Shackled City vs Age of Worms. FIGHT!

[Stone Dog]

Lets say you had to recommend an adventure path to somebody and you only had two choices to pull from. Which would it be and why?

Thanks for your time!

 

[jdrakeh]

For the time being... Shackled City is WAY better than Age of Worms... because:

a) It's complete.
b) It's available as a single, hardcover, compilation.

When Age of Worms gets finished up and compiled as a hardcover supplement, my vote may (and very likely will) change.

 

[Stone Dog]

I should have clarified that format isn't really an issue... sorry!

So for actual content, you are saying you are liking AoW more than SC?

 

[jester47]

SC seems to railroad a little bit in the later parts, that is the challenges are linear.

A.

 

[jdrakeh]

So for actual content, you are saying you are liking AoW more than SC?

So far, but at the present time, my vote goes to Shackled City because it's complete. I know all of its strengths and weaknesses. I know what it's like at its best and what it's like at its worst. Age of Worms isn't finished yet, thus many of its strengths and/or weaknesses have yet to reveal themselves. The possibility exists that it may surpass Shackled City in terms of quality, sure - but the possibility also exists that it could take a turn towards horrible. The problem with judging an incomplete product is that none of us can see what the future holds with certainty.

 

[Stone Dog]

Gotcha! Good point, too. Thanks.

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

So far I'm liking AoW more than SC. I LIKE SC, but it's a little too ... "Out There" for my tastes.

The caldera, the tropical clime, the huge variety of bad-guys working at cross-purposes, the wacky planescape background.

AoW is pretty rooted in some Old Skool type action and the bad-guys were interesting, but not in a "dude, totally grabbed a new weird monster out of MM(X)" sort of way. It's classic, and solid.

--fje

 

[demiurge1138]

Shackled City was pretty cool, but the modules had some issues. That, combined with the slightly loopy backstory and rather railroady nature, alienated me from it a bit. Age of Worms is a tad railroady, sure, but I much prefer the nature of the challenges, and the deep ties to Greyhawk give it more "cool factor" in my book. Plus, it took an interesting but vague D&D figure (Kyuss and his spawn) and made it completely awesome.

Demiurge out.

 

[devilbat]

I much prefer what I'm seeing in AoW over what I saw in SC. Not that SC was bad, it's just that I'm enjoying the storyline and writing more so then I did for SC.

 

[DragonLancer]

At this point in time, I find that Shackled City is better than Age of Worms, but they are tow different styles of story. AoW is still very good just slightly behind SC in the ratings.