I bought the softcover and PDF. It's a nice looking book, it's a shame that so much of it is filled up with useless, non-gameable material.
There are 10 adventures. Each one has a full page of credits, in massive font - as if what follows was a triple-A movie release, or the best module ever, instead of another six-room dungeon.
Each adventure also takes two pages to repeat the OGL terms, at the end of every adventure.
And every adventure starts with exactly the same "Odysseys & Overlords" introduction - another half page per adventure, wasted.
Hey, how about, I don't know, maybe only printing this identical information ONCE, instead of TEN TIMES?
Maybe, in a 109-PAGE BOOK, it would be good if 32 PAGES weren't filled up with completely useless, non-gameable material? That's 29%! Nearly one page in three! It's not exactly a pleasure to flip through.
(Yet another 10 pages are taken up with reprinting the covers of the individual modules - fair enough - but it really starts to feel like the actual module content in this book is on the light side, to say the least.)
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