Bathtub Review: Tomb of Tog

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. Tomb of Tog is a 24 page module by Arman Bohn, with additional illustrations by Nate Ashley, Shane Talbott and Avery Willmann. In it you explore the dungeon of an inept mage, who attempted to dominated his “mastery” of the 8 schools of magic in the design of his opus. I was provided a complementary copy by the author. What we have here is a puzzle-focused dungeon, with 10 individual puzzles, 1 for each room, with unrelated approaches — unlike, the two recent puzzle dungeons A Familiar Tower and Outcast Unseelie which iterate on a familiar conceit throughout the same dungeon. The theme, instead, is what ties the puzzles and rooms together. My inclination is that using the 8 schools of magic…