WARNING : MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.
Along with the spectacular SoTDL rulebook and sourcebooks, Schwalb Entertainment released a ton of short adventures to support the game, their level of quality varying wildly from good to truly embarrassing.
Since I'm an asshole, I'm going to start with one of the bad ones.
The Darkness in Shadowturrets' (TDiS) core plot isn't all bad. There's this abandonned keep that has been taken over by invaders from another dimension and their necromantic creations are now running amok in the country. Of course, the local potentate wants the PCs to go and check it out, which doesn't score high for originality but it works. Along the way, they cross a couple of destroyed villages and fights some monsters. This brings us 3 pages in the document and then things take a turn for the worse.
The last 5 pages describe what is quite probably the worst professionnal attempt at a dungeon I've come across in more than twenty years of gaming. Every room as ONE way in and ONE way out. This is basically a corridor intersected with doors in order to create separate locations and thus separate encounters or, I should say, separate combat scenes since there is little else to see or do in Shadowturrets but to slaughter whatever is in Room A, stare at the gore for a moment, roll for loot, go to Room B and repeat. This is like the Final Fantasy XIII of dungeons and I don't mean it as a compliment. There's very little ambition here, only glorified pest control until all the monsters are dead. The room setups and monsters vary a bit but the basic structure of the adventure is beyond helping.
Ironically, the Aftermath section is maybe five paragraphs long and contains more plot ideas than there is in all the rest of the adventure. Maybe it should have started there...
So, that's TDiS. The core idea is serviceable but nothing you couldn't come with by exerting your brain for two minutes and skipping through the Bestiary in the SoTDL corebook. The adventure itself is pretty useless: there's very little to DO here and it contains nothing that would make you want to try to repair it.
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