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This quest brings me right back to that old 3.5 Eberron feel that I grew up loving. While I never played 3.5 - by the time I got to D&D 4e was the dominating edition - I did end up buying the 3.5 Eberron setting book and eventually the 4e campaign setting and player's handbook. The adventure woven in Pilgrims of the Grave: The Emerald Legacy Part 1 is exciting and invigorating - with ballroom intrigue, garden dueling, and a terrifying and haunting evening presided over by a dread airship - making it everything you would want to rope in players new to D&D and or new to Eberron. With definite strains of classic pulp action adventure, this adventure is excellent.
However, there are some design issues that can make it a little hard to navigate and read. Some formatting choices and placement issues hinder flow of the adventure - the first sixteen pages are pretty much devoid of art except for a map and some small inserts of headers; at several points the body text and sidebar text becomes hard to read as it almost blurs together or is compressed to allow for room of images, maps, and such. The other thing that I don't know if it is entirely neccesary are the premades at the back of the adventure - and while I can appreciate that they are there to help intro players out - they add weight (as do a lot of the handouts) that could be spent elsewhere in the rest of the adventure to space things more evenly or add more images.
But, putting all that aside, overall Pilgrims of the Grave: The Emerald Legacy Part 1 made me want to immediatly start playing and start getting ready for another Eberron game - a setting that I have not touched in a long time. It felt true to Keith Baker's vision of what an Eberron adventure should feel like, and even though this is the first part of a growing adventure series, a DM could easily use this one as a kickstart to a whole different campaign.
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