Review: SRM03-03 Burning Bridges, A SaintHax review Options

[SaintHax]

After playing this mod at GenCon 2009, I finally have read it. I feel for the most part this was a well written mod for what it was.

The fixer meeting was a nice change that will probably go unnoticed by many. The location and GM detail set the adventure in motion, and the box text was (thankfully) missing any annoying statements that have nothing to do with your character-- nothing that stated you were broke, even though you are playing at TR5/6 and can't decide how to spend your next 100k of nuyen. The mod also gave references to where things are located in your collection of books to look up (GM's everywhere rejoice).

What it is: it's really one big strategic puzzle to solve. There's very little story to be had, but plenty of opportunity to circumvent security and defenses-- or possibly hammer your way through the problem, though I'd guess that would be very messy. IMO, these normally play better with 4-5 players and more than that you normally have enough table discussion as to drag you down. Little story, but very detailed mod.

What I didn’t' like about it, was it didn't scale well. Despite the normal scaling problems, the idea didn't scale to me. This mission should be something that TR4+ pulls off. It would have been a good Prime Runner mod. A green table executing this successfully feels off. Overall it was fun to play, but probably not one I'll talk about later. The difficulty kept me attentive at the table, but the lack of a plot keeps it from being something I'm going to "ew" and "ah" over.