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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4920735" data-attributes="member: 11821">We're going through the big adventure path right now, and I largely agree with MerricB.* Keep on the Shadowfell could have gone better, and the second time I started running it, it did.  It has the seeds of a great adventure in it, but as-written it's not that awesome.  There are a lot of problems with it, but it can be a great toolkit.* Thunderspire Labyrinth was probably my favorite of the H-levels.  The dungeon sections are generally fairly small, and the town has plenty of personalities to interact with.  Overall, a strong, solid module with a ton of potential for future adventuring.* Pyramid of Shadows looked like it would be awesome, but ended up disappointing.  It's a big dungeon slog where everything tries to kill you, as written. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Even with diplomacy, most of the various groups will still try to kill or betray you.  It didn't have enough other stuff mixed in to make it as awesome as it could have been...  Now, with that said, I think there were some incredible combat encounters... there were just too many of them.* So far, I'm loving Trollhaunt Warrens.  I do think the Great Warren seems a tad too big, and I feel a definite need to flesh out the Feywild a bit (or a lot) better.  So far, the siege on Moonstair is one of my favorite parts.  (Also, the party has its first recurring villains, so that's pretty awesome, too.)  I made some early modifications to turn the whole scenario into Civilization vs. Savagery; the mayor is a retired paladin of Erathis, and the trolls are upset at what they perceive as humans encroaching on their ancestral lands.  It adds a level to it that's more than Monsters vs. Humans. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That's it for me so far.-O</blockquote>

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