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Harper's Quest is an osr dungeon-crawler aimed at delivering an easy-to-learn, low prep delving experience.

The PDF is 9 pages, with neat custom art in full color.

The book gets right to the meat of what it's about with no preamble, but the layout organizes everything in a way that makes it super easy to read.

Game setup takes minutes. You roll up a number of dungeon rooms, then some random stats. The damage that you deal is controlled by a difficulty toggle (set the game on easy and deal more damage per hit,) and the frequency of dungeon encounters can similarly be customized.

There's a small slate of flavorful random encounters, and there's variety to the individual bosses and creature fights that you can cross paths with as well.

There's also a neat roguelike twist, in that if your character dies, their successor gets a share of their stuff.

If you haven't played an rpg before, you might be a little confused with Harper's Quest. That said, it should otherwise be quick to pick up.

Overall, this is a great pocket system. It's extremely lightweight, but not without that familiar crunch, and there's a free published adventure for it (Castle of Chronos, link above) as well. If you're looking to dungeon-dive at the drop of a hat, this is definitely a game you should check out.


Minor Issues:

-The first page being a spread of all the pages in the book feels a little strange. I don't think it's a problem, but also I had a moment of "did I open the wrong PDF" on encountering it.

-Is there one new door per room? I couldn't figure out if there was a formula for generating how many doors, rather than which type of door.

-I didn't see anywhere other than the last page that referenced heirlooms. I love the idea, I just wasn't sure what it pointed to.

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Thank you for the great review and feedback! Sorry for the initial shock of opening the pocket mod! 

To answer your questions, yes there is 1 door per room, so you just need to roll to see the type of door. 

The heirlooms are listed on the Adventure Sheet. That sheet is super important to fully play the game. 

I have adjusted game page and download message to reinforce the importance of the Adventure Sheet.