Running The Serpent Amphora Trilogy-Looking for Advice

[Apostle of Gygax]

Has anyone run the Serpent Amphora? I am starting it tonight and I would love to hear from others who have and what their experiences were.

[Doodlebug Anklebiter]

I ran the free download and the first two modules before a TPK destroyed that campaign in the tomb of that Chardun-worshipping wizard (don't recall name).

One thing that I seem to remember not working as written:

Spoiler:

After the party meets the Taurosphinx (that dream sequence encounter worked like a dream, btw! I let the players roll out the combat and just slaughtered them! You should have seen their faces!), they go in the opposite direction. It never says it in the modules, but from poring over the maps I discovered--that they go back past the city they came from! My party stopped back in town, resupplied, went to the Vigilants and persuaded them to send along a whole frickin' unit when they went to the Skykeep! I wasn't expecting it and they made a pretty damn good argument that this was a mission for more than a couple of adventurers. Of course, I ended up drowning most of the Vigilants when they got attacked by the storm hag, but still.

The TPK came about through a combination of factors--1) the party didn't use the "re-setting" traps in the vault as well as they might have; 2) player inebriation; and, 3) that hot sexy naked face stealer in the mirror! Watch out for that hussy!

I was terribly disappointed that I never got to run the third module. That shiznit was epic!

[Apostle of Gygax]

Regarding the map issue, I am the only person who has ever played in the Scarred Lands before so I am not seeing that as a problem. Also nobody in our group drinks, so that will not be a problem, I thank you for the rest of the info though.

[The Black Goblin]

I love the Scarred Lands. That world hooked me. (the only reason I got back into D&D) So I,m always happy when I see people still playing in there. Hahahaha I was the drunken player Doodlebug made mention of. Alas I am not a GM and only a lowly player. But Hell ya rocking in Scarn
Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Steven Tindall]

I have run the serpent amorpha as part of my snake themed campaign.

I used a combination of serpent amphora, freeport, and the forgotten realms setting in the area of Halruua and the Jungles of Chult.
I thought it worked very well my players seemed to like it but unfortunately RL got in the way when I had to move.

[Apostle of Gygax]

Well last night went pretty well. However, I already have some trouble shooting to do.

Spoiler:

Our party witch got higher Initative than the asaathi, and with judicaous use of sonic burst and the Slumber hex managed to keep the Serpent Amphora from being captured by the snake-men. Great victory for the PCs, headaches for the GM

Anyway, I am chronicling our campaign {url=http://paizo.com/forums/dmtz55u5?DM-Dave-Runs-The-Scarred-Lands]in this thread[/url] if you want to follow along and see how we do.