Ended up going for 2 4-5 hour sessions across this module. The enemies and great NPCS were great for my players, and RP with NPCs was easy for me, as they had been well-fleshed out in this module. Great 1st time DMing experience. Thank you!

This really is a very well crafted one shot. I ran it for my group yesterday as a bit of light relief from our main campaign, which has 120 hours played so far - and compared to that, I wasn't expecting too much of it in terms of narrative, tension and emotional heft. But it actually delivered on all of those, providing a great setting for team bonding, a bunch of well-thought-out NPCs and plenty of natural opportunities for role playing. It's also structually very solid, with great pacing, a handful of interesting challenges with their own neat mechanics (and proper consequences), enemies with a well-judged degree of homebrewing, and an ending that wraps up nicely but leaves plenty of scope for carrying on the adventure yourself. All told, it's a fantastic piece of work.

Didn't actually run as-is, but pulled in a bunch of elements into a couple sessions at sea that my party had in a homebrew adventure. To that end, this adventure (or rather, elements of it) fit the bill nicely, and helped me through some writer's block on various elements and encounters. In particular, the rules surrounding a ship-to-ship battle with a lot of enemies were very clear and helped me wrap my head around that type of encounter. Thank you and well done! I technically can't vouch for the entirety of the adventure, but would recommend it nonetheless.

I bought this module with the intention of running it for 2 sessions while one of my players was on vacation. I had a brand new party, all level one, so I was going to scale things down to keep them from being immediately murdered. Instead I threw 2 level five NPCs in with them, and with my table of experienced players, they really knocked it out of the park.

Firstly, the adventure says 4-6 hours. I think that is doable if you plow through it, but there is so much content to explore that you can easily double that. My party opted to keep going even after our 4th player returned and we got a minimum of 12 hours out of it. There are a ton of RP opportunities and I think it would do this adventure a disservice if you ignored those chances.

The NPCs are fleshed out enough that you don't have to stretch to give them personalities, the maps are helpful but are not absolutely needed to run combat, and I enjoyed the reasonable modification of the monsters. It is also left open ended enough for you to expand upon in future adventures or leave it on a cliffhanger.

This was a great way to break the ice with a new table of players, get them a couple of levels and then spit them into the jungles of Chult where they may find an old cartographer thought to be lost at sea...

This is a great first session to a nautical campaign. It's very good.

Ran it on New Years Eve, but changed the setting to Eberron, because I prefer that setting and it fits very well with the style of Eberron (also changed the orc npc to a warforged).

The adventure is very well written and easy to run. It has some great "mini-games" and fun encounters. The npcs were fun to play (though one of them was a bit hard on my voice, but that's just an indication of how distinctive they are written, that I found it easy to "find" their individual voices) and the story is good.

We played through the whole adventure in one session, though it was 2am when we finished (I can't remember what time we started). If split over 2 sessions there would have been room for a bit more social interaction, but that wasn't an option for us, and the adventure was still a lot of fun.

I found that some of Syrinscape's soundsets were very fitting for the adventure, particularly the sea and storm ones. If available and there is extra time for preparation it is well worth it.

I don't want to go into spoiler territory, but there might be minor spoilers ahead (ahoy... sorry about that)

One issue I had with it though, and this is a very very minor thing, is that one npc they meet (the one that strained my voice a bit) probably shouldn't have a fly speed or spellcasting ability. I just chose to ignore it, because it didn't fit the character, and it didn't matter to the story or the players at all (unless they read the adventure, or this review themselves, they will never know the difference).

Excellent and fun adventure that was easy to slide into an ongoing campaign. I enjoyed running my players through it and have made the nemesis a recurring villain who shows from time to time.

I am running a nautical-themed adventure and this was a PERFECT adventure to run! Great plot, mystery, combat, social challenges and quick/easy system for mass combat. Highly recommend!

PS- I hope to see a sequel adventure sometime...

I ran this recently and we all had a great time. I did a review/play report on my blog. Spoilers in the link: https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/in-review-the-dawn-chasers/

Wow! There is a lot to this adventure. That's all I want to say as I don't want to spoil any of the fun. Just know that it's all there. Combat, roleplay, adventure. Nicely done!