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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8788013" data-attributes="member: 907">I've had experience with Age of Ashes (as a player, up to level 11, about to hit 12), Extinction Curse (as GM, played the first two volumes so we reached level 9 just before pausing as we went back to off-line playing), and Agents of Edgewatch (only the first volume, just hit level 5).Age of Ashes has some rough parts early on, particularly a certain encounter near the end of volume 1. It showed me that the encounter guidelines needs an addendum that you should be really careful about using higher-level enemies against low-level characters, because low-level characters don't have the depth needed to deal with them. A level 10 enemy against a level 7 party is in theory the same as a level 7 enemy against a level 4 party, but in practice they are very different.Both Extinction Curse and Agents of Edgewatch suffer from two things: overly large dungeons, and Paizo's lack of confidence in adventuring that isn't dungeon-crawling. They're both sold in as high-concept APs, but they pretty much devolve into dungeon crawling anyway. And they both have fairly big dungeons (10+ encounters) with things going on that should in theory be ticking clocks, but because of the way post-encounter recovery is handled and how the encounters are tuned it feels really bad to try to force them in a single day. Agents of Edgewatch also had a ridiculously lethal monster around: [ISPOILER]an elite ochre jelly that's supposed to be a "moderate" encounter for a 4th level party but has 170 hp, immunity to slashing, piercing, precision, electricity, and acid damage, with slashing/piercing/electrical damage possibly splitting it into two equally-lethal monsters with fewer hp, as well as an attack bonus of +17 against the typical AC of 21 – plus, there are traps in the upper portion of the dungeon that has a good chance of hitting you at level 3 and depositing you in the same room as the ooze prone, alone, and with 15-20 points of damage already[/ISPOILER].</blockquote>

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