Massive content warning for this adventure if you or your players will have a problem with PCs being sexually assaulted and impregnated by the very first monsters they encounter. Upon entering the dungeon, PCs get covered in syrup, which attracts floating monsters called Lanterns in the first area. I'll let their stat block speak for itself:

Spit: discharges smelly, creamy substance, aimed at victim’s face, acts like poison on skin. Insemination: if victim is hit by spit, there is 10% chance it entered victim’s mouth, in which case they become impregnated; in 1d4 months, a baby lantern will travel up from the victim’s stomach and exit from the mouth, killing them by suffocation; pregnancy can be terminated by magical means.

The writer warns the game contains themes of "preganancy" (they also included butterflies, as though people should be equally as warned of that), but this really goes a step beyond to forced pregnancy of player characters plus encouragement to undertake magical abortions. This is pretty gross and put me off running this or touching the creator's works again. Now I look forward to the responses downplaying this by people okay with sexual assault in their RPGs

The majority of the internal art is hard to make out and not in the same style as the cover (and kickstarter page). In the print version, it's almost impossible to decipher due to being too dark, this especially makes the maps a chore to look at and reference. If you don't care about art this book is a delight, but if you expect the internal art to be along the same lines as the cover, you might not be too happy with this one :(

Full of great lairs and encounters to insert into your dragonlance campaign, or to mine for ideas for any fantasy game. Great layout and illustrations, an improvement in terms of presentation over "the book of lairs" 1 and 2. This scanned copy is clear and legible, one of the good POD copies, with the exception of the cover which is really dark and high-contrast for no discernible reason.

Had an amazing time running this, everything's laid out clearly and precicely, easily the most painless adventure I've run in quite a while. The loot is generous, the danger very understandable and ever-present and the progression of the waking mechanic keeps things fresh throughout with extra challenges and a slow build of action as the players progress through the mansion. I'm already looking forward to running this again with a new group to see how things change, as there's more variety here than you can see in one play through :)

I've had to dock a star though because the player maps (included as textless versions in the creators own words "for use on virtual tabletops") INCLUDE THE LOCATIONS OF SECRET DOORS. Please do NOT use these as player facing maps, they completely ruin several fun surprises, we were really disappointed by this when we noticed it by one of the players saying they try opening the door which was on the map but supposedly hidden behind something in the game :(

A straightforward goblin-slaying adventure well-suited to starting DMs and players, unfortunately though, this scan of the module doesn't include the actual map of the dungeon. You can try to google the map yourself, otherwise I'd say give this one a miss until they update the pdf :(

Some text/pages have tiny artifacting around them, (text seems to have tiny black dots around the letters) but overall it's a good, readable high quality product. It's not flawless but I consider it money well spent :)

An irritating book to use.

First off, the lovely art is gone, as are the quirky spins on monsters, so if you're expecting a product as high quality as TBH2e you might be dissapointed. There's no flavour, simply pre-adapted stats for common foes, which admittedly are useful for running old modules if you don't have the time or inclination. It's not, however, a flawless book for that purpose either.

The monsters sometimes have confusing abilities such as the Blink Dog requiring you to reroll initiative partway through a round without explaining what happens to creatures (even the ones on its side) that haven't gone yet. To my knowledge blink dogs either use their teleportstion to attack from unexpected angles or otherwise to retreat after attacking, based on the edition they appear in, so I have no idea where this confusing initiative rerolling ability comes from.

Perhaps most infuriating for me is the fact the double whammy of enemies not obeying TBH's damage rules, and only having average damage listed. Firstly, TBH allows GMs to know a monster's damage by it's hit dice, HD1 monsters roll a d4, HD4 monsters roll a d10 etc. Average damage has always been given after this in parentheses, however the author of this book assumes that all GMs will default instead to average damage and doesn't list the die used, but worst of all the damage often doesn't line up to the HD rule.

The aforementioned blink dogs are HD4 creatures and yet do 4 (average) damage, when a HD4 monster should roll a d10 and deal average 5 (given TBH's rounding down fractions). In another example a HD7 black dragon deals 10 (avg) damage, when it should be rolling 2d8 and averaging 8. For the GM who likes to roll damage it is so infuriating to not know which dice to roll since these monsters don't work the same way from one to the next.

The real icing on the cake is that at the back of the book there's a section on adapting your own monsters which includes the HD-to-damage table from TBH and tells you to use it to determine how much damage a given monster makes.

For a book that promises to take the effort out of converting classic monsters for use in The Black Hack, it manages to do 75% of the work leaving you to figure out how much damage a monster should really be doing, or else use average damage on each and every attack. The fact that some abilites are downright confusing and others are instead just dull, lacking TBH's flair and charm means this is a book I'd recommend if you're a)really lazy and b) are fine with running monsters verbatim without anything to spark your imagination.