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<blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 6370937" data-attributes="member: 9053"><p>Ouch.</p><p></p><p>I think you're going to get some pushback for this review, but from my first play in the Adventure's League, you're about right. Generic encounters, check. Railroad plot, check.</p><p></p><p>I have a lot of respect for the authors, so I'm left with a big ? over my head at the whole thing. I guess that means I'm there to give someone a quest, like the Governor does. Speaking of that, as I read your review, I thought if I'd run it, I'd play that character as if he were the Governor from The Walking Dead. Hmmmn.</p><p></p><p>So as I think about this, I guess I'd say a fair bit of this is working as desired. It seems to me that the goal of 5E is to let the DM put the meat on the bones of the game, so perhaps this is actually intended.</p><p></p><p>I think a lot of people have been spoiled by adventures that give a lot more details (although spoiled almost certainly isn't the right word). It sounds like this adventure could be very good if the DM puts some prep time into it. Sadly, the session I played was by the numbers, so it was pretty much as you described it.</p><p></p><p>Still, it's no Keep on the Shadowfell, right?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveC, post: 6370937, member: 9053"] Ouch. I think you're going to get some pushback for this review, but from my first play in the Adventure's League, you're about right. Generic encounters, check. Railroad plot, check. I have a lot of respect for the authors, so I'm left with a big ? over my head at the whole thing. I guess that means I'm there to give someone a quest, like the Governor does. Speaking of that, as I read your review, I thought if I'd run it, I'd play that character as if he were the Governor from The Walking Dead. Hmmmn. So as I think about this, I guess I'd say a fair bit of this is working as desired. It seems to me that the goal of 5E is to let the DM put the meat on the bones of the game, so perhaps this is actually intended. I think a lot of people have been spoiled by adventures that give a lot more details (although spoiled almost certainly isn't the right word). It sounds like this adventure could be very good if the DM puts some prep time into it. Sadly, the session I played was by the numbers, so it was pretty much as you described it. Still, it's no Keep on the Shadowfell, right? [/QUOTE]
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