Review of "Explorer's Guide to Wildemount" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I've only ever seen a couple episodes of Critical Role and have never really been able to get into it, and thus wasn't immediately interested when this book was announced. Then covid hit and roleplaying in person became a lot harder, my regular D&D group transitioned to Roll20, and one of my players offered to run Frozen Sick, one of the starter adventures in this book which was being offered on Roll20 as a free sample. The sample did its job as I found the setting really interesting and then went and bought the full book. I like the Wildemount setting enough that if I get the chance to run Ghosts of Saltmarsh again I plan to use some suggestions I found online to reskin it from Greyhawk to the Menagerie Coast. My only complaint would be that I wish the sample adventures either included higher level content or were β¦
I've only ever seen a couple episodes of Critical Role and have never really been able to get into it, and thus wasn't immediately interested when this book was announced. Then covid hit and roleplaying in person became a lot harder, my regular D&D group transitioned to Roll20, and one of my players offered to run Frozen Sick, one of the starter adventures in this book which was being offered on Roll20 as a free sample. The sample did its job as I found the setting really interesting and then went and bought the full book. I like the Wildemount setting enough that if I get the chance to run Ghosts of Saltmarsh again I plan to use some suggestions I found online to reskin it from Greyhawk to the Menagerie Coast. My only complaint would be that I wish the sample adventures either included higher level content or were more able to be run together with the same group of characters.
