(I only have the premium module, so some or all of the issues I found might only be different in the PDF)
I am currently prepping this to run it tomorrow and found a few things worth mentioning:
1. The first skill challenge (Presentation) doesn't account for number of players at all! So a group of 4 players has 16 actions, while one of 6 players will have 24 - but the number of successes needed is the same.
This might be less of an issue if the secondary success condition didn't consist ENTIRELY of this skill challenge.
This seems like an obvious mistake to me, so may it would be OK here to give smaller groups more rounds? 6 rounds for 4, 5 rounds for 5 and 4 rounds for 6 characters? That way, groups of all sizes have (almost) the same number of rolls to accumulate points (24/25/24).
2. The second skill challenge (Investigation) also doesn't account for the number of players when it comes to the number of successes needed. But since this one only affects initiative a tiny bit, it doesn't matter as much. Also, the thresholds are easier (8/13 instead of 10/15)
Another thing about this one: It is indicated that the players can start whereever they like. But then it lists the different challenges as rounds? This feels like a leftover of a previous version where this was a more formal type of challenge.
3. Najid's "Fennic Scream" ability has two failure effects in both subtiers. Which one is the correct one? Stunned 2 or Stunned for one round?
4. Content wise, I have two issues with this adventure:
a)It feels kind of bad that this is a scientific symposium, but there is almost NO INFO AT ALL about the subject that is being discussed at the symposium. There is a short sentence about what the Pathfinder Society is presenting, but nothing at all about the results of the other factions! We have had adventures recently that were almost pure lore dumps. This one is lacking lore. Badly.
b) The Pathfinder Society are NOT the last group on the list of presenters. There are three groups that are supposed to present their findings after the players. Since the proceedings are interrupted, it makes sense that they don't do that right away. But the conclusion makes it sound like they don't present their findings later, either.
Those two points in conjunction strongly suggest that the whole theme of the adventure is pure window dressing and not meant to really do anything and thus wasn't spared too much thought.
5. On a more general note: The adventure could have used another round of proof reading! It is riddled with errors and weird sentences.
