I needed a one-shot style, drop-in friendly, mystery adventure for my group. I reviewed several from the DM's Guild and a couple from the official Candlekeep Mysteries book. This one stood out. We played it on 12/30 but were unable to wrap it up in one session. This was partly due to my group taking awhile to get into game mode (we hadn't played in a couple months) and partly due to some narrative challenges that were only obvious after doing an actual play through.

I would rate this adventure a 4.5/5 stars if I could. I did not give it a 5 star rating because of the aforementioned issues that affected DM prep and game play. These are easily amended.

I wanted some gambling options to use for the Grand Dame encounter in The Storm King's Thunder module. I purchased a few items from DM's Guild, including this one. This is by and far the best out of the lot and is well produced. That said, I thought it could have been clearer when describing the play mechanics of each game. While probably unintentional, this was the only gambling add-on that I found which worked well for VTT (I use Fantasy Grounds). This is because most of the games rely upon dice (aka "gembones"). Other add-ons assume in-person play and rely upon cards or other props that don't work well in VTT. It would be nice if a FG extension could be offered with this.

I might also suggest additional rules be added so each game could be played for chips rather than gembones. I saw a "point" system, but it didn't seem to be well fleshed out or meet my needs. So I improved on this.

I just DMd the #1 of the five mini-adventures this week for the first time. This was table top, but I used the Fantasy Grounds module to display a digital map onto a flat screen TV we used for miniatures and a battlemap. Having a Fantasy Grounds module included with a PDF for both local and VTT play is awesome. The adventure itself is pretty simple and does exactly what it is intended to do. The simplicity of the adventure - and the intent that these adventures are to be taken at face value - allowed us to have a complete newbie playing with us (my wife). She was able to immerse herself into the game while learning the mechanics at the same time without getting overwhelmed.

On the whole, I got what I paid for with this product. I needed a digital copy of the original Tomb of Horrors module (which is included in this package) so I could adapt it into my VTT environment. I have tools to export the images and text for re-publication purposes. My only complaint is that the OCR was not clean. This required me to hand edit all of the content. Other than that, it was exactly what I needed.

The original content itself was very useful for any campaign set in the Forgotten Realms. While I purchased this for use in 5e (because the official material is rather limited so far), I found that much of the content is still relevant and very useful for putting local adventures into a global setting. This material is dated so some grace needs to be extended (including the style of the illustrations and maps). The quality of the scan itself is decent. I would have liked a higher resolution scan so I could zoom into some maps without getting a grainy look. The alignment issues also raised by others is valid but not wholly problematic for me.