{"id":85,"date":"2009-04-09T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T23:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-04-09T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T23:40:10","slug":"85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/2009\/85\/","title":{"rendered":"Review Of Death In Luxor By Goodman Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Death In Luxor Cover\" src=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/deathinluxorcover.jpg\" alt=\"Pulp Egypt Cover\" width=\"225\" height=\"291\" align=\"left\" \/><strong>-== What is it? ==-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Death In Luxor<\/em> is the first Call Of Cthulhu adventure in the Age Of Cthulhu line from Goodman Games.  I purchased the PDF version from DriveThruRPG so that is what I will be reviewing.<\/p>\n<p>The document is comprised of the covers, the adventure with interspersed art and maps, several pages of handouts, and five sample characters.  The PDF has a color front and back cover and an entirely black and white interior.  The format is 8.5? x 11? and is 50 pages in length.<\/p>\n<p>I have read the product from cover-to-cover.  I ran the adventure for my gaming group after converting it to Fudge for my Terra Incognita campaign.  (See the session logs on this very blog for a complete recap of how the adventure ran for my group.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>-== What I Like ==-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The adventure was very solid with strong hooks to move the players from one scene to the next.  I had no trouble keeping things moving along even with my unpredictable set of players.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the encounters created a lot of great drama.  One scene that went particularly well with my group involved an encounter where the tomb guardians lock the PC into a tomb that is filling with water and releasing deep ones.  It was awesome watching the PC scramble for a solution.  Great stuff!<\/p>\n<p>The module is set in the 1920&#8217;s but it was very easy to convert to the 1890&#8217;s where my campaign was set.  Simply replacing cars with camels did the trick.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed the interior art and the cover.  The cover art is pretty dramatic and eye catching.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>-== What I Don&#8217;t Like ==-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some of the handouts and the maps print out very dark.  One of the handouts is not even viewable unless the copy is lighted by quite a bit.  Even though the maps are dark they are nicely detailed.<\/p>\n<p>During the adventure the PC encounter several bits of text that they translate.  Some of these translations are critical to the story.  I really wanted more of these translations available as handouts.  Even if it is just a copy of the text in a tiny box that would have been nice.  I was forced to create a separate document then copy out the text from the PDF.  If I had not purchased the PDF I would have been forced to drag out the old copy machine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>-== Summary ==-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Overall I liked the adventure.  It was linear but not overly so and the action was great.  If this is their first attempt at a Call of Cthulhu scenario they are off to a great start.  The price point for the PDF is fantastic at only $7.99.<\/p>\n<p>I give it 7 out of 10 paws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-== What is it? ==- Death In Luxor is the first Call Of Cthulhu adventure in the Age Of Cthulhu line from Goodman Games. I purchased the PDF version from DriveThruRPG so that is what I will be reviewing. 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