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karnakjr's review
adventurous
medium-paced
3.0
Not the strongest quartet of adventures, and definitely not the best of these authors.
The Spire of Quetzal is decent, if not a little abstract. The adventure requires defeating the purged good aspects of our demonelf Queen, before getting to her. Getting to her doesn’t really do much for anyone other than probably killing some PCs. 3
The Bright Vault has some demons kept in place by an entity. Killing the demons turns them powerful and they escape. Giving the demons what they want yields nothing but the status quo. The guardian is shitty and manipulative. She doesn’t really help you out in any real way. I guess this adventure is likely to set at least one demon loose on the world, giving the PCs a mess to clean up. At least I like the personalities of the demons? 3
The Hexenwald is my favorite here. 5 witches with various motivations, relationships, and beefs. They can all help PCs if given what they want, and most likely kill the PCs if attacked. The likeliest outcome is allying with some against others, upsetting balance, setting off regional changes. The difference between this and The Bright Vault is that there is obvious advantages for the PCs to meddle. 3.5
Graveyard of Thunder is described as pulpy, and I guess it is. Dinosaurs go to this cave to die. The last one has just arrived. Lizard men guard the cave from outsiders. Only 1 lizard man remains. There are Orks trying to raid the caves for treasure, while the lizard fights them off with guérilla tactics (GOD). The PCs are probably doing the same shit as the orks. Maybe they will not give the orks, help the lizard dude, and be sent off with a treasure? Idk it seems really hard to talk to this guy since he stays in the caves and hates anyone in his caves. There’s some cool treasure in the final chamber, but it is caving in as you get there. Then you have to search on a table to find anything, without waking up the last Dino, which is probably death for you, and definitely a dick move on your part. Best treasure is a dino egg that will hatch in d6 days if rubbed with dino blood. But how would anyone know that? You probably won’t find the egg, and you probably can’t figure out how to hatch it. Eh. 3
The Spire of Quetzal is decent, if not a little abstract. The adventure requires defeating the purged good aspects of our demonelf Queen, before getting to her. Getting to her doesn’t really do much for anyone other than probably killing some PCs. 3
The Bright Vault has some demons kept in place by an entity. Killing the demons turns them powerful and they escape. Giving the demons what they want yields nothing but the status quo. The guardian is shitty and manipulative. She doesn’t really help you out in any real way. I guess this adventure is likely to set at least one demon loose on the world, giving the PCs a mess to clean up. At least I like the personalities of the demons? 3
The Hexenwald is my favorite here. 5 witches with various motivations, relationships, and beefs. They can all help PCs if given what they want, and most likely kill the PCs if attacked. The likeliest outcome is allying with some against others, upsetting balance, setting off regional changes. The difference between this and The Bright Vault is that there is obvious advantages for the PCs to meddle. 3.5
Graveyard of Thunder is described as pulpy, and I guess it is. Dinosaurs go to this cave to die. The last one has just arrived. Lizard men guard the cave from outsiders. Only 1 lizard man remains. There are Orks trying to raid the caves for treasure, while the lizard fights them off with guérilla tactics (GOD). The PCs are probably doing the same shit as the orks. Maybe they will not give the orks, help the lizard dude, and be sent off with a treasure? Idk it seems really hard to talk to this guy since he stays in the caves and hates anyone in his caves. There’s some cool treasure in the final chamber, but it is caving in as you get there. Then you have to search on a table to find anything, without waking up the last Dino, which is probably death for you, and definitely a dick move on your part. Best treasure is a dino egg that will hatch in d6 days if rubbed with dino blood. But how would anyone know that? You probably won’t find the egg, and you probably can’t figure out how to hatch it. Eh. 3
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