Napftor
Explorer
I reveiced a free copy of "Deathright" (as well as a D&D comic--thanks Kenzer!) in accordance with their promotion last week. As promised, here is my blurb on this Kingdoms of Kalamar adventure...
Clocking in at 80 pages (including illustrations at the back), this adventure costs $15.99. The art is top-notch and the adventure itself is, as usual these days, chock full of more than just a one-night stand for your PC's. In fact, this module (am i the only one who uses this term anymore?) has enough material for several sessions. Taking place in the Principality of Pekal, the PC's must deal with disease, kidnapped children, an evil cult, and a mad undead queen trying to find her lost lover. Mistaking one of the characters for her love, the queen clearly desires a romantic encounter at the final act. The following passage, I believe, sums up the completeness of the narrative style in that they are even willing to print it!
The text following the lich-queen's bedroom innuendo states, "This horrific prospect should put off just about anybody. Anyone foolish enough to dally with a lich deserves the mind-shattering effect such a copulation causes."
Also, it is refreshing to see that the final opponent (the queen in this case) is one that is not to be killed, the text even stating it would be unlikely. There is a good balance between roleplaying and roll-playing which a GM could teeter-totter in the proper direction for his group given the amount of personalities and random encounter tables available. As I hinted at above, you get a bit more than just an adventure--
*2 prestige classes that are quite portable out of KoK
*a convenient timeline and encounter tables
*a new disease to inflict on your party
*a summary of the evil NPC group known as the Harvesters (for those who, like myself, do not own the KoK campaign setting)
*one new spell
*one magic item
I really enjoyed the "Simura's Library" book listings complete with book weight, value and language. How many times as a DM have I wished for a list just like this to use when my group stumbled into a library? Thank you, Kenzer! The ImageQuest illustrator is also a cool feature, wherein the illustrations of numerous people and places a party will encounter is printed largely for convient copying and subsequent distributing to the players.
The one issue I do have is with the long backstory in the beginning. Personally, I think it could have been accomplished without taking up almost 4 pages. But this point is minor.
In conclusion, for a good module and portable 3e items/people, "Deathright" is worth the sticker price.
Clocking in at 80 pages (including illustrations at the back), this adventure costs $15.99. The art is top-notch and the adventure itself is, as usual these days, chock full of more than just a one-night stand for your PC's. In fact, this module (am i the only one who uses this term anymore?) has enough material for several sessions. Taking place in the Principality of Pekal, the PC's must deal with disease, kidnapped children, an evil cult, and a mad undead queen trying to find her lost lover. Mistaking one of the characters for her love, the queen clearly desires a romantic encounter at the final act. The following passage, I believe, sums up the completeness of the narrative style in that they are even willing to print it!
The text following the lich-queen's bedroom innuendo states, "This horrific prospect should put off just about anybody. Anyone foolish enough to dally with a lich deserves the mind-shattering effect such a copulation causes."
Also, it is refreshing to see that the final opponent (the queen in this case) is one that is not to be killed, the text even stating it would be unlikely. There is a good balance between roleplaying and roll-playing which a GM could teeter-totter in the proper direction for his group given the amount of personalities and random encounter tables available. As I hinted at above, you get a bit more than just an adventure--
*2 prestige classes that are quite portable out of KoK
*a convenient timeline and encounter tables
*a new disease to inflict on your party
*a summary of the evil NPC group known as the Harvesters (for those who, like myself, do not own the KoK campaign setting)
*one new spell
*one magic item
I really enjoyed the "Simura's Library" book listings complete with book weight, value and language. How many times as a DM have I wished for a list just like this to use when my group stumbled into a library? Thank you, Kenzer! The ImageQuest illustrator is also a cool feature, wherein the illustrations of numerous people and places a party will encounter is printed largely for convient copying and subsequent distributing to the players.
The one issue I do have is with the long backstory in the beginning. Personally, I think it could have been accomplished without taking up almost 4 pages. But this point is minor.
In conclusion, for a good module and portable 3e items/people, "Deathright" is worth the sticker price.
