I love the theme of this collection; turning tropes about female mythological entities on their heads. I ran the first adventure; "A Maid in Waterdeep". It was okay. It had a very basic structure (SPOILER: get hired, get the BB's sidekick, invade the BB's home) which I'm okay with. It was just a bit light on characterisation of the principle NPCs. After that, I started reading through the other adventures and I felt very disappointed. NPCs tend to be flavourless and are often just sign posts for the PCs. Some of them behave in ways that seem contrary to their setup just to do the signposting. Sometimes the PCs are required to take paths that are neither signposted nor given justification. In one adventure (SPOILER!) a particular fallen tree gets three paragraphs, one on the way to the main encounter and two on the return. No hint is given about what makes this the necessary path and there is nothing interesting about the tree. It's just a bland mechanical obstacle. I think "bland" is my word for this collection. While I like the themes (environmental protection is one of them) I think the execution is limp and flavourless, I think DMs will have to put in significant work to make these engaging.

Reads like 80s teenage boy humour, and I should know; I was a teenager in the 80s. Not my kind of thing any more and I can't think of anyone I know who I would recommend this too.

I've read through the first adventure. The author seems excited about what they've created. There's a fair amount of writing here. I just don't think it's very useful for running an adventure.

I might take the core idea (of what has happened to Santa) and make something up around that. I've got three days left until the Christmas-themed game session I promised to run. I'm sure it'll all be fine.

I have come back to roleplaying after 30 years away and was looking for an appealling system (mechanically and stylistically) with which to run a campaign. I was intending to skim this referee book (as I had done with the free Rules and Magic book) in order to find out whether this was the system for me but I found it very compelling and ended up reading it thoroughly.

The author has strong opinons on what makes a good adventure and a good campaign. I found this reassuring. It felt like a strong base to work from. Late in the book, the author acknowledges that differences in style will mean that the advice here is not for everyone, but up until that point the information had a "one true way" flavour that I liked,

My only criticism is that I would have liked to see contrasting right and wrong examples to illustrate the author's assertions. The sample adventure (which looks like a lot of fun!) was exactly what I thought I was being warned against because it seemed to have a lot of NPC interaction. I obviously misunderstood this point and wondered what else I misunderstood. This would not stop me from using the LotFP system and I intend to try it out with the sample adventure.

The book is written with he/him as default pronouns.