Vaesen: The Town that Drowned - RPG Review 

Sweet :) Thanks JC, nice that you're looking at Free League Workshop adventurers 👌

I ran this scenario and used your suggestions. Thank you. It was my first time playing Vaesen and watching you video helped me get my head around the scenario. I'm doing silver of the sea next in my campaign and using your video on that. Keep up the good work!

another amazing video. I completely love that beyond a review or explanation you deconstruct a written adventure and offer alternatives this is just really the best resource I have found in a long time. thank you so much

Awesome to see a new video from you and to hear a different voice on it as well. Great job! Personally, I don't mind a villains loan motivation to be greed. There are plenty of super evil people in the real world who only have greed as their motivation with no higher goals and who do not deserve any form of sympathy.

This is the first time I get to hear a review for an adventure that I've actually mastered before. :D As to why the adventurers should go do this town now, the adventure itself suggests that it's actually not planned; they just stumble upon the town on the way to something else. In our case, they were looking for a lake to clean themselves from the grime of their last adventure; the carriage driver knew there was one around but was just as surprised when they ultimately ended up on cobblestone instead of lakeshore. I didn't put a clock on the table, but I played a sound effect of a ringing church bell every time an hour passed (the first one "coincidentally" starting after they read the inscription on the plinth). So they never knew exactly how much time they had left, but they did get a sense that the time was important, and they did figure out (from observing the sky and the writing on the plinth) that they had until sunrise and that that would be around 6 hours from when they arrived. The one "downside" was that the ringing of the bell immediately attracting them towards the church. In our run, the crew managed/happened to not wake the sow until their second-to-last building...and when it transformed, they simply booked it out of town, leaving the last unexplored building...the town hall with the innocent soul. They also did not touch any of the gold. So while they didn't manage to save her, they did puzzle together what happened and got out alive to try again the year after or share their knowledge with others of the order.

The first thing I can think of to represent greed instead of a pig is a dragon. Not necessarily winged, but this serpentine wyrm. Even has precedent in Nordic/Germanic legend in the story of Fafnir, who was so greedy that HE turned into a dragon!

Nice review. I'm going to check it out and I like those suggestions; clock, bible motivations, mother-daughter angle ... Really good. Would you be able to do the Alien destroyer of worlds module review? I would find it really useful!

If the players didn't want to touch any treasure throughout the course of their play, then how does it make sense that they'd make off with a bunch of the gold at the end of the adventure? Cursed gold for a reward. I don't know. If it were me, I'd just leave all the coins and riches where they are ... I liked the scenario & the vid. though. Great review.

Looks liek a good adventure you could use in lots of games

Sorry, but this grated on my ear the whole review: "sow", as a noun meaning "female pig", is pronounced to rhyme with "cow".