Prince of Lankhmar (1990) is also…not great! The core concept is good, but the whole thing is weirdly executed and surprisingly slapstick. Like Wonders of Lankhmar, the adventure flies wide of the tone I expect from the world of Lankhmar.

The players get themselves hired by the Overlord of Lankhmar to fetch his son from the monastery he’s been studying at. This gets them caught up in the schemes of Purdue Darkwolf, who’s been trying to get at the heir for years. The players get the guy (who is narcoleptic and while the module doesn’t seem to want to play that for laughs, it seems impossible for it not to be played for laughs at the table, which strikes me as a bit of poor taste) and defeat Darkwolf, who surrenders. Then, years later, he attempts to have his revenge on the players and the heir, who is now the Overlord. In the event that the Overlord gets killed, one of the players has the chance to become the Overlord themselves. This seems…far too legit, all the way through, for a street-level Lankhmar style scenario. Rags to riches just doesn’t jibe.

Clyde Caldwell on cover duty. I’m down with his take on Faf and the Mouser. Is it me, or does Mouser look like Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson?