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Summary: A decent high level module
Review: A module with good villains and a good story. If you have a party of high level characters around 10th level who seek a challenge with plenty of combat, this is pretty cool. Also, won't take too long to play.
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Summary: Interesting, but DMs will have to do a lot of their own work
Review: Hellgate Keep has some interesting ideas and the potential forsome great dungeon-crawling and high-level combat. However, the moduleis not complete. If you are a busy person like myself and love DMing but only have time for minimal preparation before every gaming session, you'd think buying a module would be the answer. That is not the case with Hellgate Keep. The dungeon itself has on average 3 pre-set encounters per level, the other 10 to 50 rooms are "free for the DM to expand upon". This line pops up a lot. There are major lists of treasure locations but most of the treasures themselves are up to the DM to invent. How hard would it have been to give a complete list of items and label them as a suggested list? Nearly half of the text in the module is devoted to the history of Hellgate Keep. Others may disagree with me but this history is too long and needlessly detailed. It does give you a good amount of information from which to develop the remaining encounters... but this presumes you have the time to read and re-read the detailed history, conceive an encounter, make it balanced and consistent and then write it up. Maybe the hardest job of the DM is choosing which one of the gazillion empty rooms to place your encounter!If you'd like to mould this mythical place into your Forgotten Realms adventure and have time to work on it then buy Hellgate Keep. If, however you are busy like me and are looking for a pre-prepared module then search elsewhere.
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Summary: Mysterious dungeon crawl introduces interesting foes
Review: Here's one of the best modules in the great, retro-style Dungeon Crawl series from TSR! Hellgate Keep has lain sundered in ruins - it was destroyed by the Harpers and the demon-spawn there were totally eradicated. Or were they? Now, your high-level heroes (9-12) get a chance to find out what new diabolical menace has come to plague the ruins... I'll give you a hint, though, there's this ancient clan of evil elves... hmmm...
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Summary: Mysterious dungeon crawl introduces interesting foes
Review: Here's one of the best modules in the great, retro-style Dungeon Crawl series from TSR! Hellgate Keep has lain sundered in ruins - it was destroyed by the Harpers and the demon-spawn there were totally eradicated. Or were they? Now, your high-level heroes (9-12) get a chance to find out what new diabolical menace has come to plague the ruins... I'll give you a hint, though, there's this ancient clan of evil elves... hmmm...
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Summary: It's coo'...
Review: Short, but fun... Well worth the price. I think, and hope. Please.... homeh.
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