Contact review:
A deadly tier 3 adventure, featuring steampunk dwarves that my goliath player had to look up to, floating eyeballs of all kinds and deadly traps (both in combat and out)
Story was simple to follow, party gets conscripted to blow up an -REDACTED-1 before -REDACTED-2 can study it and put it to military use. Time wise it's a bit wishy-washy, a hundred years ago -REDACTED-1 ended up in the mountains, and in the last week -REDACTED-3 goes out to get labour to recover it and -REDACTED-2 spots it.
What happens in the 90 years and 50 Weeks in between? Did it take -REDACTED-3 that long to get out?
Combat is easily a strong point of the adventure, each one is challenging in it's own way, and not just because of the large HP pool of the enemies (in fact the opposite, for my party they probably could have been upped a bit because of the constant 70-90 damage AoE my playerS could put out - they were well equipped after finishing Tomb of Horrors already) and it also gives you a quick reference block for the encounters - This is extremely handy, no flipping pages while we roll into and get everything sorted out.
Pacing is where I had my hardest time, but i have a solution if I run it again. My party wanted to have long rest after every encounter and I really had no reason to say no other than throwing more monsters at them. Next time I will have the -REDACTED-2 be not far behind, within eyesight so that when they want to rest, they see them approaching them with overwhelming force (maybe a few archmage).
Puzzle:
My players didn't finish the puzzle. They were close, and the wizard cast slow on the -REDACTED-1 so I gave them an extra 3 minutes. They were on puzzle 5 and almost had it but the battleship puzzle was barely half done. I personally done both puzzles blind and took 23 minutes solo for all 5 numbers and 17 minutes for the battleship, so it is doable.
Overall a very enjoyable experience, even if it took 9 hours for my group (7 players, some inexperienced) and looking forward to the next installment... War is comming
--1 alien space ship
--2 Thayans
--3 Ship Commander
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