jeffhall's review
4.0
I'm very impressed with Winter’s Daughter, a brief OSR adventure set in the world of Dolmenwood. This is my first exposure to that setting, but I hope to encounter more of it, since Gavin Norman has done a wonderful job of building a dark and magical tone for his invented world.
Seemingly inspired by Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and perhaps also by Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, this adventure revels in the interplay between the mortal world of men and the immortal world of the fair folk. Karl Stjernberg's maps are a delight, and Norman's brief text for each encounter area is enough to set the scene, but not so comprehensive as to suppress additional creativity on the part of any game master running this scenario.
Seemingly inspired by Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and perhaps also by Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, this adventure revels in the interplay between the mortal world of men and the immortal world of the fair folk. Karl Stjernberg's maps are a delight, and Norman's brief text for each encounter area is enough to set the scene, but not so comprehensive as to suppress additional creativity on the part of any game master running this scenario.
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