Against the Giants (G1) Steading of the Hill Giant Chief

Without a DM, this falls completely flat.

For those playing without a DM, I strongly recommend not playing this module.

While it's fun to play with the hardcore rules, the sheer size of areas in this module turns what could be a fun romp through a classic adventure into pure tedium - if my tabletop DM forced me to roll every singular dice roll imaginable, I'd spend all day rolling dice instead of doing what's fun - playing. In two hours of play, my husband and I had only just reached The Steading. Two hours for the action to actually get started is a bit much, even for someone who enjoys tabletop roleplaying more than hack and slash. Combined with areas that are way too big, and sparsely populated, fog planes are cut a bit too close, making finding your way in those enormous areas even worse - and just to add insult to injury, you actually have to pin the map yourself, without really knowing where those potential transitions actually lead - needless to say, you'll be doing horrendous amounts of backtracking. The initial questgiver comes across as a bit of a grump at best, your journal entries are surprisingly uninformative, and instructions given are maddeningly vague, given the vast size of the areas.

I've actually played this adventure as a tabletop game, and this module was pure disappointment, made worse by spelling errors that, on their own, would be something I'd overlook, but with the lack of polish in this module, it's hard to overlook.

Really, honestly, I was hoping for better. I loved this adventure as a tabletop game, and I'm just so crushingly disappointed at how poorly this was implemented by this builder in NWN.