Product– REDEMPTION Assignment 01: Meat the Enemy

System- Everyday Heroes

Producer– Evil Genius Games

Price– $8.99 here  https://evilgeniusgames.com/shop/ego-assignment-1-01-meat-the-enemy/ 

TL; DR–  Good, but more will help make this great.  87% 

Basics–  Time to be heroes!  Under the direction of Walt, the everyday heroes will attempt to find out why monsters of myth and legend are showing up all around the globe.

Mechanics or Crunch–  Like DnD 5e, but want to shoot a shotgun at a chupacabra?  Then you will love this one.  This is classic 5e DnD mechanics, and they follow the same rules you will often see in these adventures.  It’s simple but functional level 1 design.  4.5/5

Theme or Fluff–   This adventure is really three adventures all in one.  The characters all choose one adventure and go after a beast.  Then you find out it’s a regular bad guy, and you hunt him down.  There you only do one real encounter.  It’s not bad, but is a bit too short. Honestly this is something that if you know what you are doing is about two hours of adventure.  It’s good, but short.  4.5/5

Execution–  This is good, but needs a bit more in layout and pictures.  Evil Genius needs to talk to Paizo and look over their living games.  The stat blocks are fine, but give me set aside pictures I can share with my players.  The maps are good, but consider separate documents that I can use.  For the price I expect a bit more.  It all works well and is something you can play with little prep, but maybe a bit more will help give this the push it needs for greatness.  4/5

Summary–  This is a fun adventure that needs a bit more.  The fights are fun and the run well.  The story is good, but needs more to do.  The execution is fine, but needs just little bit extra for greatness, especially at this price.  Its good, but not quite great.  That said, I and my players will be buying more and running more.  I like what’s here, but it needs more and polish.  87%