I thought they would betray the party, but, no, in a refreshing change of pace they are just NPCРІР‚в„ўs. It also adds two other prisoners to the party РІР‚В¦ for seemingly no reason. Just removing it all would have been better. This is mostly specific to Galantri and is the usual РІР‚Сљheld in lead lined cellsРІР‚Сњ sort of thing. The entire preamble is about the prison and justice system. Again, interactivity, back and forth between the players and the DM. When the players go examine the thing THEN the DM can follow up with РІР‚Сљthe body is dried outРІР‚Сњ or РІР‚Сљthe heart is missing.РІР‚Сњ This back and forth between the party and the DM is a critical part of the D&D experience and when you put everything in the read-aloud you negate that core experience. The read aloud, if used, should be the initial impression. The body is dried out, its missing its heart, etc, etc. It tells you almost everything you need to know about the room. Those weasel words just pad out an adventure. Things should never SEEM or APPEAR TO BE, they just are. Room that say things like РІР‚СљThe room seems emptyРІР‚Сњ in the read aloud РІР‚В¦ and then the DM notes tells us itРІР‚в„ўs empty.

There are multiple points in the adventure with page long read-alouds. This adventure pays little attention to those first two points. But the interactivity of the adventure is whatРІР‚в„ўs going to turn a middling adventure in to a great one, providing elements for the party to interact with. If they are ok, or good, then the D&D adventure can go forward. The play athe table stuff and the evocative environments are key components that, for me, must each not suck too much. Some toads hide under a bridge, and thereРІР‚в„ўs a dead body under the water you can dive for РІР‚В¦ with hidden loot! I donРІР‚в„ўt talk about it much, but this sort of interactivity is, I think, what makes a good D&D adventure good. ThereРІР‚в„ўs a crude shrine that will summon a ghost if you pray at it. The rooms, proper, have some decent interactivity. Breaking up the РІР‚Сљi hit you/you hit meРІР‚Сњ stuff in D&D is almost always a good thing and I wish more adventures would give their monsters a little more character. The undead in the dungeon, previously killed by the monster/jewel, try to rip the hearts out of characters and eat it when they down a party member, since they had their own hearts done so. You know how I love to leverage a map to overload information for the DM. ItРІР‚в„ўs a decent idea, and, maybe could have been supported a bit better by noting its path on the map instead of in text in the adventure. The dungeon proper has a cursed monster, with the (cursed) jewel in its chest that moves around in a preset course, it changing rooms when the party does, as a kind of monster hunt gimmick. In this instance the relatives send the party down to a dungeon/well that has a great jewel, to be obtained for the relatives, that will likely kill the party anyway, so a win-win for the kinfolk. If they fail, well, they were just gonna be killed anyway so no great loss.

If they succeed then Rad has clearly indicated that the parties motives were pure. The relatives of the victims get to set a quest and the party, given one light source and one normal weapon each, must complete the quest. The conceit is that thereРІР‚в„ўs a legal loophole: the party can submit themselves to the Judgement of Rad. You pull this one out when the party is in jail for a serious offense. Yeah, there are some level variability issues, but I think the concepts they present are an interesting genre of adventure that is not well explored. Use this adventure when someone dies, or use this one when someone is in jail, like this adventure. I have a soft spot for РІР‚Сљspecial useРІР‚Сњ adventure. The issues are not with the translation, I think. There are some grammar and wording issues in it, but all of my commentary disregards this. This is an english as a second language adventure, from the Italian I believe. Decent interactivity in the dungeon is marred by bad read-aloud and writing style issues. This eighteen page adventure details a twenty room dungeon and is to be used at some point in the game when your characters are jailed. Whenever this kind of things happen, the Master must find a way to fix the situation and give the characters a way out of their trouble, and a second chance to succeed. ItРІР‚в„ўs not uncommon that an adventure, especially in a long campaign, can be greatly derailed due to a player who has got no experience, does not think an action enough or just screws things up for the fun of it. Things not always go the way they are supposed to.

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