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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gfunk" data-source="post: 1147122" data-attributes="member: 1813">Ooops, heh heh.  Freudian slip maybe?  I changed my post above to include Tilly as well.  He's still alive and kicking, I just forgot to include him for some strange reason.  It is an entirely different feel because you are rooted to one city, Cauldron.  In the first Adventure Path we went all over the place: Sunless Citadel/Forge of Fury (near Ashabenford), Speaker in Dreams (Hillsfar), Standing Stone (in Myth Drannor), Heart of Nightfang Spire (near Thunderstone), Deep Horizon (Underdark), BoBS (all over the Planes). The Shackled City kind of feels like Freeport.  I DMed our current group through the first trilogy of Freeport modules and I think they would agree.  You have a strong contact in the city (Church of Tyr) and all of your adventures are, more or less, sanctioned by them.  Also there are large corrupting influences in the city, like in Freeport. Combat-wise it is much more diverse.  After playing D&D for so long, it is hard not to metagame when playing classic monsters in the MM.  However, Shackled City uses more obscure monsters from MM2 and FF which throws a lot of uncertainty into the mix.  Also, the new Path tries to highlight some 3.5 changes, but this will take a bit of tweaking by the DM b/c they weren't fully integrated yet (skeleton templates for example).  Eh, it's a mix.  We do feel more involved but the problem is how small Cauldron is.  The gp cap for magic items is quite low so we have to travel to the capital city for major shopping (thankfully I can fly) -- this is a bit of an annoyance.  Also, if you are into that whole glory and prestige thing then it is somewhat difficult to gain reknown in a podunk town in the boonies. Of course, this is simply my impression after the first two modules.  It may try to branch out a little more.  Personally, I like to adventure in different locales (the jungle in Flood Season was particularly nice) and choose where my PC will eventually "settle down."</blockquote>

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