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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9100532" data-attributes="member: 6879661">Two biggest watch outs..1. Combat-centric. Paizo APs are extremely combat-centric. My party are level 13 in Age of Worms (the follow up to Shackled City) and the bulk of the adventuring is overwhelmingly about killing stuff in your way. Shackled City is very similar, as was savage tide. There are other challenges but your DM really needs to put work in to bring them out. Sacks of hp can get really tedious after a while.2. World Depth. It’s a corollary to point 1 but with the ability to go anywhere, see anything, kill things with a thought, high level play can lose sight of the detail. In a drive to be epic encounters can lack pathos and PCs can easily ended up wondering why they are there. Luckily if you have already played the first 12 levels of Shackled city you hopefully have lots of contacts and relationship within the city that can add depth. I would just make sure the DM does this, refreshes those links and draws on them. If done properly this is the biggest antidote to problem 1.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 9100532, member: 6879661"] Two biggest watch outs.. [B]1. Combat-centric.[/B] Paizo APs are extremely combat-centric. My party are level 13 in Age of Worms (the follow up to Shackled City) and the bulk of the adventuring is overwhelmingly about killing stuff in your way. Shackled City is very similar, as was savage tide. There are other challenges but your DM really needs to put work in to bring them out. Sacks of hp can get really tedious after a while. [B]2. World Depth.[/B] It’s a corollary to point 1 but with the ability to go anywhere, see anything, kill things with a thought, high level play can lose sight of the detail. In a drive to be epic encounters can lack pathos and PCs can easily ended up wondering why they are there. Luckily if you have already played the first 12 levels of Shackled city you hopefully have lots of contacts and relationship within the city that can add depth. I would just make sure the DM does this, refreshes those links and draws on them. If done properly this is the biggest antidote to problem 1. [/QUOTE]

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