The Panther Club and The Pack alone make this book well worth buying. It introduces a multitude of new races that have interesting back stories that can easily be fitted in to a campaign. I have used these with T&T so far, and my Ruffiri singer at the Diamond Spider was great fun to play.

This is by far the best book in the Citybook series, which is saying a lot, as all the books have a lot of inspirational content. I have used this as the basis for my ‘home’ city where all the PC live, shop and start their adventures. The Diamond Spider tavern, the Grey Minstrel Inn, Skywhite’s and the Salmagundi cart have all been well received by the players.

I have just had my first run through this using a level 2 warrior with all attributes in his mid twenties. Managed to soak up plenty of the atmosphere of the adventure without getting very far into the meat of the story.

I did manage to escape with my life, but very little else, which causes a lot of problems if your powers all come from magic items that you were (notice use of past tense) carrying.

Looking forward to trying this out again but, next time, with a character that has more natural abilities.

I can fully recommend this, even after only about 40 minutes of play time.

This gives you 5 new character classes that add a lot to the ones given in the dT&T rules. These are The Brute (STR heavy), The Defender (CON), The Trickster (LCK), The Swashbuckler (SPD) and The Tinker (INT).

The first 4 are all very much of the "Hey, that's neat! Why didn't I think of that?" type and are worth buying this on their own, especially as the ideas are very precisely and concisely explained, but the last class, The Tinker, is a very clever idea that adds another dimension to the game.

The Tinker introduces an alternative system to Magic, with gizmos on place of spells, limited by the Tinker's INT attribute. The steampunk feel, and the subtle humour (I love the glow-torch) almost make this a work of art. You don't need to play T&T, or even want to play it, to appreciate the thought and humour that has been put into these devices.

Worth buying just for the read but, having put together a Swashbuckler and a Defender tonight, and rolled up a Tinker without devices (as yet), I am really looking forward to seeing how well these guys work in the 'real' T&T world.

Well worth buying.

Once you realise that paragraph 130 (The upstairs landing) is probably missing the exit down the (obvious) staircase, and you correct this by adding in a 'down the stairs to 60' line, this adventure is excellent fun for a beginner. If you do not realise this oversight, it means that the game becomes basically impossible, repetitive and frustrating.

The best things about this are that you can actually use beginning, freshly rolled, characters and not die within the first two paragraphs, and that you do not have to bother shopping for weapons and armour. everything that you need is here.

I gave it a 4 and not 5 due to the sheer frustration of spending about an hour trying to find important items that can be found on ground level, but being unable to access them, owing to to fact that the main house staircase became invisible for no reason.

The limited amount of random encounters is something else that a house rule might be needed to address, as the sense of urgency seems to peter out as the amount available get used up.