Just a really bad adventure. I'll go into more detail later, but this is NOT an adventure for beginners, both beginning players and especially beginning DMs. Large parts of it are boring and give no hints or telegraph that there are secrets; the players are just expected to "read the DM's mind" to find the secret. As far as DMing goes, there are several room descriptions and traps that just don't make sense and that the DM will have to fix beforehand. It does an active disservice to the OSR hobby by advertising itself as a teaching dungeon. And there's no illustration or description of what a snake-person looks like! What?? The only nod to that is the lich which has a snake bottom and a human top, which is exactly the opposite of what I was thinking the snake-people looked like. Seriously, this is not a fun adventure and it's not fun to DM. Mine it for the barred-door-and-hammer trap, but it's so sparse, mistake-filled, and full of holes that you should really avoid DMing this one. If this is the fourth time the author has tried to fix this adventure, they need to chuck it.
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