4.5 out of 5 stars

In our first level 2 adventure in the Chaos Scar, the players get the chance to uncover some long lost secrets, some kobold miners, dragonborn mercenaries, and a dragon.  Defeat the enemies and uncover the secrets, and they could end up with a decent base of operations within the Chaos Scar itself and maybe even some kobold lackeys.

Consisting of three encounters, the XP split is 500:2,325 (1:4.65) non-combat to combat, but that can be changed to 1,500:2,325 (1:1.55) if the DM is willing to use all three of the provided hooks.  That gives some flexibility in matching the adventure to the play style of your group.

WotC finally updated the valley map with the locations of these adventures as they promised but this one doesn’t appear in the key (though it isn’t hard to figure out that the one lettered mark on the map must be the location for this adventure).  What’s worse, there isn’t even a link within the pdf file to the Chaos Scar Introduction page like there was in each of the previous adventures.  As a result, I had to search through the archives on the site to find the Introduction page to check to see if the valley map had been updated.  Indeed, had I not been writing this review, there’s a good chance that I would have missed the fact that the map has indeed been updated.  WotC really needs to find some way to alert readers to when they update the valley map.