Just because D&D licenses were no longer available didn’t mean Original Adventures Reincarnated couldn’t continue on. This is the seventh, which gives the treatment to Jennell Jaquays’ watershed adventure, Dark Tower (2022). This edition is split into three volumes in a slipcase. The first reprints the original Judges Guild publication in full (70 pages). The second does that Goodman thing, converting it to DCC and greatly expanding upon the original material (324 pages). The third volume provides three all-new adventures that expand the Dark Tower mythology (176 pages). All three volumes are packed with fantastic art by Goodman’s Murderer’s Row (my favorite is probably Mullen’s creepy cyclops). There’s even some sparkles in the DCC logo on the slipcase. Again, the word “decadent” is the only one that comes to mind.

It’s about 160 pages off from Temple, but that’s OK. Temple is too big and honestly, some of the appendices and other spots could have been trimmed. This, I could handle this at the table. Having the reprint as a discreet volume is nice (for Temple, it’s only half the first book). Because it wasn’t bound by silly license terms, you can get PDFs of this too, which vastly improves its table readiness.

And, honestly, this is one of the best Dungeons & Dragons adventures ever written and it has never gotten all the love it deserves. So I think it merits this kind of decadence, this level of adoring homage, probably more than most of the other titles in the OAR line. More people should know Jennell Jaquays name in this hobby and if this beast of a book helps cement her legacy, I am all for it.