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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9178598" data-attributes="member: 18">Some of the later ones were significantly better laid-out which may be what he's thinking of. But the first few? Ooof. They were absolutely a car crash as you say. Keep on the Shadowfell is an absolutely astonishing "What not to do" piece on virtually every imaginable level. The encounters are completely unbalanced to a hilarious degree. Some of the maps are just wrong (like it has the PCs approaching from the wrong direction in like the first map) or contradicted by the text. The text itself is deeply self-contradictory and confused about what the plot is. Several plot and dungeon elements make absolutely no sense, and not in a fun way, just in a "I wrote this at 4am, what was I thinking?!" kind of way. The overall plot particularly makes very little sense in context. Really the killer, above all this, is that it is appallingly badly organised and formatted.I've heard people try to excuse this because it was the first adventure for a system.That might arguably excuse the unbalanced encounters.It doesn't excuse anything else. Literally everyone involved in designing this was an experienced DM. They knew better. They must have rushed it out in like days to meet a deadline or something, that's the best excuse I can give them. Otherwise it was just slapdash and terrible for no reason.The two follow-ups are not much better in any regard.This is true. The difficulty is discerning quality there.</blockquote>

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