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Review: A Haunting in Glass
Today we’re looking at A Haunting in Glass by Jesse Winter. It’s a 30-room tower adventure for levels 3-5. The page on DriveThruRPG has some recommendations from folks like directsun (author of Aberrant Reflections, one of my favorites) and Joel Hines (author of Desert Moon of Karth, also one of my favorites) so I was…
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Review: The Devoured Labyrinth
Today we are looking at The Devoured Labyrinth published by Bite-Sized Gaming, with Andrew Bishkinskyi and Zac Goins as lead designers. It is a collection of 46 dungeons, the vast majority being 1-2 pages, spread across a 160-hex region map. Let’s address the elephant in the room: The Devoured Labyrinth is not a labyrinth or…
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Review: Final Torch Issue #2 – Pirates of Barnacle Bay
Today we’re looking at Final Torch Issue #2 – Pirates of Barnacle Bay by Ross Mahler. Barnacle Bay is a setting and hexcrawl (hexsail?) through a dangerous island/sea region. Besides the hexcrawl it’s got rules for for ships and ship combat, a nicely fleshed-out settlement, an intro adventure, some tools for creating adventures, monsters, magic items, etc etc. It’s what…
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Review: Lovely Jade Necropolis
Today we’re looking at Lovely Jade Necropolis by Joseph R. Lewis. After tackling 5e and then OSE, Mr. Lewis has added Shadowdark to his repertoire. This is a 100 location adventure for level 3-5 PCs. It’s inspired by the works of Clark Ashton Smith and that is exactly my jam. The eponymous necropolis was once the site of…
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Review: Inside the Everflowing Curtain
Today we are looking at Inside the Everflowing Curtain, designed by Anthony J. Zinni and published by Revivify Games. It’s a level 3-4 dungeon with 16 rooms where the PCs are tasked with recovering the second half of a magical staff from a goat demon’s lair. Everflowing Curtain pulls double-duty, being written for both Mörk…
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Review: Tower of Hapshut
Today we’re looking at Tower of Hapshut by Fenris-77. It consists of a small 5-hex region and a 29-room dungeon for levels 6-8 and was written for their Shadows of Empire setting. It could easily be dropped into other settings, even if you just take the dungeon. The primary adventure site is a temple currently…
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Review: Kaldera of the Sickle Dancer
Today we’re looking at Kaldera of the Sickle Dancer by Sersa Victory. This is a level 3 adventure with a 21-room dungeon inside of an active volcano. There have been a lot of volcanoes around here lately. Maybe this is my sixth sense’s way of telling my to keep a watchful eye on Mt. Rainier.…
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Update: The Sapphire Seas
In my initial review of The Sapphire Seas, one of my biggest gripes was with the layout. Menagerie Press has gone through and revised the entire ~400 page document to make it much more navigable and reader-friendly. The table of contents has been pared down, formatting is much improved and the whole thing just looks…
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Review: Isle of the Ancients
Today we are looking at Isle of the Ancients written by Nick Agan & Darin Elm, and published by Twin Magi Games. It’s a pointcrawl across a tropical island ruled by a mad wizard and full of dinosaurs, jungles, a volcano, etc etc.The setup is that a wizard named Sibarin has set up shop on the island…
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Review: Cursed Scroll IV – River of Night
Today we’re looking at River of Night by Kelsey Dionne and published by Arcane Library. This is the first release from the Western Reaches kickstarter and the fourth entry in the Cursed Scroll series of zines. As is tradition with the Cursed Scrolls series, River of Night is 68 pages and contains a couple of new classes, some new…