Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. Vileplume Mountain is a 34 page module for Into the Oddish, written Warren F Smith and illustrated by Hodag. In this Pokopia-esque postapocalyptic Kanto, you venture into the complex beneath Vileplume mountain, to rescue kidnapped pokémon from a Mewtwo that exists only in legend. Both Warren and Hodag are friends of mine, but I ordered this for its preorder campaign. This module is a a self-described parody of White Plume Mountain, the classic module by Lawrence Schick. I’m not as familiar with or feel as much affection towards this module as the author clearly is and does, and I suspect that tempers my experience of this module. Everything in this down to the layout is inspired by that…
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