I love puzzles, but my players don't always enjoy going through with them. So, I enjoy an adventure that actually helps encourage the players to give it a try.

The first puzzle started with the players seriously overthinking it. Everyone was really seriously worried about missing gear and was trying to figure out how to deal with the lack of gear, but a gentle nudge and some reassurance helped them, just saying "this is a puzzle in a two hour adventure, don't worry too much about it, you'll be fine and enjoy yourself."

After they got that started, they solved it pretty quickly and by passing ideas around to each other. It was great to see it!

From that point on, they were in the right mindset and I think everyone enjoyed that aspect of things. As a DM I also was happy to see that in a lot of the cases, the possibility of working around the puzzle was there. Sometimes you have players that just REALLY want to be rewarded for bypassing it. (In fact, in the first puzzle one of the players floated the idea of a class ability that would have let him bypass it... and had he gone through with it, it would have worked, but at this point players were really into trying to solve it.

The end battle was a little more complicated for us, and I wish I had read it a little more carefully. Everyone had a blast, but I did mess it up a little. But, this is D&D, players are often patient when you say "hold up, I messed up, what you ACTUALLY saw was..."

Once we did that, they made short work of the end fight. My players tend to stomp pure combat, they worked on the puzzle at the end (this one gave them a little more trouble, but a lot less than I was worried about).

But it was a great evening, it ran a little over the two hours, but well within the time I had allotted for the game. (and could be because we were joking around and having a good time, which is totally a success in my book).

As a side note, we played the other adventure in the Acre Woods prior. The two of them have a very different feel. :)

So I definitely recommend this adventure, and suggest the DM read it very carefully. As is typical of puzzle adventures, it requires a little extra reading, but it was worth it.

Overall the module is fun. But for our group there was a part that ruined it.

At some point in time the module says "give player hand out X to the players". If you briefly look over player handout X it says in large print "player handout X" then has a lot more to it. At the bottom it says in small print "DMs note Answer key" and gives the answer to the puzzle.

I missed that the answer key was on the player's handout that the module has you give to the players. Luckily only one player saw the answer key and we just had him solve it separately from the group. Still that experience made myself and him upset.

Player handouts and DMs notes should not be on something that is titled player handout nor something the module has you hand to the players. If that was in a separate page my rating for the module would have been higher.

This is the adventure that made me fall in love with puzzles and exploration. As a matter of fact, I am a new DM and I just finished running my first T2 adventure. This was that adventure, and my players loved it! The writing and progression of the story was seamless, even as a new DM I found it easy to run. There aren't enough stars over the Moonsea for me to rate it with, highly recommend!

This mod is amazing! From the maps to the story, it's downright beautiful! The plot is well-written and is fairly easy to prepare. 11/10 would recommend if you're looking for a puzzle-centric mod with a sprinkle of roleplay and combat!

Interesting take on an "Experimental" setting adventure. The events flow in a smooth manner allowing appropriate time for the players to adjust to the setting before more intense events. The module itself is presented in a reader-friendly manner providing a concise and detailed description regarding each situation. Overall a great product