The third adventure in Goodman Games’ Fifth Edition Fantasy series, The Pillars of Pelagia, is an adventure for four to six 3rd-level characters by Chris Doyle; an appendix scales it up for 6th level characters. I have the pdf of the adventure, which weighs in at 50 pages (including nine pages of player handouts). Despite its length, it’s suggested it can be completed in a … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Pillars of Pelagia
Shattered Sun is a 5E adventure by John Gillette for character levels 1-4 available as a print-on-demand product through Lulu.com. At 34 pages long, it’s about standard length for a “traditional” adventure, although it has a lot of white space that might be filled with art in another product. The layout is clean and readable. The adventure is set in a world where the sun … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Shattered Sun
The Ronin is an unusual product, which does something quite innovative: it gives a point-based system for the DM to track the actions of the players during their interactions with a traveller, the result of which determines how the final act plays out. It is an attempt to have the actions of the players matter, with the aforementioned traveller judging them on their behaviour. It’s a … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Ronin
Theo’s Focus is the latest of the Drop-In Dungeon series from Matt Evans of Mithgarthr Entertainment. It’s a short little dungeon of 7 areas. Although it’s a six-page PDF, only three of the pages contain the adventure. The remainder gives us the cover, the legal stuff, and one other page. The other page is pretty awesome: it contains a number of pictures of Matt’s group … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Theo’s Focus
Erenoth: The Wayward Wanderer isn’t an adventure. Normally that means I wouldn’t review it, but it rather caught my eye. The Wayward Wanderer is a tavern, the starting place for many adventures. Matt Click of A Fistful of Dice designed it for his homebrew world Erenoth, and has now presented it to us as a PDF. It’s an attractive presentation with nice art, although the … Continue reading 5E Review – Erenoth: The Wayward Wanderer
Archmage is the opening book of the Homecoming series and the 28th book overall in the Legend of Drizzt. It’s also a book I enjoyed reading; a real relief after the slog that was Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf. The basics are as follows: The dwarven kings and their allies are marching to reclaim Gauntlgrym, a dwarven stronghold lost some decades past. Drizzt accompanies the … Continue reading Book Review: Archmage by R.A. Salvatore
Many of my reviews are written as “capsule” reviews, which is to say, reviews where I’ve read the product but haven’t played through it. The sheer amount of product against the number of hours I have available to play games necessitates that. For products which I do have the chance to play, it’s something of a relief. My judgement as to whether it’s a good … Continue reading D&D Review: D&D Starter Set
I was still in my very early years of D&D when I first read Dragons of Hope. It’s hard to remember the exact year, but I’d say it was about 1986 or 1987, which puts me in my mid-teens. The beginning of the adventure sees the players escorting the refugees rescued from Pax Tharkas through a desolate, snow-covered landscape towards the dwarven realm of Thorbardin, … Continue reading AD&D Review – DL3: Dragons of Hope
Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf is the third and final book of the Companions’ Codex trilogy, and the 27th part of the Legend of Drizzt, that is, the 27th novel about the extremely popular dark elf ranger by Bob Salvatore. It is also, I’m saddened to say, an awful book. I really wanted to like it, but I couldn’t. Salvatore is certainly able to write … Continue reading Book Review: Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf
Night of the Mad Kobold is the first adventure in a short series that has been funded through Kickstarter. Written by “Weird Dave” Olson, this adventure evokes an old-school feel through its choice of layout and artwork, although the actual adventure style is more modern. It serves as an introduction to the Wrath of the Kobolds trilogy. As with many of the adventures I’ve reviewed, this one … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Night of the Mad Kobold
