What a relief it would be if I could hack the internet so that anytime an inexperienced DM or RPGer attempted to submit a query of some poorly thought out adventure a screen saver would pop up and display a message to return to your home brew gaming table and get some more experience. Too often adventures are narrow minded and lack the basic information needed to run a game, which is why there is such an overwhelming calm of refreshment whenever I read an adventure from Oones Games.

The publisher’s latest adventure, Road to Revolution: The Bloody Fix, is a gritty urban adventure set within their campaign world, The Great City. It is the second in the campaign arc, Road to Revolution, which led to the PC shutting down a Fight Club. This adventure follows the same NPCs and characters as they attempt to solve a series of gruesome murders of the cities soldiers and protect the fight club owner from a execution.

Mysteries are the most difficult adventures to write because of their freeform nature. On one hand you have to have enough information so that there is a reasonable direction to go and on the other you can not have too much information or you will railroad the adventuring party. The writers of Bloody Fix do a tremendous job of walking that fine line, providing an abundant amount of information for the DM without overwhelming the players. Outside of the various tables and charts to aid the Dungeon Master with this adventure, there are very nice tables that relate to rumors and news going on in town. This is a very nice touch to add a dimension of realism to the city. I especially enjoyed the colorful NPCs, an ingredient very important in an adventure.

The adventure’s plot surrounds the PCs attempting to solve the murder, becoming further engrossed in the subplots of the fight club owner. The final showdown pits the PCs vs. one of the best creatures I have seen this year. It is one of those creatures that, even if you did not run the adventure, you will want to purchase the book just to snag out because it is such an innovative concept.

Where Bloody Fix makes up in innovation it lets down in typos and difficulty labeled navigational tools. One of the biggest types are in the summary, which makes you have to read a bit into the adventure to figure out what is going on. Still, navigating through the minor pot holes for a well written mystery adventure for PCs is worth it.

For the Dungeon Master Tables, Charts, Handouts, Diagrams, Pictures, Explanations, Breakout boxes. If only every publisher went the extra mile with their adventures to make them easier to run. So many writers are caught up with their great adventure that they forget to help the dungeon master run it. This will be one of the easiest mystery adventures you will run in a long time.

The Iron Word Few writers attempt the mystery adventure because of its difficulty to pull off properly. 0ones takes gamble and delivers a spectacular second adventure in the Revolutionary Roads series.