The Spires of Altdorf

So far this book is really failing to impress. Admittedly I bought it as a guide to Altdorf rather than as a scenario but impressively it is so far managing to work as neither.

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Scott Bennett said…
If you want a guide to altdorf the description that Alfred Nunez wrote is actually very good. Spires of altdorf is a poor knockoff of Power Behind the Throne. I hwave found from reading it that it would take way too much work to make it playable I would just be better off writing my own adventure.
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