The Fat Goblin Travel Guide to the Frozen Tomb of the Dwarf Lord
The Fat Goblin Travel Guide to the Frozen Tomb of the Dwarf Lord
This installment of Fat Goblin Travel Guides clocks in at 12 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC, 1 page SRD, leaving us with 9 pages of content, so what do we get herein?
Essentially, we get a fully mapped location (map in full color, btw.) to drop into other adventures, as sidetreks, etc. The location sports a total of 7 keyed locations and while the full color map is beautiful, a player-friendly version sans keys would have been appreciated.
The terrain of the module itself is pretty well documented and the new hazard, essentially the magical equivalent of liquid nitrogen and a neat new CR 2 trap make for fine hazards. The 4 sample treasures that can potentially be found herein are also neat – a yeti-cloak, a lance that uses the mount’s str-score, a charm that protects against ice damage – until it no longer works and instead can conjure forth an ice elemental…the items are flavorful and actually interesting!
We also get 3 new sample creature at Cr 4, 5 and 6 – and they come with cool signature abilities, gorgeous artworks…and minor or major errors in each statblock. Not only brackets at the wrong place in the block, we’re also talking about damage output being incorrect and the like *sigh*
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting, on a formal level, are very good. On a rules-level, they could be better. Layout adheres to Fat Goblin Games’ gorgeous two-column full-color standard and the pdf comes with stellar full color artwork and cartography as well as bookmarks.
The Tomb of the Dwarven Lord is a nice go-play insert location with a cool hazard (haha), okay terrain, a neat map and nice treasure. Alas, it also wastes 3 pages of its precious page-count on unnecessary monsters that sport errors. If you own *a lot* of the more obscure 3pp-offerings, you might also want to consider whether to get this, since, some components have seen the light of day before. *cough* Zeitgeist AP, Ronin Arts */cough*
That being said, I still think Rick Hershey has delivered a solid little sidetrek that is inexpensive and inoffensive enough to be considered an ok product for the fair price-point. Hence, my final verdict will clock in at 2.5 stars, rounded up to 3 for the purpose of this platform.
You can get this pdf here on OBS and here on d20pfsrd.com’s shop.
Endzeitgeist out.
