An excellent OSR-adjacent, sword & sorcery adventure game. It is to 5E as DCC is to 3E, meaning it takes a more modern version of D&D and reverse engineers it to be more old-school. Simply an excellent game, great art and the solo support is also quite nice. It's in the same niche as 5 Torches Deep and Shadowdark, but ToA emphasizes emergent play and the sandbox approach more than those two, and has a bit more crunch. ToA is also considerably more low fantasy than its predecessor Low Fantasy Gaming 1e, in terms of character power levels and competence. This a true gem, up there with DCC, WWN and other such OSR-adjacent classics! 5/5
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