Kuunari

Quick Summary
Zogorion: Lord of the Hippogriffs is written by Jason Sholtis and is a short but sweet mini-adventure in folio zine format. You might know Jason Sholtis from his blog Dungeon Dozen where he publishes a new random d12 table every day. It concerns the PCs encounter with a band of Hippogriffs led by a strange and unusual creature. The adventure uses the Swords & Wizardry ruleset, otherwise known as original D&D and is for level 3-7. It was written originally as a quick google hangouts adventure that the author fleshed out into a great little adventure.

Artwork
The artwork was great. It was mostly in a late 70’s black and white cartoonish style. The cover by John Larrey was excellent and features the party enjoying a dinner Zogorion. The map is very much in the style of classic adventures, with lots of little details to help the DM describe each room and evokes the cave locale well. My one complaint is that the lines to show elevation are a little too dark, and distract from the actual cave map. I would actually recommend they be removed all together. The interior artwork include a hippogriff, a vampire, a goblin and, my favorite, a scene showing a hippogriff carrying a large catfish.

Adventure
While I’m not a big OD&D player, I really enjoyed reading the adventure. I could easily see myself converting and running this as a 4E adventure (although with the longer 4E combats, I think it might take twice as long to play through). He includes lots of good suggestions as to how to run it, while giving the reader many ways to adapt it to their own play style or campaign. He starts of with a quick introduction and then details each room of the cave. There’s a definite direction that events are expected to go but the writing makes clear that there are a lot of different ways for the PCs to go through the adventure.

Additional Information
The zine is $2 and ships very quickly. I ordered it and got it within 3 business days, which is faster than most online purchases.

Final Recommendation
I highly recommend that you pick this up. For $2, it’s a steal!

4 1/2 out of 5 stars. Highly Recommend.