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WYRMSKULL THRONE, THE (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons : Forgotten Realms Adventure)

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Steven & Dale have done it again. This wonderful adventure spans new ground for a Forgotten Realms, correction, any TSR adventure! Your players will become embroilled in a quest for all Dwarvenkind. The Lore held within these pages about not only the undersea peoples and locales, but about the long forgotten (to the humans at least) Dwarven realm of Shanatar is amazing. And best of all the adventure is very intuitively written. They spared no word unturned, they bless the DM with anything they need, hooks and reason to begin the adventure, full descriptions including the motivations of all the players, what if's for the outcomes, and even the other tavern dwellers! It was without a doubt the best module I've ever read, I am even now plotting the course of my own players so they will "fall into it". If you bought Sea of Fallen Stars, this is a must have! If you didn't, you can get along just fine without it, but it'll draw you into the wonderous world beneath the Inner Sea, known as Seros. Have fun, and good gaming!

Wyrmskull does a great job of creating the NPC's for the adventure, but after that it becomes a DM's quagmire. Sloppy editing has many entries repeating exactly the same information you read one column ago, eating up valuable adventuring space. In the final pages, where the PC's explore an underwater dungeon, most of the "rooms" are simply bank, with a DM's note to fill in as needed. It has a feel of "better get this thing out and work on 3rd edition", unfinished and untested. Overall the plot is decent, the adventure is playable, but this could have been tightened up into a better module, or trimmed down to become a good Dungeon Magazine adventure.