As far as horror adventures go, it's aimed too squarely at the middle of the road. But I get it. D&D is intended to be a broadly accessible game, and suitable for kids. Had just hoped for more with nods to At the Mountains of Madness and John Carpenter's The Thing. Both are off the mark. It's more relatable to a darkened version of Frozen.

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Does a lot of things right. Easy to pick up hours before a game, rarely sets up the DM for failure, varied encounters. Sometimes the story feels like two very different ideas crammed together, but the world is well established. Worth running!

I'm far from an expert as I only got into D&D properly this year but this is the book I've enjoyed the most and the only one I've read cover to cover. Art direction-wise it's phenomenal both in its consistency, colour schemes and evocation of the hostile snowy setting. I'm so excited to use a lot of the stuff in here and there's a good cross section of various types of horror in here too, as well as some excellent character secrets to incorporate. That said, it definitely doesn't seem suitable as a first campaign if you're running it straight from the book as you'd have to make a lot of tweaks to keep people alive, or run it as a high risk game with lots of backup characters/helpers. The back half of the campaign seemed less interesting to me too, unless you can maneauver all your pieces into an epic crescendo, so that may require some work, but overall it's been incredibly useful for getting the imagination going. And it's pretty hard to argue with something that reveres The Thing and contains Snowy Owlbears, Baby Yetis, and 3 Kobolds in a trenchcoat really.