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<blockquote data-quote="Derfel" data-source="post: 2154669" data-attributes="member: 1047">I have to agree with some of the sentiment posted here. I've been fairly disappointed in the adventure as a whole. I bought the module because I have very little time to prepare for games. I have just enough time to read the module in prep for a session. The book received good reviews and other owners seemed to enjoy it, but god is the first region a bore. Right now my players are betting on whether a given door leads to another empty room, or a corridor. I know I could make it more interesting, but the fact is, I don't buy modules so I can spend hours adding extra material the authors should have. Now my group loves the dungeon-crawl/hack &amp; slash aspects of gaming, so that isn't the problem. The problem is that there are about 5-6 types of encounters in the first region, repeated over and over again. A lot of work is needed to make the first region more interesting. So at this point my group and I have decided to just stop. From reading ahead the later regions seem a bit more interesting, but noone in my group has enough interest to continue. I'm hoping I'll be able to make use out of the book by pulling out the different regions and using them as small dungeons. If you have a lot of time to spent customizing and re-writing the module (at which point I wonder what the point of buying an adventure is) I would say it's a good purchase. I liked the fact that monster stats are right there in the text (not an appendix or reference to the SRD) and some of the later regions are actually interesting. But first impressions are important and the WLD left a real bad first impression. If you buy it I would strongly recommend dumping the first region, or spending some time and re-writing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Derfel, post: 2154669, member: 1047"] I have to agree with some of the sentiment posted here. I've been fairly disappointed in the adventure as a whole. I bought the module because I have very little time to prepare for games. I have just enough time to read the module in prep for a session. The book received good reviews and other owners seemed to enjoy it, but god is the first region a bore. Right now my players are betting on whether a given door leads to another empty room, or a corridor. I know I could make it more interesting, but the fact is, I don't buy modules so I can spend hours adding extra material the authors should have. Now my group loves the dungeon-crawl/hack & slash aspects of gaming, so that isn't the problem. The problem is that there are about 5-6 types of encounters in the first region, repeated over and over again. A lot of work is needed to make the first region more interesting. So at this point my group and I have decided to just stop. From reading ahead the later regions seem a bit more interesting, but noone in my group has enough interest to continue. I'm hoping I'll be able to make use out of the book by pulling out the different regions and using them as small dungeons. If you have a lot of time to spent customizing and re-writing the module (at which point I wonder what the point of buying an adventure is) I would say it's a good purchase. I liked the fact that monster stats are right there in the text (not an appendix or reference to the SRD) and some of the later regions are actually interesting. But first impressions are important and the WLD left a real bad first impression. If you buy it I would strongly recommend dumping the first region, or spending some time and re-writing it. [/QUOTE]

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