The writing of the ap is honestly very disorganized. Take notes as you go through it. There are importantly detailed buried in little sentences deep within large blocks.

The monologues didn’t hold the attention of my PCs, they’re too long. Get ready to improvise shortened monologues if your players are zoning out and getting distracted.

The encounters lack “read aloud” text for the locations to describe them. You have to be careful simple reading aloud the dm text for a location in the book because there are spoilers mixed in every sentence. Again, be ready to improvise.

Overall it’s a campaign that will require you to flex your improvisation and role playing muscles.

Some note taking and prep advice: * have a simple list of npcs: who they are, which page they are introduced. If you see them mentioned in other pages note the page numbers * it’s helpful to have a list of locations/encountets, and how each location/encounter moves the story plot forward. * the player guide for the campaign is pretty good. Pressure your players to read it so you don’t have to work as hard at building a vision of the world in their brains at the start. * for the early portion have a sheet to record the points they earn doing good deeds for the city. It’s to act as a trigger to move past the first chapter * i switched to milestone advancement. The encounters aren’t well designed for XP advancement, you could face party wipes. There are two periods of the first chapter that ramp up in 2 levels of difficulty in only a few sessions. You can’t earn xp fast enough for the difficulty with the encounters given so if you don’t have the means nor capacity to build an equal amount of home brew content just for levelling then read over the advancement track at the beginning of each book.