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The Tomb of Iuchiban is very strange. I bought it, played it, and I don't know whether to love it or hate it. It's a box-set adventure for AEG's Legend of the Five Rings RPG and concerns the tomb of the infamous evil sorcerer Iuchiban. It starts off with a good but unexceptional adventure whose sole purpose is to get the PCs to the tomb. Inside, the PCs are faced with one of the most original, twisted and deadly dungeon-crawls on recent release. The tomb was built two hundred years before the PCs get there by the best sorcerers and engineers in the business to stop anyone getting in or out, and it shows. Whoever designed this adventure was one sick puppy and really had it in for PCs. On its plus side, the box contents are all high quality, the material is well written, and the background on Iuchiban is interesting. On the down side the thing is so deadly that a GM is forced to either watch the PCs die or betray the setting by making the tomb easier than it should be. The skimpy material on the Bloodspeakers themselves also does little to justify the price tag.

Style: 5 (Excellent!)
Substance: 3 (Average)

The Tomb of Iuchiban
Author: Rob Vaux Category: game Company/Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group Cost: $29.95 Page count: 2 x 96 Capsule Review by Mao Chapman on 01/28/99. Genre tags: Fantasy Historical Asian/Far_East	The Tomb of Iuchiban is very strange. I bought it, played it, and I don't know whether to love it or hate it. It's a box-set adventure for AEG's Legend of the Five Rings RPG and concerns the tomb of the infamous evil sorcerer Iuchiban. It starts off with a good but unexceptional adventure whose sole purpose is to get the PCs to the tomb. Inside, the PCs are faced with one of the most original, twisted and deadly dungeon-crawls on recent release. The tomb was built two hundred years before the PCs get there by the best sorcerers and engineers in the business to stop anyone getting in or out, and it shows. Whoever designed this adventure was one sick puppy and really had it in for PCs. On its plus side, the box contents are all high quality, the material is well written, and the background on Iuchiban is interesting. On the down side the thing is so deadly that a GM is forced to either watch the PCs die or betray the setting by making the tomb easier than it should be. The skimpy material on the Bloodspeakers themselves also does little to justify the price tag. Style: 5 (Excellent!) Substance: 3 (Average)