Venture-Captain, Germany—Bavaria
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Clarification request:
The content on pages 5-6 seems to be missing a map, especially since they include a hazard with a listed trigger range and an encounter.
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Map on page 7 and description on page 8.
Marking actually walls on the overlay layer in the pdf would have been appreciated, since "the upper and lower areas of the map are separated by solid walls instead of railings." does not cover many of the stairs and the chance players triggering more than one encounter at the same time seems very realistic on this map.
I believe that this should be avoided at all cost if possible (and as part of the are description it might be easy to miss, so I felt like mentioning it here in either case).
Venture-Agent, Ohio—Columbus
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I simply used a couple of fliptiles from the Dungeon set to make a generic 30'x20' room with an entrance and exit. But yeah, rather annoying that a whole map is missing. I forgot about that when I wrote my review lol
As for the walls, I also added them on the sides of stairs in addition to replacing the railings in the elevated rooms. It's interesting how closed in it makes this map feel, given that we've had it totally open in previous scenarios. I feel that's how it SHOULD have been in 1-25.
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Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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Routine (2 actions; arcane, mental) The bloody figure in the
mirror transforms to reflect a creature within 30 feet. The
reflection bleeds profusely from the eyes, nose, and mouth,
and the reflected creature must attempt a DC 18 Will save.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected and temporarily
immune for 1 minute.
Success The creature bleeds from their mouth or nose.
Failure The creature bleeds from their eyes, mouth, and
nose, and takes 1d10 persistent bleed damage.
Critical Failure: As failure, and the creature is frightened 1.
Am I missing something about the nosebleeds? Why are success and failure so specific about what body parts you bleed from?
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Venture-Agent, Massachusetts—Boston Metro
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Is the entodemonologist supposed to explicitly namedrop Helsa Embersplitter, or keep it coy?
The explicitly "quoted" examples of his dialogue all make reference to 'her' or 'my lady' but then as the conversatino ends it says: He laughs and adds that Hesla would be displeased with him for oversharing. Notably that sentence is not framed as quoted dialogue from him.
I certainly don't expect it to actually remain any sort of secret that Hesla is up to bad things for longer than Gencon and Season 6's launch - plenty of people assumed as much even from its announcement - but curious exactly how much reveals were intended to be experienced here.
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The Routine from Paper Locust Swarm and Paper Locus Tornado is 1 Action, or 2 Actions?
I have just the Foundry Module and there I have 1 Action in Low-Tier-Variant (Locust Swarm) and a 2 Action in the High-Tier-Variant (Tornado). I think both should be a 1 Action Routine, so the Hazard can in Low Tier and High Tier makes 3 Attacks. Or am I wrong and it is correct that the hazard makes three attacks in the low tier and only one in the high tier (as it costs two actions in the high tier)?
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Is the entodemonologist supposed to explicitly namedrop Helsa Embersplitter, or keep it coy?
The explicitly "quoted" examples of his dialogue all make reference to 'her' or 'my lady' but then as the conversatino ends it says: He laughs and adds that Hesla would be displeased with him for oversharing. Notably that sentence is not framed as quoted dialogue from him.
I certainly don't expect it to actually remain any sort of secret that Hesla is up to bad things for longer than Gencon and Season 6's launch - plenty of people assumed as much even from its announcement - but curious exactly how much reveals were intended to be experienced here.
Since he only says that if they do particularly well in conversation, I would guess that it's an intentional thing, revealing important info to reward effective diplomatic efforts rather than charging straight into battle.
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Venture-Agent, Netherlands—Utrecht
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Maybe I'm missing text from the Obstacle subsystem, but page 8 says about the obstacles in the maze: Each PC can attempt any of the checks set forth in each obstacle...."
The way I read it, that means, every PC can attempt a check at every obstacle. That's a lot of potential successes, while you only need a number of successes equal to the number of PCs to succeed.
Other than that, I loved the tone from prepping it! I was surprised at the conciseness of the scenario (12 pages to the conclusion), yet it has a whole lot of content.
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Venture-Agent, Netherlands—Utrecht
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Ah, I knew I forgot something: the paper locust swarm (and tornado in higher tier) says it transforms into a swarm (or tornado) of paper locusts and one leather locust.
Since there's no size or stats mentioned for the swarm or the locust, I don't think I should treat them as an actual swarm, right? It's tempting to use the stats for the swarm on page 15, but since the encounter doesn't mention them, I think it's just a 5-foot square.
Similarly, the leather locust makes it appear that there's two individual creatures to fight, but the Routine only mentions the swarm/tornado.
While on the subject of encounter A5, I see that in both tiers the swarm/tornado does 2d8+5/2d8+9 damage on a save, while a fail is just a flat 2d8, but with persistent damage. I know persistent is much worse, but the difference doesn't seem like a lot. Is this correct?
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Maybe I'm missing text from the Obstacle subsystem, but page 8 says about the obstacles in the maze: Each PC can attempt any of the checks set forth in each obstacle...."
The way I read it, that means, every PC can attempt a check at every obstacle. That's a lot of potential successes, while you only need a number of successes equal to the number of PCs to succeed.
When I played it, I'm pretty sure we had the required nummer of successes for the whole challenge with the first obstacle. Before running it I was sceptical about it, but when I actually ran it, the party only had 2 successes more than required at the end of the run. So it can be swingy since not everyone will have access to all the requested skills, and don't forget the CF effect. EDIT: At level 1 or 2 you can try to wing it with an untrained skill if your ability modifier is high. At level 3 that will start to (critically) fail.
@author: Loved the whole tone of the adventure, as I mentioned in my review of the product a while back.
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Venture-Agent, Netherlands—Utrecht
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Just an after-action report: my very martially-inclined party (Rogue, Fighter, Barbarian, Thaumaturge) scored 8 points with a party of 4.
I found it a bit odd that you have to fight the entodemonologist if you want full treasure. The party had a very pleasant conversation (only got 3 points, sadly), but got some information and swiped some plans. Yes, I guess it would've been nice if they had swiped all the books, but I didn't want to dock them points for solving things diplomatically.
I had a few tiny niggles during the adventure, but overall it was a very interesting scenario, and I'm looking forward to potential follow-ups. Definitely looks like they're planning something. I'm sure the Godsrain will also open up new avenues here.