DDAL09-05 Faces of Fortune: the Story of Fai Chen

Purchased by my FLGS for me to run. Players really enjoyed the chase, although they worked to take out the drivers first, which gave them a big advantage. They also really enjoyed the emporium, and are looking forward to exploring it in upcoming adventures.

This adventure needs a lot of adjustment and extra work :/. It refers to extra reward from Mahadi if the players go after the Razors (bonus objective B), but never says what that is. It's a huge fight! Is he offering them some of the adventure's gold, or what? Since there is absolutely 0 gold in the adventure otherwise, I'm probably going to just assume that it's where all the GP comes from that they get ... ?

In the flow chart on page 2 objectives 2, A and B are from the previous chapter. Who is proof reading this stuff?

The adventure needs some clarification as to how the chase mechanics work.

For one thing, it says "two war machines act on Initiative 18, 12, and 6". It either lists three initiatives for two machines, or else it needs to have the word "each" added after "machines".

For another, it needs to clarify whether Gary and Fai act on the same initiative or different ones, or whether they need to be in initiative order at all, given they're only taking the dash action and that they're just creating extra chances for players to be hit by the fireball they have a 10% chance of getting creamed by.

The chase complications. If you have a party of five, plus Gary, Fai, and Dara, that's 8 chances for the party to get hit by a fireball per round. Multiply that by eight rounds of combat and you have 64 opportunities for players to get Fireballed. At a 10% chance, that's still a statistical likelihood that players are going to take 180 points of damage each...See more (28 average from each fireball, times 6.4 fireballs on average) from fireballs alone. Even with Dara providing healing, a party would need to be almost exclusively clerics to make it through eight rounds of this insanity.

with the Infernal Pursuit, does the creatures on the war machines get their own intuitive, or does it go on the WM they are are, same goes for characters and their wagon.

Whoever approved this adventure with instructions to "fake" sign language for Elliach needs to seriously rethink their work, and Adventurer's League needs to hire sensitivity readers IMMEDIATELY. That whole part of the adventure is atrocious.

TheX’ahni’din Archdruid stat block from Volos 201 Or mad mage 311 Needs to be add to monsters.

Elliach is he a mage or transmuter? Transmuter AC 12/15 HP 40 XP 1,800 VOL 218, Mage AC 12/15 HP 40 XP 2,300 MM 347

With the infernal pursuit I can’t see stats for the small war machines, I assume the party will attempt to attack the vehicles.

There's an error in in the Appendix 6 header text of this adventure.

Header currently reads "Appendix 6: Character Rewards", but it should actually read "Appendix 6: Dungeon Master Tips".