Now THIS is D&D!!!

Thank you so much Greg. Honestly, I thought you were full of hot air hyping this product up, but you certainly delivered. It's a very crowded market, but this zero compromises, no nonsense version certainly stands above the competition.

I've always been a huge of Hyperborea's world and take on the AD&D ruleset, but was really put off by some of the art and layout decisions of the 2nd edition. This new edition addresses all my issues however, and I couldn't be happier with new art and the rearranging of the old. Very exciting to flip through cover to cover now!

Besides the art though, this will probably be my OSR game of choice for a variety of reasons: Humancentric setting; tons of cool classes; interesting armor, weapons, items, and spells; and tiny combat tweaks I really enjoy (like larger weapons striking first despite initiative). Most importantly though, the ease and speed of rolling up characters thanks to a quick reference of all the class's minimum stat requirements and optimized equipment packages for each class.

With a million B/X Clones to choose from, it's nice having a solid AD&D contender in the mix as well!

Some cool art and interesting ideas on how to structure a WWN adventure with a few unique mechanics, but overall I felt underwhelmed, especially at this price point.

I think if the scene recaps were cut (a one page summary for each one page entry is not needed), the typos on alomst every page cleaned up, and the price reduced to around $3, you'd have yourself a pretty solid product.

Oh, and starting off the adventure with a unavoidable trap that EVERYONE has to roll a save or take 1d6 damage is a terrible idea!

Absolutely love the mechanics and classes this game brings to the OSR table, but cannot get over how ugly the new character art by JLB is. The first addition art was PERFECT. Why Jeff felt the need to add full page art of the worst illustrations I've ever seen in my 30 years gaming is beyond me. It completely ruins the majestic, dark atmosphere of the original artwork. If it was placed anywhere else this wouldn't be such a deal breaker, but the class section is probably the most important section to get the art right on.

Love the game. So much so, I'm going to edit the PDF and take out the offending artwork. Thankfully they’re all full page, so shouldn't be hard to do.