A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Loot Lemmings: A 5e Drop and Play Adventure

Loot Lemmings: A 5e Drop and Play Adventure is a role playing game supplement written and published by One-Eyed Werebear for use with Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result.

The supplement is available as a 22-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $3.34 but was purchased at a reduced price thanks to a special offer. One page is the front cover, one the Table of Contents and Introduction, one page the Credits & Acknowledgements and two pages the Open Game License. There is also a zip containing 12 PNGs of maps and tokens suitable for VTT.

The Introduction briefly explains this is an adventure for 3-5 characters of level 3 and should take 3-4 hours.

Using this Document explains that when SRD material is referenced, a link is provided to D&D Beyond, and the formatting for names of things and creatures.

Background explains that the characters have been contracted to recover an item called the Diamond of Al’aloth and where it is.

Running the Adventure explains that the characters are outside the cliffside temple when the adventure starts. Once the Diamond of Al’aloth is moved, ancient traps spring to life to try and kill interlopers.

Variant Encumbrance gives an overview of how these rules work.

Adventure Hooks has 8 different hooks for involving the characters, then three patrons are described in detail.

Following this are two maps of the temple, one for GMs and one for players; these are duplicated in the PNGs.

The Temple then describes the temple where the Diamond of Al’aloth is located, and what happens when the Diamond of Al’aloth is moved.

Adventure Resolution looks at the party dying in the temple or escaping.

Beyond the Tomb has some advice for extending the adventure and altering the treasure available.

Adjusting Difficulty has tips for altering this.

Creatures has stats for monsters, or links in some cases.

Items has the new magic items.

Loot Lemmings: A 5e Drop and Play Adventure in Review

The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough different sections that these would have been useful. The Table of Contents is hyperlinked, and there are other internal and external hyperlinks. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a two-column format and could have been laid out better; there are instances of section titles being at the bottom of the page with the section itself being at the top. Though there are a variety of custom colour illustrations, sadly almost all of these are AI generated.

This adventure is a bit different and has some useful tips for altering it, but in some places there’s detail that doesn’t seem necessary. Why only detail three patrons, including stats? Yes, eight covered in the same manner would have taken up a lot of space, but the three described didn’t need the detail they’ve bene given; a combination of too much detail and not enough. This does also have a chance of being a very deadly adventure, given the temple is falling to pieces around the characters, and a TPK is definitely possible. Loot Lemmings: A 5e Drop and Play Adventure is an okay adventure and it can be found by clicking here.