This is a great tier 2 adventure steeped in D&D meta humor. I was quite astonished at how easy to read and run this adventure was. It honestly leaves me wondering if other authors take pains to make their work inscrutable.
The format is great. There’s tons of box text, and all of the information about the NPCs is in their description box; no additional details hidden in the dramatis personae or in later reveals. The most impressive feature however is the encounter tables. The author lays out each encounter in a table, with separate lines for each party strength. Exactly which monsters and how many is explicitly spelled out for each party strength! None of this subtract this and add that nonsense that the other adventures use. I didn’t know that authors were allowed to make encounter tables straightforward and easy to read!
The junk collecting minigame is also really well written. The players get to pick from a bunch of different skill rolls and there’s guidance for rewarding the use of expendable resources. The salvage table is also just freaking hilarious! It is the only d100 table I have ever seen that actually has 100 entries, and all of them are well thought out, and many of them are quite funny. A lot of D&D meta humor.
This adventure is tons of fun to run. Steal this dude's format. Every adventure should be written like this!
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