The chronicle for this scenario awards the item "shifting runestone". I assume that that is intended to be a runestone with a shifting rune engraved on it; however if that is the case both item level and price would be increadibly low - a shifting rune is normally a 6th level item costing 225 gp (not 4th level / 20 gp)
As that is obviosuly not intended (a resale value of 112 gp and no limit would be an easy way to infinite gold), GMs should probably correct this before handing out the chronicle, lest players start purchasing them for 20 gp a piece...
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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The elite template doesn't look it it was fully applied to the nightmares either (saves aren't adjusted), but we go with what's in the scenario, so....
I wonder if that's intentional? As a caster, that increase to all saves at once can feel rather uphill.
That said, any template that's not applied the standard way shouldn't be called the standard way, that's asking for trouble.
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Other problems I noticed:
- The treasure bundle chart doesn't have the correct number of boxes (but has the right number of bundles listed in text)
- How are the Onyx Alliance Agents dealing 8 damage with a blowgun?? The weapon does 1 Piercing damage.
However, I did solve one earlier question:
The agents in encounter B1 are also Spontaneous casters with no indication of how many spell slots they have.
This one I was able to figure out with the help of another VO.
You add to this spell repertoire as you increase in level. Each time you get a spell slot (see Table 3–17), you add a spell of the same level to your spell repertoire.
Therefore, the number of spells they have in their repertoire is equal to the number of spell slots they have at that level.
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Comments about the quality of the product, like missing information on stat blocks or missing boxes for loot, really should be put on the product page.
There has been a fairly large number of these errors and problems. The quality control for adventures has gone down over that past several months.
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Thanks for finding issues, folks. I'm correcting the raw scenario file, and we'll reupload shortly.
*Fixed runestone price/level to standard
*Fixed Elite template application on nightmare
*Fixed CP scaling in first encounter of high level range to list high level ranges.
*added number of spells to spontaneous casters (the standard, same as # listed)
*added missing checkbox to treasure bundle list
*added perception to Nigel's discovery skills (DC 2 higher than Arcana)
*blowgun damage normalized (technically NPCs don't have to do the same damage as PCs with weapons, though we generally try to have them do so)
*Map for Area B (added in previous revision)
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A few notes:
• GMs should be aware and ready to deal with players that have metaplot knowledge, through no fault of their own. A couple of my players had played Daughter's Due and immediately guessed some of the plot points (it's also very similar, with an audit of Nigel's work being conducted for the Blackros family). Daughter's Due was 1e but this is totally justifiable, in my opinion: a high-level PC with Pathfinder Society Lore or Onyx Alliance Lore or Absalom Lore could absolutely know about this plotline and the Blackros' shady dealings.
• Onyx Agents should probably have been called out as Fetchlings with the Shadow Trait. Example Fetchling statblock. I think they are supposed to be Fetchlings (the summary even mentions that Kayals run the Alliance), at least… that's how I ran it.
• High-Tier Encounter B1 contains the low-tier adjustments. I could not find the high-tier adjustments, even in the new PDF. I ran it as written with only the base encounter even though we had 22 Challenge Points.
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I don't think the metaplot knowledge is particularly problematic -- there's little to suggest from Daughter's Due that Nigel et al are working with Sarnia. If anything the metaknowledge, combined with the ambush is likely to think that the onyx alliance is framing Nigel, IMO, and complicated it from a Nigel v Blakros to a Nigel v Onyx v Blakros triangle.
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Venture-Lieutenant, Massachusetts—Boston Metro
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A few notes:
• GMs should be aware and ready to deal with players that have metaplot knowledge, through no fault of their own. A couple of my players had played Daughter's Due and immediately guessed some of the plot points (it's also very similar, with an audit of Nigel's work being conducted for the Blackros family). Daughter's Due was 1e but this is totally justifiable, in my opinion: a high-level PC with Pathfinder Society Lore or Onyx Alliance Lore or Absalom Lore could absolutely know about this plotline and the Blackros' shady dealings.
I mean considering that there is an overt reference to Daughters Due in another scenario I don't think you can safely guess what's going on. In fact if anything knowledge of that scenario is confusing.
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Speaking of Daughter’s Due, it actually had one of the Legacy Boons on it- so knowledge meta of that situation is completely reasonable. I do think being aware of it is a good thing though, cause when playing it my gm may have had to cut that off before I went too far for the table. That being said, I definitely saw it as more of Nigel vs. them until the end.
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A note about the secondary success and faction goals:
prevent the destruction of four or more artifacts in the vault
I just witnessed two GM/VOs have a fun linguistic argument about whether or not that meant failure was "2/6 get destroyed" or "4/6 get destroyed" until we noticed the development text:
If the PCs stop the Foals of Szuriel before they destroy 4 or more relics within the vault,
...which clarifies it to mean the latter interpretation. However, after being referee for the aforementioned conversation, we all agreed that it couldn't hurt to bring it up here on the boards.
Enjoy the horse steak :P
Venture-Agent, Finland—Tampere
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I found reference to Gerhard Pentagrast way too amusing x'D I do think scenario does actually make good job of Nigel not seeming incompetent, but I haven't actually seen all of Nigel's performances as I haven't played all Blakros scenarios, so for all I know this wouldn't convince most people.
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I have a question about the Nightmare's Hoof attack.
1. As mentioned above, they are listed as Ranged attacks, but I presume they are melee.
2. The damage for the hoof attack says, "1d8+8 bludgeoning plus 1d6 and 1d8 fire." What type is the "1d6" damage? In the bestiary, it's evil damage. I presume that's the case here and it was just omitted?
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A few notes:
• Onyx Agents should probably have been called out as Fetchlings with the Shadow Trait. Example Fetchling statblock. I think they are supposed to be Fetchlings (the summary even mentions that Kayals run the Alliance), at least… that's how I ran it.
So you ran them as Fetchlings instead of using the statblocks included?