Penumbral Accords (2-11) with season 5 prestige points

[Maggus]

Morning,

has anyone run it already using the secondary success condition of season 5?

If i´m reading it right, by rushing to the final encounter and ignoring the other rooms, the player can end up with both prestige points (primary for rescueing the girls, secondary for deactivating the Wightir Conjunction) but zero XP since they have only two encounters done?

Actually, i can imagine that some players would be pretty happy with two cheap prestige points despite the loss of XP and some gold.

[GM Lamplighter]

Well, they could, if they knew to do that... Loss of XP is pretty serious, and loss of gold is as well since prestige builds up fast anyway, and you will likely use consumables in the last fight.

[Eric Clingenpeel]

Wow, that's a lot better than it used to be. Before if you rushed to that encounter and didn't search I believe only two factions had a chance to get any prestige and then it was only one point.

[FLite]

I feel like this is the point where someone looks at them and says "you remember the part about exploring, right? You had a never again chance to look at another plane of existence, and you blew up the gate and came straight home without looking around."

(Several times in various modules I have had to push the party to check all the side rooms. Why? because we are pathfinders, and that's what we do.)