OSR Review & Commentary C4 The Threat of The Amphibian Beast By Marcelo P Augusto For OSR Rpg Campaign

 "An abandoned temple

Unexplained incidents

An unspeakable monstrosity
A cunning manipulator
And the effigy of chaos manifests!"

"Will your brave group of adventurers be able to face this muddy OSR adventure for levels 2 to 4, full of  danger, mystery and... frogs?!!

The Threat of the Amphibian Beast is an adventure designed at first to be used with Old School Essentials, bute easely adapted to any OSR system of your choice.

Here are featured the city of North Raistilla, the surrounding villages, their NPCs and rumors, and the sinister swamp where a bestial evil waits."

 C4 The Threat of The Amphibian Beast is a whole cloth 24 page page adventure that centers around the threat of a deadly frog cult for PC's levels 2 through 4 but make no mistake this is a deadly little adventure. 

G4 The Threat of The Amphibian Beast By Marcelo P Augusto definitely fills a need for an adventure that caters to the need for a mid level adventure that would be perfect for OSR rpg game campaign with a Sword & Sorcery theme. G4 would be a great adventure for a Castles & Crusades rpg campaign centered around a Sword & Sorcery. G4 is a great little adventure with some solid editing, cartography, writing, and layout. This is a solidly done adventure with all of the trappings of a larger produced adventure. 

Even though G4 The Threat of The Amphibian Beast is meant for Old School Essential it would work easily into a Castles & Crusades rpg campaign. Here there's a ton of old school adventure and rpg elements such as Dwarves, and other fantasy races we've seen but G4 gives this adventure a real Sword & Sorcery feel. So integration into a Sword & Sorcery campaign a snap! 

Is  G4 The Threat of The Amphibian Beast a good adventure?! Yes, the adventure elements are there, the writing solidly done, and it works all wrapped up in 24 pages of an adventure! 

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.