Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158696 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

Nice little dungeon. Needs DM work to fully appreciate.
I've been a DM for over 20 years now through running purchased modules and campaigns of my own devising. We're nearly half way through playing this.
This is a well presented module, with the, now standard, first book to present an introductory encounter, the NPCs and new monsters followed by a beefy second book detailing the rest of the encounters. The story is good, albeit not one you'd buy the book of, nor see the film twice :)
The poster maps cover more than one room, so it means you have to lay them down and stick a million post-it notes over the areas the players cannot see...
It's nice to have pictures to show the PCs to aid describing the areas. As the pictures are two-per-page you have the same issue as per the poster maps.
Silly, but I'm annoyed that the encounters go out of their way to have odd-shaped rooms. I have a reasonable set of dungeon floor plans from Wizards which were useful throughout H1, but I have had to resort to slicing up photocopied paper just to stay true to the printed maps in H2 - My players keep complaining that the "graphics card" doesn't seem able to render the scenes as well as it used to! This re-enforces 4th edition's "born in the age of the MMORPG" flavour.
Another issue with the content is "resting" - one dungeon consists of 6 or more encounters, it would make no sense to retreat out to safety after each couple of encounters, as logic (and back story) would dictate that the troops would repopulate and make it virtually impossible to complete the dungeon. You are left with a party having to sleep in hostile territory.
Don't get me wrong, this is a pleasant experience to DM; just prepare yourself more than the writer thinks you should.