Question on Serpent's Rise and Ire (No Spoilers, Please)

[1bent1]

I am scheduled to play Serpents Ire on on a Sunday then Serpent's Rise on the following Monday in about a month. Am I able to do this? I would prefer to attend Rise before Ire but that is beyond my control.

So is it legal to do so and will in doing so will Ire spoil Rise for me?

Thanks

[BretI]

Yes, it is legal.

Yes, one is a direct follow on of the other. It even says so in the blurb.

Serpent's Ire blurb wrote:

Content in "Serpents’ Ire" also ties into a special metaplot element from Pathfinder Society Special #6–98: "Serpents Rise." Players who have completed that special event are encouraged to bring its Chronicle sheet when playing this adventure.

[Wei Ji the Learner]

In answer to the last part of your question, it's variable. It MIGHT spoil something, or it might not, depending on which, if any, other players at your table played a certain character in Rise.

However, except for that situation, they're relatively independent of each other from what I saw?

[1bent1]

I am concerned about how lethal the scenarios are, any non-spoiler suggestion for me?

[Disk Elemental]

Play smart, talk to your team, don't be a hero.

[1bent1]

Is it against the rules for me to know the potential character classes of the Pregens so I can read up on the ahead of time?

[joe kirner]

you don't know anything about the pre gens till you sit down to play.
there is a bunch of gm prep that your gm can print out to make life easier for himself and the players.

Read through your pre gen sheet and the mission sheet given in the beginning. Over and over.

[1bent1]

Thanks for the heads up!

[TetsujinOni]

As a GM of both: there are SERIOUS spoilers in playing it out of order.

I'd feel disappointed learning the Ire information before Rise, and the GM of Ire will have a lot less ability to tie things back to events for you.

[1bent1]

Thanks for the warning but I am locked into playing these in this particular order. My local group played Rise months ago and I missed out. So to get them played I am attend a group out of town and that is the order they will be played.

[TetsujinOni]

They're both amazing adventures / caper flicks / cut scenes of the campaign.

If you think of them as caper movies where the details of the caper are less important than the details of how I see the teams have interacted on my runs, Serpents Rise is kinda Oceans 11....

and Serpent's Ire is kinda Ronin.

Enjoy them!

[Rei]

Eh, I don't see a huge problem with playing these out of order if you pick the right pregen. Some of the pregens from Ire would have decent reasons for not knowing what's going on all of the time.

[Mistwalker]

The Pregens all have the spells, feats, etc that are not in the Core listed on them.

I would encourage you to take a Core with you.

[Muser]

There's really no harm in knowing the classes involved beforehand.

Spreading pregen pdfs freely á la Serpent's Rise would spoil a ton though. I just started prepping to play the mesmerist and OH BOY