The whole book is strange, honestly. It collects scenarios from the Adventurer’s Guild project from the RPGA, which basically produced prequel scenarios for upcoming products and were only playable at participating game shops. It was sort of adjacent to the Living City games. None of this is the product of a game jam, which is what I initially thought. An annual scenario jam would be pretty cool, though.

There are seven scenarios jammed into this thing. The Forgotten Realms one involves the Cult of the Dragon. The Greyhawk scenario is a fetch quest for some dwarves. The Ravenloft scenario is an agonizingly complicated thing that pits the players against a vampire and a fiend (there is way too much going on in such a short space). There’s a mind flayer-centric scenario (the prelude for the release of the Illithiad, I presume) that has the players join a group of Githzerai who aim to hunt the fiends. It’s fine. The Planescape scenario is a bizarre re-enactment of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky poem. I don’t honestly know how to feel about it.

  There’s also a scenario for the Saga System of Dragonlance that I can’t really parse, but takes place underwater, so it probably stinks. An Alternity scenario rounds things out, and has players taking part in an absurd diplomatic wargame.

No clear credits for the interior art. If I had to guess, I’d say Hannibal King did the Planescape work, Glen Angus the mind flayer scenario and Carol Lyon’s signature is visible in the Forgotten Realms art. I think Mike Vilardi is responsible for the Alternity adventure (he’s a mainstay for 2E WEG Star Wars, so a good pick) and I think Arnie Swekel did the Dragonlance, though it’s a bit more zip-a-toned than I expect from his work. Sam Wood and Brian Snoddy would be responsible for either the Greyhawk or the Ravenloft, but I don’t recognize their names or work to be able to guess which is which.

Todd Lockwood did the cover. I kind of hate it, but that’s more the art direction than Lockwood’s skill, I think.

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