Vortex Isles Review

Vortex Isles is a pirate/treasure hunt themed adventure by Jim Hall of Brooklet Games. The adventure contains stats for 5e and Cairn. I dont know much about Cairn, so I'm looking at this as a 5e adventure. It's designed for 3rd level characters. The book is 22 pages and quite colorful. The core of the adventure's setting is awesome and frighting. The Vortex Isles are a group of volcanic pumice stone islands that float in a vortex in the sea. What causes this vortex... a massive unknowable creature that is thought to be consuming the world, starting with the ocean. 

The character need money and hear the legend of the lost treasure of Captain Lolligo. There are some great charts to help figure out why they need the treasure and what edge they have.  They book a merchant ship and got to the island of Last Haven. There they hire a captain and go to several other other islands gathering more crew and avoiding adversarial pirates. There's a cavern/dungeon towards the end of the adventure and there's a nice pay off and potential to permanently alter your game. The book ends with 5e and Cairn stats for the foes and monsters you'll face. The final page (back inside cover) also has a create a pirate table and details 8 magic items that can be found in the Vortex Isles.

This is a fun nautical adventure. This is a pretty versatile little module. It can be used as is and just be a nautical diversion. It can lead to other planes and campaign worlds. It can also add a new pirate territory to your nautical game. Finally, the Horror's influence could expand.

You can get the pdf in Itch.io or the print on the Cairn site.