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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7693080" data-attributes="member: 22779">Tomb of Horrors, to me, is kinda like a Tarantino movie.  Either you really like them, or you really hate them.  It's kinda rare to find someone who is on the fence.  TOH hits all the buttons for people.  If you want this style of play, then, it's a fantastic module.  If it's not your bag, then it's REALLY not your bag.  It's a bit of a one trick pony - it's not like you can change into different approaches in the adventure - either you're playing super paranoid SAS commandoes, or you're dead.  You can't talk to anything, there's nothing, other than the traps, to interact with, and there's virtually nothing to fight.To use 5e parlance, it's 100% exploration pillar.  (Or close enough to 100%)  For exactly the same reasons [MENTION=4937]Celebrim[/MENTION] can look at the G modules and think they're somewhat simple to design (they're mostly combat adventures after all, one trick ponies as well), others look at ToH and think it's pretty much one long "gotcha". Personally, I find a number of the trap encounters far too arbitrary to be interesting.  You've got a 2 in three chance of dying at the entrance, and, outside of something like Contact other Plane or other "Please Mr. DM, can you give us a hint" type spells, there's no reason to try one over another.  It's far too aribitrary for my tastes.  I mean, good grief, you need to find what, some 11 secret doors, including one hidden inside a pit trap, in order to complete this module.  Fail any one of those find secret doors checks, and you're SOL, you cannot actually find Acerak.Certainly not to my tastes anymore.</blockquote>

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