10 MonkeyGod Adventures: Which Ones Should I Get?

Knightfall · Mar 29, 2010

While I was out hunting for Necromancer Games adventures the other day, I came across a copy of The Magic Dump by MonkeyGod Enterprises. I hummed and hawed over it, but I decided to wait once I discovered a copy of Shades of Gray at the same store.

Regardless, I'll likely go back for it at some point since I really like the two MonkeyGod adventures I already own: Black Ice Well and Tsar Rising.

My discovery made me think, once again, about some of the other MonkeyGod Enterprises adventures. I've seen a few of the Blood Plateau adventures (i.e. The Mask of Marruk) around Edmonton, but I rarely give them a second thought.

Still, there are some of the others worth considering. I've pick the following ten adventures to get some advice on:

All The King's Men
Hellstone Deep *
Jade Magi Sewer Crawl
Shadows Under Thessaline
Song of Storms
The Hero Snare
The Last Initiate
The Maze of Screaming Silence *
The Scourge of Raftport
The Treasures of Elbard *

The ones marked with an asterisk are the adventures I'm most interested in getting feedback on. I know I've seen The Dancing Hut at Whyte Knight, recently, so that one might be on my radar too.

Cheers!

Knightfall

Ghostwind · Mar 29, 2010

Hellstone Deep is epic level, if I remember correctly, but a fairly good one.

Song of Storms is really good if you have a group that loves to roleplay. Well written and quite interesting. Not your usual hackfest.

Crothian · Mar 29, 2010

Hellstone Deep I think like most high level adventures really failed to take into account all the options that PCs can do.

Hero Snare is brilliant and one of the great examples on how low level creatures with a great home field advantage can annihlate a mid level party.

Voadam · Mar 29, 2010

Ghostwind said:
Hellstone Deep is epic level, if I remember correctly, but a fairly good one.

Hellstone is for levels 18-20 (and it is 3.5).

Knightfall · Mar 30, 2010

Voadam said:
Hellstone is for levels 18-20 (and it is 3.5).

Are any of the other adventures 3.5?

roguerouge · Mar 30, 2010

Crothian said:
Hellstone Deep I think like most high level adventures really failed to take into account all the options that PCs can do.

Hero Snare is brilliant and one of the great examples on how low level creatures with a great home field advantage can annihlate a mid level party.

Seconded. I ran that module and it's still infamous. Amazing what you can do with pots and pans to make life hell.

talien · Apr 4, 2010

I'm the author of All the King's Men and The Dancing Hut so happy to answer any questions you might have.

Knightfall · Apr 5, 2010

talien said:
I'm the author of All the King's Men and The Dancing Hut so happy to answer any questions you might have.

Okay, tell me about The Dancing Hut...

How generic is it? What makes it cool?

That sort of thing...

Voadam · Apr 5, 2010

Knightfall said:
Okay, tell me about The Dancing Hut...

How generic is it? What makes it cool?

That sort of thing...

Two Words: Baba Yaga.

TheAuldGrump · Apr 5, 2010

Another not on the list - Edge of Dreams. A bit of mystery, a good deal of role play, politics, and the threat of war if the PCs fail. The scenario focuses of the fey, and the murder of one of their lords.

A good, solid adventure, with lots of flavor. Then again, I am very much fond of mysteries and political scenarios, and this is a good example of how they can be worked into a game.

The Auld Grump