I bought this series of adventures with the hope of running a duet campaign with my brother. Having read First Blush and the beginning of Second Glance, I'm not sure I will actually use it, though.

The first module is full of errors, inconsistencies (including between the maps and description), unexplained/unexplainable coincidences (Why on earth would you build a prison and then make it so easy for exactly the person you imprisoned to get out?), and essentially ends with a cutscene/deus ex machina. If I do use it, I will be rewriting/rearranging and fixing almost every part of the 'real' dungeon in particular. I resent having to do the job of editing, proofreading, and playtesting a module sold as finished.

But the real issue I have has to do with the 'DMPC' that the player PC is saddled with for the series. I'm not sure why the creators thought that it was a good idea to give the DM their own avatar in the game to outshine the player and become the center of the plot, but it was a terrible, terrible idea long before they even decided to make him an immortal LG paladin with memory issues. (And no, it doesn't help that the player can control him - the player chose/made their own PC for a reason!)

And that's the other big problem. You are given pregenerated characters, but told that you can create your own. However, the hooks into First Blush are significant, and make very serious demands on the PC's backstory. The adventures are also supposedly standalone, but there is no real way that they can stand alone while also revolving around the DMPC introduced in the first adventure, at least not without very significant surgery.

Awesome adventure, lots of fun, though a crit fail on comforting Lulu had fairly far-reaching effects for a single, otherwise unimportant-looking, roll. There were occasionally things I wanted to do that weren't really possible in the context of the choices, but that is the nature of CYOA adventuring.

I ran a party of two PCs, doubling the HP of the foes as recommended, which made the combats challenging, nicely offsetting the benefit of having a 'backup' PC. I would definitely recommend two PCs, unless your single PC is really strong.

This is not a finished adventure. It is a decent scenario that needs several hours of work to become an actual adventure. It is insulting to editors, artists, and real DMs that this has been released to the public as anything other than freeware fanfiction.

Disappointingly half-finished. Needs an editor, better linking, and (more) playtest. I have no idea how a single first-level PC would not die; my party of two 4th level PCs (doubling enemy HP for balance) could have died with a less forgiving reading of some encounters. It's also entirely possible for players to randomly destroy the entire world, if they do the rooms in a different order than seems intended.

I bought this hoping it would have organizational tools: spreadsheets of NPCs/villains, charts for tracking progress, maybe even some maps. It doesn't have any of that. It's pretty much just badly edited reorganizations of the sourcebook - which, given the distributed nature of the source, can give helpful perspective - and one DM's retelling of how some of the campaign went for his party - which, bleah. I'm kind of done with people who can't even be bothered to run spell check on something they want to sell to the public.

This is a decent little intro Adventure with low stakes. I didn't use the table of magic items included, because they were mostly pretty overpowered. I tried to roll randomly in the DMG, but that is not easy to do, so I recommend coming up with your own list beforehand, tailored to the character to make the choices harder. I wouldn't be afraid to maybe up the number of goblins in some of the encounters before the end, or only give out healing potions when needed, as my PC had no trouble at all dispatching goblins one at a time, and never needed the potions.

A fun little one-shot. I did it with a party of two 3rd level PCs (doubling monster HP to even out the difficulty), and it was challenging without being overly deadly. I think the NPC might've been slightly appalled by some of the party's actions, but he was professional and kept it to himself.

I really wanted to like this adventure, as there's clearly been a lot of thought and effort put into it, but it ended up running more like a DM soliloquy than an adventure. None of the choices my PCs wanted to make were available, they were railroaded into a truly pointless combat that nearly killed them all, when they triumphed it had no effect on the plot, and they received no reward or recognition for their success.