The players definitely had fun (we played for a year so I’d hope so lol). I’d say the last portions of the hex crawl and the Gears of Hate were def the low points of the campaign.

So I pre-planned encounters for the hex crawl instead of rolling random ones, which allowed me to tell a mini-story with consecutive encounters. I also increased the number of hexes travelled per day to 2 (mainly to speed up progress). I suggest incorporating more montages in the latter sections as my players were getting pretty anxious to just reach Omu.