ready to get back to Sandpoint that they wanted to breeze through this one and start Kingmaker. In the end, the epic story took a backseat to their families and castle they had started building in Sandpoint on Chopper's Isle. I think we might as well of had a portal in the Runeforge lead to Xin Shalast rather than hoofing it all the way there.
Overall my players loved the centric around a little town story, they really wanted it to be the Sunnydale (buffy the vampire slayer) of the game. And had it been more close to that I think they would have enjoyed it more. Also they started begging to go check out Hollow Mountain and got a little irritated when it wasn't part of the core game.