Roll Player Adventures: Nefras's Judgement

Can you make a great game even better? This expansion proves it. Its just more of everything that is already great.

Too expensive for what it offers. Each character has a back story and a few extra tasks and story moments that will affect the character positively or negatively.

It does add a few things, but it is completely unnecessary, and certainly not worth the $45 or so extra dollars that I paid for it during the Kickstarter campaign.

As much as I loved the base game, I cannot recommend this at the $40 price point due to the lack of actual content that it adds.

Each backstory adds 4 moments during a campaign that each contain a few minutes worth of reading, but it runs parallel to the core gameplay. There are interesting story choices to make that affect your alignment, but there are no additional thematic skill checks/combats to do, which means the events depicted just sort of happen to you in a detached way.

There's plenty of content here as it covers all 40+ backstories available for your characters, but the content is too shallow to really be considered "necessary" to get the full RPA experience. The conclusion for each backstory is only about 3 sentences of flavor text.

Lots of variety, but not much depth. Found the stories I saw a bit meh. Ok overall, but didn't feel like it added that much to the experience. Was expecting a lot better.

Does not add very much to the base game.

Nefras's Judgement was a nice additional to this RPG; I preordered it with my base game without doing any real research because I love Thunderworks's offerings and was expecting a couple more adventures in there, maybe a few new maps, etc. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the content was more about character development (always a hit for this TTRPGer) and fleshing out the choices they make. I really appreciated that they brought in the backstory and alignment and made it a worthy little ...side quest? ...parallel quest? to sort through. The dual-alignment structure, along with the well-thought stories that accompanied LITERALLY EVERY ALIGNMENT CARD AVAILABLE makes for a heavy tome and some really interesting storytelling. The rewards at the end for your final alignment also seriously helped in the last adventure and finale. Bravo!

Can we get a side/parallel expansion that highlights our relationships with the familiars, or perhaps the fiends on our shoulders? Reserving a star to see how this plays out with my game group - we have been quarantined for several weeks due to a case of covid in the house, even from our bubble. Will update!