The Great: A very original, complete and evocative micro-setting. Massive amounts of inspiration, connections, original ideas. The way factions are organized and have their relationships mapped is an immense breathe of fresh air compared to most supplements.

The Good: System neutral, but gamed out in a very usable way with art and maps that are good enough.

The Bad: The twee tone and hipster politics inserted into a fantasy setting are a bit much for me, but it's a minor set of changes to fit it with my own settings.

I consider it a classic, despite any imperfections from my intended use case.

Good little book that can provide for a full mini-campaign, or an arc in your campaign. The region is made with sandbox play in mind, so you can just throw your players in and let them choose what interest them. Every little story, faction and conflict is interesting and can provide several sessions. You can easily expand on it to link it with your universe. It is sometimes goofy, sometimes a bit dark, so it would work well (in my opinion) in a serious but light-hearted game (like most d&d), or at contrary in a surrealist game like troika. Some layout problems for me : the factions are represented by various symbols, but the only reference linking the faction's names and the corresponding symbols is at the beginning of the book, so you need to flip a lot of pages

Great concept and great execution.

I'm too lazy to write the kind of review that this deserves. Suffice to say that if you have any liking, or even just tolerance, for the oddball, buy this book and revel in a panoply of excellent playable concepts set in a very charming milieu. Don't be put off by the dreary vibe of the setting. It has that dreariness, but that is shot through with upbeat tone and hooks.

Wonderful stuff if you only ever read it.

This is how a setting should be written. This is an insanely well done sourcebook. Planning to use it as a sandbox in various games: I see this (no matter how weird it feels) easily usable even for more narrative games, since I really feel the dark-ish mood and storytelling potential of personal struggle, intrigue and the like. Just one note: I would have reminded factions with some wording rather than images only in the (still awesome) factions relationships sheet. Btw, this doesn't change anything: this is nuts and highly recommended.

Woodfall is a jaunty upbeat sandbox of a setting (or mini setting) with campaign structure/story opportunities built around faction tensions and a grim swampy aesthetic. It's well written in a surprisingly cheerful way, full of useful colorful asides and details (crafting, interesting NPCs, magic items) as well as numerous lair and small dungeon locations that serve as faction headquarters. A sort of playful high fantasy setting, with touches of gonzo and fairytale, as well as a optimistic view of anarchist politics and spontaneous community, Woodfall may not be to every players' taste, but it is undeniably a well crafted and usable mini-setting which even someone looking for a different aesthetic would be well served to use as a model for building compelling faction intrigue based sandboxes.

This setting is beautiful. While it is small there is plenty of small hooks that allow for plenty of adventures that can span years of gaming. I have only begun to scratch the surface but look forward to integrating this setting into my current campaign.

I purchased Woodfall hardcover & PDF. Having read the book and now prepping it for a campaign (in 5e), I am extremely excited to run this module. Instead of a long prose, i'll just bullet point it:

• the factions in the swamp are great, with goals and interactions, as well as plans if the players do not stop with that faction. As the GM you can then use what you want, discard what you do not like - but the hard creative work has been done for you
• rumour table. A solid rumour table is great to help you seed the area, and the rumour table for Woodfall helps you seed the tone of the area itself - that is, your players are going to know this place is a little different just from the (sometimes conflicting) rumours concerning the town.
• with the thieves guild and fence, this is a place where you players can legitimately spend their money. The problem with backwater starting areas is that there will never be a magical sword for sale.
• the political stuff is a great background for GM - the players might pick up on it, but probably not. Knowing that a group are anachists means you can give NPCs their own goals (and then be consistent later without needing to take notes).
• The layout is good, there is very little wasted space!
• the module is just funny. There's so much to like in here.

I think there are some criticisms:

• While there are text descriptions for all creatures, some of the creatures in the beastiary have no art! As I understand it, some are based on irish / UK myths and folk tales, which does not help the GM if you're from another part of the world.
• the faction interaction table is unlabed, hopefully we can get a PDF of that labelled from the creator.

Overall though, these are minor blemishes on a genuinely fantastic setting. Do you have a forest that could have a swamp in the side of it, full of anti-establishment witches, undead and creatures? I highly recommend you slot Woodfall in there.

I purchased Woodfall yesterday and read half of it last night. I can say that it's a great setting and tool, but I don't think it's really appropriate for Lamentations of the Flame Princess, as some reviewers have stated, but it will be great for a more or less conventional, yet darker, setting.

As some have said, yes, this book is overtly political, so it's not for everyone's tastes. And it endorses (at least that's my perception) Socialism, which is perfect to me. But even anti-Socialists will benefit from it because it would be easy to run the game as satire and portraying the good guys as evil commies (as in Paranoia). Actually, the book allows you to join the authority and murder every single communist out there.

Basically, it's a hexcrawl with a swamp, a forest and factions operating on the area. It's funny and a little creepy. There is a necromancy commune and punk goblins and a troll gardener. If your game is dead serious, it might be too disruptive (that's why I won't bring it to my LotFP campaign), but if you like funny things and weird humour, it might be a good addition to your not so serious game (that's why I will drop it into my Labyrinth Lord game).

I don't give 5 stars because, personally, I don't find the artwok that great. I mean, some pieces are amazing, but others a little more than sketches and I don't like sketches, but you might.

Very good and entertaining. It's been a long time since I've read a module from cover to cover in one go. It has hooked me. Looking forward to taking it to the table.

Cool magic system, cool charts for quick NPC relations creations, cool table of factions and really great to see a sum up of the changes over time: Things are evolving in the swamp!