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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simon Collins" data-source="post: 2008168" data-attributes="member: 9860">Beware! This review contains major spoilers.Good Friends And Fine Spirits is an adventure for four PCs of level 2-4, but can be adapted to different numbers and levels. It is a free download from Mystic Eye Games website.Production And Presentation: This adventure is a 23-page 5MB .pdf file. The text is presented in one-column format and is clear to read. Some of the sections are split by a textured border, which sometimes takes up a very small amount of space, sometimes ¾ of the page. The layout is average as is the general presentation. The art is poor, though the computer-generated maps of the Crock Pot, the sewers and the abandoned house are fairly good.The Story: The module begins with an overview and introduction of the adventure, and some basic hooks. The PCs end up going to a halfling-run inn, The Crock Pot, to celebrate the successful end to their first adventure. After an evening of revelry and roleplaying with the inn’s customers and staff, a group of giant cockroaches invades the kitchen, kidnapping one of the innkeeper’s daughters, and retreating into the sewers beneath. The PCs enter the sewers to rescue the girl. After run-ins with giant cockroaches, dire rats, more giant cockroaches, a ghoul, more giant cockroaches, and even more giant cockroaches, they eventually reach the lair of the half-human, half-eggsack cockroach queen, who has kidnapped the halfling girl to create another queen, needing a bit of company.The High Points: The NPCs of The Crock Pot are well detailed, with personality and motives that add up to a good roleplaying experience. The tactics of the monsters are well-detailed throughout the adventure and the ecology makes sense. The boxed text for the players is clear and atmospheric. There is information to adapt the adventure to more or less than 4 PCs and for higher level PCsThe Low Points: The names of the NPCs are, not to mince words, stupid. I also find the idea of giant cockroaches ridiculous. This would have been reasonably OK if the adventure was meant to be humorous, but I get the impression that it wasn’t. The plotline was linear, a basic dungeon crawl once the PCs got into the sewers, and the scenes repetitive.Conclusion: The setting and the monsters from this adventure are like some sort of killer-insect B-Movie. If that’s your style, feel free to download this adventure. The only things stopping me giving this an Appalling rating were the NPCs motives and personality at the beginning and the monsters’ tactics descriptions – the ideas behind the adventure’s structure were good, but the style and the subject let it down</blockquote>

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