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Good adventure! It's pretty easy to run and to prepare - and I think even without preparation you could just take this and have a good time together with your players. Plot is decent and it could be run as oneshot in few hours. You have combat encounters, different NPCs (I like to use silly voices) and puzzles in it.
I've runned it for 5 3rd level characters - don't do this, it was walk in the park. I think 2nd level would make things tense, but not deadly for new to hobby players. We make it into 3 hours - I dropped stage of tavern whispers gathering and allowed them shortcome some of encounters by smart play.
The most iconic characters of this adventure as for me are the waltzing couple in the center of crypt. I played them as totally bored from dance him "10 years of dance without break, can we talk to those guys" and her like "save your breath, dear, we should make this 13 years challenge". They both are friendly unless you "wake up children" and could be used as tipgivers, if party is stuck on puzzle.
In general my player's opinions were divided on my run of this adventure: girls were "that's a blast", but guys were like "boring, we want more and harder fights". But I think in general adventure is pretty good and I am going to run it again someday. Recommend to buy it!
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It has been very useful to me, I'm doing something totally unrelated but the calendar made me have a resource to especify a lot of events through the year with the separation and lunar cicles perfectly put so the "dramatic time" was perfect. 5/5
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While it's good to have the text of OSE:AF available in Foundry for easy look up and to share with players, the items that were made for use in Foundry (i.e. equipment, monsters, etc.) are full of errors, missing text, etc. The monster entries really especially sloppy, and I've had to go through each entry one by one to fix typos and adjust Foundry-related things like token names, disposition, etc. For a paid product I would expect proper proof-reading and quality control, especially at this price point.
It's unbelievable that they're charging $30 for this. It doesn't work with Foundry v12, so you'll have to install an old and out of date version of Foundry to run it. The developers are non-responsive on the module's website.
It's pretty clear this module and the OSE ruleset have been abandoned by the developers.
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The creators are still working on content for this module, the last update was 2.0.1 in September of 2023. This review would be 2 stars if it weren't for the updates.
There are still some things missing in the content, and errors here and there, but the developer does have a roadmap for fixes. Seems to be a one-person venture, and with Dolmenwood's Kickstarter ended (fall 2023 at time of writing), I expect updates to slow to a crawl, but hopefully not.
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I was on the fence, since the Foundry VTT version of Advanced Fantasy isn't fully finished yet (I hope). Thankfully this adventure is more solid, save a few errors (such as missing walls, the maps being half their intended size, missing lights, etc).
The creator is still updating the module too, so there's hope that these issues will be gone in future releases. This would be 5 stars if I could've played it out of the box without a bit of cleanup.
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Five stars because the they/them below me is crying about identity politics.
The game has an enemy stat block for "Dervish" (if you weren't aware, that is the name for a real-life Muslim religious order).
Five Stars.
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I've had a great time GMing this well written dungeon full of color and wit!
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Updated: I updated to 4 stars because my original review was a bit unfair. I was just feeling more overwhelmed playing OSE than I would have expected after my first play with a poorly organized OSR adventure. That's quite helpful really so are the saving throws and really going through the book most of what would be critical to most sessions is there.
My real issue is: 1) that it could include abilities for more classes instead of spell progression 2) the OSR adventure was a disorganized mess (and not an OSE product)
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It sounds like you may be thinking of a different product. The OSE referee's screen inserts consist purely of rules and procedures from the game: Combat rules + tables, Ability checks + saving throws rules, Movement rules + table, Dungeon exploration procedure + rules, Wilderness exploration procedure + rules, Encounters procedure + rules, Downtime rules, Summary of class abilities + class tables, Equipment list + weapon stats, Land vehicles. |
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As others have mentioned, this Foundry module for OSE Advanced lacks content from the books (Monster encounter rolltables, magic items treasure tables, various monter stats) and for a VTT module there's little to no automation features. At this price point I'd have expected more. At time of writing, it's been over 2 months since the last update to this module currently at v1.0.4.
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Great intro for anyone wishing to get into Advanced Dungeons and Dragsons, or any RPG for that matter.
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Great product. Super useful zine for old school fantasy games. Well written, high quality.
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It lacks automation. Some features like drag and drop seem to work. Also, none of the monsters have any art to them. This is why the module gets 3/5
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I had originally reviewed this as five stars back when it released but now maintenance of the compendium in the VTT has just out right stopped and VTT Red has been missing for months now.
There is talk that this is finally being addressed by Necrotic Gnome and that a new maintainer of the Foundry Module/Compendium is being searched for but until then Do Not Buy this product we have no idea how long as nothing has been confirmed towards that publicly and even if true we have no idea how long it'll take for this to finally turn around.
If things ever improve I'll re update my review but until then I recommend seeing alternative systems on Foundry to use instead of OSE there are a few far better ones out there.
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Very helpful and the develop is quick to respond to issues. No complaints really
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A very useful addition to Foundry VTT for your OSE games.
A great ingame reference.
What would make it 5 stars? More tutorial content.
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