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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun: Is the adventure fun to play in an OSR playstyle? | #6 | 4.278 | 4.278 |
| Overall | #21 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Writing: Is the adventure original and fun to read? | #31 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Usability: Is the adventure easy to use on the fly? | #41 | 3.722 | 3.722 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I absolutely adore this adventure, this adventure is a 10/10, this adventure is my bread and wine.
There are so many vibes and aesthetics, all dark and demented yet all blissfully executed and fantastically realized, you've got imagery of a messed up medieval church, you could have an apocalyptic feeling running between ruins to avoid the most creative undead this side of Dark Souls, the sentient-pig-hivemind-cult is like if R.L. Stien got up on the top ropes and power bombed a dark fantasy book, I hurt my jaw I gasped so hard when I saw the toy makers manor.
The tables are expertly written, everything one could need running this adventure (potentially running others as well) is here and the writers must be such RPG gigachads that they turned the Head Hunting table into an essential mechanic that makes or breaks the session in the most grotesque yet creative ways.
And the mechanics! Never has a risk and reward system been so well written in any RPG book potentially ever, when you try and hide from the Watchers you need to be quiet and how do we know what is loud? Well of course if THE TEXT IS IN CAPITAL! Not only did Hexog never miss when an action would be loud the capital=loud idea comes as naturally as rolling d20s for skill rolls my guy!
Let's take a second to talk about the quotes, these quotes are the best pieces of flavor text since the entire in world book series' in Skyrim, they just ooze with dark fantasy style, the only flaw with them is that there aren't more. I am mad at Ben Milton for restricting the page count to 15 because imagine 20 pages of this, imagine 30, hell imagine a hundred!
And of course the enemies are good, the NPCs are creative, I want the art as tattoos, sorry I'm gushing it's just that this adventure is gush worthy.
Perfect blend of grotesque and whimsy. Absolutely looking forward to running this for my table. 10/10
Fantastic art! Great cover and all those floating heads look menacing as heck. Also, a smooth layout for a very creative story. Players would have a lot of agency and plenty to explore here. Nice job!
Extremely metal. Fantastic layout.
Big fan of Mieville, so I spotted the handlinger reference, but I think an original name for it here would have been better, maybe something to match the Slavic tones of the adventure.
Totally agree - something I will amend when I work over it after the jam ends. Thanks for the nice comment, metal was what I was going for!
Definitely intriguing premise. Art is very nice and unique. Could totally see this as an animated series! Can't wait to try this one.
"Intimations of suicide and incest" - my sides are in orbit
Looks like a fun adventure to run. Love the art and the fleshed out npcs. The content advice and tips on the back are a really useful addition too!
Really cool and evocative module. The small details (NPCs quotes, named Watchers, new creatures, etc) are all fantastic. Illustrations are great, I especially love the Nekromancer. Well done!
Love your drawing style. And I think it's good you added a paragraph about checking with your players if they are okay with some kind of (body) horror in their games. Especially when you don't know the players that well. It wasn't too horrific for my taste btw. But nice to add the disclaimer!
Thanks! All art credit to the fantastic licopeo. Re: horror, nothing I could write can match the depraved actions of my playtest group though. They once had survivors eaten by heads so they could harvest a leg to trap a pig. True heroes!
Hahah XD