The adventures contained with Monster Hunts: Halloween are perfect for not only for spooky one-offs, but also modular enough to be inserted into any campaign for the perfect Halloween session! All the adentures are fully fleashed out with maps, items, npcs, and monster tactics, making them super easy to run. All of the individual hunts play off of the themes and tropes of popular Halloween media, and I've honestly had a blast just reading them. I definitely plan to run the Dreamscape Warriors adventure for my party's Halloween session this Friday!

When I first read Descent into Avernus, I was honestly a little disappointed by its lack of modularity. Despite being an interesting concept and fun execution, it seemed very rooted in the Forgotten Realms setting, meaning I would be unable to port it to my long running homebrew game. That was until reading “Monster Hunt:Avernus”, which provides modular hooks for including the monsters and flavor within Descent into any campaign setting! Each individual hunt is given its own plot hooks and rumors, allowing the DM to seed these any time they could need them. Unique NPCs and quest givers populate every hunt, with succinct roleplaying and descriptive details (the inclusion of pronouns for every NPC is a really nice touch; I’m always happy to see representation of they/them pronouns in TTRPG content). Each quest is detailed with rewards, including 21 new and thematic magic items, which could be included into a standard Descent playthrough if not used here. What’s most exciting is the inclusion of battle/dungeon maps for each individual hunt! Improving upon the format of the original “100 Monster Hunts” by adding even more detail, “Monster Hunt: Avernus” allows DMs to spend less time finding ways to plan the encounters, and more time playing through these fun hunts with their players! This is well worth the price, and easily usable in nearly any style of game. I’m already seeding these hooks into my homebrew sandbox game, and getting the play out of Descent that I would have ended up missing otherwise!

This is very likely one of the best adventures I've had the pleasure of looking through since getting involved in the RPG hobby. The adventure is thoroughly detailed, filled to the brim with detailed maps, encounters, NPCs, player handouts, and most excitingly, monster harvest tables complete with craftable items both mundane and magical. All of this extra attention to detail greatly serves to improve the adventure and help it feel fully fleashed out, and never disorients or feels like too much. The storyline is fun and separates nicely into three distinct acts, and the Captain's Logbook handouts let players uncover more backstory as they explore the adventure, which reminds me of older horror video games and makes for a distinctly spooky feel. While I feel like this adventure is going to be essential to my next playthrough of GoSM, it makes for a fantastic stand-alone adventure in its own right. I am beyond excited to seed this into my next pirate adventure!