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"Escape to the Past" is a real one. It combines Hodag's always excellent art with a meta commentary on the hobby featuring the likeness of a certain prominent gaming legend. 

The adventure itself focuses around the "Thaal" and takes place in a six room cave acting as their lair. It's rife with annotated game notes from a GM prepping for their next session, sussing out how to make the Thaal from some bestiary's stat block memorable and game-able. The notes in particular speak to me as a GM, looking like my own in every adventure and campaign I've ran for friends, including references to comics that only I would get.

While the Thaal stat block itself is very immediately useful to plug into games, the map is simple and without much guidance. It very much mimics dungeons from a certain era of gaming (complementary).

The art alone makes this entry a treat. Hodag's art elevates every project it touches.

It feels like "Escape to the Past" was specifically made for people like me in the hobby. I love it.

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You have me in irl, actual tears right now with this thoughtful and beautifully written review. Dang.

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I meant every word! Someday I’m going to commission the hell out of you. This is your (friendly) warning!