Season 5 is pretty great for Tier 1 top to bottom, but this is the best of the bunch. It's time to face Bad Fruul at last.

Pros: Cool mechanical bit that abstracts the PCs' preparations for Bad Fruul's arrival and makes them central to Parnast's survival. Multiple paths to "success," in that it's up to the players where to put their effort in said preparations. Challenging final encounter for most parties in which they finally face the Fruul himself. It's not all building walls and training the militia -- there's also the opportunity, though not the requirement, to get involved in a couple side-quests. If you've played through the previous Tier 1 adventures in the series, this one makes all that seem even more worthwhile by calling back to nearly every one of them in a meaningful way.

Cons: Unless the DM and players make the effort to add color to the siege preparations, it's just a bunch of skill rolls. Obviously everyone should be adding color all the time anyway, but the point is that building up the resource pools doesn't generate fiction -- only numerical results. There's a lot for the PCs to do and lots of choices for them to make, but the flipside is that they may feel directionless -- especially where Chandra Stol is concerned. This is a minor point, but it's possible for both Bad Fruul and his mount to be the same size creatures, which... doesn't work, riding-a-mount-wise. That time Jay Africa shouted "Let's get Parnast-y!" upon Bad Fruul's arrival.

My Experiences: Having played it once and run it once, I'll say that they were pretty consistent experiences. That is, my experience as a player gave me certain expectations for how it'd go when I ran it, and those expectations were met. So from my admittedly limited perspective, it produces pretty consistent results. It's not one of those adventures like, I dunno, The Executioner, which can vary wildly with each playthrough.