I've been putting up a lot of adventure reviews over time. To help keep everything straight and do some calibration, I keep a list here, and how I rank them.
Plus, I want a place to circle back and re-score things over time - my opinions and rankings tend to change over time, or after a playtest.
SYSTEMS
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Adventurer Conqueror King
Feels like a modern update to classic D&D (especially the Mentzer editions) with a strong emphasis on economics, campaigning, and domains. Highly recommended.
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ADVENTURE MODULES AND SOURCE BOOKS
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The Spire of Iron and Crystal 5 stars
Challenging trek through a weird wizard's tower with sci-fi themes.
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Tower of the Star Gazer: 5 stars
Playtested
Awesome introductory adventure, fresh take on the cliched wizard tower.
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Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls 5 stars
Playtested
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Many Gates of the Gann 4 stars
Ape servitors guarding a super-weapon in a mad wizard's lab.
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The Grinding Gear: 4 stars
Playtested
Fresh take on the classic trap-filled dungeon built by a mad manipulator.
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Carcosa 4 stars
Bleak horror setting for D&D that blends sci-fi with Cthulhoid horrors
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The Monolith From Beyond Space and Time 4 stars
Your campaign will never be the same.
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Barrowmaze 3.5 stars
A sprawling labyrinth of crypts and ruins beneath a field of haunted barrow mounds, fun for any old school group to experience. Fantastic art.
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Red Tide Campaign Setting 3.5 stars
Clever system of using tags and social relationships for creating locations in a wide area sandbox - highly recommended.
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Blood Moon Rising: 3.5 stars
Playtested
Solid mix of time-based events, sandbox, random encounters, dungeons, and a tournament.
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The Nameless City: 3.5 stars
Evocative and inspirational approach to a classic pulp fantasy lost city.
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The Magnificent Joop Van Ooms 3 stars
The studio of an eccentric painter promises strangeness and adventure.
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The Inn of Lost Heroes: 3 stars
Re-envisioning of the old B1 as an active fortress.
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The Obsidian Sands of Syncrates 3 stars
Playtestested
Control your own 300' tall gargantuan statue after clearing a small puzzle dungeon
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Rating Guide - The Beedometer:
Plus, I want a place to circle back and re-score things over time - my opinions and rankings tend to change over time, or after a playtest.
SYSTEMS
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Adventurer Conqueror King
Feels like a modern update to classic D&D (especially the Mentzer editions) with a strong emphasis on economics, campaigning, and domains. Highly recommended.
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ADVENTURE MODULES AND SOURCE BOOKS
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The Spire of Iron and Crystal 5 stars
Challenging trek through a weird wizard's tower with sci-fi themes.
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Tower of the Star Gazer: 5 stars
Playtested
Awesome introductory adventure, fresh take on the cliched wizard tower.
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Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls 5 stars
Playtested
Proved that a printed megadungeon could be done, with style and utility, well ahead of the field.
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Death Love Doom 5 stars
Nightmare fuel abounds when characters try to loot this gruesome country estate.
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Realms of Crawling Chaos 5 stars
Bringing the tentacles and the Innsmouth Look to your neighborhood D&D game.
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The God That Crawls 4.5 stars
Trapped in a labyrinth and hunted by an implacable monster.
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Hammers of the God 4.5 stars
Playtested
The quintessential lost dwarven temple and tomb complex, with a dark secret.
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Death Love Doom 5 stars
Nightmare fuel abounds when characters try to loot this gruesome country estate.
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Realms of Crawling Chaos 5 stars
Bringing the tentacles and the Innsmouth Look to your neighborhood D&D game.
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The God That Crawls 4.5 stars
Trapped in a labyrinth and hunted by an implacable monster.
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Hammers of the God 4.5 stars
Playtested
The quintessential lost dwarven temple and tomb complex, with a dark secret.
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Lesserton and Mor 4.5 stars
Richly detailed adventurer's town and sprawling ruined city nearby
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Many Gates of the Gann 4 stars
Ape servitors guarding a super-weapon in a mad wizard's lab.
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The Grinding Gear: 4 stars
Playtested
Fresh take on the classic trap-filled dungeon built by a mad manipulator.
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Carcosa 4 stars
Bleak horror setting for D&D that blends sci-fi with Cthulhoid horrors
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The Monolith From Beyond Space and Time 4 stars
Your campaign will never be the same.
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Barrowmaze 3.5 stars
A sprawling labyrinth of crypts and ruins beneath a field of haunted barrow mounds, fun for any old school group to experience. Fantastic art.
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Red Tide Campaign Setting 3.5 stars
Clever system of using tags and social relationships for creating locations in a wide area sandbox - highly recommended.
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Blood Moon Rising: 3.5 stars
Playtested
Solid mix of time-based events, sandbox, random encounters, dungeons, and a tournament.
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The Nameless City: 3.5 stars
Evocative and inspirational approach to a classic pulp fantasy lost city.
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The Magnificent Joop Van Ooms 3 stars
The studio of an eccentric painter promises strangeness and adventure.
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The Inn of Lost Heroes: 3 stars
Horror - trapped in a haunted inn inspired by Silent Hill!
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The Hidden Serpent: 3 starsRe-envisioning of the old B1 as an active fortress.
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The Obsidian Sands of Syncrates 3 stars
Playtestested
Control your own 300' tall gargantuan statue after clearing a small puzzle dungeon
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Rating Guide - The Beedometer:
5 Defining
This module turns a genre on its head, breaks creative new ground, and otherwise stands above the crowd.
4 Exemplary
Breaks creative new ground or demonstrates a level of effort far beyond what I'd do for the home game.
3 Good Effort
Worth buying! Either a polished home brew or the start of something creative and new.
2 Home Brew
This adventure is something I'd expect a creative DM could home brew on their own; you're not missing anything.
1 I Want My Money Back
I try to be risk averse not to buy modules that could be in this category, but it happens from time to time.
