Obscene Serpent Religion 2 Review

Obscene Serpent Religion 2 is another Lamentations of the Flame Princess GenCon release. It's not connected to the first one, other than both focus on snake cults.

I've said this to a couple of folks but this book is just plain mean. It's divided into two sections. The first half of the book is devoted to a quiet little town. The major residents are presented and adventure hooks are provided for most locations. The town, Nonsbeck, is meant to serve as a regular stopping point or home base for the party. In addition to plot hooks, prominent npc's are given stats.

The second half of the book totally nukes it. While the party is away doing adventure things an evil serpent demon is unleashed. This demon has the power to alter the history of those that shed blood with it in combat. When the players come back most of their allies are dead or changed. The new monstrous versions are given stats too. The book ends with stats for the snake demon who's quite frightening. She can literally go back in time and potentially write the character out of existence (meaning the player will be playing a different character). It has several other interesting and nasty things it can do to foes.

If anyone has played the Diablo series this makes me think of how Tristram is your home base in the first game and when you return to it in later games it's full of undead and monsters. This might be one of the reasons I liked it so much. However, I will reiterate that this adventure is mean because not only will the GM corrupt and change a (hopefully) beloved location for the characters, there's no treasure in this one. That being said, this is really well written and I can't wait to use it in my games.

You can purchase the pdf here. Also, if you never read Obscene Serpent Religion you can snag the pdf here.