The Lizardmen of Illzathatch is a short adventure by Shane Ward for Labyrinth Lord and other variants of the original D&D. It is written for a party of 4-6 level 3 characters. The main adventure takes up 6 pages, including one for a map. The basic premise is simple: a green dragon, Illzathatch, has been killed by a band of adventurers, but the adventurers then … Continue reading OSR Adventure Review: The Lizardmen of Illzathatch
The first adventure of Paizo’s Giantslayer adventure path, Battle of Bloodmarch Hill is a 96-page book with typically excellent production values. The adventure portion of the book takes up 52 pages, with the remainder of the book presenting NPC profiles, a “giant primer”, more rules for giants, a 10-page bestiary, and a short piece of fiction. The adventure covers levels 1-3, with characters advancing to … Continue reading Pathfinder Adventure Review: Battle of Bloodmarch Hill
There are D&D adventures I am intimately familiar with. I3 Pharaoh is one of those. It’s an adventure I’ve read many, many times, and DMed on two separate occasions. Other adventures I have known only through their product code. X6 Quagmire is of that latter sort. I never owned it during my early days of D&D, nor did I play it or run it. So, … Continue reading D&D Basic Review: X6 Quagmire!
When I was younger, I wasn’t that impressed with The Isle of Dread. I purchased it as part of the Expert D&D set, and although the idea of going to an island inhabited with dinosaurs sounded pretty fun, the actual presentation did not inspire me very much. I was very young at the time. Many years later, during the 3E era, I took a party … Continue reading D&D Basic Review – X1 The Isle of Dread
The Temple of Qultar is the first release from Matt Jackson of Chubby Monster Games for the new edition of D&D. It’s a four-page pdf, consisting of an unkeyed map and three pages of description of the temple and the dungeon beneath it. No level is given for the adventure, but as there’s a Challenge Rating 5 monster in the adventure, I’m calling a 5th-level … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Temple of Qultar
The fourth adventure by Dan Hass, And the Elf Prince Wept, is an adventure for 1-8 characters of level 2. It is the first part of the Red Blade War. The adventure consists of twelve encounters with a thirteenth, optional encounter with the Inquisition; a standard trope of these adventures. The adventure structure is quite interesting, as it contains a number of elements that go against … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: And the Elf Prince Wept
The third adventure by Dan Hass for D&D 5E is The Archaeologist, available either separately or as part of a package that includes three adventures and details of the Dimgaard campaign setting. Once again, we have a short, one-session adventure. This one consists of six encounters plus one optional encounter. The backstory for the adventure concerns a noble who is obsessed with finding a dragon … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review – The Archaeologist
DG2: The Lost Tome is the second adventure by Dan Hass compatible with D&D 5E. Designed for a party of 1-6 characters of levels 1-2, it is available both separately and as part of a low-level campaign pack. What you get is a short, 18-page adventure. The layout, art and maps are not particularly good, but the adventure is not without merit. In summary, Sir … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Lost Tome
At 100 pages, A Storm About To Break is the longest adventure release I’ve seen so far for the new edition of D&D. It is the first part of “An Echo of Days Past”, an adventure arc in unexplored lands to the east of the Empire of Sarvania. The adventure is written with generous helpings of rules explanations so that it is suitable for new … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review – An Echo of Days Past: A Storm About To Break
A long, long time ago (1988), the Greyhawk Adventures book from TSR presented a set of rules for adventuring with level 0 characters in the AD&D system. Every so often, an adventure designer returns to that idea, and creates an adventure for characters that haven’t quite settled into their character class. The idea is that through the actions you take on your first adventure, you … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Rise of Heroes
