James Jacobs wrote:

doc the grey wrote: Anyone else reading this and feeling like Hell's Rebels is kind of like an afterthought to Hell's Vengeance? Like I'm interested in what's going on in Rebel's but in like the first 2 pages it's basically saying that no this is not a fight Queen Abrignal and topple the Devils story, its what's going on while this other bigger, crazier story is going on far away. Anyone else getting that? Having spent nearly a year working on Hell's Rebels... I hope not! That language is specifically in there to manage expectations and coach players into playing characters that are appropriate for the campaign. Members of the Glorious Reclamation are NOT appropriate for Hell's Rebels for two very good reasons: 1) They're lawful, and this campaign works best with non-lawful characters. 2) The rules for the Glorious Reclamation won't be out for another 6 months at minimum. If what those words do for you is inform you that the Cheliax AP you really want to play is Hell's Vengeance and NOT Hell's Rebels, though... then the words are doing exactly what they're meant to do.

Well it's more like I was expecting to finally get a crack at House Thrune in a real way and potentially even a storming of Abrignal and her crew themselves from the year of build up towards this ap. As it stands we've done urban adventure (in Cheliax no less) and done the whole recapture the city and reclaim it for good already. From what had been reported through the last year I had gotten the picture that this would be the time where we get to see that fomenting distrust of Cheliax finally boil over into a full on, nation wide rebellion that would take us to the gates of Egorian and the Thrice Damned house itself, army of angry rebels in tow. Instead it seems we're getting this one contained story about what goes on in Kintargo.

Now don't get me wrong that sounds cool, but not like what it felt like we were promised. What's worse is it seems like a side story to what's going on in Vengeance and like the Shattered Star to Vengeance's Runelord rather than the 1st part of this 2 part narrative. Compounding this is that it seems as if the aforementioned war proper to take down Thrune narrative will be largely handled by the NPCs in the next adventure while PCs finally get a chance at putting the E in their alignment section. That again doesn't sound bad (I totally dig the idea of Paizo taking a crack at a FMG style Way of the Wicked AP) but just feels like another dodge of what has been discussed for the last year.