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I´ve read a lot of the complaints about assault on the wound and scars of the thrid crusade and i really can´t understand them.
Assault on the Wound closes part of the main storyline of season 5, the story is building up over several scenarios before and it was pretty clear that this type of event was coming. Just look at the boons....
Spoiler:. Moving all armies into one square and then wiping single players out is a bad GM move, not the scenarios fault. You can also ask your players not to do that. I had one destroyed player army due to the player not retrating in time and bad dice luck, but that was in the second battle. The first battle is a joke really. Also please don´t blame it on the scenario when you did not understand the mass combat rules properly or they were explained poorly. And bad player tactics or decisions is another such thing. Even in the final fight there is a save chance for the players, what is really nice. When i played it first, the sight of a creature with wings and an open mouth with a cliff going down 100 feet made my character secure herself with a rope at the ladder as a first action.
Story wise, I agree with you that Assault was a good wrap up, but mechanically
And adding in a second new mechanic (troops) in the same scenario was an egregious mistake IMO
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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I find that many many people don't know how the Fascinated condition works. When we got hit with in in Trial by Machine I quickly pointed this out to the other players, and everyone got slapped back into action within a round. After that the monster switched to another ability but the target rolled well on saves.
I do think the GM may have forgotten to apply hardness to energy damage, as my alchemical attacks proved very effective.
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Venture-Captain, Germany–Hannover
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Also
Fascinated: A fascinated creature is entranced by a supernatural or spell effect. The creature stands or sits quietly, taking no actions other than to pay attention to the fascinating effect, for as long as the effect lasts. It takes a –4 penalty on skill checks made as reactions, such as Perception checks. Any potential threat, such as a hostile creature approaching, allows the fascinated creature a new saving throw against the fascinating effect. Any obvious threat, such as someone drawing a weapon, casting a spell, or aiming a ranged weapon at the fascinated creature, automatically breaks the effect. A fascinated creature's ally may shake it free of the spell as a standard action.
I read that if the fearmonger attacks a player, the effect ends. Otherwise bards would be horribly strong^^
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Venture-Captain, Germany–Hannover
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Yes, it can approach, but not attack. That´s not written in the scenario, but under the given scarecrow entry.
Target is fascinated, 30 feet, Will DC 14 negates. Fascination lasts as long as the scarecrow remains within 300 feet of the fascinated creature. The approach or animation of the scarecrow does not count as an obvious threat to the victim of this particular fascination effect (although the scarecrow's attack does count as an obvious threat and ends the fascination immediately). This is a mind-affecting effect. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Written tactics During Combat: The fearmonger prototype tries locking down all adversaries with its fascination gaze, then attempts to pick off one opponent at a time doesn´t work out that good unfortunately. But that´s the only flaw if you ask me, because then potentialy the fear ability comes into play.
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Next, and this is just from my characters perspective, we have the swarm of archers, which once again, because they decided to use special half-assed rules, basically invalidates my entire character who could otherwise wade into a small group of archers and have a lot of fun enlarging with a reach weapon and AoOing the crap out of them. But nope, they are not actually a group of archers, but a pseudo-swarm, similar to one of the most complained about monster types in PFS. We get it, someone really wanted to push Ultimate Campaign sells or something. Got it.
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Not going to comment yet on anything past that point, but so far, this scenario has made my character basically not matter. Now, so far, from all the of Taldor focused scenarios we have literally been told "this does nothing now, but wait and see", which leads specifically to this one. And we get a single new option, but it's also specifically written so that if more than one character qualify and chooses it, that particular army(s) basically gets severely weakened, and it's kind of meh to start with.
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They really need to rewrite this one, discarding the existing Mass Combat and Troop rules to focus on making characters matter. And to add in something worth a damn for Taldor which this was supposed to be the finale for all of the previous Taldor stories boons. Even the Chronicle Sheet reward for Taldor is extremely meh, not to mention contains errors. Wait, I get 2 uses of a spell? No cool title. No cool RP saying you are now a general or something. A spell x2. It's an ok spell, if you can't already use it, but that's it? Seriously. Now add in after this Taldor goes away for this Sov Court which basically double screws a lot of Taldor character's whole theme, (admittedly not an issue with this scenario, but they obviously did know this before it even came out), and I honestly wish I had never played it, and just went on with my character's whole background on my own.
But it's things like that that people that hate the scenario are complaining about,
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** spoiler omitted **I just played Trial By Machine today.
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The besides the final encounter, I thought it was pretty fun, though I was extremely disappointed by the lack of Ion Gloves on the chronicle.
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Yes, you do also get a new save each of your turns to snap out of it.
Not sure why there's so many complaints of it was too powerful followed by, but we beat it and nobody died. If that's true then clearly it was not too powerful, everyone succeeded at it.
I just played Trail by Machine as my 1st PFS adventure. We survived because our party had 3 1st level & 2 4th level pregenerated characters. The presence of the 4th level characters, and their bundle of HP saved the party several times.
BTW: My 1st level Paladin did survive although as one of the party fighters he spent much of the time lying unconscious.
Tim
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Venture-Captain, Germany–Hannover
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Plenty of time means a 5 hour slot on a Con with a table of 6 people i never met before.
I played it before thanks to one of our Grandmasters here and we had excellent preparation, everything copied on hand outs etc.
Having a slot 0 was a very good thing in this case.