Quality paper with a quality scan.The colors are vibrant on the cover.Very happy with the purchase.

This is NOT a pick-up-and-play product! It barely functions as an adventure... Why 4 stars? It has limitless potential, excellent maps, creepy atmosphere, and if you stay away from the STRICT timeline... years worth of intrigue.

Recommendations: Remove timeline aspect. Treat the Alchemist as a character from Planescape on a secret mission to reopen a path to Ravenloft... Treat "the creature" as a manifestation of Strahd's astral projection... Adjust contents to set as a prequel for I-6.

Bought as a print-on-demand as the originals are now commanding ridiculous sums of money. Very good quality paper and images all bound sturdily into a usable book. The only issue is the maps are contained within the bound book so I will reprint them separately myself.

The story and characters in this module are really good. That is all I can say good about this module. The module is seriously harmed by its connection to Count Strahd and Ravenloft and would have been much better served with original characters being introduced. Yes, I can see where having Strahd be situated as he is in this adventure MIGHT make for an interesting meta storyline, but the disconnect with the Strahd people know and the Strahd presented here is jarring and I doubt many people like it. To make a comparison, millions of people LOVE The Rocky Horror Picture Show. An infinitesimal fraction of those people have heard of the "equal" (not sequel or prequel, but the same characters in a completely different, unrelated scenario) Shock Treatment, and very few of them liked it for the same reasons I just outlined for Ravenloft II. People loved RHPS and Ravenloft for what they were, not what re-imagined versions of them might be. Organizationally, this thing is a catastrophic mess. As I was reading it, the incredibly choppy and segmented organization of the module jumped out at me as to why people don't like this module compared to Strahd's first outing. It was an incredibly painful read.

The print on demand quality is very good, with a few minor problems that prevent it from being perfect. There are a few double sided hand-outs in the back that could be cut out of the original - but they are presented in the print on demand in the wrong order, so they don't link up (which isn't that big a deal for me since I hate cutting up my D&D books and always photo-copied handouts anyway). Also the 'transposession roster' at the back of the book was originally on two pages, but have been shrunken down to fit on a single page, which makes them very difficult to read. Still an incredible bargain if you want a physical copy of this adventure.