This was a fun little adventure. I've seen it recommended often on reddit. Took about 3 hours to run through. It is nice that it only really uses basic rules. And the players enjoyed it so I'm giving it 5 stars.
But. You should be aware that the first encounter is pretty savage. I was expecting a TPK after the 1st round of combat. I thought I'd accounted for the difficulty by allowing the 4 PCs all to start with feats at level one, but when the 8 rats swarmed the players and attacked with pack tactics it looked like they were going to die. And indeed one of them did go down on round two before they escaped out of the cellar. The giant inferno spider seemed much less deadly by comparison.
If the product is ever revised, I would suggest adding a note about scaling the number of giant rats depending on the number of PCs. And/or possibly beefing up the giant inferno spider?
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |