so we are in the city of seven spears. and I have to say I hate this AP not because it isn't well written but because I get the sinking feeling that james Jacobs hates his player.
let me fill you in and see if any body else ran into this. our party has been repeatedly attacked by monsters with some special trick for defeating them. like demons or ghosts or shadow demons. so our party rested in a building and was set upon by ghosts who's scream made us paranoid how is any melee class supposed to save 4 will saves in a row? not only that but one of our characters fails his save against the sword of the mantis. so he is randomly possessed by it.
so now the 2 crazy folks escaped and the rest of us were killed so we had to bring in a new party members. so I am a paladin gun slinger with a cleric.
I here is my question is this with so many factors in the AP to not have party unity how are we supposed to function as a party with 2 paranoid characters a evil possessed character. and a lawful good paladin who can just feel the evil radiating of the sword character?
the Alchemist built a shed in the woods and firebombed the entire 30 foot radius. and we had to go talk to her? think marlin brando in apocalypse now. she is paranoid and think he other characters are out to get her. try arguing with the alchemist with bombs.
now challenges are fine but lasting effects like these really ruin a party. and when bringing in new characters how are we supposed to react to a character who is like "hey we need you to help us talk down this old lady with a bomb frenzy" oh yeah i know i ma pinging evil of a minor diety but I need you to trust me?
i guess you had to be there least night but it involved us being fire bombed, then me firing at the possessed magus! and then us trying to tackle a old lady throwing bombs and screaming how the ghosts set her up. did any body else run into this?
Yeah never mind that post is crazy!
it is hard to have a coherent group if every body is insane. we sound do much time roleplaying that we didn't actually gain exp last game for any CR
I thought Holy Guns didn't get the detect evil ability.
ssorry divine hunter/mysterious stranger.