I think this is an excellent little adventure. Its just a dungeon crawl, but its easy to drop into a campaign. I found that the module was well written especially the background information and the situation.

I agree that the 'battle mats' aren't much, you may not even want to use them and wing it. Its also not a long adventure so it won't turn into a Grind for the players and the DM.

It may not be obvious, but it helps you get some use out of any pesky Skaven minis you may have (including your globadiers).

Not bad. Not bad at all. It would have been nice to have rendered maps for all the encounters. It is not necessary of course but it would take the module up another notch.

The adventure itself is clicheed as most 1st level modules are. It follows the usual formula: find out what threatens a village and remove that threat via a dungeon crawl. This adventure has a gritty feel, which I like.

The weakness of the module is that the author has not taken full advantage of the 4E rules. There are no Skill Challenges at all in here. Yet there are many opportunities to add skill challenges. The DM will have to devise those himself. This is a shame because without them this is just another 3E module with updated stats.

The opposition is scary and varied yet manages to remain themed throughout. All in all a nice product but I hope forthcoming Venture 4th-modules will get fully into the spirit of the new edition.

While I've not had time to fully read this adventure I just wanted to say how disappointed I was that only the first encounter (the one seen in the preview) has a proper battlemat type printout. All you get for the other areas are some blank (textured) square grids (one of which has a well in the middle)! Most disappointing. I would have given a much higher rating if not for this.