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This is a fun short adventure of only 15 pages 16 if you count the license page. This is an adventure you carry with you at all times and if your regular game can't happen you pull it out and game. The DM needs about 10 minutes of prep time which she can easily do while players are making characters. With the new finishing move idea and more cinematic play style Iron Hero characters work very well for this adventure instead of D&D 3.5. As mentioned by another reviewer a few kobolds or lizards that could last a round or two longer would have made things a little more fun. The adventure also gives a few fun ideas to make sure a boss encounter is a boss encounter. Surprisingly there are two small things that make the adventure more than pure hack and slash which is a fun surprise to the players. Over all well worth the two bucks I paid for this adventure and more than one group will get fun out of this adventure.

This PDF nicely goes over some of the pitfalls players will have with underwater adventures. It gives some good ideas to overcome those issues and to get players interested in going into the depths. A few more mechanical or crunch ideas would have allowed me to give this product more stars, but if you are a DM who has run several underwater adventures then this product goes over what you have already learned. Unfortunately it does not give any exceptional new methods to handling all the pitfalls, but the layered idea is pretty nice. At one point the pdf says to not take away all the penalties of underwater adventures and a paragraph later it introduces masterwork armor that has no penalty to swim checks. =( For a buck fifty its a nice document for experienced DMs, but a really good document for less experienced DMs.

The detail of this map is great. Having all layers of the ship displayed means I can run combat at different levels of the ship without issues. As for the cannons I have simply told players that they are ballistas or to treat them as cargo. They in no way prevent me from using the map. I have used both dry and wet erase makers and both come off pretty well, but if you get too much ink in the map folds it can be a little harder to remove. My only reason for not giving this product 5 stars is that the map came folded up. It took several days of storing the map flat with books on top to get it to stay flat, but the folded sections take away from the over all effect of the ship. I really wish their was some way to order flip maps that are NOT folded even if it cost extra to ship.