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The PDF version of Tomb of Immolation arrived this week; it's one of the first ZineQuest 3 kickstarters to drop, and I'm looking forward to the paper copy as it looks gorgeous. It clocks in at 96 A5/Digest pages with a simple text layout and gorgeous art. Without the art, it'd be a lot shorter, but it does definitely add a great feel to the setting.
It is dual stated for OSR and D&D 5e games, and provides five pre-generated characters for both, all at level 5. The blurb describes it as "a short but dense dungeon crawl with a variety of puzzles, traps, and role-playing challenges to keep the players busy" and that pretty much nails it. The dungeon was constructed as a punishment tomb for a necromancer that dared help people in competition to a particularly brutal and twisted religious order of knights.
There are eight areas (with multiple bits to interact with), some brutal traps and a theme involving fire (no surprise there with the title). The tomb is presented as an isometric layout. There is a bestiary of unique monsters (Ash Zombies, other themed undead and some creatures that it'd be a spoiler to talk about).
It'd make an interesting one shot. I think you may need hirelings or sidekicks to have a chance, but maybe it needs a run to test it out. There are hooks to bring in your own favourite characters, but I suspect that will depend on how attached you are to them.
There are eight areas (with multiple bits to interact with), some brutal traps and a theme involving fire (no surprise there with the title). The tomb is presented as an isometric layout. There is a bestiary of unique monsters (Ash Zombies, other themed undead and some creatures that it'd be a spoiler to talk about).
It'd make an interesting one shot. I think you may need hirelings or sidekicks to have a chance, but maybe it needs a run to test it out. There are hooks to bring in your own favourite characters, but I suspect that will depend on how attached you are to them.
It's available on DriveThru RPG here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/350747/Tomb-of-Immolation--5e-and-OSR
I'm tempted to crack out the copy of Old School Essentials that's just arrived and give this one a whirl.
28 March 2021
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