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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joachim" data-source="post: 1681827" data-attributes="member: 9531">What I haven't liked thus far:1)  No real plot.  Just grab the PC's by the nosehairs, and drag them around town from encounter area to encounter area.  Don't give them any choices, such as how to handle the whole situation or even let them rest.2)  The aforementioned Diplomacy DC's and the consequences of Cauldronites biting it.  (RANT WARNING) Just looking over a lot of modules of late it appears that Diplomacy has become the lazy game-designer's skill of choice.  People can say all they want that Diplomacy is a 'role-playing' skill used by good serious role-players, when in fact it is the opposite.  Instead of roleplaying a rousing speech, making your case to the city guard, etc., now all you have to do is say, "I am going to make a Diplomacy check...I have +30 to the roll."  I know how people will respond by saying, "The DM can give diplomacy bonuses for good roleplaying."  While this is true, which is more significant...the +4 circumstance bonus or the +30 that you already have.3)  The combats haven't been all that interesting, and the noncombat encounters have been a moderate waste of time.  Paizo's inability to review monsters before slapping on templates and adjusting CR's rears its ugly head in one encounter in particular.  The fight in question was not unwinnable by any stretch, but was woefully under-CR'ed.</blockquote>