(Review) Cube World #34: Tower of the Rakshasa

 

Tower of the Rakshasa

An old ruined temple

With gardens green

Peacocks stalk

And shadows lean

There’s dukes and ghouls

Caged imp and snake

There’s thorns and statues

And traps in wait

Vomiter and swan

Doors and treasure

Rakshasa charismatic

Smoking at his leisure

This module comes with a copy of the Bestiary and D1000 Treasure tables – and contains multiple challenging enemies, a concise and challenging structure to navigate, and more than one way to include hooks to or locations of other adventures.

The module itself is ready made to have a MacGuffin at the end, is entirely conveyed in a single two page spread – which is enlarged for ease of viewing – and is very beautifully illustrated.

This module also includes a page from the Cube World Atlas – the map of the Peacock isles, which has common jungle encounters, multiple islands and what is contained on them, and some info on other adventures contained in the peacock isles.

How many other adventures are contained in two pages?

How many artists know that Rakshasa hands are supposed to be backwards, but still draw them not transposed, as a homage to the original Trampier ad&d picture?

How many adventure modules come with a gigantic D1000 treasure table and a Bestiary of ~468 creatures?

Well, Cube World #34: Tower of the Rakshasa has all these things, and if any of that sounds good, then the 12$ pricetag is a great price.

Some things people might not like:

The map, adventure text, and overall document are small ink drawings – scanned and given a small amount of pretext – So most people will have to look a while and really carefully read in order to not get confused – as there are many small details, and the cost of compacting the adventure makes the image packed with details.

However, as always, the author thinks it all should be legible without any extra gloss but if not: ask the author, he always responds to questions!