Age of Worms: Could I get an overview?

[Cam Banks]

The rest of the PCs, 4 veteran players of 25 years plus experience, stayed and fought.

I'm sure you and I can probably agree, Robert, that all that experience doesn't usually make much difference in most cases. I've been gaming for that long and I still screw up royally.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[lgburton]

My first hand experience is that the dungeons in AoW are party killers. I know, I've seen it kill two of my groups. The story is excellent and well thought out (except for the second module which is full of problems), but the encounters are just plain deadly.

Ren

see, i find the second module's problems tolerable, while i find the 3rd module to be full of storyline holes, and requiring a lot of DM re-writing to get the party to actually finish the adventure.

mearls made mechanical errors, yeah, but those are easily fixable.

getting the PCs enough information to make them concerned about the lizardman eggs... that's the trick.