Web of Illusion

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition

by Ed Haddock

Genres: Dungeons and Dragons, Role Playing Games, Gaming

Paperback

Reviews

[Juho Pohjalainen · Rating 1 out of 5]

All aboard the spooky scary Ravenloft ghost train! We've got scenes, we've got set-ups, we've got theatrics! We've got a Choose Your Own Adventure framing except the choices don't matter crap and always lead to the same place! We've got enemies always equal in number to the player characters, and advice for the DM on how to spook them and rough them up a bit without ever going too hard on them! We've got a linear dungeon crawl with fancy setpieces, and easy encounters, except for the final boss which would be practically unkillable except, you guessed it, you stumbled into its fatal weakness right at the beginning of the module! Didn't even have to search for the bloody thing!

The bar for the 2nd edition adventures is lying pretty deep in the mud. You grasp at it with your fingers yet it always slips away and sinks deeper still. I don't know why I even bother.