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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 1895686" data-attributes="member: 2292">Better late than never I guess...I picked up Valley of Frozen Tears a few weeks ago, just before I moved, and only recently got around to printing it out and reading through it. On the whole, I'm impressed with the product - it has a lot of ideas, and it makes me actually want to use it in my game.  I'm a sucker for cool fey, and this has it in spades.For me, it took the product to long to get to the parts that really interested me.  While the human history was interesting, the parts of the valley that really stood out for me where the unsteady detente between the fey and the druids/rangers. With a modular product like this, I'm really searching for the cool sources of conflict and advice on how to use them - the other details are secondary.  Another minor concern was the size of the valley - I like the idea, but sliding in a location several hundred miles accross can be a bit tricky. When I eventually use it I'll be keeping it withing the region of twenty or thirty miles at most, and toning down the numbers of fey and orc tribes to make it a localised source of conflict.I like the adventure hooks attached to the monsters, but would prefer to see more spread throught the product.  The setting has a really strong cultural feel, but doesn't have an accessable guide on how to use it and maintain the players immersement.  You've got some nicely established sources of conflict, but no guidelines regarding where it could go.  The introductory guide to the valley is a little dry - again, more detail on what characterises the place and how it can be used would have been nice.  As it is, it builds a mental picture of the place but no strong sense of potential stories.</blockquote>

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