Review & Commentary On 'Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination: An OSR adventure' By Marcelo P Augusto

 ""Something evil and cruel has been terrorizing the peaceful villagers of Woodsmen Village. Who will be the brave adventurers able to discover the source of this evil and restore peace to the land?"

" Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination is a level 1-2 OSR adventure, all in old school fun."

Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination: An OSR adventure By Marcelo P Augusto is a low level 1-2 adventure that clocks in at twenty four pages. It's not a bad little first level adventure that centers itself around a small wilderness and village set of encounters. Is Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination excetptional?! No and it really doesn't have to be to a solid stepping stone adventure. 
What 'Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination' is a first level wilderness and dungeon delve that can and will have player's PC's encountering any number of wilderness & village encounters. And that's fine.  Marcelo P Augusto has a bit of diaherra of the pen in some of his descriptions of rooms, encounters, and artifacts. At twenty four pages 'Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination' doesn't over stay it's welcome. 'Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination' does is present a workable start point for a group of OSR gamers & thier PC's. 

 'Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination ' adventure has a variety of random or fixed encounters that center around the village and it's wilderness environs. This leads back into the main adventure plot and that works. Where  Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination would work is as a side adventure or quest for a classic module such as B2 Keep on the Borderlands or as an introductory adventure into a home brew campaign. There's enough meat here and encounters. But the real gist of ' Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination' is as a lower tier introductory adventure.  And I can easily see 'Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination: An OSR adventure' By Marcelo P Augusto being used with Castles & Crusades or other OSR rpg systems. 
With the Borderlands the events of B2 could be used to highlight the adventure elements of the keep and it's surroundings. The orcs that the party randomly encounters are centered around the Caves of Chaos. The monsters are trickling in from the dungeons of the caves. And the events of ' Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination ' could be back engineered into the adventure material of B2. 

The small village and it's wilderness environs could play host to the events surrounding ' Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination' by being connected with B2's rise of chaos. There's enough between the two modules to get PC's up to level four. If they survive the encounters and are extremely careful. 
'Into the Caves of the Pestilent Abomination: An OSR adventure' By Marcelo P Augusto works because it plays on being a highly servicable and easily modifiable module for beginning PC's.