Fifth Edition Fantasy #1: Glitterdoom

Bought the hard copy, can't leave an official review. I've run this twice now and give it a 4/5. It's overall well-written and interesting. It's a bit stereotypical in many ways, but ironically, such modules are scarce in the 5e scene. So it's nice to have an old-fashioned "investigate the abandoned dwarven mine" adventure.

The reason it doesn't get 5 stars is the final boss fight. Without posting spoilers, the boss has a spell prepared that easily TPKs the level 3 party the module is intended for (and has done so twice in my games, or would have had I not fudged the second time). I strongly suggest either not casting this spell or preparing something different in the boss's highest-level slot.

I bought the hard copy of this module from a game store. I cannot review it here because I haven't bought the PDF through drivethrurpg and the code to redeem my PDF is "expired." Regardless, I will leave a mini-review here.

I read through this entire adventure tonight. It is fairly short. The book is 16 pages with 11 of those being the background + adventure, 1 page of monster stats (there are a few additional monster stats included in the adventure pages), 2 pages of "concluding the adventure," new sub-race, and a new background, then 1 page of maps.

There are a few things that I really like about this adventure. First, it is a mini dungeon crawl. However, not every room has an encounter. In fact, maybe only 1/3 of the rooms have encounters. However, all rooms have descriptions and elements of interest. I tire of crawls where every room has an encounter. Second, I like how the encounters include descriptions of how the creatures will approach the combat....See more The DM is obviously free to change this, but it is nice to have this included. Third, even though this is a mini adventure, it feels that the author(s) put quite a bit of thought into it.

I am most likely going to modify this a bit and include it as a side adventure in Out of the Abyss. I don't think it'll take much to adapt it.

I think I would give this 4 1/2 stars if I could.

Pretty decent little adventure, enjoyed it!

I keep getting a expired code from the module inside page, anyone else have this issue?

The Updated version as of 10/14 included some typo fixes and nerfed most of the enemies slightly (only -1 to attack and damage for most).