Black Dougal |
I just read over the entire 12 volumes yesterday and today, and it is striking my favorite authors in that path have remained my favorites 10 year later..to whit
my top 4 authors for Age of Worms were:
1. Erik Mona
2. James Jacobs
3, Wolfgang Bauer
4. Nick Logue
the rest sorta meld together in terms of quality. The only one I wasn't a fan of was 3 faces of evil by Mike Mearls as the tone was so different what the first adventure created. It was too jarring. And I think he admitted that he modeled it of Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil..which was a module I also wasn't a huge fan of. And there were a few jarring editoral issues with it..was it a copper mine or an iron mine..did the faceless one arrive 2 years ago or many years ago when the mine was first started..Dourstone was said to have been one of the first mine owners and later the faceless one was said to have guided him to the spot..
argh..it was sloppy, and coming off the continuity mistakes in the original cauldron campaign, it was aggravating.
But the rest of the path, awesome. And I totally respect the design choices in the 4th adventure. Doppelgangers are a pain to run well. I found that out with the unseen in my FG waterdeep campaign.