Cheat sheet for echoes of sorrow 2 full#

A hag has switched babies with a human mother, in the womb. What really makes this one interesting though is that it’s a Hag adventure that FEELS like a hag adventure. SImilarly, the monster fortress has an issue with things being scattered about instead of putting the important bits, briefly, up front and then doing the keyed/encounter thing. A brief table of NPC’s would have been much more effective and made the adventure much easier to run. The text is WAY too long to support this style. In the village each NPC is described at their location, along with what they know. Both sections have information scattered throughout them instead of being presented in a more logical manner that better supports play. There’s a village investigation portion and then a monster base assault.

This is quite the interesting little adventure, plagued by a conversational writing style that embeds information in unusual places. The NPC’s need a simple reference sheet rather than each having 2 columns of personality. The middle section has potential, but the writing is lifeless and the map mostly linear. The beginning section is overly wordy, even by Dungeon standards. There’s a bit climactic battle at the end with a fourth (fifth?) faction showing up. There’s a bit of a haunted mansion feel, as skeleton drink beer, etc, but a lot of the joie de vivre is sucked out of it by the writing style. There are more than a few intelligent undead, and some faction play.

Cheat sheet for echoes of sorrow 2 full#

This is essentially an assault, rather linear, on a fortress full of undead. During your combat with 35 skeletons in a 30×50 room.

There is a group of 2 dozen mercenaries that could join the party, six or so of whom are named/classed. A band of brigands can be convinced to join the party. The party is expected to have a lot of retainers. I’ve never played Birthright, so I don’t know if this adventure is typical.