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Risus: Toast of the Town - A Free Pulp-Fantasy Adventure
Publisher: Big Dice Games
by John [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/23/2025 16:39:50

Set this in our Greyhawk 1st Edition campaign, on the way to Saltmarsh. So Lake = Ocean, etc.

The party had a lot of fun. It's a "Verbal Patter" heavy group (so we have a Bard and Jester from Adventures Dark and Deep) so they worked on getting the crowd riled up against the villain.

Church of Pholtus (in place of the Ellantines) played a key role in giving Sanctuary.

I don't know if we would like the Risus system, but the adventure is pretty easy to convert to your favorite system, especially if you have experience with your group and know their strengths and weaknesses.

I used the maps pretty much as-is in Foundry, with a few names corrected to our setting.



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Oriental Adventures (1e)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by John [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/08/2024 11:16:33

Oriental Adventures was a huge move forward for 1st Edition AD&D, although there were some hints of the over-complication of 2E on the horizon.

Rather than use this space as a review of the game system itself, I'll speak to the quality of the scan. (I don't see a POD option.)

I purchased the PDFs to supplement my ancient rule books, largely because PDF is searchable. Throwing the old rules into Obsidian to manage the information overload is a great way to find what I'm looking for, particularly during a play session.

Unfortunately, this scan's OCR is pretty poor. The clarity of the scan is fine, and I can always figure out what should have been recognized on the text layer, but it frequently is not.

It's not likely important enough for me to try to re-recognize the text, although it's possible that my open-source tools could do a better job than Wizards did. I want to emphasize that the clarity of the scan seems top-notch.

Anyway, 4 out of 5 — quite good and very useful, but quite a lot of work to get useful text out of it.



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