Spores of the Sad Shroom Review

Spores of the Sad Shroom is a quirky OSR adventure. Honestly, it's a pretty rules light so you could use it for about any edition. For example, one of the monsters has "Armor: As plate + shield" and "Damage: As two handed sword." You can get the pdf for 6.66 at RPGNow or a print copy for the same price (plus shipping) on Lulu. I had a discount and free shipping code so I got the print version. It is digest sized, gorgeous, and shiny! The adventure has great artwork (all in the style of the covers below) and clocks in at 16 pages. There are minor spoilers below so if you're going to play this, stop reading.

An entity has possessed the king of the fungal kingdom. This has caused a debilitating sadness to overtake the fungi and it's even starting to affect the surface world. The adventure itself has a map with 11 keyed locations. In addition, there are several random charts related to the adventure and the encounters. Though all have something to do with spores and fungus, each encounter is pretty unique and memorable. My favourite involves the pickled remains of some sort of evil wizards (perhaps Vecna). Also once you complete the adventure, there's another map at the end of the book. It's not super detailed, but lets you expand things.

If you like weird adventures with mushroom people (like me) then you should definitely pick this up. Honestly because the pdf and print version are the same price (minus shipping) I'd spring for the print version. Plus there are always great Lulu codes floating around out there.