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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6682639" data-attributes="member: 2525">Paizo authors wrote the WOTC adventures.  When those identical authors write Pathfinder adventures, they don't get critiqued to the same level.  I think that's the source of frustration here - WOTC literally can't win here.  They go out of their way to hire people who also work for Paizo, and they're called outsourcers.  And then when it comes to talking about the adventure itself, suddenly they're called WOTC adventures again, and compared unfavorably to Paizo adventures.  It's a shifting standard, which always works out negative for WOTC depending on what portion of the topic is being discussed.Which is why I am glad Morrus started the review section. You get a much better, more representative sample of opinions from people who have actually read and/or run these things that way, than you do in a thread like this.  And the bottom line when you compare this adventure's reviews to those two adventures you mentioned is it comes out pretty darn well relative to those adventures.  For example I checked it - this adventure has more reviews than Rise of the Runelords, and is rated better (91% vs 85%).  Skull and Shackles gets only a 79% vs. the 91%.  So if you're asking how it compares to those two adventures based on people who actually post reviews - it compares very favorably.  More people have posted reviews, and of those who have posted reviews, people rate it better than those two adventures.</blockquote>

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