Overall, this is a pretty good scenario pack-- there are a few spots within it that really bug me though, and thus I cannot give it five stars. Right off the top, there's a situation early in the first of 6 adventures (mentioned in my discussion post) that as written will completely derail the adventure and incur a truly unreasonable amount of shadow points for a "misdeed" that really isn't that much of a misdeed. There's a couple of other little spots in there that similarly provoke a "what were the writers thinking?", especially in the fifth scenario as well... if the book didn't include those problem issues and clear signs of the railroad tracks you're supposed to drive the players down, it would be a clear 5 stars.

Nice effort-- but some consistency and not overly penalizing people for deeds which are in fact, rather reasonable even for heroes to commit under the circumstances, would be nice. This is 'One Ring', not 'Call of Cthulhu'... falling to the shadow in TOR shouldn't be as inevitable as losing your SAN facing the Great Old Ones....

I bought this product because, unfortunately, the group I'm gaming with wants to use the travel rules contained within. Otherwise, it is not worth the money. While in general, The One Ring is a great game, and most of the products for it have been pretty good, Journeys and Maps is brutally and unforgivably flawed. Yes, I knew the maps were crippleware when I bought it. I didn't expect them to be so poor resolution that they look like crap at "100%" zoom level on a 1080p monitor, but they do.

It's too bad that Cubicle 7 is addicted to the idea that they should try to force their fans (who'd rather not carry around huge piles of dead trees when a lap-top with a set of files is so much more convenient) to have a choice between crappy low-res maps, dead trees, and getting the maps from other sources, but that IS what the game company has left us with. I don't like it, and I don't appreciate it-- and I do NOT FIND CUBICLE 7'S EXCUSES FOR THIS DECISION ACCEPTABLE. It's greed and disrespect to their audience. Nothing more, nothing less.

And for that-- it's too bad I can't give this product a "0 stars" rating-- it doesn't even deserve the 1 star I had to give it because that's the lowest the rating system goes.