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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crash_beedo" data-source="post: 4663881" data-attributes="member: 18781">This is pretty spot on with my take on SOW so far as well; the plot doesn't seem very tight compared to the Paizo AP's.  WOTC's decision not to preview the campaign is partly to blame as well.SOW has some interesting pieces, compelling locales, diamond-in-the-rough villains, etc, but I'll wait until the whole campaign is published and re-evaluate it then.  More of the Elsir Vale story is being told each installment, and I think a DM will be able to streamline some of the convoluted plot points, emphasize the correct story points and villains to improve continuity, etc, once they see the whole cloth.  I kind of see it like the 3 blind men and the elephant... no one is creating the big picture of the elephant, just a trunk, a tail and a leg.  There's a sense the individual contributors aren't 100% clued in to the whole story.Besides, had someone plugged it into their campaign starting with SOW 1, they might not have realized there were Orcish Badlands right on the other side of the mountains, or a trackless desert waste just to the southwest... you couldn't even build an accurate campaign map until halfway through the heroic tier.  And as the campaign expands into Paragon and Epic, the "world" map may expand as well.</blockquote>