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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GVDammerung" data-source="post: 3141698" data-attributes="member: 33060">The latest Savage Tide Adventure Path entry is a collection of sidetrek-like adventures, that get the players to the Isle of Dread. One of the sidetrek-like adventures is a brief stop at Tamoachan to indulge a curious fellow traveller of the PCs, who the PCs are presumed to accompany ashore. Presented is a new map of new ruins at Tamoachan. Unfortunately, they are very abbreviated, as befits a sidetrek-like adventure, but otherwise less than might have been hoped for, at least by Tamoachan fans. More bothersome is the way these ruins are described; they lack much depth, using appropriate Olman names, but only vague descriptions of areas, none of which suggests much in the way of new possibilities for Tamoachan or the Olman. Also presented in the adventure is a map of the area from Sasserine to the Isle of Dread. Except for the Isle of Dread, the map is almost a virtual duplicate of the map of the same area contained in the Scarlet Brotherhood accessory. Notably Xamaclan is missing from the Dungeon map. In these particulars, the adventure is less than it might have been. The decision to create a "from-here-to-there" adventure out of mini-adventures likely doomed any greater development. Certainly, the trip to the Isle of Dread could have been broken up into two or three segments, allowing for perhaps a Tamoachan exclusive adventure but such would have then shortened up the opportunity for other adventures. It seems, then, like a bowl half empty or half full sort of situation. Certainly for Greyhawk fans, the tendency is to see the bowl half empty as the opportunity for a greater return to Tamoachan was there but passed very much like a ship in the night - on its way to the Isle of Dread. If anyone was considering buying the adventure purely for its Tamoachan content, unless you are a rabid Olman fan, I can't recommend it. Similarly, for anyone considering buying the adventure for its expanded map of the southern seas of Oerth, I cannot recommend that either. For a Greyhawk connected adventure, Dungeon 141's entry is very generic.</blockquote>

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