I really like the concept overall - though I would agree the amount of things you're trying to explain and put into the module will make it difficult in a trifold format. The ideas of spirit animals are awesome and would be a really fun experience for both the Guide and the Players to interact with. I think this in itself would make a really fun session.

I'm not sure how the ending is going to work. My gut feel is that the end state (3 successes) is quite hard and will just end up with alot of dice rolling to get there. Not checking for super accuracy, but some prelim quick calculations seemed to get to about 9 rolls needed to get to a 75% chance of 3 successes, so needing 2 win states would be nearly 20 rolls overall. If I was running its something I would change straight away.

I really like the villagers - I think this will be an excellent way to bring this concept into these stories. And the puzzles are pretty cool - I'm already thinking of ways to expand these to how i would want to play them at the table.


Not critical for review but wanted to identify just incase:
I think there's a mistake, but the way its written I'm not 100% sure. The guide intro says the coyote is detrimental, but the rest of the mechanics and also the box about the coyote doesn't appear to give that same impression.

this was fun to read.  I do feel that the intro paragraph left me a bit confused as to what was happening. You say the fire on the peak was reclaimed bringing tragedy to the villagers, but I feel like one more sentence making it clear that this fire on the peaks was helping the villagers or something and now it’s been taken from them would have helped me understand what’s going on. But I ultimately got it.  

My fave part is the villager mechanics.  That’s pretty fun and well thought out. a little mini game perhaps. All the little mechanical bits throughout the pamphlet make good sense! 

The animal spirits are cool and I like the little puzzles with each. I just feel like each location along the journey doesn’t give much beyond what animal we find there. I would have liked a bit more to work with. 

I love the look of it and it was generally easy to read  the little animal portraits and art is fun!! 

I love the idea of the spirits in this one! Neat way to put in some puzzle challenges. Very fairytale and suits the spirit of Fatherfog.

• "They are the one whp perishes" -> "who"
• Coyotte > Coyote
• I like the villagers mechanic, but I think it could use some development for relevance and clarity.
• The Guide's Section says the Coyote is detrimental, but besides a bad smell, how?
• Locations not being in presentation order is a little jarring.
• I would need a description of the Flame Guardians and what they're up to at the top of the mountain. Players can't really be expected to come up with a plan if a situation isn't presented.
• Fleshing out the spirit encounters would be welcome too - you have room for it!

There are some good concepts here, but I struggle to tie everything together. 

IMO, what makes a module sing is how easy it is for me to pick up and imagine the session I could run for my table. At first, it starts off as a mission to retrieve fire from some "other" who reclaimed it from the Village. This is a fairly straightforward premise, and one that I think the hook does a pretty good job at communicating. But the introduction of the animal spirits is quite abrupt and without much context. In the Guide's section, it calls out that there was an animal that brought it down, but doesn't really explain why the animals are all claiming to be the one who brought it to the village. And then you have to convince them all to work together to work with you to obtain the fire again, which feels contradictory.  I'm struggling to see how to pick the module up and run a cohesive session that does the theme and setting justice and really places my table in the thick of the peril that you're setting up in the hook.

There's also a bit in the Animal Spirit section that states that the player get's possessed by the spirit that they gain favor with. But in the Guide's section, it states that the animal volunteers to join the party? I'm not sure which it is, or how to make both work simultaneously. 

Very cool fairy tale that I had never heard of. I think RPing (or avoiding) the animals brings a lot of choice and fun RP potential to the adventure!

Awesome. The three tests of three animals makes this maybe the most fairy-talish entry of them all. Also like the mechanics for bringing villagers along (I should have done something like that lol)

Another appropriately evocative and mythic entry!

The implied setting of this adventure sort of makes it seem like the Villagers live in or around an origin story in terms of animist spirits/gods. The lack of a flame and the journey to reclaim it feels like a mixture of metaphor and literal situation - kind of the way that a lot of world myths are. This poses some questions for me about how the Villagers survive and for how long they've been suffering.

Either way it's an interesting premise. 

A point of confusion for me is how the animals get involved and whether Villagers (and therefore players) of this community should know and understand these creatures when they start interacting with them. I can just imagine a nightmare scenario where the Coyote approaches and players not otherwise prompted want nothing to do with it or worse, attack it!

There's a mention of Body saves to rest which might be self referential as rest activities in the base game simply happen. I think this means that to rest at that location you must make a Body save?

We both have NPC villagers involved in a climb up a mountain so great minds think alike ! :)