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What's this all about?

I'm a guy with way too many interests and way too much time on my hands. A while back I realized that I spend a lot of my time just telling people I know about the various media I consume, so I just figured what the hell, let's just lay it all out. On here, you'll see my reviews of video games, films, books, tv shows, and more, but I've also decided to upload my hobbies here as well because why not?

The Evil Eye

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The Evil Eye is an adventure in the Ravenloft setting for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition (which came out at least five years before I was born, good lord), and while I currently have no plans to run it in either 2e or 5e, I can definitely see a lot of potential for this adventure. Due to 5e producing campaigns labelled as adventures and 2e producing campaign guides and standalone adventures separately, it's important to describe what to expect with this book. After reading through it all the way once and returning to earlier sections, I'd say that this adventure is best run as a standalone short campaign. It was originally designed for levels 4-6 in 2e, but I'd say that with some tweaks for difficulty it could be made to work for a 1-5 campaign for 5e without much trouble. Now it's time to break down this campaign and talk about its components, for some reason described internally as six different scenarios, even though they are far better as a whole. Tangen

Rime of the Frostmaiden

Rime of the Frostmaiden was the first 5E campaign I have ever had the chance to run to completion, and honestly I think it was a lucky choice in that regard, because while Frostmaiden is not perfect, it is a great adventure for DMs and players alike. Run as written, the adventure offers unique characters, memorable sequences, and a captivating atmosphere that by and large works quite well with little to no modification or rewriting.  The Adventure To give a quick spoiler-free summary of the adventure's conflict: A network of hamlets, villages, and two walled towns known collectively as Ten-Towns in an extreme northern region known as Icewind Dale have suffered under a brutal winter that has raged for the past two years, all the while the sun never rising above the mountains. Obviously there's something unnatural about this, and in an interesting twist the majority of people know who the culprit is at the start of the adventure: Auril, the minor goddess of winter's cruel i