I think this mini-module has some very good concepts and disgusting imagery. The weretoads and their young are gross and cool. The towers with Ewok Village style bridges between are cool. The traps are cool and make sense.

I just feel there's not much "meat"... no interesting magic loot, none of any kind in fact beyond a couple low chances of rooms containing a magic item the DM is on the hook to roll up. No "puzzles" beyond "how do we navigate a totally flooded area." No weretoad leader or gnarly giant toad boss or anything. Just d6, d10, d20 mooks at a time and gross objects to sell for gold. The map is pretty rough and has some awkward room shapes. My impression is running it as-written would be highly reminiscent of low level Gold Box/Pool of Radiance type hack and slash.

It's okay! Some great ideas and imagery to steal.

Evocative and concisely-written generators for when you just need a little nudge and your brain's gone blank! Super useful, love these.

Fun generator. Will spark many an idea whether the Game Master is cruel, short of ideas (dumb), insanely whimsical. good time should be had by all. Any dissenters an exit the sir lock ... ;o)

Pretty fun short adventure. It could be run easily after a single read and some work with its maps.

I didn't rate it at 5 stars due to the maps. It feels like in a measure to save space, the author opted for a crampt map style. I'd have preferred the maps to be spread over two pages. To run this adventure well, prospective DMs should have a copy of the map handy and re-read the map before play.

I also feel the adventure, as written, is little more than a series of inter-related events with no real plot. We get a location, creepy critters, and nothing else, really.

That said, it'll make for a session of fun. Gross-out fun, at that!

I have not run this yet. This is an amazing, twisted and very creative adventure. It's set up like a Shadowrun or C-Punk adventure wherein mysterous employers want you to perfom a somewat inscrutable job at a location for big money: 1,000 gp each! The job site is sort of an elven bio magical lab/hospital/garden. The characters must get in, do the thing and get out alive. Very deadly. Lots of bio-magic to mess with and scads of body horror scenes that really come to life. These elves are really unique. It also turns the tables on old-school play, since the reward is so huge, that the players don't have to hang around and search every nook and cranny to find the loot. Of course, they're going to want to! The building is tricky to get into an moving around in a sneaky way and getting a little intel will be vital. The nearby neigborhood is sceteched out well, with numerous groups and factions living within it. Seems very playableand I really want to run it as a one or two shot ASAP. Don't just take my word for it: https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p=4566

Hello!

I enjoyed using this for one of my gameplays but I have some issues with it.

It just felt half-baked, unfinished. It was trying to do a lot of things without accomplishing much. I did however liked the theme of the JRPG feel. That was the most appealing thing about this game for me.

My gripe is mostly directed towards the "Spells, Abilities, and Skills" section. I don't know. I just felt lost when I rolled for those and the broadness felt somewhat misguided. Like the options are a mix of very random things that doesn't work well with a leveling up system. I think it would've been better if the options on those tables were a bit more general.

But, I did enjoy the system. I made a couple of tweaks but kept most of the systems/mechanics stated in the rules. It does need some more work though.

First, thanks to the author for publishing this game. It was fun to explore the included downloads.

Likes: The whimsical design is fun, inviting, and friendly. The overall theme is open and relatively flexible. The rules are generally easy to understand. If you have some superheroic gaming experience, it should be easy to pick up the general way the game works.

The basic resolution mechanic is dead simple, with an N-in-6 chance of doing things defining the character's relevant power level. If your skill level is 1, you need to roll a 6. If your skill level is 6, you don't need to roll. If your skill level is 5, you need to roll anything but a 1. In addition, players can argue for bonuses! There are some additional tips given for tweaking the mechanic, tips which I would guess that most will use in game sessions that are beyond the most simple.

The BIG pro of this game is colorful, even automated character and world creation including tables and tools for powers, appearance, accessories, backstories, villain creation, campaign plot and mission generators, an "area stocker" to help decide what can be found in a given area within a map or location, and a "goon table". These are D66 tables which I thought offered plenty of detail.

The included HTML files with generator tools are also awesome and fun to use. The game comes with a .zip file with 8 different HTML files representing generator categories, and each file includes more than one gnerator. For me this makes the product worth checking out. You can generate a LOT in very little time.

Other considerations: The game is probably best run by someone with at least intermediate level of experience in superhero RPGs. A lot is left up to the referee. The referee should probably be someone who is experienced and comfortable making various executive decisions during gameplay, or negotiating with players. The phrasing of some passages like "The referee contextually judges when an entity is damaged from conflict" may be also confusing or difficult to understand for some players.

If a referee is playing with a negotiation-heavy player, the referee may need to be very clever, because the mechanics could easily be overpowered through argumentation. The referee should be aware that they may need to ramp up the difficulty by making the map and goons / villains tougher and more plentiful. The author does mention that the referee should keep things dangerous and consequences concrete and consistent, but I would guess that most referees will need to feel their way through this depending on the audience experience level with RPGs and what they want out of the gaming experience.

Dislikes: Some rules, like "Taking too many hits in the same location (2 or 3 depending on the location and the weapon) will result in death" seem too loose, even for a freeform system. If damage is to be tracked, some more definition or at least examples are appropriate. Also, death seems taken for granted, but other popular supers games basically do not account for death at all, and use terms like "incapacitated" instead of "dead".

Finally, all the text is in caps. I understand that comics are written like this, but it's a bit of a different situation in a typical document PDF, with longer line lengths and longer bulleted sections. The text can seem a bit overwhelming. Some of the heading backgrounds also seem a little too dark.

Would be nice: It would be great if the generators could be put into one HTML page, in tabs. Would like to know more about the author and game background. Would like to know where the "Kontext Spiel D6" freeform system comes from. An afterword or some closing thoughts would lead the text to a smoother conclusion.

Finally I would really like to see a thorough gameplay example or at least rule-by-rule examples, to get an idea for what "a" referee "might do," so that the gameplay and planning can still be flexible, but also well-informed.

Overall if you like superheroic character and world generation, I think this is definitely worth checking out. Thanks again to the publisher.

Re-introduced me to wargaming, really love this stuff, wished I got more people to play it with. Awesome and different way to wargame with a special focus on narrative and infinite verticality.

I really wanted to give this collection of tools a higher score, as I think there is a lot of great bits of information in here that is worth seeing, and it would be an excellent supplement to any weird urban setting like Eberron, Curse of Strahd or Blades in the Dark. I personally found the tool interface iteslf to be a bit clunky and so a lot of the information was not as accessible to me as I was looking for, but for someone more tech saavy than me, these could be a great addition to their game.

Recently, I soloed my way through The Cradle of Madness. It is an interesting D & D adventure for characters of levels 3 to 8. I turned it into a level one adventure. It can be found in Dungeon Magazine issue # 87 (archived on the internet). The two systems I used to play it were #1 Deathtrap Light Preview (24 pages and free). It is not a complete game (for example, there are no rules for combat). So, I combined it with #2 Ordure Fantasy a six-sided die system (19 pages). The solo engine that I used was Loner (12 pages and free). The three documents (not the magazine) are available at DriveThruRPG.

My five characters picked up the quest on the first day. Owen wanted his daughter to be rescued from the Nightmare Syndicate. A ransom needed to be paid. Owen and the characters went to the designated spot on the second day and the fight was on. The characters let one fighter live and gave the ransom money back to Owen. They then followed the wounded fighter through the wilderness. After a giant beetle encounter they arrived at the ruined keep. They had some problems getting in there. So, they decided to “lay siege” and force them out when they needed supplies. On the sixth day three fighters came out using a “new” bridge. The PCs killed them, entered the keep, and then went down the stairs. They had to get past three traps, four guard dogs, and more bad guys (cultists). After some looting, they ran into the daughter Lyza who was obviously pregnant and in love with some cleric guy. Well, my characters were not going to interfere with that. So, they headed back to town (a quiet trip) and gave Owen the bad news. Will this play out differently when you give it a try?

An excellent set of very detailed generators for generating characters, locations, conflicts and details for a wild and wonder-filled fantasy city.

The d6 Demiurge is a solo engine with seven pages and it can be used for any RPG game system. I am familiar with quite a few solo engines, so, here is my review. The good – it contains nineteen d6 charts. It does work, I soloed my way through a free Pathfinder adventure with it. The bad – this needs either a keyword list or a way to generate keywords. (These words generate different types of encounters by interpreting the results).The ugly – the layout is not attractive at all. So, since this a free/pay what you want product and it works, I am going to rate it a four out of five stars.

Inspiring cover. But the content is a near-settingless collection of random tables. Also, it turns out it's just D&D. That's too bad.

It's just a D&D OSR of B/X but with 5e's Advantage/Disadvantage rule...in spaaaaace! I am disappointed. I was hoping for something original as the cover art suggested.

Ordure Fantasy is a simple, easy toto learn, yet suprisingly robust RPG. Best suited for pick up games, but capable of supporting a short campaign. The mechanics revolve around rolling low on a d6. Combat is quick and simple, with PCs rolling all the dice. However, for my money, what I really like are the several pages of random charts, helping to inspire adventures, monster creation, and world design. There are no rules for running nonhuman characters, but that isn't really what this game is about. There is no bestiary, but there are rules for creating monsters.

The book itself, is 19 pages, simply laid out with beautiful minimalist artwork.