Bathtub Review: Outcast Unseelie and the Ooze Between

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. Outcast Unseelie and the Ooze Between is a 37 page module for Shadowdark by Jesse Winter and Cameron Maas. In it, you venture into a mine flooded with intoxicating slime. I backed it in a crowdfunding campaign. I like the layout in this module. It’s spacious and clear. Well highlighted and navigable. It uses a simple emerald palette, with a separate high contrast highlight colour — red— for a specific topic (the perish lillies). These highlights allow clever shortcuts — like read aloud text that uses the highlighting to tell the referee information in secret. The grid varies between single, double and sidebar where necessary, and the sidebar used for keying is set out using colour and…