Fun, functional, and free! This does the job as a character sheet, but what makes it worth downloading vs. other free character sheets is the nice introduction to Stjernberg art. You can almost hear the slime and blood and guts squirting and dripping. For more mayhem, check out Stjernberg's Spores of the Sad Shroom.

This was a lot of fun! Very theme coherent - blubbering sad fungi everywhere. Talking shrooms. Light-heartedly weird tone. Weird effects, mutations that can happen to characters who ingest shrooms. Treasure is often more interesting and twisted than a pile of coins- "Is this a 'potion of flying' or 'dying'? The label is hard to make out..." "Pickled, Evil Remains", "cracked wine glass which fills with sweet wine if repaired"

Guy Fullerton, who created deservedly well-reputed OSR-type adventure Many Gates of the Gann, and pretty much wrote the book on good design (or rather the chaotic henchmen blog posts) provided feedback (along with several other bloggers and other people) to Karl Stjernberg in making this.

The format is generally clear and the writing is brief but evocative. The OSR-friendly, easily-converted nature of the stats were no trouble, easy for someone with a 1e/S&W/Labyrinth Lord outlook to understand.

Minor quibbles: I wanted some of the monster stats closer to where the monsters are encountered in the text of the adventure, or at least referred to with (stats on page whatever). I was also disappointed not to find undead axolotl stats. I wish the "Black River" and "Where Does the River Go?" sections had not been left for GMs to flesh out like Keep on the Borderlands' "Clearing this tunnel out could lead all the way to Cave of the Unknown, which should be stocked..."

The art is great, and contributes greatly to the fun tone. You can almost smell the funk and feel the wet squish of the shrooms and hear the schlorp of the schleim! The adventure is formatting a very print-ready layout. I usually don't care about printing pdfs but this one I will. On paper, on your bookshelf, it'll look like a zine or underground comix thing.

I also like Karl Stjernberg's character sheet design, which is available for free download as a separate product. It provides a sort of preview of the style of art in Spores of the Sad Shroom.

Very much looking forward what oozes out of Stjernberg's brain and pen next!

This is my new favorite! It's a combination of easily-usable-at-the-gaming-table adventure and gorgeous art object. I wish I had been fast enough to get it in print; I downloaded the pdf version long after the print copies had run out.

As you can see from the cover, it has the look of a Whitman Gold Key Comic from 1971. Fun drawings and useable but also fun maps continue throughout. Artist Jeff Call has really hit it out of the park. The art fits hand-in-glove with the tone of the adventure and the writing, by blogger and creative mastermind Trey Causey. The formatting is very good at pulling immediately-needed-by-the-GM-at-the-table elements into sidebars, but allowing the main text to describe things with a few more evocative words (but not too many - the reader never drowns in text, but always gets the flavor). Fun concepts such as Thedabara, a reminiscing undead celebrity whose name alludes to real-life silent film star Theda Bara, abound in the adventure. The adventure text is fun to read, even if you don't run it, but it's easily runnable for kids or adults. The humorous tone keeps things light, but there is always an element of internal logic and a serious enough core so that players won't find the humor excessive or too cheesy. The flavor is beyond the sum of its parts, and I'm sure Trey Causey had many additional and different inspirations, but I pick up notes in Mortzengersturm of: 1967 Rankin-Bass stop-motion kid's movie Mad Mad Monster Party, Alex Jordan's House on the Rock eccentric tourist attraction in Wisconsin, and Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in 1963's The Raven movie.

There is a humorously illustrated board game on two pages which points out features of the adventure graphically, but could also be played in lieu of D&D if you really wanted to. There are also a couple of "coming attractions" previews of other things in Trey Causey's game world. But these few things after the end of the adventure text don't distract or detract from what is an excellent product for running or just reading.