"Bits of Darkness: Dungeons" claims to be ready to "buy now, use tonight", and certainly lives up to this claim. The PDF contains a lovely selection of well-written little "filler descriptions" that can easily be dropped into any dungeon. At the very least, they make things more interesting, especially if you tend to run out of prose after a while; at best, i've found them to often provide ideas for additional plot hooks or side developments.

The material is best suited for DMs that design their own campaigns, in particular where these campaigns are free-flowing and open to further development. If you run a module-driven or very well-planned and sculpted game, you might find the additional material less useful in-game, but it might help you a lot in your preparation. If your DM'ing style is anything like mine, you have the broad plot sorted out well, and most of the plot-related locations need little further assistance. But what do you do with all the other locations in your setting? "Bits of Darkness: Dungeons" makes it easy to fill in these blanks without any additional preparation, by pulling a card from a stack during play, or by randomly choosing one of the more than 100 descriptions from the booklet.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: I like the well-written, categorised descriptions, especially the ideas for further plot hooks.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Nothing :)<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

Another excellent product from Darkfuries! The seven floorplans range from a humble peasant's house to a large citadel, with great attention to detail. It's ideal for the GM that needs to quickly dish up a building-based adventure. Each building has both GM maps and player handouts. A very nice feature is that the player handouts are carefully designed to obscure any hidden areas, without giving anything away.

An interesting addition to this map set is a collection of D20 creatures inhabiting each building. However, it's probably of little practical use, as I generally prefer to populate such maps with my own story-based NPCs.

Unlike the "Castles and Keeps" set by the same artists, numbered room descriptions are not included. The map art generally makes it possible to deduce the purpose of most areas though, or to leave it to the creativity of the GM.

Any GM knows how difficult it is to, in addition to all your other responsibilities, play architect as well. Especially when it comes to medieval settings: how can you accurately design a castle or keep if you've never explored one from side to side? Where does the lord live? What does a gatehouse look like? How are murder holes designed, and how high are crennelations?

If you know what I'm talking about, you will love this well-executed product. It contains five fully designed castles and keeps (one of them has 10 floors!) in great detail and with excellent research. Each room has a short description -- detailed enough to describe its appearance and functionality, short enough to leave the story-related details to your own design.

I can strongly recommend this product to any GM managing a strongly map-centered campaign containing castles, keeps or towers.