Rise of the Runelords

Force6262 · May 9, 2012

I never played this campaign setting, but I am curious about it. So what are your thoughts on it, is it good, bad or somewhere in between?

Crothian · May 9, 2012

It is traditionally D&D: Classic monsters, lots of exploration and fighting, a good amount of weirdness and horror. It suffers I felt from establishing Sandpoint and many interesting NPCs and then having the PCs leave and not really do much more with it.

Lwaxy · May 9, 2012

Well, it is a, adventure path within a setting, and I love the Golarion setting for the most part. Love Rise of the Runelords, too.

Lwaxy · May 9, 2012

Crothian said:
It suffers I felt from establishing Sandpoint and many interesting NPCs and then having the PCs leave and not really do much more with it.

But that's where the GM comes in

Sandpoint became our main base for a long time.

Crothian · May 9, 2012

Lwaxy said:
But that's where the GM comes in Sandpoint became our main base for a long time.

Sure a good DM can clean up and fix any problem an AP has. But I can only judge the book on what is in the books.

DaveMage · May 9, 2012

My group had a TPK in the second book.

Very tough if played as written. The anniversary edition is supposed to tone down the encounter that killed my party (and apparently a bunch of other parties too

).

Lwaxy · May 9, 2012

Yup, we had an almost TPK there.

MerricB · May 10, 2012

Crothian said:
It is traditionally D&D: Classic monsters, lots of exploration and fighting, a good amount of weirdness and horror. It suffers I felt from establishing Sandpoint and many interesting NPCs and then having the PCs leave and not really do much more with it.

That's the same problem we had with Savage Tide: the city we left was more interesting than what we went to.