DDAL10-05 A Blight in the Darkness

Purchased by my FLGS for me to run. Really liked the inclusion of the story awards in this mid-season finale! My players also really are enjoying the Old Goat/Kaskur storyline.

I ran this adventure within AL and it turned out pretty fun, even though I have to admit I really disliked it at first.

What I liked:
- The combat with Frostclaw was pretty fun, especially as the chardalyn spideroids or whatever can misty step and break through frontliner PC, which makes the party change tactics.
- Clod quickly became a favourite, it doesn't make much sense for him to be around I'd say but it was a fun encounter. The party was surprisingly eager to gulp the weird goo and the effects were cool too. I am maybe not sure about leaving single outright detrimental effect (roll of 1), while others are helpful or at least somewhat balanced (especially as it can basically switch off casters before the final boss).
- I think the combat with Feral-Tongue was fine but we had little time left and I didn't really go all out with tactics. As usual with official casters, he goes down pretty quickly (his trait to turn into a polar bear does NOT give him additional HP like wildshape,...See more I would frankly give him that ability).

What I did not like:
- The three hunters who just leave the party before they get to do absolutely anything. It's pointless, makes the party weirdly suspicious of them and undermines Spearsong's argument against Old Goat.
- The puzzle was a bit weird. I liked that there were multiple options to solve the puzzle but the info about the creatures in the door should be available without (fairly difficult) checks (I think the bruteforce option should be there in case they don't solve it, not when they fail knowledge checks). It is also unclear what the goal of the puzzle is in the first place, which can be a big obstacle on its own.
- This is not a huge problem but I'd probably put something different in front of the dungeon and have Frostclaw and Feral-Tongue fight the party together (and drop the polar bears). Would it be (too?) brutal? Maybe. But Frostclaw encountered the party so many times and became an ongoing villain, it would make more sense to me for her to be in the final battle (after all, they never actually met Feral-Tongue so he's just some dude to them).

All in all, this was a fairly fun part and a decent finale for the first plot arc.

Hello, I just wanted to check with the author, is there anyway for the content catalogue or DMs guide for season 10 to be updated with the effects of Story Awards as new modules have come out? I just finished this session but want to be able to foreshadow what the Chardalyn corruption actually does to the PCs that have it while they continue playing in the Hardcover for the campaign.

I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but for the section in the Netherese Outpost there is no direction regarding which map to use? I'm hoping to get this all put onto a VTT and wasn't sure if I should just create one of my own...I want to keep everything AL official!